When they're scared, they pass horrible acts of legislation that do nothing productive, but ruin the lives of millions. Do you want them to do that to your cell phones?
Absolutely. Joe Sixpack doesn't know what the fuck SOPA is, and couldn't care less how his representatives are voting on it, or who's supporting it. He's never heard of RIAA or MPAA and his idea of a torrent is when the water main bursts down the street. But he has a cell phone, and he's not going to be happy if the government wants to dick around with it.
When stupid laws start interfering with everyone, instead of a few percent of the population, maybe more folks will wake up.
Too bad they didn't demonstrate it at the US Congress instead, I'd love to hear some intercepted conversations between a few Senators and their puppet-masters.
I suppose that might vary by jurisdiction, but in Memphis, it's sure as heck not a requirement. I'm not certain that all of our school board members can even read.
You may not be aware, but this was signed into law in 1994, and was not contested by the previous President. Chances for misuse notwithstanding, it isn't really a partisan issue and it doesn't really matter who the President is.
Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Susan Sarandon, all still working and I could easily go on. Hell, even Cloris Leachman still gets roles. Being over the hill has absolutely nothing to do with casting.
Unless this unnamed actress is involved in the "adult film industry," I don't think she has a point.
The word "hacker" is now so permanently ruined, we ought to just stop using it altogether. These days, leaving your Facebook or Twitter account logged in on a shared machine, and then having someone else notice that fact and make a posting under your account, is what the general population considers "hacking" to be.
That you aren't seeing the spam doesn't mean it isn't a major deal. Someone's bandwidth, drive space, etc. has to be used (even if in an ephemeral sense) long before SA shitcans the message.
Senate Bill 54 is dubbed the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act. It is named after a Missouri public school student who was repeatedly molested by a teacher several decades ago.
Several decades ago? Yeah, definitely Facebook's fault! Let's make a law!
This is already policy in a lot of school districts, simply because there are too many potential problems that could arise between students and teachers becoming too "friendly." Even where it's not policy, I can't imagine why any teacher in their right mind would accept the risk of "friending" students online. I think it ought to remain a district-level thing, though.
Scammers have taken this game to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter too. Sometimes they send @messages to their targets. Other times they hack into an account and use it to send out their messages. That's what happened last week to "Shaun of the Dead" actor Simon Pegg's Twitter account. It was used to spam out a Trojan horse program disguised as a screensaver to his 1.2 million followers.
Glad to hear you've got it good, but in Memphis, we have to go through automobile inspection every year or else our plates get cancelled. They send me a bill, I send them money, I spend an hour in the inspection line watching all sorts of oil burning/otherwise broken down vehicles getting turned away, and presuming I pass, then they send me a sticker to put on my plate.
If this legislation goes anywhere, expect automobile inspection to become mandatory pretty much everywhere in the US.
The Sarasota, Fla. man, for example, who got a similar visit from the FBI last year after someone on a boat docked in a marina outside his building used a potato chip can as an antenna to boost his wireless signal and download an astounding 10 million images of child porn
Alright, let's assume a JPG is about 25KB. 10 million 25 KB JPGs is something like 230 terabytes worth of data. What the hell?
Things like this are one of the main reasons we pay ~$25/mo for a land line despite having 5 active cell phones in the house on 2 separate networks (not to mention a few inactive ones that can still call 911)
It's my understanding that inactive landlines can still call 911, too. Unless you're using it for anything else, you probably don't need to pay for the dial tone. YMMV, check your local provider, etc.
The Stop Huntingdon animal Cruelty group, sent families death threats, sent fake bombs, handed around leaflets saying their victims were pedophiles, invaded their workplaces.
You'd have to check ID every time someone sent a letter and make sure the "from" address matches their ID (which means no more mailbox pickup, all letters and packages must be posted individually).
This is pretty much the case already with any parcel over 13 ounces, ever since the anthrax "attacks." Why they chose 13 ounces as their arbitrary limit I won't ever understand, but don't go hoping to ship boxed copies of software without having to interact with a postal clerk.
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When they're scared, they pass horrible acts of legislation that do nothing productive, but ruin the lives of millions. Do you want them to do that to your cell phones?
Absolutely. Joe Sixpack doesn't know what the fuck SOPA is, and couldn't care less how his representatives are voting on it, or who's supporting it. He's never heard of RIAA or MPAA and his idea of a torrent is when the water main bursts down the street. But he has a cell phone, and he's not going to be happy if the government wants to dick around with it.
When stupid laws start interfering with everyone, instead of a few percent of the population, maybe more folks will wake up.
Too bad they didn't demonstrate it at the US Congress instead, I'd love to hear some intercepted conversations between a few Senators and their puppet-masters.
If the deleted content is still there a week or more later, then you've got problems.
We're talking about Facebook here. The content is never deleted, and that's by design.
To paraphrase WOPR, "The only way to win is to run the game."
I thought the only way to win was not to play at all.
I suppose that might vary by jurisdiction, but in Memphis, it's sure as heck not a requirement. I'm not certain that all of our school board members can even read.
You may not be aware, but this was signed into law in 1994, and was not contested by the previous President. Chances for misuse notwithstanding, it isn't really a partisan issue and it doesn't really matter who the President is.
Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Susan Sarandon, all still working and I could easily go on. Hell, even Cloris Leachman still gets roles. Being over the hill has absolutely nothing to do with casting.
Unless this unnamed actress is involved in the "adult film industry," I don't think she has a point.
The word "hacker" is now so permanently ruined, we ought to just stop using it altogether. These days, leaving your Facebook or Twitter account logged in on a shared machine, and then having someone else notice that fact and make a posting under your account, is what the general population considers "hacking" to be.
Yeah, what we need is more quality submissions by Roland Piquepaille.
a BofA spokeswoman continued to divulge what might be happening
I don't think that word means what you think it means...
This restriction boggles my mind for a free country.
What AIPAC wants, AIPAC gets.
That you aren't seeing the spam doesn't mean it isn't a major deal. Someone's bandwidth, drive space, etc. has to be used (even if in an ephemeral sense) long before SA shitcans the message.
Quick, arrest a bunch of English teenagers and everything will be just fine!
Senate Bill 54 is dubbed the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act. It is named after a Missouri public school student who was repeatedly molested by a teacher several decades ago.
Several decades ago? Yeah, definitely Facebook's fault! Let's make a law!
This is already policy in a lot of school districts, simply because there are too many potential problems that could arise between students and teachers becoming too "friendly." Even where it's not policy, I can't imagine why any teacher in their right mind would accept the risk of "friending" students online. I think it ought to remain a district-level thing, though.
Don't you mean Weber server?
Apparently you didn't read the article.
Scammers have taken this game to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter too. Sometimes they send @messages to their targets. Other times they hack into an account and use it to send out their messages. That's what happened last week to "Shaun of the Dead" actor Simon Pegg's Twitter account. It was used to spam out a Trojan horse program disguised as a screensaver to his 1.2 million followers.
Is there really a point in linking to http://t.co/2QGXy6f instead of http://cia.gov? I guess URL lengtheners are the new trend?
Interesting, I wonder if they've paid for that copy of mIRC.
Am I going to have to go to the DMV every year?
Glad to hear you've got it good, but in Memphis, we have to go through automobile inspection every year or else our plates get cancelled. They send me a bill, I send them money, I spend an hour in the inspection line watching all sorts of oil burning/otherwise broken down vehicles getting turned away, and presuming I pass, then they send me a sticker to put on my plate.
If this legislation goes anywhere, expect automobile inspection to become mandatory pretty much everywhere in the US.
The Sarasota, Fla. man, for example, who got a similar visit from the FBI last year after someone on a boat docked in a marina outside his building used a potato chip can as an antenna to boost his wireless signal and download an astounding 10 million images of child porn
Alright, let's assume a JPG is about 25KB. 10 million 25 KB JPGs is something like 230 terabytes worth of data. What the hell?
Things like this are one of the main reasons we pay ~$25/mo for a land line despite having 5 active cell phones in the house on 2 separate networks (not to mention a few inactive ones that can still call 911)
It's my understanding that inactive landlines can still call 911, too. Unless you're using it for anything else, you probably don't need to pay for the dial tone. YMMV, check your local provider, etc.
I see previewing still takes several seconds the first time.
FYI, that's because Slashdot is testing to make sure that the host you're posting from is not an open HTTP proxy.
The Stop Huntingdon animal Cruelty group, sent families death threats, sent fake bombs, handed around leaflets saying their victims were pedophiles, invaded their workplaces.
Sounds like a bunch of Scientologists to me!
Where was it stated otherwise?
You'd have to check ID every time someone sent a letter and make sure the "from" address matches their ID (which means no more mailbox pickup, all letters and packages must be posted individually).
This is pretty much the case already with any parcel over 13 ounces, ever since the anthrax "attacks." Why they chose 13 ounces as their arbitrary limit I won't ever understand, but don't go hoping to ship boxed copies of software without having to interact with a postal clerk.