The government has also refrained from outlawing how the information is used by the companies that collect it. Only a clear statement of confidentiality from a company will give you grounds to sue if someone uses that information in a way you don't approve. When a telemarketer calls you with information about your last phone bill, do you wonder how they got that info? And once that information escapes, containing it is next to impossible. How much worse when loyalty card-based information escapes.
DINK, tech, unemployed. This information about me is none of Sam Walton's business. The same is true for any database cracker that tries to get in. And that is the problem: Authorized access to cross-referenced information is bad enough. Unauthorized access can turn your life into a living hell. Just ask anyone who's had their identity stolen.
Loyalty cards are little more than a tax on your privacy, imposed by the business, with the government's active consent.
Or, from another perspective, loyalty cards are titles of nobility, granted after you have "proven" yourself worthy of special treatment. Instead of the government bestowing the titles and getting the support from said noble, it's the business.
Sure, I can still buy stuff without a loyalty card. I can also get into Windsor Castle, once I pay the tour guide. At least you know that you're not Queen Elizabeth. Do you know how retailers are using your information? How certain are you of the degree of privacy you have surrendered?
The lethal combination of loyalty cards and RFID, is that, not only can the store (and whatever cracker can break the database password) tie you to the Super-Gonzo Food Processor 30K that you bought last week, but they can actually pinpoint the serial number of the unit you purchased. A barcode doesn't carry that much information.
Have the manufacturers and retailers been forthcoming with this information? Their silence on the matter is most telling, I'd say.
If the rights group sues and wins, how much of the reward will go to the musicians themselves, and how much will go to the group, to fund more lawsuits?
For a rich discussion of that very issue, check this out. Turns out Saddam was a self-made vassal of the USSR. But since he was Stalin's biggest fan, that's no surprise.
Genocide? But you said the official (and bogus) reason was WMD.
BTW, you can hit Google for "saddam unaccounted weapons 1441". The best result to show up is likely here. Besides, after twelve years and how many? resolutions, Saddam showed he didn't give a shit what the world thought, except so far as it would save his sorry ass.
Gee, in 1991, when Bush 41 announced we were only pushing Saddam back into Iraq, and out of Kuwait, we were lauded for our restraint. And now we're being bashed for it.
As for Iraq: The official reason to invade was to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction. Which was a false presumption.
Wrong on both counts. The official reason for invading Iraq was to depose Saddam Hussein, who violated UNR1441, by not accounting for his weapons, period.
Besides, if it turns out we're wrong, are you willing to restore Saddam to power?
"When he's talking about how cold it is, that's not news, it's entertainment. It's cosmetic," Harrison added.
That sounds like a lot of so-called "news organizations." Their #1 purpose is to entertain, lest they lose a large chunk of their audience. Actual news content is secondary.
"It's no more a lie than putting makeup on a TV anchor to make them look younger. The main thing is that his information does not deceive the public."
One more step in virtualizing the whole world. How soon can we have virtual war, where nobody dies?
Linux+deb aren't inherently good, nor is MS inherently bad. The problem is that MS considers "upgrades" (I use the term loosely) and fixes (again, loosely) as profit centers, to be forced upon customers whenever the revenue stream slows down. Linux (and Open Source/Free Software in general) gets fixed simply because it's the right thing to do. Software isn't perfect, but Linux distributors usually have the integrity to let their users know when some problem is discovered, and where to find the fix/patch.
On a related point, Free/Open Source is, just as the name suggests, free and open to the public, warts and all. Where Microsoft says, "trust us, and here's a bill for $150 plus tax," Free/Open Source says, "here's the code, how did we do?"
You're forgetting that the farther away you search, the farther back in time you see. What you observe a foot away from your eyes is roughly one nanosecond old. The events we see on the sun really occurred about seven minutes ago. And, somewhere waaaaaay out there, is the origin of some (very old) remnants of the Big Bang, which are just now reaching us.
There is the possibility that material from some other Big Crunch fed into what became our Big Bang, but its quantities and properties have nothing to do with our existence. For all intents and purposes, there is nothing "beyond" the Big Bang. And if there was, we are completely unable to observe it.
is that once again, Microsoft isn't comparing apples to apples. They're running a specifically Wintel system for Windows, and a mainframe (?!?) for Linux.
MP3.com is a full-fledged business, and any admin who deploys a half-developed filesystem on mission-critical systems should be fired. I'm not saying that ReiserFS v4 is half-developed now, but at one time it was. It isn't like dropping a ton of money on it will cause it to be instantly mission-ready. Development takes time. I'm sure MP3.com will use it, but only when it's ready.
Not a problem if the car is stopped. But are there any guards to make sure they aren't poking at this stuff as they're driving down the road? Why not put the same guards in cop cars as the rest of us have to live with?
Since when do we simply assume that cops are better drivers than other people? The only point I'll concede to that is that they are trained to handle higher speeds. That doesn't automatically mean that they can still handle their front-seat gadgets better. If anything, driving at normal highway speeds can lull a trained person into a false sense of "normalcy".
In any case, I'm not buying the notion that cops are any better at typing while driving than the rest of us. If anything, because they are vested with more power than Average Joe, they should be distrusted more.
GM would not voluntarily put such a feature into their cars, but they would if Congress told them to. Even the NTSB could probably bring it about on their own.
Remember the crash data recorders? They were supposed to be used by the automakers for crash performance analysis. Now they're being used as forensic evidence. (Not sure about warrant requirements.) It's just one more "unintended consequence."
File and filesystem corruption is never a thing of the past. You can mitigate their effects, but no amount of filesystem robustness will fully protect you against failing hardware. Please don't make false advertisements regarding F[L]OSS projects.
If you go to the OnStar.com website, you'll see that "locating stolen vehicles" is one of the "features" OnStar has. OnStar has that ability, and it would take only a search warrant (or even a stolen vehicle report, possibly bogus) to use it.
As for life-taking, not OnStar yet, but remote shutdown of a car is on the table in England. Don't for a second believe that "only the police will be able to use this". Once it's cracked, just like anything else, when it falls into the hands of evil-doers, they'll get their kicks going around terrorizing people on the freeways. Think about it: you're driving on the M-1 at about 100 kph, and suddenly two guys pass you on the right, pull in front of you, and the passenger turns around, aims a device at your car, and BOOM your car's engine stops running. What can you do? Power brakes are nearly useless without the engine, and so is your power steering. You're at the mercy of inertia and friction. Meanwhile, the guy behind you was following too close, and he smacks your rear bumper. Chain reaction collision ensues. That's why it's a bad idea.
Wow, thatd be so terrible taht every vehicle sold in the US had life saving capabilities included.
You nailed it right here. Not only are these life-saving capabilities, they are also life-taking capabilities. Police in England are asking for this right now. How long until it's in the USA as well? And, after that, how long until it's hacked and used as a weapon by criminals?
Who cares if the gov't has the remote possibility to tell where you are?
If the government can, what's to stop anyone else from using a tracking system in my car?
One question for you: How long will it be until an OnStar-like system is required in every vehicle?
Think about it. OnStar saves the lives of so many grannies on their way to bingo, or some diabetics who went into insulin shock, or... whatever. Then, using their typical logic, Congress decrees that, since it's helped some people, everyone now has to have it if they want a new car. They did it with on-board defib units in planes, they did it with GPS in cell phones, they even did it with closed-captioning in televisions.
To update an old saying, when having privacy is outlawed, then only outlaws will have privacy.
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The government has also refrained from outlawing how the information is used by the companies that collect it. Only a clear statement of confidentiality from a company will give you grounds to sue if someone uses that information in a way you don't approve. When a telemarketer calls you with information about your last phone bill, do you wonder how they got that info? And once that information escapes, containing it is next to impossible. How much worse when loyalty card-based information escapes.
DINK, tech, unemployed. This information about me is none of Sam Walton's business. The same is true for any database cracker that tries to get in. And that is the problem: Authorized access to cross-referenced information is bad enough. Unauthorized access can turn your life into a living hell. Just ask anyone who's had their identity stolen.
Loyalty cards are little more than a tax on your privacy, imposed by the business, with the government's active consent.
Or, from another perspective, loyalty cards are titles of nobility, granted after you have "proven" yourself worthy of special treatment. Instead of the government bestowing the titles and getting the support from said noble, it's the business.
Sure, I can still buy stuff without a loyalty card. I can also get into Windsor Castle, once I pay the tour guide. At least you know that you're not Queen Elizabeth. Do you know how retailers are using your information? How certain are you of the degree of privacy you have surrendered?
The lethal combination of loyalty cards and RFID, is that, not only can the store (and whatever cracker can break the database password) tie you to the Super-Gonzo Food Processor 30K that you bought last week, but they can actually pinpoint the serial number of the unit you purchased. A barcode doesn't carry that much information.
Have the manufacturers and retailers been forthcoming with this information? Their silence on the matter is most telling, I'd say.
If the rights group sues and wins, how much of the reward will go to the musicians themselves, and how much will go to the group, to fund more lawsuits?
I thought so.
Too bad it isn't mine. I'd love to claim credit for it.
For a rich discussion of that very issue, check this out. Turns out Saddam was a self-made vassal of the USSR. But since he was Stalin's biggest fan, that's no surprise.
Genocide? But you said the official (and bogus) reason was WMD.
BTW, you can hit Google for "saddam unaccounted weapons 1441". The best result to show up is likely here. Besides, after twelve years and how many? resolutions, Saddam showed he didn't give a shit what the world thought, except so far as it would save his sorry ass.
Gee, in 1991, when Bush 41 announced we were only pushing Saddam back into Iraq, and out of Kuwait, we were lauded for our restraint. And now we're being bashed for it.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
As for Iraq: The official reason to invade was to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction. Which was a false presumption.
Wrong on both counts. The official reason for invading Iraq was to depose Saddam Hussein, who violated UNR1441, by not accounting for his weapons, period.
Besides, if it turns out we're wrong, are you willing to restore Saddam to power?
I didn't think so.
Kano's self-composed thread was about as long as Joe Clark's web accessibility discussion. Thanks, Kano!
"When he's talking about how cold it is, that's not news, it's entertainment. It's cosmetic," Harrison added.
That sounds like a lot of so-called "news organizations." Their #1 purpose is to entertain, lest they lose a large chunk of their audience. Actual news content is secondary.
"It's no more a lie than putting makeup on a TV anchor to make them look younger. The main thing is that his information does not deceive the public."
One more step in virtualizing the whole world. How soon can we have virtual war, where nobody dies?
Linux+deb aren't inherently good, nor is MS inherently bad. The problem is that MS considers "upgrades" (I use the term loosely) and fixes (again, loosely) as profit centers, to be forced upon customers whenever the revenue stream slows down. Linux (and Open Source/Free Software in general) gets fixed simply because it's the right thing to do. Software isn't perfect, but Linux distributors usually have the integrity to let their users know when some problem is discovered, and where to find the fix/patch.
On a related point, Free/Open Source is, just as the name suggests, free and open to the public, warts and all. Where Microsoft says, "trust us, and here's a bill for $150 plus tax," Free/Open Source says, "here's the code, how did we do?"
You're forgetting that the farther away you search, the farther back in time you see. What you observe a foot away from your eyes is roughly one nanosecond old. The events we see on the sun really occurred about seven minutes ago. And, somewhere waaaaaay out there, is the origin of some (very old) remnants of the Big Bang, which are just now reaching us.
There is the possibility that material from some other Big Crunch fed into what became our Big Bang, but its quantities and properties have nothing to do with our existence. For all intents and purposes, there is nothing "beyond" the Big Bang. And if there was, we are completely unable to observe it.
Is about 2/3 of the way down, right between the legs. Roshambo, anyone?
is that once again, Microsoft isn't comparing apples to apples. They're running a specifically Wintel system for Windows, and a mainframe (?!?) for Linux.
Next.
Unless you just dump it in the local landfill.
MP3.com is a full-fledged business, and any admin who deploys a half-developed filesystem on mission-critical systems should be fired. I'm not saying that ReiserFS v4 is half-developed now, but at one time it was. It isn't like dropping a ton of money on it will cause it to be instantly mission-ready. Development takes time. I'm sure MP3.com will use it, but only when it's ready.
Not a problem if the car is stopped. But are there any guards to make sure they aren't poking at this stuff as they're driving down the road? Why not put the same guards in cop cars as the rest of us have to live with?
The line only says they "supported" (funded) it, not that they used it.
Before anyone mods me, I did RTFA.
Since when do we simply assume that cops are better drivers than other people? The only point I'll concede to that is that they are trained to handle higher speeds. That doesn't automatically mean that they can still handle their front-seat gadgets better. If anything, driving at normal highway speeds can lull a trained person into a false sense of "normalcy".
In any case, I'm not buying the notion that cops are any better at typing while driving than the rest of us. If anything, because they are vested with more power than Average Joe, they should be distrusted more.
GM would not voluntarily put such a feature into their cars, but they would if Congress told them to. Even the NTSB could probably bring it about on their own.
Remember the crash data recorders? They were supposed to be used by the automakers for crash performance analysis. Now they're being used as forensic evidence. (Not sure about warrant requirements.) It's just one more "unintended consequence."
File and filesystem corruption is never a thing of the past. You can mitigate their effects, but no amount of filesystem robustness will fully protect you against failing hardware. Please don't make false advertisements regarding F[L]OSS projects.
If you go to the OnStar.com website, you'll see that "locating stolen vehicles" is one of the "features" OnStar has. OnStar has that ability, and it would take only a search warrant (or even a stolen vehicle report, possibly bogus) to use it.
As for life-taking, not OnStar yet, but remote shutdown of a car is on the table in England. Don't for a second believe that "only the police will be able to use this". Once it's cracked, just like anything else, when it falls into the hands of evil-doers, they'll get their kicks going around terrorizing people on the freeways. Think about it: you're driving on the M-1 at about 100 kph, and suddenly two guys pass you on the right, pull in front of you, and the passenger turns around, aims a device at your car, and BOOM your car's engine stops running. What can you do? Power brakes are nearly useless without the engine, and so is your power steering. You're at the mercy of inertia and friction. Meanwhile, the guy behind you was following too close, and he smacks your rear bumper. Chain reaction collision ensues. That's why it's a bad idea.
Wow, thatd be so terrible taht every vehicle sold in the US had life saving capabilities included.
You nailed it right here. Not only are these life-saving capabilities, they are also life-taking capabilities. Police in England are asking for this right now. How long until it's in the USA as well? And, after that, how long until it's hacked and used as a weapon by criminals?
Who cares if the gov't has the remote possibility to tell where you are?
If the government can, what's to stop anyone else from using a tracking system in my car?
One question for you: How long will it be until an OnStar-like system is required in every vehicle?
Think about it. OnStar saves the lives of so many grannies on their way to bingo, or some diabetics who went into insulin shock, or... whatever. Then, using their typical logic, Congress decrees that, since it's helped some people, everyone now has to have it if they want a new car. They did it with on-board defib units in planes, they did it with GPS in cell phones, they even did it with closed-captioning in televisions.
To update an old saying, when having privacy is outlawed, then only outlaws will have privacy.