I agree completely with you, wish I had mod points to give you.
and unless things have changed drastically in the years since I left the Air Force, all secure communications go across a dedicated network, in most cases that being a dedicate point to point comm line. Nothing of any official sensitive nature would go out on the civilian internet.
If this proves true, on the data, then there is someone looking for a courts martial offense in mis handling secret and above information.
I have to echo your sentiments with a loud "Hell Yeah!".
As the father of somone with a slightly defective valve. We have been told that at some point in the future this valve will need to be replaced. How wonderful it is that the replacement will no longer need be reduced to the choices of cadaver, pig, or mechanical.
In case you haven't been keeping up with the story, here's the quick summary: Internet radio has to pay two sets of royalties, while traditional radio only pays one. Thanks to the recent ruling by the CRB, that extra royalty that Internet radio pays will skyrocket over the next few years, dealing Internet radio a mortal blow.
So, couldn't an internet radio site put in a really low watt broadcast system. Like the ones Realtors use to advertise homes, where the total distance is less than a few hundred feet. Then couldnt they file as a terrestrial broadcaster and get a lower fee base? I'd think with that limited range of broadcasting, they wouldn't have much of an audience, so the rates aught to be very low.
But, that possibility is probably disallowed since the obvious intent of this is to kill internet radio anyway.
The day they start taxing me on my virtual money, is the day I will pay all real debt with my virtual gold.
Wouldn't it be nice to send that mortgage payment in MMORPG gold, harvested from killing monsters instead of draining my real bank account.
I could then quit real work, and play all day long, secure in the knowledge my online activites would sustain my real life needs.
Why is this even news? I recall reading about this theory back in the late 80's.
Nothing new, other than maybe they are saying we can now confirm it was concrete with modern analysis techniques.
Well, the game sounded like it might have been worth the purchase. And I almost got the preorder this last weekend.
If this is indeed true, I will NEVER buy this product, and most likely avoid anything EA related primarily as a protection of my privacy.
Unless of course they do two major things; 1) create a game that plays as interestingly and addictively as the box art describes, AND 2) removes any and all monitoring "Advertising Technology" crap.
OK, I'll jump for your obvious trolling bait. But of course opensource solutions would welcome a reports such as this.
Its the closed source solutions providers that would cringe, pull hair, and writhe on the ground if it was ever published the results ran against their code.
(Oh, and they'd trundle out their FUD machines full force instead of actually fixing the identified issues)
I have to agree with you, it made for a good story... until I read it.
Or is that, made for a good headline.
At any rate, the ultra-left wing venom dripping from Frank J Ranelli's article made me feel like I was reading from "The Onion" and your reference link to the library journal site helps confirm my suspicions. Just do a google search on the author, and you'll find pages of hits that indicate a very determined radical bent in his writings. So this lean towards the absurd is not of a surprise to me.
Now, I for one, don't agree with most of what Bush is doing to our country, and get very angry about what is being done to our young men and women in the military. But, that said, I don't think taking these budgetary changes, cost savings, and movement towards technological deployment of materials and slanting them into a modern form of yellow journalism helps anyone. Well, maybe it helps the controllers/radicals to push around the sheep/gullible?
Let's be honest. "Identity theft" is only about the precious "credit rating".
While agree in principle with many of your points, I have to say on the whole it is an impossibility for most people to acheive. But, that isn't what I am concerned with here. Identity theft is definitely much more than just your "precious" credit rating.
I in fact was a victim of identity theft, and the criminals didn't open up new credit somewhere against my credit report. They somehow (and I beleive from an online store) got my credit card numbers. From that, they charged almost a $1000 at some mom-n-pop convenience store everal thousand miles away from my home.
Luckily for me, my account had a security watchdog on it, and the card was disabled when it indicated the same exact number was buying items both in my home town, and in this other location at exactly the same time.
After several days, going to the police (whom were very reluctant to file a report by the way), and sending notarized documents to my bank indicating that these were fraudulent charges. I eventually got my money back.
I will not get back my (false) sense of security, nor the several days away from work I had to take, in order to file the necessary paperwork. And, I probably will never get the satisfaction of knowing these criminals were ever caught and convicted. Such a low dollar amount isn't worth the time of anyone but (possibly) the insurance company for my credit account.
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I agree completely with you, wish I had mod points to give you.
and unless things have changed drastically in the years since I left the Air Force, all secure communications go across a dedicated network, in most cases that being a dedicate point to point comm line. Nothing of any official sensitive nature would go out on the civilian internet.
If this proves true, on the data, then there is someone looking for a courts martial offense in mis handling secret and above information.
Could help them in some small way in determing what fun we'll have in 2036 with Apophis-99942.
I have to echo your sentiments with a loud "Hell Yeah!".
As the father of somone with a slightly defective valve. We have been told that at some point in the future this valve will need to be replaced. How wonderful it is that the replacement will no longer need be reduced to the choices of cadaver, pig, or mechanical.
I agree. Seems most people forget the basic axiom.
"There are lies, damned lies, and Statistics"
Thats easy... Internet in laymans terms: Magic.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
No thanks, I think I'll just "shake my fist at the darkness" while I help design a better lamp.
So, couldn't an internet radio site put in a really low watt broadcast system. Like the ones Realtors use to advertise homes, where the total distance is less than a few hundred feet. Then couldnt they file as a terrestrial broadcaster and get a lower fee base? I'd think with that limited range of broadcasting, they wouldn't have much of an audience, so the rates aught to be very low.
But, that possibility is probably disallowed since the obvious intent of this is to kill internet radio anyway.
The day they start taxing me on my virtual money, is the day I will pay all real debt with my virtual gold. Wouldn't it be nice to send that mortgage payment in MMORPG gold, harvested from killing monsters instead of draining my real bank account. I could then quit real work, and play all day long, secure in the knowledge my online activites would sustain my real life needs.
Why is this even news? I recall reading about this theory back in the late 80's. Nothing new, other than maybe they are saying we can now confirm it was concrete with modern analysis techniques.
The same sound as "one hand clapping" .... or that proverbial "tree fallinig a forest".
Well, the game sounded like it might have been worth the purchase. And I almost got the preorder this last weekend.
If this is indeed true, I will NEVER buy this product, and most likely avoid anything EA related primarily as a protection of my privacy.
Unless of course they do two major things;
1) create a game that plays as interestingly and addictively as the box art describes,
AND
2) removes any and all monitoring "Advertising Technology" crap.
OK, I'll jump for your obvious trolling bait. But of course opensource solutions would welcome a reports such as this.
Its the closed source solutions providers that would cringe, pull hair, and writhe on the ground if it was ever published the results ran against their code.
(Oh, and they'd trundle out their FUD machines full force instead of actually fixing the identified issues)
I have to agree with you, it made for a good story... until I read it. Or is that, made for a good headline. At any rate, the ultra-left wing venom dripping from Frank J Ranelli's article made me feel like I was reading from "The Onion" and your reference link to the library journal site helps confirm my suspicions. Just do a google search on the author, and you'll find pages of hits that indicate a very determined radical bent in his writings. So this lean towards the absurd is not of a surprise to me. Now, I for one, don't agree with most of what Bush is doing to our country, and get very angry about what is being done to our young men and women in the military. But, that said, I don't think taking these budgetary changes, cost savings, and movement towards technological deployment of materials and slanting them into a modern form of yellow journalism helps anyone. Well, maybe it helps the controllers/radicals to push around the sheep/gullible?
I in fact was a victim of identity theft, and the criminals didn't open up new credit somewhere against my credit report. They somehow (and I beleive from an online store) got my credit card numbers. From that, they charged almost a $1000 at some mom-n-pop convenience store everal thousand miles away from my home. Luckily for me, my account had a security watchdog on it, and the card was disabled when it indicated the same exact number was buying items both in my home town, and in this other location at exactly the same time.
After several days, going to the police (whom were very reluctant to file a report by the way), and sending notarized documents to my bank indicating that these were fraudulent charges. I eventually got my money back. I will not get back my (false) sense of security, nor the several days away from work I had to take, in order to file the necessary paperwork. And, I probably will never get the satisfaction of knowing these criminals were ever caught and convicted. Such a low dollar amount isn't worth the time of anyone but (possibly) the insurance company for my credit account.