You don't even need a blackhat to ruin your own day.
You are in front of a used car retailer. You are sending a SMS to somebody. You see a friend of yours on the other side of the street. You wave at him...
No: the trick is, the chance of getting the card appeals to that same part of your brain that is responsible for impulse buy (and if you're over 16, also to the part that smirks at the thought somebody else is paying half of the price). So, you do buy the card. Not everybody will, but sort of enough to keep the thing running, at least at the beginning, when it's a new toy to play with.
Not really. If you were a teenager, you would gladly spend your 25, buy 50 worth of music, and when the card is depleted you would go back to downloading illegally.
The bit where only accredited journalists could record a conversation has another intent: to prevent magistrates from recording phone calls, etc. Too many people, including several of the premier's friends, incurred in problems with justice because they're not paying attention to what they say on the phone, as the police and magistrature are allowed (as of now..) to wiretap telephones when conducting an inquiry.
Interceptions did also help very much in busting mafia bosses etc., and I wouldn't be surprised at all if all Italian mobsters were now cheering for the current government (in the most optimistic possible ways of looking to things) to be able to pass this law.
BTW if you just "remember" an overheard conversation, see denzacar's reply below. But this is not, repeat not, the real objective with this law.
It wasn't. It's the Vogons probing the land. They apparently decided to turn Earth into a galactic outlet instead of destroying it.
(Which probably explains way many things happening on Earth lately BTW.)
Oh, I'm really sorry, I misunderstood completely. I thought cows would be hired as personnel in energy plants which would have created an unemployment problem maybe, as I was told that coal is not a replacement for oil and I think that oil workers are not easily requalified as milk producers. Thanks for making it clear for me.
S**t isn't petroleum either, I was just trying to draw a parallel to this:
Wouldn't it be more economical to simply directly use the energy that otherwise would have been used to raise the cattle in the first place, i.e. growing, harvesting and transporting the feed?
BTW cows are not electric, so we woudn't be burning coal to raise them and gather their manure and move it somewhere else (with probably non-electric vehicles) and use it to produce electricity. And if we did, why not just burn the coal for electricity and leave the cows alone? Poor cows. Do you want to feed them with coal you insensitive clod?
Given that the United States is heavily dependent on technology for everything from computer-based banking to supply-chain tracking and air-traffic control,
Given that every country in the whole world is dependent on the same technology for literally everything --down to irrigation control in agriculture in some cases-- it doesn't seem to me like the USA are automatically the "most" vulnerable country.
Alright, the US has been the host of the most part of the internet for years. It's been the main, or one of the main, repositories of technology worldwide, for years. And yes, it's been the place where the most renowned cybercrimes were perpetrated... for years. But then, and for the same exact reasons, it's one of the places where security has been taken seriously the earlier... (right?)
Oh, was it just a book presentation? Written by a former government advisor? Nevermind.
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Are you saying that by no means should a corporation should be held as liable for crimes? This is what businesses and corporations are constantly trying to achieve, especially the big ones. Commit crimes on a large scale, and then just find some moron among your employees to use as a scapegoat. No, please, no.
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FLOSS sounds like dental hygiene, especially in the same sentence as "ecosystem". With all due respect (to both.)
You don't even need a blackhat to ruin your own day. You are in front of a used car retailer. You are sending a SMS to somebody. You see a friend of yours on the other side of the street. You wave at him...
Not exactly. China is already producing a cheap iPad -- a rip rather than a clone -- it's called iPed: http://www.techi.com/2010/05/iped-launches-for-105-in-china-runs-on-android/
It's way less than half the price. It does not have an Apple logo on it btw...
Think Biowarez!
The parallel with computer programming looks even more appropriate now that I read this.
"really good stuff that deserve to be paid for" == "crappy ballad the girl i long for really really likes" ?
No: the trick is, the chance of getting the card appeals to that same part of your brain that is responsible for impulse buy (and if you're over 16, also to the part that smirks at the thought somebody else is paying half of the price). So, you do buy the card. Not everybody will, but sort of enough to keep the thing running, at least at the beginning, when it's a new toy to play with.
Not really. If you were a teenager, you would gladly spend your 25, buy 50 worth of music, and when the card is depleted you would go back to downloading illegally.
"Is there any chance that this will change in the near future?"
No.
"Another question is how long can Berlusconi stay in power?"
Until there's a political opposition again. Which does not look very close in time.
The bit where only accredited journalists could record a conversation has another intent: to prevent magistrates from recording phone calls, etc. Too many people, including several of the premier's friends, incurred in problems with justice because they're not paying attention to what they say on the phone, as the police and magistrature are allowed (as of now..) to wiretap telephones when conducting an inquiry.
Interceptions did also help very much in busting mafia bosses etc., and I wouldn't be surprised at all if all Italian mobsters were now cheering for the current government (in the most optimistic possible ways of looking to things) to be able to pass this law.
BTW if you just "remember" an overheard conversation, see denzacar's reply below. But this is not, repeat not, the real objective with this law.
It wasn't. It's the Vogons probing the land. They apparently decided to turn Earth into a galactic outlet instead of destroying it.
(Which probably explains way many things happening on Earth lately BTW.)
Sometimes Google is just unreliable. Everybody knows the answer is 42.
Have him download Hacker Evolution: The Untold and just wait.
Chapeau, sir.
Moonshine.
Oh, I'm really sorry, I misunderstood completely. I thought cows would be hired as personnel in energy plants which would have created an unemployment problem maybe, as I was told that coal is not a replacement for oil and I think that oil workers are not easily requalified as milk producers. Thanks for making it clear for me.
Fossil fuels.
Now have you ever heard about "analogy"? Let me google that for you.
Wouldn't it be more economical to simply directly use the energy that otherwise would have been used to raise the cattle in the first place, i.e. growing, harvesting and transporting the feed?
BTW cows are not electric, so we woudn't be burning coal to raise them and gather their manure and move it somewhere else (with probably non-electric vehicles) and use it to produce electricity. And if we did, why not just burn the coal for electricity and leave the cows alone? Poor cows. Do you want to feed them with coal you insensitive clod?
Too logical. Same thing as electric cars: you get the illusion of not depending on petroleum by increasing the distance between you and the gas pump.
Looks like somebody had exactly the same idea. Just skipping the part where they call it PS4.
"Purchased PS3s for supercomputing research". I definitely have to remember this one.
Given that the United States is heavily dependent on technology for everything from computer-based banking to supply-chain tracking and air-traffic control,
Given that every country in the whole world is dependent on the same technology for literally everything --down to irrigation control in agriculture in some cases-- it doesn't seem to me like the USA are automatically the "most" vulnerable country.
Alright, the US has been the host of the most part of the internet for years. It's been the main, or one of the main, repositories of technology worldwide, for years. And yes, it's been the place where the most renowned cybercrimes were perpetrated... for years. But then, and for the same exact reasons, it's one of the places where security has been taken seriously the earlier... (right?)
Oh, was it just a book presentation? Written by a former government advisor? Nevermind.
Are you saying that by no means should a corporation should be held as liable for crimes? This is what businesses and corporations are constantly trying to achieve, especially the big ones. Commit crimes on a large scale, and then just find some moron among your employees to use as a scapegoat. No, please, no.
- Enemy ship in view, Capt'n!
- Good! Let's BSOD the hell out of them!
- Capt'n! It appears they run Linux!
- Crap!
Still, the day when my pants send me an SMS I'll know that civilisation has tragically gone.