I would rather it drives home the importance of controlling any flow of money. Say someone gets ahold of my online banking password. They should only have the ablitlity to transfer money from checking to savings or perhaps pay my cable bill. They should not be able to transfer it to an account that isn't one of my accounts with the same bank. They shouldn't be able to set themselves up as a payee able to recieve electronic payments from my account. They should be able to transfer funds to a different bank. Sure it might be slightly less convienent for me to have to go to the bank in person with ID in order to add a new payee, or to make a transfer to a different bank, but it seems a small price to pay for that security. I should be more worried about a keylogger screwing up my e-mail than emptying my bank account. This shouldn't be that tough folks.
I imagine the list of tools useful only to hackers is pretty short. And I imagine that german hackers will find ways to use "legit" software to their ends.
On another note, expect little in the way of secure software innovation out of Germany in the next few years.
Tell them you're looking for work and want an interview/offer and they'll stop calling for sure.
You sir, are brilliant. Yes, every time they call set up an interview over lunch. Preferably somewhere you have no intention of going for lunch. Have everyone in the company do the same. After a week or so of chasing false leads they will turn their attentions elsewhere.
I'm going to make a comparison to a Ford Model T and a Space Shuttle
Don't forget to include the "which one would be more useful for common people to own and use" tests. Hmmm. Which one can I use to go get groceries? Which one can I use to take the kids to school? How many people a year really need to go into space?
Sometimes all the extra horsepower and fanciness don't make it much more useful. Maybe if modern software more resembled a limosine or a Prius or a Lambrogini than the space shuttle in that comparison the computing world would be better off. But I think you have it right, many software improvements have the practicality of the space shuttle.
How exactly do you define privacy? the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
the condition of being concealed or hidden
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
And how do you define investigation? the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
So which of these two definitions would more accurately describe having facial recognition software observing you?
Writing about sex with a 14 year old is a long way from actually doing it, and the large number of people who have written and read such fiction indicates that it is far from abnormal for the healthy imagination to wander in this respect.
I would say it is largely made up of reliveing "the glory days" when said 40 year old was actually fairly attractive. Most people are never more physically attractive than they were when they were 16-17. Now they are fat and old and want to imagine that they and/or their lover are still young and buff. And if finding girls in their late teens sexy is so rare as to be a perversion, why is the working age of female models 16-25? http://forums.models.com/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=20 2&Topic=29096
You said it was a nice idea, but then called a police state "horrific". Make up your mind. Sure it would be nice to be able to easily track violent criminals, but what about potentialy violent criminals like terrorists, or anarchists, or people who right Un-American things on the internet? Why would you say that a police state would be "horrific" if you haven't done anything wrong? You should just confess now, we want to help you.
Yeah facial recognition software has been a US Customs thing for a few years now.
"As U.S. airports begin installing face-recognition systems to thwart terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, civil rights activists are rushing to decry the technology as ineffective and invasive."
"In the USA Patriot Act, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) is mandated to measure the accuracy of biometric technologies. In accordance with this legislation, NIST, in cooperation with other Government agencies, conducted the Face Recognition Vendor Test 2002. FRVT 2002 Sponsors and Supporters are:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
Department of State,
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
National Institute of Justice,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Transportation Security Administration,
ONDCP Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center,
United States Customs Service,
Department of Energy,
Drug Enforcement Administration,
Immigration and Naturalization Service,
Secret Service,
Technical Support Working Group,
Australian Customs,
Canadian Passport Office,
United Kingdom Biometric Working Group. "
I included the long list of agencies because under Homeland Security they will undoubtably share databases. If you have been scanned, everyone has your facial recognition file and fingerprints. I tried to stand out of the camera view, but there was no good way to aviod walking past it. The customs guy did alot of typing when I came in, probably as it was my first time in front of a facial recognition camera. My girlfriend was practically waved through, but she had been though customs just a year ago, as so probably already has a file.
It is being turned into product. Has you flown into the US from overseas recently? They have (and use) fingerprint scanners, cameras and facial recognition software running in US Customs. Sure right now only people with foreign passport have to scan in and back out when they go through customs, but the cameras are right in your face in the US passport lines as well. This may be very new, I first saw them this last Monday in JFK. But apparently this has been going on for awhile.
This equality and freedom would be achieved through the abolition of authoritarian institutions and private property[2], in order that direct control of the means of production and resources will be gained by the working class and society as a whole. Libertarian socialism also constitutes a tendency of thought that informs the identification, criticism and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of social life. Accordingly they believe that "the exercise of power in any institutionalised form -- whether economic, political or sexual -- brutalises both the wielder of power and the one over whom it is exercised
Just who is going to do the abolishing if not some authoritarian power? Even if it is "the people" acting with a common interest, how is that not an institution set to destroy my right to things that can only be produced through authoritarian measures? Lets try to build Golden Gate Bridge under this "philosophy". Under libertarian socialism is the architect supposed to buy or solicit all the labor and materials himself? What is someone has their rose garden on a necessary piece of land and refuses to give it up because of the lovely view of the bay? What if fifty different architects have fifty different plans for a bridge? What if the ferry operators decide to take the bridge apart? When a man with as much apparent intelligence as Chomsky espouses such poorly thought out ideas, he gets a reputation for being a dingbat and then his more carefully considered ideas aren't taken seriously. A shame really.
do you perhaps mean withholding their product from people who do not pay for it?
Just how much did the major ISPs pay the major internet content providers last year for making the internet worth accessing? Without content the ISP don't have much to sell. Come to think of it, I've never paid Google a penny, and I use their product several times a day. There are lots of people who could justify putting prices (or higher prices) on their contributions to the internet, but it would quickly cease to be the resource that it is if everyone did so. Just as there is a difference between fishing and overfishing, the is a difference between profiting and exploiting. The ISPs need to be careful not to overfish their investment.
What I mean by government protected industry would be a US corn farmer. The US congress gave 190 billion dollars in farm subsidies in 2002. We did't need more corn, but farmers were paid to keep growing more. Yes, we need to have a strong agricultural infrastructure, but 190 billion a year paid out to grow excess food we don't need is a bit ridiculous. That is what I mean by a protected industry. You can't be effected by market forces because Uncle Sam will just take the money from the people and give it to you anyway, regardless of supply and demand.
Perhaps you should build some stronger social bonds with people around you. Real friends are going to be much more important to getting back from rock bottom than a government check. The government check will leave you as soon as you start to get back on your feet, while your friends will help you all the more.
Have you ever seen a homeless Amish person? or a homeless Orthodox Jew? Religious details aside, those groups both have a very strong sense of community and do not allow members of that community to fall too far behind.
The bottom line is that computers allow for a variety of different story telling opportunities.
Yes if you want a story told to you. If you actually want to have influence and be a part of the creation of the story, you need something both, non-linear and plot driven. Give me a RPG where I really have an effect on the game world. I want my in game actions in to influence the game world in the same way that Spore promises to have my choices effect the sim. Single player RPGs need procedural plot generation. And they need it before MMPORGs figure out how to have actual plots and character effects on the game world.
"...while the argument against is that there would be high levels anyway and all high prices are doing is propping up bloated corporate profit margins."
Which begs the question, are the profit margins in those industries bloated? The profit margins for some industries like restraunts and grocery stores are quite slim, while the profit margin on designer sunglasses is rather hefty. Is it really necessary to innnovation to attach ridiculous wealth to IP? Would there be no good music if recording artists lead made only upper middle class wages? If drug companies couldn't fly doctors to all expense paid "symposiums" would there be no other way for doctors to learn about new treatments for heartburn or baldness? Should government protected industries be required to open their books to the public, so that these profit margins and how they are spent can be easily known?
There was a time when those in need would turn to their community for help when extraordinary circumstances arose. But we have turned over the responsiblity of careing for our neighbor to the government. Now instead of responding with compassion we can say "Fuck it. I pay my taxes, and there is a program to help." And we all know how efficent and effective government programs are. The very pinnacle of barely acceptable mediocrity. Social security and welfare are what happens when you remove thought, effort, and choice from careing about other people.
why didn't they also burn them if they really wanted them gone? C'mon they could make a person vanish, but they can manage to successfully destroy paper?
All they need is the majority of the electoral votes and suddenly everyone in the country has a vote that counts. The only reason we are seeing this kind of vote reform is because it isn't being done by the Federal Government. This is a wonderful example of states being a balance to the federal gov. It's a correction that is long overdue, but our national government was never going to make the necessary reforms, so it's being made for them at the state level.
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I would rather it drives home the importance of controlling any flow of money. Say someone gets ahold of my online banking password. They should only have the ablitlity to transfer money from checking to savings or perhaps pay my cable bill. They should not be able to transfer it to an account that isn't one of my accounts with the same bank. They shouldn't be able to set themselves up as a payee able to recieve electronic payments from my account. They should be able to transfer funds to a different bank. Sure it might be slightly less convienent for me to have to go to the bank in person with ID in order to add a new payee, or to make a transfer to a different bank, but it seems a small price to pay for that security. I should be more worried about a keylogger screwing up my e-mail than emptying my bank account. This shouldn't be that tough folks.
History is written by the victor. If the American Revoltion had failed, how would we think of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson today?
I imagine the list of tools useful only to hackers is pretty short. And I imagine that german hackers will find ways to use "legit" software to their ends.
On another note, expect little in the way of secure software innovation out of Germany in the next few years.
Tell them you're looking for work and want an interview/offer and they'll stop calling for sure.
You sir, are brilliant. Yes, every time they call set up an interview over lunch. Preferably somewhere you have no intention of going for lunch. Have everyone in the company do the same. After a week or so of chasing false leads they will turn their attentions elsewhere.
I'm going to make a comparison to a Ford Model T and a Space Shuttle
Don't forget to include the "which one would be more useful for common people to own and use" tests. Hmmm. Which one can I use to go get groceries? Which one can I use to take the kids to school? How many people a year really need to go into space?
Sometimes all the extra horsepower and fanciness don't make it much more useful. Maybe if modern software more resembled a limosine or a Prius or a Lambrogini than the space shuttle in that comparison the computing world would be better off. But I think you have it right, many software improvements have the practicality of the space shuttle.
Are you ready to claim sovereign rights to your land?
Isn't that essentially what the Montana Freemen tried to do? Declaring sovereignty will get you shot then painted in the media as a wackjob.
How exactly do you define privacy?
the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
the condition of being concealed or hidden
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
And how do you define investigation?
the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
So which of these two definitions would more accurately describe having facial recognition software observing you?
Writing about sex with a 14 year old is a long way from actually doing it, and the large number of people who have written and read such fiction indicates that it is far from abnormal for the healthy imagination to wander in this respect.
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I would say it is largely made up of reliveing "the glory days" when said 40 year old was actually fairly attractive. Most people are never more physically attractive than they were when they were 16-17. Now they are fat and old and want to imagine that they and/or their lover are still young and buff. And if finding girls in their late teens sexy is so rare as to be a perversion, why is the working age of female models 16-25? http://forums.models.com/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=2
You said it was a nice idea, but then called a police state "horrific". Make up your mind. Sure it would be nice to be able to easily track violent criminals, but what about potentialy violent criminals like terrorists, or anarchists, or people who right Un-American things on the internet? Why would you say that a police state would be "horrific" if you haven't done anything wrong? You should just confess now, we want to help you.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-275313.html
http://www.frvt.org/FRVT2002/default.htm
I included the long list of agencies because under Homeland Security they will undoubtably share databases. If you have been scanned, everyone has your facial recognition file and fingerprints. I tried to stand out of the camera view, but there was no good way to aviod walking past it. The customs guy did alot of typing when I came in, probably as it was my first time in front of a facial recognition camera. My girlfriend was practically waved through, but she had been though customs just a year ago, as so probably already has a file.
"I got fucked out of a $100 million box office movie script" isn't bragging rights, it's suicide watch.
It is being turned into product. Has you flown into the US from overseas recently? They have (and use) fingerprint scanners, cameras and facial recognition software running in US Customs. Sure right now only people with foreign passport have to scan in and back out when they go through customs, but the cameras are right in your face in the US passport lines as well. This may be very new, I first saw them this last Monday in JFK. But apparently this has been going on for awhile.
Just who is going to do the abolishing if not some authoritarian power? Even if it is "the people" acting with a common interest, how is that not an institution set to destroy my right to things that can only be produced through authoritarian measures? Lets try to build Golden Gate Bridge under this "philosophy". Under libertarian socialism is the architect supposed to buy or solicit all the labor and materials himself? What is someone has their rose garden on a necessary piece of land and refuses to give it up because of the lovely view of the bay? What if fifty different architects have fifty different plans for a bridge? What if the ferry operators decide to take the bridge apart? When a man with as much apparent intelligence as Chomsky espouses such poorly thought out ideas, he gets a reputation for being a dingbat and then his more carefully considered ideas aren't taken seriously. A shame really.
More to the point, where am I going to find a belt clip for this thing?
do you perhaps mean withholding their product from people who do not pay for it?
Just how much did the major ISPs pay the major internet content providers last year for making the internet worth accessing? Without content the ISP don't have much to sell. Come to think of it, I've never paid Google a penny, and I use their product several times a day. There are lots of people who could justify putting prices (or higher prices) on their contributions to the internet, but it would quickly cease to be the resource that it is if everyone did so. Just as there is a difference between fishing and overfishing, the is a difference between profiting and exploiting. The ISPs need to be careful not to overfish their investment.
"give us money or we'll strangle your bits. "
Yes they certainly have us by the bits, don't they.
What I mean by government protected industry would be a US corn farmer. The US congress gave 190 billion dollars in farm subsidies in 2002. We did't need more corn, but farmers were paid to keep growing more. Yes, we need to have a strong agricultural infrastructure, but 190 billion a year paid out to grow excess food we don't need is a bit ridiculous. That is what I mean by a protected industry. You can't be effected by market forces because Uncle Sam will just take the money from the people and give it to you anyway, regardless of supply and demand.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1031/p17s01-lihc.ht
Perhaps you should build some stronger social bonds with people around you. Real friends are going to be much more important to getting back from rock bottom than a government check. The government check will leave you as soon as you start to get back on your feet, while your friends will help you all the more.
So, how well did that work?
Have you ever seen a homeless Amish person? or a homeless Orthodox Jew? Religious details aside, those groups both have a very strong sense of community and do not allow members of that community to fall too far behind.
The bottom line is that computers allow for a variety of different story telling opportunities.
Yes if you want a story told to you. If you actually want to have influence and be a part of the creation of the story, you need something both, non-linear and plot driven. Give me a RPG where I really have an effect on the game world. I want my in game actions in to influence the game world in the same way that Spore promises to have my choices effect the sim. Single player RPGs need procedural plot generation. And they need it before MMPORGs figure out how to have actual plots and character effects on the game world.
"...while the argument against is that there would be high levels anyway and all high prices are doing is propping up bloated corporate profit margins."
Which begs the question, are the profit margins in those industries bloated? The profit margins for some industries like restraunts and grocery stores are quite slim, while the profit margin on designer sunglasses is rather hefty. Is it really necessary to innnovation to attach ridiculous wealth to IP? Would there be no good music if recording artists lead made only upper middle class wages? If drug companies couldn't fly doctors to all expense paid "symposiums" would there be no other way for doctors to learn about new treatments for heartburn or baldness? Should government protected industries be required to open their books to the public, so that these profit margins and how they are spent can be easily known?
There was a time when those in need would turn to their community for help when extraordinary circumstances arose. But we have turned over the responsiblity of careing for our neighbor to the government. Now instead of responding with compassion we can say "Fuck it. I pay my taxes, and there is a program to help." And we all know how efficent and effective government programs are. The very pinnacle of barely acceptable mediocrity. Social security and welfare are what happens when you remove thought, effort, and choice from careing about other people.
why didn't they also burn them if they really wanted them gone? C'mon they could make a person vanish, but they can manage to successfully destroy paper?
of course I am also George Lucas's bitch.
If you were a whiney bitch, you could be a lead character.
All they need is the majority of the electoral votes and suddenly everyone in the country has a vote that counts. The only reason we are seeing this kind of vote reform is because it isn't being done by the Federal Government. This is a wonderful example of states being a balance to the federal gov. It's a correction that is long overdue, but our national government was never going to make the necessary reforms, so it's being made for them at the state level.