Actually, Singapore is now liberalizing their policies in their drive to increase their cultural capital, attract new talents, prevent brain drain, and generally pulling out all stops to stimulate their flagging economy in any way.
It's just copying his graffiti, for god's sake, he should be flattered. It's not like they fucking stopped his car, kicked him off from the passenger side and then drove off with it, mowing down a few grannies on the way.
1) Nobody much wants to use freenet: they prefer their own favorite P2P.
2) Granted that you can 'deny' what is 'kept' or 'uploaded' into your cache using freenet, but they can still get you the minute they can prove you tried to trawl for something on freenet (which is what people go on P2P for).
If we blame the 'virus' you can still use 1) and 2) you can trawl as much as you wish and still blame the 'virus'.
A few caveats though:
a) The virus must mimic a user's filesharing habits. Downloading/uploading random songs might not cut it - in reality mimicing it could be real hard. Even so, with a simplistic random behaviour, it will give the RIAA a massive headache if they also have to prove that it was the user and not the virus exhibiting that behaviour for each of the case.
b) The virus must be spread far and wide, preferably across multiple systems for the claim to be believable. Perhaps Kazaa or something can build in a Whoops! 'accidental flaw' to allow this to propagate within the P2P environment itself?;)
Here's an idea on how to possibly protect yourself from being found guilty of filesharing by the RIAA/MPAA (I've raised this before in a previous post didn't get much notice).
Recall that there was a successful defence where the user claims that he didn't mean to share the files or install an unlicensed program - it was done automatically either 'by default' or by another malicious program. I smell a loophole here.
What if someone writes a 'benign virus' that will generate behaviour such that will help us exploit this? The 'virus' will, in addition to spreading itself wide, randomly download files and share files such that it is indistinguishable from normal filesharing behaviour of real users. This way we can always blame the virus for our filesharing activity.
Even better, if you get sued by the RIAA/MPAA, retroactively 'activate' the virus (make it in such a way that it seems like it got in your computer b4 the filesharing activity is made public) to protect yourself and frustrate the RIAA/MPAA in court!
If some mobster broke into your house without your knowledge and permission, conducted a drug deal in your living room, and got busted, would you be charged for being an accessory to the crime?
Also to HanzoSan: most virus writers don't get caught (Nimda, CodeRed, Blaster orig.... ), not unless they are dumb enough to put their frigging web-address in their code and brag all over the chatgroups! However, if what you meant is from a moral viewpoint about spreading viruses (want to fight the war, but not like that) then ya I accept what you are saying... but then filesharing and copyright violation will also be deemed 'immoral' by some.
Hey, why don't someone set up a CD exchange facility? We can all swap CDs, and of course, relinquish all rights to what we had previous owned, and of course swear that we didn't make a copy of it first?;)
I recall reading somewhere that it is possible to get off the hook legally by claiming that you were not responsible for the music that is found shared or downloaded on your pc, if say, the folder was shared unbeknownst by the program or someone hacked into your pc or some excuse like that.
I propose *someone* write a 'virus' that will mimic the behaviour of a file-sharer by downloading and uploading songs in patterns indistinguishable from a normal user. Then propagate it so that lots of pc gets infected! If RIAA sues us, we can claim the virus did it... it can also be engineered in a way such that only upon getting sued, we retroactively apply the 'virus' and claim that it did it (tricks with timestamping and all)! This way, the RIAA will not successfully be able to sue you successfully... whatdayaall think?:)
Taking samples of 1 square inch and monitoring it for microbes and spores? What a lousy experiment.
What they should do is to hire 500 students to continually drop food and candy on the floor, pick it up again for consumption, and then monitor their well-being over the course of many weeks. Those wimps;)
Most of the spam I received seems to be the ones published at my company's website (e.g. jobs@yourcompany.com or support@thiscompany.com... it gets redirected to my mail account). Seems like his modus-operandi is to scour the web for addresses. I would suggest that everyone (who has not done so) to scan in a PNG of any email addresses they want to publish instead of keying it in HTML.
And yes, tricks like dontspam_at_mycompany_DOT_com doesn't work with the smarter spammers.
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What's wrong with splicing DNA code in from frogs?? It worked fine here!
And if the devil herself gives 10 billion to AIDS research does that makes her less of a devil?
Also, The money for AIDS research are Bill's bills, not convicted monopolist Microsoft. One of the mistakes frequently made here is to lump a complex human being and a soulless corporation together.
It was male-male sodomy (previously illegal in certain states) that was decriminalized, NOT homosexuality. The (previous) stand was that being homo is all gay and dandy, but doing that goatse.cx thing is a no-no:>
...as the.zip files are not evil per se - SoBig threat applies for those who execute the malicious files within the zips. All you need is to get a decent enough e-mail virus scanner that scans *inside* the zip files, and through multiple layers of zips if necessary, to weed out the malicious files.
Maybe it's pr0n magazines. You can read it in public, but you can't jack-off there could you? Cum to think of it, you probably wouldn't want to be caught in the cafe sipping coffee while previewing the latest school-girl uniform fashion! That would probably explain why they are so afraid of this new high resolution cameras - it'll be too cumbersome to string together pages of a book in phone-camera images, but pr0n will do fine for digital lifting!
Well, that's a bit too late, recent police and government crackdowns have more or less crippled these duplication rings. I know, I live in Malaysia where everyone is complaining about not being to buy VCDs or DVDs for less than USD2.00 anymore (at least not easily:) Yes, what you want are LEGAL duplications as opposed to the illegal pirated ones, but the point is that the cheap CD makers are the pirates and their machines have just been consfiscated, so tough.
Why don't the government subsidize Micron instead of slapping a big tariff on the chips? Won't dent their budget much (compared to the farmer's subsidy) and will not cause a rise in DRAM price.
Isn't it a *bit* of a coincidence that he cops out almost exactly 4 years to the day? Well, methinks that his contractual obligation to remain in Nullsoft after AOL's takeover has ended, and that he's Cashing Out Big Time.
Outside help of any kind is not permitted. This means: no assistance of any kind from any other person; also no books, calculators, computers, or tools other than items explicitly permitted. You are allowed to use writing implements, erasers, paper, and any items explicitly required to solve a specific problem. (All such items are listed on the Hints and Tips page.)
How is this enforceable if it's free-for-all over the web?
Also, from the sample questions from the Dutch version of it, many of the questions seems to yield to a brute-force computational approach.
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Actually, Singapore is now liberalizing their policies in their drive to increase their cultural capital, attract new talents, prevent brain drain, and generally pulling out all stops to stimulate their flagging economy in any way.
Things that have recently been either legalized or at least implicitly tolerated by the government includes chewing gum, bar-top dancing and homosexuality.
It's just copying his graffiti, for god's sake, he should be flattered. It's not like they fucking stopped his car, kicked him off from the passenger side and then drove off with it, mowing down a few grannies on the way.
But:
;)
1) Nobody much wants to use freenet: they prefer their own favorite P2P.
2) Granted that you can 'deny' what is 'kept' or 'uploaded' into your cache using freenet, but they can still get you the minute they can prove you tried to trawl for something on freenet (which is what people go on P2P for).
If we blame the 'virus' you can still use 1) and 2) you can trawl as much as you wish and still blame the 'virus'.
A few caveats though:
a) The virus must mimic a user's filesharing habits. Downloading/uploading random songs might not cut it - in reality mimicing it could be real hard. Even so, with a simplistic random behaviour, it will give the RIAA a massive headache if they also have to prove that it was the user and not the virus exhibiting that behaviour for each of the case.
b) The virus must be spread far and wide, preferably across multiple systems for the claim to be believable. Perhaps Kazaa or something can build in a Whoops! 'accidental flaw' to allow this to propagate within the P2P environment itself?
Here's an idea on how to possibly protect yourself from being found guilty of filesharing by the RIAA/MPAA (I've raised this before in a previous post didn't get much notice).
Recall that there was a successful defence where the user claims that he didn't mean to share the files or install an unlicensed program - it was done automatically either 'by default' or by another malicious program. I smell a loophole here.
What if someone writes a 'benign virus' that will generate behaviour such that will help us exploit this? The 'virus' will, in addition to spreading itself wide, randomly download files and share files such that it is indistinguishable from normal filesharing behaviour of real users. This way we can always blame the virus for our filesharing activity.
Even better, if you get sued by the RIAA/MPAA, retroactively 'activate' the virus (make it in such a way that it seems like it got in your computer b4 the filesharing activity is made public) to protect yourself and frustrate the RIAA/MPAA in court!
Do you think it will work?
If some mobster broke into your house without your knowledge and permission, conducted a drug deal in your living room, and got busted, would you be charged for being an accessory to the crime?
Also to HanzoSan: most virus writers don't get caught (Nimda, CodeRed, Blaster orig.... ), not unless they are dumb enough to put their frigging web-address in their code and brag all over the chatgroups! However, if what you meant is from a moral viewpoint about spreading viruses (want to fight the war, but not like that) then ya I accept what you are saying... but then filesharing and copyright violation will also be deemed 'immoral' by some.
Hey, why don't someone set up a CD exchange facility? We can all swap CDs, and of course, relinquish all rights to what we had previous owned, and of course swear that we didn't make a copy of it first? ;)
Well, time to fight back...
... it can also be engineered in a way such that only upon getting sued, we retroactively apply the 'virus' and claim that it did it (tricks with timestamping and all)! This way, the RIAA will not successfully be able to sue you successfully... whatdayaall think? :)
I recall reading somewhere that it is possible to get off the hook legally by claiming that you were not responsible for the music that is found shared or downloaded on your pc, if say, the folder was shared unbeknownst by the program or someone hacked into your pc or some excuse like that.
I propose *someone* write a 'virus' that will mimic the behaviour of a file-sharer by downloading and uploading songs in patterns indistinguishable from a normal user. Then propagate it so that lots of pc gets infected! If RIAA sues us, we can claim the virus did it
Taking samples of 1 square inch and monitoring it for microbes and spores? What a lousy experiment.
;)
What they should do is to hire 500 students to continually drop food and candy on the floor, pick it up again for consumption, and then monitor their well-being over the course of many weeks. Those wimps
Most of the spam I received seems to be the ones published at my company's website (e.g. jobs@yourcompany.com or support@thiscompany.com ... it gets redirected to my mail account). Seems like his modus-operandi is to scour the web for addresses. I would suggest that everyone (who has not done so) to scan in a PNG of any email addresses they want to publish instead of keying it in HTML.
And yes, tricks like dontspam_at_mycompany_DOT_com doesn't work with the smarter spammers.
What's wrong with splicing DNA code in from frogs?? It worked fine here!
And if the devil herself gives 10 billion to AIDS research does that makes her less of a devil?
Also, The money for AIDS research are Bill's bills, not convicted monopolist Microsoft. One of the mistakes frequently made here is to lump a complex human being and a soulless corporation together.
... you would expect from the designers of GTA! Where do you think they get their inspiration from? Way to go!
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It doesn't have to be short: as long as it is memorable and easy to spell.
PrincessSophia works fine for me, plus my girlfriend likes it...
It was male-male sodomy (previously illegal in certain states) that was decriminalized, NOT homosexuality. The (previous) stand was that being homo is all gay and dandy, but doing that goatse.cx thing is a no-no :>
Maybe it's pr0n magazines. You can read it in public, but you can't jack-off there could you? Cum to think of it, you probably wouldn't want to be caught in the cafe sipping coffee while previewing the latest school-girl uniform fashion! That would probably explain why they are so afraid of this new high resolution cameras - it'll be too cumbersome to string together pages of a book in phone-camera images, but pr0n will do fine for digital lifting!
Well, that's a bit too late, recent police and government crackdowns have more or less crippled these duplication rings. I know, I live in Malaysia where everyone is complaining about not being to buy VCDs or DVDs for less than USD2.00 anymore (at least not easily :) Yes, what you want are LEGAL duplications as opposed to the illegal pirated ones, but the point is that the cheap CD makers are the pirates and their machines have just been consfiscated, so tough.
Those who wish to find out more about self-proctology are advised to check the linked book. Lots of helpful diagrams too.
It would be made available as a Gemstar e-book, of course!
Why don't the government subsidize Micron instead of slapping a big tariff on the chips? Won't dent their budget much (compared to the farmer's subsidy) and will not cause a rise in DRAM price.
Then I took the blue pill and it all went away! It's amazing, I tell you... you must try it! Now if you must excuse me, I got a steak to finish...
Poor chicken.
For its suffering, it hope it will be cannonized....
(ducks to avoid flying chicken)
Isn't it a *bit* of a coincidence that he cops out almost exactly 4 years to the day? Well, methinks that his contractual obligation to remain in Nullsoft after AOL's takeover has ended, and that he's Cashing Out Big Time.
"Cool! It even has a blue LED backlighting!"
"That's NOT blue LED backlighting, you dolt..."
How is this enforceable if it's free-for-all over the web?
Also, from the sample questions from the Dutch version of it, many of the questions seems to yield to a brute-force computational approach.