"and to monitor privileged user actions for unauthorized or inappropriate activity"
Wouldn't that require "backdooring" privileged user accounts? I doubt normal administrative monitoring would warrant mention as something new, unless, the statement is just political puff 'n' stuff..
But I get the distinct impression that what diet is "good for you" is determined by what foodstuff the agricultural commodity markets feel is undervalued this year.
I may be going against the flow here; but I have the distinct impression that allowing a crypto currency to be exchanged for a fiat currency is one layer of abstraction too far. Thus, I think the Russian central bank got it right by banning the stuff and that the bitcoin bubble is going to burst within the year. If Mt.Gox collapses it might not last the week.
The consumer market is migrating away from the desktop to mobile devices enmass while business clients couldn't give a rats ass about some GUI eye candy. The Metro interface seems to prove, to me at least, that Microsoft has lost its way. If MS doesn't quickly segregate it's development to "consumer" (devices) and "business" (desktops) the next five years are going to be brutal for their bottom line.
Because we turn most of our tech into weapons. However, as long as we don't make autonomous killing machines out of them, we have nothing to worry about. Oh, wait...
"When fascism arrives, it will appear on a Harley with a cheeseburger and a credit card, not wrapped in a flag carrying a Bible."
That's where LG dropped the ball; they didn't bundle the snooping with an obvious feature. I'm certain the Panopticon will be bundled with free games that use a camera on the TV for for in play motion detection and the snoop data will be hidden in proprietory encrypted game data. Now back to polishing my tinfoil hat.
I really don't know why the Canadian government is involved in these negotiations at all as the treaty doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of being ratified. Mostly because it would require an admendment to our Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to become law as it will be kicked out of court on it's ear otherwise. Also, the Copyright Board of Canada would have to be disbanded in spite of having a Royal Charter. We're talking a great big messy Constitutional crisis over file sharing. Not a good idea at the best of times and for a minority Conservative government it is tantamount to political suicide. Should be fun to watch, though.
I think I missed the point of the article, one question keeps coming up in my mind: what stops the kid from being truant here? just because their location is monitored, doesn't mean they have to go to school. If you want to stop the kid from being truant, the parents/guardians have to get involved. Drive the kid to school in the morning, teach them the value of an education, show them the importance of being a success in life, most of all try and give the kid a better start than you had. If you raise them like you give a damn, they will care about an education. Maybe or maybe not. I did a quick look through the Dallas news for crime articles related to Bryan Adams school and the place looks pretty scary with assults on teachers doubling in recent years. It might be that at least some of the truants are displaying well honed survival skills. After all, the teachers are scared.
Unless Texas has a truancy law that is much different than the rest of the world truancy is a misdemenour. Tagging children for commiting a misdemenour. Now that's just awful.
It strikes me that Interrupt 19 is a heck of a lot easier to use and not hardware dependant providing that the CPU is any version of x86 and int 19 isn't disabled. Curiously, most CMOS, even modern ones, leave int 19 wide open by default so it can reboot the system without clearing memory or restoring interrupt vectors. How easy is that?
Oh, yeah, I'm so sure your long arm or pistol will come in real handy against a satellite directed Appache when you finally decide enough is enough and the government decides they've enough of you. This isn't 1776 and the last time the US government put down a serious domestic dispute (Wounded Knee) they sent in tanks, light armoured vehicles with 50 cal machineguns and helicopter gunships. Good luck with all that.
In much of the world mosques, Buddhist temples and\or Catholic churches are the only places the locals can get a proper education. Ultra high speed internet could be extremely useful to them when divvied up among thousands of students and religious scholars.
*laughs* Redunadcy exists for a purpose. I ALWAYS assume hardware will fail. It does you know. I guess that's why I still have the data from my 1966 756 byte Multics terminal account.
Most contries have some form of filtering already in place and the most powerful of them are used to block "child porn" sites but are capable of filtering any other sites as well. I wrote the director of Cleanfeed Canada with my concerns that the filtering was opaque as Canadian internet users had no way of knowing what is being blocked. I explained that, yes, the list might be used by paedophiles to get around the filtering but that they would be doing it anyway because they are sick, twisted criminals and that's what sick, twisted criminals do. Sneakiness is part of the criminal job description. How are we to know that only child porn sites would be blocked in future? The reply was terse and essentially boiled down to "you'll just have to trust us because, afterall, we are doing it for the children". So, keep an eye on China, they may already be living in our future.
Looks like I'll have plenty to see if the thing breaks up. They're going to try to knock it out 3,000 miles (10 minutes) from my house. You know, there are actual people living downtrack from the intercept. Thanks guys.
Often, genetic anomalies are used by the simply mean to carry out their worst crimes. For example: blonde hair and blues eyes, which I have because of my Norwegian ancestory - I'm SO white - is a recessive gene similar to the recessive gene that makes seal point Siamese cats look the way they do. For some inexplicable reason a bunch of mostly dark haired and brown eyed people who called themselves NAZI wanted to be like me. WTF? They wanted it so bad they killed millions and did the most horrible things to my family. When Quisling gave up Norway to them the NAZI decided to make their dream of perfect blue eyed blondeness come true. They did it by going around to all of the villages and picked out the most perfectly blonde girls between 12 and 16. The girls were taken to a camp and "bred" with the NAZI elite to create an "Arayan Super Race". When the Allies retook Norway the NAZI decided to hide their crime by "liquidating" the remaining girls. Of the 82 girls taken from my families village none came home including 2 of my aunties. When someone starts talking about "genetic communities" watch like a hawk and never-ever trust them. My family learned that the hard way.
My sons and I used to play games like Mario Brothers (pick a number), X-man and so on. The level breaks were a time for hugs and snacks. We particularly liked games such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms that had natural turn play so we could play the same session for weeks yet the boys could go to school and I could have bath once in a while. **eew* Life sucking games with no breaks were the reason we quit gaming altogether.
One day there is going to be an accounting for what has happened in Myanmar. The Junta has oppressed its people, trafficked heroin, amphetamines, ecstasy and young girls to the fleshpots of Thailand and, just to rub in how evil they are, have imprisoned an angel for going on two decades now. The whole while the world has done nothing more than shake its collective head and "tsk-tsk" the Junta. When the day comes, and it will, when everyone and dog is looking for absolution for turning a blind eye to Myanmar (that's exactly what is happening. Pretty words mean nothing)it would be nice to be able to say "Well, at least we refused to sell them so much as a bar of soap, never mind computers and/or software". Sure China or Russia or Iran may those sell things to the regime but, at least, you can walk away with something resembling clean hands. So, if this issue causes the U.S. Congress to revisit sanctions against Myanmar and possibly start considering sanctions that actually hurt then it's probably a good thing. Don't think I'm just pointing my finger at the U.S. Many other countries; including my own, Canada, have equally bad records for having sanctions against Myanmar that amount to little more than window dressing. So, yes, block sales of software, any software, and computers and EVERYTHING eslse. Do it now.
If filtering is done in the U.S. it will effect every one. More than 80% of all web traffic routes through American servers and routers. Chances are pretty good that if I send an email from Vancouver Island with a perfectly legal (in Canada) personal copy of a song to a relative in Ontario the file will most likely be filtered while routing through Seattle or Chicago.
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"and to monitor privileged user actions for unauthorized or inappropriate activity" Wouldn't that require "backdooring" privileged user accounts? I doubt normal administrative monitoring would warrant mention as something new, unless, the statement is just political puff 'n' stuff..
"Nine of the worlds biggest banks have figured out how to game bitcoin"
If the UK actually goes through with something this stupid, and thier track record indicates they probably will, I will simply geo block the UK.
Anonymity in all its forms can be used for nefarious purposes. Isn't that right, Mr. Anonymous Coward?
But I get the distinct impression that what diet is "good for you" is determined by what foodstuff the agricultural commodity markets feel is undervalued this year.
I may be going against the flow here; but I have the distinct impression that allowing a crypto currency to be exchanged for a fiat currency is one layer of abstraction too far. Thus, I think the Russian central bank got it right by banning the stuff and that the bitcoin bubble is going to burst within the year. If Mt.Gox collapses it might not last the week.
The consumer market is migrating away from the desktop to mobile devices enmass while business clients couldn't give a rats ass about some GUI eye candy. The Metro interface seems to prove, to me at least, that Microsoft has lost its way. If MS doesn't quickly segregate it's development to "consumer" (devices) and "business" (desktops) the next five years are going to be brutal for their bottom line.
Because we turn most of our tech into weapons. However, as long as we don't make autonomous killing machines out of them, we have nothing to worry about. Oh, wait...
"When fascism arrives, it will appear on a Harley with a cheeseburger and a credit card, not wrapped in a flag carrying a Bible." That's where LG dropped the ball; they didn't bundle the snooping with an obvious feature. I'm certain the Panopticon will be bundled with free games that use a camera on the TV for for in play motion detection and the snoop data will be hidden in proprietory encrypted game data. Now back to polishing my tinfoil hat.
This reminds me of the novel "A Mote in Gods Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Who knows, maybe one day we'll be that "mote". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye
I really don't know why the Canadian government is involved in these negotiations at all as the treaty doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of being ratified. Mostly because it would require an admendment to our Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to become law as it will be kicked out of court on it's ear otherwise. Also, the Copyright Board of Canada would have to be disbanded in spite of having a Royal Charter. We're talking a great big messy Constitutional crisis over file sharing. Not a good idea at the best of times and for a minority Conservative government it is tantamount to political suicide. Should be fun to watch, though.
Unless Texas has a truancy law that is much different than the rest of the world truancy is a misdemenour. Tagging children for commiting a misdemenour. Now that's just awful.
It strikes me that Interrupt 19 is a heck of a lot easier to use and not hardware dependant providing that the CPU is any version of x86 and int 19 isn't disabled. Curiously, most CMOS, even modern ones, leave int 19 wide open by default so it can reboot the system without clearing memory or restoring interrupt vectors. How easy is that?
Oh, yeah, I'm so sure your long arm or pistol will come in real handy against a satellite directed Appache when you finally decide enough is enough and the government decides they've enough of you. This isn't 1776 and the last time the US government put down a serious domestic dispute (Wounded Knee) they sent in tanks, light armoured vehicles with 50 cal machineguns and helicopter gunships. Good luck with all that.
In much of the world mosques, Buddhist temples and\or Catholic churches are the only places the locals can get a proper education. Ultra high speed internet could be extremely useful to them when divvied up among thousands of students and religious scholars.
*laughs* Redunadcy exists for a purpose. I ALWAYS assume hardware will fail. It does you know. I guess that's why I still have the data from my 1966 756 byte Multics terminal account.
Most contries have some form of filtering already in place and the most powerful of them are used to block "child porn" sites but are capable of filtering any other sites as well. I wrote the director of Cleanfeed Canada with my concerns that the filtering was opaque as Canadian internet users had no way of knowing what is being blocked. I explained that, yes, the list might be used by paedophiles to get around the filtering but that they would be doing it anyway because they are sick, twisted criminals and that's what sick, twisted criminals do. Sneakiness is part of the criminal job description. How are we to know that only child porn sites would be blocked in future? The reply was terse and essentially boiled down to "you'll just have to trust us because, afterall, we are doing it for the children". So, keep an eye on China, they may already be living in our future.
Looks like I'll have plenty to see if the thing breaks up. They're going to try to knock it out 3,000 miles (10 minutes) from my house. You know, there are actual people living downtrack from the intercept. Thanks guys.
Often, genetic anomalies are used by the simply mean to carry out their worst crimes. For example: blonde hair and blues eyes, which I have because of my Norwegian ancestory - I'm SO white - is a recessive gene similar to the recessive gene that makes seal point Siamese cats look the way they do. For some inexplicable reason a bunch of mostly dark haired and brown eyed people who called themselves NAZI wanted to be like me. WTF? They wanted it so bad they killed millions and did the most horrible things to my family. When Quisling gave up Norway to them the NAZI decided to make their dream of perfect blue eyed blondeness come true. They did it by going around to all of the villages and picked out the most perfectly blonde girls between 12 and 16. The girls were taken to a camp and "bred" with the NAZI elite to create an "Arayan Super Race". When the Allies retook Norway the NAZI decided to hide their crime by "liquidating" the remaining girls. Of the 82 girls taken from my families village none came home including 2 of my aunties. When someone starts talking about "genetic communities" watch like a hawk and never-ever trust them. My family learned that the hard way.
My sons and I used to play games like Mario Brothers (pick a number), X-man and so on. The level breaks were a time for hugs and snacks. We particularly liked games such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms that had natural turn play so we could play the same session for weeks yet the boys could go to school and I could have bath once in a while. **eew* Life sucking games with no breaks were the reason we quit gaming altogether.
Giving up keys would be spitting on the graves of our boys who died on the beaches of Normandy. Simple as that.
I think it should be all exports. The U.S. is on very shaky moral ground when it comes to Myanmar and it's well past time the U.S. stood up and said "we aren't supporting the regime in any way now and we can prove it". Otherwise, when the day of reckoning comes, all the U.S. will have to show is this: http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/corporate_accountability/corporateArticle.asp?ObjID=lrRSFKnmmm&Content=45 and some pretty lies. America is far from alone in having Burmese skeletons in their closet so, please don't think I'm singling out the U.S. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0189406220071001
One day there is going to be an accounting for what has happened in Myanmar. The Junta has oppressed its people, trafficked heroin, amphetamines, ecstasy and young girls to the fleshpots of Thailand and, just to rub in how evil they are, have imprisoned an angel for going on two decades now. The whole while the world has done nothing more than shake its collective head and "tsk-tsk" the Junta. When the day comes, and it will, when everyone and dog is looking for absolution for turning a blind eye to Myanmar (that's exactly what is happening. Pretty words mean nothing)it would be nice to be able to say "Well, at least we refused to sell them so much as a bar of soap, never mind computers and/or software". Sure China or Russia or Iran may those sell things to the regime but, at least, you can walk away with something resembling clean hands. So, if this issue causes the U.S. Congress to revisit sanctions against Myanmar and possibly start considering sanctions that actually hurt then it's probably a good thing. Don't think I'm just pointing my finger at the U.S. Many other countries; including my own, Canada, have equally bad records for having sanctions against Myanmar that amount to little more than window dressing. So, yes, block sales of software, any software, and computers and EVERYTHING eslse. Do it now.
If filtering is done in the U.S. it will effect every one. More than 80% of all web traffic routes through American servers and routers. Chances are pretty good that if I send an email from Vancouver Island with a perfectly legal (in Canada) personal copy of a song to a relative in Ontario the file will most likely be filtered while routing through Seattle or Chicago.