In other words, you’re right, and anybody who says otherwise, including the Supreme Court, is wrong. Why am I not surprised...
Future courts will read the Constitution again and realize that Roberts et al were in on the fix, and will reverse it.
Keep dreaming, troll.
Second, That's how the law works. Law enforcement is beholden to the laws that are in force, not to your interpretation of the constitution. When the law is in force, law enforcement enforces that law. When the law gets struck down, they stop.
You basically just completely contradicted your initial claim, which was that nobody needs to worry about an unconstitutional law (like an ex post facto law) ever being passed and enforced.
Now you’re claiming that unconstitutional laws can and will be passed and enforced until they get struck down, which was my point all along.
Like you said the MAC address should be recorded. They may have been able to subpoena (or not, thanks patriot act) the local ISP
The MAC address should be recorded on the access point (AP, as GP stated), which means the wireless router of the customer. The ISP has no ability to see the MAC addresses of the individual devices on the user’s end of the network.
Of course this is predicated upon the assumption that the wireless router has MAC logging enabled... though I think most of them would, at least, show the MAC addresses of all devices currently connected to the network, even if logging is disabled. However note that two devices with the same MAC address (because one of them cloned the MAC address of the other) would be completely indistinguishable from each other, from the wireless router’s perspective. In fact they’d both be able to see all of the traffic intended for both of them, too, although any packets that weren’t expected would just be ignored, so they probably wouldn’t conflict with each other.
Since you’re so knowledgeable, see if you can answer this question without referring to Google: What is Kodak’s current status with the Better Business Bureau, and why and how?
I mean illegal now, because ex post facto laws are banned by the Constitution.
The handgun legislation that existed not-too-long ago in Washington D.C. was banned by the Constitution too, but plenty of people were still forced to obey it or suffer consequences until the Supreme Court got around to striking it down.
#1 Bathtub pics of kids is almost neveer likely to be consifered child porn
Tell that to the parents who’ve found police waiting at Walgreens when they come to pick up their 1-hour photos. IIRC I’ve heard about it happening more than once.
#2 Are you saying if you see child porn on someone's computer you will look the other way because they are paying you in cash?
I’m pretty sure he was saying that he has no intentions of poking around in folders where he has no business poking around in. Obviously if there are child porn pictures in a folder called “child porn pics” on the desktop, he’d be obligated to report it.
#3 Why don't you accept other forms of payment? Are you trying to avoid paying taxes?
Such as what? Personal check? And then you get to play the “don’t deposit it until Friday” game, and then when you deposit it on Monday it turns out they had an automatic bill payment that they’d forgotten about and the check bounces... and you get to pay the returned check fee. Credit card, Paypal, etc. are hardly convenient. Cash is the only way to go. And what makes you assume he’s just doing it to avoid taxes? You seem to like assuming the worst.
Actually, legal tender IS what they're obligated to take. They can take legal tender AT FACE VALUE, or forgive the debt.
No. A sale does not involve debt because it’s a single equal-sided transaction. If they don’t want to take my money, they don’t have to make the transaction. This is well-established legally.
If a debt exists, they have to accept legal tender, but this does not apply to sales unless they’re selling things on credit (which would be a debt, and they’d have to accept any form of legal tender).
No. They’re a wanna-be, and they market a bunch of crap point-and-shoot digital cameras with lousy cheap components that appeal to people who don’t do their homework before buying something.
We have that too, it’s called “personal check”... though it does have the drawback of requiring you to trust that they actually have that much money in the account, and the check clears.
Really? How often do people leave their keys lying around? Or blindly hand them to a stranger?
IIRC one of the tried-and-true methods used by “hackers” back in the day (when “hacking” meant getting unpublished telephone numbers for modems and logging in with a username/password combination to access the corporate intranet) was calling them up claiming you were a new employee and getting to an internal help desk whose operator would happily divulge the password you needed.
(And if you prefer to use the word “cracking”, feel free to mentally edit my comment to that effect.)
FTFY. Whether they’re using passwords like 12345 or writing their password on a Post-It or telling it to whoever calls them and claims to be tech support, dumb users are almost always the weakest link.
Quite possibly the only time there’s a link that’s weaker than the users themselves is if you have really, truly incompetent admins (when they store passwords in clear-text databases or something royally stupid like that)... but in general, users are the weakest link.
So rather type in the beginning of a url, which is both intuitive and standard operating procedure for a location bar, I should mentally generate tokens representing url's to efficiently utilize the awesomebar?
As opposed to typing the beginning of the URL, and then memorizing the position of the result that you wanted in the list of URLs that are suggested, which you’re assuming will never change?
Ah, my bad. Yes, turns out that Polaroid was in fact a competitor of Kodak, and they actually filed a successful patent suit against Kodak for their Kodamatic instant camera line. How ironic.
Kodak used to be the single leader in innovative technology with their film, cameras, and the invention of the (nearly) instant-print Polaroid. Now, they’re essentially a gigantic patent troll. They haven’t been really innovative for a very long time, and their last resort is to sue.
Well, one of them surely would be that if they get the appropriate equipment and then wait until you connect they can triangulate on your signal and find your physical location.
You could always set up a cheap wireless router with WEP and configure it to let only the specific traffic needed by those to pass through it. Whitelisting the required ports and blacklisting the rest would be pretty effective.
Then sure, it’s not that hard to break into the WEP-encrypted network, but you don’t get anything useful once you’re in. Unless you just want to hijack your neighbour’s internet to play Wii online, which is pretty sad, but at least not terribly likely to get him in trouble with the law.
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First, that rulling was political horseshit.
In other words, you’re right, and anybody who says otherwise, including the Supreme Court, is wrong. Why am I not surprised...
Future courts will read the Constitution again and realize that Roberts et al were in on the fix, and will reverse it.
Keep dreaming, troll.
Second, That's how the law works. Law enforcement is beholden to the laws that are in force, not to your interpretation of the constitution. When the law is in force, law enforcement enforces that law. When the law gets struck down, they stop.
You basically just completely contradicted your initial claim, which was that nobody needs to worry about an unconstitutional law (like an ex post facto law) ever being passed and enforced.
Now you’re claiming that unconstitutional laws can and will be passed and enforced until they get struck down, which was my point all along.
Go troll someone else.
Like you said the MAC address should be recorded. They may have been able to subpoena (or not, thanks patriot act) the local ISP
The MAC address should be recorded on the access point (AP, as GP stated), which means the wireless router of the customer. The ISP has no ability to see the MAC addresses of the individual devices on the user’s end of the network.
Of course this is predicated upon the assumption that the wireless router has MAC logging enabled... though I think most of them would, at least, show the MAC addresses of all devices currently connected to the network, even if logging is disabled. However note that two devices with the same MAC address (because one of them cloned the MAC address of the other) would be completely indistinguishable from each other, from the wireless router’s perspective. In fact they’d both be able to see all of the traffic intended for both of them, too, although any packets that weren’t expected would just be ignored, so they probably wouldn’t conflict with each other.
Since you’re so knowledgeable, see if you can answer this question without referring to Google: What is Kodak’s current status with the Better Business Bureau, and why and how?
I mean illegal now, because ex post facto laws are banned by the Constitution.
The handgun legislation that existed not-too-long ago in Washington D.C. was banned by the Constitution too, but plenty of people were still forced to obey it or suffer consequences until the Supreme Court got around to striking it down.
When you’re paying someone who accepts credit cards, perhaps. When you’re paying someone who doesn’t, it’s about 100% less convenient than cash.
if they have gold in them now this little bit of otherwise worthless paper actually has a minuscule bit of value
I’ve heard they already contain measurable levels of cocaine.
#1 Bathtub pics of kids is almost neveer likely to be consifered child porn
Tell that to the parents who’ve found police waiting at Walgreens when they come to pick up their 1-hour photos. IIRC I’ve heard about it happening more than once.
#2 Are you saying if you see child porn on someone's computer you will look the other way because they are paying you in cash?
I’m pretty sure he was saying that he has no intentions of poking around in folders where he has no business poking around in. Obviously if there are child porn pictures in a folder called “child porn pics” on the desktop, he’d be obligated to report it.
#3 Why don't you accept other forms of payment? Are you trying to avoid paying taxes?
Such as what? Personal check? And then you get to play the “don’t deposit it until Friday” game, and then when you deposit it on Monday it turns out they had an automatic bill payment that they’d forgotten about and the check bounces ... and you get to pay the returned check fee. Credit card, Paypal, etc. are hardly convenient. Cash is the only way to go. And what makes you assume he’s just doing it to avoid taxes? You seem to like assuming the worst.
Actually, legal tender IS what they're obligated to take. They can take legal tender AT FACE VALUE, or forgive the debt.
No. A sale does not involve debt because it’s a single equal-sided transaction. If they don’t want to take my money, they don’t have to make the transaction. This is well-established legally.
If a debt exists, they have to accept legal tender, but this does not apply to sales unless they’re selling things on credit (which would be a debt, and they’d have to accept any form of legal tender).
No. They’re a wanna-be, and they market a bunch of crap point-and-shoot digital cameras with lousy cheap components that appeal to people who don’t do their homework before buying something.
We have that too, it’s called “personal check”... though it does have the drawback of requiring you to trust that they actually have that much money in the account, and the check clears.
The answer is obvious enough - if the site restricts either the length or the content of your password, they obviously aren't hashing it
That’s not necessarily true, and for that matter neither is the inverse.
Really? How often do people leave their keys lying around? Or blindly hand them to a stranger?
IIRC one of the tried-and-true methods used by “hackers” back in the day (when “hacking” meant getting unpublished telephone numbers for modems and logging in with a username/password combination to access the corporate intranet) was calling them up claiming you were a new employee and getting to an internal help desk whose operator would happily divulge the password you needed.
(And if you prefer to use the word “cracking”, feel free to mentally edit my comment to that effect.)
FTFY. Whether they’re using passwords like 12345 or writing their password on a Post-It or telling it to whoever calls them and claims to be tech support, dumb users are almost always the weakest link.
Quite possibly the only time there’s a link that’s weaker than the users themselves is if you have really, truly incompetent admins (when they store passwords in clear-text databases or something royally stupid like that)... but in general, users are the weakest link.
So rather type in the beginning of a url, which is both intuitive and standard operating procedure for a location bar, I should mentally generate tokens representing url's to efficiently utilize the awesomebar?
As opposed to typing the beginning of the URL, and then memorizing the position of the result that you wanted in the list of URLs that are suggested, which you’re assuming will never change?
Ah, my bad. Yes, turns out that Polaroid was in fact a competitor of Kodak, and they actually filed a successful patent suit against Kodak for their Kodamatic instant camera line. How ironic.
Kodak used to be the single leader in innovative technology with their film, cameras, and the invention of the (nearly) instant-print Polaroid. Now, they’re essentially a gigantic patent troll. They haven’t been really innovative for a very long time, and their last resort is to sue.
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, sue.
No, he was referring to covertly collected tissue samples contaminated with certain bodily fluids well-known for containing DNA.
Well, one of them surely would be that if they get the appropriate equipment and then wait until you connect they can triangulate on your signal and find your physical location.
"Would use of those Yahoo accounts be traceable through forensic analysis of the computer that accessed it?"
"yes"
The prosecutor, or their expert witness, would be much, much too smart to trap themselves with an answer like that.
You could always set up a cheap wireless router with WEP and configure it to let only the specific traffic needed by those to pass through it. Whitelisting the required ports and blacklisting the rest would be pretty effective.
Then sure, it’s not that hard to break into the WEP-encrypted network, but you don’t get anything useful once you’re in. Unless you just want to hijack your neighbour’s internet to play Wii online, which is pretty sad, but at least not terribly likely to get him in trouble with the law.
You wouldn’t even need a subpoena, if you have his MAC address all you’d need to do is wait for him to connect and triangulate on his signal.
“Cease recording” is never a “lawful” request.
Then why can someone be arrested for being drunk if they’re not disturbing the peace, just walking home peaceably?
Why? Just because some moron made it illegal to satisfy some rabid prohibitionists?
Because there are hardly any good cops. There are just bad cops, and cops who cover up for them.