A public place that does not imply a certain association with something that could be used to intimidate/harm the person being photographed is fair game.
Okay, so let's look at some sceanrios...
- A picture of a man walking into a porn shop. - A picture of a man walking into a strip club. - Someone standing outside a concert/sporting venue waving tickets in the air.
Granted, it's unlikely these things would be noticed, but there are certainly circumstances where someone could be intimidated, harmed, or blackmailed with information found on the service.
For anyone who needs an example, search for 'sears' with zip code 60641. You'll get a picture of a store called 'Hats Plus' with only the edge of the sears store visible in the leftmost photo.
Now search for 'hats plus' and you'll get an imagine even further east along the same strip mall. You can verify they're next door by comparing the rightmost pics of the first search to the leftmost pics of the second search. Looks like the whole thing is about 50-100 feet off in that area.
Now, why is this? Probably because GPS is not 100% accurate. Even at it's best, consumer grade GPS (I'm going to assume A9 doesn't have access to military level equipment) is only accurate to about 20-30 feet. That also requires a relatively solid signal. In many areas, especially with large buildings, trees, and other obstructions, accuracy can drop to 100 feet or so. At this level of accuracy, you don't always see pictures of the business you're looking for, just the surrounding area.
It's a cool idea, but unless/until more accurate GPS gear is available it won't be much more reliable than following mapquest directions and looking for the nearest interesection.
"Nope, it's the content author who gets to decide what you do with his work. That's the law, if you don't like it, tough shit."
Actually, that's not the law. The Fair Use doctrine (which is technically not a law, but a series of court precedents) allows for certain acceptable uses of copyrighted works. If I'm writing a review of a book, I can quote brief passages of that book. If I'm conducting a film class, I can use snippets of films to demonstrate my points. Derivitive works have certain rights... there's plenty more examples.
The original poster's point (as I understand it) was that in a DRM world, the content producer specifies something 'copies of this cannot be made. PERIOD.' This disregards the above mentioned situations with no regard to context (since computers cannot inherently understand context). While there are certainly more cases where it provents illegal use, it also prevents limited legal uses. It's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I'm not sure if this was a reply to my message or the parent, but the answer to both is 'it depends' New York to LA might be more hops, or it might not. Geography just isn't a good indicator of number of hops, so I stand by my original statement that geography isn't related to throughput and/or latentcy.
Sniffing your own traffic to look for unknown data of an unknown format in unknown packets at unknown intervals is hardly trivial.
If they have a stream of data going to server.autralianequivilantoffbi.com it's be fairly easy to detect, but if they're using unused bits in existing traffic, you're looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack without knowing what the needle looks like.
What I'd really like to know is if the treatment will be a simple once a day pill or a three hour long invasive therapy I have to go through every morning (much like showering).
If showering takes you three hours, you must be really caked in filth!
"Most people I know rent until they are 30, because they are on the move."
So then, if they bought their first home 10-20 years after graduating (which is what was suggested above) they would've graduated college at either 10 or 20 years old? 20 MAYBE, but certainly not much younger unless they're some kind of Doogie Howser.
I've heard a lot of noise recently about voter registration deadlines passing. I know the last day to register in Illinois was yesterday, and I seem to remember hearing a large number or other states were approaching their deadlines as well. Is this really going to have any impact if these newly excited would be voters find they can't register?
In this case, I don't think there's a whole lot to be learned.
The Sassar work exploited a hole in LSASS that Microsoft patched on 4/14, the worm itself was discovered in the wild some time later than that, around 5/1 as best I can remember.
The lesson? Keep you crap patched and you won't get as many worms. How can observing this guy give any insight into that?
C'mon.. someone has to make a post to point out an obvious problem like that. When I first saw this article there were no posts yet. Would you prefer I just ignore that eyesore?!
As a Libertarian leaning voter, this statement concerned me. Traditionally, the word conservative has been used to describe those who believe in smaller government, which is certainly a Libertarian position. However, it's also a word used to describe those who wish to legislate morality and religious doctrine, which I can't imagine being something any Libertarian would support.
Can you clarify this quote? What aspects of conservatism do you see as being in line with Libertarian values, and at what points do the two diverge?
"...unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store."
Ironically, 'virtually any other online music store' does not include the Itunes music store. And why are we comparing an online music store to a software application anyhow?
Itunes will play AAC, and MP3, but not WMA. WMP will play WMA, MP3, but not AAC.
Seems both software apps are equally limited in regards to what formats they'll play. Now, which stores support which formats is a different debate. Let's try not to mix up the player and the store. Although integrated, they are not the same thing.
The real irony of the Disney example is that they've made a bundle on exploiting public domain works.
Snow White Cinderella Alladin Peter Pan Robin Hood Tarzan Sleeping Beauty Pinnochio Snow White The Hunchback of Notre Dame
And lots of non-fairy tale literature that they've featured in live action movies; Robinson Crusoe The Three Musketeers 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth The Time Machine
That the Disney corporation has built it's empire largely on public domain works, and now fights it's own original material going into the public domain is deliciously ironic.
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FUKUI Kensaku Attorney at law Wow, I guess Japanese lawyers don't mess around!
... maybe a bit of both.
A public place that does not imply a certain association with something that could be used to intimidate/harm the person being photographed is fair game.
Okay, so let's look at some sceanrios...
- A picture of a man walking into a porn shop.
- A picture of a man walking into a strip club.
- Someone standing outside a concert/sporting venue waving tickets in the air.
Granted, it's unlikely these things would be noticed, but there are certainly circumstances where someone could be intimidated, harmed, or blackmailed with information found on the service.
I noticed this too.
For anyone who needs an example, search for 'sears' with zip code 60641. You'll get a picture of a store called 'Hats Plus' with only the edge of the sears store visible in the leftmost photo.
Now search for 'hats plus' and you'll get an imagine even further east along the same strip mall. You can verify they're next door by comparing the rightmost pics of the first search to the leftmost pics of the second search. Looks like the whole thing is about 50-100 feet off in that area.
Now, why is this? Probably because GPS is not 100% accurate. Even at it's best, consumer grade GPS (I'm going to assume A9 doesn't have access to military level equipment) is only accurate to about 20-30 feet. That also requires a relatively solid signal. In many areas, especially with large buildings, trees, and other obstructions, accuracy can drop to 100 feet or so. At this level of accuracy, you don't always see pictures of the business you're looking for, just the surrounding area.
It's a cool idea, but unless/until more accurate GPS gear is available it won't be much more reliable than following mapquest directions and looking for the nearest interesection.
"Nope, it's the content author who gets to decide what you do with his work. That's the law, if you don't like it, tough shit."
Actually, that's not the law. The Fair Use doctrine (which is technically not a law, but a series of court precedents) allows for certain acceptable uses of copyrighted works. If I'm writing a review of a book, I can quote brief passages of that book. If I'm conducting a film class, I can use snippets of films to demonstrate my points. Derivitive works have certain rights... there's plenty more examples.
The original poster's point (as I understand it) was that in a DRM world, the content producer specifies something 'copies of this cannot be made. PERIOD.' This disregards the above mentioned situations with no regard to context (since computers cannot inherently understand context). While there are certainly more cases where it provents illegal use, it also prevents limited legal uses. It's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I'm not sure if this was a reply to my message or the parent, but the answer to both is 'it depends' New York to LA might be more hops, or it might not. Geography just isn't a good indicator of number of hops, so I stand by my original statement that geography isn't related to throughput and/or latentcy.
Often, but not always. Especially if different providers are involved, and we don't know if that's the case or not.
"I'm guessing that the three pubs aren't that far apart, so 512k should be plenty even with the IP overhead."
What does geographic distance have to do with it? Bytes is bytes, no matter how far (or not) they travel.
Isn't it generally agreed that security through obscurity is a bad thing for software? Why should it be any different for physical security?
Sniffing your own traffic to look for unknown data of an unknown format in unknown packets at unknown intervals is hardly trivial.
If they have a stream of data going to server.autralianequivilantoffbi.com it's be fairly easy to detect, but if they're using unused bits in existing traffic, you're looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack without knowing what the needle looks like.
What I'd really like to know is if the treatment will be a simple once a day pill or a three hour long invasive therapy I have to go through every morning (much like showering).
If showering takes you three hours, you must be really caked in filth!
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 6-0-4?
"Most people I know rent until they are 30, because they are on the move."
So then, if they bought their first home 10-20 years after graduating (which is what was suggested above) they would've graduated college at either 10 or 20 years old? 20 MAYBE, but certainly not much younger unless they're some kind of Doogie Howser.
... in Japan!
It sounds cool, but it requires a gigabyte of available disk space? Not only that, but this space must be on C:\
Those of us who keep small windows partitions and larger data partitions may be out of luck for now.
I've heard a lot of noise recently about voter registration deadlines passing. I know the last day to register in Illinois was yesterday, and I seem to remember hearing a large number or other states were approaching their deadlines as well. Is this really going to have any impact if these newly excited would be voters find they can't register?
Step 4: Profit!!!
In this case, I don't think there's a whole lot to be learned.
The Sassar work exploited a hole in LSASS that Microsoft patched on 4/14, the worm itself was discovered in the wild some time later than that, around 5/1 as best I can remember.
The lesson? Keep you crap patched and you won't get as many worms. How can observing this guy give any insight into that?
C'mon.. someone has to make a post to point out an obvious problem like that. When I first saw this article there were no posts yet. Would you prefer I just ignore that eyesore?!
Wow.. that blurb text is like half the frontpage!
... in Japan!
Mr. Badnarik -
In a recent Washington Times article entitled "Third parties seen as threat to Bush" you were quoted as saying, "We are playing to the conservatives who do not have a party to vote for."
As a Libertarian leaning voter, this statement concerned me. Traditionally, the word conservative has been used to describe those who believe in smaller government, which is certainly a Libertarian position. However, it's also a word used to describe those who wish to legislate morality and religious doctrine, which I can't imagine being something any Libertarian would support.
Can you clarify this quote? What aspects of conservatism do you see as being in line with Libertarian values, and at what points do the two diverge?
"For us though, us conesoures of fine video games, us cultured folk who can gain amusement from really bad sound and worse graphics... "
:)
Uhhh, that should say 'For us though, we connoisseurs...'
I know you already replied mentioning the spelling errors, but there's grammar problems there too.
"...unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store."
Ironically, 'virtually any other online music store' does not include the Itunes music store. And why are we comparing an online music store to a software application anyhow?
Itunes will play AAC, and MP3, but not WMA.
WMP will play WMA, MP3, but not AAC.
Seems both software apps are equally limited in regards to what formats they'll play. Now, which stores support which formats is a different debate. Let's try not to mix up the player and the store. Although integrated, they are not the same thing.
The real irony of the Disney example is that they've made a bundle on exploiting public domain works.
Snow White
Cinderella
Alladin
Peter Pan
Robin Hood
Tarzan
Sleeping Beauty
Pinnochio
Snow White
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
And lots of non-fairy tale literature that they've featured in live action movies;
Robinson Crusoe
The Three Musketeers
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Time Machine
That the Disney corporation has built it's empire largely on public domain works, and now fights it's own original material going into the public domain is deliciously ironic.