One of the reasons for Real ID was because some state drivers licenses were too easily to fake. And in some states, the identity checks you have to take to get the license were too lax. (i.e. the "can you drive" parts were more important than the "are you who you claim to be" parts)
Guess what? A driver's license is supposed to say you can drive, not you are who you say you are. Social Security numbers too are used as ID, heck at least some states require a Social Security card to get a license, but they were never meant to be used as an ID. The Social Security Administration even says "You need a Social Security number to get a job, collect Social Security benefits and receive some other government services. But you don't often need to show your Social Security card. Do not carry your card with you. Keep it in a safe place with your other important papers." I don't know if the cards still do but they used to say something along the lines "This is not an identification card".
Gotten bad in what way? Requiring students having a computer? The cost of one is less than the cost of tuition. I can see some majors not needing a computer, but programming does require one. It's not like the old days when paper tape or punch cards were used.
One of the issues that Real ID adresses is to cut down on issuing DL's to those that have had them revoked. Its a common occurance for John Doe to loose his license in state X so he drives across the state lines, and gets an license from state Y. States do have reciprocity. but it takes years for the records to catch up to you.
I am a victim, er survivor is more appropriate, of this. One day while riding my bike I was hit by a moving van, from Bekins. I lived in one state, where the accident happened, and the driver had moved to that state when the state he moved from issued a warrant for his arrest. Even though I now live with a permanent disability I still oppose a national ID. I care more about liberty than safety, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Real ID helps to make sure the plastic card s being issued to the person it say it is.
Only until it's cracked and can be forged, in the meanwhile all it will do is make people feel safe. Until it is abused, and that will happen, as with everything thing else government will abuse it's new powers.
I think the notion that anonymity leads to safety is absurd.
And I believe the notion that a national ID leads to safety is absurd.
You only need anonymity when you already live in a repressive state.
The USA's Founding fathers didn't think that. Instead they believe anonymity is required for a democracy. If a person couldn't have anonymity then they could not speak freely. Take a look at the "Federalist Papers", though the wiki article credits Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay as the authors they were all published with "Publius" as the author. One of the few who wrote in his own name was Thomas Paine who wrote "These are the times that try men's souls."
The real problem in the US is that its too easy to get and use all sorts of things (including credit cards and prepaid mobile phones) with very little ID checking.
No, the real problem is any demand for ID when it's not needed. Now one is needed for a credit card but it's not needed for a pre-paid card, unless that card is loaded with money purchased by check or another card. If paid for with cash ID should not be needed.
Getting one, not to hard, proving you're the person who's record it is, a bit harder... That level of identity theft requires a lot of validated personal tidbits, not the least of which includes having a copy of a utility bill in that name that was mailed to the address you're trying to get a drivers license for, and also ensuring the insurance card and vehicle redistration also reflect the same...
After I came out of the coma I was in I found out I did not have my driver's license. While in therapy for my injury the therapists said I'd have to take a special test before I could get a new DL. So I went down to the DMV to get a state issued ID card, but when I got up to the counter and asked for one the clerk asked me if I wanted to go ahead and renew my DL. So I went ahead. Now that was before 911 so one may think security, as in proving you are who you say you are, wasn't a concern. However I moved to another state and had to get a new DL from the state I moved to after 911. To get the new DL all I needed was my old one, I brought a certified copy of my birth certificate and a bill in my name with my current address but they weren't needed.
My wife lost hers and we needed it to go on our honeymoon to get a passport.
I was in the hospital in a coma and my mother had to get a copy of my birth certificate. All she did was contact the office where they were kept and requested one. She had to pay for it but they sent her one.
One hopes the current one can implement something more realistic and something that would actually accomplish the task of making IDs a little less like Monopoly Money. Current IDs are not up to the task.
As I said in my first post on this subject, we don't need any REAL ID or any other national ID. The only tyme a person should need one is when they travel internationally. I don't think they should be required then either, but that's another subject.
I just went into the DMV to renew my license and it was expensive and rigorous.
I renewed my DL almost a year ago and there wasn't a difference from the last tyme, as far as paperwork and security is concerned. Now, I should have gotten a passport years ago but I haven't needed one yet.
when there was no \section{} or \textbf{}, and when pressing `shift' actually required strenght. But those days are gone.
Don't you ever, no I won't do it that way, shout? If it only prevented people from shouting so much, I think getting rid of the caps lock would be great.
Yea maybe, flamebait. Maybe not every but most store bought, including mail orders, included an OS. About the only ones that didn't were the Homebrews.
was the drive originally from a Mac?, even so Linux is the way to go as it has support for all the filesystem types in kernel and the distribution should also have filesystem tools like reiser.fsck. Is it from a linux distribution this hard drive?
No, it was a drive I got for the Linux PC at the same tyme. This PC is the only computer it's been installed in. The original drive that came installed in the PC was only 40GB however I had more than 500GB on the drive in an old PC I was replacing. So I got a new 750GB drive when I got the PC. I could have gotten a PC with a bigger drive but that cost more than getting a second drive.
Unfortunately I'll probably have a problem with the next part
That's as far as filesystem recovery goes. It depends on the way the crash happened
Luckily I think the PC didn't crash while I was using it, instead I did a fresh boot after it was off for a few hours. When I did it didn't boot-up right. Seeing as it was under an extended warranty I paid for when I bought the PC and the store was only a miles and I wasn't in a rush to do anything else I put the PC in my car and drove to the store.
After they ran diagnostics they told me the motherboard had to be replaced. Now I realize what I should have done was remove the drive before they did any work, perhaps swapped it with a another used drive. I've got a couple laying around. But stupid me, I thought the tech would do what I said I wanted done.
Some photos of a couple of cats but not of dogs. I do have hundreds of photos though. I took some good shots of wind surfers on a lake during summer and winter. Others were from trips, my garden, and the neighborhood. Still other photos I took for my classes in photography. Luckily I only have a film based 35mm camera and I still have my film, going back more than 10 years. I ordered photocds when I turned in the film for personal use, I turned in the film for my classes in the lab on campus. I now have a film scanner which scans at a higher resolution than the photo shops offer, so I think I'll scan all my film.
However as I said I've done a lot of research online and whenever I come across a webpage I want to keep I'll save it to disk. For websites that were only a few pages, when I used Linux or Windows, I used HTTrack to save them. There isn't a version of it for OS X though so now I manually save webpages., which brings up something that pisses me off about Firefox, FF doesn't save pages with a standard file name such as the page title nor does it write the url the page is saved from. As much as people gripe about IE at least it saves a page using the title and it includes the url. With FF every page I save I open the html file with an editor so I can paste in the url. There are supposed to be FF add-ons that do these for you but I read reviews for all of them I found and they all have problems.
Which is why you want to have all the right tools available from the get go and no resistance from the OS. It's crap doing this sort of thing but I totally empathise with you. Stick with the routine and you should be ok, just get ready for a lot of repetitive stuff.
Okay, I suppose I'll run the commands and software from Linux. Now I need to see how I can install a third hard disk drive in the PC or I'll have to put up with the slowness of USB.
This case seems like the exact type of case the RIAA avoids like the plague. Any time any of their methods are subjected to any serious scrutiny, they drop the case and run. They know any serious discovery will kill their racket.
So what's to keep them from dropping this like a radioactive potato when the bevy of tech savvy pro bono lawyers start to tear Mediasentry a new one?
I may be wrong but I think the defendant can file a counter lawsuit, which is what I'd do if I could. Not only would I do it but I'd try to get other defendants to join then file for class action status.
He said essential liberty for a little temporary safety, don't mix it up.
I don't recall the exact phrase but it still applies. I bet the Gestapo and KGB would of loved these technologies. Some may, no will, say but the US won't abuse them however history has shown the government or people in the government will abuse them. I doubt many slashdotters lived through J Edgar Hoover's reign of the FBI but he vary much abused his power. Even less lived through McCarthyism and Mccarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee or the Hollywood Blacklist. As late as the 1970s the US government were forcibly sterilizing American Indian women as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
No, I do not trust government, I fear government more than anything else, including those "terrorists" the government wants to protect us from.
Considering that it was developed while at the institution, as part of a course taught by the institution, likely using the institution's resources, that seems like a particularly poor analogy.
Seeing as how this was a programming class it's highly likely the student used his own computer not the school's. Heck some colleges are requiring new students in all majors to buy a computer, some include a fee for a laptop.
Does anyone have "favorite channels" anymore or just favorite SHOWS?
I do. I watch CNN 80 or 90% of the tyme I watch a station, the rest of the tyme I watch the History Channel. I don't watch CNN much though, mostly I watch movies I own. Own not pirated, I've got hundreds of original DVDs and tapes.
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One of the reasons for Real ID was because some state drivers licenses were too easily to fake. And in some states, the identity checks you have to take to get the license were too lax. (i.e. the "can you drive" parts were more important than the "are you who you claim to be" parts)
Guess what? A driver's license is supposed to say you can drive, not you are who you say you are. Social Security numbers too are used as ID, heck at least some states require a Social Security card to get a license, but they were never meant to be used as an ID. The Social Security Administration even says "You need a Social Security number to get a job, collect Social Security benefits and receive some other government services. But you don't often need to show your Social Security card. Do not carry your card with you. Keep it in a safe place with your other important papers." I don't know if the cards still do but they used to say something along the lines "This is not an identification card".
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In the US today the risk from too little privacy is far lower than the risk of too much privacy.
That's what you believe I believe the opposite. Wait until your ID is stolen and you'll feel differently.
Technology has leveraged up the ability of small groups to do a lot of damage.
Like ID thieves. There are markets on the net people can buy people's ID from.
Falcon
Gotten bad in what way? Requiring students having a computer? The cost of one is less than the cost of tuition. I can see some majors not needing a computer, but programming does require one. It's not like the old days when paper tape or punch cards were used.
Falcon
The feds set the standard so it is national.
Falcon
One of the issues that Real ID adresses is to cut down on issuing DL's to those that have had them revoked. Its a common occurance for John Doe to loose his license in state X so he drives across the state lines, and gets an license from state Y. States do have reciprocity. but it takes years for the records to catch up to you.
I am a victim, er survivor is more appropriate, of this. One day while riding my bike I was hit by a moving van, from Bekins. I lived in one state, where the accident happened, and the driver had moved to that state when the state he moved from issued a warrant for his arrest. Even though I now live with a permanent disability I still oppose a national ID. I care more about liberty than safety, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Real ID helps to make sure the plastic card s being issued to the person it say it is.
Only until it's cracked and can be forged, in the meanwhile all it will do is make people feel safe. Until it is abused, and that will happen, as with everything thing else government will abuse it's new powers.
Falcon
I think the notion that anonymity leads to safety is absurd.
And I believe the notion that a national ID leads to safety is absurd.
You only need anonymity when you already live in a repressive state.
The USA's Founding fathers didn't think that. Instead they believe anonymity is required for a democracy. If a person couldn't have anonymity then they could not speak freely. Take a look at the "Federalist Papers", though the wiki article credits Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay as the authors they were all published with "Publius" as the author. One of the few who wrote in his own name was Thomas Paine who wrote "These are the times that try men's souls."
Falcon
The real problem in the US is that its too easy to get and use all sorts of things (including credit cards and prepaid mobile phones) with very little ID checking.
No, the real problem is any demand for ID when it's not needed. Now one is needed for a credit card but it's not needed for a pre-paid card, unless that card is loaded with money purchased by check or another card. If paid for with cash ID should not be needed.
Falcon
Getting one, not to hard, proving you're the person who's record it is, a bit harder... That level of identity theft requires a lot of validated personal tidbits, not the least of which includes having a copy of a utility bill in that name that was mailed to the address you're trying to get a drivers license for, and also ensuring the insurance card and vehicle redistration also reflect the same...
After I came out of the coma I was in I found out I did not have my driver's license. While in therapy for my injury the therapists said I'd have to take a special test before I could get a new DL. So I went down to the DMV to get a state issued ID card, but when I got up to the counter and asked for one the clerk asked me if I wanted to go ahead and renew my DL. So I went ahead. Now that was before 911 so one may think security, as in proving you are who you say you are, wasn't a concern. However I moved to another state and had to get a new DL from the state I moved to after 911. To get the new DL all I needed was my old one, I brought a certified copy of my birth certificate and a bill in my name with my current address but they weren't needed.
Falcon
My wife lost hers and we needed it to go on our honeymoon to get a passport.
I was in the hospital in a coma and my mother had to get a copy of my birth certificate. All she did was contact the office where they were kept and requested one. She had to pay for it but they sent her one.
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like the rest of the Bush administration.
That part I agree with.
One hopes the current one can implement something more realistic and something that would actually accomplish the task of making IDs a little less like Monopoly Money. Current IDs are not up to the task.
As I said in my first post on this subject, we don't need any REAL ID or any other national ID. The only tyme a person should need one is when they travel internationally. I don't think they should be required then either, but that's another subject.
Falcon
I just went into the DMV to renew my license and it was expensive and rigorous.
I renewed my DL almost a year ago and there wasn't a difference from the last tyme, as far as paperwork and security is concerned. Now, I should have gotten a passport years ago but I haven't needed one yet.
Falcon
The Obama admin needs to kill REAL ID not scale it back!!!
But this is better than doing nothing.
Falcon
when there was no \section{} or \textbf{}, and when pressing `shift' actually required strenght. But those days are gone.
Don't you ever, no I won't do it that way, shout? If it only prevented people from shouting so much, I think getting rid of the caps lock would be great.
Falcon
Where's #9?
Oh, instead of releasing their own GUI based PC, Xerox PARC had Apple do it.
Falcon
It's not a mistake. The more pages people have to load up increases the number of times their ads are shown.
That only works if ads are paid for by impressions not clicks and don't drive visitors away.
Falcon
There's still twice as many pages as needed.
Falcon
Yea maybe, flamebait. Maybe not every but most store bought, including mail orders, included an OS. About the only ones that didn't were the Homebrews.
Falcon
so perhaps I can use my Mac to work on the drive
was the drive originally from a Mac?, even so Linux is the way to go as it has support for all the filesystem types in kernel and the distribution should also have filesystem tools like reiser.fsck. Is it from a linux distribution this hard drive?
No, it was a drive I got for the Linux PC at the same tyme. This PC is the only computer it's been installed in. The original drive that came installed in the PC was only 40GB however I had more than 500GB on the drive in an old PC I was replacing. So I got a new 750GB drive when I got the PC. I could have gotten a PC with a bigger drive but that cost more than getting a second drive.
Unfortunately I'll probably have a problem with the next part
That's as far as filesystem recovery goes. It depends on the way the crash happened
Luckily I think the PC didn't crash while I was using it, instead I did a fresh boot after it was off for a few hours. When I did it didn't boot-up right. Seeing as it was under an extended warranty I paid for when I bought the PC and the store was only a miles and I wasn't in a rush to do anything else I put the PC in my car and drove to the store.
After they ran diagnostics they told me the motherboard had to be replaced. Now I realize what I should have done was remove the drive before they did any work, perhaps swapped it with a another used drive. I've got a couple laying around. But stupid me, I thought the tech would do what I said I wanted done.
Some photos of a couple of cats but not of dogs. I do have hundreds of photos though. I took some good shots of wind surfers on a lake during summer and winter. Others were from trips, my garden, and the neighborhood. Still other photos I took for my classes in photography. Luckily I only have a film based 35mm camera and I still have my film, going back more than 10 years. I ordered photocds when I turned in the film for personal use, I turned in the film for my classes in the lab on campus. I now have a film scanner which scans at a higher resolution than the photo shops offer, so I think I'll scan all my film.
However as I said I've done a lot of research online and whenever I come across a webpage I want to keep I'll save it to disk. For websites that were only a few pages, when I used Linux or Windows, I used HTTrack to save them. There isn't a version of it for OS X though so now I manually save webpages., which brings up something that pisses me off about Firefox, FF doesn't save pages with a standard file name such as the page title nor does it write the url the page is saved from. As much as people gripe about IE at least it saves a page using the title and it includes the url. With FF every page I save I open the html file with an editor so I can paste in the url. There are supposed to be FF add-ons that do these for you but I read reviews for all of them I found and they all have problems.
Which is why you want to have all the right tools available from the get go and no resistance from the OS. It's crap doing this sort of thing but I totally empathise with you. Stick with the routine and you should be ok, just get ready for a lot of repetitive stuff.
Okay, I suppose I'll run the commands and software from Linux. Now I need to see how I can install a third hard disk drive in the PC or I'll have to put up with the slowness of USB.
Thanks.
Falcon
This case seems like the exact type of case the RIAA avoids like the plague. Any time any of their methods are subjected to any serious scrutiny, they drop the case and run. They know any serious discovery will kill their racket.
So what's to keep them from dropping this like a radioactive potato when the bevy of tech savvy pro bono lawyers start to tear Mediasentry a new one?
I may be wrong but I think the defendant can file a counter lawsuit, which is what I'd do if I could. Not only would I do it but I'd try to get other defendants to join then file for class action status.
Falcon
He said essential liberty for a little temporary safety, don't mix it up.
I don't recall the exact phrase but it still applies. I bet the Gestapo and KGB would of loved these technologies. Some may, no will, say but the US won't abuse them however history has shown the government or people in the government will abuse them. I doubt many slashdotters lived through J Edgar Hoover's reign of the FBI but he vary much abused his power. Even less lived through McCarthyism and Mccarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee or the Hollywood Blacklist. As late as the 1970s the US government were forcibly sterilizing American Indian women as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
No, I do not trust government, I fear government more than anything else, including those "terrorists" the government wants to protect us from.
Falcon
Considering that it was developed while at the institution, as part of a course taught by the institution, likely using the institution's resources, that seems like a particularly poor analogy.
Seeing as how this was a programming class it's highly likely the student used his own computer not the school's. Heck some colleges are requiring new students in all majors to buy a computer, some include a fee for a laptop.
Falcon
Minnesota consists of the Twin Cities and... well... nothing much worth noting.
I don't know, I like the North Shore. I haven't yet but I'd like to check out the Boundary Waters as well.
Falcon
So as long as abuse is monitored and actively discouraged, what's wrong with being watched while you're in public?
Who's watching the watchers?
Falcon
intimidating.
It may not be for most people but when the watchers can follow everybody many will think differently.
Falcon
Does anyone have "favorite channels" anymore or just favorite SHOWS?
I do. I watch CNN 80 or 90% of the tyme I watch a station, the rest of the tyme I watch the History Channel. I don't watch CNN much though, mostly I watch movies I own. Own not pirated, I've got hundreds of original DVDs and tapes.
Falcon