If you buy a stolen stereo on the street, it can be confiscated by the government. Same for a stolen car, that's why we have chop shops that launder parts from stolen cars back out into the market. So, granted IP rights may be different than real world stuff (did anybody suffer harm because unauthorized copies were distributed? was anybody deprived of anything? don't quote anything in parentheses, or this sentence, this isn't what i'm here to discuss), if you are in possession of a stolen item, it can be confiscated. It looks like amazon was just trying to jump the gun and possibly assumed that the copies would equate to 'stolen'.
Other side of the coin, let's say that these were just counterfeit copies. I.E. unauthorized copies of a protected item. I feel that this is closer to the truth. Current law says that it is NOT within the government's rights to seize a single counterfeit item if that is the only copy in your possession and you do not intend to sell it. That's why you never hear about a non-seller's collection of bootleg dvd's or fake-gucci purses being siezed. So had amazon realized that, it would have classified the re-seller as a digital counterfeiter and possibly resolved the matter by shutting off transfer rights (to another account, not another device within the account.)
Not sure that this is as much fun as the summary makes it out to be. I doubt that grandma will be slushing through routing tables or reading through log files to detect the source, but instead the next version of symantec's products will say "You've been pwned! Please provide ALL information to us, including data stolen, connection attempts, and your underwear sizes." and grandma will click "Send" and symantec will have more information to track down cyber-criminals.
And everyone will live happily ever after, with ponies. The End.
I never memorized all of my multiplication tables in middle school, heck I still haven't memorized the ones in the numerical neighborhood of 6x7, 7x8, 8x6, etc and have to multiply those out. The upshot is that I can do 17x16 and that neighborhood in about the same speed due to having to constantly practice and not just recall from a table. Being able to DO math rather than recall it is far more effective, long term, for an engineer. Besides, an engineer's job is all about tables (gear ratios, viscosity, transistor behavior, etc), why not add one more?
Once upon a time when the zune was first coming out, there was a box put out in the courtyard of the microsoft grounds, or some other common area (i can't recall which) where employees could ditch their ipods in a show of solidarity. If I recall correctly, there were only like 2-3 ipods dropped off from the whole of microsoft. I wonder how many "House Party 7"'s there will be? Although the ipod thing wasn't backed up by a show of chair-based kinetic force.
Please enjoy your stay in the United States of America, we have searched your laptop and destroyed our copies of your vacation bikini pictures after looking at snapshots of your fine fine body projected onto the conference room wall for an emergency assessment meeting. We did not find anything that would indicate that you might be dangerous outside of the bedroom, so we have kindly loaded your laptop with a government issued keylogger and trojan. We hope you enjoy your time here as much as we enjoyed your pictures. Please take more, we'll be waiting.
Yeah, though the reason I didn't equate success with profitability was because while different people want different things out of life, very very few creators of online web-shows don't have some sort of future monitization hopes (getting hired by another media outlet or show, or having their show picked up, or getting paid to do the show). The creators obviously enjoy doing it and they'd much rather be able to stop working at their day jobs and just create full time. In order to do that, it takes profitability. I think that 'success' might be 2+ million views on youtube per episode, but Success is getting paid to do what you love (create these shows).
They weren't terribly profitable until they shacked up with microsoft and got distributed via the live. They sold some t-shirts and the like, but didn't really hit it big until they stopped 'self publishing' (i.e. uploading to youtube) and got a distributor (microsoft live).
Oh, and wall street journal articles and front-page slashdots don't hurt either.
A Trompo is a toy popular in Latin America much like a top. Its name can vary between countries. In Spain it is known as "Peonza". Trompos have a pear-shaped body and are usually made of wood, although new resins and strong plastic materials have also been used.
The trompo seen in this picture is exactly like a top which has been made in Sasebo, Japan for hundreds of years. It is believed that the tops used in Mexico were brought over from Japan. In Japan the name for a top is called a Koma. Most cities in Japan have a particular design for their koma.
A trompo has a button-shaped tip on top, usually bigger than the tip on which trompo spins, and generally made of the same material as the rest of the body. This tip exists so that the trompo can spin on the metal-made tip when thrown.
Hmm, you learn something new every day. I've been playing with tops (not the kinds you spin with your thumb and finger, but wrap a string around and chuck) for a long time and always thought that they were "tops", not trompo or koma.
The more you know! {insert rainbow graphic and chimes}
P.S. I played with tops (trompo), yo-yo's, and 'the nintendo' and I only turned out semi-egotistical, semi-individualistic, and semi-violent. Maybe there is something to this 'the nintendo' that turns kids to 'the violent'. I'm gonna go to 'the store' and possibly pick up some 'the batman' comics, then off to 'the arcade' to play 'the nintendo'. Ok, i'm having too much fun with the 'Hugo Quotes', I'll quit now.
If the acronym is pronounced as individual letters, such as NSA (National Security Agency), then use the article that would be appropriate when pronouncing the first letter: "an NSA representative."
So 'an RTS' is correct unless you pronounce 'RTS' as a word (arrrt-ssss?). Unless you've pulled "An Real Time Strategy" from somewhere else that isn't in the summary or summary title, if so, carry on.
well, true, but most people may not think in terms of at fault or not or caused loss or didn't, but guilty/not guilty doesn't need to be explained and people have little trouble translating it over from criminal to civil in their heads.
Here i was thinking that this article would be about comcast, but then i remembered that comcast is just the regular kind of fraud. Over-promising and under-delivering...
Anywho, this is kind of scary, but not in an internet-scary kind of way, but instead in a crime can be all around you kind of way. Imagine if a restaurant was a front for a crime hub, i.e. skimming credit card and checking info, they would have access to people's financials, but in a much more limited sense. Although it would be interesting if the ISP didn't skim from it's own customers, but instead used them to poison dns stuff and the like. "Install our connection software! Welcome to our botnet, live long and prosper!"
Speaking as someone with experience in the digital forensics field (and I have personally done far more than e-mail forensics mentioned above), if the courts find out that you do company work on your personal laptop, you are a subpoena away from having to produce it, with or without the $1,250 bonus. If you brought a personal external hard drive into work one day and someone saw you use it, you could have to produce that. Depending on how good your lawyer is compared to theirs, you may be able to have your personal items undergo a privilege process, but that doesn't mean that some forensics expert isn't going to be taking a complete copy of your hard drive and presenting findings about (but not the actual relevant data until approved or ordered by the courts) your laptop usage.
Essentially if you get sued by your employer, it looks better if you just spread em wide and hope for the vaseline. There is no 'innocent until proven guilty' in civil courts, it's all about the 'preponderance of evidence' which means that if you can't say more about your innocence than they can about you're guilt, you're guilty.
This is government we're talking about. "Reasonably Informed" and "Politician"/"Government Bureaucrat" are mutually exclusive. Anywho, if the swiss politicians are anything like we have stateside, the trojan that they voted for doesn't need to stay secret forever, just until after the next election. That's the problem with politics, very few successful politicians thing or act long term because thinking long term means making painful decisions that will most likely get them voted out of office for the next feel-good guy. So you have all of these feel-good guys with 2,4, or 6 year attention spans and as long as the world doesn't end in that time period, they're pleased as punch.
The guys who voted on this or approved it will probably say "That was last term/fiscal year, this is this term/fiscal year! Lets go have a beer!" and be done with it, as if they are magically not guilty of voting this monster into existence.
If all of the judges in the land believe it is within their power to continue with the lie and refuse to hear appeals based on this, guess what happens?
That's stress, you need a vacation. Take a good solid 2 weeks, you'll probably crash and sleep for the first few days, then get really really bored, and after the boredom clears up, you'll find that you can read a book for 14 hours again.
They probably pause or mute the tv when they get a phone call and turn off the tv when they have company over. They may have the radio on while driving but turn it off when they get a call.
i think it comes down to the simple fact that you can't idiot proof anything. Criminals may be idiots but they sure can find ways around "effective" deterrents via a brute force method.
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If you buy a stolen stereo on the street, it can be confiscated by the government. Same for a stolen car, that's why we have chop shops that launder parts from stolen cars back out into the market. So, granted IP rights may be different than real world stuff (did anybody suffer harm because unauthorized copies were distributed? was anybody deprived of anything? don't quote anything in parentheses, or this sentence, this isn't what i'm here to discuss), if you are in possession of a stolen item, it can be confiscated. It looks like amazon was just trying to jump the gun and possibly assumed that the copies would equate to 'stolen'.
Other side of the coin, let's say that these were just counterfeit copies. I.E. unauthorized copies of a protected item. I feel that this is closer to the truth. Current law says that it is NOT within the government's rights to seize a single counterfeit item if that is the only copy in your possession and you do not intend to sell it. That's why you never hear about a non-seller's collection of bootleg dvd's or fake-gucci purses being siezed. So had amazon realized that, it would have classified the re-seller as a digital counterfeiter and possibly resolved the matter by shutting off transfer rights (to another account, not another device within the account.)
Not sure that this is as much fun as the summary makes it out to be. I doubt that grandma will be slushing through routing tables or reading through log files to detect the source, but instead the next version of symantec's products will say "You've been pwned! Please provide ALL information to us, including data stolen, connection attempts, and your underwear sizes." and grandma will click "Send" and symantec will have more information to track down cyber-criminals.
And everyone will live happily ever after, with ponies. The End.
I never memorized all of my multiplication tables in middle school, heck I still haven't memorized the ones in the numerical neighborhood of 6x7, 7x8, 8x6, etc and have to multiply those out. The upshot is that I can do 17x16 and that neighborhood in about the same speed due to having to constantly practice and not just recall from a table. Being able to DO math rather than recall it is far more effective, long term, for an engineer. Besides, an engineer's job is all about tables (gear ratios, viscosity, transistor behavior, etc), why not add one more?
Once upon a time when the zune was first coming out, there was a box put out in the courtyard of the microsoft grounds, or some other common area (i can't recall which) where employees could ditch their ipods in a show of solidarity. If I recall correctly, there were only like 2-3 ipods dropped off from the whole of microsoft. I wonder how many "House Party 7"'s there will be? Although the ipod thing wasn't backed up by a show of chair-based kinetic force.
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please enjoy your stay in the United States of America, we have searched your laptop and destroyed our copies of your vacation bikini pictures after looking at snapshots of your fine fine body projected onto the conference room wall for an emergency assessment meeting. We did not find anything that would indicate that you might be dangerous outside of the bedroom, so we have kindly loaded your laptop with a government issued keylogger and trojan. We hope you enjoy your time here as much as we enjoyed your pictures. Please take more, we'll be waiting.
Sincerely,
the Department of Homeland Security
Too Soon?
Yeah, though the reason I didn't equate success with profitability was because while different people want different things out of life, very very few creators of online web-shows don't have some sort of future monitization hopes (getting hired by another media outlet or show, or having their show picked up, or getting paid to do the show). The creators obviously enjoy doing it and they'd much rather be able to stop working at their day jobs and just create full time. In order to do that, it takes profitability. I think that 'success' might be 2+ million views on youtube per episode, but Success is getting paid to do what you love (create these shows).
They weren't terribly profitable until they shacked up with microsoft and got distributed via the live. They sold some t-shirts and the like, but didn't really hit it big until they stopped 'self publishing' (i.e. uploading to youtube) and got a distributor (microsoft live).
Oh, and wall street journal articles and front-page slashdots don't hurt either.
A Trompo is a toy popular in Latin America much like a top. Its name can vary between countries. In Spain it is known as "Peonza". Trompos have a pear-shaped body and are usually made of wood, although new resins and strong plastic materials have also been used.
The trompo seen in this picture is exactly like a top which has been made in Sasebo, Japan for hundreds of years. It is believed that the tops used in Mexico were brought over from Japan. In Japan the name for a top is called a Koma. Most cities in Japan have a particular design for their koma.
A trompo has a button-shaped tip on top, usually bigger than the tip on which trompo spins, and generally made of the same material as the rest of the body. This tip exists so that the trompo can spin on the metal-made tip when thrown.
from you know where
Hmm, you learn something new every day. I've been playing with tops (not the kinds you spin with your thumb and finger, but wrap a string around and chuck) for a long time and always thought that they were "tops", not trompo or koma.
The more you know! {insert rainbow graphic and chimes}
P.S. I played with tops (trompo), yo-yo's, and 'the nintendo' and I only turned out semi-egotistical, semi-individualistic, and semi-violent. Maybe there is something to this 'the nintendo' that turns kids to 'the violent'. I'm gonna go to 'the store' and possibly pick up some 'the batman' comics, then off to 'the arcade' to play 'the nintendo'. Ok, i'm having too much fun with the 'Hugo Quotes', I'll quit now.
Yeah, it almost makes me wonder if this is a bit of astro-turf done by someone from AT&T or Verizon.
"Well, science knows it doesn't know everything! Otherwise it would stop."
Just saw off the tubes and plug em. It won't hut the resale value of the house very much.
The "rule" is completely wrong. Try "an PBS representative."
Let me quote something from the post you just responded to:
then use the article that would be appropriate when pronouncing the first letter
Break PBS into its component letter sounds, 'Pee-Bee-Ess', because it starts with a 'Pee sound, you use the appropriate 'a' article.
Next up, I'll go over sentence fragments.
If the acronym is pronounced as individual letters, such as NSA (National Security Agency), then use the article that would be appropriate when pronouncing the first letter: "an NSA representative."
So 'an RTS' is correct unless you pronounce 'RTS' as a word (arrrt-ssss?). Unless you've pulled "An Real Time Strategy" from somewhere else that isn't in the summary or summary title, if so, carry on.
well, true, but most people may not think in terms of at fault or not or caused loss or didn't, but guilty/not guilty doesn't need to be explained and people have little trouble translating it over from criminal to civil in their heads.
Here i was thinking that this article would be about comcast, but then i remembered that comcast is just the regular kind of fraud. Over-promising and under-delivering...
Anywho, this is kind of scary, but not in an internet-scary kind of way, but instead in a crime can be all around you kind of way. Imagine if a restaurant was a front for a crime hub, i.e. skimming credit card and checking info, they would have access to people's financials, but in a much more limited sense. Although it would be interesting if the ISP didn't skim from it's own customers, but instead used them to poison dns stuff and the like. "Install our connection software! Welcome to our botnet, live long and prosper!"
Speaking as someone with experience in the digital forensics field (and I have personally done far more than e-mail forensics mentioned above), if the courts find out that you do company work on your personal laptop, you are a subpoena away from having to produce it, with or without the $1,250 bonus. If you brought a personal external hard drive into work one day and someone saw you use it, you could have to produce that. Depending on how good your lawyer is compared to theirs, you may be able to have your personal items undergo a privilege process, but that doesn't mean that some forensics expert isn't going to be taking a complete copy of your hard drive and presenting findings about (but not the actual relevant data until approved or ordered by the courts) your laptop usage.
Essentially if you get sued by your employer, it looks better if you just spread em wide and hope for the vaseline. There is no 'innocent until proven guilty' in civil courts, it's all about the 'preponderance of evidence' which means that if you can't say more about your innocence than they can about you're guilt, you're guilty.
This is government we're talking about. "Reasonably Informed" and "Politician"/"Government Bureaucrat" are mutually exclusive. Anywho, if the swiss politicians are anything like we have stateside, the trojan that they voted for doesn't need to stay secret forever, just until after the next election. That's the problem with politics, very few successful politicians thing or act long term because thinking long term means making painful decisions that will most likely get them voted out of office for the next feel-good guy. So you have all of these feel-good guys with 2,4, or 6 year attention spans and as long as the world doesn't end in that time period, they're pleased as punch.
The guys who voted on this or approved it will probably say "That was last term/fiscal year, this is this term/fiscal year! Lets go have a beer!" and be done with it, as if they are magically not guilty of voting this monster into existence.
dunno, but mac's keep on coming in last in pwn2own, so perhaps you and a lot of /.ers should go have a little chat with the designers of OSX.
Immune? No. Reasonably secure by obscurity, yes.
There, fixed that for ya!
Only after tea but before supper.
If all of the judges in the land believe it is within their power to continue with the lie and refuse to hear appeals based on this, guess what happens?
That's stress, you need a vacation. Take a good solid 2 weeks, you'll probably crash and sleep for the first few days, then get really really bored, and after the boredom clears up, you'll find that you can read a book for 14 hours again.
They probably pause or mute the tv when they get a phone call and turn off the tv when they have company over. They may have the radio on while driving but turn it off when they get a call.
i think it comes down to the simple fact that you can't idiot proof anything. Criminals may be idiots but they sure can find ways around "effective" deterrents via a brute force method.