Maybe the Pirate Bay needs to find a way to include a whole bunch of other stuff in their indexes (witha checkbox to remove those results on queried results if the user would like) - then any similar laws wouldn't be able to affect them without affecting Google and every other search engine - and who's going to put an onerous burden on them?
I believe it was definitely something other than some accident....
What really gets me is why are people so ready to call someone else crazy and so ready to accept whatever they read from some corporate news source?
I don't expect anyone to take thing anything I said in my post (eg about HR1955 or S1959 or the articles with CIA sources regarding hackers shutting down power grids) as true on faith - if it catches your attention or you doubt it, then google the stuff and see for yourself...Your conclusions may be different from mine on what this all means - but these thoughtcrime bills which focus on the net are real, One has passed the house and will likely pass the senate.
When we look at how the cabal of interests which are currently running US policy and the way they operate as well as how they influence the rest of the world I think it's very likely this was something else other than what is being claimed.
I don't pretend to know why, I can make some guesses that make a lot more sense than some almost statistically impossible series of accidents within 3 days of each other. Do you realize how large the ocean floor is?
It could be that agents of some government or group either did this to see how easy it would be to disrupt the net in a particular area and how many people it would effect and whether redundency would prevent it from being a disaster and the net would route around damage - OR a country or group wanted to take it out so that it coulld be re-built to either better protect it or to do something else......
I am not saying it was the US or the criminals in the US government, but certainly that comes to mind.
Espceially when you consider that their entire focus right now, their goal, is to get control of the internet. When I say control, what I mean is that they are very threatened by the freedom of information online and the net's usability and potential as an organizational tool.
It's all you hear about in the press - Look at the two bills which are about to be approved which are basically thoughtcrime bills (HR1955 and S1959) - look into these they are very scary and would have made Martin Luther King Jr a terrorist bound for Gitmo - mainly because of the definition of "force" - which basically states and person or group taking any action (not even violent) to bring about social change - but as I said it is really about the net.
You see the cyber war games currently being staged (we know this group uses drills and rehearses things to learn responses of the public and other entities prior to taking action) - You have Fox and CNN calling for dissent to be criminalized, almost directly (espcially Bill O Rielly who said this and said the US military needs to protect the country against Ron Paul as he is an enemy of the state). You have the sponsors of the bill and their lackeys (including some asshole "terrorism expert" named Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center) who listed the "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth" website among all of these al qaeda and jihadist websites as examples of violent radicalization online.
You have the CIA making press statements multiple times about how "Hackers have shut down the power grid" to extort governments over and over but they play down that this supposedly happened in some small third world African country.
All you hear about is how dangerous the net is. The next thing we're going to see in this country is some sort of electronic terror attack or a real world terror attack with electronic components. I believe it will be a false flag attack; and possibly will be the end of the US even pretending to be a democracy.
The timing of this and how it supposedly happened and having it happen with 3 different undersea cables are cutr in different places in the same part of the world within 3 days? Think about it.
We got an Apple II in 1979 or 80. I was about 8 or 9 years old. I learned BASIC on it, but before that I learned the joy of computer gaming. It had 48k of RAM!!! Kickass!!! When we finally upgraded it to 64K I thought I was ready to play with the big boys.
The first games we got for our Apple II were brought home by my dad with the computer. "Mystery House," which was an awesome text based..I guess...adventure game w/some vector graphics...I remember finding a key in a chest and getting stuck in a damn forest that went on forever (the guy at the computer store said "Keep going north and west," yeah.. I never got out of that damn forest.
Then there was AppleTrek - a star trek clone where you fight the "Klarnons" - For the available resources of the day these games were awesome.
Later on I got Lode Runner (which was awesome cause you could make your own maps) and eventually progressed into some really cool games like "The Bard's Tale" and Ultima II/Ultima IV (which were actually really, really cool games that seemed massive at the time and if someone wants to release a version for Palm devices I would pay quite a bit for it).
For the amount of resources available (my treo seems like a supercomputer compared to it) the games on the Apple II were indeed amazing.
There was another first that came with the Apple II my family had as well (though I didn't realize it at the the time) - it was my first use of pirated software.
I still remember that my dad would come home from computer meetings (they'd have them at the computer store or or YMCA in our town in California) and would give me a bunch of floppies - I still remember a bunch of the games I have had this PCP (Pacific Coast Pirates)logo - at the time I didn't know what that meant. Later on as I got older and started looking for software at these mini convetions myself I noticed that usually if a friend gave you a copy of a game on a 5.25 floppy it would have a logo...I am trying to remember some of the others....At that time most people didn't think of it any differently than dubbing a cassette tape (which, incidentally was the storage medium for the very first Apple II games we had).
Does this mean I can sue the city for having street signs which directed criminals to my place of employment (which they proceeded to burglarize, then used those same signs as direction to the highway to make a getaway)?
Will they go after google and other search engines (indexes) who have linked to any number of questionable content (much of which makes the net a beauiful and free place)?
Seems clear cut enough using the same logic to me.
They work more on behalf of the labels rather than the artists - and the labels fuck the artists more than some guy who downloads 100,000 songs he never would have purchased in the first place if he couldn't obtain them easily via technology. He'd likely only have 50,000 and have spent many hours ripping CDs.
Even if digital distribution and mp3s/flacs etc didn't exist, the internet is such a powerful tool for organizing that people would create mail share/trade trees and do it like that (the way deadheads and live music trades who are anal about lossless quality were doing it prior to wide broadband adoption and FLAC/SHN).
People have always shared music. People will always share music. If the major lables die a slow death (which, by the way, isn't happening yet though they sure would like you to believe it is) that will probably be beneficial - they fuck art up 9 times out of 10.
I agree....It's scary how little the "American Idol" watching general public realize about the situation we're in.
When I look 5 years down the line I can see several possible outcomes, hardly any of them good - and one of the possibilities I see is this country being in a sort of civil war.
When you look at all of the legislation and executive orders it seems like these elements of the government are preparing for a power grab and martial law. With so many of our soldiers and Natl Guard overseas fighting empire wars it scares me, because if some like this were to happen I can see the government using Blackwater and foreign troops (there have been foreign troops training on US soil according to some things I have read which seem to be credible) and if you look at the drills being run out of Ft. Bliss since at least 2000 (of which I have seen a lot of video) where they go to a US city (Oakland) and take over part of it, hire extras to play civilians and have them yell things like "I am an American Citizen" etc it is very scary.
If anyone is reading this and things the above sounds crazy, trust me, I would too had I not seen these things with my own eyes. One of the resources for the video I am referring to is on Alex Jones "Martial law: Rise of the Police State" or something like that. People may find Alex to come off as a little kooky, but but his facts are credible.
I think we're in trouble here in America and it makes me so sad - because I love this country and it's people, I believed everything I was taught in school about the constitution and how the founding fathers came here and established this country to get away from excessive tax and for religious freedom (subsequent reading and study as an adult has taught me that it wasn't quite that simple, but nonetheless that was a big part of it) - and I remember the 80s when we constantly lambasted the Soviets and the East German Stassi for spying on their own citizens and criticized and looked down on other countries who did all of the things which are happening here now. Nobody would have ever believed it.
Many people think all of the recent corruption started with this administration; and it is true that they have gone beyond the pale, but it is also that they aren't trying as hard to hide it - which is scary because it means they feel completely safe being unconstitutional and doing illegal (and I would say immoral) things...It wasn't just them - all of the recent administrations before it played a part in this and had their own corruptions etc which have gotten this country to where it is today.
And all of this stuff using the oldest tricks in the book - having a catalyzing event (9/11) and then, as Hermann Goering said:
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship....Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Apparently the people who are in control of our country have learned from this.
I think when you look at the whole picture, at exit polls (which are reliable in general and which are the standard both the US and UN use to determine when elections are "free and fair" in other countries), and at what happened in the 2000 and especially in the 2004 races I think it is pretty clear that some sort of tampering is involved.
Media consolidation is a massive problem, with this I agree with you - and I think that when you look at Ron Paul's open market theories you have to keep in mind that I don;t think he is referring to the public airwaves, and his idea of a free market would be a true free market - not the sort of artifical, protected forced markets we see so much in the US. Also, I think that the media consolidation is as much a symptom of the problem as a perpetuator of it. The scary thing is that most Americans have no idea that pretty much everything they read and see on TV is controlled by 5 corporations who can lie, distort and manipulate (pretty much with impunity).
With that said, I support both Kucinich and Paul because I think they are the only ones who will restore the government of this country to constitutionality and are the only ones who aren't corporatist shills and frontmen for special interests; personaly I would love to see universal health care, something I am sure makes Paul cringe (although his way would probably work much better than what we have now because it's not necessarily the market that has made things such a mess).
I think we're headed into extremely dark times - but I hope not.
The news is just another show...disgustingly true, and referenced in some good songs as well....so I guess this is why I get my news and entertainment elsewhere.
Sometimes when I see things like this I have to wonder - are they all really that tech ignorant; or is this part of a strategy to put vaguely interpretable laws on the books with respect to the net so that anyone can be charged with ridiculous crimes at any time.
I have been saying for a while that our corporatist government and their partners in crime will not tolerate the freedom and openness on the internet much longer.
It's ability to bypass the propaganda and behavior control traditionally handled by TV news and (now corporate) newspapers; the ability for people to organize worldwide and share information and files in real time; obviously the IP debate - all of this is the antithesis of where government and corporations are pushing societies in every other aspect of our lives.
They want to turn the net into an interactive place much like a cross between early AOL and the home shopping network....They will snoop on everything you do, download, view, etc.
You've already seen the endless barrage of stuff in the media about "how dangerous the internet is" lurking with pedophiles and terrorists, viruses and those who want to steal your identity; when in reality none of those things are real threats if you take the most basic of precautions.
It may take a catalyzing event, like a virus that shuts down a financial network or turns off a power grid or plays a part in some "terrorist attack." They may even try to require that everything you do online is stamped with a virutal confirmable ID that you have to renew like a drivers license.
This is coming, make no mistake about it. The only hope we have to prevent it is to fight fiercely on both the corporate front (against non net neautrality, because if they can't legislate it directly, they'll do it in a defacto manner) and against laws like S1959 which criminalize thoughtcrime and dissent; make organizing a boycott and other such actions a crime and involve the internet.
Just like it was clear (and proven conclusively) that there was fraud that altered the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, and 2000 as well.
The mainstream media is completely compromised. Anybody who is waiting to hear this proclaimed on NBC wil be waiting forever (stupidly).
Many people just don't understand that this isn't a right/left dem/rep issue - The powers that be have a vested interest in ensuring that if it's democrat it is Hillary - if it is a republican it is MCCain or Giuliani.
They also want to limit mainstream exposure of Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich...They certainly couldn't have straight shooters like these guys on a live TV major network debate speaking truth right next to a bunch of controlled corporatists who want to talk about the crap the mainstream media has been forcefeeding the public without making media darlings look like the cardboard kleptogarchs they are.
If they do, they'll probably take a hint from our corrupt ass government (with whom these corporations are likely in bed with) and resurface 2 months later as the:
The "loopholes" as you call them are usually the true purposes of the laws you mentioned.
HIPAA being a prime example.
They'll (they being legislators, lobbyists, etc) create a law or regulation in an area which is already pretty much covered by existing legislation or standards..
Then the marketing of said law starts...They'll claim "This law clarifies and preempts existing laws, and this law protects you from X, Y, and Z"...but in reality, what they are really doing is defining said law to mean X, Y, and Z are now illegal - but they don't tell you that the reason they are doing so is so that their buddies in the private sector can then use methods A, B, and C to accomplish something far worse.
Fuck McAfee. Their anti-virus and security products suck anyway; buying a prebuilt machine that comes with this crap on it is about as bad as the ones which come with Norton...I have never met anyone who has worked with windows machines a lot who doesn't dislike both of these products.
It's not so much that they aren't secure enough for various reasons, it's that they impose such an overhead on your machine, occasionally can be difficult to remove, install so much crap, and really impact the user experience in a negative way.
As far as home Anti-virus goes it is my opinion that there are several good options, Grisoft's AVG line primarily - I think Trend isnt bad - I have heard good things about Avast but have no personal experience.
As far as corporate I have experience using Norton's corporate edition which I think is much better than their home offerings, but nowhere near as good as Grisoft's stuff. I switched our company network to AVG network edition a couple of years ago and have been extremely impressed with the result - in addition to being much more reasonable priced I find it much easier to administer locally or via the network; it gives me the information, control, and reporting I need from the administration module and has the same low overhead and and flawless performance as their other stuff.
I have to say that seeing corporations like this fret about possibly having taken advantage of the GPL and possibly getting nailed on it is heart warming.
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someone mod parent up please; especially that last sentence.
Seriously....You have not use a real controller unless you have used an Intellivision or Intellision II controller....
Slipping those templates over the pads, using that thing that was like an early version of the ipod wheel.....with cords like telephone cords...
Intellivions man, Burgertime!!
Google does the same thing. Would they be guilty?
Maybe the Pirate Bay needs to find a way to include a whole bunch of other stuff in their indexes (witha checkbox to remove those results on queried results if the user would like) - then any similar laws wouldn't be able to affect them without affecting Google and every other search engine - and who's going to put an onerous burden on them?
Obviously this Anonymous Coward needs lessons in semantics.
I didn't call him a name, I didn't say he was crazy - I suggested his actions were childish. They added nothing.
Neither do yours.
I believe it was definitely something other than some accident....
What really gets me is why are people so ready to call someone else crazy and so ready to accept whatever they read from some corporate news source?
I don't expect anyone to take thing anything I said in my post (eg about HR1955 or S1959 or the articles with CIA sources regarding hackers shutting down power grids) as true on faith - if it catches your attention or you doubt it, then google the stuff and see for yourself...Your conclusions may be different from mine on what this all means - but these thoughtcrime bills which focus on the net are real, One has passed the house and will likely pass the senate.
So name calling is how you discuss things? That is all you can say? DO you have something to add to the conversation or are you just a sheeple?
You may not draw the same conclusions, but facts are facts.
IF you want to act like a child, go to Digg or 4chan.
When we look at how the cabal of interests which are currently running US policy and the way they operate as well as how they influence the rest of the world I think it's very likely this was something else other than what is being claimed.
I don't pretend to know why, I can make some guesses that make a lot more sense than some almost statistically impossible series of accidents within 3 days of each other. Do you realize how large the ocean floor is?
It could be that agents of some government or group either did this to see how easy it would be to disrupt the net in a particular area and how many people it would effect and whether redundency would prevent it from being a disaster and the net would route around damage - OR a country or group wanted to take it out so that it coulld be re-built to either better protect it or to do something else......
I am not saying it was the US or the criminals in the US government, but certainly that comes to mind.
Espceially when you consider that their entire focus right now, their goal, is to get control of the internet. When I say control, what I mean is that they are very threatened by the freedom of information online and the net's usability and potential as an organizational tool.
It's all you hear about in the press - Look at the two bills which are about to be approved which are basically thoughtcrime bills (HR1955 and S1959) - look into these they are very scary and would have made Martin Luther King Jr a terrorist bound for Gitmo - mainly because of the definition of "force" - which basically states and person or group taking any action (not even violent) to bring about social change - but as I said it is really about the net.
You see the cyber war games currently being staged (we know this group uses drills and rehearses things to learn responses of the public and other entities prior to taking action) - You have Fox and CNN calling for dissent to be criminalized, almost directly (espcially Bill O Rielly who said this and said the US military needs to protect the country against Ron Paul as he is an enemy of the state). You have the sponsors of the bill and their lackeys (including some asshole "terrorism expert" named Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center) who listed the "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth" website among all of these al qaeda and jihadist websites as examples of violent radicalization online.
You have the CIA making press statements multiple times about how "Hackers have shut down the power grid" to extort governments over and over but they play down that this supposedly happened in some small third world African country.
All you hear about is how dangerous the net is. The next thing we're going to see in this country is some sort of electronic terror attack or a real world terror attack with electronic components. I believe it will be a false flag attack; and possibly will be the end of the US even pretending to be a democracy.
The timing of this and how it supposedly happened and having it happen with 3 different undersea cables are cutr in different places in the same part of the world within 3 days? Think about it.
Three cables in different locations severed within a few days of each other.....
Wild speculation is thinking that there isn't intent in there.
Just throwing all of these terms around is nostalgic....
SABOTAGE sounds familiar...Unfortunately I didn't have much technical skill when I used our Apple....
It still resides somewhere at my folks place...I wonder if it would work - and it it will eventually be worth money as an antique PC.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to think this is all accidental?
Seriously.
Two guesses as to whose interests those doing the cutting are serving.....
We got an Apple II in 1979 or 80. I was about 8 or 9 years old. I learned BASIC on it, but before that I learned the joy of computer gaming. It had 48k of RAM!!! Kickass!!! When we finally upgraded it to 64K I thought I was ready to play with the big boys.
..I guess...adventure game w/some vector graphics...I remember finding a key in a chest and getting stuck in a damn forest that went on forever (the guy at the computer store said "Keep going north and west," yeah.. I never got out of that damn forest.
The first games we got for our Apple II were brought home by my dad with the computer. "Mystery House," which was an awesome text based
Then there was AppleTrek - a star trek clone where you fight the "Klarnons" - For the available resources of the day these games were awesome.
Later on I got Lode Runner (which was awesome cause you could make your own maps) and eventually progressed into some really cool games like "The Bard's Tale" and Ultima II/Ultima IV (which were actually really, really cool games that seemed massive at the time and if someone wants to release a version for Palm devices I would pay quite a bit for it).
For the amount of resources available (my treo seems like a supercomputer compared to it) the games on the Apple II were indeed amazing.
There was another first that came with the Apple II my family had as well (though I didn't realize it at the the time) - it was my first use of pirated software.
I still remember that my dad would come home from computer meetings (they'd have them at the computer store or or YMCA in our town in California) and would give me a bunch of floppies - I still remember a bunch of the games I have had this PCP (Pacific Coast Pirates)logo - at the time I didn't know what that meant. Later on as I got older and started looking for software at these mini convetions myself I noticed that usually if a friend gave you a copy of a game on a 5.25 floppy it would have a logo...I am trying to remember some of the others....At that time most people didn't think of it any differently than dubbing a cassette tape (which, incidentally was the storage medium for the very first Apple II games we had).
Does this mean I can sue the city for having street signs which directed criminals to my place of employment
(which they proceeded to burglarize, then used those same signs as direction to the highway to make a getaway)?
Will they go after google and other search engines (indexes) who have linked to any number of questionable content (much of which makes the net a beauiful and free place)?
Seems clear cut enough using the same logic to me.
Parent shouldn't have been modded troll....
They work more on behalf of the labels rather than the artists - and the labels fuck the artists more than some guy who downloads 100,000 songs he never would have purchased in the first place if he couldn't obtain them easily via technology. He'd likely only have 50,000 and have spent many hours ripping CDs.
Even if digital distribution and mp3s/flacs etc didn't exist, the internet is such a powerful tool for organizing that people would create mail share/trade trees and do it like that (the way deadheads and live music trades who are anal about lossless quality were doing it prior to wide broadband adoption and FLAC/SHN).
People have always shared music. People will always share music. If the major lables die a slow death (which, by the way, isn't happening yet though they sure would like you to believe it is) that will probably be beneficial - they fuck art up 9 times out of 10.
I agree....It's scary how little the "American Idol" watching general public realize about the situation we're in.
...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
When I look 5 years down the line I can see several possible outcomes, hardly any of them good - and one of the possibilities I see is this country being in a sort of civil war.
When you look at all of the legislation and executive orders it seems like these elements of the government are preparing for a power grab and martial law. With so many of our soldiers and Natl Guard overseas fighting empire wars it scares me, because if some like this were to happen I can see the government using Blackwater and foreign troops (there have been foreign troops training on US soil according to some things I have read which seem to be credible) and if you look at the drills being run out of Ft. Bliss since at least 2000 (of which I have seen a lot of video) where they go to a US city (Oakland) and take over part of it, hire extras to play civilians and have them yell things like "I am an American Citizen" etc it is very scary.
If anyone is reading this and things the above sounds crazy, trust me, I would too had I not seen these things with my own eyes. One of the resources for the video I am referring to is on Alex Jones "Martial law: Rise of the Police State" or something like that. People may find Alex to come off as a little kooky, but but his facts are credible.
I think we're in trouble here in America and it makes me so sad - because I love this country and it's people, I believed everything I was taught in school about the constitution and how the founding fathers came here and established this country to get away from excessive tax and for religious freedom (subsequent reading and study as an adult has taught me that it wasn't quite that simple, but nonetheless that was a big part of it) - and I remember the 80s when we constantly lambasted the Soviets and the East German Stassi for spying on their own citizens and criticized and looked down on other countries who did all of the things which are happening here now. Nobody would have ever believed it.
Many people think all of the recent corruption started with this administration; and it is true that they have gone beyond the pale, but it is also that they aren't trying as hard to hide it - which is scary because it means they feel completely safe being unconstitutional and doing illegal (and I would say immoral) things...It wasn't just them - all of the recent administrations before it played a part in this and had their own corruptions etc which have gotten this country to where it is today.
And all of this stuff using the oldest tricks in the book - having a catalyzing event (9/11) and then, as Hermann Goering said:
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Apparently the people who are in control of our country have learned from this.
I think when you look at the whole picture, at exit polls (which are reliable in general and which are the standard both the US and UN use to determine when elections are "free and fair" in other countries), and at what happened in the 2000 and especially in the 2004 races I think it is pretty clear that some sort of tampering is involved.
Media consolidation is a massive problem, with this I agree with you - and I think that when you look at Ron Paul's open market theories you have to keep in mind that I don;t think he is referring to the public airwaves, and his idea of a free market would be a true free market - not the sort of artifical, protected forced markets we see so much in the US. Also, I think that the media consolidation is as much a symptom of the problem as a perpetuator of it. The scary thing is that most Americans have no idea that pretty much everything they read and see on TV is controlled by 5 corporations who can lie, distort and manipulate (pretty much with impunity).
With that said, I support both Kucinich and Paul because I think they are the only ones who will restore the government of this country to constitutionality and are the only ones who aren't corporatist shills and frontmen for special interests; personaly I would love to see universal health care, something I am sure makes Paul cringe (although his way would probably work much better than what we have now because it's not necessarily the market that has made things such a mess).
I think we're headed into extremely dark times - but I hope not.
The news is just another show...disgustingly true, and referenced in some good songs as well....so I guess this is why I get my news and entertainment elsewhere.
Sometimes when I see things like this I have to wonder - are they all really that tech ignorant; or is this part of a strategy to put vaguely interpretable laws on the books with respect to the net so that anyone can be charged with ridiculous crimes at any time.
I have been saying for a while that our corporatist government and their partners in crime will not tolerate the freedom and openness on the internet much longer.
It's ability to bypass the propaganda and behavior control traditionally handled by TV news and (now corporate) newspapers; the ability for people to organize worldwide and share information and files in real time; obviously the IP debate - all of this is the antithesis of where government and corporations are pushing societies in every other aspect of our lives.
They want to turn the net into an interactive place much like a cross between early AOL and the home shopping network....They will snoop on everything you do, download, view, etc.
You've already seen the endless barrage of stuff in the media about "how dangerous the internet is" lurking with pedophiles and terrorists, viruses and those who want to steal your identity; when in reality none of those things are real threats if you take the most basic of precautions.
It may take a catalyzing event, like a virus that shuts down a financial network or turns off a power grid or plays a part in some "terrorist attack." They may even try to require that everything you do online is stamped with a virutal confirmable ID that you have to renew like a drivers license.
This is coming, make no mistake about it. The only hope we have to prevent it is to fight fiercely on both the corporate front (against non net neautrality, because if they can't legislate it directly, they'll do it in a defacto manner) and against laws like S1959 which criminalize thoughtcrime and dissent; make organizing a boycott and other such actions a crime and involve the internet.
It's clear that there has been fraud.
Just like it was clear (and proven conclusively) that there was fraud that altered the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, and 2000 as well.
The mainstream media is completely compromised. Anybody who is waiting to hear this proclaimed on NBC wil be waiting forever (stupidly).
Many people just don't understand that this isn't a right/left dem/rep issue - The powers that be have a vested interest in ensuring that if it's democrat it is Hillary - if it is a republican it is MCCain or Giuliani.
They also want to limit mainstream exposure of Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich...They certainly couldn't have straight shooters like these guys on a live TV major network debate speaking truth right next to a bunch of controlled corporatists who want to talk about the crap the mainstream media has been forcefeeding the public without making media darlings look like the cardboard kleptogarchs they are.
If they do, they'll probably take a hint from our corrupt ass government (with whom these corporations are likely in bed with) and resurface 2 months later as the:
AARI (with a new logo and everything)...
But can you be programmed as a good recognizer?
What is your problem?
If you think being concerned about fascism is hysteria you obviously haven't studied history and haven't researched what is going on in America much.
Enjoy your slavery.
The "loopholes" as you call them are usually the true purposes of the laws you mentioned.
HIPAA being a prime example.
They'll (they being legislators, lobbyists, etc) create a law or regulation in an area which is already pretty much covered by existing legislation or standards..
Then the marketing of said law starts...They'll claim "This law clarifies and preempts existing laws, and this law protects you from X, Y, and Z"...but in reality, what they are really doing is defining said law to mean X, Y, and Z are now illegal - but they don't tell you that the reason they are doing so is so that their buddies in the private sector can then use methods A, B, and C to accomplish something far worse.
Ahh...yeah I hasve been wondering about this. This is ESET or whatever, right?
How does it compare with Grisoft? What do you like about it?
Fuck McAfee. Their anti-virus and security products suck anyway; buying a prebuilt machine that comes with this crap on it is about as bad as the ones which come with Norton...I have never met anyone who has worked with windows machines a lot who doesn't dislike both of these products.
It's not so much that they aren't secure enough for various reasons, it's that they impose such an overhead on your machine, occasionally can be difficult to remove, install so much crap, and really impact the user experience in a negative way.
As far as home Anti-virus goes it is my opinion that there are several good options, Grisoft's AVG line primarily - I think Trend isnt bad - I have heard good things about Avast but have no personal experience.
As far as corporate I have experience using Norton's corporate edition which I think is much better than their home offerings, but nowhere near as good as Grisoft's stuff. I switched our company network to AVG network edition a couple of years ago and have been extremely impressed with the result - in addition to being much more reasonable priced I find it much easier to administer locally or via the network; it gives me the information, control, and reporting I need from the administration module and has the same low overhead and and flawless performance as their other stuff.
I have to say that seeing corporations like this fret about possibly having taken advantage of the GPL and possibly getting nailed on it is heart warming.