I find it pretty selfish in debates over freedom of expression, rights, whatever when someone comes claiming he doesn't care for it. One person not interested in freedom of expression doesn't make it for the whole planet, on which everyone else still has to voice her/his point. As if it were enough to ask one fool in the place of billions of others... That always bugged me.
If you don't care because you've got nothing to hide or say, amen to that. But it only counts for you and you're not necessarily an example to follow.
I was, in a past life, a copier tech. Some machines will copy money no troubles! (As a test, printout destroyed afterwards) The yellow dots aren't even a secret! Who cares!
This is a measure to block counterfeiting. So if you don't print money, clones of valuable art pieces or IS pamphlets : no problemo.No it isn't. Counterfeiters don't use laser printers, you cannot print credible counterfeits with that technology. Every people handling money on a daily basis will immediately see the difference.huh. some dude got away with fake 25 dollar bills ... he even got change back when paying with em. and they couldn't sue him , since there is no 25 dollar bill it is not counterfeit. Stupidity has no boundaries..
I was, in a past life, a copier tech. Some machines will copy money no troubles! (As a test, printout destroyed afterwards) The yellow dots aren't even a secret! Who cares!
Would you say the same thing if you bought a digital camera and it encoded tiny yellow tracking dots onto every image?, and that was mandated by the government?
Even if 99.999% of the world didn't want free speech, everyone should still get free speech because it's that 0.001% that will drag the world out of the dark ages and progress the human race.
Same thing for religion.
Even if 99.999% of the world was Islamic and wanted death for apostasy, that should not be the law, there should freedom from religion, because it's that 0.001% again who will drag the world out of the dark ages and progress the human race.
Freedom of speech is that important.
I love Steve Woz's joke pad of perforated $2 bills he gets printed and spends as legal tender
I love Steve Woz's joke pad of perforated $2 bills he gets printed and spends as legal tender
Well, they are genuine currency, issued by the Federal Reserve.
In the clip the Woz claims that the ink isn't dry, the president may be wrong and the serial numbers are suspicious. I'm sure he is well aware that none of that is true.
Those $2 bills are nearly $3 each, plus the cost of getting them bound and perforated, so it's an expensive joke unless you're as rich as he is.
Yellow Dots might not affect *you* because the Internet is your outlet of expression. But it does affect those who print flyers, newsletters or otherwise use printed media to get their message out.
There are two camps in this country when it comes to the privacy subject;
The I don't care camp they really do care but feel pressured into saying they don't care.
The I do care and try to minimize my traceable footprint camp. The latter gets a lot of bad press simply because they are informed and concerned, this group is made of ex hippies who thought government should be small and under the control of the public, what a concept...
Imagine that; a government by the people, and for the people.
I was, in a past life, a copier tech. Some machines will copy money no troubles! (As a test, printout destroyed afterwards) The yellow dots aren't even a secret! Who cares!
Would you say the same thing if you bought a digital camera and it encoded tiny yellow tracking dots onto every image?, and that was mandated by the government?
If you say that holocaust didn't happen in europe (this is a quote from the law, i personally belive the facts, that this happened and I encourage anyone to do the same) they can fine you or throw you to prison.
I was, in a past life, a copier tech. Some machines will copy money no troubles! (As a test, printout destroyed afterwards) The yellow dots aren't even a secret! Who cares!
Would you say the same thing if you bought a digital camera and it encoded tiny yellow tracking dots onto every image?, and that was mandated by the government?
There are two camps in this country when it comes to the privacy subject;
The I don't care camp they really do care but feel pressured into saying they don't care.
The I do care and try to minimize my traceable footprint camp. The latter gets a lot of bad press simply because they are informed and concerned, this group is made of ex hippies who thought government should be small and under the control of the public, what a concept...
Imagine that; a government by the people, and for the people.
There are two camps in this country when it comes to the privacy subject;
The I don't care camp they really do care but feel pressured into saying they don't care.
The I do care and try to minimize my traceable footprint camp. The latter gets a lot of bad press simply because they are informed and concerned, this group is made of ex hippies who thought government should be small and under the control of the public, what a concept...
Imagine that; a government by the people, and for the people.There is a third camp I am in, and it has everything to do with NANDBlog's reply: the "I don't care" camp that finally realized everybody lives in a police state with varying degrees of censorship - either from the state itself or from your own living community, neighbors and peers.
I was, in a past life, a copier tech. Some machines will copy money no troubles! (As a test, printout destroyed afterwards) The yellow dots aren't even a secret! Who cares!
Would you say the same thing if you bought a digital camera and it encoded tiny yellow tracking dots onto every image?, and that was mandated by the government?
There are two camps in this country when it comes to the privacy subject;
The I don't care camp they really do care but feel pressured into saying they don't care.
The I do care and try to minimize my traceable footprint camp. The latter gets a lot of bad press simply because they are informed and concerned, this group is made of ex hippies who thought government should be small and under the control of the public, what a concept...
Imagine that; a government by the people, and for the people.
Ex hippies aren't the only ones. And only the hippies that woke up to reality are paying attention to their data. The hippie movement had its own share of sheep and idiots.
Show me ONE case where these yellow dots have affected freedom of speech. They don't prevent you from printing the document , handing it out or stapling it to a power pole.
'it could be used' , 'hypothetically they can track you'.
just watched it maybe too late but...
thank you very much sir! you just teach terrorists on how to erase their traces...
Show me ONE case where these yellow dots have affected freedom of speech. They don't prevent you from printing the document , handing it out or stapling it to a power pole.
'it could be used' , 'hypothetically they can track you'.There's probably one somewhere... but that's missing the point.
You should be against this sort of thing ON PRINCIPLE. Just because.
Let's not forget that governments don't have any rights. None whatsoever.
They have "powers", granted to them by the people.
I was, in a past life, a copier tech. Some machines will copy money no troubles! (As a test, printout destroyed afterwards) The yellow dots aren't even a secret! Who cares!
Would you say the same thing if you bought a digital camera and it encoded tiny yellow tracking dots onto every image?, and that was mandated by the government?they do. in the exif data. photocopiers do it too.
EXIF can be trimmed off, yellow dots can not.