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Can police compel removal of a medically prescribed device just to take a picture? I would bet they couldn't.
On your other point, about finger prints, its true you can't prove a negative. However, in all of the human experience with fingerprints world-wide, no two fingerprints from different digits have ever been found to match exactly. Even identical twins differ. Prints are better than DNA in this case, as long as they are good quality prints.
Examiners and encoders may error, and the classification system and computer storage is not precise, and was never intended to be. But when given two prints to view almost any random adult can tell you when they are different. And two trained examiners virtually never disagree when visually examining two images.
True enough, but to get a driver's license they almost always take a photo. In the past that photo was of rather low quality, shot on Polaroid film and not retained.
I would expect this to change, and the picture will be taken in very high quality, stored in a data base, and used for this type of application. All unbeknownst to the applicant.
Any pretense to photograph you will then quickly yield an instant ID without even touching you.
Its not just the US either. There seems to be a world wide rush by governments to control all citizens. I doubt this will end well, or soon.
This proposal is not for a military base, it's for what would become a marketplace.
Exactly what I was thinking. Let the government clean up their own house first before they tell us how to run the net. First the government sponsored Internet ID proposal reported here on slashdot, now a closed net. What could possibly go wrong with that.?
As long as Joe Q. Public needs to log in there, it will always present a target for hacker attack, and identity theft. It's just moving the burden of securing the network to the average user who must now guard their credentials and certificates as closely (or loosly) as they now guard their passwords.
This might work for government agencies, but when every shopping site jumps on the bandwagon the net as we know it will be headed the same way as usenet.
There isn't that much of the government's business that should require proof of identity in a democracy anyway.
You don't have to postulate corruption to see this kind of thing at this scale.
All you have to do is give every little section chief in every backwater bureau of city government an opportunity to make their own little demands for special treatment. Get the unions involved and all bets are off.
Rolling Requirements are the usual cause of such expansions, not corruption.
So what? What does it matter if Apple is ONE manufacturer and Android is many? (First off, the only people that mention that fact is Apple Fanbois, who seem to spout it incessantly).
It doesn't matter one bit. Its totally not germane to the situation at hand. Why exactly did you feel compelled to once again pontificate that apple is one company and Android handsets are made by many?
If Apple can't import their devices Android sales will go thru the roof even faster than they are now. Many Android producers will benefit, and they in turn will order more flash memory from Samsung, and Samsung won't even notice any significant drop.
But lets go back and talk about those so called facts for a second.
Apple never releases their purchasing data, or even detailed sales data. Neither does Samsung. They wouldn't be that dumb. And Apple never manufactures their own stuff. They hire it done in China. And the factories they hire produce OTHER things, Nooks, Kindles, tablets for dozens of other companies. And THEY pay for the parts, and Apple pays them back. So anyone (even the quoted URL up thread) is just speculating about where these parts are going. They probably attribute all memory shipped to Foxconn to be for Apple, yet I hold in my hands an Android tablet that was assembled by Foxconn.
So anyone claiming they have precise numbers is mostly guessing, and don't take into account the way markets work between China and Korea.
Further, since the undisputed facts are that ALL android manufactures together are out selling Apple iphones and ipads someone has to explain where they are getting all the Flash Ram. Why, from Samsung of course, since them make a lot of it. (40% allegedly). None of those manufacturers are as big as Apple, but all of them together exceed apple.
Every single day? Really? I doubt that very much. First of all Sunday, in many parts of the world have closed shops on that day and other parts of the world close down shops on Fridays early.
This is nothing to do with a platform war. Stop trying to make it into one. The simple facts are that Apple has only a few device models, and an import ban hurts them in their biggest market, but wouldn't make a dent in memory providers. What Apple doesn't sell, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony-Ericcson, and Samsung will sell. Do you think America is going to stop buying smartphones and tablets?
Doesn't matter. They have nowhere else to go, because only Sammy can handle their orders.
Besides, just because the 20 Android manufacturers do not individually exceed Apple doesn't mean much. They easily exceed Apple do when lumped together. If iPhone were banned from import they would still sell elsewhere Android would surge in the US. Those phones use just as much memory as Apple.
So Sammy wins either way.
Like I posted Android is outselling iPhone today and Android tablets are just starting to come on line from dozens and dozens of companies.
Also with Android devices outselling Apple devices the claim would't be true even if it was limited to the mobile platform arena. There are 500,000 activation of android devices every day, and most of them contain some Samsung parts, with emphases on the flash ram.
What Samsung would lose in iPhone sales blocked in the US they would easily recover from their own phones sold in the US, as well as HTC, LG, Motorola, and twenty other brands all using Samsung memory.
I've seen this claim posted before, but when you check out the facts its either dated information or simply applied to a specific type of flash memory of a specific size.
Wait, YOU were the one that locked it down to 4. How is this anyone else's fault?
Set it allow up to 127, and wait till it fails, just make sure your code is smart enough to fail soft. You created a false dependency. Its your own fault.
True about the plugins. Mozilla should do something else with their version numbers so that fast, minor updates don't bump the major version and break plugins.
Why should version numbers affect plugins?
If the plug in interface specifications (the actual methods that plugins use to accomplish their task) does not change, or changes in an upwardly compatible way, the existing plugins should continue to run just the same way that most firefox itself continues to run when Microsoft or Ubuntu or Apple changes their version numbers.
If the plug in interface does change at the programming level from release to release, that would indicate how badly designed firefox is, and companies should run away from it.
The lesson here is that no one in enterprise (what ever the hell that is) should build anything that is dependent on a single version number. Why tie your future to something so totally out of your control and then complain because the world does not wait for you to change.
If we could ever get ready ahead of time it would be cool to throw up a net to entangle this thing with a bunch of instruments. It looks to be just rocky enough to hold together and carry a signification package of radios and particle collection panels etc.
Maybe we could brake it enough to put it in orbit.
That is just one of the methods, which is required to enforce your patent should someone come out with an appliance/router, for example, that records Skype sessions.
On the other hand, we've all seen patent claims against software that allegedly infringes only small portions of specific claims even when other claims are not even remotely challenged.
Every patent attorney seems to suggest this is impossible and yet nearly every week we see new court cases that indicate they are cherrypicking specific claims within ancient patents and applying them to something totally different.
True. Latency be damned, when it downloads its fast.
But what I found interesting in the charts is that they more or vindicated AT&T as far from the worst carrier, and usually second only to T-Mobile in the 3G arena. From the grouse level on the web you would be lead to believe that AT&T were the slowest and offered no connectivity at all in most place.
With an independent assessment, will any of these carriers change their advertising to avoid false advertising claims.
Yes, this is what allowed other governments to attain police state status.
We are heading in that direction.
We've long since arrived.
In the face of an outright revolt as is happening in Syria today, is there anyone here who does not believe any western government wouldn't do the exact same thing as Syria is doing?
This is really is one of those situations that if you aren't doing anything illegal don't worry about it and if you do worry about it find another tool.
This is the most damaging and poorly thought out sentiments that I hear of late...
If you're not doing anything wrong, don't worry, citizen. Only the guilty need privacy. Only criminals use encryption. Upstanding people don't have secrets. We have to know everything to prevent thought crimes. We know what's best. Fuck that
Fix that with your VOTE.
Don't expect a private company like Microsoft to stonewall a warrant for you.
This is entirely YOUR fault. You elected these bastards. Year after year you voted your self interest. The bill has come due.
If you're gay and not out, having people listening in to communiques with a boyfriend or girlfriend could definitely ruin ones life.
Or perhaps improve it? Just sayin....
But even in a purely normal situation, such as searching for a new job, if you do such on your current employer's time and dime using your current employer's internet connection to skype potential jobs at (perhaps) competitors, you are likely to find yourself unemployed before you land the new job.
Do it at home, and you are probably safe. Even if Microsoft HAD the capability why would they care to tap you?
The fact that they can, and skype always could, and the phone company always could, and that your ISP can record every bit and byte out of your modem with or without a warrant seems never to have been an issue.
People understand that use of facilities owned by others always presented a risk.
Nothing new to see here folks. Move along please...
The Police are supposed to get a warrant before they spy on you. It's a key element of the laws surrounding the situation. There are controls and accountability.
What controls and accountability are here?
This is a corporation abusing you in a way that you should never tolerate from a government.
How is it any different than with a telephone company who can listen in on any call for "quality assurance"? Or who can put a back room in to route all traffic thru the NSA?
This capability has existed on EVERY common carrier since the invention of the reel-to-reel recorder. Warrants allow police to listen. But the company always had the ability to do so warrant or no warrant.
Your protection from the carrier is that your call is buried in so much other traffic that there are not enough people and not enough interest to even bother.
You can make yourself interesting either to the company or the police. But you really have to go out of your way to do so.
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Can police compel removal of a medically prescribed device just to take a picture? I would bet they couldn't.
On your other point, about finger prints, its true you can't prove a negative. However, in all of the human experience with fingerprints world-wide, no two fingerprints from different digits have ever been found to match exactly. Even identical twins differ. Prints are better than DNA in this case, as long as they are good quality prints.
Examiners and encoders may error, and the classification system and computer storage is not precise, and was never intended to be. But when given two prints to view almost any random adult can tell you when they are different. And two trained examiners virtually never disagree when visually examining two images.
True enough, but to get a driver's license they almost always take a photo.
In the past that photo was of rather low quality, shot on Polaroid film and not retained.
I would expect this to change, and the picture will be taken in very high quality, stored in a data base, and used for
this type of application. All unbeknownst to the applicant.
Any pretense to photograph you will then quickly yield an instant ID without even touching you.
Its not just the US either. There seems to be a world wide rush by governments to control
all citizens. I doubt this will end well, or soon.
This proposal is not for a military base, it's for what would become a marketplace.
Exactly what I was thinking. Let the government clean up their own house first before they tell us how to run the net. First the government sponsored Internet ID proposal reported here on slashdot, now a closed net. What could possibly go wrong with that.?
As long as Joe Q. Public needs to log in there, it will always present a target for hacker attack, and identity theft. It's just moving the burden of securing the network to the average user who must now guard their credentials and certificates as closely (or loosly) as they now guard their passwords.
This might work for government agencies, but when every shopping site jumps on the bandwagon the net as we know it will be headed the same way as usenet.
There isn't that much of the government's business that should require proof of identity in a democracy anyway.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the math gods they were trying to provoke.
Instead it looks as if they were in a non-serious bidding game to make the others over pay for what are probably soon obsolete patents anyway.
Been there, done that, still have the tee shirt.
You don't have to postulate corruption to see this kind of thing at this scale.
All you have to do is give every little section chief in every backwater bureau of city government an opportunity to make their own little demands for special treatment. Get the unions involved and all bets are off.
Rolling Requirements are the usual cause of such expansions, not corruption.
Explain how Samsung makes money on the installed base.
This thread is about the sale of new devices and what an import ban would do to Apple. Installed base means nothing in that context.
Try to stay on topics. If you want to start a my phone is bigger than your phone jihad take it somewhere else. It's been done to death.
So what? What does it matter if Apple is ONE manufacturer and Android is many?
(First off, the only people that mention that fact is Apple Fanbois, who seem to spout it incessantly).
It doesn't matter one bit. Its totally not germane to the situation at hand. Why exactly did you feel compelled to once again pontificate that apple is one company and Android handsets are made by many?
If Apple can't import their devices Android sales will go thru the roof even faster than they are now.
Many Android producers will benefit, and they in turn will order more flash memory from Samsung,
and Samsung won't even notice any significant drop.
But lets go back and talk about those so called facts for a second.
Apple never releases their purchasing data, or even detailed sales data. Neither does Samsung. They wouldn't be that dumb.
And Apple never manufactures their own stuff. They hire it done in China. And the factories they hire produce OTHER things, Nooks, Kindles, tablets for dozens of other companies. And THEY pay for the parts, and Apple pays them back. So anyone (even the quoted URL up thread) is just speculating about where these parts are going. They probably attribute all memory shipped to Foxconn to be for Apple, yet I hold in my hands an Android tablet that was assembled by Foxconn.
So anyone claiming they have precise numbers is mostly guessing, and don't take into account the way markets work between China and Korea.
Further, since the undisputed facts are that ALL android manufactures together are out selling Apple iphones and ipads someone has to explain where they are getting all the Flash Ram. Why, from Samsung of course, since them make a lot of it. (40% allegedly). None of those manufacturers are as big as Apple, but all of them together exceed apple.
Every single day? Really? I doubt that very much. First of all Sunday, in many parts of the world have closed shops on that day and other parts of the world close down shops on Fridays early.
Take your silly argument somewhere else.
Go read the facts: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/google-activates-500000-android-devices-every-day-20110629/
The tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/Arubin/status/85660213478309888
This is nothing to do with a platform war. Stop trying to make it into one.
The simple facts are that Apple has only a few device models, and an import ban hurts them in their biggest
market, but wouldn't make a dent in memory providers. What Apple doesn't sell, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony-Ericcson, and Samsung will sell. Do you think America is going to stop buying smartphones and tablets?
Doesn't matter. They have nowhere else to go, because only Sammy can handle their orders.
Besides, just because the 20 Android manufacturers do not individually exceed Apple doesn't mean much.
They easily exceed Apple do when lumped together. If iPhone were banned from import
they would still sell elsewhere Android would surge in the US. Those phones use just as much
memory as Apple.
So Sammy wins either way.
Like I posted Android is outselling iPhone today and Android tablets are just starting
to come on line from dozens and dozens of companies.
Exactly!
Also with Android devices outselling Apple devices the claim would't be true even if it was limited
to the mobile platform arena. There are 500,000 activation of android devices every day, and most
of them contain some Samsung parts, with emphases on the flash ram.
What Samsung would lose in iPhone sales blocked in the US they would easily recover
from their own phones sold in the US, as well as HTC, LG, Motorola, and twenty other
brands all using Samsung memory.
I've seen this claim posted before, but when you check out the facts its either dated
information or simply applied to a specific type of flash memory of a specific size.
Error establishing a database connection
Subtle isn't it. How very droll.
Wait, YOU were the one that locked it down to 4. How is this anyone else's fault?
Set it allow up to 127, and wait till it fails, just make sure your code is smart enough to fail soft.
You created a false dependency. Its your own fault.
Congress is not a Federal Agency. They do pretty much what they want.
The congressional internet is not the federal internet.
The real deal here is that now Skype is owned by a company that can install all the backdoors that the Feds have wanted over the years.
True about the plugins. Mozilla should do something else with their version numbers so that fast, minor updates don't bump the major version and break plugins.
Why should version numbers affect plugins?
If the plug in interface specifications (the actual methods that plugins use to accomplish their task) does not change, or changes in an upwardly compatible way, the existing plugins should continue to run just the same way that most firefox itself continues to run when Microsoft or Ubuntu or Apple changes their version numbers.
If the plug in interface does change at the programming level from release to release, that would indicate how badly designed firefox is, and companies should run away from it.
The lesson here is that no one in enterprise (what ever the hell that is) should build anything that is dependent on a single version number. Why tie your future to something so totally out of your control and then complain because the world does not wait for you to change.
Did we learn nothing in the IE6 debacle.
Not via CB radio.
Not if you accelerate the instrument to match speeds.
Its not rocket science... Oh wait, it is... Never mind.
In any event, we've done it before. Continue your education here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7812623/First-spacecraft-to-land-on-an-asteroid-due-back-on-Earth.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010214075526.htm
If we could ever get ready ahead of time it would be cool to throw up a net to entangle this thing with a bunch of instruments.
It looks to be just rocky enough to hold together and carry a signification package of radios and particle collection panels etc.
Maybe we could brake it enough to put it in orbit.
Lawyers ears perk up all over the world...
That is just one of the methods, which is required to enforce your patent should someone come out with an appliance/router, for example, that records Skype sessions.
On the other hand, we've all seen patent claims against software that allegedly infringes only small portions of specific claims even when other claims are not even remotely challenged.
Every patent attorney seems to suggest this is impossible and yet nearly every week we see new court cases that indicate they are cherrypicking specific claims within ancient patents and applying them to something totally different.
True. Latency be damned, when it downloads its fast.
But what I found interesting in the charts is that they more or vindicated AT&T as far from the worst carrier, and
usually second only to T-Mobile in the 3G arena. From the grouse level on the web you would be lead to believe that
AT&T were the slowest and offered no connectivity at all in most place.
With an independent assessment, will any of these carriers change their advertising to avoid false advertising claims.
Yes, this is what allowed other governments to attain police state status.
We are heading in that direction.
We've long since arrived.
In the face of an outright revolt as is happening in Syria today, is there anyone here who does not believe any western government wouldn't do the exact same thing as Syria is doing?
This is the most damaging and poorly thought out sentiments that I hear of late ...
If you're not doing anything wrong, don't worry, citizen. Only the guilty need privacy. Only criminals use encryption. Upstanding people don't have secrets. We have to know everything to prevent thought crimes. We know what's best. Fuck that
Fix that with your VOTE.
Don't expect a private company like Microsoft to stonewall a warrant for you.
This is entirely YOUR fault. You elected these bastards. Year after year you voted your self interest. The bill has come due.
If you're gay and not out, having people listening in to communiques with a boyfriend or girlfriend could definitely ruin ones life.
Or perhaps improve it? Just sayin....
But even in a purely normal situation, such as searching for a new job, if you do such on your current employer's time and dime using your current employer's internet connection to skype potential jobs at (perhaps) competitors, you are likely to find yourself unemployed before you land the new job.
Do it at home, and you are probably safe. Even if Microsoft HAD the capability why would they care to tap you?
The fact that they can, and skype always could, and the phone company always could, and that your ISP can record every bit and byte out of your modem with or without a warrant seems never to have been an issue.
People understand that use of facilities owned by others always presented a risk.
Nothing new to see here folks. Move along please...
No. This is a problem.
The Police are supposed to get a warrant before they spy on you. It's a key element of the laws surrounding the situation. There are controls and accountability.
What controls and accountability are here?
This is a corporation abusing you in a way that you should never tolerate from a government.
How is it any different than with a telephone company who can listen in on any call for "quality assurance"? Or who can put a back room in to route all traffic thru the NSA?
This capability has existed on EVERY common carrier since the invention of the reel-to-reel recorder. Warrants allow police to listen. But the company always had the ability to do so warrant or no warrant.
Your protection from the carrier is that your call is buried in so much other traffic that there are not enough people and not enough interest to even bother.
You can make yourself interesting either to the company or the police. But you really have to go out of your way to do so.