I agree fully and add my suggestion of e-government and e-parliament:
I propose additionally the preparation of e-parliaments, e-senate and e-congress!
Every elected representative should stay in his election district and be only represented by a
robot head and speaker in the parliament.
To this avatar-like representation the representative should have highbandwidth connection,
so that his image and head movements as well as voice can be transmitted, and a back-channels
showing the representative in his home-office the situation in the assemly room.
This way the taxpayer saves a lot by avoiding the cost of accomodation and transport for their representatives,
while maintaining a dirtect contact between voters and representative locally iwithin the election district.
It has also the added benefit that lobbyists have more problems in contacting the legislative members and
also contacts will be more visible as the voters will see who is contacting their elected representative -
which can not when their representative is in Wahsington DC or their respective seat of government.
"... Pakistan has now officially told all of the country's ISPs that they need to block all encrypted VPNs since content running over such services cannot be monitored by the government."
It is not only Pakistans government who has interests like this but also the US and the EU ( and every other government )
They justify spying, eavesdropping, wiretapping and backdoor-peeping with fighting criminal activities, move over to terrorism and end up with the dilemma that it gives them the power to extend these activity unnoticed to every citizen for their own benefit.
Then we have arrived at a totalitarian state of the type the West & NATO ( US and UK mostly ) critiziced and fought in the form of the Sovietunion and their Allies using the same oppressive methods improved by the digital technology!
With the Kindle the observation of the citizien in his very home like in 1984 has become a reality!
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what I had in mind was the 'rules' a pirate signed in times of Henry Morgan.
same risk ( yer life ) same reward - only the navigator got double
The greek were notoriously active as pirates during the Minoan time and then again during the Romans
And the left-over of the Phoenicians later operated as Corsars in the Western Mediterranean way past the Roman Empire.
But please consider this : many democracies were introduced with pirating at least partly involved.
The greek were pirating the phoenicians
The Vikings all of Europe
And the British pirated on Spain
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Maybe we can expect some democracy in Somalia soon?
Every elected representative should stay in his election district and be only represented by a robot head and speaker in the parliament.
To this avatar-like representation the representative should have highbandwidth connection, so that his image and head movements as well as voice can be transmitted, and a back-channels showing the representative in his home-office the situation in the assemly room.
This way the taxpayer saves a lot by avoiding the cost of accomodation and transport for their representatives, while maintaining a dirtect contact between voters and representative locally iwithin the election district.
It has also the added benefit that lobbyists have more problems in contacting the legislative members and also contacts will be more visible as the voters will see who is contacting their elected representative - which can not when their representative is in Wahsington DC or their respective seat of government.
one possible product: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/278794,bell-labs-builds-telepresence-robots.aspx
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when algorithms become patentable/protectable, the next will be recipes etc....
THOU SHALL NOT ....!!!!
UK Metropolitan Police, U.S. Secret Service, the Ministry of Defence and regimes in the Middle East
especially as it looks like repeated patterns.
or is the DC of Italy not trustworthy for Wintel?NSA to tell them that this comes already with every computer running a majority Operating System 7?
http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image
BTW my former boss of IT is now there CIO.
this of course has nothing to do with your statement!
the person responsible for the destruction of the data remains with the batch of HD until they were turned into Emerald dust ( Al2O3)
Highly cost effective!
There they will be represented by a life size screen and a 100 W speaker.
And all without leaving home-town and electoral district!
on one side developing secure technology
and on the other hand you want to eavesdrop
you ain't need to explain that the NSA wants to eat the cake and keep it too!
and I'll bet that the ideas, if not the whole technology will land in the hands of those the NSA wants to spy on.
on the other hand they want to keep their turf secret
Does one have to be schizophrenic to work there?
if not mandatory, it sure would help!
SUE!
with v > C
so Intel is also in the posse chasing the cutting edge ;-/
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I have applied for ink, paint and writing
what do you think?
BTW do you know why Frank Zappa said that quote as an answer to journalists question?
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know why?
- I even didnt get an answer any more when saying how old I am
When I faked my age to 35 and still sent my list of features, they eagerly invited me for interviews
to withdraw with an: sorry we already filled the job
not saying: with someone cheaper!
"... Pakistan has now officially told all of the country's ISPs that they need to block all encrypted VPNs since content running over such services cannot be monitored by the government."
It is not only Pakistans government who has interests like this but also the US and the EU ( and every other government ) They justify spying, eavesdropping, wiretapping and backdoor-peeping with fighting criminal activities, move over to terrorism and end up with the dilemma that it gives them the power to extend these activity unnoticed to every citizen for their own benefit.
Then we have arrived at a totalitarian state of the type the West & NATO ( US and UK mostly ) critiziced and fought in the form of the Sovietunion and their Allies using the same oppressive methods improved by the digital technology!
With the Kindle the observation of the citizien in his very home like in 1984 has become a reality!
and their image sources will include surveillance cams
so social active criminals will face a tough time.
where the lager beer was invented in the brewery of Anton Dreher.
and what is written on the confident/top-secret agreements. ;-)
wasn't that one of the big arguments of the RIAA regarding downloading?
if you would be so close to the sun, you would be scorched black too!