Yeah, 2-3 hours after he had his spokesperson tweet about it. I'm thinking someone in the TSA realized what a shitstorm delaying him more would cause and quickly backpedalled, maybe with a quick phone call to the screeners telling them they didn't see anything this time.
Promoting copyright infringement is a crime in quite a few countries (hence one reason why MegaUpload was blocked in a few countries even before this happened). The DMCA is just a specific law that attempts to set rules for what is and isn't copyright infringement on the Internet.
Also, it depends on the exact circumstances. It doesn't necessarily have to be illegal in the extraditing country (although it usually is), but that would be determined on a case by case basis, I believe.
Knowingly hosting and profiting from infringing material is most certainly illegal. Look around page 30 (probably other places as well) and you will see they knew about the infringement and rewarded people who posted it. Pretty damning. They even prayed Youtube didn't have a fraud-detection system. Google even sent them a notice that they couldn't work with them because of the copyrighted content, 4 years ago.
All in all, they may not have done infringement themselves directly, but they certainly profited by it and did little, if anything, to discourage it. It would be like knowingly charging rent for a drug dealer's business. They may not have done it themselves personally, but they aided and abetted.
But all the links on their site are to MegaUpload. So if anyone else wants to find it, they are shit out of luck, unless someone goes through and modifies every single link to point elsewhere. Which would require that person to have every single on of the files or some source for them. Since the eggs are spread out, that is difficult in the extreme.
Which is why torrents are so advantageous. As long as one person still has the file, everyone can get it (through peer exchange via a magnet link if the tracker goes down.) That is what OP meant by everyone putting their eggs in the same basket. Practically speaking, it is now impossible or extremely difficult for others to get those files.
He failed to see to their safety, however. And did I mention he was the one responsible for steering the boat into the shore? No? Because he totally was. He was steering the boat when that happened. He was literally the cause of the accident. And then he ran away. Making a mistake I can understand: but when you do, you admit it. You don't try to run away, conceal it and even make yourself out to be a hero (which he also tried, claiming his cowardly actions "saved lives").
Had he stayed, it is possible no one else would have been saved. He may even have died (doubtful, but possible). He still should have done it.
Part of the job of a captain is to see to the safety of the crew and passengers. He failed at that. Failing at your job alone isn't enough for ridicule. The excuses he made, however, show that he is a failure as a man (or person, if you're going to be PC about it).
That is true for all countries. Extradition generally requires your actions to be considered crimes by both countries. Also, countries don't generally extradite their own citizens, either. The MegaUpload people aren't citizens in NZ, and their actions were considered (I'm guessing) criminal in both. MegaUpload was blocked in other countries too, it isn't like the US was the only people out to get them.
Of course, I don't think they really were criminals, although I have no strong convictions in this case (I don't know enough of the details to say).
Yeah, after scanning the article my impression is just that Asia is finally starting to develop to the point where they are able to compete. While it is true that the US "dominance" is decreasing, that doesn't mean the US is not doing R&D anymore, or even that it isn't doing more and more, just that China (in particular) is heavily increasing their investment into it. What that means long-term... IDK, it'll be interesting to see.
Aaand they didn't go after the MegaUpload guys directly either. They asked the New Zealand authorities (which is where they were living) to do it for them, presumably under the US-NZ extradition treaty.
DARPA is involved, so read this whole story as: this is a cool idea which we think might have some potential down the line but will probably never happen.
On the other hand, this is a pretty cool idea. Not sure if you can make the puzzles strictly apply to real-life problems and still be fun, though. That in and of itself makes this an interesting idea. If they can overcome that hurdle, there is a lot of potential to this sort of thing.
Because we sure as hell don't have any privacy left anymore.
I do. But then again I almost never use Facebook (my profile picture is a self-portrait... of a monkey) and prefer using face-to-face communication if at all possible.
The people who post pictures of themselves drunk and stoned on Facebook? Of course they don't. But they never really should have expected any, either. Anything on the Internet is automatically not private unless you personally ensure it is (i.e. through encryption).
Well, the thing is, any country with the ability to get a rocket that high (and there aren't all that many of them) generally has that ability because they are interested in their own space program. Plus, any country that tried that kind of blackmail would suddenly be looking at dozens of other, very powerful, very pissed-off countries which have very large military forces.
Also, it would be a technical nightmare. Most of the flechettes aren't going to end up in stable orbits unless you have a very specific launch system, and space is, well, big, so you would need a lot (a very large lot). You would also have to spray them at multiple altitudes. All in all, not all that easy.
Saying that you must have government standing on your side for some reason and protecting your business model is ridiculous on its face, when no other businesses
Actually, every business gets government protection in various forms. I can't, for example, go and steal my competitors product and sell it as my own. If Walmart went and stole Target's stuff from their stores, that would be illegal, and for good reason. That is exactly the same protection that the content generating companies expect, and should, receive.
It should have nothing to do with "protecting against failure." Failure for the content generators would be people not buying their product. Copyright doesn't protect against that. It only does what a door-lock and the police do against thefts of physical merchandise: protect against other people profiting against your own work. Or would you honestly say the police should also not track down theft? One cannot maintain your position (that copyright should not be enforced because it is the government insuring against failure) and that the police should also enforce physical property rights of companies against thieves, yet that is what you are saying.
SOPA, however, goes beyond that. Way, way beyond that. It does help insure content generators against failure: which is why one can most certainly be pro-copyright and anti-SOPA.
Of course I know practicing lawyers don't write the law as they go. You know who does? Politicians, and their assistants. You know what politicians often are? Lawyers. Law school gives you most of the training you need in politics: the ability to speak well and convince groups of people, knowledge of the law and loopholes in it you can exploit, the ability to lie convincingly, etc. Moreover, you will find the people who are agitating for those laws are, again, lawyers. The lawyers who simply disspassionately argue in court are not the lawyers I am concerned about. The trouble is, that isn't all lawyers do, and hasn't for a very long time.
When the law become so complicated we need lawyers to understand it, the lawyers also become the only people who can write laws.
And then, of course, there are judges, who are nothing but lawyers with a fancy robe. Quite often their judgments, particularly in the area of technology, are somewhat lacking.
Oh. Wow. Definitely did not know that. Everything makes sense now. Well, almost: it must not record activating a game via key from the Bundle as "owning" then. Now I actually feel less like an idiot. More ignorant, but less like an idiot.
What they get are children suicide bombers exploding themselves in crowded public spaces. Israel doesn't descend to that level, not even close. No, they are not innocent by any means, and I am not justifying what they do, just pointing out how hyperbolic your claims really are (which is, in a word, "very"). They have also been repeatedly attacked by nearly every one of their neighbors, and many of them have expressed a desire to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth. Again, just to put things into the proper perspective.
Are you really saying attacking a nuclear weapons enrichment program, whose sole end purpose is the creation of WMDs, is just like attacking a desalination plant, whose end purpose is clean water? Really?
Hmm, I think it might have messed up because I originally got the game (Frozen Synapse BTW) through the Humble Bundle. I'd have to double check for other games I got that way. I don't even remember there being a message about me already owning it on the store page (but I thought that was just me not noticing). Oddly, it also recorded my purchase as a "double pack" even though I only bought one copy. I'd thought it worked like you describe too, so maybe I just found an odd glitch.
More than that, Windows 7 seems to simply not care about most hardware upgrades. I've switched out the graphics card/motherboard on one occasion, and then the CPU and added RAM on another. Neither time did it de-activate. I was surprised. For Ubisoft to de-activate after only a graphics card change, well, I wouldn't buy their games before this, but this gives me yet another reason not to.
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Yeah, 2-3 hours after he had his spokesperson tweet about it. I'm thinking someone in the TSA realized what a shitstorm delaying him more would cause and quickly backpedalled, maybe with a quick phone call to the screeners telling them they didn't see anything this time.
Don't be critical of the TSA or you might miss your flight, you damned terrorist!
Yeah but these are the US telecom companies. As far as they are concerned, standards can go fuck themselves.
Promoting copyright infringement is a crime in quite a few countries (hence one reason why MegaUpload was blocked in a few countries even before this happened). The DMCA is just a specific law that attempts to set rules for what is and isn't copyright infringement on the Internet.
Also, it depends on the exact circumstances. It doesn't necessarily have to be illegal in the extraditing country (although it usually is), but that would be determined on a case by case basis, I believe.
Knowingly hosting and profiting from infringing material is most certainly illegal. Look around page 30 (probably other places as well) and you will see they knew about the infringement and rewarded people who posted it. Pretty damning. They even prayed Youtube didn't have a fraud-detection system. Google even sent them a notice that they couldn't work with them because of the copyrighted content, 4 years ago.
All in all, they may not have done infringement themselves directly, but they certainly profited by it and did little, if anything, to discourage it. It would be like knowingly charging rent for a drug dealer's business. They may not have done it themselves personally, but they aided and abetted.
But all the links on their site are to MegaUpload. So if anyone else wants to find it, they are shit out of luck, unless someone goes through and modifies every single link to point elsewhere. Which would require that person to have every single on of the files or some source for them. Since the eggs are spread out, that is difficult in the extreme.
Which is why torrents are so advantageous. As long as one person still has the file, everyone can get it (through peer exchange via a magnet link if the tracker goes down.) That is what OP meant by everyone putting their eggs in the same basket. Practically speaking, it is now impossible or extremely difficult for others to get those files.
Are they researchers for the mutant flu or are they flu researchers that are mutants? Or did the mutant flu make them mutants?
Yes.
He failed to see to their safety, however. And did I mention he was the one responsible for steering the boat into the shore? No? Because he totally was. He was steering the boat when that happened. He was literally the cause of the accident. And then he ran away. Making a mistake I can understand: but when you do, you admit it. You don't try to run away, conceal it and even make yourself out to be a hero (which he also tried, claiming his cowardly actions "saved lives").
Had he stayed, it is possible no one else would have been saved. He may even have died (doubtful, but possible). He still should have done it.
Part of the job of a captain is to see to the safety of the crew and passengers. He failed at that. Failing at your job alone isn't enough for ridicule. The excuses he made, however, show that he is a failure as a man (or person, if you're going to be PC about it).
And that does deserve ridicule.
That is true for all countries. Extradition generally requires your actions to be considered crimes by both countries. Also, countries don't generally extradite their own citizens, either. The MegaUpload people aren't citizens in NZ, and their actions were considered (I'm guessing) criminal in both. MegaUpload was blocked in other countries too, it isn't like the US was the only people out to get them.
Of course, I don't think they really were criminals, although I have no strong convictions in this case (I don't know enough of the details to say).
Yeah, after scanning the article my impression is just that Asia is finally starting to develop to the point where they are able to compete. While it is true that the US "dominance" is decreasing, that doesn't mean the US is not doing R&D anymore, or even that it isn't doing more and more, just that China (in particular) is heavily increasing their investment into it. What that means long-term... IDK, it'll be interesting to see.
Aaand they didn't go after the MegaUpload guys directly either. They asked the New Zealand authorities (which is where they were living) to do it for them, presumably under the US-NZ extradition treaty.
DARPA is involved, so read this whole story as: this is a cool idea which we think might have some potential down the line but will probably never happen.
On the other hand, this is a pretty cool idea. Not sure if you can make the puzzles strictly apply to real-life problems and still be fun, though. That in and of itself makes this an interesting idea. If they can overcome that hurdle, there is a lot of potential to this sort of thing.
I don't have friends who do that. If you do, I suggest you reconsider just how much of a "friend" they really are.
Also, I try not to get that drunk either. Especially not in public where others might take such pictures.
Because we sure as hell don't have any privacy left anymore.
I do. But then again I almost never use Facebook (my profile picture is a self-portrait... of a monkey) and prefer using face-to-face communication if at all possible.
The people who post pictures of themselves drunk and stoned on Facebook? Of course they don't. But they never really should have expected any, either. Anything on the Internet is automatically not private unless you personally ensure it is (i.e. through encryption).
the code seems to have exfiltrated
Wow, must be bad working at Symantec. Even the code wants to escape.
Well, the thing is, any country with the ability to get a rocket that high (and there aren't all that many of them) generally has that ability because they are interested in their own space program. Plus, any country that tried that kind of blackmail would suddenly be looking at dozens of other, very powerful, very pissed-off countries which have very large military forces.
Also, it would be a technical nightmare. Most of the flechettes aren't going to end up in stable orbits unless you have a very specific launch system, and space is, well, big, so you would need a lot (a very large lot). You would also have to spray them at multiple altitudes. All in all, not all that easy.
The timestamp is exactly 6:00Pm EST. So, no.
Saying that you must have government standing on your side for some reason and protecting your business model is ridiculous on its face, when no other businesses
Actually, every business gets government protection in various forms. I can't, for example, go and steal my competitors product and sell it as my own. If Walmart went and stole Target's stuff from their stores, that would be illegal, and for good reason. That is exactly the same protection that the content generating companies expect, and should, receive.
It should have nothing to do with "protecting against failure." Failure for the content generators would be people not buying their product. Copyright doesn't protect against that. It only does what a door-lock and the police do against thefts of physical merchandise: protect against other people profiting against your own work. Or would you honestly say the police should also not track down theft? One cannot maintain your position (that copyright should not be enforced because it is the government insuring against failure) and that the police should also enforce physical property rights of companies against thieves, yet that is what you are saying.
SOPA, however, goes beyond that. Way, way beyond that. It does help insure content generators against failure: which is why one can most certainly be pro-copyright and anti-SOPA.
Of course I know practicing lawyers don't write the law as they go. You know who does? Politicians, and their assistants. You know what politicians often are? Lawyers. Law school gives you most of the training you need in politics: the ability to speak well and convince groups of people, knowledge of the law and loopholes in it you can exploit, the ability to lie convincingly, etc. Moreover, you will find the people who are agitating for those laws are, again, lawyers. The lawyers who simply disspassionately argue in court are not the lawyers I am concerned about. The trouble is, that isn't all lawyers do, and hasn't for a very long time.
When the law become so complicated we need lawyers to understand it, the lawyers also become the only people who can write laws.
And then, of course, there are judges, who are nothing but lawyers with a fancy robe. Quite often their judgments, particularly in the area of technology, are somewhat lacking.
Oh. Wow. Definitely did not know that. Everything makes sense now. Well, almost: it must not record activating a game via key from the Bundle as "owning" then. Now I actually feel less like an idiot. More ignorant, but less like an idiot.
What they get are children suicide bombers exploding themselves in crowded public spaces. Israel doesn't descend to that level, not even close. No, they are not innocent by any means, and I am not justifying what they do, just pointing out how hyperbolic your claims really are (which is, in a word, "very"). They have also been repeatedly attacked by nearly every one of their neighbors, and many of them have expressed a desire to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth. Again, just to put things into the proper perspective.
Are you really saying attacking a nuclear weapons enrichment program, whose sole end purpose is the creation of WMDs, is just like attacking a desalination plant, whose end purpose is clean water? Really?
Also, that is not what "ironic" means.
Hmm, I think it might have messed up because I originally got the game (Frozen Synapse BTW) through the Humble Bundle. I'd have to double check for other games I got that way. I don't even remember there being a message about me already owning it on the store page (but I thought that was just me not noticing). Oddly, it also recorded my purchase as a "double pack" even though I only bought one copy. I'd thought it worked like you describe too, so maybe I just found an odd glitch.
More than that, Windows 7 seems to simply not care about most hardware upgrades. I've switched out the graphics card/motherboard on one occasion, and then the CPU and added RAM on another. Neither time did it de-activate. I was surprised. For Ubisoft to de-activate after only a graphics card change, well, I wouldn't buy their games before this, but this gives me yet another reason not to.