Hey everybody, gather round! It's the Privacy Song!
I don't have no privacy,
neither do you...
The government is watching us
and Wal-Mart's watching, too.
Your doctor keeps your urine
for to clone your DNA.
Those albums that you bought last night -
well, now they know you're gay!
Interpol has got a file on you,
so does the FBI.
McDonald's scans your face
and there's a chip in your french fry.
You're scanned, recorded, sold and sorted
to a database in the sky.
So whatever you do
when they're talking to you
for Gods' sakes, lie!
Lie, lie, lie lie lie...
Lie about your income,
your age, gender and race.
Spell your name incorrectly
so it's harder to trace.
We can beat them back with bullshit,
we can rub it in their face.
We can stick a big old monkey wrench
right up their database.
Lie lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie lie...
You see now, Wal-Mart thinks I'm a seventy-five year old pensioner
and Sony thinks I'm a single mother of ten.
The airline company thinks I make seven hundred grand a year
and Visa thinks I'm an Inuit woman named Ben.
Lie lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie lie...
You can lie to the man,
you can lie right through your tooth.
They can take away our privacy,
but they can't have the truth!
Lie about your favorite drink,
your viewing habits and the color of your sink.
Make up a phone number,
make up a postal code.
If we all lie together,
their computer might explode.
Lie lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie lie...
So come on, everybody, let's beat those privacy-invading bastards!
Let's beat them with disinformation and organized chaos! Let's crash
that computer, let's skew those statistics! Because let's face it,
there's only one magical person who knows all our secrets... and if
Santa ever does sell his database, we're all screwed.
IMHO, insurance is futile, you are better off hiring the best legal help you can find. If you are doing something that important you should consult with an IP law specialists about protecting your IP before you even start the project. Contrary to what most people believe the top law firms do a lot of pro bono work and are open to flexible payment arrangements. As someone with quite a bit of experience in the world of IP protection (I mean legal, not just firewalls), I can recommend the following law firms for IP protection pertaining to software, e-commerce and the Internet in general:
For further details on those law firms check out the largest 250 law firms in the U.S. Oh and I am in no way affiliated with any of those firms, of course.
What is the difference between Microsoft's Nick McGrath and
Jeffrey Lee Parsons, the teen who got sentenced to 18 months in jail for releasing a variant of the Blaster worm? They look alike, use Microsoft operating systems for their evil deeds and they are both criminals, the only difference is that McGrath is not going to end up in jail for bogus claims and slander, at that level it's called marketing.
For my Shop Rite card here in NJ they ask to see a drivers license or some form of ID. Same with a couple of the other ones I signed up for.
They have a right as well as a duty to ask for some official form of ID only when you're buying alcohol or firearms. When they ask you for some form of ID at some supermarket just ask them politely to tell you which law authorizes them to demand such personal information and then just smile and that will be the end of that in most cases. You do not want to handle such situations as if you were some kind of terrorist, just be polite and friendly, yet decisive.
One of the alternatives is to get a fake library or some other type of card and present that card pretending that it was the first card you could find (as if you misplaced your driver's license). People who check those IDs don't even care what's on the ID as long as the info is consistent. They don't even know why they are doing what they're doing, so you can just make some authentic-looking self-made club card. Sunday Book Club, Garden Club, whatever, as long as it's not Slashdot Club, they'll call the cops on you in that case. You don't have to put a photo on the card if you don't want to, just make sure the card is laminated, that will make it appear authentic enough for people not to bother asking for some other type of ID. Oh and avoid being too creative with the card design, people tend to get interested in joining clubs with pretty club membership cards. You wouldn't believe how many sales clerks have asked me about joining a certain Garden Art Club after seeing my overly artistic club card!
use aliases for loyalty cards (a different one for each card)
swap loyalty cards with your friends on a regular basis
always pay cash
That's what my friends (greetings to fellow Cowherd members) and I do. Supermarkets are not authorized to verify the authenticity of the personal information you fill in when applying for their loyalty cards, so they have no right to demand that you reveal your true identity to them even if they suspect it's bogus.
Reality check - Steve vs. Linus
on
Microsoft in 2008
·
· Score: 2, Funny
Back then, my revenge was to sneak up on Steve's Longtime friends and whisper in my best accent, "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile." They hated that.
For some reason I think that conflict between Steve and Linus would go down like this:
Linus: "Steve, I just don't like your idea, honestly I think it -"
Steve: "You... don't like... my idea? *closing in on Linus*"
Linus: "Oh, come on... We are the Borg, we -"
Steve: "OOO OOO OOOAAA *jumps on Linus and squashes him like a pumpkin, then does his little psychotic monkey dance* I am the Borg, I AM the Borg!!! Give it up for meeee, yeah!!!"
Later that day...
Bill: "Steve, another accident?"
Steve: "*shrugs* *can't help smiling*"
Bill: "You think this is funny?!"
Steve: "*his smile turns into a crazy stare*"
Bill: "No, I didn't mean it like that *grin*, it's really no big deal... Uhh, I mean..."
Steve: "*closing in on Bill*"
Due to extremely graphic violence *shrieks of what appears to be a woman being dismembered by a gorilla can be heard in the background* the following scene has been removed from this broadcast, however you can find it on the Steve: Crushing My Crust Soft DVD.
Oh please no, not another Linux distro, there really is no reason to have as many distros as there are penguins in the world! We're running out of penguins!
Citing the 'unusual' hires of Rob Pike (from Bell labs), Ben Goodger, and Darin Fisher (both from Mozilla) and the acquisition of the gbrowser.com domain, Dvorak speculates that a Firefox based Google browser and Google-OS may soon be coming to a cluster near you.
No, you're wrong. Here is the real reason Google hired those guys. For all of you who intend to apply for a job at Google here's a little hint, expect to be asked where do Daring Fishers Rob Pikes and Good Badgers Fire Bad Foxes.
Also, if your name happens to be Lucius Esox go ahead and apply for a job, they'll hire you on the spot.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't worry, there is a guy who is going to help them keep the cost to a minimum.
The Privacy Song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie can be our anthem:
Hey everybody, gather round! It's the Privacy Song!
I don't have no privacy,
neither do you...
The government is watching us
and Wal-Mart's watching, too.
Your doctor keeps your urine
for to clone your DNA.
Those albums that you bought last night -
well, now they know you're gay!
Interpol has got a file on you,
so does the FBI.
McDonald's scans your face
and there's a chip in your french fry.
You're scanned, recorded, sold and sorted
to a database in the sky.
So whatever you do
when they're talking to you
for Gods' sakes, lie!
Lie, lie, lie lie lie...
Lie about your income,
your age, gender and race.
Spell your name incorrectly
so it's harder to trace.
We can beat them back with bullshit,
we can rub it in their face.
We can stick a big old monkey wrench
right up their database.
Lie lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie lie...
You see now, Wal-Mart thinks I'm a seventy-five year old pensioner
and Sony thinks I'm a single mother of ten.
The airline company thinks I make seven hundred grand a year
and Visa thinks I'm an Inuit woman named Ben.
Lie lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie lie...
You can lie to the man,
you can lie right through your tooth.
They can take away our privacy,
but they can't have the truth!
Lie about your favorite drink,
your viewing habits and the color of your sink.
Make up a phone number,
make up a postal code.
If we all lie together,
their computer might explode.
Lie lie lie lie...
Lie lie lie lie...
So come on, everybody, let's beat those privacy-invading bastards!
Let's beat them with disinformation and organized chaos! Let's crash
that computer, let's skew those statistics! Because let's face it,
there's only one magical person who knows all our secrets... and if
Santa ever does sell his database, we're all screwed.
IMHO, insurance is futile, you are better off hiring the best legal help you can find. If you are doing something that important you should consult with an IP law specialists about protecting your IP before you even start the project. Contrary to what most people believe the top law firms do a lot of pro bono work and are open to flexible payment arrangements. As someone with quite a bit of experience in the world of IP protection (I mean legal, not just firewalls), I can recommend the following law firms for IP protection pertaining to software, e-commerce and the Internet in general:
For further details on those law firms check out the largest 250 law firms in the U.S. Oh and I am in no way affiliated with any of those firms, of course.
I already said what I think about Dual Core processors (comment ID=11313371)... You can tell it was me by the 13371 comment ID, of course.
What is the difference between Microsoft's Nick McGrath and Jeffrey Lee Parsons, the teen who got sentenced to 18 months in jail for releasing a variant of the Blaster worm? They look alike, use Microsoft operating systems for their evil deeds and they are both criminals, the only difference is that McGrath is not going to end up in jail for bogus claims and slander, at that level it's called marketing.
by Anonymous Cowherd X (850136) on Saturday January 29, @09:31AM (#11513371)
Check out that number: I-is-leet-1! Dude, are you one of the editors??? This can't be a coincidence!?
I'm not one of the editors! But after setting the record for most consecutive Slashdot posts yesterday and posting this I-is-leet-1 post (which is also the first post, BTW) I know you find that hard to believe.
The first release, in May 2002, consisted only of a blue screen
So they made a Windows version first?
For my Shop Rite card here in NJ they ask to see a drivers license or some form of ID. Same with a couple of the other ones I signed up for.
They have a right as well as a duty to ask for some official form of ID only when you're buying alcohol or firearms. When they ask you for some form of ID at some supermarket just ask them politely to tell you which law authorizes them to demand such personal information and then just smile and that will be the end of that in most cases. You do not want to handle such situations as if you were some kind of terrorist, just be polite and friendly, yet decisive.
One of the alternatives is to get a fake library or some other type of card and present that card pretending that it was the first card you could find (as if you misplaced your driver's license). People who check those IDs don't even care what's on the ID as long as the info is consistent. They don't even know why they are doing what they're doing, so you can just make some authentic-looking self-made club card. Sunday Book Club, Garden Club, whatever, as long as it's not Slashdot Club, they'll call the cops on you in that case. You don't have to put a photo on the card if you don't want to, just make sure the card is laminated, that will make it appear authentic enough for people not to bother asking for some other type of ID. Oh and avoid being too creative with the card design, people tend to get interested in joining clubs with pretty club membership cards. You wouldn't believe how many sales clerks have asked me about joining a certain Garden Art Club after seeing my overly artistic club card!
That's what my friends (greetings to fellow Cowherd members) and I do. Supermarkets are not authorized to verify the authenticity of the personal information you fill in when applying for their loyalty cards, so they have no right to demand that you reveal your true identity to them even if they suspect it's bogus.
Back then, my revenge was to sneak up on Steve's Longtime friends and whisper in my best accent, "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile." They hated that.
For some reason I think that conflict between Steve and Linus would go down like this:
Linus: "Steve, I just don't like your idea, honestly I think it -"
Steve: "You... don't like... my idea? *closing in on Linus*"
Linus: "Oh, come on... We are the Borg, we -"
Steve: "OOO OOO OOOAAA *jumps on Linus and squashes him like a pumpkin, then does his little psychotic monkey dance* I am the Borg, I AM the Borg!!! Give it up for meeee, yeah!!!"
Later that day...
Bill: "Steve, another accident?"
Steve: "*shrugs* *can't help smiling*"
Bill: "You think this is funny?!"
Steve: "*his smile turns into a crazy stare*"
Bill: "No, I didn't mean it like that *grin*, it's really no big deal... Uhh, I mean..."
Steve: "*closing in on Bill*"
Due to extremely graphic violence *shrieks of what appears to be a woman being dismembered by a gorilla can be heard in the background* the following scene has been removed from this broadcast, however you can find it on the Steve: Crushing My Crust Soft DVD.
If you were half a man, you'd have a script for that. Shame on you ;-)
I don't have a subscription to Slashdot. ;)
To keep this series of posts at least a bit less off-topic: the codename for ArchLinux 0.7 beta is Wombat.
I wonder if the universe would implode if I posted 42 consecutive posts, hmm...
99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer...
On the 1st day of Christmas...
*yawn*
OK, OK, I'll stop, just one more... Does anyone know what the record for most consecutive Slashdot posts is?
You just ruined my most-consecutive-Slashdot-posts record attempt, you insensitive clod!
Maybe I should tell a funny story in the 7th post?
This is a once in a lifetime kind of opportunity, so don't mod me down too much. :)
Man, who would've thought it would get so predictable here. 3d post.
Oh please no, not another Linux distro, there really is no reason to have as many distros as there are penguins in the world! We're running out of penguins!
Citing the 'unusual' hires of Rob Pike (from Bell labs), Ben Goodger, and Darin Fisher (both from Mozilla) and the acquisition of the gbrowser.com domain, Dvorak speculates that a Firefox based Google browser and Google-OS may soon be coming to a cluster near you.
No, you're wrong. Here is the real reason Google hired those guys. For all of you who intend to apply for a job at Google here's a little hint, expect to be asked where do Daring Fishers Rob Pikes and Good Badgers Fire Bad Foxes.
Also, if your name happens to be Lucius Esox go ahead and apply for a job, they'll hire you on the spot.
This release is probably nice, but I think I'll wait until the Giddy Groundhog release to give Ubuntu a try.
First post with Lynx!
And your last post here, you hax0r, you!