Assualt is a different kettle of fish. Everyone understands assault. Only a relatively small group of LEOs get "cybercrime," and they're busy helping large corporations and high profile individuals. Even for such mundane crimes as credit card fraud, there's a five figure threshold before the Secret Service will even bother pursuing a case related to a mere individual.
No harm in asking for prosecution, I suppose--so long as the victim is squeaky clean himself in every way (i.e. no questionable software licensing practices, no MP3s), etc. No point in being the low hanging fruit.
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They won't be his neighbors--as a serious investor, he'll be safely nestled in a gated community, far away from the unemployed hoi polloi.
Unless he's got a high dollar loss or some friends in law enforcement, no one's going to be explaining anything to a cop or a judge, unfortunately. Those laws are for enforcement on behalf of those with coin.
I'm no stock market expert, but the consensus on the Yahoo stock board is that the price is being artificially pumped by people with *lots* of money. This would make a short anything but a sure thing.
I'd be a little more comfortable if stations used for access patient data couldn't be used for web surfing at all. I'd me a lot more comfortable if they were entirely isolated from the Internet.
I think the Chinese spammers redouble their efforts on a reporting address just for spite. They seem to have "bulletproof" hosting over there, since they only shoot dissidents, not spammers, unfortunately.
Hope you're right--but I think they might be getting a little nervous about the buzz the Mac has been receiving lately. (I own both Macs and PCs, and don't consider myself particularly biased.) Now if MS had been broken into application and OS companies, I'd agree they'd take the profit on Office v.X. But I think the overall strategy is to leverage Palladium^W NGCSB in the near future for lock-in.
I like the approach, but it hasn't worked so well with cryptography. I imagine any message with PGP headers is archived and the relevant details added to a database.
MS' obligation to develop for Office v.X has expired. There's no reason for MS to do anything to encourage migration to a platform they do not control.
of indiscriminate blogging. Information is power. Thus, it is foolish to post personally identifaible information about your employment, personal life, or family for the consumption of strangers.
And then your package that's opaque to the scanners is sent to the bomb squad, where it's poked and prodded from a distance. Then blown up if the EOD folks are feeling froggy that day.
Try boarding a plane in the U.S. with a lead-lined box sometime and see what happens.
The difference is that the crimes you cite actually have victims and deserve punishment. Drug use is someone harming his own body, which is none of the state's business.
Precisely. In fact, a successful implementation of a product activation scheme is prima facie evidence of a monopoly and warrants investigation by antitrust authorities. (For example, Intuit, which does have meaningful competition in the tax preparation software market, was forced to back down on its scheme.)
Everyone knows that the Slashdot editors are sticklers for correct English grammar. Perhaps they were merely expressing the sentiment in the perfect tense, as Apple had probably intended.
OK, I don't believe that either, but I thought it would be amusing.
Copyright violation is a contractual issue, not a criminal one.
Unfortunately, that's no longer correct. The intellectual property cartels bought a "No Electronic Theft" act that criminalizes copyright violation with an amazingly low threshold. Google for it.
By the way, every time the shareware programs I use upgrade to a new version, and breaks the cracks I had for the nag screens, I write a letter to the author complaining, but I never hear back. Do you know why?
Perhaps because you didn't own the shareware program, the way those who own the X-boxes with which Microsoft is remotely tampering do?
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No harm in asking for prosecution, I suppose--so long as the victim is squeaky clean himself in every way (i.e. no questionable software licensing practices, no MP3s), etc. No point in being the low hanging fruit.
They won't be his neighbors--as a serious investor, he'll be safely nestled in a gated community, far away from the unemployed hoi polloi.
Unless he's got a high dollar loss or some friends in law enforcement, no one's going to be explaining anything to a cop or a judge, unfortunately. Those laws are for enforcement on behalf of those with coin.
I'm no stock market expert, but the consensus on the Yahoo stock board is that the price is being artificially pumped by people with *lots* of money. This would make a short anything but a sure thing.
I'd be a little more comfortable if stations used for access patient data couldn't be used for web surfing at all. I'd me a lot more comfortable if they were entirely isolated from the Internet.
People make fun of Debian for being "politically pure" and slow to update . . . but it may be the last one left standing in the end.
I think the Chinese spammers redouble their efforts on a reporting address just for spite. They seem to have "bulletproof" hosting over there, since they only shoot dissidents, not spammers, unfortunately.
I saw it.
Other than being a big-assed number, does your username represent something in particular? TIA
Precisely what I've said all along. Apple would be Microsoft if they could, but they lost. They're evil, but not as good at it.
I love the smell of burnt CD's in the morning. Smells like . . . VICTORY. (Some downmods for me too, please. Need to burn karma.)
Altria, Worldcom . . . Canopy
Hope you're right--but I think they might be getting a little nervous about the buzz the Mac has been receiving lately. (I own both Macs and PCs, and don't consider myself particularly biased.) Now if MS had been broken into application and OS companies, I'd agree they'd take the profit on Office v.X. But I think the overall strategy is to leverage Palladium^W NGCSB in the near future for lock-in.
I like the approach, but it hasn't worked so well with cryptography. I imagine any message with PGP headers is archived and the relevant details added to a database.
MS' obligation to develop for Office v.X has expired. There's no reason for MS to do anything to encourage migration to a platform they do not control.
of indiscriminate blogging. Information is power. Thus, it is foolish to post personally identifaible information about your employment, personal life, or family for the consumption of strangers.
Having an employee point out that MS bought some Macs? Or having the press pick up on the fact that they fired an employee for outing them?
Try boarding a plane in the U.S. with a lead-lined box sometime and see what happens.
The difference is that the crimes you cite actually have victims and deserve punishment. Drug use is someone harming his own body, which is none of the state's business.
Precisely. In fact, a successful implementation of a product activation scheme is prima facie evidence of a monopoly and warrants investigation by antitrust authorities. (For example, Intuit, which does have meaningful competition in the tax preparation software market, was forced to back down on its scheme.)
OK, I don't believe that either, but I thought it would be amusing.
Unfortunately, that's no longer correct. The intellectual property cartels bought a "No Electronic Theft" act that criminalizes copyright violation with an amazingly low threshold. Google for it.
That's not entirely true XP with the classic theme still has Windows Media Player 8/9, Secure Audio Path, and Windows Product Activation :).
I don't think CT's into sporks, though I have to admit I never asked.
Perhaps because you didn't own the shareware program, the way those who own the X-boxes with which Microsoft is remotely tampering do?