Just because they won't let you see it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. For example, when they pass along mail to the DEA, who then lies to courts about where they got it.
I wonder how many North Koreans could even afford such a device.
According to TFA, it cost $200, two months' wages. Of course, that was at the hotel gift shop, and it's entirely possible that NK hotels are as good at gouging customers as hotels in other places, and that it might have been quite a bit cheaper from some other store.
Yes, you may be right - but exacly for that reason ("There are tons of words derived from Greek") maybe it would be better if the English language was i little more carefull with the meanings (many Greek words are used as synthetics in many English words, many times with very different meaning that leads English speakink people -and Greeks!- to confusion).
"English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nichol Under those conditions, it would be unwise to expect too much precision as words move into English. Not to speak of the fact that over time, some English words change meanings. And the young whippersnappers think everything that happened before they were born is "ancient".
Besides, the original article was written by Germans.
To all our soldiers who fought and suffered in that war a few more sunken U-Boats would feel better yet. Wretched wars that did nothing but evil should never have existed.
When was the last time you searched for something and found it using a commercial search engine? I've never, ever found anything on search engines. I have my bookmark library (entirely non-cloud) and ask HUMAN BEINGS for recommendations when I need a new kind of software. Then I might use the search engine to find their site the first time, but that's hardly blindly searching for stuff. I always just find 100% spam, irrelevant crap and generally low-grade junk when I search for *anything*. The entire concept of searching for things in general (not counting service-specific engines) is foreign to me. It just doesn't work in my world. I don't understand what people search for that they get proper results. Or maybe they just have extremely low demands.
Maybe I just have extremely low demands. But when I want to know what a particular error message means, or if some unknown program that seems to be running is malware, or if the latest "OMG This Unlikely Thing Happened" post is true, or how to knock the password off of a protected pdf file, or how to spell "indefatigable", or where the hell "Bozy's Bar" (where the meetup is) is, or where I can get a cheap replacement bumper for my car, I use a commercial search engine. Maybe your problem is searching for "anything", I find it works much better if you have a particular subject in mind.
It would be pretty easy to create PowerPoint with the requisite markings, logos, etc, on it and then peddle it to various newspapers.
That is true. I think you've got to use how the government is reacting as an indicator. If this was just some loon who'd made up a few bogus powerpoint slides, would Joe Biden be calling Ecuador to suggest that they shouldn't let him in? I guess maybe if it was a major disinformation campaign on the part of the government, but it's hard to think of why they'd do that. And now they've got the EU pissed off, too.
And sometimes, like when you ask if they "collect any information on millions of Americans," they just lie.
Oh, that's so harsh. It's just that you need to get them to precisely define the words "collect", "any", "information", "millions", and "Americans". I'm sure that if you did, you'd reach a point where you thought "oh, 'no' doesn't mean what I thought it meant". (The words "on" and "of" are probably safe, though you never know). It's like how the word "sex" can mean different things depending on who's talking.
"Who gives a rip about little Johnny's 5th grade book report". No company, not even Google themself, is going to dig through Johnny's school papers and test reports, because privacy violations would be financially devastating, as would the legal ramifications if it were found out
Who, exactly, would prosecute them if it is found that they have looked at the school papers of some kid in another country? Or made use of them in any way they wished? Hell, the TOS probably let them do that no matter where the kid is.
Not to speak of which, the secret police have a very long view. No, they're unlikely to be interested in a 12-year-old, but maybe they're interested in the kids parents or relatives. Anything in there that might be useful for blackmail? To target someone for kidnapping? And down the road, if that 12-year-old becomes the country's leader, you don't think that it would be valuable for the secret police to have all his school work since he was a child? I'd think that would be very useful, especially if that country has something the US wants, or perhaps is not on good terms with the US (either now, or 30 years from now).
Without knowing the writer's location, how can they state for sure that the data is stored off-shore, and if the writer was in the US, wouldn't having it off shore be better?
The reasonable explanation is that the writer is not in the US. And we have made it clear that such people have no rights in the eyes of the US.
For a US citizen, having it offshore might be better. There's a lot of potential failure points, either way.
Don't bother. The leftists here have their talking points. Pointing out that the Democrat party was the party that founded the KKK, created the Jim Crow laws, created gun control specifically to keep blacks from arming and protecting themselves, founded Planned Parenthood as a way to euthanize the black population and had a grand wizard of the KKK in the Senate up to just a few years ago.
Where in the world did you get the idea that the Democratic Party (note spelling) was "leftist"? Only by comparison to the Republican Party, which has become extreme right. The Democrats are as a group moderately rightwing, and just as big on kissing the butts of their corporate masters as the Republicans.
Maybe the same place that tells credulous souls like you that they founded Planned Parenthood? The roots of Planned Parenthood are with a birth control clinic founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916. Now, it's true that these days some wingnut Republicans still believe that birth control should be banned and hate the idea of educating people about sex. But back then, a lot of Democrats did, too. At least the Democrats have moved on, a little.
Call us back when the US has any political party more successful than the Greens or the Socialist Workers that the rest of the world would recognize as "left". Otherwise you're just parroting the words of Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers.
When your neighbors know all about you and their attitudes enforce your behavior, that doesn't just mean it's hard to get away with robbing someone's house. It also means it's hard to be gay, or atheist, or a geek, or a woman who doesn't think that preparing nutritious meals is her job. or anything else nonconformist.
Yeah, there was some of that too. But I remember a school janitor who was a Communist who'd get onto call-in radio shows (this in the early '60s), and (at least in my parents' circles) that got reactions of "oh, that's just so-and-so, he's ok outside of that".
I dunno. In some ways people then (or maybe it's rural people, of which I was then but no longer am) were less accepting of differences, but more willing to make exceptions. Nowadays, in the city, I just don't associate with the evildoers.
I have lived in the USA and I have lived in the UK and food poisoning is not a problem in any of the countries... And I am pretty sure the reason the few people who get food poisoning get it is not that their pepper or salad wasn't radiated. After you have radiated foodstuff it has to be hermetically sealed for it to have any effect. The main reason people get food poisoning is that they eat already cooked food that has not been cooled and refrigerated fast enough.
I'm not sure "food poisoning" is the best term, there are lots of ways food can make you sick, and sometimes it's not obvious that it was related to food. The way you describe is often what happens in food service (that, and poor sanitation). But there are lots of ways people get food poisoning. Sometimes it's because they (or their utensils or counter) touch raw chicken and spread bacteria to other foods (US poultry processing facilities are cesspools). Sometimes it's because the melons or lettuce or other food that doesn't get cooked comes from a farm where there is fecal contamination. With many foods (meat, prepared salad, etc.) food from many different sources is mixed together, so if a single one of those sources is contaminated, you've now widely spread the contamination. It can be because the plant's cooling tower has bacteria growing in the water. It can be in spices imported from who knows where (though irradiation is in fact used with a lot of spices).
And it can be very difficult to even figure out you've got a problem. One person here gets sick, another a few states over. Some get sick enough to seek medical help (or die), some just get a stomachache or diarrhea and shrug it off. Often the only way to know it's a widespread problem is by DNA fingerprinting the samples and comparing them. (Remarkably enough, states that do this DNA fingerprinting see a lot more food-borne disease than states that don't. Because the latter states don't know it's happening.) But that costs money, and can really only be done by the government (because there's no profit in it). And agribusiness doesn't want to tag foods with lot numbers that can be traced back to the original source, both because it costs money, and because if you start doing that, it's easier to find out that you've got a problem. And the USDA is in the business of promoting agriculture, so they're more of an industry mouthpiece than an independent government agency.
It's too late to stop this or even do anything about it. The only actions that can be taken would be to physically destroy the facilities that handle this data gathering and store the harvest.
No dude. We just spent copious amounts of cash on building a world wide data backup facility. I want access to my files. Free and unlimited cloud backups courtesy of the US government. Now that's a government worth paying for..
And... you think THEY don't know who "Rachael from Card Services" really is? Render HER, for a change.
Call your Congressperson and demand that he do something... No wait, not the telephone; that's bugged. Send him an emai... dammit!. OK, send him a letter. They still (we think) won't open that without a warrant.
Yeah, but the Congressman is afraid to open the letter. Could be anthrax, or ricin, dontchaknow.
Best to collar him at a fundraiser. He'll have time for you if you're writing a check. Of course, the NSA will find out about the check, but not until later.
Or perhaps it could be that people don't want to hit a cop now that they know that there is video proof. In some jurisdictions, assaults on police officer charges go nowhere in court (but are supposed to come with real jail time).
The world is a very big place, but I suspect there are very few jurisdictions in North America where "assault on police officer" charges don't go anywhere. It's a standard add-on charge the cops use if they get physical. And when it comes down to your word against the cop's, the cop's version is going to win, whether the cop made it up or not.
But I do predict that there will be many mysterious camera failures. The fact that they happen just before the cop beats the crap out of somebody will be entirely coincidental.
And there are specialized boards that still have ISA slots for specialized gear.
Without digging deeply at all, I found this: http://www.adek.com/ATX-motherboards.html. One of them has six serial ports, one ISA slot, a smattering of PCI and PCI Express, DDR3 RAM, and a socket 1155.
No doubt. And they've got a few with more than one ISA slot (I had 2 full-length ISA cards to insert). The software ran under MS-DOS, and the computer would never be used for anything other than the dedicated purpose, so PCI, DDR3, etc. was totally irrelevant.
So... we're going to take a random motherboard and find out how compatible it is with software provided by the manufacturer of those ISA boards in 1985? Does the software make use of direct access to the hardware of the computer that the vendor originally provided? Can it handle anything other than Hercules graphics? Who knows, the vendor wouldn't (or couldn't) tell me. No thank you.
The client wanted me to provide a new replacement computer. I declined, and fixed the old one. There's no way in hell that I want to provide something that might be considered a piece of medical equipment. I don't have a clue what the formal requirements for that are (beyond common sense), and don't have insurance that would cover my ass for that. Aside from not knowing if it would even work.
No, but there are specialized boards that still have ISA slots. Sometimes it's considerably cheaper to replace the computer and keep the board, rather than vice versa. A new board will probably require new software, perhaps only available from a single vendor, and it may require retraining doctors, I mean users, who hate change. And, to be honest, if the old system did what they wanted, there's no reason to inflict something different upon them.
Please, by all means, describe to me again how the cesspool of law today is really just a beautiful, misunderstood, and under-appreciated hot mess by us mere layman, because I sure as hell don't see it when I shell out hundreds of dollars every month for the fucking "luxury" of carrying insurance everywhere I turn, all thanks to litigation. Car, boat, home, renters, life, health, dental, vision, pet, flood, the list is almost endless.
No problem. Keep enough cash on hand to cover the damages caused by any car or boat accident, rebuild your home, enrich your beneficiaries if you die (I recommend saying "screw 'em, I don't think it's a good idea to be worth more dead than alive"), pay cash for all your health, dental, and vision needs, pay for your pets (what, is there some moron who actually buys pet insurance?), cover your own (and your bank's, if you don't own your house outright) losses in the event of a flood, etc. Me, I don't have enough money to provide that kind of reserves, but maybe you do.
There's lots of things one can lay at the feet of lawyers, but almost none of these qualifies.
And don't go confusing Left-wingers with people who have a fucking clue.
I didn't mention left-wingers. But now that you bring it up, I would have said that most left-wingers would at least "have a fucking clue" that Hillary Clinton didn't work for the government any more, that John Kerry was Secretary of State now They might say "there isn't any difference, he's just the same", but that's not the same as not knowing.
But ok, you're just some random nonpolitical idiot who doesn't have a clue.
This is a Florian Mueller article. It has no merit, no validity, and should be taken with the same grain of salt you'd take one of those folks who said the world would end in 12-12-2012.
Yeah, that was my initial response, "isn't "patent expert Florian Mueller" an oxymoron? IIRC that's the guy who claimed the GPL was a "source of infection", and Oracle was going to clean Google's clock. Over at groklaw that name tends to be associated with phrases such as "self-described patent expert" and "on Microsoft's payroll". He was also on Oracle's payroll.
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I've yet to see the NSA leak mail.
Just because they won't let you see it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. For example, when they pass along mail to the DEA, who then lies to courts about where they got it.
...has got some massive balls to show up at a black hat hacking conference.
If he shows up for DEFCON, maybe I'll agree with you.
I wonder how many North Koreans could even afford such a device.
According to TFA, it cost $200, two months' wages. Of course, that was at the hotel gift shop, and it's entirely possible that NK hotels are as good at gouging customers as hotels in other places, and that it might have been quite a bit cheaper from some other store.
Yes, you may be right - but exacly for that reason ("There are tons of words derived from Greek") maybe it would be better if the English language was i little more carefull with the meanings (many Greek words are used as synthetics in many English words, many times with very different meaning that leads English speakink people -and Greeks!- to confusion).
"English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nichol
Under those conditions, it would be unwise to expect too much precision as words move into English. Not to speak of the fact that over time, some English words change meanings. And the young whippersnappers think everything that happened before they were born is "ancient".
Besides, the original article was written by Germans.
To all our soldiers who fought and suffered in that war a few more sunken U-Boats would feel better yet. Wretched wars that did nothing but evil should never have existed.
For certain values of "our".
Most wars do nothing but evil.
When was the last time you searched for something and found it using a commercial search engine? I've never, ever found anything on search engines. I have my bookmark library (entirely non-cloud) and ask HUMAN BEINGS for recommendations when I need a new kind of software. Then I might use the search engine to find their site the first time, but that's hardly blindly searching for stuff. I always just find 100% spam, irrelevant crap and generally low-grade junk when I search for *anything*. The entire concept of searching for things in general (not counting service-specific engines) is foreign to me. It just doesn't work in my world. I don't understand what people search for that they get proper results. Or maybe they just have extremely low demands.
Maybe I just have extremely low demands. But when I want to know what a particular error message means, or if some unknown program that seems to be running is malware, or if the latest "OMG This Unlikely Thing Happened" post is true, or how to knock the password off of a protected pdf file, or how to spell "indefatigable", or where the hell "Bozy's Bar" (where the meetup is) is, or where I can get a cheap replacement bumper for my car, I use a commercial search engine. Maybe your problem is searching for "anything", I find it works much better if you have a particular subject in mind.
It would be pretty easy to create PowerPoint with the requisite markings, logos, etc, on it and then peddle it to various newspapers.
That is true. I think you've got to use how the government is reacting as an indicator. If this was just some loon who'd made up a few bogus powerpoint slides, would Joe Biden be calling Ecuador to suggest that they shouldn't let him in? I guess maybe if it was a major disinformation campaign on the part of the government, but it's hard to think of why they'd do that. And now they've got the EU pissed off, too.
And sometimes, like when you ask if they "collect any information on millions of Americans," they just lie.
Oh, that's so harsh. It's just that you need to get them to precisely define the words "collect", "any", "information", "millions", and "Americans". I'm sure that if you did, you'd reach a point where you thought "oh, 'no' doesn't mean what I thought it meant". (The words "on" and "of" are probably safe, though you never know). It's like how the word "sex" can mean different things depending on who's talking.
"Who gives a rip about little Johnny's 5th grade book report".
No company, not even Google themself, is going to dig through Johnny's school papers and test reports, because privacy violations would be financially devastating, as would the legal ramifications if it were found out
Who, exactly, would prosecute them if it is found that they have looked at the school papers of some kid in another country? Or made use of them in any way they wished? Hell, the TOS probably let them do that no matter where the kid is.
Not to speak of which, the secret police have a very long view. No, they're unlikely to be interested in a 12-year-old, but maybe they're interested in the kids parents or relatives. Anything in there that might be useful for blackmail? To target someone for kidnapping? And down the road, if that 12-year-old becomes the country's leader, you don't think that it would be valuable for the secret police to have all his school work since he was a child? I'd think that would be very useful, especially if that country has something the US wants, or perhaps is not on good terms with the US (either now, or 30 years from now).
Without knowing the writer's location, how can they state for sure that the data is stored off-shore, and if the writer was in the US, wouldn't having it off shore be better?
The reasonable explanation is that the writer is not in the US. And we have made it clear that such people have no rights in the eyes of the US.
For a US citizen, having it offshore might be better. There's a lot of potential failure points, either way.
Don't bother. The leftists here have their talking points. Pointing out that the Democrat party was the party that founded the KKK, created the Jim Crow laws, created gun control specifically to keep blacks from arming and protecting themselves, founded Planned Parenthood as a way to euthanize the black population and had a grand wizard of the KKK in the Senate up to just a few years ago.
Where in the world did you get the idea that the Democratic Party (note spelling) was "leftist"? Only by comparison to the Republican Party, which has become extreme right. The Democrats are as a group moderately rightwing, and just as big on kissing the butts of their corporate masters as the Republicans.
Maybe the same place that tells credulous souls like you that they founded Planned Parenthood? The roots of Planned Parenthood are with a birth control clinic founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916. Now, it's true that these days some wingnut Republicans still believe that birth control should be banned and hate the idea of educating people about sex. But back then, a lot of Democrats did, too. At least the Democrats have moved on, a little.
Call us back when the US has any political party more successful than the Greens or the Socialist Workers that the rest of the world would recognize as "left". Otherwise you're just parroting the words of Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers.
Except that Chrome phones home the first time you start it up to check for upgrades.
If you don't trust Chrome, use one of the other Chromium derivatives. Comodo Dragon, maybe (that one claims to be hardened against privacy leaks).
Agree with parent: this is just silly, unless what is being sent is an image of the text. Not ASCII or any other binary encoding.
Maybe useful if you're sending your sekrit plans by fax, postcard, or carrier pigeon. Or, would have been useful until NSA had a copy of the font.
Oh well, back to the drawing board.
When your neighbors know all about you and their attitudes enforce your behavior, that doesn't just mean it's hard to get away with robbing someone's house. It also means it's hard to be gay, or atheist, or a geek, or a woman who doesn't think that preparing nutritious meals is her job. or anything else nonconformist.
Yeah, there was some of that too. But I remember a school janitor who was a Communist who'd get onto call-in radio shows (this in the early '60s), and (at least in my parents' circles) that got reactions of "oh, that's just so-and-so, he's ok outside of that".
I dunno. In some ways people then (or maybe it's rural people, of which I was then but no longer am) were less accepting of differences, but more willing to make exceptions. Nowadays, in the city, I just don't associate with the evildoers.
I have lived in the USA and I have lived in the UK and food poisoning is not a problem in any of the countries... And I am pretty sure the reason the few people who get food poisoning get it is not that their pepper or salad wasn't radiated. After you have radiated foodstuff it has to be hermetically sealed for it to have any effect. The main reason people get food poisoning is that they eat already cooked food that has not been cooled and refrigerated fast enough.
I'm not sure "food poisoning" is the best term, there are lots of ways food can make you sick, and sometimes it's not obvious that it was related to food. The way you describe is often what happens in food service (that, and poor sanitation). But there are lots of ways people get food poisoning. Sometimes it's because they (or their utensils or counter) touch raw chicken and spread bacteria to other foods (US poultry processing facilities are cesspools). Sometimes it's because the melons or lettuce or other food that doesn't get cooked comes from a farm where there is fecal contamination. With many foods (meat, prepared salad, etc.) food from many different sources is mixed together, so if a single one of those sources is contaminated, you've now widely spread the contamination. It can be because the plant's cooling tower has bacteria growing in the water. It can be in spices imported from who knows where (though irradiation is in fact used with a lot of spices).
And it can be very difficult to even figure out you've got a problem. One person here gets sick, another a few states over. Some get sick enough to seek medical help (or die), some just get a stomachache or diarrhea and shrug it off. Often the only way to know it's a widespread problem is by DNA fingerprinting the samples and comparing them. (Remarkably enough, states that do this DNA fingerprinting see a lot more food-borne disease than states that don't. Because the latter states don't know it's happening.) But that costs money, and can really only be done by the government (because there's no profit in it). And agribusiness doesn't want to tag foods with lot numbers that can be traced back to the original source, both because it costs money, and because if you start doing that, it's easier to find out that you've got a problem. And the USDA is in the business of promoting agriculture, so they're more of an industry mouthpiece than an independent government agency.
It's too late to stop this or even do anything about it. The only actions that can be taken would be to physically destroy the facilities that handle this data gathering and store the harvest.
No dude. We just spent copious amounts of cash on building a world wide data backup facility. I want access to my files. Free and unlimited cloud backups courtesy of the US government. Now that's a government worth paying for. .
And... you think THEY don't know who "Rachael from Card Services" really is? Render HER, for a change.
Call your Congressperson and demand that he do something... No wait, not the telephone; that's bugged. Send him an emai... dammit!. OK, send him a letter. They still (we think) won't open that without a warrant.
Yeah, but the Congressman is afraid to open the letter. Could be anthrax, or ricin, dontchaknow.
Best to collar him at a fundraiser. He'll have time for you if you're writing a check. Of course, the NSA will find out about the check, but not until later.
If the prosecutor didn't believe the story, then why offer a plea at all? The right thing to do is to drop the charges completely.
Why would you think that "right" has anything to do with it?
Or perhaps it could be that people don't want to hit a cop now that they know that there is video proof. In some jurisdictions, assaults on police officer charges go nowhere in court (but are supposed to come with real jail time).
The world is a very big place, but I suspect there are very few jurisdictions in North America where "assault on police officer" charges don't go anywhere. It's a standard add-on charge the cops use if they get physical. And when it comes down to your word against the cop's, the cop's version is going to win, whether the cop made it up or not.
But I do predict that there will be many mysterious camera failures. The fact that they happen just before the cop beats the crap out of somebody will be entirely coincidental.
And there are specialized boards that still have ISA slots for specialized gear.
Without digging deeply at all, I found this: http://www.adek.com/ATX-motherboards.html. One of them has six serial ports, one ISA slot, a smattering of PCI and PCI Express, DDR3 RAM, and a socket 1155.
No doubt. And they've got a few with more than one ISA slot (I had 2 full-length ISA cards to insert). The software ran under MS-DOS, and the computer would never be used for anything other than the dedicated purpose, so PCI, DDR3, etc. was totally irrelevant.
So... we're going to take a random motherboard and find out how compatible it is with software provided by the manufacturer of those ISA boards in 1985? Does the software make use of direct access to the hardware of the computer that the vendor originally provided? Can it handle anything other than Hercules graphics? Who knows, the vendor wouldn't (or couldn't) tell me. No thank you.
The client wanted me to provide a new replacement computer. I declined, and fixed the old one. There's no way in hell that I want to provide something that might be considered a piece of medical equipment. I don't have a clue what the formal requirements for that are (beyond common sense), and don't have insurance that would cover my ass for that. Aside from not knowing if it would even work.
You don't need an ISA slot to get serial ports..
No, but there are specialized boards that still have ISA slots. Sometimes it's considerably cheaper to replace the computer and keep the board, rather than vice versa. A new board will probably require new software, perhaps only available from a single vendor, and it may require retraining doctors, I mean users, who hate change. And, to be honest, if the old system did what they wanted, there's no reason to inflict something different upon them.
Please, by all means, describe to me again how the cesspool of law today is really just a beautiful, misunderstood, and under-appreciated hot mess by us mere layman, because I sure as hell don't see it when I shell out hundreds of dollars every month for the fucking "luxury" of carrying insurance everywhere I turn, all thanks to litigation. Car, boat, home, renters, life, health, dental, vision, pet, flood, the list is almost endless.
No problem. Keep enough cash on hand to cover the damages caused by any car or boat accident, rebuild your home, enrich your beneficiaries if you die (I recommend saying "screw 'em, I don't think it's a good idea to be worth more dead than alive"), pay cash for all your health, dental, and vision needs, pay for your pets (what, is there some moron who actually buys pet insurance?), cover your own (and your bank's, if you don't own your house outright) losses in the event of a flood, etc. Me, I don't have enough money to provide that kind of reserves, but maybe you do.
There's lots of things one can lay at the feet of lawyers, but almost none of these qualifies.
I'm no more "right-wing" than you are, numbnuts.
My mistake.
State Department means Hillary Clinton
And don't go confusing Left-wingers with people who have a fucking clue.
I didn't mention left-wingers. But now that you bring it up, I would have said that most left-wingers would at least "have a fucking clue" that Hillary Clinton didn't work for the government any more, that John Kerry was Secretary of State now They might say "there isn't any difference, he's just the same", but that's not the same as not knowing.
But ok, you're just some random nonpolitical idiot who doesn't have a clue.
Um, Hillary is actually not currently in Govt. any more; John Kerry now runs the State Department.
Don't go confusing the rightwingers with facts. If they actually had any facts, they'd be insufferable.
Here's the direct download link to all of their published files...
http://defcad.org/stl/zip/DefDist_DEFCAD_MEGA_PACK_v4.2_(Saito).zip
Also from The Pirate Bay.
This wasn't just a publicity stunt by DefDist, was it?
This is a Florian Mueller article. It has no merit, no validity, and should be taken with the same grain of salt you'd take one of those folks who said the world would end in 12-12-2012.
Yeah, that was my initial response, "isn't "patent expert Florian Mueller" an oxymoron? IIRC that's the guy who claimed the GPL was a "source of infection", and Oracle was going to clean Google's clock. Over at groklaw that name tends to be associated with phrases such as "self-described patent expert" and "on Microsoft's payroll". He was also on Oracle's payroll.