>> Hitler wanting to erase Jews from society — you want to erase Justin Bieber.'"
One life affected 6 million, this is one life annoying 6 billion!
Everyone harps on about going back in time and erasing Hitler, but if you had the opportunity, wouldnt you take it to erase Justin Bieber for the good of the planet?
A while back, there was a video called EPIC (which has been updated -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI ) which talked about the end of NYT online... I wonder if this is the beginning?
I was a T-Mobile customer for something like 7 years (started of as One2One customer) and that was over 5 years ago, but that doesn't stop some complete dipstick from some dipstick company calling me every year around September asking me if I would like to upgrade my T-Mobile contract!
Yeap, it's not T-Mobile calling me, but whoever it was they sold all my details to (including tarrif and expiry details) back then is STILL using/forwarding/selling it on and on! Every year the company name is different, but they always think I'm with T-Mobile, and they always hang up quickly after I've asked them for their company details so I can report them to Ofcom for breaching TPS!
I also called T-Mobile on numerous occasions complaining that they have obviously sold on my information, and of course they always deny it. F'tards.
I have entered Japan 2 times in the last 2 years and i never get searched when i enter the country. They just ask, "Do you have anything dangerous?", reply "No" and they say "go on".
Never been in USA so i cannot compare but from what have read, it seems really painful.
Ditto, twice to Japan in the past 12 months from UK and not a problem or a peep. UK border on the other hand are starting to lose the plot as well. Im willing to bet they wont be far behind the USA in their paranoid delusions of terrorist threats. Every time I travel outbound it takes longer to get thru UK customs, Im betting they have a tombola of searches that they pick from at random on a daily basis... "OK people, today we will be checking belly buttons for a new form of explosive posing as cheesy lint.. stay sharp!'
I've been in the USA after 9/11 enough times to see how the government and media use terror to whip up the Americans into a blind frenzy of fear where they are willing to give up all their rights for some smoke n mirrors perception that they are safe, and they lap it up unquestioningly. Take the Brits tho, with their 7/7 (they couldnt afford the extra 2/4!), it was more of just an annoyance / inconvenience to us getting to/from work and hate to say it, but a lot of us just got on with our lives... but that doesnt stop our gov from trying it on with the FUD spreading... *sigh*
Up until now I would have said that altho the customs in US can be long-winded, they've never really put me off visiting my family and friends.... that was before this laptop/cellphone/disk seizing crap started. I have nothing to hide myself, and my youtube browsing history is probably the most interesting thing on my laptop, but FFS if Im only gonna spend a week or 2 in Tennessee WTF!? All I want to do is call my sis to tell her Ive landed safely, check my mail, sync my phone, and let friends know Im in town while Im there!
Seriously, like some have said: Smart criminals slip thru coz they dont waste time carrying this kinda crap around, everything is over SSH and more. Whats to stop them writing it all on paper? Thats gonna be the last place 'suck'urity is gonna look, especially if its in the checked baggage? Going old school... that's the ticket. Worked in Independence Day didn't it? Maybe they should also look into carrier pidgeons now as well?
I can only hope that this nonsense all backfires dramatically. Maybe one day we can just go back to living our lives how they should be lived, and not how the governments think we should live. (Yeah right!)
... If people are dumb enough to give away their login credentials to some random website... </p></quote>
People are more than just dumb when they sign up to things like Facebook, Skype, and nowadays just about any other social networking site / application. How many spam email / invites do you get from people you know who just signed up to Facebook and they (were stupid enough to) let Facebook into all their email accounts, IM contact lists by giving the website the user ID and password without thinking/knowing/realising the implications of what theyre doing? You can always tell these people coz you get spammed at every email address they had of yours!
Surely buried somewhere in the T&Cs of all these systems, there is a privacy clause which says you should never give your password out to anyone? And if not, they should flippin well put it in there to detect a dodgy system attempting to scalp email addresses, contact info and anything else that password affords access to.
What IS messed up is how Facebook gives applications access to data they do not need (e.g. why should Superpoke or any other non-photo based add-on be given access to my photos??) and therefore should be denied it. They still are not doing enough to fix this, and even changed the way they handle public votes/opinion not too long ago to get out of their responsibility to their users.
Slashdot Mirror
.. is that the Earth is Flat!
Basically almost anything from cnet and download.com.. their 'network' installer is sickening.
Someone figured out how to quantum fart on a microchip?
*omitted your privacy FTFY ;-)
Have they learned nothing from 24 and Jack Bauer? ...or how long until something really 'bad' is orchestrated and they will blame hackers for it?
So, if you shut the drill down… why can I still hear drilling?
I will find you... and I will eat you.
Errrm... SCADA is 'shit' in Greek.
POLLOS.
Just another thing for a Greasemonkey script or FB Purity to block/hide from view...
:)
Move along... nothing to see... resume normality.
So its time to buy that chain-mail underwear/cloak you've been meaning to get from but never could justify it.
Simples!
>> Hitler wanting to erase Jews from society — you want to erase Justin Bieber.'"
One life affected 6 million, this is one life annoying 6 billion!
Everyone harps on about going back in time and erasing Hitler, but if you had the opportunity, wouldnt you take it to erase Justin Bieber for the good of the planet?
Errmm... actually that probably applies to all versions of Windows, demo or not! :-)
A while back, there was a video called EPIC (which has been updated -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI ) which talked about the end of NYT online... I wonder if this is the beginning?
Brings a whole new meaning to the word hacking. But in truth, how long will it be until can be swapped replaced 'a la' Minority Report?
As all kinds of technology improve, cheapen, become more accessible, so do the means to subvert them.
I was a T-Mobile customer for something like 7 years (started of as One2One customer) and that was over 5 years ago, but that doesn't stop some complete dipstick from some dipstick company calling me every year around September asking me if I would like to upgrade my T-Mobile contract!
Yeap, it's not T-Mobile calling me, but whoever it was they sold all my details to (including tarrif and expiry details) back then is STILL using/forwarding/selling it on and on! Every year the company name is different, but they always think I'm with T-Mobile, and they always hang up quickly after I've asked them for their company details so I can report them to Ofcom for breaching TPS!
I also called T-Mobile on numerous occasions complaining that they have obviously sold on my information, and of course they always deny it. F'tards.
... and Windows 7 was my idea!
I have entered Japan 2 times in the last 2 years and i never get searched when i enter the country. They just ask, "Do you have anything dangerous?", reply "No" and they say "go on".
Never been in USA so i cannot compare but from what have read, it seems really painful.
Ditto, twice to Japan in the past 12 months from UK and not a problem or a peep. UK border on the other hand are starting to lose the plot as well. Im willing to bet they wont be far behind the USA in their paranoid delusions of terrorist threats. Every time I travel outbound it takes longer to get thru UK customs, Im betting they have a tombola of searches that they pick from at random on a daily basis... "OK people, today we will be checking belly buttons for a new form of explosive posing as cheesy lint.. stay sharp!'
I've been in the USA after 9/11 enough times to see how the government and media use terror to whip up the Americans into a blind frenzy of fear where they are willing to give up all their rights for some smoke n mirrors perception that they are safe, and they lap it up unquestioningly. Take the Brits tho, with their 7/7 (they couldnt afford the extra 2/4!), it was more of just an annoyance / inconvenience to us getting to/from work and hate to say it, but a lot of us just got on with our lives... but that doesnt stop our gov from trying it on with the FUD spreading... *sigh*
Up until now I would have said that altho the customs in US can be long-winded, they've never really put me off visiting my family and friends.... that was before this laptop/cellphone/disk seizing crap started. I have nothing to hide myself, and my youtube browsing history is probably the most interesting thing on my laptop, but FFS if Im only gonna spend a week or 2 in Tennessee WTF!? All I want to do is call my sis to tell her Ive landed safely, check my mail, sync my phone, and let friends know Im in town while Im there!
Seriously, like some have said: Smart criminals slip thru coz they dont waste time carrying this kinda crap around, everything is over SSH and more. Whats to stop them writing it all on paper? Thats gonna be the last place 'suck'urity is gonna look, especially if its in the checked baggage? Going old school... that's the ticket. Worked in Independence Day didn't it? Maybe they should also look into carrier pidgeons now as well?
I can only hope that this nonsense all backfires dramatically. Maybe one day we can just go back to living our lives how they should be lived, and not how the governments think we should live. (Yeah right!)
Shall we play a game?
... If people are dumb enough to give away their login credentials to some random website ... </p></quote>
People are more than just dumb when they sign up to things like Facebook, Skype, and nowadays just about any other social networking site / application. How many spam email / invites do you get from people you know who just signed up to Facebook and they (were stupid enough to) let Facebook into all their email accounts, IM contact lists by giving the website the user ID and password without thinking/knowing/realising the implications of what theyre doing? You can always tell these people coz you get spammed at every email address they had of yours!
Surely buried somewhere in the T&Cs of all these systems, there is a privacy clause which says you should never give your password out to anyone? And if not, they should flippin well put it in there to detect a dodgy system attempting to scalp email addresses, contact info and anything else that password affords access to.
What IS messed up is how Facebook gives applications access to data they do not need (e.g. why should Superpoke or any other non-photo based add-on be given access to my photos??) and therefore should be denied it. They still are not doing enough to fix this, and even changed the way they handle public votes/opinion not too long ago to get out of their responsibility to their users.
I like how both Google and Bing are determined to make a fool out of you by showing you the error (and results!) of your ways...
..
;-)
<Bing>
Results are included for dicks. Show just the results for disks.
</Bing>
<Google>
Did you mean: dicks
Did you mean to search for: dicks
</Google>
Google also likes to rub it in....
Would Microsoft ever consider writing their own version of Linux? If not for anything other than to inflict damage to the open source market?
;-)
Would existing MS Windows customers with Unix business environments move to MS Linux if it was available?
Juss throwing a spanner in the works here