Diane Feinstein is what I call a DINO - Democrat in Name Only.
Things will get easier, and we can stop using funny acronyms, when people realize that the Democrats/"Progressives" and Republicans/"Conservatives" are really no different. They both want power, they both want to ship money to their business friends, and they both want to control our lives.
The only differences are who the friends are and in which way they want to control our lives.
But for this specific case I'm not surprised. The copyright cartel owns the Democrats as much as big oil owns the Republicans. Your very own Democrat Howard Berman is extremely "progressive" by any standard. He's the one who sponsored the bill to let the copyright cartel hack into your computer in pursuit of copyright infringement. He's so bad he's usually referred to as "Berman (D-Disney)."
Rove held the official administration position of Senior Advisor to the President from the beginning of Bush's presidency. All of his emails concerning official White House matters (such as, oh, firing some US attorneys) were required by law to be retained, and by policy to reside on White House servers.
Yep, and I'm loving mine. I got mine on the first day, but I finally found a second controller/nunchuk in a store last week. Those are apparently in high demand too.
Considering how long America refused to recognise the copyright of other countries
Copyright in the US has (had) a different purpose than that in Europe. The stated purpose is to "advance the arts and sciences" by granting a limited monopoly on the work. Even the Founders realized that ideas should be free, and that public domain is the default. You are given an exemption to that only to give you incentive to create more works.
Copyright in other places has a "you wrote it, you own it" mentality, which was directly at odds with US law and the Constitution. Adopting Berne was one of the most unconstitutional acts our government has ever committed. We should not honor foreign effectively unlimited copyrights just as we should not honor foreign censorship or religious oppression, as all are in violation of our most basic law.
LOL, I love it when the US protests against illegal trade barriers. Surely the foreign steel tariffs and more recently the Brazilian Ethanol/Biofuel tariffs do just the same...!
These issues are already WTO complaints. People already have complaints against us, we already have complaints against others. We're just finally making a complaint against China because years of asking them nicely haven't worked.
Need I mention WACO or Rodney King or how about the recent Blue on Blue incident where the US Air Force with 2 A10s blows the crap out of a British Convoy that had the correct orange markers denoting friendlies?
Waco was bad, King deserved it, the convoy was an accident.
If you get Roadrunner cable with the free AOL, then cancel Roadrunner, your AOL contract will cease to be free and it will continue running. You have to wade through the horror that is canceling AOL, preferably before you drop Roadrunner.
I can't say I know what IBM is thinking, but I think they have a strong incentive to get this tried quickly as a deterrent to other would-be SCOs out there. The question of Linux's legal status is still up if SCO goes bankrupt before it's over.
Maybe they -are- taking it seriously. And IBM is purposefully drawing this out.
SCO has been notoriously drawing this case out, delaying it using every possible legal trick. IBM has repeatedly asked the judge not to give them their delays, but SCO has won them many times.
Did IBM donate $50,000 to SCO via the IBM-chaired OSDL organization, as SCO alleges that they did with "Groklaw" (i.e. PJ)?
The origin of the story is Daniel Lyons, known SCO cheerleader and Groklaw hater. He stated that the money was for "infrastructure issues." Tell me, what kind of $50,000 infrastructure issues could there be with Groklaw hosted at ibiblio for free?
Photoshop has the standard artwork on the "About" screen. But by holding down Alt or something while clicking About you got alternate artwork centered around the code name for that version's project. Big Electric Cat was pretty cool, then there was "Strange Cargo."
If she is in New York then she can invoke the anti-SLAPP law (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). Utah, where SCO is, also has an anti-SLAPP law.
And if she's not actively dodging it (for example, if she's honestly taking a long-planned vacation somewhere and prefers to keep the destination private), then that's just SCO's tough luck.
PJ claims she never left home. She only took a break from posting at Groklaw.
I could make a PC for half the cost and the same system specs.
But can you buy from any other OEM for less?
In addition, I don't even think you can build yourself for less. The 2.66 GHz costs $2,400 for two chips (3.0 not on the street yet, probably around $3K). Add $350 for a power supply, probably around $400 for a mobo, and you're already around $3,750. Can you build the rest for $250?
This is an attempt to push that kind of stuff away and keep it quarantined to places where it can be kept under control.
Thus smarter countries have actually banded together to properly regulate Internet gambling, rather than try to ban it. The US didn't even show up to that meeting.
Only the most laissez-faire libertarianism would possibly fight against this sort of legislation
Or someone who believes in individual liberty. But, hey, it's only the foundation of this country, so feel free to ignore it.
the WTO not withstanding and a certain interpretation of the WTO treaty.
Certain interpretation? We are stifling international trade with our citizens. I hope Antigua does open up a massive allofmp3 style service, then we'll have two lobbies, the copyright cartel and the gambling industry, duking it out over whose interests reign supreme (of course forget the interests of the American people -- they don't matter, they're just votes to be bought).
You think I give a shit which jurisdiction they were in.
Doesn't matter, that's how it works. If I go up to Washington state and shoot a Canadian across the border with a hunting rifle, you can bet the Canadian government will be rightfully wanting my extradition. It's stupid to think I could say "I was in the US when I did it, so Canada can't have me." Bullshit, I shot someone in Canada. And this guy committed computer trespass in the United States.
Even better, don't complain about human rights violations, etc., if Bush decides to hit your country with a cruise missile because he needs a distraction from internal politics. By your logic, you have no right to complain since only US law applies, it has nothing to do with your country.
The U.S. government has a history of overzealous prosecution in hacker cases
True, but we still have a right to prosecute those who commit criminal acts.
where I presume they feel that since they're not competent to protect their own systems, they have to scare off those with the ability to compromise them
So part of our security is to scare people into not compromising it. Sounds good to me. Defense in depth.
So McKinnon, having done no real damage (despite the bogus claim of $700K)
I also don't like the inflated estimates. However, if the known compromise of one computer caused the organization to spend the many man-hours checking every computer in the organization, that is a legitimate -- and expensive -- damage. But the government should be required to prove that damage, not just be able to throw out big, round numbers.
The govenments made a deal, where the USA 'promised' they wouldn't actually deal out the capital punishment to that citizen.
This is standard practice according to treaty, and has been for a long time. It's not just a 'promise,' but part of the terms of the extradition. I don't believe we've ever violated them, because if we did we'd never get an extradition again.
that EU-person got an illegal advantage which no ordinary US citizen gets.
If you kill someone, quickly take a flight to Germany and claim asylum for being subject to the death penalty. You'll get the same treatment.
If you can just wander in without force, it's not B&E
Even pushing open a door or lifting a window is enough force to qualify for B&E. The only way you get out of it is if the door or window were left sufficiently open for you to enter without touching a thing. I think "administrator/[blank]" is the equivalent of opening an unlocked door.
Only if they can prove you had intent to cause damage/trouble.
They overlap. In general, trespass requires damage even of the slightest amount (scuffing the floorboards applies) or deprivation of the owner's use of the property in any way. However, that can be civil tort or a misdemeanor offense. If you go in with any criminal intent, it's burglary (no theft needed) or criminal trespass. Laws vary by state, YMMV.
Of course we're dealing with none of those laws here, since his actions fall under federal computer trespass laws.
Which part of "He wasn't in fucking America and should not be exposed to that country's barbaric approach to justice" are you struggling with?
Welcome to the age of the Internet, where it's easy to commit a crime four thousand miles away. What part of "He broke into computers under United States jurisdiction" are you struggling with?
He simply challenged seemingly high security systems with very low-tech kludgey scripts
The government's high-security systems are not accessible from the public Internet. They are collections of government networks securely linked together to form completely separate mini-Internets. Computers joined to these networks are a bit more strictly controlled.
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The only differences are who the friends are and in which way they want to control our lives.
But for this specific case I'm not surprised. The copyright cartel owns the Democrats as much as big oil owns the Republicans. Your very own Democrat Howard Berman is extremely "progressive" by any standard. He's the one who sponsored the bill to let the copyright cartel hack into your computer in pursuit of copyright infringement. He's so bad he's usually referred to as "Berman (D-Disney)."
Rove held the official administration position of Senior Advisor to the President from the beginning of Bush's presidency. All of his emails concerning official White House matters (such as, oh, firing some US attorneys) were required by law to be retained, and by policy to reside on White House servers.
The emails were on non-government accounts.
It's offered for free, and most people won't pass up free stuff.
Yep, and I'm loving mine. I got mine on the first day, but I finally found a second controller/nunchuk in a store last week. Those are apparently in high demand too.
Copyright in other places has a "you wrote it, you own it" mentality, which was directly at odds with US law and the Constitution. Adopting Berne was one of the most unconstitutional acts our government has ever committed. We should not honor foreign effectively unlimited copyrights just as we should not honor foreign censorship or religious oppression, as all are in violation of our most basic law.
If you get Roadrunner cable with the free AOL, then cancel Roadrunner, your AOL contract will cease to be free and it will continue running. You have to wade through the horror that is canceling AOL, preferably before you drop Roadrunner.
A lot of people have been bitten by this.
I can't say I know what IBM is thinking, but I think they have a strong incentive to get this tried quickly as a deterrent to other would-be SCOs out there. The question of Linux's legal status is still up if SCO goes bankrupt before it's over.
SCO has been notoriously drawing this case out, delaying it using every possible legal trick. IBM has repeatedly asked the judge not to give them their delays, but SCO has won them many times.
Who else here would have loved to have been the emergency operator when people started calling in?
'nuff said.
Photoshop has the standard artwork on the "About" screen. But by holding down Alt or something while clicking About you got alternate artwork centered around the code name for that version's project. Big Electric Cat was pretty cool, then there was "Strange Cargo."
If you listen to the court, bloggers are journalists, or at least entitled to the same protections.
If she is in New York then she can invoke the anti-SLAPP law (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). Utah, where SCO is, also has an anti-SLAPP law.
In addition, I don't even think you can build yourself for less. The 2.66 GHz costs $2,400 for two chips (3.0 not on the street yet, probably around $3K). Add $350 for a power supply, probably around $400 for a mobo, and you're already around $3,750. Can you build the rest for $250?
Doesn't matter, that's how it works. If I go up to Washington state and shoot a Canadian across the border with a hunting rifle, you can bet the Canadian government will be rightfully wanting my extradition. It's stupid to think I could say "I was in the US when I did it, so Canada can't have me." Bullshit, I shot someone in Canada. And this guy committed computer trespass in the United States.
Even better, don't complain about human rights violations, etc., if Bush decides to hit your country with a cruise missile because he needs a distraction from internal politics. By your logic, you have no right to complain since only US law applies, it has nothing to do with your country.
This is standard practice according to treaty, and has been for a long time. It's not just a 'promise,' but part of the terms of the extradition. I don't believe we've ever violated them, because if we did we'd never get an extradition again.
If you kill someone, quickly take a flight to Germany and claim asylum for being subject to the death penalty. You'll get the same treatment.
Even pushing open a door or lifting a window is enough force to qualify for B&E. The only way you get out of it is if the door or window were left sufficiently open for you to enter without touching a thing. I think "administrator/[blank]" is the equivalent of opening an unlocked door.
They overlap. In general, trespass requires damage even of the slightest amount (scuffing the floorboards applies) or deprivation of the owner's use of the property in any way. However, that can be civil tort or a misdemeanor offense. If you go in with any criminal intent, it's burglary (no theft needed) or criminal trespass. Laws vary by state, YMMV.
Of course we're dealing with none of those laws here, since his actions fall under federal computer trespass laws.
Welcome to the age of the Internet, where it's easy to commit a crime four thousand miles away. What part of "He broke into computers under United States jurisdiction" are you struggling with?
The government's high-security systems are not accessible from the public Internet. They are collections of government networks securely linked together to form completely separate mini-Internets. Computers joined to these networks are a bit more strictly controlled.