And "Neo Cons"?? Where the hell did this come from??
I first heard the term in isbn 1400042216. Probably comes from Chomsky or something. It's really a fitting term though, when you consider what republics used to stand for compared to what they stand for now...
I fail to see how the sandbox keeps people from logging your surfing habits and building
a database that forwards the intersting details to a 3rd party...
That's the part that scares me: the staggering volume of information tracking companies
have on me, what I buy, what I read, and where my mouse typically rests on the screen.
Ever read any of the js in those ads? They really do track your mouse movements. They send
the details back by loading one pixel "images" and other tricks.
I'm not a flash programmer, but I'm sure there's ways to do this in flash also. It's the only way to explain the 1x1 flash apps I keep seeing all over the place (flashblocked of course). Call me a crackpot, or whatever, but make sure to clear out your shared objects from time to time.
I've been using flashblock since the very first time (almost 8 years ago) flash scared the shit out of me with unexpected and LOUD sounds from an ad.
Nowadays I'm surprised how many tracking gadgets are embedded on otherwise ordinary looking pages and I'm sure to clean out my macromedia shared object folder form time to time...
The nice thing about flashblock is the ease with which I can play flash games and watch youtube videos -- when I'm in the mood to click through. Personally, I think something like this should be standard... not a plugin. Flash usually scares me.
Every EULA has boilerplate text denying all responsibility
I can't believe this is still happening... Imagine, for example, that your kitchen range or your kitchen table or your window AC unit came with such a document?
How is it in your control now? Sadly, that's only an illusion. If there's a power vacuum, someone's going to fill it. If it's not the government, it will be corporations. Personally, I'd rather have a bloated bumbling bureaucracy running my life than a conscienceless corporation who's only legal responsibility is to increase profits.
Technically, yes, I'd rather run my own affairs, but that's not how the real world works. When it seems to it's wishful thinking.
They don't store it for months, they store it for days. There are companies selling special CALEA compliance boxes. If you have to, you build racks of them, but you must store all the packets as required by law.
But china isn't getting on the internet I know. It's getting on a strange subset of it where the government tells you you're society is harmonious and good and if you don't like it we'll kill you. Where you're not even allowed to read about those infectious ideas that are so harmfully, well... you're not allowed to read about them... for harmony's sake.
Anyway, I think it's safe to say they're hooking up to something like the internet, but not The Internet...
It makes no difference on my crappy 300x200 TV with ugly dead purple pixels in the middle, but one of my friends has a 65" plasma TV in his entertainment room and those DVDs look pretty effin crappy that big.
In general, the upgrade is worth it to those that have bigger HD TVs. The difference is at least as big as the VHS -> DVD path was back then.
Of course, if the **AA (is that really what we're calling them now?) loses it's biggest string and is completely unable to bring civil cases against people that steal music (er... violate copyright) it will just assist them in their purchase of consumer unfriendly laws.
"See? We can't successfully recover our losses. You have to help us."
What initially disturbed me was my initial misunderstanding that this had something to do with the patriot act or the stripping of my civil liberties. But it does not.
The only new thing here is the standard format for the compliance with the court order (and the new requirement that you be able to produce the records for the court). Most ISPs have been saying, "yeah, we don't have that information because we wouldn't have the capacity to store it, duh" up until now.
Did you feel like your civil liberties were stripped away when the court authorized a wiretip on so-and-so or whats-his-face?
How do you suppose the court or the legislature would react if your telco said, "Yeah, we don't have the equipment to tap that line." I don't think that would go over so well. Thus: CALEA.
What frightens me a great deal more than the ability of the court to order us to produce data (and the requirement that we store it) is the remote control wire tapping device installed at the police station that can listen in on any line at our small phone company.
They're supposed to get a warrant first, but my feelings indicate that if I were a cop (and believed I was helping people) I probably wouldn't bother with a warrant until I knew there was something to get a warrant about. That is much more serious than this. Let me introduce you to my little friends
openssl,
openssh,
openvpn and
gnupg.
If you believe the discrete log problem is "hard" then you have no worries. Now try doing that with your phone...
Right, all the above is true I'm sure. However, the may 14th deadline is for CALEA (it does require a court order) which has little to do with anything you're saying.
...next "good" search engine will come from the open source community.
Oh sure. I like to write open source stuff and release it in the wild and all, but it's never occurred to me to set up a million dollar server farm and stick it on the net for people to use as a search engine or whatever. And venture capitalists tend not to bother with companies that don't have a clear way of making money some day.
I work for a very small ISP. I was initially disturbed to find out we needed to assist in this sort of thing. But you know what? It's not like law enforcement can just listen in willy nilly. They need to provide evidence, get a court order, and disclose their discoveries to the defense when they press criminal charges.
People act like this is a new processes, but they've been taping phones, installing listening devices, and charging criminals with crimes for years. As long as the three branches of government are involved, what precisely is the problem please?
It is much stranger than trinary values like red,green,blue.
The implication is that all the solutions are in there and when you pick the input states everything stabilizes to the correct answer *PPOPOOF*.
The best doc on the subject that I read is the instructions for the perl module docs for Quantum::Superpositions. It is not in any way necessary to know (or even like perl) to read the pod pages for the module.
It was fashionable in perl, for a while, to try to solve problems with superpositions. I think people still do it from time to time.
This pattern of speech coming out of DC, where they ask a yes/no question and then immediately answer it makes me want to jam pencils into my ears so I don't have to hear it anymore. It's excellent to be able to read it too. Perhaps I'll have to jam my eyes out as well. It'd be a lot harder to write code without eyes...
See, for me, this is simply a matter of character. Or the appearance of it. If you don't want me to know who you are, why should I accept mail from your domain at all?
I run the email for a pretty small ISP. When a mail server (or farm) starts going crazy and trying to kill my servers with hundreds of connections per second; the first thing I do is drop the packets from the network. I then check the whois listing to see if it's yahoo! or ebay or something like that and consider unblocking it after I know who I'm dealing with.
When the whois says "NONAME NETOWRK ASSOcIATES" or there simply isn't anything listed, they stay on the drop list. So this is really a handy development. Essentially nothing from.ru will look legit anymore so I can just block all of it, right?
I object to the idea that a site that's designed using modern web standards costs more. I believe it would cost less to do it correctly, especially in terms of maintenance, over the long run. It's not like you write a web page once and just leave it there...
I imagine getting all married to IE is probably something a well dressed MS rep talked them into and now it's too late to go back.
I just selected a convenient comparison. Everyone knows the giant numbers for the cost of operations in iraq. Fewer know the cost of operations for the entire US. Today I would have chosen to point out that the cost of the space craft is like a 10th of the tax gap... The idea is to select something that's on the news every day. I don't give a crap about the politics behind it.
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I first heard the term in isbn 1400042216. Probably comes from Chomsky or something. It's really a fitting term though, when you consider what republics used to stand for compared to what they stand for now...
I make a good amount of money at my job. If I die is my employer required to pay my wife and kid for 50 years? Or do they pay life insurance premiums?
That's the part that scares me: the staggering volume of information tracking companies have on me, what I buy, what I read, and where my mouse typically rests on the screen.
Ever read any of the js in those ads? They really do track your mouse movements. They send the details back by loading one pixel "images" and other tricks.
I'm not a flash programmer, but I'm sure there's ways to do this in flash also. It's the only way to explain the 1x1 flash apps I keep seeing all over the place (flashblocked of course). Call me a crackpot, or whatever, but make sure to clear out your shared objects from time to time.
Nowadays I'm surprised how many tracking gadgets are embedded on otherwise ordinary looking pages and I'm sure to clean out my macromedia shared object folder form time to time...
The nice thing about flashblock is the ease with which I can play flash games and watch youtube videos -- when I'm in the mood to click through. Personally, I think something like this should be standard ... not a plugin. Flash usually scares me.
Every EULA has boilerplate text denying all responsibility
I can't believe this is still happening... Imagine, for example, that your kitchen range or your kitchen table or your window AC unit came with such a document?
control of the government.
How is it in your control now? Sadly, that's only an illusion. If there's a power vacuum, someone's going to fill it. If it's not the government, it will be corporations. Personally, I'd rather have a bloated bumbling bureaucracy running my life than a conscienceless corporation who's only legal responsibility is to increase profits.
Technically, yes, I'd rather run my own affairs, but that's not how the real world works. When it seems to it's wishful thinking.
They don't store it for months, they store it for days. There are companies selling special CALEA compliance boxes. If you have to, you build racks of them, but you must store all the packets as required by law.
The were in fact convicted, but it takes a lawyer to prove it, not cops to make an arrest.
The ISP even having this information in their logs starts a huge slippery slope.
Clearly you're not familiar with CALEA. They not only log your traffic, they store all the packets so the courts can request them later.
but China is fast catching up
But china isn't getting on the internet I know. It's getting on a strange subset of it where the government tells you you're society is harmonious and good and if you don't like it we'll kill you. Where you're not even allowed to read about those infectious ideas that are so harmfully, well... you're not allowed to read about them ... for harmony's sake.
Anyway, I think it's safe to say they're hooking up to something like the internet, but not The Internet...
$2k for using unauthorized fuel
I believe he was fined for not paying the fuel tax. That would be different.
Report those pages to google. Supposedly, pages that link to pages with only google ads are against the adwords rules.
In general, the upgrade is worth it to those that have bigger HD TVs. The difference is at least as big as the VHS -> DVD path was back then.
Of course, if the **AA (is that really what we're calling them now?) loses it's biggest string and is completely unable to bring civil cases against people that steal music (er... violate copyright) it will just assist them in their purchase of consumer unfriendly laws.
"See? We can't successfully recover our losses. You have to help us."
The only new thing here is the standard format for the compliance with the court order (and the new requirement that you be able to produce the records for the court). Most ISPs have been saying, "yeah, we don't have that information because we wouldn't have the capacity to store it, duh" up until now.
Did you feel like your civil liberties were stripped away when the court authorized a wiretip on so-and-so or whats-his-face? How do you suppose the court or the legislature would react if your telco said, "Yeah, we don't have the equipment to tap that line." I don't think that would go over so well. Thus: CALEA.
What frightens me a great deal more than the ability of the court to order us to produce data (and the requirement that we store it) is the remote control wire tapping device installed at the police station that can listen in on any line at our small phone company.
They're supposed to get a warrant first, but my feelings indicate that if I were a cop (and believed I was helping people) I probably wouldn't bother with a warrant until I knew there was something to get a warrant about. That is much more serious than this. Let me introduce you to my little friends openssl, openssh, openvpn and gnupg.
If you believe the discrete log problem is "hard" then you have no worries. Now try doing that with your phone...
Right, all the above is true I'm sure. However, the may 14th deadline is for CALEA (it does require a court order) which has little to do with anything you're saying.
Oh sure. I like to write open source stuff and release it in the wild and all, but it's never occurred to me to set up a million dollar server farm and stick it on the net for people to use as a search engine or whatever. And venture capitalists tend not to bother with companies that don't have a clear way of making money some day.
So, where does that leave us?
People act like this is a new processes, but they've been taping phones, installing listening devices, and charging criminals with crimes for years. As long as the three branches of government are involved, what precisely is the problem please?
It is much stranger than trinary values like red,green,blue.
The implication is that all the solutions are in there and when you pick the input states everything stabilizes to the correct answer *PPOPOOF*.
The best doc on the subject that I read is the instructions for the perl module docs for Quantum::Superpositions. It is not in any way necessary to know (or even like perl) to read the pod pages for the module.
It was fashionable in perl, for a while, to try to solve problems with superpositions. I think people still do it from time to time.
This pattern of speech coming out of DC, where they ask a yes/no question and then immediately answer it makes me want to jam pencils into my ears so I don't have to hear it anymore. It's excellent to be able to read it too. Perhaps I'll have to jam my eyes out as well. It'd be a lot harder to write code without eyes...
See, for me, this is simply a matter of character. Or the appearance of it. If you don't want me to know who you are, why should I accept mail from your domain at all?
I run the email for a pretty small ISP. When a mail server (or farm) starts going crazy and trying to kill my servers with hundreds of connections per second; the first thing I do is drop the packets from the network. I then check the whois listing to see if it's yahoo! or ebay or something like that and consider unblocking it after I know who I'm dealing with.
When the whois says "NONAME NETOWRK ASSOcIATES" or there simply isn't anything listed, they stay on the drop list. So this is really a handy development. Essentially nothing from .ru will look legit anymore so I can just block all of it, right?
I imagine getting all married to IE is probably something a well dressed MS rep talked them into and now it's too late to go back.
I just selected a convenient comparison. Everyone knows the giant numbers for the cost of operations in iraq. Fewer know the cost of operations for the entire US. Today I would have chosen to point out that the cost of the space craft is like a 10th of the tax gap... The idea is to select something that's on the news every day. I don't give a crap about the politics behind it.
You people are dickheads.
And Microsoft have been duly punished.
I remember MS being convicted. I do not remember them being punished. IIRC, the administration changed and MS got away nearly unscathed.
Hey, privatizing worked really well in california iirc. So it could work anywhere.