b) if it was put in sleep mode then I'm not safe. To this date I assumed that the thief would just bounce off the login screen and restart the machine, sooner or later. Is is possible to obtain a memory dump on a running machine? Of course, USB auto-run is off
If they have physical access to the computer, they can just blast the RAM with compressed gas to freeze it. At low temperatures, the RAM keeps its data for a few seconds. Then they pull the RAM and stick it in a device that dumps it.
I would be much less worried about this, if it weren't for the fact that the label of "sex offender" is used for everything where genitalia are involved.
You should be worried about it either way. Sex offences are legally just another type of crime. If they can extend punishment through administrative law to people who have served their time, they can do it to anyone.
The age of the average gamer is around 35. The pedo patrol is just fucking out of its mind. What's next, kicking people who have served their time out of movie theaters, restaurants, concerts, and sporting events just because there might be some kids around?
It prevents me from using e.g. a CD that i own, a CD burner that I own, and blank media that I own in the most obvious and most useful way. It also prevents me from thoroughly describing the disk, as a complete description of a disk is considered a copy.
What the fuck gives you the right to decide what happens to my work?
Nothing, unless I bought a copy. In which case that copy is my property and I should have the right to use it as I please.
Again, I can decide where and how my work is distributed
Only because the government has granted you a monopoly on making copies of that work. A monopoly that infringes on our natural rights to free speech and our property rights, btw.
And you have no inherent right to make me write for you for free
No one's making you do anything. The only real use of force in this discussion is the government using the threat of violence to keep people from making copies of their own property. That's wrong.
I don't see any other way to interpret "probable cause" except in statistical terms. I'd agree that fishing expeditions are incompatible with a free society, but if you have >50% of people on the street actively engaged in lawbreaking you're a very long way from a free society.
But this discussion is moot, because they are not actually going to be able to report those kinds of accuracy rates, if they report them at all. And stop and frisk is only legal under reasonable suspicion, which includes a requirement for specific and articulable reasons for that suspision. They're going to stop and frisk the wrong person, end up in court, and lose big.
..."not obviously beyond what could conceivably be tolerable or acceptable in a diverse society which upholds and respects freedom of expression"
Is there anything that is obviously beyond what could conceivably be tolerable or acceptable in a diverse society which upholds and respects freedom of expression? I can't think of anything.
A pirate (self-declared or otherwise) can take my story, dump it on The Priate Bay, and suddenly there's a smaller market of people who will pay me for my work.
Or there might be a larger market of people who will pay you for your work. There will certainly be a larger market of people who will see your work. Even if the proportion that pays is lower, you may come out ahead. You can't assume that piracy is always harmful, hell even Bill Gates has admitted that piracy helps Windows achieve its monopoly.
Without piracy, I have a clear route for making an income from my work.
If and only if you can get a publisher to buy it. That dependency on publishers hurts the progress of the arts as much as it helps it. The best works of art are risky, and publishers prefer sound investments.
On the other hand, I've also encountered folks who have outright asked me when my latest piece will be on TPB, rather than buying it.
You realize those people aren't going to be your customers *ever*, right?
Why do people complain when the government limits the choice of Internet providers, but the pirates removing my ability to choose my own business model is somehow a good thing?
Because copyright itself is a government manipulation of markets. You have no inherent right to have your business model supported by government intervention.
If they had a greater than 50% success rate, it would actually meet the probable cause hurdle. I'm not sure that I'd be OK with it, but it would meet the constitutional standard at least.
I'd even buy the statistical argument, if the probability was actually over 50%. But how much do you want to bet they're not keeping any sort of statistics that would enable people to verify their accuracy rate?
No thank you. Good 2d side scrolling platformers are a lost art, and Mega Man was one of the greats. Keep doing 2d pixelated Mega Man forever, and I will keep buying them forever.
And one step back from an obvious crash may be in the subtle errors region where CPU failures can't be easily distinguished from software bugs. For example the subtle error can simply be an erroneous answer, 2+2=5 sort of stuff
That's why you run utilities like SuperPi. You can check that erroneous answer against known values. Benchmarks like this are designed to be as stressful as possible on the CPU, so that there's good reason to expect that if you don't see errors in SuperPi you won't see them anywhere else.
instead of the insipidly assuming that such-and-such widget was so perfectly constructed and planned that it failed within hours/days of the warranty expiring -- just as designed
I'd imagine warranty lengths are designed around the known failure rates of your hardware, instead of the other way around.
The reason is, you're more valuable to the masters of the economy as a debtor than an educated citizen. This economy does not run on education, it runs on debt.
If and only if the SCOTUS ruling on GPS tracking applies to cell phone tracking. In the GPS tracking ruling, the police physically affixed a GPS tracker to the exterior of the suspects vehicle without a warrant. With cell phones, you voluntarily carry the bug. That's a significant difference which might make the GPS ruling inapplicable.
Or, that makes the bare cost of a PCB with some silicon attached to it around $10. Whether the silicon is DDR2, DDR3, NAND, or whatever shouldn't matter.
Not only that, but less than 3% of defendents in federal court exercise their right to trial. The sentences are simply too high to risk going to court, even if you're innocent. Plea bargaining amounts to nothing more than punishing people for exercising their constitutional rights.
I mean really, 97% plead guilty. When was the last time the government was 97% accurate at anything? You'd be generous if you supposed they were 90% accurate, in which case 7% of the federal prison population would have been unjustly imprisoned.
Of course, the justice department keeps no statistics on failure rates. It's barbaric.
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Those $4000 computers are still going to be functioning when your grandkids have grandkids. It's unlikely a $250 computer today will last a decade.
Yes, yes it does. The key is used to do math with the data on your hard disk. It has to be in RAM to do that.
b) if it was put in sleep mode then I'm not safe. To this date I assumed that the thief would just bounce off the login screen and restart the machine, sooner or later. Is is possible to obtain a memory dump on a running machine? Of course, USB auto-run is off
If they have physical access to the computer, they can just blast the RAM with compressed gas to freeze it. At low temperatures, the RAM keeps its data for a few seconds. Then they pull the RAM and stick it in a device that dumps it.
I would be much less worried about this, if it weren't for the fact that the label of "sex offender" is used for everything where genitalia are involved.
You should be worried about it either way. Sex offences are legally just another type of crime. If they can extend punishment through administrative law to people who have served their time, they can do it to anyone.
The age of the average gamer is around 35. The pedo patrol is just fucking out of its mind. What's next, kicking people who have served their time out of movie theaters, restaurants, concerts, and sporting events just because there might be some kids around?
It prevents me from using e.g. a CD that i own, a CD burner that I own, and blank media that I own in the most obvious and most useful way. It also prevents me from thoroughly describing the disk, as a complete description of a disk is considered a copy.
Isn't it usually blue?
Doesn't bother me one bit as long as they end up delivering.
What the fuck gives you the right to decide what happens to my work?
Nothing, unless I bought a copy. In which case that copy is my property and I should have the right to use it as I please.
Again, I can decide where and how my work is distributed
Only because the government has granted you a monopoly on making copies of that work. A monopoly that infringes on our natural rights to free speech and our property rights, btw.
And you have no inherent right to make me write for you for free
No one's making you do anything. The only real use of force in this discussion is the government using the threat of violence to keep people from making copies of their own property. That's wrong.
I don't see any other way to interpret "probable cause" except in statistical terms. I'd agree that fishing expeditions are incompatible with a free society, but if you have >50% of people on the street actively engaged in lawbreaking you're a very long way from a free society.
But this discussion is moot, because they are not actually going to be able to report those kinds of accuracy rates, if they report them at all. And stop and frisk is only legal under reasonable suspicion, which includes a requirement for specific and articulable reasons for that suspision. They're going to stop and frisk the wrong person, end up in court, and lose big.
Holy crap, a Slashdotting. I thought those days were long gone.
..."not obviously beyond what could conceivably be tolerable or acceptable in a diverse society which upholds and respects freedom of expression"
Is there anything that is obviously beyond what could conceivably be tolerable or acceptable in a diverse society which upholds and respects freedom of expression? I can't think of anything.
A pirate (self-declared or otherwise) can take my story, dump it on The Priate Bay, and suddenly there's a smaller market of people who will pay me for my work.
Or there might be a larger market of people who will pay you for your work. There will certainly be a larger market of people who will see your work. Even if the proportion that pays is lower, you may come out ahead. You can't assume that piracy is always harmful, hell even Bill Gates has admitted that piracy helps Windows achieve its monopoly.
Without piracy, I have a clear route for making an income from my work.
If and only if you can get a publisher to buy it. That dependency on publishers hurts the progress of the arts as much as it helps it. The best works of art are risky, and publishers prefer sound investments.
On the other hand, I've also encountered folks who have outright asked me when my latest piece will be on TPB, rather than buying it.
You realize those people aren't going to be your customers *ever*, right?
Why do people complain when the government limits the choice of Internet providers, but the pirates removing my ability to choose my own business model is somehow a good thing?
Because copyright itself is a government manipulation of markets. You have no inherent right to have your business model supported by government intervention.
If they had a greater than 50% success rate, it would actually meet the probable cause hurdle. I'm not sure that I'd be OK with it, but it would meet the constitutional standard at least.
Also she hates it when I yell "Objection!!" at the screen every few minutes during the second half of the show.
I have the same problem, and all I did was play Phoenix Wright.
I'd even buy the statistical argument, if the probability was actually over 50%. But how much do you want to bet they're not keeping any sort of statistics that would enable people to verify their accuracy rate?
No thank you. Good 2d side scrolling platformers are a lost art, and Mega Man was one of the greats. Keep doing 2d pixelated Mega Man forever, and I will keep buying them forever.
And one step back from an obvious crash may be in the subtle errors region where CPU failures can't be easily distinguished from software bugs. For example the subtle error can simply be an erroneous answer, 2+2=5 sort of stuff
That's why you run utilities like SuperPi. You can check that erroneous answer against known values. Benchmarks like this are designed to be as stressful as possible on the CPU, so that there's good reason to expect that if you don't see errors in SuperPi you won't see them anywhere else.
instead of the insipidly assuming that such-and-such widget was so perfectly constructed and planned that it failed within hours/days of the warranty expiring -- just as designed
I'd imagine warranty lengths are designed around the known failure rates of your hardware, instead of the other way around.
The reason is, you're more valuable to the masters of the economy as a debtor than an educated citizen. This economy does not run on education, it runs on debt.
That's what LANs are for.
If and only if the SCOTUS ruling on GPS tracking applies to cell phone tracking. In the GPS tracking ruling, the police physically affixed a GPS tracker to the exterior of the suspects vehicle without a warrant. With cell phones, you voluntarily carry the bug. That's a significant difference which might make the GPS ruling inapplicable.
Or, that makes the bare cost of a PCB with some silicon attached to it around $10. Whether the silicon is DDR2, DDR3, NAND, or whatever shouldn't matter.
You can argue that's its unrealistic to expect good policy, and you'd be right. But that doesn't mean it's not good policy.
Not only that, but less than 3% of defendents in federal court exercise their right to trial. The sentences are simply too high to risk going to court, even if you're innocent. Plea bargaining amounts to nothing more than punishing people for exercising their constitutional rights.
I mean really, 97% plead guilty. When was the last time the government was 97% accurate at anything? You'd be generous if you supposed they were 90% accurate, in which case 7% of the federal prison population would have been unjustly imprisoned.
Of course, the justice department keeps no statistics on failure rates. It's barbaric.