Where I live I could do the recording with my cable providers box. So that is not an excuse. The reason I cut it is because I hardly watch anything. I used to have 40 channels. Should be enough, but those are 40 channels of Europe. This means BBC1 and 2, which I watched, but also Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands and Germany. Then some local stuff.
So in the end I was watching 5 channels. Then they cut the BBC. I am not willing to pay for 3 channels.
And why not watch the other countries channels? Because I am not interested in seeing CSI-Some-Citi in every language, be they subtitled or not. I am not interested in watching, sing-a-long shows in 8 languages.
Oh, I could go digital and pay a bit extra (Do you now understand why they kill off the analog channels slowly?) but there they have already begun to take out channels of the basic package and spread them to packages in such a way that you need 3 or 4 of them to see what you like.
Even if I had no possibility to torrent what I want, I would still cut it.
And the school bully can still kick anybodies ass after he has been to the principles offices and been told not to.
Until the American People stop it, it will go further. People now bitch and moan a bit. At one point they will want to do something about it and it will be too late to do this in a civil matter.
At some point you would want your rights back. This can happen peacefully, or this can happen by a lot of bloodshed.
No idea what will trigger it or when it will happen. There will be an enormous outcry and people will finally go to the streets.
It has happened already so many times, I won';t even try to come up with examples.
As an aside:/. quote I see is NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Sure, there are situations where people have an expectation of privacy.
It depends on what you want privacy to be. For me being in a public place should not mean that all I do is public as well. The thing with technology is that it does not forget and it is available for everybody for ever.
Imagine I am at a certain place at a certain time. e.g. a protest for or against something. What used to be the case was that some of my friends might know. Some police office might see me. As long as I did nothing wrong, all was well. People would forget.
25 years into the future: Now people will be able to see what my opinions where 25 years ago. I might have changed my mind. I might not even remember I was ever there. But others can do a search and find me there. It will be taken out of contest and decisions will be made based on that.
What is the news in this? Remember: Guns don't kill people, people do. Software does not spy on people, people do.
I think nobody here is impressed that you can control a device in another country, as the majority here will be aware what the Intertubes are. The times of people wondering how you opened the CD tray on a remote machine are well passed us.
I would rather see how they do it to be not found out by anti-virus programs and what we can do now to detect if we (well, those who might be at risk) are infected or not.
rolling blackouts in this heat will frankly leave some folks dead, including elderly and the sickly
People die. Get over it. And no, that does mean I have to go back and live in the mud. It means that I accept that people will die. I think it should not be used as an excuse. It sounds like: think of the children, the sick and the elderly.
I am a healthy human being and I do not like the heat. That is why I want airco. I do not like to freeze in winter and like my heating. I like to turn on the lights at night. That should be enough incentive to get things going. No need to use the sick and elderly as an excuse.
paper has been around for a LONG time. There is even paper that is made to last long. Bit more expensive, but it will last much longer. For 25, just use normal paper. Write whatever you want. e.g. how you feel about people, politics, the future, your state of mind. Write about your dreams and your thoughts of now.
Once you have printed it, seal it in plastic. You can put a LOT of information on it and it will be very personal as well.
Yes, it would still be censorship. Just because it is something you do not like and agree with banning does not not make it censorship.From wikipedia: Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
Childporn is (rightfully so) illegal, because of the law. The law is made by politicians. Those belong to parties. If they want to change the law, that is the way to do it.
Banning them is the worst kind of censorship. It would shut down the possibility to change the law. The same law that allowed children to get into forced marriage. The same one that allowed slavery. Indeed Google has to draw the line somewhere. It has to be drawn at freedom of speech or no freedom of speech. They have drawn their line at no freedom of speech.
Some thoughts: âoeI disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.â â Evelyn Beatrice Hall
âoeBecause if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.â â Neil Gaiman
âoeThis is slavery, not to speak one's thought.â â Euripides
Don't forget that the female nipple can not be shown either. If you do, there will be a huge public outcry. The female nipple is dangerous for children, or something like that.
but you also have unified people with "common enemy"
The US is just as unified with a "common enemy". You say that does not work with a large population? It works just as nice, thank you. War on drugs, War on terrorism. War on Eurasia. War on communism. You make it sound as if people are opposed to that, yet we do not see that. Perhaps you do not see that people in Israel are also not all the same in THEIR ideas. That people in Israel are also of many religions and world views.
Take their own calculation and use that on how much he should get. So how many billion copies have been sold? Those were clearly missed sales for him. Then add the number of illegal downloads that they made possible by putting it on those DVDs and you get to a gazillion pretty quickly.
Perhaps in some exceptions will this lead to a mistrial. The general idea will be that those people are locked up. because they are guilty. Stupid reasoning? Sure it is, but that is what many years of CSI and other shows and movies have learned us: There is no need for due process. The people looking for the bad people are judge, jury and executioner.
What is even more worrying is that it happened in thousands of cases and nobody picked up on it. Not the defense. Perhaps because they were lied to. Not the judge. Who should know that.
And how many cases were settled outside court? MAFIAA and logfiles anybody?
Where I used to work, police came regularly asking for evidence. Whenever they came without any official papers (i.e. a court order) we told them we would keep it aside till they had it. This because of two reasons. 1) We did not wanted to get sued. (Never happened with us) 2) We wanted to get the bad guys as well. Not having the proper proof could mean dropping the case. (Had that happen at least once that I know off. Somebody gave evidence and the bad guy could walk.) 3) They could not come because of personal vendetta against somebody or some protocol or organisation. (Have seen them trying that as well. And no, we did not give in. We even escorted them out of the building. Pity they were not in uniform, because that would have been hilarious.)
What will it take for people to start taking security seriously?
What will it take IT people to factor in the human? Look at what you can change and look at what you can't. You can't change humans.
When I see them changing password policy in companies to 32 random characters that need to be changed every 34 hours, I just know people will start writing it down.
Next you need to remember 378 different logins for different connections and each one has different rules. Most logins you can not select yourself, so they will be semi random as well. Also you need to drag 42 key generators around, because that is a great rule you must follow.
Sorry, it is the rules that are wrong. Unfortunately we can not expect a generic solution, because each company will want to hold the copyrights, trademarks and patents and will block all others out. Using an open standard won't work, because then they can copyright, trademark and patent the shit out of it.
So when ARE people going to start taking security seriously and think about security as a process, not only about not letting people accessing your server.
Just because they are a company does not mean people using it have no rights of themselves. If I have a property, I have certain rights. I can allow people in or not. Once I let them in does not mean those people do not have any rights anymore. I can't, for some reason, just kill them. I can't take their belongings. Not even if I had a sign at the door that said that I would take their belongings. Perhaps not even if they signed that I could take all their belongings. I sure can't kill them, no matter how much they want it.
Sure, over the top examples. Just to show just because it is a private company does not mean they can do anything they want.
Private company decides what I can see (MAFIAA) Private company says what is a crime (Facebook) Sentenced up by private bought laws. They can then trow me in a private owned prison.
We have become mere serfs of the new kings of the new castles. And we all want it.
The wonder is that we're not seeing users suing over compromised data/systems.
They clicked OK during the installation and everybody knows that that is waterproof and airtight contract binding. So they do not have a case to go to court with.
There are no both sides. There is only one side. You can elect one party and get the same results as if you would have elected the other party. Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.
Reminds me when I was at school, one teacher had one student write down students names when they interrupted class. One kid tried not to write names down and got detention. When it was my turn, I wrote down the names she mentioned, just like she asked. I also wrote down all the names she did NOT mention.
So if an empty list does not work, try a full one.
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Where I live I could do the recording with my cable providers box. So that is not an excuse.
The reason I cut it is because I hardly watch anything. I used to have 40 channels. Should be enough, but those are 40 channels of Europe. This means BBC1 and 2, which I watched, but also Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands and Germany. Then some local stuff.
So in the end I was watching 5 channels. Then they cut the BBC. I am not willing to pay for 3 channels.
And why not watch the other countries channels? Because I am not interested in seeing CSI-Some-Citi in every language, be they subtitled or not. I am not interested in watching, sing-a-long shows in 8 languages.
Or as The Boss says 57 Channels (and nothin' on)
Oh, I could go digital and pay a bit extra (Do you now understand why they kill off the analog channels slowly?) but there they have already begun to take out channels of the basic package and spread them to packages in such a way that you need 3 or 4 of them to see what you like.
Even if I had no possibility to torrent what I want, I would still cut it.
And the school bully can still kick anybodies ass after he has been to the principles offices and been told not to.
Until the American People stop it, it will go further. People now bitch and moan a bit. At one point they will want to do something about it and it will be too late to do this in a civil matter.
At some point you would want your rights back. This can happen peacefully, or this can happen by a lot of bloodshed.
No idea what will trigger it or when it will happen. There will be an enormous outcry and people will finally go to the streets.
It has happened already so many times, I won';t even try to come up with examples.
As an aside: /. quote I see is NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
--- Paul Brandt
What is the news in this? Remember: Guns don't kill people, people do. Software does not spy on people, people do.
I think nobody here is impressed that you can control a device in another country, as the majority here will be aware what the Intertubes are. The times of people wondering how you opened the CD tray on a remote machine are well passed us.
I would rather see how they do it to be not found out by anti-virus programs and what we can do now to detect if we (well, those who might be at risk) are infected or not.
But they ARE good at selling fake security.
paper has been around for a LONG time. There is even paper that is made to last long. Bit more expensive, but it will last much longer.
For 25, just use normal paper. Write whatever you want. e.g. how you feel about people, politics, the future, your state of mind. Write about your dreams and your thoughts of now.
Once you have printed it, seal it in plastic. You can put a LOT of information on it and it will be very personal as well.
Yes, it would still be censorship. Just because it is something you do not like and agree with banning does not not make it censorship.From wikipedia:
Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
Childporn is (rightfully so) illegal, because of the law. The law is made by politicians. Those belong to parties. If they want to change the law, that is the way to do it.
Banning them is the worst kind of censorship. It would shut down the possibility to change the law. The same law that allowed children to get into forced marriage. The same one that allowed slavery. Indeed Google has to draw the line somewhere. It has to be drawn at freedom of speech or no freedom of speech. They have drawn their line at no freedom of speech.
Some thoughts:
âoeI disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.â â Evelyn Beatrice Hall
âoeBecause if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.â â Neil Gaiman
âoeThis is slavery, not to speak one's thought.â â Euripides
Don't forget that the female nipple can not be shown either. If you do, there will be a huge public outcry.
The female nipple is dangerous for children, or something like that.
The US is just as unified with a "common enemy".
You say that does not work with a large population? It works just as nice, thank you. War on drugs, War on terrorism. War on Eurasia. War on communism.
You make it sound as if people are opposed to that, yet we do not see that. Perhaps you do not see that people in Israel are also not all the same in THEIR ideas. That people in Israel are also of many religions and world views.
So who voted for them?
Is it thanks to them being stupid that they are allowed to vote or despite them being stupid?
That is what they should pay.
Take their own calculation and use that on how much he should get. So how many billion copies have been sold? Those were clearly missed sales for him. Then add the number of illegal downloads that they made possible by putting it on those DVDs and you get to a gazillion pretty quickly.
Siri or something similar.
However we know it is fiction, because otherwise we would see much more sponsored responses.
Perhaps in some exceptions will this lead to a mistrial. The general idea will be that those people are locked up. because they are guilty. Stupid reasoning? Sure it is, but that is what many years of CSI and other shows and movies have learned us: There is no need for due process. The people looking for the bad people are judge, jury and executioner.
What is even more worrying is that it happened in thousands of cases and nobody picked up on it.
Not the defense. Perhaps because they were lied to.
Not the judge. Who should know that.
And how many cases were settled outside court? MAFIAA and logfiles anybody?
Where I used to work, police came regularly asking for evidence. Whenever they came without any official papers (i.e. a court order) we told them we would keep it aside till they had it. This because of two reasons.
1) We did not wanted to get sued. (Never happened with us)
2) We wanted to get the bad guys as well. Not having the proper proof could mean dropping the case. (Had that happen at least once that I know off. Somebody gave evidence and the bad guy could walk.)
3) They could not come because of personal vendetta against somebody or some protocol or organisation. (Have seen them trying that as well. And no, we did not give in. We even escorted them out of the building. Pity they were not in uniform, because that would have been hilarious.)
The great idea of the free market at work.
Private company decides what I can see (MAFIAA)
Private company says what is a crime (Facebook)
Sentenced up by private bought laws.
They can then trow me in a private owned prison.
We have become mere serfs of the new kings of the new castles. And we all want it.
So this is how liberty dies. Not with a bang, but with thunderous applause.
Free as in speech. Not free as in beer.
I have closed source running on my Linux. I have Open Source running on my Linux.
I have payed for some OSS and I got some for free CSS.
A probe in Pluto's orbit?
Why not a probe in Uranus'.
(I did not really type that, did I?)
I am from Europe and have no tv. What is a SNOOKIE?
[Googled it]
Kill it! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Reminds me when I was at school, one teacher had one student write down students names when they interrupted class.
One kid tried not to write names down and got detention. When it was my turn, I wrote down the names she mentioned, just like she asked. I also wrote down all the names she did NOT mention.
So if an empty list does not work, try a full one.