As we all know the fax destroyed the Soviet Union. The whole forbidden books were transmitted by fax.
If the KGB with all its unlimited power and resources could not win over the fax, how could puny Belarus government hope to win over the Internet? This uneven struggle will exhaust the scarce resources they have without bringing anything in return.
Will they spread the iron gauze over its cities to shield the satellites? Will they jam Wi-Fi along its 2500 km border with Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland? Will they search for flash memory cards (tiny in physical size but huge in digital capacity) in airports? Look through gigabytes of memory in phones and MP3 players?
The pages about some topics of nuclear physics were removed from the university textbooks. In some cases the textbooks were collected and destroyed. Knowledge do can be a dangerous thing.
Now after some secret international consultations the Open Source is about to go this way. MySQL was already bought first by "Sun", then by "Oracle". PHP will be bought before long by "IBM".
Network computing will be available only to selected ones, who have an access to the proprietary IDE, like Visual Studio, etc.
More about these international consultations from this podcast http://feeds.tvo.org/tvo/searchengine from Canada. Actually the new World Order is in the making.
In 15th century monks, who wrote books by a pen, did not like an appearance of the printing press.
Printing press changed not only the way the books are produced but it changed the whole industry, it changed what kind of books were produced.
More than that, it changed the whole society, it caused decades of reformation wars. It produced a new civilization.
We are looking at about the same thing. The Internet is of about the same magnitude. Some will try to forbid it, try to control it, the same as happened to the printing press. But the world will be changed beyond recognition. It just takes time. Printing press was invented in 1440, but the reformation started only in 1517. And the reformation wars lasted more than 100 years after that.
I know to well that when in a city there is one major ISP (Internet Service Provider) and this ISP is owned by a corporation, which happened to be a competitor of your company, than an access to your website may well become unstable.
It is not a technical issue, it is an issue with the human nature.
The same with an OS. Behind nice images and blue-sky pictures of each OS there are human interests and characters of real people.
The more good working OS are on the market the better. I have on my computers always 2 OS, with dual boot. Even though I work mainly with one I keep spending some time on learning the second OS, learning its features, one at a time, etc.
It may happen that one day I will give a try to Fedora 12 too. It is not because my current distribution is not working, it s because I am not that young already and I know people only too well.
We need more good OSs, more good ISPs, and so on, so that there is always a free choice and a competition.
We learned from you, you learned from us. It is not a good thing.
The US economy is strong because there are a lot of good honest people in America. If the corruption in the US becomes rampant, like in the FSU, it will be a bad thing for every one.
While working from home, update OS on you spouse's and kids' computers, install an anti-virus software and scan disks, update browser, Adobe reader and voila traffic generated by the household becomes much less.
Because a lot of traffic is generated by bot-nets spreading spam. And that is where bot-nets live.
If the Internet is still congested - do the same things on your parents' PCs then the difference will be visible for sure, because the advanced age generation treat computers as if it were a TV: "switch on and switch off; only the government is authorized to change the machinations inside the box". And that is why these PCs are often the soft target for bot-nets.
"McCain Moves to Block FCC Net Neutrality" www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/174221/mccain_moves_to_block_fcc_net_neutrality.html
It will be turned off sooner than one may think. If McCain passes his bill, only big corporations will be able to use the Internet. The Man in an ISP will be able to decide what you want to see.
McCain hates the Internet so much after Obama defeated him using Internet that he wants to destroy it. It is not that unrealistic. There are other rich guys who may own 14 houses and who may hate the Internet too.
How sell The Office, or The Windows, or The Movie, when everyone may publish his own office, his OS, her movie?
It makes them compete with everybody else, while they are accustomed to use under-carpet tricks to gain an advantage.
We are to earn our money on the market. How to do this, how to work productively if every day we have got tons of messages from "banks" offering us big money, "lotteries" informing of wins? The work-flow is being constantly interrupted.
Let alone attacks on our websites.
It seems that the dissidents in exotic lands use the IP obfuscation software not in a way that it was generally hoped. Because regimes in those parts are not changing a bit, but the volume of spam and malware is only increasing.
Internet should remain anonymous and global, and the same time the fight against malware and spam should get global and also grassroots. Everyone should take part: patching an OS of a relative, installing anti-virus software, updating browsers and other programs, providing consultation on Internet security. There is a lot everyone of us can do.
If we do not do it ourselves, someone may start doing it "on our behalf" with an unpredictable outcome.
OK. Some folks write that it would not be a Black Mark, some that it would be.
Probably for some it would be, for some not.
As for me, personally, in my opinion, it would definitely be a big black mark. I would probably never tell you this in your face if I will have to work with you in one team.
But, frankly, I would never consider you a part of a fair world, part of a goodness. Never ever. You will be in my opinion a part of force of darkness and evil.
I do not argue that this opinion is correct for everyone. It is just the way I feel about it.
As Gandhi wrote: "Be the change you want to see in the world." What change will you be?
One person can make a difference. What difference in the world you will be making while working on a gambling company?
What will be your contribution to a human cause?
Imagine you are to die in a year or two (it may happen with everyone). What people will say about you? This? "He helped a gambling scam to cheat people big time of their money with his excellent scripts."
It is not crime here, it is the commercial competition.
Microsoft has won Lotus, Borland, Netscape; they can as well win over the web-OS and web-applications. To win they have to act, like in those previous cases.
So here we are: the browser, which is used by 80% of Internet participants and which does not run fast enough to make the web-applications snappy, which throws out unpredictable error dialog boxes, requires different syntacsis, making by this web-apps production more expensive.
Playing hard to win.
I do not believe the Microsoft could not make a fast JavaScript engine in IE. They could make it 2 times faster than that in Chrome, as it is their platform. Instead it is 8 times slower.
Yes, Microsoft does need a watered-down Internet, like opening an odd page with a long unreadable URL from time to time.
But not more. It does not need fast reliable web-OS and web-applications.
It is obvious and understandable, who would need to install Office then?
That is why IE8 has got such a latency while opening pages with JavaScript, that is why it is insecure to a degree that people are afraid to use the Internet.
Add to this millions and millions of pirated Windows installations now without even critical updates. So the Internet may well die due to the resulting bot-nets and such a "browser" for masses.
I mean the Internet 2.0 and 3.0, not the Internet of Windows 95 epoch.
The real problem is not that the IE8 is installed by default. The problem is that Microsoft does not want the Internet at all.
Why should they? Web-applications threaten their core business: OS and MS Office. And money talk.
So they use the Internet Explorer as, speaking figuratively, the Internet's tombstone.
It is slow, it is incompatible, its interface is extremely confusing. I spend a lot of time to find a command in its convoluted menus; what about less technical users then?
Microsoft is trying to win time, to make the web-applications and web-OSs experience as bad as legally and humanly possible for as many users as they can.
I do not blame them. They are to pay salaries to 100000 employees. In their shoes I would do probably the same.
Using the monopoly levers they do can bury the Internet. And as a result we will have rich office documents communicating from Windows silos via a MS-network.
Nearly 90% of the US films end up in an explosion, either it is a building, or a ship, car, mountain, some people, but something always to be exploded.
I was in the USA and I noticed there other strange things. It is considered to be shameful to walk. The sidewalks are narrow, the green light for pedestrians light up just for about 10 seconds, so that one has nearly to run to cross a street. Automobile roads look like the rivers of steel, like a new geographical phenomena.
If one does not spoil nature, does not pollute badly, does not explode something big time, he/she is a sissy.
I am not trying to bash the good old USA, but this feature of the US culture comes to the front line of human civilization, as the US becomes the only world "super power". We will see more and more "magnificent" explosions. Now even on the moon! Didn't you hear about drilling?
If billions of people on our planet start to reproduce this way of life, as what seems to be happening already to some degree, not only our planet will not bear it, but the whole planetary system will collapse.
Spammers brings much more harm to the world economy than Afghan tribesmen. Billions of people are working as slaves for free for spammers sorting out and deleting their junk day and night. Billions of hours of working time are being stolen as matter of course.
Maybe the DHS decided at last to tackle this problem? These experts and predators could make the word to sigh with relief. Godspeed!
I am using powerful "Acer" desktop in my office and small "Acer One" netbook with XP for travel. For my netbook I have "Orange Internet Everywhere" mobile Internet connection (3G, etc.), which costs 56 Swiss francs per month (about 55 US dollars) and works in almost all civilized countries.
So I can work on a normal computer with a large monitor in my office, still I can take with me everywhere the small light netbook and connect to Internet at any place, even in the woods and mountains.
Despite its small size I can install on the netbook all the soft, which I can install on a desktop. And I can travel really lightly and have the netbook about me all the time.
I found out that the size matters. I bought also an excellent Panasonic G-1 camera, which is also of a small size, but is of good quality due to the new technology replacing a mirror box inside a camera with digital technology.
Not necessary anymore to have a martyr's look of a business traveler carrying, speaking figuratively, a cross, an enormous laptop bag, a huge camera holder over airports. I travel with a backpack which looks empty, but contains my whole office and ready to connect at any moment. As opposite to asking "how connect to you WiFI? Is there an empty table to place my laptop on it? etc."
Microsoft does not need a fast functional network where billions of users can collaborate, use various web-applications.
They need a wild unsafe broken environment, where computers of honest and lucky licensed users will be like Desktop castles in an ocean of evil and malware.
As they stopped critical updates, the bot-nets will find a way to use it to their advantage. It takes two to dance.
The problem is that Windows is intentionally designed to be easy to crack, as a marketing tool. They wanted it to spread as wide as possible. In former Soviet Union about 99% of Windows are cracked versions.
Now they stop critical updates because they want the bot-nets to grow and make the Internet unusable, because they are losing in the Internet to Google. So they destroy the Internet, and the world is returning to the Desktop.
It is quite possible. For example, I cannot already use the torrent, if I use it, then my provider disconnects me next day for several hours. Crime and punishment.
I begin to see a new meaning in the words: The freedom is not free.
I am in Europe, but they copycat anything from the US, good or bad. Like after Bill Clinton's adventure any self-respecting boss or boss-let had to have his Monica.
It disturbs me that someone will be opening my folders. I myself just barely manage to bring some resemblance of an order in my numerous files, and my livelihood depends on them. If some unqualified soldier starts browsing and inadvertently brings havoc into the system, it may destroy my position.
I think criminals will use miniaturized memory cards, which have the size less than a small coin. The memory card in a digital camera is 16 GB and it can be just pasted with a scotch in some obscure compartment of a car or suitcase. It will be practically undetectable, and 16 GB is 20 full size movies.
Why search an obvious HD, but not search for a minuscule memory cards (where minuscule is only a physical size, but the memory volume is enormous and growing)? Is it a security theater to get me reassured?
Or will they ban miniature memory cards too, like they did the torrent traffic? Maybe it would be a better idea to try to stop these people getting angry in the first place? Or what to do?
But I am sure that a memory card is practically impossible to find if hidden in a car by a creative individual.
My expensive digital camera does not have a password option at all. Anyone, who gets it in hands can start using it immediately. It is like in American football, holders are keepers.
But on my HP laptop there is an option to set a password on the hard disc access, in addition to BIOS and Windows passwords. I set for hard disk a simple password which is impossible to forget.
Still if the laptop is lost or stolen it would not be easy to crack this password for a stranger as it includes letters and digits.
Yes, probably the password can be broken by a specialist but not by a casual criminal. And it gives me some hours to change passwords on my VPN, FTP, e-mail, etc.
On all laptops there is a socket which can be used to fix a security steel cable with the combination lock. I hope the producers of tables for universities, offices, cafes, etc. will include a special security bracket on tables to fix this security cable to the table. Because sometimes there is nothing to fix the security cable too. The same for tables in trains.
I would not mind the same feature for digital cameras too, the same for an access password.
I think we should build infrastructure (furniture, trains, hotel rooms, etc.) with a possibility to use security cables. Simply speaking there should be strong brackets for security cables. Because people do carry their whole lives in these devices. And even if they want to be careful and fix it with the security cables, often there is nothing to fix them to. It should be legislated in building and engineering code.
The Man slows down to a crawl or stops part of your traffic. Automatically, as a matter of course.
A lot was said about a lack of freedom in, say, China or Russia, but in reality it is the good old West that decided to interfere into private traffic for which people paid, by the way.
I do not want to discuss the reasons why. We know why - because the movie and music industry was sleeping and cannot even compete with stupid free torrents.
But it is irrelevant. What important is that it is in the West the large scale mass interference into the private traffic started to occur.
This is the End of Freedom as we know it. Historians will note this time, around 2008 - 2009, as the beginning of a new Epoch. Similar to the periods of Slavery or Serfdom in Human History. It will be called the period of Controlled Private Information Traffic.
Like with Slavery and Serfdom there will be numerous wars and revolutions to get rid of this new Evil condition of humanity. But I hope the ideas of Freedom and Liberty will triumph in the end, whatever the cost.
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As we all know the fax destroyed the Soviet Union. The whole forbidden books were transmitted by fax.
If the KGB with all its unlimited power and resources could not win over the fax, how could puny Belarus government hope to win over the Internet? This uneven struggle will exhaust the scarce resources they have without bringing anything in return.
Will they spread the iron gauze over its cities to shield the satellites? Will they jam Wi-Fi along its 2500 km border with Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland? Will they search for flash memory cards (tiny in physical size but huge in digital capacity) in airports? Look through gigabytes of memory in phones and MP3 players?
Good luck you there...
The pages about some topics of nuclear physics were removed from the university textbooks. In some cases the textbooks were collected and destroyed. Knowledge do can be a dangerous thing.
Now after some secret international consultations the Open Source is about to go this way. MySQL was already bought first by "Sun", then by "Oracle". PHP will be bought before long by "IBM".
Network computing will be available only to selected ones, who have an access to the proprietary IDE, like Visual Studio, etc.
More about these international consultations from this podcast http://feeds.tvo.org/tvo/searchengine from Canada. Actually the new World Order is in the making.
In 15th century monks, who wrote books by a pen, did not like an appearance of the printing press.
Printing press changed not only the way the books are produced but it changed the whole industry, it changed what kind of books were produced.
More than that, it changed the whole society, it caused decades of reformation wars. It produced a new civilization.
We are looking at about the same thing. The Internet is of about the same magnitude. Some will try to forbid it, try to control it, the same as happened to the printing press. But the world will be changed beyond recognition. It just takes time. Printing press was invented in 1440, but the reformation started only in 1517. And the reformation wars lasted more than 100 years after that.
All this to produce electricity to dry clothing in the electric dryers. Just let people dry clothing and linen on the ropes in the sun and wind.
Billions and billions of such drying wet items will cool the planet. Because it will be daily, and it will be in billions.
We are trying to solve by engineering means a problem which is not a technical problem. It is a problem in our heads.
I know to well that when in a city there is one major ISP (Internet Service Provider) and this ISP is owned by a corporation, which happened to be a competitor of your company, than an access to your website may well become unstable.
It is not a technical issue, it is an issue with the human nature.
The same with an OS. Behind nice images and blue-sky pictures of each OS there are human interests and characters of real people.
The more good working OS are on the market the better. I have on my computers always 2 OS, with dual boot. Even though I work mainly with one I keep spending some time on learning the second OS, learning its features, one at a time, etc.
It may happen that one day I will give a try to Fedora 12 too. It is not because my current distribution is not working, it s because I am not that young already and I know people only too well.
We need more good OSs, more good ISPs, and so on, so that there is always a free choice and a competition.
We learned from you, you learned from us. It is not a good thing.
The US economy is strong because there are a lot of good honest people in America. If the corruption in the US becomes rampant, like in the FSU, it will be a bad thing for every one.
The point is he does not want to quit. He want to improve things, and is doing something about it.
The Russian society (the FSU society) is sick. I speak from experience. But it is starting to heal. The Internet is a part of it.
And why he has to work on Saturdays without a pay? It is a present-ism.
And shopping cart will not work without a cookie :o(
While working from home, update OS on you spouse's and kids' computers, install an anti-virus software and scan disks, update browser, Adobe reader and voila traffic generated by the household becomes much less.
Because a lot of traffic is generated by bot-nets spreading spam. And that is where bot-nets live.
If the Internet is still congested - do the same things on your parents' PCs then the difference will be visible for sure, because the advanced age generation treat computers as if it were a TV: "switch on and switch off; only the government is authorized to change the machinations inside the box". And that is why these PCs are often the soft target for bot-nets.
"McCain Moves to Block FCC Net Neutrality" www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/174221/mccain_moves_to_block_fcc_net_neutrality.html
It will be turned off sooner than one may think. If McCain passes his bill, only big corporations will be able to use the Internet. The Man in an ISP will be able to decide what you want to see.
McCain hates the Internet so much after Obama defeated him using Internet that he wants to destroy it. It is not that unrealistic. There are other rich guys who may own 14 houses and who may hate the Internet too.
How sell The Office, or The Windows, or The Movie, when everyone may publish his own office, his OS, her movie?
It makes them compete with everybody else, while they are accustomed to use under-carpet tricks to gain an advantage.
We are to earn our money on the market. How to do this, how to work productively if every day we have got tons of messages from "banks" offering us big money, "lotteries" informing of wins? The work-flow is being constantly interrupted.
Let alone attacks on our websites.
It seems that the dissidents in exotic lands use the IP obfuscation software not in a way that it was generally hoped. Because regimes in those parts are not changing a bit, but the volume of spam and malware is only increasing.
Internet should remain anonymous and global, and the same time the fight against malware and spam should get global and also grassroots. Everyone should take part: patching an OS of a relative, installing anti-virus software, updating browsers and other programs, providing consultation on Internet security. There is a lot everyone of us can do.
If we do not do it ourselves, someone may start doing it "on our behalf" with an unpredictable outcome.
OK. Some folks write that it would not be a Black Mark, some that it would be.
Probably for some it would be, for some not.
As for me, personally, in my opinion, it would definitely be a big black mark. I would probably never tell you this in your face if I will have to work with you in one team.
But, frankly, I would never consider you a part of a fair world, part of a goodness. Never ever. You will be in my opinion a part of force of darkness and evil.
I do not argue that this opinion is correct for everyone. It is just the way I feel about it.
As Gandhi wrote: "Be the change you want to see in the world." What change will you be?
One person can make a difference. What difference in the world you will be making while working on a gambling company?
What will be your contribution to a human cause?
Imagine you are to die in a year or two (it may happen with everyone). What people will say about you? This? "He helped a gambling scam to cheat people big time of their money with his excellent scripts."
It is not crime here, it is the commercial competition.
Microsoft has won Lotus, Borland, Netscape; they can as well win over the web-OS and web-applications. To win they have to act, like in those previous cases.
So here we are: the browser, which is used by 80% of Internet participants and which does not run fast enough to make the web-applications snappy, which throws out unpredictable error dialog boxes, requires different syntacsis, making by this web-apps production more expensive.
Playing hard to win.
I do not believe the Microsoft could not make a fast JavaScript engine in IE. They could make it 2 times faster than that in Chrome, as it is their platform. Instead it is 8 times slower.
Yes, Microsoft does need a watered-down Internet, like opening an odd page with a long unreadable URL from time to time.
But not more. It does not need fast reliable web-OS and web-applications.
It is obvious and understandable, who would need to install Office then?
That is why IE8 has got such a latency while opening pages with JavaScript, that is why it is insecure to a degree that people are afraid to use the Internet.
Add to this millions and millions of pirated Windows installations now without even critical updates. So the Internet may well die due to the resulting bot-nets and such a "browser" for masses.
I mean the Internet 2.0 and 3.0, not the Internet of Windows 95 epoch.
The real problem is not that the IE8 is installed by default. The problem is that Microsoft does not want the Internet at all.
Why should they? Web-applications threaten their core business: OS and MS Office. And money talk.
So they use the Internet Explorer as, speaking figuratively, the Internet's tombstone.
It is slow, it is incompatible, its interface is extremely confusing. I spend a lot of time to find a command in its convoluted menus; what about less technical users then?
Microsoft is trying to win time, to make the web-applications and web-OSs experience as bad as legally and humanly possible for as many users as they can.
I do not blame them. They are to pay salaries to 100000 employees. In their shoes I would do probably the same.
Using the monopoly levers they do can bury the Internet. And as a result we will have rich office documents communicating from Windows silos via a MS-network.
Nearly 90% of the US films end up in an explosion, either it is a building, or a ship, car, mountain, some people, but something always to be exploded.
I was in the USA and I noticed there other strange things. It is considered to be shameful to walk. The sidewalks are narrow, the green light for pedestrians light up just for about 10 seconds, so that one has nearly to run to cross a street. Automobile roads look like the rivers of steel, like a new geographical phenomena.
If one does not spoil nature, does not pollute badly, does not explode something big time, he/she is a sissy.
I am not trying to bash the good old USA, but this feature of the US culture comes to the front line of human civilization, as the US becomes the only world "super power". We will see more and more "magnificent" explosions. Now even on the moon! Didn't you hear about drilling?
If billions of people on our planet start to reproduce this way of life, as what seems to be happening already to some degree, not only our planet will not bear it, but the whole planetary system will collapse.
Where the universe is expanding? Into another universe? Into emptiness? Into nothing? Is there any rational explanation? Or is it unknown yet?
Spammers brings much more harm to the world economy than Afghan tribesmen. Billions of people are working as slaves for free for spammers sorting out and deleting their junk day and night. Billions of hours of working time are being stolen as matter of course.
Maybe the DHS decided at last to tackle this problem? These experts and predators could make the word to sigh with relief. Godspeed!
I am using powerful "Acer" desktop in my office and small "Acer One" netbook with XP for travel. For my netbook I have "Orange Internet Everywhere" mobile Internet connection (3G, etc.), which costs 56 Swiss francs per month (about 55 US dollars) and works in almost all civilized countries.
So I can work on a normal computer with a large monitor in my office, still I can take with me everywhere the small light netbook and connect to Internet at any place, even in the woods and mountains.
Despite its small size I can install on the netbook all the soft, which I can install on a desktop. And I can travel really lightly and have the netbook about me all the time.
I found out that the size matters. I bought also an excellent Panasonic G-1 camera, which is also of a small size, but is of good quality due to the new technology replacing a mirror box inside a camera with digital technology.
Not necessary anymore to have a martyr's look of a business traveler carrying, speaking figuratively, a cross, an enormous laptop bag, a huge camera holder over airports. I travel with a backpack which looks empty, but contains my whole office and ready to connect at any moment. As opposite to asking "how connect to you WiFI? Is there an empty table to place my laptop on it? etc."
Microsoft does not need a fast functional network where billions of users can collaborate, use various web-applications.
They need a wild unsafe broken environment, where computers of honest and lucky licensed users will be like Desktop castles in an ocean of evil and malware.
As they stopped critical updates, the bot-nets will find a way to use it to their advantage. It takes two to dance.
The problem is that Windows is intentionally designed to be easy to crack, as a marketing tool. They wanted it to spread as wide as possible. In former Soviet Union about 99% of Windows are cracked versions.
Now they stop critical updates because they want the bot-nets to grow and make the Internet unusable, because they are losing in the Internet to Google. So they destroy the Internet, and the world is returning to the Desktop.
It is quite possible. For example, I cannot already use the torrent, if I use it, then my provider disconnects me next day for several hours. Crime and punishment.
I begin to see a new meaning in the words: The freedom is not free.
I am in Europe, but they copycat anything from the US, good or bad. Like after Bill Clinton's adventure any self-respecting boss or boss-let had to have his Monica.
It disturbs me that someone will be opening my folders. I myself just barely manage to bring some resemblance of an order in my numerous files, and my livelihood depends on them. If some unqualified soldier starts browsing and inadvertently brings havoc into the system, it may destroy my position.
I think criminals will use miniaturized memory cards, which have the size less than a small coin. The memory card in a digital camera is 16 GB and it can be just pasted with a scotch in some obscure compartment of a car or suitcase. It will be practically undetectable, and 16 GB is 20 full size movies.
Why search an obvious HD, but not search for a minuscule memory cards (where minuscule is only a physical size, but the memory volume is enormous and growing)? Is it a security theater to get me reassured?
Or will they ban miniature memory cards too, like they did the torrent traffic? Maybe it would be a better idea to try to stop these people getting angry in the first place? Or what to do?
But I am sure that a memory card is practically impossible to find if hidden in a car by a creative individual.
My expensive digital camera does not have a password option at all. Anyone, who gets it in hands can start using it immediately. It is like in American football, holders are keepers.
But on my HP laptop there is an option to set a password on the hard disc access, in addition to BIOS and Windows passwords. I set for hard disk a simple password which is impossible to forget.
Still if the laptop is lost or stolen it would not be easy to crack this password for a stranger as it includes letters and digits.
Yes, probably the password can be broken by a specialist but not by a casual criminal. And it gives me some hours to change passwords on my VPN, FTP, e-mail, etc.
On all laptops there is a socket which can be used to fix a security steel cable with the combination lock. I hope the producers of tables for universities, offices, cafes, etc. will include a special security bracket on tables to fix this security cable to the table. Because sometimes there is nothing to fix the security cable too. The same for tables in trains.
I would not mind the same feature for digital cameras too, the same for an access password.
I think we should build infrastructure (furniture, trains, hotel rooms, etc.) with a possibility to use security cables. Simply speaking there should be strong brackets for security cables. Because people do carry their whole lives in these devices. And even if they want to be careful and fix it with the security cables, often there is nothing to fix them to. It should be legislated in building and engineering code.
In fact it is shutting down the Internet.
The Man slows down to a crawl or stops part of your traffic. Automatically, as a matter of course.
A lot was said about a lack of freedom in, say, China or Russia, but in reality it is the good old West that decided to interfere into private traffic for which people paid, by the way.
I do not want to discuss the reasons why. We know why - because the movie and music industry was sleeping and cannot even compete with stupid free torrents.
But it is irrelevant. What important is that it is in the West the large scale mass interference into the private traffic started to occur.
This is the End of Freedom as we know it. Historians will note this time, around 2008 - 2009, as the beginning of a new Epoch. Similar to the periods of Slavery or Serfdom in Human History. It will be called the period of Controlled Private Information Traffic.
Like with Slavery and Serfdom there will be numerous wars and revolutions to get rid of this new Evil condition of humanity. But I hope the ideas of Freedom and Liberty will triumph in the end, whatever the cost.