What do you make of the judge's decision on pages 6-7 that the MPDA doesn't apply because MediaSentry isn't based in MN? If the company is investigating someone who lives in MN, and they were in MN when they were being investigated, why is it relevant where the investigation was conducted from? If I go a few hours down to Mexico and start hacking computers in the US, am I no longer liable under US laws just because I'm in Mexico when I did it? I don't understand that decision, I really thought that claim above all the others had the most merit.
I know it's probably not considered great practice, but can Camara argue with the judge that the decision was incorrect?
Finally, just because no one has fabricated evidence yet doesn't mean that it won't be done in the future.
Just because we haven't been attacked by giant space hamsters doesn't mean it won't happen in the future. Just because the second coming of Jesus hasn't happened doesn't mean that it won't happen in the future. Just because no one has shit out their mouth doesn't mean that it won't be done in the future.
In addition to ending perceived online threats, we should also prepare our space hamster defenses, make sure we're looking busy for Jesus, and invent a handy face diaper.
Maybe the status quo needs to be shaken around periodically. We all enjoy a high level of perceived anonymity and immunity from things we say and do online. Maybe it's a good thing that periodically we're reminded about reality.
How exactly is that different from being framed in our current justice system? Vigilantism doesn't open the possibility for framing, that's a part of what we have now.
No one listens to people like you in the world we currently live in, and there's no reason to assume that would change. You might notice the ubiquity of [citation needed] around the net, which is a good thing that people are finally mindful of. Lack of evidence doesn't get you very far. The examples in the story all had evidence to go on, and they all shared evidence with each other until they figured out who was responsible. That's the power they're describing - the power of a group of people to instantly combine their individual shreds of evidence to form the true picture, and to do it quickly. The fact stands that still no one cares about anonymous cowards.
There's nothing NSFW about the home page at redtube.com. You see a bunch of giant text asking you to consent to entering an adult site, with 2 buttons you can click on. What exactly is NSFW about that? If you saw that text, still clicked the "Enter" button, and then got offended when you saw porn, you don't really have a lot to bitch about. If the mere presence of a page warning that you're about to enter an adult site is itself considered NSFW where you work, then I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they also don't want you reading Slashdot, but apparently you're fine ignoring that.
He does? Did you only read that one paragraph in the wikipedia article? Here's another part:
Camara was born in Manila, Philippines [in 1984]. A year later, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio before settling in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Camara attended the Punahou School.[1] He wrote a medical paper on alternative treatments for rheumatoid arthritis at age eleven,[1] which was published in the Hawai'i Journal of Medicine.[2] At sixteen, having skipped high school, Camara earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Hawaii Pacific University.[2] He completed the program in two years and was singularly recognized by the university for outstanding academic performance.[2] The Philippines awarded him their Jose Rizal Certificate of Achievement while he was in college and later, in 2005, recognized him with a Presidential Commendation.[3]
Yeah man, watch out for that guy, you see him coming and you better go the other way.
You're so right. I was thinking that most people bought Apple machines because they're "cool", but the last time I was in the Apple store all I heard people talking about were the BSD kernel and user security.
I don't think many people are defending ATT, the real point is that the complainers don't have a right to complain because they knew or should have known that this was going to happen anyway. They can't have seriously expected going into the deal that they were going to get a discount on the next iPhone that came out, I don't know why anyone would assume something like that (especially when it's not in the contract, which they also probably never bothered to read).
ATT are still a bunch of a-holes, it's just that the people who willingly signed a contract with ATT and now are being held to the terms of the contract don't have any reason to complain about their contract. If they didn't agree to the terms, they shouldn't have signed it. Incidentally, that's why I never signed an ATT contract, and that's also why you don't hear me complaining about this.
If they were interested in doing a public service they would notify TMobile of the problem and we never would have heard about it. They aren't trying to make the network more stable, they're trying to steal and sell the data. This isn't exactly a Robin Hood scenario.
Only open to US residents? - SURE, "all" the best hackers and US born. 18 Years of Age. - O yes, for "all" the best hackers are 18 and older because they have girlfriends, jobs and a shit-ton more to loose.
They have to limit their liability by only allowing American adults, a minor can't enter into a contract so there's no point in even allowing them to compete. They probably need to be American just in case the company decides to sue them. As for hacking being illegal, it's not exactly illegal when you have permission to do it. The definition of hacking includes lack of authorization to do what you're doing. If you have authorization, legally speaking you're not hacking.
Now come back in 10 years and tell me GameStop are still making money from used games.
o...k... I'll be sure to mark that on my calendar. I don't think used games are going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
Just because a company's short term business model is pulling in a profit doesn't mean your shares will be worth anything in a few years time!
Yeah, no shit Professor Obvious. But considering the fact that GameStop's business model is 25 years old, and isn't exactly what I would consider "short-term", I really don't think drastic changes are going to happen in the next "few years" to substantially alter that model. People will always be buying games, and GameStop is one place that will always be selling them. The only way a place like GameStop would go out of business is if *all* game distribution switched to an online model. That isn't going to happen as long as people want to play games on devices that are not online.
If you disagree with that, perhaps you'd like to buy my shares in the company that made Tamagotchi?
Are you really trying to compare a decades-old multibillion dollar industry with a Japanese fad? And were you really stupid enough to buy those shares?
I hope you can understand my writing even though I'm not using exclamation points, let me know if that's a problem for you.
I think that person should be you. I think that you should call GameStop up and inform them that there is actually no used games market and that the revenue they bring in from selling used games actually does not exist. I'm sure they would be grateful to be informed of that so that they can adjust their business model from the insight that you can provide. I would offer to do this myself, but clearly I do not possess the same insight as you.
I haven't seen a lot of what he's written, but his review about Opera 10 is pretty pathetic. The entire review seems to focus on aesthetics and little else of substance, and apparently he has a hard time dealing with anything non-mac. Like I said, I'm not familiar with his writing, but that's the way the review makes him seem. I especially liked the part where he says that the color scheme he chose clashes terribly with OSX.
How is it possible that inside every single Opera story on Slashdot, someone posts that they don't like Opera because it doesn't have something like NoScript, then they get corrected, then the next article they say the same thing?
Opera has always been able to block Javascript, globally or per-site. I'm going to explain how this is done, and I'm going to move pretty quick, so stay with me:
Let me know if you have any questions about that process, I understand it can be difficult to grasp for many people.
For more in-depth control, go to Site Preferences on the F-12 menu, and choose specific Javascript options for the current site. OR, you can also download one of the many toolbars to add a toggle Javascript button right on the damn UI. The JS button I have on the Opera UI right now (which has sat there for several years) toggles JS functionality if I just click it, and if I click and hold on the button it pops up the entire Javascript prefs window so that I can choose individual features to disable (like reporting right-clicks to JS).
Wise up, man. This stuff has been built-in to Opera for as long as I've been using it (since version 7, in my case).
The original author of that got destroyed on his own comments page. I'm not sure if he decided to also anonymously troll Slashdot or if another AC decided to troll for him. He's even saying he's going to rewrite the article:
addendum: As an apology to the community for the reckless and inadequate review I will be doing it again, properly, taking into consideration your fine comments.
That's some nice FUD, but Opera does them perfectly well. Opera's mouse gestures have always been the model for browser mouse gestures. History search works just like it should, content blocking is easy and effective, the web developer tools look awesome (haven't dove into them much yet). The few times I used bittorrent in Opera it worked perfectly fine. I stopped using email in Opera a few years ago in favor of Thunderbird, and I haven't used IRC, RSS, or voice.
Chrome and IE8 are multiprocess, don't know about IE7.
Firefox OTOH...does practically everything in one thread.
While I agree that Opera is a lot more responsive than other browsers (even Chrome, which still takes its sweet time re-rendering things when I come back to it after a while), I do only notice a single opera.exe in my Win task manager, although it lists that it has 40 threads running (for 13 tabs). It says Firefox has 14 threads for its 2 tabs, while Chrome has 3 processes and a total of 18 threads for 2 tabs.
Opera now shows 44 threads. OK, 41. Apparently that changes quite a bit. 43!
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Is it possible to file some sort of hosticus curiae brief? Can I troll the judge?
Bah, well here's to hoping that MediaSentry is held to the same standards as the defense witness.
What do you make of the judge's decision on pages 6-7 that the MPDA doesn't apply because MediaSentry isn't based in MN? If the company is investigating someone who lives in MN, and they were in MN when they were being investigated, why is it relevant where the investigation was conducted from? If I go a few hours down to Mexico and start hacking computers in the US, am I no longer liable under US laws just because I'm in Mexico when I did it? I don't understand that decision, I really thought that claim above all the others had the most merit.
I know it's probably not considered great practice, but can Camara argue with the judge that the decision was incorrect?
There's small chance of seeing even the moon, let alone the milkyway [cosmosmagazine.com] in any major US city.
Huh? Which city have you been to where the ambient light pollution is brighter than the moon?
Just to be pedantic, they'll also be able to see from the logs that you only hit the homepage and nothing else.
Finally, just because no one has fabricated evidence yet doesn't mean that it won't be done in the future.
Just because we haven't been attacked by giant space hamsters doesn't mean it won't happen in the future. Just because the second coming of Jesus hasn't happened doesn't mean that it won't happen in the future. Just because no one has shit out their mouth doesn't mean that it won't be done in the future.
In addition to ending perceived online threats, we should also prepare our space hamster defenses, make sure we're looking busy for Jesus, and invent a handy face diaper.
Maybe the status quo needs to be shaken around periodically. We all enjoy a high level of perceived anonymity and immunity from things we say and do online. Maybe it's a good thing that periodically we're reminded about reality.
How exactly is that different from being framed in our current justice system? Vigilantism doesn't open the possibility for framing, that's a part of what we have now.
No one listens to people like you in the world we currently live in, and there's no reason to assume that would change. You might notice the ubiquity of [citation needed] around the net, which is a good thing that people are finally mindful of. Lack of evidence doesn't get you very far. The examples in the story all had evidence to go on, and they all shared evidence with each other until they figured out who was responsible. That's the power they're describing - the power of a group of people to instantly combine their individual shreds of evidence to form the true picture, and to do it quickly. The fact stands that still no one cares about anonymous cowards.
There's nothing NSFW about the home page at redtube.com. You see a bunch of giant text asking you to consent to entering an adult site, with 2 buttons you can click on. What exactly is NSFW about that? If you saw that text, still clicked the "Enter" button, and then got offended when you saw porn, you don't really have a lot to bitch about. If the mere presence of a page warning that you're about to enter an adult site is itself considered NSFW where you work, then I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they also don't want you reading Slashdot, but apparently you're fine ignoring that.
He sounds like trouble in a box!
He does? Did you only read that one paragraph in the wikipedia article? Here's another part:
Camara was born in Manila, Philippines [in 1984]. A year later, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio before settling in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Camara attended the Punahou School.[1] He wrote a medical paper on alternative treatments for rheumatoid arthritis at age eleven,[1] which was published in the Hawai'i Journal of Medicine.[2] At sixteen, having skipped high school, Camara earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Hawaii Pacific University.[2] He completed the program in two years and was singularly recognized by the university for outstanding academic performance.[2] The Philippines awarded him their Jose Rizal Certificate of Achievement while he was in college and later, in 2005, recognized him with a Presidential Commendation.[3]
Yeah man, watch out for that guy, you see him coming and you better go the other way.
Does young "Kiwi" there really have your best interests at heart, or is he more interested in making a name for himself by shooting for the moon?
Yes.
You're so right. I was thinking that most people bought Apple machines because they're "cool", but the last time I was in the Apple store all I heard people talking about were the BSD kernel and user security.
I don't think many people are defending ATT, the real point is that the complainers don't have a right to complain because they knew or should have known that this was going to happen anyway. They can't have seriously expected going into the deal that they were going to get a discount on the next iPhone that came out, I don't know why anyone would assume something like that (especially when it's not in the contract, which they also probably never bothered to read).
ATT are still a bunch of a-holes, it's just that the people who willingly signed a contract with ATT and now are being held to the terms of the contract don't have any reason to complain about their contract. If they didn't agree to the terms, they shouldn't have signed it. Incidentally, that's why I never signed an ATT contract, and that's also why you don't hear me complaining about this.
Sometimes I wonder how you spend $100 billion in one year. Where can you go and say "I have $100 billion to spend"?
Bank of America.
Of course, soon the dreaded day will arrive when journalists start talking about the "twitosphere".
Yeah, that's already here. And it's "the Twitterverse", by the way.
If they were interested in doing a public service they would notify TMobile of the problem and we never would have heard about it. They aren't trying to make the network more stable, they're trying to steal and sell the data. This isn't exactly a Robin Hood scenario.
Only open to US residents? - SURE, "all" the best hackers and US born.
18 Years of Age. - O yes, for "all" the best hackers are 18 and older because they have girlfriends, jobs and a shit-ton more to loose.
They have to limit their liability by only allowing American adults, a minor can't enter into a contract so there's no point in even allowing them to compete. They probably need to be American just in case the company decides to sue them. As for hacking being illegal, it's not exactly illegal when you have permission to do it. The definition of hacking includes lack of authorization to do what you're doing. If you have authorization, legally speaking you're not hacking.
Now come back in 10 years and tell me GameStop are still making money from used games.
o...k... I'll be sure to mark that on my calendar. I don't think used games are going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
Just because a company's short term business model is pulling in a profit doesn't mean your shares will be worth anything in a few years time!
Yeah, no shit Professor Obvious. But considering the fact that GameStop's business model is 25 years old, and isn't exactly what I would consider "short-term", I really don't think drastic changes are going to happen in the next "few years" to substantially alter that model. People will always be buying games, and GameStop is one place that will always be selling them. The only way a place like GameStop would go out of business is if *all* game distribution switched to an online model. That isn't going to happen as long as people want to play games on devices that are not online.
If you disagree with that, perhaps you'd like to buy my shares in the company that made Tamagotchi?
Are you really trying to compare a decades-old multibillion dollar industry with a Japanese fad? And were you really stupid enough to buy those shares?
I hope you can understand my writing even though I'm not using exclamation points, let me know if that's a problem for you.
I think that person should be you. I think that you should call GameStop up and inform them that there is actually no used games market and that the revenue they bring in from selling used games actually does not exist. I'm sure they would be grateful to be informed of that so that they can adjust their business model from the insight that you can provide. I would offer to do this myself, but clearly I do not possess the same insight as you.
I haven't seen a lot of what he's written, but his review about Opera 10 is pretty pathetic. The entire review seems to focus on aesthetics and little else of substance, and apparently he has a hard time dealing with anything non-mac. Like I said, I'm not familiar with his writing, but that's the way the review makes him seem. I especially liked the part where he says that the color scheme he chose clashes terribly with OSX.
How is it possible that inside every single Opera story on Slashdot, someone posts that they don't like Opera because it doesn't have something like NoScript, then they get corrected, then the next article they say the same thing?
Opera has always been able to block Javascript, globally or per-site. I'm going to explain how this is done, and I'm going to move pretty quick, so stay with me:
Step 1: press F-12
Step 2: click "Enable Javascript"
Let me know if you have any questions about that process, I understand it can be difficult to grasp for many people.
For more in-depth control, go to Site Preferences on the F-12 menu, and choose specific Javascript options for the current site. OR, you can also download one of the many toolbars to add a toggle Javascript button right on the damn UI. The JS button I have on the Opera UI right now (which has sat there for several years) toggles JS functionality if I just click it, and if I click and hold on the button it pops up the entire Javascript prefs window so that I can choose individual features to disable (like reporting right-clicks to JS).
Wise up, man. This stuff has been built-in to Opera for as long as I've been using it (since version 7, in my case).
Headers can now be found in the new developer console.
The original author of that got destroyed on his own comments page. I'm not sure if he decided to also anonymously troll Slashdot or if another AC decided to troll for him. He's even saying he's going to rewrite the article:
addendum: As an apology to the community for the reckless and inadequate review I will be doing it again, properly, taking into consideration your fine comments.
Nice catch
That's some nice FUD, but Opera does them perfectly well. Opera's mouse gestures have always been the model for browser mouse gestures. History search works just like it should, content blocking is easy and effective, the web developer tools look awesome (haven't dove into them much yet). The few times I used bittorrent in Opera it worked perfectly fine. I stopped using email in Opera a few years ago in favor of Thunderbird, and I haven't used IRC, RSS, or voice.
Chrome and IE8 are multiprocess, don't know about IE7.
Firefox OTOH...does practically everything in one thread.
While I agree that Opera is a lot more responsive than other browsers (even Chrome, which still takes its sweet time re-rendering things when I come back to it after a while), I do only notice a single opera.exe in my Win task manager, although it lists that it has 40 threads running (for 13 tabs). It says Firefox has 14 threads for its 2 tabs, while Chrome has 3 processes and a total of 18 threads for 2 tabs.
Opera now shows 44 threads. OK, 41. Apparently that changes quite a bit. 43!