This is exactly what happened with early ADSL services. I signed up for an "unlimited" 1.5Mbit/sec ADSL account around 2001 in Melbourne Australia. Within a year or so the ISP (Primus Telecom) realised their terrible miscalculations and shut down that service, moving customers to limited accounts. However their original contract was worded in a way that this was expressly allowed.
(Data for broadband, and colocation, in Australia is still many times more expensive than it is in North America.)
is a great solution (Windows, OS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc). Once you've started the daemon, it's available everywhere you go, transparently. Just proxy your web surfing, mail access through the VPN server.
(Of course in the FA's example, it only encrypts half of the transmission - to your proxy - but it's these edge networks that are generally most vulnerable - home wireless, Starbucks, random offices, hotels, airports and local ISPs. That said, never forget the NSA is listening on core networks.)
We don't know for certain yet, and I'm no über-hacker myself, but it's a very safe bet that "machines used for reservations" are whitebox junk running WinXP. That provides a nice, easy, warm, slippery orifice of entry for deeper penetration. All the clerk has to do is open the wrong email, download the wrong ringtone, blah blah...
Bottom line, it's negligent to run Windows in a business setting and pretty soon the courts will agree. A.C. below is right: We only need to wait for an eventual class action against Microsoft.
The ICC is the venue that would give war criminals like Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and the rest of their collaborators a fair trial, which is more than they themselves grant captured citizens of other countries. Eventually, like in Nuremberg, they will be called to answer for all of this: a war of aggression, extraordinary rendition, war profiteering, civilian murders, manipulation and fabrication of intelligence, violating the Geneva Convention and countless other treaties...
Then perhaps they can be turned over to the American public to be ripped apart for the domestic betrayals. Just like Nixon! Uh wait... You guys don't really do accountability, do you?
(which provides numerous examples of totalitarian states) will show you how in detail how it works:
1. You ask, encourage, require and 'motivate' people to turn their neighbours, brothers, fathers, employees in. A failure to do so indicates personal guilt. Quotas may be used.
2. You drop any requirement for evidence or due process, and simply incarcerate, or in the case of celebrities, call a show trial. Pointless torture is sometimes involved, but this is now acceptable in America.
3. Yes, this is the journey y'all have begun. Either pull the emergency cord and stop the train, or enjoy the trip.
If you want to spend your (allegedly honestly earned) money ostentatiously, I recommend Monaco over São Paulo on common sense grounds. (If we rewind to the premise of the article: Kidnapping is a real risk for the wealthy in some countries.)
I didn't criticise him because he had money. I criticised him for being vapid, obnoxious and foolish; being rich exempts no-one from those faults, as your celebrity culture dazzlingly proves. And he almost ruined an otherwise intelligent film.
It would be so much harder to manipulate elections. Then people would be able to think about actual issues instead of electing the Repub^W guy who promises to magically get rid of all the bad people.
Anyway, Americans only need to turn off the TV, and shun Hollywood: That's where crime and violence 24 hours a day (whether news or fiction) is designed to keep you all in a continuous state of fear. And it's working beautifully. In America (and its satellite states), strangers are terrified of each other. That's not true of many other countries and cultures, and we can blame Rupert Murdoch for the global infantilisation and tabloid-isation of media that could be used for intelligent and progressive purposes.
In a Brazilian movie called Manda Bala. Abductions are a thriving industry in São Paulo, Brazil, and the movie focuses on the common practice of cutting off all or part of a hostage's ear (or finger) in order to expedite a ransom payment.
It is a generally thought provoking movie, with several memorable interviews, and at least some discussion of root causes of the problem (corruption in government among them, although the government of Luiz "Lula" da Silva may be making progress against it, despite so far losing the battle to protect protected areas of Amazon wilderness - a problem also intimately connected with corruption).
However the movie is deeply marred by the inclusion of the anonymous São Paulo businessman, "Mr M" - a self-obsessed, vacuous nitwit, apparently American and perhaps a conveniently interviewable associate of the American filmmaker? whose ego was no doubt unduly boosted by his part in the film. Unfortunately, whatever this individual had to say about being "chipped" is unlikely to betray any insights: In a city known for violent carjackings, this guy's response was to bulletproof his ostentatious Porsche, instead of simply driving a less conspicuous car. I stopped caring about his fate very early into the film; one is tempted to say he need not worry about being kidnapped as nobody would miss him to pay a ransom.
Anonymous Coward does that all the time. I'm sure he's on BOTH their hit lists by now. If they ever find him, things are going to be pretty boring around here.
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What *Windows* is doing in space in the first place.
(Data for broadband, and colocation, in Australia is still many times more expensive than it is in North America.)
...oh, you don't have cheap, clean public transport where you live? Move to Europe or Canada.
is a great solution (Windows, OS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc). Once you've started the daemon, it's available everywhere you go, transparently. Just proxy your web surfing, mail access through the VPN server.
(Of course in the FA's example, it only encrypts half of the transmission - to your proxy - but it's these edge networks that are generally most vulnerable - home wireless, Starbucks, random offices, hotels, airports and local ISPs. That said, never forget the NSA is listening on core networks.)
We don't know for certain yet, and I'm no über-hacker myself, but it's a very safe bet that "machines used for reservations" are whitebox junk running WinXP. That provides a nice, easy, warm, slippery orifice of entry for deeper penetration. All the clerk has to do is open the wrong email, download the wrong ringtone, blah blah...
Bottom line, it's negligent to run Windows in a business setting and pretty soon the courts will agree. A.C. below is right: We only need to wait for an eventual class action against Microsoft.
bypassing the system's security software and placing a Trojan virus on one of the Best Western Hotel machines used for reservations
We all know that's a very difficult attack when Windows is involved! Amazing cleverness here.
Watch this 47-minute talk if you are interested in the dangerously fragile state of your civil rights.
The desperation of those people who fight for their own freedom with whatever weapons are available.
And those are the interests behind Bush and your presidential candidates. For names, just check Cheney's Rolodex.
That he will continue in the manner of Bush. It is obvious that his constituency is the same as Bush's.
The ICC is the venue that would give war criminals like Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and the rest of their collaborators a fair trial, which is more than they themselves grant captured citizens of other countries. Eventually, like in Nuremberg, they will be called to answer for all of this: a war of aggression, extraordinary rendition, war profiteering, civilian murders, manipulation and fabrication of intelligence, violating the Geneva Convention and countless other treaties...
Then perhaps they can be turned over to the American public to be ripped apart for the domestic betrayals. Just like Nixon! Uh wait... You guys don't really do accountability, do you?
It's safe to make such statements in a public forum...
When they walk over and knock.
(which provides numerous examples of totalitarian states) will show you how in detail how it works:
1. You ask, encourage, require and 'motivate' people to turn their neighbours, brothers, fathers, employees in. A failure to do so indicates personal guilt. Quotas may be used.
2. You drop any requirement for evidence or due process, and simply incarcerate, or in the case of celebrities, call a show trial. Pointless torture is sometimes involved, but this is now acceptable in America.
3. Yes, this is the journey y'all have begun. Either pull the emergency cord and stop the train, or enjoy the trip.
this paper is worth reading. (Here too.) ("I've Got Nothing To Hide" and other Misunderstandings of Privacy, by Daniel Solove).
4,000 dead soldiers versus about 1,000,000 dead civilians. I guess that's why they call it asymmetric warfare.
Had no problem dropping nukes on civilians 6 Aug, 1945.
All that is necessary is for the targets to be dehumanised in some way - calling them 'terrorists' should work.
Travelled much?
If you want to spend your (allegedly honestly earned) money ostentatiously, I recommend Monaco over São Paulo on common sense grounds. (If we rewind to the premise of the article: Kidnapping is a real risk for the wealthy in some countries.)
I didn't criticise him because he had money. I criticised him for being vapid, obnoxious and foolish; being rich exempts no-one from those faults, as your celebrity culture dazzlingly proves. And he almost ruined an otherwise intelligent film.
It would be so much harder to manipulate elections. Then people would be able to think about actual issues instead of electing the Repub^W guy who promises to magically get rid of all the bad people.
Anyway, Americans only need to turn off the TV, and shun Hollywood: That's where crime and violence 24 hours a day (whether news or fiction) is designed to keep you all in a continuous state of fear. And it's working beautifully. In America (and its satellite states), strangers are terrified of each other. That's not true of many other countries and cultures, and we can blame Rupert Murdoch for the global infantilisation and tabloid-isation of media that could be used for intelligent and progressive purposes.
What, you don't believe in the "free market"?
In a Brazilian movie called Manda Bala . Abductions are a thriving industry in São Paulo, Brazil, and the movie focuses on the common practice of cutting off all or part of a hostage's ear (or finger) in order to expedite a ransom payment.
It is a generally thought provoking movie, with several memorable interviews, and at least some discussion of root causes of the problem (corruption in government among them, although the government of Luiz "Lula" da Silva may be making progress against it, despite so far losing the battle to protect protected areas of Amazon wilderness - a problem also intimately connected with corruption).
However the movie is deeply marred by the inclusion of the anonymous São Paulo businessman, "Mr M" - a self-obsessed, vacuous nitwit, apparently American and perhaps a conveniently interviewable associate of the American filmmaker? whose ego was no doubt unduly boosted by his part in the film. Unfortunately, whatever this individual had to say about being "chipped" is unlikely to betray any insights: In a city known for violent carjackings, this guy's response was to bulletproof his ostentatious Porsche, instead of simply driving a less conspicuous car. I stopped caring about his fate very early into the film; one is tempted to say he need not worry about being kidnapped as nobody would miss him to pay a ransom.
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That said, the hypocrites probably own plenty of contraceptive industries.
Anonymous Coward does that all the time. I'm sure he's on BOTH their hit lists by now. If they ever find him, things are going to be pretty boring around here.
He's right, you know. "Make a profit any way you can." It's as American as Mom's Fake Apple Pie!