I agree with you that the solution, as a citizen, is to simply not break the law. But there is, of course, the larger question: at what point do we, as a society, say, "enough is enough" with the surveillance?
Here's a tip: the fuse that needs to be pulled in order to do a hard reset of the system every month or so requires you to have about 7 joints in your hand to get to.
I will say this: when it's working, it's awesome. But it was developed by / in conjunction with Microsoft.
You already get news and weather on your PC, your laptop, your phone, why can't a picture frame just be a picture frame?
In the OP's defense, though, it's a DIGITAL picture frame. When they first came out, I bet a lot of people said, "Why can't an analog picture frame just be an analog picture frame?" He's got something that probably does have other uses besides simply displaying pictures and all he did was ask if anyone has any other ideas.
Not quite sure why this became about bashing one party or another. That's the trouble, really. Forget the parties. They BOTH suck. Hard.
The Constitution is probably one of the most ingenious guides ever written and both parties use it and abuse it as they see fit. In fact, it's high time the People of New Hampshire, for example, get us started on the right path. From their state constitution:
Whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
So we need a Constitutional Amendment that calls for a vote 30 days after every new law is passed allowing a veto by the people (peto). Don't like the budget? Vote it down. Don't like th treaty? Peto it.
Actually....that's the reason the Federal government's power was [supposed to be] so limited. All the laws and regulations that REALLY affected John Q. Public's day-in-day-out life was supposed to be handled at the state (and even local) level. THAT way, the politician responsible for the act would at least have a chance of having to look Mr. Public in the eye after sticking it to him in the rear.
Note to potential downloaders: just steal the goods you want. You'll get off a lot lighter that way.
You know, I'm embarrassed to say I never thought about it this way. I've always been against the record companies, et. al. on this topic, but it's never really occurred to me how completely right you are.
In fact, there's almost zero chance, for a first offense, that you'll have to pay anything or even have any kind of punishment. I'd image you'd get some sort of suspended sentence that will be expunged if you keep your nose clean for a year.....
When a recent review for a Samsung tablet by an Android site says something like this I doubt it:
"The build quality. Terrible even by Samsung's low standards. The back is actually squishy, and you can feel it deform while holding it. It's noisy too, the plastic creaks, groans, and grinds when you pick it up. Regular, strong plastic would still be unacceptable when everyone else uses aluminum, but this... this is insulting for a $500 tablet"
I think this is one of the fundamental differences between iPhone owners and Android owners: I don't care as much about the aesthetics of the phone and what it's made of. Talk to me about what version of Android it's running and on what hardware. It's also why I wear my phone in a holster even though I know it's not "cool". It's functional....and that's why I have a smartphone in the first place.
I'm not suggesting that everyone who owns an iPhone is about fashion and looks, but there are certainly a good portion of iPhone owners I believe purchased the phone because it's the "in" thing.
LOL. I thought *I* was a Libertarian.
I get your slippery slope argument. But saying that a volunteer firefighter, for example, may park in my driveway while he's across the street putting out the fire in my neighbor's house or rescuing a cat from the tree is not a "slippery slope" to allowing police to search my house whenever they want to. Is it? And if it is, surely there's a better place to draw the line.
You guys need to re-read what I said. I suggested that a hardware switch be placed on routers that ALLOWS--at the router owner's discretion--first responders to make use of the equipment in emergency services. I did not say anything about forcing anyone to give up their liberty, etc.
...and I now COMPLETELY understand why volunteer rates across the country are dropping so substantially. Your data is more important than my personal safety. Wow.
I'm sorry. I was talking about MY LIFE being more valuable than anything on your computer. Give me your address, though, and I'll be sure to let the first responders in your community know that--in your house--you'd prefer they follow the "Property and THEN life" motto, contrary to everywhere else in the free world.
I'm certain they'll be fine with searching for your computer first and then your wife and kids.
As soon as some well meaning person starts suggesting this be built into routers, this opens you up for another vector to be hacked.
I think what really needs to happen is that the switch LITERALLY be a hardware switch. You, as the owner of the router and user of the network, should be allowed to decide whether you want to turn it on or not.
I would seriously be happy to open up another "vector to be hacked" to do good, in spite of the potential for abuse by hacker and, yes, first responders alike
Of course, I'm a volunteer firefighter and EMT, so I guess the "specter" of a hacking attack vector kinda pales in my mind to the specter of burning alive, etc., because my "narrow band" radio signal wasn't clear enough.
Here's the saddest part of that article: "Opponents of profiling say such methods could lead to religious or ethnic discrimination."
We, as Americans who love our rights and freedoms, will just not tolerate profiling or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, etc. And rightly so. But giving up other rights is just fine and dandy.
but sometimes "just build more towers" is much, much easier said than done.
Kinda makes you wonder why, from the big 4, only T-Mobile (at least in the US) has embraced WiFi Calling via UMA. After all, the costs to the telcos is MUCH cheaper than new towers.
Indeed. It boggles the mind as to why they finally fixed that feature, but still have not enabled simple file operations (copy / paste / rename / etc.) in the File Open and File Save dialogs. I can't tell you how pissed I get when I have to stop what I'm doing, open a Finder window and then navigate all over again to a location just to rename a folder, for example.
It's unclear whether they are Constitutional or whether anyone would follow orders to enforce them.
It's only unclear to people who are incapable of reading 4,500 or so words OR people living in Washington, DC. Everyone else knows they're unconstitutional.
I really wish everyone would stop making about whether we're nude or not.
The Fourth Amendment has NOTHING to do with the government preserving people's modesty. And EVERYTHING to do with protecting people from being stopped, harassed and searched without probably cause.
Why is it so easy for the public to be sidetracked? I swear, some days I think the government / media is better than David Copperfield with the slight-of-hand.
The only reason we're fucking around with 'cyber' warfare instead of curb stomping them is it's an election year and our economy is in ruins thanks to fighting two unnecessary wars based on our President deciding to finish what his daddy started rather than leave well enough alone, and our country having a momentary fit of stupidity where we had to kill everyone and everything wearing a funny hat because a couple of our sand castles got kicked over by a bully.
Seriously? I'm not here to defend Bush or Obama or....well...the U.S. government in general. But calling the events of September 11th "our sand castles getting kicked over" is just infuriating. Three thousand innocent people were murdered. You can debate whether it was all the fault of U.S. foreign policy or religion or whatever. But please don't equate the death of 3,000 innocents to a bully kicking over a sand castle.
Why is it that what humans do seems never to be classified as "natural", though? Either we're part of nature or we're not.
I've always found it rather arrogant of us to think that Nature won't figure out a way for us (or our descendants or some other species' descendants) to survive long after we're worm food.
Bah. This sounds like the nonsense twenty years ago about how evil Christopher Columbus was.
The native American Indians in general were not "nicer". It's just their technology wasn't quite what Columbus had. So, in short, if the Indians had possessed guns and boats, they'd have "discovered" Europe.
If the people of Virginia don't get a specific answer, then I think it's fair for them to deny the proposal on a variety of grounds.
What do you mean by "the people of Virginia"? Don't forget: corporations are now people, too. And how, exactly, do they oppose this? After all, if they're against it, they must be hiding something, right?
It really is amazing how right the "tin foil hat people" have been all along. Equally amazing is how quickly the madness (i.e. the all-out assault on, and destruction of, the Constitution) is accelerating......
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Rights are given by the government. If marriage gives you extra rights, then the government says what those are.
Rights are given by the government? You need to take a civics class.
Civics classes aside, the OP must have just observed what's been going on lately at local airports, for example.
I agree with you that the solution, as a citizen, is to simply not break the law. But there is, of course, the larger question: at what point do we, as a society, say, "enough is enough" with the surveillance?
Not many people enter a casino once a week to play exactly one round, as it is with lotteries.
You must not have heard of Quick Draw. Here in New York, there's a new game every 3 minutes.
Ha! You've clearly not actually USED Sync.
Here's a tip: the fuse that needs to be pulled in order to do a hard reset of the system every month or so requires you to have about 7 joints in your hand to get to.
I will say this: when it's working, it's awesome. But it was developed by / in conjunction with Microsoft.
You already get news and weather on your PC, your laptop, your phone, why can't a picture frame just be a picture frame?
In the OP's defense, though, it's a DIGITAL picture frame. When they first came out, I bet a lot of people said, "Why can't an analog picture frame just be an analog picture frame?" He's got something that probably does have other uses besides simply displaying pictures and all he did was ask if anyone has any other ideas.
In the spirit of Halloween, I give you this.
Not quite sure why this became about bashing one party or another. That's the trouble, really. Forget the parties. They BOTH suck. Hard.
The Constitution is probably one of the most ingenious guides ever written and both parties use it and abuse it as they see fit. In fact, it's high time the People of New Hampshire, for example, get us started on the right path. From their state constitution:
Whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
So we need a Constitutional Amendment that calls for a vote 30 days after every new law is passed allowing a veto by the people (peto). Don't like the budget? Vote it down. Don't like th treaty? Peto it.
Actually....that's the reason the Federal government's power was [supposed to be] so limited. All the laws and regulations that REALLY affected John Q. Public's day-in-day-out life was supposed to be handled at the state (and even local) level. THAT way, the politician responsible for the act would at least have a chance of having to look Mr. Public in the eye after sticking it to him in the rear.
Ah....the Constitution....what a great idea.
Note to potential downloaders: just steal the goods you want. You'll get off a lot lighter that way.
You know, I'm embarrassed to say I never thought about it this way. I've always been against the record companies, et. al. on this topic, but it's never really occurred to me how completely right you are. In fact, there's almost zero chance, for a first offense, that you'll have to pay anything or even have any kind of punishment. I'd image you'd get some sort of suspended sentence that will be expunged if you keep your nose clean for a year.....
When a recent review for a Samsung tablet by an Android site says something like this I doubt it :
"The build quality. Terrible even by Samsung's low standards. The back is actually squishy, and you can feel it deform while holding it. It's noisy too, the plastic creaks, groans, and grinds when you pick it up. Regular, strong plastic would still be unacceptable when everyone else uses aluminum, but this... this is insulting for a $500 tablet"
I think this is one of the fundamental differences between iPhone owners and Android owners: I don't care as much about the aesthetics of the phone and what it's made of. Talk to me about what version of Android it's running and on what hardware. It's also why I wear my phone in a holster even though I know it's not "cool". It's functional....and that's why I have a smartphone in the first place.
I'm not suggesting that everyone who owns an iPhone is about fashion and looks, but there are certainly a good portion of iPhone owners I believe purchased the phone because it's the "in" thing.
LOL. I thought *I* was a Libertarian. I get your slippery slope argument. But saying that a volunteer firefighter, for example, may park in my driveway while he's across the street putting out the fire in my neighbor's house or rescuing a cat from the tree is not a "slippery slope" to allowing police to search my house whenever they want to. Is it? And if it is, surely there's a better place to draw the line.
You guys need to re-read what I said. I suggested that a hardware switch be placed on routers that ALLOWS--at the router owner's discretion--first responders to make use of the equipment in emergency services. I did not say anything about forcing anyone to give up their liberty, etc.
...and I now COMPLETELY understand why volunteer rates across the country are dropping so substantially. Your data is more important than my personal safety. Wow.
I'm sorry. I was talking about MY LIFE being more valuable than anything on your computer. Give me your address, though, and I'll be sure to let the first responders in your community know that--in your house--you'd prefer they follow the "Property and THEN life" motto, contrary to everywhere else in the free world.
I'm certain they'll be fine with searching for your computer first and then your wife and kids.
As soon as some well meaning person starts suggesting this be built into routers, this opens you up for another vector to be hacked.
I think what really needs to happen is that the switch LITERALLY be a hardware switch. You, as the owner of the router and user of the network, should be allowed to decide whether you want to turn it on or not.
I would seriously be happy to open up another "vector to be hacked" to do good, in spite of the potential for abuse by hacker and, yes, first responders alike
Of course, I'm a volunteer firefighter and EMT, so I guess the "specter" of a hacking attack vector kinda pales in my mind to the specter of burning alive, etc., because my "narrow band" radio signal wasn't clear enough.
Freedom of religion comes to this in their eyes: we're free to agree with them. That's it.
Hmmm....funny. That's how most "religious" people feel about the LGBT movement.
In Israel? Zero. And they do not have the TSA, and find them quite laughable. http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/November/Israeli-Security-Expert-TSA-Procedures-Hysterical/
Here's the saddest part of that article: "Opponents of profiling say such methods could lead to religious or ethnic discrimination."
We, as Americans who love our rights and freedoms, will just not tolerate profiling or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, etc. And rightly so. But giving up other rights is just fine and dandy.
Absolutely depressing.
but sometimes "just build more towers" is much, much easier said than done.
Kinda makes you wonder why, from the big 4, only T-Mobile (at least in the US) has embraced WiFi Calling via UMA. After all, the costs to the telcos is MUCH cheaper than new towers.
Oh....wait. I think I understand: There's no profit in it.
Indeed. It boggles the mind as to why they finally fixed that feature, but still have not enabled simple file operations (copy / paste / rename / etc.) in the File Open and File Save dialogs. I can't tell you how pissed I get when I have to stop what I'm doing, open a Finder window and then navigate all over again to a location just to rename a folder, for example.
It's unclear whether they are Constitutional or whether anyone would follow orders to enforce them.
It's only unclear to people who are incapable of reading 4,500 or so words OR people living in Washington, DC. Everyone else knows they're unconstitutional.
I really wish everyone would stop making about whether we're nude or not.
The Fourth Amendment has NOTHING to do with the government preserving people's modesty. And EVERYTHING to do with protecting people from being stopped, harassed and searched without probably cause.
Why is it so easy for the public to be sidetracked? I swear, some days I think the government / media is better than David Copperfield with the slight-of-hand.
Forget the fact that they're pushing customers away, etc.
Who is granting patents for OMISSIONS of inventions. It's like me patenting a PB&J without the peanut butter. I'm a genius!
The only reason we're fucking around with 'cyber' warfare instead of curb stomping them is it's an election year and our economy is in ruins thanks to fighting two unnecessary wars based on our President deciding to finish what his daddy started rather than leave well enough alone, and our country having a momentary fit of stupidity where we had to kill everyone and everything wearing a funny hat because a couple of our sand castles got kicked over by a bully.
Seriously? I'm not here to defend Bush or Obama or....well...the U.S. government in general. But calling the events of September 11th "our sand castles getting kicked over" is just infuriating. Three thousand innocent people were murdered. You can debate whether it was all the fault of U.S. foreign policy or religion or whatever. But please don't equate the death of 3,000 innocents to a bully kicking over a sand castle.
Why is it that what humans do seems never to be classified as "natural", though? Either we're part of nature or we're not.
I've always found it rather arrogant of us to think that Nature won't figure out a way for us (or our descendants or some other species' descendants) to survive long after we're worm food.
Bah. This sounds like the nonsense twenty years ago about how evil Christopher Columbus was.
The native American Indians in general were not "nicer". It's just their technology wasn't quite what Columbus had. So, in short, if the Indians had possessed guns and boats, they'd have "discovered" Europe.
If the people of Virginia don't get a specific answer, then I think it's fair for them to deny the proposal on a variety of grounds.
What do you mean by "the people of Virginia"? Don't forget: corporations are now people, too. And how, exactly, do they oppose this? After all, if they're against it, they must be hiding something, right?
It really is amazing how right the "tin foil hat people" have been all along. Equally amazing is how quickly the madness (i.e. the all-out assault on, and destruction of, the Constitution) is accelerating......