They also care about keeping you from making any money, unless, of course, they are in turn making more money off of your actions than you are.
It's about control. They (the coporate masters) interpet any oportunity that you might encounter/take/create as a threat unless it is an oportunity that they offered to you (for a fee) themselves.
They want more than your money, they want your loyalty, your adoration, your undying love for the crap that they offer and want to punish you if you dare to try to do it yourself or look elsewhere.
They want you to envy them, they want you to want to be like them, because every whore wants to think that everyone else is a whore too.
They offer you employment, they offer you money, they offer you Big Macs at $2.99 and an hour and a half of questionable entertainment for $10.50. They offer you a mortgage, a car loan, partially garaunteed government backed tuition loans, credit cards, time share condos at ski resorts even though you hate skiing.
They want to license things to you instead of sell them. They want you to borrow, lease, rent instead of buy. They want to own all that you live in, drive, watch, wear, read, listen to, or enjoy.
They want to own you. They offer you crap and call it Creme Brule. They destroy the good in everything they encounter. They hate that something good might be available for free (think SCO, Microsoft, etc)
They'll shoot themselves in the foot to keep you out of the game, which is why they'd rather extend copyright indefinately. It's not about making movies, or entertaining you, or art. It's about owning every last thing imaginable.
about patenting a vaguely described methodology without the intention of implementing it onself, but hoping that someday someone else would make you rich by doing all of the hard work.
Spam is a social problem, just like any other type of fraud.
Yes, often the goods and/or services promoted through spam are fraud, but spam itself is not fraud. It is advertising.
As for the problem, I see it as a technical problem, as in "Why can't my damn service provider reject email with forged headers, from unsecured servers, from ISP's that are notorious for hosting spamers, and is obviously and easily recognised as spam by even the most half-assed filters? I guess I'll have to get my service somewhere else or check and filter it myself."
I haven't been "on the 'net" all that long (about seven years), but I still wonder when it happened that my fellow "netizens" started begging to be regulated. If you have a spam problem, do something about it. Learn something about the problems with open relays, irresponsible ISPs and how touseprocmailtofilterspam.
Encourage your provider to take proper measures to stop spam from entering or exiting thier domain, and put pressure on other providers to do the same.
If they want unencumbered rights to distribute music, they should get truly independent artists
I can't help but agree with you on this one.
The RIAA has every right to run themselves and thier artists into the ground if they want to.
I wish movements like the Webcaster Alliance would take the reigns in these situations and decide to not play the music that is unfairly offered.
There are more independent artists than contracted artists. Many of these artists rely on mp3 distribution and webcasting to promote the sale of thier CDs and live performances. Usetheselinkstogetstarted.
The RIAA makes me sick, but stealing thier shit or sucking up to them for a better deal is not the way to change things. Instead we should find ways to make them (and thier member companies) irrelevant.
I amazes me how often the bureaucrats in the Intelligence Comunity ignore what they already know.
The nth Country Expiriment proved that once knowlege is available to the public, and similar results can be obtained without knowlege of the methods used in previous successes.
If this grad student could compile this information, then so could sombody else, and it's probable that sombody already has.
This information should be used to point out the weaknesses inherent in our infrastructure, and show where this infrastructure needs to be diversified. IMHO, attempts to improve security by centralizing comunications and power distribution are doomed to failure, and will only make us weaker. Micro supliers and home based power generation would make terrorist attacks against the power grid inconsequential. The weaknesses in comunications infrastructure can probably only be cured by creating a third alternative (community high-band?) to the cablemodem and telephone company monopolies on delivering service.
Yes, I can't help but agree with you on that. The link, however is to the text of a London Times article that is only available through a paid subscription. I have found the same article printed in several other newspapers, but have not yet found an subscription-free archive that dates this far back.
Although I have found some usefull information through resources like David Ickes and Art Bell, my opinion is that they do damage to serious inquiry into government and intelligence agency corruption with thier lack of fact checking and self serving sensationalism. They make it difficult for those who have a legitimate grievance by mixing legitimate evidence with outlandish stories of aliens and time travel. It's possible that this is done intentionally.
So why does the NSA emplyee the most people of any goverment TLA? FBI,CIA
Because the CIA's dirty work is mostly done by private corporate contractors (Wackenhut, Carlyle, and The Curry Company are the big ones), some entertainment companies (remember MCA, now part ofUniversal Studios but I'm sure they're still active in the comunity) and an assortment of airlines (Pan Am got screwed for helping out), shipping companies (still working on tracking these), and import/export businesses (mostly furniture and lighting, some appliance). There are also some strange connections to Scientology, The Landmark Education Corporation, and The Moonies.
The CIA has been known to work with terrorist organisations to achieve thier desired objectives.
The FBI, CIA, and the DEA, also contract various crime organisations, individual criminals, and run of the mill citizens to do work for them. Often these folk have no idea who it is they are working for.
The NSA, for the most part, uses in house employees to analyze intelligence data, monitor foriegn communications, and ensure the security of comunications for the other departments and the military. In other words, they hire a lot of geeks, have some clue about the internet (they like it), and don't really mind if you encrypt your own data (security for all is more secure than security for some, plus breaking it will be a nice challenge.)
to control spam. As it is now, email is still somewhat unregulated and protected by first amendment rights.
Spam can be controlled with properly configured mailers, good filters, and good habits about who you give your address out to. (plus blacklists, whitelists, etc)
Legislation being applied to this area could potentially open the door to more regulation in this area, and I'd rather not take the chance.
I get almost no spam at all at GMX. the site may be in German, which I cannot read, but they have a very effective, multi-layered, and reliable anti-spam implementation. Thier service supports pop and imap for retrieving your mail, and smpt (with auth) for sending.
I'm sure that most (smaller) ISPs would implement good anti-spam measures and policies if enough of thier users (politely) requested them.
If you are using Hotmail, MSN, AOL or similar, my guess is that you're sh*t out of luck, and it's time to change providers.
Most Gator installations are done without the knowledge of the person who has it altering their desktop.
How? I mean, I do know users that claim that they've never clicked yes to anything, but I always just assumed that they are embarassed (As in "how do I get this online_party.exe thing off of my desktop. What? No, I never click on anything ever.)
Maybe if Gator and other addware companies are given enough leeway, the irritation thier programs cause will condition these unlearning users to stop clicking every damned button that presents itself.
On the other hand, perhaps you have been misled about the apropriatness of Robert Bork's comentary on human rights.
He also wrote this article, defending the "right" of a business owner to practice racial discrimination.
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Miscarriages of justice and mistakes can occur anywhere; but overall, I would have much more confidence in the British system than in the US system.
Although I have had no expirience with (and limited knowledge of) the British justice system, I still somewhat agree with your judgement. My post is definately influenced by my expiriences as a juror in the U.S., and the few court cases that I have followed closely.
But, Britain's national position on the death penalty has not always been so enlightened, and there are motivations other than politics that can lead to corruption
Better hope RMS isn't reading this article, or he'll be PISSED.
I doubt RMS would dissagree with Linus' statement.
Stallman may be a bore, and he may be self-rightous at times, but he does know what part is Linux and what parts are GNU.
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If you feel the need to object to DNA privacy issues, bear in mind that three men were wrongly convicted of the murder
The wrongful conviction of these men cannot be assigned to anything but the insincerity of the police and prosecuters in seeking out the real perpetrator. If they had the dna evidence that they believed would lead to the murderer, how can they justify convicting men whose dna did not match that evidence.
A state collecting evidence on citizens before they commit a crime is a serious threat to freedom. You cannot assume that a just government will always be just. If the government were to decide that an individual were undesirable, or that a patsy was needed to cover for a crime committed by a law enforcement or intelligence officer, then the database would be an all too convenient rescource.
In addition, there is the current belief among some that all behavior is genetically determined. If you were to combine the existance of such a dtatabase with the acceptance of research such as this you then have millions of persons who are born "guilty" of a crime that they did not yet, and may never commit.
Damn liberal editors caving int those artsy-fartsy mac users again...
How dare you print a story that derides the paragon of the IT hardware industry, Intel, as being second best to a processor installed in a machine maniufactured by those long-haired elitist at Apple.
And to think that you would accept the word from those commie "scientist" down at NASA, who sit around doing nothing all day except "thinking" and playing with thier toys at taxpayer expense.
Shame, shame, next thing youl be tryin' to convince me that Linux OS is more secure than the hallowed work that our hero in capitolism, Bill Gates, does at microsoft. It's bad for the economy, I tell you. All these long haired, smelly, weirdos keep messing with our good old American way of life. What, you say you want a choice? You have a choice! You'll choose from what choices we here at the Central Office tell you to choose from!
Take your Open Source, MacIntosh, OS-X (You don't think I know whaty OS-X really means, do you, but I do, smarty pants, I do indeed..), and whatever else it is you keep trying to give us and go back to Russia, or wherever it is that you came from. Who invited you to our red-blooded American industral party anyway? Nobody! That's who!
Why you pnko, beatnik, hippy, givin' it all away, don't think you need the establishment faggo...
I really can't see any reasonable judge declaring that spam cannot be used to refer to unsolicited emails, nor can I see a judge declaring that Hormel has lost it's trademark.
The usages are just too different. My guess is that SpamArrest will be permitted it's usage as long as they stay out of the foodstuffs business, and that Hormell will retain its trademark on Spam (Spiced Pork and hAM) as a foodstuff.
Lawyers get paid, SpamArrest vindicated, Hormel's rights to thier product name protected, no big deal.
This in no way resembles past trademark suits such as Xerox for copying, Kleenex for tissue paper, or Rollerblades for in-line skates.
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They also care about keeping you from making any money, unless, of course, they are in turn making more money off of your actions than you are.
It's about control. They (the coporate masters) interpet any oportunity that you might encounter/take/create as a threat unless it is an oportunity that they offered to you (for a fee) themselves.
They want more than your money, they want your loyalty, your adoration, your undying love for the crap that they offer and want to punish you if you dare to try to do it yourself or look elsewhere.
They want you to envy them, they want you to want to be like them, because every whore wants to think that everyone else is a whore too.
They offer you employment, they offer you money, they offer you Big Macs at $2.99 and an hour and a half of questionable entertainment for $10.50. They offer you a mortgage, a car loan, partially garaunteed government backed tuition loans, credit cards, time share condos at ski resorts even though you hate skiing.
They want to license things to you instead of sell them. They want you to borrow, lease, rent instead of buy. They want to own all that you live in, drive, watch, wear, read, listen to, or enjoy.
They want to own you. They offer you crap and call it Creme Brule. They destroy the good in everything they encounter. They hate that something good might be available for free (think SCO, Microsoft, etc)
They'll shoot themselves in the foot to keep you out of the game, which is why they'd rather extend copyright indefinately. It's not about making movies, or entertaining you, or art. It's about owning every last thing imaginable.
Including you.
about patenting a vaguely described methodology without the intention of implementing it onself, but hoping that someday someone else would make you rich by doing all of the hard work.
Cause: The command "apropos" is used in unix.
/. : probably a little of both.
Effect: The word "apropos" is used in The Matrix: Reloaded.
Cause of usage of "apropos" on
as a developer I'd be far more concerned with basics like "market penetration"
If everyone thought like that, we'd all be using Windows.
Spam is a social problem, just like any other type of fraud.
Yes, often the goods and/or services promoted through spam are fraud, but spam itself is not fraud. It is advertising.
As for the problem, I see it as a technical problem, as in "Why can't my damn service provider reject email with forged headers, from unsecured servers, from ISP's that are notorious for hosting spamers, and is obviously and easily recognised as spam by even the most half-assed filters? I guess I'll have to get my service somewhere else or check and filter it myself."
I haven't been "on the 'net" all that long (about seven years), but I still wonder when it happened that my fellow "netizens" started begging to be regulated. If you have a spam problem, do something about it. Learn something about the problems with open relays, irresponsible ISPs and how touse procmail to filter spam.
Help others learn by pointing them in the right direction.
Encourage your provider to take proper measures to stop spam from entering or exiting thier domain, and put pressure on other providers to do the same.
Don't use services that encourage spammers (Hotmail, AOL, MSN, Mail.com, etc)
Stop asking lawmakers who don't understand the problem to do something about it.
Do consumers have the right to spy on the government?
How will they stop us.
Do you think the US would do the same thing today
Danny Casolaro
Michael Riconsciouto
Ron van Meter
The list goes on.
If they want unencumbered rights to distribute music, they should get truly independent artists
I can't help but agree with you on this one.
The RIAA has every right to run themselves and thier artists into the ground if they want to.
I wish movements like the Webcaster Alliance would take the reigns in these situations and decide to not play the music that is unfairly offered.
There are more independent artists than contracted artists. Many of these artists rely on mp3 distribution and webcasting to promote the sale of thier CDs and live performances. Use these links to get started.
The RIAA makes me sick, but stealing thier shit or sucking up to them for a better deal is not the way to change things. Instead we should find ways to make them (and thier member companies) irrelevant.
One example I was given was oral sex.
Who's giving this example, where do I sign up, and do I have to sign an NDA?
For a second there, I thought we were on Plastic.
I didn't miss the point of your post, but it seems that you did.
There still is no evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein or Iraq and the attacks on September 11th.
Maybe that's the incompetance that should scare us so much.
--qtp
Innocent people do suffer when the GOP is "taking out its enemies".
what's frightening about Ashcroft is not that he's a fundamentalist autocrat, but that he's an incompetent fool.
The real danger of John Ashcroft is that he's a fundamentalist autocrat and an incompetent fool.
I amazes me how often the bureaucrats in the Intelligence Comunity ignore what they already know.
The nth Country Expiriment proved that once knowlege is available to the public, and similar results can be obtained without knowlege of the methods used in previous successes.
If this grad student could compile this information, then so could sombody else, and it's probable that sombody already has.
This information should be used to point out the weaknesses inherent in our infrastructure, and show where this infrastructure needs to be diversified. IMHO, attempts to improve security by centralizing comunications and power distribution are doomed to failure, and will only make us weaker. Micro supliers and home based power generation would make terrorist attacks against the power grid inconsequential. The weaknesses in comunications infrastructure can probably only be cured by creating a third alternative (community high-band?) to the cablemodem and telephone company monopolies on delivering service.
Yes, I can't help but agree with you on that. The link, however is to the text of a London Times article that is only available through a paid subscription. I have found the same article printed in several other newspapers, but have not yet found an subscription-free archive that dates this far back.
Although I have found some usefull information through resources like David Ickes and Art Bell, my opinion is that they do damage to serious inquiry into government and intelligence agency corruption with thier lack of fact checking and self serving sensationalism. They make it difficult for those who have a legitimate grievance by mixing legitimate evidence with outlandish stories of aliens and time travel. It's possible that this is done intentionally.
Disabling an RFID will be tantamount to tampering with a product in a way it was not meant to be.
But officer, I've ALWAYS microwaved my clothing, don't you?
So why does the NSA emplyee the most people of any goverment TLA? FBI,CIA
Because the CIA's dirty work is mostly done by private corporate contractors (Wackenhut, Carlyle, and The Curry Company are the big ones), some entertainment companies (remember MCA, now part ofUniversal Studios but I'm sure they're still active in the comunity) and an assortment of airlines (Pan Am got screwed for helping out), shipping companies (still working on tracking these), and import/export businesses (mostly furniture and lighting, some appliance). There are also some strange connections to Scientology, The Landmark Education Corporation, and The Moonies.
The CIA has been known to work with terrorist organisations to achieve thier desired objectives.
The FBI, CIA, and the DEA, also contract various crime organisations, individual criminals, and run of the mill citizens to do work for them. Often these folk have no idea who it is they are working for.
The NSA, for the most part, uses in house employees to analyze intelligence data, monitor foriegn communications, and ensure the security of comunications for the other departments and the military. In other words, they hire a lot of geeks, have some clue about the internet (they like it), and don't really mind if you encrypt your own data (security for all is more secure than security for some, plus breaking it will be a nice challenge.)
--qtp
to control spam. As it is now, email is still somewhat unregulated and protected by first amendment rights.
Spam can be controlled with properly configured mailers, good filters, and good habits about who you give your address out to. (plus blacklists, whitelists, etc)
Legislation being applied to this area could potentially open the door to more regulation in this area, and I'd rather not take the chance.
I get almost no spam at all at GMX. the site may be in German, which I cannot read, but they have a very effective, multi-layered, and reliable anti-spam implementation. Thier service supports pop and imap for retrieving your mail, and smpt (with auth) for sending.
I'm sure that most (smaller) ISPs would implement good anti-spam measures and policies if enough of thier users (politely) requested them.
If you are using Hotmail, MSN, AOL or similar, my guess is that you're sh*t out of luck, and it's time to change providers.
Most Gator installations are done without the knowledge of the person who has it altering their desktop.
How? I mean, I do know users that claim that they've never clicked yes to anything, but I always just assumed that they are embarassed (As in "how do I get this online_party.exe thing off of my desktop. What? No, I never click on anything ever.)
Maybe if Gator and other addware companies are given enough leeway, the irritation thier programs cause will condition these unlearning users to stop clicking every damned button that presents itself.
On the other hand, perhaps you have been misled about the apropriatness of Robert Bork's comentary on human rights.
He also wrote this article, defending the "right" of a business owner to practice racial discrimination.
Miscarriages of justice and mistakes can occur anywhere; but overall, I would have much more confidence in the British system than in the US system.
Although I have had no expirience with (and limited knowledge of) the British justice system, I still somewhat agree with your judgement. My post is definately influenced by my expiriences as a juror in the U.S., and the few court cases that I have followed closely.
But, Britain's national position on the death penalty has not always been so enlightened, and there are motivations other than politics that can lead to corruption
Dude, can't take a joke?
Now grow up and leave that chip on your shoulder at home.
Better hope RMS isn't reading this article, or he'll be PISSED.
I doubt RMS would dissagree with Linus' statement.
Stallman may be a bore, and he may be self-rightous at times, but he does know what part is Linux and what parts are GNU.
If you feel the need to object to DNA privacy issues, bear in mind that three men were wrongly convicted of the murder
The wrongful conviction of these men cannot be assigned to anything but the insincerity of the police and prosecuters in seeking out the real perpetrator. If they had the dna evidence that they believed would lead to the murderer, how can they justify convicting men whose dna did not match that evidence.
A state collecting evidence on citizens before they commit a crime is a serious threat to freedom. You cannot assume that a just government will always be just. If the government were to decide that an individual were undesirable, or that a patsy was needed to cover for a crime committed by a law enforcement or intelligence officer, then the database would be an all too convenient rescource.
In addition, there is the current belief among some that all behavior is genetically determined. If you were to combine the existance of such a dtatabase with the acceptance of research such as this you then have millions of persons who are born "guilty" of a crime that they did not yet, and may never commit.
Damn liberal editors caving int those artsy-fartsy mac users again...
How dare you print a story that derides the paragon of the IT hardware industry, Intel, as being second best to a processor installed in a machine maniufactured by those long-haired elitist at Apple.
And to think that you would accept the word from those commie "scientist" down at NASA, who sit around doing nothing all day except "thinking" and playing with thier toys at taxpayer expense.
Shame, shame, next thing youl be tryin' to convince me that Linux OS is more secure than the hallowed work that our hero in capitolism, Bill Gates, does at microsoft. It's bad for the economy, I tell you. All these long haired, smelly, weirdos keep messing with our good old American way of life. What, you say you want a choice? You have a choice! You'll choose from what choices we here at the Central Office tell you to choose from!
Take your Open Source, MacIntosh, OS-X (You don't think I know whaty OS-X really means, do you, but I do, smarty pants, I do indeed..), and whatever else it is you keep trying to give us and go back to Russia, or wherever it is that you came from. Who invited you to our red-blooded American industral party anyway? Nobody! That's who!
Why you pnko, beatnik, hippy, givin' it all away, don't think you need the establishment faggo...
and so on,
and so on,
and so...
I really can't see any reasonable judge declaring that spam cannot be used to refer to unsolicited emails, nor can I see a judge declaring that Hormel has lost it's trademark.
The usages are just too different. My guess is that SpamArrest will be permitted it's usage as long as they stay out of the foodstuffs business, and that Hormell will retain its trademark on Spam (Spiced Pork and hAM) as a foodstuff.
Lawyers get paid, SpamArrest vindicated, Hormel's rights to thier product name protected, no big deal.
This in no way resembles past trademark suits such as Xerox for copying, Kleenex for tissue paper, or Rollerblades for in-line skates.
Then again, IANAL.