Actually, according to TFA, the defendant may not be a criminal:
"An officer... allegedly discovered 'thousands of images of adult pornography and animation depicting adult and child pornography.'"
No one has witnessed anything that would have involved children, if you assume that "animation depicting" means drawings, and not movies. The word "depicting" suggests that it is not real.
I lived in San Luis Obispo County (Los Osos, SLO, Paso Robles) for 14 years. I don't recall any hail. Sunshine, rain, and fog, but no hail or snow. Pretty sure I would have noticed something like that.
Linus is dead on right. If you find it, tell the author(s). If they don't respond? Tell the world.
Once upon a time, I would have agreed with you. But nowadays, when someone finds a vulnerability and tells the vendor, the vendor goes and gets a gag order to prevent the public from being able to protect themselves. Or the security researcher gets arrested. It might be safer to just tell everybody, anonymously, through one of the many full disclosure lists.
This is where I believe the law should take a stand.
There is no reason to get the law involved with this one. In fact, the courts seem to be the problem in this case.
Whether he was right or wrong, he bashed the Slashdot summary, and by association, the editors. That's what we do here. Please take your facts and your common sense elsewhere.
A lot of people confuse EULAs, such as what Microsoft and a lot of proprietary companies use, and open source licenses. They both have "license" in the name, but are very different, and not comparable.
The main thread was about the pain of EULAs. EULAs are an attempt to prevent the end-user from using software in certain ways, and require extra people to help comply, even for stuff that the company never intends to distribute, such as the OS that runs on their computers, or utility software like VMWare. Then ArsonSmith (who was merely trolling) comes along and attempts to confuse the issue by talking about open source software, and saying how he hates those licenses, and would prefer a EULA.
Most of the software that a company uses, they never intend to distribute. OSes, word processors, database software, and stuff like that. In these cases, open source software would be easier to manage (license-wise), because there would be no licenses to manage, whereas EULAs are a pain. In the case of a software development company, and the company wants to distribute other people's software, open source licenses can be kind of confusing, and might need multiple people to sort out, but EULAs would be impossible. A EULA doesn't grant any distribution rights.
So, to compare a common proprietary app with an open source one, if you install Windows, you have to read a lengthy EULA and do the best you can to comply, whereas if you install Ubuntu, you don't have to read any licenses. If you distribute Windows, you get fined hundreds of thousands of dollars in court fees and settlements, etc, whereas to distribute Ubuntu, you have to make sure you are complying with the licenses.
We can blame whoever we want for our problems. Our blame might be justified, or it might not. The important thing is who is responsible for our problems, and that is always us, regardless of who's fault they are.
"I don't blame people for their problems. I only ask that they take responsibility for them." - John Hammond, Jurassic Park
Or, if you don't want to pay the shipping to Joe's house, you can advertise free computers on Craigslist. I've given away a lot of stuff on Craigslist, and made some money on some of the more valuable items. When I advertise a free computer (Pentium or better) on Craigslist, I get several replies within hours. I'm not sure what would happen if I advertised something less than a Pentium.
And Joe, if you haven't already, you should consider placing an ad in the "Wanted" section.
Your local newspapers probably also have free sections for this type of thing.
i agree this feature would be nice to have, but it's not really good business sense to do that... your not making it easy for your customer to leave you? (duh)
If it is easier to leave, people will be more likely to trust you in the first place. Have you ever had an obsessive ex? And you see her some time after everything settles down, and she wants to sleep with you "just one last time?" If you've ever been through that, you would know that it is a bad idea to join someone that is difficult to leave.
Personally, the whole "put personal information on somebody else's computer" fad seems weird to me.
Yes. Microsoft is the first company to ever use the letter "X" to mark something. Every other name, such as UNIX and Wormhole X-Treme! is just copying them.
Thanks for explaining what is meant by "the signed tag". I thought maybe it was some new tag people were incorporating in their html documents. I couldn't find any info about it using google.
The signed tag is probably just some guy with a new Slashdot subscriber account. Now that he gets to tag articles, he is doing so, even though he doesn't have anything intelligent to tag them. Much like that guy who, unless appropriate, kept tagging articles, "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" a while ago. Except "signed", while not an appropriate use of the tagging system, is an appropriate label itself. All the guy is doing is making his mark, or "signing".
The government agrees that they should have the right to investigate each and every connection that goes in or out of the United States, no warrant required. It's impractical to actually watch every connection in real time, or to store them all, but they certainly believe they should have the option to investigate whichever connections they choose at a whim.
In June 1997, seven weeks after the birth of his second child, Mr. Martin figured his prototype was now powerful enough to lift its first flier, so long as that person weighed less than 13 pounds. So he turned to his wife. "I said, 'Hey, Vanessa, where's baby?"
The now ex Mrs. Martin said, "No. I don't think so."
The rights of artists to their works came way before the rights of others to trample them.
The "rights" of artists to their works came in the last few centuries. The right to share other people's stories came when Ugh first told a story about how he tackled a dinosaur.
I guess this is the sometimes slow process of revisionism taking place, ready to wipe out any memory of all the positive effects of copyrights.
To be fair, the *AA + gov is making it difficult to remember the positive side of copyright.
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Actually, according to TFA, the defendant may not be a criminal:
"An officer ... allegedly discovered 'thousands of images of adult pornography and animation depicting adult and child pornography.'"
No one has witnessed anything that would have involved children, if you assume that "animation depicting" means drawings, and not movies. The word "depicting" suggests that it is not real.
I lived in San Luis Obispo County (Los Osos, SLO, Paso Robles) for 14 years. I don't recall any hail. Sunshine, rain, and fog, but no hail or snow. Pretty sure I would have noticed something like that.
Linus is dead on right. If you find it, tell the author(s). If they don't respond? Tell the world.
Once upon a time, I would have agreed with you. But nowadays, when someone finds a vulnerability and tells the vendor, the vendor goes and gets a gag order to prevent the public from being able to protect themselves. Or the security researcher gets arrested. It might be safer to just tell everybody, anonymously, through one of the many full disclosure lists.
This is where I believe the law should take a stand.
There is no reason to get the law involved with this one. In fact, the courts seem to be the problem in this case.
Whether he was right or wrong, he bashed the Slashdot summary, and by association, the editors. That's what we do here. Please take your facts and your common sense elsewhere.
The idea is that Big Foot can't live in North America the way that Gorillas live in Africa. There just isn't enough food.
Are you claiming that North America is lacking in food? You realize that the USA is here in North America, right?
A lot of people confuse EULAs, such as what Microsoft and a lot of proprietary companies use, and open source licenses. They both have "license" in the name, but are very different, and not comparable.
The main thread was about the pain of EULAs. EULAs are an attempt to prevent the end-user from using software in certain ways, and require extra people to help comply, even for stuff that the company never intends to distribute, such as the OS that runs on their computers, or utility software like VMWare. Then ArsonSmith (who was merely trolling) comes along and attempts to confuse the issue by talking about open source software, and saying how he hates those licenses, and would prefer a EULA.
Most of the software that a company uses, they never intend to distribute. OSes, word processors, database software, and stuff like that. In these cases, open source software would be easier to manage (license-wise), because there would be no licenses to manage, whereas EULAs are a pain. In the case of a software development company, and the company wants to distribute other people's software, open source licenses can be kind of confusing, and might need multiple people to sort out, but EULAs would be impossible. A EULA doesn't grant any distribution rights.
So, to compare a common proprietary app with an open source one, if you install Windows, you have to read a lengthy EULA and do the best you can to comply, whereas if you install Ubuntu, you don't have to read any licenses. If you distribute Windows, you get fined hundreds of thousands of dollars in court fees and settlements, etc, whereas to distribute Ubuntu, you have to make sure you are complying with the licenses.
We can blame whoever we want for our problems. Our blame might be justified, or it might not. The important thing is who is responsible for our problems, and that is always us, regardless of who's fault they are.
"I don't blame people for their problems. I only ask that they take responsibility for them." - John Hammond, Jurassic Park
Don't know the reason behind the abortion stance. Maybe because it's too hard to joke about tastefully.
It's not like that's ever stopped them before. Fortunately, we have several South Park episodes that might have some juicy quotes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_matter_in_South_Park#Abortion
I'm surprised that no one so far has made this comparison:
Bitlocker (part of Vista Ultimate) - closed source
PGP Whole Disk Encryption - closed source
TrueCrypt - open source
Or, if you don't want to pay the shipping to Joe's house, you can advertise free computers on Craigslist. I've given away a lot of stuff on Craigslist, and made some money on some of the more valuable items. When I advertise a free computer (Pentium or better) on Craigslist, I get several replies within hours. I'm not sure what would happen if I advertised something less than a Pentium.
And Joe, if you haven't already, you should consider placing an ad in the "Wanted" section.
Your local newspapers probably also have free sections for this type of thing.
There is proof that the world is not flat. There will never be proof that God does not exist.
The cultural boundaries are simply different than those of the US.
It's that way here in the U.S. too. It is impolite to take photos in people's windows. Google just doesn't care.
i agree this feature would be nice to have, but it's not really good business sense to do that... your not making it easy for your customer to leave you? (duh)
If it is easier to leave, people will be more likely to trust you in the first place. Have you ever had an obsessive ex? And you see her some time after everything settles down, and she wants to sleep with you "just one last time?" If you've ever been through that, you would know that it is a bad idea to join someone that is difficult to leave.
Personally, the whole "put personal information on somebody else's computer" fad seems weird to me.
Yes. Microsoft is the first company to ever use the letter "X" to mark something. Every other name, such as UNIX and Wormhole X-Treme! is just copying them.
Thanks for explaining what is meant by "the signed tag". I thought maybe it was some new tag people were incorporating in their html documents. I couldn't find any info about it using google.
The signed tag is probably just some guy with a new Slashdot subscriber account. Now that he gets to tag articles, he is doing so, even though he doesn't have anything intelligent to tag them. Much like that guy who, unless appropriate, kept tagging articles, "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" a while ago. Except "signed", while not an appropriate use of the tagging system, is an appropriate label itself. All the guy is doing is making his mark, or "signing".
Really - what's up with the newly-ubiquitous 'signed' tag?
The what?
The government agrees that they should have the right to investigate each and every connection that goes in or out of the United States, no warrant required. It's impractical to actually watch every connection in real time, or to store them all, but they certainly believe they should have the option to investigate whichever connections they choose at a whim.
Says the guy who responded to a New York Times article that was posted to Slashdot by timothy. DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!
Did you just make those numbers up?
The following would have been better:
In June 1997, seven weeks after the birth of his second child, Mr. Martin figured his prototype was now powerful enough to lift its first flier, so long as that person weighed less than 13 pounds. So he turned to his wife. "I said, 'Hey, Vanessa, where's baby?"
The now ex Mrs. Martin said, "No. I don't think so."
The main problem with nukes is that criminals will be released from the Phantom Zone if a nuclear weapon goes off in space.
I tried the following: the OR a OR 0 OR 1 OR in OR i
It says "Results 1 - 10 of about 0". Must be a wrap-around bug.
The rights of artists to their works came way before the rights of others to trample them.
The "rights" of artists to their works came in the last few centuries. The right to share other people's stories came when Ugh first told a story about how he tackled a dinosaur.
I guess this is the sometimes slow process of revisionism taking place, ready to wipe out any memory of all the positive effects of copyrights.
To be fair, the *AA + gov is making it difficult to remember the positive side of copyright.
Why did the DA even have access to these passwords? Why were they not in hash form? Did Child's have anything to do with that part?
This is just a release announcement. As usual, they give you the month, but not the year.