www.somewebpage.com would explain what Tor is and how to block it, and provide contact info. The cops might raid me anyway, but at least they wouldn't show up thinking I'm the pedophile/drug dealer/terrorist they're looking for.
It's meaningless noise. Report the total number transactions and the number of problem transactions. Let either the buyer or the seller report a transaction as a problem that goes on both parties' records. Let them argue about it in public as long as they want.
Companies make overly broad copyright claims because they don't want their customers to say they have an implied license to do X, Y, or Z. I can understand that. But why can't they say something like
This thingamajig is copyright 2007 Fonebone Corporation (FBC), all rights reserved. FBC grants you permission to do X, but does not grant you permission to do Y or Z
That way FBC retains the right to sue someone who does Y or Z illegaly, but doesn't say it is always illegal to do Y or Z.
This old fart thinks YouTube audio is awesome! My music collection is cassette tapes recorded through a condenser mike placed next to a TV or radio speaker.
If you want to push back you can do it without risking your job. Say that this isn't part of the job you applied for and you don't feel qualified to do it. Mention some possible metrics you thought of, explain why they don't work, and conclude by saying you just don't know. This will get your boss thinking about the issues and if you're lucky he will push back against his boss. If you're not lucky he will use the metrics you told him don't work but he won't take them too seriously and they're probably better than whatever he would have come up with on his own.
1. How much the system is theoretically capable of contributing to the company's bottom line, in increased revenues or reduced costs, if it always ran perfectly.
2. How much the system actually contributed to the company's bottom line.
#1 tells you how important the admin's job is and #2/#1 tells you how well he's doing it.
I wonder what a caveman would think watching me sit on my ass all day pushing the same bunch of buttons over and over while other people grow my food, deliver my water, and haul away my shit. He'd probably think I was a retarded king or something.
The 9/11 hijackings would have been stopped cold by arming the pilots, the one thing Bush refuses to do. Instead he hires armies of bureaucrats to steal nail clippers from old ladies and feel up teenage girls.
Everyone likes to blame Lincoln for the demise of states' rights but the states cut their own throats when they ratified the 17th Amendment and gave up their representation in the Senate. There's no way this Real ID crap would have passed if Senators were still appointed by state legislatures.
You're moving the goalposts. I don't like secret laws either, but you said
...or you may have broken some secret law to which the judge doesn't have clearance to read (both have happened in the USA already.)
That's just not true. You can't be prosecuted for breaking a law that was deliberately kept secret from you. Ignorance of the law IS a defense in that case.
Because Gilmore was never charged with violating any of the laws he was complaining about. He couldn't be because they don't apply to him. Those laws are kept secret from the public but not from the people who need to follow them.
Consider the alternative though. You have an unhidden volume full of kiddie porn and the judge orders you to turn over your encryption key. Your goose is cooked. With TrueCrypt you're in a much better position. If you're not confident enough to go to trial you can at least get a better plea bargain.
This form of copy protection never bothered me. I know the manual will still be readable long after I'm dead. It's the disks and CDs that have a limited shelf life so as long as I can make as many copies of those as I want I'm happy.
But if they only revoke individual players the cost of maintaining AACS will keep going up as new cracks are discovered. At some point they're going to have to either throw in the towel or start revoking entire models.
Yes, but those actors are bringing in zillions of dollars in revenues to offset the cost. Is AACS making enough money to pay for the cost of maintaining it? At some point some bean counter has to ask that question.
How many is many? If 10 people do it, that's 10 separate revocations the AACS administrators have to do. Plus they have to continuously watch for more instances of the same crack all day every day forever. Seems like a pain in the ass to me.
It's not even so much about the money with them as it is the power and control.
My working theory is that **AA execs have been using their access to a large library of music/movies to impress chicks and they're afraid that's not going to work anymore.
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I would name it something like
--anon-proxy-abuse-complaints-see-www.somewebpage.com--.mydomain.com
www.somewebpage.com would explain what Tor is and how to block it, and provide contact info. The cops might raid me anyway, but at least they wouldn't show up thinking I'm the pedophile/drug dealer/terrorist they're looking for.
No, I didn't read the new EULA or even click the button to display it, precisely to avoid that sort of catch-22.
Every time I log in I get nagged to agree to their new terms of service but I never do it. My service has not been affected at all.
It's meaningless noise. Report the total number transactions and the number of problem transactions. Let either the buyer or the seller report a transaction as a problem that goes on both parties' records. Let them argue about it in public as long as they want.
What is so bad about Vista?
Wrong question. You should be asking "What's so bad about XP that it must be discontinued in favor of a new OS that people don't like as much?"
New Coke wasn't rejected because it was horrible. It was rejected because people liked old Coke better.
Companies make overly broad copyright claims because they don't want their customers to say they have an implied license to do X, Y, or Z. I can understand that. But why can't they say something like
This thingamajig is copyright 2007 Fonebone Corporation (FBC), all rights reserved. FBC grants you permission to do X, but does not grant you permission to do Y or Z
That way FBC retains the right to sue someone who does Y or Z illegaly, but doesn't say it is always illegal to do Y or Z.
This old fart thinks YouTube audio is awesome! My music collection is cassette tapes recorded through a condenser mike placed next to a TV or radio speaker.
If you want to push back you can do it without risking your job. Say that this isn't part of the job you applied for and you don't feel qualified to do it. Mention some possible metrics you thought of, explain why they don't work, and conclude by saying you just don't know. This will get your boss thinking about the issues and if you're lucky he will push back against his boss. If you're not lucky he will use the metrics you told him don't work but he won't take them too seriously and they're probably better than whatever he would have come up with on his own.
Ideally you want to measure two things:
1. How much the system is theoretically capable of contributing to the company's bottom line, in increased revenues or reduced costs, if it always ran perfectly.
2. How much the system actually contributed to the company's bottom line.
#1 tells you how important the admin's job is and #2/#1 tells you how well he's doing it.
I wonder what a caveman would think watching me sit on my ass all day pushing the same bunch of buttons over and over while other people grow my food, deliver my water, and haul away my shit. He'd probably think I was a retarded king or something.
The 9/11 hijackings would have been stopped cold by arming the pilots, the one thing Bush refuses to do. Instead he hires armies of bureaucrats to steal nail clippers from old ladies and feel up teenage girls.
Everyone likes to blame Lincoln for the demise of states' rights but the states cut their own throats when they ratified the 17th Amendment and gave up their representation in the Senate. There's no way this Real ID crap would have passed if Senators were still appointed by state legislatures.
You're moving the goalposts. I don't like secret laws either, but you said
...or you may have broken some secret law to which the judge doesn't have clearance to read (both have happened in the USA already.)
That's just not true. You can't be prosecuted for breaking a law that was deliberately kept secret from you. Ignorance of the law IS a defense in that case.
Because Gilmore was never charged with violating any of the laws he was complaining about. He couldn't be because they don't apply to him. Those laws are kept secret from the public but not from the people who need to follow them.
...or you may have broken some secret law to which the judge doesn't have clearance to read (both have happened in the USA already.)
Cite, please, and it better not be Gilmore.
Consider the alternative though. You have an unhidden volume full of kiddie porn and the judge orders you to turn over your encryption key. Your goose is cooked. With TrueCrypt you're in a much better position. If you're not confident enough to go to trial you can at least get a better plea bargain.
Maybe you could even get the charges reduced in exchange for the second false password.
One day the mothership won't be there. I don't want to get hooked on a cool game and then have it taken away from me.
"Actress having sex on the beach" sounds like a boring publicity stunt. I'm more interested in "that deal with the King and feet."
This form of copy protection never bothered me. I know the manual will still be readable long after I'm dead. It's the disks and CDs that have a limited shelf life so as long as I can make as many copies of those as I want I'm happy.
But if they only revoke individual players the cost of maintaining AACS will keep going up as new cracks are discovered. At some point they're going to have to either throw in the towel or start revoking entire models.
Yes, but those actors are bringing in zillions of dollars in revenues to offset the cost. Is AACS making enough money to pay for the cost of maintaining it? At some point some bean counter has to ask that question.
How many is many? If 10 people do it, that's 10 separate revocations the AACS administrators have to do. Plus they have to continuously watch for more instances of the same crack all day every day forever. Seems like a pain in the ass to me.
It's not even so much about the money with them as it is the power and control.
My working theory is that **AA execs have been using their access to a large library of music/movies to impress chicks and they're afraid that's not going to work anymore.
But what good does it do to revoke an individual player when all other players of the same type can be compromised the same way?