Sadly, this isn't illegal in Illinois. We got lucky and our home inspector caught it before we got to far in the process. Moral of the story - get a home inspector that comes highly recommended and is very thorough.
How would you feel about this man if it was your child's photograph on this man's notebook.
How would you feel if it was your laptop that was seized without a warrant? "Oh I don't have child porn" you say. Sure...but without that warrant the cops may just plant the evidence. Now what say you?
Or, that friend you let borrow your machine last week, remember him? Yeah, he's not the church going fun loving person you thought. On that USB key with all of his work related stuff was a nice folder of child porn. Its a good thing he copied everything to your machine so you could work together on that big project that boss is asking about.
Or, that teenager in your house, yeah dirty young man. He's out browsing the internet looking for pictures. He accidently clicks on a link with under age "actors". Fortunately, he's a good kid and backs out of the site right away. Didn't look at anything, didn't mean to go there. Hell, you've even trained him well enough to erase cookies and temporary files.
Hear that knocking? Yeah, that's the police showing up without a warrent and taking your machine. Oh look, they just found deleted child porn images on your computer. You sick bastard.
Without the warrant you have one more leg to stand on to fight these charges. Its there to protect the innocent.
I'm surpised no one mentioned this, but https://gmail.com/gmail.com pops up this alert in FF3, because the certificate is actually for mail.google.com. I'm surprised Google didn't fix this - especially considering how much money they give to Mozilla.
So the article (yes, I read it) only mentions 3 affliated sites. Does anyone have a list of all Facebook Affliated sites?
While I don't use (and never will use) facebook, other family members do have facebook accounts. I don't consent to have my information sent - could this be a liability for Facebook should someone decide to make it a large issue?
As a former employee of an Illinois University, I can confirm they are auctioned off. The Universities are required to wipe the hard drives and then send the machines to Springfield. When they arrive on nicely wrapped pallets, the state randomly selects a few machines from each school and tries to recover data from the drives (simple scans, nothing to extreme, from my understanding). If anything is recovered the entire pallet of returned machines is rejected and the university pays a sizeable fine (we were hit on two of our pallets because a student employee missed a machine that just happened to be selected in the random scans) to have it transported back and they get to rewipe all machines. If they pass the quick check for data, the machines are auctioned off - usually to nonprofits.
It may just be me and my youth speaking, but planning out 28 years seems a little...risky. Who knows what the hell is going to happen tomorrow, let alone 28 years from now. Does anyone remember thinking "Tomorrow is going to suck" on 9/10/01? PLUS...what about technology advancements? I seriously doubt that in 28 years "stealth" will mean the same thing it does today. How can we plan out 28 years like this? (Serious question...looking for insight from someone with more experience).
On the website it mentions monitoring FTP, shoutcast, and DB queries. Have you coded these yet, or are those just to-dos? FTP and DB Queries would be interesting to see graphed.
Charter.net blocks port 80. It was PITA to figure out why I couldn't connect to my webserver from outside the Charter network. While inside their network I could just fine. Once I figured it out though, its was as simple as moving the webserver to a different port. I picked 443 because they allow secure websites. From there I just set up a little domain forwarding/cloaking so that end users never see they are connected to 443 and don't use SSL - its not needed for the type of site I have hosted.
Four years ago I was in the same boat. Go to school or go after the certifications? At the time, I wanted the quick way - certifications. I could get them quickly and move on the greener pastures. My final year of High school I started the process of getting a couple of them trying to get a head start for when I applied to companies. Fortunately, someone talked me out of this path. I found a school known for its Computer Science program across the country. Since then I have learned more about programming and networking than the certification classes ever taught.
Going for the degree teaches more than just computers. It teaches how to deal with different types of people. Do you have a crotchety old professor? How do you deal with him? Do you have a pushover professor? How do you deal with him? What about a drunk room mate, or loud neighbors? How you learn to deal with these people is part of life - because trust me - you won't like everyone you deal with. Your job won't just be computers. It will be how you deal with your boss, your coworkers and your customers.
College also provides job options. At college you can get a job in an area that interests you. For myself, it was in the IT center of the campus. I've learned how to support a network with more than 20,000 users. Practical experience plus a degree is more useful to you than a sheet of paper that you have to renew in three years. Your certifications expire - your degree won't. Go for the degree. My experience landed my a $55K a year job upon graduation. What will your High School Diploma get you?
I also attend NIU. I'm very surprised that we are so high in the list because our "Abuse Investigator" is pretty proactive about shutting down copyright violators - in some cases even overzealous, shutting down people who's games happen to run on a P2P port or a use bittorrent to download patches.
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Same with zippers. What would life be like without zippers?
A lot more drafty?
Sadly, this isn't illegal in Illinois. We got lucky and our home inspector caught it before we got to far in the process. Moral of the story - get a home inspector that comes highly recommended and is very thorough.
I wish I had a mod point for you. This picture is very helpful in seeing what two years of dust will do to a rover.
How would you feel about this man if it was your child's photograph on this man's notebook.
How would you feel if it was your laptop that was seized without a warrant? "Oh I don't have child porn" you say. Sure...but without that warrant the cops may just plant the evidence. Now what say you?
Or, that friend you let borrow your machine last week, remember him? Yeah, he's not the church going fun loving person you thought. On that USB key with all of his work related stuff was a nice folder of child porn. Its a good thing he copied everything to your machine so you could work together on that big project that boss is asking about.
Or, that teenager in your house, yeah dirty young man. He's out browsing the internet looking for pictures. He accidently clicks on a link with under age "actors". Fortunately, he's a good kid and backs out of the site right away. Didn't look at anything, didn't mean to go there. Hell, you've even trained him well enough to erase cookies and temporary files. Hear that knocking? Yeah, that's the police showing up without a warrent and taking your machine. Oh look, they just found deleted child porn images on your computer. You sick bastard.
Without the warrant you have one more leg to stand on to fight these charges. Its there to protect the innocent.
MS has fended off the government by themselves. With Google and Yahoo! backing them, they can wipe this law firm off the map.
Conveniently enough, that's exactly what they want.
I only get 5 :( I had mod points early this week.
I'm surpised no one mentioned this, but https://gmail.com/gmail.com pops up this alert in FF3, because the certificate is actually for mail.google.com. I'm surprised Google didn't fix this - especially considering how much money they give to Mozilla.
So the article (yes, I read it) only mentions 3 affliated sites. Does anyone have a list of all Facebook Affliated sites? While I don't use (and never will use) facebook, other family members do have facebook accounts. I don't consent to have my information sent - could this be a liability for Facebook should someone decide to make it a large issue?
As a former employee of an Illinois University, I can confirm they are auctioned off. The Universities are required to wipe the hard drives and then send the machines to Springfield. When they arrive on nicely wrapped pallets, the state randomly selects a few machines from each school and tries to recover data from the drives (simple scans, nothing to extreme, from my understanding). If anything is recovered the entire pallet of returned machines is rejected and the university pays a sizeable fine (we were hit on two of our pallets because a student employee missed a machine that just happened to be selected in the random scans) to have it transported back and they get to rewipe all machines. If they pass the quick check for data, the machines are auctioned off - usually to nonprofits.
SP2 wouldn't install with a custom boot screen either.
It may just be me and my youth speaking, but planning out 28 years seems a little...risky. Who knows what the hell is going to happen tomorrow, let alone 28 years from now. Does anyone remember thinking "Tomorrow is going to suck" on 9/10/01? PLUS...what about technology advancements? I seriously doubt that in 28 years "stealth" will mean the same thing it does today. How can we plan out 28 years like this? (Serious question...looking for insight from someone with more experience).
On the website it mentions monitoring FTP, shoutcast, and DB queries. Have you coded these yet, or are those just to-dos? FTP and DB Queries would be interesting to see graphed.
Charter.net blocks port 80. It was PITA to figure out why I couldn't connect to my webserver from outside the Charter network. While inside their network I could just fine. Once I figured it out though, its was as simple as moving the webserver to a different port. I picked 443 because they allow secure websites. From there I just set up a little domain forwarding/cloaking so that end users never see they are connected to 443 and don't use SSL - its not needed for the type of site I have hosted.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/02/michael_crook _sends_.html The Image
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7vssO8jj1E Video of him on Hannity and Colmes (poor sound quality)
Four years ago I was in the same boat. Go to school or go after the certifications? At the time, I wanted the quick way - certifications. I could get them quickly and move on the greener pastures. My final year of High school I started the process of getting a couple of them trying to get a head start for when I applied to companies. Fortunately, someone talked me out of this path. I found a school known for its Computer Science program across the country. Since then I have learned more about programming and networking than the certification classes ever taught. Going for the degree teaches more than just computers. It teaches how to deal with different types of people. Do you have a crotchety old professor? How do you deal with him? Do you have a pushover professor? How do you deal with him? What about a drunk room mate, or loud neighbors? How you learn to deal with these people is part of life - because trust me - you won't like everyone you deal with. Your job won't just be computers. It will be how you deal with your boss, your coworkers and your customers. College also provides job options. At college you can get a job in an area that interests you. For myself, it was in the IT center of the campus. I've learned how to support a network with more than 20,000 users. Practical experience plus a degree is more useful to you than a sheet of paper that you have to renew in three years. Your certifications expire - your degree won't. Go for the degree. My experience landed my a $55K a year job upon graduation. What will your High School Diploma get you?
I also attend NIU. I'm very surprised that we are so high in the list because our "Abuse Investigator" is pretty proactive about shutting down copyright violators - in some cases even overzealous, shutting down people who's games happen to run on a P2P port or a use bittorrent to download patches.