The answer is yes of they have "reasonable" grounds to suspect you have or will commit a criminal act.
Actuaaallly. . ..
Law enforcement agents have to do ONE thing and ONE thing only.
That is CATCH criminals AFTER they commit a crime. Let me repeat that for everybody.
Catch criminals AFTER they commit a crime.
Technically law enforcement catches people ahead of the game as a matter of common courtesy, they don't have to do so, and giving them too MANY powers to do so seems just plain wrong to me.
They are Law ENFORCEMENT Agencies, _NOT_ Crime Prevention Taskforces or any other such lame moniker
Bullshit, Freenet is HIGHLY suseptibal to line taps.
Bits going in bits going out. . ..
Not to mention that you still need the IP addies of the people you are downloading the file fragments from, and not to mention whatever you actualy download. . . ..
Only way to get a TRUELY secure file sharing system would be to have everything PGP encoded to hell in numerious different ways scattered across the network and then have files sent to you in random bits and pieces and assembled as shit happens without any sort of rhyme or reason.
Hell no even then somebody could STILL backtrace each packet across the net if they had enough authority to do so (think worst case scenario here.)
Had this debate with somebody else earlier today on/....
Laws DO NOT STOP LAWMAKERS FROM DOING THINGS. At all. Period.
Remember that laws are currently only cased upon OUR CURRENT INTERPETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
This is what makes the US Constitution so darn flexable and long lasting, it evolves with the times. But the problem is that if WE _DE-EVOLVE_ then it will de-evolve right along with us.
Besides, hell, I can GUARNTEE you that NOTHING in the constitution even MENTIONS computers. Law makers only are required to go by the letter of the law, they only go by the spirit of the law when it damn well suits them.
And once again, this is remembering that there is NOTHING that MAKES lawmakers obey the laws. Laws are commonly agreed upon rules, nothing more. Nobody follows them, they become quite useless.
Still though, I wonder if there ARE limits as to what we can and cannot say online?
Of course we can always just encrypt the living shit out of everything and obfusicate it to heck even then, but I mean without going (too far?) overboard.
The difference here being that the money you paid TO YOUR COLLEGE was FOR that college and NOT for some privet independent company.
if I worked I MS I would be willing to throw in a few bucks to the office party pool, but since I am NOT working there DAMNED if THEY should get MY money.
Emphasis added for the bleak hopeless and generally inane.
When you attend a campus you CHOOSE WILLINGLY to become at least in the smallest part a part of that campuses social atmosphere. As such you contribute some small pittance to funding various (often times idiotic) social activities.
But there is a DIFFERENCE between contributing to SOCIAL activities for the GROUP that you belong too and providing REVENUE for a private company that exists SOLELY to make money. (of course your institution of higher learning may very well exist for a similar purpose, but once again, you have willingly signed on the dotted line saying you are willing to join them)
If it becomes a national standard, then it should be made freely available to everyone. If I recall correctly, laws cannect be passed to benefit only one person or company. (although there are ways around this by clever wording)
Welcome to Reality Inc.
Remember that laws are just a common agreement and hold no weight in the physical world as it exists.
In other words if the law makers DECIDE to violate the laws there is NOTHING stopping them from doing so except for. . . . the law.
Which, I repeat, IS JUST A COMMONLY AGREED UPON AGREEMENT
Washington State also has in its constitution a rule prohibiting the state goverment from making special exceptions to help individual companies, but hell we do it all the time, it is just that well heck, nobody cares.
That (not caring) hopefuly will not be an issue here, but there is still nothing stopping this from happening.
Supreme Court? once again, if they decide to go along with it, NOTHING CAN STOP THEM. Unless YOU get a diety of your choice to come and down and set things straight, the world is as it is.
This should serve as one good more bit of ammunition to try and convience my pro-repub friends to switch a (bit) away from the dark side though.:)
Am I the ONLY one who has NO problem with the SECOND rule but has a SERIOUS problem with that FIRST one?
Uh in 'none-public' places?
Seems to me that we should have EXPLICT warnings as to WHEN EVER we are being video taped ANYWHERES.
Hell putting all the pr0n sites on a.sex.xxx or.prn TLD is a GREAT idea, and I still cannot figure out as to why ICANN did not pass that resolution LOOONG ago. Obviously having just a single nations legistlator pass it would do jack shit good, but it is still some sort of first step.
The city has been nice enough to install tons of stairways all over the place, often times in places were cars could not get by (steep hills or such) and have to detour around, where as a person can simply take the stairs and get their quickly.:)
Ouch, Seattle is considered to have one of 'the worst transportation systems in the nation' yet I can honestly say that you can get to damn near anyplace in the city within half an hour to fourty five minutes by bus (albeit with one required transfer).
Hell I ride my bike around this city and it is built upon 7 hills!
The busses here are usually 5 min. early to 15 min. late--that's up to twenty minutes you have to wait!
Not around here they aren't.:)
Actualy read the fine print some time, in my city at least it states that the buses LEAVE _for_ that stop at the specified time, says nothing about when they get there (3-5minutes after listed time typicaly)
I think the kicker is that there is, say, an 12345 but not a 12344. What happened to 12344 and 12343 and 12342 and so forth? Or are you not going through things in sequential order?
Opposition to Hailstorm isn't an anti-Microsoft thing.
Sure it is.
It is not the DATA that people worry about (hell any hospitol of decent size so muchinformation on its patients. . . ) so much as the people who HAVE the data.
Microsoft is not exactly always open with how they use or collect Data, nor are they above taking actions for the top dollar.
THAT is the problem that people had with Microsoft running a data system like this, not to mention that with how MS drafts their policies, they would likely have been able to shove a $50 per use surcharge on ya at any point in time without notice, heh. ^_^
Nonsense. It costs a lot more to call a cab, and it takes a lot of time wait for public transportation (if available), than to conduct your business and errands by car. This is obvious and requires little or no discussion.
Damn thing is troll as this may be, this is exactly how many people look at the situation.
They never bother to realize that they can get up off of their fat rump and walk / ride a bike. Hell people look at me in shock when I say that I'll just walk the 1.5mi, after all, what the hells 1.5mi but 20 or so minutes of my time (Hey, I did say walk. ^_^ ) and some (arguably) fresh air?
Wanna spend the next 6-9 months of your life telling John Romero that Daikatana sucks while he does nothing to fix it?
Did anybody ever figure that one out? Is he just in serious denial or what? I can understand not wanting to admit that something that a person worked hard on sucks, I have worked all night on a painting and it has taken me months to accept the fact that it sucks, so I can imagine that after a few years that there would be a SERIOUSLY long period of denial, but come on;
the damn thing SUCKS. Heh. He gets seriously uptight when ever anybody mentions it either. LOL.
I am still amazed that they could have spent that long on the system and still have gotten such a shitty pathing AI, they should have hired the Reaper Bot guy away from Valve Software.:)
Buy anything with the words Zelda on it, avoid anything with the words Real Time RPG Combat System (no such thing exists. . . . . THEY ARE CALLED ADVENTURE GAMES DAMNIT) and try to ignore the irony that those two critera present to one another.:)
(that and I avoid sports games. Unless they include killing or serious maiming, because killing and serious maiming are always cool. RobotWars forever!!! w00t! Man I _SO_ want a Baseball game that I can just pull a Glock out in the middle of and shoot that bastard running to third.:) )
Bah, being a game tester is NOT that easier, compared to say a game reviewer.
Being a game tester basicaly entails going through the same damn game a few hundred times until you know every kink of the game inside out, all while having any of your data erased at any possible time (or at very least rendered useless) without warning when the latest build comes in.
It means documenting every last little damn thing that you do every damn time that you go through the game, comparing and contrasting the most minuet of detail, and oh yah, did I mention that you get to do it over and over and over and over and over again?
Even if the game SUCKS?
A _LOT_?
Sure being a Beta Tester for a game like Fallout 1 or 2 or Arcanum would rock, but what about if the company you worked for put you on duty testing out the latest barbie game? You think being a game review would be fun then?...
It is not like with closed betas were you get to sign up for a game, heh. Its more like your an employee of a company and you get assigned whatever you get assigned. ^_^
Heh, why else do you think that people are able to post Google caches of/. pages so darn quickly?:)
Seriously though, isn't it strange how the FIRST PAGE of that story was Cached by Google but not the second or third page? Weeeird. Normaly Google goes through multiple pages in a story and cache the large majority of them (or even all of them).
Heck I have read 8 page stories that have been/.'ed by going to the Google Cache. Not this time though.:( Even the mirrors that other people posted do not have the second part of the article (not page, section) on them.:(
Ugh, tell me about it, quick searchs are useless, it seems like NOBODY makes these!
I mean the concept itself is simple enough, just take a regular USB hub, put on an adaptor for internal USB headers for it (you can buy those on the open market as it is) and put the thing in a box with the proper screwholes!
The only issue is that the main potential purchaser of such devices would be the OEM market but OEMs do not typicaly run with cases that have a large number of unused 5.25" bays.:(
Oh well, I guess I can always get a few more CD-ROM drives. . . . ^_^
I would imagin that after the first few milennia that a Major Diety might get a bit bored and find at least a little bit of humor in such silly endevors. I mean just imagine knowing that You were the one who created an entire universe the ended up creating some guy who made a church centered around You out of lego bricks!
Woh, that'd be one serious trip! LOL!
Re:Titanium is also very flexible.
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However, the original poster is right that the 50-50 nickel-Ti alloy "nitinol" is seriously cool. It's incredibly expensive to make and use, and I think it's pretty heavy, but you can do stuff like take a wire of it, dip it in cold water, then twist it into any shape and it will stay like that. Then you can dip it in hot water and it will go back to its original shape.
That is . . . . Extremly . . . . Cool.
How much does a wire of that material cost? Could a plain old consumer get it or is it special order only?
Holy crud, the artists could have some serious fun with that, LOL!
Hey, would a block of it be moldable? If it was say worked with inside of a refridgereated area or even inside of a walk in freezer could a thick brick of it be molded in a simular fashion or would that not work?
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The answer is yes of they have "reasonable" grounds to suspect you have or will commit a criminal act.
.
Actuaaallly. . .
Law enforcement agents have to do ONE thing and ONE thing only.
That is CATCH criminals AFTER they commit a crime. Let me repeat that for everybody.
Catch criminals AFTER they commit a crime.
Technically law enforcement catches people ahead of the game as a matter of common courtesy, they don't have to do so, and giving them too MANY powers to do so seems just plain wrong to me.
They are Law ENFORCEMENT Agencies, _NOT_ Crime Prevention Taskforces or any other such lame moniker
Bullshit, Freenet is HIGHLY suseptibal to line taps.
.
.
:(
Bits going in bits going out. . .
Not to mention that you still need the IP addies of the people you are downloading the file fragments from, and not to mention whatever you actualy download. . . .
Only way to get a TRUELY secure file sharing system would be to have everything PGP encoded to hell in numerious different ways scattered across the network and then have files sent to you in random bits and pieces and assembled as shit happens without any sort of rhyme or reason.
Hell no even then somebody could STILL backtrace each packet across the net if they had enough authority to do so (think worst case scenario here.)
The 'net can NEVER be totaly secure.
Had this debate with somebody else earlier today on /. ...
Laws DO NOT STOP LAWMAKERS FROM DOING THINGS. At all. Period.
Remember that laws are currently only cased upon OUR CURRENT INTERPETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
This is what makes the US Constitution so darn flexable and long lasting, it evolves with the times. But the problem is that if WE _DE-EVOLVE_ then it will de-evolve right along with us.
Besides, hell, I can GUARNTEE you that NOTHING in the constitution even MENTIONS computers. Law makers only are required to go by the letter of the law, they only go by the spirit of the law when it damn well suits them.
And once again, this is remembering that there is NOTHING that MAKES lawmakers obey the laws. Laws are commonly agreed upon rules, nothing more. Nobody follows them, they become quite useless.
If this is true it is exceptionaly cool.
(or not case depending)
LOL.
Yes call me gulliable.
Still though, I wonder if there ARE limits as to what we can and cannot say online?
Of course we can always just encrypt the living shit out of everything and obfusicate it to heck even then, but I mean without going (too far?) overboard.
The difference here being that the money you paid TO YOUR COLLEGE was FOR that college and NOT for some privet independent company.
if I worked I MS I would be willing to throw in a few bucks to the office party pool, but since I am NOT working there DAMNED if THEY should get MY money.
Emphasis added for the bleak hopeless and generally inane.
When you attend a campus you CHOOSE WILLINGLY to become at least in the smallest part a part of that campuses social atmosphere. As such you contribute some small pittance to funding various (often times idiotic) social activities.
But there is a DIFFERENCE between contributing to SOCIAL activities for the GROUP that you belong too and providing REVENUE for a private company that exists SOLELY to make money. (of course your institution of higher learning may very well exist for a similar purpose, but once again, you have willingly signed on the dotted line saying you are willing to join them)
If it becomes a national standard, then it should be made freely available to everyone.
:)
If I recall correctly, laws cannect be passed to benefit only one person or company. (although there are ways around this by clever wording)
Welcome to Reality Inc.
Remember that laws are just a common agreement and hold no weight in the physical world as it exists.
In other words if the law makers DECIDE to violate the laws there is NOTHING stopping them from doing so except for. . . . the law.
Which, I repeat, IS JUST A COMMONLY AGREED UPON AGREEMENT
Washington State also has in its constitution a rule prohibiting the state goverment from making special exceptions to help individual companies, but hell we do it all the time, it is just that well heck, nobody cares.
That (not caring) hopefuly will not be an issue here, but there is still nothing stopping this from happening.
Supreme Court? once again, if they decide to go along with it, NOTHING CAN STOP THEM. Unless YOU get a diety of your choice to come and down and set things straight, the world is as it is.
This should serve as one good more bit of ammunition to try and convience my pro-repub friends to switch a (bit) away from the dark side though.
Damn thing is;
:)
I have no fucking clue who halle barry is (reconize the name from something but no idea wha)
who brooke gordon is
WTF presa canario is
who anni friesinger is
I reconize the term dudley moore, but, uh WTF who/is it?
no idea who jeff gordon is,
but at least Anime is #1 on Google images!
If I may ask
WHAT THE FUCK IS DOM???
The offical W3C page is fully BullShit Complient and as such tells little if anything at all about WTF DOM actualy is.
Am I the ONLY one who has NO problem with the SECOND rule but has a SERIOUS problem with that FIRST one?
.sex .xxx or .prn TLD is a GREAT idea, and I still cannot figure out as to why ICANN did not pass that resolution LOOONG ago. Obviously having just a single nations legistlator pass it would do jack shit good, but it is still some sort of first step.
Uh in 'none-public' places?
Seems to me that we should have EXPLICT warnings as to WHEN EVER we are being video taped ANYWHERES.
Hell putting all the pr0n sites on a
Damned if text editors actualy edit text!!!
THE HORROR!
::quickly reachs up to keep eyes from rolling out of head::
Oh hell its a 3mi route by car. :)
:)
The city has been nice enough to install tons of stairways all over the place, often times in places were cars could not get by (steep hills or such) and have to detour around, where as a person can simply take the stairs and get their quickly.
Ouch, Seattle is considered to have one of 'the worst transportation systems in the nation' yet I can honestly say that you can get to damn near anyplace in the city within half an hour to fourty five minutes by bus (albeit with one required transfer).
:)
Hell I ride my bike around this city and it is built upon 7 hills!
The busses here are usually 5 min. early to 15 min. late--that's up to twenty minutes you have to wait!
Not around here they aren't.
Actualy read the fine print some time, in my city at least it states that the buses LEAVE _for_ that stop at the specified time, says nothing about when they get there (3-5minutes after listed time typicaly)
I think the kicker is that there is, say, an 12345 but not a 12344. What happened to 12344 and 12343 and 12342 and so forth? Or are you not going through things in sequential order?
Opposition to Hailstorm isn't an anti-Microsoft thing.
Sure it is.
It is not the DATA that people worry about (hell any hospitol of decent size so muchinformation on its patients. . . ) so much as the people who HAVE the data.
Microsoft is not exactly always open with how they use or collect Data, nor are they above taking actions for the top dollar.
THAT is the problem that people had with Microsoft running a data system like this, not to mention that with how MS drafts their policies, they would likely have been able to shove a $50 per use surcharge on ya at any point in time without notice, heh. ^_^
So popular that typing in random numbers turns up absolutly nothing. . . .
Bah, service isn't worth much if I can't type in random stuff and get out entertaining results. ^_^
Nonsense. It costs a lot more to call a cab, and
it takes a lot of time wait for public transportation (if available),
than to conduct your business and errands by
car. This is obvious and requires little or no discussion.
Damn thing is troll as this may be, this is exactly how many people look at the situation.
They never bother to realize that they can get up off of their fat rump and walk / ride a bike. Hell people look at me in shock when I say that I'll just walk the 1.5mi, after all, what the hells 1.5mi but 20 or so minutes of my time (Hey, I did say walk. ^_^ ) and some (arguably) fresh air?
Wanna spend the next 6-9 months of your life telling John Romero that Daikatana sucks while he does nothing to fix it?
:)
Did anybody ever figure that one out? Is he just in serious denial or what? I can understand not wanting to admit that something that a person worked hard on sucks, I have worked all night on a painting and it has taken me months to accept the fact that it sucks, so I can imagine that after a few years that there would be a SERIOUSLY long period of denial, but come on;
the damn thing SUCKS. Heh. He gets seriously uptight when ever anybody mentions it either. LOL.
I am still amazed that they could have spent that long on the system and still have gotten such a shitty pathing AI, they should have hired the Reaper Bot guy away from Valve Software.
::raises hand::
:)
:) )
:)
I _CAN_ do small brief accounts at problems, but I am much better at giving detailed and informed feedback and bug reports.
Hell I once wrote a 6 page bug report to a game's author, talk about long!
(he thanked me for it though.
Buy anything with the words Zelda on it, avoid anything with the words Real Time RPG Combat System (no such thing exists. . . . . THEY ARE CALLED ADVENTURE GAMES DAMNIT) and try to ignore the irony that those two critera present to one another. :)
:) )
(that and I avoid sports games. Unless they include killing or serious maiming, because killing and serious maiming are always cool. RobotWars forever!!! w00t! Man I _SO_ want a Baseball game that I can just pull a Glock out in the middle of and shoot that bastard running to third.
Bah, being a game tester is NOT that easier, compared to say a game reviewer.
...
Being a game tester basicaly entails going through the same damn game a few hundred times until you know every kink of the game inside out, all while having any of your data erased at any possible time (or at very least rendered useless) without warning when the latest build comes in.
It means documenting every last little damn thing that you do every damn time that you go through the game, comparing and contrasting the most minuet of detail, and oh yah, did I mention that you get to do it over and over and over and over and over again?
Even if the game SUCKS?
A _LOT_?
Sure being a Beta Tester for a game like Fallout 1 or 2 or Arcanum would rock, but what about if the company you worked for put you on duty testing out the latest barbie game? You think being a game review would be fun then?
It is not like with closed betas were you get to sign up for a game, heh. Its more like your an employee of a company and you get assigned whatever you get assigned. ^_^
Heh, why else do you think that people are able to post Google caches of /. pages so darn quickly? :)
/.'ed by going to the Google Cache. Not this time though. :( Even the mirrors that other people posted do not have the second part of the article (not page, section) on them. :(
Seriously though, isn't it strange how the FIRST PAGE of that story was Cached by Google but not the second or third page? Weeeird. Normaly Google goes through multiple pages in a story and cache the large majority of them (or even all of them).
Heck I have read 8 page stories that have been
I wonder if its back up now. . . .
Beats me, the version of SimCity that I own doesn't have a newspaper. ^_^
(the original PC SimCity, no idea, lots of versions out there even of 'the original')
Ugh, tell me about it, quick searchs are useless, it seems like NOBODY makes these!
:(
I mean the concept itself is simple enough, just take a regular USB hub, put on an adaptor for internal USB headers for it (you can buy those on the open market as it is) and put the thing in a box with the proper screwholes!
The only issue is that the main potential purchaser of such devices would be the OEM market but OEMs do not typicaly run with cases that have a large number of unused 5.25" bays.
Oh well, I guess I can always get a few more CD-ROM drives. . . . ^_^
I would imagin that after the first few milennia that a Major Diety might get a bit bored and find at least a little bit of humor in such silly endevors. I mean just imagine knowing that You were the one who created an entire universe the ended up creating some guy who made a church centered around You out of lego bricks!
Woh, that'd be one serious trip! LOL!
However, the original poster is right that the 50-50 nickel-Ti alloy "nitinol" is seriously cool. It's incredibly expensive to make and use, and I think it's pretty heavy, but you can do stuff like take a wire of it, dip it in cold water, then twist it into any shape and it will stay like that. Then you can dip it in hot water and it will go back to its original shape.
That is . . . . Extremly . . . . Cool.
How much does a wire of that material cost? Could a plain old consumer get it or is it special order only?
Holy crud, the artists could have some serious fun with that, LOL!
Hey, would a block of it be moldable? If it was say worked with inside of a refridgereated area or even inside of a walk in freezer could a thick brick of it be molded in a simular fashion or would that not work?