Simple communication privacy pales in comparison to banks sharing your financial information with credit agencies, utilities which require a social-security number in order to provide power and water, medical insurance companies sharing your medical history with each other to make sure you're not insurable if you get sick, homeowners insurance companies colluding to put all your private claims information in the global CLUE database to make sure you never file claims, lest you'll never be insured again.
At least arbitrary communications can be encrypted and you can actively fight for your privacy. The bigger problem is corporatism selling your privacy as these companies operate above the law and government that supports them.
Get the FMA Copilot which uses the horizon (infrared) as a spacial reference. A GPS can be used in conjunction with this to provide a bearing with waypoints. A 30-dollar gyro can also be used (they're standard with every RC helicopter) to maintain proper roll attitude. These setups are used in conjunction with stanard RC equipment. They can take over if the transmitter signal is lost and return to origin. The one thing all this cannot do is safely land the aircraft -- that still takes a human behind the transmitter.
--edfardos
http://sierraglider.com/ RC Aerial Photography
This could seriously lead to legislation that outlaws encryption. Until now, encryption hasn't hurt corporate profits. I expect the Honorable Senator from Disney to make encryption, and by extension, VPN, illegal.
--edfardos
Okay, continue that thought, say Microsoft gets a judgment against you. Then what? nothing. You don't have to pay. The government doesn't force you to pay. Worst case Microsoft sells the judgment to a collections agency, they get nothing, and you get a phone call every week. The US judicial system only enforces the law for corporations and the rich who subsidies the political system.
okay, on the lighter side, they must have used Excel to calculate the severance eh?:)
Go ahead and implement your ideas which will create products and save your company. But please put an equal amount of time into convincing others that Management thought of it first and all your results were the consequences of their great decisions.
Facial recognition software cannot recognize smiling faces.
New TSA bulletin indicates all smiling travelers should be treated with suspicion, as they're trying to defeat recognition software.
--edfardos
...as opposed to large firms like Dell, which must also balance marketing and other considerations [like environmental health, worker safety, taxes, social security, living wages].
Just send it to China!
--edfardos
You want an old spruce tree that's been growing in the shade in a mineral-rich soil. Our "renewable" forests don't provide this wood. The wood is so rare, that it's profitable to dredge rivers for sunken logs lost during the gold rush and sell them to luthiers (guitar makers).
--edfardos
what they really need are diseases, taxes, weapons, bureaucracy, building permits, zoning laws, religion, and gay marriage. I staggers the imagination that they've survived this long without it!
can these by dropped by helicopter?
--edfardos
Another Huge comPany recently did this - it's simply a pump and dump scheme for short-term profits and artificial stock inflation.
Tell all employees they cannot telework
If enough employees quit, goto done
else
Tell all employees they must work out of one of 25 cities
if enough employees quit, goto done
else
Tell all employees they must now work in one city
done
fire all employees for job abandonment
sell stock
pretty simple really, and highly effective - watched it happen.
edfardos
Big companies don't think like this. They don't care about long term investments in word-of-mouth customer satisfaction supporting growth and other obvious ways to run a healthy business. They think in three month intervals. If it looks like revenue will be short this quarter, you simply cut costs somewhere. In this case, they noticed power users introduce cost, and simply get rid of them. They'll make their numbers this quarter. Next quarter? who cares.. when you can't find an easy way to cut costs and artificially inflate your numbers, just quit, get early retirement, severance, and move on to destroy the next company... done
If someone uses your CC info to purchase stuff, you have to prove it to the bank, including a fraud police report and all your evidence to prove you are innocent. If the bank feels like you've proven yourself worthy, they'll simply dump the charges on the store that took the card. If not, they'll ruin your credit, you'll wont get any kind of loan for 7 years (no home, car, school, etc), and you get a phone call every day.
So the bank is protected. Why bother changing anything? It's their game, they'll win every time.
Those of us who know how to delete cookies now and then and actually do are insignificant to the number of people who must constantly re-install Microsoft Windows, and by effect, clear all their cookies.
I get the feeling new college students look at the lifestyles of their older peers to come up with a college major. As US & UK companies outsource everything they can, it makes sense to learn things like Nursing and people-facing skills which cannot be outsourced.
Hey, I'll put in the extra effort to get a CS (and perhaps Math) degree so I can be unemployed like Johny!
--edfardos
Requires Windows Media Player to view from your PC (Windows only) Requires you dload and install proprietary dvd burner (Windows only) Downloaded content to be burned is 1.5G, converted to DVD format (33% DVD quality)
My money clearly does not meet their minimum requirements for the download and burn service, so I'll be keeping it. Fantastic idea however! Complete failure in implementation.
Why pay at all? If somebody defrauds me, I sue them, prove my
case and get a judgement against that person. There is absolutely
no compelling reason for that person to pay the judgement. The
only way I could get any money is to sell the judgement to a
collections company for less than 10 cents on the dollar. Just
be cause you sue somebody and win does not mean the government
will make that person pay -- quite the contrary.
Native American Indians are better people than us and are
allowed to operate
above the law in this regard. I wonder if we'll see a boom
in IT jobs for Indian online gambling?
Why is the banking industry concerned? Someone steals
your identity, the bank sells it to collections,
which destroys you financially by defacing your
credit record, and they extort some or all of the
stolen money from you.
And you'll pay it... you'll pay it again too.
When I say 'you' I mean those of you who need to buy
a house, a car, rent-a-car, own a credit card, etc.
Yes, this irony is rich here. The government finally did it
to themselves. They've finally become victims of their own
legislation. I'm proud of RIM, for not caving and supporting
billions of more pattent squatter suits.
It runs under Wine on Linux - in fact, it's the
only program that will backup new Sony disks
on Linux. Sony has you beat if you use libdvdread or related toolchains.
Slashdot Mirror
At least arbitrary communications can be encrypted and you can actively fight for your privacy. The bigger problem is corporatism selling your privacy as these companies operate above the law and government that supports them.
But, that's just me, I could be wrong,
edfardos
--edfardos
Try Communism - it's great!
Get the FMA Copilot which uses the horizon (infrared) as a spacial reference. A GPS can be used in conjunction with this to provide a bearing with waypoints. A 30-dollar gyro can also be used (they're standard with every RC helicopter) to maintain proper roll attitude. These setups are used in conjunction with stanard RC equipment. They can take over if the transmitter signal is lost and return to origin. The one thing all this cannot do is safely land the aircraft -- that still takes a human behind the transmitter. --edfardos http://sierraglider.com/ RC Aerial Photography
This could seriously lead to legislation that outlaws encryption. Until now, encryption hasn't hurt corporate profits. I expect the Honorable Senator from Disney to make encryption, and by extension, VPN, illegal. --edfardos
okay, on the lighter side, they must have used Excel to calculate the severance eh? :)
edfardos
Or wait in the unemployment line.
edfardos
Facial recognition software cannot recognize smiling faces. New TSA bulletin indicates all smiling travelers should be treated with suspicion, as they're trying to defeat recognition software. --edfardos
...as opposed to large firms like Dell, which must also balance marketing and other considerations [like environmental health, worker safety, taxes, social security, living wages]. Just send it to China! --edfardos
You want an old spruce tree that's been growing in the shade in a mineral-rich soil. Our "renewable" forests don't provide this wood. The wood is so rare, that it's profitable to dredge rivers for sunken logs lost during the gold rush and sell them to luthiers (guitar makers). --edfardos
what they really need are diseases, taxes, weapons, bureaucracy, building permits, zoning laws, religion, and gay marriage. I staggers the imagination that they've survived this long without it! can these by dropped by helicopter? --edfardos
Another Huge comPany recently did this - it's simply a pump and dump scheme for short-term profits and artificial stock inflation. Tell all employees they cannot telework If enough employees quit, goto done else Tell all employees they must work out of one of 25 cities if enough employees quit, goto done else Tell all employees they must now work in one city done fire all employees for job abandonment sell stock pretty simple really, and highly effective - watched it happen. edfardos
My observation,
edfardos
http://thunderpowerrc.com/html/extreme.html
I use these in airplanes... 5 amps for an hour at 11 volts.
Or.. half an amp for 10 hours.. that'd power most portable electronics..
They charge in roughly one hour.
edfardos
So the bank is protected. Why bother changing anything? It's their game, they'll win every time.
Don't play.
--edfardos
Those of us who know how to delete cookies now and then and actually do are insignificant to the number of people who must constantly re-install Microsoft Windows, and by effect, clear all their cookies.
I get the feeling new college students look at the lifestyles of their older peers to come up with a college major. As US & UK companies outsource everything they can, it makes sense to learn things like Nursing and people-facing skills which cannot be outsourced. Hey, I'll put in the extra effort to get a CS (and perhaps Math) degree so I can be unemployed like Johny! --edfardos
Info I was looking for:
Requires Windows Media Player to view from your PC (Windows only)
Requires you dload and install proprietary dvd burner (Windows only)
Downloaded content to be burned is 1.5G, converted to DVD format (33% DVD quality)
My money clearly does not meet their minimum requirements for the download
and burn service, so I'll be keeping it. Fantastic idea however! Complete
failure in implementation.
(speaking about cinemanow.com)
--edfardos
Preparations A through G were complete failures, so now they join with Novell.
Yes, I agree, Preparation H does feel good... on the hole...
edfardos
Native American Indians are better people than us and are allowed to operate above the law in this regard. I wonder if we'll see a boom in IT jobs for Indian online gambling?
And you'll pay it... you'll pay it again too.
When I say 'you' I mean those of you who need to buy a house, a car, rent-a-car, own a credit card, etc.
--edfardos
dang, KDE was a reason to like SuSE too, so what's the best KDE-centric desktop distro now?
It runs under Wine on Linux - in fact, it's the only program that will backup new Sony disks on Linux. Sony has you beat if you use libdvdread or related toolchains.