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 Beethoven  Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
There have also been reports that local councils are thinking of placing small cameras inside baked bean tins so that anyone throwing cans into the wrong bins can be caught and fined. You can't even get it here. It's been declared "Mad Cow" (or the tinned beef from Argentina, I forget which). Maybe it's all just another trade barrier, though. ID: 562349 ·  |
Jeffrey  Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
$traceroute aerotek.com Care to discuss??? ;)  It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .
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ajinbc  Send message Joined: 15 Mar 06 Posts: 484 Credit: 318,444 RAC: 0 
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Not really on-topic, but still... Great smilie. I just uploaded it to a forum I admin at. Thanks AJ ID: 551180 · |
Misfit  Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21803 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 
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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21803 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0
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There have also been reports that local councils are thinking of placing small cameras inside baked bean tins so that anyone throwing cans into the wrong bins can be caught and fined. Spam also comes in a tin. You should stop eating that too.  me@rescam.org ID: 550570 · |
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Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
Jeffery, do you have any idea how the equipment that makes the internet possible works? So what you're trying to tell me is that it is perfectly normal for a non-routable ip address to just appear and disappear at will without changing the rest of the route in any way shape or form other than adding an extra hop? Study up on the technology and take note of your location. Odd that you would know 'my location'... Big Brother??? ;) It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .
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Scary Capitalist  Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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There have also been reports that local councils are thinking of placing small cameras inside baked bean tins so that anyone throwing cans into the wrong bins can be caught and fined. .........I pledge to stop eating baked beans out of tins. :-P Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing! 
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BillHyland  Send message Joined: 30 Apr 04 Posts: 907 Credit: 5,764,172 RAC: 0
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Is there a reason for this post Jeffrey? Jeffery, do you have any idea how the equipment that makes the internet possible works? Study up on the technology and take note of your location. ID: 550325 · |
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Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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Is that Kim Jong Il launching one to Japan? Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing!
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Matthew Love  Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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he sure does have a good AIM to make the shot!!   LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 550208 · |
Demiurg  Send message Joined: 2 Jul 02 Posts: 883 Credit: 28,286 RAC: 0 
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HEHEEE...Nobody. Yes, even across Skype I am pretty tasty! ID: 550204 · |
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Scary Capitalist Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 7404 Credit: 97,085 RAC: 0
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HEHEEE...Nobody. I would like to talk to you on Skype again sometime. You are enjoyable. Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data! I did NOT authorize this belly writing!
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Demiurg Send message Joined: 2 Jul 02 Posts: 883 Credit: 28,286 RAC: 0
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Interestingly enough, almost all of Ez99 (I guess that is who you are refering to as Esme) have been deleted. When I looked at them I still cannot understand why really. More than that she seems to have a beef with a couple of the mods. But I didn't see anything in her postings that where unclean or against the rules. But then of course I never read all of the 7958 of them;-) So... The question then. Am I Big Brother, or am I just the all knowing Demiurg. Edit/ The first sentence became hilarious... It should of course have said; "...all of Ez99 (...) postings have been deleted." ID: 550202 · |
Dr. C.E.T.I.  Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0
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Q. whErE's CA whEn ya nEEd 'iM   ID: 550199 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality Who said the quote who is watching the watchers? The name escapes me LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 549875 · |
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Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality See sig... ;) | | | \\/ It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home. It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily. Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a chilling mirror image of Orwell's fictional world, created in the post-war Forties in a fourth-floor flat overlooking Canonbury Square in Islington, North London. On the wall outside his former residence - flat number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move. Orwell's view of the tree-filled gardens outside the flat is under 24-hour surveillance from two cameras perched on traffic lights. The flat's rear windows are constantly viewed from two more security cameras outside a conference centre in Canonbury Place. In a lane, just off the square, close to Orwell's favourite pub, the Compton Arms, a camera at the rear of a car dealership records every person entering or leaving the pub. Within a 200-yard radius of the flat, there are another 28 CCTV cameras, together with hundreds of private, remote-controlled security cameras used to scrutinise visitors to homes, shops and offices. The message is reminiscent of a 1949 poster to mark the launch of Orwell's 1984: 'Big Brother is Watching You'. In the Shriji grocery store in Canonbury Place, three cameras focus on every person in the shop. Owner Minesh Amin explained: 'They are for our security and safety. Without them, people would steal from the shop. Although this is a nice area, there are always bad people who cause trouble by stealing.' Three doors away, in the dry-cleaning shop run by Malik Zafar, are another two CCTV cameras. 'I need to know who is coming into my shop,' explained Mr Zafar, who spent £400 on his security system. This week, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) produced a report highlighting the astonishing numbers of CCTV cameras in the country and warned how such 'Big Brother tactics' could eventually put lives at risk. The RAE report warned any security system was 'vulnerable to abuse, including bribery of staff and computer hackers gaining access to it'. One of the report's authors, Professor Nigel Gilbert, claimed the numbers of CCTV cameras now being used is so vast that further installations should be stopped until the need for them is proven. One fear is a nationwide standard for CCTV cameras which would make it possible for all information gathered by individual cameras to be shared - and accessed by anyone with the means to do so. The RAE report follows a warning by the Government's Information Commissioner Richard Thomas that excessive use of CCTV and other information-gathering was 'creating a climate of suspicion'. Here is the link to the website http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-details/George+Orwell,+Big+Brother+is+watching+your+house/article.do LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 549585 · |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0
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WHY CELL PHONE OUTAGE REPORTS ARE SECRET Posted: Friday, December 15 at 06:00 am CT by Bob Sullivan Consumers have no idea how reliable their cell phone service will be when they buy a phone and sign a long-term contract. The Federal Communications Commission could offer some guidance, but it won't. The agency refuses to make public a detailed database of cell phone provider outages that it has maintained since 2004. A federal Freedom of Information Act request for the data, filed in August by MSNBC.com, has been rejected by the agency. The stated reasons: Release of the information could help terrorists plan attacks against the United States, and it would harm the companies involved. Complaints about cell phone service are near the top of every list of consumer gripes. The Illinois attorney general’s office, for example, last year ranked cell phone complaints as the fourth-most-common complaint, trailing only gas prices, credit card firms and home improvement scams. To find out if a cell phone carrier service will be reliable, consumers are forced to buy a phone, then use it at home and on their normal commuting routes. Callers generally get 30 days at most to return a phone if the service doesn’t work well enough. But that test won’t reveal anything about carriers’ periodic outages. The Federal Communications Commission does know something about outages, however. It has collected outage reports from telecommunications firms since the early 1990s. Any time a carrier has an outage that affects 900,000 caller minutes – say a 30-minute outage impacting 30,000 customers – it must report it to the Network Outage Reporting System. In the beginning, the reports all were from “wire line†telephone providers and were available to the public. But in 2004, the commission ordered wireless firms to supply outage reports as well. But at the same time, it removed all outage reports from public view and exempted them from the Freedom of Information Act. The FCC took the action at the urging of the Department of Homeland Security, which argued that publication of the reports would “jeopardize our security efforts.†“The same outage data that can be so useful … to identify and remedy critical vulnerabilities and make the network infrastructure stronger can, in hostile hands, be used to exploit those vulnerabilities to undermine or attack networks,†DHS said. 'Corporate competition protection' What use would wireless outage reports have to would-be terrorists? Not much, said NBC terrorism analyst Roger Cressey, the former chief of staff of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. “There is nothing mysterious behind it, it is corporate competition protection,†said Cressey, now a partner in Good Harbor Consulting. “The only reason for the government to not let these records get out is then one telco provider could run a full-page ad saying ‘the government says we’re more reliable.’†Cressey added that he couldn’t imagine a scenario where the reports would be valuable to terrorists. In October, MSNBC.com filed an administrative appeal of the FCC’s rejection of its FOIA request. The FCC has not yet responded to the appeal. In its initial answer to MSNBC.com’s FOIA request, FCC officials cited only one reason for the denial: “competitive harm†to companies involved. “NORS records are not available to the public,†the rejection letter said. “Given the competitive nature of many segments of the communications industry and the importance that outage information may have on the selection of a service provider or manufacturer, we conclude that there is a presumptive likelihood of substantial competitive harm from disclosure of information in outage reports.†That’s likely true. A report that revealed which mobile phone company suffered the most outages in a given area would likely impact consumers’ choice of provider. Such information would be in the public interest, MSNBC.com believes. “We believe that this is basic consumer information and we will continue to fight for your right to know it,†said MSNBC.com editor-in-chief Jennifer Sizemore. Explanation doesn't measure up, expert says The explanation also does not meet the bar set by the Freedom of Information Act for an agency to decline a request, according to an analysis by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The competitive harm exemption “requires fairly detailed explanations by the company involved as to how the release of information will put it at a substantial competitive disadvantage,†said analyst Nathan Winegar. In a subsequent response to a reporter’s query, an FCC spokesman pointed toward the second reason for the public record request denial: The 2004 administrative order declaring the outage records off limits to the public. That order cited both competitive harm and national security. Al Tompkins, a Freedom of Information Act expert at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think-tank, said release of the cell phone outage reports would be “a tremendous consumer tool,†and compared them to the Federal Aviation Administration’s publication of airline on-time records. “It seems to me that while one could understand it might put one company at a competitive disadvantage, it would put another at a competitive advantage,†he said. “The airwaves are owned by the public. … The public has a need to know what’s reliable and what’s not.†Not every mobile phone firm thought the database needed to be hidden from public view when the FCC decided to make it secret in 2004. Sprint argued that the commission could “scrub†the reports of sensitive material before they were made public and thus serve the “seemingly divergent needs for public access and protection of confidential information.†The FCC chose the blunt instrument. the rest of the article can be found at this website link http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/12/why_cell_phone_.html LETS BEGIN IN 2010 ID: 549127 · |
Michael     Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4603 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 41
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Connected to the discussion or not ... ? Possibly and too early to tell. I had assumed (albeit incorrectly as I now see) that the military would have already had something like this in place. ID: 547142 · |
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Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 11664 Credit: 8,568,819 RAC: 213
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Connected to the discussion or not ... ? http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070413/sc_space/usmilitarytoputinternetrouterinspace. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 546908 · |
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