doubt eweek's demographic is strong in the 'warez' crowd. And if your in charge of a corporate firewall and your users are downloading 'warez', you've got serious problems.
Contrary to popular opinion, Corporate admins aren't the only people who worry about security.
This is why people should be buying from foreign sellers. Yessmoke.ch is located in Switzerland, we all know about how Swiss privacy rules are fantastic.
If this is believed widely, then why would people, with a choice, buy an iPod until May, when they could save $100, get extra storage, get color, and free photo abilities?
Non issue. Especially since we're dealing with a RUMOR site. People know that rumors are just that.
What you're saying is that this rumor site is trying to help people get a better deal, and that it shouldn't be allowed.
Then imagine this: ThinkSecret publishes the existence of a new product, called the iPod mini, which is half the size of the iPod and uses a 1" hard drive, four months before it's announced by Apple, and someone at Creative and someone at Sony read this and think, "Hey, we can do this!" and releases their product two weeks before Apple announces.
It's Apple's responsibility to keep their secrets inside of Apple. Be it by using confidentiality agreements, or outright payoffs. If someone violates a confidentiality agreement, Apple is free to make a civil claim for damages. But they don't have the right to use the force of the government to silence any press outlet. Had Nixon claimed that the Watergate break in was a trade secret should he have been able to force Woodward and Berstein to keep quiet?
So tell me, why does the First Amendment apply, and why doesn't the UTSA apply in a situation like this?
Because the Constitution is higher in authority than the USC.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The Congress, and the states by extension, have no ability to legislate the press.
It would be a violation of the Constitution for the UTSA to be used to silence any press outlet.
Apple knows that it won't win in court. There's a little something called the First Amendment in this country. Apple may be able to sue the people who leaked the information to the websites in question, but those sites themselves aren't breaking the law.
I'm in Pennsylvania, several years ago a lawyer that I won't name hired me to search a client's computer for proof that it was used to communicate with the person that s/he was cheating with during a family vacation to Florida.
It took me a few hours, but I located copies of all of the email sent between them that wasn't properly deleted.
It's been like 8 years since then, so I don't remember exactly how many there were, but I think it was something like 80 in a week.
If California assesses the tax based on the odometer reading alone, one could possibly argue that they were unconstitutionally impeding interstate commerce, since California-registered cars would also be taxed when driving out of state.
States already have what are called "usage taxes" on goods that are purchased from retailers who are out of state. That doesn't interfere with interstate commerce, neither would taxing state residents based on total miles driven.
One could even argue that the wear and tear on an automobile will cause less efficient operation and as such it would be subjected to more taxes.
I've seen a few people suggest that they use the odometer for such taxes. If in fact tax refenue was the true objective, they would. When you get renew your yearly registration they could tell you how much you owe.
The real point is to get people used to the idea that it's OK for the government to track your every movement. As soon as people accept something like this, how long do you think it will be before they mandate chips under our skin?
Elderly John takes his elderly wife Margie to the doctor because she keeps forgetting things. Important things like who he is, and what her own name is.
After an hour long examination the doctor sits John down and says to him "Your wife is showing signs of dementia. She is either in the early stages of alzheimer's disease or she has contracted HIV and the dementia is AIDS related."
John asks "Well, doctor, what do we do next? We're on a fixed income and can't afford a lot of expensive tests."
The doctor tells him "The cheap way is to take her to the mall and drop her off. If the police bring her home, she has alzheimer's disease and medicare will pay for treatment."
John inquires "But what if she finds her own way back?"
You could say goodbye to downloading a single file from multiple sources because if we were to use your proposed solution then every copy of "The Matrix" on the P2P network would be unique, therefore you would not have the advantage of pulling in all the "parts" from disparate sources.
Only if they're stored in the "masked" format. If the files are stored on the individual nodes as a pure file but only the requested parts are masked before transfer then the problem is minimal.
If you're a Libertarian, please vote for Libertarian candidates or stay home. Anything else is harmful to the Libertarian movement.
I respect your position, but I disagree.
Let's look at it this way for a moment.
If you're a Libertarian, you know that you don't have the votes to win the White House so you can choose to vote for the LP candidate and have no effect on the race. You can choose to stay home and have no effect on the race. You can compromise and vote vote for one of the two candidates that has a chance to win.
Your individual vote doesn't matter much, but a few hundred of you can shift the balance like Florida in 2000.
If you and a few hundred like you stay home or vote for the third party candidate, you increase the chances of the person whom you dislike more winning.
In the end, you have to decide for yourself if it's more important to you to cast a principled vote or a practical one.
Gay rights are not a core Democratic issue. But they SHOULD be. Democrats are having a hard time distinguishing themselves from Republicans.
In order to win, the Democrats need to co-opt some Republican issues.
Look at the most successful Democrat president of the past generation. Bill Clinton co-opted a few Republican issues. Even though he didn't do it, he ran with a promise of a "middle class tax cut" in 1992. After he pushed the "don't ask don't tell" policy for the military in 1993, rescinded the "global gag rule" for abortion and passed the Brady Act (Nee Brady Bill)+ a gun ban in 1994 the Democrats got creamed in Congressional elections. He had to RUN back to the center, so for the 1996 election, he signed the Welfare Reform bill.
They could make gay rights into the Civil Rights struggle of the new generation that it will inevitably be and call themselves the champions of it.
If they do that, they risk losing a large portion of their Black supporters. No black person wants to see Rosie O'Donnell likened to Martin Luther King.
The Republicans are VERY vulnerable on this front, and the Democrats could make a lot of headway pushing at it.
If the Democrats are not very careful, they risk a backlash. It happened last year. When the MA Supreme Court mandated "Gay Marriage" in that state, 11 other states proposes amendments to their constitutions that really turned out the conservative base. "Gay Rights" is as much to blame for President Bush's win as anything else.
This would not happen because then they could not make a remake of a movie when the copyright expired on the original. A vast number of movies released are simply regurgitations of older movies with new actors and better effects.
In most cases the original film is STILL covered by copyright. For Example, Man on Fire, released in 2004 is a remake of this movie from 1987.
What usually happens is that the studio owns the rights to a film and they in turn license use of those rights to others.
LK
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Ever think that maybe he was trolling in the other direction? Perhaps he thought that the maintainer of LokiTorrent was a jerk because he was hosting torrents for copyrighted material?
Parents are no longer on the side of teachers and the administration. It is a battle with the parents believing that their child can do no wrong and everyone is out to get that child.
Today you have kids getting suspended for having nail clippers. A kindergarten kid was punished for wearing a halloween costume that consisted of a fireman with a plastic axe. 3 kids were punished for possessing pornography because they had a drawing of a stick figure with breasts and a penis.
When I was a kid, if I was in the wrong my mother woudl have my ass in a blender. If I wasn't wrong, my mother would raise hell at the school.
If the school admins weren't such asshats, the parents wouldn't need to be so adversarial.
One out of every what, 5 or 10 shoplifters gets caught? One out of every what, 2 million downloaders gets busted? If you break it down by man years of prison time and fines per infraction; downloaders as a whole are getting by a lot cheaper.
It's like a lottery in reverse, this time you DON'T want to be the poor SOB who happens to have the winning (IP) number.
Why not just uproot and remove all administrative functions from France? Do their European business out of England, or Poland, or Germany or any other country. France's legal system is peculiar, to say the least. I'd say that it is a direct competitor to the lunacy that we see here in the US.
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doubt eweek's demographic is strong in the 'warez' crowd. And if your in charge of a corporate firewall and your users are downloading 'warez', you've got serious problems.
Contrary to popular opinion, Corporate admins aren't the only people who worry about security.
LK
I wonder if blasts of gamma rays can be to blame for Cancer Clusters that have defied other explanations.
LK
Did the defendant smoke the cigarettes or did he simply throw them away? Prove it! Where were these sticks consumed
It'll be hard to claim he's a collector if he bought several hundred packs but can only show a dozen or so.
Would you commit perjury to evade cigarette taxes?
LK
This is why people should be buying from foreign sellers. Yessmoke.ch is located in Switzerland, we all know about how Swiss privacy rules are fantastic.
LK
Non issue. Especially since we're dealing with a RUMOR site. People know that rumors are just that.
What you're saying is that this rumor site is trying to help people get a better deal, and that it shouldn't be allowed.
Then imagine this: ThinkSecret publishes the existence of a new product, called the iPod mini, which is half the size of the iPod and uses a 1" hard drive, four months before it's announced by Apple, and someone at Creative and someone at Sony read this and think, "Hey, we can do this!" and releases their product two weeks before Apple announces.
It's Apple's responsibility to keep their secrets inside of Apple. Be it by using confidentiality agreements, or outright payoffs. If someone violates a confidentiality agreement, Apple is free to make a civil claim for damages. But they don't have the right to use the force of the government to silence any press outlet. Had Nixon claimed that the Watergate break in was a trade secret should he have been able to force Woodward and Berstein to keep quiet?
So tell me, why does the First Amendment apply, and why doesn't the UTSA apply in a situation like this?
Because the Constitution is higher in authority than the USC.
The Congress, and the states by extension, have no ability to legislate the press.
It would be a violation of the Constitution for the UTSA to be used to silence any press outlet.
LK
Apple knows that it won't win in court. There's a little something called the First Amendment in this country. Apple may be able to sue the people who leaked the information to the websites in question, but those sites themselves aren't breaking the law.
LK
I'm in Pennsylvania, several years ago a lawyer that I won't name hired me to search a client's computer for proof that it was used to communicate with the person that s/he was cheating with during a family vacation to Florida.
It took me a few hours, but I located copies of all of the email sent between them that wasn't properly deleted.
It's been like 8 years since then, so I don't remember exactly how many there were, but I think it was something like 80 in a week.
They happily paid about $500 for the proof.
LK
If California assesses the tax based on the odometer reading alone, one could possibly argue that they were unconstitutionally impeding interstate commerce, since California-registered cars would also be taxed when driving out of state.
States already have what are called "usage taxes" on goods that are purchased from retailers who are out of state. That doesn't interfere with interstate commerce, neither would taxing state residents based on total miles driven.
One could even argue that the wear and tear on an automobile will cause less efficient operation and as such it would be subjected to more taxes.
LK
I've seen a few people suggest that they use the odometer for such taxes. If in fact tax refenue was the true objective, they would. When you get renew your yearly registration they could tell you how much you owe.
The real point is to get people used to the idea that it's OK for the government to track your every movement. As soon as people accept something like this, how long do you think it will be before they mandate chips under our skin?
It's not about taxes, it's about acclimation.
LK
So, businesses understand that OSS is just as good as commercial software and we didn't even have to sell out to do it.
LK
How's this.
Elderly John takes his elderly wife Margie to the doctor because she keeps forgetting things. Important things like who he is, and what her own name is.
After an hour long examination the doctor sits John down and says to him "Your wife is showing signs of dementia. She is either in the early stages of alzheimer's disease or she has contracted HIV and the dementia is AIDS related."
John asks "Well, doctor, what do we do next? We're on a fixed income and can't afford a lot of expensive tests."
The doctor tells him "The cheap way is to take her to the mall and drop her off. If the police bring her home, she has alzheimer's disease and medicare will pay for treatment."
John inquires "But what if she finds her own way back?"
The doctor grimaces and says "Move out."
LK
You could say goodbye to downloading a single file from multiple sources because if we were to use your proposed solution then every copy of "The Matrix" on the P2P network would be unique, therefore you would not have the advantage of pulling in all the "parts" from disparate sources.
Only if they're stored in the "masked" format. If the files are stored on the individual nodes as a pure file but only the requested parts are masked before transfer then the problem is minimal.
LK
If you're a Libertarian, please vote for Libertarian candidates or stay home. Anything else is harmful to the Libertarian movement.
I respect your position, but I disagree.
Let's look at it this way for a moment.
If you're a Libertarian, you know that you don't have the votes to win the White House so you can choose to vote for the LP candidate and have no effect on the race. You can choose to stay home and have no effect on the race. You can compromise and vote vote for one of the two candidates that has a chance to win.
Your individual vote doesn't matter much, but a few hundred of you can shift the balance like Florida in 2000.
If you and a few hundred like you stay home or vote for the third party candidate, you increase the chances of the person whom you dislike more winning.
In the end, you have to decide for yourself if it's more important to you to cast a principled vote or a practical one.
LK
Gay rights are not a core Democratic issue. But they SHOULD be. Democrats are having a hard time distinguishing themselves from Republicans.
In order to win, the Democrats need to co-opt some Republican issues.
Look at the most successful Democrat president of the past generation. Bill Clinton co-opted a few Republican issues. Even though he didn't do it, he ran with a promise of a "middle class tax cut" in 1992. After he pushed the "don't ask don't tell" policy for the military in 1993, rescinded the "global gag rule" for abortion and passed the Brady Act (Nee Brady Bill)+ a gun ban in 1994 the Democrats got creamed in Congressional elections. He had to RUN back to the center, so for the 1996 election, he signed the Welfare Reform bill.
They could make gay rights into the Civil Rights struggle of the new generation that it will inevitably be and call themselves the champions of it.
If they do that, they risk losing a large portion of their Black supporters. No black person wants to see Rosie O'Donnell likened to Martin Luther King.
The Republicans are VERY vulnerable on this front, and the Democrats could make a lot of headway pushing at it.
If the Democrats are not very careful, they risk a backlash. It happened last year. When the MA Supreme Court mandated "Gay Marriage" in that state, 11 other states proposes amendments to their constitutions that really turned out the conservative base. "Gay Rights" is as much to blame for President Bush's win as anything else.
LK
'some of the nation's most influential former military and intelligence officials.'
Maybe this is just the thing we need to make people get serious about privacy.
LK
Honestly, who wants to run Linux on a MAC when they are able to run MacOS-X on it.
People like me. I have two Macs running Linux right now. I'm thinking about scooping up a third for the same purpose.
Linux on the PPC really stomps ass.
LK
I'll copyright my appearance so that I can sue everyone who owns a video security camera.
LK
This would not happen because then they could not make a remake of a movie when the copyright expired on the original. A vast number of movies released are simply regurgitations of older movies with new actors and better effects.
In most cases the original film is STILL covered by copyright. For Example, Man on Fire, released in 2004 is a remake of this movie from 1987.
What usually happens is that the studio owns the rights to a film and they in turn license use of those rights to others.
LK
Ever think that maybe he was trolling in the other direction? Perhaps he thought that the maintainer of LokiTorrent was a jerk because he was hosting torrents for copyrighted material?
LK
1. In the last 15 years, the majority of most of these scientist's time has been spend under a Democratic president;
4 Years of GWB
8 Years of WJC
3 Years of GHWB
But if you include the entire Bush 41 term, and look at the past 16 years, it's pretty much even.
If we go back 20 years, it's 12 Republican to 8 Democrat.
Both sides do it. It's a sad fact of life.
LK
Honestly I'm not a software Pirate, I'm an activist!
LK
Parents are no longer on the side of teachers and the administration. It is a battle with the parents believing that their child can do no wrong and everyone is out to get that child.
That is because school administrators and teachers are losing their fucking minds.
Today you have kids getting suspended for having nail clippers. A kindergarten kid was punished for wearing a halloween costume that consisted of a fireman with a plastic axe. 3 kids were punished for possessing pornography because they had a drawing of a stick figure with breasts and a penis.
When I was a kid, if I was in the wrong my mother woudl have my ass in a blender. If I wasn't wrong, my mother would raise hell at the school.
If the school admins weren't such asshats, the parents wouldn't need to be so adversarial.
LK
One out of every what, 5 or 10 shoplifters gets caught? One out of every what, 2 million downloaders gets busted? If you break it down by man years of prison time and fines per infraction; downloaders as a whole are getting by a lot cheaper.
It's like a lottery in reverse, this time you DON'T want to be the poor SOB who happens to have the winning (IP) number.
LK
Why not just uproot and remove all administrative functions from France? Do their European business out of England, or Poland, or Germany or any other country. France's legal system is peculiar, to say the least. I'd say that it is a direct competitor to the lunacy that we see here in the US.
LK
So Tecmo doesn't like the fact that the skins remove the 4 square inches of clothing that the Dead Or Alive bimbos wear.
That's funny.
LK