Re: Footprints
Posted by Wild Card on
Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 8:33pm
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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.
Re: Footprints
Posted by Dark Tree on
Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 8:37pm
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Sounds bogus. Bogus but intresting.
Re: Footprints
Posted by Crono on
Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 9:11pm
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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 n<sup>n</sup> 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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Re: Footprints
Posted by rs6 on
Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 9:12pm
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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.
Re: Footprints
Posted by satchmo on
Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 9:49pm
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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. :smile:
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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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Good show, wil5on.
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Re: Footprints
Posted by Dark|Killer on
Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 2:41pm
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<span style="color: lightblue;">Im so scared to print anything !!*
No really,I really want to know, why in hell, would the </span>U.S. government want to know what other people are printing ??
My opinion is that what government<span style="color: lightblue;"><span style="color: white;"> is doing is pretty lame...
*(sarcasm)
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Re: Footprints
Posted by G4MER on
Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 2:59pm
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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.
Re: Footprints
Posted by Underdog on
Sun Oct 23rd 2005 at 2:15am
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I have heard, but not confirmed that in the USA they will shortly be adding a DNA sample to the drivers license test/renewal.
This will help out on crimes of all kinds. The part that I heard about was littering in particular. The litter problem in the US is so bad that the government is willing to spend almost anything to eliminate it. Of course, like all things I can foresee its abuse as well.
Anyway, thats a rumor I heard recently.
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