I agree, many of the Americans I speak too I cant understand!
I called UPS the other day, and the southern accent was so thick I had to ask her serval times to repeat what was said.... I was afraid I'd called the Dying And Horribly Tortured Cat Hotline.
This is not an attack, just an observation, perhaps ratifying your comments....
Protection is available to all citizens, and one is not a criminal because you use encryption. It is not a mechanism of avoiding the law or obscuring criminal enterprise, but a means of ensuring that your personal information remains exactly personal.
use of technolgy does not make one a criminal, and this can be seen in the US military - their tech is the best in the world. Simply to decry your oponents because they use some open source thingy from FreshMeat or SourceForge must somehow negate the basic cry of the open sourcers.... why do you do it? The licence doesn't say "as long as your one of us"....
Perhaps a cause for concern, but wouldn't you argue that a few nutso crazies blowing up the odd bus is a fairly good price to guarantee the "gestapo" arent kicking in your door, the governent arent recording every conversation, or that you can feel "free" (NO, I dont agree with those nusts, and I frankly want them to stop, but liberties are hard fought for, and remember the past of the US civil war.... they FOUGHT for freedom, they didnt FIGHT for restrictions)
(Sorry, I'm not trolling, I just thought your writing style indicated your a thinker, rather than a reactionary)
Can it file my taxes for me?. Imagine the thing playing the piano, or handing out packs of chips at the baseball! hoy, hoy, hyuuuup over there!
evanism;)
probably true dudes, but even if they did licence it, what would they be charged? An out-of-date architecture using an obsolete design with antiquated manufacturing methods....
A clock cycle of my grandfathers penny farthing too.
Let the Chinese have a bash, as they are pretty good at this sort of stuff, and who knows... if they get good at it we might see some interesting ideas spring out of a billion curious consumers..... Linux people rejoice, a brand new market!
Rationality is not the domain of the politician. Only hyperbole, rhetoric and mud slinging.
Perhaps the good polotician can stick to his lies, after all people know he's lying. He should watch out, perhaps some scientists might like to peer review HIM!
Has ANYONE considered that other countries, even US friendly ones would be WORRIED AS HELL over this?
Imagine a scenario where the US wants to force a treaty with, say, CHINA, and says "if you dont sign this agreement your stock echange will stop", or, "by the way, we just disabled all DRM computers just preceeding our ATTACK", or your computer STOPS WORKING a few minutes before the CIA shuts down your BUSINESS
What occurs when you wish to renegotiate your licence? does the original company TURN OFF your access to all documents to "encourage" you to re-sign??????
Has ANYONE considered that other countries, even US friendly ones would be WORRIED AS HELL over this?
Imagine a scenario where the US wants to force a treaty with, say, CHINA, and says "if you dont sign this agreement your stock echange will stop", or, "by the way, we just disabled all DRM computers just preceeding our ATTACK"
What occurs when you wish to renegotiate your licence? does the origianl company TURN OFF your access to all documents to "encourage" you to resign??????
Does anyone also NOT see this as a HUGE ISSUE?
*One* hearing disclosed police invoked the Patriot Act 108 times in a 22-month period....
what of the other applications?
What of the other infractions?
what of the innocents who had their homes torn apart?
Do you even think of these things? Where are your civil rights, your freedom of opinion? your *inate* *right* to protest against your government?
I'm not a commie, but what the hell is going on here?
Because US law allows (INSANELY) attachments to bills!.
You can attach a magor bill to a minor one passed when everyone is asleep. It's the national embarrasment, and every major violation of YOUR individual rights is done the same way.
Shame on you for being so ignorant of you own government processes, this crap happens all the time. Wake up and politicise!!!
dude! you hit the nail on the head with this one.
I don't know which side of the pol you swing to, but you have a point.... a drivers licence is exactly that... a licence, *NOT* an ID.
Am I asked for my fishing licence if I'm pulled over for a speeding infraction, or my local club (pub) ID when I'm out after 11pm?
Its about time Americans rebelled against this intervention as it *does* directly affect the thinking of the dim-bulbs twats that run governments such as (my) Australia!.
Seriously....our (Australian) govt is so sympathetic to any form of US conservatism its about time we utilised the vast majority of US voters to leverage our leaders into an impossible corner and give us at least a "bill of rights"... Aust hasn't one!!!! We don't have inherent rights... I shit you not!!!!
Evanism
BTW, dont worry about terrorism, I'd be more worried about your own government killing you on the operating table with doctor cost cutting!
Dudes and 'ettes,
You can't blame people for following the money trail!! you do!!!.
To say "indians" are somehow a "problem" is clearly a case of "factual bullshit", or in my mind outright frackin racism. Look at the comments - paranoia, F.U.D, scape-goatism, racism,... paranoia.
Some of my best friends are Indians, or Sri Lankans or Arabs. Personally I am sick and tired of the B.S. crud spewed forth in these forums based on a persons skin colour or religous belief. Look at yourselves... rich white silver spoon types looking to protect a guaranteeed income for life. Where do you stand? For invoation, or jobs for life???? wheres your fracking competitive bones!!!!
I love I.T., I live it, I breath it, and I want more of it. I want it now, and cheap... and so do all of you. I want my big screen TV, do I *really* care if its made in Japan??? (I do but my question is rhetorical).
You cant blame other cultures for wanting exactly what "we" do... a decent lifestyle, a good bed, and some extra $bux to spend on something frivelous. Look at yourselves, your acting like a bunch of feudal kings about to loose their fiefdom.... at least in the past they knew when they lost.
BTW, dont bother berating me, cos I suffer True believerism, which is worse than capitalism!
I would say, friend, that this relates to your progressively increasing tax rate as you earn, not progression against the USA, if you could call it that....
As an Ausssie, I feel pretty *repressed*, not *progressed*. Just meat for the tax grinder!
mmm, a mac user can't handle the concept of a right mouse click... yet Adobe in Photoshop see fit that PC users have the joy of Alt-Shift-Ctrl-S to save for web.... its like playing the friggin piano!... Arent they insulting their audience to say "our users dont *get* a right mouse click, but the rest of the world can handle a 4 note Chord?"...
Give up freedom? We all ready have my friend. Our "appearance" of freedom is an illusion. Our Modern governments have us in an iron fist tighter than the commies of old. Electronic surveillance is absolutely everywhere... cameras, video, eftpos, tax returns the whole lot.
I, for one, have completely given up. I am resigned to the fact we cannot "beat" our government, for they make the Illegal Legal, and the Unethical Ethical. The Immoral Moral.
Our govt has created the perfect enemy... one that doesn't truly exist, but lives beneath every rock. An enemy that can be labelled at will, and one that with SAFETY and FREEDOM* (*freedom is a Brand, for it does not mean free) in mind can be bandied in order to pass the most usurious of laws, all without public complaint.
We are now Safe, and Free, but without Safety and Freedom as our govt now has Control.
I fought the Auch-tray-ya card, but now, ye citizens, prepared to be identified. For Identity Will Set You Free.
Do you honestly believe this will stop here? Do you think the police will voluntarily not snoop on our innocent activities? Do you honestly believe that they wouldn't read every email/listen to every conversation if they could? If you believe that police wouldn't record everything if they could, you are an idiot, and ignorant. They CAN, and the WILL and they WILL USE IT AGIAST YOU.
Our concept of who "WE" are is OVER. The government is the enemy. The government is about CONTROL, and ensuring you all remain good tax-paying meat popsicles. It is not freedom we have, for that is now suborned.
yes, he's uninformed as to how agressive america is to get what IT wants.
Howard is smart, he'd rather join the gang of global hoodlums than be beaten up and have our lunch money stolen... oh hang on, thats what the FTAs for!!!. America allways wins! grrr....
Slashdot Mirror
perhaps he should be worried for being part of Theatrical Executives Rorting and Rippping Off Regular Individuals via Standover Tactics.
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/slackware/slack ware-current/
dont know about you but I only need 640 k.
I agree, many of the Americans I speak too I cant understand!
I called UPS the other day, and the southern accent was so thick I had to ask her serval times to repeat what was said.... I was afraid I'd called the Dying And Horribly Tortured Cat Hotline.
rrrrrooowwww!!!
What about a laser on your car! cool, you could vaporise people in traffic if you're in a rush ;)
since when has the US worried about the Geneva convention?
It cant even follow its own rules let alone those internationally agreed upon.
no, like you know, omg, like, duh its nothing like that....
give me an invite!!! I cant stand IM !!!
I've read that to crack a code: big, expensive machines running billions of calcs over hundreds of years are needed. Many billions in Watts.
I've also read a 80 Watt soldering iron can also find the same code in minutes.....
Protection is available to all citizens, and one is not a criminal because you use encryption. It is not a mechanism of avoiding the law or obscuring criminal enterprise, but a means of ensuring that your personal information remains exactly personal.
use of technolgy does not make one a criminal, and this can be seen in the US military - their tech is the best in the world. Simply to decry your oponents because they use some open source thingy from FreshMeat or SourceForge must somehow negate the basic cry of the open sourcers.... why do you do it? The licence doesn't say "as long as your one of us"....
Perhaps a cause for concern, but wouldn't you argue that a few nutso crazies blowing up the odd bus is a fairly good price to guarantee the "gestapo" arent kicking in your door, the governent arent recording every conversation, or that you can feel "free" (NO, I dont agree with those nusts, and I frankly want them to stop, but liberties are hard fought for, and remember the past of the US civil war.... they FOUGHT for freedom, they didnt FIGHT for restrictions) (Sorry, I'm not trolling, I just thought your writing style indicated your a thinker, rather than a reactionary)
brush up, brush down
Can it file my taxes for me?. Imagine the thing playing the piano, or handing out packs of chips at the baseball! hoy, hoy, hyuuuup over there! evanism ;)
probably true dudes, but even if they did licence it, what would they be charged? An out-of-date architecture using an obsolete design with antiquated manufacturing methods.... A clock cycle of my grandfathers penny farthing too. Let the Chinese have a bash, as they are pretty good at this sort of stuff, and who knows... if they get good at it we might see some interesting ideas spring out of a billion curious consumers..... Linux people rejoice, a brand new market!
Absolutely!
Rationality is not the domain of the politician. Only hyperbole, rhetoric and mud slinging.
Perhaps the good polotician can stick to his lies, after all people know he's lying. He should watch out, perhaps some scientists might like to peer review HIM!
Dudes, and 'Ettes,
Been thinking of this for a long time, especially how to make a system for renters, not Homer-oweners.
How about a intermediary plug for all plugged electrical devices that talks over Wifi G! Cool.
Has ANYONE considered that other countries, even US friendly ones would be WORRIED AS HELL over this?
Imagine a scenario where the US wants to force a treaty with, say, CHINA, and says "if you dont sign this agreement your stock echange will stop", or, "by the way, we just disabled all DRM computers just preceeding our ATTACK", or your computer STOPS WORKING a few minutes before the CIA shuts down your BUSINESS
What occurs when you wish to renegotiate your licence? does the original company TURN OFF your access to all documents to "encourage" you to re-sign??????
Does anyone also NOT see this as a HUGE ISSUE?
Has ANYONE considered that other countries, even US friendly ones would be WORRIED AS HELL over this? Imagine a scenario where the US wants to force a treaty with, say, CHINA, and says "if you dont sign this agreement your stock echange will stop", or, "by the way, we just disabled all DRM computers just preceeding our ATTACK" What occurs when you wish to renegotiate your licence? does the origianl company TURN OFF your access to all documents to "encourage" you to resign?????? Does anyone also NOT see this as a HUGE ISSUE?
*One* hearing disclosed police invoked the Patriot Act 108 times in a 22-month period ....
what of the other applications?
What of the other infractions?
what of the innocents who had their homes torn apart?
Do you even think of these things? Where are your civil rights, your freedom of opinion? your *inate* *right* to protest against your government? I'm not a commie, but what the hell is going on here?
Because US law allows (INSANELY) attachments to bills!. You can attach a magor bill to a minor one passed when everyone is asleep. It's the national embarrasment, and every major violation of YOUR individual rights is done the same way. Shame on you for being so ignorant of you own government processes, this crap happens all the time. Wake up and politicise!!!
dude! you hit the nail on the head with this one. I don't know which side of the pol you swing to, but you have a point.... a drivers licence is exactly that... a licence, *NOT* an ID. Am I asked for my fishing licence if I'm pulled over for a speeding infraction, or my local club (pub) ID when I'm out after 11pm? Its about time Americans rebelled against this intervention as it *does* directly affect the thinking of the dim-bulbs twats that run governments such as (my) Australia!. Seriously....our (Australian) govt is so sympathetic to any form of US conservatism its about time we utilised the vast majority of US voters to leverage our leaders into an impossible corner and give us at least a "bill of rights"... Aust hasn't one!!!! We don't have inherent rights... I shit you not!!!! Evanism BTW, dont worry about terrorism, I'd be more worried about your own government killing you on the operating table with doctor cost cutting!
If you dont agree with us you must be a terrorist... or have something to hide...
Dudes and 'ettes, You can't blame people for following the money trail!! you do!!!. To say "indians" are somehow a "problem" is clearly a case of "factual bullshit", or in my mind outright frackin racism. Look at the comments - paranoia, F.U.D, scape-goatism, racism, ... paranoia.
Some of my best friends are Indians, or Sri Lankans or Arabs. Personally I am sick and tired of the B.S. crud spewed forth in these forums based on a persons skin colour or religous belief. Look at yourselves... rich white silver spoon types looking to protect a guaranteeed income for life. Where do you stand? For invoation, or jobs for life???? wheres your fracking competitive bones!!!!
I love I.T., I live it, I breath it, and I want more of it. I want it now, and cheap... and so do all of you. I want my big screen TV, do I *really* care if its made in Japan??? (I do but my question is rhetorical).
You cant blame other cultures for wanting exactly what "we" do... a decent lifestyle, a good bed, and some extra $bux to spend on something frivelous. Look at yourselves, your acting like a bunch of feudal kings about to loose their fiefdom.... at least in the past they knew when they lost.
BTW, dont bother berating me, cos I suffer True believerism, which is worse than capitalism!
I would say, friend, that this relates to your progressively increasing tax rate as you earn, not progression against the USA, if you could call it that.... As an Ausssie, I feel pretty *repressed*, not *progressed*. Just meat for the tax grinder!
mmm, a mac user can't handle the concept of a right mouse click... yet Adobe in Photoshop see fit that PC users have the joy of Alt-Shift-Ctrl-S to save for web.... its like playing the friggin piano!... Arent they insulting their audience to say "our users dont *get* a right mouse click, but the rest of the world can handle a 4 note Chord?"...
Give up freedom? We all ready have my friend. Our "appearance" of freedom is an illusion. Our Modern governments have us in an iron fist tighter than the commies of old. Electronic surveillance is absolutely everywhere... cameras, video, eftpos, tax returns the whole lot. I, for one, have completely given up. I am resigned to the fact we cannot "beat" our government, for they make the Illegal Legal, and the Unethical Ethical. The Immoral Moral. Our govt has created the perfect enemy... one that doesn't truly exist, but lives beneath every rock. An enemy that can be labelled at will, and one that with SAFETY and FREEDOM* (*freedom is a Brand, for it does not mean free) in mind can be bandied in order to pass the most usurious of laws, all without public complaint. We are now Safe, and Free, but without Safety and Freedom as our govt now has Control. I fought the Auch-tray-ya card, but now, ye citizens, prepared to be identified. For Identity Will Set You Free. Do you honestly believe this will stop here? Do you think the police will voluntarily not snoop on our innocent activities? Do you honestly believe that they wouldn't read every email/listen to every conversation if they could? If you believe that police wouldn't record everything if they could, you are an idiot, and ignorant. They CAN, and the WILL and they WILL USE IT AGIAST YOU. Our concept of who "WE" are is OVER. The government is the enemy. The government is about CONTROL, and ensuring you all remain good tax-paying meat popsicles. It is not freedom we have, for that is now suborned.
yes, he's uninformed as to how agressive america is to get what IT wants. Howard is smart, he'd rather join the gang of global hoodlums than be beaten up and have our lunch money stolen... oh hang on, thats what the FTAs for!!!. America allways wins! grrr....