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  1. Re:one word... on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Try this senario, I'm crossing the boarder with my laptop, someone with the same name as me is an EvilTerrorist(TM) being watched. In the back room they slip in a Knoppix cd and dd my harddrive out through the ethernet port. Of course they quickly figure out that I'm the wrong guy so what do they do, the honorable thing is to dump all that data, the human thing is to be embarassed and go fishing for some dirt. At least with encryption it'll cost them some effort to be human instead of honorable.

  2. Re:And Hopefully... on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1

    At least with physical effects, there is indications that a search has been conducted, with a computer or electronic communication there is no indication of a search and that is what's really creeping me out. I think it's time for all of us to get serious about using encryption in our Emails and for files on our computer; at least that way they would have to ask or at least install a key-logger. This would be enough to stop casual fishing exibitions, and make sure there was a degree of reasonableness to the searches if for no other reason the the effort involved.

  3. Re:At that point, the Constitution may fail us on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1

    So how that different from now?

  4. Re:At that point, the Constitution may fail us on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you implying that we should have universal military service like Switzerland and Israel? That would keep the militia organized and well regulated.

  5. Re:SpamAssassin still works on Spam is Back With A Vengence · · Score: 1

    http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net -abuse.sightings/topics should give anybody enough to get the filters educated real fast.

  6. Re:Obviously, on Google's Sinister(?) Plans · · Score: 1

    Google Music! Hire a bunch of talented musicians and composers, use their immence power to make sure the music is what people actually want and offer it for free and allow it to be distributed freely! Instant bandwidth shortage.

  7. Re:Or how about... on Google's Sinister(?) Plans · · Score: 1

    Cringley didn't even say that the poster did; all cringley said is google is buying a little and leasing a lot and some-guy he knows that brokers bandwidth is getting pitched between the elephants. The problem is most companies in America think strategic planning is 1 to 2 years out, google thinks more like an electric utility or a petro-chem and for them strategic is 10-20 years.

  8. Re:I've been saying for a while now on Google's Sinister(?) Plans · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why it's a google problem, there's a bandwidth crunch coming no doubt about it. The ISPs, the backbones, and everybody in between have been selling a whole thing and knowing that people are only going to use the thing 1% of the time so they sold the same thing a hundred times; now people are using more and more of what they are paying for. Something got to give, whether it'll be an abrupt brittle break, or something less damaging and elastic is the question, but one thing is beyond question is that Google's profits depend on having lot's of bandwidth available and they have a responsibility to the stakeholders. When the dust settles it will not be a question of whether google was evil or not, it'll be why all the other clowns didn't see it coming too.

    I once read that every building in NYC was with in 100 feet of an optical fiber, and a company was offering to connect those dots to the lines, but the kicker was the actually cost to make the connections at OC3 speeds and at OC768 speeds was pretty small. Now I'm like most people and when I think about what I could do when two offices are connected at backbone speeds I'm not sure, but I do know that once I start trying I wouldn't go back. I'm not sure how much more expensive it is to push 254 lambdas through a single fiber than it is to push 1 lambda, but any ISP that isn't working toward it and aren't building massive proxy systems are either going to be out of business or buying the services from somebody like Goggle.

  9. Re:MAFIAA on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 1

    OK now it's clear as mud, these are more like what we did in the old days with our real to reals we called them party tapes. No wonder the RIAA is going ballistic, in a world where they are conditioning us sheople to buy CDs with one or two listenable tracks per, these guys are selling 13; quick grab your BFG 9000, it's fragfest time!

  10. Re:Confusing on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 1

    He was busted on a RICO charge, FTA DJ Drama (whose real name is Tyree Simmons) and Mr. Cannon were each charged with a felony violation of Georgia's Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization law(known as RICO) and held on $100,000 bond. in other words the gangstra was busted for being a gangster!

  11. Re:MAFIAA on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 1
    In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include --

    (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

    (2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

    (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

    (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

    A reasonable argument could be made that the remixes of copyrighted works is actually a fair-use; it would depend on exactly how the remix was done and the whims of a judge or jury. If the mix consisted of small musical phrases rather than whole or large portions of songs and how the portions were tied together a fair use arguement could be credible
  12. Re:why so onerous, technology, redux on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 2, Funny

    None of the artists complained, most likely the artists don't own any of the rights to their music other than performance rights The real reason for the police involvement is.it give them some credability, you can only sue so many 12 year old boys and 90 year old grandmothers before you lose street cred.

  13. Re:why so onerous, technology, redux on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone who knows anything about hiphop knows a guy like DJ Drama didn't use any material without permission.
    Just because the artists who wrote and preformed the material gives permission either literally or implied doesn't mean the owner of the rights to duplicate and distribute gave permission; a lot of these artists are going to find that they have sold their souls to the devil and that they didn't even bother to read the contract.

  14. Re:why so onerous, technology, redux on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 1

    Well its just that when promotional materials get distributed, the RIAA wants to be able to deduct the $16.95 from the artists share of the record profits; with independant mixes they can't.

  15. Re: 95 miles altitude is space..Way Cool on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    no orbit is when the surface drops away from the object at the same rate as the object falls. Put another way a object in orbit is in free-fall, the railgun just needs enough power to accellerate the object to a velocity sufficient for orbit plus enough for wind resistance or 8 Km/S plus air resistance.

  16. Re:For me.... on After 100M IE7 Downloads, Firefox Still Gaining · · Score: 1

    That would make me crazy, when the network light starts flashing for no apparent reason I worry about trojans.

  17. Re:For me.... on After 100M IE7 Downloads, Firefox Still Gaining · · Score: 1

    You can't self close tags such as /> in html only in xtml; well the browser usually doesn't care but it wouldn't validate at W3C

  18. Re:For me.... on After 100M IE7 Downloads, Firefox Still Gaining · · Score: 1

    When I installed Mozilla on the wifes WinXP, it imported all the MSIE bookmarks automagically and placed them in a folder called "imported Internet Explorer bookmarks"(or something similar), all the flash, shockwave and acroreder crap was already used by MSIE so it didn't need to be installed either. The hardest part was getting her used to tabbed browsing.

  19. Re:statutory rape on Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives · · Score: 1
    I think the line is pretty much 13 anymore, once your 13 you can be tried as an adult. Locally we had 3 kids who got tired of being bullied at school and made up a fantasy revenge plan; were going to
    1. steal a car,
    2. drive 3 miles out of town to rob a gun store that was built like Fort Knox
    3. who's alarm system is answered by the sheriff in like 3 minutes, the State police take about 10
    4. steal some guns and ammo
    5. go to school and kill about 20 kids
    6. Live happily ever-after

    well some girl overheard them and turned them in, and of course the cops found the "hit list" and now they are going to be in juvie until they're 18, luckily they were 11 and 12, if they had been 13 they could havbe been treid as adults and probably would have done some prison time after they turned 18
  20. Re:Save me from my internets on Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What really rots your socks is he could have had a picture of a girl 17 and older than him, flashing her tits, and not only would it be child porn, but they could easily try the 16 year old as an adult!

  21. Re:Too late - get south of the equator... on Comet McNaught Visible in Broad Daylight · · Score: 1

    Actually they're surprised that the comet is so visible in daylight and visible when it's so close to the sun.

  22. Re:car mechanics do it too on Is A Bad Attitude Damaging The IT Profession? · · Score: 1

    Fuckin A they hate cutting on fat people, more skin to cut/suture and burst open later, more adipose tissue to sort through to find the structures involved, infection rates and other complications are much higher and the condition is at least partially voluntary; try fixing a computer full of viruses and spyware with out being able to take out the viruses and spyware, and the customer will sue you if it doesn't work like new.

  23. Re:Funny, but lame on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 2, Informative

    the error if memory serves me correctly is about 1 in 1000, so when your shoot a mortar 4500 meters it'll be of 4.5m which is insignificant since the burst is 35m, usually the wind will blow it off that much. You're defiantly correct for long-range stuff like missiles, for artillery we were basically shooting from an estimated position to an other estimated position, and corrects being given from a third estimated position. You have to realize that I'm an old fart, and we did it all manually with a pencil, paper, map and a firing table; now a days they got digital computers, laser range finders and GPS so they had better be able to drop steel in your back pocket with one round.

  24. Re:Rabbit Starvation on Giant Rabbits To Feed North Korea · · Score: 1

    You don't worry about rabbit starvation when you're eating grass and tree bark.

  25. Re:Seems like a make-work project... on Giant Rabbits To Feed North Korea · · Score: 1

    No we don't, you just have to mix things up your legumes, grains and a bit of diary makes things easier but aren't necessary. Basically eating what we call Mexican food without meat would be pretty good.