Implanting "things" in people raises ethical and public relations issues.112 While these concerns may be founded on today's thinking, in 2025 they may not be as alarming. We already are evolving toward technology implanting. For example, the military currently requires its members to receive mandatory injections of biological organisms (i.e., the flu shot). In the civilian world, people receive mechanical hearts and other organs. Society has come to accept most of these implants as a fact of life. By 2025 it is possible medical technology will have nerve chips that allow amputees to control artificial limbs or eye chips that allow the blind to see.113 The civilian populace will likely accept an implanted microscopic chips that allow military members to defend vital national interests. Further, the US military will continue to be a volunteer force that will freely accept the chip because it is a tool to control technology and not as a tool to control the human.
You know, three years ago when the U.S. was economically prosperous and business was booming, we could afford to attack our best corporate performers with regulation. But right now, our economy sucks. People are being laid off all over the place.
I think you're confusing forced competition with basic customer service. At any rate, I can accept a Telco monopoly, but if Verizon or anybody else wants to lobby for and get exclusive market share then they'd damn well better be prepared to have a state public utilities commission oversee their activities and make sure they're providing decent QoS and services in a manner consistent with their customers' needs.
This attitude that broadband providers have that we should all just surf the web and not use any other protocols or run servers has got to go. A byte's a friggin byte of data, so get over it. Verizon and their ilk that want to implement draconian AUPs while lobbying to be monopolies need to learn they can't have their cake and eat it too. Customers, especially geeks, are tired of being bent over and fucked up the ass.
Mozilla MAY -become- better, but it isn't, yet. If you give me that "IE doesn't run in Linux" then why are you even posting to this article?
Why? Because at times like these when the FBI is engineering Trojan horses to be snuck onto people's computers--and the US antivirus industry has capitulated--closed source operating systems, browsers and other software seriously lose credibility with anyone desirng privacy.
Mozilla and Konqueror might not do everything that IE can do, but they have 80-90% of its functionality. Try KDE under Mandrake 8.1 and you'll see just how far OSS has come.
At least with open source products the code is laid bare and people can audit it to be sure that spook agencies haven't embedded keystroke loggers and other such goodies.
I wouldn't install it considering the timing of all this news about the FBI's keystroke-logging Trojan. A "Windows Update" would be the perfect vehicle for the Feds to sneak their code onto machines, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if they were in cahoots with Redmond just like they were in years past with the big Telcos.
I bet in todays soft market all of this is fluff to keep the beancounters and other control nazis happy. Think about it, they don't want to lose *any* custumers with the economy the way it is now.
Somebody mod this up! JMD is right on the money...let Micro$sloth and others turn the screws to force people to comply with their draconian EULAs and pay exorbitant prices for their shitty, bug-ridden software. To paraphrase Leia, "The more they tighten their grip, the more end user will slip through their fingers!" This is awesome news for Linux, BSD, and open source advocacy.
They suck off the open source community like a black hole using BSD code in OS X but won't give back by opening up the source to QuickTime. Fuck them--they're leeches.
The ACLU has a nifty-neato page where you can simply enter your ZIP code and generate an email, fax, or postal letter to you Congress critter for free to express your views on post Sept. 11 civil liberties and the USA Patriot Act and urge Congressional inquiry.
You will be able to protest as much as you want as long as no stones are involved in your protests.
And what of peaceful protesters who "fail to disperse" or stage sit-ins on government property? I suppose Greenpeace will be added to the list of terrorist organizations for this. Don't say it won't happen, cuz you *know* that numerous corporatists/globalists are chomping at the bit to use this legislation to brand those hippy freaks as terrorists.
Americans have adamantly defended their basic liberties throughout history. There is not a sleeper majority of the American public that is apathetic to this issue.
The linksys routers can not be configured from outside the local network
Actually, they can be remotely admin'd via http, though this feature is not enabled by default.
I wonder if the FBI will subpoena...
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....subscriber records to Slashdot in the future:
Agent Smith: "He has a Slashdot subscription on his credit card records, must be one of those libertarian dissenter types...can't be trusted, you know. We'd better take him in for questioning."
But what happens when the media is a toy that does not discuss these issues and that is the people's only source for information?
Unfortunately, that's the consequences of having RIAA-MPAA member companies such as AOL-TW controlling CNN, or Microsoft having its fingers in MSNBC. I doubt the journalists in those comapnies even have a grasp of IP issues, or if they do, they STFU and don't make waves because of where their paycheck comes from, or even worse spin the news on IP issues to suit their corporate masters.
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
The technician who didn't bother to backup her
data files should have been fired on the spot!
This is totally unacceptable behavior.
That dude rocks. Hell, if I ever find out who he was I'd hunt him down and hire him in a heartbeat just because he had the balls to do it. Just like I'd love to hire the helpdesk dude in that urban legend who told a customer who called to say their computer wouldn't work during a power outage to pack it up and return it because she was too stupid to own one. IIRC he was fired, but became a mythical hero...who knows what company it happened at or even if it really happened, the actual history has become obscured in the mists of time.
Don't forget FreeBSD and OpenBSD. OpenBSD is already supported on PPC, and FreeBSD is working on a port...of course I'm waiting for the x86-64 port of both. woohoo!
For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.
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From the USAF report Air Force 2025:
Ethical and Public Relations Issues.
Implanting "things" in people raises ethical and public relations issues.112 While these concerns may be founded on today's thinking, in 2025 they may not be as alarming. We already are evolving toward technology implanting. For example, the military currently requires its members to receive mandatory injections of biological organisms (i.e., the flu shot). In the civilian world, people receive mechanical hearts and other organs. Society has come to accept most of these implants as a fact of life. By 2025 it is possible medical technology will have nerve chips that allow amputees to control artificial limbs or eye chips that allow the blind to see.113 The civilian populace will likely accept an implanted microscopic chips that allow military members to defend vital national interests. Further, the US military will continue to be a volunteer force that will freely accept the chip because it is a tool to control technology and not as a tool to control the human.
somebody mod this up! They can put one of those in me when they pry my gun from my cold, dead fingers.
It's called producing a better product, dipshit. Linux? Don't make me laugh.
And you work for Microsoft, I presume? Get back to work, slave, before Bill catches you reading Slashdot.
Heh, watch the next "service pack" from Micro$oft to fix this quietly installs the Magic Lantern trojan.
;)
You don't think the Feds dropped the antitrust case for nothing, do you?
Don't you editors proofread anything?
...I can't wait for them to teach that!
You know, three years ago when the U.S. was economically prosperous and business was booming, we could afford to attack our best corporate performers with regulation. But right now, our economy sucks. People are being laid off all over the place.
I think you're confusing forced competition with basic customer service. At any rate, I can accept a Telco monopoly, but if Verizon or anybody else wants to lobby for and get exclusive market share then they'd damn well better be prepared to have a state public utilities commission oversee their activities and make sure they're providing decent QoS and services in a manner consistent with their customers' needs.
This attitude that broadband providers have that we should all just surf the web and not use any other protocols or run servers has got to go. A byte's a friggin byte of data, so get over it. Verizon and their ilk that want to implement draconian AUPs while lobbying to be monopolies need to learn they can't have their cake and eat it too. Customers, especially geeks, are tired of being bent over and fucked up the ass.
Mozilla MAY -become- better, but it isn't, yet. If you give me that "IE doesn't run in Linux" then why are you even posting to this article?
Why? Because at times like these when the FBI is engineering Trojan horses to be snuck onto people's computers--and the US antivirus industry has capitulated--closed source operating systems, browsers and other software seriously lose credibility with anyone desirng privacy.
Mozilla and Konqueror might not do everything that IE can do, but they have 80-90% of its functionality. Try KDE under Mandrake 8.1 and you'll see just how far OSS has come.
At least with open source products the code is laid bare and people can audit it to be sure that spook agencies haven't embedded keystroke loggers and other such goodies.
I wouldn't install it considering the timing of all this news about the FBI's keystroke-logging Trojan. A "Windows Update" would be the perfect vehicle for the Feds to sneak their code onto machines, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if they were in cahoots with Redmond just like they were in years past with the big Telcos.
I bet in todays soft market all of this is fluff to keep the beancounters and other control nazis happy. Think about it, they don't want to lose *any* custumers with the economy the way it is now.
Somebody mod this up! JMD is right on the money...let Micro$sloth and others turn the screws to force people to comply with their draconian EULAs and pay exorbitant prices for their shitty, bug-ridden software. To paraphrase Leia, "The more they tighten their grip, the more end user will slip through their fingers!" This is awesome news for Linux, BSD, and open source advocacy.
Somebody Mod this Up!
I can't wait for the Gartner Group to comdemn use of Outlook like they did IIS :)
Might get a few Dozers to switch to *nix and use Kmail, Evolution, Mutt, Pine...or at least get them to try Eudora instead.
Of course the Exchange admins will cry that they can't support POP3/SMTP because they need their neato calendar and scheduling functions of groupware.
They suck off the open source community like a black hole using BSD code in OS X but won't give back by opening up the source to QuickTime. Fuck them--they're leeches.
Anyone know if any of the Linux projects (Debian, Slack, etc.) are working on porting pf to their distros?
The ACLU has a nifty-neato page where you can simply enter your ZIP code and generate an email, fax, or postal letter to you Congress critter for free to express your views on post Sept. 11 civil liberties and the USA Patriot Act and urge Congressional inquiry.
You will be able to protest as much as you want as long as no stones are involved in your protests.
And what of peaceful protesters who "fail to disperse" or stage sit-ins on government property? I suppose Greenpeace will be added to the list of terrorist organizations for this. Don't say it won't happen, cuz you *know* that numerous corporatists/globalists are chomping at the bit to use this legislation to brand those hippy freaks as terrorists.
Depends on how you define unreasonable.
To me having my house secretly searched meets the definition of an unreasonable search.
Agreed...mod this up!
Americans have adamantly defended their basic liberties throughout history. There is not a sleeper majority of the American public that is apathetic to this issue.
Coulda fooled me...
The linksys routers can not be configured from outside the local network
Actually, they can be remotely admin'd via http, though this feature is not enabled by default.
....subscriber records to Slashdot in the future:
Agent Smith: "He has a Slashdot subscription on his credit card records, must be one of those libertarian dissenter types...can't be trusted, you know. We'd better take him in for questioning."
But what happens when the media is a toy that does not discuss these issues and that is the people's only source for information?
Unfortunately, that's the consequences of having RIAA-MPAA member companies such as AOL-TW controlling CNN, or Microsoft having its fingers in MSNBC. I doubt the journalists in those comapnies even have a grasp of IP issues, or if they do, they STFU and don't make waves because of where their paycheck comes from, or even worse spin the news on IP issues to suit their corporate masters.
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
The technician who didn't bother to backup her
data files should have been fired on the spot!
This is totally unacceptable behavior.
That dude rocks. Hell, if I ever find out who he was I'd hunt him down and hire him in a heartbeat just because he had the balls to do it. Just like I'd love to hire the helpdesk dude in that urban legend who told a customer who called to say their computer wouldn't work during a power outage to pack it up and return it because she was too stupid to own one. IIRC he was fired, but became a mythical hero...who knows what company it happened at or even if it really happened, the actual history has become obscured in the mists of time.
Don't forget FreeBSD and OpenBSD. OpenBSD is already supported on PPC, and FreeBSD is working on a port...of course I'm waiting for the x86-64 port of both. woohoo!
For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.