You seem to forget we had a little war almost 250 years ago so that the US would not be like the UK.
British subjects are so completely spied upon by the government that George Orwell's nightmare has come true. Compared to the multitude of cameras spying on you on every street corner, the t.v. detectors are insignificant.
I don't care if 2600 could legally do the redirect or not. It doesn't matter one little bit. What they did was wrong. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. The members of 2600 really need to get out sometime and get laid for a change.
I am fed up of hearing boring privacy maniacs with a political axe to grind and ulterior motives banging on about what a 'threat' CCTV camera systems are. They are no such thing.
You are a perfect British subject. You have swallowed the official propoganda line and accepted it without question.
Just about everybody else in the world questions this kind of intrusion, but not you, and obviously not very many other British subjects.
Note, I use the word subject and not citizen because a citizen has rights. You gave yours up long ago.
One other thing, at least I have the balls to post with my real name and email address. You are just an Anonymous Coward. Perhaps you are posting as AC because your government might not approve of your actions and you have no real protection of free speech?
Most of the articles of the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" have this loophole:
The above-mentioned rights shall not be subject to any restrictions except those which are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order, public health or morals
Which basically means the government in question can pass any law they want and say is is to preserve public order or for national security. The devil is in the detail.
The U.S. Constitution says you have freedom of speech. It doesn't say freedom of speech except when.... This means the government has to be very careful when they try to surpress that right. Every now and then the government oversteps the boundaries and the courts slap them down. With the U.N. Covenant, it's far too easy for a government to take advantage of the loopholes.
What it boils down to is the covenant only guarantees you the rights unless your government says you don't have those right. I'm glad the U.S. refuses to exchange our slightly flawed Constitution for an empty promise. I have the freedom to criticize my government (and do every chance I get). In China, if you criticize the government, they will arrest you using the national security loophole or they'll just run your sorry ass over with a tank.
> It's not a document of much controversy
> among most civilised nations.)
Have you ever actually read it? Obviously not! There are so many loopholes and exceptions that even the most oppressive government such as China is in complience.
There's a big difference between the natural rights of a businessman and the natural rights of a business. The first exists, the second is a bastardization of the Constitution that was never intended by the Authors. A business/corporation is a thing and does not have any Constitutional rights.
As for the incident in Seattle, the police purposely stood by while a small minority of trouble makers trashed stores and caused general mayhem. When it reached a sufficent level of violence, the police went in and shut down all protests.
The protests, in general, were not against business (though some were), they were against secret meetings that had (still have) the potential of affecting every man, woman, and child on this planet. I have nothing against these meetings, but I demand they be completely open and televised. I don't trust what tiny crumbs they are spoonfeeding us through the media.
I have taught people to use M$ Windows. Compared to the choices available on Linux, it isn't hard. This is so typical of the Linux crowd: "Shut down" is under "Start", therefore it is hard to use. Bullsh!t.
Every single one of your examples is arguing over semantics. For the things that do matter to a nontechnical person, Windows is easier to use.
The Linux crowd needs to stop arguing whether Linux or Windows is easier to use, admit that Windows is the better choice for the typical non-geek, and LEARN FROM MICROSOFT. Oh my god! How can I suggest such a thing. Blasphemy! Damn right. Linux can be better than Windows (again, I'm speaking about the non-geek crowd), but it has a long ways to go in ease of use.
BTW, at home I run SuSE Linux, Windows 98, and Windows 2000. At work I run Windows NT, Windows 2000, and FreeBSD.
I had this idea a couple of years ago. I should have filed a patent on it so I could sue you for IP theft!:)
At the time, lookups were getting rather slow due to the explosive growth of the internet. By using the letters as an index, the load could be spread across multiple servers. Less used letters could be combined, while extremely popular ones could be broken down even further, exactly as you suggest. It's a fairly simple bit of coding, but would require a universal change to the internet - not an easy thing to get done.
My wife handed over a number of irreplacible documents to the INS: birth certificates, marriage license, etc. That was a year and a half ago. The instructions for immigration specifically state that we must provide original documents, not copies, and that they will be returned. When? We need those documents back now! We've written several letter, sent via certified mail, demanding them back. I am a citizen by birth so I am not afraid to make noise.
> is it really illegal to own gold bullion in
> the U.S.?
It used to be illegal but that was changed several decades ago. I personally think that was an unConsitutional law, after all, the Constitution REQUIRES the government to only use gold and silver as a legal tender in payment of debt.
> having to keep -perfectly still- while trying to > aim at someone might be a little much.
That would make it much more realistic. Same goes for the hiccups, coughing, sneezing, etc. When you are in a dangerous situation, any of these could get you killed.
You are supposed to pay for ATT@WORK if you want to use a VPN. The problem is, my company would need at least 10 employees using it to justify the cost.
I should mention what I would like. Are you listening @HOME? I didn't think so.:(
1. 512k+ upload. I'm willing to sacrifice download bandwidth for this.
2. Email that works. I don't expect 100% reliability. No one can provide that because sh!t happens. Alternately, allow me full email access with the ISP of my choice.
3. Acceptable server policy. Allow me to run a server. If I do anything illegal (warez), you can cut me off (but you better have proof!). Allow a reasonable amount of activity for a low volume personal website. Have options to upgrade this for more activity. In the meantime, I'll pray I never post something that get's mentioned on/.:)
4. Part of the TOS (terms of service) is that if my system gets hacked, tough. It's my own fault. I recognize your desire to not be responsible for my stupidity.
You could call this new package Geek@Home. If you use this name, I demand free internet access for as long as the name is in use, but not less than two years.
When I first moved to my current apartment I was thrilled to learn I had a choice of either DSL (from ASI/PacBell) or Cablemodem (from ATT@HOME). I chose DSL because of the faster upload speed. After a month of dealing with PacBell, I finally gave up (they are incompetent) and went with Cablemodem.
The download speed rocks. Easily in excess of 1M, usually much higher. The upload speed bites, choked off at 128k.
Other problems:
1. No servers. You can't set up your own web server. That violates their AUP. They provide webpage space, but you can't set up your own CGI stuff and reliability is extremely poor (their web servers are constantly down or swamped).
2. Email is extremely unreliable. Email can get stuck in their system for several months or simply disappear. It's a real pain when an important email pops in that requires your immediate attention, but dated from two months ago. I'd run my own mail server except that violates their AUP of no servers (and they are constantly port scanning to see if you're doing anything funny). They slipped a little disclaimer into the contract that basically states, "email is for recreational use only, blah, blah, blah". One day they're going to send out some official notice via email. When that happens I'll pop off a legal notice that by using email for official, no-recreation purposes, they have legally changed their policy (although IANAL). I can personally get very reliable email via the VPN to my office, but my wife is stuck with @HOME email service. To compensate for their suckiness, she's opened up several of those free email accounts. But those are all web based and so are inconvenient to use (anyone know of a reliable and free pop3 email service that works with @HOME?).
3. Customer support sucks. 40 minutes on hold (minimum) to talk to some trained chimpanzee who blames me for any problems. Hell, I just asked if the mail server is down in the area, I don't need to reconfigure my bloody system! (it's an inhouse policy of @HOME to always blame the customer, regardless of the problem). One time I was arguing with support about the email. When the woman started in with the "it's a very complicated matter and is beyond me" speech, I told her who I worked for (look at my email address) and it was ok if she wanted to get a little technical. That shut her the hell up!:)
4. 128k upload speed. I know I already mentioned this, but it needs repeating. My company allows me to telecommute once a week (more under special circumstances, e.g. daughter is sick). The limited upload speed makes it a real pain when I connect to the office via the VPN. BTW, doing that violates their AUP. Fsck 'em. I do it anyway.
ATT@HOME is basically treating the internet as a variation of the t.v. You turn it on and they push enterainment (and commericials) at you. Your control is limited to what channel you watch. If you go much beyond their definition of the internet, you will violate the AUP. They don't get it, I guess. When comparing technologies, the internet is more like a telephone than a t.v.
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The Great Wall of China can not be seen from space. Why do people keep perpetuating this myth?
I agree, or any form of public execution. Just to be on the safe side, we should always grab a member of Congress and hang him/her from a tree once a year as a reminder to the others that they serve us.
I want to make one modification to my point system proposal. A member of Congress gets a point for any law they voted for that is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Note there is no reference to an "obviously unconstitutional bill". They're the elected officials. They convinced us they are the most qualified for the job. Fine, then you better know what is Consitutional and what is not.
As an addition to this question: Since our elected officials take an oath to defend and protect the Constitution, isn't voting for an obviously unconstitutional bill a violation of the oath?
I propose some sort of rule. Each time a law is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, all the officials who voted for it are given a point. Once your score reaches a certain level, you are punished in some reasonable manner - fines, censure, etc.
You are using bad statistics. Not all gun deaths are murder. Some are justifiable (shooting an intruder) and some are suicide (in case you didn't know, the lack of guns does not reduce suicides - look at Japan).
I've said this before, the British can shut the fsck up about our guns. We had a little discussion over two hundred years ago regarding this topic. You lost.
Besides, I'd rather be a citizen in the dangerous U.S.A. than a subject in the U.K. (bloody peasants!).
Hubbard a good sci-fi author? Have you been drinking Drano(tm) again? Hubbard SUCKED! His religion sounds like bad science fiction because the only thing he could write was bad science fiction.
Yep, service paks don't get installed because we've learned to be afraid of them. And even if the SP fixes a security hole, MicroShaft has a nasty habit of introducing brand new features in the service pak, with brand new security holes.
At my previous job, I saw firsthand an MS SQL application being hardcoded with the username and password. I was shocked. I expressed my concern, but nobody seemed to care.
Antitrust law says that for a company to behave illegally, it must establish a monopoly (not in itself illegal), engage in anti-competitive practices, and perhaps most importantly, harm consumers. Were consumers demonstrably harmed by Microsoft? If so, how?
You are mistaken. Harm to consumers does not need to be proven. It is assumed if a monopoly engages in anti-competitive practices.
Therefore, if Microsoft is a monopoly and if they used their monopoly to prevent competition, then that is all the court needs to prove.
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You seem to forget we had a little war almost 250 years ago so that the US would not be like the UK.
British subjects are so completely spied upon by the government that George Orwell's nightmare has come true. Compared to the multitude of cameras spying on you on every street corner, the t.v. detectors are insignificant.
I don't care if 2600 could legally do the redirect or not. It doesn't matter one little bit. What they did was wrong. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. The members of 2600 really need to get out sometime and get laid for a change.
I guess it's time to start on porting sendmail. That's the excuse I'm using and I'm going to stick with it.
You are a perfect British subject. You have swallowed the official propoganda line and accepted it without question.
Just about everybody else in the world questions this kind of intrusion, but not you, and obviously not very many other British subjects.
Note, I use the word subject and not citizen because a citizen has rights. You gave yours up long ago.
One other thing, at least I have the balls to post with my real name and email address. You are just an Anonymous Coward. Perhaps you are posting as AC because your government might not approve of your actions and you have no real protection of free speech?
Most of the articles of the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" have this loophole:
Which basically means the government in question can pass any law they want and say is is to preserve public order or for national security. The devil is in the detail. The U.S. Constitution says you have freedom of speech. It doesn't say freedom of speech except when .... This means the government has to be very careful when they try to surpress that right. Every now and then the government oversteps the boundaries and the courts slap them down. With the U.N. Covenant, it's far too easy for a government to take advantage of the loopholes.
What it boils down to is the covenant only guarantees you the rights unless your government says you don't have those right. I'm glad the U.S. refuses to exchange our slightly flawed Constitution for an empty promise. I have the freedom to criticize my government (and do every chance I get). In China, if you criticize the government, they will arrest you using the national security loophole or they'll just run your sorry ass over with a tank.
> It's not a document of much controversy
> among most civilised nations.)
Have you ever actually read it? Obviously not! There are so many loopholes and exceptions that even the most oppressive government such as China is in complience.
There's a big difference between the natural rights of a businessman and the natural rights of a business. The first exists, the second is a bastardization of the Constitution that was never intended by the Authors. A business/corporation is a thing and does not have any Constitutional rights.
As for the incident in Seattle, the police purposely stood by while a small minority of trouble makers trashed stores and caused general mayhem. When it reached a sufficent level of violence, the police went in and shut down all protests.
The protests, in general, were not against business (though some were), they were against secret meetings that had (still have) the potential of affecting every man, woman, and child on this planet. I have nothing against these meetings, but I demand they be completely open and televised. I don't trust what tiny crumbs they are spoonfeeding us through the media.
What an incredibly ignorant statement.
Perl 5.6.1 on Windows platforms is currently in beta and should be available soon from ActiveState.
In the future, you should only comment on subjects you are actively educated in.
I have taught people to use M$ Windows. Compared to the choices available on Linux, it isn't hard. This is so typical of the Linux crowd: "Shut down" is under "Start", therefore it is hard to use. Bullsh!t.
Every single one of your examples is arguing over semantics. For the things that do matter to a nontechnical person, Windows is easier to use.
The Linux crowd needs to stop arguing whether Linux or Windows is easier to use, admit that Windows is the better choice for the typical non-geek, and LEARN FROM MICROSOFT. Oh my god! How can I suggest such a thing. Blasphemy! Damn right. Linux can be better than Windows (again, I'm speaking about the non-geek crowd), but it has a long ways to go in ease of use.
BTW, at home I run SuSE Linux, Windows 98, and Windows 2000. At work I run Windows NT, Windows 2000, and FreeBSD.
I think you need to up your dosage since your medication is no longer effective.
I had this idea a couple of years ago. I should have filed a patent on it so I could sue you for IP theft! :)
At the time, lookups were getting rather slow due to the explosive growth of the internet. By using the letters as an index, the load could be spread across multiple servers. Less used letters could be combined, while extremely popular ones could be broken down even further, exactly as you suggest. It's a fairly simple bit of coding, but would require a universal change to the internet - not an easy thing to get done.
My wife handed over a number of irreplacible documents to the INS: birth certificates, marriage license, etc. That was a year and a half ago. The instructions for immigration specifically state that we must provide original documents, not copies, and that they will be returned. When? We need those documents back now! We've written several letter, sent via certified mail, demanding them back. I am a citizen by birth so I am not afraid to make noise.
> is it really illegal to own gold bullion in
> the U.S.?
It used to be illegal but that was changed several decades ago. I personally think that was an unConsitutional law, after all, the Constitution REQUIRES the government to only use gold and silver as a legal tender in payment of debt.
> having to keep -perfectly still- while trying to > aim at someone might be a little much.
That would make it much more realistic. Same goes for the hiccups, coughing, sneezing, etc. When you are in a dangerous situation, any of these could get you killed.
You are supposed to pay for ATT@WORK if you want to use a VPN. The problem is, my company would need at least 10 employees using it to justify the cost.
Replying to my own post. What an arrogant fsck!
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I should mention what I would like. Are you listening @HOME? I didn't think so.
1. 512k+ upload. I'm willing to sacrifice download bandwidth for this.
2. Email that works. I don't expect 100% reliability. No one can provide that because sh!t happens. Alternately, allow me full email access with the ISP of my choice.
3. Acceptable server policy. Allow me to run a server. If I do anything illegal (warez), you can cut me off (but you better have proof!). Allow a reasonable amount of activity for a low volume personal website. Have options to upgrade this for more activity. In the meantime, I'll pray I never post something that get's mentioned on
4. Part of the TOS (terms of service) is that if my system gets hacked, tough. It's my own fault. I recognize your desire to not be responsible for my stupidity.
You could call this new package Geek@Home. If you use this name, I demand free internet access for as long as the name is in use, but not less than two years.
When I first moved to my current apartment I was thrilled to learn I had a choice of either DSL (from ASI/PacBell) or Cablemodem (from ATT@HOME). I chose DSL because of the faster upload speed. After a month of dealing with PacBell, I finally gave up (they are incompetent) and went with Cablemodem.
:)
The download speed rocks. Easily in excess of 1M, usually much higher. The upload speed bites, choked off at 128k.
Other problems:
1. No servers. You can't set up your own web server. That violates their AUP. They provide webpage space, but you can't set up your own CGI stuff and reliability is extremely poor (their web servers are constantly down or swamped).
2. Email is extremely unreliable. Email can get stuck in their system for several months or simply disappear. It's a real pain when an important email pops in that requires your immediate attention, but dated from two months ago. I'd run my own mail server except that violates their AUP of no servers (and they are constantly port scanning to see if you're doing anything funny). They slipped a little disclaimer into the contract that basically states, "email is for recreational use only, blah, blah, blah". One day they're going to send out some official notice via email. When that happens I'll pop off a legal notice that by using email for official, no-recreation purposes, they have legally changed their policy (although IANAL). I can personally get very reliable email via the VPN to my office, but my wife is stuck with @HOME email service. To compensate for their suckiness, she's opened up several of those free email accounts. But those are all web based and so are inconvenient to use (anyone know of a reliable and free pop3 email service that works with @HOME?).
3. Customer support sucks. 40 minutes on hold (minimum) to talk to some trained chimpanzee who blames me for any problems. Hell, I just asked if the mail server is down in the area, I don't need to reconfigure my bloody system! (it's an inhouse policy of @HOME to always blame the customer, regardless of the problem). One time I was arguing with support about the email. When the woman started in with the "it's a very complicated matter and is beyond me" speech, I told her who I worked for (look at my email address) and it was ok if she wanted to get a little technical. That shut her the hell up!
4. 128k upload speed. I know I already mentioned this, but it needs repeating. My company allows me to telecommute once a week (more under special circumstances, e.g. daughter is sick). The limited upload speed makes it a real pain when I connect to the office via the VPN. BTW, doing that violates their AUP. Fsck 'em. I do it anyway.
ATT@HOME is basically treating the internet as a variation of the t.v. You turn it on and they push enterainment (and commericials) at you. Your control is limited to what channel you watch. If you go much beyond their definition of the internet, you will violate the AUP. They don't get it, I guess. When comparing technologies, the internet is more like a telephone than a t.v.
The Great Wall of China can not be seen from space. Why do people keep perpetuating this myth?
I agree, or any form of public execution. Just to be on the safe side, we should always grab a member of Congress and hang him/her from a tree once a year as a reminder to the others that they serve us.
I want to make one modification to my point system proposal. A member of Congress gets a point for any law they voted for that is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Note there is no reference to an "obviously unconstitutional bill". They're the elected officials. They convinced us they are the most qualified for the job. Fine, then you better know what is Consitutional and what is not.
As an addition to this question: Since our elected officials take an oath to defend and protect the Constitution, isn't voting for an obviously unconstitutional bill a violation of the oath?
I propose some sort of rule. Each time a law is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, all the officials who voted for it are given a point. Once your score reaches a certain level, you are punished in some reasonable manner - fines, censure, etc.
You are using bad statistics. Not all gun deaths are murder. Some are justifiable (shooting an intruder) and some are suicide (in case you didn't know, the lack of guns does not reduce suicides - look at Japan).
I've said this before, the British can shut the fsck up about our guns. We had a little discussion over two hundred years ago regarding this topic. You lost.
Besides, I'd rather be a citizen in the dangerous U.S.A. than a subject in the U.K. (bloody peasants!).
In a police state, the people are too afraid to complain.
Hubbard a good sci-fi author? Have you been drinking Drano(tm) again? Hubbard SUCKED! His religion sounds like bad science fiction because the only thing he could write was bad science fiction.
Yep, service paks don't get installed because we've learned to be afraid of them. And even if the SP fixes a security hole, MicroShaft has a nasty habit of introducing brand new features in the service pak, with brand new security holes.
At my previous job, I saw firsthand an MS SQL application being hardcoded with the username and password. I was shocked. I expressed my concern, but nobody seemed to care.
You are mistaken. Harm to consumers does not need to be proven. It is assumed if a monopoly engages in anti-competitive practices.
Therefore, if Microsoft is a monopoly and if they used their monopoly to prevent competition, then that is all the court needs to prove.