After attempting to bring this account back into positive territory, I have decided that it is too valuable to the crapflooding community to post at +1. Therefore, with this post, I announce my re-entry into the crapflooding environment.
btw, is it a slashdot april fools to disable anonymous posting, or is that how its gonna be?
Actually, it's probably the way things are going to be. One of the User Created Discussions has been message bombed into oblivion (6000+ messages) by someone posting anonymously through open proxies.
There are two ways to fix that, block all open proxies (Which is practically impossible) or block anonymous posting. If you have to be logged in to post, they can limit your posting no matter what IP you come in from.
Firstly, you obviously do not have children. If you did, you'd understand that having a cell-phone aleviates a great deal of worrying when you do get the opportunity to get away from the kids. Rather than sit and worry about whether you're going to come home to an empty house and a police officer in the driveway, you recognize that if something happens, you are always ten digits away.
Also, you say that the extra hour or two wouldn't matter that much, but it does. Rather than look at it from Mom and Dad's point of view, imagine Little Johnny getting poked and prodded by strange people in masks. Imagine him enduring all of this without his mother or father next to him to comfort him. No matter how good a babysitter is, that babysitter will never be a replacement for Mom/Dad in that situation.
Next, I'm sorry to say your strawman is about to go up in flames...
I mean, would you object to the Lucky 7 motel using tons of sound insulation to prevent you from hearing the couple next door fighting?
Gee, this doesn't stop the couple next door from fighting in the Lucky 7, does it? It simply prevents you from hearing it. Their ability to fight is not diminished by the soundproofing. However, by jamming cell-phones, you prevent me from receiving or making any phonecalls. Your analogy does not hold up.
I love how people are championing the cause of "Make something that automatically sets their phones in silent mode." Take a step back and think about that for a second. Do you really want someone to control your equipment? How about if they automatically had your phone dial a 1-900 number? How about if they automatically got your number and used it to track where you go? How about if they used it to target advertising at you whenever you entered a place?
The solution to this problem does not lie with technology, it lies with the people. If I manage a restaraunt and someone gets a phone-call and has a loud obnoxious conversation in my restaraunt, I'd kick 'em out. If I'm a person in a theater where a phone rings, I'll make a specific point to tell that person (To his face) just how rude he was.
You want change? Make it happen, one person at a time. I applaud you for not using your cell-phone in certain circumstances. I too, if I must carry it, keep it in vibrate mode, and only answer it if the call is from an important number. Now use social influence to make sure other people do the same.
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"I will happily bitch about both"
Yes, and you will also apathetically do nothing other than bitch about it. That's sure to bring about the change.
"the only people who need to fear are those who are morally wrong but legally right"
How is it morally wrong for me to have an interest in preventing my children from having access to drugs? How is it morally wrong for me to vote a politician into office who will pass laws helping me protect my children when I am unable to be around?
How is it morally wrong to target known offenders for heightened survelience? How is it morally wrong for law-enforcement to monitor publically accessable web-based communities for drug activity? How is this different than using paid informants to monitor drug activity?
"The NDIC said five types of people should be targeted, including previous drug offenders, legalization advocates, anarchists and people promoting 'an expanded freedom of expression' that pushes the boundaries of the First Amendment."
I noticed you conveniently neglected to include "Including" in your message. If you had, it would have been clear that while the DOJ may reference five types in their communications, Wired only references four of the five, and that wouldn't have been a slam against the DOJ. Gee, whenever I see "Including", I generally interpret it to mean that the following items are part of the population being referenced, but don't necessarily constitute the entire population. Of course, with that word, your FUD would have been useless. Good way to ignore something because it doesn't support your point.
Also, I don't seem to read anything in the article stating that the DOJ is putting any more weight into their anti-drug investigations than into their anti-terrorism investigations. In fact, for the most part, the stuff I read in the story indicated that the DOJ was going to use publicly accessible message-boards in order to gather evidence about possible illegal drug usage.
Please spew your FUD elsewhere, preferably into the toilet, where you can flush it and frighten the rats and filth. Thank you.
Hooray, all we need are more opportunities for lawsuits.
In my opinion, this is just going to be abused like every other law out there. It's just human nature. How long is it before Ed the plumber can't read his e-mail because Outlook crashed and he files a lawsuit?
No matter how good a job programmers do, software will always be buggy. It is impossible to test every single possible combination of inputs that a piece of software will have to handle. There will always be something unforseen.
How about a thought exercise?
Joe installs Windows XP2, and is rather happy with its performance. Joe doesn't want that nasty auto-update stuff, he wants to know everything that goes on. Joe turns off auto-update, and ties a string around his finger so he remembers to check for updates every day.
Meanwhile, Osama bin Cracker is working dilligently, and discovers a hole in XP2 that opens a webbrowser to unpleasant webpages. Osama's bug-exploiting virus makes it into the wild.
Microsoft releases a patch in a public easy to find place. People with auto-update have the bugs fixed. Joe is out of town.
Joe comes home, starts his computer, and is greeted with a man holding his rectum open. Joe sues Microsoft because there was a bug, and they are liable for their bugs.
Should Joe get the $1.5 million he asks for because Microsoft released a buggy piece of software, or is it Joe's fault for not downloading the patch?
In my opinion, it was Joe's responsibility to update, and he did not do so. No money for him.
Do the cameras connect back to a centralized national database? Are they sufficiently advanced to recognize me in different lighting, different clothing, different environments (Through a car windshield, etc)?
Even with all those things, facial recognition is an imperfect art. Even humans are unable to do so 100% accurately. How many times have you seen someone on the street and thought "Hey, that's Bill, or is it?" only to find out it's not Bill? Oh, and humans are trained from birth to recognize faces. The Smart Card National ID system just makes it easier. Instead of reading a face, you read a signal from the card saying "Hi, I'm Bob Patterson. I'm O+, my fingerprint signature is X41AW8NV...33R47, I live at 123 Park Place, New Orleans, LA 41127."
Lots easier than reading a face and figuring out who it matches.
Oh yeah, today, any sufficiently clever idiot with a computer can find his way into decentralized databases and get your credit history, medical records, driving records, get a credit card/loan in your name, etc, etc, etc.
Simply means he needs to take more steps to do it.
The Government will have the power to track me wherever you go...
Let me just verify your ID sir, yes, it comes back valid, you may be seated. (122703 - 182244: ID VERIFICATION - Robert Smith - Wung Chu Chinese Restaraunt 1227 Old Lawson Rd. Vernax, GA 31141)
Let me just verify your ID sir, yes, it comes back valid, you may procede. (122903 - 073418: ID VERIFICATION - Robert Smith - Toll Booth 127 Dulles Toll Road. Centreville, VA 22015)
I would like to inform you that I have incorporated your project into a project of my own, MyBalls, and will be distributing it as MySexualOrgans.
I do feel that this is a rather inadequate name, however. Considering that one of your projects is involved, I will give you the opportunity to suggest another name.
I swear if I see that Dell commercial with that dipstick kid in it again I'm going to throw my shoe thru the tube!!!
Don't you mean those danged Mazda commercials with the dipstick kid going "Zoom zoom" and a drugged out rastaman singing "Zoom zoom zoom, yah."
The other day I was watching TV and I just couldn't get away from those commercials. Every time a commercial break came on, here was Captain Voiceover saying "What do you get when an SUV is raised by a family of sports cars?" and that damned kid. I'd change the channel, and there it'd be again. I was ready to throw my TV out a window!
"...we have opposed the case from the outset, seeing it as an abridgement of the freedom of production and trade and an interference with the right to acquire and possess property."
I'm glad this group is supporting Microsoft's right to acquire my compter as their property. Way to go guys, stand up for the little guy!
Then again, what did I expect from a group called "The Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism"
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Surely you can't be serious!
After attempting to bring this account back into positive territory, I have decided that it is too valuable to the crapflooding community to post at +1. Therefore, with this post, I announce my re-entry into the crapflooding environment.
Mad propz on your AC thwarting FP. w00p!!!
All ACs can suck my left nut.
Actually, it's probably the way things are going to be. One of the User Created Discussions has been message bombed into oblivion (6000+ messages) by someone posting anonymously through open proxies.
There are two ways to fix that, block all open proxies (Which is practically impossible) or block anonymous posting. If you have to be logged in to post, they can limit your posting no matter what IP you come in from.
My guess is that AC posting is gone forever.
I want to know where you got experience holding babies within centimeters of a jet intake...
Somewhat more informative, and without the nasty full-page flash advert before opening it. Link
Also, you say that the extra hour or two wouldn't matter that much, but it does. Rather than look at it from Mom and Dad's point of view, imagine Little Johnny getting poked and prodded by strange people in masks. Imagine him enduring all of this without his mother or father next to him to comfort him. No matter how good a babysitter is, that babysitter will never be a replacement for Mom/Dad in that situation.
Next, I'm sorry to say your strawman is about to go up in flames...
I mean, would you object to the Lucky 7 motel using tons of sound insulation to prevent you from hearing the couple next door fighting?
Gee, this doesn't stop the couple next door from fighting in the Lucky 7, does it? It simply prevents you from hearing it. Their ability to fight is not diminished by the soundproofing. However, by jamming cell-phones, you prevent me from receiving or making any phonecalls. Your analogy does not hold up.
I love how people are championing the cause of "Make something that automatically sets their phones in silent mode." Take a step back and think about that for a second. Do you really want someone to control your equipment? How about if they automatically had your phone dial a 1-900 number? How about if they automatically got your number and used it to track where you go? How about if they used it to target advertising at you whenever you entered a place?
The solution to this problem does not lie with technology, it lies with the people. If I manage a restaraunt and someone gets a phone-call and has a loud obnoxious conversation in my restaraunt, I'd kick 'em out. If I'm a person in a theater where a phone rings, I'll make a specific point to tell that person (To his face) just how rude he was.
You want change? Make it happen, one person at a time. I applaud you for not using your cell-phone in certain circumstances. I too, if I must carry it, keep it in vibrate mode, and only answer it if the call is from an important number. Now use social influence to make sure other people do the same.
Yes, and you will also apathetically do nothing other than bitch about it. That's sure to bring about the change.
"the only people who need to fear are those who are morally wrong but legally right"
How is it morally wrong for me to have an interest in preventing my children from having access to drugs? How is it morally wrong for me to vote a politician into office who will pass laws helping me protect my children when I am unable to be around?
How is it morally wrong to target known offenders for heightened survelience? How is it morally wrong for law-enforcement to monitor publically accessable web-based communities for drug activity? How is this different than using paid informants to monitor drug activity?
Also, I don't seem to read anything in the article stating that the DOJ is putting any more weight into their anti-drug investigations than into their anti-terrorism investigations. In fact, for the most part, the stuff I read in the story indicated that the DOJ was going to use publicly accessible message-boards in order to gather evidence about possible illegal drug usage.
Please spew your FUD elsewhere, preferably into the toilet, where you can flush it and frighten the rats and filth. Thank you.
In my opinion, this is just going to be abused like every other law out there. It's just human nature. How long is it before Ed the plumber can't read his e-mail because Outlook crashed and he files a lawsuit?
No matter how good a job programmers do, software will always be buggy. It is impossible to test every single possible combination of inputs that a piece of software will have to handle. There will always be something unforseen.
How about a thought exercise?
Should Joe get the $1.5 million he asks for because Microsoft released a buggy piece of software, or is it Joe's fault for not downloading the patch?
In my opinion, it was Joe's responsibility to update, and he did not do so. No money for him.
Are you saying sound hasn't earned 10,000,000 frequent flyer miles?
If you want to get technical, we're traveling at supersonic speeds. The Earth rotates and revolves faster than the speed of sound.
Woohoo, I'm breaking the sound barrier! Chuck Yeager, eat your heart out!
Even with all those things, facial recognition is an imperfect art. Even humans are unable to do so 100% accurately. How many times have you seen someone on the street and thought "Hey, that's Bill, or is it?" only to find out it's not Bill? Oh, and humans are trained from birth to recognize faces. The Smart Card National ID system just makes it easier. Instead of reading a face, you read a signal from the card saying "Hi, I'm Bob Patterson. I'm O+, my fingerprint signature is X41AW8NV...33R47, I live at 123 Park Place, New Orleans, LA 41127."
Lots easier than reading a face and figuring out who it matches.
Oh yeah, today, any sufficiently clever idiot with a computer can find his way into decentralized databases and get your credit history, medical records, driving records, get a credit card/loan in your name, etc, etc, etc.
Simply means he needs to take more steps to do it.
The Government will have the power to track me wherever you go...
- Let me just verify your ID sir, yes, it comes back valid, you may be seated.
- Let me just verify your ID sir, yes, it comes back valid, you may procede.
- etc
- etc
Does that answer your question?(122703 - 182244: ID VERIFICATION - Robert Smith - Wung Chu Chinese Restaraunt 1227 Old Lawson Rd. Vernax, GA 31141)
(122903 - 073418: ID VERIFICATION - Robert Smith - Toll Booth 127 Dulles Toll Road. Centreville, VA 22015)
I am bored at work, please IM me at your earliest convenience. Thank you.
--TBJ
I would like to inform you that I have incorporated your project into a project of my own, MyBalls, and will be distributing it as MySexualOrgans.
I do feel that this is a rather inadequate name, however. Considering that one of your projects is involved, I will give you the opportunity to suggest another name.
Regards,
Tasty Beef Jerky
Another 7:30 work day for me. Oh well.
By the way, proofreading reports sucks!
Don't you mean those danged Mazda commercials with the dipstick kid going "Zoom zoom" and a drugged out rastaman singing "Zoom zoom zoom, yah."
The other day I was watching TV and I just couldn't get away from those commercials. Every time a commercial break came on, here was Captain Voiceover saying "What do you get when an SUV is raised by a family of sports cars?" and that damned kid. I'd change the channel, and there it'd be again. I was ready to throw my TV out a window!
Propz to The_Fire_Horse for his first FP ever. Congratulations on your fine achievement.
I'm getting this FP to give you mad propz sir. Congrats on 4 in a row!
Then again, what did I expect from a group called "The Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism"
Hussah!
One of the funny parts about that is that anyone else who tries to post from that proxy will also be banned.
My advice is once one proxy is banned, move on to another. Heck, if push comes to shove, there's even a way you can use babelfish as a proxy.
I can't speak for Neal, but I bear no ill will towards you, and wish you nothing but the best in life.
God bless