Even the mass malware distributions take basic precautions these days like excluding VMs, all known AV Vendor IP ranges, and not being malicious while the email is in transit (a link may not begin serving malicious content until hours later, when targets are arriving at the office, and may stop again afterwards.). You can analyze those links all year long if you aren't the target.
While I am loathe to present a counterargument (since I generally agree...)
Give them their due - they did some significant good recently by nailing the creator of the Blackhole Exploit Kit (http://threatpost.com/viable-blackhole-successor-could-take-years-to-emerge/103492)
Well, to be fair, there is really only an artificial scarcity of free ebooks.
I think it is reasonable to assume that letting every library lend an infinite number of copies of every book would put a damper on sales, effectively making the ebook market into a 'donations only' market overnight.
I haven't kept up, what is current thinking on how effective donation based selling is for ebook authors?
and for some reason, everyone seems to think going backwards in agricultural progress is a good thing...no one seriously says that about computer, medical, or energy technologies
Absolutely, however it is atypical to have both rifle and shotgun handy on the same hunt. Although that might change a bit with PETA providing drone-pigeons.
Heh...PETA getting pissed at someone else for destruction of property? (+1 Irony).
But this is precisely the enforcement headache the gubment is trying to avoid.
- Harassing outdoors-men and scaring off game (Hunters are paying the government, that's a revenue stream)
- Drones getting blasted out of the sky
- Lead flying off in dangerous ways (hunters know better than to go shooting rifles in the air, but if you start buzzing 'em with drones, it would happen)
- blasted drones falling out of the sky
- Lawsuits all around
(There's one scene where you can spot a set of 4x4 tracks off in the distance in that ST movie. One of the guys in the old BBS scene used "Why does God need a 4x4?" for his tagline for a while as a result. Ahh the good old days...)
Kvetch about guns - check
Kvetch about taxes - check
Assholes - sure, I'll grant that (but I'd grant that about the majority of people in politics of any stripe)
But the Troll bits are so ludicrously invalid as to make it too implausible as anything except a troll.
Libertarian view : If someone is committing murder, rape, robbery, theft, fraud, arson, trespass, etc. — then it is proper to call on the government.
There really should be a term for the common practice of creating a flawed statement, ascribing it to someone, and then using it to make them look bad.
Vigilantes would be far far far more likely to go all Charles Bronson on some poor slob who's only crime was having a known email address than an actual spammer.
This is why vigilante justice is inappropriate in the case of spam.
Not because it would be 'disproportionate' - Spammers routinely and intentionally destroy entire human lifetimes in aggregate. (This is a role reserved for overly intrusive government and local cable providers.)
Double check you have a true 'online' UPS not a (much cheaper) stand-by power device.
Also make sure you don't plug in your laser printer to it...that's a classic fail.
I've lost power numerous times over the years and continued right on working. Even gracefully informing people online that I needed to disconnect due to power being down at my house.
What the station owners fear more than Aereo is the possibility that cable and satellite providers, emboldened by Aereo, will set up their own antenna arrays to avoid paying retransmission fees.
This is exactly WHY this should be allowed. If it is cheaper to setup your own antennas than pay someone else to do it then consumers are being overcharged for the service.
Competition should be protected, not the opposite of it.
Wrong, because they would mostly even out. So say Samsung pay Nokia 2.25% and Nokia pay Samsung 2.25% and that then the balance is close to 0%, and everyone is happy.
While the point is valid enough, Nokia's not a future-proofed example.
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Kent.... Stop touching your device.
Citizens have effectively zero effect on national politics. They're just easy sauce.
My theory is that extremists would prefer to just die randomly rather than sit through enough C-Span re-runs to figure out the right targets.
Even the mass malware distributions take basic precautions these days like excluding VMs, all known AV Vendor IP ranges, and not being malicious while the email is in transit (a link may not begin serving malicious content until hours later, when targets are arriving at the office, and may stop again afterwards.). You can analyze those links all year long if you aren't the target.
Ok.... so, what does, our children?
While I am loathe to present a counterargument (since I generally agree...)
Give them their due - they did some significant good recently by nailing the creator of the Blackhole Exploit Kit (http://threatpost.com/viable-blackhole-successor-could-take-years-to-emerge/103492)
Well, to be fair, there is really only an artificial scarcity of free ebooks.
I think it is reasonable to assume that letting every library lend an infinite number of copies of every book would put a damper on sales, effectively making the ebook market into a 'donations only' market overnight.
I haven't kept up, what is current thinking on how effective donation based selling is for ebook authors?
and for some reason, everyone seems to think going backwards in agricultural progress is a good thing...no one seriously says that about computer, medical, or energy technologies
*cough* Nuclear Energy *cough*
Absolutely, however it is atypical to have both rifle and shotgun handy on the same hunt. Although that might change a bit with PETA providing drone-pigeons.
I was idly fusioning a couple of bits, sorry :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7YEeIdZBGc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk47saogI8o
Heh...PETA getting pissed at someone else for destruction of property? (+1 Irony).
But this is precisely the enforcement headache the gubment is trying to avoid.
- Harassing outdoors-men and scaring off game (Hunters are paying the government, that's a revenue stream) - Drones getting blasted out of the sky - Lead flying off in dangerous ways (hunters know better than to go shooting rifles in the air, but if you start buzzing 'em with drones, it would happen) - blasted drones falling out of the sky - Lawsuits all around
Now now, safety first. Use a shotgun loaded for skeet.
The thought of hunters being harassed by PETA drones brings to mind the the immortal words of King Louis XVI who said... "Pull!"
Or a 4x4
(There's one scene where you can spot a set of 4x4 tracks off in the distance in that ST movie. One of the guys in the old BBS scene used "Why does God need a 4x4?" for his tagline for a while as a result. Ahh the good old days...)
Kvetch about guns - check Kvetch about taxes - check Assholes - sure, I'll grant that (but I'd grant that about the majority of people in politics of any stripe) But the Troll bits are so ludicrously invalid as to make it too implausible as anything except a troll.
Prove it.
I'm still irked about "hacker", now you're telling me "Libertarian" too?
Although i was addressing the response to the shot, which presented what might have been an actual lack of knowledge ("If that's really true....")
I don't define L (or R or D) by the loonies on the fringes.
Yeah. Not so much.
Libertarian view : If someone is committing murder, rape, robbery, theft, fraud, arson, trespass, etc. — then it is proper to call on the government.
There really should be a term for the common practice of creating a flawed statement, ascribing it to someone, and then using it to make them look bad.
Vigilantes would be far far far more likely to go all Charles Bronson on some poor slob who's only crime was having a known email address than an actual spammer.
This is why vigilante justice is inappropriate in the case of spam.
Not because it would be 'disproportionate' - Spammers routinely and intentionally destroy entire human lifetimes in aggregate. (This is a role reserved for overly intrusive government and local cable providers.)
Double check you have a true 'online' UPS not a (much cheaper) stand-by power device.
Also make sure you don't plug in your laser printer to it...that's a classic fail.
I've lost power numerous times over the years and continued right on working. Even gracefully informing people online that I needed to disconnect due to power being down at my house.
Up to 53c last report here: http://www.superconductors.org/News.htm
Gold, Silver and Platinum CDs?
Teaching laser drones Phenomenology?
"Let there be light!"
This is exactly WHY this should be allowed. If it is cheaper to setup your own antennas than pay someone else to do it then consumers are being overcharged for the service. Competition should be protected, not the opposite of it.
Wrong, because they would mostly even out. So say Samsung pay Nokia 2.25% and Nokia pay Samsung 2.25% and that then the balance is close to 0%, and everyone is happy.
While the point is valid enough, Nokia's not a future-proofed example.
On occasion they do make contributions to the asphalt and concrete used in building.