The `insightful' mod isn't because people think that it is a factual report, but that it is insightful that the Onion, a comical `news' source, basically predicted the article.
Those are federal laws, and in the federal court district of east Texas. The Texas legislature is much to incompetent to manage to be corrupt (unless it involves text-messaging wars between legislators or playing musical chairs, trying to hit other legislators voting buttons).
Probably because he doesn't need another legal raping at the hands of a DA who is going to use he former charges (though dropped) against him. And it is always a bad idea to give out information in the middle of a trial, especially when you are being charged with an issue like CP, which would then add a charge of distribution.
It happens in Japan too. For instance, in the manga of Ichigo Mashimaro, Nobue was 16, but they thought that a 16 year old who a smoking, drink, lazy, unreliable, (potential) child molester was too much, so they bumped her age up to 20 in the anime.
Some places already do this. The result is that everyone down to dog catchers are on the ballot, so everyone just votes party line so they don't have to fill in 500 check-boxes.
The NSA will give away anything that they are ordered to give away, and this administration is so completely in the pocket of the movie/music industry I suspect it has already happened.
Top secret things do not get given to the public, ever. If they really could, then the CP trading sites on Tor would be shutdown, given that there is probably no worse villain to the public. Yet they continue to exist, meaning that they have no means to break that encryption. Corruption aside, there is no politician that high up who is stupid enough to sacrifice the ability to spy on China\Russia\Citizens just so that the MPAA can take some 14yo to civil court and tell the world about it. At best it would take six months for everyone to stop using it, and they have arrested 60 people, but caused an economic meltdown as the banks are afraid that their money is insecure.
Why would the NSA publish plans for uncrackable voip phones if they are so secretive?
An unhackable phone consist of things that are already in public knowledge; it is nothing that can't be found in journals and trade publications. Any real tech that they have that no one knows about is likely to stay that way, lest the world knows that it is possible and the enemy starts to do it (or stop doing something, like using whatever encryption standard that is vulnerable).
you do know microsoft sells usb keys that bypass's window's own security measures to law enforcement
Actually, COFEE just gathers information that anything could see, like running processes and shit. It's on TPB, go look at it. It's little more than a batch script to be sold to the public.
I was going to bring that up too:). The main advantage that this RetroShare has is that it's open source. I've never liked the fact that Perfect Dark is closed, because though I might never look at it, it is nice to know that others can examine it. I think that about all security- and privacy-related software. Manual peering is incredibly annoying though, I hope that they automate it in the future.
If the NSA can do it, the FBI can do it, and we all know who's pocket the FBI is in.
I do not believe that that is the case. The NSA is staffed by the best and brightest that money can buy, with the computing power to match. The FBI, as a primarily civilian operation, has much less powerful toys and is staffed by glorified cops.
Disregarding that, there is no way that the NSA would risk giving away their best spying tools for spying, just to fight copyright infringement. That would be absurdly risky. All the governments would change their cyphers if they found out and it's probably 10000x more likely for the FBI to leak it than the NSA.
"He who controls the present, controls the past." These days, pretty much, if it isn't on the internet (or to the lesser extent, perhaps, television), you can't expect people to know that it ever even happened.
That sucks, but it's the only realistic option the school system had.
Their only option was to put a bunch of fucked up kids in the same room and wait for them to kill each other Battle Royale style? And you blame it on tenure. What the fuck? Whoever made that call needs to be locked away and you are a complete psychopath for thinking that this is okay.
I think that you are forgetting that Microsoft is not the government, but are instead a company that wants to make a profit and does so by selling services. Please recognize that Microsoft cannot force developers to release early and release game breaking bugs, nor does Microsoft levy taxes or fines on all gamers, nor is it their responsibility to make sure that everyone can publish crappy software and then patch it for free. They do have make money on this and I think that you need to realize that they are under no obligation to serve the public any more than why they are bound to by contract.
No, the freedom fighters die because they suffer from a debilitating infectious mental illness otherwise known as principles. Once their minds are corrupted by that memetic vector, they no longer have true free will and are subject to the will of the memes that pass through the hive mind. Consumption of a single host is insignificant to the hive, and may even provide vectors for infection of new hosts.
No, there was no way to do that on megaupload. Depositfiles, hotfile, fileserve.... All those shitty sites with 5 minute wait periods had that, but megaupload did not, that's why it was almost never used to upload freshly pirated media, and mostly for people who actually wanted to see it proliferate.
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The `insightful' mod isn't because people think that it is a factual report, but that it is insightful that the Onion, a comical `news' source, basically predicted the article.
Life imitates art, blah blah blah....
Those are federal laws, and in the federal court district of east Texas. The Texas legislature is much to incompetent to manage to be corrupt (unless it involves text-messaging wars between legislators or playing musical chairs, trying to hit other legislators voting buttons).
Probably because he doesn't need another legal raping at the hands of a DA who is going to use he former charges (though dropped) against him. And it is always a bad idea to give out information in the middle of a trial, especially when you are being charged with an issue like CP, which would then add a charge of distribution.
If you consider me ill-informed, then so be it.
Actually, I, like anyone else with the capacity for abstract thought would, consider you an idiot.
It happens in Japan too. For instance, in the manga of Ichigo Mashimaro, Nobue was 16, but they thought that a 16 year old who a smoking, drink, lazy, unreliable, (potential) child molester was too much, so they bumped her age up to 20 in the anime.
Tell that to the DA, see how far it gets you.
Some places already do this. The result is that everyone down to dog catchers are on the ballot, so everyone just votes party line so they don't have to fill in 500 check-boxes.
I completely agree. It is total garbage and if it isn't absolutely flawless in every possible regard, then it should not even have been attempted.
Yes, because no one has ever been found guilty in court of possessing CP have they?
Not as a result of having their 256-bit AES encrypted collection cracked.
And, by the way, it is not just "the public" who think p e dophiles are the worst of all villains.
What? Did I imply that it wasn't?
(And if you're trading in CP, then you are a p e dophile.)
Got something to say, fucker?
The NSA will give away anything that they are ordered to give away, and this administration is so completely in the pocket of the movie/music industry I suspect it has already happened.
Top secret things do not get given to the public, ever. If they really could, then the CP trading sites on Tor would be shutdown, given that there is probably no worse villain to the public. Yet they continue to exist, meaning that they have no means to break that encryption. Corruption aside, there is no politician that high up who is stupid enough to sacrifice the ability to spy on China\Russia\Citizens just so that the MPAA can take some 14yo to civil court and tell the world about it. At best it would take six months for everyone to stop using it, and they have arrested 60 people, but caused an economic meltdown as the banks are afraid that their money is insecure.
Why would the NSA publish plans for uncrackable voip phones if they are so secretive?
An unhackable phone consist of things that are already in public knowledge; it is nothing that can't be found in journals and trade publications. Any real tech that they have that no one knows about is likely to stay that way, lest the world knows that it is possible and the enemy starts to do it (or stop doing something, like using whatever encryption standard that is vulnerable).
you do know microsoft sells usb keys that bypass's window's own security measures to law enforcement
Actually, COFEE just gathers information that anything could see, like running processes and shit. It's on TPB, go look at it. It's little more than a batch script to be sold to the public.
I was going to bring that up too :). The main advantage that this RetroShare has is that it's open source. I've never liked the fact that Perfect Dark is closed, because though I might never look at it, it is nice to know that others can examine it. I think that about all security- and privacy-related software. Manual peering is incredibly annoying though, I hope that they automate it in the future.
If the NSA can do it, the FBI can do it, and we all know who's pocket the FBI is in.
I do not believe that that is the case. The NSA is staffed by the best and brightest that money can buy, with the computing power to match. The FBI, as a primarily civilian operation, has much less powerful toys and is staffed by glorified cops.
Disregarding that, there is no way that the NSA would risk giving away their best spying tools for spying, just to fight copyright infringement. That would be absurdly risky. All the governments would change their cyphers if they found out and it's probably 10000x more likely for the FBI to leak it than the NSA.
"He who controls the present, controls the past." These days, pretty much, if it isn't on the internet (or to the lesser extent, perhaps, television), you can't expect people to know that it ever even happened.
Overage charges? (I don't know that they have those though).
That sucks, but it's the only realistic option the school system had.
Their only option was to put a bunch of fucked up kids in the same room and wait for them to kill each other Battle Royale style? And you blame it on tenure. What the fuck? Whoever made that call needs to be locked away and you are a complete psychopath for thinking that this is okay.
But what if they did? o.O What then? Do you want the blood of SPONTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS CAUSING THE APOCALYPSE on your hands?
I think that you are forgetting that Microsoft is not the government, but are instead a company that wants to make a profit and does so by selling services. Please recognize that Microsoft cannot force developers to release early and release game breaking bugs, nor does Microsoft levy taxes or fines on all gamers, nor is it their responsibility to make sure that everyone can publish crappy software and then patch it for free. They do have make money on this and I think that you need to realize that they are under no obligation to serve the public any more than why they are bound to by contract.
You mean something like steganography?
And my money is already taxed as income when I pay sales tax with it, or when the merchant pays his taxes with it. Not a problem at all.
Liar, I dropped 3500$ on property taxes last year here in Texas. Click the first result.
Why should he be forced to sell out
Because he can't pay the taxes which pay for the roads, schools, police, and fire protection that is provided for it.
I truly extend my condolences that your pet project didn't get featured on Slashdot and that it has made you bitter and jealous of the work of others.
No, the freedom fighters die because they suffer from a debilitating infectious mental illness otherwise known as principles. Once their minds are corrupted by that memetic vector, they no longer have true free will and are subject to the will of the memes that pass through the hive mind. Consumption of a single host is insignificant to the hive, and may even provide vectors for infection of new hosts.
Fixed that to say what you are really implying.
No, there was no way to do that on megaupload. Depositfiles, hotfile, fileserve.... All those shitty sites with 5 minute wait periods had that, but megaupload did not, that's why it was almost never used to upload freshly pirated media, and mostly for people who actually wanted to see it proliferate.