One has to ponder the socio-economic impact that batman has had on our culture. In a post 9/11 world, one has to take into consideration that kids, seeing this man become a vigilante and being revered for it, will soon immitate him and start their own crime-catching crusade.
Hence the 'this costume does not enable you to fly' warnings'.
And even if a state judge says "the 4th does not apply", their word does not mean anything if Detroit disagrees. Seeing as there is a violation of the US' 4th Amendment, Detroit would have juristiction for an appeal.
Why in the world would Detroit have anything to do with appealing Michigan state court decisions?
If you knew you were going to die soon, I'd have a sent mail list which would be great and populated with loads of fake emails that said things like:
Put a EULA in there as well. It works for shrinkwrapped products: "Anyone who obtained a court order to violate my privacy and reads my personal email agrees to pay $10,000 USD per email to PETA".
I find it hard to believe that these are just "rubberstamps" seeing aswithout any concrete evidence to justify the wiretap, any evidence they would gather from one or as a direct result from one would be not be admitted as evidence due to that whole 4th Amendment thingy.
That's true...if the courts haven't frozen a persons assets first. Then, the person can't pay an attorney to fight with the 4th amendment. Well, unless that person has A LOT of cash stashed somewhere.
In Michigan, it's often the case that a person being accused of say 'manufacturing drugs' (1 pot plant will do even on a 40 acre property) will end up with all valuble assets seized before any trial. Then, when the person is convicted, those assets are split between law enforcement agencies.
This really sucks because the defendant can't afford a decent attorney because his assets are all locked up. (Drugs may be bad, but not letting a person hire a competent attorney to prove they weren't the person who did it is worse).
I've sat in for a few trials. And, it's been my extreme discomfort twice to have seen a judge say 'the 4th doesn't apply, your house wasn't large enough and the police were just protecting themselves and the defendant by searching for danger in the immediate vicinity'.
If the 4th won't protect those in Michigan from judges like that, how will it help protect against unnesessary wiretaps?
"Drug dealers now are making use not just of traditional cell phones but a variety of devices, including Blackberries, pagers, and Nextels. So most likely these increased wiretap numbers simply reflect law enforcement's continuing efforts to keep pace with both the tactics and technology that is being used on the street," said Barr.
Someone needs to let Nextel know that they don't have traditional cell-phones.
Er, wait, it's now Sprint-Nextel which has incorporated all of the features of Nextel cell-phones into Sprint ones.
Now I have to wonder, where in the world are the 911 prank callers? Since we have a 911-enabled VOIP network with no trace feature, how are we to stop all the pranksters who like to call 911 with fake calls? AND, lets not forget the legitimate calls being ignored or suffering from the DDoS they're encountering. Are the people who are really being raped, murdered or worse, going to get through to the 911 ops?
Most cell-phone providers accept 911 calls even from phones that have been 'shut off'.
It's easy to pick up cell-phones that people don't use anymore. It's almost as easy to fake that a signal is coming from the 'real' valid cell-phone.
Clogging up 911 just hasn't caught on. IMO, it's the prison (no county!) sentences involved that prevent widespread abuse of it.
It's much like the fact that I trust that people won't mess with my postal box even though there is a lot of information & checks that arrive in it. The consequences are too high for most abuse unless those people are smoking Crack or addicted to a similar drug.
If this is true, then OEM's definitely wouldn't put it on shipping hardware if they thought it was rubbish, so this would give even more credence to the suggestion that this isn't beta-quality software.
OEMs don't care as long as MS gives them a sweet deal (at first).
Tech support won't be overburdened. They already have 'use the recovery disks to format your computer' reply memorized.
OEMs will know which hardware works and MS has most likely already tested their OEMs favorite hardware.
Yes but as he so rightly points out a joke couldn't possibly be insightful, not could any phrase using irony or any other figure of speech. It just can't happen.
Because Indians are naturally better at higher math than other ethnic groups. Which is why, incidentally, that the early settlers in America tried to wipe them out.
Ahh, I was wondering why they do so well with their casinos. Now I know.
So I can discover your SS# after breaking into your machine by simply sending each probable number from your computer to somewhere else? Those that don't make the journey are even more probably yours. Intriguing.
Actually, no that wouldn't work. It's about matching a pattern, not me entering my SS# just so I can prevent it from being found.
Nope. Don't read Car and Driver. Did break a window with one once. Dunno why Car and Driver would print that, but it wasn't hard.
Breaking windows with the porcelain from a spark plug is easy, and it's extremely quiet to boot.
Many thieving gangs use this method because of that. They can steal what they want from a car without anyone hearing or setting off the car alarm. This also works for home burglaries. A spark plug can shatter a sliding glass door very quietly and the intruder can be inside the house within 5-10 seconds after clearing out some of that shattered glass.
As far as I can tell from the article, this only affects business students in the school. Judging from that, I'm guessing someone in the department was keeping a few spreadsheets or something of that nature around on a public windows share. This strikes me as far more of a careless employee problem than a truly insecure infrastructure problem. Thus, comments about CERT may be a bit premature.
True, but how long would it have taken to write a program that scans for SS#'s that are in insecure areas?
Not only that, their firewall should have noticed SS#'s being transmitted to the outside. Norton Internet Security prevents my personal SS# from being transmitted even if someone else is using my computer and tries to send it. Why didn't they implement something like this especially with CERT there?
First time I ever saw a miniature outside of Warhammer context was that HeroQuest boardgame. The first five or six years I roleplayed, it was pen and paper and books (hence "pen and paper RPGs" not "miniatures and paper RPGs"). And I'm pretty young--so careful how you throw around "traditionally" d^_^b.
Holy smokes, I feel old. We played D&D in a sandbox in the backyard back in the day. Then they came out with this fancy pencil and paper stuff around '75 (if this old brain remembers correctly).
I didn't see pencil and paper PLUS miniatures until we formed a D&D club in junior high. We were given a $50 allowance per month from the school. Then, the big 'D&D IS SATANIC' scare rolled (cough) through and the school disbanded us.
Thankfully, they were so terrorized by the hoax that they let us keep everything we bought for almost 2 years.
We did put the miniatures back on a shelf though. Pencil and paper were back in style and the backyard, well, the rules got much too complicated by that point.
Anyway, t even 20+ years later, I 'traditionally' still see a lot people playing with just pencil and paper.
People tend to get suspicious of strangers pointing gunlike objects around their neighborhood.
Not generally on the West Coast in high density areas from my experience.
That's why women being raped there are encouraged to scream 'fire' instead of 'rape'.
People there generally try to get away from uncontrollable dangerous situations where guns/violence are involved and try to brain-wash themselves into believing that not getting involved is a Good Thing.
With a fire, it's something different. It's easy enough to gauge the safe distance from it and yet 'participate' in the event.
That's why a woman being raped and screames 'fire' is much more likely to get help than one who screams 'rape'.
To use GAIM, you still have to sign up for an AIM account. To sign up for an AIM account, you have to click the TOS.
Actually, I signed into AIM's network using my ICQ # and passphrase.
This was back when rumors were running that the networks would be combined. Surprisingly enough, I was able to log in without having to go through any new TOS agreements.
YMMV: I don't know if it is still possible to log into AIM with an ICQ # and passphrase.
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One has to ponder the socio-economic impact that batman has had on our culture. In a post 9/11 world, one has to take into consideration that kids, seeing this man become a vigilante and being revered for it, will soon immitate him and start their own crime-catching crusade.
Hence the ' this costume does not enable you to fly' warnings '.
And even if a state judge says "the 4th does not apply", their word does not mean anything if Detroit disagrees. Seeing as there is a violation of the US' 4th Amendment, Detroit would have juristiction for an appeal.
Why in the world would Detroit have anything to do with appealing Michigan state court decisions?
If you knew you were going to die soon, I'd have a sent mail list which would be great and populated with loads of fake emails that said things like:
Put a EULA in there as well. It works for shrinkwrapped products: "Anyone who obtained a court order to violate my privacy and reads my personal email agrees to pay $10,000 USD per email to PETA".
I find it hard to believe that these are just "rubberstamps" seeing aswithout any concrete evidence to justify the wiretap, any evidence they would gather from one or as a direct result from one would be not be admitted as evidence due to that whole 4th Amendment thingy.
That's true...if the courts haven't frozen a persons assets first. Then, the person can't pay an attorney to fight with the 4th amendment. Well, unless that person has A LOT of cash stashed somewhere.
In Michigan, it's often the case that a person being accused of say 'manufacturing drugs' (1 pot plant will do even on a 40 acre property) will end up with all valuble assets seized before any trial. Then, when the person is convicted, those assets are split between law enforcement agencies.
This really sucks because the defendant can't afford a decent attorney because his assets are all locked up. (Drugs may be bad, but not letting a person hire a competent attorney to prove they weren't the person who did it is worse).
I've sat in for a few trials. And, it's been my extreme discomfort twice to have seen a judge say 'the 4th doesn't apply, your house wasn't large enough and the police were just protecting themselves and the defendant by searching for danger in the immediate vicinity'.
If the 4th won't protect those in Michigan from judges like that, how will it help protect against unnesessary wiretaps?
"Drug dealers now are making use not just of traditional cell phones but a variety of devices, including Blackberries, pagers, and Nextels. So most likely these increased wiretap numbers simply reflect law enforcement's continuing efforts to keep pace with both the tactics and technology that is being used on the street," said Barr.
Someone needs to let Nextel know that they don't have traditional cell-phones.
Er, wait, it's now Sprint-Nextel which has incorporated all of the features of Nextel cell-phones into Sprint ones.
Now I have to wonder, where in the world are the 911 prank callers? Since we have a 911-enabled VOIP network with no trace feature, how are we to stop all the pranksters who like to call 911 with fake calls? AND, lets not forget the legitimate calls being ignored or suffering from the DDoS they're encountering. Are the people who are really being raped, murdered or worse, going to get through to the 911 ops?
Most cell-phone providers accept 911 calls even from phones that have been 'shut off'.
It's easy to pick up cell-phones that people don't use anymore. It's almost as easy to fake that a signal is coming from the 'real' valid cell-phone.
Clogging up 911 just hasn't caught on. IMO, it's the prison (no county!) sentences involved that prevent widespread abuse of it.
It's much like the fact that I trust that people won't mess with my postal box even though there is a lot of information & checks that arrive in it. The consequences are too high for most abuse unless those people are smoking Crack or addicted to a similar drug.
Hmm, I think that we'll need faster DVD burners.
I know this makes me a horrible person, but technically, you would only need 9 wives...
10 wives. Someone has to cook and clean while you're busy.
Oh crap. There goes Zork unless I run it under Wine.
If this is true, then OEM's definitely wouldn't put it on shipping hardware if they thought it was rubbish, so this would give even more credence to the suggestion that this isn't beta-quality software.
OEMs don't care as long as MS gives them a sweet deal (at first).
Tech support won't be overburdened. They already have 'use the recovery disks to format your computer' reply memorized.
OEMs will know which hardware works and MS has most likely already tested their OEMs favorite hardware.
Yes but as he so rightly points out a joke couldn't possibly be insightful, not could any phrase using irony or any other figure of speech. It just can't happen.
You are new here then?
Because Indians are naturally better at higher math than other ethnic groups. Which is why, incidentally, that the early settlers in America tried to wipe them out.
Ahh, I was wondering why they do so well with their casinos. Now I know.
So I can discover your SS# after breaking into your machine by simply sending each probable number from your computer to somewhere else? Those that don't make the journey are even more probably yours. Intriguing.
Actually, no that wouldn't work. It's about matching a pattern, not me entering my SS# just so I can prevent it from being found.
That would be a bit counter-productive.
Just make sure your LAN party is local, don't think airport security would take too kindly to this ;)
Especially if it has DOOM and Half-Life stickers on it.
Without a link to the document mentioned in the article, I am guessing that there is confusion in the article about virtual memory vs virtual disk.
ie: a RAM drive.
Perhaps you are overestimating how much impact one department or group at a university has on the others.
In this case, CERT knows that they underestimated the impact of this particular example of shoddy security on themselves.
Nope. Don't read Car and Driver. Did break a window with one once. Dunno why Car and Driver would print that, but it wasn't hard.
Breaking windows with the porcelain from a spark plug is easy, and it's extremely quiet to boot.
Many thieving gangs use this method because of that. They can steal what they want from a car without anyone hearing or setting off the car alarm. This also works for home burglaries. A spark plug can shatter a sliding glass door very quietly and the intruder can be inside the house within 5-10 seconds after clearing out some of that shattered glass.
As far as I can tell from the article, this only affects business students in the school. Judging from that, I'm guessing someone in the department was keeping a few spreadsheets or something of that nature around on a public windows share. This strikes me as far more of a careless employee problem than a truly insecure infrastructure problem. Thus, comments about CERT may be a bit premature.
True, but how long would it have taken to write a program that scans for SS#'s that are in insecure areas?
Not only that, their firewall should have noticed SS#'s being transmitted to the outside. Norton Internet Security prevents my personal SS# from being transmitted even if someone else is using my computer and tries to send it. Why didn't they implement something like this especially with CERT there?
p2p saved the internet, as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, it kept the general public from noticing all of the quality file sharing going on in USENET and dropping in to mess it all up.
First time I ever saw a miniature outside of Warhammer context was that HeroQuest boardgame. The first five or six years I roleplayed, it was pen and paper and books (hence "pen and paper RPGs" not "miniatures and paper RPGs"). And I'm pretty young--so careful how you throw around "traditionally" d^_^b.
Holy smokes, I feel old. We played D&D in a sandbox in the backyard back in the day. Then they came out with this fancy pencil and paper stuff around '75 (if this old brain remembers correctly).
I didn't see pencil and paper PLUS miniatures until we formed a D&D club in junior high. We were given a $50 allowance per month from the school. Then, the big 'D&D IS SATANIC' scare rolled (cough) through and the school disbanded us.
Thankfully, they were so terrorized by the hoax that they let us keep everything we bought for almost 2 years.
We did put the miniatures back on a shelf though. Pencil and paper were back in style and the backyard, well, the rules got much too complicated by that point.
Anyway, t even 20+ years later, I 'traditionally' still see a lot people playing with just pencil and paper.
It took a good couple of seconds to work out that the Boy Scouts Association of America was unlikely to have armed marshalls . . .
There are indeed BSA Armed w/Marshmellows (flaming hot, it's not fun to be on the other end of one of those suckers!)
Not if they're manboobs.
Are we talking high caliber?
Dearie me, yesterday's news for nerds indeed - architects have been using these systems for at least a few years now
I saw a lot of Real Life use of it in Japan and that was more than 5 years ago.
People tend to get suspicious of strangers pointing gunlike objects around their neighborhood.
Not generally on the West Coast in high density areas from my experience.
That's why women being raped there are encouraged to scream 'fire' instead of 'rape'.
People there generally try to get away from uncontrollable dangerous situations where guns/violence are involved and try to brain-wash themselves into believing that not getting involved is a Good Thing.
With a fire, it's something different. It's easy enough to gauge the safe distance from it and yet 'participate' in the event.
That's why a woman being raped and screames 'fire' is much more likely to get help than one who screams 'rape'.
To use GAIM, you still have to sign up for an AIM account. To sign up for an AIM account, you have to click the TOS.
Actually, I signed into AIM's network using my ICQ # and passphrase.
This was back when rumors were running that the networks would be combined. Surprisingly enough, I was able to log in without having to go through any new TOS agreements.
YMMV: I don't know if it is still possible to log into AIM with an ICQ # and passphrase.