If you know something about cryptography it isn't that horrifying.
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Again, these new laws will only deteriorate the right to privacy of innocent people, while the real criminals will be allowed to roam free doing their dirty deeds with little more trouble then a software upgrade.
Doesn't that make it more horrifying, not less?
It depends on if you are a criminal or an innocent person. If you are a criminal, there's no reason to be horrified...
That's not comparable. Any text you can type with QWERTY you can type with Dvorak. However music encoded with MS DRM cannot be decoded with any other DRM.
Interestingly, I'd interpret your smiley that you actually did steal the money, but believe I cannot prove it (why else would you poke your tongue out at me?). Or, depending on the situation (maybe I got some disadvantage due to that suspect) that you actually didn't take the money, but intended me to believe that you did, and I fell for it.
In any case, this smiley after that sentence would inevitably give me a very negative impression about you.
Ah, and by the way, there are many people falling for fraud on the front door. We really shouldn't allow people to open the front door if they have not passed a test or three. The fact that anyone is able to open his front door means that there are a lot of... uninformed people out there.
First off, CCTV cameras in public places are not reasonable. They do nothing to prevent crime. Just as much crime happens; it just happens out of sight of the cameras.
Well, that's of course the perfect argument for extending the areas in sight of a cam. After all, if every place is in sight of a cam, then no crime can happen, right?
Camera-protected areas tend to be central shopping areas and the more affluent suburbs. Less well-off areas become worse off as a result.
Until those get cams, too.
Also, just because one does not have control over who is in the streets as one has with one's own home does not mean one should be subject to monitoring and recording there.
Well, if you don't do any wrong, you have nothing to hide, do you? Ah, and BTW, your wife wants to know who that woman was you talked to yesterday...
In a democracy, the majority of the population are law-abiding citizens by definition, and law-abiding citizens should not be subject to unnecessary surveillance.
Well, in that case the terrorism trump card has to be used. After all, terrorism is a danger for freedom and democracy, so anything which helps fighting terrorism obviously helps freedom and democracy. Even if on the outside it seems to do the opposite. And after all, you cannot really exclude the possibility that at some time, one of the cams will show a terrorist, can you?
BTW, don't forget to activate your irony detector when reading this post.
On Linux: obtain DVD-playing software. Install. Find out that your DVD is "copy protected" and doesn't play on Linux anyway. Find out that there is a solution, but it is illegal to use it. Curse the lawmakers. Curse the MPAA. Recognise that you support the MPAA by buying those DVDs. Stop viewing DVDs and play Tux Racer instead.:-)
Diebold probably has nothing more malicious in mind than getting as much money as possible and not caring much as to how useful (or dangerous) their work is.
Of course you can say the same about e.g. the Mafia. (For those who don't get it: No, I'm not claiming Diebold is like the Mafia; I just point out a flawed argument.)
It's a private company saying what is allowed on their own server. It doesn't affect any other site. It's actually not too different from a company which doesn't allow negative comments about their products on their web site. No, that's not good, but it's surely not unequivocal evil.
Moreover they explicitly say they are censoring, so you are already warned that the view you get presented there is biased. If you want unbiased information, you know you better go somewhere else. It's not that they would pretend to be completely unbiased while actually showing biased information. They openly say "the information on this site is biased in that way".
Maybe the founders of that fake-NEC actually used ships to enter NEC factories (probably they caused a flood to do it) in order to steal the name as well as any needed documents.
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It depends on if you are a criminal or an innocent person. If you are a criminal, there's no reason to be horrified
... they should not have ignored those "compare of signed with unsigned" warnings ...
Did you even read the post I replied to?
Also, they were not told that the switching off for private moments only affects the video tape, not the cams themselves ...
That's not comparable. Any text you can type with QWERTY you can type with Dvorak. However music encoded with MS DRM cannot be decoded with any other DRM.
Material for Slashdot stories?
Wasn't that Microsoft's business model from the very beginning?
And at your front door, there couldn't? :-)
I guess you are one of those who wouldn't get a license to open the front door
Here's the fight!
Well, given the names, I'd guess there also was a MINIX 2 in between.
Surely it (still) matters. It just doesn't fit the first part, news for nerds.
Interestingly, I'd interpret your smiley that you actually did steal the money, but believe I cannot prove it (why else would you poke your tongue out at me?). Or, depending on the situation (maybe I got some disadvantage due to that suspect) that you actually didn't take the money, but intended me to believe that you did, and I fell for it.
In any case, this smiley after that sentence would inevitably give me a very negative impression about you.
If good is dumb, then intelligent is evil ;-)
Ah, and by the way, there are many people falling for fraud on the front door. We really shouldn't allow people to open the front door if they have not passed a test or three. The fact that anyone is able to open his front door means that there are a lot of ... uninformed people out there.
Well, that's of course the perfect argument for extending the areas in sight of a cam. After all, if every place is in sight of a cam, then no crime can happen, right?
Until those get cams, too.
Well, if you don't do any wrong, you have nothing to hide, do you? Ah, and BTW, your wife wants to know who that woman was you talked to yesterday
Well, in that case the terrorism trump card has to be used. After all, terrorism is a danger for freedom and democracy, so anything which helps fighting terrorism obviously helps freedom and democracy. Even if on the outside it seems to do the opposite. And after all, you cannot really exclude the possibility that at some time, one of the cams will show a terrorist, can you?
BTW, don't forget to activate your irony detector when reading this post.
On Linux: obtain DVD-playing software. Install. Find out that your DVD is "copy protected" and doesn't play on Linux anyway. Find out that there is a solution, but it is illegal to use it. Curse the lawmakers. Curse the MPAA. Recognise that you support the MPAA by buying those DVDs. Stop viewing DVDs and play Tux Racer instead. :-)
To get , you have to type <this>.
Without a paper trail, it's easier to hide the election fraud.
Of course you can say the same about e.g. the Mafia.
(For those who don't get it: No, I'm not claiming Diebold is like the Mafia; I just point out a flawed argument.)
Sorry, but your evil plan failed due to a typo in yur code.
Bad idea IMHO. This allows another attack vector: Just modify the connection from the thin client to the server.
It's a private company saying what is allowed on their own server. It doesn't affect any other site. It's actually not too different from a company which doesn't allow negative comments about their products on their web site. No, that's not good, but it's surely not unequivocal evil.
Moreover they explicitly say they are censoring, so you are already warned that the view you get presented there is biased. If you want unbiased information, you know you better go somewhere else. It's not that they would pretend to be completely unbiased while actually showing biased information. They openly say "the information on this site is biased in that way".
But do they have a monolithic management or micromanagement?
You mean, it would allow for fire-safe printouts? :-)
Maybe the founders of that fake-NEC actually used ships to enter NEC factories (probably they caused a flood to do it) in order to steal the name as well as any needed documents.
Well, maybe you should open your own browser, so you are less dependent on his browser being open