Being treated like a criminal sucks, but what is the alternative?
To treat as criminals those who treat you as a criminal.
This is why I pirate software. I assume (and usually correctly) that the software company is just trying to steal $50 from me or whatever, and not provide anything at all in return (Yes, software that doesn't install, run, or bitches a CD isn't in the drive when it clearly is, is all getting nothing)
So since they are criminals trying to steal money from me, I'm totally not going to be flaunting my wallet in front of them. I wouldn't flaunt cash around a mugger either for the exact same reason.
I just wait until a smart inspiring developer comes along and fixes the companies software with patches and kracks, so I know when he gives it to me it will be something that functions.
Just as if someone else saved me from a mugger, I will thank the savior and still not tempt the mugger with my money. So thank you pirates, and fuck you software companies.
Strange, under my rock, Windows XP/2003 work well, I rarely have to restart my computers and when I do it is usually because of a hardware problem, long power outage (long enough to discharge UPS batteries) or because I am installing some software that needs a reboot.
So you mean to say, if you want a stable running system, you can't install some software?
You also imply that you only rarely run windows update, else you would reboot monthly (or biweekly at the worst of times)
I'll give you that 2003 is a *huge* improvement over XP with its needing to reboot for no good reason. Win 7 is an even larger improvement. Both still require a reboot to upgrade the kernel or core system files however.
I don't think I could go back to that. Currently I can install ALL software for my platform, upgrade all my user space binaries (exe's to windows users), and can even patch my kernel in ram while it's running.
Pretty much the only need for rebooting is changing non-hotswap hardware out, or having hardware fail. Not much any OS can do about that (Well, the ESXi hypervisor with a nice little 3 machine cluster can run a guest machine at 100% uptime, but that's a tad beyond what most home users would want to invest in I'd imagine)
While I do not look for opportunities to attack people who do not believe in God, I have had enough of this shit.
So you don't look for such opportunities, yet are making one right now.
Just because people believe in God(sorry, but he does exist and only a fool would attempt to "prove" otherwise), it does not mean they have an "altered mental status".
Are you sure? What is 'altered' to you? Just different from what you believe?
What you feel you believe does not change reality. When doctors poke a piece of brain and consistently get the same reaction, it doesn't at all matter what you 'feel'. Either you agree with reality and are called 'right', or you state that what is happening in front of your eyes is not actually happening, and people call you 'wrong' (Among other bad names no doubt)
This sounds like someone's attempt to demean a group of people.
Well, sorry you read it that way, but it is not. "Action A gets reaction B" is all it is attempting to say. And really not even that, only that in their very small sample and crude methods this can be inferred but is not enough to be considered 'proof'
Far from demeaning anyone, they are stating the results of a freaking survey! Would you prefer they LIE about what their subjects told them to say?
What if I decided to go out and prove that homosexuality was from brain trauma? I will guarantee that people would ask for my head on a plate.
Actually almost every church in America would be behind you 110% and even help you try to prove that.
Since a majority of humans believe a creator, or some entity/force outside of humanity(essentially, the spirituality this study links to), then I would tend to believe that the minority is missing something.
Well, the majority of humans also felt slavery was perfectly OK. Guess the majority is right.
Another majority of people felt before that a specific minority shouldn't even exist, and began rounding them up for mass extinctions. You feel that is OK too since the majority must be right?
Most people also thought the sun orbits the earth. Guess since the majority thinks it, reality will bend to make it true.
As you admit to being one of those types who feels the mob is always correct no matter if they actually are or not, that says way more about you than if you believe in a god or not. You are a horrible human being, and it has nothing to do with your belief in god, but how little you care about your fellow man.
Now go ahead and mod this as the flame it is (Because just like you, I've had enough of this shit as well)
Yes, and that does not absolve you of debt from a judgment against you. Neither chapter 7 OR 13 will do this.
What it will do is manage your budget for you in a form you can 'afford'. Basically you prove your monthly living bills, they strike off all but the necessities required to survive, and let you keep exactly that from your paycheck. They keep most of the rest to pay off your debt.
Your bankruptcy lasts until that remainder pays the whole debt, during which time bill collectors and such are not allowed to call or harass you and such.
That is extremely over simplified, but the point is that bankruptcy does NOT absolve you of debt any longer.
Copyright infringement is already illegal, like murder.
Interesting comparison. It's also approaching a similar punishment.
It's sad and interesting actually, while 'murder' is a bad example specifically, the potential crime of just 'killing a person' can actually get you a much much lighter sentence than getting caught sharing 2-3 CDs.
After all, manslaughter can be zero to just a couple years in jail. After that time you can begin to rebuild your life and carry on.
When you make minimum wage or less, a multimillion dollar fine is effectively a life sentence that you will never be out from under.
A much better comparison is the crime of 'rape'. Assuming it is not committed against a child, then you are guaranteed to get a sentence much lighter than that of file sharing. Only a couple to a few years of time, instead of all of the remaining years of your time you have left.
Sad sad day when harming and mentally scaring someone for life is barely a punishment compared to sharing songs.
Not a "big secret"... but also not something the typical user will bother looking up (or remembering 3 months after they download it from the App Store).
Well by that logic, all is fine, because a typical user will not bother to care if they send their passwords plain text.
There is no need to look up how this encryption works and whom you have to trust. Typical users trust everyone 100% in that area anyways. The same people that happily type their back password into any browser on anyones computer they happen to be at.
For 2/3rds of the day, any script kiddies walking up and laying hands upon my computer, I can guarantee will get shot and disabled. And that other 3rd of the day I will be sleeping in the other room, so the script kiddie will have a short time for making it upstairs past my dog and into the next room over from me, before I awaken and shoot them.
Script kiddies and this exploit are not a concern:) Professionals yes. Social engineering, sure. Script kiddies? No.
However, if one did not need physical access to pull off this attack, I would give you that you're correct.
None of this is to say there is NO threat. Just that the threat is limited to physical attackers. And we all know, once someone has unlimited physical access to a computer, the security game is Over.
You do have proper physical security measures in place, don't you?
Isn't distance from the sun pretty empirical, though?
Not exactly, and not really.
Any source of heat will do, the sun is just a convenient free source of it for those planets near enough, and while not technically unlimited, is close enough for our current needs and not even an issue for any society under a KT-I level (like us)
Earth's 'sweet spot' is occupied by, well, Earth, and little else. This moon of Saturn may have water, but where is it getting its replacement for solar power?
The main source of heat is the same as Earths secondary source of heat. Left over energy from the planets (or moons) formation in the early solar system. Typically the symptoms of this are a molten semi-liquid core, and centrifugal forces imparted to it during it's creation.
Also Europa has Saturn and it's magnetic field and gravity well to generate energy. As the moons orbits are not circular but instead elongated, this means in a single trip around it's host body, half the time it is closer to the planet than the other half (and in seasonal quarters like Earth has) which gravitationally pulls on the moons surface stronger during the closer orbit times. This process generates a bunch of geothermal activity, motion, and heat energy from friction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_flexing
The top layer of ice is very thick, and only the first couple meters are needed before the suns radiation are blocked enough to not be damaging to anything under that level. Moving water (and thus food) due to tidal flexing between the liquid inner layer (be it water or whatever it happens to be) and the frozen solid crust. A hot and mobile semi-liquid metallic core to provide heat to the lower levels that don't get much or any energy from the sun.
If it wasn't for the fact the rest of Earths ecology wasn't there, there are a number of life forms on Earth that we could drop off under the ice right now and they would have an extreamly high chance of survival (again admitting, with a support and food supply)
If life was to or has started from the basics there, the foundation of support for an ecology would be in place (at least for life that evolved there), and there is plenty of sources of energy compared to current known life forms on earth (not us, but humans are far from the life form majority on this planet)
My guess - it isn't.
While you may be correct, it would only be correct by accident:)
We have many life forms on earth that already thrive in such conditions. So we have solid proof that such a thing is possible, and there is no reason to think otherwise. But as we know, just because something is possible, doesn't mean it has happened more than once.
Nor are there any actual arguments if there IS life there or not, only guesses. Within the realm of possible however, it has been proven to be possible already.
...or claim their guilt in defacing private or state property. I'm sure the college would love to employ free custodial labor with a looming prosectution held over the head of the guilty to scrub bathroom walls and re-paint for them.
Very true point.
But think about it a minute. In the USA, if you can not determine how many people downloaded her infringing images, you are guaranteed a minimum of $80000 per potentially infringed work.
At those rates, I'd probably be willing to admit guilt to defacing public property, pay the thousand dollar fine, and then pay someone an hourly rate to clean everything for me.
I'm pretty sure I'd still have quite a bit of cash left!
Of course we all know it doesn't really work that way. Unless the graffiti artist can convince the court that their scenes tag is the name of a corporation they work for or something;}
A fun exercise for statistics nerds, perhaps, but of little scientific value.
The same can be said about making posts to Slashdot. I don't think you really have the right to complain about other peoples hobbies not being scientific when you do the exact same thing, just like all of us do.
Perhaps if she was claiming this was scientific in some way, your statement could be read as a criticism instead... But all we have is some IT geek having senseless fun, and others complaining it is not scientific. Whatever happened to the Slashdot for nerds?
It seems the information can be passed instantaneously across a distance, but some other piece of this requires plain old speed of light. Is there an engineer in the house?
It seems what they are saying is not that the information can be teleported faster than light (even though in limited prearranged cases it can), but instead that the 'information' can be ignored as such, but its useful energy can be raised by lowering the useful energy at the other teleporter site by the same amount.
Think of each end of the teleporter as each end of a power extension cord.
I for one am OK with the fact, after plugging one end into the wall, that I have to and carry the other end at speeds much slower than that of light, to the device across the room I need power for:)
Assuming it actually works at all, it would still be useful.
If you can inject enough energy into the process this could in theory be the replacement for batteries. This is provided you could make a giant transmitter that sends to the receiving devices. (Or possibly battery replacement modules?)
To teleport energy between two points in space, I would imagine a little bit of hardware would be needed to accomplish this. Instead of just 'device a' and 'device b' as our two devices that teleport energy, lets call them 'battery' device'\ which comes in a tiny pellet sized unit, that comes with adapters of the sizes of our current batteries, and the other one called the 'power brick with no wire' device that plugs in the wall.
Well my first choice of where my tax money should go is "in my pocket", but that is just my selfishness speaking.
My next choice (or my first realistic choice) is for my tax money to go to my government.
Woot, it is! So yes, it's going where I want it.
If my tax money went to something other than our government, I'd be a little ticked possibly.
And yes, I realize you feel you are somehow entitled to claim it is still your money after it is no longer your money, and that you also feel you have some say over how not-your-money should be spent by those whose money it is... But that is just silly talk!
We can't sit around and hope that everything will be maintained for ever...
Sure we can. And do. And at least for PC games, one is far more likely to get their wish.
Sometimes it has to go down as deprecated, no matter when, no matter how, no matter why.
Totally not true. It never HAS to do deprecated. A 10 year old server for a 10 year old game will run just fine as long as you aren't stingy and try to do everything yourself poorly.
As long as I can have my own computer on the internet, I have all the abilities I need to run a game server, except for the game server software itself. With PC games, you almost always can get this too. Only with console games do you not.
Microsoft can and Microsoft shall, that's the price for being at their hands. The reward? To get to use their products.
The article disagrees. Clearly the reward is NOT being able to use their products (or at least not after April 15th)
If you count social engineering exploits and sloppy procedures as "user error" than user error accounts for almost all exploits. Mathematical exploits are few and far between -- "breaking the code" is something that pretty much happens only in bad spy movies.
Buffer overflow? Underflow? Stack smashing?
None of those exploit vectors require even 'user interaction' let alone could be called 'user error'
I would have to venture a guess that, while probably not anywhere close to the share true user error has, such attack vectors still do have some share none the less.
1" of spread at 10 yards is not much more impressive than one point of impact at 10 yards.
The upside is that 1" of spread gives you a decently higher chance of causing shock, a good chance of distracting with more pain, and a tiny better chance of distracting with more fear.
The downside is that a sawed off weapon like this is probably illegal, and would make things a little awkward at your defense trial. I understand the reason for it, as a full shotgun would be a tad unwieldy. But would bite you in the ass in court no matter how solid your 'defending my life' argument is.
The article seems to suggest (although does not explicitly state) that the hacker would be able to read the files, not overwrite them. If that's the case, I don't see why the System32 directory would be that important, unless you keep secret data embedded in your system binaries.
If you've ever hung around airports looking for a wireless signal, there is always somebody broadcasting "Free Wireless Internet" or similar SSIDs in ad-hoc mode.
While this can be (and usually is) a side effect of how windows does network sharing automatically, one should be at least aware of the fact this is also used as a well known attack vector.
EvilDude sits at airport, pays $40 or whatever for a days worth of paid wifi, then his laptop (in his backpack out of sight) uses one card to jump on the paid wifi for internet uplink, and broadcasts an ad-hoc network under a name using 'free' in the SSID.
The logic is, anyone that jumps on his wifi to avoid paying, will then have their traffic all routed through EvilDudes laptop, where it is comfortably logged for later parsing.
You still have the same level of problems with SSL MitM attacks, so https at least is usually somewhat safe. But plain text is an instant lost cause.
If EvilDude gets enough credentials to log into a bank account and steal about $200, he can then upgrade to a Cisco aronet wifi card for his 2nd card. He then has the ability to put the card in to true access point mode. No more ad-hoc ickiness, just pure infrastructure mode access point offerings.
Makes it really difficult to tell other than by SSID.
Not trying to scare monger, as this attack vector is still rare. More a reminder to always practice safe browsing while on an untrusted uplink!
Wait a minute. You're not even supporting the game creators by just keeping your store bought copy. Instead you return it and then download a copy so you can play for free? Where's the "-1, ungrateful leech" option?
Don't worry, the game publisher already had their "+100 ungrateful leech" score applied to them.
If someone stole $50 from me and gave me the equivalent of a blank CD, I too would not care one whit for all the future times they get ripped off.
They have it coming, and asked for it. When you rip me off, you have exactly less than zero right to bitch when I rip you off, or to bitch that I both don't care and am happy to see others ripping you off.
Such actions deserve failure, and letting them keep their ill gained money will not encourage the correct behavior.
Actually according to the law, that is not correct.
Now I'll be the first to say copyright law is seriously fucked up right now, and a mess, and insane.
However with that said, using your own example:
No, you're using entertainment you *paid for* in a way that suits you.
(According to law, not in my opinion) you did NOT pay for it. At least i seriously doubt you did, and the fact of the matter is you stated nothing at all to indicate you did. All you said is you paid for access to a work that you do not have any copyright privileges for at all.
Remember, to get a video (being sent by someone else), it is not possible at all for you to infringe copyright. You have to take some extra steps to do that (by giving it out yourself to someone else.)
The cable co already has paid for distribution rights under copyright, so They paid for it to show to you. You paid them to see it. You paid no one at all for what the cable co did.
Now, yes you CAN go and pay for it. But it's crazy, like $100k per showing. But that is what it costs to pay for distribution rights.
* And don't start talking about how "it's licensed, not bought" either. Try to tell someone the carpet they bought is "licensed, not bought" and see if you can finish talking before they start laughing and throw you off of their "purchased, not licensed" property.
Well to be fair, this isn't the fault of the SuperBowl. It's our federal government who made the laws saying it's licensed and not bought.
You are right though, it is stupid and goes against human nature.
The sad fact is however, the ones saying it is licensed and not bought, are the ones with the big guns and a long history of lacking any sense of justice or fairness in the system of arbitration. And most of us are sheep when it comes to standing up to them:{
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Meh, it doesn't really matter these days.
Using copyright to restrict who can distribute your works has a price also, and time and time again it is NOT being paid either. So screw em, their copyright rights are void in my eyes for payment way way past due, and future agreements made in bad faith.
It means he is full of shit and being called out on it.
Is this Wikipedia? God, I hpe not.
No no, wikipedia has a requirement that all facts be provable, where slashdot actively encourages lack of facts and false facts to be posted. Not at all the same!
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Being treated like a criminal sucks, but what is the alternative?
To treat as criminals those who treat you as a criminal.
This is why I pirate software. I assume (and usually correctly) that the software company is just trying to steal $50 from me or whatever, and not provide anything at all in return (Yes, software that doesn't install, run, or bitches a CD isn't in the drive when it clearly is, is all getting nothing)
So since they are criminals trying to steal money from me, I'm totally not going to be flaunting my wallet in front of them. I wouldn't flaunt cash around a mugger either for the exact same reason.
I just wait until a smart inspiring developer comes along and fixes the companies software with patches and kracks, so I know when he gives it to me it will be something that functions.
Just as if someone else saved me from a mugger, I will thank the savior and still not tempt the mugger with my money.
So thank you pirates, and fuck you software companies.
Strange, under my rock, Windows XP/2003 work well, I rarely have to restart my computers and when I do it is usually because of a hardware problem, long power outage (long enough to discharge UPS batteries) or because I am installing some software that needs a reboot.
So you mean to say, if you want a stable running system, you can't install some software?
You also imply that you only rarely run windows update, else you would reboot monthly (or biweekly at the worst of times)
I'll give you that 2003 is a *huge* improvement over XP with its needing to reboot for no good reason.
Win 7 is an even larger improvement.
Both still require a reboot to upgrade the kernel or core system files however.
I don't think I could go back to that.
Currently I can install ALL software for my platform, upgrade all my user space binaries (exe's to windows users), and can even patch my kernel in ram while it's running.
Pretty much the only need for rebooting is changing non-hotswap hardware out, or having hardware fail.
Not much any OS can do about that (Well, the ESXi hypervisor with a nice little 3 machine cluster can run a guest machine at 100% uptime, but that's a tad beyond what most home users would want to invest in I'd imagine)
Wow.
While I do not look for opportunities to attack people who do not believe in God, I have had enough of this shit.
So you don't look for such opportunities, yet are making one right now.
Just because people believe in God(sorry, but he does exist and only a fool would attempt to "prove" otherwise), it does not mean they have an "altered mental status".
Are you sure? What is 'altered' to you? Just different from what you believe?
What you feel you believe does not change reality.
When doctors poke a piece of brain and consistently get the same reaction, it doesn't at all matter what you 'feel'. Either you agree with reality and are called 'right', or you state that what is happening in front of your eyes is not actually happening, and people call you 'wrong' (Among other bad names no doubt)
This sounds like someone's attempt to demean a group of people.
Well, sorry you read it that way, but it is not. "Action A gets reaction B" is all it is attempting to say.
And really not even that, only that in their very small sample and crude methods this can be inferred but is not enough to be considered 'proof'
Far from demeaning anyone, they are stating the results of a freaking survey!
Would you prefer they LIE about what their subjects told them to say?
What if I decided to go out and prove that homosexuality was from brain trauma? I will guarantee that people would ask for my head on a plate.
Actually almost every church in America would be behind you 110% and even help you try to prove that.
Since a majority of humans believe a creator, or some entity/force outside of humanity(essentially, the spirituality this study links to), then I would tend to believe that the minority is missing something.
Well, the majority of humans also felt slavery was perfectly OK. Guess the majority is right.
Another majority of people felt before that a specific minority shouldn't even exist, and began rounding them up for mass extinctions. You feel that is OK too since the majority must be right?
Most people also thought the sun orbits the earth. Guess since the majority thinks it, reality will bend to make it true.
As you admit to being one of those types who feels the mob is always correct no matter if they actually are or not, that says way more about you than if you believe in a god or not.
You are a horrible human being, and it has nothing to do with your belief in god, but how little you care about your fellow man.
Now go ahead and mod this as the flame it is (Because just like you, I've had enough of this shit as well)
Did you ever heard about bankruptcy?
Yes, and that does not absolve you of debt from a judgment against you. Neither chapter 7 OR 13 will do this.
What it will do is manage your budget for you in a form you can 'afford'.
Basically you prove your monthly living bills, they strike off all but the necessities required to survive, and let you keep exactly that from your paycheck. They keep most of the rest to pay off your debt.
Your bankruptcy lasts until that remainder pays the whole debt, during which time bill collectors and such are not allowed to call or harass you and such.
That is extremely over simplified, but the point is that bankruptcy does NOT absolve you of debt any longer.
Copyright infringement is already illegal, like murder.
Interesting comparison. It's also approaching a similar punishment.
It's sad and interesting actually, while 'murder' is a bad example specifically, the potential crime of just 'killing a person' can actually get you a much much lighter sentence than getting caught sharing 2-3 CDs.
After all, manslaughter can be zero to just a couple years in jail. After that time you can begin to rebuild your life and carry on.
When you make minimum wage or less, a multimillion dollar fine is effectively a life sentence that you will never be out from under.
A much better comparison is the crime of 'rape'. Assuming it is not committed against a child, then you are guaranteed to get a sentence much lighter than that of file sharing.
Only a couple to a few years of time, instead of all of the remaining years of your time you have left.
Sad sad day when harming and mentally scaring someone for life is barely a punishment compared to sharing songs.
Not a "big secret"... but also not something the typical user will bother looking up (or remembering 3 months after they download it from the App Store).
Well by that logic, all is fine, because a typical user will not bother to care if they send their passwords plain text.
There is no need to look up how this encryption works and whom you have to trust. Typical users trust everyone 100% in that area anyways.
The same people that happily type their back password into any browser on anyones computer they happen to be at.
be the exact same application in which you'd NEVER want some 3rd party having access to your kernel?
You mean the kernel that came from a 3rd party in the first place? .diff patches also from a 3rd party?
Or the one that you get normal
You must mean hurd. I read you can bootstrap that thing by counting on your fingers and toes!
Yeah, but two words: "Script Kiddies"
For 2/3rds of the day, any script kiddies walking up and laying hands upon my computer, I can guarantee will get shot and disabled. And that other 3rd of the day I will be sleeping in the other room, so the script kiddie will have a short time for making it upstairs past my dog and into the next room over from me, before I awaken and shoot them.
Script kiddies and this exploit are not a concern :)
Professionals yes. Social engineering, sure. Script kiddies? No.
However, if one did not need physical access to pull off this attack, I would give you that you're correct.
None of this is to say there is NO threat. Just that the threat is limited to physical attackers.
And we all know, once someone has unlimited physical access to a computer, the security game is Over.
You do have proper physical security measures in place, don't you?
Isn't distance from the sun pretty empirical, though?
Not exactly, and not really.
Any source of heat will do, the sun is just a convenient free source of it for those planets near enough, and while not technically unlimited, is close enough for our current needs and not even an issue for any society under a KT-I level (like us)
Earth's 'sweet spot' is occupied by, well, Earth, and little else. This moon of Saturn may have water, but where is it getting its replacement for solar power?
The main source of heat is the same as Earths secondary source of heat.
Left over energy from the planets (or moons) formation in the early solar system. Typically the symptoms of this are a molten semi-liquid core, and centrifugal forces imparted to it during it's creation.
Also Europa has Saturn and it's magnetic field and gravity well to generate energy.
As the moons orbits are not circular but instead elongated, this means in a single trip around it's host body, half the time it is closer to the planet than the other half (and in seasonal quarters like Earth has) which gravitationally pulls on the moons surface stronger during the closer orbit times.
This process generates a bunch of geothermal activity, motion, and heat energy from friction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_flexing
The top layer of ice is very thick, and only the first couple meters are needed before the suns radiation are blocked enough to not be damaging to anything under that level.
Moving water (and thus food) due to tidal flexing between the liquid inner layer (be it water or whatever it happens to be) and the frozen solid crust.
A hot and mobile semi-liquid metallic core to provide heat to the lower levels that don't get much or any energy from the sun.
If it wasn't for the fact the rest of Earths ecology wasn't there, there are a number of life forms on Earth that we could drop off under the ice right now and they would have an extreamly high chance of survival (again admitting, with a support and food supply)
If life was to or has started from the basics there, the foundation of support for an ecology would be in place (at least for life that evolved there), and there is plenty of sources of energy compared to current known life forms on earth (not us, but humans are far from the life form majority on this planet)
My guess - it isn't.
While you may be correct, it would only be correct by accident :)
We have many life forms on earth that already thrive in such conditions. So we have solid proof that such a thing is possible, and there is no reason to think otherwise.
But as we know, just because something is possible, doesn't mean it has happened more than once.
Nor are there any actual arguments if there IS life there or not, only guesses.
Within the realm of possible however, it has been proven to be possible already.
...or claim their guilt in defacing private or state property. I'm sure the college would love to employ free custodial labor with a looming prosectution held over the head of the guilty to scrub bathroom walls and re-paint for them.
Very true point.
But think about it a minute. In the USA, if you can not determine how many people downloaded her infringing images, you are guaranteed a minimum of $80000 per potentially infringed work.
At those rates, I'd probably be willing to admit guilt to defacing public property, pay the thousand dollar fine, and then pay someone an hourly rate to clean everything for me.
I'm pretty sure I'd still have quite a bit of cash left!
Of course we all know it doesn't really work that way. Unless the graffiti artist can convince the court that their scenes tag is the name of a corporation they work for or something ;}
A fun exercise for statistics nerds, perhaps, but of little scientific value.
The same can be said about making posts to Slashdot.
I don't think you really have the right to complain about other peoples hobbies not being scientific when you do the exact same thing, just like all of us do.
Perhaps if she was claiming this was scientific in some way, your statement could be read as a criticism instead... But all we have is some IT geek having senseless fun, and others complaining it is not scientific. Whatever happened to the Slashdot for nerds?
Wait a sec...
Isn't how things started in The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect got started off?
*fear*
It seems the information can be passed instantaneously across a distance, but some other piece of this requires plain old speed of light. Is there an engineer in the house?
It seems what they are saying is not that the information can be teleported faster than light (even though in limited prearranged cases it can), but instead that the 'information' can be ignored as such, but its useful energy can be raised by lowering the useful energy at the other teleporter site by the same amount.
Think of each end of the teleporter as each end of a power extension cord.
I for one am OK with the fact, after plugging one end into the wall, that I have to and carry the other end at speeds much slower than that of light, to the device across the room I need power for :)
Assuming it actually works at all, it would still be useful.
If you can inject enough energy into the process this could in theory be the replacement for batteries. This is provided you could make a giant transmitter that sends to the receiving devices. (Or possibly battery replacement modules?)
To teleport energy between two points in space, I would imagine a little bit of hardware would be needed to accomplish this.
Instead of just 'device a' and 'device b' as our two devices that teleport energy, lets call them 'battery' device'\ which comes in a tiny pellet sized unit, that comes with adapters of the sizes of our current batteries, and the other one called the 'power brick with no wire' device that plugs in the wall.
It's a start!
Does your tax money go where you want?
Well my first choice of where my tax money should go is "in my pocket", but that is just my selfishness speaking.
My next choice (or my first realistic choice) is for my tax money to go to my government.
Woot, it is! So yes, it's going where I want it.
If my tax money went to something other than our government, I'd be a little ticked possibly.
And yes, I realize you feel you are somehow entitled to claim it is still your money after it is no longer your money, and that you also feel you have some say over how not-your-money should be spent by those whose money it is... But that is just silly talk!
We can't sit around and hope that everything will be maintained for ever...
Sure we can. And do. And at least for PC games, one is far more likely to get their wish.
Sometimes it has to go down as deprecated, no matter when, no matter how, no matter why.
Totally not true.
It never HAS to do deprecated. A 10 year old server for a 10 year old game will run just fine as long as you aren't stingy and try to do everything yourself poorly.
As long as I can have my own computer on the internet, I have all the abilities I need to run a game server, except for the game server software itself.
With PC games, you almost always can get this too. Only with console games do you not.
Microsoft can and Microsoft shall, that's the price for being at their hands. The reward? To get to use their products.
The article disagrees. Clearly the reward is NOT being able to use their products (or at least not after April 15th)
If you count social engineering exploits and sloppy procedures as "user error" than user error accounts for almost all exploits. Mathematical exploits are few and far between -- "breaking the code" is something that pretty much happens only in bad spy movies.
Buffer overflow? Underflow? Stack smashing?
None of those exploit vectors require even 'user interaction' let alone could be called 'user error'
I would have to venture a guess that, while probably not anywhere close to the share true user error has, such attack vectors still do have some share none the less.
1" of spread at 10 yards is not much more impressive than one point of impact at 10 yards.
The upside is that 1" of spread gives you a decently higher chance of causing shock, a good chance of distracting with more pain, and a tiny better chance of distracting with more fear.
The downside is that a sawed off weapon like this is probably illegal, and would make things a little awkward at your defense trial.
I understand the reason for it, as a full shotgun would be a tad unwieldy. But would bite you in the ass in court no matter how solid your 'defending my life' argument is.
The article seems to suggest (although does not explicitly state) that the hacker would be able to read the files, not overwrite them. If that's the case, I don't see why the System32 directory would be that important, unless you keep secret data embedded in your system binaries.
One word: Registry
If you've ever hung around airports looking for a wireless signal, there is always somebody broadcasting "Free Wireless Internet" or similar SSIDs in ad-hoc mode.
While this can be (and usually is) a side effect of how windows does network sharing automatically, one should be at least aware of the fact this is also used as a well known attack vector.
EvilDude sits at airport, pays $40 or whatever for a days worth of paid wifi, then his laptop (in his backpack out of sight) uses one card to jump on the paid wifi for internet uplink, and broadcasts an ad-hoc network under a name using 'free' in the SSID.
The logic is, anyone that jumps on his wifi to avoid paying, will then have their traffic all routed through EvilDudes laptop, where it is comfortably logged for later parsing.
You still have the same level of problems with SSL MitM attacks, so https at least is usually somewhat safe. But plain text is an instant lost cause.
If EvilDude gets enough credentials to log into a bank account and steal about $200, he can then upgrade to a Cisco aronet wifi card for his 2nd card. He then has the ability to put the card in to true access point mode.
No more ad-hoc ickiness, just pure infrastructure mode access point offerings.
Makes it really difficult to tell other than by SSID.
Not trying to scare monger, as this attack vector is still rare. More a reminder to always practice safe browsing while on an untrusted uplink!
Wait a minute. You're not even supporting the game creators by just keeping your store bought copy. Instead you return it and then download a copy so you can play for free? Where's the "-1, ungrateful leech" option?
Don't worry, the game publisher already had their "+100 ungrateful leech" score applied to them.
If someone stole $50 from me and gave me the equivalent of a blank CD, I too would not care one whit for all the future times they get ripped off.
They have it coming, and asked for it.
When you rip me off, you have exactly less than zero right to bitch when I rip you off, or to bitch that I both don't care and am happy to see others ripping you off.
Such actions deserve failure, and letting them keep their ill gained money will not encourage the correct behavior.
stick with the human soldier.
How bout we let that human soldier decide.
Now, yes you CAN go and pay for it. But it's crazy, like $100k per showing.
My bad, I momentarily somehow forgot we were talking about the SuperBowl here.
That $100k figure is for normal movies that you would pickup on DVD for $20 and whatnot.
I'm sure the SuperBowl distribution rights have a few more zeros at the end...
Actually according to the law, that is not correct.
Now I'll be the first to say copyright law is seriously fucked up right now, and a mess, and insane.
However with that said, using your own example:
No, you're using entertainment you *paid for* in a way that suits you.
(According to law, not in my opinion) you did NOT pay for it.
At least i seriously doubt you did, and the fact of the matter is you stated nothing at all to indicate you did.
All you said is you paid for access to a work that you do not have any copyright privileges for at all.
Remember, to get a video (being sent by someone else), it is not possible at all for you to infringe copyright. You have to take some extra steps to do that (by giving it out yourself to someone else.)
The cable co already has paid for distribution rights under copyright, so They paid for it to show to you. You paid them to see it. You paid no one at all for what the cable co did.
Now, yes you CAN go and pay for it. But it's crazy, like $100k per showing.
But that is what it costs to pay for distribution rights.
* And don't start talking about how "it's licensed, not bought" either. Try to tell someone the carpet they bought is "licensed, not bought" and see if you can finish talking before they start laughing and throw you off of their "purchased, not licensed" property.
Well to be fair, this isn't the fault of the SuperBowl. It's our federal government who made the laws saying it's licensed and not bought.
You are right though, it is stupid and goes against human nature.
The sad fact is however, the ones saying it is licensed and not bought, are the ones with the big guns and a long history of lacking any sense of justice or fairness in the system of arbitration. And most of us are sheep when it comes to standing up to them :{
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Meh, it doesn't really matter these days.
Using copyright to restrict who can distribute your works has a price also, and time and time again it is NOT being paid either. So screw em, their copyright rights are void in my eyes for payment way way past due, and future agreements made in bad faith.
What is this "citation needed" shit?
It means he is full of shit and being called out on it.
Is this Wikipedia? God, I hpe not.
No no, wikipedia has a requirement that all facts be provable, where slashdot actively encourages lack of facts and false facts to be posted.
Not at all the same!