This is what turning on the LHC does to normally intelligent and articulate folks, people. Their world turns so very strange compared to reality...
No quark jokes. It has negative connotations. And don't spin any into a pun, either. I'm positive I'd pick up on those bottom of the barrel jokes. Top of my game.
Not saying that he's seen the film, but if he has, his logic tells him that there is no problem with cracking into a computer system looking for innocent information - he'll be glorified at the end of it.)
He should have been. He didn't post the log in details to 4Chan or a hackers BB.
They should have emailed him / phoned him and said "Hey, wow... You sure showed us up! Here, have a t-shirt as thanks for not making us go public with this! You saved our bacon, bro... God knows what would have happened if the Commies had found this stuff out! How about a gift you might enjoy; One free copy of Uplink! You can play hacker all you want now, hopefully it'll keep us safe for a few more years! He he! Anyway, thanks again!"
But instead they want to bully the world into doing their will. Well, more fool them. Now I suspect everyone with an agenda is looking for a system with a weak password.
Steganography is no guarantee; The guy who was jailed used PGP for encryption, and a piece of steganography software (unsure which). They broke the steg, but not the encryption. That's why he's in jail.
The phrase you're looking for (in UK law) is the "Golden Rule." It's one of the methods of interpretation of law, alongside "Literal Rule" and "Mischief Rule". The Golden Rule looks at the strictest wording of the law as applied, and decides if it leads to an absurdity. If that is the case, it is within the power of the Judge to re-interpret the law along the lines of how Parliament would have expected it to be understood. Having a piece of shrink-wrap plastic around a DVD being the centrepoint of how this law is interpreted seems to me (non-lawyer) as an absurdity.
Alternatively, the Mischief Rule allows a Judge to decide if an action sufficiently similar to the law in question, but not specifically covered by the law, is still a breach of that law. A man standing in a flower bed using a stick to steal car keys on a hook is not technically guilty of burglary (you must enter the property to commit a burglary). However, under the Mischief Rule the Judge can say that the tool was used under his control to commit the act, purely as a means of convenience, and say that without the stick the defendant would have to enter the property to perform the same action. Therefore stealing the keys from inside the property with the stick is still birglary. Same thing here; S/He can say that the EULA stipulation and firmware requirements are to prevent the use of the software on unsupported hardware which may affect the end user experience to the detriment of Apple's image. Therefore the technicalities listed as allowing Pystar to legally create their products do not apply.
IANAL, blah blah. Opinion with a little knowledge.
I dislike MS, but I loathe Apple. I'll have nothing to do with any service, software, or hardware they provide. My iPod is second hand, so I don't give them ANY money (I use WinAmp to manage the music content on it). I only have an iPod because my car has an iPod compatible USB input and I like the use of playlists, which a USB stick doesn't allow.
I use Microsoft operating systems because getting 3D acceleration and reliable sound / wireless networking is too much of a hassle in Linux. I play PC games, so Windows is my OS.
If I could get mouse + keyboard input in games on a 360 / PS3, I'd swap and get a netbook.
I don't know of any games with an 8GB demo. Sorry.
Maybe you should change ISP? I am from the UK, and my ISP has a 100GB/calendar month cap. 8Mb is my regular speed, I can pull 12Mb in the early morning.
Watching 2hrs of online TV per day, playing a few online games, and downloading a demo probably every 3 days gets me to 50GB typically. Just up your allowance.
Has he cancelled the contract, sent the phone back, and moved to another company? Sounds like there's a serious issue with that telephone, and it's unfit for purpose.
I'd love to know what they're listening for. To terrorists often call up American telephone numbers with "Ah, hello my brother Ahmed from the Helmand Province Al Qaida training camp! I'm just calling to tell you that your plan to perform $terrorist_act is excellent, and we'll be shipping you the required items and instructions via $importsystem on $date at $time! Hope everything goes well, Your firend, Benji at the Helmand Province Al Qaida training camp, Makalakadaka Street" etc etc.
I was under the impression, as the movies have shown me, that they use code words like "November Rain" or "Broken Arrow" or "Hi mum, I don't think I'll be back for supper. Just leave some in the oven. Thanks, bye."
It's like someone taking your car for a joyride overnight, returning it undamaged and with a full tank of fuel (exactly as you had left it), the guy leaving a note saying "Sweet wheels. Your locks suck, though" and you then charging the guy $5000 to have a new alarm and immobiliser system fitted.
Great thing is that if he had trashed the systems, he'd probably be walking free at the moment. It doesn't take a genius to head on over to a public hotspot with no CCTV and route your traffic through a VPN / Tor connection.
I take it by "large" you mean in file size, and that's one of the reasons I still buy PC gaming magazines. They often come with demos for games I haven't heard of yet, or I don't have the patience to download. Size is only an issue if you're still on 512k at this point in time.
Besides, a game doesn't need to be huge to be fun. I bought Audiosurf based purely on the demo, as I wanted to play the other game modes. I still play it probably two hours a week, with new songs or getting better scores on old songs. I played "Through the Fire and the Flames" for an hour itself on the demo, and that game is... 50MB? A little more?
If you mean too large in the game world sense, then you can cut it up at a load scene. A fraction of the story to get you interested. It's called a hook, and is often what you see in trailers. I'd much prefer an actual playable demo to a video, though.
Chapter One: Misdirection Let me preface this with a few words WHOA LOOK BEHIND YOU MAN! Did you look? I knew it! There you go. Misdirection.
Chapter 2: Concealment: Watch Pulp Fiction. Captain Koons talking to Butch about his grandpa's wristwatch is all you need know.
Chapter 3: Stagecraft. See Chapter One. Do something while they're not looking. If someone looks while you're doing whatever it is you're doing, kill them. Claim they were terrorists.
I buy games when I've enjoyed playing the demo. If there isn't a demo available, I don't buy it.
Game world not designed to allow for demo-style play? Rubbish. You can sandbox an area of a GTA map, limit Dragon Age: Origins to one town, make level caps to prevent access to higher level play... It's just laziness.
Racial slurs are not opinions. If it was a picture of her in a Dunce's hat, or with a stupid grinning expression and dribbling, that would be an example of considering her of low intelligence, or of diminished mental capacity. However, this is likening her to a primate, a widely known insult against black people.
Freedom of speech has limits. You can't shout "fire" in a theatre, you can't threaten anyone with violence, you can't make racial slurs or insight racial hatred etc etc.
You can hold onto your right of free speech until you start infringing on my rights; The right to be safe in my person, free of persecution, and the right to equality to name a few.
... but find another way to express that can't be misinterpreted along racial grounds.
Either you're really naive, or you've hit the nail on the head. Calling a black person a monkey is indeed racist, but maybe that's not the connotation intended. Misinterpreted indeed.
Yes, it will proactively utilise the upcoming technologies of generation 2.0 content. This was all blue-skied before the most recent networking conference, you should get your programmers to look at your Blackberry
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This is what turning on the LHC does to normally intelligent and articulate folks, people. Their world turns so very strange compared to reality...
No quark jokes. It has negative connotations. And don't spin any into a pun, either. I'm positive I'd pick up on those bottom of the barrel jokes. Top of my game.
Charming.
Not saying that he's seen the film, but if he has, his logic tells him that there is no problem with cracking into a computer system looking for innocent information - he'll be glorified at the end of it.)
He should have been. He didn't post the log in details to 4Chan or a hackers BB.
They should have emailed him / phoned him and said "Hey, wow... You sure showed us up! Here, have a t-shirt as thanks for not making us go public with this! You saved our bacon, bro... God knows what would have happened if the Commies had found this stuff out! How about a gift you might enjoy; One free copy of Uplink! You can play hacker all you want now, hopefully it'll keep us safe for a few more years! He he! Anyway, thanks again!"
But instead they want to bully the world into doing their will. Well, more fool them. Now I suspect everyone with an agenda is looking for a system with a weak password.
You lost me on the first line.
This isn't about a fair trial, it's about a scapegoat. "This is what happens when you attack the US."
This is Swordfish, but more sinister and at the wrong targets. "We must make terrorism so horrific that it becomes unthinkable to attack Americans."
Steganography is no guarantee; The guy who was jailed used PGP for encryption, and a piece of steganography software (unsure which). They broke the steg, but not the encryption. That's why he's in jail.
The phrase you're looking for (in UK law) is the "Golden Rule." It's one of the methods of interpretation of law, alongside "Literal Rule" and "Mischief Rule". The Golden Rule looks at the strictest wording of the law as applied, and decides if it leads to an absurdity. If that is the case, it is within the power of the Judge to re-interpret the law along the lines of how Parliament would have expected it to be understood. Having a piece of shrink-wrap plastic around a DVD being the centrepoint of how this law is interpreted seems to me (non-lawyer) as an absurdity.
Alternatively, the Mischief Rule allows a Judge to decide if an action sufficiently similar to the law in question, but not specifically covered by the law, is still a breach of that law. A man standing in a flower bed using a stick to steal car keys on a hook is not technically guilty of burglary (you must enter the property to commit a burglary). However, under the Mischief Rule the Judge can say that the tool was used under his control to commit the act, purely as a means of convenience, and say that without the stick the defendant would have to enter the property to perform the same action. Therefore stealing the keys from inside the property with the stick is still birglary. Same thing here; S/He can say that the EULA stipulation and firmware requirements are to prevent the use of the software on unsupported hardware which may affect the end user experience to the detriment of Apple's image. Therefore the technicalities listed as allowing Pystar to legally create their products do not apply.
IANAL, blah blah. Opinion with a little knowledge.
I dislike MS, but I loathe Apple. I'll have nothing to do with any service, software, or hardware they provide. My iPod is second hand, so I don't give them ANY money (I use WinAmp to manage the music content on it). I only have an iPod because my car has an iPod compatible USB input and I like the use of playlists, which a USB stick doesn't allow.
I use Microsoft operating systems because getting 3D acceleration and reliable sound / wireless networking is too much of a hassle in Linux. I play PC games, so Windows is my OS.
If I could get mouse + keyboard input in games on a 360 / PS3, I'd swap and get a netbook.
I don't know of any games with an 8GB demo. Sorry.
Maybe you should change ISP? I am from the UK, and my ISP has a 100GB/calendar month cap. 8Mb is my regular speed, I can pull 12Mb in the early morning.
Watching 2hrs of online TV per day, playing a few online games, and downloading a demo probably every 3 days gets me to 50GB typically. Just up your allowance.
That's what she said!
You've forgotten the first rule, and you've given them an idea of how to shut it down very quickly.
You should stop going there.
Has he cancelled the contract, sent the phone back, and moved to another company? Sounds like there's a serious issue with that telephone, and it's unfit for purpose.
I'd love to know what they're listening for. To terrorists often call up American telephone numbers with "Ah, hello my brother Ahmed from the Helmand Province Al Qaida training camp! I'm just calling to tell you that your plan to perform $terrorist_act is excellent, and we'll be shipping you the required items and instructions via $importsystem on $date at $time! Hope everything goes well, Your firend, Benji at the Helmand Province Al Qaida training camp, Makalakadaka Street" etc etc.
I was under the impression, as the movies have shown me, that they use code words like "November Rain" or "Broken Arrow" or "Hi mum, I don't think I'll be back for supper. Just leave some in the oven. Thanks, bye."
Car analogy? Sure!
It's like someone taking your car for a joyride overnight, returning it undamaged and with a full tank of fuel (exactly as you had left it), the guy leaving a note saying "Sweet wheels. Your locks suck, though" and you then charging the guy $5000 to have a new alarm and immobiliser system fitted.
Great thing is that if he had trashed the systems, he'd probably be walking free at the moment. It doesn't take a genius to head on over to a public hotspot with no CCTV and route your traffic through a VPN / Tor connection.
"Gray" McKinnon? He wasn't looking for aliens info he suspected being there... He was looking for where they'd hidden his flying saucer
It's always the eyes which give them away...
Garry McKinnon didn't murder anyone. There are degrees of significance to consider.
Nobody died because Garry McKinnon found a computer with the same admin password as the code the operator uses on his luggage.
I take it by "large" you mean in file size, and that's one of the reasons I still buy PC gaming magazines. They often come with demos for games I haven't heard of yet, or I don't have the patience to download. Size is only an issue if you're still on 512k at this point in time.
Besides, a game doesn't need to be huge to be fun. I bought Audiosurf based purely on the demo, as I wanted to play the other game modes. I still play it probably two hours a week, with new songs or getting better scores on old songs. I played "Through the Fire and the Flames" for an hour itself on the demo, and that game is... 50MB? A little more?
If you mean too large in the game world sense, then you can cut it up at a load scene. A fraction of the story to get you interested. It's called a hook, and is often what you see in trailers. I'd much prefer an actual playable demo to a video, though.
You're all half right... I meant double-amputee, but even that isn't specific.
Analogy fail.
Chapter One: Misdirection
Let me preface this with a few words WHOA LOOK BEHIND YOU MAN! Did you look? I knew it! There you go. Misdirection.
Chapter 2: Concealment:
Watch Pulp Fiction. Captain Koons talking to Butch about his grandpa's wristwatch is all you need know.
Chapter 3: Stagecraft.
See Chapter One. Do something while they're not looking. If someone looks while you're doing whatever it is you're doing, kill them. Claim they were terrorists.
Ankh-Morpork.
I buy games when I've enjoyed playing the demo. If there isn't a demo available, I don't buy it.
Game world not designed to allow for demo-style play? Rubbish. You can sandbox an area of a GTA map, limit Dragon Age: Origins to one town, make level caps to prevent access to higher level play... It's just laziness.
To think I believed them when they said that crickets had ears on their knees...
It's been bugging me since I read the piece...
Your girlfriend has a twin? High five, bro. :D
Racial slurs are not opinions. If it was a picture of her in a Dunce's hat, or with a stupid grinning expression and dribbling, that would be an example of considering her of low intelligence, or of diminished mental capacity. However, this is likening her to a primate, a widely known insult against black people.
Freedom of speech has limits. You can't shout "fire" in a theatre, you can't threaten anyone with violence, you can't make racial slurs or insight racial hatred etc etc.
You can hold onto your right of free speech until you start infringing on my rights; The right to be safe in my person, free of persecution, and the right to equality to name a few.
By the way, I'm white. I'm just making a point.
... but find another way to express that can't be misinterpreted along racial grounds.
Either you're really naive, or you've hit the nail on the head. Calling a black person a monkey is indeed racist, but maybe that's not the connotation intended. Misinterpreted indeed.
By the way, Streissand Effect?
Yes, it will proactively utilise the upcoming technologies of generation 2.0 content. This was all blue-skied before the most recent networking conference, you should get your programmers to look at your Blackberry