Erm, if the thief truly thought the girl was trying to get someone to steal it, he would realize it was a trick and not steal it.
That's what makes it not entrapment. No one encouraged the criminal. By pretending to be a victim, they, by defination, are not encouraging the criminal, if they do so they're being a piss-poor victim. Victims automatically discourage the criminal, or at least try to do so.
Entrapment is convincing someone they want to commit a crime, not providing the 'perfect' opportunity to do so.
Entrapment is the police asking for illegal actions to be committed. While we might refer leaving the keys in the car 'asking for it', it's not really, it's just being really careless, and people who do it are certainly not asking for their car to be stolen.
In general, the courts have ruled it's okay to for police to be pretend to be victims. Pretending to be a criminal is iffy, there's a fine line between buying drugs and encouraging someone to sell you drugs, but being a 'victim' is pretty much always okay and not entrapment.
It's always better to have someone commit a fake crime against the police than a real crime against someone else.
Yeah, lots of places don't even allow spoofing, so it's somewhat a moot point.
However, even if it is 'allowed', it doubles your chances of someone noticing something weird going on. If, for some reason, I had a network, and (non-connection) packets were coming in for an IP address that didn't really exist, and it looks like perfectly normal half of a conversation, I'd question what was going on.
Likewise, if I noticed packets were going out using IP addresses not on my network (Pretending I even allowed it.), I'd question it.
Just wardriving and grabbing a real IP address is a lot less noticeable than setting up some complicated system. Using a seperate pathway to your computer than from your computer is just doubling your chances of someone noticing something wrong. Actually, it's more than doubling it, as it's more obviously wrong, or at least weird.
An IP address that isn't currently assigned, but is in the right network, just looks like someone screwed up registration or configuration. And, hey, you can always luck out, or be patient, and find a real IP address that simply has the computer turned off.
The reason those suggestions don't make TCP spoofing easier is that none of them is TCP spoofing. (The satelite could be, but not in the way you're talking about...many satelites systems have all the outgoing traffic spoofed.)
It's only TCP spoofing if you're faking the IP address you're sending from, not 'borrowing' legit IP addresses. Sticking a computer in a network and sending from there is fairly untraceable, especially if you can just run if the cops come, but it's not spoofing.
TCP spoofing doesn't provide any added security over that, unless you're doing a DoS or something, and you want nothing to reach you. If the packets can return to your computer via the interface that sent them, it's not spoofing. (And if they can return via another interface, like satelite, it is spoofing, but it give them two ways to track you down instead of one, and isn't a very good way to hide.)
Right, it's the company that owns the code, not the employee. In fact, the company owns the machines also. You do not own the copy of Microsoft Office installed on your work machine, and you do not own the hacked Linux kernel. Hence there was no 'distribution'.
Of course, all this is completely moot anyway. Pretending that it was 'distribution', all you'd have to do, when some too-clever employee asked for the source code, would be to fire them, and, presto, they don't have a binary anymore and thus don't have access to the source.;)
Of course, you'd also have to make it against the computer policy to copy binaries off the machine. They could still grab a copy of the binary, but you could have them arrested for illegal computer access, and you probably wouldn't have to give them the source, as they would be in illegal possesion of the binary.
Time travel does not violate conservation of energy/matter, and neither does dimensional travel. (The first may violate entropy, but that's a whole different kettle of fish.)
A ball travelling back in time, if you have some sort of magical way to preventing paradoxes, will never cause you to end up with more matter than before. You may end up with more (or less, for travelling forward in time) matter for a short amount of time, but there's nothing that says that you can't do that. In fact, that happens in quantum mechanics all the time.
The law isn't 'the amount of matter remains the same', the law is 'matter cannot be created or destroyed'. You didn't destroy it, or create it, you just moved it though time.
Of course, all that is assuming paradoxes don't happen, that causality works, and that anything you receive from the future you'll send back in time later on. But if you start violating that, you've got larger problems then conservation of matter afoot, you've broken the universe on a fundamental level.
As for sending things into other dimensions, you forgot an assumption of converation of energy. Conservation of energy works only within a closed system. If you can bring in energy from 'outside', convervation of energy only works when you include 'outside' in your calculations.
So, if you send a ball into another dimension, matter is conserved...when you look at both dimensions. The total amount of matter in both dimensions is exactly the same as before.
Yeah, and I can stick an FBI warning at the start of my source code warning them that the video is for private showing only.
But neither of those make any sense, as the GPL is, rather obviously, talking about software, and sticking it as the license to something that doesn't have a 'object code or executable form', 'machine-readable source code', and isn't 'the Program' is completely idiotic.
You haven't given them the rights to distribute, for example, your book at all, as your book is not 'the Program', and referring to it as such in the license is a bit like writing a contract that refers to providing ten 'fleeblenods' for fifty bucks. You can't just use random terms to refer to things, even if you 'really' mean 'sheep' when you say 'fleeblenods'.
Now, FSF does provide a documentation license, called the GFDL, which works for documentation and textbooks, and possible other books also. (Though with fiction there are other copyrights you can have beside the text, like characters, so that might get tricky.)
And there aren't any licenses that I see, at least by the FSF, for music or video or plays, etc.
The best thing about this is that the general public may begin to become informed about Scientology and all of the stupid things that come of it. Hopefully google will make a point to tell people that Scientology was the reason the links are gone (read: put it at the top of the page). Possibly if enough people get pissed about the abuse of the law by Scientology, and the abusivness of Scientology in general, it can either be sued into bankruptcy or at least everyone will shun it and all members of it. Or at the very least, become publicly debated and hated.
Correct, but in Military Peace Keeping duty, sentries are given instructions like "You must state that anyone approaching this gate must be warned verbally, you must fire a warning shot and then you are authorized to use deadly force."
The actual order of events is: 1) Shoot for the head 2) Yell "Stop or I'll shoot" 3) Fire 1 shot into the air.
Erm, I'm pretty certain blowing out the brains of someone who just walked up to the gate, without a warning, would not only get anyone court-martialed, but brought up on murder charges.
It's due to 1940s stuff, before they invented exit signs or even fire codes. Theaters back than only had one exit (And one for the 'colored folk'.) and there were quite a lot of fires due to crappy projectors and people smoking, and hanging wall carpets and plush carpetson the floor.
So everyone, when you yelled 'FIRE!' panicked, leaped into the isle, and ran out as fast as they could. It didn't matter you ran over four old ladies, they were probably going to burn to death anyway.
I know all this stuff because I volunteer at one of these theaters. It has exit signs now, and stage exits the audience can get out also, but heaven forbid if you actually try to go down those deathtrap stairwells in the dark.
Luckily, it's no smoking, and the floor and walls have had their carpeting removed, and the ceiling is high enough that people wouldn't sufficate.
"The more people we teach how to counterfeit money, the easier it is to spot it."
This is true. Knowing that, for example, people bleach ones and make them twenties means you'll be able to detect said ones.
"The details information on how to make small nuclear devices, the easier it will be to find them."
I do know how to find small nuclear devices because I know how they're made. Nuclear devices, by defination, have a radioactive material in them. I learned this in 5th grade. Hence, I can locate them with a Geiger counter, if I happen to have one.
They also have conventional explosives in them, and so bomb sniffing dogs will find them. Of course, I often don't ahve those, either, so...
Uranium is heavier than lead, and not only that, but you need a large amount of material to hold the uranium together while it goes off to get the maximun bang out of it. Thus any nuclear weapon is likely to be very heavy for its size.
I learned all this stuff from public resources. If someone were to tell me there was a nuclear bomb in the room I was in, I could find it, due to this information.
Someone is laughing at me. I receieved in email a few hours after I posted this a message from a place saying I should become a 'Professional Business Debt Negotiator'. This appears to be the samer thing as a credit consuler except you charge money from someone, and, of course, you ahve to pay 249 dollars for training.
This is somewhat the flip side of collection agencies.
Names and phone number posted to finger the guilty.
Someone with free longdistance call these people up and tell them what you think of spam:
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NATIONAL DEBT ARBITRATION CORPORATION
1 - 314 - 414 - 0238
We have support staff available to you from 7:00am to 9:00pm (Mountain Time) 7 days a week.
You can always just turn it over to a collection agency. I don't know exactly how that works, but I think they just take a percentage.
And they have all the right connections and lawyers to get the money. About the only time it doesn't work is when you aren't exactly sure who the person is, as is the case with some spammers.
But if they have an actual business, instead of just calling themselves one, it should work.
And I don't think it costs very much if they don't get the money. Certainly less than it would cost you wasting time looking for them, and they have a lot more resources and know the laws.
While that would be hard to do to make money for yourself, I've always wanted to find one of those 20 dollar a minute secret toll numbers, the ones that start with 011- and most people don't realize are long distance to another country.
Hey, I'd rather be a drug dealer than a telemarketer. There are lots of nice, honest drug dealers who don't bother anyone. Sometimes they bother you walking down the street, but that's a damned sight better than calling you at home when you're trying to sleep.
Why the fuck do we want to make them feel better? The worse we make them feel, the higher, on average, the pay is, and thus the less we get called. This is why the best thing is to get them to swear at you and then demand they get fired.
Seems like a winning formula to me, at least until someone starts hunting them down and killing them. Now that seems like a great way to raise salaries and price most telemarketers out of business.
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That's what makes it not entrapment. No one encouraged the criminal. By pretending to be a victim, they, by defination, are not encouraging the criminal, if they do so they're being a piss-poor victim. Victims automatically discourage the criminal, or at least try to do so.
Entrapment is the police asking for illegal actions to be committed. While we might refer leaving the keys in the car 'asking for it', it's not really, it's just being really careless, and people who do it are certainly not asking for their car to be stolen.
In general, the courts have ruled it's okay to for police to be pretend to be victims. Pretending to be a criminal is iffy, there's a fine line between buying drugs and encouraging someone to sell you drugs, but being a 'victim' is pretty much always okay and not entrapment.
It's always better to have someone commit a fake crime against the police than a real crime against someone else.
However, even if it is 'allowed', it doubles your chances of someone noticing something weird going on. If, for some reason, I had a network, and (non-connection) packets were coming in for an IP address that didn't really exist, and it looks like perfectly normal half of a conversation, I'd question what was going on.
Likewise, if I noticed packets were going out using IP addresses not on my network (Pretending I even allowed it.), I'd question it.
Just wardriving and grabbing a real IP address is a lot less noticeable than setting up some complicated system. Using a seperate pathway to your computer than from your computer is just doubling your chances of someone noticing something wrong. Actually, it's more than doubling it, as it's more obviously wrong, or at least weird.
An IP address that isn't currently assigned, but is in the right network, just looks like someone screwed up registration or configuration. And, hey, you can always luck out, or be patient, and find a real IP address that simply has the computer turned off.
It's only TCP spoofing if you're faking the IP address you're sending from, not 'borrowing' legit IP addresses. Sticking a computer in a network and sending from there is fairly untraceable, especially if you can just run if the cops come, but it's not spoofing.
TCP spoofing doesn't provide any added security over that, unless you're doing a DoS or something, and you want nothing to reach you. If the packets can return to your computer via the interface that sent them, it's not spoofing. (And if they can return via another interface, like satelite, it is spoofing, but it give them two ways to track you down instead of one, and isn't a very good way to hide.)
Of course, all this is completely moot anyway. Pretending that it was 'distribution', all you'd have to do, when some too-clever employee asked for the source code, would be to fire them, and, presto, they don't have a binary anymore and thus don't have access to the source. ;)
Of course, you'd also have to make it against the computer policy to copy binaries off the machine. They could still grab a copy of the binary, but you could have them arrested for illegal computer access, and you probably wouldn't have to give them the source, as they would be in illegal possesion of the binary.
A ball travelling back in time, if you have some sort of magical way to preventing paradoxes, will never cause you to end up with more matter than before. You may end up with more (or less, for travelling forward in time) matter for a short amount of time, but there's nothing that says that you can't do that. In fact, that happens in quantum mechanics all the time.
The law isn't 'the amount of matter remains the same', the law is 'matter cannot be created or destroyed'. You didn't destroy it, or create it, you just moved it though time.
Of course, all that is assuming paradoxes don't happen, that causality works, and that anything you receive from the future you'll send back in time later on. But if you start violating that, you've got larger problems then conservation of matter afoot, you've broken the universe on a fundamental level.
As for sending things into other dimensions, you forgot an assumption of converation of energy. Conservation of energy works only within a closed system. If you can bring in energy from 'outside', convervation of energy only works when you include 'outside' in your calculations.
So, if you send a ball into another dimension, matter is conserved...when you look at both dimensions. The total amount of matter in both dimensions is exactly the same as before.
But neither of those make any sense, as the GPL is, rather obviously, talking about software, and sticking it as the license to something that doesn't have a 'object code or executable form', 'machine-readable source code', and isn't 'the Program' is completely idiotic.
You haven't given them the rights to distribute, for example, your book at all, as your book is not 'the Program', and referring to it as such in the license is a bit like writing a contract that refers to providing ten 'fleeblenods' for fifty bucks. You can't just use random terms to refer to things, even if you 'really' mean 'sheep' when you say 'fleeblenods'.
Now, FSF does provide a documentation license, called the GFDL, which works for documentation and textbooks, and possible other books also. (Though with fiction there are other copyrights you can have beside the text, like characters, so that might get tricky.)
And there aren't any licenses that I see, at least by the FSF, for music or video or plays, etc.
The best thing about this is that the general public may begin to become informed about Scientology and all of the stupid things that come of it. Hopefully google will make a point to tell people that Scientology was the reason the links are gone (read: put it at the top of the page). Possibly if enough people get pissed about the abuse of the law by Scientology, and the abusivness of Scientology in general, it can either be sued into bankruptcy or at least everyone will shun it and all members of it. Or at the very least, become publicly debated and hated.
Well, it has to be an improvement, at least evangelical Christians didn't file any lawsuits about 'Dogma'. ;)
The actual order of events is: 1) Shoot for the head 2) Yell "Stop or I'll shoot" 3) Fire 1 shot into the air.
Erm, I'm pretty certain blowing out the brains of someone who just walked up to the gate, without a warning, would not only get anyone court-martialed, but brought up on murder charges.
It's Catch-22.
Pah, you can prove anything that's even remotely true with facts....
So everyone, when you yelled 'FIRE!' panicked, leaped into the isle, and ran out as fast as they could. It didn't matter you ran over four old ladies, they were probably going to burn to death anyway.
I know all this stuff because I volunteer at one of these theaters. It has exit signs now, and stage exits the audience can get out also, but heaven forbid if you actually try to go down those deathtrap stairwells in the dark.
Luckily, it's no smoking, and the floor and walls have had their carpeting removed, and the ceiling is high enough that people wouldn't sufficate.
Those delievery places are ripoffs. You can just grab them off the street for free.
This is true. Knowing that, for example, people bleach ones and make them twenties means you'll be able to detect said ones.
"The details information on how to make small nuclear devices, the easier it will be to find them."
I do know how to find small nuclear devices because I know how they're made. Nuclear devices, by defination, have a radioactive material in them. I learned this in 5th grade. Hence, I can locate them with a Geiger counter, if I happen to have one.
They also have conventional explosives in them, and so bomb sniffing dogs will find them. Of course, I often don't ahve those, either, so...
Uranium is heavier than lead, and not only that, but you need a large amount of material to hold the uranium together while it goes off to get the maximun bang out of it. Thus any nuclear weapon is likely to be very heavy for its size.
I learned all this stuff from public resources. If someone were to tell me there was a nuclear bomb in the room I was in, I could find it, due to this information.
And now I'm rather confused about your point.
...only criminals will be able to break into your computer.
By that same logic you cause damages by selling pencils.
This is somewhat the flip side of collection agencies.
Names and phone number posted to finger the guilty.
Someone with free longdistance call these people up and tell them what you think of spam:
---
NATIONAL DEBT ARBITRATION CORPORATION
1 - 314 - 414 - 0238
We have support staff available to you from 7:00am to 9:00pm (Mountain Time) 7 days a week.
And they have all the right connections and lawyers to get the money. About the only time it doesn't work is when you aren't exactly sure who the person is, as is the case with some spammers.
But if they have an actual business, instead of just calling themselves one, it should work.
And I don't think it costs very much if they don't get the money. Certainly less than it would cost you wasting time looking for them, and they have a lot more resources and know the laws.
Yes, they don't violate conservation of energy, but that's not the point. The point is that they had no cause, they just happened.
While that would be hard to do to make money for yourself, I've always wanted to find one of those 20 dollar a minute secret toll numbers, the ones that start with 011- and most people don't realize are long distance to another country.
Hey, I'd rather be a drug dealer than a telemarketer. There are lots of nice, honest drug dealers who don't bother anyone. Sometimes they bother you walking down the street, but that's a damned sight better than calling you at home when you're trying to sleep.
Seems like a winning formula to me, at least until someone starts hunting them down and killing them. Now that seems like a great way to raise salaries and price most telemarketers out of business.
That's right, the telemarketers.
Exactly which side are you arguing for, again? You just linked to a page talking about virtual particles being created for no reason.