So basically M$ is using UCITA to prevent me from using the product because I am bound by UCITA. Forgive me if I feel a bit like Yossarian here.
You may feel like Yossarian--I think Bill Gates feels like Milo. If we could get some grassroots ownership of Microsoft stock going, we could even say "Everybody has a share."
And while I have a few holes in my head, I do not have a serial port. By your logic, "lots of 80-column terminals" must not "support Windows" (since your statement depends upon me having a serial port, which I don't, although most of my computers do
If you thought I meant a serial port in your head, you're even thicker than I thought. But I suspect you're just being a piddly pedantic pain. You were trolling and are pissed because you got called on it, fess up.
If you have a serial port, lots of 80-column terminals "support Windows," whatever the hell that means. But since you're obviously trolling people who were on what you call the WWW before you were out of diapers, you might already know that.
As an alumnus, you're in a position to make it better for those who follow you. Possibly with your check, mention in your letter to the chancellor that you loved your time at $UNIVERSITY and would like to be able to recommend it's CS department to young people you are acquainted with, but there's the matter of infrastructure. Cite examples, be civil, and state the problem. Smart colleges listen to their alumni. (Smarter ones listen to their students.)
Maybe they shouldn't have been expected to know, but they damn well probably had it coming. Maybe if more bullies' parents (as if most of them aren't judgement proof, anyway) got sued into bankruptcy, there'd be less bullies and less school shootings.
But the fact remains that in most democracies, citizens have the right to communicate without police eavesdropping - hence the requirement (here) for a court-order to institute a wiretap.
"They" want us to think we have that right--but features are built into every new communications device, wireless and wired, to enable "them" to trawl vast oceans of data without a warrant.
I'm sure there are a number of judges right now, in jurisdictions from the most podunk county to the federal circuit, that would sign a warrant based simply on the fact that the subject was taking some "extrordinary means" (e.g. PGP, Freenet) to "evade lawful surveillance."
The Fourth Amendment has been gone a long time (e.g., CALEA, civil forfeiture, Echelon, SSA registration at birth). The Second is effectively dead (buy a gun legally, your details are in a convenient pickup database for whenever "they" come to power or decide to make "their" move). The First is on its way to being legislated out of existence (e.g., DMCA). The rest of the Constitution will quickly follow. And if it's done slowly, as now, most of us will believe nothing's wrong, and that we live in the same Republic founded 224 and change years ago.
The short answer is that most SMB networks are safely firewalled away
But it's common wisdom that the greatest threat is from the inside--from the people that know the network and who have the ability to, say, get to a desktop machine and turn off encrypted authentication. And if there's one box on the subnet that can't do encrypted authentication (and thus the authenticating server can't require it), boom. That user account is compromised along with the trade secrets, payroll data, or personal emails that the inside person is after.
I agree that this problem has been known about just short of forever.
Yep. The traffic analysis will just be the basis for the warrant--why would you be using FreeNet if you weren't moving illegal material? When the $LEA kicks down your door, then they'll know what you're getting or sending.
And the recording industry is particularly good at this. If it wasn't for the writeup a few years back (before Napster was a twinkle in Fanning's eye) in Wired where the RIAA had pulled a stormtrooper act on the few college kids who were trading MP3's, I and darn near the rest of the world probably never would have heard of them.
<humor> I suspect that the recording industry and manufacturers of hard disks and removable media are laughing all the way to the bank, having negotiated in smoke filled rooms to share the profits while they play us all for fools buying 80GB disks and CDR drives with 100 spindles to store MP3's and legally challenged material like DeCSS, VirtualDub 1.3, TotalRecorder, ASFRecorder, the eFront ICQ logs (which I and about 1E6 others posted to Freenet). And now this. </humor>
One, the First Amendment does NOT say that you have a right to speak anonymously.
Turns out the Supreme Court disagrees with you. See this.
And, of course, those rights don't come from any constitutional amendments. We were all born with them; they are only acknowledged in the Constitution.
The Hustler parody depicted a drunken
Jerry Falwell confessing that his "first time" was an
incestuous fling with his mother in an outhouse
and (boldface mine)
The Court, in an opinion authored by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, ruled that the First
Amendment protected speech that "could not reasonably have been interpreted as stating actual facts about the public figure
involved."15 The Court ruled that a public figure could not
recover damages for emotional distress unless he or she shows
that the publication contains a false statement of fact which
was made with actual malice, or reckless disregard for the truth.
so the primary claim was about the depiction of maternal incest. Thanks!
Actually, you don't have to qualify it with "in my opinion." Jerry Falwell lost a case against Hustler in which he sued for being named "Asshole of the Month." The court opined that it was fairly obvious they didn't mean that Falwell was literally an asshole.
deleting all the pr0n spam you get because you surf pr0n at the office
I know it was just an example, and there are people who cause their own problems. However, I don't think we should help perpetuate the myth that anyone who gets spam for "HOT NEKKID T33NZ" has gone looking for porn. This is the kind of thinking that leads to blaming victims of spam, unjustified workplace actions, and other nastiness. Those scum will get email addresses any way they can, including trying all plausible usernames in a domain, and they don't have to come from newbies filling in forms on porn sites. Let's not blame the poor guy (after all, we all know women don't look at porn) that gets a porn spam--he's probably innocent.
I see what you're saying here, but it would have been good marketing to pick a GPL'd Linux app or two that hot-syncing would be supported with as delivered. As it stands, this is a device which runs Linux, but is most useful to those running Windows as a primary OS. The marketplace will soon tell if this was such a great idea.
That's OK; I'll keep an old 486 with a CD reader on the network to extract the PCM from the CD's, move it over as plain files to the XP machine, and encode them. Oh, wait, no I won't, because I'm not buying XP, and recommending to associates that they don't either, same as with Win ME.
Thus defaulting on his MasterCard account. Sounds like a good strategy to me. I don't know if Brad's one of them (I hope not), but there are plenty of people without lots of money or property (that wouldn't be protected in bankruptcy) to lose in a lawsuit. Those people can tell these megacorps to bring it on, then simply get the judgement discharged in Chapter 7.
and thousands and thousands of unelected public servants who actually do the work, and write the regulations, and unofficially the real power of government
I wish more people got this. And this isn't just true in government--it's true in any large organization where the figureheads (e.g. CEO, Chancellor, President) come and go.
I drive a friggin 1991 Bronco II, not exactly a tremendous technology platform.
Take good care of it. It'll have one hell of a market value when all the new cars come with Big Brother tracking devices, assuming it isn't outright banned.
Do you really think they're going to waste their time getting a group of people to pick out each face in thousands, cross reference it against any files they may have, and write notes on you if you're having a peaceful demonstration?
Since cameras are routinely used for this purpose in the U.S. A Google search on the words "demonstration surveillance camera" will yield numerous reports of this practice. Put yourself in the shoes of the police and politicians. Would you be able to resist the temptation to use this flow of information to keep tabs on your enemies?
Now if American Express would come up with some kind of partnership with O'Reilly, and issue animal cards, then we'd have something (with such perquisites as "online concierge" and "fine Internet dining":). I know I'd convert for a llama card.
Best of luck getting them to take back an opened CD for a refund. Of course, you could cause just as much grief exchanging it several times, but you'd still be out the price of that CD. I guess there's always the credit card dispute mechanism, but music stores simply do not take back open merchandise for other than exchange for the same title.
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You may feel like Yossarian--I think Bill Gates feels like Milo. If we could get some grassroots ownership of Microsoft stock going, we could even say "Everybody has a share."
If you thought I meant a serial port in your head, you're even thicker than I thought. But I suspect you're just being a piddly pedantic pain. You were trolling and are pissed because you got called on it, fess up.
If you have a serial port, lots of 80-column terminals "support Windows," whatever the hell that means. But since you're obviously trolling people who were on what you call the WWW before you were out of diapers, you might already know that.
As an alumnus, you're in a position to make it better for those who follow you. Possibly with your check, mention in your letter to the chancellor that you loved your time at $UNIVERSITY and would like to be able to recommend it's CS department to young people you are acquainted with, but there's the matter of infrastructure. Cite examples, be civil, and state the problem. Smart colleges listen to their alumni. (Smarter ones listen to their students.)
Maybe they shouldn't have been expected to know, but they damn well probably had it coming. Maybe if more bullies' parents (as if most of them aren't judgement proof, anyway) got sued into bankruptcy, there'd be less bullies and less school shootings.
"They" want us to think we have that right--but features are built into every new communications device, wireless and wired, to enable "them" to trawl vast oceans of data without a warrant.
I'm sure there are a number of judges right now, in jurisdictions from the most podunk county to the federal circuit, that would sign a warrant based simply on the fact that the subject was taking some "extrordinary means" (e.g. PGP, Freenet) to "evade lawful surveillance."
The Fourth Amendment has been gone a long time (e.g., CALEA, civil forfeiture, Echelon, SSA registration at birth). The Second is effectively dead (buy a gun legally, your details are in a convenient pickup database for whenever "they" come to power or decide to make "their" move). The First is on its way to being legislated out of existence (e.g., DMCA). The rest of the Constitution will quickly follow. And if it's done slowly, as now, most of us will believe nothing's wrong, and that we live in the same Republic founded 224 and change years ago.
But it's common wisdom that the greatest threat is from the inside--from the people that know the network and who have the ability to, say, get to a desktop machine and turn off encrypted authentication. And if there's one box on the subnet that can't do encrypted authentication (and thus the authenticating server can't require it), boom. That user account is compromised along with the trade secrets, payroll data, or personal emails that the inside person is after.
I agree that this problem has been known about just short of forever.
Yep. The traffic analysis will just be the basis for the warrant--why would you be using FreeNet if you weren't moving illegal material? When the $LEA kicks down your door, then they'll know what you're getting or sending.
<humor>
I suspect that the recording industry and manufacturers of hard disks and removable media are laughing all the way to the bank, having negotiated in smoke filled rooms to share the profits while they play us all for fools buying 80GB disks and CDR drives with 100 spindles to store MP3's and legally challenged material like DeCSS, VirtualDub 1.3, TotalRecorder, ASFRecorder, the eFront ICQ logs (which I and about 1E6 others posted to Freenet). And now this.
</humor>
Turns out the Supreme Court disagrees with you. See this.
And, of course, those rights don't come from any constitutional amendments. We were all born with them; they are only acknowledged in the Constitution.
This article says
and (boldface mine)so the primary claim was about the depiction of maternal incest. Thanks!Actually, you don't have to qualify it with "in my opinion." Jerry Falwell lost a case against Hustler in which he sued for being named "Asshole of the Month." The court opined that it was fairly obvious they didn't mean that Falwell was literally an asshole.
I know it was just an example, and there are people who cause their own problems. However, I don't think we should help perpetuate the myth that anyone who gets spam for "HOT NEKKID T33NZ" has gone looking for porn. This is the kind of thinking that leads to blaming victims of spam, unjustified workplace actions, and other nastiness. Those scum will get email addresses any way they can, including trying all plausible usernames in a domain, and they don't have to come from newbies filling in forms on porn sites. Let's not blame the poor guy (after all, we all know women don't look at porn) that gets a porn spam--he's probably innocent.
You just almost described SpamCop, except SpamCop is even more functional. I'm only affiliated as a satisfied customer.
. . . the Soviets for requiring an internal passport to travel. Tried to board a plane without ID lately? And now this? Your papers!
I see what you're saying here, but it would have been good marketing to pick a GPL'd Linux app or two that hot-syncing would be supported with as delivered. As it stands, this is a device which runs Linux, but is most useful to those running Windows as a primary OS. The marketplace will soon tell if this was such a great idea.
That's OK; I'll keep an old 486 with a CD reader on the network to extract the PCM from the CD's, move it over as plain files to the XP machine, and encode them. Oh, wait, no I won't, because I'm not buying XP, and recommending to associates that they don't either, same as with Win ME.
Thus defaulting on his MasterCard account. Sounds like a good strategy to me. I don't know if Brad's one of them (I hope not), but there are plenty of people without lots of money or property (that wouldn't be protected in bankruptcy) to lose in a lawsuit. Those people can tell these megacorps to bring it on, then simply get the judgement discharged in Chapter 7.
I wish more people got this. And this isn't just true in government--it's true in any large organization where the figureheads (e.g. CEO, Chancellor, President) come and go.
Take good care of it. It'll have one hell of a market value when all the new cars come with Big Brother tracking devices, assuming it isn't outright banned.
Care to elaborate?
Since cameras are routinely used for this purpose in the U.S. A Google search on the words "demonstration surveillance camera" will yield numerous reports of this practice. Put yourself in the shoes of the police and politicians. Would you be able to resist the temptation to use this flow of information to keep tabs on your enemies?
Now if American Express would come up with some kind of partnership with O'Reilly, and issue animal cards, then we'd have something (with such perquisites as "online concierge" and "fine Internet dining" :). I know I'd convert for a llama card.
OK, it's a nit, but that's a Roman Centurion, not a Roman god, on the American Express card.
Best of luck getting them to take back an opened CD for a refund. Of course, you could cause just as much grief exchanging it several times, but you'd still be out the price of that CD. I guess there's always the credit card dispute mechanism, but music stores simply do not take back open merchandise for other than exchange for the same title.