He would set up his most devastating hacking scripts and make them activatable by a modem listening on a dedicated phone line. And all you need to launch the attack is a phone call to a specific number. Of course, Kevin was actually a pretty different character but the authorities didn't really have any way of verifying that this was the case.
That is exactly the sort of thing he did, repeatedly.
Outlaws have always attracted support from the gullible who want to romanticize their behaviors. The fact is that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were both brutal murderers, same for Bonnie and Clyde. Mitnick didn't kill people but he did his best to make life very unpleasant for a lot of people.
The point is that a person arrested for making harassing telephone calls does not get to use their telephone call to call their victim. There is no right to a telephone call, only to have someone contacted which can be on your behalf if the police choose.
Ironically enough most of the chief engineers/scientist for that achievement were not Americans but Germans. As soon as they started dying off the US has not gone back to put more "flags.":)
By the time of the moon shot the original von Braun people who did the V2 had mostly been replaced with Brits. The moon shot is often described as German technology, British brains and American money.
Of course the money was the most difficult part.
It would be amusing if someone set up a robot mission to go pick up some of the flags left behind, didn't the astronauts bring back their colours with them?
Right, because football players certainly don't train in the offseason or practice when they're not in games.
And spend half the game at least sitting on their butts having a rest. If you want a real sport try soccer.
Seriously folks I don't care whether F1 is a sport or not, I can think of nothing more boring than 'sports' like weightlifting or running where the full extent of the intellectual activity is the athlete's strategy for avoiding the drug testing regime.
American football and MLB have both been ruined by rules set up to squeeze as many ad breaks in as possible, the only way those sports are now watchable is using a tivo. Booorrrrrinnngg.
Golf has become moderately interesting now that the stakes are so ridiculous. If someone told you that you would win a million dollars if you could putt from 12 inches the chance of you making the shot is close to zero. These guys can do that from 10 yards.
Tennis on the other hand is plain silly. Even the women are now turning it into a service only game.
Schumacher couldn't beat Hakkinen for the championship when the Ferrari was the slower car. Although it was impressive when he won the championships in the less powerful Benetton Ford V8.
Yes, but the better driver usually ends up with the better car. Schumacher won many races despite not having the best car on the grid, at Benneton and later at Ferrari. Every driver on the grid knows that Schumacher is by far the best driver there.
Drivers can also have a huge effect on their teams. The main reason that Ferrari turned itself from a stereotypically disorganized Italian outfit into the dominant team is Schumacher.
Sure you don't have a chance in F1 unless you can raise at least $250 million a year, Ferrari raise much more.
The problem with the SSL approach of use SHA+MD5 is that they are both essentially the same algorithm with only minor differences. Both were extensions of MD4 with an extra round added and both share the same constant tables. SHA-1 has an extra feature added that makes it a lot harder to use the current round of cracking techniques. So I doubt that there is likely to be a case where SHA1 is broken and MD5 is not.
A much better approach would be to use SHA-2, aka SHA-256, & SHA-512 which have much better all round properties.
This is probably what the industry will end up adopting in time but at this point everyone has pretty much stopped using MD5 except in carefully controlled and understood applications. One of the issues that folk often miss is that one of the reasons CAs invest money in high physical security is so that the strength of their crypto is NOT their last line of defense. There are still a lot of applications that simply cannot use anything other than MD5, it would be good if folk upgraded but simply turning off the crypto will not have the desired effect, they will simply run with no security.
At this point the compromises are a long long way from enabling a criminal attack. This is where there is a tension between complacency and common sense. Nobody need lay awake at night worrying about the strength of MD5, even MD4 which has been 'broken' for a decade has still not been broken to the point where someone can take a signed document and work out how to alter it. A forger CAN produce two documents with the same hash but that is not quite the same thing.
On the other hand people should not think that they can use Md5 forever. Now is a good time to start the transition. Its a bit like Y2K, there is no necessity for a catastrophe if there is planning.
The price is probably not that bad since the machine is probably actually manufactured in the faqr east in a currency that is dollar pegged.
Otherwise you are probably right about the decline in the dollar's value. The Dufus deficit is huge, structural and growing. Wars cost money, lots of it. This is the first war in US history that was accompanied by tax cuts. Expect a major currency meltdown in the next 18 months or so.
On the subject of the hush PC, I think it looks pretty cute. it is a real pity that so very few PC makers have tried to follow the Apple lead of producing a high end designer PC rather than commodity trash. On the other hand it is almost ten times what I just paid for a new Dell...
I'm so tired of this.
The labels in the UK just announced they've had their best earnings ever. US music labels have increased revenue even while decreasing the quantity (and quality) of releases. If anyone is getting ripped off, its the consumers NOT the music companies.
I never said that the record companies are not ripping off consumers. Clearly they are, the DVD zone scheme is simply a criminal price fixing scheme to artificially keep the prices of DVDs high in Europe. The labels have had a wrist slap for price fixing in the US and at the same time they were facing Napster they were also trying to steal artists returned rights
But regardless of whether this makes it moraly ok to rip off the record companies in return taking their copyright material without intending to pay for it is still ripping them off. You can pretend otherwise but that is what it is. If you were an honest theif there would be no need for the self-deception.
The honesty of the companies that are trying to make a buck helping you to rip off the record companies will in no way be improved if the record companies are also dishonest.
Skype uses 256-bit encryption, so the only easy way to intercept this kind of voice data would be to do it before it is encrypted by bundling Skype in an evil wrapper application like say... KAZAA
256 bit encryption does not mean guaranteed secure, the crypto has to be done right..
But you have a good point about Kazaa, companies that make software whose primary purpose is helping folk to rip off copyright holders may be popular with the folk who they help but tend to be 'ethically challenged' in other ways. The peer to peer companies have long worked hand in hand with spyware peddlers.
Its like the folk who elect a government who preaches self interest and are then surprised when they govern for their own personal self interest not the folk who voted for them.
That's what I thought, but keep in mind that in another EU country you can get arrested for publicly supporting certain political parties. Namely, in Germany it's against the law to be part of certain neo-nazi ideologies and holocaust denial.
Those laws are somewhat more justified and understandable given that the NAZI party murdered between eight and ten million people directly through the concentration camps and death camps and was responsible for upwards of twenty million addition deaths by starting WWII. It is the old liberal paradox of whether it is justified to supress the speech of those wanting to supress all freedoms. I don't beleive that there is a normative right to promote such views but agree with Mill that doing so is generally counter-productive. The PKK is a separatist movement that has faced a very oppressive government. I don't think that attempting to censor discussion of the PKK will in any way improve the situation.
The main reason that there is a Kurdish separatist movement is the repression of the Kurdish people by the Turkish government. Some folk will remember Hasan B-) Mutlu the USENET spammer who used a Perl script to drown out any mention of the Turkish massacre of Armenian civilians during WW I with spam. The posts were sent by a Turkish intelligence agent and stopped after he was deported from the US. The objective was to supress discussion of the Armenian massacre during one of the many crises in the Global Balkans where Turkey, Armenia, Russia etc were at odds.
I don't think that there is anyone involved who thinks Turkey currently meets the criteria for EU membership. But that is not the question. What people are asking is whether EU membership would lead to the human rights abuses being ended and avoid another military dictatorship.
In the end the question is pretty much up to Greece. They have the right to veto Turkey joining the EU if they choose to but at present seem to be thinking they would rather have Turkey in than out because they would prefer to be next to an improving democracy rather than a military dictatorship.
Sun is trying to substitute their own interests for the wisdom and preferences of their end users. They are churning out one API after another, but users have no choice but to build on what Sun ships; even if there were alternative implementations, users would still be forced to accept whatever garbage Sun and the JCP dream up.
The reason many people don't equate this with Microsoft tactics is that Microsoft hatred is all about protecting the value of guild crafts and nothing about principle. Windows hatred is simply the modern equivalent of the hatred the Cobol and Fortran camps had of C. The future really hurts when it threatens to make your own skills obsolete.
On Java it was Sun who were being the evil proprietary monopolists. Their objective was to reduce every platform to the level of Solaris, leveling down, not up. Suns approach was "If you dare do anything that I can't I'll sue you."
Java could have been the future of computing but there is no way that any company, let alone a declining company like Sun can be trusted with the complete control they demand. The chances of Sun ending up in a SCO like position in five years time are significant.
I disagree. I think, most people, bought Tivo for its timeshifting and season pass features. Are commercials really so bad?
Irrelevant what you bought it for, its what the people who are complaining bought it for that is the issue.
I never trusted Tivo, always hated their grasping business plan. Now it is going to come back and bite them (Tivo) in the patootzee. All those people on Tivo subscriptions are going to make their views known.
I pay for my satelite TV, I dont give a wetcrap what ABC's advertisers want to show me, I don't want to see it. If they are paying for that ad well more fool them.
The business model will rebalance. If the idiots in Congress try to outlaw ad skipping then they will see a major 'throw the bastards out' movement in 2006.
As anyone who read my arguments that Napster was an obscene company knows I don't beleive in something for nothing. Sure the content owners will need to be paid. But they don't have the right or the ability to decide how.
Someone has to pay the salaries of the players that play against your beloved BoSox. Else there would be no league, no games, and no reason for BoSox to exist
Baseball players are not paid 'salaries' they are paid obscene amounts of money. There would be plenty of players if they were paid less, say a million a season rather than per month.
I have Dish TV, if they decided to force banner ads onto me then I would immediately switch to another carrier.
Besides 80% of the ads I see are for a quack sliming medicine for $139 a bottle and the bowflex extercise machine whose current front guy who is implied to have slimmed down from 300lb using bowflex actually got that way through a gastric bypass, liposuction and a tummy tuck. If the bowflex guys were a little smarter they would not have advertised on the documentary of their front guy having the major surgery etc.
Lets see how many weeks it is before Tivo folds on this one. I think it will not be long.
. In the early 90s newspapers had to pay damages to the Birmingham Six after they quoted former members of the West Midlands police as saying: "In our eyes their guilt is beyond doubt."
This is a bad example to use. Ordinarily reporting conviction for a crime is not libel under English law. The exception is when the person making the statement had reason to believe that the conviction is false. There were a whole heap of circumstances in that case, the newspapers were actively campaigning against review of the cases - a very different matter.
US law is not very different when it comes to reporting rumor. The big difference is that public figures are subject to a much stricter standard. When Matt Drudge published a blatant libel against Siddney Blumenthal, passing on a GOP smear that could have been checked in minutes and found to be untrue Blumenthal was unable to bring a case.
The point about publication of rumours being libel is that if some crank comes in off the street and says that George W. Bush is a member of a secret society that worships a pagan goddess called Eulogia and the rumor is not generally known then publishing it in Time magazine or Newseweek would mean that millions now know about it. Fortunately it is safe to say it on Slashdot because it happens to be true.
I don't think that the problem with the QL was the 8 bit bus, at the time nobody was doing true 32 bit, even the IBM PC was 16. The real problems were the crappy graphics - only 4 fixed colours in hi res, the choice of the microdrive as the storage medium and the fact that it was over a year late.
The root of the problems was that Sinclair went overboard on cheap, with the QL people wanted a $3000 computer for $800, he decided to go for $600 and in the process just made everything a bit too cheap. A real keyboard and a real disk drive would not have added much to the cost. A decent graphics architecture ditto.
The machine only had 128K which would not have been a problem if memory expansion had ever come available, it never did. The single chip integration wafer flopped.
Not long after ATARI came out with the 520ST which was everything the QL was not. I paid the same for my ATARI, monitor and disk drive as the QL had cost me and not much later.
The thing about the car was not the financial hit, it was a separate company. It was the credibility loss he suffered, the shoemobile was just plain silly.
Oh, come on, it's not fair to lambast Chicago like that, there voter fraud is more in the nature of a sport anymore, rather than a malicious attempt to derail the political process.
The fraud in Chicago was matched by GOP fraud in rural areas. One reason why neither state party wanted to allow Tricky Dicky's proxy demands for investigations.
Today the fraud is committed by Jeb Bush who ordered the use of a fellons list that he had been told was blatantly inaccurate.
Even Tricky Dick Nixon conceded in 1960 rather than send the country down such a slippery slope.
Actually thats not the case. Tricky Dicky did make an effort to contest the vote through a bunch of proxy committees, but it was totally pointless because narrow as the popular vote was the electoral college was not close at all and Nixon had to get multiple states votes reversed to get in.
The big difference between 1960 and 2000 was that in 2000 Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris were in control of the election count and made every move they could to prevent the legitimate requests for recounts.
So far 75% of the slashdot coverage has been about third party issues and 20% about actual voting mechanics. Perhaps they could make an effort to give a bit more attention to third party candidates whose names are largely unknown by ignoring the major parties entirely.
The networks are not interested in covering the major party platforms, why on earth would they have the slightest interest in parties with less than 1% of the vote? As far as the networks are concerned its all about whether Kerry has the better haircut or Bush is being controlled by aliens via the control box bump on his back.
Perhaps if slashdot wanted to actually pay a positive contribution here they could start a debate about education say and give the third party supporters a chance to say why their position is better.
At least we could have a discussion about issues. Listening to third party candidates whine and moan about not being treated with respect frankly does not interest me in the slightest. There is plenty of time to do that after the election. If you want to be taken seriously during the election as anything other than a protest vote you had better be ready to talk issues.
Having had to deal with the SS directly on Presidential security (and I don't care if they don't appreciate the term, it's a First Amendment right I'm exercising here, and the shoe fits!) when I ran a restaurant and Clinton stopped by, I can tell you point blank that's wrong.
Ah so your experience would be from one interaction on one instance rather than working with the Secret Service over a period of many years as I have.
Federal statute places protection and security of the President and Presdiential candidates under SS coverage and SUPERCEDES any local jurisdiction.
That does not mean that local police have no role. In fact most of the security is provided by the local police. The Secret Service is not a large agency and it does a lot more than protect the President. They absolutely depend on local police for an event of the scale of the debates to provide the first tier perimeter security and in many cases second tier.
On a college campus a person who is a threat will blend in by looking like a student, not a political candidate.
To get into the debate they try to look like an aide, organizer or other functionary. The protestors were not seriously trying to infiltrate. The pseudo-candidates by your account were.
4 PM MDT, and the judge said afterwards that a fax was perfectly fine, and that is in accordacne with most state laws anyway.
If the papers had been served then the pseudo-candidates had no place at the debate on the spurious grounds they were serving papers. You admit that they were there for no other purpose than to grandstand and to get arrested.
In case you hadn't heard, and you probalby haven't, since you seem to selectivley filter things to fit your flawed microcosm, the hearing is on, and scheduled for 9 AM Tuesday,
Too damn right I filter out irrelevant data. There is absolutely no point to the hearing because the debate has been held. There is absolutely no chance of either candidate being forced onto the schedule at Tempe. It has never happened in the past despite the fact that the non-entity parties have tried this garbage every time.
If he decides for the CPD the appeal will be immediate to the AZ Supreme Court,
Who will refuse to hear it. There is settled precedent on the matter.
Not at all. Protection of the President lies with the SS, not the local goon squad.
Actually the local police are responsible for the overall security of the debate and work WITH the Secret Service (who do not appreciate the use of the initials BTW).
At the risk of sounding like a profiler, who's the bigger threat based on their appearance: kids with bags, or guys in suits and political buttons?
The guys in suits trying to look inconspicuous. The protestors mostly organize in advance with the police.
If as you claim service had been effected there was no reason to serve any papers. There was in any case no possibility of serving papers at the time because they had expired.
I find it somewhat interesting that people would moderate down the simple statement that the judge had required the papers to be served on ALL the defendents at 4pm before the debate. Sounds to me like the Libertarians really don't want people to know the facts here.
As for the papers having been 'served' by fax. I very much doubt that counts as service in that jurisdiction without the specific permission of the court.
If there was a case to be made then the plaintifs would have got their case into court much earlier rather than deliberately waiting until the last minute.
Please, read the papers on the Liberaltarians web site. The papers clearly state that they are void unless served on ALL the defendants by 4pm on Friday of the debate. the guy was arrested at 8pm, long after the papers had expired.
You cannot perform service of expired papers. The judge had in any case set the date of the hearing AFTER the debate on the 12th and set it for exactly one hour.
Its somewhat sad that the children running slash politics spend all their time printing stories about the minor third party no hoper they support and have not bothered to even post a story on the debates themselves yet?
I wonder if you could use XMPP (Jabber) to monitor devices. Each device connects to the server like a person IMing. It can easily send a message when something bad/good happens. You can have a roster (buddy list) of the devices you want to monitor.
Almost certainly. Did you know that you can use DNS as a VOIP protocol?
Real question is whether it is any good in that mode and whether people are prepared to support that specification.
There are a couple of reasons why WS-Management is useful, the most important is that it is the only framework designed to manage Web Services first and foremost. Sure you could use it for managing the sort of stuff SNMP is used for, but thats not the big idea.
The other issue is all to do with what the future role of the IETF is going to be in this space. At this point Microsoft seem to be saying 'as little as possible' and the rest of the industry is pretty much in agreement.
Ok. I give up. How do you figure the republicans as hatemongers? I don't like them either, but I've got about 1000 good reasons that I can't truthfully describe as "hate".
In past election contests Karl Rove has performed exactly this type of trick. In one case he bugged his own campaign HQ and then 'discovered' the bug, made a media stink about it and was afterwards forced to admit he had planted the device himself.
Faux news has published two entirely fake stories about Kerry in the past two days. The first was a list of fake quotes he never made, hastily withdrawn after Josh Micah Marshall blew the whistle on them. The second was reporting quotes from 'Communists for Kerry' without mentioning to their viewers that it is a Republican parody 527.
Sure political burgalries do take place. Particularly under Republican Presidents. But you really can't rush to judgement till you have some facts to go on. Otherwise you end up having to believe the wierd shit put out by the DNC claiming that Rove faked the Bush AWOL memos.
Just watch the next two debates and think to yourself how much better off the country and the world will be when the next time you hear Bush making a speech is his concession to Kerry.
Um, you have no idea what any of the parties stand for, do you?
I know, I know. "Anyone has to be better than Bush". Alas, that seems to be about as deeply as anyone thinks about politics.
Its not what they stand for thats the problem with third parties, its the fruitcakes they tend to end up with. Ideological zealots of any stripe should not be allowed anywhere near government unless it is to keep out a worse zealot.
My preference rankings are Pragmatist, ideological zealot who is obsessive protecting civil liberties and at all costs keep out the ideological zealots who campaign on an overt hate plank (gays).
The problem with the Republican party is not just Bush, its the hate plank politics as well as the incompetence and lies.
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That is exactly the sort of thing he did, repeatedly.
Outlaws have always attracted support from the gullible who want to romanticize their behaviors. The fact is that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were both brutal murderers, same for Bonnie and Clyde. Mitnick didn't kill people but he did his best to make life very unpleasant for a lot of people.
The point is that a person arrested for making harassing telephone calls does not get to use their telephone call to call their victim. There is no right to a telephone call, only to have someone contacted which can be on your behalf if the police choose.
By the time of the moon shot the original von Braun people who did the V2 had mostly been replaced with Brits. The moon shot is often described as German technology, British brains and American money.
Of course the money was the most difficult part.
It would be amusing if someone set up a robot mission to go pick up some of the flags left behind, didn't the astronauts bring back their colours with them?
And spend half the game at least sitting on their butts having a rest. If you want a real sport try soccer.
Seriously folks I don't care whether F1 is a sport or not, I can think of nothing more boring than 'sports' like weightlifting or running where the full extent of the intellectual activity is the athlete's strategy for avoiding the drug testing regime.
American football and MLB have both been ruined by rules set up to squeeze as many ad breaks in as possible, the only way those sports are now watchable is using a tivo. Booorrrrrinnngg.
Golf has become moderately interesting now that the stakes are so ridiculous. If someone told you that you would win a million dollars if you could putt from 12 inches the chance of you making the shot is close to zero. These guys can do that from 10 yards.
Tennis on the other hand is plain silly. Even the women are now turning it into a service only game.
Yes, but the better driver usually ends up with the better car. Schumacher won many races despite not having the best car on the grid, at Benneton and later at Ferrari. Every driver on the grid knows that Schumacher is by far the best driver there.
Drivers can also have a huge effect on their teams. The main reason that Ferrari turned itself from a stereotypically disorganized Italian outfit into the dominant team is Schumacher.
Sure you don't have a chance in F1 unless you can raise at least $250 million a year, Ferrari raise much more.
A much better approach would be to use SHA-2, aka SHA-256, & SHA-512 which have much better all round properties.
This is probably what the industry will end up adopting in time but at this point everyone has pretty much stopped using MD5 except in carefully controlled and understood applications. One of the issues that folk often miss is that one of the reasons CAs invest money in high physical security is so that the strength of their crypto is NOT their last line of defense. There are still a lot of applications that simply cannot use anything other than MD5, it would be good if folk upgraded but simply turning off the crypto will not have the desired effect, they will simply run with no security.
At this point the compromises are a long long way from enabling a criminal attack. This is where there is a tension between complacency and common sense. Nobody need lay awake at night worrying about the strength of MD5, even MD4 which has been 'broken' for a decade has still not been broken to the point where someone can take a signed document and work out how to alter it. A forger CAN produce two documents with the same hash but that is not quite the same thing.
On the other hand people should not think that they can use Md5 forever. Now is a good time to start the transition. Its a bit like Y2K, there is no necessity for a catastrophe if there is planning.
The price is probably not that bad since the machine is probably actually manufactured in the faqr east in a currency that is dollar pegged. Otherwise you are probably right about the decline in the dollar's value. The Dufus deficit is huge, structural and growing. Wars cost money, lots of it. This is the first war in US history that was accompanied by tax cuts. Expect a major currency meltdown in the next 18 months or so. On the subject of the hush PC, I think it looks pretty cute. it is a real pity that so very few PC makers have tried to follow the Apple lead of producing a high end designer PC rather than commodity trash. On the other hand it is almost ten times what I just paid for a new Dell...
I never said that the record companies are not ripping off consumers. Clearly they are, the DVD zone scheme is simply a criminal price fixing scheme to artificially keep the prices of DVDs high in Europe. The labels have had a wrist slap for price fixing in the US and at the same time they were facing Napster they were also trying to steal artists returned rights
But regardless of whether this makes it moraly ok to rip off the record companies in return taking their copyright material without intending to pay for it is still ripping them off. You can pretend otherwise but that is what it is. If you were an honest theif there would be no need for the self-deception.
The honesty of the companies that are trying to make a buck helping you to rip off the record companies will in no way be improved if the record companies are also dishonest.
256 bit encryption does not mean guaranteed secure, the crypto has to be done right..
But you have a good point about Kazaa, companies that make software whose primary purpose is helping folk to rip off copyright holders may be popular with the folk who they help but tend to be 'ethically challenged' in other ways. The peer to peer companies have long worked hand in hand with spyware peddlers.
Its like the folk who elect a government who preaches self interest and are then surprised when they govern for their own personal self interest not the folk who voted for them.
Those laws are somewhat more justified and understandable given that the NAZI party murdered between eight and ten million people directly through the concentration camps and death camps and was responsible for upwards of twenty million addition deaths by starting WWII. It is the old liberal paradox of whether it is justified to supress the speech of those wanting to supress all freedoms. I don't beleive that there is a normative right to promote such views but agree with Mill that doing so is generally counter-productive. The PKK is a separatist movement that has faced a very oppressive government. I don't think that attempting to censor discussion of the PKK will in any way improve the situation.
The main reason that there is a Kurdish separatist movement is the repression of the Kurdish people by the Turkish government. Some folk will remember Hasan B-) Mutlu the USENET spammer who used a Perl script to drown out any mention of the Turkish massacre of Armenian civilians during WW I with spam. The posts were sent by a Turkish intelligence agent and stopped after he was deported from the US. The objective was to supress discussion of the Armenian massacre during one of the many crises in the Global Balkans where Turkey, Armenia, Russia etc were at odds.
I don't think that there is anyone involved who thinks Turkey currently meets the criteria for EU membership. But that is not the question. What people are asking is whether EU membership would lead to the human rights abuses being ended and avoid another military dictatorship.
In the end the question is pretty much up to Greece. They have the right to veto Turkey joining the EU if they choose to but at present seem to be thinking they would rather have Turkey in than out because they would prefer to be next to an improving democracy rather than a military dictatorship.
The reason many people don't equate this with Microsoft tactics is that Microsoft hatred is all about protecting the value of guild crafts and nothing about principle. Windows hatred is simply the modern equivalent of the hatred the Cobol and Fortran camps had of C. The future really hurts when it threatens to make your own skills obsolete.
On Java it was Sun who were being the evil proprietary monopolists. Their objective was to reduce every platform to the level of Solaris, leveling down, not up. Suns approach was "If you dare do anything that I can't I'll sue you."
Java could have been the future of computing but there is no way that any company, let alone a declining company like Sun can be trusted with the complete control they demand. The chances of Sun ending up in a SCO like position in five years time are significant.
Irrelevant what you bought it for, its what the people who are complaining bought it for that is the issue.
I never trusted Tivo, always hated their grasping business plan. Now it is going to come back and bite them (Tivo) in the patootzee. All those people on Tivo subscriptions are going to make their views known.
I pay for my satelite TV, I dont give a wetcrap what ABC's advertisers want to show me, I don't want to see it. If they are paying for that ad well more fool them.
The business model will rebalance. If the idiots in Congress try to outlaw ad skipping then they will see a major 'throw the bastards out' movement in 2006.
As anyone who read my arguments that Napster was an obscene company knows I don't beleive in something for nothing. Sure the content owners will need to be paid. But they don't have the right or the ability to decide how.
Baseball players are not paid 'salaries' they are paid obscene amounts of money. There would be plenty of players if they were paid less, say a million a season rather than per month.
I have Dish TV, if they decided to force banner ads onto me then I would immediately switch to another carrier.
Besides 80% of the ads I see are for a quack sliming medicine for $139 a bottle and the bowflex extercise machine whose current front guy who is implied to have slimmed down from 300lb using bowflex actually got that way through a gastric bypass, liposuction and a tummy tuck. If the bowflex guys were a little smarter they would not have advertised on the documentary of their front guy having the major surgery etc.
Lets see how many weeks it is before Tivo folds on this one. I think it will not be long.
This is a bad example to use. Ordinarily reporting conviction for a crime is not libel under English law. The exception is when the person making the statement had reason to believe that the conviction is false. There were a whole heap of circumstances in that case, the newspapers were actively campaigning against review of the cases - a very different matter.
US law is not very different when it comes to reporting rumor. The big difference is that public figures are subject to a much stricter standard. When Matt Drudge published a blatant libel against Siddney Blumenthal, passing on a GOP smear that could have been checked in minutes and found to be untrue Blumenthal was unable to bring a case.
The point about publication of rumours being libel is that if some crank comes in off the street and says that George W. Bush is a member of a secret society that worships a pagan goddess called Eulogia and the rumor is not generally known then publishing it in Time magazine or Newseweek would mean that millions now know about it. Fortunately it is safe to say it on Slashdot because it happens to be true.
The root of the problems was that Sinclair went overboard on cheap, with the QL people wanted a $3000 computer for $800, he decided to go for $600 and in the process just made everything a bit too cheap. A real keyboard and a real disk drive would not have added much to the cost. A decent graphics architecture ditto.
The machine only had 128K which would not have been a problem if memory expansion had ever come available, it never did. The single chip integration wafer flopped.
Not long after ATARI came out with the 520ST which was everything the QL was not. I paid the same for my ATARI, monitor and disk drive as the QL had cost me and not much later.
The thing about the car was not the financial hit, it was a separate company. It was the credibility loss he suffered, the shoemobile was just plain silly.
The fraud in Chicago was matched by GOP fraud in rural areas. One reason why neither state party wanted to allow Tricky Dicky's proxy demands for investigations.
Today the fraud is committed by Jeb Bush who ordered the use of a fellons list that he had been told was blatantly inaccurate.
Actually thats not the case. Tricky Dicky did make an effort to contest the vote through a bunch of proxy committees, but it was totally pointless because narrow as the popular vote was the electoral college was not close at all and Nixon had to get multiple states votes reversed to get in.
The big difference between 1960 and 2000 was that in 2000 Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris were in control of the election count and made every move they could to prevent the legitimate requests for recounts.
The networks are not interested in covering the major party platforms, why on earth would they have the slightest interest in parties with less than 1% of the vote? As far as the networks are concerned its all about whether Kerry has the better haircut or Bush is being controlled by aliens via the control box bump on his back.
Perhaps if slashdot wanted to actually pay a positive contribution here they could start a debate about education say and give the third party supporters a chance to say why their position is better.
At least we could have a discussion about issues. Listening to third party candidates whine and moan about not being treated with respect frankly does not interest me in the slightest. There is plenty of time to do that after the election. If you want to be taken seriously during the election as anything other than a protest vote you had better be ready to talk issues.
Ah so your experience would be from one interaction on one instance rather than working with the Secret Service over a period of many years as I have.
Federal statute places protection and security of the President and Presdiential candidates under SS coverage and SUPERCEDES any local jurisdiction.
That does not mean that local police have no role. In fact most of the security is provided by the local police. The Secret Service is not a large agency and it does a lot more than protect the President. They absolutely depend on local police for an event of the scale of the debates to provide the first tier perimeter security and in many cases second tier.
On a college campus a person who is a threat will blend in by looking like a student, not a political candidate.
To get into the debate they try to look like an aide, organizer or other functionary. The protestors were not seriously trying to infiltrate. The pseudo-candidates by your account were.
4 PM MDT, and the judge said afterwards that a fax was perfectly fine, and that is in accordacne with most state laws anyway.
If the papers had been served then the pseudo-candidates had no place at the debate on the spurious grounds they were serving papers. You admit that they were there for no other purpose than to grandstand and to get arrested.
In case you hadn't heard, and you probalby haven't, since you seem to selectivley filter things to fit your flawed microcosm, the hearing is on, and scheduled for 9 AM Tuesday,
Too damn right I filter out irrelevant data. There is absolutely no point to the hearing because the debate has been held. There is absolutely no chance of either candidate being forced onto the schedule at Tempe. It has never happened in the past despite the fact that the non-entity parties have tried this garbage every time.
If he decides for the CPD the appeal will be immediate to the AZ Supreme Court,
Who will refuse to hear it. There is settled precedent on the matter.
Actually the local police are responsible for the overall security of the debate and work WITH the Secret Service (who do not appreciate the use of the initials BTW).
At the risk of sounding like a profiler, who's the bigger threat based on their appearance: kids with bags, or guys in suits and political buttons?
The guys in suits trying to look inconspicuous. The protestors mostly organize in advance with the police.
If as you claim service had been effected there was no reason to serve any papers. There was in any case no possibility of serving papers at the time because they had expired.
I find it somewhat interesting that people would moderate down the simple statement that the judge had required the papers to be served on ALL the defendents at 4pm before the debate. Sounds to me like the Libertarians really don't want people to know the facts here.
As for the papers having been 'served' by fax. I very much doubt that counts as service in that jurisdiction without the specific permission of the court.
If there was a case to be made then the plaintifs would have got their case into court much earlier rather than deliberately waiting until the last minute.
You cannot perform service of expired papers. The judge had in any case set the date of the hearing AFTER the debate on the 12th and set it for exactly one hour.
Its somewhat sad that the children running slash politics spend all their time printing stories about the minor third party no hoper they support and have not bothered to even post a story on the debates themselves yet?
Almost certainly. Did you know that you can use DNS as a VOIP protocol?
Real question is whether it is any good in that mode and whether people are prepared to support that specification.
There are a couple of reasons why WS-Management is useful, the most important is that it is the only framework designed to manage Web Services first and foremost. Sure you could use it for managing the sort of stuff SNMP is used for, but thats not the big idea.
The other issue is all to do with what the future role of the IETF is going to be in this space. At this point Microsoft seem to be saying 'as little as possible' and the rest of the industry is pretty much in agreement.
The drafting of the bills is abysmal.
Everyone wants to make spyware illegal, but these bills could catch firewalls and anti-spyware programs in their net.
Demagoging the gay marriage issue.
Faux news has published two entirely fake stories about Kerry in the past two days. The first was a list of fake quotes he never made, hastily withdrawn after Josh Micah Marshall blew the whistle on them. The second was reporting quotes from 'Communists for Kerry' without mentioning to their viewers that it is a Republican parody 527.
Sure political burgalries do take place. Particularly under Republican Presidents. But you really can't rush to judgement till you have some facts to go on. Otherwise you end up having to believe the wierd shit put out by the DNC claiming that Rove faked the Bush AWOL memos.
Just watch the next two debates and think to yourself how much better off the country and the world will be when the next time you hear Bush making a speech is his concession to Kerry.
Its not what they stand for thats the problem with third parties, its the fruitcakes they tend to end up with. Ideological zealots of any stripe should not be allowed anywhere near government unless it is to keep out a worse zealot.
My preference rankings are Pragmatist, ideological zealot who is obsessive protecting civil liberties and at all costs keep out the ideological zealots who campaign on an overt hate plank (gays).
The problem with the Republican party is not just Bush, its the hate plank politics as well as the incompetence and lies.