Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Federal law caps credit card liability at $50 in fraudulent charges. There is no such cap for debit cards.
If your card number & exp. date end up in the wrong hands, the funds in your checking, savings, or brokerage account - whatever account to which the number is tied - can be drained completely, and then you're out of luck.
Somehow I doubt that you could build a winning battle bot based on Linux: it just strikes me that things like hard drives don't respond well to axes and chain saw blades.
The reason people were so pissed about the FBI's Carnivore is because we have no way of knowing what it really does.
Most people can appreciate the need for Big Brother to watch some of us some of the time, but the FBI's original plan gave no assurances that we weren't all being watched all the time, or even that that's the system's main function.
What I was really uncomfortable with was the FBI's demand that the Carnivore box be placed at every ISP, and that it's remotely operated. Setting aside the security issues, it would make it a bit too easy for the Government to pull the plug on significant chunks of the Net. At least with an open-source version, we know what the system's capabilities are.
That's easy to forget. It was never intended to be used for page layout.
Go ahead & design you pages to look good, but comply with XHTML standards, and keep a few things in mind:
Use descriptive tags (<cite>,<em>) instead of sylistic ones (<i>,<b>).
The devices used to access the Web will determine how to interpret the elements within these tags based on their purpose. A browser might italicize a citation, whereas a device for the blind might 'speak' the words in a different voice.
Oh yeah, and stay away from <font> tags. Use CSS instead.
If you follow the W3C's guidelines for XHTML, your pages can still look good, because the devices used to retrieve the data will strip out the information & present it in a format suitable for the audience.
From the article: In the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado, the irreverent and sometimes off-color underground newspapers are haunting reminders of the Web pages created by the student gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, in which they spewed their anger.
That is why they are a good thing. If school officials had successfully pulled Harris & Klebold's rantings off the Web, it wouldn't have done a thing to prevent what happened later. While those two obviously didn't counsel themselves to sanity, there are plenty of people for whom expression - whether it's art, music, or writing (even Web pages) - has done just that.
Jobs no doubt got the license for peanuts. It's a case of mutual back-scratching. The fact that Apple has licensed the technology not only serves to validate Amazon's patent, but now Apple has an example of another company 'protecting its intellectual property'.
One thing that seems to have been overlooked: Apple is the first company to secure a license, setting the precedent for other companies.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Freedom of speech absolutely gives him the right to be an asshole.
It gives him the right to express himself even if nobody wants to listen.
It does not require him to say anything relevant, meaningful, or even truthful.
That being said, Slashdot certainly has the right to ban any user for any reason, even feeding trolls.
Federal law caps credit card liability at $50 in fraudulent charges. There is no such cap for debit cards.
If your card number & exp. date end up in the wrong hands, the funds in your checking, savings, or brokerage account - whatever account to which the number is tied - can be drained completely, and then you're out of luck.
Give me a break.
I realize I should probably post this as an AC, but I'd like it to be seen.
If this redundant comment (it was posted after I did) is Interesting, then why is mine a Troll?
They can't do business in the EU without antitrust approval from the European Commision.
there are people working on various ways of doing it
Not that I doubt you, but could you give some details?
Gee, big surprise there.
I'm not implying anything.
I want to know Carnivore's capabilities so I have some assurance that my constitutional rights aren't being trampled.
Frankly, I don't trust the federal government, and I believe that our society needs to be vigilant as to what those in power are up to.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
BTW, you'll never hear me say that open-source is more secure, but that's another thread...
Somehow I doubt that you could build a winning battle bot based on Linux: it just strikes me that things like hard drives don't respond well to axes and chain saw blades.
Can you say 'EMBEDDED'?
The reason people were so pissed about the FBI's Carnivore is because we have no way of knowing what it really does.
Most people can appreciate the need for Big Brother to watch some of us some of the time, but the FBI's original plan gave no assurances that we weren't all being watched all the time, or even that that's the system's main function.
What I was really uncomfortable with was the FBI's demand that the Carnivore box be placed at every ISP, and that it's remotely operated. Setting aside the security issues, it would make it a bit too easy for the Government to pull the plug on significant chunks of the Net. At least with an open-source version, we know what the system's capabilities are.
They're not going after Napster. It's a publicity stunt, which appears to have worked quite well.
That's easy to forget. It was never intended to be used for page layout.
Go ahead & design you pages to look good, but comply with XHTML standards, and keep a few things in mind:
Use descriptive tags (<cite>,<em>) instead of sylistic ones (<i>,<b>).
The devices used to access the Web will determine how to interpret the elements within these tags based on their purpose. A browser might italicize a citation, whereas a device for the blind might 'speak' the words in a different voice.
Oh yeah, and stay away from <font> tags. Use CSS instead.
If you follow the W3C's guidelines for XHTML, your pages can still look good, because the devices used to retrieve the data will strip out the information & present it in a format suitable for the audience.
Freeware:
jpegcrop
jpeg wizard
IrfanView
From the article:
In the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado, the irreverent and sometimes off-color underground newspapers are haunting reminders of the Web pages created by the student gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, in which they spewed their anger.
That is why they are a good thing. If school officials had successfully pulled Harris & Klebold's rantings off the Web, it wouldn't have done a thing to prevent what happened later. While those two obviously didn't counsel themselves to sanity, there are plenty of people for whom expression - whether it's art, music, or writing (even Web pages) - has done just that.
Freenet won't help alleviate this problem as much as you might think.
From the FreeNet FAQ: Documents that are never requested are eventually removed through disuse.
On the other hand, as the price of storage media drops, we'll probably see somebody (Google?) attempt to cache the entire Internet.
I know what it's linked to, but why Amazon?
Barnes & Noble carries the same excerpt, and I don't get the impression there is a huge anti-bn sentiment on Slashdot.
I noticed the link to Amazon on this one.
Gee whiz, Hemos. Did you actually have to break out the so we'd notice the ThinkGeek link?
TiVo can record up to 30 hours.
Is that how they spell 'realistically' in Canada?
Jobs no doubt got the license for peanuts. It's a case of mutual back-scratching. The fact that Apple has licensed the technology not only serves to validate Amazon's patent, but now Apple has an example of another company 'protecting its intellectual property'.
One thing that seems to have been overlooked: Apple is the first company to secure a license, setting the precedent for other companies.
According to IANA's database, .pl is the ccTLD for Poland.
I've never worked in an office with windows that could be opened.
Actually, I've worked in a couple that didn't even have windows!
I read the fucking article.
I still haven't seen it myself, though.
Icons are frightening when they're that big.