This has been going on for years. The US military operates vhf satellite relays that are open to anyone who knows position and up and downlink frequencies. I couldn't care any less about their relays being used by third parties, obviously they put no effort into securing them. Another thing is, if they're too upset about third parties using it, they can shut it down.
As far as I'm concerned anybody is welcome to use these relays but that's just me. They could have fitted those realys with some sort of security mechanism such as a side channel to transmit/receive authentication data to activate the relaying of the main signal. That wasn't a priority then, why should it be now after the system has been in use for decades.
What a bunch of sorry losers to agonize over this in the first place.
4 guys with box cutters vs. a plane crew and 150 panicky passengers. Just as ridiculous as finding a passport of one of the alleged hijackers on the ground after the plane hit. Or.. the guys going to a strip club on the eve of the supposedly glorious day they get to be holy martrys..or and research this: How BBC reported WTC Building #7 (The Solomon Building) collapsed HOURS before it did or how they first claimed they "pulled" it (demolished it), then claimed it collapsed because of having been hit by debris when the owner Larry Silverstein (to be bailed out as well with a cool billion) admitted in Sept 2002 in a PBS interview that "he and the NYFD decided to pull the building (btw it takes WEEKS to prepare a building with explosives for demolition).
4 guys with box cutters doesn't even begin to describe how ridiculous this is.
Think for a moment as well. Following your logic: "Hand over your scumbags or we will kill your women and children" that applies to us as well then. To them "we" are scumbags who starved their people and destroyed their country and that's precisely what "we" did. Gazing out at the world from their perspective they would well consider nuking Washington as commeasurate retaliation unless we handed them "our" scumbags.
I wonder what I was to do if I were in say Washington and somebody told me: "Hand over the scumbags or fry!". Chances are even if people in Washington demolished the White House with their bare fists the scumbags would have long been flown out.. you would be surprised how little they care for you.
And even applying it to the case of that one village somewhere in Iraq where a guy knows that Habib the guy next door is a resistance fighter.. do you really expect the guy to turn him in? Do you have any idea what kind of risk that guy is taking in the first place? What do you think they do with rats and maybe even their families? And then the next thing is, these people have a clear concept of "us" being the enemy. Do you think he's going to run up to people he knows are trying to destroy him and his family to turn someone in that he sees as fighting for him and his family?
The way I see it shithead ideas like raze a village to make a point you're mean or shoot 12 dozen partisans for each regular don't pay off in the end anyways. Raze a village, you killed someone else's family. Same thing when you shoot 12 partisans for each regular. Every time you cripple or kill someone you're killing someone else's family and people who were otherwise not involved have a million very good reasons to become involved in a big way. (Which is also intended).
Btw what about the Israelis? Why should I or anybody else care what happens to them?
You're a scumbag. I don't regularly go around slashdot calling people names but you _are_ a scumbag and I'll point that out. It's time to break with this culture of circumscribing the obvious and calling people, things and places by their real names.
You're talking about Israeli "Rules of Engagement" or the thousand bomber attacks against Dresden and Cologne (thousands died in those 'attacks' burned and twisted by white phosphorus just like the people in Falluja recently).
... and its security is impressive. It's a trusted computing platform and I would think also a field test. The system has been hacked once or twice, exploiting a weakness in the system call interface of the hypervisor and through game exploits, however Microsoft is not seeing by far the kind of hacking and repurposing of their hardware that Sony has. (Spoofing the DVD copy protection is not hacking the box, running your own code on it is).
Now with this kind of legislation all kinds of ahem 'Change' can be mandated through private enterprise right onto your desktop. Your ISP could at some point be made to only accept trusted computing platform devices on their network. Those tcp systems would when connecting also be required to handshake with an authentication system to show they are in fact tcp devices. And since they are tcp devices you will not be in control of your machine anymore. You will not be able to run any code that has not been approved and signed. Also with your data you will be at the mercy of whatever policy whatever future authority might set for it. The RIAA wants to nondiscriminately remove all mp3 files from your system? The next time your box downloads a mandatory update those files will be gone and no way you're getting them back on an encrypted hard drive (nooo.. YOU don't have that key, the trusted platform module has it and it isn't giving it to you, just to your tcp aware hard drive).
In the end they will be able in complete control over your system, they will be able to mandate what you do with your data, what apps you run, how often and for how much (pay per use schemes). They will also be able to run what they want on your box without you ever knowing. (Also think about that most computers nowadays come with built in cameras and mikes hint hint).
Sounds like a neat piece of legislation, given what you can do with it in the end.
What a terrible waste. I don't think the lion is going to care (or taste) how great those legs looked, the stupid animal will gnaw away at her thighs like it would at the butt of a rhinoceros or antelope, not knowing the difference. BTW animal lovers. One human life: PRICELESS. African Lion starts at USD 10,000. I'm more concerned with the welfare of the people exposed to what is clearly an incredible danger (ask Siegfried and Roy) .
"They know all too well what happens if you forget or try to rewrite history."
Fortunately the masses do not learn from history, the Great Depression and WWII being something remembered from History Channel or a schoolbook. History is black and white imagery that lives disjoint in their minds from the flashy colorful imagery of the FOX and CNN current "remakes" of crisis we have already been through. Millions lived in abject 3rd world poverty during the last Great Depression. I'm sure a week or two of having to live in a tent say in a tent city like the one in Sacramento will help many people come to this important realization: History repeats itself and they're being shafted by the same scum their grandparents were shafted by.
French Police are going door to door these past days informing citizens of the long-term health effects of Windows. The so far largest campaign for public health in the history of France is expected to continue for another week and is aiming for a coverage of over 90% of the nation's households. Jean Trudeaux, an elderly villager in the Bretagne recalls opening the door to officers early in the afternoon and being asked if he owned a computer. Acknowledging the possession of a computing device, Trudeaux learned of the immense cardiovascular risks associated with using inferior desktop software that is sold to an unsuspecting public bundled with almost every sale of computer hardware. At the end of the conversation with the officers, Trudeaux remarks: "I don't use my computer that often but that's mainly because it's such a hassle to do anything with it and then I get really really mad".
While the campaign has certainly not escaped the attention of Microsoft it has also been noted by the medical profession world-wide. In an interview with Dr. Francois Boudoir, one of the foremost advancers of the field of cardiology in France the connection was quickly made between reducing the amount of time spent in distress to downright rage and the more than obvious benefits thus incurred for cardio health. "This campaign will save millions of lives in the long run and we need to look at this problem from more angles than just the cardiologist's perspective. This is also a quality of life issue."
Just think about what you're saying here, dude, isn't it more like:
"Haha! Yes our Herr Kommandant of our concentration camp is very strict! They couldn't pull any of that crap here they would get their teeth knocked out with a rifle butt and a bullet through the back of their heads."
You live in a police state, dude. You are under 24/7 surveillance from the millions of CCTV cameras in your country, never mind the phone and internet tapping, and you're telling me your government may be poking a camera up your ass but they would never allow a company like Verizon to poke you there.
Yeah looking at the subject "Frogs in boiling water" you're about done!
GOD DOESN'T HATE FAGS, I MEAN SERIOUSLY: HOW STUPID IS THAT?! Nobody is going to hell for touching another man's dick.
God doesn't hate 'fags' but homosexual do miss out on a _lot_ of good things in life. For example having children. Now we all know that homosexuals can adopt children nowadays _AND_ there are even ways for men to develop their mammary glands to the point they produce milk... but the unusual nature of the gay relationship (short lived anyhow for the most part) makes a normal fulfilling family experience impossible.
But by all means if the thought of someone forcing his penis into your asshole has you panting in exhilaration with sexual excitement, go for it. What you do is none of my business (nor is what I do yours). However, on the other hand don't for a minute believe that society needs to bend over for you as well, your "lifestyle choice" is after all a psychosexual dysfunction. While you should be met with tolerance, your condition can not be considered a valid alternative to the norm of healthy human sexuality.
At this point I'm pretty sure you're not happy with the way I see it but it just can't be helped. As a man attracted to other man, you're sick but adapted and coping. I suppose if you had a way to gain perspective on the differences on so many levels and in so many dimensions between a normal emotionally fulfilling healty sex-life and the homosexual "alternative" - you would indeed actively seek help. But since you haven't experienced any better in your life you're happy with what you've got. That's fine with me. Just don't expect people to accept your sexual and emotional poverty as a valid "alternative".
Even if they went and open sourced everything where would the extra open source developers come from that would make a serious attempt at improving/fixing Windows?
No doubt Microsoft spent a lot of money trying to understand their position in the market - and so they have known for many years that their mindshare in the development community in general is declining rapidly, and more to the point here: They have attracted little to no original open source development into what they call the "Windows Ecosystem". If it's open source on Windows, it was developed for Unix and for the most part ported by a single enthusiast. Never mind that those ports are almost always reduced in feature set and not nearly as stable as the original. Windows falls short in too many respects in supporting modern Unix applications, even when taking in account the Microsoft posix/unix environment add-ons.
The only thing the open source community does have to offer Windows is an improved Wine and that's where Windows comes around full circle again to it's origins, from a library for drawing shapes within windowed view ports running on top of DOS to a launcher and a library running on top of a UNIX-like system.
Right. I can disable the software, I can even uninstall it. Nobody could ever possibly access the camera hardware directly. After all it's a USB device and there is just no way somebody could send it a command to start capturing or read from the camera's stream. Or just think of when I removed the driver binaries, I mean nobody would ever think of just putting them back on the system and then loading the driver. And if they ever did that they wouldn't do anything as sophisticated as hiding it with rootkit stealth code.
Next time you jerk off in front of a notebook camera, please cum freely knowing that there is no way your ten seconds of glory are ever going to wind up in some govt database, or even better: on youtube. Because once you disable the driver you're good.
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In the coming North American Union aka as "Soviet America" this may well become a reality.
"Smith? 6079 Smith W? Yes you! Bend over! You're not trying, watch me! There Brother! That's what I want! Anyone under 45 is perfectly capable of touching his toes, I'm 39 and I've had four children. We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, remember our boys on the Malabar front, think of what they have to put up with."
In Britain people are already getting used to having orders barked at them from surveillance camera operators. The 1984-style Televisor is only one step further from that. Oh and the technology is already there too, Apple just filed a patent that puts a camera _behind_ the screen on their notebooks. You don't see the camera and worse you can't just tape over it either.
Are you kidding me? "Real journalism" is rip and read whatever AP or Reuters puts out.
"a) internet news is all about repeating stuff someone else found first;"
All Newspapers and TV stations simply repeat / cut up and rebroadcast / copy verbatim what they get from a handful of agencies. It is only the local segment where some 'real journalism' takes place, and that is subject to censorship as well, can't really jeopardize the ad revenue can we.
Like Jefferson said, the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
On the other hand on the internet 'real journalism' does take place, hand in hand with original research and uncut interviews. Here's an example for you: http://www.infowars.com/ and http://www.prisonplanet.tv./ Yeah I'm plugging those sites here, but they are a _prime_ example of uncensored reporting and commentary you would never get on the broadcast airwaves in a billion bailouts.
Did you notice the sweaty bald fat guy in the corner with the coffee stains on his shirt? Well he's been taking pictures of your girlfriend's legs and boobs all morning. Yeah well he left in a hurry a few minutes ago, probably because I was staring at him so by now he's probably halfways home already. Man I'm sorry I have no idea which way he went. Anyhow he's probably all anxious now to get home, Home being that smelly appartment of his where he is going to sit down on a semen stained chair in front of his computer. There he's going to stroke his mishappen penis all afternoon while gloating over your girlfriend's appearances:-).. oh and of course after he is done he will upload his "catch" to usenet and share it with his voyeur buddies.
Muhahaha...
Yeah right. Only this guy wouldn't just bring a cheap ass camera phone on a 'photo safari'. More likely he's going to have it figured out by now and he'll have a professional camera with a nice and wide aperture. Now that will capture the soft hairs on the backs of your girlfriends knees from 20ft away and don't even get me started on the foot-long zoom he has when he goes to the beach.
If a guy like that ever felt the need to use a camera phone, how hard is it to disconnect the speaker / run it across a few ohms of resistance?
Obviously another law to keep the public from filming public executions such as the one in Oakland, CA 2-3 weeks ago. Google for BART and Execution.
Fatsean, is that what your weight counselors been saying to you? Eat less junk food and get out more so you don't sit all depressed on your couch all weekend watching FOX and Billy O'Reilly? If so that's some darn good advice, best you take it... because I already have.
The first thing that really turned my life around and made me feel better about myself and others was to get rid of my TV set. Dropping weight really just followed easily, as I got wise to avoiding the pre-processed junk food crap they want people to eat. Take your life back man and who knows you will be one of the first people on your street to take off that Obama sticker on your car.
"After another era it will become accepted for use, and finally required. It's not hard to imagine a course that along side of the necessary books lists the prescription for the drugs you'll be required to take. Don't get me wrong though, it's not a bad thing. It's simply society changing. I for one welcome it (and I'm not just playing on the/. gag)"
You' gotta be kidding but if that's how you feel, I think you're going to really enjoy whatever is coming your way. Don't cry when they drag you off to have mandatory prostrate surgery because you're in the age group say 40+ and have a "risk gene". Or maybe they'll put you on a regimen of mandatory prophylactic hormone surpression that will make you lose all interests in sex.. yet certain other men find the breasts it is growing you really attractive. Or how about some extra Xanax or Paxil to cheer up your days, never mind that the Xanax is giving you extra anxiety at the dosage they want you to take it.. hehe nothing to worry about right? It's just society changing and boy you're sure going to welcome that:-)
Damm I really wish I could see you go through all those mandatory prescriptions and treatments with a smile on your face. I would inject you myself with whatever and without any qualms, because you deserve it.
Oh this is going to be a boon to compliance monitoring. With that kind of 24/7 monitoring it becomes easy to really lock down a person's life. All kinds of monitoring comes to mind, from drug use to the absence of using prescribed medications, ingestion of approved or unapproved foods or even 'unapproved' activities say that raise heartbeat or blood pressure or again the lack of activities.
Good to see you for the most part on the same page with me man. Here with this system we're not talking about people "just" losing their credit and their transportation, this goes much further. Assume with the new system your physician is required to report your weight and a "nutritional profile" you filled out while at the office. The nurse entering the data is taking it off a hand-written list the doctor hands her each evening.. and she's sloppy sometimes, because she needs to be at the day-care before 6pm to pick up her child or they will charge her extra and she can't afford that. So she will sometimes just look at the patient id number and then enter arbitrary weights going from what previous weight was listed a few months ago and she'll click the nutritional profile choices randomly.
You however - having been ordered to lose 30lbs over six months - may have actually lost that weight and you have checked the "right" "sustainable" "eco-friendly" answers on the the profile.. and still you get a letter in the mail telling you you are in violation of whatever health code, you're now facing a misdemeanor charge and you're being fined for it. Your employer is receiving a fine as well in the guise of having to pay more insurance for you (i.e. potentially making you unemployable) and you have forfeited 15% of your yearly carbon allotment for the criminal offense. On top of that now you're under medical supervision which means you will have to see a physician every month now and they will compliance monitor you with unannounced testing to see that you're really taking that cocktail of prescriptions (statin drugs, blood pressure drugs, "anti-depressants") that are now mandatory to take if you are prescribed them. Your marijuana habit needs to be put on hold too btw it goes without saying.
What's more segments of the population can be declared "unhealthy" with a stroke of the pen. Just think of people with certain genetics, such as an inability to produce a certain protein or they produce a slightly different version of a protein. They could be prescribed (dubious to outright dangerous) treatments with a mouse-click. How about women agegroup 45+ with the BRCA1 cancer gene. They could be prescribed "prophylactic" radiation and a "soft" form of chemotherapy even though they show no signs of cancer... just as a "precaution". No doubt that would give the health/oncology industry a lot more bodies to process. Or if you're a guy, how does the prophylactic removal of your prostrate after your 40th birthday fetch you, say because you've been identified with a "risk gene". And there is nothing you can do about it, as treatment has become mandatory. If you don't go, they'll come and get you. If they have to get you, there are consequences before, during and after. These prophylactic treatment drives of course will never affect larger segments of the population, just every once in a while a segment of say 200,000 - 500,000 people the more invasive and painful the treatment the smaller the segment, the "easier" treatment is administered, for example a "treatment" with lower dosed AZT for say 20 days, the larger the segment. In any event, if those treatments go "horribly wrong" the victims will never be heard or be brushed off as "hyper sensitive", "hypochondriacs", unfortunate exceptions or even prosecuted outright for libel.
Hehe call me a kook all you want:-) but I'll be in your face telling you "I told you so". Enjoy.
What most people don't realize is that this will not only be medical information such as your levels of triglycerides in your blood or what prescriptions you have been subscribed to. It will also contain socio-economic information, anything from your income and what you do for work to whether you are living alone or with a spouse, sexual orientation, number of children, psychological assessments, etc. etc.
Information will flow freely from in and outside the medical domain, as the scope and access to the data broadens. You may find hospitals automatically drug testing your blood and placing the results online.. where it can again be accessed by the government, for example for the purposes of parole / probation violations, child protective services (haha), revocation of professional licenses, revocation of driver licenses.. in the end even notifying your employer all in the name of work safety and accident prevention.. and of course raising the insurance premiums your employer has to pay which will ensure you being fired first thing the next morning.
Other than that, outside socioeconomic and judicial information will - even more so than it does today - affect your treatment as well. Patients are already de-facto being categorized according to their perceived value to society (bio-ethics at its best) with the level and amount of health-care doled out proportionally. With socioeconomic data readily available the decision can be made to implant a 40 year old patient with an inferior artificial joint or even to withhold treatment he would otherwise receive according to bioethics at his age and level of health.
In the end you will find yourself and your family come under scrutiny by various entities in and outside of healthcare whenever your profile deviates from the norm over a certain threshold.
Obviously you haven't thought this one through yet. If I understand this correctly - as a layperson - that means my experience of the physical and tangible is just a reflection of what must essentially be me on a 2D plane. Well then if that's so, depending on how _you_ look at it, I have my thumb in your ass. There then exists a point of view from where that is so, think of it in terms of the Many Worlds theories. Amazing and also unnerving at the same time, because it being a hologram that makes the _you_ and _me_ in the equation a variable which leads us to the final devastating realization that there is a set of points of view V where everybody has a thumb in everybody else's butt. Kind of humbles you when you think about it, doesn't it, I know it does that for me.
Germany does not have the invasive credit reporting system the US has. While there are services used by mail-order businesses the main reporting agency Germans worry about is the SCHUFA - Schutzgemeinschaft für allgemeine Kreditsicherung, My have we got long words. Unlike the free for all of the US reporting agencies (especially Experian)), businesses reporting to SCHUFA are carefully vetted. Another thing is that credit information is made available only to lenders considering to give credit to a borrower, it can not be used as part of a background check.
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This has been going on for years. The US military operates vhf satellite relays
that are open to anyone who knows position and up and downlink frequencies. I
couldn't care any less about their relays being used by third parties, obviously
they put no effort into securing them. Another thing is, if they're too upset about
third parties using it, they can shut it down.
As far as I'm concerned anybody is welcome to use these relays but that's just me.
They could have fitted those realys with some sort of security mechanism such as a
side channel to transmit/receive authentication data to activate the relaying of
the main signal. That wasn't a priority then, why should it be now after the system has
been in use for decades.
What a bunch of sorry losers to agonize over this in the first place.
4 guys with box cutters vs. a plane crew and 150 panicky passengers. Just as ridiculous as finding a passport of one of the alleged
hijackers on the ground after the plane hit. Or.. the guys going to a strip club on the eve of the supposedly glorious day they get
to be holy martrys..or and research this: How BBC reported WTC Building #7 (The Solomon Building) collapsed HOURS before it did
or how they first claimed they "pulled" it (demolished it), then claimed it collapsed because of having been hit by debris when
the owner Larry Silverstein (to be bailed out as well with a cool billion) admitted in Sept 2002 in a PBS interview that "he and the
NYFD decided to pull the building (btw it takes WEEKS to prepare a building with explosives for demolition).
4 guys with box cutters doesn't even begin to describe how ridiculous this is.
Think for a moment as well. Following your logic: "Hand over your scumbags or we will kill your women and children" that applies to
us as well then. To them "we" are scumbags who starved their people and destroyed their country and that's precisely what "we" did.
Gazing out at the world from their perspective they would well consider nuking Washington as commeasurate retaliation unless we
handed them "our" scumbags.
I wonder what I was to do if I were in say Washington and somebody told me: "Hand over the scumbags or fry!". Chances are even
if people in Washington demolished the White House with their bare fists the scumbags would have long been flown out.. you would
be surprised how little they care for you.
And even applying it to the case of that one village somewhere in Iraq where a guy knows that Habib the guy next door is a
resistance fighter.. do you really expect the guy to turn him in? Do you have any idea what kind of risk that guy is taking in the first place?
What do you think they do with rats and maybe even their families? And then the next thing is, these people have a clear concept of
"us" being the enemy. Do you think he's going to run up to people he knows are trying to destroy him and his family to turn someone
in that he sees as fighting for him and his family?
The way I see it shithead ideas like raze a village to make a point you're mean or shoot 12 dozen partisans for each regular don't pay off in the
end anyways. Raze a village, you killed someone else's family. Same thing when you shoot 12 partisans for each regular. Every time
you cripple or kill someone you're killing someone else's family and people who were otherwise not involved have a million very good
reasons to become involved in a big way. (Which is also intended).
Btw what about the Israelis? Why should I or anybody else care what happens to them?
You're a scumbag. I don't regularly go around slashdot calling people names but you _are_ a scumbag
and I'll point that out. It's time to break with this culture of circumscribing the obvious and calling people,
things and places by their real names.
You're talking about Israeli "Rules of Engagement" or the thousand bomber attacks
against Dresden and Cologne (thousands died in those 'attacks' burned and twisted by white phosphorus
just like the people in Falluja recently).
Quit confusing reality with what's on your Xbox.
... and its security is impressive. It's a trusted computing platform and I
would think also a field test. The system has been hacked once or twice,
exploiting a weakness in the system call interface of the hypervisor and
through game exploits, however Microsoft is not seeing by far the kind of
hacking and repurposing of their hardware that Sony has. (Spoofing the DVD
copy protection is not hacking the box, running your own code on it is).
Now with this kind of legislation all kinds of ahem 'Change' can be mandated
through private enterprise right onto your desktop. Your ISP could at some
point be made to only accept trusted computing platform devices on their
network. Those tcp systems would when connecting also be required to handshake
with an authentication system to show they are in fact tcp devices. And
since they are tcp devices you will not be in control of your machine anymore.
You will not be able to run any code that has not been approved and signed.
Also with your data you will be at the mercy of whatever policy whatever future
authority might set for it. The RIAA wants to nondiscriminately remove all
mp3 files from your system? The next time your box downloads a mandatory update
those files will be gone and no way you're getting them back on an encrypted
hard drive (nooo.. YOU don't have that key, the trusted platform module has it
and it isn't giving it to you, just to your tcp aware hard drive).
In the end they will be able in complete control over your system, they will
be able to mandate what you do with your data, what apps you run, how often
and for how much (pay per use schemes). They will also be able to run what
they want on your box without you ever knowing. (Also think about that most
computers nowadays come with built in cameras and mikes hint hint).
Sounds like a neat piece of legislation, given what you can do with it in the end.
What a terrible waste. I don't think the lion is going to care (or taste) how great those legs looked, the stupid animal will gnaw away at her thighs like it would at the butt of a rhinoceros or antelope, not knowing the difference. BTW animal lovers. One human life: PRICELESS. African Lion starts at USD 10,000. I'm more concerned with the welfare of the people exposed to what is clearly an incredible danger (ask Siegfried and Roy) .
"They know all too well what happens if you forget or try to rewrite history."
Fortunately the masses do not learn from history, the Great Depression and WWII being something remembered
from History Channel or a schoolbook. History is black and white imagery that lives disjoint in their minds from the
flashy colorful imagery of the FOX and CNN current "remakes" of crisis we have already been through. Millions
lived in abject 3rd world poverty during the last Great Depression. I'm sure a week or two of having to live in
a tent say in a tent city like the one in Sacramento will help many people come to this important realization:
History repeats itself and they're being shafted by the same scum their grandparents were shafted by.
... people didn't ask for sensitive information.
French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu
French Police are going door to door these past days informing citizens of the long-term health
effects of Windows. The so far largest campaign for public health in the history of France is
expected to continue for another week and is aiming for a coverage of over 90% of the nation's
households. Jean Trudeaux, an elderly villager in the Bretagne recalls opening the door to officers
early in the afternoon and being asked if he owned a computer. Acknowledging the possession of
a computing device, Trudeaux learned of the immense cardiovascular risks associated with using
inferior desktop software that is sold to an unsuspecting public bundled with almost every sale
of computer hardware. At the end of the conversation with the officers, Trudeaux remarks:
"I don't use my computer that often but that's mainly because it's such a hassle to do anything
with it and then I get really really mad".
While the campaign has certainly not escaped the attention of Microsoft it has also been noted
by the medical profession world-wide. In an interview with Dr. Francois Boudoir, one of the foremost
advancers of the field of cardiology in France the connection was quickly made between reducing the
amount of time spent in distress to downright rage and the more than obvious benefits thus incurred
for cardio health. "This campaign will save millions of lives in the long run and we need to look at
this problem from more angles than just the cardiologist's perspective. This is also a quality of
life issue."
Just think about what you're saying here, dude, isn't it more like:
"Haha! Yes our Herr Kommandant of our concentration camp is very strict! They couldn't pull any of
that crap here they would get their teeth knocked out with a rifle butt and a bullet through the
back of their heads."
You live in a police state, dude. You are under 24/7 surveillance from the millions of CCTV cameras
in your country, never mind the phone and internet tapping, and you're telling me your government
may be poking a camera up your ass but they would never allow a company like Verizon to poke you there.
Yeah looking at the subject "Frogs in boiling water" you're about done!
Homosexuals,
GOD DOESN'T HATE FAGS, I MEAN SERIOUSLY: HOW STUPID IS THAT?! Nobody is going
to hell for touching another man's dick.
God doesn't hate 'fags' but homosexual do miss out on a _lot_ of good things in life.
For example having children. Now we all know that homosexuals can adopt children
nowadays _AND_ there are even ways for men to develop their mammary glands to
the point they produce milk... but the unusual nature of the gay relationship (short lived
anyhow for the most part) makes a normal fulfilling family experience impossible.
But by all means if the thought of someone forcing his penis into your asshole has
you panting in exhilaration with sexual excitement, go for it. What you do is none of
my business (nor is what I do yours). However, on the other hand don't for a minute
believe that society needs to bend over for you as well, your "lifestyle choice" is after
all a psychosexual dysfunction. While you should be met with tolerance, your condition
can not be considered a valid alternative to the norm of healthy human sexuality.
At this point I'm pretty sure you're not happy with the way I see it but it just can't be
helped. As a man attracted to other man, you're sick but adapted and coping. I suppose
if you had a way to gain perspective on the differences on so many levels and in so
many dimensions between a normal emotionally fulfilling healty sex-life and the homosexual
"alternative" - you would indeed actively seek help. But since you haven't experienced any
better in your life you're happy with what you've got. That's fine with me. Just don't expect
people to accept your sexual and emotional poverty as a valid "alternative".
Even if they went and open sourced everything where would the extra open source developers come
from that would make a serious attempt at improving/fixing Windows?
No doubt Microsoft spent a lot of money trying to understand their position in the market - and so
they have known for many years that their mindshare in the development community in general is
declining rapidly, and more to the point here: They have attracted little to no original open source
development into what they call the "Windows Ecosystem". If it's open source on Windows, it was
developed for Unix and for the most part ported by a single enthusiast. Never mind that those ports
are almost always reduced in feature set and not nearly as stable as the original. Windows falls
short in too many respects in supporting modern Unix applications, even when taking in account the
Microsoft posix/unix environment add-ons.
The only thing the open source community does have to offer Windows is an improved Wine and that's
where Windows comes around full circle again to it's origins, from a library for drawing shapes
within windowed view ports running on top of DOS to a launcher and a library running on top of a
UNIX-like system.
See if you can get the article deleted, Jimbo.
Right. I can disable the software, I can even uninstall it. Nobody could ever possibly access the camera hardware
directly. After all it's a USB device and there is just no way somebody could send it a command to start capturing
or read from the camera's stream. Or just think of when I removed the driver binaries, I mean nobody would ever
think of just putting them back on the system and then loading the driver. And if they ever did that they wouldn't
do anything as sophisticated as hiding it with rootkit stealth code.
Next time you jerk off in front of a notebook camera, please cum freely knowing that there is no way your ten
seconds of glory are ever going to wind up in some govt database, or even better: on youtube. Because once you disable the
driver you're good.
In the coming North American Union aka as "Soviet America" this may well
become a reality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii64ErBotvA ,skip to 2:00 (1984)
"Smith? 6079 Smith W? Yes you! Bend over! You're not trying, watch me!
There Brother! That's what I want! Anyone under 45 is perfectly capable
of touching his toes, I'm 39 and I've had four children. We don't all
have the privilege of fighting in the front line, remember our boys on
the Malabar front, think of what they have to put up with."
In Britain people are already getting used to having orders barked at
them from surveillance camera operators. The 1984-style Televisor is only
one step further from that. Oh and the technology is already there too,
Apple just filed a patent that puts a camera _behind_ the screen on their
notebooks. You don't see the camera and worse you can't just tape over it
either.
Are you kidding me? "Real journalism" is rip and read whatever AP or Reuters puts out.
"a) internet news is all about repeating stuff someone else found first;"
All Newspapers and TV stations simply repeat / cut up and rebroadcast / copy verbatim what they get from a handful of agencies. It is only the local segment where some 'real journalism' takes place, and that is subject to censorship as well, can't really jeopardize the ad revenue can we.
Like Jefferson said, the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
On the other hand on the internet 'real journalism' does take place, hand in hand with original research and uncut interviews. Here's an example for you: http://www.infowars.com/ and http://www.prisonplanet.tv./ Yeah I'm plugging those sites here, but they are a _prime_ example of uncensored reporting and commentary you would never get on the broadcast airwaves in a billion bailouts.
Did you notice the sweaty bald fat guy in the corner with the coffee stains on his shirt? Well he's been taking pictures of your :-) .. oh and of course after he is done he will upload his "catch" to usenet and share it with his voyeur buddies.
girlfriend's legs and boobs all morning. Yeah well he left in a hurry a few minutes ago, probably because I was staring at him
so by now he's probably halfways home already. Man I'm sorry I have no idea which way he went. Anyhow he's probably all anxious now
to get home, Home being that smelly appartment of his where he is going to sit down on a semen stained
chair in front of his computer. There he's going to stroke his mishappen penis all afternoon while gloating over your girlfriend's
appearances
Muhahaha...
Yeah right. Only this guy wouldn't just bring a cheap ass camera phone on a 'photo safari'. More likely he's going to have it figured
out by now and he'll have a professional camera with a nice and wide aperture. Now that will capture the soft hairs on the backs of your
girlfriends knees from 20ft away and don't even get me started on the foot-long zoom he has when he goes to the beach.
If a guy like that ever felt the need to use a camera phone, how hard is it to disconnect the speaker / run it across a few ohms
of resistance?
Obviously another law to keep the public from filming public executions such as the one in Oakland, CA 2-3 weeks ago. Google for
BART and Execution.
Fatsean, is that what your weight counselors been saying to you? Eat less junk food and get out more so you don't
sit all depressed on your couch all weekend watching FOX and Billy O'Reilly? If so that's some darn good advice,
best you take it... because I already have.
The first thing that really turned my life around and made me feel better about myself and others was to get rid of
my TV set. Dropping weight really just followed easily, as I got wise to avoiding the pre-processed junk food crap
they want people to eat. Take your life back man and who knows you will be one of the first people on your street
to take off that Obama sticker on your car.
They're going to get RARE!! (unless they're all of the sudden then mandated by "Executive Order").
"After another era it will become accepted for use, and finally required. It's not hard to imagine a course that along side of the necessary books lists the prescription for the drugs you'll be required to take. /. gag)"
Don't get me wrong though, it's not a bad thing. It's simply society changing. I for one welcome it (and I'm not just playing on the
You' gotta be kidding but if that's how you feel, I think you're going to really enjoy whatever is coming your way. Don't cry when they drag you off to .. yet certain other men find the breasts it is growing you really :-)
have mandatory prostrate surgery because you're in the age group say 40+ and have a "risk gene". Or maybe they'll put you on a regimen of mandatory
prophylactic hormone surpression that will make you lose all interests in sex
attractive. Or how about some extra Xanax or Paxil to cheer up your days, never mind that the Xanax is giving you extra anxiety at the dosage
they want you to take it.. hehe nothing to worry about right? It's just society changing and boy you're sure going to welcome that
Damm I really wish I could see you go through all those mandatory prescriptions and treatments with a smile on your face. I would inject you myself
with whatever and without any qualms, because you deserve it.
Oh this is going to be a boon to compliance monitoring. With that kind of 24/7 monitoring
it becomes easy to really lock down a person's life. All kinds of monitoring comes to mind,
from drug use to the absence of using prescribed medications, ingestion of approved or
unapproved foods or even 'unapproved' activities say that raise heartbeat or blood pressure
or again the lack of activities.
Good to see you for the most part on the same page with me man. Here with this system we're not talking about
people "just" losing their credit and their transportation, this goes much further. Assume with the new system
your physician is required to report your weight and a "nutritional profile" you filled out while at the office. The
nurse entering the data is taking it off a hand-written list the doctor hands her each evening.. and she's sloppy
sometimes, because she needs to be at the day-care before 6pm to pick up her child or they will charge her
extra and she can't afford that. So she will sometimes just look at the patient id number and then enter arbitrary
weights going from what previous weight was listed a few months ago and she'll click the nutritional profile
choices randomly.
You however - having been ordered to lose 30lbs over six months - may have actually lost that weight and you
have checked the "right" "sustainable" "eco-friendly" answers on the the profile.. and still you get a letter in the
mail telling you you are in violation of whatever health code, you're now facing a misdemeanor charge and you're
being fined for it. Your employer is receiving a fine as well in the guise of having to pay more insurance for you
(i.e. potentially making you unemployable) and you have forfeited 15% of your yearly carbon allotment for the
criminal offense. On top of that now you're under medical supervision which means you will have to see a
physician every month now and they will compliance monitor you with unannounced testing to see that you're
really taking that cocktail of prescriptions (statin drugs, blood pressure drugs, "anti-depressants") that are now
mandatory to take if you are prescribed them. Your marijuana habit needs to be put on hold too btw it goes without
saying.
What's more segments of the population can be declared "unhealthy" with a stroke of the pen. Just think of people
with certain genetics, such as an inability to produce a certain protein or they produce a slightly different version of
a protein. They could be prescribed (dubious to outright dangerous) treatments with a mouse-click. How about
women agegroup 45+ with the BRCA1 cancer gene. They could be prescribed "prophylactic" radiation and a "soft"
form of chemotherapy even though they show no signs of cancer... just as a "precaution". No doubt that would give
the health/oncology industry a lot more bodies to process. Or if you're a guy, how does the prophylactic removal of
your prostrate after your 40th birthday fetch you, say because you've been identified with a "risk gene". And there is
nothing you can do about it, as treatment has become mandatory. If you don't go, they'll come and get you. If they
have to get you, there are consequences before, during and after. These prophylactic treatment drives of course will
never affect larger segments of the population, just every once in a while a segment of say 200,000 - 500,000 people
the more invasive and painful the treatment the smaller the segment, the "easier" treatment is administered, for
example a "treatment" with lower dosed AZT for say 20 days, the larger the segment. In any event, if those treatments
go "horribly wrong" the victims will never be heard or be brushed off as "hyper sensitive", "hypochondriacs", unfortunate
exceptions or even prosecuted outright for libel.
Hehe call me a kook all you want :-) but I'll be in your face telling you "I told you so". Enjoy.
What most people don't realize is that this will not only be medical information such as your levels of triglycerides in your blood or
what prescriptions you have been subscribed to. It will also contain socio-economic information, anything from your income
and what you do for work to whether you are living alone or with a spouse, sexual orientation, number of children, psychological
assessments, etc. etc.
Information will flow freely from in and outside the medical domain, as the scope and access to the data broadens. You may find
hospitals automatically drug testing your blood and placing the results online.. where it can again be accessed by the government, for example
for the purposes of parole / probation violations, child protective services (haha), revocation of professional licenses, revocation of
driver licenses.. in the end even notifying your employer all in the name of work safety and accident prevention.. and of course
raising the insurance premiums your employer has to pay which will ensure you being fired first thing the next morning.
Other than that, outside socioeconomic and judicial information will - even more so than it does today - affect your treatment as
well. Patients are already de-facto being categorized according to their perceived value to society (bio-ethics at its best) with the
level and amount of health-care doled out proportionally. With socioeconomic data readily available the decision can be made to
implant a 40 year old patient with an inferior artificial joint or even to withhold treatment he would otherwise receive according to bioethics
at his age and level of health.
In the end you will find yourself and your family come under scrutiny by various entities in and outside of healthcare whenever your profile deviates from
the norm over a certain threshold.
Obviously you haven't thought this one through yet. If I understand this correctly - as a layperson - that means my experience of the physical and tangible is just a reflection of what must essentially be me on a 2D plane. Well then if that's so, depending on how _you_ look at it, I have my thumb in your ass. There then exists a point of view from where that is so, think of it in terms of the Many Worlds theories. Amazing and also unnerving at the same time, because it being a hologram that makes the _you_ and _me_ in the equation a variable which leads us to the final devastating realization that there is a set of points of view V where everybody has a thumb in everybody else's butt. Kind of humbles you when you think about it, doesn't it, I know it does that for me.
Germany does not have the invasive credit reporting system the US has. While there are services used by mail-order businesses
the main reporting agency Germans worry about is the SCHUFA - Schutzgemeinschaft für allgemeine Kreditsicherung, My have
we got long words. Unlike the free for all of the US reporting agencies (especially Experian)), businesses reporting to
SCHUFA are carefully vetted. Another thing is that credit information is made available only to lenders considering to give credit
to a borrower, it can not be used as part of a background check.
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