Woah... they went from 0 to 100kph in like 1 second. If I was the other parties i'd be taking notice. One seat probably isn't going to change much but it has been amazing to watch this whole thing unfold and the threat it all posses to the other parties if they don't stop taking money and order's from big business/brother...
No.. because you didn't use all UPPERCASE.... but everything you said is true enough. Something as important as voting shouldn't be played with and subject to the whim's of lobbyist and 'for profit' tech companies who are outsourcing their coding to china.
The whole idea (facile) of saving a buck by making the voting system electronic or that paper ballets are too hard to understand is just cover for someone trying to make a buck or worse someone trying to rig elections with less effort and/or chance of being caught.
Doesn't mater what party or group you belong to we all loose...
Yes, they used CSS encryption but those damn hackers broke the law and circumvented it using something called DeCSS... When is the government going to put a stop to this sort of thing and protect us!
What I find interesting and mostly overlooked about this topic is that people expect alien's to have devolved technology in the same manner and order as we have.
One example, People always say that any race that can cover the vast 'sorta' emptiness of space would be smarter than us by default. That is assuming that they, the alien's, didn't stumble upon 'Faster Than Light' travel at the same time they where working on something that would have seemed totally unrelated. If you look at some of the greatest breakthroughs here on earth you will often times see that people stumble upon them purely by accidental while working on totally unrelated stuff.
I would wager that, when we do meet some aliens, we will discover that we have some advanced technologies THEY don't (porn, novel ways to kill each other, Windows 7, batman, etc) just as they have some we don't. (Robotic sex slaves, FTL drives, novel ways to make popcorn, etc) I think it will, at least at first, lead to a "you show us yours and we're show you ours" type of friendliness but who knows if that will last once the (MP/RI)AA gets involved.
Two truely smart races would combine technologies freely as the universe is so damn huge it's not like there isn't room. Here on earth we are use to fighting over resources but in space you have trillions of empty planets, moons, etc so really there is no reason to fight over much of anything unless your race has 3.2453x10^10000000000000000 members... And even then to fight risks loosing what you already have.
INF files and the Windows Registry can be edited. I dought anyone went to the trouble of scanning the hardware when they can just read the info from the registry...
Corporations don't pay tax. Not really. They pass on that tax to their customers. Ultimately, it is the consumer that pays the tax.
People keep saying this but then why does Microsoft care so much? It's not like they have any compition or don't already charge ungodly for their OS. So why would paying more taxes make them want to move? Riddle me that batman.
If you did clearly break the rules that you could be charged under 18.USC 1030 as the access was unauthorized, knowing (you agreed to the rules), and fraudulent (you were attempting to cheat them out of prize money), and crossed state lines. But they weren't tricky rules to follow.
Since hackers where required to register with them lets hope no one did anything that Strongwebmail finds didn't follow their rules, or at least choose to be honest and not make false claims about those "hackers" just to avoid paying and/or have them ToS'ed in jail.
Funny perhaps, in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way...but seriously, all of those restrictions are generally required for any kind of contest with a large cash reward. It's just to remove any liability from the company for refusing would-be contest winners that are not permitted through laws, or for any actions of individuals illegally participating.
Yeah yeah bash the drunk guy on Friday night who points out that a hacking contest has a long list of restrictions and requires you to follow the law in order to get paid.
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.
But when you combine point A with Point B you get the legal paxadox of "the hacker smashed our system" and thus wins the 10 grand but we are sueing them for 150 grand in damages unless of coarse he wants to work off the debit by fixing our servers.. frickin genius...
I'm the 4,294,967,296th John Doe, you insensitive clod!!
Well then I'm afraid you're going to have to download your illegal copy of "Abba - The greatest Hits" again. And this time make sure it's in wma format.
Anyway this story is 1am3, I will never use this company's product as I prefer an extremely old alpha copy of qmail and outlook express.
If you where wondering... I was taut to rename all of my executable's on my server and replace them with very small shell scripts that mock all the hackers who gain root just before kill -9'ing their pids with a very meaty grep command...
They think it's some sort of "chat with lisa" joke type server.. they are wrong... Dead Wrong...
Are you a lawyer? I'm not but I am pretty sure there are anti-hacking laws... Where is a good lawyer when you need one.... for free.... at 1am on a Friday night.... while in jail....
Someone needs to summon that NC-lawyer guy from his bed... Maybe prank call him and tell him the RIAA wants to settle to get him up on here to chime in.
I read over their rules and it was extremely iffy looking to me... But I'm no Hacker, I mean lawyer so ehh...
Anyway this story is 1am3, I will never use this company's product as I prefer an extremely old alpha copy of qmail and outlook express.
Void where prohibited, taxed, or otherwise restricted by law. Subject to all federal, state, and local laws. This Contest is open to all legal residents of the United States and the District of Columbia, and U.S. Military personnel (and their families) with APO/FPO addresses, who are eighteen (18) years of age or older.
Void where prohibited? - Hacking? Nah... Taxed? - Hacking? - Donno it might be now... Otherwise restricted by law? - Hacking? Nah.... Subject to all federal, state, and local laws? - Hacking? Nah... 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.
Gezzzzz come on now... If you try and claim the 10 grand you're going to get 30 years in federal prison..... No wonder they didn't think anyone would try for the 10 grand.
Consider that a successful defense of Jamie Thomas-Rasset against the RIAA, possibly winding its way to a spectacular conclusion with arguments before the Supreme Court, would boost the career of an enterprising pro-bono attorney tremendously. It could put them on the fast track to partnership in a big firm or, at the very least, increase their profile enough to attract new clients with similar cases and deeper pockets.
Exactly. If the guy win's he might even be able to get a great job with the RIAA handing their class action suite in 2012. 'John Doe's 0-FFFFFFFF vs RIAA'
and have it go into education. The more you educate a society, the fewer crimes that occur. Also has the nice benefit of having an area with more businesses and a larger talent pool.
Here in NC the state just cut teachers pay and fired a few thousand teachers. Next year my wife's 4th grade class size will increase from 23 to 33+ kids and each of her pay checks will be $100 less...
That whole thing about lotto money going to education or taxes going to education is a lie. The money gets redirected to pay anyone and everyone except for the people who teach and cleanup after the children.
Heck they shut off the Air Conditioning in the schools exactly when the kids leave and refuse to turn it on in the first place unless the temperature outside falls below some set limit regardless of the temperature inside a building... (this is all controlled at county office not each school building) A number of custodians have died here in Asheville due to heat stroke just to save a few bucks. You would never believe just how insanely bad it really is unless you got to see it first hand.
The moral of this story is Public Education is unimportant to politicians because it's not their kids... See for yourself: http://www.ncae.org/
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Woah... they went from 0 to 100kph in like 1 second. If I was the other parties i'd be taking notice. One seat probably isn't going to change much but it has been amazing to watch this whole thing unfold and the threat it all posses to the other parties if they don't stop taking money and order's from big business/brother...
Can you tell I am pissed off?
No.. because you didn't use all UPPERCASE.... but everything you said is true enough. Something as important as voting shouldn't be played with and subject to the whim's of lobbyist and 'for profit' tech companies who are outsourcing their coding to china.
The whole idea (facile) of saving a buck by making the voting system electronic or that paper ballets are too hard to understand is just cover for someone trying to make a buck or worse someone trying to rig elections with less effort and/or chance of being caught.
Doesn't mater what party or group you belong to we all loose...
Who said it was not encrypted?
Yes, they used CSS encryption but those damn hackers broke the law and circumvented it using something called DeCSS...
When is the government going to put a stop to this sort of thing and protect us!
NMap has got such a bad name!!
HA! It's damn funny when people claim NMap to be a hackers tool. I for one, like checking my system for open ports, DAMNIT.
What I find interesting and mostly overlooked about this topic is that people expect alien's to have devolved technology in the same manner and order as we have.
One example, People always say that any race that can cover the vast 'sorta' emptiness of space would be smarter than us by default. That is assuming that they, the alien's, didn't stumble upon 'Faster Than Light' travel at the same time they where working on something that would have seemed totally unrelated. If you look at some of the greatest breakthroughs here on earth you will often times see that people stumble upon them purely by accidental while working on totally unrelated stuff.
I would wager that, when we do meet some aliens, we will discover that we have some advanced technologies THEY don't (porn, novel ways to kill each other, Windows 7, batman, etc) just as they have some we don't. (Robotic sex slaves, FTL drives, novel ways to make popcorn, etc) I think it will, at least at first, lead to a "you show us yours and we're show you ours" type of friendliness but who knows if that will last once the (MP/RI)AA gets involved.
Two truely smart races would combine technologies freely as the universe is so damn huge it's not like there isn't room. Here on earth we are use to fighting over resources but in space you have trillions of empty planets, moons, etc so really there is no reason to fight over much of anything unless your race has 3.2453x10^10000000000000000 members... And even then to fight risks loosing what you already have.
Isn't homebrew code speak for pirates these days?
And pirate is code speak for DRM freedom fighter.
yet we continue to bet the survival of our species on a single rock floating in space.
The rock isn't floating... IT'S FALLING TOWARD THE SUN! god help us all...
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INF files and the Windows Registry can be edited. I dought anyone went to the trouble of scanning the hardware when they can just read the info from the registry...
Hacking is perfectly legal, just like lockpicking. What's illegal is trespassing.
And yet lock picking tools are perfectly illegal in many states.
FAKE VR Machine running on same NIC for their RIAA monitoring program and a VPN to your moms house.
Written by a true Anonymous Coward who doesn't pay his taxes.
Corporations don't pay tax. Not really. They pass on that tax to their customers. Ultimately, it is the consumer that pays the tax.
People keep saying this but then why does Microsoft care so much? It's not like they have any compition or don't already charge ungodly for their OS. So why would paying more taxes make them want to move? Riddle me that batman.
If you did clearly break the rules that you could be charged under 18.USC 1030 as the access was unauthorized, knowing (you agreed to the rules), and fraudulent (you were attempting to cheat them out of prize money), and crossed state lines. But they weren't tricky rules to follow.
Since hackers where required to register with them lets hope no one did anything that Strongwebmail finds didn't follow their rules, or at least choose to be honest and not make false claims about those "hackers" just to avoid paying and/or have them ToS'ed in jail.
Funny perhaps, in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way...but seriously, all of those restrictions are generally required for any kind of contest with a large cash reward. It's just to remove any liability from the company for refusing would-be contest winners that are not permitted through laws, or for any actions of individuals illegally participating.
Yeah yeah bash the drunk guy on Friday night who points out that a hacking contest has a long list of restrictions and requires you to follow the law in order to get paid.
Yawn...
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.
But when you combine point A with Point B you get the legal paxadox of "the hacker smashed our system" and thus wins the 10 grand but we are sueing them for 150 grand in damages unless of coarse he wants to work off the debit by fixing our servers.. frickin genius...
I'm the 4,294,967,296th John Doe, you insensitive clod!!
Well then I'm afraid you're going to have to download your illegal copy of "Abba - The greatest Hits" again. And this time make sure it's in wma format.
Anyway this story is 1am3, I will never use this company's product as I prefer an extremely old alpha copy of qmail and outlook express.
If you where wondering... I was taut to rename all of my executable's on my server and replace them with very small shell scripts that mock all the hackers who gain root just before kill -9'ing their pids with a very meaty grep command...
They think it's some sort of "chat with lisa" joke type server.. they are wrong... Dead Wrong...
Are you a lawyer? I'm not but I am pretty sure there are anti-hacking laws... Where is a good lawyer when you need one.... for free.... at 1am on a Friday night.... while in jail....
Someone needs to summon that NC-lawyer guy from his bed... Maybe prank call him and tell him the RIAA wants to settle to get him up on here to chime in.
I read over their rules and it was extremely iffy looking to me... But I'm no Hacker, I mean lawyer so ehh...
Anyway this story is 1am3, I will never use this company's product as I prefer an extremely old alpha copy of qmail and outlook express.
Taxed? - Hacking? - Donno it might be now...
wait wait wait... are they saying VOID where the proceeds of the contest are TAXED? That would be everywhere in the US!
Void where prohibited, taxed, or otherwise restricted by law. Subject to all federal, state, and local laws. This Contest is open to all legal residents of the United States and the District of Columbia, and U.S. Military personnel (and their families) with APO/FPO addresses, who are eighteen (18) years of age or older.
Void where prohibited? - Hacking? Nah...
Taxed? - Hacking? - Donno it might be now...
Otherwise restricted by law? - Hacking? Nah....
Subject to all federal, state, and local laws? - Hacking? Nah...
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.
Gezzzzz come on now... If you try and claim the 10 grand you're going to get 30 years in federal prison.....
No wonder they didn't think anyone would try for the 10 grand.
Honestly what I find extremely funny is that they already know they have a security problem and that these hackers have some sort of access.
Are they really going to try and piss them off and not pay up?
Wait I'm confused??? They expected the hackers to follow rules?
Consider that a successful defense of Jamie Thomas-Rasset against the RIAA, possibly winding its way to a spectacular conclusion with arguments before the Supreme Court, would boost the career of an enterprising pro-bono attorney tremendously. It could put them on the fast track to partnership in a big firm or, at the very least, increase their profile enough to attract new clients with similar cases and deeper pockets.
Exactly. If the guy win's he might even be able to get a great job with the RIAA handing their class action suite in 2012. 'John Doe's 0-FFFFFFFF vs RIAA'
and have it go into education.
The more you educate a society, the fewer crimes that occur. Also has the nice benefit of having an area with more businesses and a larger talent pool.
Here in NC the state just cut teachers pay and fired a few thousand teachers.
Next year my wife's 4th grade class size will increase from 23 to 33+ kids and each of her pay checks will be $100 less...
That whole thing about lotto money going to education or taxes going to education is a lie. The money gets redirected to pay anyone and everyone except for the people who teach and cleanup after the children.
Heck they shut off the Air Conditioning in the schools exactly when the kids leave and refuse to turn it on in the first place unless the temperature outside falls below some set limit regardless of the temperature inside a building... (this is all controlled at county office not each school building) A number of custodians have died here in Asheville due to heat stroke just to save a few bucks. You would never believe just how insanely bad it really is unless you got to see it first hand.
The moral of this story is Public Education is unimportant to politicians because it's not their kids...
See for yourself: http://www.ncae.org/
Next month we will be purposing a new TCP/IP packet tax but it's only 1 cent so don't worry just keep downloading those idol episodes...