restricted from hosting a webserver for a period of time
Which may be a bit difficult to enforce once he returns to britain -- unless they're planning on keeping him in the US for this period of time.
And seriously, extraditing someone for something that will probably end up with them getting fined is just nuts. Having said that, I must admit that I haven't really been keeping up with the sanctions given out for copyright stuff in the states.
I like my system. I have a somewhat unique word that is about 8 characters long. I mix that with the domain name of the site I am visiting in the format of an email address (which we all seem to be able to remember).
The only problem with this is that it is still mostly useless if someone gets one of your passwords.
For example if newyorktimes.com gets hacked and the login info is published, then it's not a massive intellectual effort to figure out the scheme that you are using and applying it to any other sites that you may be on.
If you want to prevent the bad guys from exploiting a vulnerability, then don't... um... tell them about the vulnerability? But do tell the affected parties about it.
I think nuclear power plants and the like warrant something a bit more than security through obscurity...
Are things different in other fields? Are there areas where classes are taught primarily from copied materials? If so, why is this done, instead of just picking a selection of books? Is it that there are no adequate books? If so, then why don't people write them?
Often, in my experience, lecturers will copy *small amounts* of text from a book, so that students don't have to buy a $70 textbook just for one subtopic that isn't covered in other books. And putting enough copies in the library that everyone taking the course can get adequate access to said book is not really feasible.
At my uni if they need larger amounts (i.e. several chapters) they pay publishers for the right to copy those and then sell them on to us. Which still ends up a lot cheaper for us (students).
you mean they can't physically force you to? I think the threat of 2 years in jail might compel to some people... I guess it depends on what amount of jailtime you're facing if they get to the stuff on your computer.
Tell me again? Just how is it you've managed to get this far in life having never fallen victim to office politics? Easy: don't ever go to work, just sit around reading/.;-)
that depends on where the plants are built... Some of them (like ones here in NZ) are built where the outer crust or whatever it's called is extremely thin, and as a result of this the earth is incredibly hot there anyway... I would say that that causes a negligible amount of extra heat transfer.
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technology can be used for good or evil...
moving on...
when politics and the blame game are involved, more likely...
restricted from hosting a webserver for a period of time
Which may be a bit difficult to enforce once he returns to britain -- unless they're planning on keeping him in the US for this period of time.
And seriously, extraditing someone for something that will probably end up with them getting fined is just nuts. Having said that, I must admit that I haven't really been keeping up with the sanctions given out for copyright stuff in the states.
I like my system. I have a somewhat unique word that is about 8 characters long. I mix that with the domain name of the site I am visiting in the format of an email address (which we all seem to be able to remember).
The only problem with this is that it is still mostly useless if someone gets one of your passwords.
For example if newyorktimes.com gets hacked and the login info is published, then it's not a massive intellectual effort to figure out the scheme that you are using and applying it to any other sites that you may be on.
In passwords size matters :)
Only if you're just brute forcing.
they seem to have gotten 9th overall (out of 56 who started) , which is even more impressive... according to http://www.lemans.org/en/races/24h-du-mans/live-2011/live-timing.html here
If you want to prevent the bad guys from exploiting a vulnerability, then don't... um... tell them about the vulnerability? But do tell the affected parties about it.
I think nuclear power plants and the like warrant something a bit more than security through obscurity...
Are things different in other fields? Are there areas where classes are taught primarily from copied materials? If so, why is this done, instead of just picking a selection of books? Is it that there are no adequate books? If so, then why don't people write them?
Often, in my experience, lecturers will copy *small amounts* of text from a book, so that students don't have to buy a $70 textbook just for one subtopic that isn't covered in other books. And putting enough copies in the library that everyone taking the course can get adequate access to said book is not really feasible.
At my uni if they need larger amounts (i.e. several chapters) they pay publishers for the right to copy those and then sell them on to us. Which still ends up a lot cheaper for us (students).
you mean they can't physically force you to? I think the threat of 2 years in jail might compel to some people...
I guess it depends on what amount of jailtime you're facing if they get to the stuff on your computer.
that depends on where the plants are built...
Some of them (like ones here in NZ) are built where the outer crust or whatever it's called is extremely thin, and as a result of this the earth is incredibly hot there anyway...
I would say that that causes a negligible amount of extra heat transfer.