Just pimping out our nice little Data Protection Act we've had in the UK for 16 years (i think its European too):
-You have the right to access any personal data any company/organisation holds on you, including the police (the police can be exempt in certain situations), government agencies, your school, shops etc and this can include video and internal memos about you and non-electronically stored data AFAIK
-You have the right to know who is holding what and what they intend to do with it
-It cant be taken outside the European Economic Area without your consent
-Security measures must be taken to ensure its safe
uhuh uhuh you know you want it yeah! come on! pah in-your-face like a can-of-mace!
Man this is scary stuff - not just with this but other outsourcing too, just imagine if one of those little runts at the nike $1 a month trainer factory started noting the most popular shoe sizes!? why they could build up a database of americas average foot size and use that information for competative advantage, not to mention the privacy violations that could result if they found out i had slightly flat feet!
Im not suggesting he should fold - that would be a sheep leader. He should have atleast considered other views instead of sticking to his as if it was his pride. There is allot of support for the war here but allot against and i dont know which is greater! what i do know is that allot of people would have been much happier if there was a full referendum and we had all the facts. (Facts which may have included aditional useful little things like "the army has run out of boots and body armour" and "we bought lots of new guns but they dont work in the sand" and "the americans cannot aim and will keep shooting at us!")
You wanna get yourself a Data Protection Act, very useful stuff, gives you access to any information any company/organisation holds on you, makes sure its correct, and stops them selling it! We've got an old one you can have if you want? Also we're trying to get rid of a David Blunkett and a Tony Blair - We'll take anything for them really? a Kerry maybe? but not a Hatch or Fritz those fuckers can go to camp x-ray.
All this crap has inspired me to actually get off my ass and vote, and im not even in America! everyday i see the most vile crap that politicians can push creaping over here from the EU and Tony 'im right, the people are wrong' Blair and his band of idiots figure-heading it and copying everything Bush does. We are starting to get laws like this too, were behind abit and i just hope its not too late to stop it (we dont have diebold voting machines yet so my vote could actually mean something!?). If i was put in prision for 10 years for downloading some crap i would go totally insane! if i didnt kill myself or get killed within the first few months i would leave so bitter and twisted i would probably end up suicide bombing some shit-faced politicians! can that idiot even imagine how many peoples lives he will screw up like that?
Someone said something about democracy - about Micky mouse being elected if enough people voted for him. Well, Micky and his friends have been at home in the US congress for quite some time now, and i dont think the exterminator was called? So what sort of jail time you reckon we should give all these crooked politicians when justice is finally served?
Ok once and for all, whatever microsoft says about business use of ms office vs. open office, the fact remains that most home users and students do not need to shell out for this crap, universities and schools do not need to shell out for this crap and small businesses do not need to shell out for this total bullshit crap. Ive seen people use office, they make simple presentations, use 2% of spreadsheet filters and dont even use wordprocessor styling. And they could sure do without stupid vb script virii with too much system access.
The UK practically took over half the world, and were pretty responsible for the problems in palestine, with a little help from the french ofcourse. Not only that but we helped america's nuclear weapons program and now days our Tony is Mr Bush's little pet. Although we arnt the only evil country around we still have our place in the hall of fame.
But in the UK, the US, China, etc... the main problem comes from one place: Fucking asswipe leaders, when your leader (Blair) of a supposed democracy sits in his office while the country's single biggest demonstration in history fills the capital with a sea of people and says "oh well, my minds already made up" you know theres something very wrong, and when you can get any law passed if your a big corporate sponsor and invalidate a 200 year old bill of rights, then you should start getting worried and lets not even start with china.
The internet is starting to help with this, atleast it spreads news around (aslong as you ignore cnn) and it facilitates free speech and organisation of protests, and it allows nice translators to leak confidential documents to the media when the US asks the UK to spy on UN members for it.
Im sure the UK government would love one of these too. If they do, im gonna be the first demanding everything they have on me and any results any company gets all under the data protection act. Im always talking about 'that bloody bush' and 'idiotic david blunkett who should go to hell' so i should atleast have a database rank of 'deranged'.
What exactly is terrorism anyway? is Bush a terrorist? i mean he terrorises people - dont you remember "shock and awe" and "bomb them back to the stone age". Maybe an anti-war protestor is a terrorist? i mean if i was one lone republican in the middle of an anti war protest id feel pretty terrorised! Armed robber? street gang? tell us bush, wtf is your little crack head on about? there must be a legal definition of a terrorist? otherwise this is witch burning.
Didnt they just afew days ago assasinate some old guy with a helicopter and missiles!? maybe they could use this gadget for dropping laser guided bombs on stray animals:P
Oh come on, you know us brits were just as ruthless and evil as you guys in our time! i mean we practically started the whole palestine/israel thing and now we sit by without anyone blaiming us, beat that!! You might have tried to take over the world with your slick business control, but we got in there with good old guns and just shot those basterds up! we still have all our old buildings and infrastructure around the world! ok so we accept you guys are the bad-ass gangstas now, hell you prooved yourself 100 times over by nuking those cities (ok so we helped build those nukes but it was your show), but hey you gotta have some modesty!
Fucking asswipes made a deal with UK to allow them to extradite pretty much anyone they want without even going through a judge here! I don't know which government i hate more, the US for being such assholes, or my own government following them like a little puppy. Im not even going to start about camp X-ray.
extract from statewatch On 31 March, David Blunkett, UK Home Secretary, signed an Extradition Treaty on behalf of the UK with his United States counterpart, Attorney General Tom Ashcroft, ostensibly bringing the US into line with procedures between European countries. The UK parliament was not consulted at all and the text was not public available until the end of May. The only justification given for the delay was "administrative reasons", though these did not hold-up scrutiny by the US senate, which began almost immediately.
The UK-US Treaty has three main effects:
- (1) it removes the requirement on the US to provide prima facie evidence when requesting the extradition of people from the UK but maintains the requirement on the UK to satisfy the "probable cause" requirement in the US when seeking the extradition of US nationals;
- (2) it removes or restricts key protections currently open to suspects and defendants;
- (3) it implements the EU-US Treaty on extradition, signed in Washington on 25 June 2003, but far exceeds the provisions in this agreement.
Ofcourse it works the otherway around but i dont think we would have a chance in hell of extraditing an American - the treaty is very unfairly balanced.
Totally with you, id say 90% of students are just going through the motions, they can give you text-book answers and pass exams but if you talk to them its clear they arnt geeks - they dont have an actuall understanding. Im pretty crap at that sort of thing so my test scores are bad, but ask me to code something practical or debug a circuit and im great (modesty mode off). Im just wondering if the people who get outsourced jobs are text-bookers or real geeks!? if you interviewed them would you laugh or cry?
Actually you really dont need much of an OS on an ATM, infact i bet some of the earlier ones running on a calculator were 10 times more reliable and secure in their day!!
An ATM has only afew simple requirements
The GUI Dont even start about "windows gui" all ATMs use a custom designed GUI! theres no need for a graphical OS behind it!
Network Connection This aint rocket science, you dont need a big OS to send an encrypted message.
Reliability The ideal machine would simply have a ROM for the software and a small ammount of RAM, no hard-drive is required. You should be able to do a full reset and have the machine running in seconds. Does this idea fit well with a large windows installation? no.
Infact i would go as far as to say an ATM doesnt even need multitasking! think about it, you do your stuff, it says please wait, that stays in the video buffer while it does its transaction. All this over complexity is very bad KISS.
When the cost of cooling a system is more than adding another processor, you have to remember the saying: "cascade cooling systems make your cpu cool, not you!"
Its really a case of unionisation: there are two groups - the corporations and the consumers, which ever one bands together the most wins - if the consumers take a stance and all with one voice say "hey fuck you" then the corporations have to listen, otherwise they will loose their customers to someone who will. On the other hand, if the corporations band together and say "hey lets all sell our products under strict EULAs" then the consumer is screwed unless they can get the product somewhere else (like china). So you see, we have to say a big fuck you to corporations who dont listen, and then buy DVD players from china, understand?
Can you say shitting on your own door-step? Im surprised at them, SCO being a corporation should know how it works in America - there is no justice, you piss off the feds: they find whatever obscure 60 year old law they can to make your life hell.
Why the fuck should it be this way around?? there is no advantage. The solution is simple, you make a.safe domain and you enforce strict rules on that domain only, you leave the rest of the internet alone. Already we have domains that are restricted (AFAIK) you cant get a.gov address unless.. your with the government, and the same for.ac/.edu - the next logical step is to do the same for this, not the other way around.
Lastly, if a kid is too young to risk seeing anything dodgy, then they are probably too young to even gain anything from using the internet as a whole for education. Think about the (educational) things you use it for, do younger kids need that?
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Just pimping out our nice little Data Protection Act we've had in the UK for 16 years (i think its European too):
-You have the right to access any personal data any company/organisation holds on you, including the police (the police can be exempt in certain situations), government agencies, your school, shops etc and this can include video and internal memos about you and non-electronically stored data AFAIK
-You have the right to know who is holding what and what they intend to do with it
-It cant be taken outside the European Economic Area without your consent
-Security measures must be taken to ensure its safe
uhuh uhuh you know you want it yeah! come on! pah in-your-face like a can-of-mace!
Man this is scary stuff - not just with this but other outsourcing too, just imagine if one of those little runts at the nike $1 a month trainer factory started noting the most popular shoe sizes!? why they could build up a database of americas average foot size and use that information for competative advantage, not to mention the privacy violations that could result if they found out i had slightly flat feet!
Im not suggesting he should fold - that would be a sheep leader. He should have atleast considered other views instead of sticking to his as if it was his pride. There is allot of support for the war here but allot against and i dont know which is greater! what i do know is that allot of people would have been much happier if there was a full referendum and we had all the facts. (Facts which may have included aditional useful little things like "the army has run out of boots and body armour" and "we bought lots of new guns but they dont work in the sand" and "the americans cannot aim and will keep shooting at us!")
They're very old and they dont really know whats happening, so the nice people at the RIAA got their PR team to come up with the names.
What sort of fucked up country has laws with names like this? its almost orwellian
You wanna get yourself a Data Protection Act, very useful stuff, gives you access to any information any company/organisation holds on you, makes sure its correct, and stops them selling it! We've got an old one you can have if you want? Also we're trying to get rid of a David Blunkett and a Tony Blair - We'll take anything for them really? a Kerry maybe? but not a Hatch or Fritz those fuckers can go to camp x-ray.
All this crap has inspired me to actually get off my ass and vote, and im not even in America! everyday i see the most vile crap that politicians can push creaping over here from the EU and Tony 'im right, the people are wrong' Blair and his band of idiots figure-heading it and copying everything Bush does. We are starting to get laws like this too, were behind abit and i just hope its not too late to stop it (we dont have diebold voting machines yet so my vote could actually mean something!?). If i was put in prision for 10 years for downloading some crap i would go totally insane! if i didnt kill myself or get killed within the first few months i would leave so bitter and twisted i would probably end up suicide bombing some shit-faced politicians! can that idiot even imagine how many peoples lives he will screw up like that?
Someone said something about democracy - about Micky mouse being elected if enough people voted for him. Well, Micky and his friends have been at home in the US congress for quite some time now, and i dont think the exterminator was called? So what sort of jail time you reckon we should give all these crooked politicians when justice is finally served?
Ok once and for all, whatever microsoft says about business use of ms office vs. open office, the fact remains that most home users and students do not need to shell out for this crap, universities and schools do not need to shell out for this crap and small businesses do not need to shell out for this total bullshit crap. Ive seen people use office, they make simple presentations, use 2% of spreadsheet filters and dont even use wordprocessor styling. And they could sure do without stupid vb script virii with too much system access.
The UK practically took over half the world, and were pretty responsible for the problems in palestine, with a little help from the french ofcourse. Not only that but we helped america's nuclear weapons program and now days our Tony is Mr Bush's little pet. Although we arnt the only evil country around we still have our place in the hall of fame.
But in the UK, the US, China, etc... the main problem comes from one place: Fucking asswipe leaders, when your leader (Blair) of a supposed democracy sits in his office while the country's single biggest demonstration in history fills the capital with a sea of people and says "oh well, my minds already made up" you know theres something very wrong, and when you can get any law passed if your a big corporate sponsor and invalidate a 200 year old bill of rights, then you should start getting worried and lets not even start with china.
The internet is starting to help with this, atleast it spreads news around (aslong as you ignore cnn) and it facilitates free speech and organisation of protests, and it allows nice translators to leak confidential documents to the media when the US asks the UK to spy on UN members for it.
obviously you missed the last natalie portman story
Im sure the UK government would love one of these too. If they do, im gonna be the first demanding everything they have on me and any results any company gets all under the data protection act. Im always talking about 'that bloody bush' and 'idiotic david blunkett who should go to hell' so i should atleast have a database rank of 'deranged'.
So i take that as a yes?
unfortunately when he is brought to justice we wont be able to send him to camp X-ray for torture becuase it violates those pesky basic human rights
What exactly is terrorism anyway? is Bush a terrorist? i mean he terrorises people - dont you remember "shock and awe" and "bomb them back to the stone age". Maybe an anti-war protestor is a terrorist? i mean if i was one lone republican in the middle of an anti war protest id feel pretty terrorised! Armed robber? street gang? tell us bush, wtf is your little crack head on about? there must be a legal definition of a terrorist? otherwise this is witch burning.
Didnt they just afew days ago assasinate some old guy with a helicopter and missiles!? maybe they could use this gadget for dropping laser guided bombs on stray animals :P
Oh come on, you know us brits were just as ruthless and evil as you guys in our time! i mean we practically started the whole palestine/israel thing and now we sit by without anyone blaiming us, beat that!! You might have tried to take over the world with your slick business control, but we got in there with good old guns and just shot those basterds up! we still have all our old buildings and infrastructure around the world! ok so we accept you guys are the bad-ass gangstas now, hell you prooved yourself 100 times over by nuking those cities (ok so we helped build those nukes but it was your show), but hey you gotta have some modesty!
Fucking asswipes made a deal with UK to allow them to extradite pretty much anyone they want without even going through a judge here! I don't know which government i hate more, the US for being such assholes, or my own government following them like a little puppy. Im not even going to start about camp X-ray.
extract from statewatch
On 31 March, David Blunkett, UK Home Secretary, signed an Extradition Treaty on behalf of the UK with his United States counterpart, Attorney General Tom Ashcroft, ostensibly bringing the US into line with procedures between European countries. The UK parliament was not consulted at all and the text was not public available until the end of May. The only justification given for the delay was "administrative reasons", though these did not hold-up scrutiny by the US senate, which began almost immediately.
The UK-US Treaty has three main effects:
- (1) it removes the requirement on the US to provide prima facie evidence when requesting the extradition of people from the UK but maintains the requirement on the UK to satisfy the "probable cause" requirement in the US when seeking the extradition of US nationals;
- (2) it removes or restricts key protections currently open to suspects and defendants;
- (3) it implements the EU-US Treaty on extradition, signed in Washington on 25 June 2003, but far exceeds the provisions in this agreement.
Ofcourse it works the otherway around but i dont think we would have a chance in hell of extraditing an American - the treaty is very unfairly balanced.
Totally with you, id say 90% of students are just going through the motions, they can give you text-book answers and pass exams but if you talk to them its clear they arnt geeks - they dont have an actuall understanding. Im pretty crap at that sort of thing so my test scores are bad, but ask me to code something practical or debug a circuit and im great (modesty mode off). Im just wondering if the people who get outsourced jobs are text-bookers or real geeks!? if you interviewed them would you laugh or cry?
1. Charge lots of money for a 100 year domain.
2. Know in your head your not really going to be around that long.
3. Profit.
Actually you really dont need much of an OS on an ATM, infact i bet some of the earlier ones running on a calculator were 10 times more reliable and secure in their day!!
An ATM has only afew simple requirements
The GUI
Dont even start about "windows gui" all ATMs use a custom designed GUI! theres no need for a graphical OS behind it!
Network Connection
This aint rocket science, you dont need a big OS to send an encrypted message.
Reliability
The ideal machine would simply have a ROM for the software and a small ammount of RAM, no hard-drive is required. You should be able to do a full reset and have the machine running in seconds. Does this idea fit well with a large windows installation? no.
Infact i would go as far as to say an ATM doesnt even need multitasking! think about it, you do your stuff, it says please wait, that stays in the video buffer while it does its transaction. All this over complexity is very bad KISS.
When the cost of cooling a system is more than adding another processor, you have to remember the saying: "cascade cooling systems make your cpu cool, not you!"
Its really a case of unionisation: there are two groups - the corporations and the consumers, which ever one bands together the most wins - if the consumers take a stance and all with one voice say "hey fuck you" then the corporations have to listen, otherwise they will loose their customers to someone who will. On the other hand, if the corporations band together and say "hey lets all sell our products under strict EULAs" then the consumer is screwed unless they can get the product somewhere else (like china). So you see, we have to say a big fuck you to corporations who dont listen, and then buy DVD players from china, understand?
Can you say shitting on your own door-step? Im surprised at them, SCO being a corporation should know how it works in America - there is no justice, you piss off the feds: they find whatever obscure 60 year old law they can to make your life hell.
Nukes are political weapons because no state can actually use them without essentially ending the game.
Except the United States.
Why the fuck should it be this way around?? there is no advantage. The solution is simple, you make a .safe domain and you enforce strict rules on that domain only, you leave the rest of the internet alone. Already we have domains that are restricted (AFAIK) you cant get a .gov address unless.. your with the government, and the same for .ac/.edu - the next logical step is to do the same for this, not the other way around.
Lastly, if a kid is too young to risk seeing anything dodgy, then they are probably too young to even gain anything from using the internet as a whole for education. Think about the (educational) things you use it for, do younger kids need that?