Back when I was in college, somebody stole my hubcaps (stock civic ones) and I didn't notice for a day or two. They actually took all of the bolts off the tires, took the hubcaps, and rebolted the tires. If they didn't, my tires would have fallen off as I drove around.
Those who deal in child pornography and prey on children are, to my mind, some of the worst exxamples of humanity out there. I wouldn't bat an eye if they increased the prison sentences for them to life or allowed capital punishment. But it still has to remain within the bounds of our laws, the core of which is the Constitution.
Granted. Those who take advantage of, say, 5-year-old kids should be flayed and burned where they stand.
It's the grey areas that concern me, though. The difference between a naked 17-yo and a naked 18-yo is 15 years in jail vs. perfectly legal. If you have a picture of a kid a day before his 18th birthday and a day after, what's the huge difference that makes you a heinous pervert vs. just another horney guy?
"Well it's more for the 12 year olds than the 17 year olds". I agree. Grey area. Same logic in arguing why somebody who is a day shy of 20 can't drink or a day shy of 18 can't smoke.
Few hundred years ago, women were having kids at 14 and younger but now that's bad.
It has already passed Earth. I remember hearing a line of thinking like this before. Assuming aliens discover similar technologies as humans, they would have discovered some form of radio. They would have used it and the signals would have been broadcast out there for a few hundred years. Then they discover a method to send data directly with no radio signals (such as over fiber), and all of a sudden, they stop making any noise. Eventually they stop using the technology that listens for radio waves.
Then we come along pumping out radio waves but they can no longer hear them. In another hundred years, our point to point transmissions will be way more advanced then radio so we'll stop using them, preventing us from hearing another race of aliens that just learned how to send out radio waves.
So basically, we have a window of ohh...500 years lets say (pulled out of thin air) where we can both send and receive radio waves. We would need an alien race to be within that same window technologically speaking to hear us/talk to us.
No offense but do some research and look at Computrace's website.
The Computrace® Agent is a small software client that can be embedded into the BIOS firmware "at the factory", or installed like most software applications onto the hard drive of a computer. When embedded in the BIOS of computers by major OEMs, such as Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, Lenovo, Motion Computing, Panasonic and Toshiba, the Computrace Agent can survive operating system re-installations, hard drive reformats and even hard drive replacements. This isn't something you can easily/possible get done after it is shipped. All of our laptops come with it already.
I don't doubt that there are flaws and Computrace doesn't claim to be perfect. But how many theives do you know (stop associating with criminals!) that will install FreeBSD (like the guy in the article) to get around the security. The person in the article
1) knows that Computrace is installed
2) has researched ways to get around this security
3) assumes theives are smart enough to know what about the registry, the host file, and proxies AND how use them
I'm not questioning the fact it isn't perfect. But for us, it works out pretty nice.
We're a Windows shop so I can't say yes or no to that. I highly doubt they would steal a laptop to but a free OS like Ubuntu on it. This is a theif afterall. If they stole hardware, just as likely to have stolen software.
We have Computrace installed on over 5,000 laptops in the field. It is installed in the BIOS so a simple format won't get rid of it. In fact, if they format it, the BIOS agent actually reinstalls the OS agent. One thing they don't mention is that you need to file a police report on the stolen laptop first before you can track it. But it works nice. We've had several that were "stolen" to wind up at the user's house or a friend's house. Not sure if any were actually ever stolen though since I don't handle that stuff.
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Back when I was in college, somebody stole my hubcaps (stock civic ones) and I didn't notice for a day or two. They actually took all of the bolts off the tires, took the hubcaps, and rebolted the tires. If they didn't, my tires would have fallen off as I drove around.
Those who deal in child pornography and prey on children are, to my mind, some of the worst exxamples of humanity out there. I wouldn't bat an eye if they increased the prison sentences for them to life or allowed capital punishment. But it still has to remain within the bounds of our laws, the core of which is the Constitution.
Granted. Those who take advantage of, say, 5-year-old kids should be flayed and burned where they stand.
It's the grey areas that concern me, though. The difference between a naked 17-yo and a naked 18-yo is 15 years in jail vs. perfectly legal. If you have a picture of a kid a day before his 18th birthday and a day after, what's the huge difference that makes you a heinous pervert vs. just another horney guy?
"Well it's more for the 12 year olds than the 17 year olds". I agree. Grey area. Same logic in arguing why somebody who is a day shy of 20 can't drink or a day shy of 18 can't smoke. Few hundred years ago, women were having kids at 14 and younger but now that's bad.
It has already passed Earth. I remember hearing a line of thinking like this before. Assuming aliens discover similar technologies as humans, they would have discovered some form of radio. They would have used it and the signals would have been broadcast out there for a few hundred years. Then they discover a method to send data directly with no radio signals (such as over fiber), and all of a sudden, they stop making any noise. Eventually they stop using the technology that listens for radio waves. Then we come along pumping out radio waves but they can no longer hear them. In another hundred years, our point to point transmissions will be way more advanced then radio so we'll stop using them, preventing us from hearing another race of aliens that just learned how to send out radio waves. So basically, we have a window of ohh...500 years lets say (pulled out of thin air) where we can both send and receive radio waves. We would need an alien race to be within that same window technologically speaking to hear us/talk to us.
No offense but do some research and look at Computrace's website.
The Computrace® Agent is a small software client that can be embedded into the BIOS firmware "at the factory", or installed like most software applications onto the hard drive of a computer. When embedded in the BIOS of computers by major OEMs, such as Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, Lenovo, Motion Computing, Panasonic and Toshiba, the Computrace Agent can survive operating system re-installations, hard drive reformats and even hard drive replacements. This isn't something you can easily/possible get done after it is shipped. All of our laptops come with it already.I don't doubt that there are flaws and Computrace doesn't claim to be perfect. But how many theives do you know (stop associating with criminals!) that will install FreeBSD (like the guy in the article) to get around the security. The person in the article 1) knows that Computrace is installed 2) has researched ways to get around this security 3) assumes theives are smart enough to know what about the registry, the host file, and proxies AND how use them I'm not questioning the fact it isn't perfect. But for us, it works out pretty nice.
We're a Windows shop so I can't say yes or no to that. I highly doubt they would steal a laptop to but a free OS like Ubuntu on it. This is a theif afterall. If they stole hardware, just as likely to have stolen software.
We have Computrace installed on over 5,000 laptops in the field. It is installed in the BIOS so a simple format won't get rid of it. In fact, if they format it, the BIOS agent actually reinstalls the OS agent. One thing they don't mention is that you need to file a police report on the stolen laptop first before you can track it. But it works nice. We've had several that were "stolen" to wind up at the user's house or a friend's house. Not sure if any were actually ever stolen though since I don't handle that stuff.