Hmmmm... Well, I guess MS will store the cookie in the registry, rather than the browser. No wait - the browser is a core component of the OS. OK so the cookie is in the registry. Now we just quitly send out a security update that prevents that cookie from being changed. Ever.
Now we can track that user as long as they use IE?. And since the ad service is run by MS, we can track that cookie.
(Just a fantom thought, now back to enlarging my tin foil hat.)
Don't most cultures? Look at the 'immigrant' debate in the US....
Anyway, the standing joke in Japan was that when you first arrive, and you don't know anything, you're a baka na gaijin (stupid foreginer). Once you've been there a while, and you learn the customs and language, you're a henna gaijin (strange foreigner). As always, best to be taken with a dose of humor.
kimchi is rotten cabbage with fermented garlic. Or maybe fermented cabbage with rotten garlic. Regardless, it smells horrible and your breath smells horrible.
The Japanese have long called the Koreans garlic eaters as a derogatory name. (There's no love lost between the Koreans and the Japanese. Their mutual animosity goes back at least a thousand years.)
But at the point when your child is doing drugs and lying about it you're already failed. Now you're dealing with failure, both the child's and yours. Besides, we're talking 7 year olds here; if your 7 year old is doing drugs you really have failed.
So.... teach your child about drugs, openly. Tell them from an early age *why* it's bad. Tell them the truth; drugs make you feel good but at a terrible price. Tell them that there are bad people out there who will do them harm. Teach them how to tell the difference. My 10 year old is a competitive swimmer; we have already talked to her about steroids and how to deal with anyone - friend, coach, competitor - offering her any sort of unlabeled pill or mystery food.
Some of the most gullible people I've met have had all the bad things filtered from their lives by parents; they never learned how to filter for themselves. My kids at this point know when they hit something on the web that's not good they don't go there. They know not to enter any personal information into any form. They know not to engage in any kind of information exchange with anyone else. These are things they do themselves without our direct control and supervision *because* we taught them those things. Sure, they find things they shouldn't. But we've given them enough judgement to at least have that first line of defense and to show us or ask us what to do when they don't know.
So.... You force your child to give up something they want to keep private. If they don't comply, you take away something they like.
And what exactly are you teaching your child? Might makes right? Parents don't respect their own kids? Kids' opinions and feelings don't matter? Powerful people have the right to control less powerful people?
Great lessons, those.
It's much harder to foster respect and open communications. It's called being a parent, not a bully and control freak.
My kids (ages 7 and 10) have their own accounts and passwords. Each uses their computer as they wish. We (as parents) do moderate and educate, but we do not limit or control through imposed filters. We teach our kids how to filter bad stuff themselves.
The one thing we do is that all the computers are in public places - the kids have a kids' study with their computers, we have a parent study with our computers. All computers are visible to others, so if someone finds someplace that's not good, we can all talk about why it's not good to be there.
My kids have passwords based on their favorite things or the meaning of their names. I am frankly somewhat confused that a 7 year old wouldn't remember a few characters. Why not? They remember their friends' names, no? The spelling of some really awkward English words, no? Why not their password?
Anyone else cynical enough to think this might be another last ditch effort to get Vista out there? I notice that nothing before 2007 is included, and Vista is prominent....
Christ on a crutch.... I was a part of a company that got bought by another. Much the same rhetoric on the upper management level, but at the middle management level the infighting was unbelievable. Our new boss literally walked through the engineering department, in one door and out the other - maybe spent a total of 2 minutes, and then produced a memo that we called [companynick]sucks memo. It was 4 pages of why we were completely incompenent, incapable of meeting their standards, unable to cooperate, and so on. Needless to say, within 2 years *every single engineer* quit and went elsewhere. Our branch was soon shut down. Lest it be said this was unique, the parent company also bought/merged with 4 other firms; within 3 years every one of those was shuttered - after the parent company's upper management stripped everything of value for their personal use from them.
Honestly, there is no way this will work. There are too many egos involved and the middle level managers will never go for this.
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Europe in general has privacy laws that often go far beyond US laws. For a while the US government refused to legally allow its citizens the use of encryption beyond something that could be easily cracked, to own hard currrency (no gold), and to use public air waves for encrypted / coded transmissions.
What I've seen of European governments, they tend to be less totalitarian and arbitrary than our current administration - I don't think too many European parliaments would allow the unabashed and secretive power grab of the last 7 years, especially if the powergrab was done by the EU and not the country's administration.
The power in the US is supposed to be largely held by the States, not by the Federal Government. A universal federal ID, backed by a single enormous federal database on its citizens, goes against the fundamental principle of US government; it's as if the EU decided that your country's ID is no longer valid for air travel within the EU and you now must obtain a special EU ID. This ID would be backed by a EU database on you and could possibly be used for all sorts of other things.
Would you support that? I hold citizenship in both an EU country and in the US, and I doubt that EU citizenry would support such a power grab on the part of the EU. That would probably lead to the collapse of the EU.
The US federal government now runs a gulag, and condones midnapping and torture. There's not much trust left by most of us for our Federal government.
My original set of batteries lasted perhaps 10 years - of daily use.
I know somewho who dropped his in the mud, had a truck run over it, and then hosed it off. The thing still works to this day, but the keypad is a bit flat.
Idestructible.
I also know someone who had a Marantz stereo in a house fire. The demo crews pitched it out of a 3rd story window. He fished it out of the junk pile, cleaned it, and it still worked....
There are some pieces of technology that have achieved perfection, and the only possible improvement is a radical change in design. (That's a Heinlein paraphrase; I belive from Glory Road. Anyone have the quote handy?)
I could put "NO WARRANTY" on everything I do, but as soon as the seal goes on, I am personally liable for any errors, including those made by others. How many IT professionals would trust their own work enough to do that?
BSOD doesn't kill people, maybe. But errant software *does* kill people; patients have died because of mis-programmed machines, and so on. I can't quote cases right now, but they've happened.
Bascially, "real" engineers are held liable for the mistakes made on their watch, programmers are not. It doesn't matter if you're pressured into releasing a design before it's ready, or anything else. Your seal is on the drawings, you are liable. Get a seal, certify your programs, and pay for any real and imagined damages.....
I tried something similar. We seem to work on the same thing over and over; documents get attached to emails and mailed around collectiong changes. Eventually something comes out of the process, but no one is really sure that it's correct.
I spent a couple of days moving stuff to MediaWiki. Everyone loved the concept - until they got to the editor. Big Screeching Halt.
We're talking Word here folks. Everyone is so used to the "hit enter and take whatever defaults Word pukes up" method of formatting documents that nothing else will do.
Until I can get a WYSIWYG front end to MediaWiki it ain't gonna fly here.:-(
I think you missed my point. I was commenting on the stupidity of labeling someone by a geographic label when it actually pertains to the color of their skin.
Anyone with dark skin is considered an "African American", even if they never set foot in Africa, and even if their ancestors may be from South America.
Anyone with light skin is considered European, even if they come from Africa or South America.
It's just a stupid thing to label people; I don't care what label or euphemism you use.
A friend of mine was born and raised in Africa, by white parents who were also born and raised in Afica. He has now moved to the US. Does that qualify him as African-American?
I agree with you. What regulates military actions is the real or imagined consequences if the tables are reversed. Atrocities on a systematic basis occur if and when the conflict is one-sided either due to military might or sheer force of numbers.
My biggest concern with the currect US treatment of supposed terrorists, is that we are implicitly agreeing to the same treatment of our GIs in enemy hands. There is no doctrinal difference between the Hanoi Hilton and Guantanamo Bay.
There are dozens of examples of fighting men (and women, but mostly men) treating each other with respect and courtesy even while being determined to kill each other.
I wrote my first game on an ASR-33 hooked up to a PDP-8.
Gunner - you were a medieval cannoneer; your cannon could blow up and kill you, or more or less randomly hit the target.
The kicker was that if you hit your target 7 times, the inquisition came and burned you at the stake, since only someone who signed a pact with the devil could hit his target 7 times in one day.
I also wrote something similar to battleship and a lunar lander but I'm a bit hazy on the details of those. I think some of these even ended up on a DEC tar file somewhere for distribution.
I think you miss the point. The data will be mined after the fact or to build a case against someone the gov't doesn't like.
Let's say you do something to piss some mucky-muck off and you get on the monitor list. It's only a matter of time before you mention in passing that you copied a DVD or any other heinous crime and bingo! The FBI/Federal marshals/etc are at your door.
Paranoid? I grew up in a communist state. I hate to think I've escaped to one, too....
Ummm.... Because you can buy two OLPCs and a nice dinner for the price of a Zonbu? The price (without the subscription) is $479, about what I'd expect to pay for a decent entry-level laptop.
Buy Volvos. They're boxy, but they're good. We know they're not sexy, but this is not a smart time to be sexy anyway with so many new diseases around. Be safe instead of sexy."
The original creator maintains copyright. S/He can sell rights but after 5 years they revert back to the original creator. Copyrights expire at death of creator, regardless of who holds the rights.
That would satisfy the artists (and I agree, 5 years would be punitive for individual artists) but would not allow corporations to amass huge catalogs of copyrights and use those to bludgeon both artists and customers.
Not a snow-ball's chance of getting that reform either....
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Hmmmm... Well, I guess MS will store the cookie in the registry, rather than the browser. No wait - the browser is a core component of the OS. OK so the cookie is in the registry. Now we just quitly send out a security update that prevents that cookie from being changed. Ever.
Now we can track that user as long as they use IE?. And since the ad service is run by MS, we can track that cookie.
(Just a fantom thought, now back to enlarging my tin foil hat.)
Don't most cultures? Look at the 'immigrant' debate in the US....
Anyway, the standing joke in Japan was that when you first arrive, and you don't know anything, you're a baka na gaijin (stupid foreginer). Once you've been there a while, and you learn the customs and language, you're a henna gaijin (strange foreigner). As always, best to be taken with a dose of humor.
kimchi is rotten cabbage with fermented garlic. Or maybe fermented cabbage with rotten garlic. Regardless, it smells horrible and your breath smells horrible.
The Japanese have long called the Koreans garlic eaters as a derogatory name. (There's no love lost between the Koreans and the Japanese. Their mutual animosity goes back at least a thousand years.)
But at the point when your child is doing drugs and lying about it you're already failed. Now you're dealing with failure, both the child's and yours. Besides, we're talking 7 year olds here; if your 7 year old is doing drugs you really have failed.
So.... teach your child about drugs, openly. Tell them from an early age *why* it's bad. Tell them the truth; drugs make you feel good but at a terrible price. Tell them that there are bad people out there who will do them harm. Teach them how to tell the difference. My 10 year old is a competitive swimmer; we have already talked to her about steroids and how to deal with anyone - friend, coach, competitor - offering her any sort of unlabeled pill or mystery food.
Some of the most gullible people I've met have had all the bad things filtered from their lives by parents; they never learned how to filter for themselves. My kids at this point know when they hit something on the web that's not good they don't go there. They know not to enter any personal information into any form. They know not to engage in any kind of information exchange with anyone else. These are things they do themselves without our direct control and supervision *because* we taught them those things. Sure, they find things they shouldn't. But we've given them enough judgement to at least have that first line of defense and to show us or ask us what to do when they don't know.
So.... You force your child to give up something they want to keep private. If they don't comply, you take away something they like.
And what exactly are you teaching your child? Might makes right? Parents don't respect their own kids? Kids' opinions and feelings don't matter? Powerful people have the right to control less powerful people?
Great lessons, those.
It's much harder to foster respect and open communications. It's called being a parent, not a bully and control freak.
And what does this have to do with passwords?
My kids (ages 7 and 10) have their own accounts and passwords. Each uses their computer as they wish. We (as parents) do moderate and educate, but we do not limit or control through imposed filters. We teach our kids how to filter bad stuff themselves.
The one thing we do is that all the computers are in public places - the kids have a kids' study with their computers, we have a parent study with our computers. All computers are visible to others, so if someone finds someplace that's not good, we can all talk about why it's not good to be there.
My kids have passwords based on their favorite things or the meaning of their names. I am frankly somewhat confused that a 7 year old wouldn't remember a few characters. Why not? They remember their friends' names, no? The spelling of some really awkward English words, no? Why not their password?
Anyone else cynical enough to think this might be another last ditch effort to get Vista out there? I notice that nothing before 2007 is included, and Vista is prominent....
First SQL_gal, now OpenSourceSlut...
Christ on a crutch.... I was a part of a company that got bought by another. Much the same rhetoric on the upper management level, but at the middle management level the infighting was unbelievable. Our new boss literally walked through the engineering department, in one door and out the other - maybe spent a total of 2 minutes, and then produced a memo that we called [companynick]sucks memo. It was 4 pages of why we were completely incompenent, incapable of meeting their standards, unable to cooperate, and so on. Needless to say, within 2 years *every single engineer* quit and went elsewhere. Our branch was soon shut down. Lest it be said this was unique, the parent company also bought/merged with 4 other firms; within 3 years every one of those was shuttered - after the parent company's upper management stripped everything of value for their personal use from them.
Honestly, there is no way this will work. There are too many egos involved and the middle level managers will never go for this.
But wait!
These are the perfect characters for Snit Smashing!
They can spawn an entire army of micro-snits!
(OK, trivia test. How many actually played snit-smashing when it first appeared in D&D mag?)
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Some random thoughts.
Europe in general has privacy laws that often go far beyond US laws. For a while the US government refused to legally allow its citizens the use of encryption beyond something that could be easily cracked, to own hard currrency (no gold), and to use public air waves for encrypted / coded transmissions.
What I've seen of European governments, they tend to be less totalitarian and arbitrary than our current administration - I don't think too many European parliaments would allow the unabashed and secretive power grab of the last 7 years, especially if the powergrab was done by the EU and not the country's administration.
The power in the US is supposed to be largely held by the States, not by the Federal Government. A universal federal ID, backed by a single enormous federal database on its citizens, goes against the fundamental principle of US government; it's as if the EU decided that your country's ID is no longer valid for air travel within the EU and you now must obtain a special EU ID. This ID would be backed by a EU database on you and could possibly be used for all sorts of other things.
Would you support that? I hold citizenship in both an EU country and in the US, and I doubt that EU citizenry would support such a power grab on the part of the EU. That would probably lead to the collapse of the EU.
The US federal government now runs a gulag, and condones midnapping and torture. There's not much trust left by most of us for our Federal government.
My original set of batteries lasted perhaps 10 years - of daily use.
I know somewho who dropped his in the mud, had a truck run over it, and then hosed it off. The thing still works to this day, but the keypad is a bit flat.
Idestructible.
I also know someone who had a Marantz stereo in a house fire. The demo crews pitched it out of a 3rd story window. He fished it out of the junk pile, cleaned it, and it still worked....
There are some pieces of technology that have achieved perfection, and the only possible improvement is a radical change in design. (That's a Heinlein paraphrase; I belive from Glory Road. Anyone have the quote handy?)
I could put "NO WARRANTY" on everything I do, but as soon as the seal goes on, I am personally liable for any errors, including those made by others. How many IT professionals would trust their own work enough to do that?
BSOD doesn't kill people, maybe. But errant software *does* kill people; patients have died because of mis-programmed machines, and so on. I can't quote cases right now, but they've happened.
Bascially, "real" engineers are held liable for the mistakes made on their watch, programmers are not. It doesn't matter if you're pressured into releasing a design before it's ready, or anything else. Your seal is on the drawings, you are liable. Get a seal, certify your programs, and pay for any real and imagined damages.....
I tried something similar. We seem to work on the same thing over and over; documents get attached to emails and mailed around collectiong changes. Eventually something comes out of the process, but no one is really sure that it's correct.
:-(
I spent a couple of days moving stuff to MediaWiki. Everyone loved the concept - until they got to the editor. Big Screeching Halt.
We're talking Word here folks. Everyone is so used to the "hit enter and take whatever defaults Word pukes up" method of formatting documents that nothing else will do.
Until I can get a WYSIWYG front end to MediaWiki it ain't gonna fly here.
is warming up.... I have some hope in the US court system.
I think you missed my point. I was commenting on the stupidity of labeling someone by a geographic label when it actually pertains to the color of their skin.
Anyone with dark skin is considered an "African American", even if they never set foot in Africa, and even if their ancestors may be from South America.
Anyone with light skin is considered European, even if they come from Africa or South America.
It's just a stupid thing to label people; I don't care what label or euphemism you use.
A friend of mine was born and raised in Africa, by white parents who were also born and raised in Afica. He has now moved to the US. Does that qualify him as African-American?
I agree with you. What regulates military actions is the real or imagined consequences if the tables are reversed. Atrocities on a systematic basis occur if and when the conflict is one-sided either due to military might or sheer force of numbers.
My biggest concern with the currect US treatment of supposed terrorists, is that we are implicitly agreeing to the same treatment of our GIs in enemy hands. There is no doctrinal difference between the Hanoi Hilton and Guantanamo Bay.
There are dozens of examples of fighting men (and women, but mostly men) treating each other with respect and courtesy even while being determined to kill each other.
War has been regulated by law for a very, very long time. Geneva Conventions aside, there is a long history of rules of war. RTF History....
I wrote my first game on an ASR-33 hooked up to a PDP-8.
Gunner - you were a medieval cannoneer; your cannon could blow up and kill you, or more or less randomly hit the target.
The kicker was that if you hit your target 7 times, the inquisition came and burned you at the stake, since only someone who signed a pact with the devil could hit his target 7 times in one day.
I also wrote something similar to battleship and a lunar lander but I'm a bit hazy on the details of those. I think some of these even ended up on a DEC tar file somewhere for distribution.
All this on endless rolls of paper. Sweet eh?
I think you miss the point. The data will be mined after the fact or to build a case against someone the gov't doesn't like.
Let's say you do something to piss some mucky-muck off and you get on the monitor list. It's only a matter of time before you mention in passing that you copied a DVD or any other heinous crime and bingo! The FBI/Federal marshals/etc are at your door.
Paranoid? I grew up in a communist state. I hate to think I've escaped to one, too....
The same dysfunctional organization that has abused its warrantless wiretapping power?
Ummm.... Because you can buy two OLPCs and a nice dinner for the price of a Zonbu? The price (without the subscription) is $479, about what I'd expect to pay for a decent entry-level laptop.
Buy Volvos. They're boxy, but they're good. We know they're not sexy, but this is not a smart time to be sexy anyway with so many new diseases around. Be safe instead of sexy."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/
Well, how about this:
The original creator maintains copyright. S/He can sell rights but after 5 years they revert back to the original creator. Copyrights expire at death of creator, regardless of who holds the rights.
That would satisfy the artists (and I agree, 5 years would be punitive for individual artists) but would not allow corporations to amass huge catalogs of copyrights and use those to bludgeon both artists and customers.
Not a snow-ball's chance of getting that reform either....