The copyright of a cookbook is in the curation, the choices inclusion, exclusion, and order of recipes. The white pages of a phone book are not copyrightable because they lack originality in those areas. I suspect that a vulnerability database is more like a phonebook than a cookbook in that particular regard.
This data is not illegal, and it would seem like it's probably not protected by copyright under US law, since it is most likely a collection of data lacking originality. Even if it is copyrightable, i would say it's still unethical to restrict the flow of this data moreso than other data.
Your argument might be more compelling if there was a reason for these connections to need to be symmetrical, but there's not. Comcast customers want the Netflix data to flow to them, and Netflix wants the data to flow to them.
Yes, there are some dickheads in charge of major Linux projects that refuse to do things users want. There are also dickheads in charge of major Microsoft proejct that refuse to do things users want. Same with Apple, Adobe, Oracle, and many other companies.
and no, it's not only used by cultists. It's used by smartphones, GPS, DVRs, servers, supercomputers, and other places. The desktop is more of an exception than a rule, but the desktop is the place where the OS is more visible.
Yes, Linux has not been the go-to platform for desktop gaming. MS has had quite a bit of control over that area for a good long while, and has been in a pretty good position to protect that spot (and other practices regarding their OS have assisted with this as well). The impetus for the change here is that MS is shifted towards a walled garden approach now, which has Valve concerned.
I'm pretty sure that a number of his emails have ended up costing Apple a pretty penny in antitrust suits. A good lawyer would have advised him to engage in his illegal activities with a bit more subtlety, either doing so in person, or at least having his emails use innuendo.
It's probably not so much that other companies don't do illegal shit, but rather, that they at least try to mask it in some degree of legitimacy. Even crime syndicates tend to put up efforts to have legitimate fronts for their illegal behavior, as opposed to sending unsecure emails threatening others to make them illegally conspire with them.
SCOTUS decisions are pretty important in the interpretation of the Constitution, and the intent of the Framers is studied extensively by them. Legally, the first amendment protects pornography. The exact feelings of the Framers may differ, but I wouldn't count on it. Many of them, were, after all, into some rather kinky shit.
So, chances are that someone like Benjamin Franklin would find our dirtiest porn dreadfully boring, and the highest court in the land has interpreted that pornography is protected by the first amendment. I think that's a fairly solid argument, but your claim of 'NUH UH' is quite a compelling counterpoint.
Claiming that something has sold a lot doesn't say anything about whether or not it's a fad. Sudden, extreme popularity is a hallmark of fads. That's not to make a claim either way, but it certainly seems that the 'Post-PC era' is not quite as Tim Cook claimed it would be.
I think you grossly underestimate how low the standards of many men actually are. The requirements are pretty much just a pulse, and even that has some wiggle room.
While I agree that watches have their own niche, I don't think any of them believe that their timepieces are more accurate than other devices, so audiophiles are probably not the best point of comparison.
Yes, he hurt the attack side, which is the side we don't actually need. Give the military and spook budget to security research, and the code war becomes no more of a threat than a literal pissing contest.
By all indications I had seen, that was clearly the plan. That's why both of them were using QT, which they had acquired probably for that exact purpose. They were going to leverage Symbian's market share, which was still significant, to foster a strong app ecosystem for Maemo. I recall it quite well, as I was quite enthused about it, but Nokia fanboys were practically creaming themselves over how wonderful their Maemo future would be.
That's an outright lie. They bought TrollTech, were shifting Symbian to QT, and thus would have built an app ecosystem that was at least partially shared between Symbian and Maemo. They later collaborated with Intel's Moblin project and Maemo became Meego. They released the N900, and that seemed to be what their future plan was before MS got involved.
Also Sailfish is a Jolla OS and didn't exist back then at all.
I know, but it is the successor to Meego and was a company of ex-Nokia devs, so practically speaking, Maemo, Meego, and Sailfish are the same OS.
I'm not sure about that. They had a decent upgrade path to convert Symbian customers to Maemo/Meego/Sailfish, and it seems like that road was getting better reception than the WP path despite MS having largely killed it by the time they had anything released. It probably would have been difficult to have tanked Nokia harder without the kind of malice that would bring on investigations from various governments.
It would probably depend upon the police department. However, I would say that,in general, you probably aren't going to get much of a reaction. It's easy to come up with a dozen excuses that are just credible enough to end further inquiries. Also, this technique tends to be used in conjunction with profiling, so they are likely getting results, and the parties being illegally searched are going to generally be parties that are less sympathetic. If cops 'smell weed,' it's likely because you look like you smell like weed. Also, innocent people are often more concerned with getting the search over with than seeking justice. They were in a car, so they probably had a destination, and intended to get there in the near future. I know I consented to a search because I was tired and only a few miles from home, and getting to sleep was a higher priority than protecting my rights and getting the information to file a complaint against him.. The officer had a gleam in his eyes when he found a plastic sandwich bag in my trunk, followed by immediate disappointment when he realized that it only had bread crumbs in it from a previous lunch I had brought in my car.
I'm not aware of a FreeBSD foundation or a NetBSD foundation. The Linux Foundation, however, is a consortium that includes several large companies and has individuals experienced with bridging gaps between big corporations and communities. It's also worth remembering that the Linux foundation arose from the merger of Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group. When you take in that context, it makes a lot more sense.
I don't know whether or not they smelled it, but I do have doubts, and I have personally experienced a cop adamantly claiming that he smelled marijuana in a vehicle that has never, to my knowledge, had any marijuana in it. My bigger point is doubting the credibility of this supposedly anonymous tip. The level of detail she had seems highly suspect, and there's no indication that he was actually impaired or driving erratically. I know that if I had 30 lbs of weed in my car, I would attempt to be an especially careful and courteous driver. So, it seems very likely to me that this anonymous tip didn't come from someone truly anonymous, but someone acting on the behalf of a three letter agency. We know that they do things like this, and it seems to have too much dumb luck involved to consider that the more likely sequence of events was some random woman being run off the road.
It's a technique known to be used, there's not a particularly good reason for her to remain anonymous, and she has an unusual amount of data that appears to be accurate. People who are actually almost run off the road are absolutely horrible at getting make and model, let alone license plate. It would be quite a coincidence that an unimpaired drug dealing driver ran a female Rain Man off the road while he was carrying 30 lbs of weed. However, we know that our government engages in this activity, and to keep as many hands clean as possible and reduce the risk of losing the case due to fruit of the poisonous tree, an anonymous tip on an unrelated crime would be a perfect seed for parallel construction.
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The copyright of a cookbook is in the curation, the choices inclusion, exclusion, and order of recipes. The white pages of a phone book are not copyrightable because they lack originality in those areas. I suspect that a vulnerability database is more like a phonebook than a cookbook in that particular regard.
This data is not illegal, and it would seem like it's probably not protected by copyright under US law, since it is most likely a collection of data lacking originality. Even if it is copyrightable, i would say it's still unethical to restrict the flow of this data moreso than other data.
Yes, you can learn a lot from EVE, but does that mean that we should? I'm not sure if massive, destructive battles are something to strive for.
Your argument might be more compelling if there was a reason for these connections to need to be symmetrical, but there's not. Comcast customers want the Netflix data to flow to them, and Netflix wants the data to flow to them.
Or, failing that, put a keyring support near the ignition. Let your keys lie on a flat surface very close to the ignition and there's no strain.
Yes, there are some dickheads in charge of major Linux projects that refuse to do things users want. There are also dickheads in charge of major Microsoft proejct that refuse to do things users want. Same with Apple, Adobe, Oracle, and many other companies.
and no, it's not only used by cultists. It's used by smartphones, GPS, DVRs, servers, supercomputers, and other places. The desktop is more of an exception than a rule, but the desktop is the place where the OS is more visible.
Yes, Linux has not been the go-to platform for desktop gaming. MS has had quite a bit of control over that area for a good long while, and has been in a pretty good position to protect that spot (and other practices regarding their OS have assisted with this as well). The impetus for the change here is that MS is shifted towards a walled garden approach now, which has Valve concerned.
I'm pretty sure that a number of his emails have ended up costing Apple a pretty penny in antitrust suits. A good lawyer would have advised him to engage in his illegal activities with a bit more subtlety, either doing so in person, or at least having his emails use innuendo.
It's probably not so much that other companies don't do illegal shit, but rather, that they at least try to mask it in some degree of legitimacy. Even crime syndicates tend to put up efforts to have legitimate fronts for their illegal behavior, as opposed to sending unsecure emails threatening others to make them illegally conspire with them.
SCOTUS decisions are pretty important in the interpretation of the Constitution, and the intent of the Framers is studied extensively by them. Legally, the first amendment protects pornography. The exact feelings of the Framers may differ, but I wouldn't count on it. Many of them, were, after all, into some rather kinky shit.
So, chances are that someone like Benjamin Franklin would find our dirtiest porn dreadfully boring, and the highest court in the land has interpreted that pornography is protected by the first amendment. I think that's a fairly solid argument, but your claim of 'NUH UH' is quite a compelling counterpoint.
The first amendment certainly protects pornography. That's why the DOJ lost in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition.
Claiming that something has sold a lot doesn't say anything about whether or not it's a fad. Sudden, extreme popularity is a hallmark of fads. That's not to make a claim either way, but it certainly seems that the 'Post-PC era' is not quite as Tim Cook claimed it would be.
I think you grossly underestimate how low the standards of many men actually are. The requirements are pretty much just a pulse, and even that has some wiggle room.
'Unable to have viable offspring' is a gene that's not likely to spread uncontrolled.
While I agree that watches have their own niche, I don't think any of them believe that their timepieces are more accurate than other devices, so audiophiles are probably not the best point of comparison.
The question of the viability here is how much of a blood source are humans. If we are an insignificant source, then it's not a big deal.
Yes, he hurt the attack side, which is the side we don't actually need. Give the military and spook budget to security research, and the code war becomes no more of a threat than a literal pissing contest.
By all indications I had seen, that was clearly the plan. That's why both of them were using QT, which they had acquired probably for that exact purpose. They were going to leverage Symbian's market share, which was still significant, to foster a strong app ecosystem for Maemo. I recall it quite well, as I was quite enthused about it, but Nokia fanboys were practically creaming themselves over how wonderful their Maemo future would be.
Seems like either of those plans would have worked out better for anyone who didn't have a golden parachute, so perhaps it isn't too bad a resource.
I know, but it is the successor to Meego and was a company of ex-Nokia devs, so practically speaking, Maemo, Meego, and Sailfish are the same OS.
I'm not sure about that. They had a decent upgrade path to convert Symbian customers to Maemo/Meego/Sailfish, and it seems like that road was getting better reception than the WP path despite MS having largely killed it by the time they had anything released. It probably would have been difficult to have tanked Nokia harder without the kind of malice that would bring on investigations from various governments.
It would probably depend upon the police department. However, I would say that,in general, you probably aren't going to get much of a reaction. It's easy to come up with a dozen excuses that are just credible enough to end further inquiries. Also, this technique tends to be used in conjunction with profiling, so they are likely getting results, and the parties being illegally searched are going to generally be parties that are less sympathetic. If cops 'smell weed,' it's likely because you look like you smell like weed. Also, innocent people are often more concerned with getting the search over with than seeking justice. They were in a car, so they probably had a destination, and intended to get there in the near future. I know I consented to a search because I was tired and only a few miles from home, and getting to sleep was a higher priority than protecting my rights and getting the information to file a complaint against him.. The officer had a gleam in his eyes when he found a plastic sandwich bag in my trunk, followed by immediate disappointment when he realized that it only had bread crumbs in it from a previous lunch I had brought in my car.
I'm not aware of a FreeBSD foundation or a NetBSD foundation. The Linux Foundation, however, is a consortium that includes several large companies and has individuals experienced with bridging gaps between big corporations and communities. It's also worth remembering that the Linux foundation arose from the merger of Open Source Development Labs and Free Standards Group. When you take in that context, it makes a lot more sense.
I don't know whether or not they smelled it, but I do have doubts, and I have personally experienced a cop adamantly claiming that he smelled marijuana in a vehicle that has never, to my knowledge, had any marijuana in it. My bigger point is doubting the credibility of this supposedly anonymous tip. The level of detail she had seems highly suspect, and there's no indication that he was actually impaired or driving erratically. I know that if I had 30 lbs of weed in my car, I would attempt to be an especially careful and courteous driver. So, it seems very likely to me that this anonymous tip didn't come from someone truly anonymous, but someone acting on the behalf of a three letter agency. We know that they do things like this, and it seems to have too much dumb luck involved to consider that the more likely sequence of events was some random woman being run off the road.
It's a technique known to be used, there's not a particularly good reason for her to remain anonymous, and she has an unusual amount of data that appears to be accurate. People who are actually almost run off the road are absolutely horrible at getting make and model, let alone license plate. It would be quite a coincidence that an unimpaired drug dealing driver ran a female Rain Man off the road while he was carrying 30 lbs of weed. However, we know that our government engages in this activity, and to keep as many hands clean as possible and reduce the risk of losing the case due to fruit of the poisonous tree, an anonymous tip on an unrelated crime would be a perfect seed for parallel construction.