Don't hold your breath. They said the same thing about the outdated US drug laws - "When all the Baby Boomers take charge, we will have a sensible drug policy in the US." Well, they have and I am still waiting. Seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
Right, and if you are using a 3G dongle, an IP address won't tell you much other that a billing address and name, both of which can be easily faked. In order to track down a 3G dongle, you need to triangulate the signal using more equipment that a laptop with neotrace. Which takes a lot longer than a few seconds. Then factor in the idiot cops trying to get your Linux program to run on their XP boxes and you are talking about hours before they finally give up and start trying to beat the information out of informants. Also I have played with tracing programs before and they can usually get you to a city level, which would probably be enough to freak out people on IRC, but would not be good enough to take down someone in a densely populated urban area. And I wasn't specifically referring to only the GPS tracing aspect. It's mostly all the other stuff I mentioned - typing plain phrases into a command prompt and having the computer know exactly all the info you want and displaying it within seconds. That is pure SciFi.
If you think Google takes down websites then you are sadly mistaken. They are a search engine. Pulling a site from a privately owned and operated search engine is not the same thing as "taking down a website". It is not like every website has a god given right to be listed on Google. You violate Google's terms, and they are free to yank your site from their listings. Google is a company, they are not an official internationally sanctioned Internet authority.
If you can get a signal form 3 different towers, you can triangulate the position. It is trivial to analyze the strength of the signals to determine the distance from each tower. And with 3 points you can tell almost exactly where the signal is coming from relative to the towers. No, the authorities technically should need a warrant to get cell tower info, but if they just mention the magic "t" word (terr'ist) then all bets may be off.
Well, Steve Jackson Games did win on their day in court and got something like $300,000 (most to cover legal fees IIRC) and the Secret Service got a slap on the wrist for basically raiding them when it wasn't necessary. Wasn't the whole thing about some supposed "stolen" documents from Bell that Bell had actually made available to the public?
And of course he is running a custom OS where you can type in complete phrases that it will understand like "find the bad man's internet key" and 1.5 seconds later it has a GPS location, pictures of the bad man, all his recent activity, etc. all on the screen. It could also find any DNA or fingerprint info from it's imaginary worldwide database that contains this info everybody in the world and can also return the results in a matter of seconds.
Seriously though, if law enforcement had any of the programs and databases they seem to have on every cop show on television, I am pretty sure the unsolved crime rate would be below 2%.
If your servers don't have any valuable information on them, they don't need their own separate secure room. If all the info on your server can be found on a DVD or the web, theft of said server really wouldn't inconvenience you beyond the monetary cost of replacing the server.
Windows in the server room is a HUGE security risk, and generally a big no-no. You need to have proper ventilation and cooling, but usually the server room is windowless and in the middle of the building, not on the outside walls. What is the point of having "secure" server room if all someone needs to do is break a window to get in?
but he may become what Jack Thompson has been for us Americans
You mean disbarred so he can no longer work in his chosen profession and then become so irrelevant that people that formerly supported him are "distancing themselves" from him as he goes down? Yeah, that would be too bad...
That's easy - don't charge a $1300 Macbook on your credit card for someone else. Tell them if they want a Macbook, they can figure out how to pay for it too. See also: don't leave large sums of cash just laying around unprotected. Additionally see also:try not to live with people you cannot trust.
For someone who claims to Be New Here(TM), you are sure acting like a regular - not reading TFA, making blatant false statements, claiming to have read TFA (when it is painfully obvious you didn't), etc.
Or even something like building structures on the moon out of moon dust, where traditional construction techniques would not work. Where would I have ever gotten such a crazy idea from?
An how will a windshield that has the ability to point out objects in/along the road hinder your ability to do any of the things you stated? And cars (especially any with GPS units) already log things such as speed, direction, whether or not brakes or turn signals were used, etc. and I fail to see how an object sensing windshield has anything to do with any logging of anything. Nice strawman though.
If this windshield can prevent you from totaling your car, I would say that it pays for itself. I would imagine you may be able to negotiate a lower monthly premium on insurance considering this is pretty much a "safety feature" and may end up saving insurance companies some money in claims.
I'll take a more efficent car from the 60's
Have fun finding leaded gasoline anywhere, and getting 8 miles to the gallon for mileage. Then when something breaks on your more "simple" car, good luck finding the parts for it that haven't been manufactured in over 30 years. Sometimes the simple solution isn't so simple, huh?
Well, OS X has the luxury of knowing exactly what type of limited hardware set the system it will be running on is using, and not a lot of variety. Linux doesn't have to worry about breaking thousands of applications every time they update the core OS. Microsoft has neither of these luxuries. Microsoft is also king in the corporate desktop arena, and if a business application breaks, it will be far worse for them and the corporate application users compared to the way it currently is set up. And even with all of Microsoft's pre-testing on patches, smart admins always test them out in a non-production setting before green lighting them for the real thing.
All true, but if you can't meet the conditions I don't think it is the court's fault. Also, believe it or not, there is an entire business set up around doing all the complicated things you mention. Look up bail bondsmen sometime.
Yeah, and nobody at Microsoft has ever come up with that brilliant plan before you did. All it would take is 5 seconds to check the serial numbers, show that they don't match, and the jig is up. This type of scam would work for most items that are inexpensive and don't have serial numbers though.
I think emails are screened and if flagged possibly stored, but unless the NSA has a beowulf cluster of servers 20 times the size of Google, I don't think they have the capacity to store every single email that is sent. They would get 1 billion SPAM emails every day if they captured and saved ALL emails.
I never said it was not a law a child must be immunized to attend public school. Please point out to me where I made that statement. I didn't. I said it wasn't a person's god given right to attend a specific school, and if a person did not agree then they could always home school, or send a child to an alternative school. I also said it was not a law that a child attend public school - you have the right to send them to a private school, or home school them yourself. I also never commented on the safety of or testing of immunizations either. I am not sure if you replied to the wrong post, or you just have problems with reading comprehension. Oh, and it is "You're wrong" not "Your wrong".
I could elaborate, but I suspect it would be a waste of effort.
Because from a scientific viewpoint, that is how you do it. You don't assume the cause and effect until it is proven. Anything that can't be proven must be dismissed. So collect all the data you want, but if there is no correlation between the two than can actually be proven, you still only have conjecture. The incident you speak of may or may not be "vaccine related", but until you have proof it is, assuming the negative is the only responsible scientific way to handle it. When there are multiple possible reasons for an unknown symptom to occur, you cannot just say it was caused by any of them without proof.
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Don't hold your breath. They said the same thing about the outdated US drug laws - "When all the Baby Boomers take charge, we will have a sensible drug policy in the US." Well, they have and I am still waiting. Seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
You are really skimming the bottom of the barrel now. Butter luck next time.
Right, and if you are using a 3G dongle, an IP address won't tell you much other that a billing address and name, both of which can be easily faked. In order to track down a 3G dongle, you need to triangulate the signal using more equipment that a laptop with neotrace. Which takes a lot longer than a few seconds. Then factor in the idiot cops trying to get your Linux program to run on their XP boxes and you are talking about hours before they finally give up and start trying to beat the information out of informants. Also I have played with tracing programs before and they can usually get you to a city level, which would probably be enough to freak out people on IRC, but would not be good enough to take down someone in a densely populated urban area. And I wasn't specifically referring to only the GPS tracing aspect. It's mostly all the other stuff I mentioned - typing plain phrases into a command prompt and having the computer know exactly all the info you want and displaying it within seconds. That is pure SciFi.
If you think Google takes down websites then you are sadly mistaken. They are a search engine. Pulling a site from a privately owned and operated search engine is not the same thing as "taking down a website". It is not like every website has a god given right to be listed on Google. You violate Google's terms, and they are free to yank your site from their listings. Google is a company, they are not an official internationally sanctioned Internet authority.
If you can get a signal form 3 different towers, you can triangulate the position. It is trivial to analyze the strength of the signals to determine the distance from each tower. And with 3 points you can tell almost exactly where the signal is coming from relative to the towers. No, the authorities technically should need a warrant to get cell tower info, but if they just mention the magic "t" word (terr'ist) then all bets may be off.
Well, Steve Jackson Games did win on their day in court and got something like $300,000 (most to cover legal fees IIRC) and the Secret Service got a slap on the wrist for basically raiding them when it wasn't necessary. Wasn't the whole thing about some supposed "stolen" documents from Bell that Bell had actually made available to the public?
And of course he is running a custom OS where you can type in complete phrases that it will understand like "find the bad man's internet key" and 1.5 seconds later it has a GPS location, pictures of the bad man, all his recent activity, etc. all on the screen. It could also find any DNA or fingerprint info from it's imaginary worldwide database that contains this info everybody in the world and can also return the results in a matter of seconds.
Seriously though, if law enforcement had any of the programs and databases they seem to have on every cop show on television, I am pretty sure the unsolved crime rate would be below 2%.
If your servers don't have any valuable information on them, they don't need their own separate secure room. If all the info on your server can be found on a DVD or the web, theft of said server really wouldn't inconvenience you beyond the monetary cost of replacing the server.
Windows in the server room is a HUGE security risk, and generally a big no-no. You need to have proper ventilation and cooling, but usually the server room is windowless and in the middle of the building, not on the outside walls. What is the point of having "secure" server room if all someone needs to do is break a window to get in?
but he may become what Jack Thompson has been for us Americans
You mean disbarred so he can no longer work in his chosen profession and then become so irrelevant that people that formerly supported him are "distancing themselves" from him as he goes down? Yeah, that would be too bad...
That's easy - don't charge a $1300 Macbook on your credit card for someone else. Tell them if they want a Macbook, they can figure out how to pay for it too. See also: don't leave large sums of cash just laying around unprotected. Additionally see also:try not to live with people you cannot trust.
For someone who claims to Be New Here(TM), you are sure acting like a regular - not reading TFA, making blatant false statements, claiming to have read TFA (when it is painfully obvious you didn't), etc.
Or even something like building structures on the moon out of moon dust, where traditional construction techniques would not work. Where would I have ever gotten such a crazy idea from?
Yet.
An how will a windshield that has the ability to point out objects in/along the road hinder your ability to do any of the things you stated? And cars (especially any with GPS units) already log things such as speed, direction, whether or not brakes or turn signals were used, etc. and I fail to see how an object sensing windshield has anything to do with any logging of anything. Nice strawman though.
I'll take a more efficent car from the 60's
Have fun finding leaded gasoline anywhere, and getting 8 miles to the gallon for mileage. Then when something breaks on your more "simple" car, good luck finding the parts for it that haven't been manufactured in over 30 years. Sometimes the simple solution isn't so simple, huh?
Well, OS X has the luxury of knowing exactly what type of limited hardware set the system it will be running on is using, and not a lot of variety. Linux doesn't have to worry about breaking thousands of applications every time they update the core OS. Microsoft has neither of these luxuries. Microsoft is also king in the corporate desktop arena, and if a business application breaks, it will be far worse for them and the corporate application users compared to the way it currently is set up. And even with all of Microsoft's pre-testing on patches, smart admins always test them out in a non-production setting before green lighting them for the real thing.
All true, but if you can't meet the conditions I don't think it is the court's fault. Also, believe it or not, there is an entire business set up around doing all the complicated things you mention. Look up bail bondsmen sometime.
Yeah, and nobody at Microsoft has ever come up with that brilliant plan before you did. All it would take is 5 seconds to check the serial numbers, show that they don't match, and the jig is up. This type of scam would work for most items that are inexpensive and don't have serial numbers though.
I think emails are screened and if flagged possibly stored, but unless the NSA has a beowulf cluster of servers 20 times the size of Google, I don't think they have the capacity to store every single email that is sent. They would get 1 billion SPAM emails every day if they captured and saved ALL emails.
Last time I checked, free unfettered internet access still isn't a god given right. If you want a service, you need to pay for it.
No, but short of capital crimes, or high risk flight, bail is usually an option.
Bluetooth keyboard, duh.
I never said it was not a law a child must be immunized to attend public school. Please point out to me where I made that statement. I didn't. I said it wasn't a person's god given right to attend a specific school, and if a person did not agree then they could always home school, or send a child to an alternative school. I also said it was not a law that a child attend public school - you have the right to send them to a private school, or home school them yourself. I also never commented on the safety of or testing of immunizations either. I am not sure if you replied to the wrong post, or you just have problems with reading comprehension. Oh, and it is "You're wrong" not "Your wrong".
I could elaborate, but I suspect it would be a waste of effort.
Because from a scientific viewpoint, that is how you do it. You don't assume the cause and effect until it is proven. Anything that can't be proven must be dismissed. So collect all the data you want, but if there is no correlation between the two than can actually be proven, you still only have conjecture. The incident you speak of may or may not be "vaccine related", but until you have proof it is, assuming the negative is the only responsible scientific way to handle it. When there are multiple possible reasons for an unknown symptom to occur, you cannot just say it was caused by any of them without proof.