Today, one of the most complicated taxation-systems worldwide is in Germany. Three quarters of the world's taxation-literature refers to the German system. There are 118 laws, 185 forms, and 96,000 regulations, spending €3.7 billion to collect the income tax.
Maybe these 26.000 moved and while waiting for their DSL-Connection, used an "O2 surfstick" as advertised by the german part of the company here
A half-gig-capped connection doesn't seem to be such a good replacement for broadband, especially when you just moved to a new city and fill your caches with local pages and you visit ebay and ikea a lot.
Reflect on the fact that 99% of the people here can tell you what the poster meant, and use this knowledge to evaluate the importance of the ambiguity.
Dude, this is slashdot. We don't typically do this kind of reflecting and evaluating. It's too much work. We just blurt out anything that crosses our minds and then let the moderators sort it out.
Trivially easy to circumvent once again. Google already offers SSL encryption for web searches and for Gmail and I don't even need to mention all the privacy tools available.
I think you're taking this too lightly, just a couple o' thoughts:
* just because _you_ have a way around it doesn't meen the general public does and it also doesn't mean it will not impact you in some way.
* encryption is only part of the solution (see other posts)
* email can still be scanned, only transport between you and your mailserver is encrypted, the gov't could still pressure gmail into delivering the data (even easier, less mail providers)
* international mail can (is!?!) still be scanned by officials
* psychological effect: Joe Schmoe will think: "I better not look at teen porn on the web or else I might get suspected". Once you get just the/feeling/ of being monitored, your freedom of speech is already seriously impaired.
When do we finally make the move to a fully encrypted internet? An unencrypted internet made sense in the days that CPU power was expensive and there were no good encryption libraries. Both these problems were solved a decade ago.
You will never see "us" making some move as changing something this big from one day to the other (see IPv6). We see groups of people doing it for themselves though. There's a lot of darknets out there already.
But now my darkest prediction: you will soon see news along the lines of "UK/AU/EU/US/... outlawing private use of encryption" (except some exceptions like banking). Control-freaky governments will likely try to pull something like this off (in the name of the children and against terrorists, or course) Maybe they'll use a softer version and just make it a valid suspicion if someone encrypts more than xx% of his traffic. They'll do ad campaings saying: "He who has nothing to hide, doesn't need to use encryption".
What can we do about this kind of an attack on our freedoms?
Not much except become politically active, I assume. There's already the pirate party all around europe and I assume they will be getting a lot more exposure in the media when governments try to pull that kind of shit. They already made an impact in germany, ridiculing and largely disabling the stupid "stop child port by DNS-lookup filtering" idea and the people behind that idea.
I just have to quote Benjamin Franklin at this point:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
When do we finally make the move to a fully encrypted internet? An unencrypted internet made sense in the days that CPU power was expensive and there were no good encryption libraries. Both these problems were solved a decade ago.
Encrypting everything solves only part of the problem. Big brother can still see which sites you visit, how much traffic is going on between who and who talks to whom. It also doesn't give you anonymous publishing.
There's solutions for that, though, like http://freenetproject.org/ which comes with a considerable resource penalty, but offers a solution for anonymous publishing. Of course it's full of kiddy pr0n, that's the other side of the medal... take your pick.
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
If you go from 10 to 20 mpg, youre still less than the 33 mpg lower limit in the second case, so the second option "saves more gas".
Can someone explain how that logic works? I've been trying hard to understand what he means.
at this point you start explaining to me that cars use gas and that people drive cars to get to places. In no way did you explain the grandparent's logic.
did you even read the quote and what my problem was?
as stated earlier by others:
option 1: go from 10 to 20 mpg: saving: 50% (assuming 100 miles: 5 gallons) option 2: go from 33 to 55 mpg: saving: 33% (assuming 100 miles: 1 gallon)
grandparent argued that option 2 is saving more gas.
how in hell is option 2 saving more gas than option 1. clearly, 50% > 33%, so option 1 saves more gas.
Therefor: get rid of the SUVs instead of replacing small cars with crazyly efficient hybrids.
"All pupils' details are erased when they leave school."
They promise...this time is true! For real!
A friend of mine once was promised by his employer that all his data would be deleted when he got kicked out. He asked: "How do you ensure my data get's deleted in all backup copies?" No answer, just a red face. I worked as a contractor for that company at that time in IT. I can assure you: "delete" means: set some flag named "deleted" from false to true.
Big deal schools in the UK and NZ have been using this method for checking out books for ages.
And from that fact you're deducting that it's no harm? Well, using that logic: To kill a jew is ok, because the nazis have killed millions.
You try to get a six year old to remember a pin number or library card.
remember a library card? you certainly mean "hold on to" one. I should expect that from someone as soon as I trust her with returning a book. Not remember a pin? I had to friggin memorize poetry at that age. Also: it prepares them for the real world, where you have to remember (or store securely) numerous PINs and PWs.
I have to agree with NO2ID: introducing this at that age just conditions them to put their finger on everything that blinks and says: "put finger".
Also: the excuse that it's just a mathematical representation of the fingerprint being stored/compared (what else!) is bogus, because you can always compute that ID when you have a scan and you can also compare that ID to other ones in the same representation (you can also maybe even cross-compute between different presentations), which is exactly where privacy is hurt, because then data from multiple bases can be combined to paint a bigger picture of THE PERSON the print belongs to.
In fact GPUs already do this to some extent. AMD and nVidia's workstation cards are the same as their gaming cards, the only difference being that the workstation ones are certified to produce 100% accurate output. If a gaming card colours a pixel wrong every now and then it's no big deal and the player probably won't even notice. For CAD and other high end applications the cards have to be correct all the time.
Yeah, because if a workstation card colors a pixel wrongly, the bridge might fail and people will die!
What I do want is more vertical resolution. The 16:9 craze means today we buy displays that are physcially larger and have more pixels overall than ten years ago, yet do not provide any more area for vertical display.
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The Finanzamt is essentially a bloated beast,
Yes, and let me tell you: it's carnivorous, relentless and hungry! Will someone save our childen! *runs*
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax:
Today, one of the most complicated taxation-systems worldwide is in Germany. Three quarters of the world's taxation-literature refers to the German system. There are 118 laws, 185 forms, and 96,000 regulations, spending €3.7 billion to collect the income tax.
parent is first good post
can't seem to find linux-version
Maybe these 26.000 moved and while waiting for their DSL-Connection, used an "O2 surfstick" as advertised by the german part of the company here
A half-gig-capped connection doesn't seem to be such a good replacement for broadband, especially when you just moved to a new city and fill your caches with local pages and you visit ebay and ikea a lot.
true
let's take the answer to the street, coward.
Reflect on the fact that 99% of the people here can tell you what the poster meant, and use this knowledge to evaluate the importance of the ambiguity.
Dude, this is slashdot. We don't typically do this kind of reflecting and evaluating. It's too much work. We just blurt out anything that crosses our minds and then let the moderators sort it out.
Trivially easy to circumvent once again. Google already offers SSL encryption for web searches and for Gmail and I don't even need to mention all the privacy tools available.
I think you're taking this too lightly, just a couple o' thoughts:
* just because _you_ have a way around it doesn't meen the general public does and it also doesn't mean it will not impact you in some way. /feeling/ of being monitored, your freedom of speech is already seriously impaired.
* encryption is only part of the solution (see other posts)
* email can still be scanned, only transport between you and your mailserver is encrypted, the gov't could still pressure gmail into delivering the data (even easier, less mail providers)
* international mail can (is!?!) still be scanned by officials
* psychological effect: Joe Schmoe will think: "I better not look at teen porn on the web or else I might get suspected". Once you get just the
Do you mean...
1.) your fear the gov't more than you fear the terrorists and pedophiles
2.) you are more afraid of the government than pedophiles and terrorists are
?
They already got it figured out, it just that time's not ready yet.
When do we finally make the move to a fully encrypted internet? An unencrypted internet made sense in the days that CPU power was expensive and there were no good encryption libraries. Both these problems were solved a decade ago.
You will never see "us" making some move as changing something this big from one day to the other (see IPv6).
We see groups of people doing it for themselves though. There's a lot of darknets out there already.
But now my darkest prediction: you will soon see news along the lines of "UK/AU/EU/US/... outlawing private use of encryption" (except some exceptions like banking). Control-freaky governments will likely try to pull something like this off (in the name of the children and against terrorists, or course)
Maybe they'll use a softer version and just make it a valid suspicion if someone encrypts more than xx% of his traffic. They'll do ad campaings saying: "He who has nothing to hide, doesn't need to use encryption".
What can we do about this kind of an attack on our freedoms?
Not much except become politically active, I assume. There's already the pirate party all around europe and I assume they will be getting a lot more exposure in the media when governments try to pull that kind of shit. They already made an impact in germany, ridiculing and largely disabling the stupid "stop child port by DNS-lookup filtering" idea and the people behind that idea.
I just have to quote Benjamin Franklin at this point:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
When do we finally make the move to a fully encrypted internet? An unencrypted internet made sense in the days that CPU power was expensive and there were no good encryption libraries. Both these problems were solved a decade ago.
Encrypting everything solves only part of the problem.
Big brother can still see which sites you visit, how much traffic is going on between who and who talks to whom.
It also doesn't give you anonymous publishing.
There's solutions for that, though, like http://freenetproject.org/ which comes with a considerable resource penalty, but offers a solution for anonymous publishing.
Of course it's full of kiddy pr0n, that's the other side of the medal... take your pick.
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
some people just won't listen to reason ;)
thanks for clearing that up for everyone, reason.
If you go from 10 to 20 mpg, youre still less than the 33 mpg lower limit in the second case, so the second option "saves more gas".
Can someone explain how that logic works? I've been trying hard to understand what he means.
at this point you start explaining to me that cars use gas and that people drive cars to get to places. In no way did you explain the grandparent's logic.
did you even read the quote and what my problem was?
as stated earlier by others:
option 1: go from 10 to 20 mpg: saving: 50% (assuming 100 miles: 5 gallons)
option 2: go from 33 to 55 mpg: saving: 33% (assuming 100 miles: 1 gallon)
grandparent argued that option 2 is saving more gas.
how in hell is option 2 saving more gas than option 1.
clearly, 50% > 33%, so option 1 saves more gas.
Therefor: get rid of the SUVs instead of replacing small cars with crazyly efficient hybrids.
And also: in soviet russia, gallons save you!
$/year is best unit, everyone understands that.
unfortunately that's not constant across users.
If you go from 10 to 20 mpg, youre still less than the 33 mpg lower limit in the second case, so the second option "saves more gas".
Can someone explain how that logic works? I've been trying hard to understand what he means.
that's not a trick question.
it's just that calculating the answer proved to be tricky for 2 out of 3 americans.
toes dude, toes! and for accessing porn conveniently use, well, the most convenient body part for that situation.
"All pupils' details are erased when they leave school."
They promise...this time is true! For real!
A friend of mine once was promised by his employer that all his data would be deleted when he got kicked out.
He asked: "How do you ensure my data get's deleted in all backup copies?"
No answer, just a red face.
I worked as a contractor for that company at that time in IT. I can assure you: "delete" means: set some flag named "deleted" from false to true.
Big deal schools in the UK and NZ have been using this method for checking out books for ages.
And from that fact you're deducting that it's no harm?
Well, using that logic: To kill a jew is ok, because the nazis have killed millions.
You try to get a six year old to remember a pin number or library card.
remember a library card? you certainly mean "hold on to" one. I should expect that from someone as soon as I trust her with returning a book.
Not remember a pin? I had to friggin memorize poetry at that age.
Also: it prepares them for the real world, where you have to remember (or store securely) numerous PINs and PWs.
I have to agree with NO2ID: introducing this at that age just conditions them to put their finger on everything that blinks and says: "put finger".
Also: the excuse that it's just a mathematical representation of the fingerprint being stored/compared (what else!) is bogus, because you can always compute that ID when you have a scan and you can also compare that ID to other ones in the same representation (you can also maybe even cross-compute between different presentations), which is exactly where privacy is hurt, because then data from multiple bases can be combined to paint a bigger picture of THE PERSON the print belongs to.
In fact GPUs already do this to some extent. AMD and nVidia's workstation cards are the same as their gaming cards, the only difference being that the workstation ones are certified to produce 100% accurate output. If a gaming card colours a pixel wrong every now and then it's no big deal and the player probably won't even notice. For CAD and other high end applications the cards have to be correct all the time.
Yeah, because if a workstation card colors a pixel wrongly, the bridge might fail and people will die!
Just send him to http://backslahdot.org/ where they praise gates all day and bash all unices.
Bah! Think big!
I got a one-pixel beamer in the center of my room. Color-depth is 1 bit.
What I do want is more vertical resolution. The 16:9 craze means today we buy displays that are physcially larger and have more pixels overall than ten years ago, yet do not provide any more area for vertical display.
xrandr --output default --rotate left
solved that for you