It's more the case that people who specifically seek power are also those best kept away from it.
I just realized that this should be part of our system of government. Instead of voting _for_ people, we should have people assigned into office randomly like jury duty, then we vote people out (with only a meager minority vote required). That way, you can get people into office who aren't in it for the power, but if a sociopath does get in, they can only consolidate a little power before the minority votes them out.
The problem is that the people most likely to get a wireless keyboard in an office setting are the people with enough clout to tell IT to "install it or pack up your things". They are also the people that industrial espionage types want to snoop (VPs, Pres, CIO, CFO, etc).
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The other problem that the future will face is that people will turn to other things(TM) when the free nature of the Internet is removed. The portals will lose their revenue, and start charging more per person, driving more people away. There will be an equalibrium at some point, but then the information will be the province of the rich.
... the kids usually try to sell something to justify giving them money.
Makes me wonder if some unscrupulous geek traveling in Peru soon might not get the kids to sell him their XO laptops for $20US each.
It doesn't have any meaning until the FBI investigates some freakjob psycho and finds out that "not only did he kill people and torture small animals... he's listed as a child killer in XBOX live! Quick, do a search on child killers in XBOX live!" Then let the Media storm take control.
I'm only partly being tinfoilish though. I think that this would eventually happen, _and_ I think the quick search would be well reasoned, especially if it turns out to find someone who's score is morally reprehensible, and they play childkilling rapists in a GTA-MMORPG every night. Sure, you can't base anything legal-wise on info like that, but you can put another beat cop in the guy's neighborhood.
The RIAA keep buying the pot. They go all in, and the little guy folds. They don't have to show their cards unless someone calls their bluff. Seems the AG is willing to do that with the state of Oregon as a backer.
but considering that ISP's can control what comes in, that shouldn't be an insurmountable problem.
They can, but it costs money, and depending on how the spammers want to mutate and grow their message base, it can become very costly.
Or maybe they don't want you screwing around and sending business email to some mail server that they aren't liable for
That's the fun part. We have two legit mail systems (exchange, and postfix on a unix system), and the unix-using groups only sign up to exchange for the calendering. I'm new, and the MS group just upgraded to exchange 2007, so no one understood why I kept complaining about two email systems.;) Thanks for the info though, I'll start the red tape rolling tomorrow.
The OWA client for Exchange 2007 is so good that
The OWA client for exchange 2007 is so lacking in features that I can't even forward my email to a real mail server. I am stuck using OWA unless I build a windows box just to run outlook to set my forwarding rule. In the mean time, anyone who sends me email from the MS side of my company as their email go into exchange, and everyone else goes into the real mail server. CC'd email chains are all incomprehensible now. Thanks Microsoft.
Iran. Iran has been the target for quite some time (just a little after 9/11). Once the U.S. got a lot of people in Afghanistan, someone made sure that Al-Quaeda stuck around so that we could keep troops there even longer, and make airbases, etc. Notice on the map how close Afghanistan is to Iran?
Next, as any good Risk player knows, you attack from multiple fronts. Since Iran was (and still is) the likely country where a terrorist nuke would come from, you need to move into Iraq. Whether by pretense, or by genuine belief that there were nuclear programs, we invaded Iraq, set up bases, and air-fields. But, remember, Iran's the main goal. In fact, troop levels were kept low until recently to make sure that things were unstable enough that Iran would feel it was okay to send their people in to destabilize further. Suddenly, when Iran starts saber-rattling about nukes, we happen to find Iranian supplied insurgents and we throw more troops in (and Iraq is stabilizing).
I wouldn't be surprised if we "suddenly" find Osama in a cave somewhere at the same time someone wants to apply military pressure to Iran. /tinfoil
Because everyone knows you threatened them. You won't be fired until it's too late for anyone to change the deal that's being done outside your sphere of awareness.
And why are they picking on cable companies when I can't get a discount on my cell phone bill, even though I bought an unlocked, unsubsidized phone?
Because people have been complaining about cable companies for at least a decade and a half, if not more. The Gubment's just now getting around to doing something. Give them another decade for the cell phone companies.
I can do you one better. The hotmail account that I opened has blocked 90% of the emails _I_ sent to it, none of them anything like a spam message. And, they weren't in a spambox, they were just _gone_. Worst email service ever.
Yes, it does. My privacy happened to be violated by a website with interactive content, so I didn't notice the popup until it was going away, but in that brief second, I saw the word facebook, and was appalled that it was on my profile when I quickly logged in to see what had happened (nothing wrong with the site, in fact, I will endorse it to my friends, but I don't want to be forced to do so via Facebook & [other site] collusion).
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I just realized that this should be part of our system of government. Instead of voting _for_ people, we should have people assigned into office randomly like jury duty, then we vote people out (with only a meager minority vote required). That way, you can get people into office who aren't in it for the power, but if a sociopath does get in, they can only consolidate a little power before the minority votes them out.
The problem is that the people most likely to get a wireless keyboard in an office setting are the people with enough clout to tell IT to "install it or pack up your things". They are also the people that industrial espionage types want to snoop (VPs, Pres, CIO, CFO, etc).
The other problem that the future will face is that people will turn to other things(TM) when the free nature of the Internet is removed. The portals will lose their revenue, and start charging more per person, driving more people away. There will be an equalibrium at some point, but then the information will be the province of the rich.
And you remember what happened to Mr. X, right? He got to live on a wonderful island paradise for the rest of his life.
Except he's having the apes memorize them. Kind of defeats the purpose.
But what about the geeks who have played AvP[2] and can count in the Predator numerals?
... the kids usually try to sell something to justify giving them money.Makes me wonder if some unscrupulous geek traveling in Peru soon might not get the kids to sell him their XO laptops for $20US each.
Awesome. Now that we know curry is in the algorithm, we can write an auto-blocker. I never would have thought of curry.
Until facebook changes the site that beacon lives on to a mirror list that the participating company checks periodically.
Parent should have been modded +1 Informative, not Flamebait.
Set up a script downloading OS isos from a mirror site to /dev/null and see how long before they discriminate.
Umm, everyone's supposed to use two spaces after a period, and one after a comma. HTML being stupid with white space doesn't change that.
It doesn't have any meaning until the FBI investigates some freakjob psycho and finds out that "not only did he kill people and torture small animals... he's listed as a child killer in XBOX live! Quick, do a search on child killers in XBOX live!" Then let the Media storm take control.
I'm only partly being tinfoilish though. I think that this would eventually happen, _and_ I think the quick search would be well reasoned, especially if it turns out to find someone who's score is morally reprehensible, and they play childkilling rapists in a GTA-MMORPG every night. Sure, you can't base anything legal-wise on info like that, but you can put another beat cop in the guy's neighborhood.
The RIAA keep buying the pot. They go all in, and the little guy folds. They don't have to show their cards unless someone calls their bluff. Seems the AG is willing to do that with the state of Oregon as a backer.
Genesis 10:8 Cush was the [father/ancestor] of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.
They can, but it costs money, and depending on how the spammers want to mutate and grow their message base, it can become very costly.
That's the fun part. We have two legit mail systems (exchange, and postfix on a unix system), and the unix-using groups only sign up to exchange for the calendering. I'm new, and the MS group just upgraded to exchange 2007, so no one understood why I kept complaining about two email systems.
The OWA client for exchange 2007 is so lacking in features that I can't even forward my email to a real mail server. I am stuck using OWA unless I build a windows box just to run outlook to set my forwarding rule. In the mean time, anyone who sends me email from the MS side of my company as their email go into exchange, and everyone else goes into the real mail server. CC'd email chains are all incomprehensible now. Thanks Microsoft.
The writers have to write for something while they're on strike. Think of their starving children!
Iran. Iran has been the target for quite some time (just a little after 9/11). Once the U.S. got a lot of people in Afghanistan, someone made sure that Al-Quaeda stuck around so that we could keep troops there even longer, and make airbases, etc. Notice on the map how close Afghanistan is to Iran?
/tinfoil
Next, as any good Risk player knows, you attack from multiple fronts. Since Iran was (and still is) the likely country where a terrorist nuke would come from, you need to move into Iraq. Whether by pretense, or by genuine belief that there were nuclear programs, we invaded Iraq, set up bases, and air-fields. But, remember, Iran's the main goal. In fact, troop levels were kept low until recently to make sure that things were unstable enough that Iran would feel it was okay to send their people in to destabilize further. Suddenly, when Iran starts saber-rattling about nukes, we happen to find Iranian supplied insurgents and we throw more troops in (and Iraq is stabilizing).
I wouldn't be surprised if we "suddenly" find Osama in a cave somewhere at the same time someone wants to apply military pressure to Iran.
Beowulf clusters of printers.
Because everyone knows you threatened them. You won't be fired until it's too late for anyone to change the deal that's being done outside your sphere of awareness.
Because people have been complaining about cable companies for at least a decade and a half, if not more. The Gubment's just now getting around to doing something. Give them another decade for the cell phone companies.
I can do you one better. The hotmail account that I opened has blocked 90% of the emails _I_ sent to it, none of them anything like a spam message. And, they weren't in a spambox, they were just _gone_. Worst email service ever.
Yes, it does. My privacy happened to be violated by a website with interactive content, so I didn't notice the popup until it was going away, but in that brief second, I saw the word facebook, and was appalled that it was on my profile when I quickly logged in to see what had happened (nothing wrong with the site, in fact, I will endorse it to my friends, but I don't want to be forced to do so via Facebook & [other site] collusion).