No, they can't just call something evidence and keep it forever just because they don't like you. Sorry, please come back and play again.
The reason they can take your router is that it might have evidence on it. Like the MAC address of the connecting computer.
And I think people here are MISSSING THE FUCKING POINT. The point is that you can, say, break into a web site and steal credit card numbers from your own home, and get away with it. Yes, the police could make life sucky for you, just like they can do for any suspect, but you can get away with it because they can't demonstrate it was you, because your access point was open and you have plausible denialiblity that there's anything encrypted besides some porn.
Complaining they might take some stuff of yours as evidence is idiotic. The point is, they can't convict you of the crime. Obviously, you would want to only commit crimes that gain you more than your computer is worth, if you really feel like it's a possiblity they're going to steal all your stuff. (And you'll want to send all this data out encrypted somewhere else on the net, just in case they break in while you're doing it.) But as you can only pull this trick off once without them getting suspicious, you probably should aim a bit higher than that anyway.
It's my router, I don't have to secure it anymore than I have to close and lock all my windows if I don't want to.
If you own an abandoned warehouse and criminals keep breaking in and using it to store illegal goods, they can require you to board up the windows or install an alarm or they'll charge you with maintaining an attractive nuisance.
Same with wireless access points. If any property of yours is being constantly used in the commission of a crime because you failed to secure it, they damn well can require you to something to stop that.
In fact, they could in theory charge you to start with, but won't, because you can plead ignorance that it was such a nuisance...you're not required to think like a criminal. (Remember, ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but ignorance of the facts is.) But once they've informed you, that execuse goes away.
I think you should provide US address fields, (Or whatever country you ship the most to.) but you should also have a 'freeform' area that says 'If you are international and your address doesn't fit above, please put the entire address in this field instead.'. And gray out the other fields when anything gets typed in there, except the country field. Let them either jam it into the US fields, or they can type it out how it's supposed to look. (Hopefully they know what their address looks like.)
And make sure you can accept non-latin characters in there. Just try pasting in some cyrillic characters and see if you get them. If you get them and can get them onto your address label, you can get any unicode.
There are places where it looks like the address will fit, but their post office wants the address the other way around. With area at the top, street in the middle, and name at the bottom.
And then, if you're mailing international from the US, you have to put the country below that, on its own line, no matter what. Don't forget to stick that line in if they forgot it on their address, or put it in the wrong place. Just because their know their address doesn't mean they remembered to put their country in the right place for the US.
Yeah, each town has a people who lived here before this was a town, and possibly still own half the place. They also have families that are amazingly fertile, where greatgranddad had 5 kids and now the ones with that name number in a hundreds and half the damn town has someone with that last name as their second cousin. Sometimes these are even the same family.
OTOH, I know someone with a unique three letter first name, and he lives in a small town where everyone knows him. He has great fun telling people to addess mail to his first name and zip and leave off everything else. He's even gotten an international letter that was:
{three letter name} {zip code}
USA
I.e., using six letters and five numbers, he is uniquely identified in the world.;)
Even in America you shouldn't have zip codes be five characters...zip codes can have route numbers after them that make the post office happy, like 30001-3284. They're like sub-zip codes that tell the post office 'what part of the zip code' should be getting it, and is much easier than sorting based on the street, like they normally have to do.
Granted, you don't need those, and almost no one has their code memorized, but you shouldn't disallow them.
The police, despite what people think, cannot take and hold computer equipment indefinitely because they feel like it. Steve Jackson was a long time ago, get over yourself.
They'll take the hard drive. (And probably make an image of it and give it back, unless they want to do lowlevel stuff on it. In which case they'll give the image back, instead.) They'll take the USB adapter, if they see it. They might even wander off with your wifi router, hoping it recorded something. (They'll demand the password for it, and you need to give it to them.)
They do not get to 'punish' people they suspect are involved in crimes by taking things they don't need as evidence. The fact they ever did that was due to ignorance on their part, but now every police force has a nice set of 'what to take' guidelines, and it doesn't include your monitor or any part of the computer that cannot be used to store data. (Or has data, like MAC addresses, stored in it.)
They will not leave you a working computer, it will have no hard drive. They will, however, leave you a computer.
Of course, this is assuming they don't believe your story. If they did believe it, they'd probably ask to poke around in your wireless router for a few minutes, and then have you disable it until you can get someone to secure it.
What the hell does the FCC have to do with any of this? The FCC lets anyone do anything they want in the wifi bands.
There's no tax, there aren't even rules like in CB. I could set up a radio station on the wifi bands and broadcast 24/7. I wouldn't, as no one has a radio that can tune it in, but I could.
It's law enforcement that's complaining here, and the FCC does not investigate crimes.
In fact, to be on the safe side, you should actually use the wifi to do illegal things, in case they actually come by while something illegal is going on. (Or if they want to catch someone in the act.)
Get a USB wifi adapter, or something that can easily be unplugged, stick it in your desktop computer, and spoof the MAC address. Have the router laying there, with the cable from your computer not plugged in. If the police come knocking at your door, yank the wifi out, slide it under a pile of junk, plug the network cable back in, and trip the surge protector for a second. (You may be able to set up the routing so you can leave the network plugged in.)
Oh, look, the criminals saw the police, cut off their laptop, and ran. No, officer, this computer is plugged in, it doesn't use wireless. See, let me turn it on. I have a laptop that uses wireless, let me get it out of the bag for you.
This thing laying by my computer? Oh, I have a friend with a laptop that doesn't have wireless, we use that so we don't have to mess with cables.
What do you mean, 'open wifi point'? No, I specifically bought this kind of router because it was secure. WEP? I think I had to turn that off, my friend's laptop couldn't get on the internet. (Make sure you actually have said friend.)
As long as you can stall police for four seconds coming in, and don't do stupid things like saving to disk. (There are tools for encrypted swap, and there are programs that can do two layers of encryption....encrypt some porn on the first layer, and you have plausibibly deniablity that the second layer exists at all.)
Viola, a license to do anything illegal from the safety of your own home.
While 'shells' do not, programs do, and those, and all other, programs should be subject to limits.
No program should be able to spawn 1000 children, be it bash or httpd. If a program or user needs to do that, than it needs to be given permission by the admin.
In other words, it's dilutation while casting a magic spell.
Homopathy works because of something that does exist...the placebo effect. There has never been a double blind example of homopathy working. Every single one of them has turned up nothing.
Which is where this otherwise well-researched article was stupid. Homopathy isn't a 'thing that doesn't make sense', all those 'studies' proved is that researchers are willing to see testing errors as 'results' if they support what they want to see.
Something that, sadly, happens all too often...I point to cold fusion and n-rays, both of which were observed by well-meaning people who were deluding themselves.
The only way to discover if a 'very small' effect exists is to do a double blind test and not have the experimenter know which is which, and homopathy constantly fails such tests.
Yeah, homopathy isn't one of those 'There's not evidence for that' alternative medicine like sleeping under a pyramid or wearing magnets, which at least have nice sounding gibberish behind them. It's more a 'That makes no fucking sense' alternative medicines.
If it worked, than every glass of water should kill us. And cure of us of all ills.
Of course, there's probably some gibberish about how it has to be 'newly diluted', but that doesn't work if you think about it...in the air, right now, there are various 'medicines'. (In quotes, because homopathy seems to enjoy using things that are not actually medicines anyway, and couldn't work in large doses! Or, sometimes, they like to use poisons, which can be medicines, but not in the random way they use them.)
Anyway, when these 'medicines' float down on water, they are 100% concentrated at that exact point, and they are immediately diluted to the rest of the water. Right there, on the surface of that water, an arsenic atom just floated down, and, tada, homopathy, or, as I refer to it, I'm-a-moron-pathy.
If you believe in it, you might as well just drink plenty of water...odds are, you're drinking the exact same diluted substance. (And, hey, as drinking enough water is important, healthwise, maybe you will see an effect.)
I think you should have three other groups, that actually get a medicine that is known to actually work. (Aka, you're testing 'headache medicine', so you give them aspirin.)
I'm not quite sure you could count on people who were told they were getting a placebo to actually take the medication, though. That would seem rather pointless.
I had completely forgotten about the intelligent guard in that. That was frickin hilarious, and I'm not the least surprised to learn Whedon was behind that,
Uh, no, they aren't. I don't know about CC, but I know that Joss wouldn't make such a completely absurd decision as to cast the 5'1", 110 pound SMG as Wonder Woman, and no studio would be dumb enough to push that.
Being on an island for thousands of years would tend to make her be speaking a new language. (I remember at one point the queen called Steve Trevor a 'her' and then corrected herself. I was thinking 'Why do they even have a word for 'him'?)
I think it's a bit silly to assume a greek accent now matches a greek accent two and a half millennium ago, much less that an island cut off for that long would match the accent back then. Grand total, that's 5000 years of change!
But obviously they have contact with the outside world, at least in the TV canon. For example, they have a game with deflecting bullets and they're using an old revolver for that. If they truly had been cut off from the outside world, they wouldn't even know what a bullet was, and certainly wouldn't possess a gun that looked like it was from the 1860s.
Also, WW's costume is delibrately made of the US flag colors. Although I guess they could have gotten that information from Steve.
(I'm ignoring the invisible plane, because I'm assuming that's magical.)
While I can't talk about Catwomen, not having seen the movie, WW is the very defination of a 'feminist' character, not even liking men all that much. (I don't mean sexually, although that's always a possiblity, it's just that she thinks they cause most of the problems in the world.)
I don't know how you could do the Wonder Woman without her being at least a little male-bashing. She was taught that the world had problems because of men, and her island was perfect because of the lack of them, and then she goes into the world and discovers, indeed, men seem to be causing a lot of problems.
OTOH, you don't have to have the movie like that...WW's fairly naive anyway. She could be demonstrated to be wrong. Just make the villian be a woman, also, and have WW stupidly assume that, because she's a woman, she can be reasoned with to stop all this violence.
Well, Wonder Woman used to be naive, at least on the TV show. Does anyone know if this movie is a 'reboot', is this the first time she's leaving the island? Also, is it set now, or WWII? If it's now, why is she leaving the island...terrorism?
You just made a completely random and unsupported claim:
That means that VB6 apps will run on Longhorn, just as VB3 apps run on XP today.
No, it means VB6 apps will run on XP. If the VB6 runtime is part of XP, than Microsoft will keep the VB6 runtime working on XP, not on Longhorn. I don't know why this is hard to grasp.
Windows ME (and, thus, everything in it) is still supported, and Windows XP (and, thus, everything in it) is supported, but the disk defragmentor in Windows ME is not supported in XP. It's not quantum physics here. Just because two things are supported doesn't mean one thing will work under another, and the VB runtime being supported as part of XP doesn't mean it's supported anywhere else. (In fact, it's the exception that proves the rule. If it was supported by itself, it wouldn't need to be supported as part of XP, now would it?)
There are then two options for having the VB runtime on Longhorn.
1. The VB runtime from XP runs under Longhorn, which I suspect it does right now. However, just because it does work at first doesn't mean it will continue to work, and Microsoft is under no obligation to make it work, or fix it if it breaks on Longhorn SP2.
2. The V6 runtime is considered part of Longhorn. At which point, MS will support it as long as Longhorn, and you can repeat this post, replacing 'Longhorn' with 'Thing after Longhorn' then 'XP' with 'Longhorn'.
Are you asserting that it would be impossible to recompile the VB runtime, and change the VB compiler to generate 64-bit code?
I can't imagine why that would be. Yeah, if you wanted the entire VB enviroment, it might be tricky, but just the 'Create an executable containing VB code and link it to the DLL' isn't incredibly complicated. Previous versions of VB just dumped the code straight in an executable, and you can still do that with VB 6 if you want.
However, that's not the point. If you can't do that, then you can certainly go: Okay, the VBRUN600 DLL does this funky thing to initialize its window, which isn't supported under Windows QV 32-bit emulation. As we don't need that, we can just strip it out. Etc.
Or something like that. And, of course, someone else probably would have already done and released VBRUN601.DLL or something. (Although obviously not with that name.)
That is, of course, assuming you have a compiler that can generate VBRUN600.DLL in the first place, but it would be rather silly to call it 'open source' otherwise.
And even if you are running it under Wine, having the source still makes it easier.
And, BTW, someone saying 'You should use F/OSS to not have this problem next time' and you disagreeing and pointing out a solution that involves using F/OSS is fairly silly. Yes, you can write to a proprietary language and hope someone keeps F/OSS emulation tools for said compiled code after the language goes away, but it rather obviously would be better to write to a language that, if it stops being made, you yourself can keep functioning enough that your code doesn't become gibberish.
Paid to support != paid to do a few changes to the source and recompile as a 64-bit DLL to work under Windows QV, or whatever they're selling in 2018, when your 98 machine goes tits-up and no one can find a 32-bit CPU to reinstall it on, or hardware that Longhorn 64-bit (The last Windows anyone is able to make VBRUN600.DLL work on.) supports. Yes, that's kind of crap happens all the time in a business.
That's what you can do with F/OSS.
That's also why there's still a market for COBOL compilers.
Just because Microsoft keeps VB working on XP for the next 7+ years doesn't mean it will ever work in Longhorn, just like the fact that the calculator in XP is covered by XP support lifetime doesn't mean the XP calculator will work in Longhorn.
That said, unless the VB DLL is doing some lowlevel stuff it shouldn't be, it should work on Longhorn.
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The reason they can take your router is that it might have evidence on it. Like the MAC address of the connecting computer.
And I think people here are MISSSING THE FUCKING POINT. The point is that you can, say, break into a web site and steal credit card numbers from your own home, and get away with it. Yes, the police could make life sucky for you, just like they can do for any suspect, but you can get away with it because they can't demonstrate it was you, because your access point was open and you have plausible denialiblity that there's anything encrypted besides some porn.
Complaining they might take some stuff of yours as evidence is idiotic. The point is, they can't convict you of the crime. Obviously, you would want to only commit crimes that gain you more than your computer is worth, if you really feel like it's a possiblity they're going to steal all your stuff. (And you'll want to send all this data out encrypted somewhere else on the net, just in case they break in while you're doing it.) But as you can only pull this trick off once without them getting suspicious, you probably should aim a bit higher than that anyway.
It's my router, I don't have to secure it anymore than I have to close and lock all my windows if I don't want to.
If you own an abandoned warehouse and criminals keep breaking in and using it to store illegal goods, they can require you to board up the windows or install an alarm or they'll charge you with maintaining an attractive nuisance.
Same with wireless access points. If any property of yours is being constantly used in the commission of a crime because you failed to secure it, they damn well can require you to something to stop that.
In fact, they could in theory charge you to start with, but won't, because you can plead ignorance that it was such a nuisance...you're not required to think like a criminal. (Remember, ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but ignorance of the facts is.) But once they've informed you, that execuse goes away.
And make sure you can accept non-latin characters in there. Just try pasting in some cyrillic characters and see if you get them. If you get them and can get them onto your address label, you can get any unicode.
There are places where it looks like the address will fit, but their post office wants the address the other way around. With area at the top, street in the middle, and name at the bottom.
And then, if you're mailing international from the US, you have to put the country below that, on its own line, no matter what. Don't forget to stick that line in if they forgot it on their address, or put it in the wrong place. Just because their know their address doesn't mean they remembered to put their country in the right place for the US.
Unless it's prounounced 'Mmmy' or something, which I rather doubt.
OTOH, I know someone with a unique three letter first name, and he lives in a small town where everyone knows him. He has great fun telling people to addess mail to his first name and zip and leave off everything else. He's even gotten an international letter that was:
{three letter name} {zip code}
USA
I.e., using six letters and five numbers, he is uniquely identified in the world. ;)
Granted, you don't need those, and almost no one has their code memorized, but you shouldn't disallow them.
They'll take the hard drive. (And probably make an image of it and give it back, unless they want to do lowlevel stuff on it. In which case they'll give the image back, instead.) They'll take the USB adapter, if they see it. They might even wander off with your wifi router, hoping it recorded something. (They'll demand the password for it, and you need to give it to them.)
They do not get to 'punish' people they suspect are involved in crimes by taking things they don't need as evidence. The fact they ever did that was due to ignorance on their part, but now every police force has a nice set of 'what to take' guidelines, and it doesn't include your monitor or any part of the computer that cannot be used to store data. (Or has data, like MAC addresses, stored in it.)
They will not leave you a working computer, it will have no hard drive. They will, however, leave you a computer.
Of course, this is assuming they don't believe your story. If they did believe it, they'd probably ask to poke around in your wireless router for a few minutes, and then have you disable it until you can get someone to secure it.
There's no tax, there aren't even rules like in CB. I could set up a radio station on the wifi bands and broadcast 24/7. I wouldn't, as no one has a radio that can tune it in, but I could.
It's law enforcement that's complaining here, and the FCC does not investigate crimes.
Get a USB wifi adapter, or something that can easily be unplugged, stick it in your desktop computer, and spoof the MAC address. Have the router laying there, with the cable from your computer not plugged in. If the police come knocking at your door, yank the wifi out, slide it under a pile of junk, plug the network cable back in, and trip the surge protector for a second. (You may be able to set up the routing so you can leave the network plugged in.)
Oh, look, the criminals saw the police, cut off their laptop, and ran. No, officer, this computer is plugged in, it doesn't use wireless. See, let me turn it on. I have a laptop that uses wireless, let me get it out of the bag for you.
This thing laying by my computer? Oh, I have a friend with a laptop that doesn't have wireless, we use that so we don't have to mess with cables.
What do you mean, 'open wifi point'? No, I specifically bought this kind of router because it was secure. WEP? I think I had to turn that off, my friend's laptop couldn't get on the internet. (Make sure you actually have said friend.)
As long as you can stall police for four seconds coming in, and don't do stupid things like saving to disk. (There are tools for encrypted swap, and there are programs that can do two layers of encryption....encrypt some porn on the first layer, and you have plausibibly deniablity that the second layer exists at all.)
Viola, a license to do anything illegal from the safety of your own home.
No program should be able to spawn 1000 children, be it bash or httpd. If a program or user needs to do that, than it needs to be given permission by the admin.
Homopathy works because of something that does exist...the placebo effect. There has never been a double blind example of homopathy working. Every single one of them has turned up nothing.
Which is where this otherwise well-researched article was stupid. Homopathy isn't a 'thing that doesn't make sense', all those 'studies' proved is that researchers are willing to see testing errors as 'results' if they support what they want to see.
Something that, sadly, happens all too often...I point to cold fusion and n-rays, both of which were observed by well-meaning people who were deluding themselves.
The only way to discover if a 'very small' effect exists is to do a double blind test and not have the experimenter know which is which, and homopathy constantly fails such tests.
If it worked, than every glass of water should kill us. And cure of us of all ills.
Of course, there's probably some gibberish about how it has to be 'newly diluted', but that doesn't work if you think about it...in the air, right now, there are various 'medicines'. (In quotes, because homopathy seems to enjoy using things that are not actually medicines anyway, and couldn't work in large doses! Or, sometimes, they like to use poisons, which can be medicines, but not in the random way they use them.)
Anyway, when these 'medicines' float down on water, they are 100% concentrated at that exact point, and they are immediately diluted to the rest of the water. Right there, on the surface of that water, an arsenic atom just floated down, and, tada, homopathy, or, as I refer to it, I'm-a-moron-pathy.
If you believe in it, you might as well just drink plenty of water...odds are, you're drinking the exact same diluted substance. (And, hey, as drinking enough water is important, healthwise, maybe you will see an effect.)
The placebo effect only exists if you're told it does.
As far as I know, heroin is also deliverable by tablet.
I'm not quite sure you could count on people who were told they were getting a placebo to actually take the medication, though. That would seem rather pointless.
Probably magic, always a safe fallback with Wonder Woman.
I had completely forgotten about the intelligent guard in that. That was frickin hilarious, and I'm not the least surprised to learn Whedon was behind that,
Uh, no, they aren't. I don't know about CC, but I know that Joss wouldn't make such a completely absurd decision as to cast the 5'1", 110 pound SMG as Wonder Woman, and no studio would be dumb enough to push that.
Being on an island for thousands of years would tend to make her be speaking a new language. (I remember at one point the queen called Steve Trevor a 'her' and then corrected herself. I was thinking 'Why do they even have a word for 'him'?)
I think it's a bit silly to assume a greek accent now matches a greek accent two and a half millennium ago, much less that an island cut off for that long would match the accent back then. Grand total, that's 5000 years of change!
But obviously they have contact with the outside world, at least in the TV canon. For example, they have a game with deflecting bullets and they're using an old revolver for that. If they truly had been cut off from the outside world, they wouldn't even know what a bullet was, and certainly wouldn't possess a gun that looked like it was from the 1860s.
Also, WW's costume is delibrately made of the US flag colors. Although I guess they could have gotten that information from Steve.
(I'm ignoring the invisible plane, because I'm assuming that's magical.)
While I can't talk about Catwomen, not having seen the movie, WW is the very defination of a 'feminist' character, not even liking men all that much. (I don't mean sexually, although that's always a possiblity, it's just that she thinks they cause most of the problems in the world.)
I don't know how you could do the Wonder Woman without her being at least a little male-bashing. She was taught that the world had problems because of men, and her island was perfect because of the lack of them, and then she goes into the world and discovers, indeed, men seem to be causing a lot of problems.
OTOH, you don't have to have the movie like that...WW's fairly naive anyway. She could be demonstrated to be wrong. Just make the villian be a woman, also, and have WW stupidly assume that, because she's a woman, she can be reasoned with to stop all this violence.
Well, Wonder Woman used to be naive, at least on the TV show. Does anyone know if this movie is a 'reboot', is this the first time she's leaving the island? Also, is it set now, or WWII? If it's now, why is she leaving the island...terrorism?
Please explain why the fuck you think that.
The Internet is much too important to be connected to the Internet.
That means that VB6 apps will run on Longhorn, just as VB3 apps run on XP today.
No, it means VB6 apps will run on XP. If the VB6 runtime is part of XP, than Microsoft will keep the VB6 runtime working on XP, not on Longhorn. I don't know why this is hard to grasp.
Windows ME (and, thus, everything in it) is still supported, and Windows XP (and, thus, everything in it) is supported, but the disk defragmentor in Windows ME is not supported in XP. It's not quantum physics here. Just because two things are supported doesn't mean one thing will work under another, and the VB runtime being supported as part of XP doesn't mean it's supported anywhere else. (In fact, it's the exception that proves the rule. If it was supported by itself, it wouldn't need to be supported as part of XP, now would it?)
There are then two options for having the VB runtime on Longhorn.
1. The VB runtime from XP runs under Longhorn, which I suspect it does right now. However, just because it does work at first doesn't mean it will continue to work, and Microsoft is under no obligation to make it work, or fix it if it breaks on Longhorn SP2.
2. The V6 runtime is considered part of Longhorn. At which point, MS will support it as long as Longhorn, and you can repeat this post, replacing 'Longhorn' with 'Thing after Longhorn' then 'XP' with 'Longhorn'.
I can't imagine why that would be. Yeah, if you wanted the entire VB enviroment, it might be tricky, but just the 'Create an executable containing VB code and link it to the DLL' isn't incredibly complicated. Previous versions of VB just dumped the code straight in an executable, and you can still do that with VB 6 if you want.
However, that's not the point. If you can't do that, then you can certainly go: Okay, the VBRUN600 DLL does this funky thing to initialize its window, which isn't supported under Windows QV 32-bit emulation. As we don't need that, we can just strip it out. Etc.
Or something like that. And, of course, someone else probably would have already done and released VBRUN601.DLL or something. (Although obviously not with that name.)
That is, of course, assuming you have a compiler that can generate VBRUN600.DLL in the first place, but it would be rather silly to call it 'open source' otherwise.
And even if you are running it under Wine, having the source still makes it easier.
And, BTW, someone saying 'You should use F/OSS to not have this problem next time' and you disagreeing and pointing out a solution that involves using F/OSS is fairly silly. Yes, you can write to a proprietary language and hope someone keeps F/OSS emulation tools for said compiled code after the language goes away, but it rather obviously would be better to write to a language that, if it stops being made, you yourself can keep functioning enough that your code doesn't become gibberish.
That's what you can do with F/OSS.
That's also why there's still a market for COBOL compilers.
Just because Microsoft keeps VB working on XP for the next 7+ years doesn't mean it will ever work in Longhorn, just like the fact that the calculator in XP is covered by XP support lifetime doesn't mean the XP calculator will work in Longhorn.
That said, unless the VB DLL is doing some lowlevel stuff it shouldn't be, it should work on Longhorn.