In many theatres, an usher comes in with a flashlight about 20 minutes into a movie to look for seating problems or disruptive people.
Since the screen is illuminating your face, the usher can see your expressions. So can the guy behind you returning from the toilet. Is that a privacy violation?
If you want complete privacy, wait for the movie to come out on DVD and watch it on your home theatre. Then you can bop your wife and fist your dog, and nobody will now.
Open to the public does not mean that you are free to do whatever you wish.
My grandfather owned a bar. It was a public place -- anyone could walk in and buy a beer.
That does not mean that a patron can stand up and piss on the bar, or masturrbate on the pinball machine.
The definition of stealing is "the act of taking something from someone unlawfully"
Since movie studios can and do grant licenses to reproduce a film (for a fee), you are in effect unlawfully taking away their fee.
This sort of definition is common in civil and criminal law. If you shoplift something, the retail value of the object is used to determine your restitution -- not the wholesale cost.
There is no magic about exploiting security vulnerabilities. I have actually discovered or re-discovered exploits in the course of day-to-day Unix sysadmin duties.
One of the biggest problems that we face is that the boundary between expert and uninformed observer is very blurry when it comes to technical issues.
Ignorant "experts" litter the television and radio airwaves, and have a nasty habit of publishing themselves on the internet and in print.
To a gun owner, the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument makes alot of sense. They shoot guns for sport and enjoy shooting targets, clays or animals.
Likewise, when programmers or computer enthusiasts hear people suggest "banning" some tool, they think something along the lines of "hey, why does this clueless dolt want to ban something that he knows little or nothing about".
I stay away from those kind of stores too -- too much overhead to have good prices and not enough selection.
As a college kid working 20 hours a week, I consistently averaged around $15/hr in the spring and $25/hr in the fall with the Christmas rush. What a waste of money -- especially when your big ticket product (computers) sells at 5-12% margin.
If stores like CompUSA, BestBuy, etc. used an IKEA-style self-service model with attractive, informative displays that reduced their overhead, they wouldn't need to hock ripoff extended warranties to stay in busines.
Instead, these stores give inexperienced kids a choice -- be a polite & sympathetic employee to customers or pay your rent.
That salesdude isn't making a penny for talking about NICs. Salesmen there sell computers and service contracts for money.
What generally ends up happening is you bring a customer to the front of the store with his computer and help them out to the car if needed.
Unfortunately, the trip back to the computer area can take as long as 30 minutes. Morons want a salesmen in a computer store to design a network. Bored consultants or lonely old people want someone to talk to... you try listening to the litany of complaints and bitching and you'd be giving out bullshit info to make people go away too.
Its funny how people have big expectations out of retail salespeople. I've never seen anyone ask a produce or stock clerk about cooking gourmet meals at a supermarket.
I had the same problem. My core routers had difficulty handling the traffic to my branch office networks in the garage and woodshed, so I upgraded to new Juniper kit.
Everything is running smooth now, with the exception of the bathroom subnet. The Juniper gear doesn't like the moisture.
Yah, 'current new wave same as the old new wave'. Folks have been predicting the death of the warship for over a century now, and have universally been wrong.
Tell that to the sailors of the USS Arizona, HMS Prince of Wales and the Bismark.
Think about it... today, with 1st generation technology, Predator unmanned drones can put a laser-guided hellfire missile into a 6 inch target. Predators can also loiter over a target area for as long as 12 hours while being nearly undetectable!
Twenty years from now, UAVs will be able to loiter for 12 hours in the middle of the ocean with a much heavier payload -- and with it's pilot in an air conditioned office in Kansas.
The US doesn't have a monopoly in brain power. People in China, India, Japan, Europe, etc will be making UAVs too.
That kind of arrogance is very dangerous when talking in terms of armies and navies.
Battleship Admirals spent lots of time calculating the effects of 14, 15 and 16 inch cannon against other armored battleships, while blinding themselves to the real threat -- 2,000 lb bombs dropped from the air. By WW2, the ultimate, "invinvible" battleships had been built and were predicted to both rule the waves and keep the peace. I hope we all know how that story went.
A ballistic missile travels in a parabolic arc at a specific point on the earth's surface at like 20,000 knots.
Theoretically, if an enemy had intelligence indicating when a CVG would be transiting a constricted area (say the Strait of Hormuz or Gibraltar), you could lob a nuke equipped ballistic missile at the CVG and do horrendus damage. This is one of the reasons why carriers often move their aircraft to land bases when transiting through constricted waters.
Hell, you could airburst a good-sized nuke near a carrier and fry all of the sensors.
Don't write off nukes... lots of crazy people have access to them, (Israel, Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea, Kazakstan, etc) and the effect of nuclear deterrence is not as strong as when the nuke club was limited to NATO & the Warsaw Pact.
You don't need to sink the ship... just disable it.
The CIWS systems will successfully engage a Mach 3 anti-ship missile, but that missile and it's fuel will shower the electronic sensors, flight decks and flight crews with hot shrapnel and fuel.
If that happened during launch or retrieval operations, you'd probally destroy a dozen or so aircraft, and kill the flight deck crew.
No flight deck crew = no launches.
Also, any damage to one or more of the four catapult systems severly hampers operations.
Some people choose to get a free vacation by going to timeshare previews and enduring daily four hour sales presentations. Should that be illegal?
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Think again. Unlawful sales are null & void, and you are liable to the copyright owner for any licensing.
You have the option to sue the person who stole you the software, but in the eyes of the law you are responsible for your actions.
Are you crazy???
Information wants to be free, dude. Get with it.
I stole a car the other day, but one of the guys who assembled it said that it was ok.
I have won a moral victory.
This privacy argument is a red herring.
In many theatres, an usher comes in with a flashlight about 20 minutes into a movie to look for seating problems or disruptive people.
Since the screen is illuminating your face, the usher can see your expressions. So can the guy behind you returning from the toilet.
Is that a privacy violation?
If you want complete privacy, wait for the movie to come out on DVD and watch it on your home theatre. Then you can bop your wife and fist your dog, and nobody will now.
Open to the public does not mean that you are free to do whatever you wish.
My grandfather owned a bar. It was a public place -- anyone could walk in and buy a beer.
That does not mean that a patron can stand up and piss on the bar, or masturrbate on the pinball machine.
The definition of stealing is "the act of taking something from someone unlawfully"
Since movie studios can and do grant licenses to reproduce a film (for a fee), you are in effect unlawfully taking away their fee.
This sort of definition is common in civil and criminal law. If you shoplift something, the retail value of the object is used to determine your restitution -- not the wholesale cost.
Would you rather have the usher shine the mag-lite in your eyes?
In most movie theatres in New York, you are not permitted to bring your backpack in anyway.
If you don't film the movie with a camcorder, you will not be dragged off to prison from the theatre.
Does anyone honestely believe that this is a privacy issue?
The organization that I work in has a citrix cluster that supports over 45,000 users on four continents.
Unix is not the only OS that can handle remote logins.
How do you evalulate "intent" as a law enforcement officer?
With narcotics, "intent to sell" is defined by posessing more than some arbitrary quantity defined by law.
Why would you need a firearm?
Our security forces will protect everyone!
There is no magic about exploiting security vulnerabilities. I have actually discovered or re-discovered exploits in the course of day-to-day Unix sysadmin duties.
One of the biggest problems that we face is that the boundary between expert and uninformed observer is very blurry when it comes to technical issues.
Ignorant "experts" litter the television and radio airwaves, and have a nasty habit of publishing themselves on the internet and in print.
To a gun owner, the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument makes alot of sense. They shoot guns for sport and enjoy shooting targets, clays or animals.
Likewise, when programmers or computer enthusiasts hear people suggest "banning" some tool, they think something along the lines of "hey, why does this clueless dolt want to ban something that he knows little or nothing about".
Try understanding other people's points of view.
The anti-gun lobby is doing just that right now.
I stay away from those kind of stores too -- too much overhead to have good prices and not enough selection.
As a college kid working 20 hours a week, I consistently averaged around $15/hr in the spring and $25/hr in the fall with the Christmas rush. What a waste of money -- especially when your big ticket product (computers) sells at 5-12% margin.
If stores like CompUSA, BestBuy, etc. used an IKEA-style self-service model with attractive, informative displays that reduced their overhead, they wouldn't need to hock ripoff extended warranties to stay in busines.
Instead, these stores give inexperienced kids a choice -- be a polite & sympathetic employee to customers or pay your rent.
I worked there in college like eight years ago.
That salesdude isn't making a penny for talking about NICs. Salesmen there sell computers and service contracts for money.
What generally ends up happening is you bring a customer to the front of the store with his computer and help them out to the car if needed.
Unfortunately, the trip back to the computer area can take as long as 30 minutes. Morons want a salesmen in a computer store to design a network. Bored consultants or lonely old people want someone to talk to... you try listening to the litany of complaints and bitching and you'd be giving out bullshit info to make people go away too.
Its funny how people have big expectations out of retail salespeople. I've never seen anyone ask a produce or stock clerk about cooking gourmet meals at a supermarket.
Get a fucking life.
There's more to life than TV. Go outside and kick a ball or something.
I had the same problem. My core routers had difficulty handling the traffic to my branch office networks in the garage and woodshed, so I upgraded to new Juniper kit.
Everything is running smooth now, with the exception of the bathroom subnet. The Juniper gear doesn't like the moisture.
"Blue water Navy" ships are obsolete.
Think about it... today, with 1st generation technology, Predator unmanned drones can put a laser-guided hellfire missile into a 6 inch target. Predators can also loiter over a target area for as long as 12 hours while being nearly undetectable!
Twenty years from now, UAVs will be able to loiter for 12 hours in the middle of the ocean with a much heavier payload -- and with it's pilot in an air conditioned office in Kansas.
The US doesn't have a monopoly in brain power. People in China, India, Japan, Europe, etc will be making UAVs too.
That kind of arrogance is very dangerous when talking in terms of armies and navies.
Battleship Admirals spent lots of time calculating the effects of 14, 15 and 16 inch cannon against other armored battleships, while blinding themselves to the real threat -- 2,000 lb bombs dropped from the air. By WW2, the ultimate, "invinvible" battleships had been built and were predicted to both rule the waves and keep the peace. I hope we all know how that story went.
An Exocet is obsolete technology that flies at around 400kts
Look at a Sino/Russian SS-N-22 "Sunburn", which is a mach-4 sea-skimming cruise missile.
Do 3rd-world shitholes have missiles like that now? Probally not.
But 5,10,20 years from now, who knows?
A ballistic missile travels in a parabolic arc at a specific point on the earth's surface at like 20,000 knots.
Theoretically, if an enemy had intelligence indicating when a CVG would be transiting a constricted area (say the Strait of Hormuz or Gibraltar), you could lob a nuke equipped ballistic missile at the CVG and do horrendus damage. This is one of the reasons why carriers often move their aircraft to land bases when transiting through constricted waters.
Hell, you could airburst a good-sized nuke near a carrier and fry all of the sensors.
Don't write off nukes... lots of crazy people have access to them, (Israel, Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea, Kazakstan, etc) and the effect of nuclear deterrence is not as strong as when the nuke club was limited to NATO & the Warsaw Pact.
You don't need to sink the ship... just disable it.
The CIWS systems will successfully engage a Mach 3 anti-ship missile, but that missile and it's fuel will shower the electronic sensors, flight decks and flight crews with hot shrapnel and fuel.
If that happened during launch or retrieval operations, you'd probally destroy a dozen or so aircraft, and kill the flight deck crew.
No flight deck crew = no launches.
Also, any damage to one or more of the four catapult systems severly hampers operations.
That argument is bunk.
With a system like that, you could implement a system where "deleted" chunks get purged or overwritten on some semi-regular basis.
Who is forcing you to use Gmail?
Some people choose to get a free vacation by going to timeshare previews and enduring daily four hour sales presentations. Should that be illegal?
If you agree to Google's clearly posted terms and conditions, use their service. Otherwise, use email provided by other websites, your employer, your ISP or yourself.
Give us all a break.