Footprints

Footprints

Re: Footprints Posted by satchmo on Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 8:26pm
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It's quite surprising that this is actually NOT a conspiracy theory.
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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 pepper on Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 8:38pm
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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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Re: Footprints Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 8:47pm
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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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Re: Footprints Posted by mazemaster on Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 9:09pm
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Its real.
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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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Re: Footprints Posted by Wild Card on Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 10:22pm
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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.
Re: Footprints Posted by satchmo on Wed Oct 19th 2005 at 10:38pm
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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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Re: Footprints Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 1:28am
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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."
Re: Footprints Posted by wil5on on Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 7:45am
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I dont care about any of these conspiracies... Nothing I print matters that much.
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Re: Footprints Posted by pepper on Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 9:00am
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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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Re: Footprints Posted by wil5on on Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 10:24am
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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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Re: Footprints Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 2:30pm
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Good show, wil5on.

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Re: Footprints Posted by fishy on Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 2:35pm
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Wild Card said:
......... 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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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 Wild Card on Thu Oct 20th 2005 at 4:11pm
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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 :razz:
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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Re: Footprints Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Oct 23rd 2005 at 5:56am
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Anyone who wants my DNA can kiss my ass! If the us or state gov't tries to take a smaple of mine, I will go to a different country, and become a citizen any way i can. If they take my fingerprints and DNA how am i ever supposed to become an untraceable assassin?!

F. those jerks...
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