You are a member of mensa and you can't spell tolerance? Or rather you are a member of mensa and you can't be fucked to check your spelling? you owe me a dollar for fibbing.
PS, In general please everyone, right or left wing, please please read outside US news sources and don't rush to judge or assume that Bin Laden or "Arabs" are totally behind this, something is very very fishy. Good luck to all.
Hi,
I would love to check this out, (just cause it seems cool)
can you give me a little more directed info than gov't versus hackers (that's what you mean right?)
is there an article somewhere describing the procedures that are used on siezed hardware?
If you want to vote against gore, please vote for nader, if you don't agree with his politics fine, he won't win, you are in fact voting for a chance to let a 3rd party into the debates and to get access to federal funds, if you don't like gore cause he is full of it (and he is) then please consider how much more in the pocket of corporate interests bush is and what a bad president he would be (ie think clin-ton is a corporate pawn, just wait till bush is in there)
Well they suck...
I am in brooklyn, new york and I use them:
Points for:
You have to go through verizon even if you use another service. So I chose them since I would rather yell directly at them, than yell at the Support person at another place who has to yell at them.
If you complain about downtime they will give you a pretty hefty rebate.
They used to give a hundred dollar credit for referrals.
Points against:
They go down often, sometimes for minutes sometimes for days.
Their first tier support is for shit, I tricked them into telling me their setup one day, they are
localized in the south east and their support people read off cards, 90% of their solutions are "is your modem plugged in, is the computer on?"
They do NOT have any access to network status, they wait until several people call in to complain about outages in an area and then they ask someone to look at it.
I use Mac OS 9 which they do not support, so I have to lie to them and tell them I am on OS 8.x
to even get them to talk to me.
They Use PPPoE so you have to use their stupid little connection app, that is pure garbage. This makes it a nightmare when I boot into linux (yes I know there are linux PPPoE solutions, but they are very rough right now) I basically cannot use them under linux.
It took them weeks to hook up the service even though I did the install myself, they kept insisting that the service was on, I said it wasn't. Two weeks after that they sheepishly explained that they forgot to "flip the switch".
I had a friend who signed up before the strike, a month and half later they called and said he was too far away to get DSL even though they had already signed him up and told him it was ready. They overcommitted their service and are now straight up lying to people about the service.
This my friends is textbook example of why monoplies suck.
As a small nitpick as I do agree with you, wearing a seat belt does prevent others from being hurt, if you are involved in a minor accident at speed (especially a side impact)and you are wearing a seat belt, the belt keeps you behind the wheel in the correct position to keep contol of the car (statistically, not in EVERY case). Thusly you are more likely not to plow into other pedestrians or cars.
Possibly there might be complications because of air bags in this scenario.
But yes the drug war is very stupid and wasteful and racist and at it's core it has none of the interests of the public.
hey sundiata, While I agree with you in general and thank you for the fuel cell link can I ask you if you are from new york or live there right now? cause yeah we all take the subway, but it's a nightmare, even though I care about the environment quite a bit I would drive if I could because the subway is horrible, hot, crowded, packed with maniacs, there are certain trains that one can be pretty sure of a nice dose of TB at the end of it. Think cattle cars. The US and america has a long way to go before we have pleasant and efficient public transport, thanks mostly to the efforts of the big auto companies. It seems to me that alot of the envoronmentalism and good design of PT and urban planning should be sold as a matter of convenience and comfort. (ie live this way because in a few short years it could be 10 degrees cooler and your energy bill will be 30% less than it is now, as opposed to live this way because we have a moral duty to mother earth.) wadda ya think?
Bill Gates said today of his estranged operating systems unit, " I never liked the bitch and I was only in it for the sex. All my friends told me to dump the tramp years ago, I look forward to playing the field again."
Well despite the fact that napster is not "selling" copyrighted material, this is probably as close to a real world example of the murky waters that napster inhabits. However since napster to my mind is not really trading on it's reputation for being a morally upright business. I really don't think the loss of public respect for them (because they are suing the offspring for copyright violation) is going to affect their operation. (maybe alot of people consider napster to be like o'reilly or one of the other "cool" companies, but I have never spoken to them)
The page to get the classicmenu app says this in the purchasing section:
At this stage in the game, Classic Menu is being made freely available in unrestricted form to give a helping hand to other developers trying to get a day's work done on Apple's newly-emasculated interface
Anyone care to comment about why they feel it is emasculated? (Also I love MacOS but was it ever all that Masculine? and yes i know they mean reduced in power)
The book, I would like to know a little more of the sci fi aspects of it, but that's just me. Here is a side thought, slight OT. Anyone have any suggestions of a good robust list of interesting sci fi? I am fairly knowledgable but I always end up stuck at the book store. I am particularly fond of Greg Egan at the moment.
The social implications of nanotech are huge, in essence all of those weekly world news headlines like the virus that will blow up your pc will come true.
If I where you I would break the essay into nanotech that is at least feasable from our current level of technology, (ie not actually nanoscale but just really really small) such as biotelemetry trackers and aorta scrubbing robots that help us eat more bacon.
And then go into the more speculative nanotech like machines that can essentially build anything from the ground up. Which would basically destroy the whole power structure in the world today, as suddenly anyone could have anything and we could all just lay around and CAD up giant purple mecha and have them fight it out instead of voting for leaders and whatnot...
BUT here is my general question, what wrong with all you cranky jerks that don't want some kid to ask questions? The ask/. wasn't "please write my paper?" This kid thinks enough of all of you to ask you an interesting question and all he want's to know is where to start and what you all might think, Yeah he can search google, but some people like human input, I can understand the trollin AC's who screw with everyone, but if you are logged in and take the fact that this is an intellectual community seriously then effin well act like an intelligent person and celebrate the fact that we live in an age where we can remotely exchange ideas about the possibilities of the future. Sorry but I really like/. and I really don't like it when people tell someone to write their own paper. It's not like he's asking for insight into the industrial revolution or the freakin cotton gin, there aren't a million books out there. grrrrr...
Friend while I might agree with you that there are way too many aol babies out there,it's a moot point (there was this chick named pandora and she had a box...) and you are (in some way) posturing here. I personally don't mind commercialization because I think more often then not we get improved features along with the crap (yeah I love white text on a black background but you have got to be kidding me that being able to download near cd quality music, near dvd quality video, communcate with almost anyone isn't a benefit of commerce), but I just plain ole disagree with your elitist attitude that the "net" is for geeks only. I want more and more people to use it (so that regulation affects joe six pack not just joe pocket protector and because the www encourages literacy which is good for everyone and for a million other reasons), not less and certainly not only the most technical, if you want a little tcp/ip based playground for you and your geek buddies than build one yerself and don't let anyone else in unless they can code perl and have a charisma of 20. But leave off about the geeks being pushed aside, I don't know about you but five years ago every one wanted to break my glasses and now everyone wants to kiss my ass cause I have tech knowledge.
Point being, I wish some people would stop complaining about how they want their net back and make an effort to bend what there is to their will. Yall sound like a bunch of barbershop slackers talking about the days when men where men and women kept quiet. Show some adaptability...
And donate time to one of the distributed filesystem efforts, any one have a recco for which one might be most viable?
Yes it is, yes it is.. It includes the famous line: "you would sell your own mother for a piece of fudge" sometthing I tell the sales people at work every day.
"I can't stand his articles either... But you can solve this....... create an accound, log in and set your preferences to ignore any articles posted by Katz."
Just to be difficult how are you reading this one? or are you only pretending that you hate him to toe the party line and secretly do not filter out his stuff? The ac's are just trollin' because they like it (truely takes all kinds). But why are there so many people talking about how they filter out his stuff and then post in the articles that are filtered out? Help me solve the mystery.
It was the Keynote from Linuxworld..
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That's what it was... nice for those of us who heard it now after not hearing it then... No live interview... Ok 10 year olds back to turding and hot grits! isn't there an aol chat room somewhere for this kind of stuff?
is that kevin not only commited every crime in the book, but also whistled trunk tones so perfectly from the pay phone in jail that he was able to remote hack a commodore vic-20 tape drive into spinning its rewind cogs fast enough to reverse time and commit various exploits that allowed him to at one point play global thermonuclear war with WOPR and thusly almost destroy the world. He turned down thwe chance to play himself claiming he hated tab so much that he would rather see ferris beuller in the role. With an evil giggle he then used a beowulf cluster of slide rules to ping flood god and return himself to his cozy record breaking pre-trial confinement.
and a snowy morning in new york (empty, quiet beautiful, like right after a nuclear war without all the death and destruction)
and a minidisk, and a visor, and a cd-r, and a 27 giger, and a wicked sharp tactical knife, and a cashmere sweater. And the sincere hope that everyone is gonna try to be just a little bit nicer this year, as opposed to the last hundred thousand years.
various dieties and or the concious denial of the existance of said dieties bless you all my geeky geeky brethren. (I loves me some christmas)
This is not offtopic it is a reference to hotline, a ftp-like/chat client that many people use to trade warez much the same way that irc does. He is asking if next there is going to be a crackdown on hotline, another point to point way to chat and exchange files, see how that is not offtopic, don't waste mod points on something if you are not sure about it. Take a clue from the actual post, he/she says it has a bbs feel to it. Please don't waste you points, just cause you have them don't mean you have to use them. If you don't have anything to moderate/post then don't do it. Help make slashdot the best self regulating community of nerds there is.
Exactlty right, carl marx baby. Not my own personal choice of a way to parse the world but viewing behavior and intention through economics often gets you some damn accurate results.
Yeah technology is a real important whatchacallit... issue right now, huh?
Disneyworld is a creepy use of "technology" (remember the quotes for later) They put a glittery facade on things, they use gee-whiz stuff to put a gleam of interest to an otherwise shabby undertaking. (like the whole epcot advertainment complex). Disney has managed to take what should be a varied and at least somewhat random expierience (a trip to a theme park) and standardize it for everyone. Everyone will see at least 3 parades, those parades will feature at least 2 big name characters. Every person will see no less than three animatronic marvels (hillbilly bears, presidents) and there will be a gift shop in direct site at least 70% of the time. I've read stories about the massive tunnels under disney world, the survielance everywhere. The rapid response security teams. How they carved out of florida swamp a sterile intellectual wasteland etc.. I mean for christ's sake the place is cleaner than Nova Scotia.
Ok ok disney is in fact the technolgical dystopia that anyone with half an eye open would run screaming from, Duh! that ain't news katz baby. But here are my problems with this article:
Really, what's so hi-tech? it's mostly smoke and mirrors, some walkie talkies and what have you.
Disney is at the cutting edge of social engineering, they are masters of human group pyschology. They know how to lay out a complex so that the maximum amount of dollars leaves the pockets of the maximum amount of passive people. They know that people don't want to see weirdos. They know what colors are least likely to cause people to freak out and run amok. I can think of a million ways that the people of disney have mastered the herd mentality and the ease of implanting consumer memes in a child's mind. But technology? really? What consumer gadgets? compusa puts on a good show kid. Don't fool yourself, technology is the least important thing about disneyworld, especially new technology.. We've had closed circuit tv cameras and monorails for a while now.
And if anything I say is used in your open source book great, it's open source right? I'm gonna make my own distro. I'll let you know when to get in on the ipo.
Look can we get one thing straight from the giddy up? Please complain about companies like doubleclick tracking you across their network. But let's just be specific about what is going on. They are not tracking you from the minute you open a browser untill you log out. They are only tracking you while you are going from one of their sites to another one. So unless they start advertising on sites that have illegal or morally questionable content (ok conventionally morally questionable) they are tracking you surfing habits and spending habits, if you buy things. They are going to send you banners based on these surfing and spending habits. Now that's not so great, but this has nothing to do with pr0n or mp3's or warez or whatever. This is not going to be used to convict you of anything. Now I don't want to be tracked, but I also know that someone needs to pay for all the content at some point (I know alot of you don't think so, but I find that too simplistic, I like the explosion of the web if only because in amoungst all the junk there is still a higher rate of interesting content, I also find it silly that you are all posting on a site that runs banners) If you are a lynx only guy then I'm sorry I don't really know what to tell you. I like the pretty pictures I guess.
My personal oppinion is that there is going to have to be some kind of accord where the limits of what can be tracked are set, probably by a series of lawsuits. Probably spurred in part by the improper use of tracking information, and that we are going to have to comprimise on the use of traacking technology to really target ads. But until that time comes it is important to stay informed and remember that saying "I just don't want to be tracked" is not a convincing arguement it leads to being labled as a parnoiac, unjustly sure (i've been giving fake names and phone numbers at radio sack since forever) Be more informed if you don't like this kind of thing.
good points, but I disagree with one of them, and it's one I wrote about too:
" know that my bank does not use tempest resistant equipment. Here's a scenario: Thief leaves a tempest scanner in a lunchbox computer (mostly shielded of course) in his car that happens to be parked next to the bank or a vulnerable atm machine....a week later he records the acct#s to mag cards and writes a list of pins. Then in person, at an ATM that dosen't have a camera (yes there are a few of those still out here in rural america) and empties the machine."
because of this: Does your atm print your account number on the screen? anywhere? I guess it could be grabbed off the card reader, but I'm not sure about that. Because the card reader is in the machine and most atms are embeded in concrete and metal at least. Not the ones in delis tho. They are more or less just computers in a shitty metal tool box. And it's the same with the atm keypad, if your pin isn't in clear text on the screen (the biggest target) then there is much less chance it's gonna be grabbed from the keypad. (I am just guessing, so someone tell me I'm wrong and it's just as easy to grab the radiation from anything that gives it off.)
And if you want to defeat the atm cameras wear a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses and a hankie over your mouth. Bound to work fine.
I mean it's not like packet sniffing. It is too expensive to go around van ecking script kiddies and other kinda low level computer criminals. To me the main application of this is industrial espionage. It's kind of a cool spy type thing and if it makes it into the main stream media we can probably expect a james bond movie mention.
But I have a hard time believing that this is really a threat to my right to privacy at least for the moment. This card certainly would be if someone really wanted to see me entering my pin in an atm, or my credit card number when I was buying at amazon or whatever. But that's not really an issue of rights or whatever, it just means that petty criminals are going to have access to this technology and then the nightly news will have something new to stir up paranoia about and every company will make a tempest shielded laptop for everyone and then nothing will come of it.
I'm afraid that this is not really about rights so much as vulnerabilities to crime and fraud. If you are a terrorist or a revolutionary or you are worried that you will be spied on while you are using your computer to plan or talk about crimes, stop. If you are a known terrorist or revolutionary then do not use computers, meet your cronies in dark back alleys and you are fine.
I think we (I am assuming most of you are not criminals) are only really going to be at risk when the technology comes to the point that the police can troll up and down the streets in vans and then bust in on anyone they can catch doing something wrong. And I bet that violates the watcha-callit... Constitution thingy.
So in the mean time I guess I can just keep an eye out for the flowers by irene vans outside my house and go on with my unshielded self.
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You are a member of mensa and you can't spell tolerance? Or rather you are a member of mensa and you can't be fucked to check your spelling? you owe me a dollar for fibbing.
PS, In general please everyone, right or left wing, please please read outside US news sources and don't rush to judge or assume that Bin Laden or "Arabs" are totally behind this, something is very very fishy. Good luck to all.
Hi,
I would love to check this out, (just cause it seems cool)
can you give me a little more directed info than gov't versus hackers (that's what you mean right?)
is there an article somewhere describing the procedures that are used on siezed hardware?
thanks
If you want to vote against gore, please vote for nader, if you don't agree with his politics fine, he won't win, you are in fact voting for a chance to let a 3rd party into the debates and to get access to federal funds, if you don't like gore cause he is full of it (and he is) then please consider how much more in the pocket of corporate interests bush is and what a bad president he would be (ie think clin-ton is a corporate pawn, just wait till bush is in there)
thanks
Well they suck...
I am in brooklyn, new york and I use them:
Points for:
You have to go through verizon even if you use another service. So I chose them since I would rather yell directly at them, than yell at the Support person at another place who has to yell at them.
If you complain about downtime they will give you a pretty hefty rebate.
They used to give a hundred dollar credit for referrals.
Points against:
They go down often, sometimes for minutes sometimes for days.
Their first tier support is for shit, I tricked them into telling me their setup one day, they are
localized in the south east and their support people read off cards, 90% of their solutions are "is your modem plugged in, is the computer on?"
They do NOT have any access to network status, they wait until several people call in to complain about outages in an area and then they ask someone to look at it.
I use Mac OS 9 which they do not support, so I have to lie to them and tell them I am on OS 8.x
to even get them to talk to me.
They Use PPPoE so you have to use their stupid little connection app, that is pure garbage. This makes it a nightmare when I boot into linux (yes I know there are linux PPPoE solutions, but they are very rough right now) I basically cannot use them under linux.
It took them weeks to hook up the service even though I did the install myself, they kept insisting that the service was on, I said it wasn't. Two weeks after that they sheepishly explained that they forgot to "flip the switch".
I had a friend who signed up before the strike, a month and half later they called and said he was too far away to get DSL even though they had already signed him up and told him it was ready. They overcommitted their service and are now straight up lying to people about the service.
This my friends is textbook example of why monoplies suck.
But it still beats a dial up any day of the week.
As a small nitpick as I do agree with you, wearing a seat belt does prevent others from being hurt, if you are involved in a minor accident at speed (especially a side impact)and you are wearing a seat belt, the belt keeps you behind the wheel in the correct position to keep contol of the car (statistically, not in EVERY case). Thusly you are more likely not to plow into other pedestrians or cars.
Possibly there might be complications because of air bags in this scenario.
But yes the drug war is very stupid and wasteful and racist and at it's core it has none of the interests of the public.
hey sundiata,
While I agree with you in general and thank you for the fuel cell link can I ask you if you are from new york or live there right now? cause yeah we all take the subway, but it's a nightmare, even though I care about the environment quite a bit I would drive if I could because the subway is horrible, hot, crowded, packed with maniacs, there are certain trains that one can be pretty sure of a nice dose of TB at the end of it. Think cattle cars. The US and america has a long way to go before we have pleasant and efficient public transport, thanks mostly to the efforts of the big auto companies. It seems to me that alot of the envoronmentalism and good design of PT and urban planning should be sold as a matter of convenience and comfort. (ie live this way because in a few short years it could be 10 degrees cooler and your energy bill will be 30% less than it is now, as opposed to live this way because we have a moral duty to mother earth.) wadda ya think?
I'm pretty sure weather.com has the most hits of all. If it can keep it together it's a rining endorsement. mmm weather.....
Bill Gates said today of his estranged operating systems unit, " I never liked the bitch and I was only in it for the sex. All my friends told me to dump the tramp years ago, I look forward to playing the field again."
Well despite the fact that napster is not "selling" copyrighted material, this is probably as close to a real world example of the murky waters that napster inhabits. However since napster to my mind is not really trading on it's reputation for being a morally upright business. I really don't think the loss of public respect for them (because they are suing the offspring for copyright violation) is going to affect their operation. (maybe alot of people consider napster to be like o'reilly or one of the other "cool" companies, but I have never spoken to them)
The page to get the classicmenu app says this in the purchasing section:
At this stage in the game, Classic Menu is being made freely available in unrestricted form to give a helping hand to other developers trying to get a day's work done on Apple's newly-emasculated interface
Anyone care to comment about why they feel it is emasculated?
(Also I love MacOS but was it ever all that Masculine? and yes i know they mean reduced in power)
The book, I would like to know a little more of the sci fi aspects of it, but that's just me. Here is a side thought, slight OT. Anyone have any suggestions of a good robust list of interesting sci fi? I am fairly knowledgable but I always end up stuck at the book store. I am particularly fond of Greg Egan at the moment.
The social implications of nanotech are huge, in essence all of those weekly world news headlines like the virus that will blow up your pc will come true.
/. wasn't "please write my paper?" This kid thinks enough of all of you to ask you an interesting question and all he want's to know is where to start and what you all might think, Yeah he can search google, but some people like human input, I can understand the trollin AC's who screw with everyone, but if you are logged in and take the fact that this is an intellectual community seriously then effin well act like an intelligent person and celebrate the fact that we live in an age where we can remotely exchange ideas about the possibilities of the future. Sorry but I really like /. and I really don't like it when people tell someone to write their own paper. It's not like he's asking for insight into the industrial revolution or the freakin cotton gin, there aren't a million books out there. grrrrr...
If I where you I would break the essay into nanotech that is at least feasable from our current level of technology, (ie not actually nanoscale but just really really small) such as biotelemetry trackers and aorta scrubbing robots that help us eat more bacon.
And then go into the more speculative nanotech like machines that can essentially build anything from the ground up. Which would basically destroy the whole power structure in the world today, as suddenly anyone could have anything and we could all just lay around and CAD up giant purple mecha and have them fight it out instead of voting for leaders and whatnot...
BUT here is my general question, what wrong with all you cranky jerks that don't want some kid to ask questions? The ask
Friend while I might agree with you that there are way too many aol babies out there,it's a moot point (there was this chick named pandora and she had a box...)
and you are (in some way) posturing here. I personally don't mind commercialization because I think more often then not we get improved features along with the crap (yeah I love white text on a black background but you have got to be kidding me that being able to download near cd quality music, near dvd quality video, communcate with almost anyone isn't a benefit of commerce), but I just plain ole disagree with your elitist attitude that the "net" is for geeks only. I want more and more people to use it (so that regulation affects joe six pack not just joe pocket protector and because the www encourages literacy which is good for everyone and for a million other reasons), not less and certainly not only the most technical, if you want a little tcp/ip based playground for you and your geek buddies than build one yerself and don't let anyone else in unless they can code perl and have a charisma of 20. But leave off about the geeks being pushed aside, I don't know about you but five years ago every one wanted to break my glasses and now everyone wants to kiss my ass cause I have tech knowledge.
Point being, I wish some people would stop complaining about how they want their net back and make an effort to bend what there is to their will. Yall sound like a bunch of barbershop slackers talking about the days when men where men and women kept quiet. Show some adaptability...
And donate time to one of the distributed filesystem efforts, any one have a recco for which one might be most viable?
Yes it is, yes it is..
It includes the famous line:
"you would sell your own mother for a piece of fudge" sometthing I tell the sales people at work every day.
"I can't stand his articles either...
But you can solve this....... create an accound, log in and set your preferences to ignore any articles posted by Katz."
Just to be difficult how are you reading this one?
or are you only pretending that you hate him to toe the party line and secretly do not filter out his stuff?
The ac's are just trollin' because they like it (truely takes all kinds). But why are there so many people talking about how they filter out his stuff and then post in the articles that are filtered out?
Help me solve the mystery.
That's what it was... nice for those of us who heard it now after not hearing it then... No live interview...
Ok 10 year olds back to turding and hot grits! isn't there an aol chat room somewhere for this kind of stuff?
is that kevin not only commited every crime in the book, but also whistled trunk tones so perfectly from the pay phone in jail that he was able to remote hack a commodore vic-20 tape drive into spinning its rewind cogs fast enough to reverse time and commit various exploits that allowed him to at one point play global thermonuclear war with WOPR and thusly almost destroy the world. He turned down thwe chance to play himself claiming he hated tab so much that he would rather see ferris beuller in the role. With an evil giggle he then used a beowulf cluster of slide rules to ping flood god and return himself to his cozy record breaking pre-trial confinement.
if you guys watched more tv you'd know that.
Goodwill to men (and women)...
and a snowy morning in new york (empty, quiet beautiful, like right after a nuclear war without all the death and destruction)
and a minidisk, and a visor, and a cd-r, and a 27 giger, and a wicked sharp tactical knife, and a cashmere sweater. And the sincere hope that everyone is gonna try to be just a little bit nicer this year, as opposed to the last hundred thousand years.
various dieties and or the concious denial of the existance of said dieties bless you all my geeky geeky brethren.
(I loves me some christmas)
This is not offtopic it is a reference to hotline, a ftp-like/chat client that many people use to trade warez much the same way that irc does. He is asking if next there is going to be a crackdown on hotline, another point to point way to chat and exchange files, see how that is not offtopic, don't waste mod points on something if you are not sure about it. Take a clue from the actual post,
he/she says it has a bbs feel to it. Please don't waste you points, just cause you have them don't mean you have to use them. If you don't have anything to moderate/post then don't do it. Help make slashdot the best self regulating community
of nerds there is.
Exactlty right, carl marx baby.
Not my own personal choice of a way to parse the world but viewing behavior and intention through economics often gets you some damn accurate results.
-follow the money.
Yeah technology is a real important whatchacallit... issue right now, huh?
Disneyworld is a creepy use of "technology" (remember the quotes for later) They put a glittery facade on things, they use gee-whiz stuff to put a gleam of interest to an otherwise shabby undertaking. (like the whole epcot advertainment complex). Disney has managed to take what should be a varied and at least somewhat random expierience (a trip to a theme park) and standardize it for everyone. Everyone will see at least 3 parades, those parades will feature at least 2 big name characters. Every person will see no less than three animatronic marvels (hillbilly bears, presidents) and there will be a gift shop in direct site at least 70% of the time. I've read stories about the massive tunnels under disney world, the survielance everywhere. The rapid response security teams. How they carved out of florida swamp a sterile intellectual wasteland etc.. I mean for christ's sake the place is cleaner than Nova Scotia.
Ok ok disney is in fact the technolgical dystopia that anyone with half an eye open would run screaming from, Duh! that ain't news katz baby.
But here are my problems with this article:
Really, what's so hi-tech? it's mostly smoke and mirrors, some walkie talkies and what have you.
Disney is at the cutting edge of social engineering, they are masters of human group pyschology. They know how to lay out a complex so that the maximum amount of dollars leaves the pockets of the maximum amount of passive people. They know that people don't want to see weirdos. They know what colors are least likely to cause people to freak out and run amok. I can think of a million ways that the people of disney have mastered the herd mentality and the ease of implanting consumer memes in a child's mind. But technology? really? What consumer gadgets? compusa
puts on a good show kid. Don't fool yourself, technology is the least important thing about disneyworld, especially new technology.. We've had closed circuit tv cameras and monorails for a while now.
And if anything I say is used in your open source book great, it's open source right? I'm gonna make my own distro. I'll let you know when to get in on the ipo.
Look can we get one thing straight from the giddy up? Please complain about companies like doubleclick tracking you across their network. But let's just be specific about what is going on.
They are not tracking you from the minute you open a browser untill you log out. They are only tracking you while you are going from one of their sites to another one. So unless they start advertising on sites that have illegal or morally questionable content (ok conventionally morally questionable) they are tracking you surfing habits
and spending habits, if you buy things. They are going to send you banners based on these surfing and spending habits. Now that's not so great, but this has nothing to do with pr0n or mp3's or warez or whatever. This is not going to be used to convict you of anything. Now I don't want to be tracked, but I also know that someone needs to pay for all the content at some point (I know alot of you don't think so, but I find that too simplistic, I like the explosion of the web if only because in amoungst all the junk there is still a higher rate of interesting content, I also find it silly that you are all posting on a site that runs banners) If you are a lynx only guy then I'm sorry I don't really know what to tell you. I like the pretty pictures I guess.
My personal oppinion is that there is going to have to be some kind of accord where the limits of what can be tracked are set, probably by a series of lawsuits. Probably spurred in part by the improper use of tracking information, and that we are going to have to comprimise on the use of traacking technology to really target ads. But until that time comes it is important to stay informed and remember that saying "I just don't want to be tracked" is not a convincing arguement it leads to being labled as a parnoiac, unjustly sure (i've been giving fake names and phone numbers at radio sack since forever) Be more informed if you don't like this kind of thing.
indeed, let's get some moderation on this...
bravo.
good points, but I disagree with one of them, and it's one I wrote about too:
" know that my bank does not use tempest resistant equipment. Here's a scenario: Thief leaves a tempest scanner in a lunchbox computer (mostly
shielded of course) in his car that happens to be parked next to the bank or a vulnerable atm machine....a week later he records the acct#s to mag cards and writes a list of pins. Then in person, at an ATM that dosen't have a camera (yes there are a few of those still out here in rural america) and empties the machine."
because of this:
Does your atm print your account number on the screen? anywhere?
I guess it could be grabbed off the card reader, but I'm not sure about that. Because the card reader is in the machine and most atms are embeded in concrete and metal at least. Not the ones in delis tho. They are more or less just computers in a shitty metal tool box. And it's the same with the atm keypad, if your pin isn't in clear text on the screen (the biggest target) then there is much less chance it's gonna be grabbed from the keypad. (I am just guessing, so someone tell me I'm wrong and it's just as easy to grab the radiation from anything that gives it off.)
And if you want to defeat the atm cameras wear a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses and a hankie over your mouth. Bound to work fine.
I mean it's not like packet sniffing. It is too expensive to go around van ecking script kiddies and other kinda low level computer criminals. To me the main application of this is industrial espionage. It's kind of a cool spy type thing and if it makes it into the main stream media we can probably expect a james bond movie mention.
But I have a hard time believing that this is really a threat to my right to privacy at least for the moment. This card certainly would be if someone really wanted to see me entering my pin in an atm, or my credit card number when I was buying at amazon or whatever. But that's not really an issue of rights or whatever, it just means that petty criminals are going to have access to this technology and then the nightly news will have something new to stir up paranoia about and every company will make a tempest shielded laptop for everyone and then nothing will come of it.
I'm afraid that this is not really about rights so much as vulnerabilities to crime and fraud. If you are a terrorist or a revolutionary or you are worried that you will be spied on while you are using your computer to plan or talk about crimes, stop. If you are a known terrorist or revolutionary then do not use computers, meet your cronies in dark back alleys and you are fine.
I think we (I am assuming most of you are not criminals) are only really going to be at risk when the technology comes to the point that the police can troll up and down the streets in vans and then bust in on anyone they can catch doing something wrong. And I bet that violates the watcha-callit... Constitution thingy.
So in the mean time I guess I can just keep an eye out for the flowers by irene vans outside my house and go on with my unshielded self.