"Either overtly, or in practice, this demand for private surveillance powers would cover them putting spyware on my machine; but not my putting spyware on their machines...."
There's already spyware on your machine, it's called Anti Virus software:)
"...given the serious topic, but this is IMHO another typical case of American fantasy: a war without casualties. I mean, without American casualties, of course. Wishful thinking, whatever technologies you throw at the problem"
This bares similarity to another war where they tried to fight it from the safely of helicopters, and similar to this one they will also lose it. But then again it isn't really about fighting some tribesmen in Afghanistan, but about extending the boundaries of the US empire and spending lots of money on the military budget. Especially since there is no longer some Soviet bogeyman around to save us all from. What's wrong with these Islamo-fascists that they don't want the sex-&-drugs-&-rock-&-roll and porn American life style.
".. the site.. is operated by evangelical Christians.."
Which site, the only ones referenced to are hreoc.gov.au which states "are an independent statutory organisation and report to the federal Parliament through the Attorney-General".
"If the document mentioned in the article is truthful, Scientology practitioners have been subjected to criminal activities such as harassment and physical attacks. If so, perpetrators of those acts should be prosecuted under existing law"
What do you mean "IF", they are obviously making it up. Oh the fucking irony of the "church" of CODology complaining about harassment.
"Since January 2008, the Church of Scientology has been subjected to a continuing campaign of violence and abuse from a hate group calling themselves 'Anonymous'. This entity has been described as a group of "cyber terrorists" as its actions have previously focused on Internet harassment and other crimes. However, in the last 13 months they have also (i.e. as well as their internet based assaults) committed acts of harassment and criminal offences "in real life" against the Church, its members and Church property.
Anonymous members have made numerous bomb threats, arson threats and committed acts of vandalism against Scientology churches. They have made harassing phone calls, sent vulgar and threatening faxes and e-mails, painted graffiti, posted threats on the Internet and publicly threatened to kill Scientologists engaged in religious services. They have also targeted the children of Scientologists in a local school where they have taunted children whilst wearing masks.
I do believe you're a diehard linux fan... I really do:]
"... I'm frankly getting sick of the FSF. This latest stupid campaign reads like it was written by some petulant teenager without the first clue as to the realities of life"
I take it you that you don't disagree that the following is an accurate depiction of Microsoft practices.
Poisoning education, Invading privacy, Monopoly behavior, Lock-in, Abusing standards, Enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), Threatening user security...
"and it tars the rest of us who support (and in my case actually write) OSS with the same idiotic uncompromising brush"
That would be speaking only for yourself and what OSS have you contributed to ?
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'It's not trolling if your patent truly covers an innovation, and your competitors copy it. In this case it's called "protecting your rights"'
Apart from the accusation that Dish illegally copied TiVo technology. I would have assumed that there were any number of methods of pausing, rewinding, and recording live television on digital video recorders. A PC, a tuner card, a dual head harddrive, and two instances of FFMPEG..
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"I would also add that Poland is often seen in Europe as our Texas"
First off, there is no "Europe" to belong to that anyone here would identify with as compared to the United States. In fact we don't even give Poland a seconds thought. Are you sure you're really from "Europe" ???
they are fervently catholic, anti-gay, anti-abortion, and in favor of death penalty (despite it being abolished on all EU). Sorry AC, I know all Poles are not like that, but your leadership really doesn't make Poland the most sexy country to be in when you don't obey the Pope's commands. -- The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
Obviously the blogger wasn't very anonymous if the abusee could so easily find out her real identity. And if you are going to abuse someone else online than at least have the gumption of using someone elses account, preferably on their home computer - that way they'll get the blame...
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"It looks almost as if they publicized the whole PB deal just to inflate the shares of the company, and then one by one leave the company (with the proceeds in their pockets maybe?)... Classical case of Enron-itis"
Pure speculation on your half and Enron was never about falsely inflating the stock but outright fraud as in they cooked up fake trades that were actually between subsidiaries of Enron, a classic shell game.
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"Gary McKinnon has lost the judicial review of his case, dealing a potentially fatal blow to his hopes of avoiding extradition to the US"
It's ironic that if the situation were reversed and under the 'evidence; presented in this case, the UK government would have no way of getting McKinnon extradited here. I guess we're not a real country ane'ways..:)
"Sophos's survey of 550 IT professionals found that 71% believe McKinnon should not be extradited"
What exactly was asked in this 'survey', how were the questions phrased, what questions were asked before the one on McKinnon, why would it matter that they were 'IT professionals' considering that the hack McKinnon did consisted of logging into passwordless Windows NT computers and typing rude msgs (in wordpad) to the administrator
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"Either overtly, or in practice, this demand for private surveillance powers would cover them putting spyware on my machine; but not my putting spyware on their machines...."
:)
There's already spyware on your machine, it's called Anti Virus software
"...given the serious topic, but this is IMHO another typical case of American fantasy: a war without casualties. I mean, without American casualties, of course. Wishful thinking, whatever technologies you throw at the problem"
This bares similarity to another war where they tried to fight it from the safely of helicopters, and similar to this one they will also lose it. But then again it isn't really about fighting some tribesmen in Afghanistan, but about extending the boundaries of the US empire and spending lots of money on the military budget. Especially since there is no longer some Soviet bogeyman around to save us all from. What's wrong with these Islamo-fascists that they don't want the sex-&-drugs-&-rock-&-roll and porn American life style.
Does anyone here who posted on the subject, know what the fuck they are on about. And can we really believe the published reports ..
".. the site .. is operated by evangelical Christians .."
Which site, the only ones referenced to are hreoc.gov.au which states "are an independent statutory organisation and report to the federal Parliament through the Attorney-General".
Are you sure you're not the real elRON (clearness be upon him) ?
"If the document mentioned in the article is truthful, Scientology practitioners have been subjected to criminal activities such as harassment and physical attacks. If so, perpetrators of those acts should be prosecuted under existing law"
What do you mean "IF", they are obviously making it up. Oh the fucking irony of the "church" of CODology complaining about harassment.
"Since January 2008, the Church of Scientology has been subjected to a continuing campaign of violence and abuse from a hate group calling themselves 'Anonymous'. This entity has been described as a group of "cyber terrorists" as its actions have previously focused on Internet harassment and other crimes. However, in the last 13 months they have also (i.e. as well as their internet based assaults) committed acts of harassment and criminal offences "in real life" against the Church, its members and Church property.
Anonymous members have made numerous bomb threats, arson threats and committed acts of vandalism against Scientology churches. They have made harassing phone calls, sent vulgar and threatening faxes and e-mails, painted graffiti, posted threats on the Internet and publicly threatened to kill Scientologists engaged in religious services. They have also targeted the children of Scientologists in a local school where they have taunted children whilst wearing masks.
"[The researchers] found ads displayed along with violent scenes to be more memorable to players than those shown with nonviolent content"
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Dilbert on "Industry Standards"
I do believe you're a diehard linux fan... I really do :]
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"... I'm frankly getting sick of the FSF. This latest stupid campaign reads like it was written by some petulant teenager without the first clue as to the realities of life"
I take it you that you don't disagree that the following is an accurate depiction of Microsoft practices.
Poisoning education, Invading privacy, Monopoly behavior, Lock-in, Abusing standards, Enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), Threatening user security
"and it tars the rest of us who support (and in my case actually write) OSS with the same idiotic uncompromising brush"
That would be speaking only for yourself and what OSS have you contributed to ?
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Bill Gates' hurricane stopper
"I now no longer believe the FUD from the freetard cr .."
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I stopped reading past the 'freetard' comment
'i went to see that page and i found it really horrible. the layout is not professional at all'
;)
The use of the lower case first-person singular is a nice touch
"The end product was essentially a vending machine that links to correctional facility databases and dispenses prescription medications"
We've already got that here. It's known as the NHS, only the 'medications dispensers' are called doctors and it's they that do the typing.
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Bill Gates' hurricane stopper
Why doesn't it come with an up-to-date anti-virus utility like most modern innovative operating systems?
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Bill Gates' hurricane stopper
'It's not trolling if your patent truly covers an innovation, and your competitors copy it. In this case it's called "protecting your rights"'
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Apart from the accusation that Dish illegally copied TiVo technology. I would have assumed that there were any number of methods of pausing, rewinding, and recording live television on digital video recorders. A PC, a tuner card, a dual head harddrive, and two instances of FFMPEG
Bill Gates' hurricane stopper
"We call such limitations, antifeatures. An antifeature is functionality that a technology developer will charge users to not include"
"I would also add that Poland is often seen in Europe as our Texas"
First off, there is no "Europe" to belong to that anyone here would identify with as compared to the United States. In fact we don't even give Poland a seconds thought. Are you sure you're really from "Europe" ???
they are fervently catholic, anti-gay, anti-abortion, and in favor of death penalty (despite it being abolished on all EU). Sorry AC, I know all Poles are not like that, but your leadership really doesn't make Poland the most sexy country to be in when you don't obey the Pope's commands.
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The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
Couldn't they have just made him 'whiter' ? White Obama Senator Obama
Couldn't they have made the new guy the same color as his hands ?
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score:5 interesting ????
"Linux is for real work and Windows is for gaming"
NO, Linux is for real work, Games Consoles are for gaming and Windows is for swearing at !
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Citibank Hack Blamed for Alleged ATM Crime Spree"
Hackers breach Heartland Payment credit card system
Jaws
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Citibank Hack Blamed for Alleged ATM Crime Spree"
Hackers breach Heartland Payment credit card system
Obviously the blogger wasn't very anonymous if the abusee could so easily find out her real identity. And if you are going to abuse someone else online than at least have the gumption of using someone elses account, preferably on their home computer - that way they'll get the blame ...
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Citibank Hack Blamed for Alleged ATM Crime Spree"
Hackers breach Heartland Payment credit card system
"It looks almost as if they publicized the whole PB deal just to inflate the shares of the company, and then one by one leave the company (with the proceeds in their pockets maybe?)... Classical case of Enron-itis"
Pure speculation on your half and Enron was never about falsely inflating the stock but outright fraud as in they cooked up fake trades that were actually between subsidiaries of Enron, a classic shell game.
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Citibank Hack Blamed for Alleged ATM Crime Spree">
Hackers breach Heartland Payment credit card system
"Gary McKinnon has lost the judicial review of his case, dealing a potentially fatal blow to his hopes of avoiding extradition to the US" It's ironic that if the situation were reversed and under the 'evidence; presented in this case, the UK government would have no way of getting McKinnon extradited here. I guess we're not a real country ane'ways .. :)
"Sophos's survey of 550 IT professionals found that 71% believe McKinnon should not be extradited"
What exactly was asked in this 'survey', how were the questions phrased, what questions were asked before the one on McKinnon, why would it matter that they were 'IT professionals' considering that the hack McKinnon did consisted of logging into passwordless Windows NT computers and typing rude msgs (in wordpad) to the administrator
"how the fuck can slashtards look at the complete and utter failure of the patent office and want the same morons running your healthcare???"
How the fuck do you equate critics of the US patent office with supporters of a federally funded health care system?