It sounds like the total monitoring of civilians is already apon us... I for one welcome our.. ah, forget it.
Its going to get very 'Minority Report'... Car insurance companies already 'find you guilty of bad driving' if you have bad credit or no credit history -because there is a 'linkage';
How long till the DHS send you to GiTm0 because their 'data-base' linked 'trends' in your web surfing habits (it included slashdot - OMG!!), that red and white tea towel you purchased for your picknic looks like some kind of turban (OMG!!), the trip to home depot to buy bleach cos your sheets needed whitening (OMFG!!).... and they pieced it all together and your going to need one ballsy lawyer..
Dont worry, the neigbours wont think less of you 'cos no one will hear about it. The case will be at some insane s3cr3t level that only the judge and the procesuction can attend... and the neighbours will wonder... "what ever happened to that nice man that lived at number 22?"
I aggree. If the development is being done for the fully featured product, then it exists. To put more 1's and 0's on a CD costs little more burn time perhaps, but it cost an awful lot to maintain 6 different versions of the same product - version control can be insane, plus regression testing when updates come out chew into your bottom line. If i was a betting man, I'd say its so they can have 6 different Vice Presidents. VP Vista Basic, VP Vista Premium... etc.. its just an easy way to pad out upper management and make people feel important... at a cost to the shareholder and consumer.
I'm not that confident that Windows basic is analogous to XP home... it seems you need the premium to burn CD's. I'd also be surprised if you can install 3rd party software on 'basic'. It would be a real nail in the coffin for M$ if you cant load your fav FPS or MMORPG
Windows Vista Home Basic. Windows Vista Home Basic is a great choice for homes with basic computing needs. For consumers who want to simply use the PC to browse the Internet, correspond with friends and family through e-mail or perform basic document creation and editing tasks, Windows Vista Home Basic will deliver a safer, more reliable and more productive computing environment. It will provide new tools and technologies for making the PC more secure and enjoyable, including features such as a new Search Explorer, Sidebar and Parental Controls.
Dont mind me, but doesnt data mining require data? Dont these bad guys use snail mail, secret meetings & public payphones etc? Data mining and monitoring of electronic communications is only effective when the enemy e-mail or otherwise use electronic means of communication - the Brits have been mining all Internet data too and from the UK for a few years, but were still subject to an attack.
While voice calls are routed through an underground massive network of computers looking for key-words, these bad guys will just continue to use old and proven methods like coded letters (snail mail), carrier pigeon (not a real pigeon but some unconnected messenger), coded newspaper advertisements, and all the type of techniques the CIA used to communicate with their operatives within Russia. The enemy just revert to Old School. Its slower, but secrecy is probably far more important than speed to them.
I'm all for 'warranted' electronic eavesdropping and surveillance, but the real aim is probably to prevent the use of electronic means (e-mail, blogs etc) and push the enemy to using other means where eventually they will be caught out.
Once electronic civil liberties have eroded and the enemy have reverted to (if they ever left) 'old school' methods, it will require DHS to have road blocks, physical searches, ID, questioning... It will probably be much like living under a Taliban regime. (Except of course the women will be treated the same as men...)
1. No technology and be Amish. At least you'll be happy while you dig those potatoes
2. Teach them technology early and properly. How to use it safely how to make it assit your life, not rule it. The richest people in this world used tech to get there (or oil). So either find some oil, or teach your kids technology. And BTW, watching TiVo and playing Xbox does not teach kids anything. Builing a TiVo from an Xbox.. now that is something..
1. Insurance companies will find any excuse to say that someone is a hazard and increase their premiums - smokers, phone users, ppl who wear glasses, people with bad credit or no credit history - (Like if you just moved here from New Zealand and have no credit history in the USA) "people with no credit crash cars! hand over your cash!!" etc
2. The report says that "people who dont set their destination before they leave" and then try set it while they drive... Well that is like trying to read a regular map by yourself, or following mapquest instructions once you've made a wrong turn... Its called driving people!! That is what you have to do first!!! These people may as well bake a cake.
3. People who are new to the technology think they have to watch it while they drive... not true, your DRIVING HALF A TON OF STEEL AT 70MPH!!!! Keep your eyes on the road!!! The GPS is an aid just like your speedometer and your fuel gauge. DONT STARE AT IT YOU FOOL!!!! [slap slap]
4. I have a Navman iCN-510 in car GPS and I set my destination BEFORE I hit the road, then I leave it. If I need to adjust it, I pull over into a car park. Once you are acustomed to all the information on the screen, you know how to glance at the information you need without losing concentration - No different than reading the fuel guage - [oh, the GPS wants me to go straight ahead, ok]... You need to be acustomed to the information. Try being a passenger and learning how the thing displays upcoming turns, etc.
5. Pilots have a simple rule: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate! Its in that order for a reason. Concentrate on DRIVING first!!!!, then concentrate on where you are going - This exit, or the next exit?... and FRICKEN INDICATE - its not hard. If you cant make an off ramp, use the next one!!!!!
6. Did I mention that insurance companies will find any reason to up your premiums? oh, I did? well if your going to drive that car, then you have to pay more!!! muuuaaaahhhhhaaaaa
7. Get real, and take some responsibility for yourselves people!! Its not the GPSs', its the muppets that dont concentrate on driving.
A freind of mine works for a major airline. Management said they were laying off all the major overhaul engineers. (there is no way the company could sustain buisiness with that great a loss), anyway, the Union 'came up with a way to only lose 300 or so', not all of them... and that is the path forward. What did mgt do? scare the cr@p out of everyone.. what happened - the union laid off 300 people. Same thing here.
The police chief wants cameras in every house... what have half of the/.'ers suggested?:cameras are ok in girls locker rooms, police houses, mayors house, etc... just not everywhere. Dont fall for this ppl! " oh, ok, you can stick cameras in all the outside areas, just not IN my house" - that is NOT acceptable!!!
Yep... here i was thinking i'd thought of some great idea... but its already done... I guess all we need now is some dude with $$billions$$ to buy up heaps of comercial music and dump it on Jamendo.
I'd like to see some rich dude state the following in his will:
- Use all the billions of dollars left in the estate to buy the rights to as much music as possible
- Re-release all that music under a Creative Commons licence, allowing full use (essentially setting it FREE!!!)
- Set up a P2P sharing network to allow those CC hits to be shared, and request donations per track (suggesting 5c per song), Also have Google ads embedded in the app (just tiny ones)
- Use the donations and ad-funds to generate more $$$ to buy the rights to more music
- Repeat from step 2
"the parents not knowing what their teens are doing"? That is their fault for not playing Halo and CS. Believe me, when my kid is old enough to move the mouse, i'll be pwning them with HHHHEEEEAAAAADDDDDSHHHOTTTTTS!! I'll still be on line when i'm in my 90's pwning and swearing at those young haxors.. Its those lazy baby boomers that lazed about and had the 60's with all their LSD after WWII.. Its all there fault for not knowing how to use tehcnology. now where the fcuk is that line break...?...
That article is sez that Vista is too secure, and that the British govt wants a back door....
The Russian mafia are going pay haxors big bucks for a back door if they find one (like the recently found WMF exploit - which some claim is a purposely put in 0 day exploit). I cant believe a Governments would push for this type of exploit, as they really just fuel the spy-ware and hacking economy!
If the British govt get their way, Vista WILL have exploits, so its just a matter of finding them. The haxors mindset is completley different if they know if there is a way in.
At the end of the day I'd rather have the Russian mafia snooping my computer... They are less likely to turn up at 5am in SWAT gear and arrest me for copying my CD to my iPod at the MPAA's request....
well... all I can say is I welcome these new Russian hacker overlords...
If every bullet had an RFID tag, we would soon know who shot who....
(of course there is the case of blackmarket bullets, stolen bullets, RFID being mangled on contact (so encase it in titanium). Also, an increase in cost of bullets.. that is a Chris Rock skit. This would sure make the world a 'more accountable' place. (not safer cos' the shooting can still occur). if the record companies can watermark music, sure someone can figure out a way to RFID bullets.
if you want to run around hiding and shooting 'aliens' in the real world, you could just pop lsd... You'd certainly look just as stupid as having all that robo-gear. Some guys at RMIT (Melbourne Australia) came up with a real/virtual Doom around campus - they wore a headset similar to the one on your link, and used GPS/laptop backpack combo. Problem was they needed 'minders' cos they would run away from the flaming skulls into traffic.. cant be bothered finding the link.
Instant defense: Sony's rootkit allowed a hacker to hijack my PC and steal my files;)
Absolutely, same with the Windows WMF exploit... "they stole all my i-tunes music too..."
I like your idea. Its simple, logical and fair; and they are the three reasons why your structure will be difficult to implement in a bureaucratic world. Also, it is very difficult to take a complex system and make it more simple - (Ever increasing entropy). Step one is the big step in the right direction.
I played PoP every day at lunchtime, until I could finish the whole game without dying and within the 50 minutes of the lunch hour. Perhaps I should have spent more time outside!
I studied engineering upstairs from the hairdressing school. Thats where we wanted to be. One guy picked up 'human form' drawing (required for entry to the fashion design course) just to meet the ladies. It worked. He was the only straight guy in the class. And why not.
Completly made up:
Annon writes "Looks like finding a compatible guy knitter in the knitting circle is becoming even harder, as an already wide gender gap in the loom room and its becoming larger. From the article: 'A Globe review shows that the proportion of men picking up knitting needles peaked at 3.7 percent in 1985 and then went on the decline. Men have comprised about 2.8 percent of knitters in the last few years, and in the elite confines of large industrial wool shops, only 1.7 percent of new knitters are men [...] The argument of many Yarn barns is that men who 'pick up sticks' are defying social expectations, are in an uncomfortable position to begin with. So they are more likely to be dissuaded from pursuing this needlework craft if they are exposed to an unpleasant environment, bad teaching, and negative stereotypes like the image of the old granny sock knitter.'"
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It sounds like the total monitoring of civilians is already apon us... I for one welcome our.. ah, forget it.
Its going to get very 'Minority Report'... Car insurance companies already 'find you guilty of bad driving' if you have bad credit or no credit history -because there is a 'linkage';
How long till the DHS send you to GiTm0 because their 'data-base' linked 'trends' in your web surfing habits (it included slashdot - OMG!!), that red and white tea towel you purchased for your picknic looks like some kind of turban (OMG!!), the trip to home depot to buy bleach cos your sheets needed whitening (OMFG!!).... and they pieced it all together and your going to need one ballsy lawyer..
Dont worry, the neigbours wont think less of you 'cos no one will hear about it. The case will be at some insane s3cr3t level that only the judge and the procesuction can attend... and the neighbours will wonder... "what ever happened to that nice man that lived at number 22?"
I aggree.
If the development is being done for the fully featured product, then it exists. To put more 1's and 0's on a CD costs little more burn time perhaps, but it cost an awful lot to maintain 6 different versions of the same product - version control can be insane, plus regression testing when updates come out chew into your bottom line.
If i was a betting man, I'd say its so they can have 6 different Vice Presidents. VP Vista Basic, VP Vista Premium... etc.. its just an easy way to pad out upper management and make people feel important... at a cost to the shareholder and consumer.
I'm not that confident that Windows basic is analogous to XP home... it seems you need the premium to burn CD's. I'd also be surprised if you can install 3rd party software on 'basic'. It would be a real nail in the coffin for M$ if you cant load your fav FPS or MMORPG
Windows Vista Home Basic. Windows Vista Home Basic is a great choice for homes with basic computing needs. For consumers who want to simply use the PC to browse the Internet, correspond with friends and family through e-mail or perform basic document creation and editing tasks, Windows Vista Home Basic will deliver a safer, more reliable and more productive computing environment. It will provide new tools and technologies for making the PC more secure and enjoyable, including features such as a new Search Explorer, Sidebar and Parental Controls.
no mention of being able to play games there...
Ahem,
Dont mind me, but doesnt data mining require data? Dont these bad guys use snail mail, secret meetings & public payphones etc? Data mining and monitoring of electronic communications is only effective when the enemy e-mail or otherwise use electronic means of communication - the Brits have been mining all Internet data too and from the UK for a few years, but were still subject to an attack.
While voice calls are routed through an underground massive network of computers looking for key-words, these bad guys will just continue to use old and proven methods like coded letters (snail mail), carrier pigeon (not a real pigeon but some unconnected messenger), coded newspaper advertisements, and all the type of techniques the CIA used to communicate with their operatives within Russia. The enemy just revert to Old School. Its slower, but secrecy is probably far more important than speed to them.
I'm all for 'warranted' electronic eavesdropping and surveillance, but the real aim is probably to prevent the use of electronic means (e-mail, blogs etc) and push the enemy to using other means where eventually they will be caught out.
Once electronic civil liberties have eroded and the enemy have reverted to (if they ever left) 'old school' methods, it will require DHS to have road blocks, physical searches, ID, questioning... It will probably be much like living under a Taliban regime. (Except of course the women will be treated the same as men...)
Whew! That was close...
You could always just buy a 32" plasma TV, fix some legs to the back of it, and stick this on the front...
o gies_pl432_32in_plasma_overlay.htm
http://www.wedgwood-group.com/interactive_technol
If you really need to, stick a sheet of hardened glass on the front.
you have 2 choices: Technology or no technology
1. No technology and be Amish. At least you'll be happy while you dig those potatoes
2. Teach them technology early and properly. How to use it safely how to make it assit your life, not rule it. The richest people in this world used tech to get there (or oil). So either find some oil, or teach your kids technology. And BTW, watching TiVo and playing Xbox does not teach kids anything. Builing a TiVo from an Xbox.. now that is something..
Firstly:
1. Insurance companies will find any excuse to say that someone is a hazard and increase their premiums - smokers, phone users, ppl who wear glasses, people with bad credit or no credit history - (Like if you just moved here from New Zealand and have no credit history in the USA) "people with no credit crash cars! hand over your cash!!" etc
2. The report says that "people who dont set their destination before they leave" and then try set it while they drive... Well that is like trying to read a regular map by yourself, or following mapquest instructions once you've made a wrong turn... Its called driving people!! That is what you have to do first!!! These people may as well bake a cake.
3. People who are new to the technology think they have to watch it while they drive... not true, your DRIVING HALF A TON OF STEEL AT 70MPH!!!! Keep your eyes on the road!!! The GPS is an aid just like your speedometer and your fuel gauge. DONT STARE AT IT YOU FOOL!!!! [slap slap]
4. I have a Navman iCN-510 in car GPS and I set my destination BEFORE I hit the road, then I leave it. If I need to adjust it, I pull over into a car park. Once you are acustomed to all the information on the screen, you know how to glance at the information you need without losing concentration - No different than reading the fuel guage - [oh, the GPS wants me to go straight ahead, ok]... You need to be acustomed to the information. Try being a passenger and learning how the thing displays upcoming turns, etc.
5. Pilots have a simple rule: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate! Its in that order for a reason. Concentrate on DRIVING first!!!!, then concentrate on where you are going - This exit, or the next exit?... and FRICKEN INDICATE - its not hard. If you cant make an off ramp, use the next one!!!!!
6. Did I mention that insurance companies will find any reason to up your premiums? oh, I did? well if your going to drive that car, then you have to pay more!!! muuuaaaahhhhhaaaaa
7. Get real, and take some responsibility for yourselves people!! Its not the GPSs', its the muppets that dont concentrate on driving.
GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
i hear you, and your 100% on the money.
/.'ers suggested? :cameras are ok in girls locker rooms, police houses, mayors house, etc... just not everywhere. Dont fall for this ppl! " oh, ok, you can stick cameras in all the outside areas, just not IN my house" - that is NOT acceptable!!!
A freind of mine works for a major airline. Management said they were laying off all the major overhaul engineers. (there is no way the company could sustain buisiness with that great a loss), anyway, the Union 'came up with a way to only lose 300 or so', not all of them... and that is the path forward. What did mgt do? scare the cr@p out of everyone.. what happened - the union laid off 300 people. Same thing here.
The police chief wants cameras in every house... what have half of the
Yep... here i was thinking i'd thought of some great idea... but its already done... I guess all we need now is some dude with $$billions$$ to buy up heaps of comercial music and dump it on Jamendo.
I'd like to see some rich dude state the following in his will:
- Use all the billions of dollars left in the estate to buy the rights to as much music as possible
- Re-release all that music under a Creative Commons licence, allowing full use (essentially setting it FREE!!!)
- Set up a P2P sharing network to allow those CC hits to be shared, and request donations per track (suggesting 5c per song), Also have Google ads embedded in the app (just tiny ones)
- Use the donations and ad-funds to generate more $$$ to buy the rights to more music
- Repeat from step 2
BTW. The above is patent pending...
wait ... i'm not a citizen, i'm a consumer/taxpayer
...and a terrorist suspect..
Yes, as long as we have huge recording companies, we will have copyright that lasts FOREVER....
Personally, i welcome our MPAA overlords.... not!
"the parents not knowing what their teens are doing"? That is their fault for not playing Halo and CS. Believe me, when my kid is old enough to move the mouse, i'll be pwning them with HHHHEEEEAAAAADDDDDSHHHOTTTTTS!! I'll still be on line when i'm in my 90's pwning and swearing at those young haxors.. Its those lazy baby boomers that lazed about and had the 60's with all their LSD after WWII.. Its all there fault for not knowing how to use tehcnology. now where the fcuk is that line break...?...
what about e-bay.. sell the exploit to the higest bidder?
For sale: One windows Exploit, hardly used. Make money quickly through carefully placed advertizing. Reserve $10,000.
I just picked this up from Gizmodo
That article is sez that Vista is too secure, and that the British govt wants a back door....
The Russian mafia are going pay haxors big bucks for a back door if they find one (like the recently found WMF exploit - which some claim is a purposely put in 0 day exploit). I cant believe a Governments would push for this type of exploit, as they really just fuel the spy-ware and hacking economy!
If the British govt get their way, Vista WILL have exploits, so its just a matter of finding them.
The haxors mindset is completley different if they know if there is a way in.
At the end of the day I'd rather have the Russian mafia snooping my computer... They are less likely to turn up at 5am in SWAT gear and arrest me for copying my CD to my iPod at the MPAA's request....
well... all I can say is I welcome these new Russian hacker overlords...
you dont pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave....
If every bullet had an RFID tag, we would soon know who shot who....
(of course there is the case of blackmarket bullets, stolen bullets, RFID being mangled on contact (so encase it in titanium). Also, an increase in cost of bullets.. that is a Chris Rock skit. This would sure make the world a 'more accountable' place. (not safer cos' the shooting can still occur).
if the record companies can watermark music, sure someone can figure out a way to RFID bullets.
if you want to run around hiding and shooting 'aliens' in the real world, you could just pop lsd... You'd certainly look just as stupid as having all that robo-gear.
Some guys at RMIT (Melbourne Australia) came up with a real/virtual Doom around campus - they wore a headset similar to the one on your link, and used GPS/laptop backpack combo. Problem was they needed 'minders' cos they would run away from the flaming skulls into traffic.. cant be bothered finding the link.
With all that hardware hacking, there is nothing stopping you using a 12gauge to take out the targets....
Instant defense: Sony's rootkit allowed a hacker to hijack my PC and steal my files;)
Absolutely, same with the Windows WMF exploit... "they stole all my i-tunes music too..."
I like your idea.
Its simple, logical and fair; and they are the three reasons why your structure will be difficult to implement in a bureaucratic world. Also, it is very difficult to take a complex system and make it more simple - (Ever increasing entropy).
Step one is the big step in the right direction.
I played PoP every day at lunchtime, until I could finish the whole game without dying and within the 50 minutes of the lunch hour. Perhaps I should have spent more time outside!
I studied engineering upstairs from the hairdressing school. Thats where we wanted to be.
One guy picked up 'human form' drawing (required for entry to the fashion design course) just to meet the ladies. It worked. He was the only straight guy in the class. And why not.
Completly made up:
Annon writes "Looks like finding a compatible guy knitter in the knitting circle is becoming even harder, as an already wide gender gap in the loom room and its becoming larger.
From the article: 'A Globe review shows that the proportion of men picking up knitting needles peaked at 3.7 percent in 1985 and then went on the decline. Men have comprised about 2.8 percent of knitters in the last few years, and in the elite confines of large industrial wool shops, only 1.7 percent of new knitters are men [...]
The argument of many Yarn barns is that men who 'pick up sticks' are defying social expectations, are in an uncomfortable position to begin with. So they are more likely to be dissuaded from pursuing this needlework craft if they are exposed to an unpleasant environment, bad teaching, and negative stereotypes like the image of the old granny sock knitter.'"