And what do you whitelist? Alcohol and tobacco remain the most damaging legal drugs. Want to try prohibition again? Good luck. It hasn't worked for pot, cocaine or heroin. It didn't work for alcohol. There's no rational solution that bans the chemicals. Your best options are treatment for those willing and able, and non-treatment for those unwilling or unable (i.e. letting those bent on suicide accomplish it in a humane manner than endangers nobody else). I'd rather have the meth users in a hospital room until they kick off rather than letting them run around loose. Heck, they won't even be paranoid. We'll *tell* them we're trying to kill them.
Something that could be deployed internationally, something cheap, something that could be initially shipped in a small package, something that only required solar power and water to absorb CO2. Perhaps something that even released oxygen into the atmosphere, provided shade, grew some sort of sweet, nutritious fruits or nuts and and was shaped in a way that small children could climb in the summertime.
Alas, such an advanced device is well beyond the realm of our science, or our scientific imagination.
... rife with unintended consequences. If you're going to turn UP the lights, you'd damn well better have a way to turn them back DOWN again. Large repositionable mirrors in space would do this. Throwing crap into the atmosphere because it's cheaper would not.
True. This is the bottom line. If other countries want to control and internet, they are free to invent and implement one. In the meantime, I respectfully request the technical illiterati of the UN piss off.
Any state senator who votes for the bill must purchase and move into a house on the beach, one which would be flooded if global warming were true. Let them put their money where their mouths are.
I "does" care indeed. I don't trust the government not to someday come after me for a political rant, or because I belong the to wrong party (either one). I "does" care about the fact that an insurance company can access my web purchases of herbal treatments for arthritis and later deny me coverage for knee surgery based on the fact that it was a "pre-existing" condition. I would prefer my on-line purchases of prescription drugs like Viagra suddenly force me to endure a thousand "ANTI-IMPOTENCE" ads every time I surf the web. I would prefer that no insurance company be able to monitor my purchases and make risk assesments based on their experience.
If you don't see the risk in this, I suggest you are awfully young and/or overly trusting. It's a predatory world. Don't make it easy on them.
How cute! I mean, who *doesn't* want their every financial transaction tracked and analyzed by the government and a few thousand corporations trying to sell you something. And of course, technology is so reliable! I'd trust my every dollar to that bastion of security, the cell phone. I mean, who wouldn't!
Excuse me, I have to go mop up some of that sarcasm that's been dripping all over the floor from somewhere.
but I'm not sure it matters. When was the last time you were part of a class-action suite against Microsoft? Moreover, this won't stand up in many other countries so it amounts to an attempt to minimize legal exposure in the USA. Given the increased availibility of Linux/Android/Web applications, we're all at a stage now where we can "vote with out feet" if Microsoft does something too buttheaded, and that's exactly what will happen if they overreach.
What would you think if someone showed up at your workplace in the US, unable to speak a word of English, looking for a programming job? You obviously never worked at some of companies where I have. We work it out though. Google translate is a *good* thing.
Especially when it comes to the wilfully foolish, which you have to be in order to be a fundamentalist of any stripe. If a person had made the decision to lie to themselves to be more comfortable, there's really not much you can do.
Do you blame the inventor of scalpels because someone used one in a murder? Scalpels are also used to save people. The products of scientific research can be used for good or evil. Control (and therefore, responsibility) is in the hands of the wealthy/powerful.
Of course, it's all about defense industry profits, not actual defense. As long as defense contractors are allowed to outsource components, or must purchase offshore components, this is going to happen, and with increasing frequency. The Chinese are not stupid and can spot an obvious attack vector. Even if they have no immediate plans to use these backdoors, they'd be foolish NOT to put them in. And since the government and industry are so intertwined in China, you have a near guarantee that this strategy will be used.
Not that this is a secret to the US military. It's just that nobody with decision making power in the USA actually gives a crap about the USA anymore. If you're wealthy enough, you can live anywhere. If a war breaks out, you can bet all the rich lobbyists, ex-military brass, subcontractors and subcontractors will rapidly relocate somewhere safe, leaving the poor and the stupid on both sides to slaughter each other.
There's more than enough free software to run almost any business you could name. Admittedly, you might need a commercial license or two for some very specialized stuff, but if all you need is office and some web presence, I'm a little hard put to understand why you'd have to buy any software at all.
No, that's third. The second biggest challenge is believing that those fine hosting companies with servers hosted in lower Slobbovia won't have a few entrepreneurial employees who will *actively* be searching your data for all that is monetizable.
Nobody's forcing anyone to look at these images. Anyone who really wants to will anyway. By making unenforceable laws, you simply make yourself look foolish, weak and powerless.
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And what do you whitelist? Alcohol and tobacco remain the most damaging legal drugs. Want to try prohibition again? Good luck. It hasn't worked for pot, cocaine or heroin. It didn't work for alcohol. There's no rational solution that bans the chemicals. Your best options are treatment for those willing and able, and non-treatment for those unwilling or unable (i.e. letting those bent on suicide accomplish it in a humane manner than endangers nobody else). I'd rather have the meth users in a hospital room until they kick off rather than letting them run around loose. Heck, they won't even be paranoid. We'll *tell* them we're trying to kill them.
You mean like breathing too heavily? Banning oxygen may have unintended consequences. Or that first cup of coffee in the morning? Or alcohol?
So...YES, too easy. Like most simple easy answers, they are just dangerous and wrong.
And chocolate cake. Man, my mom used to make *killer* chocolate cake.
Everyone knows that homemade ammo is much better.
is not evenly distributed. Apparently 46% of the American people have a ways to go yet.
Not to mention the baffling existence of rigatoni, which follows no know culinary laws of nature.
Something that could be deployed internationally, something cheap, something that could be initially shipped in a small package, something that only required solar power and water to absorb CO2. Perhaps something that even released oxygen into the atmosphere, provided shade, grew some sort of sweet, nutritious fruits or nuts and and was shaped in a way that small children could climb in the summertime.
Alas, such an advanced device is well beyond the realm of our science, or our scientific imagination.
... rife with unintended consequences. If you're going to turn UP the lights, you'd damn well better have a way to turn them back DOWN again. Large repositionable mirrors in space would do this. Throwing crap into the atmosphere because it's cheaper would not.
True. This is the bottom line. If other countries want to control and internet, they are free to invent and implement one. In the meantime, I respectfully request the technical illiterati of the UN piss off.
This is /. How would we know?
Is the Antichrist. Or the uncle-christ. Or something. Anyway it's damned slow.
Any state senator who votes for the bill must purchase and move into a house on the beach, one which would be flooded if global warming were true. Let them put their money where their mouths are.
I "does" care indeed. I don't trust the government not to someday come after me for a political rant, or because I belong the to wrong party (either one).
I "does" care about the fact that an insurance company can access my web purchases of herbal treatments for arthritis and later deny me coverage for knee surgery based on the fact that it was a "pre-existing" condition. I would prefer my on-line purchases of prescription drugs like Viagra suddenly force me to endure a thousand "ANTI-IMPOTENCE" ads every time I surf the web. I would prefer that no insurance company be able to monitor my purchases and make risk assesments based on their experience.
If you don't see the risk in this, I suggest you are awfully young and/or overly trusting. It's a predatory world. Don't make it easy on them.
How cute! I mean, who *doesn't* want their every financial transaction tracked and analyzed by the government and a few thousand corporations trying to sell you something. And of course, technology is so reliable! I'd trust my every dollar to that bastion of security, the cell phone. I mean, who wouldn't!
Excuse me, I have to go mop up some of that sarcasm that's been dripping all over the floor from somewhere.
but I'm not sure it matters. When was the last time you were part of a class-action suite against Microsoft? Moreover, this won't stand up in many other countries so it amounts to an attempt to minimize legal exposure in the USA. Given the increased availibility of Linux/Android/Web applications, we're all at a stage now where we can "vote with out feet" if Microsoft does something too buttheaded, and that's exactly what will happen if they overreach.
What would you think if someone showed up at your workplace in the US, unable to speak a word of English, looking for a programming job?
You obviously never worked at some of companies where I have. We work it out though. Google translate is a *good* thing.
where native language skills are a positive disadvantage. All that whining...
Um, it does pop up every single nanosecond, but in a different state. I think that's what they call "time."
Especially when it comes to the wilfully foolish, which you have to be in order to be a fundamentalist of any stripe. If a person had made the decision to lie to themselves to be more comfortable, there's really not much you can do.
Do you blame the inventor of scalpels because someone used one in a murder? Scalpels are also used to save people. The products of scientific research can be used for good or evil. Control (and therefore, responsibility) is in the hands of the wealthy/powerful.
Well, surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
Of course, it's all about defense industry profits, not actual defense. As long as defense contractors are allowed to outsource components, or must purchase offshore components, this is going to happen, and with increasing frequency. The Chinese are not stupid and can spot an obvious attack vector. Even if they have no immediate plans to use these backdoors, they'd be foolish NOT to put them in. And since the government and industry are so intertwined in China, you have a near guarantee that this strategy will be used.
Not that this is a secret to the US military. It's just that nobody with decision making power in the USA actually gives a crap about the USA anymore. If you're wealthy enough, you can live anywhere. If a war breaks out, you can bet all the rich lobbyists, ex-military brass, subcontractors and subcontractors will rapidly relocate somewhere safe, leaving the poor and the stupid on both sides to slaughter each other.
and now less sticky.
There's more than enough free software to run almost any business you could name. Admittedly, you might need a commercial license or two for some very specialized stuff, but if all you need is office and some web presence, I'm a little hard put to understand why you'd have to buy any software at all.
No, that's third. The second biggest challenge is believing that those fine hosting companies with servers hosted in lower Slobbovia won't have a few entrepreneurial employees who will *actively* be searching your data for all that is monetizable.
Nobody's forcing anyone to look at these images. Anyone who really wants to will anyway. By making unenforceable laws, you simply make yourself look foolish, weak and powerless.