So you think giving up ones rights, living in a Nazi state basically, is OK as long as the crime rate is low?
Glad you aren't President of the USA.
Look, crime cannot be attacked until after the crime is commited. That's not fair, that's life! Prevention is the path to fascism. The secret is not to create a police state, rather as things are in the US right now, but to believe in a better world. It won't prevent 9/11 incidents, but neither will the cops. It's about your life and the lives of your children. The future must be theirs, not yours.
Viisage technology is NOT the best on the market. However, one cannot check the results of testing online at the International Biometric Group website. Guess they don't think it's important for the whole world to know what algorithm gives the best results in independent testing. If your curious, The winner was the Canadian Company AcSys Biometrics Face Recognition Systems.
Face Recognition is the least intrusive of the Big Brother security technologies. Especially when you take into consideration that scanning a crowd for a certain face will not work. Let's be real here kids, some companies are simply lying about what thier programs can do.
Monsanto has a plan to put their OS onto every computer in the world by default thereby mastering the entire market on an unprecedented scale.
Microsoft plans to own all seed on every farm on the planet in order to control the market even before the farmers grow anything edible. Assuming what is grown is edible.
Something like that. I need some three eyed fish soup! It's not a mutant... it's just evolving...
You are so right. This HAS to be a silly rumour. No director still sober would make such an obvious mistake. It's a death shot, as they say. The movie would come to a halt right at the real world thing, whatever that is. Certainly, evil little corporate boy toys would achieve that!
Monsanto, the Microsoft of agriculture. Where do you think Bill Gates gets his evil ideas? It's not like he has original ones. I'd tell you all the evil things Monsanto has done to people over the years but I just ate some genetically modified corn and my eyes are melting.
The email is real. Let's get this straight as all the M$ poseurs who moderate and post daily on/. have already tried to tell us this email from Valentine is a hoax. Just to clue you in, refering to a journalists article as a hoax is slanderous at worst. Not that it has stopped M$ in the past.
It's well known that M$ has been waging a war against anyone in thier market. An unfair war, the sort that gets you into a courtroom in front of a supreme court judge. They have called Open Source "communist" and a "cancer" on the industry. I kid you not (all reported on/. in the past).
What we have is one of the richest companies on the planet using every weapon at thier disposale to destroy a grassroots, free, and humanistic movement. Open Source. And they do it with the rightious conviction that the IT market belongs to them and no one else. Ever.
Those of you from M$ (or it's PR firm) posting here should do us all a favour and get a real job. A job where you can be proud of who you work with and what you do. Trust me, posting lies for your Corp. isn't one of them.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein has great physics, as all QuakeIII and such gamers know. But I find the grenade toss of the game somewhat limp. Last night, under heavy fire while a teammate tried to get the M60 firing. I tossed a grenade into a alcove to keep incoming Nazis from cutting us both down. Oops!?! My grenade hit the wall right beside me (but, but, I'm beside the wall!?!? How could I possibly have... KA-POW!
Computers consist of directories. These directories contain the files. Why everyone from M$ to Apple refused to understand this, and continue to obfuscate the metaphor (if only to somehow lie and cheat the user) is perhaps the worst example of an industry that doesn't give a rats tiny pink arse about their customers.
Have you ever been scolded for labeling a person? Has anyone ever told you not to make assumptions about others?
There is absolutely no reason to "profile" peoples habits. In fact, it's not ethical.
Not only that, it's a useless endeavor. I always have a laugh at the Marketing guys expense. He lies and fantasizes to the bosses about this and that, trying to convince the world that he understands some magic formula that will pull in the eyes or the bums on seats. What rubbish!
And then, a single mother on welfare becomes the richest author in history. J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter anyone?
Now, it's considered no problem to track the electronic habits of the digital population. Why? Because young, naive, over paid geeks seem have gotten all their ethics from Transformers cartoons.
Open Source softwarevs.Microsoft/Apple software.
Ask yourself, would you rather write great code for yourself, and thus sell it for your own benefit... Or - would you rather be a Micro$oft or Apple employee? Now from the customer end - would you rather agree to the Micro$oft license or the Open Source License? Which one allows you the best options? Which one places you in danger of losing your privacy and even inaliable rights? Which is more expensive? Which is free?
Why these questions cause giant flame wars on/. only goes to show that most programmers are really great at what they do... but they aren't particularly wise.
P.S. I love using the word inaliable because the M$ spell checker doesn't understand it. Curious no?
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) was founded exactly for the reason to make Free Software compatible with business people's thinking, and the word "freedom" has been considered harmful for that purpose.
This is a very scary statement. Suddenly, all my lefty-liberal theories don't seem so nutty after all.
So let me get this straight. I post comments saying online information, stuff, songs, papers, books, etc. are few, hard to find, a waste of time (try the library stupid 'cause data is too fat to put too much online or it's not free info) and what happens? People accuse me of being a ludite. Now, Slashdot itself advises finding classics "in an old book shop".
Recently in Canada, the Ontario Tories were embarrassed by a news story pointing out that the databases recording sensitive information about Canadians was suddenly combined into one accessible mass. Even the social insurance number info, the centre of all federal services in Canada (every Canadian carries a card with this on it). One poor old veteran of the Korean Conflict was denied pension because he appeared on a voting list showing he recently voted for the Liberals in provincial election.
It turned into a federal issue and a screaming match in the Commons.
Shame, shame, shame !!!
A database on the citizens of a community is wrong, if only because one can never predict what a given government will do with that information. All databases, in order to protect information properly as well as the human rights of the individual, must be specific about the info it has on a person. Only pertinent info, no links to further information, databases, etc. It could be used to "profile" a person. Not good.
I am Big Brother! Your profiles are mine! Your social numbers! Credit card! Who you voted for! All your international Echelon flagged phone calls! And your mother!
Yea but, the corporations control the markets. Be a genius tech/Mr. Gecko all you like. Your jazzy new patented technology will sit in the warehouse if you mess with a corporations market. This is how business is done now. There are no more entrepreneurs in a market under control. Take the tech industry...
Oh, those drunk fraternity guys were rich already. They sorta inherit their place over little scruffy geeks.;p
The Internet is not the future. It is a poor substitute for analog transmission. In other words , the Internet fails as a mass communications technology. Digital transmissions are bulky and not practical for an instant World communications delivery medium.Note the word instant.
Remember what CNN had to do on 9/11 when their servers got millions of calls at once? I take that as recent proof of the Internets failure as a mass medium. Don't give me scientific improvements either. That's just grist for the masses.
What the heck is wrong with radio waves anyho? Am I nuts? I've been in this IT/Digital world for some time now and you know what? Web pages are sloooow even with a T1. Streaming video is a joke. And reading text on a monitor is like wiping your eyes with sandpaper (my eyes have been red and blurry for 5 long HelpDesk years). The Net is empty of content due to legal issues and out and out theft. Despite the promise of free information accessed from anywhere, the Net offers less information in order to serve the most people. It's a physical necessity for the data!
Everyone sees this stuff as the future, or the present at least. Personally, I find it frustrating, boring, and never, ever, lives up to the promise of the company. Never.
At least Linux is cheap and doesn't lie about being a pain in the ass (to set up, but after that...). Let's face it, the Internet was best as just bulletin boards. Though I love playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein online. Since DOOM, the potential of the Internet was seen... at least by kids. But to add pictures and video... it just can't do it and I don't believe it will be accomplished with any alacrity in the future. Empty promises imho.
Just in case anyones taking a pole - no, I don't care for CG people over , ummm, people people. Sure, people actors get drunk, crash cars, etc. But then agan, they are sometimes Laurence Olivia. Get me?
Now, if you wanted to replace me with a CG guy, I'd gladly give up my spot in front of the varied electromagnetic field generator.
So you tell the world about Apples lazy upgrade fopaux and you are jumped by Apples attack lawyers? Had Apple never heard of Journalism? Freedom of Speech? Aren't these American inventions? The sort of invention that doesn't need an upgrade.
Someone please check and see if Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are actually one in the same... creature.
Duh, this is why this is bad law. It's vague. If you cannot define a crime, you cannot enforce a law against it. But wait! Hey... this is America pal. Just 'cause you got the most votes doesn't mean you get to be president.
Are you a terrorist? You look like one to me, shut up and get into the car. Watch your head baby killer.
Let me get this straight: M$ has ordered their employees to promote M$ products online. Does anyone remember when having a job meant you were still considered a human being with individuality and human rights?
If my employer asked me to promote the corporation, or even asked me to keep my opinions about the evil practices of my company to myself (not now, my current company is quite nice)... I wouldn't. 'Course, Bill Gates would fire me. I wonder how many of you IT geeks would too.
I have no problem giving out my opinion about M$, East Link Systems, @Home, and the rest of the.COM barbarians. Corporate IT culture in general is a vacuous hell made up of the dumbest people I've ever met. Greed is the great God of geek culture. Money is the first force in the lives of most of the people who read this. They are willing (very willing) to give up their human rights, or at least keep quiet, for an IT position and $28K a year. Pretty cheap, but it's the truth. The combination of young, naive workers with high technical skills and a corporate money machine (that has never been so powerful in the history of the Industrial Age) has created culture so empty and ugly I can't but look back at my IT career in disgust. What have I accomplished? A few bad M$ networks and Gigs of useless technical docs. What's the point? Oh yea, some suit throws $$$ at me every two weeks. I contributed nothing to my community and in fact, I've stolen and lied to my customers... mainly because I knew that M$ server software was crap... "Oh yea, it's Microsoft so it's the best...". But I knew better. Not only that, I was well aware that I could have set my customers up at a fraction of the price with a Unix solution.
It's not that I feel like I'm stealing... it's that M$ is stealing from me. It's just that I'm passing on the theft to the customer. It's called progress I think.
It's like a Phillip K. Dick novel! The corps are legally considered individuals themselves, giving them unprecedented power over the individual, not to mention their all powerful political lobbies. How is the individual worker supposed to maintain their positions, prestige, and career path when they can be downsized, fired, "let go", or even arrested at the whim of their greedy bitter managers? And managers are all bitter and mean, aren't they? They have something to protect - from you! But I digress...
I'd like to say the future looks bleak... but this is the future and it's all come true. Sorry Phillip K. - the plastic has yet to melt.
Umm, the Internet is a public utility. Like water. It's created and maintained by your tax dollars. You do have a right to go online. Governments are not obligated to give you equipment to access the Net, but they cannot legally prevent anyone from logging on.
This is true with any government. Really. Just trust me.
Slashdot Mirror
Here here!
So you think giving up ones rights, living in a Nazi state basically, is OK as long as the crime rate is low?
Glad you aren't President of the USA.
Look, crime cannot be attacked until after the crime is commited. That's not fair, that's life! Prevention is the path to fascism. The secret is not to create a police state, rather as things are in the US right now, but to believe in a better world. It won't prevent 9/11 incidents, but neither will the cops. It's about your life and the lives of your children. The future must be theirs, not yours.
Viisage technology is NOT the best on the market. However, one cannot check the results of testing online at the International Biometric Group website. Guess they don't think it's important for the whole world to know what algorithm gives the best results in independent testing. If your curious, The winner was the Canadian Company AcSys Biometrics Face Recognition Systems.
Face Recognition is the least intrusive of the Big Brother security technologies. Especially when you take into consideration that scanning a crowd for a certain face will not work . Let's be real here kids, some companies are simply lying about what thier programs can do.
Monsanto has a plan to put their OS onto every computer in the world by default thereby mastering the entire market on an unprecedented scale.
Microsoft plans to own all seed on every farm on the planet in order to control the market even before the farmers grow anything edible. Assuming what is grown is edible.
Something like that. I need some three eyed fish soup! It's not a mutant... it's just evolving...
And they moderate here. My poor post got the "Troll" tag faster than an M$ wog can send another 300 virus attachments onto a network.
:(
Slashdot is under attack IMHO. But CmdrTaco doesn't answer my emails.
You are so right. This HAS to be a silly rumour. No director still sober would make such an obvious mistake. It's a death shot, as they say. The movie would come to a halt right at the real world thing, whatever that is. Certainly, evil little corporate boy toys would achieve that!
BTW, Lord of the Rings is brilliant! FRODO LIVES!
Monsanto, the Microsoft of agriculture. Where do you think Bill Gates gets his evil ideas? It's not like he has original ones. I'd tell you all the evil things Monsanto has done to people over the years but I just ate some genetically modified corn and my eyes are melting.
The email is real. Let's get this straight as all the M$ poseurs who moderate and post daily on /. have already tried to tell us this email from Valentine is a hoax. Just to clue you in, refering to a journalists article as a hoax is slanderous at worst. Not that it has stopped M$ in the past.
/. in the past).
It's well known that M$ has been waging a war against anyone in thier market. An unfair war, the sort that gets you into a courtroom in front of a supreme court judge. They have called Open Source "communist" and a "cancer" on the industry. I kid you not (all reported on
What we have is one of the richest companies on the planet using every weapon at thier disposale to destroy a grassroots, free, and humanistic movement. Open Source. And they do it with the rightious conviction that the IT market belongs to them and no one else. Ever.
Those of you from M$ (or it's PR firm) posting here should do us all a favour and get a real job. A job where you can be proud of who you work with and what you do. Trust me, posting lies for your Corp. isn't one of them.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein has great physics, as all QuakeIII and such gamers know. But I find the grenade toss of the game somewhat limp. Last night, under heavy fire while a teammate tried to get the M60 firing. I tossed a grenade into a alcove to keep incoming Nazis from cutting us both down. Oops!?! My grenade hit the wall right beside me (but, but, I'm beside the wall!?!? How could I possibly have ... KA-POW!
;-D
Game physics. Priceless.
Computers consist of directories. These directories contain the files.
Why everyone from M$ to Apple refused to understand this, and continue to obfuscate the metaphor (if only to somehow lie and cheat the user) is perhaps the worst example of an industry that doesn't give a rats tiny pink arse about their customers.
Have you ever been scolded for labeling a person? Has anyone ever told you not to make assumptions about others?
There is absolutely no reason to "profile" peoples habits. In fact, it's not ethical.
Not only that, it's a useless endeavor. I always have a laugh at the Marketing guys expense. He lies and fantasizes to the bosses about this and that, trying to convince the world that he understands some magic formula that will pull in the eyes or the bums on seats. What rubbish!
And then, a single mother on welfare becomes the richest author in history. J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter anyone?
Now, it's considered no problem to track the electronic habits of the digital population. Why? Because young, naive, over paid geeks seem have gotten all their ethics from Transformers cartoons.
Open Source software vs. Microsoft/Apple software.
/. only goes to show that most programmers are really great at what they do... but they aren't particularly wise.
Ask yourself, would you rather write great code for yourself, and thus sell it for your own benefit... Or - would you rather be a Micro$oft or Apple employee? Now from the customer end - would you rather agree to the Micro$oft license or the Open Source License? Which one allows you the best options? Which one places you in danger of losing your privacy and even inaliable rights? Which is more expensive? Which is free?
Why these questions cause giant flame wars on
P.S. I love using the word inaliable because the M$ spell checker doesn't understand it. Curious no?
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) was founded exactly for the reason to make Free Software compatible with business people's thinking, and the word "freedom" has been considered harmful for that purpose.
This is a very scary statement. Suddenly, all my lefty-liberal theories don't seem so nutty after all.
So let me get this straight. I post comments saying online information, stuff, songs, papers, books, etc. are few, hard to find, a waste of time (try the library stupid 'cause data is too fat to put too much online or it's not free info) and what happens? People accuse me of being a ludite. Now, Slashdot itself advises finding classics "in an old book shop".
;p
Just wanted to point out the irony!
Recently in Canada, the Ontario Tories were embarrassed by a news story pointing out that the databases recording sensitive information about Canadians was suddenly combined into one accessible mass. Even the social insurance number info, the centre of all federal services in Canada (every Canadian carries a card with this on it). One poor old veteran of the Korean Conflict was denied pension because he appeared on a voting list showing he recently voted for the Liberals in provincial election.
It turned into a federal issue and a screaming match in the Commons.
Shame, shame, shame !!!
A database on the citizens of a community is wrong, if only because one can never predict what a given government will do with that information. All databases, in order to protect information properly as well as the human rights of the individual, must be specific about the info it has on a person. Only pertinent info, no links to further information, databases, etc. It could be used to "profile" a person. Not good.
Ha ha ha ha ha !!!
:)
I am Big Brother! Your profiles are mine! Your social numbers! Credit card! Who you voted for! All your international Echelon flagged phone calls! And your mother!
Thanx Larry.
00XX
Yea but, the corporations control the markets. Be a genius tech/Mr. Gecko all you like. Your jazzy new patented technology will sit in the warehouse if you mess with a corporations market. This is how business is done now. There are no more entrepreneurs in a market under control. Take the tech industry...
;p
Oh, those drunk fraternity guys were rich already. They sorta inherit their place over little scruffy geeks.
OK, I'm gonna get it for saying this...
The Internet is not the future. It is a poor substitute for analog transmission. In other words , the Internet fails as a mass communications technology. Digital transmissions are bulky and not practical for an instant World communications delivery medium. Note the word instant.
Remember what CNN had to do on 9/11 when their servers got millions of calls at once? I take that as recent proof of the Internets failure as a mass medium. Don't give me scientific improvements either. That's just grist for the masses.
What the heck is wrong with radio waves anyho? Am I nuts? I've been in this IT/Digital world for some time now and you know what? Web pages are sloooow even with a T1. Streaming video is a joke. And reading text on a monitor is like wiping your eyes with sandpaper (my eyes have been red and blurry for 5 long HelpDesk years). The Net is empty of content due to legal issues and out and out theft. Despite the promise of free information accessed from anywhere, the Net offers less information in order to serve the most people. It's a physical necessity for the data!
Everyone sees this stuff as the future, or the present at least. Personally, I find it frustrating, boring, and never, ever, lives up to the promise of the company. Never.
At least Linux is cheap and doesn't lie about being a pain in the ass (to set up, but after that...). Let's face it, the Internet was best as just bulletin boards. Though I love playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein online. Since DOOM, the potential of the Internet was seen... at least by kids. But to add pictures and video... it just can't do it and I don't believe it will be accomplished with any alacrity in the future. Empty promises imho.
Does this put control of the entire internet further and further into the hands of large corporate players,
Well duh, yes !
and and is anyone particularly interested in changing this situation?"
I hope so.
Just in case anyones taking a pole - no, I don't care for CG people over , ummm, people people. Sure, people actors get drunk, crash cars, etc. But then agan, they are sometimes Laurence Olivia. Get me?
Now, if you wanted to replace me with a CG guy, I'd gladly give up my spot in front of the varied electromagnetic field generator.
So you tell the world about Apples lazy upgrade fopaux and you are jumped by Apples attack lawyers? Had Apple never heard of Journalism? Freedom of Speech? Aren't these American inventions? The sort of invention that doesn't need an upgrade.
... creature.
Someone please check and see if Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are actually one in the same
Why thank you.
Yes, indeed they do.
Piss off jerk!
Wow. Give this guy a cookie.
Duh, this is why this is bad law. It's vague. If you cannot define a crime, you cannot enforce a law against it. But wait! Hey... this is America pal. Just 'cause you got the most votes doesn't mean you get to be president.
Are you a terrorist? You look like one to me, shut up and get into the car. Watch your head baby killer.
Let me get this straight: M$ has ordered their employees to promote M$ products online. Does anyone remember when having a job meant you were still considered a human being with individuality and human rights?
.COM barbarians. Corporate IT culture in general is a vacuous hell made up of the dumbest people I've ever met. Greed is the great God of geek culture. Money is the first force in the lives of most of the people who read this. They are willing (very willing) to give up their human rights, or at least keep quiet, for an IT position and $28K a year. Pretty cheap, but it's the truth. The combination of young, naive workers with high technical skills and a corporate money machine (that has never been so powerful in the history of the Industrial Age) has created culture so empty and ugly I can't but look back at my IT career in disgust. What have I accomplished? A few bad M$ networks and Gigs of useless technical docs. What's the point? Oh yea, some suit throws $$$ at me every two weeks. I contributed nothing to my community and in fact, I've stolen and lied to my customers... mainly because I knew that M$ server software was crap... "Oh yea, it's Microsoft so it's the best...". But I knew better. Not only that, I was well aware that I could have set my customers up at a fraction of the price with a Unix solution.
If my employer asked me to promote the corporation, or even asked me to keep my opinions about the evil practices of my company to myself (not now, my current company is quite nice)... I wouldn't. 'Course, Bill Gates would fire me. I wonder how many of you IT geeks would too.
I have no problem giving out my opinion about M$, East Link Systems, @Home, and the rest of the
It's not that I feel like I'm stealing... it's that M$ is stealing from me. It's just that I'm passing on the theft to the customer. It's called progress I think.
It's like a Phillip K. Dick novel! The corps are legally considered individuals themselves, giving them unprecedented power over the individual, not to mention their all powerful political lobbies. How is the individual worker supposed to maintain their positions, prestige, and career path when they can be downsized, fired, "let go", or even arrested at the whim of their greedy bitter managers? And managers are all bitter and mean, aren't they? They have something to protect - from you! But I digress...
I'd like to say the future looks bleak... but this is the future and it's all come true. Sorry Phillip K. - the plastic has yet to melt.
Umm, the Internet is a public utility. Like water. It's created and maintained by your tax dollars. You do have a right to go online. Governments are not obligated to give you equipment to access the Net, but they cannot legally prevent anyone from logging on.
This is true with any government. Really. Just trust me.