This. Particularly since the SSN is explicitly, specifically, and legally not intended to be a universal ID # and does not do a good job of it even if it remains completely secure.
The only legal uses for an SSN is as a taxpayer ID (and you can use an actual taxpayer ID # instead) and to administer social security.
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I do this too. Nobody gets personal info that isn't actually needed.
But be aware: if you're paying with a card, many processors randomly require the card holder's zip code to be entered as a weak anti-fraud measure. If the clerk is asking for a zip code because of this and you refuse to provide it or provide an incorrect one, you won't be able to pay with the card.
Because the erase head does not travel exactly the same path every time, leaving slivers of the old recording at the margins of the stripe. Those slivers can be read using specialized equipment and techniques.
Clerks actually say that? I've never had that happen, but if it did, I think I would drop the transaction right there on the grounds that if I'm being pressured to sign something without reading it, then it's clearly a trap.
A reservation is not even remotely a POW camp. In the first place, the people who live on a reservation can leave it. Try that if you're in a POW camp.
When I think POW camp, the nicest form I can think of is the WWII Japanese internment camps in the US. And they weren't too nice.
But how nice they are, or how well governed they are, says nothing about what they are. They're prisons. POWs are prisoners. It's even in the name.
What you're advocating is to imprison people who have not violated the law. That's utterly despicable.
"But redbook (CD) is significantly higher resolution than vinyl"
This makes no sense. "Resolution" is a term that only applies to things that are sampled. Analog recording equipment does not do sampling, so the term is meaningless in that context.
Or, if you want to look at it another way, the "resolution" of analog recording is infinity and will always exceed the resolution of any digitized format.
"Vinyl and old style tape (not DAT) are analog, which captures the entire frequency spectrum of the performance"
Neither of those actually capture the entire frequency spectrum of performances even with perfect recording hardware. There are inherent frequency limitations with all these systems.
I believe they're talking about the crypto schemes that are enabled by default in consumer products. I haven't seen anyone overtly talking about backdooring all crypto yet. If they start doing that, then I'll start laughing even harder.
I, too, doubt this. It depends on how they go about it, I suppose, but I note that when we rounded up US citizens of Japanese descent and put them in concentration camps during WWII, there was no effective outcry.
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The only legal uses for an SSN is as a taxpayer ID (and you can use an actual taxpayer ID # instead) and to administer social security.
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But be aware: if you're paying with a card, many processors randomly require the card holder's zip code to be entered as a weak anti-fraud measure. If the clerk is asking for a zip code because of this and you refuse to provide it or provide an incorrect one, you won't be able to pay with the card.
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The funny thing is that I frequently hear US legislators say that outright.
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When I think POW camp, the nicest form I can think of is the WWII Japanese internment camps in the US. And they weren't too nice.
But how nice they are, or how well governed they are, says nothing about what they are. They're prisons. POWs are prisoners. It's even in the name.
What you're advocating is to imprison people who have not violated the law. That's utterly despicable.
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This makes no sense. "Resolution" is a term that only applies to things that are sampled. Analog recording equipment does not do sampling, so the term is meaningless in that context.
Or, if you want to look at it another way, the "resolution" of analog recording is infinity and will always exceed the resolution of any digitized format.
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Neither of those actually capture the entire frequency spectrum of performances even with perfect recording hardware. There are inherent frequency limitations with all these systems.
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No
Not unless the government manages to regains at least a small sliver of sanity.
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A meaningless distinction for most practical purposes. If I can be penalized for violating it, then it's a law.
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