In a word, no. I worked on an anti-fraud reputation system for a large poker site. The system I worked on didn't rely on your name or any other personal information. It works on the permise that while it is easy to make new accounts, it's difficult to change your hardware. And it's your hardware's reputation/history with the associated accounts that is aggragated into a huge db. When suspicious activies occur - charge backs on stolen credit cards mostly - that "evidence" is entered into the db. Analysts can iterate through the db and build a web of associated accounts and hardware and if there is a pattern of abuse, the entire collection of accounts and computers can be flagged. That evidence is then shared on the back-end with other subscribers to the reputation system, so if site A and B are both subscribers, and you defraud A and get shut down, when you attempt to move on to site B, B already knows what you've been upto. Depending on their filtering rules, you may not even be able to connect to site B.
The system was extremely successful, saved the startup I was working for, and was spun off as its own product which is now being used by most of the large poker sites.
Why's this guy's comment only rated a 1? He's exactly right. My problem with this discussion is that you know the "crimes" being documented aren't violent or property crimes - they're pictures of kids drinking, smoking weed, getting naked and touching each other. I use the quotes because I don't think those really are crimes - that is to say, I don't see moral consequences in those activities the same way I see them clearly in real crimes like assault and theft. To me it's morally repugnant to talk about preventing a kid from going to college because they engaged in activities which normal adults clearly enjoy.
It would make an awesome base for robotics proto-typing. You could obviously make something cool for your car. It might make a good front end for an "e-house" - you could embed them in the walls with just a single or dual screen. They're connected devices, no wires except power, they'd be easy to install around the house. Setup full size flat panel on the wall next to it. Glue one on the back of a flat panel, with a usb hub, and a big usb hard drive, and make a one-piece computer. I think it's pretty cool. If the base was $100, man you could do some cool shit. Just wait a year or 2 and they'll be cheaper, with more models, more features, more modules to add...
"Cartoons depict non-real acts that can't be described as legal or illegal (as they didn't happen), yet these images themselves can be illegal (anime)."
I believe that's incorrect. I believe it's been ruled that artist's renderings of minors in sexual situations - since they don't involve any real children or real sex - are simply first amendment protected art. That would certainly make anime/hentai legal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalition
Wait. Common carrier law is old, it regulated shipping companies before telecoms. But does that then mean that fed ex can read a piece of printed text and decide not to send it based on content - political content at that?
What do you think would happen if, for real business reasons, like the fact that they might lose this case, TorrentSpy suspended development for the duration of the lawsuit and pending its outcome? Seems like a reasonable move to me. But it would preclude rolling out any new builds, logging or otherwise.
I would like to add to your 3rd point. I'm a windows application developer by day, so of course I use visual studio and MFC. I've also done quite a bit of linux server side app developement, and I would really like to do the equivalent app development on linux, but I can't find a tool that does what I want. I know some people are going to say I should look at GTK+ and Glade. I've spent hours trying to get hello world generated by glade to compile. I want to write applications not look for the latest TIFF or PNG library source on the internet. Somebody needs to build an IDE and windowing framework that rival Visual Studio and MFC in quality, that you can just install, and it just works. If you really wanted to get me excited, write something that allows my MFC code to compile as native X applications. Think about how the number of applications and application developers would explode if you did that. Damn it, just rip it off! It would make the transition from Windows to linux more inviting for businesses, users, and software developers.
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How frightening! As you might expect, that tactic's been seen before.
In a word, no. I worked on an anti-fraud reputation system for a large poker site. The system I worked on didn't rely on your name or any other personal information. It works on the permise that while it is easy to make new accounts, it's difficult to change your hardware. And it's your hardware's reputation/history with the associated accounts that is aggragated into a huge db. When suspicious activies occur - charge backs on stolen credit cards mostly - that "evidence" is entered into the db. Analysts can iterate through the db and build a web of associated accounts and hardware and if there is a pattern of abuse, the entire collection of accounts and computers can be flagged. That evidence is then shared on the back-end with other subscribers to the reputation system, so if site A and B are both subscribers, and you defraud A and get shut down, when you attempt to move on to site B, B already knows what you've been upto. Depending on their filtering rules, you may not even be able to connect to site B. The system was extremely successful, saved the startup I was working for, and was spun off as its own product which is now being used by most of the large poker sites.
I bet China doesn't consider their speech restrictions "silly". So are we playing by the same rules as everyone else or not?
Why's this guy's comment only rated a 1? He's exactly right. My problem with this discussion is that you know the "crimes" being documented aren't violent or property crimes - they're pictures of kids drinking, smoking weed, getting naked and touching each other. I use the quotes because I don't think those really are crimes - that is to say, I don't see moral consequences in those activities the same way I see them clearly in real crimes like assault and theft. To me it's morally repugnant to talk about preventing a kid from going to college because they engaged in activities which normal adults clearly enjoy.
It would make an awesome base for robotics proto-typing. You could obviously make something cool for your car. It might make a good front end for an "e-house" - you could embed them in the walls with just a single or dual screen. They're connected devices, no wires except power, they'd be easy to install around the house. Setup full size flat panel on the wall next to it. Glue one on the back of a flat panel, with a usb hub, and a big usb hard drive, and make a one-piece computer. I think it's pretty cool. If the base was $100, man you could do some cool shit. Just wait a year or 2 and they'll be cheaper, with more models, more features, more modules to add...
"Cartoons depict non-real acts that can't be described as legal or illegal (as they didn't happen), yet these images themselves can be illegal (anime)." I believe that's incorrect. I believe it's been ruled that artist's renderings of minors in sexual situations - since they don't involve any real children or real sex - are simply first amendment protected art. That would certainly make anime/hentai legal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalition
NitroWolf - I'd like to subscribe to your news letter...
Wait. Common carrier law is old, it regulated shipping companies before telecoms. But does that then mean that fed ex can read a piece of printed text and decide not to send it based on content - political content at that?
What do you think would happen if, for real business reasons, like the fact that they might lose this case, TorrentSpy suspended development for the duration of the lawsuit and pending its outcome? Seems like a reasonable move to me. But it would preclude rolling out any new builds, logging or otherwise.
I would like to add to your 3rd point. I'm a windows application developer by day, so of course I use visual studio and MFC. I've also done quite a bit of linux server side app developement, and I would really like to do the equivalent app development on linux, but I can't find a tool that does what I want. I know some people are going to say I should look at GTK+ and Glade. I've spent hours trying to get hello world generated by glade to compile. I want to write applications not look for the latest TIFF or PNG library source on the internet. Somebody needs to build an IDE and windowing framework that rival Visual Studio and MFC in quality, that you can just install, and it just works. If you really wanted to get me excited, write something that allows my MFC code to compile as native X applications. Think about how the number of applications and application developers would explode if you did that. Damn it, just rip it off! It would make the transition from Windows to linux more inviting for businesses, users, and software developers.