"and when the abductors are caught and you look on their home computers, you inevitably find kiddy porn. So it is a precursor to this bad behavior, and just as the Internet makes it easy to distribute child pornography, it effectively encourages these criminals. We are working to end that."
Hmmm, So we go after people for crimes they have yet to commit, is what he is arguing. Someone should make a movie about that.
Ishikawa, the FBI thinks terrorists are sharing information by hiding it in images posted on eBay using a process called steganography.
What a penis. I guess he doesn't keep up on research.
If you look at Mark Ishikawa's business card, you'll notice that it lists no street address for his company, BayTSP, just [...] a post office box in Los Gatos, CA, but could really be anywhere in the Bay Area.
Or it could be located here: BayTsp (BAYTSP-DOM) 3150 almaden Expressway #234 San Jose CA,95118 US
Just publicly available information, Right Ishikawa?
Now, surely those pics should be considered illegal
They already were, before this came about.
opinion should be covered by freedom of speech. Is owning nazi propoganda illegal in france (a booklet, for example)?
Yes
Is it in America?
No
having/sharing an opinion isn't (unless you live in a country which doesn't agree with freedom of speech of course).
You have a very naive view of the world. Do you think France is really that different from here? Do you really think the French think their government doesn't believe in free speech? This could easily happen here, as the last year has shown us, if you didn't already see it in the numerous examples in US history of banned books, stifled speakers, the DMCA, the CDA, the list goes on.
This is dangerous in any case. The user may have patched their kernel in a way that makes it incompatible with your driver. There are smarter ways to do things that to do a uname and make assumptions, other than the kernel at least supports what that kernel supported, as a minimum only.
I wouldn't want those files anywhere near my servers and wouldn't wait for legislation to comepl me to block known sites.
And what if you miss some sites? Are you then liable because you failed to block some? It's a very dangerous thing to start blocking, it's taking responsibility for content that travels your network. You are no longer a simple carrier that is concerned with bits and bytes and line protocols.
That won't happen. Major backbone ISPs don't have the resources to packet filter. Do you know what sort of computer it would take to filter a stream of 10 or 100 gbits/sec in real time?
It you want to ship a 3rd party device driver, you need to have a special build process for advanced server.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Nvidia is an example of a driver that is pretty much independant of kernel version, 3ware is another. One is open source, one is not... Please expand on what you mean.
A lot of people have blasted the people in the past for overreacting to YRO stories. I hope that in the last year people have woken up to just how fragile freedom really is.
The precedent that this sets is really bad. It means that it's all downhill from here. If ISPs are blocking one type of "illegal bytes", then why should they allow another type?
Consorship is not some theoretical thing, it is real, alive, and something that threatens everything that the USA is supposed to stand for.
To all those that didn't vote Libertarian, to all those who don't know their representative's name, to all those who don't care, so long as they can drink their beer, eat their pizza, and play with their tech toys.... This is your doing.
Advanced Server is not just software, it's the guarantee that everything will work, and if it doesn't, that they will fix it, for you, quickly. Think of it as keeping the Red Hat programmers on retainer, and it sure seems like a lot sweeter deal, doesn't it?
Some pseudoscientists are actually selling gas heaters that have photoelectric (IR sensitive) panels inside them. They generate something like up to 500 watts (they claim), and they claim this energy is "free".
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I launched a wireless camera on a tethered weather balloon once. Pretty cool pics.
My future plans are to take this a step further than dropping the cam or floating it in the blimp, I'm going to rather launch the camera out of a potato cannon. Should be interesting.
What I never understood is the amount of time the "hard core" people in the diku mud I used to play would spend just creating new characters to get a good stats roll. They would always say that I should delete my character because the starting stats were too low. I could never bring myself to spend more than a couple hours creating new characters just to get better rolls. There were people who would literally go through 100-200 characters just to get one with a good roll.
But you still have to admit you are biased, in the same way that us computer guys are biased when we see inept people trying to maintain their own servers and failing badly.
A savvy enough person, that does enough research, can do pretty well at maintaining their own server, and I bet the same is true of basically anything.
Yes, a lot of people will fuck it up, and I'm sure you see those people all the time in your job, the same way we have to deal with inept people on our job that think they know what they are doing, but don't.
I think the same advice applies to both cases too... If you don't have the time to invest in doing tons of research, keeping up on current trends, etc, then it is probably better to hire someone who knows what they are doing. But for the person who has more time than spare money, and is smart enough and willing to do the required footwork, they could likely do nearly as good a job as an expert, in all but the most complex cases.
This is coming from someone who has only rarely consulted with a lawyer, but has been in court numerous times over custody/visitation/child support, and also been involved in a personal injury settlement, which I settled without a lawyer, very sucessfully. I don't get the idea that I am some sort of lawyer, and I do lay down the money to consult with one if I am in doubt about something, but in all, things have worked out well for me.
Buy it directly from nolo.com then. They have most of their books instantly downloadable in PDF form too. I got a book from them when I was injured in a car accident. The book was about settling without a lawyer, it was great. (Yes, I was really injured badly, it wasn't some whiplash suit).
Get out of house and contact your nearest physicist right away.
Yeah, right, Like I am going to admit to breaking the laws of physics in public. Remember, if you don't report people breaking the laws of physics, the terrorists have already won.
Yes, but as you later expand, it wasn't just win32 compatibility, it was the lack of software. Linux has a little win32 compatibility and a whole lot of it's own software, this is a lot different from OS/2 with almost no software compared to windows, and only win16 compatibility.
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"and when the abductors are caught and you look on their home computers, you inevitably find kiddy porn. So it is a precursor to this bad behavior, and just as the Internet makes it easy to distribute child pornography, it effectively encourages these criminals. We are working to end that."
Hmmm, So we go after people for crimes they have yet to commit, is what he is arguing. Someone should make a movie about that.
Ishikawa, the FBI thinks terrorists are sharing information by hiding it in images posted on eBay using a process called steganography.
What a penis. I guess he doesn't keep up on research.
If you look at Mark Ishikawa's business card, you'll notice that it lists no street address for his company, BayTSP, just [...] a post office box in Los Gatos, CA, but could really be anywhere in the Bay Area.
Or it could be located here: BayTsp (BAYTSP-DOM) 3150 almaden Expressway #234 San Jose CA,95118 US
Just publicly available information, Right Ishikawa?
Now, surely those pics should be considered illegal
They already were, before this came about.
opinion should be covered by freedom of speech. Is owning nazi propoganda illegal in france (a booklet, for example)?
Yes
Is it in America?
No
having/sharing an opinion isn't (unless you live in a country which doesn't agree with freedom of speech of course).
You have a very naive view of the world. Do you think France is really that different from here? Do you really think the French think their government doesn't believe in free speech? This could easily happen here, as the last year has shown us, if you didn't already see it in the numerous examples in US history of banned books, stifled speakers, the DMCA, the CDA, the list goes on.
#ifdef kernel_version 2.4.10
This is dangerous in any case. The user may have patched their kernel in a way that makes it incompatible with your driver. There are smarter ways to do things that to do a uname and make assumptions, other than the kernel at least supports what that kernel supported, as a minimum only.
I wouldn't want those files anywhere near my servers and wouldn't wait for legislation to comepl me to block known sites.
And what if you miss some sites? Are you then liable because you failed to block some? It's a very dangerous thing to start blocking, it's taking responsibility for content that travels your network. You are no longer a simple carrier that is concerned with bits and bytes and line protocols.
This will cause packet filtering at every router,
That won't happen. Major backbone ISPs don't have the resources to packet filter. Do you know what sort of computer it would take to filter a stream of 10 or 100 gbits/sec in real time?
They will more likely just drop the routes.
surely this is different ... posession or acquisition of kiddie porn by a photographer is illegal.
Actually it's illegal to transfer to possess whether you are a photographer or not.
In any case, how is this different? Should all sites that break the law be consored?
Some things are worse than censorship. Prioritize.
Like terrorism?
What about suicide?
The manufacture of drugs?
Computer viruses? Copyright violations? Where do you draw the line?
It you want to ship a 3rd party device driver, you need to have a special build process for advanced server.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Nvidia is an example of a driver that is pretty much independant of kernel version, 3ware is another. One is open source, one is not... Please expand on what you mean.
A lot of people have blasted the people in the past for overreacting to YRO stories. I hope that in the last year people have woken up to just how fragile freedom really is.
The precedent that this sets is really bad. It means that it's all downhill from here. If ISPs are blocking one type of "illegal bytes", then why should they allow another type?
Consorship is not some theoretical thing, it is real, alive, and something that threatens everything that the USA is supposed to stand for.
To all those that didn't vote Libertarian, to all those who don't know their representative's name, to all those who don't care, so long as they can drink their beer, eat their pizza, and play with their tech toys.... This is your doing.
Advanced Server is not just software, it's the guarantee that everything will work, and if it doesn't, that they will fix it, for you, quickly. Think of it as keeping the Red Hat programmers on retainer, and it sure seems like a lot sweeter deal, doesn't it?
Now I guess I fit into the 2nd class?
Just take it as a wake up call... Either you weren't keeping up well enough, or you need to hire someone.
That's the point it seems. This is the opposite of that stuff you put on your car's windshield to make the rain bead up.
cell phone industry lobbied congress
Newt Gingrich getting spied on because he was too ignorant to know a cell phone wasn't private helped a lot too.
Can I patent that idea?
No, unfortunately not.
Some pseudoscientists are actually selling gas heaters that have photoelectric (IR sensitive) panels inside them. They generate something like up to 500 watts (they claim), and they claim this energy is "free".
I launched a wireless camera on a tethered weather balloon once. Pretty cool pics.
My future plans are to take this a step further than dropping the cam or floating it in the blimp, I'm going to rather launch the camera out of a potato cannon. Should be interesting.
What I never understood is the amount of time the "hard core" people in the diku mud I used to play would spend just creating new characters to get a good stats roll. They would always say that I should delete my character because the starting stats were too low. I could never bring myself to spend more than a couple hours creating new characters just to get better rolls. There were people who would literally go through 100-200 characters just to get one with a good roll.
I saw my roommate spending hours fishing, making fishcakes, and selling them. Day after day
Heh, I always wondered why these kind of people didn't just go get a job at McDonalds or something.
I don't think that the drive manufacturers deal directly with end users
I return drives directly to the manufacturer all the time, at work as an end user, and at home.
But you still have to admit you are biased, in the same way that us computer guys are biased when we see inept people trying to maintain their own servers and failing badly.
A savvy enough person, that does enough research, can do pretty well at maintaining their own server, and I bet the same is true of basically anything.
Yes, a lot of people will fuck it up, and I'm sure you see those people all the time in your job, the same way we have to deal with inept people on our job that think they know what they are doing, but don't.
I think the same advice applies to both cases too... If you don't have the time to invest in doing tons of research, keeping up on current trends, etc, then it is probably better to hire someone who knows what they are doing. But for the person who has more time than spare money, and is smart enough and willing to do the required footwork, they could likely do nearly as good a job as an expert, in all but the most complex cases.
This is coming from someone who has only rarely consulted with a lawyer, but has been in court numerous times over custody/visitation/child support, and also been involved in a personal injury settlement, which I settled without a lawyer, very sucessfully. I don't get the idea that I am some sort of lawyer, and I do lay down the money to consult with one if I am in doubt about something, but in all, things have worked out well for me.
As the AC asked, which patent... I'm am not as doubtful about your claim as I am curious, as I am a wannabe inventor myself.
Buy it directly from nolo.com then. They have most of their books instantly downloadable in PDF form too. I got a book from them when I was injured in a car accident. The book was about settling without a lawyer, it was great. (Yes, I was really injured badly, it wasn't some whiplash suit).
go through the whole process of filing a patient only to be sued back to the Stone Age
I'd sue for medical malpractice too, if you tried to file me.
Get out of house and contact your nearest physicist right away.
Yeah, right, Like I am going to admit to breaking the laws of physics in public. Remember, if you don't report people breaking the laws of physics, the terrorists have already won.
By default it does not use FAT16/32. That means that normal partioning(FDISK) will not work if you decide to remove.
What does the file system have to do with partitioning?
Most of you new Linux toys will need to be compiled.
How well do you know C++?
Since when do you need to be a programmer to compile something?
Got Quicktime?
Yes, the crossover plugin cost me like $10.
Everything is either compiled or mounted.
I think you forgot to mount your brain.
It was lack of Win32 compatibility,
Yes, but as you later expand, it wasn't just win32 compatibility, it was the lack of software. Linux has a little win32 compatibility and a whole lot of it's own software, this is a lot different from OS/2 with almost no software compared to windows, and only win16 compatibility.