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I think everyone should watch this video and then question whether Google knowing your "favorite music" is the biggest of their worries. Watched this in my CISSP class.
http://video.google....-2160824376898701015-Josh (January 26, 2012, 03:37 AM)
As Renegade said:The attack on free speech has many fronts. There's a full out Von Clausewitz total war of Biblical proportion on free speech now.It's the religio-political ideology that you need to do something about, see? It's not the people using that ideology.
They're not going to stop until they are stopped.-Renegade (January 24, 2012, 09:15 AM)
And they have arguably been planning/doing whatever systemic mischief they intend for quite some time, and are thus likely to be a lot better organised than their targets.
I would be interested to know just how you are likely to be able "stop" them without breaching some of the prevailing American religio-political ideologies. Somewhere down that logical path you could find civil war.-IainB (January 26, 2012, 01:39 AM)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-John F. Kennedy
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.-Thomas Jefferson
Please insert a snarky comment about bureaucrats here. Thank you.-Renegade (January 25, 2012, 09:28 PM)
I thought it. But then didn't say it. Because I started to think about myself, and I wasn't 100% sure that I wouldn't have missed it either.-wraith808 (January 25, 2012, 09:34 PM)
Almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job. L'Enfant Plaza is at the nucleus of federal Washington, and these were mostly mid-level bureaucrats with those indeterminate, oddly fungible titles: policy analyst, project manager, budget officer, specialist, facilitator, consultant.
Learned to play his 24 caprices on guitar a long time ago.) The internet seems to ignore legislation until somebody tries to take something away from us... then we carefully defend that one thing and never counter-attack. Then the other side says, "OK, compromise," and gets half of what they want. That's not the way to win... that's the way to see a steady and continuous erosion of rights online.
The solution is to start lobbying for our own laws. It's time to go on the offensive if we want to preserve what we've got. Let's force the RIAA and MPAA to use up all their political clout just protecting what they have.
Now that's brilliant! All we need is a small hoard of (mildly psychotic) legal types to start flooding them with a constant barrage of "legal" bullshit, and it'll be like hitting them with a courtroom based DoS attack.-Stoic Joker (January 25, 2012, 11:31 AM)
Ya know... The more privacy issues that crop up around this target advertising thing ... The more I realize that the 80s tampon commercials weren't nearly as annoying as I'd thought.-Stoic Joker (January 25, 2012, 11:38 AM)
you no longer love turning another year olderSure beats the alternative!-Renegade (January 22, 2012, 10:42 PM)-cranioscopical (January 25, 2012, 09:59 AM)
Truer words were never spoken.-40hz (January 25, 2012, 10:27 AM)
The new privacy policy makes clear that for people logged into a Google account, Google can use information shared on one service in other Google services.
“If you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services,” Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy for product and engineering, wrote in a company blog post . “In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience.”
Politician Market-IainB (January 25, 2012, 06:38 AM)
Taking away free speech is a good step in that direction~! The Pirate Bay announcement of a new category for digital designs is interesting because it’s another place where people can share digital designs for real things. As a technology, torrents are particularly great for super mega giant files because they distribute the downloading load and I’m curious to see what kinds of things will begin to show up in that category. Because The Pirate Bay takes a bold, no-holds-barred approach to sharing, I’m sure there will be controversies as companies and people who long for the proprietary days of the 20th century come to terms with the raw power of contemporary sharing technology. Cue squeaking of the world’s tiniest violin.
Wait a minute. . .
If anybody, any time, any where, can be Anonymous, then who are Anonymous to say it's a fake?
As I understand it, if someone claims to be Anonymous, they are. Therefore anybody can speak as Anonymous to announce that Anonymous are going to do something.-Deozaan (January 24, 2012, 03:52 PM)
From the actual post:-wraith808 (January 24, 2012, 04:17 PM)
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
OPEN Huh? Is that as in OPEN your butt cheeks and let the fist shine in??-Stoic Joker (January 24, 2012, 11:25 AM)
Thanks for the humor, IainB, I needed it when you posted it and it's funnier even now!
I assume you used SC to grab it?-crabby3 (January 24, 2012, 09:42 AM)
(One of my favourite pictures!) News Flash. SOPA is a Zombie!-TaoPhoenix (January 17, 2012, 06:13 PM)
Actually, SOPA is set to be reformulated in February. PIPA will be revisited with possible amendments in the coming weeks. Case in point, all is still open and possible -- nothing is dead, pulled, or cancelled. If that wasn't enough to keep us on our toes, a new, similar bill has surfaced.
Déjà Vu in the form of OPEN -- The New Anti-Piracy Bill
As an alternative to SOPA-PIPA, Representative Darrell Issa (CA-R), and 24 co-sponsors introduced the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) H.R. 3782 on Wednesday, during the Internet blackout.
Sorry for the slam Renegade. Maybe you could add some more-user-friendly stuff to the version I tried. Like maybe making the sample scan pics smaller (there seemed to be a lot of unused space around both) and stacking them to one side? Or add an Auto Select to just the 100% matches?
I don't have a clue about how to write or create a program, much less change an existing one, so these are just Novice-User suggestions.
I envy people who can create their own programs and this includes you! If I had just a fraction of your knowledge and experience I wouldn't have to constantly surf the web looking for solutions or answers. (Hopefully free but not always)-crabby3 (January 24, 2012, 08:02 AM)
There's more wrong with it than just that. 
