Were getting the same thing in the UK starting 2005. I put my passport in the wash the other day so need to get a new one and I wasn't sure what the deal was with biometrics, I vowed not to get one if they already had fingerprint or iris data, I just feel that's totally uncalled for, especially since fingerprint theft could involve cutting off someone's fingers. So far its only going to be facial recognition which I don't really care about - passports already have your picture on them and this is basically just a very very expensive system to do exactly what a human does already. Its already a failure and the money has probably already been spent (the new trend these days is to spend £150M on some new system and then have the company say "erm it doesn't work, sorry, thanks for the money". I got a very big-brother-esq leaflet with my forms that told you exactly how to look for your photo - remember DO NOT smile, DO NOT frown, Look directly into the camera with a neutral expression and think about 9/11 damit! Hopefully they won't be dicks about it, if I go through check-in and the computer says I don't look like myself WTF are they going to do? Look at my photo and say "hmm you look like the photo but the computer says no, im sorry"
The data should be covered by the DPA so if I ever get a passport with a chip i'll be sure to ask for a printout of what's on it. I don't know if these will be RFID chips or not, i'd hope not, it will only be a matter of time before someone's passport is stolen while its still in their pocket.
The Indymedia thing to me sounds like a case of an ISP doing everything it can not to get into trouble. Its been shown time after time and even tested, ISPs will remove/giveup anything if they told. Even random people on Hotmail accounts have been able to order that information be taken down because it violates copyrights even though the copyright is fully explained on the actual page. We've come to a time when ISPs have no interest in sticking up for their clients, if someone can sue Rackspace then maybe it will send a message that ISPs have 2 sides to respect OR perhaps the law could just be changed to take all legal responsibility off their hands?
Well I might not agree with what Barney is trying to say in theory, in practice im all for it! Cheaper hardware all the way!.. just cheaper hardware, without windows on it.
Who wants to bet when the first person will be charged under the governments new emergency law that will cover this? It did give me a fiendishly good idea though.. how about instead of an IR key-fob, an RF key-fob? It would somehow need to get the right frequency (local oscillator detection?) and then would simply transmit a single frame, which could be downloaded by usb onto it. You then walk into an unsuitable place and stick the goats.cx pic on the TV and act shocked like everyone else... It would also have the added benefit of making someone turn it off for you!
Ah yes consultants, explaining something that is totally correct but totally irrelivent. Err the biggest safety problem with concord was the low height of the doors, people kept banging their heads! Most issues people have with windows is how to remove things manually from the add/remove programs list. We recalled 5,000 baby monitors (that had a high risk of catching fire), customers complained that the buttons were confusing.
It certainly has applications in the military, I just can't see people carrying these around in their pockets though, The advantage of batteries is that they are rechargeable (which to the consumer means free) and that there are millions of products out there that all take AAs or Ds etc and you'll have a tough time convincing people to use anything that doesnt fit in those holes. mobile phones, pds and notebooks generally have their own batteries so maybe theres a market there, but the idea of buying fuel is just going to be weird, because all those devices are already rechargable and people are used to that. Also people are just going to be concerned with the idea of having any kind of flammable/explosive liquid in their pocket and producing fumes. Anyway, what exactly does happen if you cover up all the air vents?
This would totally rock the out-door portable mini-generator market though, If it was the size of a coffee-cup you would be able to power stuff in your tent and take it walking with you to power your GPS etc. Also it would be great if it could take almost anything as fuel - the army would love that.
Firefox has fast developement, they'll fix this in a month, meanwhile the IE css box model has been broken for the last 5 years, and they still don't have a pop-up blocker built in. I've noticed a few Firefox crashes that sound like this so hopefully its gonna be fixed very soon. I might sound biased against Microsoft, but actually i've been learning C# and loving it! Microsoft are hardcore, they just concentrate on business more than software sometimes, and as a budding young student, close to graduation with plenty of debt whos just totally sold-out i can respect that.
Nothing went wrong! Do you understand? NOTHING! The satellite was designed to do that, everything worked perfectly as planned. The Peoples Democratic Republic of China will defeat the imperialist Americans and her sisters! Ok now who was the head engineer on that satellite project, i want him shot before sun-down.
Wow that sounds like a very effective enterprise solution, would it be compatible with my existing oil-based infrastructure? can I also bypass UN restrictions? what can it do in the way of Freedom Management and 'converting' my legacy Bill of Rights?
Actually thats not such a bad idea - with all the tax-dodging companies who 'base' their HQs offshore in places such as the Bahamas the US could technically 'declare' war but not actually fire a single shot - then you could block all trade and do all sorts of war-time things.
Can anyone say Data Protection Act? Heres a clue, its not next to the PATRIOT isle or the CAN-SPAM section.
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This is the worst excuse for branding i think ive ever seen anywhere, ever. Infact this is worse than those pencil-case sets with that cheap calculator thats always the same calculator but with a superman/WWF/britney sticker on it. This is just a totally pointless product and no the name is not so bad that its good. I give 2/10 for effort, it will make sales only because parents will buy it. (40% will return it within 5 days).
They're comparing the minor defects in the printer drum so that each printer effectively has a fingerprint, I saw this nearly 10 years ago on Tomorrows World, abit late isnt it? Maybe they just made it better, but still its a very old idea which has probably been used in most other printing technologies.
Ah, so the war on IP theft is going to be faught using terror.. which means the war on terror was actually a war on IP theft - see the terrorists were stealing the governments use of terror, theres only room for one terrorist and thats the Bush admin.
This is going to equate to more stupid sentencing (its already 5-10 years for filming in a cinema) and more lives ruined. I can only hope that at the very least these bullshit laws make my life better somehow, ie if i ever create something that some corporation 'steals' i will be able to sue them for every penny they've got, and i mean _every_ penny. Plus, if i ever own a record label for example, you better hope this crack down will allow me to charge the highest prices and make the most extortionate profit off the most crap.
Im still waiting for the war on bribery, odd isnt it?
Sales volume is inversely proportional to EULA clarity, therefore if you make EULAs 'super' clear, you will jepodise the sales of many consumer goods. EULAs would often look something like this:
-This disk won't work with other players -You can't use this phone on any other network -This software may not be secure and if you loose your data its not our fault -You cannot copy this CD, it will not work in some players -This player will not let you skip adverts on DVDs that you have bought, you will have to watch them even though you paid -You are not buying this disk, you are buying a license to use it, we have the right to revoke it at any time without question or refund
You see, the economy relies on sub-standard goods, buy clarifying EULAs you are screwing with the economy.
Its not, but just like most wacko-parties they have to please the right-wing fundamentalist groups who vote/fund them and who think that sex is dirty. Also, sex reduces productivity, you can't have lots of cheap labour if everyones going off having sex or looking at porn all day!
Its true, infact I know in Iran that the guys are just as obsessed with sex as anywhere else in the world and everyones doing it. Because the whole thing is pushed under-ground it just leads to issues, teenage girls worry about not being virgins so they go and have hyman replacement operations, while their dads (who'd be fucking pissed off if they found out) are in bed with a different woman each night. The whole thing is a total farse, and you can bet your ass I know why:
Stupid old men. Don't mean to disrespect the ruling religious leaders but thats what they are. They are so out of touch with reality you could put a crack addict in charge and he'd be useful. It also doesnt help that anyone in power who actually has an ounce of sanity is probably too scared to say anything incase they decide to lynch him (they love hanging people from construction cranes, sick, but i guess its more humane than Saudia Arabia).
Er the Germans have it all backwards - they're supposed to be slowly phasing out TV licensing altogether, not introducing more. In the UK there's a continuous debate about TV licensing, its probably going to slowly stop and its one of those things that would never happen in our time (though obviously Germany has different ideas) but its definitely responsible for some good things. Its obviously not a fair system and its a relic from the past, but consider this - satellite or cable packages you pay for give you 98 more channels of crap and 2 of anything close to decent and they all have adverts and stupid station logos! Now TV licensing makes some very slight sense, not allot, but at least you can get your head around it. Internet licensing however makes so little sense that the only way you could expect it to work is if everyone who pays gets free porn subscriptions, free broadband, and free dope to keep them calm when the bill comes. I think these Germans have probably been talking to the Australian Family First party, now there's a bunch of idiots.
So we have massive industry representation by the RIAA and MPAA (who might as well be the same thing) and they are represented in congress by a number of senators. So where the fuck are the people represented? Wheres the massive public backed union who says "fuck that, you stay out of my house"? the EFF? the ACLU? somehow I don't think the balance is very fair considering how senators work - money = influence. Its either time for a big public group or time to change the way politics works and move towards some sort of democratic system. (remember folks, democracy = '1 person 1 vote', not '1 dollar 1 vote')
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Were getting the same thing in the UK starting 2005. I put my passport in the wash the other day so need to get a new one and I wasn't sure what the deal was with biometrics, I vowed not to get one if they already had fingerprint or iris data, I just feel that's totally uncalled for, especially since fingerprint theft could involve cutting off someone's fingers. So far its only going to be facial recognition which I don't really care about - passports already have your picture on them and this is basically just a very very expensive system to do exactly what a human does already. Its already a failure and the money has probably already been spent (the new trend these days is to spend £150M on some new system and then have the company say "erm it doesn't work, sorry, thanks for the money". I got a very big-brother-esq leaflet with my forms that told you exactly how to look for your photo - remember DO NOT smile, DO NOT frown, Look directly into the camera with a neutral expression and think about 9/11 damit! Hopefully they won't be dicks about it, if I go through check-in and the computer says I don't look like myself WTF are they going to do? Look at my photo and say "hmm you look like the photo but the computer says no, im sorry"
The data should be covered by the DPA so if I ever get a passport with a chip i'll be sure to ask for a printout of what's on it. I don't know if these will be RFID chips or not, i'd hope not, it will only be a matter of time before someone's passport is stolen while its still in their pocket.
The Indymedia thing to me sounds like a case of an ISP doing everything it can not to get into trouble. Its been shown time after time and even tested, ISPs will remove/giveup anything if they told. Even random people on Hotmail accounts have been able to order that information be taken down because it violates copyrights even though the copyright is fully explained on the actual page. We've come to a time when ISPs have no interest in sticking up for their clients, if someone can sue Rackspace then maybe it will send a message that ISPs have 2 sides to respect OR perhaps the law could just be changed to take all legal responsibility off their hands?
Well I might not agree with what Barney is trying to say in theory, in practice im all for it! Cheaper hardware all the way!.. just cheaper hardware, without windows on it.
A great example of how it would be if record labels were taken out of the chain!
Who wants to bet when the first person will be charged under the governments new emergency law that will cover this? It did give me a fiendishly good idea though.. how about instead of an IR key-fob, an RF key-fob? It would somehow need to get the right frequency (local oscillator detection?) and then would simply transmit a single frame, which could be downloaded by usb onto it. You then walk into an unsuitable place and stick the goats.cx pic on the TV and act shocked like everyone else... It would also have the added benefit of making someone turn it off for you!
Ah yes consultants, explaining something that is totally correct but totally irrelivent. Err the biggest safety problem with concord was the low height of the doors, people kept banging their heads! Most issues people have with windows is how to remove things manually from the add/remove programs list. We recalled 5,000 baby monitors (that had a high risk of catching fire), customers complained that the buttons were confusing.
It certainly has applications in the military, I just can't see people carrying these around in their pockets though, The advantage of batteries is that they are rechargeable (which to the consumer means free) and that there are millions of products out there that all take AAs or Ds etc and you'll have a tough time convincing people to use anything that doesnt fit in those holes. mobile phones, pds and notebooks generally have their own batteries so maybe theres a market there, but the idea of buying fuel is just going to be weird, because all those devices are already rechargable and people are used to that. Also people are just going to be concerned with the idea of having any kind of flammable/explosive liquid in their pocket and producing fumes. Anyway, what exactly does happen if you cover up all the air vents?
This would totally rock the out-door portable mini-generator market though, If it was the size of a coffee-cup you would be able to power stuff in your tent and take it walking with you to power your GPS etc. Also it would be great if it could take almost anything as fuel - the army would love that.
Firefox has fast developement, they'll fix this in a month, meanwhile the IE css box model has been broken for the last 5 years, and they still don't have a pop-up blocker built in. I've noticed a few Firefox crashes that sound like this so hopefully its gonna be fixed very soon. I might sound biased against Microsoft, but actually i've been learning C# and loving it! Microsoft are hardcore, they just concentrate on business more than software sometimes, and as a budding young student, close to graduation with plenty of debt whos just totally sold-out i can respect that.
Nothing went wrong! Do you understand? NOTHING! The satellite was designed to do that, everything worked perfectly as planned. The Peoples Democratic Republic of China will defeat the imperialist Americans and her sisters! Ok now who was the head engineer on that satellite project, i want him shot before sun-down.
Wow that sounds like a very effective enterprise solution, would it be compatible with my existing oil-based infrastructure? can I also bypass UN restrictions? what can it do in the way of Freedom Management and 'converting' my legacy Bill of Rights?
They have technology in Texas??
Actually thats not such a bad idea - with all the tax-dodging companies who 'base' their HQs offshore in places such as the Bahamas the US could technically 'declare' war but not actually fire a single shot - then you could block all trade and do all sorts of war-time things.
Can anyone say Data Protection Act? Heres a clue, its not next to the PATRIOT isle or the CAN-SPAM section.
This is the worst excuse for branding i think ive ever seen anywhere, ever. Infact this is worse than those pencil-case sets with that cheap calculator thats always the same calculator but with a superman/WWF/britney sticker on it. This is just a totally pointless product and no the name is not so bad that its good. I give 2/10 for effort, it will make sales only because parents will buy it. (40% will return it within 5 days).
They're comparing the minor defects in the printer drum so that each printer effectively has a fingerprint, I saw this nearly 10 years ago on Tomorrows World, abit late isnt it? Maybe they just made it better, but still its a very old idea which has probably been used in most other printing technologies.
Ah, so the war on IP theft is going to be faught using terror.. which means the war on terror was actually a war on IP theft - see the terrorists were stealing the governments use of terror, theres only room for one terrorist and thats the Bush admin.
This is going to equate to more stupid sentencing (its already 5-10 years for filming in a cinema) and more lives ruined. I can only hope that at the very least these bullshit laws make my life better somehow, ie if i ever create something that some corporation 'steals' i will be able to sue them for every penny they've got, and i mean _every_ penny. Plus, if i ever own a record label for example, you better hope this crack down will allow me to charge the highest prices and make the most extortionate profit off the most crap.
Im still waiting for the war on bribery, odd isnt it?
Sales volume is inversely proportional to EULA clarity, therefore if you make EULAs 'super' clear, you will jepodise the sales of many consumer goods. EULAs would often look something like this:
-This disk won't work with other players
-You can't use this phone on any other network
-This software may not be secure and if you loose your data its not our fault
-You cannot copy this CD, it will not work in some players
-This player will not let you skip adverts on DVDs that you have bought, you will have to watch them even though you paid
-You are not buying this disk, you are buying a license to use it, we have the right to revoke it at any time without question or refund
You see, the economy relies on sub-standard goods, buy clarifying EULAs you are screwing with the economy.
SCROTUM.. heh heh heheheh
Its not, but just like most wacko-parties they have to please the right-wing fundamentalist groups who vote/fund them and who think that sex is dirty. Also, sex reduces productivity, you can't have lots of cheap labour if everyones going off having sex or looking at porn all day!
Its true, infact I know in Iran that the guys are just as obsessed with sex as anywhere else in the world and everyones doing it. Because the whole thing is pushed under-ground it just leads to issues, teenage girls worry about not being virgins so they go and have hyman replacement operations, while their dads (who'd be fucking pissed off if they found out) are in bed with a different woman each night. The whole thing is a total farse, and you can bet your ass I know why:
Stupid old men. Don't mean to disrespect the ruling religious leaders but thats what they are. They are so out of touch with reality you could put a crack addict in charge and he'd be useful. It also doesnt help that anyone in power who actually has an ounce of sanity is probably too scared to say anything incase they decide to lynch him (they love hanging people from construction cranes, sick, but i guess its more humane than Saudia Arabia).
1) Make dummy porn site
2) Tell someone in China
3) Split reward 50-50
4) Profit!
repeat..
Er the Germans have it all backwards - they're supposed to be slowly phasing out TV licensing altogether, not introducing more. In the UK there's a continuous debate about TV licensing, its probably going to slowly stop and its one of those things that would never happen in our time (though obviously Germany has different ideas) but its definitely responsible for some good things. Its obviously not a fair system and its a relic from the past, but consider this - satellite or cable packages you pay for give you 98 more channels of crap and 2 of anything close to decent and they all have adverts and stupid station logos! Now TV licensing makes some very slight sense, not allot, but at least you can get your head around it. Internet licensing however makes so little sense that the only way you could expect it to work is if everyone who pays gets free porn subscriptions, free broadband, and free dope to keep them calm when the bill comes. I think these Germans have probably been talking to the Australian Family First party, now there's a bunch of idiots.
Get used to it.
So we have massive industry representation by the RIAA and MPAA (who might as well be the same thing) and they are represented in congress by a number of senators. So where the fuck are the people represented? Wheres the massive public backed union who says "fuck that, you stay out of my house"? the EFF? the ACLU? somehow I don't think the balance is very fair considering how senators work - money = influence. Its either time for a big public group or time to change the way politics works and move towards some sort of democratic system. (remember folks, democracy = '1 person 1 vote', not '1 dollar 1 vote')
Providers of music!!! AHAHAHAHA
Guess what my ass is a provider of?