Like most everyone else around here I too am worried about the lose of our civil liberties. However; I fail to see that the use of some systems (read facial recognition) in airports and at customs check points is an out and out lose.
Incorrect usage of this technology is definatley a scary thing. I would not want to be pulled a sided and charged with a crime because a computer thought I was someone else. However; the use of such technology in places like airports and sports stadiums is a very directed use. We can make a choice of wheteher or not we want to pay for a ticket and subject ourselves to the software at the airport or at the superbowl. I really find this less disturbing then being used in public squares.
Measured uses of some technologies could prove helpful. The important thing is to prevent this from becoming a police state. If these cameras can provided an error rate of less the.01% I do not see a problem with their limited use.
As to wire tapping laws being proposed. It seems like common sense to me that a wire tapping warrant should follow an individual and not a phone. The person is the one suspected of commiting a crime not the phone. Yet we handcuff the police agencies to only being able to tap a single phone. That does not make much sense.
Just a note regarding insurance premiums. In the last year or two insurance companies have shifted from the "25 and over" to the 9 years driving experience clause. Thus you no longer pay more because you are 22. Rather you pay more because you have only 6 years driving experience.
I don't know if they did this to be PC or just to make more money!!( a person how gets their license at age 20 would be 29 when their insurance would go down)
PS: the 50 year deduction is now 34 years driving experience.
Even my favorite product that they make, the HP Procurve 4000M switches, is fairly lame in some respects; In order to increase the number of VLANs on the box, you must restart the switch. I bet Cisco's laughing about that one all day every day.
The HP 4000M Switches have supported hot reconfiguration of VLANs since software version V07. If you still can't dynamically reconfigure VLANs on your 4000M download software version V07.27 from here.
You should barely ever have to reboot a 4000m unless you are just enabling VLANs for the first time or you hotswap an 8 port card with a transciver card.
On point one: Products shiped across state lines ARE subject to sales tax. It is called use tax and you are "required" to pay by filling a certain form (not that anyone does it or that it is enforced but it is the law).
The overall point of the previous poster is that we need to be weary of a "jealous government." As the government begins to lose hold on something it is prone to knee jerk reactions which can negatively impact markets.
The point being we need to exercise our political identity as a community in order to ensure our freedom and not sit passively by letting others make decisions that affect us all.
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Like most everyone else around here I too am worried about the lose of our civil liberties. However; I fail to see that the use of some systems (read facial recognition) in airports and at customs check points is an out and out lose.
.01% I do not see a problem with their limited use.
Incorrect usage of this technology is definatley a scary thing. I would not want to be pulled a sided and charged with a crime because a computer thought I was someone else. However; the use of such technology in places like airports and sports stadiums is a very directed use. We can make a choice of wheteher or not we want to pay for a ticket and subject ourselves to the software at the airport or at the superbowl. I really find this less disturbing then being used in public squares.
Measured uses of some technologies could prove helpful. The important thing is to prevent this from becoming a police state. If these cameras can provided an error rate of less the
As to wire tapping laws being proposed. It seems like common sense to me that a wire tapping warrant should follow an individual and not a phone. The person is the one suspected of commiting a crime not the phone. Yet we handcuff the police agencies to only being able to tap a single phone. That does not make much sense.
Just a note regarding insurance premiums. In the last year or two insurance companies have shifted from the "25 and over" to the 9 years driving experience clause. Thus you no longer pay more because you are 22. Rather you pay more because you have only 6 years driving experience.
I don't know if they did this to be PC or just to make more money!!( a person how gets their license at age 20 would be 29 when their insurance would go down)
PS: the 50 year deduction is now 34 years driving experience.
On point one:
Products shiped across state lines ARE subject to sales tax. It is called use tax and you are "required" to pay by filling a certain form (not that anyone does it or that it is enforced but it is the law).
The overall point of the previous poster is that we need to be weary of a "jealous government." As the government begins to lose hold on something it is prone to knee jerk reactions which can negatively impact markets.
The point being we need to exercise our political identity as a community in order to ensure our freedom and not sit passively by letting others make decisions that affect us all.