I>This is a good thing, because an over-zealous officer could start dinking around on you laptop and find some incrimitation evidence (violating S&C Law), but tell the judge that he found 'by accident'. Who is the judge going to believe?
I'm going to believe the officer. You got caught with evidence of criminal activity in plain sight, and I'd be glad.
Unreasonable search and seizure laws are designed to protect people against government meddling and other abuses. As a side effect, criminal investigations can be more difficult. You forfeit those rights, however, when you engage in criminal activity also known as violating the rights of others for your own benefit. Once a good reason to search you is publicly established, you will be searched and there is nothing unreasonable about it. I hope the police crack your PDA, just like detectives used to figure out the secret code in a pimp's little black book.
That encryption might shield criminals is a downside that we will all just have to live with. It's not something that should be celebrated.
time to remove the floppy! Of course the user of such a thing has to have an open session to make the utility work. If they've got an open session on NT/DOS they've got access to data anyway.
Because they visited the site, there is no reason for their letter to be vauge about what to remove from the site. This vaugeness amounts to an order to remove everything he has ever posted about anything and is clearly a harasment.
If they had never visited the site at all, their letters would be foolish and based on hearsay. To threaten someone with a lawsuit based on hearsay is harrasment as well.
Wouldn't it be more of a
challenge to give map/terrain descriptions.
Challenge? Harrr! You'll have to kill me, shave me and scalp me to find my treasure map! To add insult to injury, it's written in my own secret code. I killed the tatoo-er. No one shall find my burried treasure, not even me. Ha Ha Ha!
Anyway; these people should stop whining IMHO. If they want to develop NTFS based
programs and don't want to be restricted by the will of MS they should do what other did
before them; buy the appropiate MS development tools which gives them the right to use
the NTFS specs in their own software. Whether that software is Linux or Windows based
is irrelevant.
This is such a twisted troll that it's hard to know where to start. Since when do you need to buy a liscence to reverse engineer? This seems to be the core of this bait. It has little to do with the relavent problems.
By reading this article you agree to use your computer only as I see fit. If you do not agree, you may stop reading this aticle, remove it from your computer and send it back to us at your expense. The liscence hereby granted to use your computer includes the ability to use myFileSystem which you must install now. You may not read myFileSystem with any tool not sold by me. This includes physical and microscopic examination and reconstuction by abacus or weejee board.
There are just too many competing web sites to keep up with! What's the value of a cable access advert? Devide that by the millions of websites cropping up and you get a dot com bust.
That's AOK by me. Who needs these mega sites with their big stupid banner adds? Let's not help these people figure out how to extend the GE, Westinghouse, ABC, DEFG, GodKnows, RIAA, MPAA, BS media monopolies into the web. If you've got any bright ideas, burn the paper work and go have a beer.
That made me wonder when I read the article. I thought MediaGX had VGA intergrated onto the CPU. Have these folks put something else in there?
I've only managed to get 8 bits out of MediaGX under red hat. Mandrake got more out of it using a frame buffer. Windows drivers can get much more, grrr. My Cyrix boxes do best with Red Hat and that's where I've left them.
That old board, it's hardware and software are archived. They will only come out of the closet in case of nuclear atack. It's box is now the home off a nice little Cyrix Media GX board running Red Hat 6.2. No problems there either.
Setting up machines that are only browsers makes sense, but they should not be using MS. Email and the like are not part of the libraries mission and open up the machines to recieving viruses. Browsers are useful for research and have a legitimate place in the budget. To reduce costs further they should have used freeware which would save them both initial costs and upkeep. Those MS machines are just too easy to break.
Kindness, sympathy, public spirit and other noble human traits are not a function of political system or religion. All human institutions espouse these things (at least for themselves).
I like Debian and advocate free software. I enjoy helping people with it, and other things that I know better. I am NOT as socialist.
Ah the brawny Soviet, sweating under the lash to make... Chernoble or Kurst or a Moscow tower. I'm not sure why anyone outside the former Soviet Union would use such language. Misguided ethnic pride? Underneath the great graphics, which stagnated in the 30s, was a nighmare of badness for most.
The Mac also benifits from it's small user base. People unfamiliar with Macs might not have experienced some of the things that I've gotten to see some Mac people deal with. Stable it was, till it crashed. Then there would be days of bare metal and cursting from the tech staff. They did well, but bugs there were.
Unix needs no myth. Reasonable people will move to it as it solves more of their problems and the alternatives extinguish themselves.
Hmmm.. This must be the buy button on my TV that I've been hearing about for years. Does that nationaly broadcast "go to this site" barcode message sound like a bad idea to anyone else?
By way of example, Mathews points to one hack, created by network
engineer Michael Rothwell, that allows users to scan the ISBN number on the
back of a book with the CueCat. "You could swipe a code, and it would serve
up a page on Amazon.com. But what if [the publisher] doesn't want it to go to
Amazon.com, they want it to go to web site under their control..."
If you have the book in your hand at home, why would you want to call up a web page about it? OK, maybe it's a friends book, or even a book from the library and you decide you just have to have it. No disrespect to Mr. Rothwell, but I have to wonder about the cloudy world of Mathews.
It has come to our attention that you have violated our EULA and we hereby order you to cease and dessist. You may only use the CueCat TM in conjunction with out freely available Junk Pusher food ware running on genuine Intel MS Win2000 in some other room than your kitchen.
If you are not happy with this, we recomend that you return your CueCat, unopened, to the nearest Radio Shack.
Why is it that current wiretaps can not capture email? If you can tap a phone, can't you get the email that goes over it? Cable modem? Any freaking wire that you have a court order to tap? This carnivore amounts to an unreasonable search.
I do know people who were terrorized, so it's more common than you think. He was a high ranking engineer who thought unionizing would be bad for his employee owned company. He recieved a long string of threatening "prank" phone calls that were routed through institutions and untraceble. The pranks included survailence and were unseteling. Example: his son left to go play with his friends. Five minutes later he got a phone call where a teenage boy screamed "Help me! They've got me and they've pulled my pants down." Ha ha, not. They could just as well have done it. Phone taps, Carnivore, nothing would have stoped it short of FBI teams escorting each member of his family like Bill Clinton.
Protection for the home: 357. Gun control = good aim.
Polycarbonate sheets are the cheapest of the clear plastic stocks. Forming it can get expensive, though the parts to make a vacuum form machine are cheap enough. Love that Lexan, it's so tough.
I feel better when I get home from work.
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The article made perfect sense to me. That's because I have to use NT all day, Barf.
The present is unimaginably bad by standards of just five years ago. How can it be that I'm stuck with crapy peer to peer networking with propriatary MS formats only when HTML is so much easier? Who would have imagined that vastly improved hardware could be made less reliable and slower than a 386? Who would belive that decoding media or linking could be illegal?
Your freedoms are being erroded. Check out this attack on a system called Publius, Speach without Accountibility from an old killer of trees, Scientific American. Anonymous publishing will not be tollerated in the new media, and "piracy" will be used as the hammer that squashes free publishing in general. Anonymous publishing is the foundation of a free press and the meat space equivalent will never die.
Cool, I finished this letter before BSoD. Sorry if it is less than pollished.
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I'm going to believe the officer. You got caught with evidence of criminal activity in plain sight, and I'd be glad.
Unreasonable search and seizure laws are designed to protect people against government meddling and other abuses. As a side effect, criminal investigations can be more difficult. You forfeit those rights, however, when you engage in criminal activity also known as violating the rights of others for your own benefit. Once a good reason to search you is publicly established, you will be searched and there is nothing unreasonable about it. I hope the police crack your PDA, just like detectives used to figure out the secret code in a pimp's little black book.
That encryption might shield criminals is a downside that we will all just have to live with. It's not something that should be celebrated.
This whole thread is off topic.
time to remove the floppy! Of course the user of such a thing has to have an open session to make the utility work. If they've got an open session on NT/DOS they've got access to data anyway.
If they had never visited the site at all, their letters would be foolish and based on hearsay. To threaten someone with a lawsuit based on hearsay is harrasment as well.
and the fuss is over being told to delete everything concering NTFS.
Challenge? Harrr! You'll have to kill me, shave me and scalp me to find my treasure map! To add insult to injury, it's written in my own secret code. I killed the tatoo-er. No one shall find my burried treasure, not even me. Ha Ha Ha!
This is such a twisted troll that it's hard to know where to start. Since when do you need to buy a liscence to reverse engineer? This seems to be the core of this bait. It has little to do with the relavent problems.
By reading this article you agree to use your computer only as I see fit. If you do not agree, you may stop reading this aticle, remove it from your computer and send it back to us at your expense. The liscence hereby granted to use your computer includes the ability to use myFileSystem which you must install now. You may not read myFileSystem with any tool not sold by me. This includes physical and microscopic examination and reconstuction by abacus or weejee board.
If you are worried about this, don't allow floppy boots by passwording your BIOS. Better yet, take the floppy out.
That's AOK by me. Who needs these mega sites with their big stupid banner adds? Let's not help these people figure out how to extend the GE, Westinghouse, ABC, DEFG, GodKnows, RIAA, MPAA, BS media monopolies into the web. If you've got any bright ideas, burn the paper work and go have a beer.
This will give them a reason to tax the internet as well as slow it down and eliminate privacy. Three points!
I've only managed to get 8 bits out of MediaGX under red hat. Mandrake got more out of it using a frame buffer. Windows drivers can get much more, grrr. My Cyrix boxes do best with Red Hat and that's where I've left them.
That old board, it's hardware and software are archived. They will only come out of the closet in case of nuclear atack. It's box is now the home off a nice little Cyrix Media GX board running Red Hat 6.2. No problems there either.
Setting up machines that are only browsers makes sense, but they should not be using MS. Email and the like are not part of the libraries mission and open up the machines to recieving viruses. Browsers are useful for research and have a legitimate place in the budget. To reduce costs further they should have used freeware which would save them both initial costs and upkeep. Those MS machines are just too easy to break.
Kindness, sympathy, public spirit and other noble human traits are not a function of political system or religion. All human institutions espouse these things (at least for themselves).
I like Debian and advocate free software. I enjoy helping people with it, and other things that I know better. I am NOT as socialist.
My XT, bought in 1987, never crashed either. All 20 MB of hard disk under MS DOS 3.2 never had a problem.
yeah, getting rid of the ZDNet stories would take some of the flame out of this place.
The Mac also benifits from it's small user base. People unfamiliar with Macs might not have experienced some of the things that I've gotten to see some Mac people deal with. Stable it was, till it crashed. Then there would be days of bare metal and cursting from the tech staff. They did well, but bugs there were.
Unix needs no myth. Reasonable people will move to it as it solves more of their problems and the alternatives extinguish themselves.
Step 2: Kiddie can't find /Usr, /Home, /Etc, gives up.
Hmmm.. This must be the buy button on my TV that I've been hearing about for years. Does that nationaly broadcast "go to this site" barcode message sound like a bad idea to anyone else?
If you have the book in your hand at home, why would you want to call up a web page about it? OK, maybe it's a friends book, or even a book from the library and you decide you just have to have it. No disrespect to Mr. Rothwell, but I have to wonder about the cloudy world of Mathews.
It has come to our attention that you have violated our EULA and we hereby order you to cease and dessist. You may only use the CueCat TM in conjunction with out freely available Junk Pusher food ware running on genuine Intel MS Win2000 in some other room than your kitchen.
If you are not happy with this, we recomend that you return your CueCat, unopened, to the nearest Radio Shack.
American answer: I should not have to worry, you you are not supposed to trust your government. That's why we have elections.
I do know people who were terrorized, so it's more common than you think. He was a high ranking engineer who thought unionizing would be bad for his employee owned company. He recieved a long string of threatening "prank" phone calls that were routed through institutions and untraceble. The pranks included survailence and were unseteling. Example: his son left to go play with his friends. Five minutes later he got a phone call where a teenage boy screamed "Help me! They've got me and they've pulled my pants down." Ha ha, not. They could just as well have done it. Phone taps, Carnivore, nothing would have stoped it short of FBI teams escorting each member of his family like Bill Clinton.
Protection for the home: 357. Gun control = good aim.
Polycarbonate sheets are the cheapest of the clear plastic stocks. Forming it can get expensive, though the parts to make a vacuum form machine are cheap enough. Love that Lexan, it's so tough.
The present is unimaginably bad by standards of just five years ago. How can it be that I'm stuck with crapy peer to peer networking with propriatary MS formats only when HTML is so much easier? Who would have imagined that vastly improved hardware could be made less reliable and slower than a 386? Who would belive that decoding media or linking could be illegal?
Your freedoms are being erroded. Check out this attack on a system called Publius, Speach without Accountibility from an old killer of trees, Scientific American. Anonymous publishing will not be tollerated in the new media, and "piracy" will be used as the hammer that squashes free publishing in general. Anonymous publishing is the foundation of a free press and the meat space equivalent will never die.
Cool, I finished this letter before BSoD. Sorry if it is less than pollished.
thank you, wuss.