Speaking as someone who recently served in the military and now works as a defense contractor, the DOD and the VA have a huge problem with protecting the personal information of people that work for the agencies. Walk into any office on any military installation and I can practically guarantee you will find the names of people with SSN either posted on the walls or lying around freely on someone's desk. Unfortunately, DOD and VA track all their employee's data with a SSN, including things like security clearances and who's authorized in an area.
With all the individual rights that have been taken away over the past few years, I'm very proud to see the US government trying to make a stand against genetic testing. I wonder when the corporations will finally stop. First it was just aptitude testing, then drug testing, and now this. Who knows what will come next.
If you have some time on your hands and don't mind hitting refresh a couple million times, you could be the proud owner of a Playstation 2. Amazon has posted to their Playstation page that they expect a shipment today. You will have to check back often, the average sell out time is around two minutes.
Personally, I don't know why anyone would want to keep massive amounts of logs on hand for an extended period of time just because of the headache involved. Their has already been a good amount of lawsuits where sys. admins probably wished they hadn't kept the logs or those back-ups from the e-mail server three years ago. Just ask Mr. Bill Gates about that one.
I have to admit that I was a little bit moved, not excited, just moved, when I saw that IANA had approved the news TLDs, especially.name. I had looked in the past to try and get a domain name for geneology with my last name.org,.com, and.net but they had already been taken. Upon reading further I found out that only one company would be offering the new TLDs. I guess I have been a little bit out of the loop because I had no idea that only one company would be able to sell the new TLDs. I guess now it makes sense why I saw some articles referring to the bids made to IANA, I guess I just didn't think much about it. Since their is no competition, many of these domain names probably won't be sold for nothing less than your own weight in gold. Maybe not.name, but I'm sure that coca-cola.biz is going to cost more than $35.
Reading through the different comments regarding Biafra's speech I felt that a lot of folks missed the mark on what Biafra was trying to say and why it was important.
Biafra's speech does have a lot to do with technology. Looking back over the past few years the "geek" has lost a lot of personal freedoms that Baifra hit upon. Just one example is the DMCA. Think about it, it is actually illegal, a punishable offense, to posses software that allows to you to watch DVD's that YOU purchased on your Linux box. How can this not be directly related to technology and the geek? Sure, maybe some geeks don't own a DVD player as of yet, but this law has aspects that are more reaching than just DVD's. Already restrictions are being imposed on new technologies such as the HDTV that prevents you from recording programming.
The geek has lost a lot of personal freedoms over the years. The insania has been going on for years, even as far back as 1985 with the raids against Steve Jackson games, maybe even further. Biafra simply talked about why he believes why things like the DMCA get signed in to law, or why people have their computer equipment basically stolen from them by Federal Agencies. It is all related.
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Speaking as someone who recently served in the military and now works as a defense contractor, the DOD and the VA have a huge problem with protecting the personal information of people that work for the agencies. Walk into any office on any military installation and I can practically guarantee you will find the names of people with SSN either posted on the walls or lying around freely on someone's desk. Unfortunately, DOD and VA track all their employee's data with a SSN, including things like security clearances and who's authorized in an area.
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With all the individual rights that have been taken away over the past few years, I'm very proud to see the US government trying to make a stand against genetic testing. I wonder when the corporations will finally stop. First it was just aptitude testing, then drug testing, and now this. Who knows what will come next.
The ACLU is a great organization. Hearing that they are taking an interest in ICANN makes me even more proud to be a card holding member.
Now where is the EFF?
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Personally, I don't know why anyone would want to keep massive amounts of logs on hand for an extended period of time just because of the headache involved. Their has already been a good amount of lawsuits where sys. admins probably wished they hadn't kept the logs or those back-ups from the e-mail server three years ago. Just ask Mr. Bill Gates about that one.
I have to admit that I was a little bit moved, not excited, just moved, when I saw that IANA had approved the news TLDs, especially .name. I had looked in the past to try and get a domain name for geneology with my last name .org, .com, and .net but they had already been taken. Upon reading further I found out that only one company would be offering the new TLDs. I guess I have been a little bit out of the loop because I had no idea that only one company would be able to sell the new TLDs. I guess now it makes sense why I saw some articles referring to the bids made to IANA, I guess I just didn't think much about it. Since their is no competition, many of these domain names probably won't be sold for nothing less than your own weight in gold. Maybe not .name, but I'm sure that coca-cola.biz is going to cost more than $35.
Reading through the different comments regarding Biafra's speech I felt that a lot of folks missed the mark on what Biafra was trying to say and why it was important. Biafra's speech does have a lot to do with technology. Looking back over the past few years the "geek" has lost a lot of personal freedoms that Baifra hit upon. Just one example is the DMCA. Think about it, it is actually illegal, a punishable offense, to posses software that allows to you to watch DVD's that YOU purchased on your Linux box. How can this not be directly related to technology and the geek? Sure, maybe some geeks don't own a DVD player as of yet, but this law has aspects that are more reaching than just DVD's. Already restrictions are being imposed on new technologies such as the HDTV that prevents you from recording programming. The geek has lost a lot of personal freedoms over the years. The insania has been going on for years, even as far back as 1985 with the raids against Steve Jackson games, maybe even further. Biafra simply talked about why he believes why things like the DMCA get signed in to law, or why people have their computer equipment basically stolen from them by Federal Agencies. It is all related.