"If we create legistlation that makes losing customer's personal information a criminal offense, then maybe these giant megalomerates will stop collecting (and abusing) it."
That'll never happen, and here's why. The corporations and legislators both want the same thing: Every citizen to have biometric national ID's that also function has universal purchasing cards.
You see, if we passed laws that made corporations have to beef up security and protocols and pay fines - Corporations would have to pay. But if you pass laws for national ID's then taxpayers pay, with the added benefit that Governement and Corporations get more control over their citizens.
These last several years "identity theft" has become more prevalent. Why? Because the legislators and corporations have allowed it to become that way. Why? To create a major inconvenience for the citizens. Why? To create a fear of "identity theft" so citizens demand a solution to the problem.
We have also seen a huge upsurge in corporations "accidently" losing or "hackers" stealing citizens' vital data. Why? To further create fear and outrage in citizens so they will demand a "solution" to the problem.
They have a solution. It's coming in steps. The first step is the REAL ID card law they passed last month. It will have biometric information eventually tied in with it. They are selling it now as a measure to fight terrorism. But the next step (universal purchase card) will be used to as a solution to protect against "identity theft".
Not to those with a tyrannical agenda. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I'm pretty sure corporations have been having these kinds of "incidents" so our represetatives had an excuse to pass and now move forward with the Real ID Act. It passed 100 FOR, 0 AGAINST, despite widespread opposition.
"I prefer keyboard/mouse over the controller for first person shooters..."
I completely agree with you. In all honesty, the lack of a mouse and keyboard as an optional control interface for PS2/Xbox is pretty much the only reason I still game on PC.
Not only that, but on almost all console games, there is NOT a way to RE-Map the controls - they always have some pre-sets that are completely useless. The end result is that as you switch from game to game, you have to re-train your brain which takes too much time and weakens my performance in the game.
Two people in observatory looking through a telescope at Titan...
Astrophysicist: "Do you see that bright spot?" Paris Hilton: "Uh-huh..." Astrophysicist: "What do you think of that mysterious surface feature?" Paris Hilton: "That's hot."
GF: "We'll have to stay apart for at least a year or so, until things cool down...I'll, err, meet you at...the Starbucks in the Mall of America on January 3, 2007...yeah, that's it."
BF: "I'll miss y..."
GF: "...just get the damn camera."
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I tried learning PHP, but I just didn't "get it".
Who's Dvorak?
Will Mac's have the "Intel inside" sticker now? Those are...great.
Everyone knows that when you have valuable data to transport, you use Johny Mnemonic. I hear he can carry nearly 80 Gigs of data in his head.
You see, if we passed laws that made corporations have to beef up security and protocols and pay fines - Corporations would have to pay.
But if you pass laws for national ID's then taxpayers pay, with the added benefit that Governement and Corporations get more control over their citizens.
These last several years "identity theft" has become more prevalent. Why? Because the legislators and corporations have allowed it to become that way. Why? To create a major inconvenience for the citizens. Why? To create a fear of "identity theft" so citizens demand a solution to the problem.
We have also seen a huge upsurge in corporations "accidently" losing or "hackers" stealing citizens' vital data. Why? To further create fear and outrage in citizens so they will demand a "solution" to the problem.
They have a solution. It's coming in steps. The first step is the REAL ID card law they passed last month. It will have biometric information eventually tied in with it. They are selling it now as a measure to fight terrorism. But the next step (universal purchase card) will be used to as a solution to protect against "identity theft".
I could go on, but you get the point?
So you want to pass a law that is unpopular?
Problem.
Reaction.
Solution.
It's called Diocletian's Problem.
What kind of damage can the ribbon sustain if a small meteorite or space junk impact it? No big deal or total failure?
Where the hell are all these random comments coming from? They have nothing to do with the article nor the parent. WTF?
Could Intel block it with their embedded DRM they plan on implementing?
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Not only that, but on almost all console games, there is NOT a way to RE-Map the controls - they always have some pre-sets that are completely useless. The end result is that as you switch from game to game, you have to re-train your brain which takes too much time and weakens my performance in the game.
....there was a quote: "Mathematics is the language of nature."
So in that sense, cancer is beginning to lose the argument. I like that.
Cancer's response? : "I for one, welcome our mathematically well versed Overlords!"
jazzman, it worked! I got trolled for trolling a troll. I'll check that off my to do list...
...is figure out how to merge Weatherscape XT with some virtual entertainment and I'll have a new hobby!
LOL...you got troll'd. Haa Haa Haa U sUk!
This conversation is a w00t.
(Waste Of Our Time)
...they almost look like a "web" of some sort...
FTFA:
"Interesting Notes:
AOL is the most infested network on the Internet."
Gee. I wonder why.
I get your subtle point: It's your right to dupe a joke if Slashdot dupes an article within 72 hours. Why not!?
If you must dupe, pleeeeeeeez wait long enough for it to fall out of my short-term memory.
Muchos Gracias.
Two people in observatory looking through a telescope at Titan...
Astrophysicist: "Do you see that bright spot?"
Paris Hilton: "Uh-huh..."
Astrophysicist: "What do you think of that mysterious surface feature?"
Paris Hilton: "That's hot."
Exactly.
GF: "We'll have to stay apart for at least a year or so, until things cool down...I'll, err, meet you at...the Starbucks in the Mall of America on January 3, 2007...yeah, that's it."
BF: "I'll miss y..."
GF: "...just get the damn camera."
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