I think Microsoft has enough connections with the government to get away with a lot of things that they should not be allowed to get away with. Since our government is all about snooping these days I find it hard to believe that Microsoft does not make penetration and study of PCs that run their software quite easy. And it seem that IE is sort of famous for getting hacked into by just about everybody.
If anyone wonders why we have the 99% protesting right now it is just this type of law. Holding a third party responsible for the actions of another person is lame, wrong, and about as un American as any concept can be. It is the equivalent of owning a building and having someone write a death threat on the side of the building without your permission or knowledge and instead of finding the person who did the graffiti they put the building owner on trial. Or maybe they charge him with failure to paint over the graffiti. But the ideas that the city failed to protect the building and failed to locate the criminal somehow don't count as a reality because the city doesn't want to spend money when they fail at their job.
For all of those that scream about responsibility how is it that they never gripe about group and collective responsibility but always want to lash out at individuals.
It's time to take over the parks and bridges again.
It has always been the intention of technology to replace human labor. We have telephones so that we do not have to holler from our roof tops and keeping a car is a lot less labor than keeping horses. People never protested much until the tipping point was upon us and more and more jobs were closed due to technology.
We will all get a pay check for the government and it had best be a decent check as businesses depend upon people spending money. And we will be required to compete or invest a portion of our income in some way so that a social pecking order is maintained. But one thing that was discovered under harsh, old style, communism is that wealth in some people will tend to occur anyway as some people, even under severe conditions, will find a way to save money and leverage it.
The only shocking part is that people don't see that technology is all about replacing human labor. Think about that machine that washes your dishes and how much time and effort it saves in the home. Think about the bands at a good wedding in 1890. It used to take a substantial number of musicians to provide music in a ballroom. Now a boom box can do a better job that those sixty musicians did. How about the legions of telephone operators using roller skates to get around faster at work? How about factories that required thousands of workers now producing more with humans rarely on the assembly floors?
Now technology is beginning to go after the professions. Spanish in high school is now done without a human teacher in some cases. The kids use a computer and are trained by a program with voice capabilities and given exams the same way. With modern surveillance systems one school aid can cover several classrooms for discipline issues. School teachers will soon take a huge hit in employment.
With any luck at all the changes will be rewarding. But expect more changes in the next 30 years than in the last 200 years.
A suit against the studio is in order and just maybe a suit against You Tube as well. I think that the suit against the studio is a winner and a suit against You Tube is more speculative. The question rests in the maintenance of the right of free speech and the hazard of loss of that freedom by web sites passing unusual judgements over what is and is not the correct view of the law of the land. Once a web site starts to censor they acquire a duty to censor. That could even extend into pornography and passing judgement on porn content. It is best to always avoid knowing anything at all about content flowing through your site.
Perhaps you might suggest to them that by the time they get out of college there will be huge changes coming ever faster and faster and it will be a strenuous but perhaps high paying path. I think we are still in the first seconds of the age of computation and expect radical progress and sudden changes.
These ideas are as wrong headed as what we are seeing in Florida. The government of Florida is dumping another 1500 employees due to budget issues. So what will happen is that we will have these 1500 workers with defaults on their mortgages or not paying rent, not making car payments, paying a lot less sales and property taxes, not eating out, not buying shoes, and becoming a burden on the public if they get sick or need emergency housing and food.
It probably costs the government more money to lay a person off than it does to pay them and businesses suffer as well from less customers able to spend a buck. When a worker makes big bucks he pays big taxes and spends large. To save a failing nation the idea is to put solid, large pay in peoples' hands even if they do not earn or deserve it. Hand money to a bum and he buys pizza with his drinking and a jacket to keep warm. The spender is the employer in a certain way. We need more spenders.
I would not like to accept checks for anything. On the other hand the public would benefit tremendously if all financial dealings were completely visible and recorded. For example the dead beat who doesn't pay child support might have trouble before a judge if it could be shown that he spends large sums in strip clubs every pay day. A lot of politicians would be in prison and life would get a lot better. The truth will set us free and secrecy is the opposite of truth.
So books are catching up with musical artists who directly sell their works. What a shock. And you can bet Amazon won't be the only one offering a similar service. Some music score books are now published one at a time according to the order payed in advance. No waste, no shop wear and no inventory tax penalties in such a business make it a solid idea.
It may be interesting to note that we have economic protests that probably include the entire spectrum of governments. Socialist, supposedly capitalist, dictatorship, kingdom, republic - none of it matters. People feel screwed in almost all systems.
Shall Face Book be required to allow it's computers to inspected to establish the truth of these allegations? Considering the size of Face Book a look at the computers, data and programs may run into many millions of dollars. Can the accusers afford to pay Face Book for any sums lost due to investigation? And what happened to Face Book having as big a claim to privacy as anyone else?
Justice can not be found in these situations and the courts need to stay completely out of the picture. Proof is needed before allegations are made and not as part of an invasion of the supposedly guilty party.
This may create a huge problem. Priests go to confession. If the knowledge of what was on his hard drive was gained through the act of confession this could be a huge problem. For example the priest may have confessed and that information used to get him appropriate help. If so the state has no business getting involved at all. Worse yet talking about what is not in a confession is as bad as talking about what is in a confession. So how does a court get to the root of this? This type of law enforcement is way too dangerous to be allowed. For all we know the priest may have been trying to locate and free abused children from those that filmed them.
Then there is another huge issue as well. Do I trust priests more than I trust courts and law enforcement? Frankly I do trust priests a lot more. The arm of the law needs to stay far away from churches.
Not only could such a device be used to spot budding psychopaths and get them into treatment and observation it could also could get these types out of sensitive positions. The last thing we need is a general in the military with strong psychopathic tendencies and the ability to order a strike with modern weapons. Obviously psychopaths do not ask to be such and deserve respect and treatment but they also need to be in a controlled lifestyle such that Jack does not pop out of the box.
There is some validation and reason to believe that the huge treasure trove hidden in Yucca Mountain is real. It may have been removed by now but something has gone on with that place that really stinks.
As an American I feel good that we are not the only people who can have insane laws and really stupid security staff. What daft administration in the UK has come up with the whacked out idea that a person walking about in a shopping mall is in a "private" situation? A person who displays themselves in public is obviously not intending to be private in any sense of the word. If you say or do it in front of another human being it is public by definition.
If the corporate management is really the issue simply establish a separate management that is on its own but with the ability to continue to return high earnings? You shoot the general but do not sell the troops.
The real issue will be what will computers look like and behave like in the future. The chances are the next big thing is not before us quite yet. Smarter and more powerful devices will exist but somehow they just won't be quite what we anticipate. Operating systems and software will be far more valuable as proliferation of diversified hardware expands.
Give him a position as a professor at a well equipped major university and give him access to everything and ask him to come up with something impressive.
Frankly we already know that certain schools in the state are designed as dumping grounds to discourage kids and get them out of the system. It is sort of understood that if we could wave a wand and convert the child to a scholarly and business like attitude that the neighborhood will sweep him into a life of crime and drugs anyway and even if he survives that the chances of reasonable employment are dim.
So it must just be efficiency. Pre finger print him for his probable career in the jails. We can use his year book photo for booking purposes.
Look at it this way. Cleaning toilets and windows at McDonalds for eight bucks an hour won't buy you wheels and the girls won't touch you. Whereas slinging dope as a yo boy on the corner will earn you a lot of cash and the ladies go crazy if you have the stash. It is just a sign of intelligence. Get the ladies and get the cash and have a ball. Old age isn't much fun and getting gunned down doesn't matter as long as you are over 22 as life really ends by then anyway.
Not only is the fuel consumption impressive it is even more so as the craft exceeded a 100 MPH speed average, or speed comparable to real world aviation. The fuel used would not be impressive if it was a super slow aircraft.
Bend over and let me deeply investigate your files, your communications and all of your employees or associates as you just might be in violation of my privacy. Anybody see and problem with that? Worse yet the right to privacy is left out of the Bill of Rights and this may be a great example of why no right to privacy is part of our Constitution to begin with.
We can't paint it all with the same brush. There are situations in which a company provides software designed for protecting valuable data. If I sell software to a bank that is easy to penetrate then I should be held liable unless the bank behaved improperly in the use of the product. However if I write a game program that is intended for non critical computing environments and some defect allows bad people to gain access to the family computer I should not be held liable. The simple fact that penetration of most PCs will not reveal a worthwhile economic gain makes it unlikely that it will be attacked in the first place and trivial if it does occur in most cases. Crooks prefer to go after good targets. The chances are that most system penetration has to do with sloppy behavior of the system users and not what software they happened to purchase.
All that will happen in a truly transparent society is that people will take responsibility for their actions. The truth will set us free is more than a trivial statement. People of faith normally believe that God sees all of their actions and even their thoughts. A society in which life is transparent just might be wonderful. Crime would vanish. Cheating and lying would vanish. This technology is only a step along the path to a truly open society.
A car is normally used on public roads. If the guy had been tracked by traffic cams or some other method he still would have been tracked. So he resents it. Some people resent being studied. But does it do them harm? What do you tell a jury about the financial harm done to the guy? And how about an employer claiming that they had a security issue in his department and had to find the guilty person or dismiss a lot of employees who worked in proximity to this guy? It might be that tracking him eliminated the need to fire him and others as well.
It seems to me that the freedom to study others is every bit as real as any supposed right to privacy. And it does go without saying that our Bill of Rights never mentions any right to privacy in public places or public view. Sometimes freedom involves supporting things that may offend you.
Getting rid of prohibition absolutely did not stop the smuggling of alcohol. In 1960 high value alcohol products were about 5% in the Bahamas of what they sold for in the states. There were so many ways of smuggling alcohol that it never stopped and remained profitable. Also moonshine was and probably still is a lucrative business. People who had used 190 proof white lightening tend to want to have it from time to time and it gets made and sold to this day. It was a big money business and probably still is but I'm not about to run the ridges and hollers to get an accurate survey. Some states still take running a still as a very serious crime and will tend to throw away the key so think before you act.
I believe that one becomes liable for damages and prosecutions if one edits traffic at all. The best defense is zero editing and zero viewing of what flows from your server.
Think about it. Must the phone company be held for any traffic that violates a porn law or any other restrictions? Obviously the phone company has no control and hopefully no knowledge at all of my conversations. How is the net or web site any different? Even a commercial truck driver has no guilt if he has a huge box full of dope in the back of his truck unless it is proven that he knew it was in the truck. The reasoning behind some of these proposed laws is very much aimed at only some of us and not all of us. They may take your car if a passenger has dope in his pocket. But when was the last time a cruise ship, commercial jet, or large building was seized simply because one occupant was doing something illegal?
Property rights have gotten a bit twisted. Musicians often do not get paid when their works are played over the air. The middle men get paid but not the artists. Worse yet the rights extend to absurd periods of time. It is one thing to have an exclusive right to a song for one or two years but now it goes on for lifetimes.
In building mechanical products one must constantly be certain to avoid stepping on anyone's patents. It can cause enough complexity to ruin a decent product or make it so expensive that it is not manufactured at all.
In the case of software the notion of property rights has allowed all kinds of nonsense law suits to crush small companies who had not violated at all. It is the expense of the legal process and defense that forces the small guy to sell his product to the attacking company.
The entire concept of intellectual property needs a complete rework. And in my state the punishments need to be looked at as well. We have many retired folks in Florida and the state went crazy in protecting them from con artists. A bit of fraud can get you charged with greater penalties than a murder. A 175 year sentence for fraud may require the entire sentence to be served whereas a murderer can often be out in 25 years.
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I think Microsoft has enough connections with the government to get away with a lot of things that they should not be allowed to get away with. Since our government is all about snooping these days I find it hard to believe that Microsoft does not make penetration and study of PCs that run their software quite easy. And it seem that IE is sort of famous for getting hacked into by just about everybody.
If anyone wonders why we have the 99% protesting right now it is just this type of law. Holding a third party responsible for the actions of another person is lame, wrong, and about as un American as any concept can be. It is the equivalent of owning a building and having someone write a death threat on the side of the building without your permission or knowledge and instead of finding the person who did the graffiti they put the building owner on trial. Or maybe they charge him with failure to paint over the graffiti. But the ideas that the city failed to protect the building and failed to locate the criminal somehow don't count as a reality because the city doesn't want to spend money when they fail at their job. For all of those that scream about responsibility how is it that they never gripe about group and collective responsibility but always want to lash out at individuals. It's time to take over the parks and bridges again.
It has always been the intention of technology to replace human labor. We have telephones so that we do not have to holler from our roof tops and keeping a car is a lot less labor than keeping horses. People never protested much until the tipping point was upon us and more and more jobs were closed due to technology. We will all get a pay check for the government and it had best be a decent check as businesses depend upon people spending money. And we will be required to compete or invest a portion of our income in some way so that a social pecking order is maintained. But one thing that was discovered under harsh, old style, communism is that wealth in some people will tend to occur anyway as some people, even under severe conditions, will find a way to save money and leverage it. The only shocking part is that people don't see that technology is all about replacing human labor. Think about that machine that washes your dishes and how much time and effort it saves in the home. Think about the bands at a good wedding in 1890. It used to take a substantial number of musicians to provide music in a ballroom. Now a boom box can do a better job that those sixty musicians did. How about the legions of telephone operators using roller skates to get around faster at work? How about factories that required thousands of workers now producing more with humans rarely on the assembly floors? Now technology is beginning to go after the professions. Spanish in high school is now done without a human teacher in some cases. The kids use a computer and are trained by a program with voice capabilities and given exams the same way. With modern surveillance systems one school aid can cover several classrooms for discipline issues. School teachers will soon take a huge hit in employment. With any luck at all the changes will be rewarding. But expect more changes in the next 30 years than in the last 200 years.
A suit against the studio is in order and just maybe a suit against You Tube as well. I think that the suit against the studio is a winner and a suit against You Tube is more speculative. The question rests in the maintenance of the right of free speech and the hazard of loss of that freedom by web sites passing unusual judgements over what is and is not the correct view of the law of the land. Once a web site starts to censor they acquire a duty to censor. That could even extend into pornography and passing judgement on porn content. It is best to always avoid knowing anything at all about content flowing through your site.
Perhaps you might suggest to them that by the time they get out of college there will be huge changes coming ever faster and faster and it will be a strenuous but perhaps high paying path. I think we are still in the first seconds of the age of computation and expect radical progress and sudden changes.
These ideas are as wrong headed as what we are seeing in Florida. The government of Florida is dumping another 1500 employees due to budget issues. So what will happen is that we will have these 1500 workers with defaults on their mortgages or not paying rent, not making car payments, paying a lot less sales and property taxes, not eating out, not buying shoes, and becoming a burden on the public if they get sick or need emergency housing and food. It probably costs the government more money to lay a person off than it does to pay them and businesses suffer as well from less customers able to spend a buck. When a worker makes big bucks he pays big taxes and spends large. To save a failing nation the idea is to put solid, large pay in peoples' hands even if they do not earn or deserve it. Hand money to a bum and he buys pizza with his drinking and a jacket to keep warm. The spender is the employer in a certain way. We need more spenders.
I would not like to accept checks for anything. On the other hand the public would benefit tremendously if all financial dealings were completely visible and recorded. For example the dead beat who doesn't pay child support might have trouble before a judge if it could be shown that he spends large sums in strip clubs every pay day. A lot of politicians would be in prison and life would get a lot better. The truth will set us free and secrecy is the opposite of truth.
So books are catching up with musical artists who directly sell their works. What a shock. And you can bet Amazon won't be the only one offering a similar service. Some music score books are now published one at a time according to the order payed in advance. No waste, no shop wear and no inventory tax penalties in such a business make it a solid idea.
It may be interesting to note that we have economic protests that probably include the entire spectrum of governments. Socialist, supposedly capitalist, dictatorship, kingdom, republic - none of it matters. People feel screwed in almost all systems.
Shall Face Book be required to allow it's computers to inspected to establish the truth of these allegations? Considering the size of Face Book a look at the computers, data and programs may run into many millions of dollars. Can the accusers afford to pay Face Book for any sums lost due to investigation? And what happened to Face Book having as big a claim to privacy as anyone else? Justice can not be found in these situations and the courts need to stay completely out of the picture. Proof is needed before allegations are made and not as part of an invasion of the supposedly guilty party.
This may create a huge problem. Priests go to confession. If the knowledge of what was on his hard drive was gained through the act of confession this could be a huge problem. For example the priest may have confessed and that information used to get him appropriate help. If so the state has no business getting involved at all. Worse yet talking about what is not in a confession is as bad as talking about what is in a confession. So how does a court get to the root of this? This type of law enforcement is way too dangerous to be allowed. For all we know the priest may have been trying to locate and free abused children from those that filmed them. Then there is another huge issue as well. Do I trust priests more than I trust courts and law enforcement? Frankly I do trust priests a lot more. The arm of the law needs to stay far away from churches.
Not only could such a device be used to spot budding psychopaths and get them into treatment and observation it could also could get these types out of sensitive positions. The last thing we need is a general in the military with strong psychopathic tendencies and the ability to order a strike with modern weapons. Obviously psychopaths do not ask to be such and deserve respect and treatment but they also need to be in a controlled lifestyle such that Jack does not pop out of the box.
There is some validation and reason to believe that the huge treasure trove hidden in Yucca Mountain is real. It may have been removed by now but something has gone on with that place that really stinks.
As an American I feel good that we are not the only people who can have insane laws and really stupid security staff. What daft administration in the UK has come up with the whacked out idea that a person walking about in a shopping mall is in a "private" situation? A person who displays themselves in public is obviously not intending to be private in any sense of the word. If you say or do it in front of another human being it is public by definition.
If the corporate management is really the issue simply establish a separate management that is on its own but with the ability to continue to return high earnings? You shoot the general but do not sell the troops. The real issue will be what will computers look like and behave like in the future. The chances are the next big thing is not before us quite yet. Smarter and more powerful devices will exist but somehow they just won't be quite what we anticipate. Operating systems and software will be far more valuable as proliferation of diversified hardware expands.
Give him a position as a professor at a well equipped major university and give him access to everything and ask him to come up with something impressive.
Frankly we already know that certain schools in the state are designed as dumping grounds to discourage kids and get them out of the system. It is sort of understood that if we could wave a wand and convert the child to a scholarly and business like attitude that the neighborhood will sweep him into a life of crime and drugs anyway and even if he survives that the chances of reasonable employment are dim. So it must just be efficiency. Pre finger print him for his probable career in the jails. We can use his year book photo for booking purposes. Look at it this way. Cleaning toilets and windows at McDonalds for eight bucks an hour won't buy you wheels and the girls won't touch you. Whereas slinging dope as a yo boy on the corner will earn you a lot of cash and the ladies go crazy if you have the stash. It is just a sign of intelligence. Get the ladies and get the cash and have a ball. Old age isn't much fun and getting gunned down doesn't matter as long as you are over 22 as life really ends by then anyway.
Not only is the fuel consumption impressive it is even more so as the craft exceeded a 100 MPH speed average, or speed comparable to real world aviation. The fuel used would not be impressive if it was a super slow aircraft.
Bend over and let me deeply investigate your files, your communications and all of your employees or associates as you just might be in violation of my privacy. Anybody see and problem with that? Worse yet the right to privacy is left out of the Bill of Rights and this may be a great example of why no right to privacy is part of our Constitution to begin with.
We can't paint it all with the same brush. There are situations in which a company provides software designed for protecting valuable data. If I sell software to a bank that is easy to penetrate then I should be held liable unless the bank behaved improperly in the use of the product. However if I write a game program that is intended for non critical computing environments and some defect allows bad people to gain access to the family computer I should not be held liable. The simple fact that penetration of most PCs will not reveal a worthwhile economic gain makes it unlikely that it will be attacked in the first place and trivial if it does occur in most cases. Crooks prefer to go after good targets. The chances are that most system penetration has to do with sloppy behavior of the system users and not what software they happened to purchase.
All that will happen in a truly transparent society is that people will take responsibility for their actions. The truth will set us free is more than a trivial statement. People of faith normally believe that God sees all of their actions and even their thoughts. A society in which life is transparent just might be wonderful. Crime would vanish. Cheating and lying would vanish. This technology is only a step along the path to a truly open society.
A car is normally used on public roads. If the guy had been tracked by traffic cams or some other method he still would have been tracked. So he resents it. Some people resent being studied. But does it do them harm? What do you tell a jury about the financial harm done to the guy? And how about an employer claiming that they had a security issue in his department and had to find the guilty person or dismiss a lot of employees who worked in proximity to this guy? It might be that tracking him eliminated the need to fire him and others as well. It seems to me that the freedom to study others is every bit as real as any supposed right to privacy. And it does go without saying that our Bill of Rights never mentions any right to privacy in public places or public view. Sometimes freedom involves supporting things that may offend you.
Getting rid of prohibition absolutely did not stop the smuggling of alcohol. In 1960 high value alcohol products were about 5% in the Bahamas of what they sold for in the states. There were so many ways of smuggling alcohol that it never stopped and remained profitable. Also moonshine was and probably still is a lucrative business. People who had used 190 proof white lightening tend to want to have it from time to time and it gets made and sold to this day. It was a big money business and probably still is but I'm not about to run the ridges and hollers to get an accurate survey. Some states still take running a still as a very serious crime and will tend to throw away the key so think before you act.
I believe that one becomes liable for damages and prosecutions if one edits traffic at all. The best defense is zero editing and zero viewing of what flows from your server. Think about it. Must the phone company be held for any traffic that violates a porn law or any other restrictions? Obviously the phone company has no control and hopefully no knowledge at all of my conversations. How is the net or web site any different? Even a commercial truck driver has no guilt if he has a huge box full of dope in the back of his truck unless it is proven that he knew it was in the truck. The reasoning behind some of these proposed laws is very much aimed at only some of us and not all of us. They may take your car if a passenger has dope in his pocket. But when was the last time a cruise ship, commercial jet, or large building was seized simply because one occupant was doing something illegal?
Property rights have gotten a bit twisted. Musicians often do not get paid when their works are played over the air. The middle men get paid but not the artists. Worse yet the rights extend to absurd periods of time. It is one thing to have an exclusive right to a song for one or two years but now it goes on for lifetimes. In building mechanical products one must constantly be certain to avoid stepping on anyone's patents. It can cause enough complexity to ruin a decent product or make it so expensive that it is not manufactured at all. In the case of software the notion of property rights has allowed all kinds of nonsense law suits to crush small companies who had not violated at all. It is the expense of the legal process and defense that forces the small guy to sell his product to the attacking company. The entire concept of intellectual property needs a complete rework. And in my state the punishments need to be looked at as well. We have many retired folks in Florida and the state went crazy in protecting them from con artists. A bit of fraud can get you charged with greater penalties than a murder. A 175 year sentence for fraud may require the entire sentence to be served whereas a murderer can often be out in 25 years.