Let's shift the analogy here a little; let's say you're a cast member in one of the Aliens movies. You know how the little buggers work, and you just saw one of them implant a crewmember.
You know that person is dead. Toast. All that you can do at this point is protect the rest of the crew by eliminating the parasite before it can spread.
Which is more moral; throwing the crewmember out an airlock, or letting the parasite hatch and probably kill you and the rest of the crew... leaving the crewmember dead anyway?
"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote."
-Terrry Pratchett
You know what, I can pretty easily say that without a lot of expense, there's not really any real danger of your DNA's 'privacy' (whatever the fuck that is) being violated. Do you have any idea how much DNA analysis costs?
And if it is, if someone gets hold of your DNA? Well, DNA analysis is a resource hungry affair. Without prior knowledge of a reason to try, I can't see that any analysis would be done.
You're right, of course. Information posted on the internet is never archived, and the barrier to doing data analysis on collected information never lowers over time.
If I have a restaurant, I have the right to REFUSE TO SERVE you. If I make a product, I have the right to refuse to allow you to sell it at your store.
This isn't Apple refusing a customer in your restaurant, this is Apple saying that once you've bought the food from the restaurant you can't then go outside and sell it to someone you meet on the street. It's completely different, and the first sale doctrine gives Psystar the ability to do this.
While it's true that you can bypass any hardhack security system, surprise can be a great asset. Most people, even Law Enforcement, aren't going to expect your computer to fry itself if opened, or whatever system you use. It's the kind of trick that will only work a few times, but a few times is probably enough.
A lot of the new 'cool' law enforcement devices are USB, for easy access and easy reading of the computer. Imagine a computer that has three in-use USB ports and one open slot, and plugging a device into the open slot (or plugging a new device in by removing an existing one without disabling the security feature) would cause the computer to fry itself.
It automates the attack by repeating the known method of defeating the CAPTCHA (say, by grayscaling the image, adjusting the brightness thresholds then reading from the font; I don't know the actual method, that's just a guess). It's not that you point it at a website and it'll discover the method to defeat the CAPTCHA on its own, it's just repeating a method an actual person developed.
That's how I read it, anyway.
He is correct, but it's not really as valid a point as he might think. End-game content is always patched in gradually, and the Lich King is the end boss of this expansion in the same way that Archimonde was the end boss of The Burning Crusade.
If the expansion opened with the Lich King, it'd mean he was one of the early tier bosses. *shrug*
You make fun of Christianity's aversion to homosexuality, but the fact of the matter is that the harsh restrictions on the lifestyles of Christians make the taboos such as homosexuality and miscegenation all the more attractive.
Wait, what?
Interracial marriage is a Christian taboo? Since when?
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Let's shift the analogy here a little; let's say you're a cast member in one of the Aliens movies. You know how the little buggers work, and you just saw one of them implant a crewmember.
You know that person is dead. Toast. All that you can do at this point is protect the rest of the crew by eliminating the parasite before it can spread.
Which is more moral; throwing the crewmember out an airlock, or letting the parasite hatch and probably kill you and the rest of the crew... leaving the crewmember dead anyway?
Used games doesn't usually include games that were sold in the last few weeks.
Wait a few months and that price will plummet.
Sure. It's easy, really.
"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote."
-Terrry Pratchett
OMG DNA!!!!!11111one
You know what, I can pretty easily say that without a lot of expense, there's not really any real danger of your DNA's 'privacy' (whatever the fuck that is) being violated. Do you have any idea how much DNA analysis costs?
And if it is, if someone gets hold of your DNA? Well, DNA analysis is a resource hungry affair. Without prior knowledge of a reason to try, I can't see that any analysis would be done.
You're right, of course. Information posted on the internet is never archived, and the barrier to doing data analysis on collected information never lowers over time.
Who watches the watchmen?
If I have a restaurant, I have the right to REFUSE TO SERVE you. If I make a product, I have the right to refuse to allow you to sell it at your store.
This isn't Apple refusing a customer in your restaurant, this is Apple saying that once you've bought the food from the restaurant you can't then go outside and sell it to someone you meet on the street. It's completely different, and the first sale doctrine gives Psystar the ability to do this.
I think it's a good thing that a 14-year-old girl can pose as a 50-year-old man and see if her ideas will be taken seriously on their own merits.
Funny, that usually goes in reverse.
While it's true that you can bypass any hardhack security system, surprise can be a great asset. Most people, even Law Enforcement, aren't going to expect your computer to fry itself if opened, or whatever system you use. It's the kind of trick that will only work a few times, but a few times is probably enough.
A lot of the new 'cool' law enforcement devices are USB, for easy access and easy reading of the computer. Imagine a computer that has three in-use USB ports and one open slot, and plugging a device into the open slot (or plugging a new device in by removing an existing one without disabling the security feature) would cause the computer to fry itself.
Is it foolproof? No, but it'd be a start.
...oh, you know how this one is supposed to go.
There's a much smaller risk of your employees actually dying while you're flying around being a prick, though.
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How can you possibly argue otherwise? Sure, he's the network admin, but does that authorize him to read people's email without authorization?
Not at all. But then charge him with that, not some pseudo-terrorist computer tampering charge.
...and scary as hell, but just because you don't know what a patch did doesn't make it evidence of tampering.
There absolutely should be a full investigation, though.
At this point, a computer device that does what it's supposed to do should be considering working as unexpected.
It automates the attack by repeating the known method of defeating the CAPTCHA (say, by grayscaling the image, adjusting the brightness thresholds then reading from the font; I don't know the actual method, that's just a guess). It's not that you point it at a website and it'll discover the method to defeat the CAPTCHA on its own, it's just repeating a method an actual person developed. That's how I read it, anyway.
An unreadable wall of text in a discussion about language just seems so very, very apt.
He is correct, but it's not really as valid a point as he might think. End-game content is always patched in gradually, and the Lich King is the end boss of this expansion in the same way that Archimonde was the end boss of The Burning Crusade. If the expansion opened with the Lich King, it'd mean he was one of the early tier bosses. *shrug*
You make fun of Christianity's aversion to homosexuality, but the fact of the matter is that the harsh restrictions on the lifestyles of Christians make the taboos such as homosexuality and miscegenation all the more attractive.
Wait, what? Interracial marriage is a Christian taboo? Since when?