You guys know how the internet works don't you? The only central authority is the IANA, and all they really do is make sure people don't reuse the same IP addresses (and assign the more important AS Numbers. When we're IPv6 in under five years (Sorry, but thanks Microsoft), they will be even less important (still important though). Other than that, it's just private organziations agreeing with each other to carry traffic through their routers. At one point this was Ma Bell but now you have radio links, satellite links, mesh networks, lasers, fiber optics, etc. It's too late for the government. They are going to keep trying to shut us down but the people of the world can all communicate on equal terms now and we know now more than every that we're all pretty much alike.
I think what the Obama policy is about is getting involved in the international aspects where diplomacy is needed. We need more relationships happening across international borders that foster this kind of communications. This will lead to a future where humans across the global can fully communicate on equal terms. At that point we don't really have a use for diplomacy and war because there will just be a lot of small disagreements rather than these large nationwide ones that are questionable anyway. In fact this is going to be the key to opening up new markets.
To think that this was ever the goal of the neo-cons and that Obama is somehow worse is falase beyond almost anything I've ever heard. The neo-cons are so embroiled in World War III, just read a history of president Reagan and all the weapons and stuff we developed then. No one seems to remember the rediculous cold war that looks REALLY rediculous now. That's the system Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld grew up in, forged with their own hands, saw it crumble with the public failure of the Soviet Union. All the power in the world, gone in 2 years.
Thus the fairly false threat of terrorism. Sure, it's a minor fear, but nothing compared to total nuclear anihilation. Anyway, your breathless posts about how Obama is not doing what he said he'd do is wrong. He said he would do all of this. Quit listening to the media and actually listen to the man.
The disagreements will be between corporations, not governments. Lets face it, many internet corporations will have to go out of business just to keep other older more established businesses in business. This is about corporate monarchy deciding rules on an international scale to benefit cartels and corporate profits.
It has nothing to do with individual interests. Our interests are not considered because we don't own blue chip corporations. At some point the blue chip corporations and the copyright royalty owning corporations decided that it is better to destroy freedom on the internet than to invest in new technologies. It's very much like the phone companies trying to destroy the internet rather than invest in broadband technology. It has nothing to do with consumers, or child protection, or privacy.
privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance? What does privacy, child protection, and copyright protection have to do with internet governance? This is the new prohibition. The internet is too free, too many people are happy, so they have to make us all get a license so that they can better control what we say and can read.
Child protection is the common excuse. When that doesn't work then it's copyright protection. If all of these fail then it's cyber security against Chinese hackers. I'd be fine if the government wanted to solve this by hiring people who visit Slashdot to actually design better hardware, software, and encryption standards. I'd be fine if people moved away from using passwords and moved onto some more secure mechanisms for two factor authentication.
But thats probably not who the government has in mind. The government does not care about individual security, individual privacy, individuals intellectual property, this is about protecting big corporations who control the government. So until Google and Microsoft, and other big corporations who support internet freedom band together and get better lobbyists, their industry is going to be completely destroyed.
Rather than tax the middle class to pay for stuff you care about, but which does not really make a difference in peoples lives. Why don't you just gather in a room with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and fund your own space program?
Studying Saturn is a waste of money at this time even if there is life on Saturn's moon. We should focus on stuff which influences life one earth.
It's not and never has been about the economy. It's about empowering the corporations owned by the richest families. They want to protect their wealth at any cost to the economy. As long as they stay wealthy and maintain profits, they don't care. And yes they are entitled.
Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a man...They must be put to death."
This quote represents the mindset of a segment of the population. If they find out you have sex in a way they disagree with, they'd have no problem killing you and everyone like you, essentially genocide is made easier now that all the people who want to do it know exactly where the jews live, the gays, the blacks, and the liberals. Good luck staying alive if you are a minority.
Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a man...They must be put to death."
If you are gay, and a jew, and you voted for Obama.... it's only a matter of time before the Christians who take Leviticus seriously find out where you live.
You have no privacy, none. Any hacker, any private investigator, any stalker, can access your data from thousands of private or public databases. If you are jewish then the neo-nazi's probably already know where you live. If you voted for Bush the lefties already know who you are and where you live. If you disagree with how I think on privacy, I could find out where you live.
And nothing stops me from creating a huge list of names and addresses, putting it into a database, and selling this list to advertises so they can spam you. And nothing stops anyone from selling your health records to the nazi's, the mafia, the street gang, the Republicans. So if you are a gay homosexual you can expect that your medical records will be accessed. If you are Barack Obama then you can expect your cellphone records to be accessed http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10104997-83.html
The far right, those people who vote for Sarah Palin and who have all those guns and bibles, those people who don't believe in evolution, they know where you live and they know everything about you because you added a Republican to your facebook page. And if you added a liberal then you can expect that those global warming crazies and anti-globalists will know where to find you and all your vulnerabilities.
So why don't you have a right to privacy? You don't have a right to privacy because your life just isn't important to the government. The government knows that most Americans are dumb breeders who will pop out babies just like the Octomom. If you die the Octomom will have another baby and replace you. Corporations don't see you as anything more than consumers. And political parties only care about you when you think like they do and are willing to serve their special interests.
Face it, you aren't all that and nobody is protecting you or your privacy.
There is nothing you can do to preserve your privacy while remaining in society. Privacy is dead and gone. The best thing you can do is work for a company which gathers private information on the richest and most powerful. If you don't want to help reduce privacy, then you are part of the problem and that is why you are being watched.
How can you make use of 12+ gigs of ram with a 32bit OS? I had to use a 64bit OS just to take full advantage of my hardware. I wish my CPU were 128bit and I could expand my ram by the hundreds of gigs.
We do need a government to protect human rights, the constitution, and to keep us from being enslaved by other governments. When our government starts to enslave us then government is too big and must be limited in its role.
So all victimless crimes should be evaluated. We should do the statistics to determine the percentage of individuals in prison for victimless crimes. And if the government only exists to put us in prison, that government has to be changed.
Why not? Banning decreases demand so lets just ban everything we dont want people thinking about until the only books left are made by Disney. If you read any book that isn't government approved then life in prison.
All these laws do is create internet sex offenders. These laws are stupid and just waiting to be abused and exploited, and in my opinion thats the only reason they were invented.
I refuse to believe people are so stupid as to create irrational laws, laws aren't supposed to expression an emotion about how you feel, they are supposed to accomplish some sort of goal. If the law does not decrease child molestation then the law should be canceled.
If its about supply and demand then you go after the people who profit from it. You go after the pimps.
" Possession of readily accessible images indicates demand "
No it doesn't. Demand is not in the minds of individuals, demand is indicated by whether or not they spend money and effort to find it.
It's one thing if you have someone who is buying child porn from a website, it's another if they just somehow stumble across the images. If you cannot determine the difference then you are part of the problem.
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You guys know how the internet works don't you? The only central authority is the IANA, and all they really do is make sure people don't reuse the same IP addresses (and assign the more important AS Numbers. When we're IPv6 in under five years (Sorry, but thanks Microsoft), they will be even less important (still important though). Other than that, it's just private organziations agreeing with each other to carry traffic through their routers. At one point this was Ma Bell but now you have radio links, satellite links, mesh networks, lasers, fiber optics, etc. It's too late for the government. They are going to keep trying to shut us down but the people of the world can all communicate on equal terms now and we know now more than every that we're all pretty much alike.
I think what the Obama policy is about is getting involved in the international aspects where diplomacy is needed. We need more relationships happening across international borders that foster this kind of communications. This will lead to a future where humans across the global can fully communicate on equal terms. At that point we don't really have a use for diplomacy and war because there will just be a lot of small disagreements rather than these large nationwide ones that are questionable anyway. In fact this is going to be the key to opening up new markets.
To think that this was ever the goal of the neo-cons and that Obama is somehow worse is falase beyond almost anything I've ever heard. The neo-cons are so embroiled in World War III, just read a history of president Reagan and all the weapons and stuff we developed then. No one seems to remember the rediculous cold war that looks REALLY rediculous now. That's the system Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld grew up in, forged with their own hands, saw it crumble with the public failure of the Soviet Union. All the power in the world, gone in 2 years.
Thus the fairly false threat of terrorism. Sure, it's a minor fear, but nothing compared to total nuclear anihilation. Anyway, your breathless posts about how Obama is not doing what he said he'd do is wrong. He said he would do all of this. Quit listening to the media and actually listen to the man.
The disagreements will be between corporations, not governments. Lets face it, many internet corporations will have to go out of business just to keep other older more established businesses in business. This is about corporate monarchy deciding rules on an international scale to benefit cartels and corporate profits.
It has nothing to do with individual interests. Our interests are not considered because we don't own blue chip corporations. At some point the blue chip corporations and the copyright royalty owning corporations decided that it is better to destroy freedom on the internet than to invest in new technologies. It's very much like the phone companies trying to destroy the internet rather than invest in broadband technology. It has nothing to do with consumers, or child protection, or privacy.
privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance? What does privacy, child protection, and copyright protection have to do with internet governance? This is the new prohibition. The internet is too free, too many people are happy, so they have to make us all get a license so that they can better control what we say and can read.
Child protection is the common excuse. When that doesn't work then it's copyright protection. If all of these fail then it's cyber security against Chinese hackers. I'd be fine if the government wanted to solve this by hiring people who visit Slashdot to actually design better hardware, software, and encryption standards. I'd be fine if people moved away from using passwords and moved onto some more secure mechanisms for two factor authentication.
But thats probably not who the government has in mind. The government does not care about individual security, individual privacy, individuals intellectual property, this is about protecting big corporations who control the government. So until Google and Microsoft, and other big corporations who support internet freedom band together and get better lobbyists, their industry is going to be completely destroyed.
I'm not saying the government is behind the weed found with lead in it, but after reading this I wouldn't be surprised. http://stopthedrugwar.org/reader_blogs/2008/apr/18/marijuana_lead_laced_pot_newest_
Rather than tax the middle class to pay for stuff you care about, but which does not really make a difference in peoples lives. Why don't you just gather in a room with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and fund your own space program?
Studying Saturn is a waste of money at this time even if there is life on Saturn's moon. We should focus on stuff which influences life one earth.
China is having too many males and theres no way they'll have enough jobs or resources. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
Why would we even have to ask if Google should do the right thing?
China is bad for human rights, so China must be confronted.
It's not and never has been about the economy. It's about empowering the corporations owned by the richest families. They want to protect their wealth at any cost to the economy. As long as they stay wealthy and maintain profits, they don't care. And yes they are entitled.
The data isn't encrypted. Do you think the mafia or the nazi's give a damn about laws?
we need to keep the guns out of the hands of minorities.
I bet if I pay someone they could tell me whether you are or aren't.
Thats where this is going.
Leviticus 20:13:
"If a man lies with a man...They must be put to death."
This quote represents the mindset of a segment of the population. If they find out you have sex in a way they disagree with, they'd have no problem killing you and everyone like you, essentially genocide is made easier now that all the people who want to do it know exactly where the jews live, the gays, the blacks, and the liberals. Good luck staying alive if you are a minority.
Leviticus 20:13:
"If a man lies with a man...They must be put to death."
If you are gay, and a jew, and you voted for Obama.... it's only a matter of time before the Christians who take Leviticus seriously find out where you live.
You have no privacy, none. Any hacker, any private investigator, any stalker, can access your data from thousands of private or public databases. If you are jewish then the neo-nazi's probably already know where you live. If you voted for Bush the lefties already know who you are and where you live. If you disagree with how I think on privacy, I could find out where you live.
And nothing stops me from creating a huge list of names and addresses, putting it into a database, and selling this list to advertises so they can spam you. And nothing stops anyone from selling your health records to the nazi's, the mafia, the street gang, the Republicans. So if you are a gay homosexual you can expect that your medical records will be accessed. If you are Barack Obama then you can expect your cellphone records to be accessed http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10104997-83.html
The far right, those people who vote for Sarah Palin and who have all those guns and bibles, those people who don't believe in evolution, they know where you live and they know everything about you because you added a Republican to your facebook page. And if you added a liberal then you can expect that those global warming crazies and anti-globalists will know where to find you and all your vulnerabilities.
So why don't you have a right to privacy? You don't have a right to privacy because your life just isn't important to the government. The government knows that most Americans are dumb breeders who will pop out babies just like the Octomom. If you die the Octomom will have another baby and replace you. Corporations don't see you as anything more than consumers. And political parties only care about you when you think like they do and are willing to serve their special interests.
Face it, you aren't all that and nobody is protecting you or your privacy.
There is nothing you can do to preserve your privacy while remaining in society. Privacy is dead and gone. The best thing you can do is work for a company which gathers private information on the richest and most powerful. If you don't want to help reduce privacy, then you are part of the problem and that is why you are being watched.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsxxsrn2Tfs
If we launch hostile takeovers and own the biggest corporations, can we promote human rights through them?
How can you make use of 12+ gigs of ram with a 32bit OS? I had to use a 64bit OS just to take full advantage of my hardware.
I wish my CPU were 128bit and I could expand my ram by the hundreds of gigs.
We do need a government to protect human rights, the constitution, and to keep us from being enslaved by other governments.
When our government starts to enslave us then government is too big and must be limited in its role.
So all victimless crimes should be evaluated. We should do the statistics to determine the percentage of individuals in prison for victimless crimes.
And if the government only exists to put us in prison, that government has to be changed.
After they ban the guns then they'll ban crypto as a way to destroy free speech.
I think to ban guns or crypto is completely unconstitutional but that doesn't stop people from dedicating their life to trying.
Why not? Banning decreases demand so lets just ban everything we dont want people thinking about until the only books left are made by Disney.
If you read any book that isn't government approved then life in prison.
Because entrapment is not illegal when done properly by the FBI.
Even if it's all true, what are you going to do about it?
You can't do anything so STFU.
All these laws do is create internet sex offenders.
These laws are stupid and just waiting to be abused and exploited, and in my opinion thats the only reason they were invented.
I refuse to believe people are so stupid as to create irrational laws, laws aren't supposed to expression an emotion about how you feel, they are supposed to accomplish some sort of goal. If the law does not decrease child molestation then the law should be canceled.
If its about supply and demand then you go after the people who profit from it. You go after the pimps.
" Possession of readily accessible images indicates demand "
No it doesn't. Demand is not in the minds of individuals, demand is indicated by whether or not they spend money and effort to find it.
It's one thing if you have someone who is buying child porn from a website, it's another if they just somehow stumble across the images. If you cannot determine the difference then you are part of the problem.
Do you know who is behind these laws? I don't think it should even be considered constitutional.
Maybe they created these laws to criminalize people and fill up the prisons. I cannot see how these sorts of laws protect children.