And how many pedos will tell the cops they bought it from someone else? With ebay, its not like you get a receipt or something beyond ebay's record of having bought something (and the auction itself disappears after a few months) beyond a few emails.
I'm sure you'll get a "Thats what they all say" as they toss you in the cop car. Maybe you'll be able to prove you didn't have the camera at the time, so it won't go to a nasty and public trial with your car being scratched up and people throwing rocks at your house while you're gone. You might even get your computers back, though general experience with seized equipment is that if anything is returned, its returned well broken.
Given that people have been mobbed and killed even after proving their innocence (ignoring the one pediatrician in the UK who was killed by a group of drooling idiots), I'd say they've been executed by the police investigation, without the expense of a trial
The point is that just because criminals understand that police use a tool, the tool doesn't suddenly become worthless to catch criminals.
No, but since they're now tracking porn to the camera that produced it, I'm never buying a used digital camera, and feel sorry for those who buy one from the wrong guy.
As this is idiotic, no DA ever pressed charges, but the solution to idiotic laws isn't 'not press charges', it's to fix the laws.
You're wrong, there has been at least one trial in recent memory against a girl (15 or so I think) who took pics of herself for her boyfriend. Not sure what the outcome was or maybe the case was dismissed, but the trial herself definitely caused an outcry over it.
They can be arrested for child porn and sent to an adult prison and forced to shower naked with other prisoners.
Actually it'd be more likely to send them to juvinile prison for cases like this. Most likely they'd be told to stop that and be given probation and community service, at least if the DA and Judge don't want to look like total asshats.
I understand that and I believe that's irrelevant, because that is the job of the software developers, surely.
As Microsoft FUD continuously points out, you, the enduser, are liable for any patent you're infringing in the software you use. And you have NO RECOURSE.
Don't like Sorensen
Good thing all the movies coming out these days suck, I'd hate to have to decide what movies I'm going to see based on whether they host their trailer at Apple or somewhere else.
Well, since the system can only identify potential connections that are flagged for detectives to look at
So this is like those automated threatening letter campaigns that the RIAA and MPAA swear up and down that are reviewed by a human, even as they send off letters to the host of the X-File filemanager for hosting the entire first season of X-Files in a hundred-KB tarball?
Feeling worried? Maybe you should delete ALL your pictures. Imagine, being arrested because some computer flagged your photos of your kittens as kiddie porn. I'm sure you'll feel better once the cops take the time to come out and seize your computers (which you will never see again, even after they figure out they fucked up).
Maybe you'll even feel relieved when one comes by your office and announces loudly "Mr. Coward, you're under arrest for possession of child pornography". I hope you didn't enjoy that job.
Perhaps you'll be at ease when you're sitting in your cell reading the paper and see how "investigators found a collection of photos of little boys and girls in various sexual acts on disks in the person's desk". Haven't you ever thought it odd how its always found on disks? When nobody uses floppies anymore?
Aside from the GPL which is pointed out by another user, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THESE PATENTS CAN BE LICENSED BY AN END USER. Read that. Twice.
IP Holders have done this for decades. Remember RSA's patent on the encryption as used by SSL/https? RSA refused to license their patent to endusers, instead only licensing in bulk to developers of specific webservers. SCO offered to license Linux... unless you were a single person, in which case they wouldn't even take your name and number for a callback.
I'm getting off track here since this has nothing to do with the EU situation, but bullshit like this is the "Other 50%" of Whats Wrong With Patents. The part nobody talks about, and when it comes to the Freedom To Code, the part that is even more damaging than bogus patents. Imagine that you're just one person and you'd like to write a webserver that was SSL capable while RSA still held the patent. Back then, RSA wouldn't even give you the time of day, much less an individual license for the RSA algorithm. Even for educational purposes, you're fucked.
Well, theres the upcoming PSP Adventure Maker (in Japan anyway) which Sony is supporting. Rumor is that there'll be freely downloadable kits for the PC to develop the games, which are then played on the client and PSP you buy (using the memory stick).
I doubt the RPGs created with this would suck any more than any other user-created content does.
Well, the point is that its not being purchased "for free" its being purchased "for freedom".
If nothing else, Schwartz's ineffective ranting will serve to educate those who would try to be the CherryOSes of this world: If you want to write proprietary programs, don't take your code from GPL'd products.
Personally I don't see why this seems to end up being a surprise to all these companies, like one day they woke up and "Oh my God! The people that wrote that code I downloaded off the web and put on my wireless access point is suddenly forcing me to opensource my access point or stop selling it! Why did this happen?!"
Some people just seem afraid of the machine as soon as they have to think about it. As long as the can just click on the internet without thinking about stuff, they are happy.
How can we resolve attitudes like that? Anyone got any suggestions?
Ignorance is curable, stupidity is fatal. At this point we should just accept that these people are stupid, and that its NOT the job of the less ignorant to make the world a happy fun safe place for the idiots to live in. We certainly have the tools to deal with these people, whether its egress filtering to prevent them from becoming a menace to everyone else, or the police arresting them after their computer is used by the russian mafia to sell child porn.
If it was just the cows, that'd be one thing... no, anything black and white is cow enough for the King. I finally settled for a "big enough" cow-man after a stream of milk cartons, black and white hazard cones, and signs with picturess of cows.
My mother had this happen to her. Had nothing to do with speeding or erratic driving. Her crime? The cop saw her driving my little brother's riced out del sol and thought she was some kid he could harass.
I only managed to get to the third page of the useless article (seriously people, put more than 2 paragraphs on a page!)
But so far I have "He encrypted the access point with a 128 bit key--made by just keying in random letters and numbers." which makes me wonder if they actually used a dictionary attack...
Finally loaded the 4th page. Apparently they knocked an authorized user off the AP repeatedly and collected the resulting flood of reauthentication packets, plus used packet replay attacks to get the AP to respond to replayed ARP requests (apparently they are easy to spot in a pcap dump despite encryption). This gave them all the IVs they needed to crack the key.
one browser essentially stops popup windows completely?
CNN already tells me to turn off popup blocking if I want to use many features on their site. (yay google news) How long before other sites make navigation elements a popup, to ensure that you HAVE to disable popup-blocking to use the site?
I want mozilla/firefox to let me look at a list of <title>s of the popups and let me pick one to view. Preferrably in a tab rather than a new window (appearance be damned). Right now I just get "here's a list of sites that wanted popups, would you like to unblock all the shit the site wanted to spam you with just so you can get that one popup you wanted?"
Well, theres AIDS, Herpes, Syphillis, and discovering that the cute 20-something you were TXTing a minute ago seems to have become a disturbing 50 year old man with bad teeth and worse breath.
Is the city monitoring the traffic to prevent kids under the age of 18 from viewing illicit material?
Given that its not the city providing the wifi, I'd say no. Probably "no" to all of your other questions. I'd also say that its not "unmonitored", or at the least not "uncontrolled". It probably strictly consists of a http proxy which adds whatever ads the advertising money that is paying for this service wants you to see.
You'd have trouble convincing more than about 2% of users to refuse.
Because only 2% of the computer users use a laptop without an internet connection, right?
Of course they're not the ones "using" it, they're the ones who take it in the ass hard when their boss sends them a PDF for the presentation in New York and they humiliate themselves and their company when they fail to pull up the sales numbers in the boardroom.
There are two options, use a logic analyzer and try to intercept the pieces of the password on it's way in to generate the checksum (haven't heard of anyone being able to accomplish this), or take the drive apart in a clean room, erase the password of the platters and attach a virgin controller....
If this is just password protection and not encryption, wouldn't it be simpler to replace the drive controller with one using firmware that ignores the password? I'm certain the drive manufacturers would have a few of these laying around.
I do have something to hide: my passport has my name, address, phone number, next of kin notification address/phone, passport number, and with these 64KB chips, I'm sure they'll pack everything they can think of on there like SSN, birthdate, and so on.
All that, waiting for someone to just bump into me on a train or in a subway or getting off the airplane. Unlike a normal passport, I'd never know it was "stolen", since it'd still be in my pocket afterwards! By the time I get back to my country, I'd probably be thousands of dollars in debt, with 50 credit cards in my name.
I realized after I submitted it that I had forgotten to include a specification for the container to store and present the liquid in and a timeframe in which to complete the task. (I didn't think about the temperature at which the product was to be presented, though.)
But I think we've all dealt with people where we'd want to dump the coffee all over their desk as retribution for their failure to clearly specify what they wanted;)
Cable TV is already starting to put commercials on most channels. When people don't stop paying for it in droves enough to cut into profits
Well, I tell you, as soon as my cable tv provider started showing commercials, I called up the other 30 cable tv providers and found one that was promising to never run ads in the premium channels, and I switched my subscription on the spot and never looked back. I even called around to get commercial-free versions of Food TV and Cartoon Network, so now I'm all set! Of course, the two minutes of blank screen every 5 minutes is a bit annoying, but what can you do?
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And how many pedos will tell the cops they bought it from someone else? With ebay, its not like you get a receipt or something beyond ebay's record of having bought something (and the auction itself disappears after a few months) beyond a few emails.
I'm sure you'll get a "Thats what they all say" as they toss you in the cop car. Maybe you'll be able to prove you didn't have the camera at the time, so it won't go to a nasty and public trial with your car being scratched up and people throwing rocks at your house while you're gone. You might even get your computers back, though general experience with seized equipment is that if anything is returned, its returned well broken.
Given that people have been mobbed and killed even after proving their innocence (ignoring the one pediatrician in the UK who was killed by a group of drooling idiots), I'd say they've been executed by the police investigation, without the expense of a trial
The point is that just because criminals understand that police use a tool, the tool doesn't suddenly become worthless to catch criminals.
No, but since they're now tracking porn to the camera that produced it, I'm never buying a used digital camera, and feel sorry for those who buy one from the wrong guy.
As this is idiotic, no DA ever pressed charges, but the solution to idiotic laws isn't 'not press charges', it's to fix the laws.
You're wrong, there has been at least one trial in recent memory against a girl (15 or so I think) who took pics of herself for her boyfriend. Not sure what the outcome was or maybe the case was dismissed, but the trial herself definitely caused an outcry over it.
They can be arrested for child porn and sent to an adult prison and forced to shower naked with other prisoners.
Actually it'd be more likely to send them to juvinile prison for cases like this. Most likely they'd be told to stop that and be given probation and community service, at least if the DA and Judge don't want to look like total asshats.
One question I have, legally, could Open Source be challenged by a defense attorney on the grounds that it is Open Source?
You could challenge it, at which point the prosecution would call have independent experts peruse the code and testify about the code's integrity.
I understand that and I believe that's irrelevant, because that is the job of the software developers, surely.
As Microsoft FUD continuously points out, you, the enduser, are liable for any patent you're infringing in the software you use. And you have NO RECOURSE.
Don't like Sorensen
Good thing all the movies coming out these days suck, I'd hate to have to decide what movies I'm going to see based on whether they host their trailer at Apple or somewhere else.
Well, since the system can only identify potential connections that are flagged for detectives to look at
So this is like those automated threatening letter campaigns that the RIAA and MPAA swear up and down that are reviewed by a human, even as they send off letters to the host of the X-File filemanager for hosting the entire first season of X-Files in a hundred-KB tarball?
Feeling worried? Maybe you should delete ALL your pictures. Imagine, being arrested because some computer flagged your photos of your kittens as kiddie porn. I'm sure you'll feel better once the cops take the time to come out and seize your computers (which you will never see again, even after they figure out they fucked up).
Maybe you'll even feel relieved when one comes by your office and announces loudly "Mr. Coward, you're under arrest for possession of child pornography". I hope you didn't enjoy that job.
Perhaps you'll be at ease when you're sitting in your cell reading the paper and see how "investigators found a collection of photos of little boys and girls in various sexual acts on disks in the person's desk". Haven't you ever thought it odd how its always found on disks? When nobody uses floppies anymore?
However, the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything comes up as the second hit if you ask it "what do you get when you multiply six and nine" ;)
Aside from the GPL which is pointed out by another user, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THESE PATENTS CAN BE LICENSED BY AN END USER. Read that. Twice.
IP Holders have done this for decades. Remember RSA's patent on the encryption as used by SSL/https? RSA refused to license their patent to endusers, instead only licensing in bulk to developers of specific webservers. SCO offered to license Linux... unless you were a single person, in which case they wouldn't even take your name and number for a callback.
I'm getting off track here since this has nothing to do with the EU situation, but bullshit like this is the "Other 50%" of Whats Wrong With Patents. The part nobody talks about, and when it comes to the Freedom To Code, the part that is even more damaging than bogus patents. Imagine that you're just one person and you'd like to write a webserver that was SSL capable while RSA still held the patent. Back then, RSA wouldn't even give you the time of day, much less an individual license for the RSA algorithm. Even for educational purposes, you're fucked.
Well, theres the upcoming PSP Adventure Maker (in Japan anyway) which Sony is supporting. Rumor is that there'll be freely downloadable kits for the PC to develop the games, which are then played on the client and PSP you buy (using the memory stick).
I doubt the RPGs created with this would suck any more than any other user-created content does.
They ARE working together! See!
Well, the point is that its not being purchased "for free" its being purchased "for freedom".
If nothing else, Schwartz's ineffective ranting will serve to educate those who would try to be the CherryOSes of this world: If you want to write proprietary programs, don't take your code from GPL'd products.
Personally I don't see why this seems to end up being a surprise to all these companies, like one day they woke up and "Oh my God! The people that wrote that code I downloaded off the web and put on my wireless access point is suddenly forcing me to opensource my access point or stop selling it! Why did this happen?!"
Some people just seem afraid of the machine as soon as they have to think about it. As long as the can just click on the internet without thinking about stuff, they are happy.
How can we resolve attitudes like that? Anyone got any suggestions?
Ignorance is curable, stupidity is fatal. At this point we should just accept that these people are stupid, and that its NOT the job of the less ignorant to make the world a happy fun safe place for the idiots to live in. We certainly have the tools to deal with these people, whether its egress filtering to prevent them from becoming a menace to everyone else, or the police arresting them after their computer is used by the russian mafia to sell child porn.
If it was just the cows, that'd be one thing... no, anything black and white is cow enough for the King. I finally settled for a "big enough" cow-man after a stream of milk cartons, black and white hazard cones, and signs with picturess of cows.
My mother had this happen to her. Had nothing to do with speeding or erratic driving. Her crime? The cop saw her driving my little brother's riced out del sol and thought she was some kid he could harass.
I only managed to get to the third page of the useless article (seriously people, put more than 2 paragraphs on a page!)
But so far I have "He encrypted the access point with a 128 bit key--made by just keying in random letters and numbers." which makes me wonder if they actually used a dictionary attack...
Finally loaded the 4th page. Apparently they knocked an authorized user off the AP repeatedly and collected the resulting flood of reauthentication packets, plus used packet replay attacks to get the AP to respond to replayed ARP requests (apparently they are easy to spot in a pcap dump despite encryption). This gave them all the IVs they needed to crack the key.
one browser essentially stops popup windows completely?
CNN already tells me to turn off popup blocking if I want to use many features on their site. (yay google news) How long before other sites make navigation elements a popup, to ensure that you HAVE to disable popup-blocking to use the site?
I want mozilla/firefox to let me look at a list of <title>s of the popups and let me pick one to view. Preferrably in a tab rather than a new window (appearance be damned). Right now I just get "here's a list of sites that wanted popups, would you like to unblock all the shit the site wanted to spam you with just so you can get that one popup you wanted?"
Well, theres AIDS, Herpes, Syphillis, and discovering that the cute 20-something you were TXTing a minute ago seems to have become a disturbing 50 year old man with bad teeth and worse breath.
Is the city monitoring the traffic to prevent kids under the age of 18 from viewing illicit material?
Given that its not the city providing the wifi, I'd say no. Probably "no" to all of your other questions. I'd also say that its not "unmonitored", or at the least not "uncontrolled". It probably strictly consists of a http proxy which adds whatever ads the advertising money that is paying for this service wants you to see.
You'd have trouble convincing more than about 2% of users to refuse.
Because only 2% of the computer users use a laptop without an internet connection, right?
Of course they're not the ones "using" it, they're the ones who take it in the ass hard when their boss sends them a PDF for the presentation in New York and they humiliate themselves and their company when they fail to pull up the sales numbers in the boardroom.
There are two options, use a logic analyzer and try to intercept the pieces of the password on it's way in to generate the checksum (haven't heard of anyone being able to accomplish this), or take the drive apart in a clean room, erase the password of the platters and attach a virgin controller ....
If this is just password protection and not encryption, wouldn't it be simpler to replace the drive controller with one using firmware that ignores the password? I'm certain the drive manufacturers would have a few of these laying around.
I do have something to hide: my passport has my name, address, phone number, next of kin notification address/phone, passport number, and with these 64KB chips, I'm sure they'll pack everything they can think of on there like SSN, birthdate, and so on.
All that, waiting for someone to just bump into me on a train or in a subway or getting off the airplane. Unlike a normal passport, I'd never know it was "stolen", since it'd still be in my pocket afterwards! By the time I get back to my country, I'd probably be thousands of dollars in debt, with 50 credit cards in my name.
I realized after I submitted it that I had forgotten to include a specification for the container to store and present the liquid in and a timeframe in which to complete the task. (I didn't think about the temperature at which the product was to be presented, though.)
;)
But I think we've all dealt with people where we'd want to dump the coffee all over their desk as retribution for their failure to clearly specify what they wanted
Cable TV is already starting to put commercials on most channels. When people don't stop paying for it in droves enough to cut into profits
Well, I tell you, as soon as my cable tv provider started showing commercials, I called up the other 30 cable tv providers and found one that was promising to never run ads in the premium channels, and I switched my subscription on the spot and never looked back. I even called around to get commercial-free versions of Food TV and Cartoon Network, so now I'm all set! Of course, the two minutes of blank screen every 5 minutes is a bit annoying, but what can you do?