Do WE need it ? Sure, freedom of speech, expression and open communications, but...
You like being able to post here? It's a direct result of this 'unnecessary' freedom you're talking about. If you give away freedom, you give a few assho^H^H^H^H^H people more power over your life. If you like people controlling you, get a misstress with a nice long whip, but don't drag the rest of us down with you.
Because if you don't, you'll be spreading deathly diseases and you'll be arrested for biological weapons terrorism. Where else did you think Antrax comes from?
The US was the first to land men on the moon, therefore it belongs to the US. Why is that so complicated for the rest of the world to understand?
Well, the Native American were the first people on your continent too. So we'll follow your example and let you build up a nice base and then we'll come and sell you some blankets with some neat virus as secret bonus.
Now we all know Slashdot readers have multiple girlfriends, got less than A's in math, science, and physics, didn't attend college, and don't earn an average of 100k+/year doing IT work...
Except for the girlfriends and the college part, this is unfortunatly true.
In quantum, by looking at the cars, you can affect their positions!
And when you park you car somewhere and don't look, you can't be sure it'll still be there when you look back. Strangely this effect is much stronger when the doors are left unlocked.
I doubt it. If they've got the same type of students like the ones I see around the campus, I doubt they'll be saving much on maintenance. More the opposite I think.
Beamed to the earth by what, a microwave beam I assume? And I am supposed to trust government workers that it won't get mis-aligned, accidentally pumping all of those free gigawatts of energy into, say, L.A.?
Use a very wide beam. Then the energy/volume will be pretty low and birds don't get BBQed.
Or fill buckets and lower them down with a long cable.
How much differend would that be with AIDS? The virus that causes AIDS remains dormend for years after someone is infected. These people show no symptoms either.
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Doing this will make it easier to clone people and create WoMD. Not the best idea
I don't think there would be a problem. The cloning and the WMD might level out.
Once you build a more secure Email, it gets harder and harder to use. Maybe someday I will have to take a class on how to use email.
Why would that be? When you use e.g. Outlook (for those who dear to admit it) you don't have to know anything about SMTP or POP. You type your message, enter the email adress and click send.
A more secure version of email would probably only replace the protocols without any need for changing any of the interface, except for the unavoidable extra features.
Only 13 percent of the conversations we monitored included any personal topics whatsoever, and only 6.4 percent were exclusively personal
Is that a good or a bad thing? I mean this could mean 87% of those people really dislike each other and therefor only talk when absolutely unquestionaly necessary. I mean that can't be good for team building, can it?
And then they're suprised when they ship their jobs offshore.
You waste company time reading news websites and writing IMs. Therefor we'll replace you all by analfabatic people from a far and strange land. And because they are analfabetic, they wont be distracted by websites or IMs when they fill out their reports.
isn't this monitoring thing a good reason to learn a foreign language? As soon as you and your fellow office dwellers learned Swahili, there will be no more trouble with them monitoring any kind of communication.
Problem is there is no real elimination of bad species in internet evolution. An infected (or insecure) computer should "die" (being kicked off the net, until it's no longer infected or insecure). Without real evolution, there isn't going to change much.
ISPs should play a bigger role in this. A month or 2 ago my provider started with a anti-virus service on email. When I receive a virus, it is block on their server. Anything that would leak through would be captured by my virusscanner. (which can be downloaded free on Avast)
This is all very nice, but the virus sender still keeps sending their infected mails, but with fake email-headers, there isn't much to do against it, except installing virus scanners on every computer linked to the net (that's why I included the link).
I think the first step to deal with many internet problems would be a more secure email system. If it would be made impossible to fake email headers, several problems (spam, [viruses|virii|virux|viruss]) would be much easier to deal with.
I don't believe solid email headers would kill off the anonymous nature of internet. A "normal" header contains enough info to indentify the originator for those who have access to ISP logs.
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Or fill buckets and lower them down with a long cable.
Cool! free money, no work and plenty of sex!
where do I sign up for this?
How much differend would that be with AIDS? The virus that causes AIDS remains dormend for years after someone is infected. These people show no symptoms either.
And then they're suprised when they ship their jobs offshore.
You waste company time reading news websites and writing IMs. Therefor we'll replace you all by analfabatic people from a far and strange land. And because they are analfabetic, they wont be distracted by websites or IMs when they fill out their reports.
isn't this monitoring thing a good reason to learn a foreign language? As soon as you and your fellow office dwellers learned Swahili, there will be no more trouble with them monitoring any kind of communication.
Problem is there is no real elimination of bad species in internet evolution. An infected (or insecure) computer should "die" (being kicked off the net, until it's no longer infected or insecure). Without real evolution, there isn't going to change much.
ISPs should play a bigger role in this. A month or 2 ago my provider started with a anti-virus service on email. When I receive a virus, it is block on their server. Anything that would leak through would be captured by my virusscanner. (which can be downloaded free on Avast) This is all very nice, but the virus sender still keeps sending their infected mails, but with fake email-headers, there isn't much to do against it, except installing virus scanners on every computer linked to the net (that's why I included the link).
I think the first step to deal with many internet problems would be a more secure email system. If it would be made impossible to fake email headers, several problems (spam, [viruses|virii|virux|viruss]) would be much easier to deal with.
I don't believe solid email headers would kill off the anonymous nature of internet. A "normal" header contains enough info to indentify the originator for those who have access to ISP logs.
Now be honest: You were hoping on getting that goatse.cx link again, didin't you?