Another inapplicable rule brought to us by moronic politicians…. and btw, it’s not only the Canadian politicians that are retards…. it goes for all politicians all over the world.

I doubt they have the resources to do this, so it’ll boil down to:

“I don’t like the look of your face, so I’m going to accuse you of having pirate material on your iPod, it’s probably a safe bet”

This is absolutely ridiculous- how can it even be CONSIDERED as reasonable? In what brain does this cross neurons that label it as a Good Idea?

As there is, however, no easy way (of which I’m aware) to filter by Shuffle/Don’t Shuffle or file size once it’s loaded onto the player, the Customs Service implodes from the work involved examining every single “track”.

Problem with border checks very shortly solved.

I’m too lazy to look it up, but from the top of my head, I think travel to the US has gone down by almost 20% since 2001. This is NOT because of possible terrorism, but because visitors are treated as criminals (or at least highly suspicious) when coming to the USA.

Really, Canada, you’ve always seemed like the nice neighbor. You wanna go down that road as well?

Also, with mp3-players having gigs and gigs of music on the nowadays, how long are we expected to wait on the border while every tune is checked for copyright infringements? My mobile phone has 4 GB of mp3s on it right now. And the file explorer is slooooow. I’ll bring a sleeping bag.

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/sectoral/intell_property/fs231007_en.htm

http://torrentfreak.com/proposed-treaty-turns-internet-into-a-virtual-police-state-080524/

Part of me wants them to try this, though. The public backlash would be a sight to behold, especially when it turns into a battle between the airlines and the music industry.

It’s incredibly important to the Canadian economy that traffic flow smoothly across the border. It does not help that economy to be pulling over cars, trucks, and tour buses to spend hours checking their electronic devices for very little gain. To use a cliche phrase….if this goes through, the terrorists win. Really.

If this goes any further, I would accuse the Harper government of monumental ignorance about the way international business is conducted, and of erecting barriers to that business.

They’re making it hard on the little guy that doesn’t have the resources to store his data on a server somewhere. And they’re wasting our time. I already have to show up 3 hours early for international flights.

your customer database just got sold to the highest bidder….

thank you governments of the ‘modern’ world for making it that much easier for bulk identity theft, corporate espionage, etc.

What was it Mussolini said about corporations running governments?

Jesus though, don’t ever underestimate a corporation’s attempts to legislate their revenue stream. If they can’t figure out a way to monetize the market, ENFORCE their particular marketing effort…bah, I say.

For laptops, a hacked login screen for when you wake your computer from sleep or start up. It will appear exactly like a regular login screen; but there will be one major difference… depending on which password you put in, you will either be directed to a full screen Virtual Machine with no access* to your “real” computer… or you’ll be directed to your normal real login screen if you put in your “real” password.

* You need to hack the VM to not see other “real” hard drives, etc. VM dummy apps, Terminal and Open Firmware hacks are your friend. UNIX FTW.

Scenario:

1) I’m crossing the border from Canada with tons of stashed pot, explosive shoes, a liquid bomb enema and a pirated copy of the movie ‘Terror Firmer’ in my laptop.
2) The Gestapo asks for my password to log into to my MacBook Pro because I look suspicious wearing my “Kill Bush” tee shirt.
3) I respond, “You are a pawn ass shit head”
4) They grab their tasers and say, “What did you just call me?!!”
5) I retort, “Don’t tase me, bro… the password is ‘you are a pawn ass shit head’”
6) Gestapo types in the insulting password and sees a normal looking desktop and only observes what I’ve loaded up in the VM. Basic OS X install, some dummy files to make it look like I use the thing for midget porn, etc.
7) Gestapo closes my computer and I give a Nazi salute and goose step away.
8) Later I type in my normal password, divert the VM, watch ‘Terror Firmer’, get all riled up and cause mayhem.
9) Profit.

Daisy Chain For Satan method:

Have two internal drives in your laptop daisy chained together. Before your Gestapo encounter, pop open your mac and unplug your “real” hard drive entirely and put the cable in your pocket or wherever. The Mac will only boot to the dummy OS X installation and there is absolutely no software access to the other drive in there.

OR

Another method is to have an extra hard drive partition with another install of OS X on it and boot to it before you encounter the Gestapo. Once again this version has hacks in place like the first method to protect other partitions from view, etc.

Oh, the agony of small, unimaginative minds.