You completely missed my point. I already AM a good programmer. I would go so far as to say that out of all the people in my Universities CS & IS&T major I'd be maybe the top programmer. If not top definitely one of the top 5. The fact that I'm teaching the FACULTY at my University PHP & AJAX already proves that.
Given the above, how can you possibly tell me that I have to get ready for a career in VB. I already do LAMP development for my own company that I see job offers for, in the 100-130k range. Which is why I bitch, because honestly I have better shit to do then to figure out the correlation coefficient of a bunch of random numbers which is gonna get graded wrong if the answer is slightly off. That might be legit in real-world engineering but in programming you test your program before it ever goes out the door so you never have to just trust that what your wrote is right.
So in the end I'm not arguing the class but the methodology. Programming majors shouldn't take normal math classes but should instead get lab assignments that force them to use programming to code programs that calculate the answers. That would not only teach the concept but make them figure out the concepts behind it. The actual math in programming is always simple integer arithmetic and logic gates. Oh and btw.... the teachers that teach this stuff, 9/10 times they suck at their job and there's no one to call them on it till half the class fails.
I hate having to take Statistics and Calculus as an Information Science & Technology major - doing problems very similar to the one in the photo in the article when I'm in the industry to be a developer using readily available tools. It hurts my GPA and wastes my time having to spend 2-4 hours doing homework every other day for a class that is teaching me a skill I will never use (Yes, I'm sure).
Right now the most pressing concern for the American people is no longer Iraq but the same issues that have always been on American's minds, the Economy, independent energy, infrastructure, medicine, and education. All of these things back up our war effort so improving our country in all these things will make America stronger.
How well the economy is doing is based almost always on unemployement. The best thing a government can do to curtail a depression is to create jobs. America currently has many ways to do that. -Repair old infrastructure -Build new infrastructure (roads, bridges, schools, etc) -Make the United States independent from foreign energy by slowly starting to fund massive solar arrays in the desert.
We have to stop thinking about our plan as so massive that it will just deal itself automatically. The fact of the matter is our planet is like a giant space station we all share. Burning fossil fuels is a waste because we get enough solar energy from the sun everyday to power our entire civilization for a decade. If we cover just 3% of the land mass of Arizona with solar panels at a cost of 5-10 Trillion we will have totally independent, clean, energy for the next 25-30 years that will replace all of our other energy sources. We then use this energy to create clean hydrogen for cars. BMW already has a perfected solution for fueling up and using hydrogen which is kept in it's liquid state so there's no danger. The tech on the car front is there. In fact the range on one fill up is up to 300 miles in Sedan!!! Now I don't expect us to spend 5-10 trillion on it but we did spend 1 Trillion on a war which devalued our currency on the global market and made us spend a large amount of our treasure on it. In contrast building just a fifth of this entire project would pump enough research and development into the science of it and give enough people a job that our economy will come right back roaring! And, we'll be able to keep the whole thing in the country without devaluing the dollar by buying services and materials overseas.
Even if we don't start today, that is the future of our world because by 2015 with the current rate of R&D in battery technology, solar voltaic technology, and the price of oil the price of solar power will reach parity with oil. Spend just an hour reading wikipedia and you'll be able to confirm everything I just said.
Not to mention the fact that since the whole process is only bound to get cheaper and cheaper we're all looking at what the nuclear age promised us 50 years ago: energy that's too cheap to meter. Once we cover a certain amount of land with solar panels and as they get replaced with new ones that are more efficient the power output per square meter will only increase. With such cheap energy other issues currently plaguing humanity become a simple matter of manufacture.... Imagine providing water to millions with gigantic desalination plants that are totally power by solar power. Maybe I'm being naive but the economy is totally based on scarcity. If scarcity were eliminated or made extremely abundant what would there be to fight over?
The next president will have to understand technology, the internet, and the economy to be able to drive the United States into this new economy that will eventually come. It's not a matter of if anymore, but when. All technologies required for this have a predictable innovation curve (just like moore's law with computer chips) so anyone who bothers to look it up will see it.
With that said, I urge everyone to please vote for the candidate that will support these fledgling economies and not just sit idly by waiting for them to do it on their own. The countries that support these initiatives now will be the ones controlling the world economy in the next century. So please, stop discussing this election in terms of who said what but in terms of what the candidates are attempting to do about our current situation.
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Oh sorry I forgot to mention. Ability to track the status of the file upload would be a requirement. At the moment Flash is the only thing that supports it.
As long as I can keep using Prototype as a framework I'll be happy.
As for specific features. I'm looking forward to cleaner and easier to manager asyncronous AJAX. While the client requesting from server has been well thought out, the server sending to the client is still very patchy and not particularly easy to develop for.
It would be nice if I could create socket connections with AJAX to say IRC but still go over HTTP proxy.
I'd also like to see AJAX file uploads that don't have to run through Flash. I think FF3 supports this already.
The evidence presented is a web server log which shows an IP and the file requested.
It does not prove that a person actually clicked the link physically.
Therefore, the fact that any search warrant was granted on such flimsy, at best, evidence is pretty scary considering that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The Amendment reads as follows, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I did a search for more information because the CNET article in question implies that the FBI agents tackled him and arrested him without a warrant however an Inquirer article says,
In February, when FBI agents and local police arrived at his door with a search warrant, they acted cautiously, they testified, because they believed he legally owned a dozen or more weapons. Vosburgh didn't answer their knock. For the next 27 minutes, authorities tried to talk him into opening the door. When authorities finally entered the apartment, they said they found a computer pried open, its hard drive smashed into several parts, strewn elsewhere. They also found smashed thumb drives, one of which lay in the toilet, they said. On an external hard drive, they later recovered hundreds of legal adult pornography images and two illegal images of naked prepubescent girls, agents said. "The destruction was done that morning, during those 27 minutes," Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise S. Wolf told jurors during closing arguments. "You saw the broken pieces. Now it's time to put them all of them together." Vosburgh downloaded pornography "because he likes this stuff," Wolf said. "He's the bear going to the hunt." Defense lawyer Anna Durbin told jurors that Vosburgh, a former police dispatcher, was law-abiding. The government's case was flawed and based on poor science, she said. "There's no hard evidence that Mr. Vosburgh was after that stuff," Durbin said. The government "can't prove when he destroyed his hard drive."
By reading that we can easily see that, Yes, he did do what they say he did, however the original evidence for the warrant was no more then a line in a log which could be placed there any number of ways, mouse click or not.
You might say that he got what he deserved but under what pretext do we use evidence against a defendant that's flimsy? There are numerous more serious crimes I can cite where evidence was totally thrown out on the basis that the given reasons for the search warrant warrant were illegal.
I'm no lawyer but I'd say that if the actual warrant only shows an IP in a log as Probably Cause to conduct a raid then the raid in itself is illegal.
The whole case then comes down to this one question.
Is an IP address in a log file enough probable cause to receive a search warrant?
You're fanboyism of PHP is much appreciated (as I am myself a PHP developer) but PHP is actually smaller. Don't be deceived. This is a GOOD thing. Less bloat = more performance. PHP + *SQL + Memcache will always pack more punch in a smaller package then the.NET Framework. Wikipedia is my primary example.:-)
Also I do have to point out that comparing PHP to.NET is really PHP vs ASP.NET and ASP.NET is actually a framework around the suite of.NET languages (ASP,JSP,C#,C++,and VB). So the comparison is a bit apples to oranges BUT while it is true that.NET can scale I believe that the LAMP stack, combined with Memcache can be more easily scaled with less hardware and less people bringing down costs. Plus, you'd be hard pressed to find a Microsoft trained.NET IT professional that actually knows what he's doing and isn't just another MS certified baboon.
Anti-virus software is only as good as it's detection methods are. Since detection methods are usually only helpful for known viruses the likely hood of anti-virus software actually being helpful is minimal. Chances are that an update will fix the exploit in line with an update to your anti-virus software but alas, by then, it's too late. Then again Apple doesn't have a very good track record on issuing fast updates to combat known exploits.
The issue is no different on OSX, Linux, or Windows. They all have holes. You just need to give someone enough incentive to go stealing pieces of the pie. Windows just happens to have more of it.
It doesn't matter whether or not "most" people care or don't care.
The issue is that there isn't an overwhelming backlash from this expansion of surveillance power.
The sad part is that America is losing it's democracy without realizing it.
When FDR tried to pack the supreme court the United States Congress saw it for what it really was; the undermining of the checks and balances instituted to prevent abuse of power.
Today, I think, with great sadness if the same thing happened it would hardly be so adamantly opposed. Whichever party the President belongs to would simply support it to further their agenda.
and then watch the bill burn in a flame of un-enforceability. We can join with our 4chan brethren, sing cumbaya around the fire, and make marshmallows.:)
Pedobear not allowed. I don't want the FBI Party van showing up. Those damn bastards have no sense of fun...... I tried to spark a joint and the bastards tried to arrest me!
He's implying that because of the failure of some web communities in keeping out "drama" that the web will revert to a centralized editorial authority. The problem is..... it's gonna happen the opposite way.
Wikipedia's next step is to make a functioning and bug free GUI for it's editor to increase the amount of people that edit.
This would increase the size of the governing pool of moderators. You could then do votes on the edits themselves and automate the process. Moderators would get slightly more weight then normal users cause there's a lot less of them. Then get the organizations of the various topics to become moderators on that topic or category. I'm sure if they actually reached out to scientific communities to help with cataloging things it would help on the site with fact checking. And to avoid floods from normal users (the 'wikiality' scenario made prudently clear by Colbert) you could simply look at ratio's of edits. If the ratio is way above other articles you know the normal users are flooding. Moderators aren't likely to flood something with 100,000 votes....
So basically the Internet is gonna see an evolution by more processing and calculating web applications that arise from Solid State Hard-drives, ridiculous amounts of memory, and multi core CPUs. Web applications that work on media are especially thriving from the hard drive market right now. Once SSD comes on the scene with cheaper drives and they replace normal disk hard drives the database intensive area of the code will suddenly have a lot more write capacity as read gets memcached and write has more time but is able to achieve an even faster write. Essentially this would allow anywhere from 5 to 10 times more writes at capacity then compared to today's "reasonable" setup for a 3k server. This would make it cheap for startups with ideas to actually experiment and create competition.
Back to the article though... "Revenge of the Experts". I guess being able to skip over a topic in a general format while sounding like you're explaining the most difficult thing in the world falls into the category of being an "expert". How can you expect people to explain the finer details of what and why in between commercials.
There needs to be a cause and effect for a government to justify this. In other words, this makes sense to fight crime in schools as these are inner city schools we're talking about but do we really expect inner city schools to be as bad as they are forever? There should be a clause advocating the removal of the cameras if the situation has improved for a long duration of time (say 2 years?). Otherwise it really does start a 1984 society and that's not good.
Actually I'm an Obama supported. It's way too late to run a none regulated government. It just has to be transparent which is why I support Obama. A wikified government is a government that can't be used against the people.
"Employing technologies, including blogs, wikis and social networking tools, to modernize internal, cross-agency, and public communication and information sharing to improve government decision-making." See: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
If the founding fathers made it a right to own firearms, would they have done the same for the right to own and drive a car? These days our government preaches "privileges" instead of "rights". To what end?
This country is going down the tubes and here's why: No one cares enough. People are down right happy with their lives as they are and unless there's a large enough percentage of the population willing to openly revolt nothing is going to change.
We have hypocrisies after hypocrisies: Taxation without representation, suspension of habeas corpus, need I go on?
The people in power realize that the people won't stand for oppression so they allow a standard of living that's just good enough for 95% of the population and they are willing to throw away the other 5% because again, they realize it lets them maintain the status quo. 1984? Nah.... just a nanny, security state propped up by the same assholes who can't take responsibility for their own actions so they let the government move in and regulate everything.
So how does this tie into an "Internet Bill of Rights"? You have to make enough CARE to create a movement for anything. As for some rules.... lets start with just one for now..... Network Neutrality.
People don't happen to sit in a car for 8 hours a day, everyday, for years on end -- starting from the age of 8. Then tend to do that only with computers and TV. They are bound to learn a thing or two...
I think the opposite is true. Legal understand of technology will get better. As people who use the Internet on a daily basis (not IT pros but normal people) get out into other fields basic network understanding will be common.
In 50 years everyone will know HTML and BBCode (or the equivalent popular format of the day) because it will be used daily.
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Because the Prototype.js framework or PHP require P-tests and integrals.....
You completely missed my point. I already AM a good programmer. I would go so far as to say that out of all the people in my Universities CS & IS&T major I'd be maybe the top programmer. If not top definitely one of the top 5. The fact that I'm teaching the FACULTY at my University PHP & AJAX already proves that.
Given the above, how can you possibly tell me that I have to get ready for a career in VB. I already do LAMP development for my own company that I see job offers for, in the 100-130k range. Which is why I bitch, because honestly I have better shit to do then to figure out the correlation coefficient of a bunch of random numbers which is gonna get graded wrong if the answer is slightly off. That might be legit in real-world engineering but in programming you test your program before it ever goes out the door so you never have to just trust that what your wrote is right.
So in the end I'm not arguing the class but the methodology. Programming majors shouldn't take normal math classes but should instead get lab assignments that force them to use programming to code programs that calculate the answers. That would not only teach the concept but make them figure out the concepts behind it. The actual math in programming is always simple integer arithmetic and logic gates. Oh and btw.... the teachers that teach this stuff, 9/10 times they suck at their job and there's no one to call them on it till half the class fails.
I hate having to take Statistics and Calculus as an Information Science & Technology major - doing problems very similar to the one in the photo in the article when I'm in the industry to be a developer using readily available tools. It hurts my GPA and wastes my time having to spend 2-4 hours doing homework every other day for a class that is teaching me a skill I will never use (Yes, I'm sure).
Right now the most pressing concern for the American people is no longer Iraq but the same issues that have always been on American's minds, the Economy, independent energy, infrastructure, medicine, and education. All of these things back up our war effort so improving our country in all these things will make America stronger.
How well the economy is doing is based almost always on unemployement. The best thing a government can do to curtail a depression is to create jobs. America currently has many ways to do that.
-Repair old infrastructure
-Build new infrastructure (roads, bridges, schools, etc)
-Make the United States independent from foreign energy by slowly starting to fund massive solar arrays in the desert.
We have to stop thinking about our plan as so massive that it will just deal itself automatically. The fact of the matter is our planet is like a giant space station we all share. Burning fossil fuels is a waste because we get enough solar energy from the sun everyday to power our entire civilization for a decade. If we cover just 3% of the land mass of Arizona with solar panels at a cost of 5-10 Trillion we will have totally independent, clean, energy for the next 25-30 years that will replace all of our other energy sources. We then use this energy to create clean hydrogen for cars. BMW already has a perfected solution for fueling up and using hydrogen which is kept in it's liquid state so there's no danger. The tech on the car front is there. In fact the range on one fill up is up to 300 miles in Sedan!!! Now I don't expect us to spend 5-10 trillion on it but we did spend 1 Trillion on a war which devalued our currency on the global market and made us spend a large amount of our treasure on it. In contrast building just a fifth of this entire project would pump enough research and development into the science of it and give enough people a job that our economy will come right back roaring! And, we'll be able to keep the whole thing in the country without devaluing the dollar by buying services and materials overseas.
Even if we don't start today, that is the future of our world because by 2015 with the current rate of R&D in battery technology, solar voltaic technology, and the price of oil the price of solar power will reach parity with oil. Spend just an hour reading wikipedia and you'll be able to confirm everything I just said.
Not to mention the fact that since the whole process is only bound to get cheaper and cheaper we're all looking at what the nuclear age promised us 50 years ago: energy that's too cheap to meter. Once we cover a certain amount of land with solar panels and as they get replaced with new ones that are more efficient the power output per square meter will only increase. With such cheap energy other issues currently plaguing humanity become a simple matter of manufacture.... Imagine providing water to millions with gigantic desalination plants that are totally power by solar power. Maybe I'm being naive but the economy is totally based on scarcity. If scarcity were eliminated or made extremely abundant what would there be to fight over?
The next president will have to understand technology, the internet, and the economy to be able to drive the United States into this new economy that will eventually come. It's not a matter of if anymore, but when. All technologies required for this have a predictable innovation curve (just like moore's law with computer chips) so anyone who bothers to look it up will see it.
With that said, I urge everyone to please vote for the candidate that will support these fledgling economies and not just sit idly by waiting for them to do it on their own. The countries that support these initiatives now will be the ones controlling the world economy in the next century. So please, stop discussing this election in terms of who said what but in terms of what the candidates are attempting to do about our current situation.
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Every problem you described can be bad hardware too. How are you so sure?
Evidence please!!!!
Oh sorry I forgot to mention. Ability to track the status of the file upload would be a requirement. At the moment Flash is the only thing that supports it.
As long as I can keep using Prototype as a framework I'll be happy.
As for specific features. I'm looking forward to cleaner and easier to manager asyncronous AJAX. While the client requesting from server has been well thought out, the server sending to the client is still very patchy and not particularly easy to develop for.
It would be nice if I could create socket connections with AJAX to say IRC but still go over HTTP proxy.
I'd also like to see AJAX file uploads that don't have to run through Flash. I think FF3 supports this already.
The evidence presented is a web server log which shows an IP and the file requested.
It does not prove that a person actually clicked the link physically.
Therefore, the fact that any search warrant was granted on such flimsy, at best, evidence is pretty scary considering that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The Amendment reads as follows, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I did a search for more information because the CNET article in question implies that the FBI agents tackled him and arrested him without a warrant however an Inquirer article says,
In February, when FBI agents and local police arrived at his door with a search warrant, they acted cautiously, they testified, because they believed he legally owned a dozen or more weapons. Vosburgh didn't answer their knock. For the next 27 minutes, authorities tried to talk him into opening the door. When authorities finally entered the apartment, they said they found a computer pried open, its hard drive smashed into several parts, strewn elsewhere. They also found smashed thumb drives, one of which lay in the toilet, they said. On an external hard drive, they later recovered hundreds of legal adult pornography images and two illegal images of naked prepubescent girls, agents said. "The destruction was done that morning, during those 27 minutes," Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise S. Wolf told jurors during closing arguments. "You saw the broken pieces. Now it's time to put them all of them together." Vosburgh downloaded pornography "because he likes this stuff," Wolf said. "He's the bear going to the hunt." Defense lawyer Anna Durbin told jurors that Vosburgh, a former police dispatcher, was law-abiding. The government's case was flawed and based on poor science, she said. "There's no hard evidence that Mr. Vosburgh was after that stuff," Durbin said. The government "can't prove when he destroyed his hard drive."
By reading that we can easily see that, Yes, he did do what they say he did, however the original evidence for the warrant was no more then a line in a log which could be placed there any number of ways, mouse click or not.
You might say that he got what he deserved but under what pretext do we use evidence against a defendant that's flimsy? There are numerous more serious crimes I can cite where evidence was totally thrown out on the basis that the given reasons for the search warrant warrant were illegal.
I'm no lawyer but I'd say that if the actual warrant only shows an IP in a log as Probably Cause to conduct a raid then the raid in itself is illegal.
The whole case then comes down to this one question.
Is an IP address in a log file enough probable cause to receive a search warrant?
I have 15 mbit FIOS. That's 1920kb / second download speed.
20 TB is approx 21474836480 KB.
It would take me approx 517 hours or 21 days at best conditions. So ok... double it. I pay for two months. Pretty sweet deal.
What would stop me from getting an unlimited account for one month, downloading the entire iTunes catalog, and then canceling the service?
Even if they DRM the music I can still stream rip it. I mean after all, the data still has to be transmitted to me and stored on an iPod somehow.
It's only a matter of time before the issues are resolved and these babies start popping up all over the place. Free Internet everywhere! W00t!
lol
.NET Framework. Wikipedia is my primary example. :-)
.NET is really PHP vs ASP.NET and ASP.NET is actually a framework around the suite of .NET languages (ASP,JSP,C#,C++,and VB). So the comparison is a bit apples to oranges BUT while it is true that .NET can scale I believe that the LAMP stack, combined with Memcache can be more easily scaled with less hardware and less people bringing down costs. Plus, you'd be hard pressed to find a Microsoft trained .NET IT professional that actually knows what he's doing and isn't just another MS certified baboon.
You're fanboyism of PHP is much appreciated (as I am myself a PHP developer) but PHP is actually smaller. Don't be deceived. This is a GOOD thing. Less bloat = more performance. PHP + *SQL + Memcache will always pack more punch in a smaller package then the
Also I do have to point out that comparing PHP to
Anti-virus software is only as good as it's detection methods are. Since detection methods are usually only helpful for known viruses the likely hood of anti-virus software actually being helpful is minimal. Chances are that an update will fix the exploit in line with an update to your anti-virus software but alas, by then, it's too late. Then again Apple doesn't have a very good track record on issuing fast updates to combat known exploits.
The issue is no different on OSX, Linux, or Windows. They all have holes. You just need to give someone enough incentive to go stealing pieces of the pie. Windows just happens to have more of it.
It doesn't matter whether or not "most" people care or don't care.
The issue is that there isn't an overwhelming backlash from this expansion of surveillance power.
The sad part is that America is losing it's democracy without realizing it.
When FDR tried to pack the supreme court the United States Congress saw it for what it really was; the undermining of the checks and balances instituted to prevent abuse of power.
Today, I think, with great sadness if the same thing happened it would hardly be so adamantly opposed. Whichever party the President belongs to would simply support it to further their agenda.
and then watch the bill burn in a flame of un-enforceability. We can join with our 4chan brethren, sing cumbaya around the fire, and make marshmallows. :)
Pedobear not allowed. I don't want the FBI Party van showing up. Those damn bastards have no sense of fun...... I tried to spark a joint and the bastards tried to arrest me!
He's implying that because of the failure of some web communities in keeping out "drama" that the web will revert to a centralized editorial authority.
The problem is..... it's gonna happen the opposite way.
Wikipedia's next step is to make a functioning and bug free GUI for it's editor to increase the amount of people that edit.
This would increase the size of the governing pool of moderators. You could then do votes on the edits themselves and automate the process. Moderators would get slightly more weight then normal users cause there's a lot less of them. Then get the organizations of the various topics to become moderators on that topic or category. I'm sure if they actually reached out to scientific communities to help with cataloging things it would help on the site with fact checking. And to avoid floods from normal users (the 'wikiality' scenario made prudently clear by Colbert) you could simply look at ratio's of edits. If the ratio is way above other articles you know the normal users are flooding. Moderators aren't likely to flood something with 100,000 votes....
So basically the Internet is gonna see an evolution by more processing and calculating web applications that arise from Solid State Hard-drives, ridiculous amounts of memory, and multi core CPUs. Web applications that work on media are especially thriving from the hard drive market right now. Once SSD comes on the scene with cheaper drives and they replace normal disk hard drives the database intensive area of the code will suddenly have a lot more write capacity as read gets memcached and write has more time but is able to achieve an even faster write. Essentially this would allow anywhere from 5 to 10 times more writes at capacity then compared to today's "reasonable" setup for a 3k server. This would make it cheap for startups with ideas to actually experiment and create competition.
Back to the article though... "Revenge of the Experts". I guess being able to skip over a topic in a general format while sounding like you're explaining the most difficult thing in the world falls into the category of being an "expert". How can you expect people to explain the finer details of what and why in between commercials.
You can't vote from prison.
That's cheap for an entire school district. That's one teacher's salary for a decade.
1...maybe 2.....
Honestly.... 40,000 salary plus some benefits.
Cameras are cheap.
There needs to be a cause and effect for a government to justify this. In other words, this makes sense to fight crime in schools as these are inner city schools we're talking about but do we really expect inner city schools to be as bad as they are forever? There should be a clause advocating the removal of the cameras if the situation has improved for a long duration of time (say 2 years?). Otherwise it really does start a 1984 society and that's not good.
Actually I'm an Obama supported. It's way too late to run a none regulated government. It just has to be transparent which is why I support Obama. A wikified government is a government that can't be used against the people. "Employing technologies, including blogs, wikis and social networking tools, to modernize internal, cross-agency, and public communication and information sharing to improve government decision-making." See: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
That's what they all say until you get smacked in the head with injustice. Who you gonna cry to then?
If the founding fathers made it a right to own firearms, would they have done the same for the right to own and drive a car? These days our government preaches "privileges" instead of "rights". To what end?
This country is going down the tubes and here's why: No one cares enough. People are down right happy with their lives as they are and unless there's a large enough percentage of the population willing to openly revolt nothing is going to change.
We have hypocrisies after hypocrisies: Taxation without representation, suspension of habeas corpus, need I go on?
The people in power realize that the people won't stand for oppression so they allow a standard of living that's just good enough for 95% of the population and they are willing to throw away the other 5% because again, they realize it lets them maintain the status quo. 1984? Nah.... just a nanny, security state propped up by the same assholes who can't take responsibility for their own actions so they let the government move in and regulate everything.
So how does this tie into an "Internet Bill of Rights"? You have to make enough CARE to create a movement for anything. As for some rules.... lets start with just one for now..... Network Neutrality.
People don't happen to sit in a car for 8 hours a day, everyday, for years on end -- starting from the age of 8. Then tend to do that only with computers and TV. They are bound to learn a thing or two...
I think the opposite is true. Legal understand of technology will get better. As people who use the Internet on a daily basis (not IT pros but normal people) get out into other fields basic network understanding will be common.
In 50 years everyone will know HTML and BBCode (or the equivalent popular format of the day) because it will be used daily.