This is somewhat hyperbolic. Perhaps a better analogy is to install cameras in everyone's homes and places of work. But it's all right, we'll only turn them on if we think you're doing something wrong.
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Quite right, and we must leave no haven for this criminal filth by addressing this in a global way. North Korean and Chinese police must be able to track down dangerous criminals like democracy activists!
Now who's over-reacting? We didn't say we'd turn it on. We'll only do that if you're suspected or accused of something, or if the police want to eliminate you from their investigations. As you said, when that happens, you lose your rights.
So, as long as you're not accused of anything, and have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear, right? Don't you want your children to be safe? defishguy, why do you hate your children so much? What are you planning to do to them?
Heck, if you're going to do that, just put up some pictures of your cats or something. It's Slashdot, it's not as though anyone's going to actually read the article before spouting off, we'll just skim it for mentions of Microsoft, Lunix and DMCA, then roll out the standard flames.
>You are actually rebooting some poor schmuck who used to have a "slow" computer, and now has one that doesn' work right.
It didn't "work right" before. You're now making Joe Shmuch aware of that. Also, did you read the point about most of these being fixed IPs on asian ISP blocks?
>Check to see what netblock the dsl line is in and let the provider know instead.
Running Windows Media under VmWare, you can swipe the bitstream and copy DRM crippled content. Seeing as how blank media and CD-Rs are taxed in Germany, Munich probably reckon that they should get the most from their tax dollars.
Excuse me, you're quite right. A better paraphrasing would be:
"You're either with me, or you don't believe in progress, pluralism, tolerance and/or freeeeeeeedom."
I said him singular rather than any plural, because Bush has bypassed the Senate (other than for rubberstamping) and decreed foreign policy since September 11th 2000. In a world context, the USA also stands alone, as I don't count Airstrip One as an independent sovereign nation. For "shoulder to shoulder" read "tongue to arse".
They'd have found some other way to avoise paying tax. At least this way Pennsylvania tried to get something out of them in return. I also notice that the rule now seems to be that they still have to provide 1.5Mb DSL over copper within 5 days to anyone who asks for it, which is still pretty useful to Barry Backwoods.
Not that they will, and not that it specifies affordable, but, meh, whatever. They're a corporation. Evil until proven otherwise. What else did Pennsylvania expect?
As I believe that I already said, once you put the detector in and can actually see it happening in practice, I'll consider shutting down my doohickeys. I'll take the threat exactly as seriously as the airline takes it.
is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;
As used in this subsection -
(A)
to ''circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure'' means avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or otherwise impairing a technological measure; and
(B)
a technological measure ''effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title'' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title.
Just because it says "Digital" in the title doesn't mean that it's limited to that.
Sure, because it takes no time to sort your documents into shred and no-shred, shred them, then empty the shredder into the trash, rather than just lobbing everything in there.
In a society that gives out credit card numbers as easily as names, it never ceases to amaze me the number of people that assume that their card number has been swiped from their trash rather than from any one of the other zillion places that it lives.
If you can detect my electronic device, please feel free to ask me to turn it off. If you can't - or won't - put a $50 detector in a $5 million aircraft, don't then try and tell me that you're as worried by stray RF as you are by Nelly Nicotene smoking in the toilets.
House Representatives have a 98% reelection rate. Why? Well, because they enjoy a 5 to 1 advantage in campaign funding over their opponent(s), and Joe Sixpack trusts the candidate who can afford to be "As Seen On TV".
The more evil Berman gets, the more he's likely to be reelected. Apparently it doesn't pay to be an honest politician.
But Berman isn't the problem, he's just a particularly blatant symbol of it. Contributing to the EFF is just papering over the cracks. Campaign reform, or civil disobedience, or outright revolt is the only way to get these parasites off of us.
As September 11 2000 showed us, the most effective way of killing people is large and obvious amounts of energy (kinetic, potential, chemical). The NBC available to terrorists - dirty rather than fission, agents that can effect only a small area and number of people - are minor in comparison. Their primary effect is to create panic out of proportion to the actual effect.
Sure, release Sarin in a subway station, you'll kill some people. But have a detector that screams "Sarin attack! Sarin attack!" and you'll kill just as many, perhaps more, in the stampede to get out.
And if it turns out that the sensor was triggered by a new type of cologne? Well, we've just done the terrorists' job for them.
As a further thought, how do you field test these things? Test them in the lab with real agents, sure. Test them in the field with harmless agents that produce the same effect (and hope that nobody finds out what those are), but how do you know with any confidence that you can actually detect a genuine attack in the field? False positives in a military situation aren't so bad - all that will happen is that the grunts will turn on the overpressure systems or put on their NBC suits, but in a civilian situation? We've seen what happens when large numbers of people panic in a small area. Deploying these in cities seems to me like a big gamble to take, for little potential reward, when the costs of false positives are so high.
I'm not suggesting that we do nothing, but I am suggesting that reaction (which includes "preemptive strikes" against people that already hate us) isn't the way to go. Perhaps we could devote some of this energy to dealing with the causes of terrorism rather than the symptoms.
Liam Lynch is released through EMI. An RIAA member. One of the Big Five.
"Store is coming very soon... really."
How do I give Mr Lynch money via the referenced site? Huh? Tell me. How?
You apparently can't find one single solitary artists that demonstrates the model you're espousing. In short, you're wasting both our time and your own. Please desist.
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This is somewhat hyperbolic. Perhaps a better analogy is to install cameras in everyone's homes and places of work. But it's all right, we'll only turn them on if we think you're doing something wrong.
Quite right, and we must leave no haven for this criminal filth by addressing this in a global way. North Korean and Chinese police must be able to track down dangerous criminals like democracy activists!
The grandparent didn't imply turning the camera on routinely. What's your beef with it being there for when it's needed?
Now who's over-reacting? We didn't say we'd turn it on. We'll only do that if you're suspected or accused of something, or if the police want to eliminate you from their investigations. As you said, when that happens, you lose your rights.
So, as long as you're not accused of anything, and have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear, right? Don't you want your children to be safe? defishguy, why do you hate your children so much? What are you planning to do to them?
Heck, if you're going to do that, just put up some pictures of your cats or something. It's Slashdot, it's not as though anyone's going to actually read the article before spouting off, we'll just skim it for mentions of Microsoft, Lunix and DMCA, then roll out the standard flames.
>You are actually rebooting some poor schmuck who used to have a "slow" computer, and now has one that doesn' work right.
It didn't "work right" before. You're now making Joe Shmuch aware of that. Also, did you read the point about most of these being fixed IPs on asian ISP blocks?
>Check to see what netblock the dsl line is in and let the provider know instead.
See above. Pissing up the wind.
>M$ might be a monopoly but at least they have bought some form of consistency
Sure, through their licensing, activation and DRM initiatives, they consistently say they their customers are thieves.
The only way you'll be able to run an effective police state is to firewall yourself off from the free world. See here for examples of how to do it.
Running Windows Media under VmWare, you can swipe the bitstream and copy DRM crippled content. Seeing as how blank media and CD-Rs are taxed in Germany, Munich probably reckon that they should get the most from their tax dollars.
But I've just cum in my pants, and I think I hear my mom bringing my lunch down to the basement.
Excuse me, you're quite right. A better paraphrasing would be:
"You're either with me, or you don't believe in progress, pluralism, tolerance and/or freeeeeeeedom."
I said him singular rather than any plural, because Bush has bypassed the Senate (other than for rubberstamping) and decreed foreign policy since September 11th 2000. In a world context, the USA also stands alone, as I don't count Airstrip One as an independent sovereign nation. For "shoulder to shoulder" read "tongue to arse".
They'd have found some other way to avoise paying tax. At least this way Pennsylvania tried to get something out of them in return. I also notice that the rule now seems to be that they still have to provide 1.5Mb DSL over copper within 5 days to anyone who asks for it, which is still pretty useful to Barry Backwoods.
Not that they will, and not that it specifies affordable, but, meh, whatever. They're a corporation. Evil until proven otherwise. What else did Pennsylvania expect?
As I believe that I already said, once you put the detector in and can actually see it happening in practice, I'll consider shutting down my doohickeys. I'll take the threat exactly as seriously as the airline takes it.
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A)
is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;
As used in this subsection -
(A)
to ''circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure'' means avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or otherwise impairing a technological measure; and
(B)
a technological measure ''effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title'' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title.
Just because it says "Digital" in the title doesn't mean that it's limited to that.
Sure, because it takes no time to sort your documents into shred and no-shred, shred them, then empty the shredder into the trash, rather than just lobbing everything in there.
In a society that gives out credit card numbers as easily as names, it never ceases to amaze me the number of people that assume that their card number has been swiped from their trash rather than from any one of the other zillion places that it lives.
Well, any President except Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy (and Reagan, assuming that he remember that he was shot).
Or are they RFC ignorant. It would be a tragedy if we had to join the terrorists by blacklisting whitehouse.gov.
Slight correction: the quote you allude to is: "you are either with us or with the terrorists".
Let's be clear. If you're not with Bush, you are a terrorist. There is no third way. His words, not mine.
If you can detect my electronic device, please feel free to ask me to turn it off. If you can't - or won't - put a $50 detector in a $5 million aircraft, don't then try and tell me that you're as worried by stray RF as you are by Nelly Nicotene smoking in the toilets.
Great idea. Say, want to contribute any money to that?
Didn't think so.
You can't hand it over, so you get sued for something that you don't have?
Why oh why did I get an IT degree rather than going to law school? It's a license to print money.
Owner sues every knife purchaser in the country.
FSF, ACLU, Congress, get on the damn ball.
House Representatives have a 98% reelection rate. Why? Well, because they enjoy a 5 to 1 advantage in campaign funding over their opponent(s), and Joe Sixpack trusts the candidate who can afford to be "As Seen On TV".
The more evil Berman gets, the more he's likely to be reelected. Apparently it doesn't pay to be an honest politician.
But Berman isn't the problem, he's just a particularly blatant symbol of it. Contributing to the EFF is just papering over the cracks. Campaign reform, or civil disobedience, or outright revolt is the only way to get these parasites off of us.
As September 11 2000 showed us, the most effective way of killing people is large and obvious amounts of energy (kinetic, potential, chemical). The NBC available to terrorists - dirty rather than fission, agents that can effect only a small area and number of people - are minor in comparison. Their primary effect is to create panic out of proportion to the actual effect.
Sure, release Sarin in a subway station, you'll kill some people. But have a detector that screams "Sarin attack! Sarin attack!" and you'll kill just as many, perhaps more, in the stampede to get out.
And if it turns out that the sensor was triggered by a new type of cologne? Well, we've just done the terrorists' job for them.
As a further thought, how do you field test these things? Test them in the lab with real agents, sure. Test them in the field with harmless agents that produce the same effect (and hope that nobody finds out what those are), but how do you know with any confidence that you can actually detect a genuine attack in the field? False positives in a military situation aren't so bad - all that will happen is that the grunts will turn on the overpressure systems or put on their NBC suits, but in a civilian situation? We've seen what happens when large numbers of people panic in a small area. Deploying these in cities seems to me like a big gamble to take, for little potential reward, when the costs of false positives are so high.
I'm not suggesting that we do nothing, but I am suggesting that reaction (which includes "preemptive strikes" against people that already hate us) isn't the way to go. Perhaps we could devote some of this energy to dealing with the causes of terrorism rather than the symptoms.
You apparently can't find one single solitary artists that demonstrates the model you're espousing. In short, you're wasting both our time and your own. Please desist.