Besides the fact that it seems like a rather large waste of money and time...wouldn't letting a private company access to all this information be, in essence, a bigger security risk than not doing this at all? A few disgruntled workers decide to delete a few people, or even better, steal their ID for credit cards to buy stuff. Or better yet, a disgruntled religious group who think mormons are the epitome of satan's shit decide to fuck with them and blow this entire company up, years after the govt. switched over from their records to this. It should be interesting to watch as the 2.4 million "Utahns" suddenly stop exsisting.
Because it won't do much good. We have alot of different groups of people here in this country, with alot of different beliefs as to how far "security" can go. We all have our own different ideas as to what is right and what is wrong and speaking as an american, most of us are too lazy or ignorant to care.
"what, dossier? well..does it make my tv go away?"
besides, most large scale protests end up with the police in riot gear forcing protesters into doing something they can get arrested for
wireless keyboards, wireless mice...they all could go with the whole "less battery consumption" idea. maybe those remotes rich people have that control the lights and radios in all 2390847 rooms in their oversized house. With only 20kbits/sec there isn't much that can be done other then controlling electronic devices. It's sure as hell too slow for any data transfer other then plain text.
listeners interested in pop music will all be forced to become non-voting part-owners of music distributers
That would be a very very good thing. Think about it. Get all the people who despise these money hungry fucks, spill out a couple bucks and become a shareholder, boom. You technically and financially have them by the balls. Each and every person who owns even one share of a company is legally allowed to join and participate in the shareholder meetings. Groups of the people who hate the company could elect one or two people to sit in on these meetings, and if they try to come up with some half-assed scheme to further fuck over the artists/people, well, you have enough shareholders to keep that from happening. What'd be even funnier would be if some company overlooks the percentages, and the owner ends up having less then 50% of the total shares, thus allowing the other 51+% to fire his ass:D
That's good and all, i'm glad to see they are trying to do something about it...but..why couldn't the price been just a little more? $5 to $29 is not going to make up for the companies who have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on microsoft products through the last 10 years or so. It's ridiculous. fp?
sounds like it could be possible, in theory. Basically what that'd be is kinda like the way a dialup modem works. Since that takes the digital data, and turns it into an analog "soundwave" signal. Actually...that sounds more along the lines of DSL with heavy encryption
The IP Log Circle Jerk: 1) ISP's will be required to keep logs, for legal purposes 2) the common folk, with their (insert firewall here) logs will say "hey, if ISP logs are kept for legal purposes, why not track this sonuvabitch down who tried to.winnuke me" 3) The Department of Justice will get involved when they hear of rumors that such and such a ISP has been tampering with their logs, thus costing us more money in them doing their shit. 4) Some random group of people who like to complain will picket the government some more claiming "they are tracking how long i'm on the internet and what i'm doing, invasion of privacy" and that will cost us even more money as they send out the swat teams and the rubber bullets because we all know protesting in any form is pretty much ILLEGAL now. 5) Some Congressman will present a bill to overthrow the IP log law because it's causing conflicts in society (he doesn't want them to catch onto his warez/kiddie porn ring) 6) the law will be discontinued, we'll be right back were we started, a couple billion dollars further in the hole, with nothing more accomplished.
99 Kriegsminister Streichholz und Benzinkanister Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute Witterten schon fette Beute Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht Mann, wer haette das gedacht Dass es einmal soweit kommt Wegen 99 Luftballons
99 War Ministers Holding matches and gas cans thought they were smart people Smelled the loot Wanted War Who would have thought, because of 99 Red Balloons
rough translation
this lyric is also part of the song Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons (uses nena's english version for most of it, and adds this part because the orignal version was a hell of alot harsher towards the government, the english version was made more "pop culture politically correct" for US release)
aye sir, that's correct. i seem to have wrongfully omitted the term "money" at the end of said sentence. I apologize for any inconvienence this may have caused any customers. This problem will be dealt with in the swiftest, most professional way possible
cause someone in the private sector is making money that the big badass always right always needs more money corporation isn't getting it's "fair" share of.
try arguing that to someone who "LIVES" in one of these non-tangible worlds.
ebay: that's not real player: huh? what are you talking about? Not Real? Psh. If i have this, i can rawk the world. ebay: but it's not a real world either player: YOU'RE LYING. YOU BAD BLASPHEMOUS MEANIE HEAD
i read a couple pages of it, but eh...i dunno..It's not as though i'm bad at reading..i just don't like reading something with so many lengthy words. It's bloated. It's good, yes, wish i could write that well, but damn bloated.
That and i'm reading it at work, and I'm tired of looking at PDF's, since my job revolves around opening them, looking at them, exporting them.
the way the RIAA is going now is nothing but a complete circle jerk. "we want more of our money, so lets spend money, attack these people who give out our music for free, thus putting us deeper in debt (legal costs), and then, we'll continue to sell our CD's at $15-$25USD, although our brand new techology will stop them from stealing, since the CD's won't work in half of the cd players on the market..ha ha ha ha" MY thoughts....no way they are going to stop people from getting music for free. Encode everything anyway you want, someone is going to be bored enough, and have the time enough, to simply run a patch cord from Audio Out from a CD player that works, to Audio In, on sound card...and sit and wait 74 minutes for the CD to be recorded. There is NO way to get around it. What they SHOULD do, is encourage people to BUY their shit. Drop the prices, what the fuck is the point of celling a 25cent piece of plastic for almost 100% more then what it's worth. Ya gotta give people more. Offers, coupons, buy 1 get one, discounts, free clothing...etc etc. People will buy if people get what the money is worth. Pay the damn bands more then 5 cents per CD sold. People are also willing to support these bands. They aren't willing to support some fucking company that takes 95% of the profits, and throws the bands pocket change.
by that means, everything is counter productive when it comes to solar power research. lets see Computers are used for CAD draw-ups, those computers were transported using some kind of fossil fuel. I don't really see how "student time spent" really falls in that catagory though. Without spending time, there is no research, without research, there is nothing new, and when there is nothing new, life just plain fucking sucks.
SUV's aren't all that pollutant. They just use a fuck of a lot of fuel to run. That's why some many people bitch about them, because they suck down fossil fuels. Old cars and shit give off more pollutants then SUVs
i'm no electrical engineer, but i'm guessing they would most likely being using very sensative panels, ones manufactured for "less the perfect" lighting conditions. Back that with a decent series of capaciters and priority based distribution, they wouldn't have any problems.
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we have people suing mcdonald's because they are fat
we have people suing tobacco companies because they listened to a commercial and thought it wouldn't hurt.
the general populus may not be dumb, but they sure are stupid
Besides the fact that it seems like a rather large waste of money and time...wouldn't letting a private company access to all this information be, in essence, a bigger security risk than not doing this at all? A few disgruntled workers decide to delete a few people, or even better, steal their ID for credit cards to buy stuff. Or better yet, a disgruntled religious group who think mormons are the epitome of satan's shit decide to fuck with them and blow this entire company up, years after the govt. switched over from their records to this. It should be interesting to watch as the 2.4 million "Utahns" suddenly stop exsisting.
for 7 wives and 34 children
Because it won't do much good. We have alot of different groups of people here in this country, with alot of different beliefs as to how far "security" can go. We all have our own different ideas as to what is right and what is wrong and speaking as an american, most of us are too lazy or ignorant to care.
"what, dossier? well..does it make my tv go away?"
besides, most large scale protests end up with the police in riot gear forcing protesters into doing something they can get arrested for
wireless keyboards, wireless mice...they all could go with the whole "less battery consumption" idea. maybe those remotes rich people have that control the lights and radios in all 2390847 rooms in their oversized house. With only 20kbits/sec there isn't much that can be done other then controlling electronic devices. It's sure as hell too slow for any data transfer other then plain text.
listeners interested in pop music will all be forced to become non-voting part-owners of music distributers
:D
That would be a very very good thing. Think about it. Get all the people who despise these money hungry fucks, spill out a couple bucks and become a shareholder, boom. You technically and financially have them by the balls. Each and every person who owns even one share of a company is legally allowed to join and participate in the shareholder meetings. Groups of the people who hate the company could elect one or two people to sit in on these meetings, and if they try to come up with some half-assed scheme to further fuck over the artists/people, well, you have enough shareholders to keep that from happening. What'd be even funnier would be if some company overlooks the percentages, and the owner ends up having less then 50% of the total shares, thus allowing the other 51+% to fire his ass
When troll's seem to overlook the obvious, i mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to read the large colored words.
well that's queer. LOVE the fucking legal system, always 4 years in the past
well yeah, that blank cd-r probably cost ya 50 shiny new pennies! :/
That's good and all, i'm glad to see they are trying to do something about it...but..why couldn't the price been just a little more? $5 to $29 is not going to make up for the companies who have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on microsoft products through the last 10 years or so. It's ridiculous.
fp?
sounds like it could be possible, in theory. Basically what that'd be is kinda like the way a dialup modem works. Since that takes the digital data, and turns it into an analog "soundwave" signal.
Actually...that sounds more along the lines of DSL with heavy encryption
The IP Log Circle Jerk: .winnuke me"
1) ISP's will be required to keep logs, for legal purposes
2) the common folk, with their (insert firewall here) logs will say "hey, if ISP logs are kept for legal purposes, why not track this sonuvabitch down who tried to
3) The Department of Justice will get involved when they hear of rumors that such and such a ISP has been tampering with their logs, thus costing us more money in them doing their shit.
4) Some random group of people who like to complain will picket the government some more claiming "they are tracking how long i'm on the internet and what i'm doing, invasion of privacy" and that will cost us even more money as they send out the swat teams and the rubber bullets because we all know protesting in any form is pretty much ILLEGAL now.
5) Some Congressman will present a bill to overthrow the IP log law because it's causing conflicts in society (he doesn't want them to catch onto his warez/kiddie porn ring)
6) the law will be discontinued, we'll be right back were we started, a couple billion dollars further in the hole, with nothing more accomplished.
99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons
99 War Ministers
Holding matches and gas cans
thought they were smart people
Smelled the loot
Wanted War
Who would have thought, because of 99 Red Balloons
rough translation
this lyric is also part of the song Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons (uses nena's english version for most of it, and adds this part because the orignal version was a hell of alot harsher towards the government, the english version was made more "pop culture politically correct" for US release)
aye sir, that's correct. i seem to have wrongfully omitted the term "money" at the end of said sentence. I apologize for any inconvienence this may have caused any customers. This problem will be dealt with in the swiftest, most professional way possible
*kicks self in ass*
cause someone in the private sector is making money that the big badass always right always needs more money corporation isn't getting it's "fair" share of.
try arguing that to someone who "LIVES" in one of these non-tangible worlds.
ebay: that's not real
player: huh? what are you talking about? Not Real? Psh. If i have this, i can rawk the world.
ebay: but it's not a real world either
player: YOU'RE LYING. YOU BAD BLASPHEMOUS MEANIE HEAD
means hard drive went boo boo
now shut the fuck up and move to a different forum.
i read a couple pages of it, but eh...i dunno..It's not as though i'm bad at reading..i just don't like reading something with so many lengthy words. It's bloated. It's good, yes, wish i could write that well, but damn bloated.
That and i'm reading it at work, and I'm tired of looking at PDF's, since my job revolves around opening them, looking at them, exporting them.
the way the RIAA is going now is nothing but a complete circle jerk. "we want more of our money, so lets spend money, attack these people who give out our music for free, thus putting us deeper in debt (legal costs), and then, we'll continue to sell our CD's at $15-$25USD, although our brand new techology will stop them from stealing, since the CD's won't work in half of the cd players on the market..ha ha ha ha"
MY thoughts....no way they are going to stop people from getting music for free. Encode everything anyway you want, someone is going to be bored enough, and have the time enough, to simply run a patch cord from Audio Out from a CD player that works, to Audio In, on sound card...and sit and wait 74 minutes for the CD to be recorded. There is NO way to get around it. What they SHOULD do, is encourage people to BUY their shit. Drop the prices, what the fuck is the point of celling a 25cent piece of plastic for almost 100% more then what it's worth. Ya gotta give people more. Offers, coupons, buy 1 get one, discounts, free clothing...etc etc. People will buy if people get what the money is worth. Pay the damn bands more then 5 cents per CD sold. People are also willing to support these bands. They aren't willing to support some fucking company that takes 95% of the profits, and throws the bands pocket change.
*coughs* okay, i feel better now i think
Gameshark....buut...I'll let you all decide the slot you'll stick yours
Man steals guns. Guns used to steal Money
Money buys robber drugs
Robber OD's
Money == Death
by that means, everything is counter productive when it comes to solar power research. lets see
Computers are used for CAD draw-ups, those computers were transported using some kind of fossil fuel. I don't really see how "student time spent" really falls in that catagory though. Without spending time, there is no research, without research, there is nothing new, and when there is nothing new, life just plain fucking sucks.
SUV's aren't all that pollutant. They just use a fuck of a lot of fuel to run. That's why some many people bitch about them, because they suck down fossil fuels. Old cars and shit give off more pollutants then SUVs
i'm no electrical engineer, but i'm guessing they would most likely being using very sensative panels, ones manufactured for "less the perfect" lighting conditions. Back that with a decent series of capaciters and priority based distribution, they wouldn't have any problems.
That's cool and all...but what happens if they have 10 days of clouds?
:D
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