political activities and friends as well. Plus a physical description that will not forget skin color. People also complain that 13 is a low age to be inside an intelligence gathering database.
What a lot of people suspect and what some anonymous sources acknowledge is that edvige is not something new, it is an old illegal and hidden practice that they are trying to make more transparent and legal. There has been a lot of reorganization in our intelligence agencies recently, akin to a merge between your CIA and FBI (Our president is a huge fan of all that Bush has ever made). I suspect this edvige file is a part of it. Probably a merge between two shadowy databases of the two agencies.
Now, protests are two edged swords. If protests are too loud, this file will still exist, in a concealed way, if it is not loud enough, it will be abused. I'm going to the big protest in October but at least, I must admit that admitting the existence of this file was a very positive step.
I guess that's what they call the "Lone Wolf" mentality. Why not see it as a sort of lobbying tool ? Not particularly useful to get down your boss, but to pass laws that defends your interests like : "IT workers should not be order to infringe on other people privacy" or "NDAs included in working contracts must not be abusive", etc...
I would like to also point out that SMS and cell phones services are the first things switched off by the authorities when a riot occurs somewhere. They fear that such uprising could propagate very quickly in some regions.
The correct metaphor would be more asking for money in the street while pretending to use this for relief. That is still illegal, but I do not feel really sorry for people who fall for that.
At the same time, you could easily use this argument for places like Tokyo and other areas that are and will be struck by tremendous earthquakes.
The difference is that Tokyo is built to withstand earthquakes and do so regularly (like most Japanese towns) If people have to live in this area, make it so that they don't have to rebuild all the town every 3 years. Make it underground, have constructions laws that are more stringent, elevate the whole region. That's costly but that's what federal money is made for.
The best way to fight against these proliferations is to release code that is multi-licensed. If you are the author of a code and fear OSS fragmentation, claim that you release your code under GPLv2, GPLv3, Mozilla License, Apache License, etc...
Maybe we should come up with a good acronym for a package of the most popular licenses...
Hack the social network :
* Create several facebook profiles, several myspaces and whatever is hype these days.
* Create fictitious profiles that will seem attractive to different demographics that contain a lot of swing voters. Typically, people who claim to not care much about politics.
* Locate "opinion leaders". That doesn't mean people who have 200+ friends, that means people who could make 10 of their friends change their minds if you manage to change their.
* Concentrate on these, become "friends" and make them change their mind.
Optional : Form a group of several people totalizing a lot of fictitious profiles that could give the illusion of a very lively network.
I think that by treating this as a serious hobby, you could get around 100+ votes in your direction. Note that this is just an online analogy of what politicians usually do.
In this case, people might actually believe (as much as you and I can't see how) that someone they know might be in real peril of getting kidnapped. Yup, it's naive, but we know people believe all sorts of things.
Note as well that a small percentage of these will fall in mailbox of people in a situation where these threats may be more plausible. I mean, if my mother received such a mail just the day after my company sent my in a middle-east country, it may take a more worrying tone.
Also, if you tell "I kidnapped your child" to 20,000 people, you have a good chance to have 2 or 3 people in the list who really don't know where their children are and worried about it.
I take the occasion for asking : Does anyone here know of a serious study about the importance of porn traffic vs something else ? I hear often this internet meme that 90% of the traffic is porn. Once the joke is made, I find this hard to believe. Chat applications, legitimate web surfing, games, P2P, VoIP, spam, I don't see porn surpassing these in total demand.
Would it be to expensive to put a fileserver inside ? I am betting that ethernet is here to stay, it has more than 30 years of age and is still widespread and going well.
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political activities and friends as well. Plus a physical description that will not forget skin color. People also complain that 13 is a low age to be inside an intelligence gathering database.
What a lot of people suspect and what some anonymous sources acknowledge is that edvige is not something new, it is an old illegal and hidden practice that they are trying to make more transparent and legal. There has been a lot of reorganization in our intelligence agencies recently, akin to a merge between your CIA and FBI (Our president is a huge fan of all that Bush has ever made). I suspect this edvige file is a part of it. Probably a merge between two shadowy databases of the two agencies.
Now, protests are two edged swords. If protests are too loud, this file will still exist, in a concealed way, if it is not loud enough, it will be abused. I'm going to the big protest in October but at least, I must admit that admitting the existence of this file was a very positive step.
Because if you spend 70$ on gas a week today, it means you'll spend 70$ a week on gas in five years...
This is a EULA. They thought that nobody cared anymore...
Where is my mind now ?
I guess that's what they call the "Lone Wolf" mentality. Why not see it as a sort of lobbying tool ? Not particularly useful to get down your boss, but to pass laws that defends your interests like : "IT workers should not be order to infringe on other people privacy" or "NDAs included in working contracts must not be abusive", etc...
This was my first thought : http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/technaute/dumais/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/illustration2007071204.jpg
It will end when you'll remove "idle" from your preferences.
I would like to also point out that SMS and cell phones services are the first things switched off by the authorities when a riot occurs somewhere. They fear that such uprising could propagate very quickly in some regions.
The correct metaphor would be more asking for money in the street while pretending to use this for relief. That is still illegal, but I do not feel really sorry for people who fall for that.
Not a net, but there will definetly a time when a janitor mission will be necessary.
More precisely, with OSS you are supposed to get enough information to manage your own support.
Have you considered running a Tor node instead ?
At least we now can back soviet reversal jokes again !
In Soviet Russia, the government takes a shot at opposing bloggers
At the same time, you could easily use this argument for places like Tokyo and other areas that are and will be struck by tremendous earthquakes.
The difference is that Tokyo is built to withstand earthquakes and do so regularly (like most Japanese towns) If people have to live in this area, make it so that they don't have to rebuild all the town every 3 years. Make it underground, have constructions laws that are more stringent, elevate the whole region. That's costly but that's what federal money is made for.
Or was this just bragging rights to say, "Look! We did something really, really cool, but you can't have it."
The MIT does that a lot. And /. likes to be used as a PR agency.
Could this explain Pioneer acceleration anomaly ?
No, the public domain does not mandate the openness of derivative products. That is what open source is about.
The best way to fight against these proliferations is to release code that is multi-licensed. If you are the author of a code and fear OSS fragmentation, claim that you release your code under GPLv2, GPLv3, Mozilla License, Apache License, etc...
Maybe we should come up with a good acronym for a package of the most popular licenses...
Hack the social network :
* Create several facebook profiles, several myspaces and whatever is hype these days.
* Create fictitious profiles that will seem attractive to different demographics that contain a lot of swing voters. Typically, people who claim to not care much about politics.
* Locate "opinion leaders". That doesn't mean people who have 200+ friends, that means people who could make 10 of their friends change their minds if you manage to change their.
* Concentrate on these, become "friends" and make them change their mind.
Optional : Form a group of several people totalizing a lot of fictitious profiles that could give the illusion of a very lively network.
I think that by treating this as a serious hobby, you could get around 100+ votes in your direction. Note that this is just an online analogy of what politicians usually do.
In this case, people might actually believe (as much as you and I can't see how) that someone they know might be in real peril of getting kidnapped. Yup, it's naive, but we know people believe all sorts of things.
Note as well that a small percentage of these will fall in mailbox of people in a situation where these threats may be more plausible. I mean, if my mother received such a mail just the day after my company sent my in a middle-east country, it may take a more worrying tone.
Also, if you tell "I kidnapped your child" to 20,000 people, you have a good chance to have 2 or 3 people in the list who really don't know where their children are and worried about it.
You... almost made me cry. So true, so sad.
That, and, IIRC a federal law that obliged it to finance research with 50% of its profits in exchange for the monopoly.
I take the occasion for asking : Does anyone here know of a serious study about the importance of porn traffic vs something else ? I hear often this internet meme that 90% of the traffic is porn. Once the joke is made, I find this hard to believe. Chat applications, legitimate web surfing, games, P2P, VoIP, spam, I don't see porn surpassing these in total demand.
Would it be to expensive to put a fileserver inside ? I am betting that ethernet is here to stay, it has more than 30 years of age and is still widespread and going well.