If this makes it onto the 'battlefield,' I'm betting that there will not be any soldiers from the country who knew the battlefield was about to get lasered. I doubt you'd see any real interest in the 'laser rifle' with lasers like this available.
I mean, cmon, that's what planes and ships and satellites and ICBMs are for.
However, then you have a problem. Your logic is that the hacker broke no laws because he was just collecting evidence. The police collect evidence and don't get prosecuted, so neither should he. However, the police are required to have a warrant before searching a computer. The judge decided the evidence was admissible due to the fact that the collector was not an officer.
Either the kid has the protections, and responsibilities, of an officer in this case, or he does not. Can't have both.
My letter to my representative follows. I encourage EVERYONE to write one, copy this one, TELL OTHERS TOO! We need to do something or nothing different will happen!
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you because I am scared. I am scared of our government, and I am terrified because I've never been in this position before. I'm twenty one, barely even a voter, and I've grown up believing we are the best nation in the world. However, the recent turn that American politics has taken is terrifying. Post 9 11, security measures were passed, and that's understandable. We live in a dangerous world, and we need to be kept safe by our government. But, in recent times, it seems that the people have come to think of Washington, D.C. as 'the' government, not 'our' government.
As a Republican, I'm given to understand that you believe in small government with limited power over the freedoms of the people. Recently, the US Attorney General, MY Attorney General, has made the claim that the rights not granted to us by the constitution are not assumed to be ours. This flies in the face of the tenth amendment, common law, and common sense. Our country is becoming more authoritarian by the second, and I am frightened by it. Our country now has very visible and disturbing parallels to pre WWII Germany. 9 11 was our Reichstag fire, and now we are running scared in a direction I do not like.
As my representative in my government, what are you doing to protect the rights of the people of this great nation? What can WE do to put executive power in check? I want to help. I want to make the citizens realize what's happening and stop it. Tell me what you are doing in regards to this, and tell me how to help.
I encourage you to copy or come up with your own, and SEND IT. TELL OTHERS TO!
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you because I am scared. I am scared of our government, and I am terrified because I've never been in this position before. I'm twenty one, barely even a voter, and I've grown up believing we are the best nation in the world. However, the recent turn that American politics has taken is terrifying. Post 9 11, security measures were passed, and that's understandable. We live in a dangerous world, and we need to be kept safe by our government. But, in recent times, it seems that the people have come to think of Washington, D.C. as 'the' government, not 'our' government.
As a Republican, I'm given to understand that you believe in small government with limited power over the freedoms of the people. Recently, the US Attorney General, MY Attorney General, has made the claim that the rights not granted to us by the constitution are not assumed to be ours. This flies in the face of the tenth amendment, common law, and common sense. Our country is becoming more authoritarian by the second, and I am frightened by it. Our country now has very visible and disturbing parallels to pre WWII Germany. 9 11 was our Reichstag fire, and now we are running scared in a direction I do not like.
As my representative in my government, what are you doing to protect the rights of the people of this great nation? What can WE do to put executive power in check? I want to help. I want to make the citizens realize what's happening and stop it. Tell me what you are doing in regards to this, and tell me how to help.
I doubt you'll hear local politicians say it, but I'd imagine the transplanting of employees is a large benefit to the local area, in the long term. If we move X technologically inclined, educated people into an area, they change the makeup of the population. Somewhere, people are getting a new neighbor who is smart and technological. In the long run, I'd wager that there is a measurable difference that this will make, as these employees settle down, have kids, and become locally registered voters. Callous as it may sound, it may be the case that no one in the area that the state government is trying to improve cares about improving the infrastructure, schools, etc.
Look at it in terms of stacking the deck in favor of technological initiatives and higher education.
Given current search capabilities I'm not personally too worried about public cameras.
And since when did capabilities ever do anything but increase? You're using a current software limitation to imply that the hardware isn't so bad, despite the fact that one only needs to install the camera once before it can be used by any given search capability. Implying that it's OK for a government to make use of public cameras, first, and figure out how to do it efficiently second, is ridiculous when you consider that the end result is the same, regardless of the order we go about it.
By using electricity to manipulate the nerves in the inner ear in the same way that the scientists are manipulating the nerves in the nose, scientists were able to make a person feel like they had to go a certain direction in order to keep their balance.
I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet. In the age of interconnected machines and the internet, has no one considered the inevitable use of having a room full of monitors and humans? All these machines (should be) are doing is moving the human away from the gun. I would hope that it is a 'no brainer' to believe that you would have the machine alert a monitor that there is movement, the monitor would evaluate it, possibly issue an order via the speaker, and then press the fire button. All the sentry gun does in that scenario is target and alert the operators.
Nobody (well maybe Cheney, that guy seems to be pure evil sometimes), rubbing their hands together, cackling like Mr Burns about their plans to destroy the country.
Karl Rove is. That man is pure amorality, and what's worse is he's pretty good at it.
We can complain here about liberty infractions as long as we want, no one is listening to us. We can complain to others who feel the same way that we do, but all that does is make both of us feel better that there are others who agree. However, all that conversation does is make us feel better, we then go about our usual lives for a few weeks content in the knowledge that because we are not alone then this sort of thing can't possibly go on forever.
WE ARE WRONG.
The American public are the people that need to care. Before they can even start to realize why they should care, they need to realize there is something here to care about. They need to be informed. WE NEED TO TELL THEM. The media won't. This stuff doesnt sell advertizing, pedophiles in the government do. This stuff doesn't sell ads, school shootings do. This stuff doesn't sell ads, because it's being swept under the carpet. I formed a group on facebook, called "America. Land of the Free." facebook is a poor media to start a movement, but it's something. It's the contribution that I can make right now, and if it seems like it's helping, I'll make another. As should you.
Here's a piece I wrote about this for my school (UT-Knoxville) paper. It got published, people read it, and there was no outcry. We need to change that.
Last week, the senate and the house of representatives both passed a bill (S 3930 and HR 6166, respectively) called the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This bill is described by our government as "A bill to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes." Statistically, you probably haven't heard of it. If you have heard of it, then you may know how it feels to be a member of the informed minority. The bill itself is deplorable, but the shift in American opinion that it represents is horrifying. I'll explain what the bill is in a second, but first let me tell you what it represents. It sends the message loud and clear: "We, as a people, do not care about our rights." It's saddening how we have ceded victory to the terrorists through the very act of fighting them. America, once the land of the Free, is now the land of the complacent majority. Ask yourself: Is it more important that you get decent grades this semester, or that our country remains a free nation? Now ask yourself which one you have worked harder for. Which one occupies most of your time? Now look at the news and ask yourself what is more important: a former congressman's possible affair with a young assistant, fourteen people being kidnapped in Iraq, or the American government, under the guise of keeping us safe from terrorism, trying to take away our basic rights. Because that's what this bill does. This bill, which is only a signature away from becoming law, states that if the United States government determines that you are an enemy combatant and not a citizen, then you have no right to habeas corpus. Habeas corpus! Do you know what that is? It is your right to question whether you have been lawfully arrested or just abducted by a person with a gun. It is your right to insist that an impartial person be present and agree that the government is justified in taking away your liberty. Right now, you may be thinking that this is not such a big deal because, as the law states, you are only affected by this if you are an enemy combatant (terrorist) and not a citizen. Habeas corpus is your right to argue against the charges brought against you. It is a basic human right, either everyone has it, or no one does. If you are arrested and told that you're a terrorist and not a citizen, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. The American government, at that point, has decided that you don't have the right to question it. You don't have the ability to just show passport or birth certificate. In order to challenge their decision, you'd need a writ of habeas corpus.
I could go on and on about how this right has been around since 1305, but the public doesn't care. I could explain that Germany went
If you can help a child to catch up, you can help an adult who dropped out of the loop.
Unless, of course, the singularity consists of humans altering the genes of their children, a la Gattica. It's a bit hard to 'catch up' with a creature that has been engineered by creatures engineered by geniuses.
This will be accomplished not by using compatibility middleware like Wine, but rather by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OS X 10.5
From the WINE website: Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code
So, AFIAK, Wine isn't some 'middleware' but rather the API implemented. So, given that OS X is *nix based anyway, why re-invent the wheel?
Whether or not their economic system can economically effect the US in the long term is not really the point here, though. If the US gets hit with a nuke, suffice to say we will be effected.
I don't believe the NSA/ATT thing is the right way to go about it, but let's not forget that the things a country does right before it collapses often effect other countries in a big way.
Maybe I'm missing some fundamental biology, but why stop there? If these computers are made out of enzymes, and a cell will produce enzymes according to DNA, would there not be a (very complex) DNA sequence that will instruct a cell to produce this computer?
On another note, once we are able to measure biological signs, select a medicine, and distribute that medicine all from within a living part of the human body, what's to stop us from using that to artificially create happiness and sadness, and use these as tools to enforce obedience? We already know what chemicals release dopamine, and we already know what chemicals hinder this release. Why not make a 'obediance collar' that will use happy and sad to re-inforce the belief that you want to do what I tell you? If you get happy every time you do, and sad every time you don't, I no longer have to directly force you to do something, because you already want to.
I don't know about Word, but I have OO installed, and.ppt files are associated with OO. In Explorer, they view as OO presentations and all that, but if I double click, they are opened by PowerPoint viewer. The only way to get OO to open it is explicitly choosing "Open with"
It's not about if someone is able to accomplish something or not, it's about the barrier they have to pass to do it. Right now, if someone wanted to get your spending habits from your garbage, they have to get messy and stinky. You say that as if it's not a big barrier. Sifting through garbage by hand makes that activity seem a LOT more like an invasion of privacy.
It's analagous to the locks on your door. If someone wants to break into YOUR house, they can. They can break your windows, pick your locks, kidnap someone you love and bargain with you, etc. You can't stop them. If someone wants to break into _A_ house, having a locked door is a barrier that not everyone has, so it's a reason to move on. Locks keep honest people honest, they don't keep out crooks.
Right now, going through your trash isn't attractive because no one cares about _your_ spending habits. Trust me, it will change when you take away the barriers to doing it en masse. If I can drive down the street with a transciever and get everyone's spending habits, without their knowledge or permission and without getting dirty, every single barrier is gone. It's the difference between having to pick locks, and having a neighborhood with no front doors.
This seems like a symptom of a different problem, not really a problem in and of itself. Users become complacent with dialog boxes, systray warnings, etc, because there are no limits or standards regarding when these warnings are issued.
In the same session I can recieve the "Take a tour of windows," "Your firewall is not turned on," "Clean up your desktop icons," and "Your hardware could not be installed" messages, all from the same section of the screen with the same look. Starting immediately after Windows installation users are taught those are 'random message bubbles' that could mean anything. Users just get discouraged when they have to acknowledge that they are sending information across the internet unencrypted, then acknowledge they are entering a secure site, then acknowledge they are leaving a secured site.
That seems a bit extreme. I'd imagine if this did lead humans to exponentially longer life spans then suddenly a lot more people would be concerned with space exploration. A 50 year space voyage doesn't seem so bad if you live forever.
How is that insightful? A [good] manager, for whatever reason, is able to convince all the people under him/her to work harder, be more productive, meet deadlines, etc. That is so much more valuable to the company than any one worker. If you could either choose one person who would make your _entire company_ more efficient or one person who would work harder and faster than the person next to them, which would it be? Both, preferrably, but here's the catch: A good manager can make a good worker more efficient.
I'd focus on getting good workers and great managers, and pay them accordingly. Don't like it? Tell your boss's boss that you'd make a good manager.
I invite you to read the freenet white paper, as it tells exactly how to circumvent this problem.
You're right, you can't hide the fact that you are _participating_ in freenet. However, you can hide what you are saying, and if you are actually saying anything. In a nutshell, what a freenet node does is accept messages to be sent to freenet, and retrieve information, both at the request of the user of the node, and at the request of other nodes. It randomly changes requests to appear to originate from itself (as opposed to the node they actually came from.)
Using strong encryption to protect the communication between nodes, it becomes impossible for anyone, in the network or not, to tell if a node is actually requesting information, or just forwarding a request. That's the entire idea, you don't know if your neighbor is asking, or if it's his neighbor, etc. You can't hide from ISPs that you're a freenetter, but you can establish a legal doubt as to whether you did anything on freenet.
Slashdot Mirror
I like my girls like I like my coffee... drunk.
I like my girls like I like my coffee... silent.
If this makes it onto the 'battlefield,' I'm betting that there will not be any soldiers from the country who knew the battlefield was about to get lasered. I doubt you'd see any real interest in the 'laser rifle' with lasers like this available.
I mean, cmon, that's what planes and ships and satellites and ICBMs are for.
However, then you have a problem. Your logic is that the hacker broke no laws because he was just collecting evidence. The police collect evidence and don't get prosecuted, so neither should he. However, the police are required to have a warrant before searching a computer. The judge decided the evidence was admissible due to the fact that the collector was not an officer. Either the kid has the protections, and responsibilities, of an officer in this case, or he does not. Can't have both.
My letter to my representative follows. I encourage EVERYONE to write one, copy this one, TELL OTHERS TOO! We need to do something or nothing different will happen!
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you because I am scared. I am scared of our government, and I am terrified because I've never been in this position before. I'm twenty one, barely even a voter, and I've grown up believing we are the best nation in the world. However, the recent turn that American politics has taken is terrifying. Post 9 11, security measures were passed, and that's understandable. We live in a dangerous world, and we need to be kept safe by our government. But, in recent times, it seems that the people have come to think of Washington, D.C. as 'the' government, not 'our' government.
As a Republican, I'm given to understand that you believe in small government with limited power over the freedoms of the people. Recently, the US Attorney General, MY Attorney General, has made the claim that the rights not granted to us by the constitution are not assumed to be ours. This flies in the face of the tenth amendment, common law, and common sense. Our country is becoming more authoritarian by the second, and I am frightened by it. Our country now has very visible and disturbing parallels to pre WWII Germany. 9 11 was our Reichstag fire, and now we are running scared in a direction I do not like.
As my representative in my government, what are you doing to protect the rights of the people of this great nation? What can WE do to put executive power in check? I want to help. I want to make the citizens realize what's happening and stop it. Tell me what you are doing in regards to this, and tell me how to help.
I encourage you to copy or come up with your own, and SEND IT. TELL OTHERS TO!
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you because I am scared. I am scared of our government, and I am terrified because I've never been in this position before. I'm twenty one, barely even a voter, and I've grown up believing we are the best nation in the world. However, the recent turn that American politics has taken is terrifying. Post 9 11, security measures were passed, and that's understandable. We live in a dangerous world, and we need to be kept safe by our government. But, in recent times, it seems that the people have come to think of Washington, D.C. as 'the' government, not 'our' government.
As a Republican, I'm given to understand that you believe in small government with limited power over the freedoms of the people. Recently, the US Attorney General, MY Attorney General, has made the claim that the rights not granted to us by the constitution are not assumed to be ours. This flies in the face of the tenth amendment, common law, and common sense. Our country is becoming more authoritarian by the second, and I am frightened by it. Our country now has very visible and disturbing parallels to pre WWII Germany. 9 11 was our Reichstag fire, and now we are running scared in a direction I do not like.
As my representative in my government, what are you doing to protect the rights of the people of this great nation? What can WE do to put executive power in check? I want to help. I want to make the citizens realize what's happening and stop it. Tell me what you are doing in regards to this, and tell me how to help.
I doubt you'll hear local politicians say it, but I'd imagine the transplanting of employees is a large benefit to the local area, in the long term. If we move X technologically inclined, educated people into an area, they change the makeup of the population. Somewhere, people are getting a new neighbor who is smart and technological. In the long run, I'd wager that there is a measurable difference that this will make, as these employees settle down, have kids, and become locally registered voters. Callous as it may sound, it may be the case that no one in the area that the state government is trying to improve cares about improving the infrastructure, schools, etc.
Look at it in terms of stacking the deck in favor of technological initiatives and higher education.
Given current search capabilities I'm not personally too worried about public cameras.
And since when did capabilities ever do anything but increase? You're using a current software limitation to imply that the hardware isn't so bad, despite the fact that one only needs to install the camera once before it can be used by any given search capability. Implying that it's OK for a government to make use of public cameras, first, and figure out how to do it efficiently second, is ridiculous when you consider that the end result is the same, regardless of the order we go about it.
They already solved that problem.
By using electricity to manipulate the nerves in the inner ear in the same way that the scientists are manipulating the nerves in the nose, scientists were able to make a person feel like they had to go a certain direction in order to keep their balance.
In LinuxBIOS there is problem,
and that problem is slashdot.
Server very not so stable,
cause traffic spike is big.
Throw the dot down the well,
so my server can be free!
You must grab him by his linkings,
Then we have a big party!
I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet. In the age of interconnected machines and the internet, has no one considered the inevitable use of having a room full of monitors and humans? All these machines (should be) are doing is moving the human away from the gun. I would hope that it is a 'no brainer' to believe that you would have the machine alert a monitor that there is movement, the monitor would evaluate it, possibly issue an order via the speaker, and then press the fire button. All the sentry gun does in that scenario is target and alert the operators.
Nobody (well maybe Cheney, that guy seems to be pure evil sometimes), rubbing their hands together, cackling like Mr Burns about their plans to destroy the country.
Karl Rove is. That man is pure amorality, and what's worse is he's pretty good at it.
We can complain here about liberty infractions as long as we want, no one is listening to us. We can complain to others who feel the same way that we do, but all that does is make both of us feel better that there are others who agree. However, all that conversation does is make us feel better, we then go about our usual lives for a few weeks content in the knowledge that because we are not alone then this sort of thing can't possibly go on forever.
WE ARE WRONG.
The American public are the people that need to care. Before they can even start to realize why they should care, they need to realize there is something here to care about. They need to be informed. WE NEED TO TELL THEM. The media won't. This stuff doesnt sell advertizing, pedophiles in the government do. This stuff doesn't sell ads, school shootings do. This stuff doesn't sell ads, because it's being swept under the carpet. I formed a group on facebook, called "America. Land of the Free." facebook is a poor media to start a movement, but it's something. It's the contribution that I can make right now, and if it seems like it's helping, I'll make another. As should you.
Here's a piece I wrote about this for my school (UT-Knoxville) paper. It got published, people read it, and there was no outcry. We need to change that.
Last week, the senate and the house of representatives both passed a bill (S 3930 and HR 6166, respectively) called the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This bill is described by our government as "A bill to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes." Statistically, you probably haven't heard of it. If you have heard of it, then you may know how it feels to be a member of the informed minority. The bill itself is deplorable, but the shift in American opinion that it represents is horrifying. I'll explain what the bill is in a second, but first let me tell you what it represents. It sends the message loud and clear: "We, as a people, do not care about our rights." It's saddening how we have ceded victory to the terrorists through the very act of fighting them. America, once the land of the Free, is now the land of the complacent majority. Ask yourself: Is it more important that you get decent grades this semester, or that our country remains a free nation? Now ask yourself which one you have worked harder for. Which one occupies most of your time? Now look at the news and ask yourself what is more important: a former congressman's possible affair with a young assistant, fourteen people being kidnapped in Iraq, or the American government, under the guise of keeping us safe from terrorism, trying to take away our basic rights. Because that's what this bill does. This bill, which is only a signature away from becoming law, states that if the United States government determines that you are an enemy combatant and not a citizen, then you have no right to habeas corpus. Habeas corpus! Do you know what that is? It is your right to question whether you have been lawfully arrested or just abducted by a person with a gun. It is your right to insist that an impartial person be present and agree that the government is justified in taking away your liberty. Right now, you may be thinking that this is not such a big deal because, as the law states, you are only affected by this if you are an enemy combatant (terrorist) and not a citizen. Habeas corpus is your right to argue against the charges brought against you. It is a basic human right, either everyone has it, or no one does. If you are arrested and told that you're a terrorist and not a citizen, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. The American government, at that point, has decided that you don't have the right to question it. You don't have the ability to just show passport or birth certificate. In order to challenge their decision, you'd need a writ of habeas corpus.
I could go on and on about how this right has been around since 1305, but the public doesn't care. I could explain that Germany went
If you can help a child to catch up, you can help an adult who dropped out of the loop.
Unless, of course, the singularity consists of humans altering the genes of their children, a la Gattica. It's a bit hard to 'catch up' with a creature that has been engineered by creatures engineered by geniuses.
This will be accomplished not by using compatibility middleware like Wine, but rather by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OS X 10.5
From the WINE website:
Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code
So, AFIAK, Wine isn't some 'middleware' but rather the API implemented. So, given that OS X is *nix based anyway, why re-invent the wheel?
Whether or not their economic system can economically effect the US in the long term is not really the point here, though. If the US gets hit with a nuke, suffice to say we will be effected.
I don't believe the NSA/ATT thing is the right way to go about it, but let's not forget that the things a country does right before it collapses often effect other countries in a big way.
Well, I sure know when I write a program that is buggy to all hell, I never have any problems using it.
"Ahh! I entered the wrong input and tried to erase it and it went nuts!!11^H^H^H^H"
"... oh yeah, you have to not make a mistake on that part"
Maybe I'm missing some fundamental biology, but why stop there? If these computers are made out of enzymes, and a cell will produce enzymes according to DNA, would there not be a (very complex) DNA sequence that will instruct a cell to produce this computer?
On another note, once we are able to measure biological signs, select a medicine, and distribute that medicine all from within a living part of the human body, what's to stop us from using that to artificially create happiness and sadness, and use these as tools to enforce obedience? We already know what chemicals release dopamine, and we already know what chemicals hinder this release. Why not make a 'obediance collar' that will use happy and sad to re-inforce the belief that you want to do what I tell you? If you get happy every time you do, and sad every time you don't, I no longer have to directly force you to do something, because you already want to.
I don't know about Word, but I have OO installed, and .ppt files are associated with OO. In Explorer, they view as OO presentations and all that, but if I double click, they are opened by PowerPoint viewer. The only way to get OO to open it is explicitly choosing "Open with"
It's not about if someone is able to accomplish something or not, it's about the barrier they have to pass to do it. Right now, if someone wanted to get your spending habits from your garbage, they have to get messy and stinky. You say that as if it's not a big barrier. Sifting through garbage by hand makes that activity seem a LOT more like an invasion of privacy.
It's analagous to the locks on your door. If someone wants to break into YOUR house, they can. They can break your windows, pick your locks, kidnap someone you love and bargain with you, etc. You can't stop them. If someone wants to break into _A_ house, having a locked door is a barrier that not everyone has, so it's a reason to move on. Locks keep honest people honest, they don't keep out crooks.
Right now, going through your trash isn't attractive because no one cares about _your_ spending habits. Trust me, it will change when you take away the barriers to doing it en masse. If I can drive down the street with a transciever and get everyone's spending habits, without their knowledge or permission and without getting dirty, every single barrier is gone. It's the difference between having to pick locks, and having a neighborhood with no front doors.
This seems like a symptom of a different problem, not really a problem in and of itself. Users become complacent with dialog boxes, systray warnings, etc, because there are no limits or standards regarding when these warnings are issued.
In the same session I can recieve the "Take a tour of windows," "Your firewall is not turned on," "Clean up your desktop icons," and "Your hardware could not be installed" messages, all from the same section of the screen with the same look. Starting immediately after Windows installation users are taught those are 'random message bubbles' that could mean anything. Users just get discouraged when they have to acknowledge that they are sending information across the internet unencrypted, then acknowledge they are entering a secure site, then acknowledge they are leaving a secured site.
That seems a bit extreme. I'd imagine if this did lead humans to exponentially longer life spans then suddenly a lot more people would be concerned with space exploration. A 50 year space voyage doesn't seem so bad if you live forever.
Somehow I think the engineers at AOL can come up with a better list than trolling chat rooms. They do have all the resources of AOL, you know.
SELECT e-mail FROM users WHERE spamfiltering=off.
(heh, my SQL sucks, but you get the idea.)
How is that insightful? A [good] manager, for whatever reason, is able to convince all the people under him/her to work harder, be more productive, meet deadlines, etc. That is so much more valuable to the company than any one worker. If you could either choose one person who would make your _entire company_ more efficient or one person who would work harder and faster than the person next to them, which would it be? Both, preferrably, but here's the catch: A good manager can make a good worker more efficient. I'd focus on getting good workers and great managers, and pay them accordingly. Don't like it? Tell your boss's boss that you'd make a good manager.
The same goes for standalone CD burners. They require that you buy CD-Rs that are labeled 'music,' because there's an additional fee for those.
I invite you to read the freenet white paper, as it tells exactly how to circumvent this problem.
You're right, you can't hide the fact that you are _participating_ in freenet. However, you can hide what you are saying, and if you are actually saying anything. In a nutshell, what a freenet node does is accept messages to be sent to freenet, and retrieve information, both at the request of the user of the node, and at the request of other nodes. It randomly changes requests to appear to originate from itself (as opposed to the node they actually came from.)
Using strong encryption to protect the communication between nodes, it becomes impossible for anyone, in the network or not, to tell if a node is actually requesting information, or just forwarding a request. That's the entire idea, you don't know if your neighbor is asking, or if it's his neighbor, etc. You can't hide from ISPs that you're a freenetter, but you can establish a legal doubt as to whether you did anything on freenet.