That's sort of my thinking as well. They had an IP and wanted to know who it belonged to. So they asked the ISP. If they had a phone number and wanted to know who it belonged to would they need a warrant for that information?
Now, to me the part where they need the warrant is where they have a phone number, know who it belongs to and now want to know every other phone number that it made calls to or received calls from for a certain time period. That would not be public information, so I would think that a warrant would be necessary.
Same if they have an IP address, know who it belongs to and want to know every other IP address it connected to for a given time period then a warrant should be necessary.
I am not my phone number and I am not my IP address (though my ISP uses DHCP so I get more than 1 IP in a given time period). But both my phone number and (for a period of time) my IP address (IP spoofing aside) identify me.
One of my co-workers showed me the beta of Windows 7 running on an older, low end laptop that choked on Windows XP. It was running fine and to me looked pretty much like Vista with improved desktop icons.
So this is what Vista was supposed to be? Why didn't Microsoft just wait until Vista was better rather than trying to sell everyone a steaming pile of fecal matter while calling it a bouquet of roses?
Well last time I used bittorrent it wasn't a torrent at all, it was a dribble. Wasn't worth wasting my time.
Hulu is nice but there is a lot missing. I know they are working on licensing, etc. but they're are many shows they just don't have and lately they seem to be offering only 5 episodes at a time and rotating them out. Last year the retention seemed to be much longer.
Or just use your pre-existing PC. Which is what I do. Why another box? My PC already has everything described in the summary. All I need to do one of these days is add a Blu-ray drive. I already watch online videos (Hulu, etc.), download content from binary newsgroups, pop in DVDs, and watch programming through cable. On top of that I can surf the web, play games, do programming, use office applications, etc. Why do I (or anyone with a half-decent computer) need this?
So then it doesn't free you from cable since you cannot reliably download copyrighted content.
Bittorrent? Ok..if you don't mind waiting days for it to dribble down to your PC. And that's if the file is actually what the title says it is. Not that anyone would offer a file for torrent with one name and have it be something completely different.
Usenet news suffers from the same problem. Trying to decipher some of the file names people use can take longer than the actual download.
Hulu? Nice start. But so much is missing and content is getting rotated off pretty quickly lately.
Even the LHC experiments are voodoo science. The only way they will truly know what will happen is to turn the thing on and observe what happens.
Mathematical formulas on paper are all well and nice, but most science relies on actually performing the experiment. But, we are talking about the possibility of creating a black hole here on earth. A black hole has never existed on earth before so no one can say exactly what will happen.
Let's say for argument sake I build a modified revolver. Only instead of having 6 chambers it has 6000 chambers. I load one round into a chamber, give it a spin and close it. Once closed it cannot be opened to observe where the round is in relation to the hammer. I then hand you some mathematical studies done by leading scientists on the probability of the round being fired if I pull the trigger. Would you let me point the barrel at your head while I pull the trigger?
What if the same scientists came out later and said their initial calculations were wrong, here are the new calculations and the odds of the round firing now favored you less. Would you let me point the barrel at your head while I pull the trigger?
What if another, separate, group of scientists came out with a study that said exactly what is in the above article? "If the probability estimate given by an argument is dwarfed by the chance that the argument itself is flawed, then the estimate is suspect." Would you let me point the barrel at your head while I pull the trigger?
Maybe if I pull the trigger nothing will happen and you can walk away. Maybe if they turn on the LHC nothing unexpected will happen and the earth will go on revolving around the sun. But then again, maybe the round will fire and you die. And maybe the LHC will produce a black hole that ignores their scientific calculations and begins swallowing everything in its path.
I should have written "isn't made any more" rather than "doesn't exist". My mistake. Yes they exist, but you have to go back a bit to find them.'
"Logan's Run" and "THX-1138" come to mind.
From your list I would agree with 2001, Blade Runner, and Alien. 2010 not so much. But the rest are just further examples of what Hollywood calls sci-fi. Don't get me wrong they're entertaining, but my response to the OP about what he was looking for still pretty much stands.
The average movie audience member isn't there to think. They are there to be entertained. If it has sex, defiance of authority, and explosions it will be a hit at the box office.
Hollywood isn't interested in making movies that make people think. Making people think doesn't bring in big profits.
Sequel or prequel won't matter. What you are looking for in a sci-fi movie doesn't exist. That's the big difference between true science fiction and what hollywood calls science fiction. You will never see true science fiction on the big screen because the average, movie going, lobotomized, audience member wouldn't understand what they were watching.
Hmmm...identity theft, compromised 250,000 PCs, and stole hundreds of thousands of bank account passwords.
Yeah, not much damage there.
Good thing for him he didn't access any corporate networks or he would have been number 1 on the FBI's most wanted list like Kevin Mitnick was. Though at most Mitnick explored some networks, read some mail, made free phone calls, and supposedly copied some software. I guess that adds up to being a lot worse than identity theft and stealing bank account information.
Change your phone number to an unlisted number. Give it to friends, family and work. Then give it to the companies that absolutely need to get in contact with you such as your bank, credit card companies, etc. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA) prohibits those companies from sharing your personal information except in cases where it would be considered reasonable. Say, if you default on payments passing your information to a collection agency. But, selling your contact information on a list to telemarketers would be outside what is considered reasonable.
So you're complaining about 26 seconds? Seriously, 26 seconds of your life is that big of a deal? It's a word processor for crying out loud.
"I finished this document in MS Word in 1 hour, 32 minutes and 10 seconds. But I finished this similar document in OpenOffice in 1 hour, 32 minutes and 36 seconds because OO opens slower."
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So you think for some reason the police are unable to ask the question "At this date and time who had this IP address?"
That's sort of my thinking as well. They had an IP and wanted to know who it belonged to. So they asked the ISP. If they had a phone number and wanted to know who it belonged to would they need a warrant for that information?
Now, to me the part where they need the warrant is where they have a phone number, know who it belongs to and now want to know every other phone number that it made calls to or received calls from for a certain time period. That would not be public information, so I would think that a warrant would be necessary.
Same if they have an IP address, know who it belongs to and want to know every other IP address it connected to for a given time period then a warrant should be necessary.
I am not my phone number and I am not my IP address (though my ISP uses DHCP so I get more than 1 IP in a given time period). But both my phone number and (for a period of time) my IP address (IP spoofing aside) identify me.
One of my co-workers showed me the beta of Windows 7 running on an older, low end laptop that choked on Windows XP. It was running fine and to me looked pretty much like Vista with improved desktop icons.
So this is what Vista was supposed to be? Why didn't Microsoft just wait until Vista was better rather than trying to sell everyone a steaming pile of fecal matter while calling it a bouquet of roses?
Well last time I used bittorrent it wasn't a torrent at all, it was a dribble. Wasn't worth wasting my time.
Hulu is nice but there is a lot missing. I know they are working on licensing, etc. but they're are many shows they just don't have and lately they seem to be offering only 5 episodes at a time and rotating them out. Last year the retention seemed to be much longer.
Netflix isn't an option for me.
Or just use your pre-existing PC. Which is what I do. Why another box? My PC already has everything described in the summary. All I need to do one of these days is add a Blu-ray drive. I already watch online videos (Hulu, etc.), download content from binary newsgroups, pop in DVDs, and watch programming through cable. On top of that I can surf the web, play games, do programming, use office applications, etc. Why do I (or anyone with a half-decent computer) need this?
So then it doesn't free you from cable since you cannot reliably download copyrighted content.
Bittorrent? Ok..if you don't mind waiting days for it to dribble down to your PC. And that's if the file is actually what the title says it is. Not that anyone would offer a file for torrent with one name and have it be something completely different.
Usenet news suffers from the same problem. Trying to decipher some of the file names people use can take longer than the actual download.
Hulu? Nice start. But so much is missing and content is getting rotated off pretty quickly lately.
There's only one hitch: Without a Wi-Fi connection, the iTouch is still, well, an iTouch.
Which means it is not really a phone. It's just a wireless enabled device.
Can a Kindle read a book formatted for the Sony EReader? Can it read a Microsoft Reader book? Mobipocket? Palm Doc?
If not then the poster's comment was not false.
Ebooks are the new Betamax / VHS format war. Or for you younger crowd it is the same as HD DVD vs BluRay.
Someone is going to win out and someone is going to be left with unreadable books.
I'm not really prepared for -5C.
Buy a sweater. There now you're prepared.
Ok, maybe two sweaters in case one gets a hole in it.
I don't think you understand what biased means.
So they bought a radio and an antenna, plugged them in and they worked. Is that what constitutes post-secondary education these days?
Even the LHC experiments are voodoo science. The only way they will truly know what will happen is to turn the thing on and observe what happens.
Mathematical formulas on paper are all well and nice, but most science relies on actually performing the experiment. But, we are talking about the possibility of creating a black hole here on earth. A black hole has never existed on earth before so no one can say exactly what will happen.
Let's say for argument sake I build a modified revolver. Only instead of having 6 chambers it has 6000 chambers. I load one round into a chamber, give it a spin and close it. Once closed it cannot be opened to observe where the round is in relation to the hammer. I then hand you some mathematical studies done by leading scientists on the probability of the round being fired if I pull the trigger. Would you let me point the barrel at your head while I pull the trigger?
What if the same scientists came out later and said their initial calculations were wrong, here are the new calculations and the odds of the round firing now favored you less. Would you let me point the barrel at your head while I pull the trigger?
What if another, separate, group of scientists came out with a study that said exactly what is in the above article? "If the probability estimate given by an argument is dwarfed by the chance that the argument itself is flawed, then the estimate is suspect." Would you let me point the barrel at your head while I pull the trigger?
Maybe if I pull the trigger nothing will happen and you can walk away. Maybe if they turn on the LHC nothing unexpected will happen and the earth will go on revolving around the sun. But then again, maybe the round will fire and you die. And maybe the LHC will produce a black hole that ignores their scientific calculations and begins swallowing everything in its path.
I should have written "isn't made any more" rather than "doesn't exist". My mistake. Yes they exist, but you have to go back a bit to find them.'
"Logan's Run" and "THX-1138" come to mind.
From your list I would agree with 2001, Blade Runner, and Alien. 2010 not so much. But the rest are just further examples of what Hollywood calls sci-fi. Don't get me wrong they're entertaining, but my response to the OP about what he was looking for still pretty much stands.
The average movie audience member isn't there to think. They are there to be entertained. If it has sex, defiance of authority, and explosions it will be a hit at the box office.
Hollywood isn't interested in making movies that make people think. Making people think doesn't bring in big profits.
Yeah, you're right. Total Recall made me think. It made me think "Why'd I pay to see this campy crap?"
Sequel or prequel won't matter. What you are looking for in a sci-fi movie doesn't exist. That's the big difference between true science fiction and what hollywood calls science fiction. You will never see true science fiction on the big screen because the average, movie going, lobotomized, audience member wouldn't understand what they were watching.
Did not cause much damage?
Hmmm...identity theft, compromised 250,000 PCs, and stole hundreds of thousands of bank account passwords.
Yeah, not much damage there.
Good thing for him he didn't access any corporate networks or he would have been number 1 on the FBI's most wanted list like Kevin Mitnick was. Though at most Mitnick explored some networks, read some mail, made free phone calls, and supposedly copied some software. I guess that adds up to being a lot worse than identity theft and stealing bank account information.
Do that enough times and by comparing what they got back with what they had telemarketers would be able to build the DNC list.
Change your phone number to an unlisted number. Give it to friends, family and work. Then give it to the companies that absolutely need to get in contact with you such as your bank, credit card companies, etc. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA) prohibits those companies from sharing your personal information except in cases where it would be considered reasonable. Say, if you default on payments passing your information to a collection agency. But, selling your contact information on a list to telemarketers would be outside what is considered reasonable.
I stopped at page 3. Oh a picture of the back of the box and 2 sentences. Wow journalism at its finest!
For a moment I read that as Christian Slater. Just a moment...it was scary enough.
You obviously haven't watched Johnny Mnemonic if that is your Keanu defense.
Second?
So you're complaining about 26 seconds? Seriously, 26 seconds of your life is that big of a deal? It's a word processor for crying out loud.
"I finished this document in MS Word in 1 hour, 32 minutes and 10 seconds. But I finished this similar document in OpenOffice in 1 hour, 32 minutes and 36 seconds because OO opens slower."
Seriously?
Looks like this El Naschie (is he a Mexican wrestler?) is using the Mathematics equivalent of SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator.