It's pretty simple. It's a normal tactic for the prosecution, when they know they've botched a case (but are unwilling to admit it), to ask the defendant to squeal or spin some prefabricated story (just like some kidnappers make their victims do) about someone else. Not neccessarily to go after the squeal-e but to say: "Hey! We got evidence on this guy. So we didn't really fuck up."
I'd like to think that his employer was well aware of this and even expecting it as the only way to get Dimitry out this Kafka-esque nightmare FBI had landed him in.
In any case, ElcomSoft is a Russian company, registered on a Russian soil and was using an American company to re-sell their products in USA. The case is effectively dead now since they won't be able to jail ElcomSoft, since ElcomSoft is not jailable, being the non-human that it is.
The prosecution is just licking their wounds after having so spectacularly screwed this whole deal up.
I think Dimitry is a hero for having faced this unbelievable ordeal with as much calm as he did.
Bzzt. They can only claim actual expenses. If they claim the $1 billion in software as an expense, they would have to claim $1 billion in revenues as well. You can't write off the value of services.
Mebbee.. They've been pretty good at doing things like this (maybe not so openly) to fiddle their tax returns. I seem to recall that Microsoft hasn't really paid any tax whatsoever since they became this behemoth they are today.
1893 The US forcibly overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1900 Hawaii annexed as a territory.
1946 Hawaii was listed as a non-self-governing territory under United Nation.
1991 The Hawaii Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights issued a report documenting 73 years of civil rights violations against Hawaiians.
1993 The US Congress passed Pub Law, "the Apology Bill", officially apologising to the Hawaiian People for the illegal overthrow of the Kingdom in 1893. Ka Lahui Hawaii became a member of the UNPO.
1996 The representatives of the US State Department and Departments of Justice and Interior came to Hawaii for a briefing on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, but no progress was made towards the implementation of a program for self-determination for Kanako Maoli. The Urban Institute of Washington D.C. reported that the Hawaiians have the worst housing conditions in the US. The UNPO mission to Hawaii reviewed the status and conditions of Native Hawaiians and inquired into the state initiative for a plebiscite.
2000The US Census recognized Native Hawaiians in their survey of the US population
Nothing out of the ordinary there. They just figured out how to do it more subtly and over shorter timescales.
So, ask yourselves, does file sharing -- the exchange of information on a scale far exceeding anything we have seen in human history -- promote the progress of science and the useful arts?
Not sure about the science bit. But I don't think I've ever bought as many CDs, or been exposed to as rich variety of music, since I started to use file swapping services.
As the lawyer said, it's a technology control issue, plain and simple. Not worth arguing otherwise.
RIAA doesn't give a hoot about the artist, even though they use that as their main defense. As an example, I met the singer from Twisted Sister (a massive 80s band for those of you born after 1985) working in a t-shirt shop in New York, looking rather sullen. Never saw a penny from the "benevolent friends of the artists", the music publishers, which RIAA is the front for.
And by the way. It's not pirating, it's copyright infringment. Totally different issue even though the ??AA people would like the public to believe otherwise.
...bets on how much money Microsoft will lose on the XBox? This could be their very own Newton.
Let's do some rough maths. MS allegedly has around $20 billion in cash reserves (that's cash, not stocks) plus or minus. Let's say each X-Box costs around $400 to manufacture.
Now, 20,000,000,000 / 400 = 50,000,000.
This means that they should be able to give nearly every household in America at least one machine.
Heck! They should just give everyone $400 in cash!
I heard from a web developer for middleware systems that uses IIS that IIS 6.0 is going to run in kernel memory.
The fact that they actually have to run a service, that normally belongs in user space, in kernel space, to get adequate performance out of it, speaks volumes about "NT Technology" (sic).
That was why they moved the GUI into kernel space. They just couldn't get any performance out of it when it was running at user level.
I think there's just too much DOS/single user mentality at Redmond to actually figure this out.
To me, there is a "right" way to behave sexually: one and only one lifetime consensual sexual partner with the sexual relationship established after formal partnership (marriage), with the primary intent of procreation. !!!
Either you're not married or you're just very lousy in the sack and don't want your wife to find out...:-)
Except for the fact of course that the availability of "virtual" child porn will increase the number of child molestations. That's a big statement, I know, but consider regular porn for a minute. Regular porn makes one think of sex, thinking of sex tends to make people want to have sex, and people tend to carry out their desires.
I think that people actually tend to inhibit their desires. I wouldn't have any friends or relatives left, if the opposite was the case.
Seriously though, there are people out there who, for different reasons, get their kicks out of looking at child porn. To infer that these people also physically subject children to these horrific acts is a fairly simplistic view of affairs. Not everyone who watches Kung-Fu movies goes out and beats someone into a quadraplegic, not even on a regular basis. Of course they create a supply and demand cycle, which would probably best be broken by providing these unfortunate individuals with virtual porn, just so that they can look at it, pull the pud and go to work. Only that way can we cut off the demand and hopefully save some real lives instead.
I think that J. R. R. Tolkien's intention with "The Hobbit" was as a childrens' book.
That its main audience is adults, is probably also besides the point.
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The problem isn't the software, it's the admins.
The problem is that Microsoft decided that it was a "user convenience" to have Win2K install a web server by default. So every Joe User has now a fully fledged, fully open web server operating on his/her machine without them even knowing it
I just had to help my ex-girlfriend remove Code Red from her machine. She was as suprised as I was, that her machine was automagically set up as a server box.
Next time Microsoft decide to integrate "user convenience services", to kill competitors, might I suggest a firewall?
I think that the basis of this court case is that the DMCA can be used by corporations to stifle academic research. That goes very much against the intents of the founding fathers' idea of copyright.
It is simply not true that there was a genetic isolation in Iceland. The Island men were travelling around Europe for hundreds of years.
In such a few numbers that it was statistically insignificant. Most of Icelanders were poor farmers who couldn't afford the monopilistic prices the Danes (the previous rulers of Iceland) put on seafares across the Atlantic.
It is not true that almost every person from Iceland has a well known family tree going back hundreds of years.
There are church records dating back to the 14th century (if not farther back) noting the father/mother, date of birth, date of death of almost every individual ever born in Iceland.
Also, Icelanders have been pretty meticulous family historians for centuries. Always highly annoying when your gran tells you that a person you don't like is actually your n-th cousin.
Since when have newspaper reporters gotten their facts straight about foreign countries?
Well, there's always the matter of the Icelandic government selling the country's national genetic database to a biotech company, and then passing a law preventing anyone else (including the citizens of Iceland themselves) from having access to the data...
Bzzzt. Wrong. It gave the company exclusive rights to access anonymized medical records. I can still access my medical records. It's just that no other company can get a hold of it.
This is because Icelanders have a tendency to emulate their neighbour if he's successful, but don't fully realise that there might not be a market for more of the same given the tiny population. The usual experience has been that both lose.
What the governement was trying to prevent is a goldrush that would've killed off the budding genetic industry before it ever took off. So this is actually a Good Thing(TM).
...me and my forefathers didn't climb up to the top of the food chain to go all the way down again. Hence my daily intake of dead animal flesh every day.
OTOH has there ever been a found a proven conclusive link between on-screen violence and tendencies towards violence in the real-world? Or is it just cultural?
I mean, in Switzerland every adult male is legally required to keep a fully automatic rifle in their homes. Still the homicide rate there hovers around the 1.1 per 100,000 and in the good ol' US of A it's something like 10.3. [ObDisclaimer: Data from around 1988 when violent computer games weren't as graphic as today]
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I just think it's funny that they are, after a fashion, patenting a part of my body.
And the fact that I can even point to my granny and say: "Prior art"
It's pretty simple. It's a normal tactic for the prosecution, when they know they've botched a case (but are unwilling to admit it), to ask the defendant to squeal or spin some prefabricated story (just like some kidnappers make their victims do) about someone else. Not neccessarily to go after the squeal-e but to say: "Hey! We got evidence on this guy. So we didn't really fuck up."
I'd like to think that his employer was well aware of this and even expecting it as the only way to get Dimitry out this Kafka-esque nightmare FBI had landed him in.
In any case, ElcomSoft is a Russian company, registered on a Russian soil and was using an American company to re-sell their products in USA. The case is effectively dead now since they won't be able to jail ElcomSoft, since ElcomSoft is not jailable, being the non-human that it is.
The prosecution is just licking their wounds after having so spectacularly screwed this whole deal up.
I think Dimitry is a hero for having faced this unbelievable ordeal with as much calm as he did.
Bzzt. They can only claim actual expenses. If they claim the $1 billion in software as an expense, they would have to claim $1 billion in revenues as well. You can't write off the value of services.
Mebbee.. They've been pretty good at doing things like this (maybe not so openly) to fiddle their tax returns. I seem to recall that Microsoft hasn't really paid any tax whatsoever since they became this behemoth they are today.
Get your facts straight.
Nothing out of the ordinary there. They just figured out how to do it more subtly and over shorter timescales.
more drivers that don't _FUCKING NOT COMPILE_!
Does that mean that they do compile?
So, ask yourselves, does file sharing -- the exchange of information on a scale far exceeding anything we have seen in human history -- promote the progress of science and the useful arts?
Not sure about the science bit. But I don't think I've ever bought as many CDs, or been exposed to as rich variety of music, since I started to use file swapping services.
As the lawyer said, it's a technology control issue, plain and simple. Not worth arguing otherwise.
RIAA doesn't give a hoot about the artist, even though they use that as their main defense. As an example, I met the singer from Twisted Sister (a massive 80s band for those of you born after 1985) working in a t-shirt shop in New York, looking rather sullen. Never saw a penny from the "benevolent friends of the artists", the music publishers, which RIAA is the front for.
And by the way. It's not pirating, it's copyright infringment. Totally different issue even though the ??AA people would like the public to believe otherwise.
...bets on how much money Microsoft will lose on the XBox? This could be their very own Newton.
Let's do some rough maths. MS allegedly has around $20 billion in cash reserves (that's cash, not stocks) plus or minus. Let's say each X-Box costs around $400 to manufacture.
Now, 20,000,000,000 / 400 = 50,000,000.
This means that they should be able to give nearly every household in America at least one machine.
Heck! They should just give everyone $400 in cash!
And will my computers in Canada/UK/non-USA country be safe from RIAA's prying hands?
Given how their ilk managed to apply US laws in a different country (Norway) this scares the fuck out of me.
I heard from a web developer for middleware systems that uses IIS that IIS 6.0 is going to run in kernel memory.
The fact that they actually have to run a service, that normally belongs in user space, in kernel space, to get adequate performance out of it, speaks volumes about "NT Technology" (sic).
That was why they moved the GUI into kernel space. They just couldn't get any performance out of it when it was running at user level.
I think there's just too much DOS/single user mentality at Redmond to actually figure this out.
Here's a hint - THEY DON'T!
You're experiencing the magical "Slashdot effect" in action.
*Check* before posting. Please. Don't tease us like this.
Same applies to you.
To me, there is a "right" way to behave sexually: one and only one lifetime consensual sexual partner with the sexual relationship established after formal partnership (marriage), with the primary intent of procreation. !!!
:-)
Either you're not married or you're just very lousy in the sack and don't want your wife to find out...
Except for the fact of course that the availability of "virtual" child porn will increase the number of child molestations. That's a big statement, I know, but consider regular porn for a minute. Regular porn makes one think of sex, thinking of sex tends to make people want to have sex, and people tend to carry out their desires.
I think that people actually tend to inhibit their desires. I wouldn't have any friends or relatives left, if the opposite was the case.
Seriously though, there are people out there who, for different reasons, get their kicks out of looking at child porn. To infer that these people also physically subject children to these horrific acts is a fairly simplistic view of affairs. Not everyone who watches Kung-Fu movies goes out and beats someone into a quadraplegic, not even on a regular basis. Of course they create a supply and demand cycle, which would probably best be broken by providing these unfortunate individuals with virtual porn, just so that they can look at it, pull the pud and go to work. Only that way can we cut off the demand and hopefully save some real lives instead.
"The target audience is kids."
I think that J. R. R. Tolkien's intention with "The Hobbit" was as a childrens' book.
That its main audience is adults, is probably also besides the point.
The problem is that Microsoft decided that it was a "user convenience" to have Win2K install a web server by default. So every Joe User has now a fully fledged, fully open web server operating on his/her machine without them even knowing it
I just had to help my ex-girlfriend remove Code Red from her machine. She was as suprised as I was, that her machine was automagically set up as a server box.
Next time Microsoft decide to integrate "user convenience services", to kill competitors, might I suggest a firewall?
I think that the basis of this court case is that the DMCA can be used by corporations to stifle academic research. That goes very much against the intents of the founding fathers' idea of copyright.
In such a few numbers that it was statistically insignificant. Most of Icelanders were poor farmers who couldn't afford the monopilistic prices the Danes (the previous rulers of Iceland) put on seafares across the Atlantic.
It is not true that almost every person from Iceland has a well known family tree going back hundreds of years.
There are church records dating back to the 14th century (if not farther back) noting the father/mother, date of birth, date of death of almost every individual ever born in Iceland.
Also, Icelanders have been pretty meticulous family historians for centuries. Always highly annoying when your gran tells you that a person you don't like is actually your n-th cousin.
Since when have newspaper reporters gotten their facts straight about foreign countries?
Bzzzt. Wrong. It gave the company exclusive rights to access anonymized medical records. I can still access my medical records. It's just that no other company can get a hold of it.
This is because Icelanders have a tendency to emulate their neighbour if he's successful, but don't fully realise that there might not be a market for more of the same given the tiny population. The usual experience has been that both lose.
What the governement was trying to prevent is a goldrush that would've killed off the budding genetic industry before it ever took off. So this is actually a Good Thing(TM).
Wow. 16K x 12K. And you've got your own IMAX projector for that? :-)
OTOH has there ever been a found a proven conclusive link between on-screen violence and tendencies towards violence in the real-world? Or is it just cultural?
I mean, in Switzerland every adult male is legally required to keep a fully automatic rifle in their homes. Still the homicide rate there hovers around the 1.1 per 100,000 and in the good ol' US of A it's something like 10.3. [ObDisclaimer: Data from around 1988 when violent computer games weren't as graphic as today]