Contrary to your blanket statement about "the US military", the individuals directly responsible for the murders of Bagram and Dilawar are being court-martialed by the US military Fixed that for ya. Well, except for the part where you think "Bagram" is a person.
Essentially we're watching a bunch of well-paid elected officials act like little children manipulating the rules to avoid the democratic process (ie the majority actually getting what it wants). Huh? Since when is the senate supposed to be an embodiment of majority rule? And don't even try to say that the USA is "majority rule" democracy - I think that particular line has been debunked oh, a million times give or take, here on slashdot already.
I'd really rather not have to go bankrupt defending myself so I think that, since I was clearly acting in good faith, I need to get immunity. "Good faith" IS NOT SUFFICIENT. The phrase that comes to mind is, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
All kinds of people do dangerous things because they don't know any better. That doesn't make what they did any less dangerous. This attitude of giving the government anything it asks for because of it's own self-justifiying fear-mongering is probably the most dangerous thing to happen in the US since 9/11.
How many fertilizer bombings of any significance has there been in this country? What, two over the last 20 years?
Do you really think that such a small number of actual cases deserves the massive level of invasion of privacy that has been committed since then? Aren't there better things to be spending our resources on than undermining the founding principles of our country to try to stop such rare events? 40,000 people die each year in car accidents. Averaged out over the last two decades, less than 10 people have died per year because of fertilizer bombings.
Nothing is preventing them from writing their own music. Interesting modification of your argument that started off as:
No one is prevented from writing and performing music because of Led Zeppelin. One wonders why you even bothered to post since your new point is completely unrelated to your original point and self-obvious.
I have no idea what statute this is covered under, but it's common knowledge to musicians. Yeah, 9.6 cents per COPY that means no one can record a cover and give their performance away for free.
Remember, all songwriters are required to issue an obigatory license, upon request, to anyone who wishes to cover their song. False. Totally bogus made up baloney. Show me the part of USC Title 17 that contains such a requirement.
No one is prevented from writing and performing music because of Led Zeppelin. Absolute tripe. The people who can't afford the asking price for performance rights are prevented from making their music. The people who want to use samples of led zep recordings are prevented from making their music.
Besides, these guys are not looking for prosecution, they are looking to identify and bust terrorism cells. They are looking to stop the next terrorist attack. They are looking to intercept supplies such as bomb making materials and replace them with something inert. Yes, an email will be evidence, but when it comes to terrorism, they require a open and shut case with multiple arrests. They don't want to pop you for looking for weed. Could you be any more naive?
Just how many terrorists attacks have we had in the US? Why are you still knee-jerking on a crime that kills less people world-wide (including Israel) than drown in bath-tubs?
As for "they require a open and shut case with multiple arrests" WTF are you talking about? Do you know how many people in Guantanamo are part of "open and shut cases?" NONE. Do you know how many were even "picked up on the battlefield?" Hardly more than 5%.
How about the thousands arrested in NYC during the republican convention who were then just conveniently released without charges?
Recent history is chock-a-block full of cases where OUR government abused civil rights - when they couldn't find something legit to bust someone for, they stretched to find anything to pin on them - like popping you for looking for weed.
I never said that. I said they would take a close look, wasting their time and doing MORE of what you didn't want them to do in the first place. If they can't get your email, they may listen to your phone calls. They may start tailing you. They may start investigating the people you email. Why? Because you thought it would be super cool spy stuff to encrypt your email to keep the evil G-Men out. Yeah, and if enough people do it then this goddamn fear-mongering will have to end because there won't be enough people in the world to take it to the next level for every one of them.
Besides, even the SS didn't really need to evesdrop. If they wanted information, they'd kick down your door, torture your little girl until YOU cracked, and put you on a train somewhere with a bunch of people with stars sewn into their clothing. You make that statement as if it is some kind of justification to bow down to the man because he'll do whatever he wants anyway. You have got to be trolling, either that are you are some kind of Martin Niemöller wannabe.
Sorry, this one makes my sick and is EXACTLY why I hate the music industry. Not just the biggest, but the greatest cover band.
Ain't NOTHING wrong with plagiarism. Putting your own spin on something can make all the difference. It's only the same bullshit MAFIAA inspired "cultural ownership" mentality that claims otherwise. Led Zep may have been a cover band, but they were a damn fine cover band - they performed with a unique style and were smart enough to steal from the best. The end result - great music - is all that should matter.
Under the original terms of copyright in the USA, which I believe was 17 years + 17 more optional renewal if author was alive and wanted it, much of Led Zep's catalog would be in the public domain by now.
The article you quote does not support your statement. Yeah, it pretty much does. Because the hardware list is half of the picture and then what software updates get downloaded is the other half.
With Synaptic and most (all?) other linux updaters, there is no identity information transmitted to the update server - in fact you are free to get your updates from a vast network of unrelated servers through standard protocols with no serial numbers or other forms of registration required.
With WU, your registration information is required in order to download any updates. So, you get one tiny point for the fact that in 2002 the mechanism existed to get all your software info, but MS wasn't using it yet, maybe even today 5 years later they still aren't. But they are effectively getting the same information based on what you download in combination with your registration info.
That is incorrect. And wouldnt be practical in any case. Not according to these guys who have actually traced the data going to Microsoft's servers during a Windows Update session:
Let's go with this a minute. To have a comparison, I will use Synaptic on Ubuntu. One more point which may seem minor, but in the context of trust is huge:
Synaptic downloads a list of all updates to the user and the user's computer determines what updates are applicable.
Microsoft uploads a list of 'everything' on the user's PC to Microsoft and Microsoft determines what updates are applicable and then stores that uploaded list, associated with your registration information, for an undisclosed period of time.
I think we can agree on the idea that the existence of data havens is a potential godsend, but the misuse of those havens is a huge headache. It's just another variation on the widely misunderstood meme that "freedom isn't free." The bad is always the price of the good.
Forget "birds eye" view - I want a "car's nose view." A pair of cameras mounted at the very front of the car - one camera facing right and the other facing left. That way I can see "around" hedges, tress, fences and other visual obstructions when crossing or turning onto a road.
I wonder at the mindset of the people complaining. It is unfortunately common for various police agencies to photograph protesters in order to build a dossier on them. The one thing the protesters can do to counter that is to photograph the photographers back. Highly symbolic, but still somewhat useful to the protesters too.
But if the government really does use something like these 007 spy gizmos to photograph the protesters, there isn't much they can do to counter it. And, if it goes unnoticed, then not only can't the protesters "watch the watchers" they don't even know who or even if they are being recorded.
I wonder how much those four months of deliberation cost them. Well, I strongly doubt that they spent the entire 4 months deliberating this one issue. They probably had a couple of meetings where that was one of the topics in the bigger picture of how to handle all aspect of the data breach.
of course you yanks only get like six days of paid vacation a year, so maybe it's harsher from your perspective, lol It's a government job, as a rule the public sector has a lot of paid vacation. It's just the private sector where its been chiseled away into "flex time." With his seniority he probably had 4-6 weeks of paid vacation.
The media, law enforcement agencies are doing this more and more and it's insane - "we just had an idea for a terrorist attack that might happen and here it is in full", It's not insane. They know that movie-plot terrorist plans are a dime a dozen and since we've had precisely one terrorist attack in the USA for in over a decade, the chances of anyone actually using one of these plans is just about nil.
But this way they get to generate a lot of publicity, justify their jobs, gynormous budgets and/or advertising dollars and keep all the sheeple reminded of just why they need the government.
It's pretty obvious that they're the ones who don't know the book's content. That seems like an odd assertion given that they confiscated the book from the kid - surely they must have thoroughly inspected it along with all the other materials they confiscated. I think the only reason they charged him with respect to the book is because of its title - it makes great sound-bite fodder since the majority of the sound-bite listening public will have never heard of it before.
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Well, except for the part where you think "Bagram" is a person.
All kinds of people do dangerous things because they don't know any better. That doesn't make what they did any less dangerous. This attitude of giving the government anything it asks for because of it's own self-justifiying fear-mongering is probably the most dangerous thing to happen in the US since 9/11.
How many fertilizer bombings of any significance has there been in this country? What, two over the last 20 years?
Do you really think that such a small number of actual cases deserves the massive level of invasion of privacy that has been committed since then? Aren't there better things to be spending our resources on than undermining the founding principles of our country to try to stop such rare events? 40,000 people die each year in car accidents. Averaged out over the last two decades, less than 10 people have died per year because of fertilizer bombings.
Holy shit, firefox still speaks gopher.
I could have sworn they dumped the protocol for some obscure reason.
If it is *just* kapersky that causes the problem, then why is MS issuing a hotfix instead of kapersky?
Just how many terrorists attacks have we had in the US? Why are you still knee-jerking on a crime that kills less people world-wide (including Israel) than drown in bath-tubs?
As for "they require a open and shut case with multiple arrests" WTF are you talking about? Do you know how many people in Guantanamo are part of "open and shut cases?" NONE. Do you know how many were even "picked up on the battlefield?" Hardly more than 5%.
How about the thousands arrested in NYC during the republican convention who were then just conveniently released without charges?
Recent history is chock-a-block full of cases where OUR government abused civil rights - when they couldn't find something legit to bust someone for, they stretched to find anything to pin on them - like popping you for looking for weed. I never said that. I said they would take a close look, wasting their time and doing MORE of what you didn't want them to do in the first place. If they can't get your email, they may listen to your phone calls. They may start tailing you. They may start investigating the people you email. Why? Because you thought it would be super cool spy stuff to encrypt your email to keep the evil G-Men out. Yeah, and if enough people do it then this goddamn fear-mongering will have to end because there won't be enough people in the world to take it to the next level for every one of them. Besides, even the SS didn't really need to evesdrop. If they wanted information, they'd kick down your door, torture your little girl until YOU cracked, and put you on a train somewhere with a bunch of people with stars sewn into their clothing. You make that statement as if it is some kind of justification to bow down to the man because he'll do whatever he wants anyway. You have got to be trolling, either that are you are some kind of Martin Niemöller wannabe.
Sorry, this one makes my sick and is EXACTLY why I hate the music industry. Not just the biggest, but the greatest cover band.
Ain't NOTHING wrong with plagiarism. Putting your own spin on something can make all the difference. It's only the same bullshit MAFIAA inspired "cultural ownership" mentality that claims otherwise. Led Zep may have been a cover band, but they were a damn fine cover band - they performed with a unique style and were smart enough to steal from the best. The end result - great music - is all that should matter.
$10,000+ for the laser turntable
or
About $100 for the USB turntable:
http://www.amazon.com/Ion-iTTUSB-Turntable-USB-Record/dp/B000BUEMOO
Under the original terms of copyright in the USA, which I believe was 17 years + 17 more optional renewal if author was alive and wanted it, much of Led Zep's catalog would be in the public domain by now.
With Synaptic and most (all?) other linux updaters, there is no identity information transmitted to the update server - in fact you are free to get your updates from a vast network of unrelated servers through standard protocols with no serial numbers or other forms of registration required.
With WU, your registration information is required in order to download any updates. So, you get one tiny point for the fact that in 2002 the mechanism existed to get all your software info, but MS wasn't using it yet, maybe even today 5 years later they still aren't. But they are effectively getting the same information based on what you download in combination with your registration info.
http://www.tecchannel.de/ueberblick/archiv/402064/index15.html
Synaptic downloads a list of all updates to the user and the user's computer determines what updates are applicable.
Microsoft uploads a list of 'everything' on the user's PC to Microsoft and Microsoft determines what updates are applicable and then stores that uploaded list, associated with your registration information, for an undisclosed period of time.
Of course the smart-ass response is, do you trust Google more than Verizon?
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/D46A8EE4AB8299A68625735D000200C0?OpenDocument
Forget "birds eye" view - I want a "car's nose view." A pair of cameras mounted at the very front of the car - one camera facing right and the other facing left. That way I can see "around" hedges, tress, fences and other visual obstructions when crossing or turning onto a road.
But if the government really does use something like these 007 spy gizmos to photograph the protesters, there isn't much they can do to counter it. And, if it goes unnoticed, then not only can't the protesters "watch the watchers" they don't even know who or even if they are being recorded.
But this way they get to generate a lot of publicity, justify their jobs, gynormous budgets and/or advertising dollars and keep all the sheeple reminded of just why they need the government.