It is noticable that no intent has to be present to be in violation of this law (if passed).
This means that there is a very real possibility of getting penalized without having done anything. It is like on my old school. Some of the teachers had upped the levels to a degree where nobody could pass the exam without the teacher discounting less favorable grades. If the teacher didn't like somebody - no exception was made and he/she would fail.
If crackers or the police or Mr. Bermen himself don't like you, then all there is to do is to hire somebody to upload something to your computer. Easily done these days.
And you are in violation - no need to prove anything.
The old joke "What do you get when you cross a lawyer with a daemon from hell?" still holds true: another lawyer.
And this goes both for sellers and buyers
As a seller PayPal (which is owned by Ebay) states that should the buyer reverse payments for whatever reason then PayPal/Ebay is under no obligation to assist you in persuing the crime now committet, but you as the seller are legally liable to reverse payment to PayPal/Ebay.
This leaves a wide gap open for fraudulent persons to work undisturbed under the Ebay/PayPal umbrella.
Opening this by obliging anybody putting forward a request for info on sellers basically makes it a "white page" index for criminals to find possible targets for their next activity.
But of cause Ebay doesn't stand to loose anything.
If you didn't know it: All car tires contains RFID devices on the request from certain law enforcement agencies.
But maybe cars are not considered "wide spread".
M Well what do you mean? I want a cat.
S Listen, tell you what. I'll file its legs down a bit, take its snout out,
stick a few wires through its cheeks. There you are, a lovely pussy cat.
M Its not a proper cat.
S What do you mean?
M Well it wouldn't miaow.
S Well it would howl a bit.
Good settlement - the guy is intelligent.
At least he got out of it with his life intact. Money can be replaced.
Remember: Never fight a company with more assets than you. Fairness has no place in this game. The party who has the most money will win. It is called legal maneuvering and is as the word says: legal. If legal and fair meant the same there would only have been one word.
The days have come, where more and more company officials are faced with the problem: What has the higher priority: The law or the board minutes?
I don't belive it is a fair outcome, but I belive that he made the correct choice. After all he still has a life.
The BriQ http://www.totalimpact.com has been able to run MacOS via MOL for ever so long, so this is in fact not great news itself. Question is: Why do so? Neither machines were intended for this purpose.
However it is nice to see companies supply motherboards based on the PPC processor because of the lower powerconsumption. More Power less Heat.
The replicators from Stargate SG1. Interesting concept.
Hector from "Saturn 3".
Robot from "Lost in space". Danger Danger Will Robinson. (got to love that one)
This is great news. With one genious penstroke the politicians once again has proven that brains and hammers don't mix.
How about switchboards? They cleverly conceals the sub-stations (which are telecommunication devices, any) from being reached at will.
And how about FBI and CIA? Finally we can get the information about where the secret phones are installed.
And cordless phones? Obviously a device intended to conceal the location of the handset.
I guess the next will be a ban on illegal use of punctuation...
I refuse to do battle of wits with unarmed persons.
Even if it seems innocent and even if it makes a better picture, then journalism and fiction must be separated. The Photographer should have submitted the better picture to an arts committe and not to the paper.
Too much of our news today comes "digested" or commented with the "irrelevant" parts filtered, but exactly those parts are essential because they are part of the truth. Often reporters will fill in irrelevant parts in front and after the news part to make sure that the facts are seen in the "right" perspective, and I personally find that very offensive.
So I wellcome when a newspaper takes these steps to ensure or at least attempts to assure that we get a more accurate information and not just the fuzzy, cuddly or better composed version of the reality.
And if I am not mistaken, then it is not the first time that the Times has taken these steps.
In this case I think it is fully mandated because the "doctored" version shows an aggressive soldier opposing a civilian, while the real photos shows a soldier calling for attention (the head of the civilian is turned away) and the next real photo shows the soldier talking to the civilian, but not pointing his weapon at the civilian.
An aggressive tension has been falsely introduced.
Railroads just a bigger chickens?
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The railroad comapies must wake up and do something here.
Apparently anything that makes noise tastes like chicken - eh - sounds like a train I mean.
Otherwise next time we see a chicken - sorry - I mean a train we won't know how it sounds - the chicken I mean - or was it the bug?:-)
Bathrooms got dumped by their buggy filter. Or maybe there is something we don't know about Micro$oft employees? Maybe gates does come from an alternate reality????
Why stop here?
Ultimately you should have your own personalized, geneticly generated barcode (no need to tatoo) on your front head.
Slightly elevated it would not only be scannable and obsolete any face recognition systems, but imagine people banging their heads to the public counters instead of signing their checks.
"Sorry Sir. You were speeding. Could you please bang you head against mine for counter-signiture.
Now that's what I call an URL.
SPAM is not a clearly definable quantity. I might be interested in knowing about specials on inkjet cartridges, while others would rightfully consider such an offer SPAM.
Thus it is a relation between the reader and the content that determines if something is SPAM. Consequently the determination and selection should be placed near to the reader and not in a law or a regulation.
While this may not be a popular point of view, it is all the more practical. You can run, but ou can't hide. Spammers will just move their operation outside your reach and in the end only the lawyers will directly benefit from all this bruhaha.
I receive approximally 120 emails a day of which a majority is SPAM. But I have content filtering on my email and so I catch 95%+. They can send it to me, but I choose to exercise my right to throw it away.
With all those wonderfull machines, technology and software which excludes fitness for any particular purpose, it leaves me wondering why I can filter emails so easily while the ISPs have no such personalized filtering generally available.
M$ has for a long time been trying to get into the money/month department like AOL.
Of cause they don't like Linux/UNIX. Spyware and total control goes badly with open-source. We will see a lot of the like in the near future.
Apple on the other hand doesn't care. They are not really open-source. They have already a long outstanding record for smoking their developer base when ever it suits their purpose. Daystar comes to mind. Apple is always "almost" standard so of cause they want to ride the UNIX wave. Until it no longer suits their purpose.
Linux/BSD/OpenSource is still the only truly clean and private solution for those who cares about where our future goes.
Is the USA on a dangerous path to become a STASI 451 degree hot nightmare? Apparently if you read the article. Statements like "... in order for the system to obtain answers to those questions, the nation's privacy laws will need to be relaxed.." and "... the government then plans to assign each passenger [citicen?] a ''threat index''" are directly taken out of the communist regimes "good book"
In essense the the first statement reads: All citizens of the country are equal - some more than others. We guarantie freedom (void where prohibited; some restictions apply).
The other statement reads: You are now and always were guilty until you have proven your innocense or until El Supremo says so, whatever comes last.
Is this what America has degraded itself to? A security slobbering weakling hiding behind the CIAs' incompetance and paranoid need look at every single citicen in this country as a potential threat to national security. I thought this was the time to make a stand for freedom and defend the world and the nation by attacking the perpetraitors. I thought we had left Stalins:"If you haven't done anything, then you will not mind that we take a closer look at you".
One should always be able to recognize the signs of dictatorial leaderships: "One can not make an omelet without breaking eggs", "We are all in the same boat (only I get to steer)", "We must all make sacrifises for the common good" - does it ring a bell here?
I have a numnber of titanium pots and pans from ScanPan. They are truly amazing. Nothing seems sticks on titanium. It works much better than teflon. You can even use metal utensils without damage.
I remember a Superbowl where Visionics had a lot of real cameras running.
But the system didn't work and had a lot of false negative and false positive recognitions. As the logs later showed the operators in effect cut it off after two days.
So now we want cellphones ringing like bad car alarms. Gees.
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It is noticable that no intent has to be present to be in violation of this law (if passed).
This means that there is a very real possibility of getting penalized without having done anything. It is like on my old school. Some of the teachers had upped the levels to a degree where nobody could pass the exam without the teacher discounting less favorable grades. If the teacher didn't like somebody - no exception was made and he/she would fail.
If crackers or the police or Mr. Bermen himself don't like you, then all there is to do is to hire somebody to upload something to your computer. Easily done these days.
And you are in violation - no need to prove anything.
The old joke "What do you get when you cross a lawyer with a daemon from hell?" still holds true: another lawyer.
And this goes both for sellers and buyers
As a seller PayPal (which is owned by Ebay) states that should the buyer reverse payments for whatever reason then PayPal/Ebay is under no obligation to assist you in persuing the crime now committet, but you as the seller are legally liable to reverse payment to PayPal/Ebay.
This leaves a wide gap open for fraudulent persons to work undisturbed under the Ebay/PayPal umbrella.
Opening this by obliging anybody putting forward a request for info on sellers basically makes it a "white page" index for criminals to find possible targets for their next activity.
But of cause Ebay doesn't stand to loose anything.
Methanol induces blindness.
That will make for some interesting tech-support calls
And maybe more Braille keyboards.....
Finally we would have had some fun at work.
You are missing the point here.
One line on a finger is nothing. It is the pattern which got to be known as a finger-print
Likewise this technology can easily be adapted to identify and even worse: to profile anybody.
To me that is a serious invasion of my privacy.
If you didn't know it: All car tires contains RFID devices on the request from certain law enforcement agencies.
But maybe cars are not considered "wide spread".
Remember the pet-shop sketch?
M Well what do you mean? I want a cat.
S Listen, tell you what. I'll file its legs down a bit, take its snout out, stick a few wires through its cheeks. There you are, a lovely pussy cat.
M Its not a proper cat.
S What do you mean?
M Well it wouldn't miaow.
S Well it would howl a bit.
Always remember to filter decaf through a brewery.
It removes the nasty taste and adds the nicer beer flavor and the alcohol.
The party with the most lawyers and cash will win.
This is the rule of the court.
Good settlement - the guy is intelligent.
At least he got out of it with his life intact. Money can be replaced.
Remember: Never fight a company with more assets than you. Fairness has no place in this game. The party who has the most money will win. It is called legal maneuvering and is as the word says: legal. If legal and fair meant the same there would only have been one word.
The days have come, where more and more company officials are faced with the problem: What has the higher priority: The law or the board minutes?
I don't belive it is a fair outcome, but I belive that he made the correct choice. After all he still has a life.
and they will probably drop in price like everything else...
The BriQ http://www.totalimpact.com has been able to run MacOS via MOL for ever so long, so this is in fact not great news itself. Question is: Why do so? Neither machines were intended for this purpose.
However it is nice to see companies supply motherboards based on the PPC processor because of the lower powerconsumption. More Power less Heat.
Not only Linux but ultimately any Unix like OS would be hit as it seems.
Apples OSX is based on BSD - what will they do?
Of my daughters schools drama club play "Peter Pan"
I am not kidding. The movie association of america forced my ISP to require that.
The replicators from Stargate SG1. Interesting concept.
Hector from "Saturn 3".
Robot from "Lost in space". Danger Danger Will Robinson. (got to love that one)
This is great news. With one genious penstroke the politicians once again has proven that brains and hammers don't mix.
How about switchboards? They cleverly conceals the sub-stations (which are telecommunication devices, any) from being reached at will.
And how about FBI and CIA? Finally we can get the information about where the secret phones are installed.
And cordless phones? Obviously a device intended to conceal the location of the handset.
I guess the next will be a ban on illegal use of punctuation...
I refuse to do battle of wits with unarmed persons.
Even if it seems innocent and even if it makes a better picture, then journalism and fiction must be separated. The Photographer should have submitted the better picture to an arts committe and not to the paper.
Too much of our news today comes "digested" or commented with the "irrelevant" parts filtered, but exactly those parts are essential because they are part of the truth. Often reporters will fill in irrelevant parts in front and after the news part to make sure that the facts are seen in the "right" perspective, and I personally find that very offensive.
So I wellcome when a newspaper takes these steps to ensure or at least attempts to assure that we get a more accurate information and not just the fuzzy, cuddly or better composed version of the reality.
And if I am not mistaken, then it is not the first time that the Times has taken these steps.
In this case I think it is fully mandated because the "doctored" version shows an aggressive soldier opposing a civilian, while the real photos shows a soldier calling for attention (the head of the civilian is turned away) and the next real photo shows the soldier talking to the civilian, but not pointing his weapon at the civilian.
An aggressive tension has been falsely introduced.
The railroad comapies must wake up and do something here. :-)
Apparently anything that makes noise tastes like chicken - eh - sounds like a train I mean.
Otherwise next time we see a chicken - sorry - I mean a train we won't know how it sounds - the chicken I mean - or was it the bug?
Bathrooms got dumped by their buggy filter.
Or maybe there is something we don't know about Micro$oft employees?
Maybe gates does come from an alternate reality????
Why stop here?
Ultimately you should have your own personalized, geneticly generated barcode (no need to tatoo) on your front head.
Slightly elevated it would not only be scannable and obsolete any face recognition systems, but imagine people banging their heads to the public counters instead of signing their checks.
"Sorry Sir. You were speeding. Could you please bang you head against mine for counter-signiture.
Now that's what I call an URL.
SPAM is not a clearly definable quantity. I might be interested in knowing about specials on inkjet cartridges, while others would rightfully consider such an offer SPAM.
Thus it is a relation between the reader and the content that determines if something is SPAM. Consequently the determination and selection should be placed near to the reader and not in a law or a regulation.
While this may not be a popular point of view, it is all the more practical. You can run, but ou can't hide. Spammers will just move their operation outside your reach and in the end only the lawyers will directly benefit from all this bruhaha.
I receive approximally 120 emails a day of which a majority is SPAM. But I have content filtering on my email and so I catch 95%+. They can send it to me, but I choose to exercise my right to throw it away.
With all those wonderfull machines, technology and software which excludes fitness for any particular purpose, it leaves me wondering why I can filter emails so easily while the ISPs have no such personalized filtering generally available.
M$ has for a long time been trying to get into the money/month department like AOL.
Of cause they don't like Linux/UNIX. Spyware and total control goes badly with open-source. We will see a lot of the like in the near future.
Apple on the other hand doesn't care. They are not really open-source. They have already a long outstanding record for smoking their developer base when ever it suits their purpose. Daystar comes to mind. Apple is always "almost" standard so of cause they want to ride the UNIX wave. Until it no longer suits their purpose.
Linux/BSD/OpenSource is still the only truly clean and private solution for those who cares about where our future goes.
Is the USA on a dangerous path to become a STASI 451 degree hot nightmare? Apparently if you read the article. Statements like "... in order for the system to obtain answers to those questions, the nation's privacy laws will need to be relaxed.." and "... the government then plans to assign each passenger [citicen?] a ''threat index''" are directly taken out of the communist regimes "good book"
:"If you haven't done anything, then you will not mind that we take a closer look at you".
In essense the the first statement reads: All citizens of the country are equal - some more than others. We guarantie freedom (void where prohibited; some restictions apply).
The other statement reads: You are now and always were guilty until you have proven your innocense or until El Supremo says so, whatever comes last.
Is this what America has degraded itself to? A security slobbering weakling hiding behind the CIAs' incompetance and paranoid need look at every single citicen in this country as a potential threat to national security. I thought this was the time to make a stand for freedom and defend the world and the nation by attacking the perpetraitors. I thought we had left Stalins
One should always be able to recognize the signs of dictatorial leaderships: "One can not make an omelet without breaking eggs", "We are all in the same boat (only I get to steer)", "We must all make sacrifises for the common good" - does it ring a bell here?
Relaxed privacy - The motto of the "Third Reich"
I have a numnber of titanium pots and pans from ScanPan. They are truly amazing. Nothing seems sticks on titanium. It works much better than teflon. You can even use metal utensils without damage.
I remember a Superbowl where Visionics had a lot of real cameras running.
But the system didn't work and had a lot of false negative and false positive recognitions. As the logs later showed the operators in effect cut it off after two days.
So now we want cellphones ringing like bad car alarms. Gees.