I know this sounds extreme on my part but I would definitely be willing to go to jail rather than have somebody poking around through my files. I have absolutely nothing on my laptop that is illegal, I use it strictly for my development system. Nevertheless, that computer and the files within are private property and none of their damn business. If we put up with this it won't be long until we have to line up outside of our homes so they can search our desktops.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not an extremist by any means but I DO believe in our civil liberties, and our rights against illegal search and seizure are guaranteed by the Constitution!!! Sometimes I wonder if lawmakers have even read that particular document?!?!?
"Stung by a series of intrusive and unconstitutional data and voice snooping over the past who knows how long, citizens should be requiring themselves, family, and friends to follow new encryption guidelines for data and voice communication."
I don't want to grow up `cause I'm a Toys `R Us kid... there's a million toys at Toys `R Us that I can play with... from bikes to trains to video games it's the biggest toy store there is, gee wiz... I don't want to grow up `cause baby if I did, I couldn't be a Toys `R Us kid.
Despite my little digression there I still stand behind my earlier statement. Close-minded, conservative, religious nuts are killing scientific advancement. If God didn't want us to use these tools he wouldn't have given them to us... or the intelligence to wield said tools.
Gee... too bad we'll NEVER get to use this technology on humans here in the United States thanks to all of the right-wing, conservative, narrow-minded, whiney religious zealots.
Maybe if enough of them , or their families, get paralyzed then this will change but I don't see it happening in the near future.
Of course we have no recourse... we are just stupid, mindless automatons who blindly follow and purchase what they tell us to and we'll enjoy it.
Big business (like the government) doesn't give one flip about us or our well being. All they care about is the allmighty dollar that they can line their pockets with.
Big business (and the government) will f**k us at the drop of the hat if they think it is in THEIR best interest and they won't lose any sleep over it.
Nope you weren't... Kramer was the first thing that poped into my head as well.
Nothing like laughing yourself sick at work over an old Seinfeld episode.
government employees who report wrongdoing do not enjoy 1st Amendment rights while on the job
Hmmmm... let's see. I can tell the public about this hazardous nuclear power plant and lose my job and possibly go to jail OR I can keep my mouth shut and let many people suffer.
I know it is a far-fetched notion but c'mon... if the government is screwing up who is supposed to hold them accountable??? If there is wrongdoing or misconduct the only people who know about it will be the govt. workers.
Sometimes the "chain-of-command" just does not work and a person is left with no alternative to appease his conscience but to tell someone with enough visibility to get some action.
If this keeps up the next thing you know, the government will be tapping our phones and recording what we look for on the internet. Ummm.....
This is because we are, literally, working ourselves to death.
Either we have low paying jobs that don't provide us any medical benefits or we have medium to high paying jobs that we work at constantly to maintain and we don't have time to go to the doctors or eat/exercise correctly.
It's a loose - loose battle for us.
In Europe, I believe that the job comes secondary to family and health. They take time to take care of themselves without the fear of not being "one of the team" and giving your job 110%; which I thought was mathematically impossible until I realised that a standard work day SHOULD be 8 hours but they want you to work 9, 10 hours plus (just because they do). We even have MUCH shorter vacation times than do our counterparts in Europe. Most people get, on average, about 2 weeks a year for vacation time. And you can forget about "sick days". I hear that in Europe they get much more than that... about 3 to 4 times that.
Okay... I'm done with my rant... for now. I'm going to eat my oatmeal.
"Philips' patent acknowledges that this may be 'greatly resented by viewers' who could initially think their equipment has gone wrong."
How about viewers who initially (and subsequently) think that this is TOTAL CRAP?!?!?
At least I can go make popcorn and use the bathroom while the ads are playing. I would be totally for some hacker coming up with some way to defeat this. It just stinks that we pay our hard earned money and are forced to sit through commercials.
I think that there should be electrodes attached to the genitals of the executives and whenever we try to fast forward through the commercials they get zapped a little bit. THEN maybe they'll understand. >:o
How about this then. Have a governing body like http://www.w3.org/ or http://www.icann.org/ and have them decide the standards per region. Then you can have a markup like the following:
Then the parents can pick the desired region. If it's a liberal household then they can pick France's or Germany's region. If they are puritanical, then they can pick the US region.
You made some good points... I never thought of the.xxx TLD getting junked up with non-pornographic sites. I also agree that there is a BIG difference between hard-core porn and art. Your idea of a tiered system is good or even SpectralDesign (921309)'s idea of a ratings system... or maybe even a combination of both.
I was just mainly concerned that you thought there should be no system in place for keeping porn away from kids.
We may have finally defeated the stupid.xxx idea, and here comes the next brain fart.
How can you say that a.xxx TLD a stupid idea??? I think it is a great idea. It seems like a fairly easy idea to keep porn out of the hands of kids while at the same time, letting those who want to look at porn do so without jumping through hoops OR having the government sue Google for our search practices!!!
I have always believed it be a law that there be a new "META" tag in HTML. Something of the sorts
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="adult">
Then... the parents could set it up in the browser to lock out any page with that tag. It's that simple. No muss, no fuss.
I am not in favor of censorship in any way but I am totally in favor of the choice of individuals and the choice of parents to protect their children. Censorship is bad but individual control is good.
I agree with the theaters that for some movies it is much better to be seen on the big screen (e.g., Star Wars/Trek, LOTR, King Kong, etc.). Movies where the special effects are a supporting character in itself, really need to be seen larger than life. Movies where the driving force is the plot-line/story, can be seen, IMHO, smaller and more intimately at home on the comfort of your own couch.
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Anybody ever see the movie looker?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/
I know this sounds extreme on my part but I would definitely be willing to go to jail rather than have somebody poking around through my files. I have absolutely nothing on my laptop that is illegal, I use it strictly for my development system. Nevertheless, that computer and the files within are private property and none of their damn business. If we put up with this it won't be long until we have to line up outside of our homes so they can search our desktops.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not an extremist by any means but I DO believe in our civil liberties, and our rights against illegal search and seizure are guaranteed by the Constitution!!! Sometimes I wonder if lawmakers have even read that particular document?!?!?
Just wait until this technology is used by some rich wacko who uses it to hunt down and rape and/or murder some innocent victim.
In related news
I don't want to grow up `cause I'm a Toys `R Us kid ... there's a million toys at Toys `R Us that I can play with ... from bikes to trains to video games it's the biggest toy store there is, gee wiz ... I don't want to grow up `cause baby if I did, I couldn't be a Toys `R Us kid.
... or the intelligence to wield said tools.
... :-P
Despite my little digression there I still stand behind my earlier statement. Close-minded, conservative, religious nuts are killing scientific advancement. If God didn't want us to use these tools he wouldn't have given them to us
(now back to our regularly scheduled immaturity)
You grow up
Gee ... too bad we'll NEVER get to use this technology on humans here in the United States thanks to all of the right-wing, conservative, narrow-minded, whiney religious zealots.
... we hardley knew ye ...
Maybe if enough of them , or their families, get paralyzed then this will change but I don't see it happening in the near future.
Sorry Chris Reeves
Of course we have no recourse ... we are just stupid, mindless automatons who blindly follow and purchase what they tell us to and we'll enjoy it.
...
Big business (like the government) doesn't give one flip about us or our well being. All they care about is the allmighty dollar that they can line their pockets with.
Big business (and the government) will f**k us at the drop of the hat if they think it is in THEIR best interest and they won't lose any sleep over it.
nuff said
Nope you weren't ... Kramer was the first thing that poped into my head as well.
Nothing like laughing yourself sick at work over an old Seinfeld episode.
Hit men don't shoot people in the face
It's hard to beleive that the US Govt. would kowtow to the music industry (music, movies, whatever ...) like this.
... they're not saving lives or building rockets or anything ...
...
These people are just singing songs after all
GEEZE
It should also be noted that the seller did not send out the laptop for 2 months ... that'd piss me off too. Although, probably not to this extent.
government employees who report wrongdoing do not enjoy 1st Amendment rights while on the job
... let's see. I can tell the public about this hazardous nuclear power plant and lose my job and possibly go to jail OR I can keep my mouth shut and let many people suffer.
... if the government is screwing up who is supposed to hold them accountable??? If there is wrongdoing or misconduct the only people who know about it will be the govt. workers.
.....
Hmmmm
I know it is a far-fetched notion but c'mon
Sometimes the "chain-of-command" just does not work and a person is left with no alternative to appease his conscience but to tell someone with enough visibility to get some action.
If this keeps up the next thing you know, the government will be tapping our phones and recording what we look for on the internet. Ummm
Can anybody say "Philadelphia Experiment"?!?!?!?!?
nuff said ...
Maybe one day he'll wake up and smell the CRAP that Windoze embodies ...
(but I doubt it)
This is because we are, literally, working ourselves to death.
... about 3 to 4 times that.
... I'm done with my rant ... for now. I'm going to eat my oatmeal.
Either we have low paying jobs that don't provide us any medical benefits or we have medium to high paying jobs that we work at constantly to maintain and we don't have time to go to the doctors or eat/exercise correctly.
It's a loose - loose battle for us.
In Europe, I believe that the job comes secondary to family and health. They take time to take care of themselves without the fear of not being "one of the team" and giving your job 110%; which I thought was mathematically impossible until I realised that a standard work day SHOULD be 8 hours but they want you to work 9, 10 hours plus (just because they do). We even have MUCH shorter vacation times than do our counterparts in Europe. Most people get, on average, about 2 weeks a year for vacation time. And you can forget about "sick days". I hear that in Europe they get much more than that
Okay
"Philips' patent acknowledges that this may be 'greatly resented by viewers' who could initially think their equipment has gone wrong."
How about viewers who initially (and subsequently) think that this is TOTAL CRAP?!?!?
At least I can go make popcorn and use the bathroom while the ads are playing. I would be totally for some hacker coming up with some way to defeat this. It just stinks that we pay our hard earned money and are forced to sit through commercials.
I think that there should be electrodes attached to the genitals of the executives and whenever we try to fast forward through the commercials they get zapped a little bit. THEN maybe they'll understand. >:o
How about this then. Have a governing body like http://www.w3.org/ or http://www.icann.org/ and have them decide the standards per region. Then you can have a markup like the following:Then the parents can pick the desired region. If it's a liberal household then they can pick France's or Germany's region. If they are puritanical, then they can pick the US region.
You made some good points ... I never thought of the .xxx TLD getting junked up with non-pornographic sites. I also agree that there is a BIG difference between hard-core porn and art. Your idea of a tiered system is good or even SpectralDesign (921309)'s idea of a ratings system ... or maybe even a combination of both.
I was just mainly concerned that you thought there should be no system in place for keeping porn away from kids.
How can you say that a
I have always believed it be a law that there be a new "META" tag in HTML. Something of the sorts
Then
I am not in favor of censorship in any way but I am totally in favor of the choice of individuals and the choice of parents to protect their children. Censorship is bad but individual control is good.
Oh my gawd . . . LOL
Your technological and biological distinctiveness will be added to our own.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!
Your point is???
How the hell do you make a discovery like this???
Someone was walking around the office one day with a cup of sugar and tripped and spilled it into the vat of gold nanoparticles???
I agree with the theaters that for some movies it is much better to be seen on the big screen (e.g., Star Wars/Trek, LOTR, King Kong, etc.). Movies where the special effects are a supporting character in itself, really need to be seen larger than life. Movies where the driving force is the plot-line/story, can be seen, IMHO, smaller and more intimately at home on the comfort of your own couch.