This morning I was thinking about this, and the thought occured to me. If enabling these institutions to more effectively do their job is paramount to enabling dictatorship, then why do we even bother to have these institutions? Again, the lack of rational thought on this matter so deposed by emotional, "OH NOES!! IT'S 1984!!" is patently absurd.
As a functional member of the executive branch, I don't know anyone I work with that would want to beat you up, harass you, imprison you, or shoot you for disagreeing with me politically. Hell, I don't even politically agree with all the people I work with... but we don't go insane over our political views. You've got to, at some point, realize that the hundreds of thousands of people that leave their families every day to provide you with national security for a paycheck to send their kids to college are people just like you and me.
Just because your views are admittedly radical, and you're apparently so impassioned by them that (in your mind) you are willing to risk your freedoms so everyone knows how you feel... doesn't mean anyone is out to get you. In fct, I would take that as a cue that most people you discuss them with are de facto a little more reasonable in their judgement than you. The question that nags in my mind is, "Do you believe the second amendment was written to protect the first?"
What did Sony have to gain by buying MGM back in 1990? Did you really think the people who made the walkman wanted to produce movies?
There is nothing to guarantee that Apple will continue their huge lead in the portable media device market, and everything to suggest their enormous profits are to be short lived. The computer business is questionably profitable for Apple, and media and entertainment diversification will be the only thing that keeps Apple from becoming the people who make over-priced computer accessories in five years.
I told everyone I knew 3 years ago that Apple would be migrating to the x86 architecture by 2006. The iPod had outperformed their computer sales, which were then struggling with the gratitious power demands of the G5 processor completely perplexed how to make it work in a laptop.
I mean seriously, with over half a billion households around the world sporting a Playstation 2 or Xbox or both, it's really no doubt in my mind that this format war will wage itself in the multibillion dollar gaming industry. Here's were Microsoft has seriously made the fatal mistake that already lost the war.
While PS3 will natively support BlueRay (Meaning the games can store upto 50GB of high resolution textures and map data, etc.), the Xbox 360 will not support HDDVD games. This ended the war in my mind. Who the hell is going to spend several hundred dollars for a cumbersome ADDON HD-DVD player for their xbox 360, JUST to watch movies?
Thinking they could overtake a large chunk of Japanese market by rushing their product out, even a year ahead of the Sony device, was the greatest folly Microsoft could have committed. Had they REALLY supported HDDVD, they would have waited to bring their product to market, and included a HD-DVD player standard.
BlueRay has won the format wars before they even begun. Look at how profitable Sony made the completely proprietary UMD movie simply because they can profit from their own film distribution division. Neither Microsoft, nor the Toshiba consortium, have this advantange. Thus laying the final nail in the coffin.
"...that to secure these liberties, Governments are instituted among men..."
allowing terrorists to infiltrate and operate concealed within our society will see the Constitution turned into a worthless document faster than you can say ACLU.
The Constitution doesn't prohibit the government from investigation.
I got a Dell P-III 900 Mhz laptop with 256MB of ram for free after the owner tried "upgrading" it to Windows XP. It ran like such shit, he decided to buy a new laptop instead. I wiped it, installed Ubuntu, and now I have spare laptop that works just fine.
"If anything, our linux servers have a tendency to reboot themselves every once in a while (no one knows why, and we don't have a system admininstrator to check - they're too expensive for us)"
I just wanted to emphasize that sentance for about a dozen obvious reasons.
The idea that any interactions you make with society is "private" is self-destructive lunacy. If I'm visiting website in Pakistan, is that visit "private" because I did it from my living room? If I wire a million dollars to Hamas to distribure to suicide bombers using my cellphone is that a "private" transaction, immune to any government scrutiny? Someone made the argument "If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" is a fallous argument.. and I agree. But if you are doing something to the detriment of society, you have little right to obfuscate your actions from society.
at the end of the day, and this is the argument that I've yet to hear refuted... what's the harm of having the data to be mined stripped of personally identifying information, indexed, and linked to a database that stores the identifying information, which is accessible only by court order?
I mean, it's not that hard to allow data mining AND protect privacy at the same time. How can such a large section of this community be devoid of innovation when it comes to such simple software design? or are you too ideologically driven to bother to ask how? Let's not try to discover terrorism in the United States because I enjoy being so opinionated, that I'm afraid the government is going to kill me.
I'm sure your mom is proud of that Microsoft A+ certification.
Aren't you protesting against gitmo? Are you posting from there?
Or are you suggesting that the people in Gitmo were apprehended as a result of programs such as this one, because if that's the case.. give me ten more.
Seriously, if you want to avoid the idea of a gestapo or secret police, you should advocate government adapting technology for security, it allows for far greater oversight and accountablity and reduces the need for humn intelligence spying on citizens. Data mining, as the articles suggest, can be done with all identifying personal information removed from the intelligence and linked into a seperate database accessible only by court order. By your emotional, sensationalist response, I doubt you bothered to read that far in the article. It's just not an educated reaction. If you don't want the government investigting terrorists and criminals, or you're not willing to educate yourself on the methods, then I really don't care what your perspective on the issue is.
That's called sensationalize and an appeal to emotion. The government can't imprison you unless you are committing crime, that's why we have judges. The idea that because they are connecting phone records with travel itenaries, bank transactions and visits to jihdist websites gives them justification to "shoot you" is simply retarded.
I wonder if it hs anything to do with this. To be fair to the government, this isn't actually too bad an idea. I mean if spammers and dvertisers can gleam information to find potential targets, why can't the same technology be utilized by the defense department, who is typically an early pioneer of technology adapted for public use. Then again, a similar project 'Able Danger' identified Mohammed Atta over a dozen times.
Alvarion is the killer WiMAX equipment provider, and although the article you linked claims it is "not available", it should be revised to "In the United States".
I'm foaming at the mouth for its widespread introduction into the United States, which seems to be hindered by the 3G providers. It's already available in over a hundred countries, and some countries entire communication infrastructures are being redesigned around breezeMAX solutions. Mexico for example has the largest WiMAX deployment in the world.
Personally I think WiMAX will be a major transformtion of the United States once it hits. It's once of those techs that can't come fast enough.
Even if it wsn't people FEELING like they were getting less accomplished, the bottom line is just because people are getting less ccomplished, doesn't mean they are working harder to accomplish the same tasks. Chores are fractionally as difficult as they were decades ago, it's mind numbing how much easier it has become to be productive. Just look at GDP growth, and noone can make an argument we are less productive.
Yeah, I had it in my head the entire time I was posting. I just couldn't find anyway to make it funny or relevant. It seems this little town sucks, and kokomo island sounds pretty nice right about now...
I'm missing something here, why couldn't this kid go down to the city council offices or whatever and look at their paper printout of the two mailing lists side-by-side, and draw his comparisions and conclusions on the spot? Regardless, this is a serious yawn. The spammer that gets this mailing list tomorrow will make more money than the lawyers on both sides. Yay!
Xbox Media Center (XBMC) automatically can turn the power light off on your xbox when it's playing a movie. Not to mention it supports SMB shared drives, and plays just about every video format you can imagine. Just hack out an xbox (Get em while supplies last) and have a killer media center PC for cheap.
The idea that economies will collapse is just naive. Market economies are responsive, not restrictive.
The idea that people sharing content is going to lead to noone being able to pay their rent is stupid.
The only way the economy will "crumble" into a cloud of dust is for everyone to burn all their money all at once and decide that everything is going to be given away.
I'm not a big fan of the idea of "survival of the fittest" because most death doesn't strike the most opportune target, the target is typically overwhelmed, and selected by chance. I do have an opinion however or the evolution of sociatal functions of man.
There are obvious requirements that humans co-habitate. Our children are weak and defenseless for years. It is necessary that we rely on other humans. As our organization increases in size, specialization increases to increase the capacity, and efficiency of the society. Individuals perform more specific tasks to serve the society and as their focus increases on their specific tasks, knowledge is gained. What we've really seen is a diversification of ability and the rising potential for human endeavours as we've increased our reliance on functional society. The potential for two humans who have to provide everything for themselves is far less than the cooperative efforts of billions of humans living in an inter-connected society that breeds in specialization where everyone performs an important task to the world community.. be it building brooms in Argentina to influencing global economics at the WTO.
Relating this to hacking an application is kind of absurd, since most hacks are based on improperly coded software, and the idea is that using a "best practice", or most efficient way to do something wins you some award that noone else is allowed to do it that way is contrary to the best interest of the public and the industry. A better example would be for example, the code that authenticates a web browser to a web server.
Because pussys, diplomacy, and flowers cannot resist the determination of crackpot dictators to usurp power. The Constitution wouldn't mean shit if it wasn't for the will of people to defend it.. and I mean defending it by more than opining to your friends and whining on the internet.. I mean by grabbing a rifle and being willing to take the life of those who would kill you in order to rule you.
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So you're saying you should be able to walk down the street without police officers looking at you?
As a functional member of the executive branch, I don't know anyone I work with that would want to beat you up, harass you, imprison you, or shoot you for disagreeing with me politically. Hell, I don't even politically agree with all the people I work with... but we don't go insane over our political views. You've got to, at some point, realize that the hundreds of thousands of people that leave their families every day to provide you with national security for a paycheck to send their kids to college are people just like you and me.
Just because your views are admittedly radical, and you're apparently so impassioned by them that (in your mind) you are willing to risk your freedoms so everyone knows how you feel... doesn't mean anyone is out to get you. In fct, I would take that as a cue that most people you discuss them with are de facto a little more reasonable in their judgement than you. The question that nags in my mind is, "Do you believe the second amendment was written to protect the first?"
What's the problem with having video cameras on street corners? There could be a cop there instead, right?
There is nothing to guarantee that Apple will continue their huge lead in the portable media device market, and everything to suggest their enormous profits are to be short lived. The computer business is questionably profitable for Apple, and media and entertainment diversification will be the only thing that keeps Apple from becoming the people who make over-priced computer accessories in five years.
I told everyone I knew 3 years ago that Apple would be migrating to the x86 architecture by 2006. The iPod had outperformed their computer sales, which were then struggling with the gratitious power demands of the G5 processor completely perplexed how to make it work in a laptop.
While PS3 will natively support BlueRay (Meaning the games can store upto 50GB of high resolution textures and map data, etc.), the Xbox 360 will not support HDDVD games. This ended the war in my mind. Who the hell is going to spend several hundred dollars for a cumbersome ADDON HD-DVD player for their xbox 360, JUST to watch movies?
Thinking they could overtake a large chunk of Japanese market by rushing their product out, even a year ahead of the Sony device, was the greatest folly Microsoft could have committed. Had they REALLY supported HDDVD, they would have waited to bring their product to market, and included a HD-DVD player standard.
BlueRay has won the format wars before they even begun. Look at how profitable Sony made the completely proprietary UMD movie simply because they can profit from their own film distribution division. Neither Microsoft, nor the Toshiba consortium, have this advantange. Thus laying the final nail in the coffin.
"...that to secure these liberties, Governments are instituted among men..." allowing terrorists to infiltrate and operate concealed within our society will see the Constitution turned into a worthless document faster than you can say ACLU. The Constitution doesn't prohibit the government from investigation.
I got a Dell P-III 900 Mhz laptop with 256MB of ram for free after the owner tried "upgrading" it to Windows XP. It ran like such shit, he decided to buy a new laptop instead. I wiped it, installed Ubuntu, and now I have spare laptop that works just fine.
"If anything, our linux servers have a tendency to reboot themselves every once in a while (no one knows why, and we don't have a system admininstrator to check - they're too expensive for us)" I just wanted to emphasize that sentance for about a dozen obvious reasons.
at the end of the day, and this is the argument that I've yet to hear refuted... what's the harm of having the data to be mined stripped of personally identifying information, indexed, and linked to a database that stores the identifying information, which is accessible only by court order?
I mean, it's not that hard to allow data mining AND protect privacy at the same time. How can such a large section of this community be devoid of innovation when it comes to such simple software design? or are you too ideologically driven to bother to ask how? Let's not try to discover terrorism in the United States because I enjoy being so opinionated, that I'm afraid the government is going to kill me.
I'm sure your mom is proud of that Microsoft A+ certification.
Aren't you protesting against gitmo? Are you posting from there? Or are you suggesting that the people in Gitmo were apprehended as a result of programs such as this one, because if that's the case.. give me ten more. Seriously, if you want to avoid the idea of a gestapo or secret police, you should advocate government adapting technology for security, it allows for far greater oversight and accountablity and reduces the need for humn intelligence spying on citizens. Data mining, as the articles suggest, can be done with all identifying personal information removed from the intelligence and linked into a seperate database accessible only by court order. By your emotional, sensationalist response, I doubt you bothered to read that far in the article. It's just not an educated reaction. If you don't want the government investigting terrorists and criminals, or you're not willing to educate yourself on the methods, then I really don't care what your perspective on the issue is.
Right.. like the Defense Department didn't actually develop Arpanet
That's called sensationalize and an appeal to emotion. The government can't imprison you unless you are committing crime, that's why we have judges. The idea that because they are connecting phone records with travel itenaries, bank transactions and visits to jihdist websites gives them justification to "shoot you" is simply retarded.
I wonder if it hs anything to do with this. To be fair to the government, this isn't actually too bad an idea. I mean if spammers and dvertisers can gleam information to find potential targets, why can't the same technology be utilized by the defense department, who is typically an early pioneer of technology adapted for public use. Then again, a similar project 'Able Danger' identified Mohammed Atta over a dozen times.
I'm foaming at the mouth for its widespread introduction into the United States, which seems to be hindered by the 3G providers. It's already available in over a hundred countries, and some countries entire communication infrastructures are being redesigned around breezeMAX solutions. Mexico for example has the largest WiMAX deployment in the world.
Personally I think WiMAX will be a major transformtion of the United States once it hits. It's once of those techs that can't come fast enough.
Even if it wsn't people FEELING like they were getting less accomplished, the bottom line is just because people are getting less ccomplished, doesn't mean they are working harder to accomplish the same tasks. Chores are fractionally as difficult as they were decades ago, it's mind numbing how much easier it has become to be productive. Just look at GDP growth, and noone can make an argument we are less productive.
"whenever these black box voting machines "just don't work", they error in favor of republicans. " Palm Beach County: Kerry 61% Bush 39% Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore (D) I think the conspircy theorists are onto something.. if someone was tampering with the votes in Palm Beach County, they definately did Bush a favor.. [/sarcasm]
Why is every other discovery a "challenge" to evolution theory? We she call them "improvements", that would be much more positive.
Yeah, I had it in my head the entire time I was posting. I just couldn't find anyway to make it funny or relevant. It seems this little town sucks, and kokomo island sounds pretty nice right about now...
I'm missing something here, why couldn't this kid go down to the city council offices or whatever and look at their paper printout of the two mailing lists side-by-side, and draw his comparisions and conclusions on the spot? Regardless, this is a serious yawn. The spammer that gets this mailing list tomorrow will make more money than the lawyers on both sides. Yay!
Xbox Media Center (XBMC) automatically can turn the power light off on your xbox when it's playing a movie. Not to mention it supports SMB shared drives, and plays just about every video format you can imagine. Just hack out an xbox (Get em while supplies last) and have a killer media center PC for cheap.
The idea that people sharing content is going to lead to noone being able to pay their rent is stupid.
The only way the economy will "crumble" into a cloud of dust is for everyone to burn all their money all at once and decide that everything is going to be given away.
Yeah, that'll happen.
I'm not a big fan of the idea of "survival of the fittest" because most death doesn't strike the most opportune target, the target is typically overwhelmed, and selected by chance. I do have an opinion however or the evolution of sociatal functions of man.
There are obvious requirements that humans co-habitate. Our children are weak and defenseless for years. It is necessary that we rely on other humans. As our organization increases in size, specialization increases to increase the capacity, and efficiency of the society. Individuals perform more specific tasks to serve the society and as their focus increases on their specific tasks, knowledge is gained. What we've really seen is a diversification of ability and the rising potential for human endeavours as we've increased our reliance on functional society. The potential for two humans who have to provide everything for themselves is far less than the cooperative efforts of billions of humans living in an inter-connected society that breeds in specialization where everyone performs an important task to the world community.. be it building brooms in Argentina to influencing global economics at the WTO.
Relating this to hacking an application is kind of absurd, since most hacks are based on improperly coded software, and the idea is that using a "best practice", or most efficient way to do something wins you some award that noone else is allowed to do it that way is contrary to the best interest of the public and the industry. A better example would be for example, the code that authenticates a web browser to a web server.
Because pussys, diplomacy, and flowers cannot resist the determination of crackpot dictators to usurp power. The Constitution wouldn't mean shit if it wasn't for the will of people to defend it.. and I mean defending it by more than opining to your friends and whining on the internet.. I mean by grabbing a rifle and being willing to take the life of those who would kill you in order to rule you.
It's a good thing all my bootleg DVDs come from Pakistan.