I've watched the episode with the Podcast and it was great! I had already seen the episode, and seeing it again with the Director's Commentary definitely added to the experience. I've seen the Director's Commentary for other television shows like CSI, but then I had to pay upwards of $60US per season for the privildge. Giving this kind of material away is fantastic and I applaud the SciFi channel for doing it! Granted, I'm sure this promotion is designed to get me hooked so that I end up buying the $60 DVD set when it comes out, but so be it. I'd like to know that I'll like it before I buy it!
As a Nintendo stock holder, I do have an interest in this. Why is my money being used for this waste and not going after people trading BitTorrent images of Nintendo games? Those people cost the company (and therefore me) money! Why aren't our legal resources being used to combat that threat?
Don't laugh too hard. The weather down there can play hell with aircraft, and safety is a huge concern while flying. Granted, the odds of hitting the building versus the vast expanses of uninhabited ice or water are slim, but I wouldn't want to be out of house and home when it's minus sixty below!
From the article: The cost reduction is possible, he said, because of a patent-pending method of lumping together individual transactions into one transaction to reduce the cost to the merchant.
Are they applying for a patent for adding several numbers together? I have prior art! Specifically, I added several numbers together while in Rivest's class! (Did he steal this from me?)
You heart is in the right place for wanting to donate your old machine, but the grape iMacs are significantly less secure than the tangerine ones. Be careful!
This is a problem for Comcast, not us. $ wget -O - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/18/safe_ and_insecure/index.html | sendmail abuse@comcast.net
I don't care where the money is coming from. If it's doing Good Things(tm), we should take the money. I wish I remember who said, "The only problem with tainted money is that there 'taint enough of it!"
The requirements specify using Exchange, but otherwise we're free to use whatever operating systems we want. Obviously I can't say what we're using for operational security reasons, but let's just say that it's a heterogeneous environment.
Not quite. The Army cadets are not allowed to attack the NSA or the other military academies. It's strictly a defensive exercise.
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In the United States, the equivalent crime for computers is 18 USC 1030 or "access[ing] a computer without authorization or exceed[ing] authorized access."
You're getting mixed up here. In the US, the government must have a search warrant if they want to search your personal effects that are not in plain view. The fourth ammendment does not apply to private entities such as the RIAA.
Next, no search authorization is needed for anything on public display (e.g. anything visible outside of your house, things you've published in the newspaper, and IMHO, anything you're publishing on the Internet.)
Did he fire six court briefs, or only five? Tell 'ya the truth, in all of this excitement I've sort of lost track myself. But given that this is Free and Open Source Software community, the most powerful group of advocates, coders, and corporate lawyers on the planet, and would blow your company's revenue clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well do 'ya, punk?
The idea of a "civil" society is that you are willing to give up some rights, such as those to exact punishment on those who commit crimes against you, in return for protection from the state.
If you're not willing to engage in that kind of social contract, you should consider moving to an area that does not have one. Possible destinations might include Afghanistian or, more recently, Haiti. In those places, you will be free to take all of the chances you like with "the bad guys."
Have fun, and please don't let the Constitution hit you on the way out!
And so to quote the argument always made against the police, why not go after the bad cops and not the tools they use. In the same way that P2P is not, in and of itself, evil, it's the people who do illegal things with it. Similarly, it's not the technology that's bad, it's the cops that abuse it. So let's audit the police use of this technology and punish those cops who abuse it. Punish the guilty, not the technology.
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I've watched the episode with the Podcast and it was great! I had already seen the episode, and seeing it again with the Director's Commentary definitely added to the experience. I've seen the Director's Commentary for other television shows like CSI, but then I had to pay upwards of $60US per season for the privildge. Giving this kind of material away is fantastic and I applaud the SciFi channel for doing it! Granted, I'm sure this promotion is designed to get me hooked so that I end up buying the $60 DVD set when it comes out, but so be it. I'd like to know that I'll like it before I buy it!
As a Nintendo stock holder, I do have an interest in this. Why is my money being used for this waste and not going after people trading BitTorrent images of Nintendo games? Those people cost the company (and therefore me) money! Why aren't our legal resources being used to combat that threat?
The lawyer who signed the letter is Melissa Nelson of the Seattle firm Perkins Coie. Be polite! Her telephone number is 206-359-3792.
Don't laugh too hard. The weather down there can play hell with aircraft, and safety is a huge concern while flying. Granted, the odds of hitting the building versus the vast expanses of uninhabited ice or water are slim, but I wouldn't want to be out of house and home when it's minus sixty below!
From the article: The cost reduction is possible, he said, because of a patent-pending method of lumping together individual transactions into one transaction to reduce the cost to the merchant.
Are they applying for a patent for adding several numbers together? I have prior art! Specifically, I added several numbers together while in Rivest's class! (Did he steal this from me?)
You heart is in the right place for wanting to donate your old machine, but the grape iMacs are significantly less secure than the tangerine ones. Be careful!
"We have to Slashdot the site in order to save it."
No, the parent is correct. I read the article, and yes, Mozilla has the correct cookie, but wget doesn't, and grabs the advertisement instead. Oops.
This is a problem for Comcast, not us.
_ and_insecure/index.html | sendmail abuse@comcast.net
$ wget -O - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/18/safe
Just watch out for the new Google link redirector. (It's demonstrated in the blog entry...)
"Hi? I'm calling for Mr. er... Ziggy Stardust. ... Wrong number? Oh, sorry to have you bothered you. It won't happen again."
I don't care where the money is coming from. If it's doing Good Things(tm), we should take the money. I wish I remember who said, "The only problem with tainted money is that there 'taint enough of it!"
MULTICS, hell, my TI runs KDE!
I'm involved at the Navy side of this exercise.
The requirements specify using Exchange, but otherwise we're free to use whatever operating systems we want. Obviously I can't say what we're using for operational security reasons, but let's just say that it's a heterogeneous environment.
Not quite. The Army cadets are not allowed to attack the NSA or the other military academies. It's strictly a defensive exercise.
That's the combination on my luggage!
Or grab the nifty new (v1.1 released today) md5deep. Computes MD5, works recursively and most any platform too.
Wow, Fox turned into a hard-core porn channel so gradually, I didn't even notice it happening!
In the United States, the equivalent crime for computers is 18 USC 1030 or "access[ing] a computer without authorization or exceed[ing] authorized access."
You're getting mixed up here. In the US, the government must have a search warrant if they want to search your personal effects that are not in plain view. The fourth ammendment does not apply to private entities such as the RIAA.
Next, no search authorization is needed for anything on public display (e.g. anything visible outside of your house, things you've published in the newspaper, and IMHO, anything you're publishing on the Internet.)
Did he fire six court briefs, or only five? Tell 'ya the truth, in all of this excitement I've sort of lost track myself. But given that this is Free and Open Source Software community, the most powerful group of advocates, coders, and corporate lawyers on the planet, and would blow your company's revenue clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well do 'ya, punk?
The idea of a "civil" society is that you are willing to give up some rights, such as those to exact punishment on those who commit crimes against you, in return for protection from the state.
If you're not willing to engage in that kind of social contract, you should consider moving to an area that does not have one. Possible destinations might include Afghanistian or, more recently, Haiti. In those places, you will be free to take all of the chances you like with "the bad guys."
Have fun, and please don't let the Constitution hit you on the way out!
And so to quote the argument always made against the police, why not go after the bad cops and not the tools they use. In the same way that P2P is not, in and of itself, evil, it's the people who do illegal things with it. Similarly, it's not the technology that's bad, it's the cops that abuse it. So let's audit the police use of this technology and punish those cops who abuse it. Punish the guilty, not the technology.
I hate to reply to my own post, but all of responses to me are right. My original comment was wrong and I would like to retract it.