Because we don't send people to life terms, or subject them to death/dismemberment, for stealing said cars some people feel that it's worth the risk to do so.
If that were the case, then Texas would have zero homicides, since it is the hangingest state in the union.
That is the crux of the matter. States are going after this because they see easy money. With the decline of land-lines, they are possibly losing some tax revinue (consider that when you travel, do you pay taxes where you are physically located?).
I have a basic land line, no frills, no caller ID, no nothing, for which I pay $11 base rate and $16 in taxes and fees. I imagine that it is only a matter of time before cell phone taxes and fees achieve the same proportion to base cost. Like you, I use a calling card for all long distance calls to avoid the tax and fee hit from the long-distance carrier.
You're wrong, dude. Werner von Braum was born in Omaha, NE; his great grandparents immigrated from Boston, MA during the Great Covered Wagon Migration of 1923. I saw it on Fox.
There is one thing: you don't have a choice from here on out thanks to Microsoft's Windows Desktop Product Life Cycle Support and Availability Policies for Consumers. Once XP end of lifes there are no more activations, so if your computer crashes or you upgrade enough of your hardware then you have an expensive coaster instead of an OS CD.
Think you'll upgrade then? What about your mom?
If you are on NT or W2k, you have some time, but consider that although NT EOLs in June, 2004 and Wk2 EOLs in March, 2008, it is doubtful that patches will be written for W2K for much longer--NT is dead as far as patches are concerned; anyone who still runs NT can go pound sand for all the support they're going to get.
Ching, ching! Bling, bling! -- that's the sound of money flowing into Bill Gate$'s pockets.
So you've got a dud system that's wasting police time.
Because it is technology, it is "magic" and therefore above reproach.
If this were anything that the dullard politicians could understand, like a sewage treatment plant, highway construction project, or new jail, they would have the vendor bused up on fraud and racketeering charges faster than you could say, "Pig in a Poke."
Is that why the last three versions of the Word, PowerPoint, and Excel formats haven't changed?
Uh-huh.
What about the rest of the Office "family"? Both Access. and Project have changed file formats. Sure you can downgrade when you save your files as previous versions, but you lose many of the features that are available in the newer version -- essentially crippling your software.
Why did you spend $500 for crippled software again?
The last, most compelling reason why you must upgrade is that when your copy of office hits the End-of-Life (c)(r)(tm) stage, then you can kiss support, PATCHES and tools goodbye. Hope you didn't need a security patch for your software, 'cause it is EOL'd. Sucker.
if you actually were competent, then you would only have to work 8 hours like everyone else. nothing screams "loser" louder than some jerkwad barkin how he puts in so many hours, so he should get props. listen, pal: your job is going to be outsourced to some kid currently squatting in a mud hole, becuase that kid can do your job in 1/2 the time for twenty cents on the dollar. maybe if you put in some more overtime, your boss will forget you work there, huh?
Cracking security on a PDF file is ridiculously easy. Using exiting software (software that happens to be designed for other purposes), it would take you about 2 minutes max to crack all the restrictions on a "protected" PDF, leaving it wide open.
Unfortunately, thanks to 1201 (b)(1)(B)--i.e., the DMCA---you'll have to figure out the "how" part on your own.
The War on Terror is a PR exercise to justify a 'forward-leaning' expansionist foreign policy.
Interesting, as the powers that be stand to gain much $$$ from the new "security" implementations required to wage the WOT (cf, "War on Drugs").
We are very, very lucky in that the terrorists are a magnitude level higher in stupidity than the government and apparently much more incompetent. Consider that with CAPPS II, it is actually quite easy to circumvent the system and get on the plane. The fact that the terrorists haven't exploited our monumental security holes leads me to believe
They are incredibly stupid, or
There is something else occupying their time or they are laying low for now
Most likely, it is a combination of the two.
The government cannot protect you from terrorists.
The mastermind behind the anthrax attack(s) springs to mind -- this guy (or gal) is still out there, boys & girls, and so far s/he got away with it. Think about the Unabomber -- he only got caught because his brother (not the govt) recognized his writing.
When exactly are you "uploading a file" in this process?
Good god, man! Don't try to bring your technical mumbo-jumbo into it!
Next thing you're going to say is that technically the Internet is a P2P network, since all of the OSI layers except for Application are the same. So now "uploading" "copyrighted" "files" to the "Internet" is a "crime."
What you're saying is almost the same as going into a shop, picking up a chocolate bar, walking out (without paying) and then sharing it with your friend. In what way is that ``good'' (apart from free chocolate...;)?
Well, let's see. The chocolate bar is still in the store when you walk out. The store can still sell that bar to someone else. Actually, the chocolate bar isn't even in the store. Johnny bought it, then made you a copy. The store owner still got his $20 for that bar of chocolate. He got nothing from you, because he hasn't figured out how to sell the same bar of chocolate twice (other than repackaging it and calling it "new, better chocolate!").
Sorry, ClubStew, but PDF is one of the easiest formats to crack.
Prevented from printing? Ha. Can't cut & paste text? Hardly.
Anyone who can run a DOS batch file can break PDF "security" in under a few minutes. Thanks to Title 17, Ch 12, 1201 (DCMA), I can't tell you how this vulnerability can be exploited, so you'll have to figure it out for yourself.
The problem with ZFSs is that they can be broken easily. Here's one way to do it:
Create a 67 meg ASCII file with nothing but a single repeating character. Here's an three line command-line (DOS) batch file to do it:
echo aaaaa > punkd.txt
for/l %%b in (0,1,11) do copy/y punkd.txt + punkd.txt punkd1.txt && copy/y punkd1.txt + punkd1.txt punkd.txt
del punkd.txt
(note that the second line is long and may wrap on your display)
Run the batch and copy off "punkd1.txt" to another name.
Make several copies of the file.
Zip them all into your "package 'o death." Due to the simple structure of the file, it will zip down quite a bit (close to 99%) if you use maximum compression.
Deliver the package to your victim.
When the ZFS tries to unpack the files to scan them, it blows its swap space.
I am currently serving time in the South, and that means Bud Light, Miller Lite, and Pabst Blue Ribbon are the majority swill here. If I am lucky, I can get some interesting brews in the local supermarket (usually when Enis messes up the monthly ordering at the Piggly Wiggly over on Rural Route 17).
Well, fool, I did some work with writing a bunch of demo apps for Quarterdeck, QCd QEMM and DV/X, worked with the PNG in Symantec, etc., etc., but all that doesn't mean CRAP now, because that technology is dead old, just like Mosaic. There were some grand old ideas for DV/X, but they don't mean much more than a pinch-o-Owlscat now, huh?
Oh, but he's the `god of http,' so if he says that he had some grand idea for browsers (which, as the other AC pointed out, he didn't invent by himself in a vacuum), then he must be dah bomb! Never mind the other poor schlubs who actually wrote the code, improved it, and continue to improve it today, not some old washed up has-been with stories about ``the good old days of 1995.''
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I have a basic land line, no frills, no caller ID, no nothing, for which I pay $11 base rate and $16 in taxes and fees. I imagine that it is only a matter of time before cell phone taxes and fees achieve the same proportion to base cost. Like you, I use a calling card for all long distance calls to avoid the tax and fee hit from the long-distance carrier.
You're wrong, dude. Werner von Braum was born in Omaha, NE; his great grandparents immigrated from Boston, MA during the Great Covered Wagon Migration of 1923. I saw it on Fox.
I find it highly unlikely that my mom will be willing---let alone, able---to install a cracked version of anything... :0
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Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been $ERROR: Out of heap
Think you'll upgrade then? What about your mom?
If you are on NT or W2k, you have some time, but consider that although NT EOLs in June, 2004 and Wk2 EOLs in March, 2008, it is doubtful that patches will be written for W2K for much longer--NT is dead as far as patches are concerned; anyone who still runs NT can go pound sand for all the support they're going to get.
Ching, ching! Bling, bling! -- that's the sound of money flowing into Bill Gate$'s pockets.
If this were anything that the dullard politicians could understand, like a sewage treatment plant, highway construction project, or new jail, they would have the vendor bused up on fraud and racketeering charges faster than you could say, "Pig in a Poke."
What about the rest of the Office "family"? Both Access. and Project have changed file formats. Sure you can downgrade when you save your files as previous versions, but you lose many of the features that are available in the newer version -- essentially crippling your software.
Why did you spend $500 for crippled software again?
The last, most compelling reason why you must upgrade is that when your copy of office hits the End-of-Life (c)(r)(tm) stage, then you can kiss support, PATCHES and tools goodbye. Hope you didn't need a security patch for your software, 'cause it is EOL'd. Sucker.
However, if you allow the user one burn, then #2 is immediately void, and #4 & #5 become irrelevant.
if you actually were competent, then you would only have to work 8 hours like everyone else. nothing screams "loser" louder than some jerkwad barkin how he puts in so many hours, so he should get props. listen, pal: your job is going to be outsourced to some kid currently squatting in a mud hole, becuase that kid can do your job in 1/2 the time for twenty cents on the dollar. maybe if you put in some more overtime, your boss will forget you work there, huh?
Unfortunately, thanks to 1201 (b)(1)(B)--i.e., the DMCA---you'll have to figure out the "how" part on your own.
We are very, very lucky in that the terrorists are a magnitude level higher in stupidity than the government and apparently much more incompetent. Consider that with CAPPS II, it is actually quite easy to circumvent the system and get on the plane. The fact that the terrorists haven't exploited our monumental security holes leads me to believe
- They are incredibly stupid, or
- There is something else occupying their time or they are laying low for now
Most likely, it is a combination of the two.The mastermind behind the anthrax attack(s) springs to mind -- this guy (or gal) is still out there, boys & girls, and so far s/he got away with it. Think about the Unabomber -- he only got caught because his brother (not the govt) recognized his writing.Next thing you're going to say is that technically the Internet is a P2P network, since all of the OSI layers except for Application are the same. So now "uploading" "copyrighted" "files" to the "Internet" is a "crime."
Prevented from printing? Ha. Can't cut & paste text? Hardly.
Anyone who can run a DOS batch file can break PDF "security" in under a few minutes. Thanks to Title 17, Ch 12, 1201 (DCMA), I can't tell you how this vulnerability can be exploited, so you'll have to figure it out for yourself.
- Create a 67 meg ASCII file with nothing but a single repeating character. Here's an three line command-line (DOS) batch file to do it:
- Run the batch and copy off "punkd1.txt" to another name.
- Make several copies of the file.
- Zip them all into your "package 'o death." Due to the simple structure of the file, it will zip down quite a bit (close to 99%) if you use maximum compression.
- Deliver the package to your victim.
When the ZFS tries to unpack the files to scan them, it blows its swap space.(note that the second line is long and may wrap on your display)
Ahh inorganic chem, what fine memories it brings:
I am currently serving time in the South, and that means Bud Light, Miller Lite, and Pabst Blue Ribbon are the majority swill here. If I am lucky, I can get some interesting brews in the local supermarket (usually when Enis messes up the monthly ordering at the Piggly Wiggly over on Rural Route 17).
Well, fool, I did some work with writing a bunch of demo apps for Quarterdeck, QCd QEMM and DV/X, worked with the PNG in Symantec, etc., etc., but all that doesn't mean CRAP now, because that technology is dead old, just like Mosaic. There were some grand old ideas for DV/X, but they don't mean much more than a pinch-o-Owlscat now, huh?
Oh, but he's the `god of http,' so if he says that he had some grand idea for browsers (which, as the other AC pointed out, he didn't invent by himself in a vacuum), then he must be dah bomb! Never mind the other poor schlubs who actually wrote the code, improved it, and continue to improve it today, not some old washed up has-been with stories about ``the good old days of 1995.''
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Fortunately, his mates that did are still working on browsers...
All together now: WASHED UP