Mr. Stallman: If you are concerned about it recording where you go all the time, wrap it in aluminum foil when you're not using it. Ebil big brother can't track you or listen to your conversations if the phone can't radiate. As for free software, well, if you keep insisting that everyone should use it because it's more free, most people are going to tune you out. If you say people should use it because it works better, more people will listen to you. Stop acting like the complete aspie you are - you can do it if I can, you've got 12 years on me.
Or even better, LaTeX. Designed by one of the best computer scientists in the world to give consistent results no matter what. 100% integer calculations, nothing device-dependent.
For a technical site, we seem to be spending a lot of time arguing about the legal and moral aspects of this. How about the technical ones instead? If you want to say something publicly and anonymously over the internet, in such a way that your government can't get your identity, what methods are there? Freenet? MixMaster? Remember Beale Screamer?
Step 1: Senator has an adulterous liaison. One or more federal agencies film it. Step 2: Senator receives photographs of adulterous liaison plus anonymous demand to vote a certain way on not-very-important legislation. Step 3: Senator caves. Step 4: Repeat Steps 2-3 with increasingly important legislation, combined with threat to reveal previous influenced votes as needed. Step 5: Under sufficient pressure, Senator eventually votes to increase powers of agencies, weaken constitutional protections, etc.
Multiply by several senators, congressmen, and judges.
Gee, it's nice to be a multi-billion dollar corporation. You can defend yourself against this crap. A small start-up? A free software project? Not so easy.
Disagreeing with a law certainly does morally entitle you to break it. It simply doesn't shield you from the legal consequences. It's called "civil disobedience". See also Antigone, Underground Railroad, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Amnesty International, etc.
As for blatant teen narcissism, I'd say that applies more to Adrian Lamo.
Yeah, getting rid of the old guard at one stroke and letting the people take over worked great in 18th century France and 20th century Russia and Iran.
Or you could just encrypt your data before you upload it. Then they can't do anything with it, except possibly lose it, but that's a risk no matter what you do.
I have a dream. One day in Tokyo, a hacked Sony robot will walk down the street, drawing hundreds of onlookers. It will stop in front of Sony headquarters. It will turn to face the building. And it will slowly raise its arm and give Sony the finger.
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Considering how many people out there still haven't upgraded from IE6, I have to wonder how important this really is.
Mr. Stallman: If you are concerned about it recording where you go all the time, wrap it in aluminum foil when you're not using it. Ebil big brother can't track you or listen to your conversations if the phone can't radiate. As for free software, well, if you keep insisting that everyone should use it because it's more free, most people are going to tune you out. If you say people should use it because it works better, more people will listen to you. Stop acting like the complete aspie you are - you can do it if I can, you've got 12 years on me.
Or even better, LaTeX. Designed by one of the best computer scientists in the world to give consistent results no matter what. 100% integer calculations, nothing device-dependent.
For a technical site, we seem to be spending a lot of time arguing about the legal and moral aspects of this. How about the technical ones instead? If you want to say something publicly and anonymously over the internet, in such a way that your government can't get your identity, what methods are there? Freenet? MixMaster? Remember Beale Screamer?
Step 1: Senator has an adulterous liaison. One or more federal agencies film it.
Step 2: Senator receives photographs of adulterous liaison plus anonymous demand to vote a certain way on not-very-important legislation.
Step 3: Senator caves.
Step 4: Repeat Steps 2-3 with increasingly important legislation, combined with threat to reveal previous influenced votes as needed.
Step 5: Under sufficient pressure, Senator eventually votes to increase powers of agencies, weaken constitutional protections, etc.
Multiply by several senators, congressmen, and judges.
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Gee, it's nice to be a multi-billion dollar corporation. You can defend yourself against this crap. A small start-up? A free software project? Not so easy.
Yeah, that worked out real well for Lynndie England, didn't it.
Minus 1,000,000, troll, flamebait, and generally being a complete asshole. What are you, 12?
Disagreeing with a law certainly does morally entitle you to break it. It simply doesn't shield you from the legal consequences. It's called "civil disobedience". See also Antigone, Underground Railroad, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Amnesty International, etc.
As for blatant teen narcissism, I'd say that applies more to Adrian Lamo.
Never mind Facebook, never mind warrantless wiretapping. The first and worst exploit will be SPAM.
Yeah, getting rid of the old guard at one stroke and letting the people take over worked great in 18th century France and 20th century Russia and Iran.
Microsoft knows the FOSS community has some power now. So instead of their old tactics, they're trying to be nice. Diplomatic.
As in, diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" whilst you find a rock.
Um, my condolences?
Uh, PHP would turn into total crap? Oh, wait...
So will a chair.
Somehow I doubt they'd award it to Wikileaks while its leader is accused of rape in Sweden...
At first glance I thought it said "Windows Immune". Now that's something I'd use.
Silly idea (rolls eyes) dsf(^*7w35487z wait, what happened?
Just to piss off RMS :)
Or you could just encrypt your data before you upload it. Then they can't do anything with it, except possibly lose it, but that's a risk no matter what you do.
...and be less trusting of the cloud.
Sorry, can't. I don't trust it at all.
So...instead of being called hardware, these would be...software? I'm so confused!
I have a dream. One day in Tokyo, a hacked Sony robot will walk down the street, drawing hundreds of onlookers. It will stop in front of Sony headquarters. It will turn to face the building. And it will slowly raise its arm and give Sony the finger.
Just hack them to say things like "There is no Allah" or display cartoons of Mohammad. The Iranians will smash them to pieces.