You can't just go around breaking laws you don't like and pretending that everything is okay and you're in the right.
Tell that to Rosa Parks.
I hate speeding laws, but I don't complain about the horrible injustice of the system when I get a ticket.
Yet you'll still pay 200 dollars for a radar scanner so you can tear ass at 80 in a 50 zone, then slow down just before the camera zone to ease your social conscience.
Laws are created to define sensible / acceptable behaviour within society. They are NOT cast in stone for all eternity. If enough people feel a law is unjust, it will be changed eventually (as per my Rosa Parks comment above), but usually there is some form of social unrest or disturbance before the lawmakers get their heads out of their asses and realise anything is wrong.
I see this whole piracy thing simply as the cyberspace equivalent of civil disobedience against laws which were neither written by the people, or for the people, but exist only by virtue of large cash deposits into government coffers from large corporations.
I mention old people not as foreign beings, but as the pair of 80 year old parents I have to drive to said church bingo game every day. The age of my parents should give you enough information to determine that I am in fact plenty old enough to have made a decision on religion a long time ago (for myself).
And unlike religions in general, I have no wish to force my views on anybody else, it was merely a suggestion.
This is what makes me laugh about the whole religion thing.
If God [or-substitute-deity-of-your-choice] really is an omnipotent being, how could he let this happen ? He must have known by giving us free will, we were going to use it ?
Even the earliest cavemen probably took apart animals and other cavemen to see how they worked. You'd think he might of had a bit of foresight and brought a rain of frogs or an earth shattering meteor down upon us before we got to the LHC elementary particle level of curiosity.
"I turn my back for one bloody minute, and those damn apes discover the raw particles that make up the universe".
Being omnipotent means you can see everything, even if your back is turned. No excuses, no cop-outs.
Perhaps it's time we drop the whole religion thing as completely unnecessary (apart from an excuse for old people to have a get-together and a game of bingo), and accept that science is all we need now.
If they receive just a few megabytes out of a one gig DVD rip, how is this any different from the fair use provisions that allow you to post a 10 second clip on YouTube ?
Surely, they'd have to receive the WHOLE thing from your IP to prove copyright infringement, anything less is simply a violation of fair use "percentages" and it's up to a court to decide what's fair and what isn't before determining copyright infringement.
Also, as DMCA is an American law, so why would an ISP in any other country be obliged to do anything ?
Notwithstanding the above, no matter how much they wish it so, they are NOT judge, jury and executioner. Even in civil trials, there is a due process, however long and tedious, in just about every civilised country.
They cannot short-circuit the legal processes upon which most countries were founded, just because they feel they are losing profits.
One the prime reasons that cyber bullying is of particular focus now is that you simply can't escape it
Why ? Is is SO difficult simply NOT to log onto Facebook ? Or remove "friends" who are posting shitty content about you ? Jesus, make a new account and only tell those who are your real friends. And heck, if *everyone* is making your life a misery, why the fuck would you want to be on a social network if you are a social outcast ? Just stay OFF the fucking internet and it ceases to be a problem.
If someone wrote some nasty graffiti about you on a real-life wall, would you keep going back to that wall every day to re-read it and become more depressed ? Or posted some bullshit story in a newspaper, would you get it framed and hang it in your bathroom to read every day ?
I'm still trying to work out how "statutory rape" can be included as cyber-bullying, unless she was gang-piled in SecondLife ?
But really, this has NOTHING to do with cyberspace, and everything to do with teachers and parents all trying to push the responsibility onto each other, and if that fails, there's always video nastys / video games / drugs / cyberspace to blame right ?
The police aren't allowed to do this, why are movie studios ?
Maybe the authors of torrent clients should implement an IP checklist, so that any known movie studio IPs that are found to be seeding get snapshotted and can be included in court submissions as illegal entrapment tactics.
Pumping tiny bubbles into the whole ocean ? Sure, let's turn the whole Pacific into a giant can of Pepsi ! I wonder how many Jigawatts we'll need for that plan ?
The way I see it, we have the following problems.
1. The ocean is (apparently) too warm. We need a way to cool it down.
2. We are told solar is not a good solution on land, because of the area required, and the fact that underneath the panels, it would be too bloody cold to be habitable.
Solution ?
Someone needs to do some serious research into wave generators that also have solar panel arrays mounted on top as a heatshield.
You get the energy from the waves, you also get energy from the solar, AND you cool down the underlying ocean at the same time.
Oceans are about 71% of the planet, isn't there some way this is feasible ? Or shall we just poo-poo any alternative energy source and wait for the coal and uranium to run out (around 200 years from now) ?
I'm pretty sure if you took a survey of colour-blind people, there are very few who would choose to remain colour-blind.
This isn't some aesthetic thing like having a nose job or botox injections for vanity / popularities sake. Neither is it a racial / cultural thing so that people can be "normalized" and assisted to escape from some perceived minority. It's about helping someone with an annoying affliction.
What's next ? Are we going to start questioning the morality of helping people with short-sightedness or hearing impediments, just in case it further marginalizes those tiny minority who choose NOT to have corrective lenses or a hearing aid ?
Fucking namby-pamby nonsense from do-gooders with too much time on their hands, if you ask me.
Like teaching young adults that pretty soon they'll be required to conform to a fixed working schedule, same as the rest of us ?
It's not about the actual timing, hell half the students will end up working graveyard shift in a call center or fast food restaurant anyway. It's about teaching some responsibility to the kids, rather than saying "hell, turn up when you like, it'll be cool".
There is an issue with Firefox, and most users probably don't know about it because they don't regularly read tech news sites
Most users probably don't want to believe it either, due to the ridiculous pro-FOSS fud that open source means zero bugs / vulnerabilities... "oh I couldn't possibly catch a virus from Firefox". If I remember wasn't that touted as one of the major advantages over IE ? That it was "safer" ?
Seems now, surprise surprise, that no software is safe once it leaves the lab / basement, and hackers get their grubby mits on it.
Just waiting for the iPod / iPad / iPhone to suffer a really nasty exploit, because those guys are the worst of the lot in blindly believing the preaching of the Jobs-God.
Why exactly would Microsoft give you support for a 3rd part application that has fucked up ?
You saw the word "defender", automatically assumed is was another MS problem, and couldn't wait to add your 2 cents. Don't worry, you're not the first person in this thread to have egg on their face, and you probably won't be the last.
Just because a corporate intranet is accessible via public IP, it's still sitting behind htaccess and/or other login protection. For all intents and purposes it is *still* an corporate intranet in form and function.
And if you can't login from home, then maybe you should do your work *at* work ?
But there's a fine line between "opinion" and insider trading. How do these tipsters form their opinions ? Usually by being friend of a friend of a friend of a big merchant, and hearing stuff on the grapevine (but don't tell anyone I told you so) etc.
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about:blank will crash on OSX ... your point was ?
You can't just go around breaking laws you don't like and pretending that everything is okay and you're in the right.
Tell that to Rosa Parks.
I hate speeding laws, but I don't complain about the horrible injustice of the system when I get a ticket.
Yet you'll still pay 200 dollars for a radar scanner so you can tear ass at 80 in a 50 zone, then slow down just before the camera zone to ease your social conscience.
Laws are created to define sensible / acceptable behaviour within society. They are NOT cast in stone for all eternity. If enough people feel a law is unjust, it will be changed eventually (as per my Rosa Parks comment above), but usually there is some form of social unrest or disturbance before the lawmakers get their heads out of their asses and realise anything is wrong.
I see this whole piracy thing simply as the cyberspace equivalent of civil disobedience against laws which were neither written by the people, or for the people, but exist only by virtue of large cash deposits into government coffers from large corporations.
Just to be pedantic right back at ya.
Omnipotence from the Latin "Omni Potens" (all powerful). That would kind of imply the power of omniscience also.
I mention old people not as foreign beings, but as the pair of 80 year old parents I have to drive to said church bingo game every day. The age of my parents should give you enough information to determine that I am in fact plenty old enough to have made a decision on religion a long time ago (for myself).
And unlike religions in general, I have no wish to force my views on anybody else, it was merely a suggestion.
But amazingly, it's only the copyright infringers who get 25 to life, and million dollar fines. Oh, and Bernie Madoff.
It seems the hardest and most time-consuming problem with Internet operating systems is figuring out how to work offline.
And the easiest solution, which seems to escape almost everybody, is "don't work online in the first place".
This is what makes me laugh about the whole religion thing.
If God [or-substitute-deity-of-your-choice] really is an omnipotent being, how could he let this happen ? He must have known by giving us free will, we were going to use it ?
Even the earliest cavemen probably took apart animals and other cavemen to see how they worked. You'd think he might of had a bit of foresight and brought a rain of frogs or an earth shattering meteor down upon us before we got to the LHC elementary particle level of curiosity.
"I turn my back for one bloody minute, and those damn apes discover the raw particles that make up the universe".
Being omnipotent means you can see everything, even if your back is turned. No excuses, no cop-outs.
Perhaps it's time we drop the whole religion thing as completely unnecessary (apart from an excuse for old people to have a get-together and a game of bingo), and accept that science is all we need now.
So does that mean we get to see kdawsons latest dupe before he even (re)writes it ?
Except for the fact we'd all be scrunched down to the size of a golf ball, nothing at all would be different.
Interesting point. Here's a counterexample.
If they receive just a few megabytes out of a one gig DVD rip, how is this any different from the fair use provisions that allow you to post a 10 second clip on YouTube ?
Surely, they'd have to receive the WHOLE thing from your IP to prove copyright infringement, anything less is simply a violation of fair use "percentages" and it's up to a court to decide what's fair and what isn't before determining copyright infringement.
Also, as DMCA is an American law, so why would an ISP in any other country be obliged to do anything ?
Notwithstanding the above, no matter how much they wish it so, they are NOT judge, jury and executioner. Even in civil trials, there is a due process, however long and tedious, in just about every civilised country.
They cannot short-circuit the legal processes upon which most countries were founded, just because they feel they are losing profits.
One the prime reasons that cyber bullying is of particular focus now is that you simply can't escape it
Why ? Is is SO difficult simply NOT to log onto Facebook ? Or remove "friends" who are posting shitty content about you ? Jesus, make a new account and only tell those who are your real friends. And heck, if *everyone* is making your life a misery, why the fuck would you want to be on a social network if you are a social outcast ? Just stay OFF the fucking internet and it ceases to be a problem.
If someone wrote some nasty graffiti about you on a real-life wall, would you keep going back to that wall every day to re-read it and become more depressed ? Or posted some bullshit story in a newspaper, would you get it framed and hang it in your bathroom to read every day ?
I'm still trying to work out how "statutory rape" can be included as cyber-bullying, unless she was gang-piled in SecondLife ?
But really, this has NOTHING to do with cyberspace, and everything to do with teachers and parents all trying to push the responsibility onto each other, and if that fails, there's always video nastys / video games / drugs / cyberspace to blame right ?
Entrapment.
ensnaring users in incriminating transactions
The police aren't allowed to do this, why are movie studios ?
Maybe the authors of torrent clients should implement an IP checklist, so that any known movie studio IPs that are found to be seeding get snapshotted and can be included in court submissions as illegal entrapment tactics.
Perhaps they have an Facebook application that teaches basic math ?
Since when was 99 cents "half" a dollar ?
Pumping tiny bubbles into the whole ocean ? Sure, let's turn the whole Pacific into a giant can of Pepsi ! I wonder how many Jigawatts we'll need for that plan ?
The way I see it, we have the following problems.
1. The ocean is (apparently) too warm. We need a way to cool it down.
2. We are told solar is not a good solution on land, because of the area required, and the fact that underneath the panels, it would be too bloody cold to be habitable.
Solution ?
Someone needs to do some serious research into wave generators that also have solar panel arrays mounted on top as a heatshield.
You get the energy from the waves, you also get energy from the solar, AND you cool down the underlying ocean at the same time.
Oceans are about 71% of the planet, isn't there some way this is feasible ? Or shall we just poo-poo any alternative energy source and wait for the coal and uranium to run out (around 200 years from now) ?
How can helping someone be "morally wrong" ?
I'm pretty sure if you took a survey of colour-blind people, there are very few who would choose to remain colour-blind.
This isn't some aesthetic thing like having a nose job or botox injections for vanity / popularities sake. Neither is it a racial / cultural thing so that people can be "normalized" and assisted to escape from some perceived minority. It's about helping someone with an annoying affliction.
What's next ? Are we going to start questioning the morality of helping people with short-sightedness or hearing impediments, just in case it further marginalizes those tiny minority who choose NOT to have corrective lenses or a hearing aid ?
Fucking namby-pamby nonsense from do-gooders with too much time on their hands, if you ask me.
The irony is, had I left off the last paragraph, I'd probably be at +5 Insightful ...
The iMods mighty hammer strikes again.
I think you'll find very few malware writers outsource to India. They prefer their malware to actually work !
in superficial ways for no real good reason.
Like teaching young adults that pretty soon they'll be required to conform to a fixed working schedule, same as the rest of us ?
It's not about the actual timing, hell half the students will end up working graveyard shift in a call center or fast food restaurant anyway. It's about teaching some responsibility to the kids, rather than saying "hell, turn up when you like, it'll be cool".
There is an issue with Firefox, and most users probably don't know about it because they don't regularly read tech news sites
Most users probably don't want to believe it either, due to the ridiculous pro-FOSS fud that open source means zero bugs / vulnerabilities ... "oh I couldn't possibly catch a virus from Firefox". If I remember wasn't that touted as one of the major advantages over IE ? That it was "safer" ?
Seems now, surprise surprise, that no software is safe once it leaves the lab / basement, and hackers get their grubby mits on it.
Just waiting for the iPod / iPad / iPhone to suffer a really nasty exploit, because those guys are the worst of the lot in blindly believing the preaching of the Jobs-God.
So not actually a flaw in the application at all, but a flaw in whoever makes decisions like these in terms of absolute quantities.
Some people have fallen thousands of feet after parachutes failed to open and survived with maybe a broken leg.
And some other people manage to drown in 3 inches of bathwater.
Should we really be applying math to these kinds of decisions, when common sense is really all we need ?
Ah yes, you want room 12A, Just along the corridor ...
Why exactly would Microsoft give you support for a 3rd part application that has fucked up ?
You saw the word "defender", automatically assumed is was another MS problem, and couldn't wait to add your 2 cents. Don't worry, you're not the first person in this thread to have egg on their face, and you probably won't be the last.
Welcome to the FOSS bug patching system
Just because a corporate intranet is accessible via public IP, it's still sitting behind htaccess and/or other login protection. For all intents and purposes it is *still* an corporate intranet in form and function.
And if you can't login from home, then maybe you should do your work *at* work ?
But there's a fine line between "opinion" and insider trading. How do these tipsters form their opinions ? Usually by being friend of a friend of a friend of a big merchant, and hearing stuff on the grapevine (but don't tell anyone I told you so) etc.