Well as long as you put it out as an opinion rather than a statement of fact, in most countries in would not be slander, how ever it would likely be considered as harassment. There is a real sense of physical threat in wondering around a persons neighbourhood when the olnly reason for doing so is a grudge against that person. There is only the time and effort it produce some blog rant versus printing photo copying and delivery, that level of commitment implies a real measure of potential threat.
In the context of you post of course your comparison is wildly wrong. As people have to choose to look at and read the anonymous blog, more accurately your comparison aligns with spam also a bit of privacy invasion as you would have to have obtained all the email addresses of the people in that neighbourhood.
Any university that out sources to those privacy invasive organisations is also denying the student the choice of maintaining their privacy. It is offensive to consider that any major educational institution would farm out the privacy of it's students.
The grand lie that email management is more complex the maintaining a secure and stable network that is connected to the internet is just laughable. Web mail management is one of the simplest issues of network management in a highly interconnected space like a university, file servers, teaching staff software and hardware, confidential research networks, super computer set up and management etc.. It is just a lie that attempts to make palatable the selling of their students privacy.
Ignorance is not bliss. Consider this one simple fact, try carrying around the required number of text books, reference books and general education books, then try carrying one dvd that could not only contain all the information in those books but provide accompanying multi media. Off course if you want to save carrying around a few hundred kilograms of dead wood you will need a kilogram or so of silicon and plastic to read that disc.
Even as you unthinkingly type your post, you would willingly deny people who can not afford to do the same the opportunity of sharing knowledge, beliefs and understanding from around the world. By the way, the laptop can also be used in the first and second world. It is not a third world computer, it is a computer targeted as an educational tool for children from around the world and the more sold the cheaper it becomes.
Well, no it is more like a compelling reason to switch to open source software and avoid all of the licensing hassles. Look at it this way, if a staff memeber does not need what ever stupid gadget M$ are spruiking about lately in M$ Word, then get that employee using a Linux box with open office installed. Not only will you have saved a considerable amount of money but you will never have to fear the employee installing M$ Office on that Linux box as it is impossible.
Where most small businesses get caught is when staff load up software they were not meant to or who did so with out the approval or knowledge of management. Odd things do happen, a staff members computer is replaced with a newer more powerful model and the older machine is handed across to another worker and they forget to redo the installation of the old machine and unload all installed software that fails reauditing and confirming all licence fees and receipts.
It really is weird when you use proprietary software nowadays. The $50 dollar OEM, costs you a couple of hundred dollars a year in licence and receipt audits, a couple of thousand dollars a year in administration costs and down time and you will never stop having to pay for it. Next year it will demand the same amount of money again, and the year after that it will demand it again and into the next decade it will keep demanding more money. in fact the only way to get it to stop demanding money is to throw it out.
The BSA is one of the leading reasons to switch to open source software. The only money you should be paying for software is for manuals, service and support.
That is a real misdirection, surely you must be joking when you compare a single function appliance to a general use personal computer. Whilst it might be fair for a piece of HD or Blue playing software on top of the OS and it is stupid for it in the operating system. The one sole function of the operating system is to provide the user with a secure, stable and reliable bridge between the users hardware and the software the users wishes to run on that hardware, nothing else.
When M$ failed in that, they failed. Whilst it might be reasonable for windows media player to control access, it is completely unacceptable for the operating system to control access. The only reason M$ put it in the operating system was as an entry level xbox styled licensing system. Either pay M$ the licence fee or your content or software wont run on their system.
So what you are saying is, along as you are not amongst the very worst you have no right to complain, no right to work to achieve a better society, that being the leading society is unimportant, that falling freedoms and workers rights are not a problem until such time as they are the worst in the world (of course then it will be to late to complain).
Face it the mass media twisted American dream is in reality the American nightmare, you can not have a minority rich with out a majority poor (which is why the significant republican attack upon the middle class, they are the greatest threat to the rich and greedy), that is what being rich is, having more than every one else around you and in fact by definition you have to strive for them to have less.
The real function of society is to have a healthy and happy society not to enrich and empower a minority at the expense of the majority.
As for religions and cults, what is the real difference apart from numbers. As for the mass media attack upon authority and the rich, say what, which media are you talking about, not that fictitious liberal media, oh it's that nasty foreign media, the bloody BBC at it again.
Juts one point to highlight about google so called protecting people's privacy. Google fought to prevent giving the information away for 'free' not selling that information. Your privacy is google's profit centre of course it will fight any government gaining access to what it sells for with out paying for it.
It might be unfair to say google is the single greatest threat to privacy, but certainly the googlites preaching that no one should expect privacy on the internet, that private emails are postcards, the children's game playing should by analysed for marketing purposes, are a real threat to privacy. Their willingness to sell out the future generations right to retain some measure of digital privacy is just pathetic.
Reading emails, reading data storage, reading medical records, analysing MMOG, desktop search and they are looking into gaining full access to networks, via gphone etc. It is about time that some real legal restraint was applied on personally targeted marketing. Advertising was and should only be accepted as a means by which companies can inform the 'general' (emphasis on general) public of products, not an individual tailored psychological marketing assault.
The problem with that is the new definitions, and clauses contract becomes like a dictionary, in fact very much like a dictionary as the redefine words in common use to their version of contract language. It is far better to come up with common definition that they have to adhere to and at random intervals and across random locations they are tested. Based upon actual deliverables versus marketed offerings they are then forced to credit every customer for the discrepancy for that month.
Deregulations for corporations is just an invitation to act in a fraudulent corrupt manner. The only truth you can find in modern corporate marketing is when you know their revised corporate marketing version of the English language and words like best, quality, traditional, fast, reliable, stable and secure, and based upon the way they keep using them, those words obviously no longer mean what we think they mean.
Actually planets with in compact star clusters are for more likely to have a higher evolution rates as the interacting ort clouds will result in more common impact driven mass extinction events leaving many vacant niches with in the environment for mutating life to fill. Interestingly enough the major survival trait in those locations would be the ability to forecast and prevent future impact events either that or the ability to permanently leave a planets surface.
High radiation would just leave life evolving to suit high radiation levels and likely be simple to more effectively resist DNA (or the equivalent) damage. An extremely stable and benign planetary surface would have very little need for rapid evolution and gaps to fill with in the environment would rarely occur.
Perhaps that is the real point. Copyrights laws should be publicly reviewed and put to a majority vote and not left up to minority interests. What should or should not be subject to copyright protection and what should the duration of copyright protection be.
Any honest, fair and honourable politician would put a review of copyright laws to the public as this is a public issue. By the same token, any dishonest, biased and corrupt, will refuse to put a review of copyright laws out to the public, instead they will simply accept bribes from corrupt corporations and attempt to implement laws that they know the public would disapprove.
So rather than saying what copyright laws should or shouldn't lets just work to achieving a full public review and put to a democratic vote the various options. Surely the RIAA sycophants wont protest a democratic approach, or attempt corrupt illegal practices to block it's process. I am totally 100$ for a complete public review of copyright laws, which ever way they end up going;).
It would be far more accurate to say that M$ claims that this is not a bug, because the latest version does not have it ie. it is an upgrade feature. How many other products would you accept this for, a defect in a motor vehicle. No recall because the latest version does not have that defect, you just have to trade in for the upgrade (M$ version of a trade in , it is more expensive than the original OEM).
Did you not know they also add the typical junk additives found in junk food, to pet foods. Those wonderfully (well for profits) addictive flavour enhancers, and you thought they just worked on people. All of the flavour enhancers were tested on animals first, which is why they had to do unscrupulous stuff, like adding alternate flavour enhancers to control food, or use foods that would naturally slow the uptake of the enhancer or just use corrupt/junk politicians in the approval process.
So it is inevitable that pets will start to suffer the same conditions people do. Obesity epidemic, excessive consumption triggered by addictive neuro stimulants (flavour enhancer, oh my, what an outlandish misdirection), combined with the alterations to normal bodily functions also caused by those same substances.
Most likely, those privtae investigators are simply being paid buy lawyers who will charge a commission for contracting the private investigators, as well as of course charging for evaluating the reports, photo copying the reports, summarising the reports, forwarding the summary of the reports to the client, making paper planes out of the reports, wiping their butts with the reports and basically anything and everything else they can think of soliciting a charge for.
First, and last job of a lawyers is to extract as much money as possible out of their client, most people really needs two (oh my god where does it end) lawyers, one lawyer to keep a eye of the other lawyer.
That is not really accurate considering how much space wind farms take up. Have you any idea how many hundreds of miles of coast line would be taken up by wind farms to match one major nuclear power plant. Artful misdirection though.
Well there you go, a two for one present. Get the kid a chemistry set and let them use in publicly in the front yard and they get a free secret agent adventure thrown in for free;).
To me more accurate the Chinese government has become a government of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation as long as the corporation enriches the ruling autocracy. The average worker is China is getting no real skill transfer, no more than any other production line worker, it is just that in China they are cheaper than robots.
Of course government approved management level is gaining a great deal of technological skill with which to compete against democracies from around the world. In terms of competition in industrialised mass production of course, no modern democracy that takes into account the rights and benefits of the majority can ever compete with an autocracy where the average worker is treated more like a biological robot rather than a human being. Deregulating industry via corruption is not competing on an equal footing.
What you do is give some time, say six months, in which any on going activities can be restructured so that they will not be compromised by the release of 'evidence' that pertains to the case in question.
Logically speaking all criminal activity is secret whether it is carried out by agents of the government or private individuals working to their own purposes. There is never any excuse where criminal activity once discovered should not be prosecuted, that is a direct denial of justice and one of the basic tenets that all people are equal under the law, including politicians, as well as, agents of the NSA, CIA or the FBI or any other agencies from around the world who where directly or indirectly involved.
The government does not do anything, it is always individuals with in government who carry out the actions of government. It is not the government that is pursued and prosecuted in the courts, it is the individuals who have acted outside the interests of the government and the people whom the government is meant to represent.
The most important issue of any court case is the primary interests of the people and the active public pursuit of justice, no so called secrets should ever be allowed to under mine the sanctity of the courts, the basic means by which, the public can ensure that the government is in fact acting in the public interest and that functions of government have not been treasonously usurped to feed the greed of a corrupt loathsome minority.
As members of a democracy that is not quite right. All you have to do is make continuous effort for change. So as long as they operate in your country they will have to operate by rules they benefit the majority and not the minority.
All you have to do is work to force that change. Mean while the current corporate trolls will continuously try to tell you, you can't win, you have no power, you can never force change, only the corporations have influence over the government. Basically they are desperate to squeeze as much out of the current corrupt administration they can because they know future governments will be governed more by the majority and less by the moneyed minority.
Prior rules where they could only monitor communications network only for quality control purposes some of the time. They had absolutely no legal basis to monitor all networks communications, let alone filter content based upon their rules. Whether manual or automated that is a gross invasion of privacy.
Here is a simple one, the plain.com.net.org.gov.mil.edu etc were all orginally defined by ICANN as international domains and in blatant egotistical move the current US administration usurped them as US domains instead of using.us. They was done in bad taste especially with the inference of.gov being a world government or.mil being the world military.
So now you have a push to shift the DNS system to an international basis especially as the current US administration has also stated that they would take unilateral action against other countries domains in political disputes.
So a new international DNS system will happen, get over it, there will be no rush, it will take about five to ten years. Politics, control of internal domain naming, and different languages will all help to force the shift.
Excessive privatization will also help drive the change, could you imagine ICANN being auctioned off to the highest bidder and being controlled by someone like M$ (competitors domain requests will point to M$)or even google (every domain request tracked for targeted marketing).
I think the around about point that was being made, was rather then declaring war on consumers they should have created their own itunes, ipod, iphone music etc. delivery system.
It is about holding onto their old publishing styles albums through music stores rather than progressing onto their electronic music delivery systems. All they have done is cause considerable harm to their brand, rather than taking their brand into the 21st century and adding things like, search, msuic delivery, video delivery, web portal, gaming and social network. They merged with AOL and basically went no where and done nothing with it.
The have a lot of work to do to catch up, and match news corps work with myspace.
As data delivery technology matures it becomes minor upgrades. Why would any content producer or publisher want to pay a M$ or google tax on all their content, amounting to billions of dollars every year.
Bascialy cheap hardware and open standards will mean it will be far simpler and cheaper for producers or publishers to deliver direct. Ballmer has always had delusions of charging an M$ tax on all internet transactions, media, financial, software even browsing, but it is just that a delusion.
The consumer products companies will win over the long run, as it won't cost much extra to incorporate the additional hardware, in big screen TVs or high resolution virtual reality headsets. Combine those two items with an open source operating system, upon which you can run multiple content delivery systems, and unless M$ starts building a big content library they have nowhere to go.
Your analogy is wildly wrong. They have a warrant to search you property. You have a save that you claim you do not know about and they demand the combination. You fail to 'comply' as you do not know the combination. They then are entitled to use damaging force to open the safe (damage to the safe, of course not damaging to the person).
So for you analogy to hold true, they are entitled to decrypt the file with out your supplied key and if they damage it in the process, well, tough.
I forget is still a standard logical defence, either that or the government and the law enforcement authorities must prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the majority of humans have a perfect memory and no one has even forgotten for example, some ones name, a phone number, car registration, credit card number, birthdays of all the family and friends or heaven forbid a computer password.
Here is a better example for you. You have a DVD, I as the authority state that you have hidden data in the DVD and demand you supply the encryption key. Supply the key and you have committed a criminal act against the DMCA or it's equivalent, don't supply the key and you have committed a criminal act against RIPA.
Look anybody who doesn't store their private stuff on a usb key (or the equivalent flash storage device) and only leaves it plugged in when they are using it, doesn't deserve to be considered a criminal, just a rank innocent amateur.
Difference between private and government. Private does as little as possible and charges as much as possible for it (including lying, cheating and stealing, all with a complete lack of conscience), government does as much as possible but charges as little as possible for it (sometimes it fails, oddly enough due to, 'fucking private' interests, it's that lying cheating and stealing bit, you can't get away from it).
The only company that 'makes' money is the government mint, everybody else gets it from some one else, they do not make it, they all take it, oh, and apparently the greediest win, well at least in their own tiny minds;).
It is one thing to talk about the total output of tidal energy, it is a nothing entirely to be able to convert that energy into a usable form. Damage to coastal environments would be enormous to to gain even a minor fraction of the tidal energy output. The same problem with solar panel energy, and of course one decent hail storm and a city is knocked out for months until all the panels can be replaced (unless there is an alternate form of energy). Wind of course is vary variable and there is already significant resistance to more towers marring the landscape. So the only alternate at the moment is nuclear, preferably many low temp, long life reactors, rather than the high complexity, high temp units currently used.
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In the context of you post of course your comparison is wildly wrong. As people have to choose to look at and read the anonymous blog, more accurately your comparison aligns with spam also a bit of privacy invasion as you would have to have obtained all the email addresses of the people in that neighbourhood.
The grand lie that email management is more complex the maintaining a secure and stable network that is connected to the internet is just laughable. Web mail management is one of the simplest issues of network management in a highly interconnected space like a university, file servers, teaching staff software and hardware, confidential research networks, super computer set up and management etc.. It is just a lie that attempts to make palatable the selling of their students privacy.
Even as you unthinkingly type your post, you would willingly deny people who can not afford to do the same the opportunity of sharing knowledge, beliefs and understanding from around the world. By the way, the laptop can also be used in the first and second world. It is not a third world computer, it is a computer targeted as an educational tool for children from around the world and the more sold the cheaper it becomes.
Where most small businesses get caught is when staff load up software they were not meant to or who did so with out the approval or knowledge of management. Odd things do happen, a staff members computer is replaced with a newer more powerful model and the older machine is handed across to another worker and they forget to redo the installation of the old machine and unload all installed software that fails reauditing and confirming all licence fees and receipts.
It really is weird when you use proprietary software nowadays. The $50 dollar OEM, costs you a couple of hundred dollars a year in licence and receipt audits, a couple of thousand dollars a year in administration costs and down time and you will never stop having to pay for it. Next year it will demand the same amount of money again, and the year after that it will demand it again and into the next decade it will keep demanding more money. in fact the only way to get it to stop demanding money is to throw it out.
The BSA is one of the leading reasons to switch to open source software. The only money you should be paying for software is for manuals, service and support.
When M$ failed in that, they failed. Whilst it might be reasonable for windows media player to control access, it is completely unacceptable for the operating system to control access. The only reason M$ put it in the operating system was as an entry level xbox styled licensing system. Either pay M$ the licence fee or your content or software wont run on their system.
Face it the mass media twisted American dream is in reality the American nightmare, you can not have a minority rich with out a majority poor (which is why the significant republican attack upon the middle class, they are the greatest threat to the rich and greedy), that is what being rich is, having more than every one else around you and in fact by definition you have to strive for them to have less.
The real function of society is to have a healthy and happy society not to enrich and empower a minority at the expense of the majority.
As for religions and cults, what is the real difference apart from numbers. As for the mass media attack upon authority and the rich, say what, which media are you talking about, not that fictitious liberal media, oh it's that nasty foreign media, the bloody BBC at it again.
It might be unfair to say google is the single greatest threat to privacy, but certainly the googlites preaching that no one should expect privacy on the internet, that private emails are postcards, the children's game playing should by analysed for marketing purposes, are a real threat to privacy. Their willingness to sell out the future generations right to retain some measure of digital privacy is just pathetic.
Reading emails, reading data storage, reading medical records, analysing MMOG, desktop search and they are looking into gaining full access to networks, via gphone etc. It is about time that some real legal restraint was applied on personally targeted marketing. Advertising was and should only be accepted as a means by which companies can inform the 'general' (emphasis on general) public of products, not an individual tailored psychological marketing assault.
Deregulations for corporations is just an invitation to act in a fraudulent corrupt manner. The only truth you can find in modern corporate marketing is when you know their revised corporate marketing version of the English language and words like best, quality, traditional, fast, reliable, stable and secure, and based upon the way they keep using them, those words obviously no longer mean what we think they mean.
High radiation would just leave life evolving to suit high radiation levels and likely be simple to more effectively resist DNA (or the equivalent) damage. An extremely stable and benign planetary surface would have very little need for rapid evolution and gaps to fill with in the environment would rarely occur.
Any honest, fair and honourable politician would put a review of copyright laws to the public as this is a public issue. By the same token, any dishonest, biased and corrupt, will refuse to put a review of copyright laws out to the public, instead they will simply accept bribes from corrupt corporations and attempt to implement laws that they know the public would disapprove.
So rather than saying what copyright laws should or shouldn't lets just work to achieving a full public review and put to a democratic vote the various options. Surely the RIAA sycophants wont protest a democratic approach, or attempt corrupt illegal practices to block it's process. I am totally 100$ for a complete public review of copyright laws, which ever way they end up going ;).
It would be far more accurate to say that M$ claims that this is not a bug, because the latest version does not have it ie. it is an upgrade feature. How many other products would you accept this for, a defect in a motor vehicle. No recall because the latest version does not have that defect, you just have to trade in for the upgrade (M$ version of a trade in , it is more expensive than the original OEM).
So it is inevitable that pets will start to suffer the same conditions people do. Obesity epidemic, excessive consumption triggered by addictive neuro stimulants (flavour enhancer, oh my, what an outlandish misdirection), combined with the alterations to normal bodily functions also caused by those same substances.
First, and last job of a lawyers is to extract as much money as possible out of their client, most people really needs two (oh my god where does it end) lawyers, one lawyer to keep a eye of the other lawyer.
That is not really accurate considering how much space wind farms take up. Have you any idea how many hundreds of miles of coast line would be taken up by wind farms to match one major nuclear power plant. Artful misdirection though.
Well there you go, a two for one present. Get the kid a chemistry set and let them use in publicly in the front yard and they get a free secret agent adventure thrown in for free ;).
Of course government approved management level is gaining a great deal of technological skill with which to compete against democracies from around the world. In terms of competition in industrialised mass production of course, no modern democracy that takes into account the rights and benefits of the majority can ever compete with an autocracy where the average worker is treated more like a biological robot rather than a human being. Deregulating industry via corruption is not competing on an equal footing.
Logically speaking all criminal activity is secret whether it is carried out by agents of the government or private individuals working to their own purposes. There is never any excuse where criminal activity once discovered should not be prosecuted, that is a direct denial of justice and one of the basic tenets that all people are equal under the law, including politicians, as well as, agents of the NSA, CIA or the FBI or any other agencies from around the world who where directly or indirectly involved.
The government does not do anything, it is always individuals with in government who carry out the actions of government. It is not the government that is pursued and prosecuted in the courts, it is the individuals who have acted outside the interests of the government and the people whom the government is meant to represent.
The most important issue of any court case is the primary interests of the people and the active public pursuit of justice, no so called secrets should ever be allowed to under mine the sanctity of the courts, the basic means by which, the public can ensure that the government is in fact acting in the public interest and that functions of government have not been treasonously usurped to feed the greed of a corrupt loathsome minority.
All you have to do is work to force that change. Mean while the current corporate trolls will continuously try to tell you, you can't win, you have no power, you can never force change, only the corporations have influence over the government. Basically they are desperate to squeeze as much out of the current corrupt administration they can because they know future governments will be governed more by the majority and less by the moneyed minority.
Prior rules where they could only monitor communications network only for quality control purposes some of the time. They had absolutely no legal basis to monitor all networks communications, let alone filter content based upon their rules. Whether manual or automated that is a gross invasion of privacy.
So now you have a push to shift the DNS system to an international basis especially as the current US administration has also stated that they would take unilateral action against other countries domains in political disputes.
So a new international DNS system will happen, get over it, there will be no rush, it will take about five to ten years. Politics, control of internal domain naming, and different languages will all help to force the shift.
Excessive privatization will also help drive the change, could you imagine ICANN being auctioned off to the highest bidder and being controlled by someone like M$ (competitors domain requests will point to M$)or even google (every domain request tracked for targeted marketing).
It is about holding onto their old publishing styles albums through music stores rather than progressing onto their electronic music delivery systems. All they have done is cause considerable harm to their brand, rather than taking their brand into the 21st century and adding things like, search, msuic delivery, video delivery, web portal, gaming and social network. They merged with AOL and basically went no where and done nothing with it.
The have a lot of work to do to catch up, and match news corps work with myspace.
Bascialy cheap hardware and open standards will mean it will be far simpler and cheaper for producers or publishers to deliver direct. Ballmer has always had delusions of charging an M$ tax on all internet transactions, media, financial, software even browsing, but it is just that a delusion.
The consumer products companies will win over the long run, as it won't cost much extra to incorporate the additional hardware, in big screen TVs or high resolution virtual reality headsets. Combine those two items with an open source operating system, upon which you can run multiple content delivery systems, and unless M$ starts building a big content library they have nowhere to go.
So for you analogy to hold true, they are entitled to decrypt the file with out your supplied key and if they damage it in the process, well, tough.
I forget is still a standard logical defence, either that or the government and the law enforcement authorities must prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the majority of humans have a perfect memory and no one has even forgotten for example, some ones name, a phone number, car registration, credit card number, birthdays of all the family and friends or heaven forbid a computer password.
Look anybody who doesn't store their private stuff on a usb key (or the equivalent flash storage device) and only leaves it plugged in when they are using it, doesn't deserve to be considered a criminal, just a rank innocent amateur.
The only company that 'makes' money is the government mint, everybody else gets it from some one else, they do not make it, they all take it, oh, and apparently the greediest win, well at least in their own tiny minds ;).
It is one thing to talk about the total output of tidal energy, it is a nothing entirely to be able to convert that energy into a usable form. Damage to coastal environments would be enormous to to gain even a minor fraction of the tidal energy output. The same problem with solar panel energy, and of course one decent hail storm and a city is knocked out for months until all the panels can be replaced (unless there is an alternate form of energy). Wind of course is vary variable and there is already significant resistance to more towers marring the landscape. So the only alternate at the moment is nuclear, preferably many low temp, long life reactors, rather than the high complexity, high temp units currently used.