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- Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you
- Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and youThe question iswhy shouldn't the NSA have the same access to information Google has? The gathering of information is vital to National Defense. It must be controlled with checks and balances to prevent abuse.The United against a common enemy States of...
- Tags: Databases, SECURITY, NSA, totalitarianism, personal data
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Courts knock down government cellphone tracking
- Courts knock down government cellphone trackinggoverment cellphones trackingWHY IS PEOPLE SO AFREID OF THE GOVERMENT TRACKING THEIR CELLPHONE CALLS FOR ARE THEY SO AFREID THEY WILL BE COUGHT THAT THEY HAVE TO GO AGENEST THE GOVERMENT I DONT CARE THE GOVERMENT CAN LESSION TO ME ON...
- Tags: Vertical industries, TOTALITARIANISM, cell phone, Goverment, Dont, Constitution, government
- Discussion threads 2006-01-18
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- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'
- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'Bush finally managed to do in the Constitution and Bill of RightsIn one blow, done, gone, end of the representative republic that used to be the United States of America.Long live the Republic of Socialist Horrors I Totalitarianism.God Save the World Now.How exactly is this...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, telecom immunity, government, Shrub Administration
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...
- Tags: Republic, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- News to know: Firefox 3 beta 4; Microsoft's mesh; IT metrics
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Untangling Microsoft's mesh This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skeptic Larry Dignan: Cloud computing hasn't gone Fortune 500 yet, but it's coming Michael Krigsman: 13 reasons IT hates metrics Ed Burnette: Firefox...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you
- Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...
- Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Bush making GOP irrelevant in health care debate?
- Bush making GOP irrelevant in health care debate?Political post in a tech siteYou are overstepping your bounds. Please stick to technology and away from religion and politics.What this has to do about TechWhat dose S-CHIP has anything to do with tech. You Baptist preacher need to get back to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, S-CHIP, health care
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- Software morality
- Software moralitythat dependquote(Economics implies a kind of social compact, and you can’t just impose the necessary restrictions from the center, as totalitarianism isn’t usually conducive to vibrant economies.)but you could inforce morality and good manner by revoking the business permit by forcing tthe acquisition of one you could penalize...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, morality, Booch, technologist
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- Software morality
- Charles Cooper recently interviewed Grady Booch, one of the developers of the Unified Modeling Language UML, on the subject of software morality. Mr. Booch, in short, defended the application of moral principles to software development as a means by which to curtail the more negative uses of software (among other...
- Tags: Software, Economics, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)
- Windows Vista includes a new set of features that allow playback software to work with protected media. This DRM infrastructure is bitterly controversial, and it's given rise to an enormous amount of misinformation. No one has been more active or successful in spreading FUD and misinformation about this technology than...
- Tags: Protection, Dell Computer Corp., Media Center PC, PC, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, Reality, Aero, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- In China, spying on citizens moves to a new level
- In China, spying on citizens moves to a new levelChina is the tesing ground...once perfected, we will see it here. ]:)China is a Evil countryChina is evil and should be ban from any international trades until it is cleanup of communist and the population free from oppression. The US company...
- Tags: Apple Inc., CHINA IS
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush lyrics
- AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush lyricsATT censoring phonesIt's not surprising the phone company is trying to censor programming, TV networks such as sinclair censor as common practice.Well, thank goodness it was uncensored at the live venuetoo bad AT&T did what they did with their signal. Need to use more...
- Tags: Government, American Public, AT&T Corp., ATT
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Laptop insecurities
- Laptop insecuritiesA warrant? what are you - an AmericanIn most countries no warrant is needed - police can seize what they want and customs follows no laws but their own.Besides - what choice do you really have:customs agent: what's your password?you: uhh.. I'd like to stay in a cell while...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, password, warrant
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- MySpace seeks advice in sex offender investigation
- MySpace seeks advice in sex offender investigationMessage has been deleted.From my understanding.. felony offenses cause the loss of certain rights.i dont know if privacy is one of them.... BUT how do they make sure they are sending the right information. If someone shows up at my door because my...
- Tags: INTERNET, MySpace, goverment
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Chess is not Checkers
- The other night I went to sleep thinking about Gödels incompleteness theorem as a kind of juvenile twaddle: a quailing in the face of the infinite more appropriate to Mahler than Bach - and apparently got up somewhat later to celebrate of one of those mid night...
- Tags: Linux, General, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Court backs FCC insulating Web phone service
- Court backs FCC insulating Web phone servicejust another example of Feds crushing State's Rights. since we lost thecivil war over this issue a host of social engineers have sought to apply successively more sweeping overrulings of State and local municipalities decisions concerning public safety and economic stability. i expect the...
- Tags: Telephony, Vertical industries, Telecom & Utilities, economic stability, public safety, telecommunications, government, regulation, FCC
- Discussion threads 2007-03-21
- Intel to reveal foreign info in antitrust case
- Intel to reveal foreign info in antitrust caseWhat has that to do with MADs anti-trust whining?Oh yeah, absolutely nothing. AMD, get off your back side and COMPETE.Misguided socialist sophismsOnly the state can ever cause monopolies to form, through deceptive regulations and unethical IP laws. The Sherman Act has...
- Tags: Corporate law, SECURITY, Processors, Network technology, Sherman Act, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., antitrust, Intel Corp., anti-Trust
- Discussion threads 2006-12-28
- Google wants data in the cloud, not on the desktop
- Google wants data in the cloud, not on the desktopYes, just like we trust banks to keep our money, we will trust serviceproviders to keep our data. We need something like the FDIC, and serious penalties for losing data, but this will work itself out. Of course there will always...
- Tags: desktop, Google Inc., Google Wants, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
- Chertoff: Web could be terror training camp
- Chertoff: Web could be terror training campHow many "staffers"?Did I understand this correctly? 35 staffers are going to monitor a network of websites that can't even be counted, and a couple of hundred million american Internet users? Good luck.Guess it's time to declare war on the internet...but where...
- Tags: Workforce management, GUESS IT, Chertoff, training, Internet, terror training camp, training camp, U.S. Citizen, government, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-10-17
- NSA wiretapping unconstitutional
- NSA wiretapping unconstitutionalNSA and UnconstitutionalityIts good to know that the American judicial system is, even if ever so gradually, waking up to its traditional role as custodian and interpreter of the nation's constitution. Its about time judges got commited to the responsibility of their appiontments and abandon political sycophancy...
- Tags: SECURITY, NSA, attack, American Civil Liberties Union
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
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