The only difference between ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and someone pointing one at you, is getting to see the person who is going to later masturbate to the footage.
The real effect of scaring the public about VoIP is to ensure their information gathering technology still exists 10 years from now. The intellegence departments know that VoIP over encrypted channels will bring an abrupt end to wire tapping.
"Please, continue to use your local telco, your cell phones, and especially text messaging and email.", some random official might say. "Watching for terrorists has never been so easy!"
AgVulpine writes "Take a visit to Amazon.com and search for Doom3. Mixed in with the search results you'll find an interesting sponsored link. "Doom 3 on BitTorrent -- Download Doom 3 using BitTorrent at Suprnova (aff) -- www.suprnova.com" . It's this kind of crap that will give the US Senate Committee the leverage they need to push through the Induce Act (or ICAA), a bill aimed at shutting down all P2P networks. IICA has beencoveredhere on Slashdot with more information available here."
Interesting that this should be posted just after ZDNet put out this article.
"Why Uncle Sam might buy you a TV" http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story /0,10 738,2902207,00.html
It explains that the FCC wants to provide a government grant in the form of a $500 rebate for customers who purchase digital televisions. This is in an effort to encourage television networks who still own rights to analog frequencies (eg, channel 2-60 some) to stop using these channels because the FCC already auctioned them off to digital providers for $16 billion (when they become available).
So the government feels that Digital Television is safe for us? I'm satisfied.
Phexro spankith: > I remember when I first started encoding my CDs, I couldn't tell the difference between 128kb CBR MP3s and the CD source.
Actually Phexro, this does not mean your hearing has gotten better, but that it has gotten WORSE.
Your hearing use to be so well tuned that it could compensate for irregularities in 128 encoding, preventing your brain from ever perceiving them. However, now that you've grown accustomed to listening to MP3 audio, your brain's hearing has lost the ability to fill in the gaps as well, because it doesn't remember how.
Rather, your brain is doing its job by noticing the gaps in the signal, and figures this is for a purpose, and turns those gaps into noise for you to/enjoy/. Changing to 192 encoding may sound fine for now, but your brain is a persistent beast and will figure it out sooner or later.
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The only difference between ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and someone pointing one at you, is getting to see the person who is going to later masturbate to the footage.
And how do you figure the FBI is going to install ANYTHING on my PC? Osmosis?
The real effect of scaring the public about VoIP is to ensure their information gathering technology still exists 10 years from now. The intellegence departments know that VoIP over encrypted channels will bring an abrupt end to wire tapping.
"Please, continue to use your local telco, your cell phones, and especially text messaging and email.", some random official might say. "Watching for terrorists has never been so easy!"
AgVulpine writes "Take a visit to Amazon.com and search for Doom3. Mixed in with the search results you'll find an interesting sponsored link. "Doom 3 on BitTorrent -- Download Doom 3 using BitTorrent at Suprnova (aff) -- www.suprnova.com" . It's this kind of crap that will give the US Senate Committee the leverage they need to push through the Induce Act (or ICAA), a bill aimed at shutting down all P2P networks. IICA has been covered here on Slashdot with more information available here."
Interesting that this should be posted just after ZDNet put out this article.
y /0,10 738,2902207,00.html
"Why Uncle Sam might buy you a TV"
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/stor
It explains that the FCC wants to provide a government grant in the form of a $500 rebate for customers who purchase digital televisions. This is in an effort to encourage television networks who still own rights to analog frequencies (eg, channel 2-60 some) to stop using these channels because the FCC already auctioned them off to digital providers for $16 billion (when they become available).
So the government feels that Digital Television is safe for us? I'm satisfied.
AgV
Phexro spankith:
/enjoy/. Changing to 192 encoding may sound fine for now, but your brain is a persistent beast and will figure it out sooner or later.
> I remember when I first started encoding my CDs, I couldn't tell the difference between 128kb CBR MP3s and the CD source.
Actually Phexro, this does not mean your hearing has gotten better, but that it has gotten WORSE.
Your hearing use to be so well tuned that it could compensate for irregularities in 128 encoding, preventing your brain from ever perceiving them. However, now that you've grown accustomed to listening to MP3 audio, your brain's hearing has lost the ability to fill in the gaps as well, because it doesn't remember how.
Rather, your brain is doing its job by noticing the gaps in the signal, and figures this is for a purpose, and turns those gaps into noise for you to
AgV