Maybe it's because much of our Constitution is specific to republican democracy and couldn't even be directly applied to this re-badged tyranny of the majority? Maybe it's because it's taken as a given that a Constitutional Convention would have to be called and what came out of it might look pretty different from the constitution we have now... especially if there's no Jeffersonian types present to preserve egalitarian ideals?
Just because you use the latest buzz-phrases in an attempt to reframe it doesn't change the picture: it's still what Jefferson and others described as the tyranny of the majority and went to considerable lengths to restrain when they devised our form of government. A rose is still a rose by any other name and all that. There are certain things that should be inalienable rights, that not even a majority should be able to take away from minorities with a vote. Your "crowd-sourced democracy" would allow that to happen.
Read up on tyranny of the majority, and then you'll understand why your re-branded crowd-sourced democracy is the same thing and just as un-egalitarian.
USENET servers are a centralized *paradigm*. Sure, DHT decentralizes BitTorrent, but where ya gonna find out about a torrent in the first place except some centralized resource? Word of mouth? Not likely. Some random forum or blog post? How ya gonna find that post except through some centralized system like Google? Damned middlemen! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em....
BitTorrent is not USENET. And you've overlooked that the SAME THING happens to it as well: the death of Mininova, etc. You'll next claim that encrypted BitTorrent is the solution, to which The Powers That Be will respond that if you're encrypting peer-to-peer traffic - and they packet-sniff so they know that it is - then you must be a guilty Infringer... and the courts will agree and Strike you down and confiscate your precious HTPC and iPhone.
And the instant you encrypt that traffic you're presumed guilty and treated like a criminal. There's no "workaround" here; we have to confront the evil overlords head-on. The revolution is at least 50 years overdue.
You're a cliched idiot. USENET is a centralized distribution system; how do you propose we form a Rebel Alliance that will recreate that centralized infrastructure without repeating the same series of events? There won't be any of your slippage until the evil BREINish Emperor is out of the way.
Did anyone else besides this blogger of unknown repute receive this alleged e-mail notice? I didn't. I requested the same e-mail updates as he allegedly did, yet I've received nothing at all. The only explanation I can conjecture is that HP's SMTP servers are dragging the process out for who knows how many hours or days.
... you are (rewired by) how you live, to twist the cliche. Your offspring might be somewhat rewired by how you lived, too.
I'm betting the latter is demonstrated eventually, given the clues presented by epigenetics and newfound roles of RNA. I read years ago that the behavior of kittens can be largely predicted by that of the father, even if the father was not present after birth; humans are likely affected by the same mechanisms.
Whatcha gonna do when he kicks it? I guess you'd better sit him down right now every day for six months and have him vocalize every word in the Oxford dictionary, before it's too late!
Ron Wyden isn't the only Congressman who has at least the consistent appearance of motives to champion the Common Good; there are others. Another two that most readily come to mind are Kucinich of Ohio and McDermott of Washington (State).
These three at least need to be held up as examples of what result we should get from electing people to "lead" us. Too many of the bastards quickly forget that WE HIRED THEM.
... is another man's flexibility. This is the same company that apparently thought giving people access to basic file attributes was too complicated, and so removed and obfuscated them in Windows 7 to the point that yet another third party shell-extension utility is needed to make up for it. (What's worse is that the labeled "Read Only" box now doesn't actually represent JUST the read-only attribute any more, but now also combines permissions and/or sharing states in some confusing fashion that even I haven't yet figured out... which is kinda exactly the opposite of simplification.)
Nice way to mis-frame what simply isn't true, unless you define "we" more narrowly than all the people who influence blacklists. ISP employees and network admins might "all" agree on a narrow specific definition of spam, but when you leave the Halls of Technologia and query the common folk, you'll discover that the layman's definition of spam is "any e-mail that I didn't want to receive". What do you suppose happens when those people contribute to blacklists, either directly or indirectly?
Outside of where you work, your definition is the one that's full of shit.
Go back and read the prior part of my comment that you didn't quote: NO ONE "should be the ones", because no one should be using such blacklists, period. People cannot even agree on a precise definition of "spam" - one man's spam is another man's opportunity - so consensus blacklists can never work effectively.
Private blacklists or Bayesian filters that one creates for personal use might still be useful; presumably you have no disagreement with yourself about what is and is not spam. I once had a Bayesian system that reached 99.985% accuracy because I could maintain that consistent definition of spam. If I had tried to do that using a list involving anyone else, the accuracy would have plummeted.
That's the problem in the United States, at least: we're overdue for flexing our muscle and reminding the PHBs that WE are really the ones in charge, even though we hire them to manage a few things for us. They forget that and get visions of superiority and then treat everyone else like the inferiors they've decided we must be... because we've stopped giving them regular enough beat-downs. I figger they need one at least every few generations, or the message gets forgotten. There's not even the vaguest of recollections right now. The PHBs aren't much more than annoyed by these Occupy people... so far. The overdue lesson needs to be driven home, and violently if necessary.
Spamhaus publishes their Opinion about who are spam problems. It's a lot like Slashdot posts, which are the various contributor's Opinions.
What a quaint mis-framing by using the word "opinion" rather than what it actually is: a declaration. It's much more affirmative than a mere "opinion".
This, BTW, is precisely why ALL blacklists are a crappy idea that ultimately always lead to this scenario. Crowdsourcing this sort of privacy/security function to anonymous people with unverified credibility leads to the well being poisoned with deliberate or unintended misinformation. They are even vulnerable to ill-intentioned people with axes to grind and a willingness to wreck significant swaths of the Internet to exact their vengeance.
Once the corporations see their income statements go to zilch then you would see real change.
The beginning of that process is called a recession. Look how that turns out these days. The One Percent put the screws to the millions of people who had become dependent upon them for paychecks, and we folded and even gave them "bailouts" to restore the profit they imagined they had been deprived. In centuries past it might have played out differently, with the recession escalating to a revolution, but now the One Percent is much more experienced at manipulating the collective boiling point.
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Maybe it's because much of our Constitution is specific to republican democracy and couldn't even be directly applied to this re-badged tyranny of the majority? Maybe it's because it's taken as a given that a Constitutional Convention would have to be called and what came out of it might look pretty different from the constitution we have now... especially if there's no Jeffersonian types present to preserve egalitarian ideals?
Just because you use the latest buzz-phrases in an attempt to reframe it doesn't change the picture: it's still what Jefferson and others described as the tyranny of the majority and went to considerable lengths to restrain when they devised our form of government. A rose is still a rose by any other name and all that. There are certain things that should be inalienable rights, that not even a majority should be able to take away from minorities with a vote. Your "crowd-sourced democracy" would allow that to happen.
Read up on tyranny of the majority, and then you'll understand why your re-branded crowd-sourced democracy is the same thing and just as un-egalitarian.
USENET servers are a centralized *paradigm*. Sure, DHT decentralizes BitTorrent, but where ya gonna find out about a torrent in the first place except some centralized resource? Word of mouth? Not likely. Some random forum or blog post? How ya gonna find that post except through some centralized system like Google? Damned middlemen! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em....
I have a sinking feeling there's more where that came from....
BitTorrent is not USENET. And you've overlooked that the SAME THING happens to it as well: the death of Mininova, etc. You'll next claim that encrypted BitTorrent is the solution, to which The Powers That Be will respond that if you're encrypting peer-to-peer traffic - and they packet-sniff so they know that it is - then you must be a guilty Infringer... and the courts will agree and Strike you down and confiscate your precious HTPC and iPhone.
Deal with the Evil Overlords head-on, or STFU.
And the instant you encrypt that traffic you're presumed guilty and treated like a criminal. There's no "workaround" here; we have to confront the evil overlords head-on. The revolution is at least 50 years overdue.
You're a cliched idiot. USENET is a centralized distribution system; how do you propose we form a Rebel Alliance that will recreate that centralized infrastructure without repeating the same series of events? There won't be any of your slippage until the evil BREINish Emperor is out of the way.
They don't call them "man in the middle attacks" in IT for nothing, do they?
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Here it is Saturday morning and still no copy of it for me. No matter... it's still bad news no matter what form the messenger takes.
Did anyone else besides this blogger of unknown repute receive this alleged e-mail notice? I didn't. I requested the same e-mail updates as he allegedly did, yet I've received nothing at all. The only explanation I can conjecture is that HP's SMTP servers are dragging the process out for who knows how many hours or days.
... you are (rewired by) how you live, to twist the cliche. Your offspring might be somewhat rewired by how you lived, too.
I'm betting the latter is demonstrated eventually, given the clues presented by epigenetics and newfound roles of RNA. I read years ago that the behavior of kittens can be largely predicted by that of the father, even if the father was not present after birth; humans are likely affected by the same mechanisms.
You guys are all overlooking John Goodman, too. If it's voice for GPS, why not Mister Convoy himself, Kris Kristofferson?
Whatcha gonna do when he kicks it? I guess you'd better sit him down right now every day for six months and have him vocalize every word in the Oxford dictionary, before it's too late!
Is that inspired by some anime - or hentai - that I've never heard about?
Ron Wyden isn't the only Congressman who has at least the consistent appearance of motives to champion the Common Good; there are others. Another two that most readily come to mind are Kucinich of Ohio and McDermott of Washington (State).
These three at least need to be held up as examples of what result we should get from electing people to "lead" us. Too many of the bastards quickly forget that WE HIRED THEM.
... is another man's flexibility. This is the same company that apparently thought giving people access to basic file attributes was too complicated, and so removed and obfuscated them in Windows 7 to the point that yet another third party shell-extension utility is needed to make up for it. (What's worse is that the labeled "Read Only" box now doesn't actually represent JUST the read-only attribute any more, but now also combines permissions and/or sharing states in some confusing fashion that even I haven't yet figured out... which is kinda exactly the opposite of simplification.)
... that we have all agreed to.
Nice way to mis-frame what simply isn't true, unless you define "we" more narrowly than all the people who influence blacklists. ISP employees and network admins might "all" agree on a narrow specific definition of spam, but when you leave the Halls of Technologia and query the common folk, you'll discover that the layman's definition of spam is "any e-mail that I didn't want to receive". What do you suppose happens when those people contribute to blacklists, either directly or indirectly?
Outside of where you work, your definition is the one that's full of shit.
Go back and read the prior part of my comment that you didn't quote: NO ONE "should be the ones", because no one should be using such blacklists, period. People cannot even agree on a precise definition of "spam" - one man's spam is another man's opportunity - so consensus blacklists can never work effectively.
Private blacklists or Bayesian filters that one creates for personal use might still be useful; presumably you have no disagreement with yourself about what is and is not spam. I once had a Bayesian system that reached 99.985% accuracy because I could maintain that consistent definition of spam. If I had tried to do that using a list involving anyone else, the accuracy would have plummeted.
That's the problem in the United States, at least: we're overdue for flexing our muscle and reminding the PHBs that WE are really the ones in charge, even though we hire them to manage a few things for us. They forget that and get visions of superiority and then treat everyone else like the inferiors they've decided we must be... because we've stopped giving them regular enough beat-downs. I figger they need one at least every few generations, or the message gets forgotten. There's not even the vaguest of recollections right now. The PHBs aren't much more than annoyed by these Occupy people... so far. The overdue lesson needs to be driven home, and violently if necessary.
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Spamhaus publishes their Opinion about who are spam problems. It's a lot like Slashdot posts, which are the various contributor's Opinions.
What a quaint mis-framing by using the word "opinion" rather than what it actually is: a declaration. It's much more affirmative than a mere "opinion".
This, BTW, is precisely why ALL blacklists are a crappy idea that ultimately always lead to this scenario. Crowdsourcing this sort of privacy/security function to anonymous people with unverified credibility leads to the well being poisoned with deliberate or unintended misinformation. They are even vulnerable to ill-intentioned people with axes to grind and a willingness to wreck significant swaths of the Internet to exact their vengeance.
Hell, I'm frequently petrified even when I'm not naked, so I can forgive them for that shortcoming.
Robots don't judge unfairly or hold grudges, unless god forbid they're deliberately programmed to behave that way.
Once the corporations see their income statements go to zilch then you would see real change.
The beginning of that process is called a recession. Look how that turns out these days. The One Percent put the screws to the millions of people who had become dependent upon them for paychecks, and we folded and even gave them "bailouts" to restore the profit they imagined they had been deprived. In centuries past it might have played out differently, with the recession escalating to a revolution, but now the One Percent is much more experienced at manipulating the collective boiling point.