What makes you think that you can get a refund. Getting escorted from an airport for "security reasons" does not entitle you to a refund. It was "your choice" to act in a manor that did not allow them to put you on a plane. You will also be reported to the authoraties as having suspicious behavior, and placed on a U.S. watch list. It doesn't matter what country your are from or what country you were in when it happened, you will be placed on a U.S. watch list. You will probably be placed on several list for several other countries. You are now a suspected terrorist, you have forfieted any rights as a human being, and the rights of anyone associated with you. I hope you don't have to travel for business, they will probably let you on the plane if you don't mouth off during the now required body search anytime you want to get on a plane. Maybe it is your sister that needs to travel for business, after missing a few flights due to searches taking a little too long, she will be looking at you for a new source of income.
The idea of collars sounds horrible, but after people realize that the consequences of "their choise" to not wear one are much worse, people will start to accept them.
Stay citizen, come here citizen, fetch your papers citizen. Good citizen, here is a boarding pass for you.( Pats citizen on head )
1) Leaving a name off the dictator was intentional, Plausable deniablility and all that.
2) Leaving the "party" blank was also intentional, because I don't think that either of the two major options is a real option. I am hoping that we end up with enough 3rd party and independents that they band together and can get the Democrates to help, I'll let them. Anything is better than what we have now.
I need to get a tax form form Meryl-Lynch. I had moved right before they mailed it out. I called to give them a change of address. In order to log on the system I had to enter a username and password, the system told me the default was username:SSN Password:Last 4 digits of your SSN. It then informed me that I did not have a valid PIN number for the system, and asked me to enter one. I then got through the voice mail system to a real person. The first thing he asked was to verify the address: I explained that the reason I called was to change the address, because the one on record was not valid. He told me that they used the address to verify ID, all this after using my SSN to verify the ID and account information. The big problem was that the place I had moved from did not have a distinct address. Every utility had a different address listed. I use to have 6 lines of info for things I mailed hoping one would work. These address were spread across 3 cities. The Post office and UPS had different address, the electric company and the phone company had different address. Figuring out which address this guy need was a nightmare. I wanted to know how knowing my address was a good verification that it was me, and I got a smart answer about it apperently not being me. I finally gave up, hung up, found a previous bill from every utility company, had a list of several addresses that I was ready to try and started over.
When I called back, I entered the SSN, last 4 digits of the SSN, and the PIN number I just created. The guy that answered the phone asked to verify that my address was "XXXX dumbas Dr..." and proceded to tell me the full address that they were using to verify ID. Finally getting to a manager it was explained to me that they only used the address if a valid PIN number was not entered. I explained that this leaves the SSN as the only thing needed to access the account. I was assured that it was much more difficult. I explained that I just did it, and was again told it could not be done. I asked to talk to a manager in charge of security, and was told that he was the one in charge of security concerns.
I don't think any of the companies out there care about your privacy directly, but a lot of companies are losing a lot of money because of the problem with the current system. I think they will do everything in their power to make it a system that they can track everything for financial gain, but I am hoping that people will wake up, and that there are enough votes cast in favor of throwing out the current dictator that he will be unable to compensate with voter fraud. When the new party takes office, I am hoping that they will listen to the people enough that instead of just bowing down to corprate intrest they will find a compromise. I think there is still only a snowball chance in hell of getting something functional out of the goverment, but I think something like a one way system would be benificial and will do my best to let other people start to think about it.
If you live in the US, you have a SSN, drivers license, phone number, address, "name & birthday", and an FBI file that most people wouldn't believe. I've had to deal with the FBI, they keep records on who your first girlfriend was, I have been denied a place to live because the FBI told the landlord that I was antigoverment because I play role-playing games. They went and asked the father of the landlord's first girlfriend about him. What I want is an ID system that the people control not the goverment. I think that a goverment agency need to keep the records with strict laws about who they can share them with, mainly because of the current trend that the Bill of Rights only applies to the goverment and not corporations. Try setting up a new life without giving anyone your ID. No house, no car, no work, no school. I can't even get into the school to see a kids play without getting my ID faxed to the police station to make sure I am not a child predetor. If they are going to have ID cards, I want a record of who ran the ID and for what, and do everything I can to prevent people from linking the information between companies and goverments. What is your plan for a solution? or are you happy with the fascist goverment we have now?
As long as you have it put in the law that every goverment department has to use a seperate key, then it becomes usless for most tracking. Each department could track within itself, but if you want to have fun. Make them get a new requester ID every year. Now all they can do is name/age matches. That is what I liked about the idea so much.
I was talking about this at earlier today, because it is of great concern to me. I think I have the start of a solution:
There needs to be a way to uniquely identify someone, and verify that identity. What does not need to be done is make that id public. That is the whole point of PGP encryption. An national ID number needs to be assigned. I hate the thought, but I finally gave in that it is a necessity. We already have a SSN, so it isn't something new. It just needs to be seperate from your SSN. In fact the plan I have, would allow your national ID to still be used for your SSN, and still be seperate from every other business or goverment department.
Set up a goverment department whose entire job is to administer ID numbers. The only information they should have is Name and age. They isssue everyone a private ID number and and encryption calculator. With the price of handheld calculators, I am confident that it can be done at a very reasonable cost. The department will then issue an ID number to each business that may need to know your ID. When a business or goverment agency wants your ID, they must give you their ID number, you encrypt your number with their ID number and give them the results, they then send that encrypted number to the Department of Identification along with their number where it is looked up on a database and the company is only given your Name and age group i.e. Under 16, 16-18, under 21, or over 65, depending on why the needed to register for an ID request. An adult site can request an 18 or over check, a convience store would need to know Under 18 for cigeretts, or under 21 for beer, etc, etc. Since each company that needs your information would have a different number to Id you with, it would prevent massive datamining into your life.
So you can't download and iso to the harddrive. How long before someone figures out that not being able to download a copy of a competing operating system, when that competing system freely allows you to download a copy, and most operating systems are large enough to require a cd or dvd to install, is anti-competitive. Oh wait you could download linux system files and just run a virtual machine to install, no got that one covered to.
fascism/fæzm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fash-iz-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
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1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Or we could just censor^H^H^H^H remove all the Republican AND Democrates names from the ballot because it is possible that will allow people to vote for them and put them in a position where they will create a public nusance.
I have long ago stopped going to the movie theater on a regular basis. Not because of price, but because I was rather upset the first time I paid to see a movie and got a comercial. One of the things I paid for was to have an uniterupted movie experience. If you want to show me trailers before the movie starts, go ahead, but don't give me a standard commercial. That first commercial was for Nestle Quick. I remember the commercial, but not the movie. If I am in the store, I will now try to pick another brand, just on principle.
Since then, I have become a collector of DVDs. I can sit at home and watch it on my own terms. If the beging has too much stuff other than trailers, I will rip it into a format that I can enjoy. Commercials and piracy notices are not part of your "creative work." That is not what I paid for, that is not what I want, and it is not what I am going to buy. If you wish to send me the DVD for free with the commercials, then like TV, I might or might not watch it if I have the time.
If you are going to take the ability for me to watch a movie that I have paid to watch without commericals, then I will go back to books, then I can tear out or paint anything that I find offensive.
You are trying to do business in a capitolistic society. The intent of that economic system is that people or companies that provided the products that people want at a resonable price are allowed to stay in business. Please quit trying to stretch our legal system to get around that simple fact, and please quit trying to force DRM onto people that do not want it. Provide the general people with what they want, and you will continue to have a thriving business.
NO!, That is like saying that a Frech citizen can't be prosecuted in Canada by an Illinois Judge for something the French told to a Germay while the German was visiting Africa.
Lets just make the wild assumption that this is a security measure. Now you don't have to modify the kernel to destroy a computer, just change the hash code so that Vista thinks Vista is unsigned. I haven't looked at the code, so they might have figured some way around it, but I have faith that the black hats will find away around their way around.
Ok. the judge decided to side with the plantiff. Now send them a certified letter with a court order saying how much they owe. Having their Domain Name pulled does not fit the crime. The plantiff is asking an eye for an eye, and the judge is just handing it to them. That is not how US justice is supose to work. How would you like your light company telling your employer to give you your paycheck late just because your bill was late and because your employer used the same company they did it.
I use to work around mercaptans in the university, and later did work in a mercaptan plant. They gave me a big long speech before entering the plant about why they did not have a gas leak, and seemed rather upset that I laughed through most of the speech until I explained that I worked with the professor that developed their process.
Usually I would be very, very against this sort of behavior, but I think just this once it would do a lot of good for someone to post this judges email address, both work and home. Preferably on a few high traffic newsgroups, and make sure that his spam filters are unavailable for use. He is a public official, that is trying to decide an issue that affects the whole world, maybe the whole world needs to send him a note.
I think spending our money on space exploration instead of blow up other countries is a good idea. People just need to think about all the implications of something when politicians start spewing their political agenda, speeches, slogans, and catch phrases. If we declare that treaties on nuclear weapons are null and void for space exploration just because space exploration is Good(tm), then why can't Iran claim that they need nuclear power as alternative fuel to keep from depleting the earths natural resources. Wether you agree or disagree with either action, why don't we renegotiate the treaties to include an exemption for space exploration instead of just declaring the treaties null and void. Most of those treaties have some good to them. When you have opposing countries, it is harder to buy out the politicians like is so common with the rest of our new laws. If we declare any part of the treaty null and void just because it is Good(tm) for us, don't be suprised when every other country in the world picks and chooses how they want to redefine or ignore treaties because it is good for them.
Wrong again, the GPL applies when distributing binaries. They do not have to be a derivative work. If you distribute the binaries, you have to make the source code available. If you have not modified the original source, it is generally accepted that you can point the people that you distributed the binary to, to the same place you recieved it. If you add code, then you have to distribute the source to your code if it is linked to the GPL code. If it is an interface or a layer that can be compliled seperately, you do not have to distribute your source, but you are still responsible for making the source available for the GPL binaries you distributed. Otherwise you do not have the right to distribute them under copyright law. Copyright is the right to copy, in whole or in part. I think that you were possible discussing new code, but the way it was phrased makes it come across "The GPL is only required (i.e., only applicable) when copyright is involved; i.e., making a derivative work." which is not the case. Copying in whole still requires permision from the copyright holder, which is provided by the terms of the GPL.
Prison is not for Rehabilitation, it is for a deterent. The HP board has has made agreements to pay fines and legal fees for most situations, so there is no longer a deterent for the individual in giving them a fine. Please let the rest of us know what you think is a fair punishment for destroying the bill of rights. They undermined the right to free press, the right to be free of search and seizure without due process. I know that some people are going to chime in with, "but that is only for the goverment!" Please show me in a book on physics or nature where a corporation exist outside of a goverment sanctioned enity. I see know reason why they should not be under the same laws as our goverment. Apparently our lawmakers agree, or they wouldn't have passed the laws making it illegal to break into someone's computer.
"Overheating demo game console units is no reason for stock of one of the largest electronics manufactures to slip."
I would think that "one of the largest electronics manufactures" would by now have a firm grasp that semiconductor by their very definition (semi = partial & condutor = conducts electricity) do not conduct electricity well, and the inefficiency produces heat. If you design a case to look good and/or have a small foot print by pushing the cooling to the minimum, then you get "overheat demo game console units." Sony bashing aside, I think that any electronics company should know the heating limits of the products they produce. This information should definiately be know by the people giving a demo where they may be asked simple questions like, "how hot does it get?" To not show this proficiency in a companies field of experties should cause the stock to drop.
If they have that kind of access, what is to prevent them from just sending a call and text message to every phone at once. I think a bunch of different ring tones would be even worse than a single tone. Either way, they will be prosecuted as terrorist. No, I am not exagerating, their are already a few cases where someone was tried as a terrorist for messing with the phone system, because it might have prevented a 911 call from going through.
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What makes you think that you can get a refund. Getting escorted from an airport for "security reasons" does not entitle you to a refund. It was "your choice" to act in a manor that did not allow them to put you on a plane. You will also be reported to the authoraties as having suspicious behavior, and placed on a U.S. watch list. It doesn't matter what country your are from or what country you were in when it happened, you will be placed on a U.S. watch list. You will probably be placed on several list for several other countries. You are now a suspected terrorist, you have forfieted any rights as a human being, and the rights of anyone associated with you. I hope you don't have to travel for business, they will probably let you on the plane if you don't mouth off during the now required body search anytime you want to get on a plane. Maybe it is your sister that needs to travel for business, after missing a few flights due to searches taking a little too long, she will be looking at you for a new source of income.
The idea of collars sounds horrible, but after people realize that the consequences of "their choise" to not wear one are much worse, people will start to accept them.
Stay citizen, come here citizen, fetch your papers citizen. Good citizen, here is a boarding pass for you.( Pats citizen on head )
1) Leaving a name off the dictator was intentional, Plausable deniablility and all that.
2) Leaving the "party" blank was also intentional, because I don't think that either of the two major options is a real option. I am hoping that we end up with enough 3rd party and independents that they band together and can get the Democrates to help, I'll let them. Anything is better than what we have now.
I need to get a tax form form Meryl-Lynch. I had moved right before they mailed it out. I called to give them a change of address. In order to log on the system I had to enter a username and password, the system told me the default was username:SSN Password:Last 4 digits of your SSN. It then informed me that I did not have a valid PIN number for the system, and asked me to enter one. I then got through the voice mail system to a real person. The first thing he asked was to verify the address: I explained that the reason I called was to change the address, because the one on record was not valid. He told me that they used the address to verify ID, all this after using my SSN to verify the ID and account information. The big problem was that the place I had moved from did not have a distinct address. Every utility had a different address listed. I use to have 6 lines of info for things I mailed hoping one would work. These address were spread across 3 cities. The Post office and UPS had different address, the electric company and the phone company had different address. Figuring out which address this guy need was a nightmare. I wanted to know how knowing my address was a good verification that it was me, and I got a smart answer about it apperently not being me. I finally gave up, hung up, found a previous bill from every utility company, had a list of several addresses that I was ready to try and started over.
When I called back, I entered the SSN, last 4 digits of the SSN, and the PIN number I just created. The guy that answered the phone asked to verify that my address was "XXXX dumbas Dr..." and proceded to tell me the full address that they were using to verify ID. Finally getting to a manager it was explained to me that they only used the address if a valid PIN number was not entered. I explained that this leaves the SSN as the only thing needed to access the account. I was assured that it was much more difficult. I explained that I just did it, and was again told it could not be done. I asked to talk to a manager in charge of security, and was told that he was the one in charge of security concerns.
I don't think any of the companies out there care about your privacy directly, but a lot of companies are losing a lot of money because of the problem with the current system. I think they will do everything in their power to make it a system that they can track everything for financial gain, but I am hoping that people will wake up, and that there are enough votes cast in favor of throwing out the current dictator that he will be unable to compensate with voter fraud. When the new party takes office, I am hoping that they will listen to the people enough that instead of just bowing down to corprate intrest they will find a compromise. I think there is still only a snowball chance in hell of getting something functional out of the goverment, but I think something like a one way system would be benificial and will do my best to let other people start to think about it.
If you live in the US, you have a SSN, drivers license, phone number, address, "name & birthday", and an FBI file that most people wouldn't believe. I've had to deal with the FBI, they keep records on who your first girlfriend was, I have been denied a place to live because the FBI told the landlord that I was antigoverment because I play role-playing games. They went and asked the father of the landlord's first girlfriend about him. What I want is an ID system that the people control not the goverment. I think that a goverment agency need to keep the records with strict laws about who they can share them with, mainly because of the current trend that the Bill of Rights only applies to the goverment and not corporations. Try setting up a new life without giving anyone your ID. No house, no car, no work, no school. I can't even get into the school to see a kids play without getting my ID faxed to the police station to make sure I am not a child predetor. If they are going to have ID cards, I want a record of who ran the ID and for what, and do everything I can to prevent people from linking the information between companies and goverments. What is your plan for a solution? or are you happy with the fascist goverment we have now?
As long as you have it put in the law that every goverment department has to use a seperate key, then it becomes usless for most tracking. Each department could track within itself, but if you want to have fun. Make them get a new requester ID every year. Now all they can do is name/age matches. That is what I liked about the idea so much.
I was talking about this at earlier today, because it is of great concern to me. I think I have the start of a solution:
There needs to be a way to uniquely identify someone, and verify that identity. What does not need to be done is make that id public. That is the whole point of PGP encryption. An national ID number needs to be assigned. I hate the thought, but I finally gave in that it is a necessity. We already have a SSN, so it isn't something new. It just needs to be seperate from your SSN. In fact the plan I have, would allow your national ID to still be used for your SSN, and still be seperate from every other business or goverment department.
Set up a goverment department whose entire job is to administer ID numbers. The only information they should have is Name and age. They isssue everyone a private ID number and and encryption calculator. With the price of handheld calculators, I am confident that it can be done at a very reasonable cost. The department will then issue an ID number to each business that may need to know your ID. When a business or goverment agency wants your ID, they must give you their ID number, you encrypt your number with their ID number and give them the results, they then send that encrypted number to the Department of Identification along with their number where it is looked up on a database and the company is only given your Name and age group i.e. Under 16, 16-18, under 21, or over 65, depending on why the needed to register for an ID request. An adult site can request an 18 or over check, a convience store would need to know Under 18 for cigeretts, or under 21 for beer, etc, etc. Since each company that needs your information would have a different number to Id you with, it would prevent massive datamining into your life.
So you can't download and iso to the harddrive. How long before someone figures out that not being able to download a copy of a competing operating system, when that competing system freely allows you to download a copy, and most operating systems are large enough to require a cd or dvd to install, is anti-competitive. Oh wait you could download linux system files and just run a virtual machine to install, no got that one covered to.
Let me explain
/fæzm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fash-iz-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
fascism
-noun
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Or we could just censor^H^H^H^H remove all the Republican AND Democrates names from the ballot because it is possible that will allow people to vote for them and put them in a position where they will create a public nusance.
I have long ago stopped going to the movie theater on a regular basis. Not because of price, but because I was rather upset the first time I paid to see a movie and got a comercial. One of the things I paid for was to have an uniterupted movie experience. If you want to show me trailers before the movie starts, go ahead, but don't give me a standard commercial. That first commercial was for Nestle Quick. I remember the commercial, but not the movie. If I am in the store, I will now try to pick another brand, just on principle.
Since then, I have become a collector of DVDs. I can sit at home and watch it on my own terms. If the beging has too much stuff other than trailers, I will rip it into a format that I can enjoy. Commercials and piracy notices are not part of your "creative work." That is not what I paid for, that is not what I want, and it is not what I am going to buy. If you wish to send me the DVD for free with the commercials, then like TV, I might or might not watch it if I have the time.
If you are going to take the ability for me to watch a movie that I have paid to watch without commericals, then I will go back to books, then I can tear out or paint anything that I find offensive.
You are trying to do business in a capitolistic society. The intent of that economic system is that people or companies that provided the products that people want at a resonable price are allowed to stay in business. Please quit trying to stretch our legal system to get around that simple fact, and please quit trying to force DRM onto people that do not want it. Provide the general people with what they want, and you will continue to have a thriving business.
NO!, That is like saying that a Frech citizen can't be prosecuted in Canada by an Illinois Judge for something the French told to a Germay while the German was visiting Africa.
Lets just make the wild assumption that this is a security measure. Now you don't have to modify the kernel to destroy a computer, just change the hash code so that Vista thinks Vista is unsigned. I haven't looked at the code, so they might have figured some way around it, but I have faith that the black hats will find away around their way around.
That was the anti-journaling OJFs, journaling is where you leave a trace of where you have been, and what you did.
Ok. the judge decided to side with the plantiff. Now send them a certified letter with a court order saying how much they owe. Having their Domain Name pulled does not fit the crime. The plantiff is asking an eye for an eye, and the judge is just handing it to them. That is not how US justice is supose to work. How would you like your light company telling your employer to give you your paycheck late just because your bill was late and because your employer used the same company they did it.
Or wait until after they shut down the Domain Name, then have everone the recieves spam start a class action suit.
A mercaptan additive is put into natural gas to give it an oder:
mercaptan (murkp'tn) [key]or thiol (th'l) [key], any of a class of organic compounds containing the group -SH
That -SH group is the same on as in H-S-H better know as Hydrogen Sulfide gas.
mercapton compounds are also made by decaying or decomposing organinic matter, which is gives the distinct oder to flatus
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0832739.html
I use to work around mercaptans in the university, and later did work in a mercaptan plant. They gave me a big long speech before entering the plant about why they did not have a gas leak, and seemed rather upset that I laughed through most of the speech until I explained that I worked with the professor that developed their process.
I bet the person in his office that does the actual work has one!
Usually I would be very, very against this sort of behavior, but I think just this once it would do a lot of good for someone to post this judges email address, both work and home. Preferably on a few high traffic newsgroups, and make sure that his spam filters are unavailable for use. He is a public official, that is trying to decide an issue that affects the whole world, maybe the whole world needs to send him a note.
I think spending our money on space exploration instead of blow up other countries is a good idea. People just need to think about all the implications of something when politicians start spewing their political agenda, speeches, slogans, and catch phrases. If we declare that treaties on nuclear weapons are null and void for space exploration just because space exploration is Good(tm), then why can't Iran claim that they need nuclear power as alternative fuel to keep from depleting the earths natural resources. Wether you agree or disagree with either action, why don't we renegotiate the treaties to include an exemption for space exploration instead of just declaring the treaties null and void. Most of those treaties have some good to them. When you have opposing countries, it is harder to buy out the politicians like is so common with the rest of our new laws. If we declare any part of the treaty null and void just because it is Good(tm) for us, don't be suprised when every other country in the world picks and chooses how they want to redefine or ignore treaties because it is good for them.
Wrong again, the GPL applies when distributing binaries. They do not have to be a derivative work. If you distribute the binaries, you have to make the source code available. If you have not modified the original source, it is generally accepted that you can point the people that you distributed the binary to, to the same place you recieved it. If you add code, then you have to distribute the source to your code if it is linked to the GPL code. If it is an interface or a layer that can be compliled seperately, you do not have to distribute your source, but you are still responsible for making the source available for the GPL binaries you distributed. Otherwise you do not have the right to distribute them under copyright law. Copyright is the right to copy, in whole or in part. I think that you were possible discussing new code, but the way it was phrased makes it come across "The GPL is only required (i.e., only applicable) when copyright is involved; i.e., making a derivative work." which is not the case. Copying in whole still requires permision from the copyright holder, which is provided by the terms of the GPL.
They lose money on the consoles, wouldn't that mean that the game manufactures are their customers, not the "consumer"?
Prison is not for Rehabilitation, it is for a deterent. The HP board has has made agreements to pay fines and legal fees for most situations, so there is no longer a deterent for the individual in giving them a fine. Please let the rest of us know what you think is a fair punishment for destroying the bill of rights. They undermined the right to free press, the right to be free of search and seizure without due process. I know that some people are going to chime in with, "but that is only for the goverment!" Please show me in a book on physics or nature where a corporation exist outside of a goverment sanctioned enity. I see know reason why they should not be under the same laws as our goverment. Apparently our lawmakers agree, or they wouldn't have passed the laws making it illegal to break into someone's computer.
"Overheating demo game console units is no reason for stock of one of the largest electronics manufactures to slip."
I would think that "one of the largest electronics manufactures" would by now have a firm grasp that semiconductor by their very definition (semi = partial & condutor = conducts electricity) do not conduct electricity well, and the inefficiency produces heat. If you design a case to look good and/or have a small foot print by pushing the cooling to the minimum, then you get "overheat demo game console units." Sony bashing aside, I think that any electronics company should know the heating limits of the products they produce. This information should definiately be know by the people giving a demo where they may be asked simple questions like, "how hot does it get?" To not show this proficiency in a companies field of experties should cause the stock to drop.
If they have that kind of access, what is to prevent them from just sending a call and text message to every phone at once. I think a bunch of different ring tones would be even worse than a single tone. Either way, they will be prosecuted as terrorist. No, I am not exagerating, their are already a few cases where someone was tried as a terrorist for messing with the phone system, because it might have prevented a 911 call from going through.