"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
(Remark by the President at the Signing of H.R. 4613, the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005)
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20 040805-3.html
Fourth paragraph from the end.
I'm sure many of you think this guy is just ranting. But not so. In Sweden, this kind of card ID has existed for a long time. Everyone is given a serial number at birth, the "personnummer" or literally your "personal number".
How long before everyone's DNA is required and index linked to the card ID?
In Sweden, your DNA is index linked to the card ID.
How long before they are index linked to the IMEI of your mobile phone and periodic logs of your location taken and an easy to access system provided to civil servants?
In Sweden, IMEI and location logs are index linked to your card ID.
There is a proposal for a new EU law that requires IMEI and location information together with sms and call information be stored for at least 3 years with easy and free access for civil servant. The law has broad support in the European parlament.
How long before banks are required to log all your financial transactions provided in an easy to access system provided to civil servants?
You must be kidding, this is already the case everywhere, even in Nigeria.
How long before all your telephone, SMS, email and web access logs are indexed to your card and provided in an easy to access system to civil servants?
Well, if the new EU law is passed in June, it will be in 2005...
How long before it becomes law to have children chipped at birth?
In Sweden, Children are not yet chipped, but their DNA is taken and stored under goverment control in the hospital where they were born. This has been going on since the 1970's, and DNA from these archives have been used to catch the killer in a recent high-profile killing of the Swedish foreign minister. The DNA archive is also being used for cancer research. It is compulsory to have your childs DNA sampled.
How long before someone gets the "bright idea" that they can be used instead of those pesky ID cards?
It is logical to assume that DNA samples will be eventually be used for identification, just like in the movie Gattaca.
How long before we are treated like nothing more than cattle?
When people no longer care about who they elect President or Prime Minister.
Most of you seem to miss the point. You do not get security through obscurity, but that does not mean obscurity isn't valuable in addition to security. It is.
Compare this to real life. You have a stack of porn magazines locked in a drawer. The security is the lock, preventing your mother from ever getting access to the porn. That's fine. But surely you would feel much better if your mother didn't even know there was porn in the drawer! That's obscurity. It doesn't make the lock any more secure, but it is useful.
Here's a complete list with prices of Swedish Broadband.
Highlights: 26 mbit/s for 499 SEK/month (US$60)
http://internetworld.idg.se/tjanster/bredband/
Sweden is the most beautiful nation in the world, with the most beautiful women (they all look like Elin, Tiger's girl), and the friendliest people. We're the #1 nation in many respects.
When it comes to taxes, we're #1 too. According to the traditional definition of taxation (sum of taxes as a percentage of the gross national product), the sum of taxes in the year 2002 was the highest in Sweden with 50,6 percent. The EU average was 40,5 percent. Denmark was second highest in the world with a taxation of 49,4 percent using the same definition. (source)
Yes, we're #1 on taxes, and we strive to be #1 in social benefits too. We have not reached the goal, but most people are happy with the taxation level as long as the social benefits match up.
2,200 users and 30% isn't that small. Anyway, the sample size was increased with some herbal viagra.
I think the poster may have confused the 30% response rate to the study itself with the response rate to spam. Unless s/he was clever and considered the survey to be spam.
Good point, but survival (or fecundity, another natural trait) as an isAlive test in itself is not enough, legally speaking.
True, a living entity is not required to be able to sustain life by itself. Just like any child needs life support from mother to be alive, an AI would be alive even if it required life support from someone else to stay alive. It is only required to stay alive , by any means possible.
This proves that Eric Raymond was wrong in the Cathedral and the Bazar when he wrote ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.''. It's just wrong.
If ESR had been correct, surely the source code leaking out to thousands of open source developers would have increased the speed of development, rather than slowing it down.
Microsoft has prepped the mainstream media that this is all about saving children from pedophile predators.
Child abuse experts were interviewed saying this actually increases the risk to children, because kids have emotional ties to their online chat friends. Now they might give mobile phone numbers and other personal data to their online friends so that they can stay in touch... and if that friend is a pedophile, he is that much closer to meeting the child.
The child abuse expert urged parents to talk to their kids about this, so the child can deal with this close down of chat rooms in a better way.
It has been shown that IPv6 will provide 4 IP numbers per square centimetre of space on earth. That should be enough to cover all products.
My proposal would be to make the UPC the same as a IPv6 number, and then make the barcode show the item's IPv6 address. Network configuration would be simplified - just scan the barcode - and the item wouldn't need a UPC *and* a IPv6. They would be the same. That would simplify marketing and tracking as well, items such as coke cans and underwar could simply be ping:ed on the net. No need to bother with those RFID tags.
This kind of backchannel is common in the workplace as well. Most professionals carry laptops to business meetings, and in a wireless environment, IM and email is always there.
It doesn't take long to notice that the use of laptops in this setting is disruptive to the meeting. Anyone attending a meeting, or class, should be focused on the speaker, not on email or IM.
It's not about the person reading email. It is about being polite to others, the speaker and to have an attention span longer than 5 minutes.
I know this is a hard lesson for the MTV generation, but realise that nobody becomes successful because they were not paying attention.
9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit/.../
This was written 2000 years ago. Try describing soldiers in high-tech outfits like the Scorpion in the poetic language of the times... perhaps that is what you are reading. The huge US army could be described as a swarm of locusts. Even men have long hair these days. The HID would be the crown of gold. The seal of God on their forehead could be the laser-engagement headgear mentioned in the CNN article. The sounds of their wings would be army choppers. And the Angel of the bottomless pit would be Bush in his command bunker.
Now the most populated area of the UK is sinking and the rest rising. If you think about it, it is quite logical. The weight of london alone is billions upon billions of tonnes, the building and auto infrastructure, not to mention several million people.
Perhaps the the effects of 1 million children jumping on
the Giant Jump was underestimated by the researchers...
My IP address is public. The internet wouldn't work to well if it wasn't.
I am not bothered by the fact that they save IP addresses. I am bothered by why they do it. What kind of profile matching are they using them for? And I am even more bothered that they are saving the IP addresses of WiFi access points I am using. That would be a valuable piece of information for anyone trying to hack into most public companies.
The difference being they say and material you send _to_ them, not _through_ their service.
I believe you're wrong; there is no difference. They define "material" in the license as anything entered into the trepia application or send through their service.
And is it a privacy violation if they tell you they are doing it? I don't think so.
Of course it is. It would be a privacy violation if I put a camera in your bedroom, even if I tell you about it in a click-through license agreement.
But please don't confuse the issue with semantics.
My point is that their privacy policy is completely unacceptable. They are gathering privacy sensitive data and granting themselves the right to use that data for whatever purpose they see fit. They are also claiming the right to use of my knowhow and ideas. Here's an idea: Do not support this company!
Watch out for the click-through license agreement! The Trepia privacy policy sucks even more than their proximity algorithm:
In addition to the information entered by the user during registration, Trepia, Inc. collects information on which Wi-Fi access points are visited by each individual user. Trepia, Inc. also stores the IP addresses used by its members.
And, as if it wouldn't be enough, they also claim ownership of all materials you send through their application. Don't discuss your ideas on their chat - you give ownership to Trepia!
By submitting or entering information into the Trepia Application or the Trepia Website, or into the Trepia Service you (1) warrant that you have no rights of any kind to [your picture or text];/.../ (2) grant Trepia, Inc. an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, transmit and distribute [your picture or text] in all media, and you further agree that Trepia, Inc. is free to use any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques or other materials you send us for any purpose.
The quoted text was found under Help->About.
And did I mention that their proximity algorithm sucks duck?
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." (Remark by the President at the Signing of H.R. 4613, the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005)0 040805-3.html
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/2
Fourth paragraph from the end.
Ahem... Windows Update, up2date, apt-get... but I suppose you never used these.
And beware, if you're in the wrong (right?) club in Barcelona, that goes for men too.
p.s. Almodóvar rules.
Compare this to real life. You have a stack of porn magazines locked in a drawer. The security is the lock, preventing your mother from ever getting access to the porn. That's fine. But surely you would feel much better if your mother didn't even know there was porn in the drawer! That's obscurity. It doesn't make the lock any more secure, but it is useful.
The new Swedish "OptiLight" projector for should drive prices down later in 2004. It's expected to retail for $500.
So with RFID integrated firmly in the OS, Microsoft can change their slogan to "Where have you gone today?"
Here's a complete list with prices of Swedish Broadband. Highlights: 26 mbit/s for 499 SEK/month (US$60) http://internetworld.idg.se/tjanster/bredband/
Makes me think of a physics joke.
Q: What is the difference between stopped light and darkness?
A: You know where darkness is.
My god! I could have sworn it was the nickname of the final production Linux Kernel 2.6.0 release.
Oh boy, you're so utterly wrong.
Sweden is the most beautiful nation in the world, with the most beautiful women (they all look like Elin, Tiger's girl), and the friendliest people. We're the #1 nation in many respects.
When it comes to taxes, we're #1 too. According to the traditional definition of taxation (sum of taxes as a percentage of the gross national product), the sum of taxes in the year 2002 was the highest in Sweden with 50,6 percent. The EU average was 40,5 percent. Denmark was second highest in the world with a taxation of 49,4 percent using the same definition. (source)
Yes, we're #1 on taxes, and we strive to be #1 in social benefits too. We have not reached the goal, but most people are happy with the taxation level as long as the social benefits match up.
You can read some facts about Swedish taxes in English at Swedish tax authorities web site.
I think the poster may have confused the 30% response rate to the study itself with the response rate to spam. Unless s/he was clever and considered the survey to be spam.
This proves that Eric Raymond was wrong in the Cathedral and the Bazar when he wrote ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.''. It's just wrong.
If ESR had been correct, surely the source code leaking out to thousands of open source developers would have increased the speed of development, rather than slowing it down.
Microsoft has prepped the mainstream media that this is all about saving children from pedophile predators.
Child abuse experts were interviewed saying this actually increases the risk to children, because kids have emotional ties to their online chat friends. Now they might give mobile phone numbers and other personal data to their online friends so that they can stay in touch... and if that friend is a pedophile, he is that much closer to meeting the child.
The child abuse expert urged parents to talk to their kids about this, so the child can deal with this close down of chat rooms in a better way.
It has been shown that IPv6 will provide 4 IP numbers per square centimetre of space on earth. That should be enough to cover all products. My proposal would be to make the UPC the same as a IPv6 number, and then make the barcode show the item's IPv6 address. Network configuration would be simplified - just scan the barcode - and the item wouldn't need a UPC *and* a IPv6. They would be the same. That would simplify marketing and tracking as well, items such as coke cans and underwar could simply be ping:ed on the net. No need to bother with those RFID tags.
This kind of backchannel is common in the workplace as well. Most professionals carry laptops to business meetings, and in a wireless environment, IM and email is always there. It doesn't take long to notice that the use of laptops in this setting is disruptive to the meeting. Anyone attending a meeting, or class, should be focused on the speaker, not on email or IM. It's not about the person reading email. It is about being polite to others, the speaker and to have an attention span longer than 5 minutes. I know this is a hard lesson for the MTV generation, but realise that nobody becomes successful because they were not paying attention.
Revelation Chapter 9:
This was written 2000 years ago. Try describing soldiers in high-tech outfits like the Scorpion in the poetic language of the times... perhaps that is what you are reading. The huge US army could be described as a swarm of locusts. Even men have long hair these days. The HID would be the crown of gold. The seal of God on their forehead could be the laser-engagement headgear mentioned in the CNN article. The sounds of their wings would be army choppers. And the Angel of the bottomless pit would be Bush in his command bunker.And, as if it wouldn't be enough, they also claim ownership of all materials you send through their application. Don't discuss your ideas on their chat - you give ownership to Trepia!
The quoted text was found under Help->About. And did I mention that their proximity algorithm sucks duck?