It also protects your job, your social status and your life if you do not conform to the status quo. The first amendment only protects you from the government, not every consequence of expressing your freedom comes at the hands of the government. Nor can you fight a bullet in your head after the fact.
"since there are also enough ways to encrypt traffic and mask IPs."
Not if they change the internet protocol to only allow trusted, authenticated peers, like the article seems to be indicating. In that situation, your "IP" is known, your identity is known and you can be tracked down by anyone with the right resources, be it a private investigator, a corrupt government official, a technically sophisticated criminal, the church of scientology or all of the above.
"how will that help them limit your freedom?" Suppose you have knowledge that incriminates a corrupt government. Post it without anonymity and they may kill you, don't and you get to live but your freedom of speech has been limited. Its an extreme case, but it happens. Do you think "deep throat" would have been uncensored and unscathed if his identity had been known?
"Freedom of speech is protected by the constitution."
Only for the US, and only for certain kinds of speech, and if you are rich and famous enough to fight it in a court of law or public opinion, and only protected from the government unless someone claims it is a matter of national security.
"Free speech without the need for anonymity is way better" agreed, if only it were the case. Sometimes you need to openly discuss something while retaining privacy, putting your name on questions about disease or sexuality could cost you your insurance, job, social status, family and even your life even in "the free west".
If you have something sufficiently important to say, it doesn't matter where you are in the world, you either need anonymity or the willingness to be sued, imprisoned or killed for what you say. "Deep Throat" used anonymity, Martin Luther King Jr. didn't.
You are right, I had not commented about that part. You wouldn't want people putting unvetted video, audio, pictures they recorded themselves because there may be a copyrighted song or spine of a popular book barely audible/visible in the background. I am sure people will be allowed to upload such things if they are willing to sign over ownership and control of the original work to a "trusted" authority.
An Israel armed with nukes can destroy a couple Iranian cities. An Iran armed with nukes could wipe Israel off the map, and that is exactly what they have publicly stated their goals to be. The only question is, would they be willing to sacrifice the Dome of the Rock and a couple Iranian cities to do it? Maybe I am just a horrible pessimist, but I don't like those odds.
what are you talking about? did you miss the part where I said I didn't get paid? Get it though your skull, there are two completely separate instances here, the first being me laid off without notice and without severance, then the bullshit where I was not paid and then was asked to keep working. In both cases I moved on and found another job. Some of the guys who tried to stick through the second event are now loosing their homes. Read what I am saying, stop being a douchbag yourself.
You don't know what you are talking about. I didn't have time to wait a month before filing a grievance, Nor did I have time to wait in lines all day and file paperwork to get an appointed attorney, I had to bust my ass and find a job, move and start working. I didn't have money to pay a lawyer because guess what? I DIDN'T GET PAID AND HAD TO MOVE, and god damn they need that money upfront. It happened. Get your jollies by spreading your ignorant condescension somewhere else. Fuck off dumbass.
For most people it is vastly more important that they spend their time and energy finding a new job ASAP, instead of fighting a long drawn out legal battle against people they can't get a dime out of anyway while they loose they are penniless, homeless and starving. And according to the lawyer, they have not broken the law until your paycheck is over a month late.
the vast majority of arm processors are fabbed with all components, including RAM on one chip. They won't need a 64bit processor until people start putting close to 4 gigs of ram on chip (most are in the 64meg to 512 meg range). Supposedly qualcom is releasing a dual core 1.5 ghz arm chip with a gig of ram sometime this year, we will see where it goes from there.
Right now I am in limbo. I am waiting for both Open Pandora and the Touch Book to allow regular orders. Both use the same basic processor and have similar stats, though the touch book is more netbook and the pandora is more portable game system. The first one to ship will get me to buy one this year.
I graduated in dec 99 to find that there were no job prospects for me in CS at all. I couldn't even get an accounting or low level management position that I was most qualified for because they all assumed that with a fancy computer degree I would find a better job any day. I had to settle for minimum wage manual labor at wal-mart. I went back to school after a while and got a higher degree, entered the CS field and was doing ok for myself. Sept 30 2008, layed off because the stock price took a dip. Found another job, and after 6 months they didn't fire me, they just stopped paying me and expected me to keep working while they got things sorted out.
exactly. There is quite a bit of prior art for this at universities all over the world, hell its been on tv for at least the last 3 years (Scientific American Frontier with Alan Alda loves to do fluff pieces on technology research that could apply to the elderly or handicapped).
There is a ring of truth to what you say. Microsoft does hire a lot of people, and pays them pretty well. They have proven they can do at least second-third best compared to similar products in most fields, even if it takes them a while to get there. Yes, MS is in it for the money, and they do play dirty pool, but they are not exactly a raging demon out to consume your soul just for spite.
However, on the front of Open Source? FSF is a leader, Microsoft is not.
Good for you/her. My case was pretty extreme, but there are a lot of places where analog telephone service is the only means of 2 way communication short of ham radio or a nice long drive.
Most of the area where that house was had telephone service, but none of the area had reliable cell coverage, any cable or dsl, and heavy woods that make satellite completely unreliable.
Capitulation to the terrorists is the end of human civilization. They want nothing less than a global Islamic caliphate, the conversion or extermination of all non believers, an end to science / knowledge and total submission to the authority of the state lead by clerics.
Some people don't have a choice. You suck it up, and do what it takes to survive. That or you die. When you are in a hole like that, its very hard to get out.
If you cut off analog telephone access to the rural poor, you add yet another hurdle between them and the things they need in order to survive or advance themselves.
Snow? Not in Mississippi I am afraid, no we have to walk to school uphill both ways in 110 degree heat through razor sharp kudzu, fire ants and venomous snakes.
I lived in a house where you could not hear a word spoken over the phone and a modem would never even connect to dialup. There was no cable, no dsl, no isdn, satellite would not work either because cutting down the state tree carries a stiffer sentence than killing a man. I could get cell reception only after driving about 20 minutes from the area. We were lucky to have power 7 days a week most of the time.
hell yes, and I want a hand crank and one of those cups on a wire to put up to my ear. I don't think I understand, can I get a horse and buggy analogy?
I would guess that the terrorism issue is related to the inflated expectations of young people entering engineering becoming disillusioned finding out that it is hard work, with long hours, low pay and a high chance of getting laid off. Combine disillusionment with apathy and you get a dropout, combine it with rage and you get a spree killer, combine it with fanaticism and rage and you get a terrorist.
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It also protects your job, your social status and your life if you do not conform to the status quo. The first amendment only protects you from the government, not every consequence of expressing your freedom comes at the hands of the government. Nor can you fight a bullet in your head after the fact.
"since there are also enough ways to encrypt traffic and mask IPs."
Not if they change the internet protocol to only allow trusted, authenticated peers, like the article seems to be indicating. In that situation, your "IP" is known, your identity is known and you can be tracked down by anyone with the right resources, be it a private investigator, a corrupt government official, a technically sophisticated criminal, the church of scientology or all of the above.
"how will that help them limit your freedom?" Suppose you have knowledge that incriminates a corrupt government. Post it without anonymity and they may kill you, don't and you get to live but your freedom of speech has been limited. Its an extreme case, but it happens. Do you think "deep throat" would have been uncensored and unscathed if his identity had been known?
"Freedom of speech is protected by the constitution."
Only for the US, and only for certain kinds of speech, and if you are rich and famous enough to fight it in a court of law or public opinion, and only protected from the government unless someone claims it is a matter of national security.
"Free speech without the need for anonymity is way better" agreed, if only it were the case. Sometimes you need to openly discuss something while retaining privacy, putting your name on questions about disease or sexuality could cost you your insurance, job, social status, family and even your life even in "the free west".
If you have something sufficiently important to say, it doesn't matter where you are in the world, you either need anonymity or the willingness to be sued, imprisoned or killed for what you say. "Deep Throat" used anonymity, Martin Luther King Jr. didn't.
And your system provides absolutely no protection against corrupt governments that seek to limit freedom of speech. (AKA, all governments)
You are right, I had not commented about that part. You wouldn't want people putting unvetted video, audio, pictures they recorded themselves because there may be a copyrighted song or spine of a popular book barely audible/visible in the background. I am sure people will be allowed to upload such things if they are willing to sign over ownership and control of the original work to a "trusted" authority.
"To create an Internet without so many security breaches, with better trust and built-in identity management."
I see. They want to end the real protection of free speach that anonymity provides.
An Israel armed with nukes can destroy a couple Iranian cities. An Iran armed with nukes could wipe Israel off the map, and that is exactly what they have publicly stated their goals to be. The only question is, would they be willing to sacrifice the Dome of the Rock and a couple Iranian cities to do it? Maybe I am just a horrible pessimist, but I don't like those odds.
what are you talking about? did you miss the part where I said I didn't get paid? Get it though your skull, there are two completely separate instances here, the first being me laid off without notice and without severance, then the bullshit where I was not paid and then was asked to keep working. In both cases I moved on and found another job. Some of the guys who tried to stick through the second event are now loosing their homes. Read what I am saying, stop being a douchbag yourself.
You don't know what you are talking about. I didn't have time to wait a month before filing a grievance, Nor did I have time to wait in lines all day and file paperwork to get an appointed attorney, I had to bust my ass and find a job, move and start working. I didn't have money to pay a lawyer because guess what? I DIDN'T GET PAID AND HAD TO MOVE, and god damn they need that money upfront. It happened. Get your jollies by spreading your ignorant condescension somewhere else. Fuck off dumbass.
For most people it is vastly more important that they spend their time and energy finding a new job ASAP, instead of fighting a long drawn out legal battle against people they can't get a dime out of anyway while they loose they are penniless, homeless and starving. And according to the lawyer, they have not broken the law until your paycheck is over a month late.
the vast majority of arm processors are fabbed with all components, including RAM on one chip. They won't need a 64bit processor until people start putting close to 4 gigs of ram on chip (most are in the 64meg to 512 meg range). Supposedly qualcom is releasing a dual core 1.5 ghz arm chip with a gig of ram sometime this year, we will see where it goes from there.
Right now I am in limbo. I am waiting for both Open Pandora and the Touch Book to allow regular orders. Both use the same basic processor and have similar stats, though the touch book is more netbook and the pandora is more portable game system. The first one to ship will get me to buy one this year.
I feel your pain.
I graduated in dec 99 to find that there were no job prospects for me in CS at all. I couldn't even get an accounting or low level management position that I was most qualified for because they all assumed that with a fancy computer degree I would find a better job any day. I had to settle for minimum wage manual labor at wal-mart. I went back to school after a while and got a higher degree, entered the CS field and was doing ok for myself. Sept 30 2008, layed off because the stock price took a dip. Found another job, and after 6 months they didn't fire me, they just stopped paying me and expected me to keep working while they got things sorted out.
exactly. There is quite a bit of prior art for this at universities all over the world, hell its been on tv for at least the last 3 years (Scientific American Frontier with Alan Alda loves to do fluff pieces on technology research that could apply to the elderly or handicapped).
There is a ring of truth to what you say. Microsoft does hire a lot of people, and pays them pretty well. They have proven they can do at least second-third best compared to similar products in most fields, even if it takes them a while to get there. Yes, MS is in it for the money, and they do play dirty pool, but they are not exactly a raging demon out to consume your soul just for spite.
However, on the front of Open Source? FSF is a leader, Microsoft is not.
Good for you/her. My case was pretty extreme, but there are a lot of places where analog telephone service is the only means of 2 way communication short of ham radio or a nice long drive.
Most of the area where that house was had telephone service, but none of the area had reliable cell coverage, any cable or dsl, and heavy woods that make satellite completely unreliable.
Capitulation to the terrorists is the end of human civilization. They want nothing less than a global Islamic caliphate, the conversion or extermination of all non believers, an end to science / knowledge and total submission to the authority of the state lead by clerics.
You obviously don't know about president Garfield. Obama may be the most disappointing president ever, but he is hardly the worst.
Some people don't have a choice. You suck it up, and do what it takes to survive. That or you die. When you are in a hole like that, its very hard to get out.
If you cut off analog telephone access to the rural poor, you add yet another hurdle between them and the things they need in order to survive or advance themselves.
Snow? Not in Mississippi I am afraid, no we have to walk to school uphill both ways in 110 degree heat through razor sharp kudzu, fire ants and venomous snakes.
I lived in a house where you could not hear a word spoken over the phone and a modem would never even connect to dialup. There was no cable, no dsl, no isdn, satellite would not work either because cutting down the state tree carries a stiffer sentence than killing a man. I could get cell reception only after driving about 20 minutes from the area. We were lucky to have power 7 days a week most of the time.
hell yes, and I want a hand crank and one of those cups on a wire to put up to my ear. I don't think I understand, can I get a horse and buggy analogy?
I would guess that the terrorism issue is related to the inflated expectations of young people entering engineering becoming disillusioned finding out that it is hard work, with long hours, low pay and a high chance of getting laid off. Combine disillusionment with apathy and you get a dropout, combine it with rage and you get a spree killer, combine it with fanaticism and rage and you get a terrorist.