First your national debts will sink and then soon after the airship will be shot down from the sky over Afghanistan...
Seriously, how do they expect this huge but slow flying airship to stay in the air for up to 3 weeks without getting shot down? Even if it is 6km above the ground there should be some way of getting it down with the right weapons.
"There is no scientific proof" (at the current time) is proofable. Just go through the (finite!) list of all scientific results published. If there is no publication proofing the claim in question then (at the current time) there exists no scientific proof.
Literacy revolution?! When ever I read the weekly course work of my students I am surprised how low their English lanuage knowledge is. Despite me being a foreigner and them being mainly English native speakers... So much about a literacy revolution!
Does Safari need a 17+ age limit to be used? Will it be removed from the iPhone and iPod Touch? From Mac OS X? It can access even darker places outside there in the virtual world! Oh my godness!:-O
As far as I have heard Nokia and Siemens did just sell the same technology they are forced by the "good countries" to implement already for years. So what is the problem?!
Place your battery charger at a convenient place and when ever you get home plug the phone into the charger and do NOT unplug it untill you leave the house. Then you have the same functionality as you had with a fixed line phone with a cord. You cannot misplace your phone anymore.
True, but just wondering, who placed the child pornography on the computer? The owner of the computer or the technician who claimed that he found it? And how would you prove the difference between the two cases?
Actually I have a encrypted hard drive at home which I didn't use for ages. And honestly have forgotten the encryption key to it. How should they prove that I do not not know the key (double negation intended)?
Oh yeah! A tiny script which decrypts a zip file (with some random porn, terrorist and viral material) onto the USB stick of the officer (and afterwards deletes securely the same material on your computer including the script)... and then file a complaint about the officer having such material on his USB stick;-)
The device is a black box. How will you be able to check if the particular device the police officer plugged in does indeed contain the software he claims to be on? Couldn't the device have some software on it which alters the system and places wrong evidence on the machine? And even if you want to check the device of the police officer later, how can you be sure it is the same device as he plugged in? Such a silly idea!
My Linux laptop runs under full disc encryption (except the/boot partition). And under Mac OS X I use a file vault. External drives and USB sticks are encrypted using Truecrypt. So, yes, also here a big "O RLY?";-)
"...allowing untrained cops to detect anything from correspondence on stolen goods to child pornography. Police in the UK are desperate for a way of slashing the backlog of machines seized by the police in raids..."
How about investing more into proper trained cops? How about better education? That might help a bit... together with "Maybe they shouldn't seize so many computers".
Maybe M$ realized that the three program count would be reached to easily without (!) the user intervention: "Sorry, three viruses are already running, application limit reached. We are sorry for the inconvenience this cased.";-)
Haha! Isn't UK known for notoriously making backups of their data in the cloud by leaving secret data lying around on trains, loosing unencrypted CDs in transit and alike? I can't wait until the first scandal arises about this database!
I disagree. I don't see why writing books should not be paid for. It is not an outdated business model. There are many books which would not have been written if the author would not have been paid.
The only thing is that one cannot prevent people from making books available unathorized on the internet. It is just impossible (see the epic fail of the content mafiaa).
There are good works written by people in there spare time but those people finance their lifes in different ways. But where would the writers be which commit their entire time to writing books if they would not get properly paid? It would be very sad if the business model for printed works would fail (and I am convinced it will not).
Still, a paypal account for voluntary payments/donations for unauthorized copies sounds like an idea. For good work I like to give a revard (I've done this for some open source projects when I felt like I have a dime to spare and I liked to supprot a good project). This idea might raise a few more bucks and also give the people who optained a unauthorized copy a better selfconscious.
But after all you cannot do much else against unauthorized distribution (except when they are done for financial profit of other people which I do not support in any way).
From my own experience, printed books have an additional value that electronic copies never can provide. People who obtain illegal copies would probably never buy the original anyways. Or if they like the book much they still might get the wish to buy it to get the additional value a electronic copy cannot provide in any way.
Same here with me. I have for some time when I had not much money at my hand downloaded quite some DVDs or copied them from movie rentals. Nowadays I started to rebuy the good movies... despite I have the "illegal" copies at home. But I want to have the additional value of the original cases.
Only with some of the DVDs I bough I am not quite content... because the first thing they tell you is are lies about copyright infringment is theft (wich factual is a lie!). And I just bought them with my money!!
You cannot stop unauthorized copies of your work to appear on the internet. So don't even bother to sue people for this (the content mafiaa tried to do this and is failing to do so) as long as they do not provide your work for money (I have no respect for this kind of copyright infringment; nobody should make money with unauthorized copies of your work). If your work is good then you will find enough people who see the additional value printed books have in addition to some electronic copies. Don't worry, see the number of unauthorized copies as an indication on how good your work is and free adverticement! If noone would bother to share it on the internet even less would bother to buy it.
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First your national debts will sink and then soon after the airship will be shot down from the sky over Afghanistan...
Seriously, how do they expect this huge but slow flying airship to stay in the air for up to 3 weeks without getting shot down? Even if it is 6km above the ground there should be some way of getting it down with the right weapons.
"There is no scientific proof" (at the current time) is proofable. Just go through the (finite!) list of all scientific results published. If there is no publication proofing the claim in question then (at the current time) there exists no scientific proof.
Literacy revolution?! When ever I read the weekly course work of my students I am surprised how low their English lanuage knowledge is. Despite me being a foreigner and them being mainly English native speakers... So much about a literacy revolution!
...they can't do stupid shit like assume they are loaded in the memory space between 3GB->4GB, I'd imagine.
You must be new here...
Insightful? Who moded the above "insightful"?! It should be moded "redundant"!
Does Safari need a 17+ age limit to be used? Will it be removed from the iPhone and iPod Touch? From Mac OS X? It can access even darker places outside there in the virtual world! Oh my godness! :-O
Definitely not. Sorry.
- Martin
One more reason not to jump onto the e-book hype! ;-) (Not that I hadn't had enough reasons already.)
As far as I have heard Nokia and Siemens did just sell the same technology they are forced by the "good countries" to implement already for years. So what is the problem?!
Place your battery charger at a convenient place and when ever you get home plug the phone into the charger and do NOT unplug it untill you leave the house. Then you have the same functionality as you had with a fixed line phone with a cord. You cannot misplace your phone anymore.
True, but just wondering, who placed the child pornography on the computer? The owner of the computer or the technician who claimed that he found it? And how would you prove the difference between the two cases?
Actually I have a encrypted hard drive at home which I didn't use for ages. And honestly have forgotten the encryption key to it. How should they prove that I do not not know the key (double negation intended)?
Oh yeah! A tiny script which decrypts a zip file (with some random porn, terrorist and viral material) onto the USB stick of the officer (and afterwards deletes securely the same material on your computer including the script) ... and then file a complaint about the officer having such material on his USB stick ;-)
The device is a black box. How will you be able to check if the particular device the police officer plugged in does indeed contain the software he claims to be on? Couldn't the device have some software on it which alters the system and places wrong evidence on the machine? And even if you want to check the device of the police officer later, how can you be sure it is the same device as he plugged in? Such a silly idea!
Even under danger of being redundant:
My Linux laptop runs under full disc encryption (except the /boot partition). And under Mac OS X I use a file vault. External drives and USB sticks are encrypted using Truecrypt. So, yes, also here a big "O RLY?" ;-)
"...allowing untrained cops to detect anything from correspondence on stolen goods to child pornography. Police in the UK are desperate for a way of slashing the backlog of machines seized by the police in raids..."
How about investing more into proper trained cops? How about better education? That might help a bit... together with "Maybe they shouldn't seize so many computers".
Maybe M$ realized that the three program count would be reached to easily without (!) the user intervention: "Sorry, three viruses are already running, application limit reached. We are sorry for the inconvenience this cased." ;-)
Also you seem to be new to the UK... ;-)
You must be new to the UK...
Haha! Isn't UK known for notoriously making backups of their data in the cloud by leaving secret data lying around on trains, loosing unencrypted CDs in transit and alike? I can't wait until the first scandal arises about this database!
The author states that the free copies are not helping with his sales, so how would him being the source of those free copies change that?
There is just nothing you can do about this except to relax. The epic fail of the content mafiaa is the best proof for this.
I disagree. I don't see why writing books should not be paid for. It is not an outdated business model. There are many books which would not have been written if the author would not have been paid.
The only thing is that one cannot prevent people from making books available unathorized on the internet. It is just impossible (see the epic fail of the content mafiaa).
There are good works written by people in there spare time but those people finance their lifes in different ways. But where would the writers be which commit their entire time to writing books if they would not get properly paid? It would be very sad if the business model for printed works would fail (and I am convinced it will not).
Still, a paypal account for voluntary payments/donations for unauthorized copies sounds like an idea. For good work I like to give a revard (I've done this for some open source projects when I felt like I have a dime to spare and I liked to supprot a good project). This idea might raise a few more bucks and also give the people who optained a unauthorized copy a better selfconscious.
But after all you cannot do much else against unauthorized distribution (except when they are done for financial profit of other people which I do not support in any way).
From my own experience, printed books have an additional value that electronic copies never can provide. People who obtain illegal copies would probably never buy the original anyways. Or if they like the book much they still might get the wish to buy it to get the additional value a electronic copy cannot provide in any way.
Same here with me. I have for some time when I had not much money at my hand downloaded quite some DVDs or copied them from movie rentals. Nowadays I started to rebuy the good movies ... despite I have the "illegal" copies at home. But I want to have the additional value of the original cases.
Only with some of the DVDs I bough I am not quite content ... because the first thing they tell you is are lies about copyright infringment is theft (wich factual is a lie!). And I just bought them with my money!!
You cannot stop unauthorized copies of your work to appear on the internet. So don't even bother to sue people for this (the content mafiaa tried to do this and is failing to do so) as long as they do not provide your work for money (I have no respect for this kind of copyright infringment; nobody should make money with unauthorized copies of your work). If your work is good then you will find enough people who see the additional value printed books have in addition to some electronic copies. Don't worry, see the number of unauthorized copies as an indication on how good your work is and free adverticement! If noone would bother to share it on the internet even less would bother to buy it.
All the best,
- Martin
And somewhere an eager lawyer reads your comment and thinks: "Hmmm....!"
So which of you guys has just registered as "Lone Wolf" before I could do so?!