What if your card is at home? These things are being sold initially as "not compulsory to carry" however if anyone believes that will remain the case I have some magic beans they may be interested in buying!
The police stop and talk to far more people every day than they actually arrest.
That is most likely true, however if you are a suspected of committing a crime then I really don't see what having ID has got to do with if you are arrested or not. Having ID just makes identifying you easier.
The police already do have the right to stop you if they suspect you of having committing a crime, and if they don't believe you are who you say you are, you will find yourself in custody until they verify your identity.
If they suspect you of committing a crime then you will be in custody ID card or no ID card.
So demand laws that will draw a clear line at what is acceptable. Don't just bitch at everything that you percieve to be bad, ask for what you want.
lol - you really don't understand UK law. We don't have a constitution you see - basically what happens is this:
Someone does something the Government doesn't like, or finds a loophole in a law.
The Governement changes the law to make it illegal.
People don't want ID cards - the Government is citing some bullshit survey that allegedly happened and that 80% of people said they would be happy to carry cards. - Bollocks. Last year after the Government mentioend it found 1000 people wanted cards, the stand.org.uk website generated 5000 registrations from people opposed to the scheme. The Government discounted their votes as they were from the Internet (however you can bet your life had they been pro-card they would have been counted).
It's all bullshit and facade. There is no democracy here.
The problem is this. First we have the cards issued, and everything is nice and fluffy. No you don't have to carry it with you etc. etc.
How long before it's compulsory to carry the card?
How long before everyone's DNA is required and index linked to the card ID?
How long before it's illegal to not carry the card at all times?
Who can demand to see it? ("Papers please.") and when can it be asked for? ("Why are you out at this time of night? Papers please.")
How long before they are index linked to the IMEI of your mobile phone and periodic logs of your location taken and an easy to access system provided to civil servants?
How long before banks are required to log all your financial transactions provided in an easy to access system provided to civil servants?
How long before all your telephone, SMS, email and web access logs are indexed to your card and provided in an easy to access system to civil servants? (Note to Americans - all of the above is already logged by law under the RIPA Act and the government will be making available to bodies such as the Food Standards Agency and the local council).
How long before someone starts a side development to chip children (to protect them from all those pesky paedophiles) and integrate this with location technology to allow parents to see where they are at any time?
How long before it becomes law to have children chipped at birth? (don't forget the paedophiles!)
How long before it's illegal to remove the chips?
How long before someone gets the "bright idea" that they can be used instead of those pesky ID cards?
How long before we are treated like nothing more than cattle?
Either read Orwell's novel 1984 or bone up on database admin - both should leave you feeling concerned.
You still need a passport if you want to board a ship or train (or other means of transportation, including walking) that leaves the country you board it in.
Yes but you don't HAVE to have a passport, and it can't be demanded that you produce it on the spot by the police (which is where all this is heading - "Papers please."
I dont know what scares me more - the fact that GPS tracking of civilians is already here (you didn't honestly think your phone's IMEI number wasnt going to be associated with your ID card number did you?) or the fools who post up to message boards with the "I don't mind being spied on by the Government as I have nothing to hide" "argument".
I wonder why they would place the circuit breakers outside the space station. If those ciruit breakers are like anything in my house, they go out all the time. Or maybe it is just my power company with all the brown outs in the summer.
Well it's so the power company can come by and read the meter when they're not in.
Basically you have all your CD's ripped into HAL's own playback program, but its all controlled by voice. You can either have it listening in rooms, or it can be controlled using the phone. It does other stuff as well like turn on the lights / TV / whatever you like etc. so may be useful overall.
I seem to recall an opensource type home automation system based on Linux so that may be worth investigating also.
Mac OS was designed from the ground up with security in mind.
Well that's bullshit for a start. It would be accurate to say that BSD being a *NIX evolved with security in mind, and naturally due to OSX being based on BSD then it inherits this attribute, however in Mac OS (read: OS9 and below) "security" is practically non-existant.
Why? I'd neither be surprised nor frightened. Why are people so intolerant of... well, prudes? Yes, some may be intolerant of us non-prudes, but instead of being hypocritical why shouldn't we allow them to watch movies edited to suit them?
I'll tell you why - quite simply because often the "prudes" are the people who have a big say in what the rest of us are exposed to. Take censorship for example - I am opposed to it on the basis that I believe people are capable of making their own minds up about things and dont need to be "protected" from things that a small minority deem as "unacceptable". Couple this with the obvious abuse of such systems where it gets political and I think you see where I am coming from.
If a device like this sells well (or appears to sell well) then the prudes will use it as ammunition in their agenda of censorship. Next we will see all kinds of censorship products built into all media forms like radio, TV, etc.
Who is going to control such systems? To whom are they accountable? Will we even know that our media has been tampered with? Will news be "edited"?
As it uses a database of known "naughty parts" then it is useless against anything it does not know about. If however the JJ "incident" actually made it to commercial DVD, and someone updated the database with that particular part, then yes it would catch it.
The big question is how it will sell. If it sells really well then firstly I'll be surprised, and secondly frightened.
A real ID3 tag Mac Trojan does not exist right now
You cannot possibly know that for certain; also the Intego trojan has nothing to do with ID3 tags, but rather the fact that under OSX an application can masquerade as an MP3, gif, jpg or Quicktime file.
For all you know some blackhat right now has some malware that uses this exploit and is debating the best method to distribute it.
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What if your card is at home? These things are being sold initially as "not compulsory to carry" however if anyone believes that will remain the case I have some magic beans they may be interested in buying!
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Be wary of Warwick - he's an idiot but it is happening.
The police stop and talk to far more people every day than they actually arrest.
That is most likely true, however if you are a suspected of committing a crime then I really don't see what having ID has got to do with if you are arrested or not. Having ID just makes identifying you easier.
The police already do have the right to stop you if they suspect you of having committing a crime, and if they don't believe you are who you say you are, you will find yourself in custody until they verify your identity.
If they suspect you of committing a crime then you will be in custody ID card or no ID card.
They hold elections for our representatives every 5 years or less. Perhaps you've heard of them.
Obviously, however there is so little difference between the main political parties, much of the population doesn't bother voting in Britain any more.
So demand laws that will draw a clear line at what is acceptable. Don't just bitch at everything that you percieve to be bad, ask for what you want.
lol - you really don't understand UK law. We don't have a constitution you see - basically what happens is this:
Someone does something the Government doesn't like, or finds a loophole in a law.
The Governement changes the law to make it illegal.
People don't want ID cards - the Government is citing some bullshit survey that allegedly happened and that 80% of people said they would be happy to carry cards. - Bollocks. Last year after the Government mentioend it found 1000 people wanted cards, the stand.org.uk website generated 5000 registrations from people opposed to the scheme. The Government discounted their votes as they were from the Internet (however you can bet your life had they been pro-card they would have been counted).
It's all bullshit and facade. There is no democracy here.
The problem is this. First we have the cards issued, and everything is nice and fluffy. No you don't have to carry it with you etc. etc.
How long before it's compulsory to carry the card?
How long before everyone's DNA is required and index linked to the card ID?
How long before it's illegal to not carry the card at all times?
Who can demand to see it? ("Papers please.") and when can it be asked for? ("Why are you out at this time of night? Papers please.")
How long before they are index linked to the IMEI of your mobile phone and periodic logs of your location taken and an easy to access system provided to civil servants?
How long before banks are required to log all your financial transactions provided in an easy to access system provided to civil servants?
How long before all your telephone, SMS, email and web access logs are indexed to your card and provided in an easy to access system to civil servants? (Note to Americans - all of the above is already logged by law under the RIPA Act and the government will be making available to bodies such as the Food Standards Agency and the local council).
How long before someone starts a side development to chip children (to protect them from all those pesky paedophiles) and integrate this with location technology to allow parents to see where they are at any time?
How long before it becomes law to have children chipped at birth? (don't forget the paedophiles!)
How long before it's illegal to remove the chips?
How long before someone gets the "bright idea" that they can be used instead of those pesky ID cards?
How long before we are treated like nothing more than cattle?
Either read Orwell's novel 1984 or bone up on database admin - both should leave you feeling concerned.
You still need a passport if you want to board a ship or train (or other means of transportation, including walking) that leaves the country you board it in.
Yes but you don't HAVE to have a passport, and it can't be demanded that you produce it on the spot by the police (which is where all this is heading - "Papers please."
I dont know what scares me more - the fact that GPS tracking of civilians is already here (you didn't honestly think your phone's IMEI number wasnt going to be associated with your ID card number did you?) or the fools who post up to message boards with the "I don't mind being spied on by the Government as I have nothing to hide" "argument".
Wooden work.
here's also a few perks, like lots of good looking women on campus all the time
I dont know about you, but personally I just find that depressing - like life saying "look what you can't have".
Well at least they know what the noise was now.
I wonder why they would place the circuit breakers outside the space station. If those ciruit breakers are like anything in my house, they go out all the time. Or maybe it is just my power company with all the brown outs in the summer.
Well it's so the power company can come by and read the meter when they're not in.
Why are the people who do this sort of thing and cause trouble always called "Dave"?
HAL9000 knew from the beginning he couldn't be trusted. How? He was called Dave.
Ahh but technically in the Mersey tunnel one is under Merseyside...
Surprising - thought it would be a lower number.
There is a product called HAL Automated Living which using the optional Digital Music Center addon may be ideal.
Basically you have all your CD's ripped into HAL's own playback program, but its all controlled by voice. You can either have it listening in rooms, or it can be controlled using the phone. It does other stuff as well like turn on the lights / TV / whatever you like etc. so may be useful overall.
I seem to recall an opensource type home automation system based on Linux so that may be worth investigating also.
I have a working 12 mile dark fibre link using XD GBICs.
...shouldn't that be "Lindash (Lin---s) changes name to Linspire"?
What, can people not say balls now?
In america after J*net J*ackson? ARE YOU CRAZY?? You can be shot for that you know as technically you are a terrorist.
Better would be to talk directly to the network admin and offer to show them a live password-capture session.
Imagine if all along they have been running HTTP over IPSEC - boy would his face be red.
Mac OS was designed from the ground up with security in mind.
Well that's bullshit for a start. It would be accurate to say that BSD being a *NIX evolved with security in mind, and naturally due to OSX being based on BSD then it inherits this attribute, however in Mac OS (read: OS9 and below) "security" is practically non-existant.
Why? I'd neither be surprised nor frightened. Why are people so intolerant of... well, prudes? Yes, some may be intolerant of us non-prudes, but instead of being hypocritical why shouldn't we allow them to watch movies edited to suit them?
I'll tell you why - quite simply because often the "prudes" are the people who have a big say in what the rest of us are exposed to. Take censorship for example - I am opposed to it on the basis that I believe people are capable of making their own minds up about things and dont need to be "protected" from things that a small minority deem as "unacceptable". Couple this with the obvious abuse of such systems where it gets political and I think you see where I am coming from.
If a device like this sells well (or appears to sell well) then the prudes will use it as ammunition in their agenda of censorship. Next we will see all kinds of censorship products built into all media forms like radio, TV, etc.
Who is going to control such systems? To whom are they accountable? Will we even know that our media has been tampered with? Will news be "edited"?
I just don't like the idea at all.
As it uses a database of known "naughty parts" then it is useless against anything it does not know about. If however the JJ "incident" actually made it to commercial DVD, and someone updated the database with that particular part, then yes it would catch it.
The big question is how it will sell. If it sells really well then firstly I'll be surprised, and secondly frightened.
I'd also love to get my hands on that database...
A real ID3 tag Mac Trojan does not exist right now
You cannot possibly know that for certain; also the Intego trojan has nothing to do with ID3 tags, but rather the fact that under OSX an application can masquerade as an MP3, gif, jpg or Quicktime file.
For all you know some blackhat right now has some malware that uses this exploit and is debating the best method to distribute it.