That's the problem, nobody cares that their democracy (or more accurately their constitutional republic) is dead and gone. It simply baffles me that people are so willing to piss away their freedom and it drives me crazy that I'm in the minority of people who see what's going on.
I'm sure a few citizens of Rome would sympathize, after witnessing the Republic transform into the Empire in Caesar's hands. Then, like now, the majority of the populous was too busy enjoying their bread and circuses to notice that their democratic representation disappeared.
So, lets get this straight. You would sacrifice the very nature of America for the lives of, at most, a few thousand people? You would change it, whore it, just to feel a little bit safer while you work, shop, sleep, and eat.
Congratulations, you just spit on the graves of every soldier that died to protect America. You, my religious friend, are pathetic. Fuck you.
In the mean time protect yourself. Run everything over encrypted tunnels, don't use your company's DNS servers, use a browser that allows you to save your cache to a safe location (USB hard drive,/dev/null, whatever), don't use work e-mail for anything other than work, don't use unencrypted webmail, don't assume that they aren't using keylogging, the list goes on...
Staying one step ahead of Big Brother is a poor substitute for privacy rights. What would stop a "black box" recorder from noting the fact that you were circumventing monitoring by the aforementioned methods? You can still get slammed for "unauthorized use of Company equipment" by this even if the content of the website, email, IM, or whatever, is encrypted; you are obviously hiding something from the monitoring systems, so it obviously is not work-related...
Your suggestions are sensible (I use them), but will only work in unsophisticated environments, and for a limited period of time.
"...Leading to the "Rust Belt" throughout the American Northeast. America recovered via the IT and telecommunications industries.
What are you calling a recovery? The northeastern United States is still poverty-stricken (and I'm not talking about the Coastal areas). Infrastructure is decaying. Many of the region's lesser cities have become the worst minority ghettos in the country. The tech industry never came to the 'Rust Belt,' and it never will.
"America" as a whole will continue to prosper, yes. But each time a Big Change occurs entire regions become scar tissue, forever useless. It is a bit arrogant to consider this model of economics to be superior to any other.
Stupid libertarian. It just means that China and India will go into space, perhaps with Russian help, while we shrink the government and try, vainly, to shrink the government and turn the clock back to 1820.
Ah, the spectre of the Liberal Media rises again. Look, if you believe that the media is not "neutral" it is because society itself is not "neutral" in a way that pleases you. You want everyone to be more like you, so you complain fiercely when views other than your own are labelled "objective" or "neutral."
Go back to your think-tank talking points and find some that weren't penned decades again, O trollish one.
As the leader of a small-time garage band, I would LOVE to have a label come along and "exploit" us with a five-year, multi-million dollar record contract, even if it meant seeing every (crappy) song I ever wrote locked down by eeeeeevil DRM layers.
So you aren't in it for the love of the music. Art for art's sake. It's no wonder that your songs are as shitty as you admit they are. Go sell the instruments and start daytrading, you'd make a better pathetic businessman than you are a pathetic artist.
The 2005 budget proposed by Bush freezes all federal spending and eliminates or consolidates many departments.
You are conveniently omitting the costs of the Greater Middle East Initiatives (i.e. wars), as is the budget proposed by Bush. Federal spending is not frozen; "defense" spending is skyrocketing.
Which would you rather have? 3 or 4 companies vying to offer broadband?
You have 3 or 4 sets of DSL and cable wires running into your house? That sounds great. There are parts of New York City that totally lack DSL and cable. In 2005. I wonder why, after so many years? Surely the free market would not let such a need go unfilled!
Whatever the poster's motives, it represents a lot of very dangerous thinking where people are willing trade their freedom for a little free service from the government.
Would that be the freedom to photograph bridges and subways without being harassed by police, or the freedom to enter the country without fingerprinting? Perhaps you meant the freedom to grow and ingest psychoactive plants? Lest I forget, the freedom that comes with puritanical views on sex?
Oh. You meant the freedom to make lots of money without having to pay onerous taxes. How....visionary.
The only strong argument I can think of for surveillance by employers is that the employee "consents."
That is why most major companies that perform monitoring will display disclaimers on company PCs, perhaps as a login message, as a proxied web start page, or as a signature appended to email. There will probably be a page in the employee handbook as well.
Failure to notify might put the companies in a delicate situation if action is taken over the content of transmissions. They do not necessarily have carte blance just yet.
First off, I have no intention of respecting an opinion based on nonsense. I call you an ass because, frankly, your malformed opinions show a distinct lack of critical thought, despite your Slashdot account. Earn it with intelligent statements and not groupthink and I will gladly retract my accusation.
Case in point. There are at least eight million people in New York City. Did most of them report to work? Did offices and stores close because everyone was going to be out protesting in the streets? No. You are making idiotic assumptions because thousands or tens of thousands of people expressed themselves democractically. That is still an insignificant fraction of the population, especially if you consider how many of those protestors were not from New York.
88% of the French (according to the latest poll) dislike our president.
Around half of the American population doesn't like him either. Perhaps this explains your "resentment" for "the Left"? You claim that your feelings are justified, after all.
Talking to a Left-leaning person, France will come up as one of the "successfull" alternative models of society.
Canada is quite similiar, i.e. a democracy with socialist leanings. But hey, Canada was not chosen as a target by the Right, so no complaint over their form of government or dislike of Bush. Just France, they who dared to stand in the way of American will.
Oh, and you must not have been in New York when the Chinese Premiere was in the Waldorf-Astoria for a few days. Probably did not see the massive protests on Park Avenue that ran day and night (I worked nearby, I saw it firsthand). He lived in luxury, meeting US officials for exquisite lunches. Our government drooled over the chance to rake in billions over increased trade with China.....but oh those evil French, looking to make money in a similar fashion! EVIL!
a much more evil (here we agree, I hope) Chinese leader.
If you are still paying attention, which leader in all of China's history would you consider good? Bet you can't come up with one, because you dont know a damn thing about the nature of their society. Prove me wrong, if you will.
I'm sure you know that Falun Gong is in NYC for a PR and fundraising campaign. If there is anything a real New Yorker knows it is when someone is attempting to sell them something. Most New Yorkers ignored the RNC and the protests, too. They mainly went about their daily tasks, even though -- gasp -- they are liberals!
France is not the beacon of anyone. The left fails to hate France, simply refraining from jingoist sentiments spewed by neoconservatives. IF you wish to call that admiration, by all means do so, you are obviously a partisan ass to begin with.
How could you ever expect a fair rulling from them?
Did you sleep through the news of the girls in Colorado who were fined for giving cookies to their neighbor? Idiotic judgements are passed by every court in the world. Your jingoism is misplaced.
Unfamiliar with the terminology, I see. "Group Policies" are a technological feature of Active Directory networks. The operating system enforces the rulesets passed down from the master servers. If the admins set the rule that removable media cannot be attached to PCs, then any Windows PC connected to the network (not the PHYSICAL network, but the services on the physical network) will not recognize removeable media, period.
Unlike you, Microsoft knows the full power of Group Policies, and how the entire network can be configured to deny installation of external devices. Resorting to imperfect physical security would only annoy employees while failing to protect against cursory concealment techniques.
In the end the answer is simple: Use any of the myriads of free encryption programs!
I can run a 6400000-bit encrypted stream between site A and site B, but if I am financially attached to one of the nodes they will get the information they are looking for. This isn't about reading text as it flows through a router, it is about noting where a suspect communicates, how often, at what times, etc. Perhaps then expanding the search to other users of that location, as warrants are not needed for execution.
This does an end-run around encryption. Hence the "Big Brother" aspect.
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I'm sure a few citizens of Rome would sympathize, after witnessing the Republic transform into the Empire in Caesar's hands. Then, like now, the majority of the populous was too busy enjoying their bread and circuses to notice that their democratic representation disappeared.
Time to get you off my 'friends' list. Loser.
So you are a member of the Know-Nothing party, right? Durn immigants!
I'm assuming, then, that you never experienced Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri...
According to his journal he is a practicing Catholic. So yes, he is quite easily manipulated.
At least you left that juvenile sig out of this post. You retarded or what?
Congratulations, you just spit on the graves of every soldier that died to protect America. You, my religious friend, are pathetic. Fuck you.
Staying one step ahead of Big Brother is a poor substitute for privacy rights. What would stop a "black box" recorder from noting the fact that you were circumventing monitoring by the aforementioned methods? You can still get slammed for "unauthorized use of Company equipment" by this even if the content of the website, email, IM, or whatever, is encrypted; you are obviously hiding something from the monitoring systems, so it obviously is not work-related...
Your suggestions are sensible (I use them), but will only work in unsophisticated environments, and for a limited period of time.
What are you calling a recovery? The northeastern United States is still poverty-stricken (and I'm not talking about the Coastal areas). Infrastructure is decaying. Many of the region's lesser cities have become the worst minority ghettos in the country. The tech industry never came to the 'Rust Belt,' and it never will.
"America" as a whole will continue to prosper, yes. But each time a Big Change occurs entire regions become scar tissue, forever useless. It is a bit arrogant to consider this model of economics to be superior to any other.
Go back to your think-tank talking points and find some that weren't penned decades again, O trollish one.
So you aren't in it for the love of the music. Art for art's sake. It's no wonder that your songs are as shitty as you admit they are. Go sell the instruments and start daytrading, you'd make a better pathetic businessman than you are a pathetic artist.
You are conveniently omitting the costs of the Greater Middle East Initiatives (i.e. wars), as is the budget proposed by Bush. Federal spending is not frozen; "defense" spending is skyrocketing.
You have 3 or 4 sets of DSL and cable wires running into your house? That sounds great. There are parts of New York City that totally lack DSL and cable. In 2005. I wonder why, after so many years? Surely the free market would not let such a need go unfilled!
Would that be the freedom to photograph bridges and subways without being harassed by police, or the freedom to enter the country without fingerprinting? Perhaps you meant the freedom to grow and ingest psychoactive plants? Lest I forget, the freedom that comes with puritanical views on sex?
Oh. You meant the freedom to make lots of money without having to pay onerous taxes. How....visionary.
That is why most major companies that perform monitoring will display disclaimers on company PCs, perhaps as a login message, as a proxied web start page, or as a signature appended to email. There will probably be a page in the employee handbook as well.
Failure to notify might put the companies in a delicate situation if action is taken over the content of transmissions. They do not necessarily have carte blance just yet.
Case in point. There are at least eight million people in New York City. Did most of them report to work? Did offices and stores close because everyone was going to be out protesting in the streets? No. You are making idiotic assumptions because thousands or tens of thousands of people expressed themselves democractically. That is still an insignificant fraction of the population, especially if you consider how many of those protestors were not from New York.
88% of the French (according to the latest poll) dislike our president.
Around half of the American population doesn't like him either. Perhaps this explains your "resentment" for "the Left"? You claim that your feelings are justified, after all.
Talking to a Left-leaning person, France will come up as one of the "successfull" alternative models of society.
Canada is quite similiar, i.e. a democracy with socialist leanings. But hey, Canada was not chosen as a target by the Right, so no complaint over their form of government or dislike of Bush. Just France, they who dared to stand in the way of American will.
Oh, and you must not have been in New York when the Chinese Premiere was in the Waldorf-Astoria for a few days. Probably did not see the massive protests on Park Avenue that ran day and night (I worked nearby, I saw it firsthand). He lived in luxury, meeting US officials for exquisite lunches. Our government drooled over the chance to rake in billions over increased trade with China.....but oh those evil French, looking to make money in a similar fashion! EVIL!
a much more evil (here we agree, I hope) Chinese leader.
If you are still paying attention, which leader in all of China's history would you consider good? Bet you can't come up with one, because you dont know a damn thing about the nature of their society. Prove me wrong, if you will.
France is not the beacon of anyone. The left fails to hate France, simply refraining from jingoist sentiments spewed by neoconservatives. IF you wish to call that admiration, by all means do so, you are obviously a partisan ass to begin with.
You seriously have no idea what you are talking about.
Did you sleep through the news of the girls in Colorado who were fined for giving cookies to their neighbor? Idiotic judgements are passed by every court in the world. Your jingoism is misplaced.
Fortunately for us all, dilligent corporations are applying an old remedy to bring these costs down.
Unfamiliar with the terminology, I see. "Group Policies" are a technological feature of Active Directory networks. The operating system enforces the rulesets passed down from the master servers. If the admins set the rule that removable media cannot be attached to PCs, then any Windows PC connected to the network (not the PHYSICAL network, but the services on the physical network) will not recognize removeable media, period.
Unlike you, Microsoft knows the full power of Group Policies, and how the entire network can be configured to deny installation of external devices. Resorting to imperfect physical security would only annoy employees while failing to protect against cursory concealment techniques.
I can run a 6400000-bit encrypted stream between site A and site B, but if I am financially attached to one of the nodes they will get the information they are looking for. This isn't about reading text as it flows through a router, it is about noting where a suspect communicates, how often, at what times, etc. Perhaps then expanding the search to other users of that location, as warrants are not needed for execution.
This does an end-run around encryption. Hence the "Big Brother" aspect.
This fellow is whoring himself in the hopes that his mini-mac referral gets modded up into general display. Do not fall for it.