Pretty much yep. Especially if it is visible from the U.S. and/or interferes with any of our satellites or other devices.
Seriously though, why would China do this? *boggle* To advertise their government: "Look everybody, its Communism Lite, now with half the fanatical controlling of markets for the priviledged few!"
The problem with this is it already kind of exists this way.
The problem is not based on what information is supposed to be secured and what isn't. Rather, it is as always these days, about access control. The higher levels of "public" information are what are you used to validate the lower levels of "secured" information.
Thus, we have identity theft. If I steal your identity I can change/modify/delete any of the information at any level.
The "privacy battle" was over long ago. This article just shows how slow senators can be in figuring stuff out.
Sadly no legislation is ever going to put the horse back in the barn. Granted, things like public offices handing over entire databases burned to CD MIGHT (depending on the data) be preventable. However as anyone who comes to slashdot should know, social engineering works great.
So what is the solution? Just prepare for your identity theft now, keep good records and generally don't be a jerk to those you post about and email. Because its all out there.
And yet people are in love with graffiti? You have to be kidding me. The Newton handwriting rec, like ANY new interface just took some getting used to. I used mine for four years in college to take notes on (and I was a Greek/Philo maj.)
Sorry, but if people can learn to write letters one at a time in a completely different way than normal they could have learned the Newton. Sadly, it was just ahead of its time and just a tad too large.
First off, this guy is a total fool for not giving the Newton more props..
He OBVIOUSLY never used one:
"Regardless of how fancy the Newton's interface is, a digital handheld organizer is a digital handheld organizer, and Wizard models existed four years before the Newton (not to mention many PDAs dating back to at least 1976!)."
Yet he had already admitted earlier it was Apple that even INVENTED the term PDA:P Not to mention, to call the Newton an "organizer" is like calling a Cray a "calculator"
And althought the handwriting recognition of the Newton was lampooned in pop culture it STILL is better than anything every released. The only thing that I have ever used that even comes close is sadly TabletPC *ducks*
Seriously, bashing the Newton in this article is worse than stupid, it is based on some irrational fear of the Newton. Maybe one was being used to VNC into his server and it killed his mom!
EVERYTHING C.S. Lewis wrote was about his Christian beliefs. If you didn't realize that then I'd approach whatever school you went to and ask for my money/time back.
Again, do a simple google search and you will find that both Lewis and Tolkien wanted to create stories to teach Christian principles to readers through fun stories.
The mark of an educated mind is the ability to hold and idea without accepting it. So do you ALSO complain when you read the Illiad or the Odyssey because Homer was *GASP* really writing propaganda for greek religious beliefs!!
SAY IT AIN'T SO! Why is that Christianity is the only religion it is still ok to hate?
"From Aristotle to Heraclitus"
Heraclitus was PRE-Socratic, i.e. BEFORE Aristotle's time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus
And as far as evangelism goes, it'd prolly be better to lean more towards Demosthenes an orator. Aristotle was not consumed with the need to convince his audience that he was speaking for .
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Because you only need a finger and not a whole hand? *slinks away in shame*
Google is your friend:
http://www.oldschool.net/newton/ibm.html
Pretty much yep. Especially if it is visible from the U.S. and/or interferes with any of our satellites or other devices.
Seriously though, why would China do this? *boggle* To advertise their government: "Look everybody, its Communism Lite, now with half the fanatical controlling of markets for the priviledged few!"
That would be in Bizaro world you are talking about? Where there is some website known as dotslash.org?
The problem with this is it already kind of exists this way. The problem is not based on what information is supposed to be secured and what isn't. Rather, it is as always these days, about access control. The higher levels of "public" information are what are you used to validate the lower levels of "secured" information. Thus, we have identity theft. If I steal your identity I can change/modify/delete any of the information at any level.
The "privacy battle" was over long ago. This article just shows how slow senators can be in figuring stuff out. Sadly no legislation is ever going to put the horse back in the barn. Granted, things like public offices handing over entire databases burned to CD MIGHT (depending on the data) be preventable. However as anyone who comes to slashdot should know, social engineering works great.
So what is the solution? Just prepare for your identity theft now, keep good records and generally don't be a jerk to those you post about and email. Because its all out there.
And yet people are in love with graffiti? You have to be kidding me. The Newton handwriting rec, like ANY new interface just took some getting used to. I used mine for four years in college to take notes on (and I was a Greek/Philo maj.) Sorry, but if people can learn to write letters one at a time in a completely different way than normal they could have learned the Newton. Sadly, it was just ahead of its time and just a tad too large.
First off, this guy is a total fool for not giving the Newton more props.. He OBVIOUSLY never used one: "Regardless of how fancy the Newton's interface is, a digital handheld organizer is a digital handheld organizer, and Wizard models existed four years before the Newton (not to mention many PDAs dating back to at least 1976!)." Yet he had already admitted earlier it was Apple that even INVENTED the term PDA :P Not to mention, to call the Newton an "organizer" is like calling a Cray a "calculator"
And althought the handwriting recognition of the Newton was lampooned in pop culture it STILL is better than anything every released. The only thing that I have ever used that even comes close is sadly TabletPC *ducks*
Seriously, bashing the Newton in this article is worse than stupid, it is based on some irrational fear of the Newton. Maybe one was being used to VNC into his server and it killed his mom!
EVERYTHING C.S. Lewis wrote was about his Christian beliefs. If you didn't realize that then I'd approach whatever school you went to and ask for my money/time back. Again, do a simple google search and you will find that both Lewis and Tolkien wanted to create stories to teach Christian principles to readers through fun stories. The mark of an educated mind is the ability to hold and idea without accepting it. So do you ALSO complain when you read the Illiad or the Odyssey because Homer was *GASP* really writing propaganda for greek religious beliefs!! SAY IT AIN'T SO! Why is that Christianity is the only religion it is still ok to hate?
"From Aristotle to Heraclitus" Heraclitus was PRE-Socratic, i.e. BEFORE Aristotle's time... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus And as far as evangelism goes, it'd prolly be better to lean more towards Demosthenes an orator. Aristotle was not consumed with the need to convince his audience that he was speaking for .