long time ago i heard a rumor that aids/hiv was introduced into human beings (circa 1950's) by someone who was into bestiality, specifically apes.
Bestiality is just one possibility. In parts of Africa, people eat monkeys. If someone was skinning an infected monkey and nicked his finger, he could have gotten infected.
You hit the nail on the head. It USED to be about providing the poor with telephone access. It isn't anymore.
VoIP is the future and the baby bells are shitting their pants right now trying to keep it from happening.
Exactly, they're going crazy because people now have the choice to opt out of the bullshit taxes and fees that they didn't have a choice about in the past.
As VoIP takes off as a replacement for the traditional copper-wire network, local and state governments are going to lose more and more funding for important services like 911 and Universal Service.
What? It's the 21st century. The Universal Service fee is bullshit. What part of the country is without telephone lines?
The Universal Service fee is a subsidy for the well to do. Developers subdivide former farmland and put nice big houses on them. The phone companies need to build phone lines out to them, putting up poles, stringing cable and what not. The Universal Service Fee is a way for them to recoup that loss.
It isn't about providing phones to poor underpriveledges children in Arkansas.
Any cyphertext can be decoded given enough time. This is why keysize is important. For each bit you add to the key, you double the time needed to brute force it.
The industry was given a passing grade for the ESRB rating system but the actual enforcement of the system by the retailers was not
When I bought Operation Flashpoint from GameStop, I actually had to show ID. That annoyed the hell out of me.
I am almost 30 and I look like I'm almost 30. It's a pain in my ass. The whole business of rating games is just a way to absolve lazy and stupid parents of their responsibility for controlling what goes on in their homes.
First, one of the benefits of bar codes is that you don't have to put individual price tags on items anymore.
Second, if you had to pay someone to manage all of those price tags, you'd have to raise your prices thereby making amazon an even more attractive alternative and losing even more business in the proces.
Third, did you even think about what you were suggesting before you did it?
I don't have spyware cuz I check processes for new things that pop up (XP Pro).
What about programs that appropriate the names of legitimate windows processes? Or ones that take advantage of the shortcomings in the font used in the task manager to look like a legitimate process?
Wiretaps should be any recording device attached to any device or cable that sends or recieves data. After all its a "Wire" "Tap".
No distinctions about whether or not you own the medium to be tapped.
You're more than welcome to place a form of wiretap on your own phone for your own private use. If i'm wrong, someone please inform me as this is my understanding of the law
In most cases it's illegal unless you have the consent of all parties to a conversaion. You can't tap your own phone to catch your wife cheating. Unless you have the permission of everyone who takes part in every conversation, if you have their permission, what's the point in tapping?
The magazine sucks. They can't compete with all of the other porn sources out there. Instead of trying to increase their own draw, they want to get free money from Google.
There needs to be a clearcut distinction made between good guys and bad guys in the wiretapping statues.
Un huh? Who defines who the good guys are? Who decides if you are a bad guy?
And if software that sits on my machine without my knowledge relaying my credit card information to a teenager in a foreign country can't be considered wiretapping -- or if the same standard is applied to spyware purveyors as to government agents -- then there's something screwy in the law that needs to be fixed.
If it's wrong for one, it's wrong for both.
Law enforcement can go to a judge and get a warrant. They are not entitled to carte blance if no one else is.
I think spyware needs to be stopped now. And I don't think that the ability to conduct legitimate investigation should be confused in the law with some guy allegedly spying on his employer. Two different things that need to be handled two different ways.
If "the good guys" employ the same tactics as "the bad guys", what's the difference between them?
Wiretaps should be any recording device attached to any device or cable that sends or recieves data. After all its a "Wire" "Tap".
Think about what you just wrote. I'm sure the MPAA would LOVE for that to be the legal definition of a wiretap. All of a sudden all of our VCRs would become illegal.
Problem is that the federal government doesn't have the right to step on a state's toes like that.
If it's not an interstate transmission, it's up to your state to regulate any unauthorized interception of it.
I think one of the main reasons we have these sorts of decisions is the fact that the average judge is so old he has no idea what a computer is or what it is being used for.
Electricity has been around for a long time, that's all the judge needs to understand in this case.
To say that typing on a keyboard would not possibly be an interstate communication shows a lack of knowledge of what email is, what irc is, what instant messaging is......
If your keyboard and computer are located in the same state, there is no interstate transmission being intercepted.
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long time ago i heard a rumor that aids/hiv was introduced into human beings (circa 1950's) by someone who was into bestiality, specifically apes.
Bestiality is just one possibility. In parts of Africa, people eat monkeys. If someone was skinning an infected monkey and nicked his finger, he could have gotten infected.
LK
At what level is a chimera 'too' human?
When it asks "What the fuck did you do with my opposable thumbs?"
LK
You hit the nail on the head. It USED to be about providing the poor with telephone access. It isn't anymore.
VoIP is the future and the baby bells are shitting their pants right now trying to keep it from happening.
Exactly, they're going crazy because people now have the choice to opt out of the bullshit taxes and fees that they didn't have a choice about in the past.
LK
To the opener.
It shouldn't be long before someone hacks this and installs whatever OS they choose on it.
LK
What? It's the 21st century. The Universal Service fee is bullshit. What part of the country is without telephone lines?
The Universal Service fee is a subsidy for the well to do. Developers subdivide former farmland and put nice big houses on them. The phone companies need to build phone lines out to them, putting up poles, stringing cable and what not. The Universal Service Fee is a way for them to recoup that loss.
It isn't about providing phones to poor underpriveledges children in Arkansas.
LK
"Women are not people. They are devices built by the lord Jesus Christ, for our entertainment."
LK
Got a link?
Dinner's over.
What else is there to do?
LK
Actually, the government still refuses to confirm or deny the existance of Area 51.
Secondly, the waiver in question allows the military to ignore environmental laws regarding the disposal of toxic waste.
And yes, they are burning it. Thousands of gallons of toxic waste are being burned at a facility that officially doesn't exist.
LK
I would like to thank you, oh yet again, for "DVD Jon".
He bring us all free code goodness and has ruined many-a-day for uptight corporate executives.
Your humble servant.
LK
If the algorithm is know (and whatever it is, eventually it WILL be known) you can brute force the key.
LK
There is an unbreakable cypher,
No, there isn't.
Any cyphertext can be decoded given enough time. This is why keysize is important. For each bit you add to the key, you double the time needed to brute force it.
I get a first post with a failed first post joke.
Man, I want to play cards with you.
LK
but what do i know, i'm just a model [ftv.com].
Is that you in the "shoot me" picture? If so, I really hope that's your shoulder. It kind of looks like, well you know.
LK
Why do you care?
I don't have any reason to doubt that my copy's legit, but if it turns out that I was duped and it isn't. So what?
LK
The industry was given a passing grade for the ESRB rating system but the actual enforcement of the system by the retailers was not
When I bought Operation Flashpoint from GameStop, I actually had to show ID. That annoyed the hell out of me.
I am almost 30 and I look like I'm almost 30. It's a pain in my ass. The whole business of rating games is just a way to absolve lazy and stupid parents of their responsibility for controlling what goes on in their homes.
LK
First, one of the benefits of bar codes is that you don't have to put individual price tags on items anymore.
Second, if you had to pay someone to manage all of those price tags, you'd have to raise your prices thereby making amazon an even more attractive alternative and losing even more business in the proces.
Third, did you even think about what you were suggesting before you did it?
LK
I don't have spyware cuz I check processes for new things that pop up (XP Pro).
What about programs that appropriate the names of legitimate windows processes? Or ones that take advantage of the shortcomings in the font used in the task manager to look like a legitimate process?
LK
I dont use any, and have no problems.
That's kind of the point. If spyware broke your computer immediately, you'd know it's there and would be able to remove it.
If you've never checked for spyware, it might be on your system.
You can declare that you know you don't have a disease because you were never tested for it.
LK
No distinctions about whether or not you own the medium to be tapped.
You're more than welcome to place a form of wiretap on your own phone for your own private use. If i'm wrong, someone please inform me as this is my understanding of the law
In most cases it's illegal unless you have the consent of all parties to a conversaion. You can't tap your own phone to catch your wife cheating. Unless you have the permission of everyone who takes part in every conversation, if you have their permission, what's the point in tapping?
LK
They should learn to use robots.txt files, and as for the other sites, it's those that are infringing on copyrights, not Google so if they should sue
And you should learn to RTFA. A robots.txt file won't stop someone from intentionally making copies of your content and hosting it in another country.
Google points to those overseas mirrors when the search parameters match. That's what the lawsuit is about.
LK
The magazine sucks. They can't compete with all of the other porn sources out there. Instead of trying to increase their own draw, they want to get free money from Google.
LK
There needs to be a clearcut distinction made between good guys and bad guys in the wiretapping statues.
Un huh? Who defines who the good guys are? Who decides if you are a bad guy?
And if software that sits on my machine without my knowledge relaying my credit card information to a teenager in a foreign country can't be considered wiretapping -- or if the same standard is applied to spyware purveyors as to government agents -- then there's something screwy in the law that needs to be fixed.
If it's wrong for one, it's wrong for both.
Law enforcement can go to a judge and get a warrant. They are not entitled to carte blance if no one else is.
I think spyware needs to be stopped now. And I don't think that the ability to conduct legitimate investigation should be confused in the law with some guy allegedly spying on his employer. Two different things that need to be handled two different ways.
If "the good guys" employ the same tactics as "the bad guys", what's the difference between them?
LK
Wiretaps should be any recording device attached to any device or cable that sends or recieves data. After all its a "Wire" "Tap".
Think about what you just wrote. I'm sure the MPAA would LOVE for that to be the legal definition of a wiretap. All of a sudden all of our VCRs would become illegal.
Problem is that the federal government doesn't have the right to step on a state's toes like that.
If it's not an interstate transmission, it's up to your state to regulate any unauthorized interception of it.
I think one of the main reasons we have these sorts of decisions is the fact that the average judge is so old he has no idea what a computer is or what it is being used for.
Electricity has been around for a long time, that's all the judge needs to understand in this case.
To say that typing on a keyboard would not possibly be an interstate communication shows a lack of knowledge of what email is, what irc is, what instant messaging is......
If your keyboard and computer are located in the same state, there is no interstate transmission being intercepted.
LK