And it's not illegal to test for illegal drugs simply because you have no defense. You can't use unclean hands to fight it.
It even has probative value as a demonstration of your willingness to follow orders and directions, which includes obeying the laws that make drug use illegal.
China selectively enforces its rules and laws in favor of its own companies and against foreigners.
Trying to get a fair shake in china is rather like playing against a team that, in addition to having a home field advantage, has all the refs on their own payroll.
They should have destroyed it before they even asked for help.
Part of "Don't Be Evil" is "Don't Cooperate With Evil"
And after their recent run in with possibly state sponsored hacking of political activists in China, they should defnitely be wary of trusting even the government.
Not to mention that simply even holding this information, even under lock and key, is an invitation to the information being hacked and leaked, both by crackers and covert government agents alike.
In this modern world I'd even go so far as to call it cruel and unusual punishment.
Seriously, unless they have something that establishes he used a computer in furtherance of a crime, they have no business cutting him off from the vast majority of society.
Thing is most people's informed decisions fail to take into account the trustworthiness (or lack thereof) of a business that has a vested interest in breaking any sort of privacy promise they make to you.
It's in facebook's best interest to lure you in with promises of shelter from the public, and then whip out their TOS to throw you under the bus by reselling your soul to the advertisers.
What bothers me more is that governments are using this breach as an excuse to make google cough up information to the authorities that they'd otherwise have had to get a warrant for.
No cold blooded shark would ever let a bleeding chunk of meat go undevoured...particularly if there were other sharks that wanted to fight over it.
People are inherently greedy bastards, and having one of them stand back without the others following suit only ensures that the polite person is the sucker that didn't get it first.
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Nothing specific I can recall but I do remember poking around a bit with SoftICE.
Wrong.
2G private address space, 1G public address space, and 1G kernel address space.
Does that also count if you get hacked?
That's because drugs they test for are illegal.
And it's not illegal to test for illegal drugs simply because you have no defense. You can't use unclean hands to fight it.
It even has probative value as a demonstration of your willingness to follow orders and directions, which includes obeying the laws that make drug use illegal.
China selectively enforces its rules and laws in favor of its own companies and against foreigners.
Trying to get a fair shake in china is rather like playing against a team that, in addition to having a home field advantage, has all the refs on their own payroll.
They should have destroyed it before they even asked for help.
Part of "Don't Be Evil" is "Don't Cooperate With Evil"
And after their recent run in with possibly state sponsored hacking of political activists in China, they should defnitely be wary of trusting even the government.
Not to mention that simply even holding this information, even under lock and key, is an invitation to the information being hacked and leaked, both by crackers and covert government agents alike.
And it conveniently exposed the secret desires of governments to get their paws on this information.
Notice that they tried to delete the data, but were ordered by the governments to preserve it and hand it over.
If using our mind is going against the will of God then why did God give us a mind in the first place?
Kinda like the "horniest" dinosaurs article we had recently.
In this modern world I'd even go so far as to call it cruel and unusual punishment.
Seriously, unless they have something that establishes he used a computer in furtherance of a crime, they have no business cutting him off from the vast majority of society.
Thing is most people's informed decisions fail to take into account the trustworthiness (or lack thereof) of a business that has a vested interest in breaking any sort of privacy promise they make to you.
It's in facebook's best interest to lure you in with promises of shelter from the public, and then whip out their TOS to throw you under the bus by reselling your soul to the advertisers.
What bothers me more is that governments are using this breach as an excuse to make google cough up information to the authorities that they'd otherwise have had to get a warrant for.
Sooner or later, hoarders are going to scalp them.
I think it's a rather apt demonstration of just how imaginary imaginary property really is.
You stop exporting IP, people just pirate it. You stop exporting rare earths...people suffer.
Unfortunately, China has the real stuff, and they know it.
Indeed, I rather think China will play favorites and let its own rip others off, but not extend the same invitation.
Coincidental timing after China's latest strangling of rare earths, yes?
This is nothing more than a SLAPP attempt.
This story does not belong in idle.
If it wasn't IRL I'd say it belongs in YRO.
Blaming the victim still doesn't let the spammers off the hook though.
They're still responsible for giving the intertubes stress, hijacking people's computers, etc etc etc.
And they did have enough electronic firepower to totally obliterate Blue Security.
No cold blooded shark would ever let a bleeding chunk of meat go undevoured...particularly if there were other sharks that wanted to fight over it.
People are inherently greedy bastards, and having one of them stand back without the others following suit only ensures that the polite person is the sucker that didn't get it first.
All that matters is that the RIAA is going to come after YOU if someone ELSE uses YOUR network.
For once Microsoft is using its legal muscle for a good cause.
I'm shocked.
I would propose that quantum mechanics and the accompanying randomness is a possible manifestation of free will's implementation.
It still hurts at least temporarily because their budget gets a beating.
Maybe the puppeteer decided to put batteries and motors into the puppets instead of using strings :)
In other words, bacteria cooperate.
In game theory this is a common phenomenon that collective good is boosted when people aren't selfish.