But like I said, raged out. If I can't even stand the hassle myself, it's pretty hard to ask anyone else to fight a fight I feel is pretty hopeless. Pretty sure I'm not the only disillusioned ex-revolutionary here.
DHS spokesman Shawn Neudauer said the agent was simply providing "visibility/situational awareness," and did not have any direct contact with the Lebanon police or library. "The use of a Tor browser is not, in [or] of itself, illegal and there are legitimate purposes for its use,"
It's legal, and there are legitimate uses for it... but we're going to list off a bunch of scary hypotheticals, and insinuate how you'd be responsible for everything on the planet.
I hope the library board sends back a big fuck you like librarians sometimes do... give up the right to anonymity on the notion that it might might lead to something bad is the argument of cowards and fascists.
No matter what anybody likes to think, the US stopped being a free country or a champion of liberty and democracy 14 years ago. And you'll never get it back.
The problem this library (and others) will run in to is the threat of lost funding if they continue the Tor project. Library budgets are already tight so the lost of ANY funding can be devastating. It's the only reason most libraries installed web filtering software.
So, is there someone using Mint for any reason that is not spiting Canonical? I'd like to know, just to make sure I receive information not coming from people giving the impression of being zealots. They seriously need some PR as opposed to just say bad things about the competition.
I am using Linux Mint 13 because I was downloading and evaluating different distros just for the sake of checking them out. So far, everything I've tried with Mint "just worked" and I will likely stick with this one. Hope this helps a little.
I read a comment on Slashdot recently that the reason we aren't allowed to modify our comments is to prevent users from editing out things in order to accuse others of strawman attacks.
I have seen this happen on every single message board I've been a member of and is specifically the reason that I've disabled editing posts on any message board I have (and ever will) owned. I prefer receiving nasty messages that someone can't edit their posts rather than nasty messages about people changing their stories after receiving negative responses or whatever reason...
Point: People are so damn quick to criticize other people's tastes. And I'm sick of it. If that guy wanted to download Gaga's album for 99 cents, big fucking deal. It's HIS life, not yours, so stop insulting the man.
Amen to this. Some of us have very eclectic musical tastes. I remember in the early 90's making a mix tape that included Garth Brooks, Metallica, Billy Ray Cyrus, Reba McIntyre, Led Zepplin & KISS, just as an example. Music is meant to speak to your soul, not to impress your friends.
And for the record, I bought the Gaga album from Amazon for $0.99.;-)
I don't think Libraries will survive for much longer. If you want a book now you can get it in a digital version, and the publishers are rather adamant about allowing their ebooks to be borrowed from the library, and pretty much anything else can be digitised and accessed online.
So while its a nice idea to convert libraries to this sort of thing, they're not going to survive much longer in my opinion.
You obviously don't go to the library very often, do you? (I'm not trying to be a smart ass so please don't take this comment as such.) I work for a public library system that has consistent circulation of print and non-print materials. Besides checking out books, we offer reference services, free internet access and (thanks to Uncle Sam) you can come get your tax forms at the library. We do more than just "check out books" and we're gonna be here for a long time.:-)
THIS! Libraries get all kinds of shit dumped on them from all directions and tend to be the only ones really being the champions for personal rights and privacy!
How do you know that public libraries won't have these machines installed?...snip... Public libraries and schools already filter websites; this will take that sort of censorship to an entirely new level.
I can tell you from experience that we (libraries) only filter because we pretty much have to in order to continue to receive federal funding. Unless the feds push it on us, we won't be installing any of these copiers. Censorship sucks and most librarians hate it and fought very hard to stop it from happening in the first place.
I converted my wife to Ubuntu after the 8th virus in 3 months. I did buy Crossover Pro for Photoshop, but that's about it. She loves how much faster her laptop is. She games on Facebook, uses Evolution for email, and OpenOffice for writing, etc. She's got Hulu Desktop installed, and will dock her laptop to our home theater system and watch TV that way. The number of "Hey hon, can you look at this?" type things have gone down incredibly. She's been on Ubuntu for about 18 months now, and can't fathom going back. So, I don't think that your point of, "Granny just stopped asking for help" is really valid. People are people, if you mess up their PC, you'll hear about it at every family gathering.
Rather than just doing a full out conversion with my wife and son right away, I've gone the dual boot route on all three of our laptop computers and when (not if) the time comes that one of them gets malware again, I will have them log in to the Ubuntu side for a few weeks before I get around to fixing their Windows systems. We'll see how that goes.
All the ISP's do that and as I have told my friends and family repeatedly over the years, DON'T under any circumstances let the installer near your PC with that thing, it's not needed and can only lead to problems.
I will second that. When my current cable/phone/internet provider came and setup their equipment, the installer was beside himself because I wouldn't let him touch my computer. He tried the "required for this to operate" excuse. I told him that I was an IT professional and that I knew he was full of it and that if it was required, he could take his equipment home and I'd cancel my service. He asked if I would at least make the ISPs home page my start page. I guess they needed the inflated traffic stats.
If the police ask you questions, the only appropriate answer is "My lawyer's name is ____."
I just had a very detailed conversation with my son about this the other day. We watch several of the crime shows and one of the officers said that they'd be better off telling what they knew now and would get into less trouble or something like that.
I explained to my son about the right to remain silent and what you say CAN AND WILL be used against you and had him tell me what that meant. I also explained how even the most innocent comments (i.e. "I never cared for that guy.") could be used to make it look like you have motive.
Bottom line was that I told him that regardless of what any authority figure said or what type of pressure they applied, he was to only ask to call me and I would come (with a lawyer if necessary). I would urge you all to have the same talk with your kids. Better safe than sorry.:)
You got that right. Those same folks will still put it off as long as they can. Once again, exceptions are being made for the few and quite frankly, it pisses me off. They've pretty well made it well known on EVERY station I've watched for the past year that this was going to happen. There's no way anyone without cable TV that watches on a regular basis had no idea this was coming. You snooze, you lose. Now I gotta watch those dumb ass announcements for another four months. Thanks a lot, NOT!
That's because their parents are the ones footing the bill... ouch.
Not in my house. I pay for my son's cell phone but he pays for his own texting with his allowance. Funny how one can learn to control those texts when footing the bill.:)
Not long after my Grandfather died, my Grandmother walked in to her living room and freaked out because she swore she saw him sitting in his favorite recliner. It freaked her out so bad that she ended up giving the recliner away.
Indie music is free and you can't be sued for downloading it freely, because it's offered as a promotional gimmick to sell concert tickets.
Not all indie music is free. As a matter of fact, I know several indie artists that are struggling because people freely share their music. One friend of mine told me that he was stunned when a fan of his band came up and told him how much she loved their new CD. He asked her where she bought it. Her reply: "Oh I didn't buy it, I borrowed it and copied it from someone else."
Revving your goddamn engine at a stop sign to make your dick sound bigger (0 mph) is, I concede, a safe speed for neighborhood driving. It still wakes up my kid, and any driver who can't see a stationary douchebag on a motorcycle isn't going to take noise into consideration.
Funny thing about your comment, my son & I were sitting at a stop light and this guy was revving his Harley and I told my boy that the only reason that guy was doing that is because his weenie was teenie. I though my son was going to choke on his gasp.
Last week Snocap got pegged as among the year's top 11 losers: 6. Snocap Laid of 60% of workforce after losing CD Baby as a customer. CD Baby founder Derek Sivers offered illuminating insight to the eight-month partnership when he pointed to a paltry earning of $1,080 during the period. I am on an indie musician mailing list that Derek either founded or co-founded. Derek is good people and he waited an awful long time to try and make the CD Baby/SNOCAP thing a success. I also have a SNOCAP account but I don't have any of my music ready for distribution. I've talked with enough successful indie musicians who also have SNOCAP accounts to know that SNOCAP is a massive failure. They all sell (thanks to CD Baby) successfully on iTunes, Rhaposdy, etc. and never have sales on SNOCAP. Of all the musicians I know, only one has had a single sale on SNOCAP. Not a good ROI for the $30 annual fee SNOCAP chages after the first year. I think it has to do with the fans trusting the stores. iTunes & Rhapsody are in the media all the time and are familiar names. SNOCAP, not so much. Too bad too, the musician stands to earn more from the SNOCAP store.
While you may find humor in that, you should keep in mind that once the false accusations, such as molestation, have been broadcast, the damage to one's reputation has been done and it's extremely difficult, if not impossible to recover from.
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But like I said, raged out. If I can't even stand the hassle myself, it's pretty hard to ask anyone else to fight a fight I feel is pretty hopeless. Pretty sure I'm not the only disillusioned ex-revolutionary here.
No, you're not. Welcome to the club.
God I'm so sick of this bullshit:
DHS spokesman Shawn Neudauer said the agent was simply providing "visibility/situational awareness," and did not have any direct contact with the Lebanon police or library. "The use of a Tor browser is not, in [or] of itself, illegal and there are legitimate purposes for its use,"
It's legal, and there are legitimate uses for it ... but we're going to list off a bunch of scary hypotheticals, and insinuate how you'd be responsible for everything on the planet.
I hope the library board sends back a big fuck you like librarians sometimes do ... give up the right to anonymity on the notion that it might might lead to something bad is the argument of cowards and fascists.
No matter what anybody likes to think, the US stopped being a free country or a champion of liberty and democracy 14 years ago. And you'll never get it back.
The problem this library (and others) will run in to is the threat of lost funding if they continue the Tor project. Library budgets are already tight so the lost of ANY funding can be devastating. It's the only reason most libraries installed web filtering software.
As far as Frankel, he started working on a DAW called Reaper. It's a swiss army knife for audio.
I use Reaper and I love it. Inexpensive and extremely flexible. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Speaking of records: http://img.viame-cdn.com/photos/bed88380-51f7-0130-3026-1231381563be/r600x600.jpg
That would be totally wrong, labeling a hot dog as a hamburger.
This has to be one of the best posts I've seen on /. in years! Kudos!
So, is there someone using Mint for any reason that is not spiting Canonical? I'd like to know, just to make sure I receive information not coming from people giving the impression of being zealots. They seriously need some PR as opposed to just say bad things about the competition.
I am using Linux Mint 13 because I was downloading and evaluating different distros just for the sake of checking them out. So far, everything I've tried with Mint "just worked" and I will likely stick with this one. Hope this helps a little.
You know things are bad when we start talking about the DMCA in a positive sense with respect to newly proposed legislation.
What's funny is that I pretty much said the exact same thing to an Indie Musician organization I belong to just yesterday.
I read a comment on Slashdot recently that the reason we aren't allowed to modify our comments is to prevent users from editing out things in order to accuse others of strawman attacks.
I have seen this happen on every single message board I've been a member of and is specifically the reason that I've disabled editing posts on any message board I have (and ever will) owned. I prefer receiving nasty messages that someone can't edit their posts rather than nasty messages about people changing their stories after receiving negative responses or whatever reason...
Here's the printer friendly version of said article: http://www.infoworld.com/print/173188
Point: People are so damn quick to criticize other people's tastes. And I'm sick of it. If that guy wanted to download Gaga's album for 99 cents, big fucking deal. It's HIS life, not yours, so stop insulting the man.
Amen to this. Some of us have very eclectic musical tastes. I remember in the early 90's making a mix tape that included Garth Brooks, Metallica, Billy Ray Cyrus, Reba McIntyre, Led Zepplin & KISS, just as an example. Music is meant to speak to your soul, not to impress your friends. And for the record, I bought the Gaga album from Amazon for $0.99. ;-)
I don't think Libraries will survive for much longer. If you want a book now you can get it in a digital version, and the publishers are rather adamant about allowing their ebooks to be borrowed from the library, and pretty much anything else can be digitised and accessed online. So while its a nice idea to convert libraries to this sort of thing, they're not going to survive much longer in my opinion.
You obviously don't go to the library very often, do you? (I'm not trying to be a smart ass so please don't take this comment as such.) I work for a public library system that has consistent circulation of print and non-print materials. Besides checking out books, we offer reference services, free internet access and (thanks to Uncle Sam) you can come get your tax forms at the library. We do more than just "check out books" and we're gonna be here for a long time. :-)
You don't actually know many librarians, do you?
THIS! Libraries get all kinds of shit dumped on them from all directions and tend to be the only ones really being the champions for personal rights and privacy!
How do you know that public libraries won't have these machines installed? ...snip... Public libraries and schools already filter websites; this will take that sort of censorship to an entirely new level.
I can tell you from experience that we (libraries) only filter because we pretty much have to in order to continue to receive federal funding. Unless the feds push it on us, we won't be installing any of these copiers. Censorship sucks and most librarians hate it and fought very hard to stop it from happening in the first place.
I converted my wife to Ubuntu after the 8th virus in 3 months. I did buy Crossover Pro for Photoshop, but that's about it. She loves how much faster her laptop is. She games on Facebook, uses Evolution for email, and OpenOffice for writing, etc. She's got Hulu Desktop installed, and will dock her laptop to our home theater system and watch TV that way. The number of "Hey hon, can you look at this?" type things have gone down incredibly. She's been on Ubuntu for about 18 months now, and can't fathom going back. So, I don't think that your point of, "Granny just stopped asking for help" is really valid. People are people, if you mess up their PC, you'll hear about it at every family gathering.
Rather than just doing a full out conversion with my wife and son right away, I've gone the dual boot route on all three of our laptop computers and when (not if) the time comes that one of them gets malware again, I will have them log in to the Ubuntu side for a few weeks before I get around to fixing their Windows systems. We'll see how that goes.
All the ISP's do that and as I have told my friends and family repeatedly over the years, DON'T under any circumstances let the installer near your PC with that thing, it's not needed and can only lead to problems.
I will second that. When my current cable/phone/internet provider came and setup their equipment, the installer was beside himself because I wouldn't let him touch my computer. He tried the "required for this to operate" excuse. I told him that I was an IT professional and that I knew he was full of it and that if it was required, he could take his equipment home and I'd cancel my service. He asked if I would at least make the ISPs home page my start page. I guess they needed the inflated traffic stats.
Bloodsuckers, all of them.
Blood isn't the word that popped into *MY* mind!
If the police ask you questions, the only appropriate answer is "My lawyer's name is ____."
I just had a very detailed conversation with my son about this the other day. We watch several of the crime shows and one of the officers said that they'd be better off telling what they knew now and would get into less trouble or something like that.
I explained to my son about the right to remain silent and what you say CAN AND WILL be used against you and had him tell me what that meant. I also explained how even the most innocent comments (i.e. "I never cared for that guy.") could be used to make it look like you have motive.
Bottom line was that I told him that regardless of what any authority figure said or what type of pressure they applied, he was to only ask to call me and I would come (with a lawyer if necessary). I would urge you all to have the same talk with your kids. Better safe than sorry. :)
You got that right. Those same folks will still put it off as long as they can. Once again, exceptions are being made for the few and quite frankly, it pisses me off. They've pretty well made it well known on EVERY station I've watched for the past year that this was going to happen. There's no way anyone without cable TV that watches on a regular basis had no idea this was coming. You snooze, you lose. Now I gotta watch those dumb ass announcements for another four months. Thanks a lot, NOT!
windows 7 is to vista what win98 was to win95. if people still aren't understanding this, they have problems
To me it's more like Windows 7 is to Vista what WinXP was to WinME.
That's because their parents are the ones footing the bill... ouch.
Not in my house. I pay for my son's cell phone but he pays for his own texting with his allowance. Funny how one can learn to control those texts when footing the bill. :)
Not long after my Grandfather died, my Grandmother walked in to her living room and freaked out because she swore she saw him sitting in his favorite recliner. It freaked her out so bad that she ended up giving the recliner away.
Indie music is free and you can't be sued for downloading it freely, because it's offered as a promotional gimmick to sell concert tickets.
Not all indie music is free. As a matter of fact, I know several indie artists that are struggling because people freely share their music. One friend of mine told me that he was stunned when a fan of his band came up and told him how much she loved their new CD. He asked her where she bought it. Her reply: "Oh I didn't buy it, I borrowed it and copied it from someone else."
Revving your goddamn engine at a stop sign to make your dick sound bigger (0 mph) is, I concede, a safe speed for neighborhood driving. It still wakes up my kid, and any driver who can't see a stationary douchebag on a motorcycle isn't going to take noise into consideration.
Funny thing about your comment, my son & I were sitting at a stop light and this guy was revving his Harley and I told my boy that the only reason that guy was doing that is because his weenie was teenie. I though my son was going to choke on his gasp.
While you may find humor in that, you should keep in mind that once the false accusations, such as molestation, have been broadcast, the damage to one's reputation has been done and it's extremely difficult, if not impossible to recover from.