I can't help but smile at the thought of bugging a wiretapping debate. The irony, oh, the irony.
On a more serious note, why are they not allowing scrutiny? What's there to hide, isn't that a law everyone needs to know about? Afraid someone might object?
Just curious.
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Two questions for those who don't have anything to hide: why do you close your curtains in the evening, and how much do you earn?
Sorry, I don't buy that explanation, and neither would a court if someone decided to make work of it.
What happened there was a breach of any computer access related law you can think of, and "I was only trying to catch terrorists" (the current government getout clause) or "but it's a feature" (the Microsoft copout) don't apply either. He got caught, and it could well become a police matter.
But hey, thanks for proving the point of Open Source.
It's been a while since I've been near solid state technology, but I have used tape for years. I'm not so sure tape is more resilient, but I like your idea of doubling up.
As they are publicly alleging you have engaged in illegal activity you could always ask them to provide incontrovertible proof that
(a) the item described is indeed a copyrighted item. This includes submitting a checksum of the original under oath (i.e. they don't just checksum yours, which could be difficult if you're on DHCP and hop IP addresses). (b) the alleged activities uniquely identify your system, and you as user. This includes disclosure of method for purposes of scientific evaluation, no get out clause if it's a 3rd party (c) they are aware that a failure to prove the allegation turns the allegation into libel as it was publicly disclosed to a 3rd party (d) they have a clue about geography by identifying how they 1. traced your IP address and 2. made US laws apply to Canada. Point 2. appears to be really a problem for them..
IANAL, but you could have some fun with them. OTOH, why bother. An alternative approach is to tell them to print it on ragged edge cardboard and then insert it rectally with a sharpened poker using a sand-and-chili based lubricant.
I think you and I start from a different point. I am not suggesting to divide up a big database - I'd agree that's a pointless exercise.
I'm asking a more fundamental question: do we really NEED to pile it all in one database to start with? There are different ways of solving such large collections of data, and not all of them need to have it all in one place.
The whole idea of putting all eggs in one basket (translated to all data in one database) is plain stupid, but I guess it'll require a change in law to make this sort of stupidity disappear. Until we make someone legally responsible for such data loss instead of permitting idiots to hide behind all sort of stupid excuses it ain't gonna change.
I refer you to the UK: the bright spark responsible for the debacle with those 2 CDs did apparently "resign". When you check what really happened is that he resigned to go to a more cushy job. Yeah, that will teach him..
No, I don't think they'll give up on the idea. That is, until data on senators and judges and members of congress starts seeping out, of course. IMHO it can't happen early enough.
The UK government has a long and rich history of allowing the police and secret service to get away with pretty much anything they like. What you get if it leaks is some blip in the press, that takes a few days and then things will progress as before.
You make take it as significant that since New Labour came to power there has been a sharp decline in people being ejected from their posts for abject failure, even the guy responsible for the process failures that led to the loss of 2 CDs with the details of several million people on did not actually lose his job after he "resigned", he now works in a much cushier position at Cabinet Office. Yes, that's right, in principle a promotion. That's a subtle hint of how New Labour thinks about privacy.
It follows thus that what Heathrow management says and what really will happen is VERY likely to be different, or it will be a weasel argument as "WE only keep it 24h, but it's not our fault the police takes a copy at 12h and we don't know what they do with it". I hope they have at least the intelligence to store the fingerprints as a hash, but given the predicted leak I am willing to bet that it's full imagery.
And in that case, imagine what may be on the next CDs (sorry DVDs - fingerprints need space) that will be lost? Exactly, the one bit of data you normally control because you have it physically on you, and the one aspect you can't change other than with judicious use of a sharp knife or strong acid (apparently, never felt the need for it myself:-).
I will avoid any route going through terminal 5. What's more, as that is a BA terminal it's a good argument to avoid flying BA altogether - from what I've heard (since the luggage debacle) that's not a bad idea anyway.
It is entirely possible to create a distributed model where local areas manage their permissions, it's managing the volume of permissions that is the challenge. For some bizarre reason, people who set these things up always insist on a "one large pot" model, whereas X500 has a perfectly viable distributed access control model (sorry for those who squeek "LDAP is God" at this point - there is a reason why "LDAP" starts with an "L", thank you).
The nice thing about a distributed model is that it's much less failure prone. It allows components to come online and offline without tearing down the whole mesh with it.
Applications aplenty: UK NHS (National Health) database: keep the info where it is stored and make sure there is some overall schema (a challenge in itself which explains why the central government intranet (GSi) still doesn't have a decent overall directory), identity (assuming someone can come up with a safe container at all it would mean one rogue member of staff would expose the whole country) etc etc. Is it THE solution? Nope. But fully centralised has already proven to be exactly the wrong approach, so I'm throwing some spanners into that one..
Acetone dissolves ABS based plastics (which is what 99% of the plastic of computer cases is based on).
Anyone touching the outer casing with acetone is prone to make a mess of it. Anything BUT acetone is fine. If you're trying to remove sticky labels , lighter fuel is the thing to use (basically very clean petrol - anyone amy idea how they get it this clean) - also excellent to zap chewing gum stains.
Disclaimer: no expert on flammable liquids but damn well on plastic..
The big question is simply how the EU is going to enforce payment (and what they'r going to do with the cash in the IMHO unlikely event they manage to extract it from Microsoft).
I have a feeling that Neelie Kroes is not going to get suckered in by some stupid voucher scheme that MS was allowed to get away with in the US. That means hard $$ (sorry, Euros, can't accept a devalued currency:-)), but I don't think MS has *ever* coughed up this volume of cash (not that I know of, I'd be happy to hear of evidence to the contrary).
This means the entertainment has only begun. If MS doesn't pay it'll face daily fine increases until Mrs Kroes decides to simply shut them down instead, and that means a whole new game begins (expect serious, and I mean SERIOUS blackmail attempts by US officials - we had some demonstration of that already when it began).
For MS there's also the problem of side effects. Up until now it's been able to delude shareholders into thinking that it's just the cost of being succesfull, but if they pay this time it'll signal the shareholders that the game is up, and it's likely they'll start leaving the ship on perception of it slowly taking on water. When THAT happens all hell will break lose, and I think it's that more than the EU fines themselves that has prompted Ballmer to start the current pretend Open Source and Unix love fest.
And it may all be too late already - it's going to be very, very interesting...
It appears sanity is slowly starting to prevail, but it took a unacceptable amount of victims along the way to get there. Who is going to help those people who were abused in court before some intellligence started to appear?
I've been involved in testing a data scrambled for a European bank for exactly that purpose. They used a product that did a reasonable job, and with a few small changes we ensured that pattern analysis to rebuild the original source wouldn't work.
I've also dealt with both gov and financial people that understood the dangers of unauthorised access, some wnet so far as to insist on checking audit was correctly, which is IMHO a very intelligent form of self preservation - few realise that logging can also prove that you did NOT do it, a sure boon for the current trend of considering someone guilty until they prove themselves innocent..
.. because that is the easy part. Any decent scanner will emulate a keyboard entry (wedged or on USB connect), this also gives you a method for manual entry if the barcode reading fails.
However, if you print your own barcodes you better investigate how EAN codes work or you'll get a conflict - there is a specific prefix for in-house codes, use it or you may conflict with a vendor issued one. Alternatively, it's very cheap to implement Code 3 of 9 (it's just a font, print as **, i.e *12.30* and you're in business) but again you have to make sure you don't end up with conflicts with pre-printed info (I found a lot of 'on-the-box' serial numbers to be in Code 3 of 9, or 2 of 5 if they were purely numerical).
I liked the "as a book" license because it was very clear what right you had, and it explained this by means of a very simple concept. I personally found it one of the easiest licenses to work with. And then they screwed up and went the way of the dodo..
Can you tell me your annual salary? Do you close the curtains at night? Could you please get me the salary details of your boss? Can you show me how you fiddled your expenses? (this last one veers into an implied assumption of unethical behaviour - your counter to protests is that without evidence you are free to assume either).
Just some examples, because "can I look at your daughter undressing" may be too risky from a physical/legal point of view:-).
The new plan explicitly states that existing laws which prevent the government from spying on citizens would remain in effect, the official said. Under no circumstances, for instance, would the program be used to intercept verbal and written conversations.
Yes, and it would also be explicitly banned from reporting on smells and the contents of dogfood cannisters and another million things BECAUSE IT CAN'T DO IT ANYWAY. Who's he trying to fool - they are formally progressing with throwing away the constitution. Cute..
I'd prefer a camera that would drop my name or whatever reference in the EXIM field so it's at least stored in the image. At the moment I find make, type, exposure and inside leg measurement makes it there, but not something you can control yourself.
While I'm at it, does anyone know a good and simple tool to create/edit/zap EXIM data in both interactive and batch mode (for Windows or Linux, I use both because I can't get rid of Outlook yet)? I know that invalidates the upper question a bit, I'm just looking at a way to store image data with the image in a way that it survives my own editing:-).
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I can't help but smile at the thought of bugging a wiretapping debate. The irony, oh, the irony.
On a more serious note, why are they not allowing scrutiny? What's there to hide, isn't that a law everyone needs to know about? Afraid someone might object?
Just curious.
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Two questions for those who don't have anything to hide: why do you close your curtains in the evening, and how much do you earn?
Sorry, I don't buy that explanation, and neither would a court if someone decided to make work of it.
What happened there was a breach of any computer access related law you can think of, and "I was only trying to catch terrorists" (the current government getout clause) or "but it's a feature" (the Microsoft copout) don't apply either. He got caught, and it could well become a police matter.
But hey, thanks for proving the point of Open Source.
The "intellectual rights" industry is just getting more and more insane with each passing day
:-)
Did yyu mean to say "The "intellectual rights" industry is just getting less and less intellectual with each passing day"?
It's been a while since I've been near solid state technology, but I have used tape for years. I'm not so sure tape is more resilient, but I like your idea of doubling up.
As they are publicly alleging you have engaged in illegal activity you could always ask them to provide incontrovertible proof that
(a) the item described is indeed a copyrighted item. This includes submitting a checksum of the original under oath (i.e. they don't just checksum yours, which could be difficult if you're on DHCP and hop IP addresses).
(b) the alleged activities uniquely identify your system, and you as user. This includes disclosure of method for purposes of scientific evaluation, no get out clause if it's a 3rd party
(c) they are aware that a failure to prove the allegation turns the allegation into libel as it was publicly disclosed to a 3rd party
(d) they have a clue about geography by identifying how they 1. traced your IP address and 2. made US laws apply to Canada. Point 2. appears to be really a problem for them..
IANAL, but you could have some fun with them. OTOH, why bother. An alternative approach is to tell them to print it on ragged edge cardboard and then insert it rectally with a sharpened poker using a sand-and-chili based lubricant.
I think you and I start from a different point. I am not suggesting to divide up a big database - I'd agree that's a pointless exercise.
I'm asking a more fundamental question: do we really NEED to pile it all in one database to start with? There are different ways of solving such large collections of data, and not all of them need to have it all in one place.
The whole idea of putting all eggs in one basket (translated to all data in one database) is plain stupid, but I guess it'll require a change in law to make this sort of stupidity disappear. Until we make someone legally responsible for such data loss instead of permitting idiots to hide behind all sort of stupid excuses it ain't gonna change.
I refer you to the UK: the bright spark responsible for the debacle with those 2 CDs did apparently "resign". When you check what really happened is that he resigned to go to a more cushy job. Yeah, that will teach him..
No, I don't think they'll give up on the idea. That is, until data on senators and judges and members of congress starts seeping out, of course. IMHO it can't happen early enough.
.. it needs a *fucking* citation. How wonderfully precisely expressed.
:-).
ROFL
The UK government has a long and rich history of allowing the police and secret service to get away with pretty much anything they like. What you get if it leaks is some blip in the press, that takes a few days and then things will progress as before.
:-).
You make take it as significant that since New Labour came to power there has been a sharp decline in people being ejected from their posts for abject failure, even the guy responsible for the process failures that led to the loss of 2 CDs with the details of several million people on did not actually lose his job after he "resigned", he now works in a much cushier position at Cabinet Office. Yes, that's right, in principle a promotion. That's a subtle hint of how New Labour thinks about privacy.
It follows thus that what Heathrow management says and what really will happen is VERY likely to be different, or it will be a weasel argument as "WE only keep it 24h, but it's not our fault the police takes a copy at 12h and we don't know what they do with it". I hope they have at least the intelligence to store the fingerprints as a hash, but given the predicted leak I am willing to bet that it's full imagery.
And in that case, imagine what may be on the next CDs (sorry DVDs - fingerprints need space) that will be lost? Exactly, the one bit of data you normally control because you have it physically on you, and the one aspect you can't change other than with judicious use of a sharp knife or strong acid (apparently, never felt the need for it myself
I will avoid any route going through terminal 5. What's more, as that is a BA terminal it's a good argument to avoid flying BA altogether - from what I've heard (since the luggage debacle) that's not a bad idea anyway.
Or investigate fake fingers..
It is entirely possible to create a distributed model where local areas manage their permissions, it's managing the volume of permissions that is the challenge. For some bizarre reason, people who set these things up always insist on a "one large pot" model, whereas X500 has a perfectly viable distributed access control model (sorry for those who squeek "LDAP is God" at this point - there is a reason why "LDAP" starts with an "L", thank you).
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The nice thing about a distributed model is that it's much less failure prone. It allows components to come online and offline without tearing down the whole mesh with it.
Applications aplenty: UK NHS (National Health) database: keep the info where it is stored and make sure there is some overall schema (a challenge in itself which explains why the central government intranet (GSi) still doesn't have a decent overall directory), identity (assuming someone can come up with a safe container at all it would mean one rogue member of staff would expose the whole country) etc etc. Is it THE solution? Nope. But fully centralised has already proven to be exactly the wrong approach, so I'm throwing some spanners into that one
Just my opinion..
Please don't.
Acetone dissolves ABS based plastics (which is what 99% of the plastic of computer cases is based on).
Anyone touching the outer casing with acetone is prone to make a mess of it. Anything BUT acetone is fine. If you're trying to remove sticky labels , lighter fuel is the thing to use (basically very clean petrol - anyone amy idea how they get it this clean) - also excellent to zap chewing gum stains.
Disclaimer: no expert on flammable liquids but damn well on plastic..
The big question is simply how the EU is going to enforce payment (and what they'r going to do with the cash in the IMHO unlikely event they manage to extract it from Microsoft).
:-)), but I don't think MS has *ever* coughed up this volume of cash (not that I know of, I'd be happy to hear of evidence to the contrary).
I have a feeling that Neelie Kroes is not going to get suckered in by some stupid voucher scheme that MS was allowed to get away with in the US. That means hard $$ (sorry, Euros, can't accept a devalued currency
This means the entertainment has only begun. If MS doesn't pay it'll face daily fine increases until Mrs Kroes decides to simply shut them down instead, and that means a whole new game begins (expect serious, and I mean SERIOUS blackmail attempts by US officials - we had some demonstration of that already when it began).
For MS there's also the problem of side effects. Up until now it's been able to delude shareholders into thinking that it's just the cost of being succesfull, but if they pay this time it'll signal the shareholders that the game is up, and it's likely they'll start leaving the ship on perception of it slowly taking on water. When THAT happens all hell will break lose, and I think it's that more than the EU fines themselves that has prompted Ballmer to start the current pretend Open Source and Unix love fest.
And it may all be too late already - it's going to be very, very interesting...
It appears sanity is slowly starting to prevail, but it took a unacceptable amount of victims along the way to get there. Who is going to help those people who were abused in court before some intellligence started to appear?
.. it needs, umm, hang on, what was it again, ah, "sunlight". Is that the stuff that drives solar panels? :-)
I've been involved in testing a data scrambled for a European bank for exactly that purpose. They used a product that did a reasonable job, and with a few small changes we ensured that pattern analysis to rebuild the original source wouldn't work.
I've also dealt with both gov and financial people that understood the dangers of unauthorised access, some wnet so far as to insist on checking audit was correctly, which is IMHO a very intelligent form of self preservation - few realise that logging can also prove that you did NOT do it, a sure boon for the current trend of considering someone guilty until they prove themselves innocent..
.. because that is the easy part. Any decent scanner will emulate a keyboard entry (wedged or on USB connect), this also gives you a method for manual entry if the barcode reading fails.
However, if you print your own barcodes you better investigate how EAN codes work or you'll get a conflict - there is a specific prefix for in-house codes, use it or you may conflict with a vendor issued one. Alternatively, it's very cheap to implement Code 3 of 9 (it's just a font, print as **, i.e *12.30* and you're in business) but again you have to make sure you don't end up with conflicts with pre-printed info (I found a lot of 'on-the-box' serial numbers to be in Code 3 of 9, or 2 of 5 if they were purely numerical).
Good luck with it.
Actually, this is how teh press works as well.
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He ought to be able to sell his story if the company is big enough
I liked the "as a book" license because it was very clear what right you had, and it explained this by means of a very simple concept. I personally found it one of the easiest licenses to work with. And then they screwed up and went the way of the dodo..
Can you tell me your annual salary?
:-).
Do you close the curtains at night?
Could you please get me the salary details of your boss?
Can you show me how you fiddled your expenses? (this last one veers into an implied assumption of unethical behaviour - your counter to protests is that without evidence you are free to assume either).
Just some examples, because "can I look at your daughter undressing" may be too risky from a physical/legal point of view
They're in the process of banning stick ownership.
:-).
And walking softly.
Yes, and it would also be explicitly banned from reporting on smells and the contents of dogfood cannisters and another million things BECAUSE IT CAN'T DO IT ANYWAY. Who's he trying to fool - they are formally progressing with throwing away the constitution. Cute..
I'd prefer a camera that would drop my name or whatever reference in the EXIM field so it's at least stored in the image. At the moment I find make, type, exposure and inside leg measurement makes it there, but not something you can control yourself.
:-).
While I'm at it, does anyone know a good and simple tool to create/edit/zap EXIM data in both interactive and batch mode (for Windows or Linux, I use both because I can't get rid of Outlook yet)? I know that invalidates the upper question a bit, I'm just looking at a way to store image data with the image in a way that it survives my own editing
.. or you'd end up taking a shot of the back of your teeth.
.. don't. :-)
No, no, don't try to visualise this at breakfast. Just
They may blend, though :-)