1984 was written as a mirror for Orwell's times, so yeah, '84 as opposed to '48 when he was writing.
People keep thinking he was writing about Russia. But he wasn't. He was writing about Britain. Having worked in the propaganda dept. during WW2, he new all about propaganda from the state. He wasn't writing about Russia at all, what would be the point? There were plenty of others who would write about that part of the world. No, he was writing about his own country. He was writing against fascism, totalitarianism, and authoritarianism in his own country.
He would recognize the shit happening from the NSA, and he would nod, and say "I warned you". That book was written because he knew too well how "liberal, democratic" countries could turn bad.
I suggest everyone go and read Why I Write: "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."
Moreover, it should apply to all those criminalized, and convicted under this awful law. Alan Turing was a great man, sure enough. But he was not the only victim of this sadistic state. The least the state can do is a blanket pardon, apology, and striking from the records of the "crime" of being gay and acting on it.
You regularly get mod-bombed because you're a fucking idiot who is presenting the most inane and stupid ideas, and you expect people to treat those ideas (and yourself) as if they had the same validity as actual sane (even if wrong) ideas.
A lot of people with different opinions get modded up on/. even if those opinions go against the 'group-think'. You, however, are either a troll, or just stupidly crazy (shaken too much as a baby?). Either way, you're opinions are not presented in a manner that justifies giving them anything but contempt.
Maybe if instead of sucking on the NSAs hypothetical cock/cunt so much, with such "oh yes, I love Big Brother", and your shit about "Al Qaida" being at war with the USA (and being so successful, that they have had one attack in the USA in the last 200 years, unlike the Christian fundamentalists who have had at least three that i can think of), and thus justifying bombing weddings, funerals, and anyone who looks at the drone funny, you just stuck to non-political subjects, you'd get on better. (I've seen +5 posts of yours, so it is possible.)
My point stands. Even when signing up to pay for stuff, that says "don't redistribute", I don't think I've ever seen a clause that says "and if you do redistribute, we'll come and make you pay us". Normally, it would be implied that they have copyright law on their side. Except, that, well, here they don't. So, to repeat the question of the anon coward, what penalties would they be seeking?
With what penalties? I don't believe I've seen an online contract (aka terms of service, which aren't really a contract at all) that matters that has enforceable penalties. So: 1. download 2. redistribute. 2a. if redistributing anonymously, goto 4. 2b. if redistributing in a fashion that is easy to link you to your account, goto 3. 3. lose your account. who cares? end. 4. continue as you please. end.
I'm surprised he did it from his dorm (if, indeed, he actually did it). I thought the sensible thing was to go down to the local public library and/or coffee shop (without cameras) and do your shit from there. And if you can use someone else's wireless, you can still use your own computer and Tor. As for "because it originated from the Harvard wireless network", I'm skeptical.
From the PDF: <blockquote>9. Harvard University was able to determine that, in the several hours leading up to the receipt of the e-mail messages described above, ELDO KIM accessed TOR using Harvard’s wireless network</blockquote>
Which, apart from the "confession" is the only evidence that the person alleged to have done it, actually did it. Oh, so someone on campus used Tor, at the same time that an email was sent that had used Tor. Therefore the person sent the email, and not someone else using Tor from another place...
I've seen plenty of phones on planes before, but I've never seen them used to actually make calls. Probably because they cost a shitload.
So, just have a fair warning to consumers, that each call will cost $10 a minute (via various methods, including text messages to those phones that are turned on). Then, only those people who actually have a pressing need will use the phones in flight. Solves the problem for me.
Moreover, if noise worries you, then get a pair of earplugs. And/or don't fly (the engines are almost always the noisiest thing on airplanes for me).
The solution obviously is to let the free market sort it out. Obviously the free market wants there to be high speed internet all through Australia, including in the outback. So, government, butt out!
Perhaps they can get Steve Erwin to catch some kangaroos or something to drag the fiber out?
Jesus Christ! I've got three months worth of phone logs from cold fjord! Here's a choice quote: <quote>I like to stick random stuff up my ass when I ah, masturbate. Random, like err, pens, action figures, whatever.</quote>
OK, we shouldn't pick on a person for their fetishes. But what about this one!: <quote>I think we should round up all those liberal scum and send'em to camps. Teach them the values that obviously their parents and schools failed to instill. Values like hard work, the supremacy of the state and government, and stuff.</quote> Whoa, cold fjord sounds like a bit of a fascist doesn't he!
Other logs show cold fjord (apparently) randomly dialing numbers early in the morning (like three) and then just swearing. Quite a number of others show him calling one number repeatedly, and then hanging up before it connects. That number turns out to the number of the house he grew up in.
Meh. Depending on the time of day (e.g. at night) and the airport, there are plenty of places where one can find a. no other people, b. no cameras. Then, if you want to watch some movies in private, you can without disturbing anyone.
It's something to do on the overnight layovers where you are stuck at the airport.
If the Internet is out for your country (that's the anchor comment), your mobile phone won't help. Of course, it won't work it a lot of other places either. But, I guess it doesn't matter. You do what you think you should, and I'll do what I think I should. Personally, I'm often without Internet. That's both at home, and when traveling (e.g. in airports, hotels which are too cheap to provide free Internet, and a myriad of other places).
In this case, the "reason" was because they suspected the fella of importing "objectionable" material. So making a copy and then giving the device back wouldn't serve the purpose of taking the device. That is, stopping "objectionable" material from entering the country.
Maybe you want to be able to look at your porn when you don't have Internet access? Perhaps it's down because some idiot with a backhoe or a large anchor cut your line? Besides, if you look at porn on the web, you'll be downloading, and storing, copies on to your computer. Web browsers cache stuff all the time.
However, a Customs official has since told him they were searching everything for objectionable material under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993.
Blackman said of course he didn't have anything like that. But if he had any porn at all, it's perfectly possible he did have "objectionable material". That's why I keep all my porn in a Truecrypt container. Even if I'm obliged to hand over my password to my device, they can't find anything objectionable (they can, I've got shit loads of political material that advocates the execution of all their ilk, but that's probably not what they are looking for) .
Also, bet there would a law about how long they can hold the stuff for. A week or two I'm sure.
Google Docs. Lol. You may as well just print your shit off and hand it to the authorities directly. In fact, print it off, and fax it to the national police forces of all the major anglophone countries (including NZ). Because if they want it, they'll get it from Google anyway.
At least in some countries, it isn't that you have to give the password, it's that you have to give the password if it's for an investigation. So the police can't just say "hand it over", they have to say "hand it over, because we are investigation this that and the other". Not that I want to defend that sort of shit of course.
Considering that chimps are as intelligent (at least) as two and three year olds, I think they should be given the same sort of rights. The right not to be tortured, and mistreated for one.
Oh but they are beasts and awful, and rape and stuff. Yeah, humans are horrible aren't they.
You had friends? Were they other members of your local Little Fascists group?
What was one of your favorite chants? I bet "Yay yay NSA!" and "all the way with the NSA!" are popular this year, but what about when you were young? "All the way with the CIA"?
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You must not have seen cold fjord's posts on the NSA and Snowden.
1984 was written as a mirror for Orwell's times, so yeah, '84 as opposed to '48 when he was writing.
People keep thinking he was writing about Russia. But he wasn't. He was writing about Britain. Having worked in the propaganda dept. during WW2, he new all about propaganda from the state. He wasn't writing about Russia at all, what would be the point? There were plenty of others who would write about that part of the world. No, he was writing about his own country. He was writing against fascism, totalitarianism, and authoritarianism in his own country.
He would recognize the shit happening from the NSA, and he would nod, and say "I warned you". That book was written because he knew too well how "liberal, democratic" countries could turn bad.
I suggest everyone go and read Why I Write: "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."
Moreover, it should apply to all those criminalized, and convicted under this awful law. Alan Turing was a great man, sure enough. But he was not the only victim of this sadistic state. The least the state can do is a blanket pardon, apology, and striking from the records of the "crime" of being gay and acting on it.
You regularly get mod-bombed because you're a fucking idiot who is presenting the most inane and stupid ideas, and you expect people to treat those ideas (and yourself) as if they had the same validity as actual sane (even if wrong) ideas.
A lot of people with different opinions get modded up on /. even if those opinions go against the 'group-think'. You, however, are either a troll, or just stupidly crazy (shaken too much as a baby?). Either way, you're opinions are not presented in a manner that justifies giving them anything but contempt.
Maybe if instead of sucking on the NSAs hypothetical cock/cunt so much, with such "oh yes, I love Big Brother", and your shit about "Al Qaida" being at war with the USA (and being so successful, that they have had one attack in the USA in the last 200 years, unlike the Christian fundamentalists who have had at least three that i can think of), and thus justifying bombing weddings, funerals, and anyone who looks at the drone funny, you just stuck to non-political subjects, you'd get on better. (I've seen +5 posts of yours, so it is possible.)
You are a caricature.
My point stands. Even when signing up to pay for stuff, that says "don't redistribute", I don't think I've ever seen a clause that says "and if you do redistribute, we'll come and make you pay us". Normally, it would be implied that they have copyright law on their side. Except, that, well, here they don't. So, to repeat the question of the anon coward, what penalties would they be seeking?
And... /. ate my </troll> bugger. Well, here it is.
I was hoping they floated off into the depths of space to die alone... Leaving their fellow crew members to die of heat (or whatever)
With what penalties? I don't believe I've seen an online contract (aka terms of service, which aren't really a contract at all) that matters that has enforceable penalties. So:
1. download
2. redistribute.
2a. if redistributing anonymously, goto 4.
2b. if redistributing in a fashion that is easy to link you to your account, goto 3.
3. lose your account. who cares? end.
4. continue as you please. end.
No no. You misunderstand. This is the /NSA/ doing this. Therefore it's OK.
Why do you object to this, but you don't object to the NSA collecting data about who called who and for how long for everyone in America?
Are you a dirty pinko commie pervert or something? If you've got nothing to hide, why are you hiding?
I'm surprised he did it from his dorm (if, indeed, he actually did it). I thought the sensible thing was to go down to the local public library and/or coffee shop (without cameras) and do your shit from there. And if you can use someone else's wireless, you can still use your own computer and Tor.
As for "because it originated from the Harvard wireless network", I'm skeptical.
From the PDF:
<blockquote>9. Harvard University was able to determine that, in the several hours leading up to the receipt of the e-mail messages described above, ELDO KIM accessed TOR using Harvard’s wireless network</blockquote>
Which, apart from the "confession" is the only evidence that the person alleged to have done it, actually did it. Oh, so someone on campus used Tor, at the same time that an email was sent that had used Tor. Therefore the person sent the email, and not someone else using Tor from another place...
I've seen plenty of phones on planes before, but I've never seen them used to actually make calls. Probably because they cost a shitload.
So, just have a fair warning to consumers, that each call will cost $10 a minute (via various methods, including text messages to those phones that are turned on). Then, only those people who actually have a pressing need will use the phones in flight. Solves the problem for me.
Moreover, if noise worries you, then get a pair of earplugs. And/or don't fly (the engines are almost always the noisiest thing on airplanes for me).
The solution obviously is to let the free market sort it out. Obviously the free market wants there to be high speed internet all through Australia, including in the outback. So, government, butt out!
Perhaps they can get Steve Erwin to catch some kangaroos or something to drag the fiber out?
Jesus Christ! I've got three months worth of phone logs from cold fjord! Here's a choice quote:
<quote>I like to stick random stuff up my ass when I ah, masturbate. Random, like err, pens, action figures, whatever.</quote>
OK, we shouldn't pick on a person for their fetishes. But what about this one!:
<quote>I think we should round up all those liberal scum and send'em to camps. Teach them the values that obviously their parents and schools failed to instill. Values like hard work, the supremacy of the state and government, and stuff.</quote>
Whoa, cold fjord sounds like a bit of a fascist doesn't he!
Other logs show cold fjord (apparently) randomly dialing numbers early in the morning (like three) and then just swearing. Quite a number of others show him calling one number repeatedly, and then hanging up before it connects. That number turns out to the number of the house he grew up in.
Our physiologists think he may have mommy issues.
If you ... were ... bot, real. Your characters would be... monospace in. Fraud.
Meh. Depending on the time of day (e.g. at night) and the airport, there are plenty of places where one can find a. no other people, b. no cameras. Then, if you want to watch some movies in private, you can without disturbing anyone.
It's something to do on the overnight layovers where you are stuck at the airport.
If the Internet is out for your country (that's the anchor comment), your mobile phone won't help. Of course, it won't work it a lot of other places either. But, I guess it doesn't matter. You do what you think you should, and I'll do what I think I should. Personally, I'm often without Internet. That's both at home, and when traveling (e.g. in airports, hotels which are too cheap to provide free Internet, and a myriad of other places).
In this case, the "reason" was because they suspected the fella of importing "objectionable" material. So making a copy and then giving the device back wouldn't serve the purpose of taking the device. That is, stopping "objectionable" material from entering the country.
Cheers.
Maybe you want to be able to look at your porn when you don't have Internet access? Perhaps it's down because some idiot with a backhoe or a large anchor cut your line? Besides, if you look at porn on the web, you'll be downloading, and storing, copies on to your computer. Web browsers cache stuff all the time.
Blackman said of course he didn't have anything like that. But if he had any porn at all, it's perfectly possible he did have "objectionable material". That's why I keep all my porn in a Truecrypt container. Even if I'm obliged to hand over my password to my device, they can't find anything objectionable (they can, I've got shit loads of political material that advocates the execution of all their ilk, but that's probably not what they are looking for) .
Also, bet there would a law about how long they can hold the stuff for. A week or two I'm sure.
Google Docs. Lol. You may as well just print your shit off and hand it to the authorities directly. In fact, print it off, and fax it to the national police forces of all the major anglophone countries (including NZ). Because if they want it, they'll get it from Google anyway.
At least in some countries, it isn't that you have to give the password, it's that you have to give the password if it's for an investigation. So the police can't just say "hand it over", they have to say "hand it over, because we are investigation this that and the other". Not that I want to defend that sort of shit of course.
I just had a look at part III of RIPA, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/contents and can't understand it. But it does look like it's not necessary to have any actual good reason.
Considering that chimps are as intelligent (at least) as two and three year olds, I think they should be given the same sort of rights. The right not to be tortured, and mistreated for one.
Oh but they are beasts and awful, and rape and stuff. Yeah, humans are horrible aren't they.
Humans aren't special. Get over yourselves.
You had friends? Were they other members of your local Little Fascists group?
What was one of your favorite chants? I bet "Yay yay NSA!" and "all the way with the NSA!" are popular this year, but what about when you were young? "All the way with the CIA"?
If you care about cookies, use an addon/extension that gives you a better interface, and finer control, than the built in systems. I use CookieMonster (set to deny all cookies by default), but there are others.
CookieMonster allows you to set per website permissions, both temporary (until you close the browser, and then permissions revert to deny), per session (deletes every time you close your browser), and ordinary (hangs around until they expire). You can also set third party cookie controls.
What makes Firefox great is the addon/extension ecosystem. If you're not going to use it, why even use Firefox? (OK, it's less evil.)
You monster! That code deleted everything on my windoze partition, scratched my records, and kicked my dog!