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Posted by satchmo on Wed Oct 19th at 8:26pm 2005

It's quite surprising that this is actually NOT a conspiracy theory.


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Posted by Wild Card on Wed Oct 19th at 8:33pm 2005

F*cking eh.. Stupid American government. Why they try to control everything is a mystery to me. Just last week I was reading a post in a different forum about the government trying to gain control over the entire internet, claiming that America should own it since it was originally developped for DOD way back when.




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Posted by Dark Tree on Wed Oct 19th at 8:37pm 2005

Sounds bogus. Bogus but intresting.




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Posted by pepper on Wed Oct 19th at 8:38pm 2005

I believe it was a other organization that developed the internet, not america, could be wrong though.

What would the frickin american governement want to know where i print my prints.




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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Wed Oct 19th at 8:47pm 2005

Sounds bogus, I don't think non-comericial printers are capable of printing that small. Plus, look at some of the other articles...




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Posted by mazemaster on Wed Oct 19th at 9:09pm 2005

Its real.


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Posted by Crono on Wed Oct 19th at 9:11pm 2005

Just another thing they track. Not surprising and rather inefficient. Think about it, do you honestly think they check every piece of printed paper .. ever? No. It would only be useful, to them, if they were finding counterfeiters or someone that's actually a nuisance to them.

Of course, the entire idea of back door deals and such is ... disturbing, to say the least. It should be no sweat off anyone's back unless they're deep in some incredibly illegal activity, in which case, you'd probably know about the 'checks'. Think about this though: if they gather information on everyone, all the time, how are they going to realistically go through it? That computability is like nn or something like that. It'd probably take years to sift through everything, so chances are they don't check much, unless they start down a path to track a specific individual for whatever reason.

Conspiracy theories are funny because you have to wonder ... why would the government care about a specific individual if they show no sign of a following? They wouldn't, is the answer.


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Posted by rs6 on Wed Oct 19th at 9:12pm 2005

I also read some were that many new laptops are coming with hardware key loggers connected to your ethernet port. It transmits your key strokes to the goverment.



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Posted by satchmo on Wed Oct 19th at 9:49pm 2005

The internet was created in the United States. It originated from a project called the ArpaNet from the Defense Department.

The first four nodes of the internet were UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Stanford, and Rutger's, I believe. And I think it went online in 1969 or something.

I am sure I can cofirm the facts with a Google search, but Crono can do that for me. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Wild Card on Wed Oct 19th at 10:22pm 2005

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I also read some were that many new laptops are coming with hardware key loggers connected to your ethernet port. It transmits your key strokes to the goverment.
Unfortunatly, the rumours that Dell ships it's laptops with keyloggers are fake. Oh how I wish this stuff was true though. It would give me yet another reason to hate the American government, and would also be quite the legal issue considering I am outside their country, and therefore outside their juristiction and their laws.




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Posted by satchmo on Wed Oct 19th at 10:38pm 2005

I looked up and confirmed what I briefly stated above. The birth of the internet occurred primarily at UCLA, my alma mater (where I went to college and where I trained to become a pediatrician).

I am so proud to be a part of the school that gave birth to the internet.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Oct 20th at 1:28am 2005

Yeah I'm taking CS 101 (I flunked the midterm in case you're wondering) and that's something we learned. Pretty sweet.

As for the the copier thing... that's just weird and I don't really know how I feel about it.

I bet whichever governmental branch organized this is pissed off at this so called "Electronic Frontier Foundation."



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Posted by wil5on on Thu Oct 20th at 7:45am 2005

I dont care about any of these conspiracies... Nothing I print matters that much.


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Posted by pepper on Thu Oct 20th at 9:00am 2005

After some googling on my side i found out that the internet is developed atthe CERN.

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/Spotlight/SpotlightAandD-en.html

And here is a screenshot of the page:




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Posted by wil5on on Thu Oct 20th at 10:24am 2005

The World Wide Web is not the Internet.

The world wide web is the system of interlinking web pages, which you view using a web browser.

The internet is the system of servers and connections which connects computers all around the world. The internet has many uses, including the world wide web, email, instant messaging and of course online gaming.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Oct 20th at 2:30pm 2005

Good show, wil5on.

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Posted by fishy on Thu Oct 20th at 2:35pm 2005

? quoting Wild Card

......... and would also be quite the legal issue considering I am outside their country, and therefore outside their juristiction and their laws.

how many countries have made that mistake?




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Posted by Dark|Killer on Thu Oct 20th at 2:41pm 2005

Im so scared to print anything !!*

No really,I really want to know, why in hell, would the U.S. government want to know what other people are printing ??
My opinion is that what government is doing is pretty lame...

*(sarcasm)



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Posted by G4MER on Thu Oct 20th at 2:59pm 2005


I think it's mainly MONEY they are looking for. yes I know, I am so wanted, that people print pictures of me, and guess what its a crime.. so knock it off. thank you.




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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Oct 20th at 4:11pm 2005

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I think it's mainly MONEY they are looking for. yes I know, I am so wanted, that people print pictures of me, and guess what its a crime.. so knock it off. thank you.
Im making good money off that so screw you :P





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