This is nothing new.
I'm an old retired IT guy. Spent 25+ years in the
field and I remember my first programming job had a pre employment test. In 68000 assembler no less!.
Since retiring from IT I went back to a pre IT career of mine in Clinical Laboratory Sciences.
and guess what. Within the first 90 days of hire I had a written competency test in every department of the laboratory I would be working in.
It's life.
Having web sites and services in the rest of the world cut off U.S. IP addresses might be a way to get U.S. users to get the attention of their congress critters. Especially if the sites put the messages like "Contact your government representatives about your screwed up laws." I would not blame the rest of the world to just cut us loose.
As a former UC system graduate and in middle age I have some question allowing vending machines to aggregate data on your soft drink habits as a student. Getting health care is becoming a real crap shoot as you grow older. The noose is being drawn tighter and tighter on the data being used to disqualify on the basis of "previous" history. Be carefull what information you allow about your habits to be collected....
Is the tendency of intrenched interests (be they government or corporate) to get very nervous that the internet allows large groups of people to communicate. In the U.S. there is supposedly a "freedom to assemble". Until relatively recently that "freedom" was largely symbolic. Now, via the internet, large virtual assemblies of people can happen very quickly and largely outside of the control of the "establishment".
In truth "Big Brother is Watching You". He just has'nt quite decided what to do with you yet.
It's a good trick if you can do it. But at least the MC1000 (which I have) is not a finished product.
3.0 version of OS is still not available. Was due in Feb/04
1. ) Non selectable recording resolution. Default is poor and pixilated.
2 No Live TV pause function. Minimal expectation in anything calling itself a DVR/PVR.
3 Incomplete Web Interface. Web interface does not allow selecting programs to record. Why bother with a Web interface if you have to go to
the Telly app to actually program the thing.
4.)No way to use Firewire input for DV. All this hardware, and no software to control it. At least it is not documented
5.) Have to drop into linux to rename video files input from external sources. Can\'t rename files in video library easily.
6.) Awkward input of audio MP3 files. Many won't load into library since they do not meet some "undocumented" metadata standard.
7.) Video recordings over 2G in size can't be downloaded from the Web interface. Get Permission denied error.
8. Currently Zap2It Data Direct Service listings service is limited to the most basic functionality, and you have to "renew" every 3 months. But at least it's free....
Telly is a prototype that is not even 50% there yet. At least not with the current OS (2.8x).
Anyway I went and build one myself with dual boot Myth/Sage and am using the MC1000 pretty much as a firewall/DNS/Wins server now. At least at that job it is meeting expectations.
I find it interesting that MS is sending "warnings" on search results. I find that hard to believe but if so how far are we from "thought crimes" if searching is under the microscope?
Thank (fill in diety) that MS is not the government.........yet.
I am the Laboratory Information System Director for a large eastern University Medical Center. Physicians with skills in Informatics are at the top of the food chain. Anyone else in IT are at the bottom.
Can you get in legal trouble for instigating a DOS attack on someones phone system......???
Well, Alice, here in wonderland you can get in hot water for just discussing certain forbidden subjects (circumvention tech, etc)....
The negative PR cost of this is much worse than anything they can get from them.
This is pure damage control....
New Feudalism....
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The USA is advancing on a course of economic feudalism. A small elite of "Equity Lords" with a vast army of "salary peasants" to support them. The sad thing is the system is being exported to the rest of the world on the point of a cruise missile.
"I can't wait to see what happens when a congressman or senator's child is sued," he said. "They've taken leave of their senses. They lost their [Los Angeles] lawsuit against us and they're pissed about it, so their answer is to sue their customers.
Won't happen. The RIAA will make damn sure to not sue a politico's little Johnny/Jenny.
"Equal justice before the law." Right..../noend cynicism
With the knee jerk increasing surveillance powers and fast degrading civil liberties in the US these days the corp-gov scares me much more than the spam annoys me.
You cannot circumvent the copy "protection" technology of manually turning the pages of a book/newspaper. Shame on you.
Officer take the bot away......
The home router makers can just update the firmware to not decrement the TTL counter. Probably a minor firmware tweak.
Unless of course the new Super DCMA laws being passed in many states prohibit this......Because it "steals service" from the ISP by masking the number of hosts.
Now we have classes of knowledge itself that are forbidden.
"Thou shalt not teach thy children the sins of anonymous e-mail".
Oops, they are the ones who instructed me!!!
Sigh...the only tech needed.
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We can give up all our remaining freedoms but the only "tech" a "terrorist" really needs is the commitment to die for their cause. How do you 100% guard against that?
I fear for our children's children.
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This is nothing new. I'm an old retired IT guy. Spent 25+ years in the field and I remember my first programming job had a pre employment test. In 68000 assembler no less!. Since retiring from IT I went back to a pre IT career of mine in Clinical Laboratory Sciences. and guess what. Within the first 90 days of hire I had a written competency test in every department of the laboratory I would be working in. It's life.
Having web sites and services in the rest of the world cut off U.S. IP addresses might be a way to get U.S. users to get the attention of their congress critters. Especially if the sites put the messages like "Contact your government representatives about your screwed up laws." I would not blame the rest of the world to just cut us loose.
The NSA will have to scan the data for potential terrorist Tachyons hiding among the Bosons. That will slow things down a bit.
Just have less and less space between your fingers. ..........and squeeze harder......
As a former UC system graduate and in middle age I have some question allowing vending machines to aggregate data on your soft drink habits as a student. Getting health care is becoming a real crap shoot as you grow older. The noose is being drawn tighter and tighter on the data being used to disqualify on the basis of "previous" history. Be carefull what information you allow about your habits to be collected....
Is the tendency of intrenched interests (be they government or corporate) to get very nervous that the internet allows large groups of people to communicate. In the U.S. there is supposedly a "freedom to assemble". Until relatively recently that "freedom" was largely symbolic. Now, via the internet, large virtual assemblies of people can happen very quickly and largely outside of the control of the "establishment". In truth "Big Brother is Watching You". He just has'nt quite decided what to do with you yet.
http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/0763617261.asp
The support is basically limited to emailing you that. "That problem will be fixed in 3.0"......
It's a good trick if you can do it. But at least the MC1000 (which I have) is not a finished product. 3.0 version of OS is still not available. Was due in Feb/04 1. ) Non selectable recording resolution. Default is poor and pixilated. 2 No Live TV pause function. Minimal expectation in anything calling itself a DVR/PVR. 3 Incomplete Web Interface. Web interface does not allow selecting programs to record. Why bother with a Web interface if you have to go to the Telly app to actually program the thing. 4.)No way to use Firewire input for DV. All this hardware, and no software to control it. At least it is not documented 5.) Have to drop into linux to rename video files input from external sources. Can\'t rename files in video library easily. 6.) Awkward input of audio MP3 files. Many won't load into library since they do not meet some "undocumented" metadata standard. 7.) Video recordings over 2G in size can't be downloaded from the Web interface. Get Permission denied error. 8. Currently Zap2It Data Direct Service listings service is limited to the most basic functionality, and you have to "renew" every 3 months. But at least it's free.... Telly is a prototype that is not even 50% there yet. At least not with the current OS (2.8x). Anyway I went and build one myself with dual boot Myth/Sage and am using the MC1000 pretty much as a firewall/DNS/Wins server now. At least at that job it is meeting expectations.
I wonder if the file sniffing method would work on something like this? http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/info.php
I find it interesting that MS is sending "warnings" on search results. I find that hard to believe but if so how far are we from "thought crimes" if searching is under the microscope? Thank (fill in diety) that MS is not the government.........yet.
I am the Laboratory Information System Director for a large eastern University Medical Center. Physicians with skills in Informatics are at the top of the food chain. Anyone else in IT are at the bottom.
But in America winning is all that is important. It has become our cultural obsession...
Can you get in legal trouble for instigating a DOS attack on someones phone system......??? Well, Alice, here in wonderland you can get in hot water for just discussing certain forbidden subjects (circumvention tech, etc)....
The negative PR cost of this is much worse than anything they can get from them. This is pure damage control....
The USA is advancing on a course of economic feudalism. A small elite of "Equity Lords" with a vast army of "salary peasants" to support them. The sad thing is the system is being exported to the rest of the world on the point of a cruise missile.
"I can't wait to see what happens when a congressman or senator's child is sued," he said. "They've taken leave of their senses. They lost their [Los Angeles] lawsuit against us and they're pissed about it, so their answer is to sue their customers. Won't happen. The RIAA will make damn sure to not sue a politico's little Johnny/Jenny. "Equal justice before the law." Right..../noend cynicism
With the knee jerk increasing surveillance powers and fast degrading civil liberties in the US these days the corp-gov scares me much more than the spam annoys me.
"When a few thousand people do it, it's a crime wave. When 43 million do it, it's a customer relations problem." -Don't remember who said that--
You cannot circumvent the copy "protection" technology of manually turning the pages of a book/newspaper. Shame on you. Officer take the bot away......
The home router makers can just update the firmware to not decrement the TTL counter. Probably a minor firmware tweak.
Unless of course the new Super DCMA laws being passed in many states prohibit this......Because it "steals service" from the ISP by masking the number of hosts.
God I'm getting tired of this cat & mouse game!!!
Now we have classes of knowledge itself that are forbidden. "Thou shalt not teach thy children the sins of anonymous e-mail". Oops, they are the ones who instructed me!!!
We can give up all our remaining freedoms but the only "tech" a "terrorist" really needs is the commitment to die for their cause. How do you 100% guard against that? I fear for our children's children.
Isn't that only until the next quarterly report?
VOTE in 2004. More is at risk then we have seen for a couple generations..... scientia est potentia