No, the proof isn't in the database. The proof is in the weightings people place on things in the database....
You're assuming that the weightings are going to be objective and (hopefully) open for discussion.
But, some of the things that could easily get put in would be:
member of greenpeace (or other eco group) single university aged lack of a regular job member of socially active group that is contrary to current government thought (human rights, war in afghanistan,...)
The system is analyzing who you associate with, and what you (publically) state that you think or agree with, and using that to generate a terror threat.
Chances are that you will never find out *why* you've been given a terror threat... Only that you have one. And even if you *can* appeal it, it will take a long time, and the burden of proof will be against you.
And until that time, you will (at minimum) not be able to travel. And more likely be arrested. After all, if you're too much of a threat to allow on a plane, you *should* be arrested, right...
Possibly you might be right to state that the fingerprints of everyone *born* in the US are on file. (Even then I'd doubt it -- I don't know that fingerprints are a requirement for a birth certificate.)
But, I've been living in the US for 4 years now, and was never asked to provide a copy of my fingerprints. (When I file for my green card I'll have to provide them, but not for a temporary work permit)
At a previous company we were running Oracle. When we looked at migrating it to a WinNT server, we would have needed to get MS CAL for all the windows boxes in our LAN to allow us to use Oracle.
I could have seen that if we were offering File and Print services, but to allow clients to access a seperately licensed product purely using TCP/IP services?
1) Does this mean I'd have to register a domain name in order to get paid? If I have personal content pages on geocities, or my ISP or wherever, how would the billing agency know that *I* am the owner of the content.
2) For international content providers, how would the money be transferred to them?
People started complaining about copy protection on PC apps when the 'protection' started affecting normal users instead just people who were pirating the applications.
Dongles were a good example. They didn't work on all PCs, and if you had 2 apps that needed a dongle, you had a problem and had to constantly switch dongles on the printer port.
Or, the hacked floppies that not every drive could read.
If MS implements this copy-protection in a way that affects normal users, there *will* be a lot of annoyed users. And that will give other companies / products the chance to flourish.
And, you know that once MS builds it into Whistler that they will build it into all of their standard apps...
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No, the proof isn't in the database. The proof is in the weightings people place on things in the database....
You're assuming that the weightings are going to be objective and (hopefully) open for discussion.
But, some of the things that could easily get put in would be:
member of greenpeace (or other eco group)
single
university aged
lack of a regular job
member of socially active group that is contrary to current government thought (human rights, war in afghanistan,...)
The system is analyzing who you associate with, and what you (publically) state that you think or agree with, and using that to generate a terror threat.
Chances are that you will never find out *why* you've been given a terror threat... Only that you have one. And even if you *can* appeal it, it will take a long time, and the burden of proof will be against you.
And until that time, you will (at minimum) not be able to travel. And more likely be arrested. After all, if you're too much of a threat to allow on a plane, you *should* be arrested, right...
-dj
Umm, no....
Possibly you might be right to state that the fingerprints of everyone *born* in the US are on file. (Even then I'd doubt it -- I don't know that fingerprints are a requirement for a birth certificate.)
But, I've been living in the US for 4 years now, and was never asked to provide a copy of my fingerprints. (When I file for my green card I'll have to provide them, but not for a temporary work permit)
-dj
But, you couldn't travel with it now... at least on airlines...
What're you gonna do when the security person asks you to turn it on so he can see the boot screen...
No, we don't.
'Spyware'is far to vague a term to try to forbid in a license. One persons appropriate diagnostic information is another persons spyware.
Trying to define this in a license is going to create an even more difficult to understand license...
At a previous company we were running Oracle. When we looked at migrating it to a WinNT server, we would have needed to get MS CAL for all the windows boxes in our LAN to allow us to use Oracle.
I could have seen that if we were offering File and Print services, but to allow clients to access a seperately licensed product purely using TCP/IP services?
We ended up using Digital Unix instead of NT.
Nope, they put in Fortune magazine for putting Enron's CEO on the cover...
If they had to pay a penny for each page that they index, they would either run out of money, or their content would rapidly fall out of date.
There are a few considerations:
1) Does this mean I'd have to register a domain name in order to get paid? If I have personal content pages on geocities, or my ISP or wherever, how would the billing agency know that *I* am the owner of the content.
2) For international content providers, how would the money be transferred to them?
People started complaining about copy protection on PC apps when the 'protection' started affecting normal users instead just people who were pirating the applications. Dongles were a good example. They didn't work on all PCs, and if you had 2 apps that needed a dongle, you had a problem and had to constantly switch dongles on the printer port. Or, the hacked floppies that not every drive could read. If MS implements this copy-protection in a way that affects normal users, there *will* be a lot of annoyed users. And that will give other companies / products the chance to flourish. And, you know that once MS builds it into Whistler that they will build it into all of their standard apps...