True. very True. I too don't like the UK approach to total surveillance which is why i wrote the sarcastic suggestion article here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=489290&cid=22770718 It is to be read with the sarcasm UK deserves with a funny twist. You can add more to it if you want.
prisoners of war Nope. The term you used is wrong. PoWs are entitled to protection under geneva conventions (which even the Wehrmacht followed in case of US/Canadian PoWs). Our esteemed leader has classified them under a new term invented by Himself: Enemy Combatants. What the hell is a enemy combatant? Is it the same English as Person Of Interest?
Britain is planning to violate human rights of its own citizens. Planning and doing are different. For instance Britain may plan Total Surveillance, but our FBI, NSA and ultimately the president broke existing laws on surveillance on US citizens.
If we do that, we give a thumbs-up sign to Euro. And secondly we face a lashback if EU Parliment imposes sanctions on us for Gitmo and Abu Ghraib abuses!
1. Behavior Modification chips inserted into cranium at birth. This will prevent any violent thoughts from birth. Make it "voluntary" so that parents can refuse to insert this free-of-charge-chips into their children. Of course, the small print would state that getting into NHS treatments or Public Schools for the child would be unavailable without the chip.
2. Five-Point stars tattooed on children who are found to be mentally violence-prone or even "abnormal". Make the definition of "abnormal" vague delibrately to avoid lawsuits.
3. Make Oyster Cards mandatory for all travel in trains and buses. Announce this as a "security measure" to "safeguard the property" of British Citizens. Advertise heavily that by buying Oyster cards, travellers risk not losing money to pickpockets, robbery, hold-ups. In fact if their oyster card is stolen, they can talk to the nearest rail station/website, provide their credit card number and block the card! (Of course, this applies only to credit/debit card purchases.) 3(a) BTW, also make it a crime to try to purchase oyster cards using cash by UK Residents. Only tourists or non-residents can buy Oyster cards for cash at a premium (to discourage blackmarkets) provided they show and register their passports at Oyster card stations.
4. Provide hefty tax benefits to people who allow surveillance cameras to be installed in their houses (including bed rooms and toilets). Tout the "bush" argument that if you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to worry about the cameras. Silently pass a law preventing any lawsuits against the government arising from such videos being leaked to YouTube. All disputes would be referred to a judiciary committee comprising industry experts and cops in secret sessions. All rulings would be binding. Explicitly disallow by law any financial compensation for any violations. This will save tax payers huge amounts of money (Tout this as an advantage).
5. Force cars and all your vehicles to be implanted with a GPS notification unit (OnStar type) that will allow the government to track each VIN, and to disallow, prevent, blow up any vehicle that may carry a bomb. Also silently pass a law that disallows any lawsuits filed by people whose cars have been blocked/blown up by mistakes. All such "mistakes" would be referred to a secret jury made of industry experts whose decision would be final. Financial compensation to be limited to sale price of vehicle. [So if your brand-new Honda City gets blown up tomorrow, the government will pay only the second-sale price and not the price you paid.] Tout this again as an advantage to citizens whose tax money is saved.
6. All people entering and exiting the UK would be retina-scanned, fingerprinted and DNA sequenced for "verification" purposes. Say that Bin Laden cannot enter the UK this way. Alternately, visitors to UK can get "chipped" free-of-cost [RFID chips inserted into their left small finger] at the nearest embassy while getting the visa. This will allow easier "tracking" of all visitors for ensuring the security of beloved UK citizens. (The chips cannot be removed for the duration of stay. However they can be removed at the embassy after a successful return. However removing a chip would cost UK Pounds 500 for removal.)
7. All NHS recepients would be periodically tested for mental stability. On detection of frustration bordering on anger and tendency to violence, such people would be put in psych wards indefinitely to "prevent" the UK citizens from being harmed. Silently pass a law stating euthenisation of all psych ward inmates after one year as a cleanup measure to reduce maintenance costs. Publicly [re]state that maintaining a non-productive inmate in a ward costs 4 times as much money as a productive normal citizen. Conduct surveys as to whether citizens want their money wasted on such non-productive people even after one year. Publicly put up posters in railstations, bus stations, etc. stating "Would you
You forgot to add: Also as a parting present to them (just don't take it personally kinda thing) give them some free CDs produced by Sony and having some rootkits in them. Next time they try to pirate music, we can remotely detonate their PC (kaa boom !!!)
It looks great to most people in the display, which is exactly how i got hooked in BestBuy while buying my WD 250GB External Drive. Now that the blue ring of light is cool at times, and annoying, i still can't return the same to BestBuy for this reason as i would be laughed out of the store. And blast WD, the drive is as robust as can be, with no manufacturer faults, etc.
Nope. The RIAA is just a front company for the media companies. If a judgement were to be made against them financially, one particularly costing millions of dollars, this RIAA would file Chapter 11 and be dissolved. A fresh new RIAA would then arise from same set of people with same tactics.
No. That will teach us a lesson to go with the party which is atleast consistent. The republicans may be phenomenally wrong, but atleast they are consistent in that. So if at all they change in future, the whole party will change enmasse. Dems are chameleons who don't know where there own as$es are.
the House and the telecom companies will kiss and hold hands and when it's over nothing will be different True. Very true. As Bush is so fond of saying, if you nothing to hide, then why worry? Why doesn't the same apply to people who are elected officials swallowing our money and time to elect them. There should be a law preventing secret sessions. If the government can't be open to its people, then the people don't have to open to the government.
As you said, i bet a secret bill will be passed bypassing constitution granting immunity, provided the telcos say "sorry" and pay a $500 fine to court.
If democrats agreed to this, then they deserve to lose this november election, and i, surely will vote for McCain.
Is it??? Oh damn. The state that has produced such scholars from harward is also the birth place of this single-digit-IQ man??? Wow! No wonder he feels at home in Texas ranch talking to single-digit-IQ ranch animals like bisons, etc. I seriously hope, New Haven does not throw a welcome-back party to this moron. They would instantly become the untouchables of the country.
Nope. The government will just appropriate the patents, while a government contractor will ask the CIA and NSA to secretly eve-drop what the company's board and nail them talking to high-priced escort. Or if all else fails, nail the CEO with fraud like they did to Qwest.
No, it will involve a patent troll being roundly beaten in court battles by a large IBM, and their lawyers being disbarred. Their CEO is undressed in court and forced to handover clothes as part of settlement in addition to long jail time.
I do hope they find a judge sympathetic to the victim company and do all these things to the patent troll.
Somewhere in CONNECTICUT a village is getting back its idiot in 2009. God save it. What the fuck does that mean? Who's from CT in first place? Obama? Lieberman?
The MPAA & RIAA would support net neutrality if: 1. Each ISP pays them $5000 per month for each album they see transferred across their lines (in either torrent, iTunes, or any other legal format). 2. MPAA & RIAA get to monitor the pipelines and send the ISPs bill (Much like AT&T Vaccum Cleaner). Then you would see a sudden change of stone-cold hearts of these bitches to support neutrality since this gives them an edge over what consumers can see and hear.
Cops are people whom the society has "hired" to protect them from themselves. Cops are neither god-sent sentries nor are they above any law, including parking tickets while not attending a more important emergency. This is plain and simple: We hire you to do a job and if you are hostile to any kind of supervision, then probably you are doing a lot of bad things and hushing it up. Gestapo, for instance, got a law passed by Hitler which pretty much stated they don't have to submit any civilian oversight. Look where it ended them. Do US cops want that kind of problem?
As bush says: "If you have nothing to hide, why worry about a little oversight and surveillance."?
Oh, and all this stuff about cops lives being more dangerous than others is plain crap. What makes you think cops are above the law they are supposed to protect?
Do all of them have the "Bush-Cheney-Executive-Privilege" syndrome? COme on, those two are certifies loonies so we got used to them. Secondly they will be gone by this year-end election hopefully, if Bush does not attack Iran and sign-on for a 3rd term.
Claims friday romping with 'GF' for 30 minutes. Sorry. I was wrong. I should have mentioned wife. And FYI, i do get it about 4 times a week, much more than the average slashdotter.
"Girls in To Kwa Wan who want to f***". is THAT what they mean??? No wonder an IT support guy from hongkong called me to question my browsing habits... And my teacher was right: I should have learnt a second language...
As a budding economist, let me try to look at it objectively. The theory of general relativity clearly proves that my sole experience on a hot stove even if for a minute can seem like an hour, while a friday romping with my GF those wonderful 30 mins would seem like 1 minute to me. So, an external view and perspective of time is essential to calculate interest and charges. The crew can think it took them only 1 day, but the the parties involved it meant waiting 11 days.
Take my example for instance: i thought my honeymoon was not even a couple of days old when it ended, but my hotel manager AND my credit card company AND my employer proved it beyond doubt that it had gone for 8 days ! (Damn those guys. If only they had allowed me to enjoy my timeframe...)
Sarcastic answer? None. They are a corporation, and as everybody knows corporates are above law because they can't be imprisoned. Hence in short, buy kaspersky, crack it up the highest notch and pray. BTW, if you wrote a software to crack MediaSentry or even stop it, you would be busted tomorrow by gun-wielding FBI agents who would act on behalf of corporate agents and in addition had you over for rendition to a nice East Europe prison.
Answers to your philosophical questions given below:
Start by investigating pricing structure Politicians: Nope. Can't be done. Who will pay for campaign funds tomorrow? You? You are not even man enough to check the $3 contribution to public funds.
What justification do these companies have to raise rates every year? None. We are a duopoly and you have to come to one of us. You can't play us against the others, because we made sure there are no others. Just Verizon, AT&T and that stupid company called T-mobile.
Why are pricing packages offered by all competitors virtually identical. To prevent you from thinking too much and instead start enjoying the benefits of your plan. After all you don't want to spend 8 hours analyzing each word in the contract.
Why do the people at these companies feel compelled to resort to dishonest business practices? What you call as dishonest, we call as legal. Look; as long is it is NOT illegal for us to do something, we do it. And if its illegal, our friends in congress are ready to give us retroactive immunity, even if some are richer than us.
I can choose not to have a mobile phone, which I've considered doing. I can dump my internet service. That's a sure way to end up in Gitmo. I mean come on; the 9/11 terrorists did not use mobiles or internet. So if you don't subscribe to any of our plans, and canvas others to avoid us, we could have you flagged as a terrorist and send you to Gitmo via business class. How do you think we nailed that SoaB Spitzer?
FCC investigation is insignificant Exactly! Which is what we have been saying from begining. FCC belongs to us. You poor souls think FCC is helping you against hungry corporates. Wrong. We are the Borg, and we assimilated FCC long back.
Forget different state. Talk about a different country. The bank i used to work for, had its router in Hongkong. It was really fun to watch ads by google in native chinese (mandarin) talking about a concert, etc. It was more fun to watch yahoo trying the same and giving me a good laugh. It worked for a while until i tried news.google.com and got redirected to HK news website.
FCC will issue a written warning to comcast to stop such practices, slap a $500 fine and close the file. Comcast will continue to stop Bit Torrent until it can find a way to make money off it. FCC's Martin will resign in Jan 2009 and join Comcast.
True. She is not going to be young forever, but then 15 years are more than enough for any wild acts you may have. As for the believing stuff, who knows in 15 years she can't be changed. In 4 years my wife has started to move away from Italian stuff to Mexican food.
Bundle wifi and home broadband for $50 AT&T Response: Nope. Are you crazy? We are a monopoly and not only we own the hard lines, we also own the airwaves. So our reply would be: Show the middle finger to customer. Jack up the prices under various headings on your bill such that a $35 bill appears to be a $55 payable including all other charges. If you don't want to be our customer, fine. Send out smoke signals to your partner and friends. Lets see how long you keep doing that.
It's hard enough for a geek to land one of the hotties Very true. Most often we get those rejected by football jocks or rejects from others. Sometimes we are very lucky if some hot blonde shows an interest in us and is willing to live with us (after we show our tax returns). I really don't care if she believes in ghosts or spirits or even the tooth fairy as long as she is able to do anything i want her to do.
Like my friend used to say: "It does not matter if the chicken is blind, as long as the soup tastes good."
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...David Bekham See? Your atrocious spelling proved the GP that his rant about UK was correct.True. very True.
I too don't like the UK approach to total surveillance which is why i wrote the sarcastic suggestion article here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=489290&cid=22770718
It is to be read with the sarcasm UK deserves with a funny twist.
You can add more to it if you want.
Our esteemed leader has classified them under a new term invented by Himself: Enemy Combatants. What the hell is a enemy combatant? Is it the same English as Person Of Interest? Britain is planning to violate human rights of its own citizens. Planning and doing are different.
For instance Britain may plan Total Surveillance, but our FBI, NSA and ultimately the president broke existing laws on surveillance on US citizens.
If we do that, we give a thumbs-up sign to Euro.
And secondly we face a lashback if EU Parliment imposes sanctions on us for Gitmo and Abu Ghraib abuses!
Barcodes?? They are so ancient!
1. Behavior Modification chips inserted into cranium at birth. This will prevent any violent thoughts from birth. Make it "voluntary" so that parents can refuse to insert this free-of-charge-chips into their children. Of course, the small print would state that getting into NHS treatments or Public Schools for the child would be unavailable without the chip.
2. Five-Point stars tattooed on children who are found to be mentally violence-prone or even "abnormal". Make the definition of "abnormal" vague delibrately to avoid lawsuits.
3. Make Oyster Cards mandatory for all travel in trains and buses. Announce this as a "security measure" to "safeguard the property" of British Citizens. Advertise heavily that by buying Oyster cards, travellers risk not losing money to pickpockets, robbery, hold-ups. In fact if their oyster card is stolen, they can talk to the nearest rail station/website, provide their credit card number and block the card!
(Of course, this applies only to credit/debit card purchases.)
3(a) BTW, also make it a crime to try to purchase oyster cards using cash by UK Residents. Only tourists or non-residents can buy Oyster cards for cash at a premium (to discourage blackmarkets) provided they show and register their passports at Oyster card stations.
4. Provide hefty tax benefits to people who allow surveillance cameras to be installed in their houses (including bed rooms and toilets). Tout the "bush" argument that if you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to worry about the cameras.
Silently pass a law preventing any lawsuits against the government arising from such videos being leaked to YouTube. All disputes would be referred to a judiciary committee comprising industry experts and cops in secret sessions. All rulings would be binding. Explicitly disallow by law any financial compensation for any violations. This will save tax payers huge amounts of money (Tout this as an advantage).
5. Force cars and all your vehicles to be implanted with a GPS notification unit (OnStar type) that will allow the government to track each VIN, and to disallow, prevent, blow up any vehicle that may carry a bomb. Also silently pass a law that disallows any lawsuits filed by people whose cars have been blocked/blown up by mistakes. All such "mistakes" would be referred to a secret jury made of industry experts whose decision would be final. Financial compensation to be limited to sale price of vehicle. [So if your brand-new Honda City gets blown up tomorrow, the government will pay only the second-sale price and not the price you paid.] Tout this again as an advantage to citizens whose tax money is saved.
6. All people entering and exiting the UK would be retina-scanned, fingerprinted and DNA sequenced for "verification" purposes. Say that Bin Laden cannot enter the UK this way. Alternately, visitors to UK can get "chipped" free-of-cost [RFID chips inserted into their left small finger] at the nearest embassy while getting the visa. This will allow easier "tracking" of all visitors for ensuring the security of beloved UK citizens.
(The chips cannot be removed for the duration of stay. However they can be removed at the embassy after a successful return. However removing a chip would cost UK Pounds 500 for removal.)
7. All NHS recepients would be periodically tested for mental stability. On detection of frustration bordering on anger and tendency to violence, such people would be put in psych wards indefinitely to "prevent" the UK citizens from being harmed.
Silently pass a law stating euthenisation of all psych ward inmates after one year as a cleanup measure to reduce maintenance costs.
Publicly [re]state that maintaining a non-productive inmate in a ward costs 4 times as much money as a productive normal citizen. Conduct surveys as to whether citizens want their money wasted on such non-productive people even after one year. Publicly put up posters in railstations, bus stations, etc. stating "Would you
You forgot to add: Also as a parting present to them (just don't take it personally kinda thing) give them some free CDs produced by Sony and having some rootkits in them.
Next time they try to pirate music, we can remotely detonate their PC (kaa boom !!!)
Now that the blue ring of light is cool at times, and annoying, i still can't return the same to BestBuy for this reason as i would be laughed out of the store.
And blast WD, the drive is as robust as can be, with no manufacturer faults, etc.
Nope.
The RIAA is just a front company for the media companies.
If a judgement were to be made against them financially, one particularly costing millions of dollars, this RIAA would file Chapter 11 and be dissolved.
A fresh new RIAA would then arise from same set of people with same tactics.
No. That will teach us a lesson to go with the party which is atleast consistent.
The republicans may be phenomenally wrong, but atleast they are consistent in that. So if at all they change in future, the whole party will change enmasse.
Dems are chameleons who don't know where there own as$es are.
As Bush is so fond of saying, if you nothing to hide, then why worry?
Why doesn't the same apply to people who are elected officials swallowing our money and time to elect them.
There should be a law preventing secret sessions.
If the government can't be open to its people, then the people don't have to open to the government.
As you said, i bet a secret bill will be passed bypassing constitution granting immunity, provided the telcos say "sorry" and pay a $500 fine to court.
If democrats agreed to this, then they deserve to lose this november election, and i, surely will vote for McCain.
Is it??? Oh damn. The state that has produced such scholars from harward is also the birth place of this single-digit-IQ man???
Wow!
No wonder he feels at home in Texas ranch talking to single-digit-IQ ranch animals like bisons, etc.
I seriously hope, New Haven does not throw a welcome-back party to this moron.
They would instantly become the untouchables of the country.
Nope. The government will just appropriate the patents, while a government contractor will ask the CIA and NSA to secretly eve-drop what the company's board and nail them talking to high-priced escort.
Or if all else fails, nail the CEO with fraud like they did to Qwest.
No, it will involve a patent troll being roundly beaten in court battles by a large IBM, and their lawyers being disbarred. Their CEO is undressed in court and forced to handover clothes as part of settlement in addition to long jail time.
I do hope they find a judge sympathetic to the victim company and do all these things to the patent troll.
Who's from CT in first place? Obama? Lieberman?
The MPAA & RIAA would support net neutrality if:
1. Each ISP pays them $5000 per month for each album they see transferred across their lines (in either torrent, iTunes, or any other legal format).
2. MPAA & RIAA get to monitor the pipelines and send the ISPs bill (Much like AT&T Vaccum Cleaner).
Then you would see a sudden change of stone-cold hearts of these bitches to support neutrality since this gives them an edge over what consumers can see and hear.
Cops are people whom the society has "hired" to protect them from themselves.
Cops are neither god-sent sentries nor are they above any law, including parking tickets while not attending a more important emergency.
This is plain and simple: We hire you to do a job and if you are hostile to any kind of supervision, then probably you are doing a lot of bad things and hushing it up.
Gestapo, for instance, got a law passed by Hitler which pretty much stated they don't have to submit any civilian oversight. Look where it ended them.
Do US cops want that kind of problem?
As bush says: "If you have nothing to hide, why worry about a little oversight and surveillance."?
Oh, and all this stuff about cops lives being more dangerous than others is plain crap. What makes you think cops are above the law they are supposed to protect?
Do all of them have the "Bush-Cheney-Executive-Privilege" syndrome?
COme on, those two are certifies loonies so we got used to them. Secondly they will be gone by this year-end election hopefully, if Bush does not attack Iran and sign-on for a 3rd term.
And FYI, i do get it about 4 times a week, much more than the average slashdotter.
No wonder an IT support guy from hongkong called me to question my browsing habits...
And my teacher was right: I should have learnt a second language...
As a budding economist, let me try to look at it objectively.
The theory of general relativity clearly proves that my sole experience on a hot stove even if for a minute can seem like an hour, while a friday romping with my GF those wonderful 30 mins would seem like 1 minute to me.
So, an external view and perspective of time is essential to calculate interest and charges.
The crew can think it took them only 1 day, but the the parties involved it meant waiting 11 days.
Take my example for instance: i thought my honeymoon was not even a couple of days old when it ended, but my hotel manager AND my credit card company AND my employer proved it beyond doubt that it had gone for 8 days ! (Damn those guys. If only they had allowed me to enjoy my timeframe...)
Sarcastic answer? None.
They are a corporation, and as everybody knows corporates are above law because they can't be imprisoned.
Hence in short, buy kaspersky, crack it up the highest notch and pray.
BTW, if you wrote a software to crack MediaSentry or even stop it, you would be busted tomorrow by gun-wielding FBI agents who would act on behalf of corporate agents and in addition had you over for rendition to a nice East Europe prison.
Forget different state.
Talk about a different country.
The bank i used to work for, had its router in Hongkong.
It was really fun to watch ads by google in native chinese (mandarin) talking about a concert, etc.
It was more fun to watch yahoo trying the same and giving me a good laugh.
It worked for a while until i tried news.google.com and got redirected to HK news website.
FCC will issue a written warning to comcast to stop such practices, slap a $500 fine and close the file.
Comcast will continue to stop Bit Torrent until it can find a way to make money off it.
FCC's Martin will resign in Jan 2009 and join Comcast.
True.
She is not going to be young forever, but then 15 years are more than enough for any wild acts you may have.
As for the believing stuff, who knows in 15 years she can't be changed.
In 4 years my wife has started to move away from Italian stuff to Mexican food.
So our reply would be: Show the middle finger to customer. Jack up the prices under various headings on your bill such that a $35 bill appears to be a $55 payable including all other charges.
If you don't want to be our customer, fine. Send out smoke signals to your partner and friends. Lets see how long you keep doing that.
Most often we get those rejected by football jocks or rejects from others.
Sometimes we are very lucky if some hot blonde shows an interest in us and is willing to live with us (after we show our tax returns).
I really don't care if she believes in ghosts or spirits or even the tooth fairy as long as she is able to do anything i want her to do.
Like my friend used to say: "It does not matter if the chicken is blind, as long as the soup tastes good."