I cross the border a lot and when I first got wind of these searches I stopped carrying a laptop across the border. I put whatever I need on my server or I hide a memory stick somewhere. That's the unreasonable part of the search, anyone can get tons of data into or out of the US as there is no control on the internet. Criminals have stopped and business people who don't want to be hassled have stopped all that is left is Joe average who is being trained to do what the government says. I just don't want the trouble of waiting for some government employee to search my computer. Years ago I had my computer and disks searched in Saudi Arabia and it was no fun. Its strange how much America now resembles Saudi.
YES, Looks like it only works on windows, I wish these articles would start by listing what is vulnerable. Of course anyone who knows anything about security knows windows is totally broken as far a security goes and it is way too big of a target for future malware writers so best to just avoid it if you are building systems where privacy in important. I'd tell you what I do but I'm sworn to secrecy.
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If you have to buy the app to review it and the astroturfers can bypass this requirement then it would appear that Apple is working in collusion with these fraudulent marketing practices. I wonder if a script can be built that would look at all the "reviews" (both positive and negative) and build up a view of the products and who is marketing them?
Here is another example of why advertising is pure 100% lies and no sane person should believe anything that can be paid for. And an example of how it is OK to do anything as long as its for money. Tar and feather these guys.
This system gives too many rights to the owner of the system and too few to the owner of the product. I would totally avoid this product. Reminds me of Microsoft WGA and how a local church had its computer turned off because someone had pirated its software key. I can't see how Bezos can sell something and then tell you its stolen without any consequences to him? What about his responsibility as a major retailer to due diligence?
BOGUS ARGUMENT! "As you sit in front of your keyboard all computers look the same so they must all have the same problems." Well viruses/bugs are a cost of life if you choose to run windows and even if you don't. The hidden cost of someone else running windows should also be evaluated, it happens when you have to clear tons of spam and virus laden files from your non-windows server caused by windows computers. Windows is dragging down the entire internet. Ever have to wait a day for your mail because you mail queue has ten million windows computers generated spams? Should I just send the bill to Micro-Soft?
I manage a number of small workgroups, all have linux servers but the clients vary, all nix, all mac, mixed mac/windows, all windows. Guess which group I make the most money from? Guess which groups I hardly ever talk to? Windows is not easier, not cheaper and not more secure. Windows is more ubiquitous but that is changing.
As a professional I'd rather make less than have to work on windows, thankfully I actually bill more per hour doing not windows support because 90% of my competition can only work on the windows side. Larger marketshare = thinner margins?
Lame population: Hello citizen, do you think that it is you who chooses which laws are enforced and against who? If you don't like the law do something to change it, sitting on your ass and complaining about it does little except identify you as a dipshit.
I used Frame(Maker) on a number of unix systems and Linux (for a short while) and on MacOS, it worked just fine but Frame was not an Adobe product and Adobe kind of dropped the whole thing.
MacOS X is a unix and the whole Adobe suite runs on OSX, how hard would a port to linux be when it already runs on one unix? If Adobe wanted to it would have been done years ago, actually I have who used to work for Adobe and he said CS was already running on Linux but Adobe was not going to release it.
I've done the Knoppix thing for many years, very handy when traveling. I've never had a laptop "stolen" but I've been asked a number of times to open it up and turn it on. They did not recognize the mac start up routine and I had to wait for a full boot to convince them. Now I just replaced the mac boot image screen with the windows desktop image and I'm off.
Thanks for this article/. , I'm never going to bring anything but a freshly rebuilt laptop with only the data I need into the USA.
"The US government (as with any other government) is really good at shooting sitting ducks, but when it comes to elusive ferrets they are left behind." Like they can prevent someone like me, a 125lb. programmer with glasses from boarding a plane with a bottle of water but Osama, oh yea where's Osama?
The government is a bully who says "deal with it" knowing no one will do a thing.
I'm not an American and I don't live in the US anymore but I do keep an eye on what's happening. My satellite TV is good enough to bring me "FSTV" (Free Speech TV, if you have DishNetwork its there around 9000) Last night they ran the amazing film "America: Freedom to Fascism" by Director Aaron Russo. It knocked me over and even though much of the info was not new to me the way he put it together really put a punch in it. http://www.freedomtofascism.com/ or find it on torrent. Ron Paul does a pretty good interview about the Federal Reserve.
What possibly could be a threat in data that Customs needs to confiscate it? Are Customs being used to provide data to the government? Are Customs being used to provide information for American companies? Are Customs being used just to get Americans accustomed to the idea that they have nothing private?
If you or I were charged with a crime with a penalty of ONE BILLION DOLLARS it would be all over the papers but Eli Lilly can do the whole thing behind closed doors. What kind of justice is this? Would have the whole thing have been covered up had the email not been misaddressed? Isn't Bush Sr. on the board of Eli Lilly?
...or you can call them Micro Soft as they used to call themselves....or you can use the Chinese symbols for tiny and flaccid as they used to use in China.
I played Spacewar on a PDP-11 in about 1977. I also remember a text version of Star Trek that used ASCII for a radar screen. Ha DVDs, real men used 11 track tapes.
Yes if you wanted to do a whole bunch of paper work, apply for permits, pay for permits and wait to be or not to be approved and then you had to have yearly inspections which could easily end up in the revoke of your license and possibly have your still "sealed" non operational. I worked in labs that had stills to purify water, just water and we had to do a ton of paperwork. These stills were so small that they were mounted to a board on a wall only about 2 feet wide by 3 feet tall. I remember cleaning the bit of glass works a few times and was it dirty. I can just imagine the work involved to run veg matter in the still, no thanks.
"... John D. Rockefeller was not concerned with family dynamics in the working classes. But he was influential in changing the goals of the movement from temperance to prohibition. As we know, his contribution to the outlawing of the production and sale of alcohol was successful. Of course, Rockefeller and the oil companies reaped tremendous profits as a result. Remember that the period covered by the 18th Amendment (1919-1933) coincided with the huge rise in the sale and operation of automobiles. America was on the move, and all of these cars were now operated solely on gasoline. By the time that the 21st Amendment was passed, ending the prohibition of alcohol, the standard was already set and worked completely in the favor of the Rockefeller family" (http://dgrim.blogspot.com/2007/06/great-scheme-alcohol-based-fuels-ford.html)
Rockefeller the leader of Standard Oil wanted to stop the public (mostly farmers at the time) from producing their own alcohol which was widely used as a fuel for cars and farm equipment. This is a pattern to manipulate public opinion and use the government as an enforcement tool to benefit the rich and powerful. See Randolf Hurst, DuPont and hemp prohibition.
Well I hope you never have to go to court and challenge evidence. By itself a photo is not proof you were drinking, it's not even proof that there was even alcohol involved. It's just an image. I saw Bruce Willis kill Alan Rickman should I call a cop? The school might be able to say they are punishing students who appear in images they don't approve of. That sounds kind of stupid so the school just jumps the logic barrier and accuses all involved of illegal acts. Even in beer commercials there can be no drinking? I've been on set of a few and nobody was drinking anywhere. All the open beer on camera was fake (they put chemicals in it to make it look real under the lights so nobody drinks beer at all to prevent accidents) If that were me who was falsely accused by the school they'd have to defend some slander, libel or defamation suits.
I would be very surprised to see Microsoft on any list of firsts were innovation and forward thinking were required. They were so far behind (or lacked the talent) on the internet that they bought IE from Spyglass and it took until February 1996 for the release of IIS 1. Another similar point is microsoft.com isn't a class A address. They might have bought a Class A address space recently but they were defiantly not there in the beginning.
-More people are forced to use Windows than any other operating system.
I've signed a few here in Canada and the more onerous the less likely it is enforceable. I took one to a lawyer and he said it was so far out there that I should sign it before they figure out they could never use it. Something about never working in my trade if it competed with my employer or anywhere in the world. Also here you have to be paid while under the agreement, if they stop paying you then the deal is done. You can't sign away your right to make a living.
Another point is if you already signed one to get your job then signing another one is a "new deal" and you should ask for something in return or just flatly refuse. Why should your employer be allowed to change the terms of the deal and you get nothing in return? Always remember "What's in it for me" your employer seems to have a firm grasp on it.
Yea finally. This just proves how Windoze is more intuitive and easier to use. On the mac you have to surf to some porn site run by crackers and manually download a disk image after setting your browser to launch downloaded files (not the default) and then you have to agree to the install and if the installer wants to modify files you don't have permission to change you have to type in your admin password. On the pc it's so much easier, all you have to do is turn it on.
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I cross the border a lot and when I first got wind of these searches I stopped carrying a laptop across the border. I put whatever I need on my server or I hide a memory stick somewhere. That's the unreasonable part of the search, anyone can get tons of data into or out of the US as there is no control on the internet. Criminals have stopped and business people who don't want to be hassled have stopped all that is left is Joe average who is being trained to do what the government says. I just don't want the trouble of waiting for some government employee to search my computer. Years ago I had my computer and disks searched in Saudi Arabia and it was no fun. Its strange how much America now resembles Saudi.
YES, Looks like it only works on windows, I wish these articles would start by listing what is vulnerable. Of course anyone who knows anything about security knows windows is totally broken as far a security goes and it is way too big of a target for future malware writers so best to just avoid it if you are building systems where privacy in important. I'd tell you what I do but I'm sworn to secrecy.
If you have to buy the app to review it and the astroturfers can bypass this requirement then it would appear that Apple is working in collusion with these fraudulent marketing practices. I wonder if a script can be built that would look at all the "reviews" (both positive and negative) and build up a view of the products and who is marketing them?
Here is another example of why advertising is pure 100% lies and no sane person should believe anything that can be paid for. And an example of how it is OK to do anything as long as its for money. Tar and feather these guys.
This system gives too many rights to the owner of the system and too few to the owner of the product. I would totally avoid this product. Reminds me of Microsoft WGA and how a local church had its computer turned off because someone had pirated its software key. I can't see how Bezos can sell something and then tell you its stolen without any consequences to him? What about his responsibility as a major retailer to due diligence?
BOGUS ARGUMENT! "As you sit in front of your keyboard all computers look the same so they must all have the same problems." Well viruses/bugs are a cost of life if you choose to run windows and even if you don't. The hidden cost of someone else running windows should also be evaluated, it happens when you have to clear tons of spam and virus laden files from your non-windows server caused by windows computers. Windows is dragging down the entire internet. Ever have to wait a day for your mail because you mail queue has ten million windows computers generated spams? Should I just send the bill to Micro-Soft?
I manage a number of small workgroups, all have linux servers but the clients vary, all nix, all mac, mixed mac/windows, all windows. Guess which group I make the most money from? Guess which groups I hardly ever talk to? Windows is not easier, not cheaper and not more secure. Windows is more ubiquitous but that is changing.
As a professional I'd rather make less than have to work on windows, thankfully I actually bill more per hour doing not windows support because 90% of my competition can only work on the windows side. Larger marketshare = thinner margins?
Lame population:
Hello citizen, do you think that it is you who chooses which laws are enforced and against who? If you don't like the law do something to change it, sitting on your ass and complaining about it does little except identify you as a dipshit.
Didn't your read the article, Bush thought this up. Somewhere in backwards world this makes sense.
"--for the purpose of immersion, shock resistance, whatever."
Eurotech Finland http://www.eurotech.fi has some nice candy, look in http://www.linuxdevices.com for other manufacturers.
I used Frame(Maker) on a number of unix systems and Linux (for a short while) and on MacOS, it worked just fine but Frame was not an Adobe product and Adobe kind of dropped the whole thing.
MacOS X is a unix and the whole Adobe suite runs on OSX, how hard would a port to linux be when it already runs on one unix? If Adobe wanted to it would have been done years ago, actually I have who used to work for Adobe and he said CS was already running on Linux but Adobe was not going to release it.
I've done the Knoppix thing for many years, very handy when traveling. I've never had a laptop "stolen" but I've been asked a number of times to open it up and turn it on. They did not recognize the mac start up routine and I had to wait for a full boot to convince them. Now I just replaced the mac boot image screen with the windows desktop image and I'm off.
/. , I'm never going to bring anything but a freshly rebuilt laptop with only the data I need into the USA.
Thanks for this article
"The US government (as with any other government) is really good at shooting sitting ducks, but when it comes to elusive ferrets they are left behind."
Like they can prevent someone like me, a 125lb. programmer with glasses from boarding a plane with a bottle of water but Osama, oh yea where's Osama?
The government is a bully who says "deal with it" knowing no one will do a thing.
I'm not an American and I don't live in the US anymore but I do keep an eye on what's happening. My satellite TV is good enough to bring me "FSTV" (Free Speech TV, if you have DishNetwork its there around 9000) Last night they ran the amazing film "America: Freedom to Fascism" by Director Aaron Russo. It knocked me over and even though much of the info was not new to me the way he put it together really put a punch in it. http://www.freedomtofascism.com/ or find it on torrent. Ron Paul does a pretty good interview about the Federal Reserve.
What possibly could be a threat in data that Customs needs to confiscate it? Are Customs being used to provide data to the government? Are Customs being used to provide information for American companies? Are Customs being used just to get Americans accustomed to the idea that they have nothing private?
If you or I were charged with a crime with a penalty of ONE BILLION DOLLARS it would be all over the papers but Eli Lilly can do the whole thing behind closed doors. What kind of justice is this? Would have the whole thing have been covered up had the email not been misaddressed? Isn't Bush Sr. on the board of Eli Lilly?
...or you can call them Micro Soft as they used to call themselves. ...or you can use the Chinese symbols for tiny and flaccid as they used to use in China.
Just don't call them an innovator.
I played Spacewar on a PDP-11 in about 1977. I also remember a text version of Star Trek that used ASCII for a radar screen. Ha DVDs, real men used 11 track tapes.
Yes if you wanted to do a whole bunch of paper work, apply for permits, pay for permits and wait to be or not to be approved and then you had to have yearly inspections which could easily end up in the revoke of your license and possibly have your still "sealed" non operational. I worked in labs that had stills to purify water, just water and we had to do a ton of paperwork. These stills were so small that they were mounted to a board on a wall only about 2 feet wide by 3 feet tall. I remember cleaning the bit of glass works a few times and was it dirty. I can just imagine the work involved to run veg matter in the still, no thanks.
Thx, nice info.
Sounds a little like "don't ask, don't tell".
Was there an option to play football and not sign the document?
I believe this is real reason for prohibition,
"... John D. Rockefeller was not concerned with family dynamics in the working classes. But he was influential in changing the goals of the movement from temperance to prohibition. As we know, his contribution to the outlawing of the production and sale of alcohol was successful. Of course, Rockefeller and the oil companies reaped tremendous profits as a result. Remember that the period covered by the 18th Amendment (1919-1933) coincided with the huge rise in the sale and operation of automobiles. America was on the move, and all of these cars were now operated solely on gasoline. By the time that the 21st Amendment was passed, ending the prohibition of alcohol, the standard was already set and worked completely in the favor of the Rockefeller family" (http://dgrim.blogspot.com/2007/06/great-scheme-alcohol-based-fuels-ford.html)
Rockefeller the leader of Standard Oil wanted to stop the public (mostly farmers at the time) from producing their own alcohol which was widely used as a fuel for cars and farm equipment. This is a pattern to manipulate public opinion and use the government as an enforcement tool to benefit the rich and powerful. See Randolf Hurst, DuPont and hemp prohibition.
Well I hope you never have to go to court and challenge evidence. By itself a photo is not proof you were drinking, it's not even proof that there was even alcohol involved. It's just an image. I saw Bruce Willis kill Alan Rickman should I call a cop? The school might be able to say they are punishing students who appear in images they don't approve of. That sounds kind of stupid so the school just jumps the logic barrier and accuses all involved of illegal acts. Even in beer commercials there can be no drinking? I've been on set of a few and nobody was drinking anywhere. All the open beer on camera was fake (they put chemicals in it to make it look real under the lights so nobody drinks beer at all to prevent accidents) If that were me who was falsely accused by the school they'd have to defend some slander, libel or defamation suits.
Except it will just push the work overseas and India will become the capital of computer forensics.
I would be very surprised to see Microsoft on any list of firsts were innovation and forward thinking were required. They were so far behind (or lacked the talent) on the internet that they bought IE from Spyglass and it took until February 1996 for the release of IIS 1. Another similar point is microsoft.com isn't a class A address. They might have bought a Class A address space recently but they were defiantly not there in the beginning.
-More people are forced to use Windows than any other operating system.
I've signed a few here in Canada and the more onerous the less likely it is enforceable. I took one to a lawyer and he said it was so far out there that I should sign it before they figure out they could never use it. Something about never working in my trade if it competed with my employer or anywhere in the world. Also here you have to be paid while under the agreement, if they stop paying you then the deal is done. You can't sign away your right to make a living.
Another point is if you already signed one to get your job then signing another one is a "new deal" and you should ask for something in return or just flatly refuse. Why should your employer be allowed to change the terms of the deal and you get nothing in return? Always remember "What's in it for me" your employer seems to have a firm grasp on it.
Yea finally. This just proves how Windoze is more intuitive and easier to use. On the mac you have to surf to some porn site run by crackers and manually download a disk image after setting your browser to launch downloaded files (not the default) and then you have to agree to the install and if the installer wants to modify files you don't have permission to change you have to type in your admin password. On the pc it's so much easier, all you have to do is turn it on.