Do not forget that voting is more an emotional then a rational decision people make. Being illeterate or not doesn't mean that much. Illeterate people can still watch the political debates.
And that might be the real test. See how much 'bad' information you get. Calculate the falso positives and false negatives. The best place to do this is at HOPE. That way you will know what the worst numbers will be.
The general public will e much more docile and thus much better tracable.
If a piece of software is overlooked by a distribution and the author wants to package it themselves, they can. They can provide a package and it will be just as easy to install as any other package on the targeted distribution. If they provide a repository, then it will be automatically kept up to date along with the rest of the system.
And if nobody is willing and you have the knowledge, you can even make your own repository on e.g. https://build.opensuse.org/ Not only SUSE and openSUSE, but also RedHat, *buntu, Mandriva, debian, CentOS
So if the distribution does not offer it, then you must look for an alternative place. Just like with e.g. Windows, who offer almost next to nothing that yu can install that way.
There is much more information available out there on how to brew beer. Most of that is just plain public domain, so without the restrictions GPL gives you.
Free as in beer or as in speech? It is confusing as it is already, so if you want to make a scale, make it one where there is no problem understanding what it means.
The next step will be to put ALL the numbers of when some car whas somewhere in a database, so we can look afterwards when the man needs it. This makes everybody driving a car guilty untill proven innocent.
It is the same as asking people to show their identity each and every time they pass a certain point on the road. The fact that is is done automaticaly is even scarier.
You are defending "Ausweiss Bitte!". It is not that you are scanning the numberplates of a few guilty. No problem there. You are scanning the numberplates of many innocents and make them suspects.
Just because I have nothing to hide does not mean that I have everything to show.
Please provide me a list with all domains where I can get a non-free email account. Please do not forget one in any country anywhere. I know of plenty of places where I could get a free emailadress (forwarder and real) after I register.
Our company tried once to just block the webmail accounts and was unable to do so and that would already be a good start of a list to have for such a situation.
The reason this should go through court first is so there is an investigation as to whether or not the person is guilty of what is being said. Only then should you be able to be forced to take it down.
Sending a request to do so is another matter, but forced removal should be handled by court. Otherwise you are guilty until proven innocent.
This is one of those nice 'think about the children' if I ever heard one. It has all the ingredients. Somebodies kid in danger, a willing policeforce and a company that by following the rules brings the kid in danger. We even have the happy ending because of somebody else ignoring the rules.
That said it is my point of view that the ONLY way a company should be allowed to hand over privacy related information is by a court order. No exceptions EVER, because that will lead to abuse sooner or later.
So if this what was not possible, then the process of getting a courtorder should be changed to get the information, not making the information in itself more accesible.
They should be able to get to somebody who can then give out the courtorder almost immidiatly.
I have been in situations where the police tried to get information by lying about the situation. I am sure the moment they can get information by yelling 'kid in a well' they will do that.
So I am not saying they should never hand over the information. I am saying the process of handing over the information should go through court and that process must be heavily documented.
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Do not forget that voting is more an emotional then a rational decision people make. Being illeterate or not doesn't mean that much. Illeterate people can still watch the political debates.
To make t much more rational, you could take the following test
And what about stories about childporn? What if people would write about raping children?
With a Sybian OTOH ...
And that might be the real test. See how much 'bad' information you get. Calculate the falso positives and false negatives. The best place to do this is at HOPE. That way you will know what the worst numbers will be.
The general public will e much more docile and thus much better tracable.
Get a larger screen. That way you can have either more or larger ones.
Not only SUSE and openSUSE, but also RedHat, *buntu, Mandriva, debian, CentOS
So if the distribution does not offer it, then you must look for an alternative place. Just like with e.g. Windows, who offer almost next to nothing that yu can install that way.
e.g. you have openSUSE 10.3 and you want to install MPlayer so you can watch pr0n? Just click here wich you can find via http://packages.opensuse-community.org/
Not only does it install the software, it will add the reporsitory as well, so you can select other software as well.
Try Argentina and see what has been done there
There is much more information available out there on how to brew beer. Most of that is just plain public domain, so without the restrictions GPL gives you.
What will be next? Applepie?
This is soooo obvious geek related. Fish? Camera? Fishcam? Netscape!
Free as in beer or as in speech? It is confusing as it is already, so if you want to make a scale, make it one where there is no problem understanding what it means.
Remember, remember
the 5th of November.
The gunpowder, treason, and plot.
I know of no reason
why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
The next step will be to put ALL the numbers of when some car whas somewhere in a database, so we can look afterwards when the man needs it. This makes everybody driving a car guilty untill proven innocent.
It is the same as asking people to show their identity each and every time they pass a certain point on the road. The fact that is is done automaticaly is even scarier.
You are defending "Ausweiss Bitte!". It is not that you are scanning the numberplates of a few guilty. No problem there. You are scanning the numberplates of many innocents and make them suspects.
Just because I have nothing to hide does not mean that I have everything to show.
I like that: X minutes of war in Iraq. Fits nice into the libraries of congress measurement.
I know of plenty of places where I could get a free emailadress (forwarder and real) after I register.
Our company tried once to just block the webmail accounts and was unable to do so and that would already be a good start of a list to have for such a situation.
... when they came up with that conclusion of 'a wash'.
They expected an improvement and they got an improvement AND there were other benefits as well.
Now what would be interesting is if colour would be of importance and what contrast would be the best and if the test must be on the lines or not.
What about dual lines? Tripple lines?
The reason this should go through court first is so there is an investigation as to whether or not the person is guilty of what is being said. Only then should you be able to be forced to take it down.
Sending a request to do so is another matter, but forced removal should be handled by court. Otherwise you are guilty until proven innocent.
This is one of those nice 'think about the children' if I ever heard one. It has all the ingredients. Somebodies kid in danger, a willing policeforce and a company that by following the rules brings the kid in danger.
We even have the happy ending because of somebody else ignoring the rules.
That said it is my point of view that the ONLY way a company should be allowed to hand over privacy related information is by a court order. No exceptions EVER, because that will lead to abuse sooner or later.
So if this what was not possible, then the process of getting a courtorder should be changed to get the information, not making the information in itself more accesible.
They should be able to get to somebody who can then give out the courtorder almost immidiatly.
I have been in situations where the police tried to get information by lying about the situation. I am sure the moment they can get information by yelling 'kid in a well' they will do that.
So I am not saying they should never hand over the information. I am saying the process of handing over the information should go through court and that process must be heavily documented.
There already exist Windows software to maintain Linux systems from Windows:
putty.
Also there are several solutions to maintaing things remotely like openSUSE's solution.
Not only that, but they have editors that actualy read, understand and correct the stories.
In this instance pgp is a technical solution for a social problem.
http://hackme.houghi.org/