Yes, damn those greedy corporations! Always offering people better jobs than the ones they had before!
We should especially put pressure on them to ban child labor in those countries, so kids can go back to the time-honored, traditional jobs of poor children in third-world countries, such as child prostitution!
if given a choice between dying at the age of 7 in a brothel and dying at the age of 7 in sweatshop, clearly dying in a sweatshop is obviously better. how could i have not seen that?
clearly corporations are always great and should never be questioned. you have clearly changed my life for the better.
And also increase the price of the goods they produce, thereby decreasing the demand for those goods and hurting their economy.
how insensitive of me. affordable retail goods always trump the value of human life. yay corporations!
I think I've asked this before; Is there really a group on 4chan called Anonymous? From what I see, they're not a group, but a bunch of people that happen to agree every now and then.
the problem with leaderless or distributed movements of any kind is that they are easy to setup and therefore easy to fake. anonymous might be a real force, or it might be a flag for people to wave when they do something and want it to look more impressive than it really is.
it might also be a false-flag operation.
the same could be said about various islamic and white supremacist movements.
The problem is that both situations occur, and it is not always easy to tell if the factory is exploitative or if it is helpful.
this is because there are no labor and environmental standards in these places. greedy corporations are only partly to blame. corrupt local governments are also to blame. forcing all companies to meet minimum standards for wages, working conditions, and environmental protections similar to those of the US (or even better, europe) into place will improve the lives of the people in these countries and could also help to revive some of dying manufacturing sectors in the US.
I guess this supports the idea that these kinds of vulnerabilities are not part of some government conspiracy to allow tampering with votes by a select few.
or it supports the idea of plausible deniability for voter tampering: a system that is known to be insecure creates a group of people to blame other than the group responsible. it's a sort of reverse occam's razor.
Re: Re: Re: It's OK to "hold off what technology allows"
But when push comes to shove, the pirates pay zero in taxes. The content community pays plenty. Which one will the government support?
i have a 9 to 5 and pay taxes just like everyone else. i also buy stuff and pay bills, meaning that i spend money that enables others to pay taxes as well.
and when the content industry realizes that the money they made in the 90's just isn't possible in the current market, they'll be paying a lot less in taxes thanks to lower revenues.
so when push comes to shove, who is the government going to side with? the consumers (and voters) who have semi-reliable and semi-steady incomes, or an industry in decline? (hint: one group's tax revenue is sustainable, the other is not.)
Both Mike and Cory Doctorow seems to think that if some technology enable you to do "X" it automatically means that you're allowed to do it.
and you seem to think that because an idea *might* affect a corporation's profits, that is automatically an evil idea and that there should be a law against those ideas.
laws are supposed to reflect the social mores of a society, but societies are made up of people, not corporations. societies also change over time as the people who make up those societies change. technology enables a fair amount of that change. a corporation that profits from holding back progress should not have a say in how a society progresses.
Your car can drive 100mph and more, are you allowed to do it? You can build powerful radio transmitter - does FCC allows you? Read chemistry book about C4 - are you allowed to make explosives?
there are already laws against malicious actions by bad actors. we don't need corporations deciding what people can and cannot do with their personal property. if i choose to speed, that is something between me and the local police and GM or whomever can mind their own business.
be able to tell which patron was surfing the porn? were they even actually in the store? apartments nearby perhaps?
the only reason to take action would be due to a customer complaint. if customers are complaining, then the infraction must be happening in plain view of customers, in which case, you just look around and see who has porn up on their screen.
if someone was surfing for porn in their apartment, how would that have come to the barista's attention?
if the barista was using a network tool to snoop on others, then he/she probably deserved to be fired.
Censorship is never about taking down something illegal. It's about taking something legal and making it illegal on the basis of morals or "feelings". Taking down child porn isn't censorship, it's the removal of illegal and horrifying content. Stopping piracy (if you can) isn't censorship, it's the prevention of an illegal act.
there's also the fact that a blacklist, public or secret, won't have much effect on file sharing.
So registrars must censor domain names of websites with "evil" content, even if the domain name is just a name and has no relationship with the content? Great, let's unveil a distributed site naming service.
that's what DNS is *for*. there's no law that makes you use your ISP's or even your country's DNS.
i use google's DNS because i hate isp search pages. there's no reason you couldn't use another, or better yet, roll your own using a hosts file:
So web hosters must take down a site on an accusation without any need for proof? Great, let's unveil a distributed web hosting application. And so on.
there are already hidden services in many darknet technologies like TOR, but once you have a tunnel established into a safe zone, you could use the "normal" internet from that insertion point.
geoip might mess with the default language but there are ways around that as well.
I've been in the industry for eight years, and Sales and Marketing do not have multimillion dollar clusters for modeling drug interactions, nor test labs with millions in equipment. They have laptops and Powerpoint and color printers, easily a quarter of the staff of R&D, and a commodity-like mission: sell "X".
all those prime time TV commercials, billboards, radio ads, and full page ads in magazines are free?
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Re: Well ...
futuristic sex robots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnLB8wysMbY
metamystiks inc. with YT cracker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lRB53g7NO0
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We should especially put pressure on them to ban child labor in those countries, so kids can go back to the time-honored, traditional jobs of poor children in third-world countries, such as child prostitution!
if given a choice between dying at the age of 7 in a brothel and dying at the age of 7 in sweatshop, clearly dying in a sweatshop is obviously better. how could i have not seen that?
clearly corporations are always great and should never be questioned. you have clearly changed my life for the better.
And also increase the price of the goods they produce, thereby decreasing the demand for those goods and hurting their economy.
how insensitive of me. affordable retail goods always trump the value of human life. yay corporations!
On the post: Gene Simmons Now Wants To Throw 'Anonymous' In Jail
Re: Jackass
the problem with leaderless or distributed movements of any kind is that they are easy to setup and therefore easy to fake. anonymous might be a real force, or it might be a flag for people to wave when they do something and want it to look more impressive than it really is.
it might also be a false-flag operation.
the same could be said about various islamic and white supremacist movements.
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this is because there are no labor and environmental standards in these places. greedy corporations are only partly to blame. corrupt local governments are also to blame. forcing all companies to meet minimum standards for wages, working conditions, and environmental protections similar to those of the US (or even better, europe) into place will improve the lives of the people in these countries and could also help to revive some of dying manufacturing sectors in the US.
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medical records are WAY different that sex offender data... oh, right.
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Re: Re: Everything's commercial
that's because not making money is the same as losing money... just like standing still is the same thing as walking backwards.
On the post: Details Of How The DC Online Voting System Was Hacked: Small Vulnerability, Huge Consequences
Re: Unsecure, but in the wrong way
or it supports the idea of plausible deniability for voter tampering: a system that is known to be insecure creates a group of people to blame other than the group responsible. it's a sort of reverse occam's razor.
sony did something similar when the "hot coffee" mod was discovered in grand theft auto san andreas:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/7/20/
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Re: Re: Re: How?
you want to use something that has been thoroughly audited and tested, meaning something that people have been trying to hack for a long time.
new code doesn't have that kind of history.
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Re: Re: Re: It's OK to "hold off what technology allows"
i have a 9 to 5 and pay taxes just like everyone else. i also buy stuff and pay bills, meaning that i spend money that enables others to pay taxes as well.
and when the content industry realizes that the money they made in the 90's just isn't possible in the current market, they'll be paying a lot less in taxes thanks to lower revenues.
so when push comes to shove, who is the government going to side with? the consumers (and voters) who have semi-reliable and semi-steady incomes, or an industry in decline? (hint: one group's tax revenue is sustainable, the other is not.)
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Re: Re: I'm evil
while he probably did, even a 10% increase in traffic would mean a significant decrease in the effectiveness of monitoring.
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Re:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Neuromancer
On the post: Cory Doctorow Explains Why 'Free' Isn't His Concern; But Restrictions On Individual Rights Are
Re: It's OK to "hold off what technology allows"
and you seem to think that because an idea *might* affect a corporation's profits, that is automatically an evil idea and that there should be a law against those ideas.
laws are supposed to reflect the social mores of a society, but societies are made up of people, not corporations. societies also change over time as the people who make up those societies change. technology enables a fair amount of that change. a corporation that profits from holding back progress should not have a say in how a society progresses.
Your car can drive 100mph and more, are you allowed to do it? You can build powerful radio transmitter - does FCC allows you? Read chemistry book about C4 - are you allowed to make explosives?
there are already laws against malicious actions by bad actors. we don't need corporations deciding what people can and cannot do with their personal property. if i choose to speed, that is something between me and the local police and GM or whomever can mind their own business.
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http://www.workshop88.com/space
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$350,000$100,000 Per Day [Updated]Re: Re:
beautiful graphics + shitty controls = shitty game.
shitty graphics + awesome fun = awesome game.
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Re: and how exactly would you
the only reason to take action would be due to a customer complaint. if customers are complaining, then the infraction must be happening in plain view of customers, in which case, you just look around and see who has porn up on their screen.
if someone was surfing for porn in their apartment, how would that have come to the barista's attention?
if the barista was using a network tool to snoop on others, then he/she probably deserved to be fired.
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there's also the fact that a blacklist, public or secret, won't have much effect on file sharing.
On the post: Even Without COICA, White House Asking Registrars To Voluntarily Censor 'Infringing' Sites
Re: Another tatic
that's what DNS is *for*. there's no law that makes you use your ISP's or even your country's DNS.
i use google's DNS because i hate isp search pages. there's no reason you couldn't use another, or better yet, roll your own using a hosts file:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29
So web hosters must take down a site on an accusation without any need for proof? Great, let's unveil a distributed web hosting application. And so on.
there are already hidden services in many darknet technologies like TOR, but once you have a tunnel established into a safe zone, you could use the "normal" internet from that insertion point.
geoip might mess with the default language but there are ways around that as well.
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all those prime time TV commercials, billboards, radio ads, and full page ads in magazines are free?
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