I agree. I find a pad of paper to be a really great organizing tool. Without my "little black book" (unfortunately not filled with the phone numbers of hot chicks) I'm lost. That plus a thin dayplanner are invaluable.
I tried a PIM for a bit -- it was even free! I stopped using it very quickly though. It offers no advantages over paper, but it does offer far more distractions. Just what you don't need it you're in need of time management tools in the first place:).
My school just got donated a bunch of HP Jornadas, and they've been trying them out in some of my classes. They work well with our 80211b network. I have to say, in general the devices pretty much suck, though. I used it all of twice, even with the convenience of checking my email without having to walk to a computer cluster. There's little use in having a wireless card in that small a device for most people. If you know that you need it, though, it's one to check out.
No, that's not what I meant. I just mean we need to be careful that we hold civilians acting as agents of the police to the same standards that we hold the police, when it comes to the chain of evidence and proper search methods. One way to do that is to say an officer of the law should be present. I admit there are other solutions -- perhaps making clear that the warrant needs to be extremeley specific and limited? I.e., hand over the log for 10162001, and show only connections orginating from IP addresses in the block 64.34.56.*. Maybe that's too restrictive, but it's important that the police don't abuse this to allow improper evidence to be admitted. I don't see how the court can guarantee that without either micromanaging, or just barring this kind of search from happening.
Umm..."white collar" criminals are a lot more dangerous than drug users. Drug users hurt mostly themselves, drug dealers at least a finite area (say several city blocks). Take a look at Enron for an example of the worst kind of criminal white-collar behavior. Corporate crooks destroy tens of thousands of lives at a time. The best a drug dealer can do is destroy hundreds.
You miss the point, I think. The issue is that no search should be ordered without "probable cause...and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." (Find it, bookmark it). Individuals can circumvent this as long as they aren't considered direct agents of the police. No matter what, their duties to stay within Constitutional guidelines are much more minimal. So if a warrant has been issued, their better damn be a good reason for it. If they find evidence of a crime, they better damn well have expected to find that evidence. And allowing a private citizen to conduct the search allows it to become a "fishing expedition." This means that they can choose a random place to search without knowing if a crime has actually been committed, and because it's a private citizen who conducted the search, the evidence could still be used. It's a terrible idea. That's why the judge's ruling is an important one.
So, the point is that the law enforcement agency is the most impartial, not because they have no bias, but because the evidence they can use in a court of law is more restricted when they conduct the search. They shouldn't just assist in the search, they should be conducting it.
I tend to agree with the sentiment of the ruling judge in this case. Civillians shouldn't be given so much power over the conduct of a search. The police like to give them that power, because they aren't held to the same standards. When the number of searches increases, it's particularly important, however, that every search be held to a stricter scrutiny.
The police ability to hand off the search to a third party can easily be abused to circumvent fourth amendment protections. The boundary between an agent of the police and the police themselves can be fuzzy. This removes the question altogether.
and of course it's interesting to study something like this. Kind of like how we know more about the near upper atmosphere than we do the bottom of the ocean, we know more about a rare snail in Africa than we do our household pets. To spend a little time studying our backyards is cool, even if the results are predictably simple and unsuprising. But I don't understand why this story is categorized as "it's funny, laugh." Because it really isn't that funny, just pretty damn obvious.
Sftp, Kerberized FTP, etc. They'll work with the non-secure servers when that's all that's available, but will use security by default. I like Kerberos. SCP is the best option, but a pain for its lack of interactive use.
Anyway, I think the point is to remove these services, not to remove the clients. It is a security risk when it's so tempting to use it, but it's so vulnerable to exploits.
Well, that was absolutely pointless. BeOS doesn't even have the same geekiness factor. More geeky than MacOS, I think not as geeky as MacOS X. It isn't GPL'ed, so not geeky enough for the Slashdot crew. Try "I wanted an early post, but didn't bother to read the article." Karma slut.
That wasn't funny at all. Jeez, 56ker, why can't people realize that you're just a troll? You shouldn't have that +1 bonus. Everyone knows it. You haven't made a single intelligent comment yet.
Do you even know what WIPO is? The history of intellectual propery dates back much further than WIPO, which is a fairly recent international organization.
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What will this mean for Indymedia? I think this ruling will be quickly struck down. I hope.
SDS, in my case. I think just generally to the school, and now we get to find ways to use them.
I tried a PIM for a bit -- it was even free! I stopped using it very quickly though. It offers no advantages over paper, but it does offer far more distractions. Just what you don't need it you're in need of time management tools in the first place :).
My school just got donated a bunch of HP Jornadas, and they've been trying them out in some of my classes. They work well with our 80211b network. I have to say, in general the devices pretty much suck, though. I used it all of twice, even with the convenience of checking my email without having to walk to a computer cluster. There's little use in having a wireless card in that small a device for most people. If you know that you need it, though, it's one to check out.
Here here! Post this link wherever you go! I'm going to make it my sig, in fact.
But I play one on Slashdot?
Not really...that is a pretty generous definition of "particularly describing" in most cases.
No, that's not what I meant. I just mean we need to be careful that we hold civilians acting as agents of the police to the same standards that we hold the police, when it comes to the chain of evidence and proper search methods. One way to do that is to say an officer of the law should be present. I admit there are other solutions -- perhaps making clear that the warrant needs to be extremeley specific and limited? I.e., hand over the log for 10162001, and show only connections orginating from IP addresses in the block 64.34.56.*. Maybe that's too restrictive, but it's important that the police don't abuse this to allow improper evidence to be admitted. I don't see how the court can guarantee that without either micromanaging, or just barring this kind of search from happening.
Umm..."white collar" criminals are a lot more dangerous than drug users. Drug users hurt mostly themselves, drug dealers at least a finite area (say several city blocks). Take a look at Enron for an example of the worst kind of criminal white-collar behavior. Corporate crooks destroy tens of thousands of lives at a time. The best a drug dealer can do is destroy hundreds.
So, the point is that the law enforcement agency is the most impartial, not because they have no bias, but because the evidence they can use in a court of law is more restricted when they conduct the search. They shouldn't just assist in the search, they should be conducting it.
The police ability to hand off the search to a third party can easily be abused to circumvent fourth amendment protections. The boundary between an agent of the police and the police themselves can be fuzzy. This removes the question altogether.
and of course it's interesting to study something like this. Kind of like how we know more about the near upper atmosphere than we do the bottom of the ocean, we know more about a rare snail in Africa than we do our household pets. To spend a little time studying our backyards is cool, even if the results are predictably simple and unsuprising. But I don't understand why this story is categorized as "it's funny, laugh." Because it really isn't that funny, just pretty damn obvious.
WU-FTPd is the worst of the insecure FTP servers. Use SCP, SFTP, or at least kerberized FTP.
Anyway, I think the point is to remove these services, not to remove the clients. It is a security risk when it's so tempting to use it, but it's so vulnerable to exploits.
Well, that was absolutely pointless. BeOS doesn't even have the same geekiness factor. More geeky than MacOS, I think not as geeky as MacOS X. It isn't GPL'ed, so not geeky enough for the Slashdot crew. Try "I wanted an early post, but didn't bother to read the article." Karma slut.
Try getting 56ker to make sense. He's an imbecile.
I wouldn't mind dying with me in Celine Dion's mouth.
Those weren't funny enough.
How about the eminently simple "Coaster," as that about describes what it's useful for.
That is a truly unscrupulous practice.
this article at SatireWire might give us a clue.
Ha ha. Too bad I don't have mod points right now to mod up this pile of shit.
Great, so if we can't figure out to use Google, you're our best friend. Fuck off, 56ker.
Do you even know what WIPO is? The history of intellectual propery dates back much further than WIPO, which is a fairly recent international organization.
let me guess...it's called misc.market