What exactly are people doing that they are so paranoid that people are watching/tracking them? If you're just another regular Joe who is going to take the time to abuse this technology and use it against you?
The same thing could be said about generalized, anytime, anywhere, wiretapping. If you're not doing anything, you have nothing to worry about.
BS. It's nunya dam bidness what books I check out, or whom I have a telephone conversation with.
With these things, it just makes it easier to monitor who takes out what book. They wouldn't monitor "you", but instead just get a weekly/monthly dump from the scanner at the library door, and filter for keywords. "Explosive", "Semtex", "subversive keyword of the day", etc, etc.
"Oh look, Ralphie has taken out a few books on weapons construction. Let's keep an eye on HIM."
The diag equipment is available at a very reasonable price. Anywhere between $80 and $400. Run off a laptop, and provides ALL the standard and proprietary codes for each manufacturer.
Having used the expensive $3k scanners,and the cheaper, laptop based ones...the cheaper ones are better.
Even if you're not a hardcore mechanic...having the OBDII software on your laptop is a good deal. One instance of the Check Engine light, and it can pay for itself.
You have to soak the tennis ball in lighter fluid first. About 1/2 the time, it comes out of the tube aflame. Very cool, until it rolls under the neighbors car, still burning.
hmmm...run inside and hide, or run and get it, risking getting blown up in the earthshattering Kaboom...
It really demonstrates the effect that these large oil corporations have on our world, when there are much better cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels, yet these are being ignored for the sake of the oil companies.
That the purchase price per watt output. To buy a current solar cell capable of outputting 100 watts is ~$400. Their target with this thing is to be able to buy that same 100 watt cell for ~$20.
After it is installed, your power is basically free, except for maintenance.
last vote less than 50% or something voted
what about fixing that problem first?
That's not necessarily a problem. It shows a confidence in the overall system. If there were real, noticeable problems that needed changing, and by voting we could actually implement those changes, I'd be there would be a much bigger turnout.
Pretty much everyone has food on the table, a car in the driveway, a roof over their heads. Yes, of course there are the have nots, but...there will always be those (unfortunately)
We look at the candidates, for president, all the way down to school board, and see, across the board, more of the same. Middle aged, semi-rich white guys running for office. And by and large....things are somewhat OK. Any erosions to the status quo are small and incremental. Increased taxes from this adminstration, reduced rights from that administration...but really...we don't notice those on a day to day basis.
Now...if somehow we really screwed up, and elected Al Sharpton, you can bet there would be a big turnout for the next time, because he will have screwed up things so badly.
Do I think things are going great? Well...there could be a lot of improvements. Do I think if we elect someone other than Bush (Clark, Dean, Lieberman, etc.) will they change? Not a chance. Only more of the same.
Make basic cable come with a username/password and leave support at that. No tech support, no customer service, just a low speed (100k down, 30k up or something) thing for users of whatever cable service. If you want tech/CS/more speed, you'll pay the premium!
The very people who would use that are most in need of support, etc.
Installation, configuration, "how do I". Maybe once PC's become as easy to use as a TV will that work. Maybe.
but right now the reason our rights are on this slippery slope is because of the politicians we have in office (and to a lesser degree the judges we have in the courts, although that results from the former).
Not just the politicians we have in office currently, but those of the past.
Quick, how many Supreme Court justices has teh current Bush appointed? How many did his predecessor appoint?
a person falling off a Segway is getting off much easier then a pilot with a dry tank.
But much less than a car with a dry tank.
A Seg, as it runs down, leaves few options to the rider. Stop, and recharge somewhere? And wait for a couple of hours. A car running on fumes can pull into the nearest gas station, and be off in 5 minutes.
Park a Seg for long enough, and it will fall over of its own accord. Name any other vehicle that falls prey to that.
I agree that insurance companies are the devil incarnate. But sometimes they DO fess up when needed.
Family I know has 4 kids....3 of which have brittle bone disease. All 3 in heavy duty wheelchairs. Now...having a teeny bit of knowledge of their financial situation...I *know* that they didn't purchase them retail. Ergo....
The Freedom of speech is sancrosanct. However, no one is telling thay cannot market (say) whatever they want.
They cannot, however, force you and I to lsiten to them.
Currently telemarketing calls are restricted to specific times of days. i.e. that may not call aftre 9PM, or On Sudays. Instead of cutting them off altogether, how about we just restrict it to the 3 minute period between 2:00 and 2:03PM, the 1st and 3rd Saturday, on months that begin with A.
Problem solved. We have not cut off telemarketers completely. We have just tightened up the allowable times a little.
Or should the paramount nature of the freedom of speec include a lessening (or removal) of those restrictive times, and telemarketers can call you whenever (Sunday at 6AM), and wherever (your cellphone) they want?
So yes, I think Mr. Strickland represented his area well. He wanted to protect some jobs that some people have, regardless of the slight inconvenience of a few.
Then anything, any "industry" that generates jobs is a GoodThing? Even if ~1/2 the population of the country does not agree?
Looking at our favorite whipping boy, the RIAA, legislators should protect them at all costs, because to let them break up due to changing technologies and attitudes would be to "lose jobs".
If telemarketing is not working (and it appears it isn't, due to the high number of people who do not want to be called by these people) let the companies find a different model. Employ the same call center people, and no jobs will be lost.
Just because a thing exists and employs people does not make it good, or suitable for protection.
It's clear that the F.T.C. has been engaging in regulatory imperialism and ruled outside it's area.
Clear? Outside its area? How so? That is the Federal Trade Commission. It would seem that they are in charge of regulating trade that crosses state lines.
Several analysts have ponted out that this coud mean milions of lost jobs in an important industry.
Boo hoo. No one ever guaranteed that "industry" a profit.
Everyone knows that this could mean the end off telemarketing as an economical way of doing bussiness.
So be it. See above. Let them find a different business model. One that is not so intrusive upon the consumer.
While many of us don't like people selling us things we don't like but thats capiatalism you know.
Capitalism does not include the forcing of your selling mechanism upon me. You can advertise all you want. I have the right not to be bothered with it if I don't want to. With telephone advertising, there is really no method, short of unplugging the phone, to turn it off. The DNC list provides citizens that method.
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A 10 lb bike needs a 30 lb lock
A 20 lb bike needs a 20 lb lock
A 30 lb bike needs a 10 lb lock
A 40 lb bike needs no lock at all.
and STILL nothin' on.
Add in the architecture of Lindows, where the "normal" user is root, and the problems expand.
Lindows made the same choices as MS did. For usability and configuration, the admin is the normal user.
If you were able to ask a SARS virus (and if he could reply), he would proably say that he welcomes this bit of evolution/innovation.
His hosts/customers, OTOH, may not agree.
Merely noise to the average user. They'll put the CD in, it plays. They attempt to burn a copy, it comes out like crap.
"Hey...I guess we can't do this."
How many people do you know who are still stymied by DVD/VCR Macrovision copy"protection"?
Shift key
Disable device driver
Show hidden devices
blah blah blah
What exactly are people doing that they are so paranoid that people are watching/tracking them? If you're just another regular Joe who is going to take the time to abuse this technology and use it against you?
The same thing could be said about generalized, anytime, anywhere, wiretapping.
If you're not doing anything, you have nothing to worry about.
BS. It's nunya dam bidness what books I check out, or whom I have a telephone conversation with.
With these things, it just makes it easier to monitor who takes out what book. They wouldn't monitor "you", but instead just get a weekly/monthly dump from the scanner at the library door, and filter for keywords. "Explosive", "Semtex", "subversive keyword of the day", etc, etc.
"Oh look, Ralphie has taken out a few books on weapons construction. Let's keep an eye on HIM."
google for OBDII.
You can get laptop based s/w, and the interface cable for as little as $80.
A couple of them are even OSS. Whee!
The diag equipment is available at a very reasonable price. Anywhere between $80 and $400. Run off a laptop, and provides ALL the standard and proprietary codes for each manufacturer.
Having used the expensive $3k scanners,and the cheaper, laptop based ones...the cheaper ones are better.
Even if you're not a hardcore mechanic...having the OBDII software on your laptop is a good deal. One instance of the Check Engine light, and it can pay for itself.
I remember building tennis ball cannons years ago
You have to soak the tennis ball in lighter fluid first. About 1/2 the time, it comes out of the tube aflame. Very cool, until it rolls under the neighbors car, still burning.
hmmm...run inside and hide, or run and get it, risking getting blown up in the earthshattering Kaboom...
After you take their money, will they 'own' the code?
Not if you negotiate right. Be SURE that is part of the contract.
It really demonstrates the effect that these large oil corporations have on our world, when there are much better cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels, yet these are being ignored for the sake of the oil companies.
Oil companies like BP, ChevronTexaco, and Shell, right?
That the purchase price per watt output. To buy a current solar cell capable of outputting 100 watts is ~$400. Their target with this thing is to be able to buy that same 100 watt cell for ~$20.
After it is installed, your power is basically free, except for maintenance.
last vote less than 50% or something voted
what about fixing that problem first?
That's not necessarily a problem. It shows a confidence in the overall system. If there were real, noticeable problems that needed changing, and by voting we could actually implement those changes, I'd be there would be a much bigger turnout.
Pretty much everyone has food on the table, a car in the driveway, a roof over their heads. Yes, of course there are the have nots, but...there will always be those (unfortunately)
We look at the candidates, for president, all the way down to school board, and see, across the board, more of the same. Middle aged, semi-rich white guys running for office. And by and large....things are somewhat OK. Any erosions to the status quo are small and incremental. Increased taxes from this adminstration, reduced rights from that administration...but really...we don't notice those on a day to day basis.
Now...if somehow we really screwed up, and elected Al Sharpton, you can bet there would be a big turnout for the next time, because he will have screwed up things so badly.
Do I think things are going great? Well...there could be a lot of improvements. Do I think if we elect someone other than Bush (Clark, Dean, Lieberman, etc.) will they change? Not a chance. Only more of the same.
Make basic cable come with a username/password and leave support at that. No tech support, no customer service, just a low speed (100k down, 30k up or something) thing for users of whatever cable service. If you want tech/CS/more speed, you'll pay the premium!
The very people who would use that are most in need of support, etc.
Installation, configuration, "how do I". Maybe once PC's become as easy to use as a TV will that work. Maybe.
but right now the reason our rights are on this slippery slope is because of the politicians we have in office (and to a lesser degree the judges we have in the courts, although that results from the former).
Not just the politicians we have in office currently, but those of the past.
Quick, how many Supreme Court justices has teh current Bush appointed?
How many did his predecessor appoint?
It seems to me that the group that would get burned by this if the "digital signatures" things isn't legitimate is Lindows itself, not the consumer.
In going through the "Instant Settlement Wizard" procedures, at the end, you must give your name, address, phone, etc.
Once this is found illegal, your info is there, ready to be acted upon.
I think I'll pass.
There's a few shops here in Holland selling motorized scooters, the variety with two wheels in-line under a skateboard-like board.
Yeah. There's a zillion of those here in the states.
a person falling off a Segway is getting off much easier then a pilot with a dry tank.
But much less than a car with a dry tank.
A Seg, as it runs down, leaves few options to the rider. Stop, and recharge somewhere? And wait for a couple of hours. A car running on fumes can pull into the nearest gas station, and be off in 5 minutes.
Park a Seg for long enough, and it will fall over of its own accord. Name any other vehicle that falls prey to that.
I agree that insurance companies are the devil incarnate. But sometimes they DO fess up when needed.
Family I know has 4 kids....3 of which have brittle bone disease. All 3 in heavy duty wheelchairs. Now...having a teeny bit of knowledge of their financial situation...I *know* that they didn't purchase them retail. Ergo....
It goes for about 20k... how many people do you think can really afford this thing?
Your insurance company can and will supply it if you really need it.
The Freedom of speech is sancrosanct. However, no one is telling thay cannot market (say) whatever they want.
They cannot, however, force you and I to lsiten to them.
Currently telemarketing calls are restricted to specific times of days. i.e. that may not call aftre 9PM, or On Sudays. Instead of cutting them off altogether, how about we just restrict it to the 3 minute period between 2:00 and 2:03PM, the 1st and 3rd Saturday, on months that begin with A.
Problem solved. We have not cut off telemarketers completely. We have just tightened up the allowable times a little.
Or should the paramount nature of the freedom of speec include a lessening (or removal) of those restrictive times, and telemarketers can call you whenever (Sunday at 6AM), and wherever (your cellphone) they want?
One of these might scale up to what you need.
So yes, I think Mr. Strickland represented his area well. He wanted to protect some jobs that some people have, regardless of the slight inconvenience of a few.
Then anything, any "industry" that generates jobs is a GoodThing? Even if ~1/2 the population of the country does not agree?
Looking at our favorite whipping boy, the RIAA, legislators should protect them at all costs, because to let them break up due to changing technologies and attitudes would be to "lose jobs".
If telemarketing is not working (and it appears it isn't, due to the high number of people who do not want to be called by these people) let the companies find a different model. Employ the same call center people, and no jobs will be lost.
Just because a thing exists and employs people does not make it good, or suitable for protection.
It's clear that the F.T.C. has been engaging in regulatory imperialism and ruled outside it's area.
Clear? Outside its area? How so? That is the Federal Trade Commission. It would seem that they are in charge of regulating trade that crosses state lines.
Several analysts have ponted out that this coud mean milions of lost jobs in an important industry.
Boo hoo. No one ever guaranteed that "industry" a profit.
Everyone knows that this could mean the end off telemarketing as an economical way of doing bussiness.
So be it. See above. Let them find a different business model. One that is not so intrusive upon the consumer.
While many of us don't like people selling us things we don't like but thats capiatalism you know.
Capitalism does not include the forcing of your selling mechanism upon me. You can advertise all you want. I have the right not to be bothered with it if I don't want to.
With telephone advertising, there is really no method, short of unplugging the phone, to turn it off. The DNC list provides citizens that method.