If the private dick does a search that would be unconstitutional if the police did it, then they can use that loophole to get evidence introduced that should be thrown out.
Right. It would be thrown out if the govt did it, but since the PI did it, it won't be.
Lynching is a great example because of the fascinating historical coincidence of the Sheriff and his Deputies always being in some other part of the county whenever one of those necktie parties came about.
Yes, various government officials (and sometimes entire governments) have done illegal things like colluding with lynchers. That's illegal on both the government and the lycher's part, no surprise there.
We're talking about government legally hiring people to do things that they couldn't legally (because they are the govt). Hiring people to lynch, or colluding with them, is illegal on the part of the government. Buying the results of a private investigation is not illegal.
I live in one of the cities where airport security is contracted out. Are they any less subject to controls against abuse than actual government officials 'acting under color of authority'?
Yes. You can't get information from the contractor using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), for example - only from the hiring government agency. Likewise, the government contractor does not have to follow government procurement rules, hiring standards, etc.
So you're saying that the government can bring in a private contractor to do what the government can't legally do itself?
Sort of - they can buy the results of that work. They can't hire people to do illegal things (like lynching, terrible example), but they can buy the results of a private investigator's search.
More commonly, government for the most part has to do things in a open manner - but government contractors don't have to.
Aren't we just one or two Coronal Mass Ejections from having all our satellites (and cell service among others) go kerflooey?
Satellites are screwed, but the atmosphere blocks most radiation before it can reach cell phone towers. Anything strong enough to screw them up would also probably fry us.
My answering machine cost like $10. And I pay that once.
To be fair, there is a (very small) electricity cost.
Also I have to wonder... wtf. are you doing for DSL, I need a phone line for that. I guess some people only have the option of Cable, or maybe have some better options.
As for educational use - yes, copying for library/educational use is one of the fair use exemptions.
Not by individuals, and certainly not of an entire work, nor for distribtion.
Right, individuals distributing entire works would have a hard time claiming educational use. Nobody said they could - just that copying for educational use is one of the fair use exemptions. That exemption is really only usable by (surprise!) educational institutions.
I have no need of reading a FAQ - as I've actually studied fair use, which you blatantly have not.
I'd love to see the sources you used to study, especially if they're more authoritative than the U.S. Copyright Office's FAQ I linked to.
Of the three things listed - only one has ever been considered (under the law) to be fair use. To wit: making backup copies. (C'mon, handing out mix tapes? That's distribution - that's distribution, which is about as blatant as copyright infringement comes.)
Distributing mix tapes is obviously illegal. Making your own for your own use is not. If you copy a bunch of songs from different CDs onto one CD, and then use that in your car, there's nothing illegal about that, since it's not distribution. Various trade organizations would like you to think it is, because then they can sell you another copy.
As for educational use - yes, copying for library/educational use is one of the fair use exemptions. See below.
Since you're batting 1 for 3, you should probably read up on fair use, from the US Copyright Office:
IIRC, for SecurID, It is possible to emulate the harware token in software if the certificate is available.
Well, yeah, RSA sells a SecurID software token. It's obviously less secure, since it resides on your computer instead of in your hands. http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1162
If it could desceretly be extracted from the device in some manner, that would really break the system
You need both the user's PIN and the number displayed on the token, so stolen/copied tokens aren't any use without also compromising the user.
Personally, I wouldn't trust any bank whose security system relies on user supplied credentials. Any bank that does not supply its customers with an electronic hardware-based security token is not trustworthy enough to handle my savings.
Microsoft tried to get on this bus with their Windows Live Mail but they had to roll back to Web 1.0 because of the design flaws inherent in the way this whole "Web 2.0" paradigm is supposed to work.
It couldn't be that Microsoft built crappy stuff. Nope, must be the technology. After all, Gmail and Google Maps totally reverted to Web 1.0 after finding all these "inherent flaws". Oh wait, they didn't.
People on dialup accounts simply did not have enough bandwidth to download a JavaScript version of Outlook into their browser on an HTTP request.
After the first visit, all the Javascript, images, and static text should be cached and shouldn't have to be redownloaded.
It's only going to get worse in the next few years, as we feel the backlash from the teenybopper IM crowd. They're going to grow up and shower us with idiocy in written (or typed) form.
It's already happened. Last month I placed a housing ad online, and about half the responses contained such bad English that they were close to unintelligible. All of the responses were presumably from adults.
My, yes. The human body! Good luck getting anywhere close to that.
Tonsils, appendix, wisdom teeth - useless things that often need to be removed because they cause trouble Only redundant in some essential systems (kidneys, eyes, lungs) but not others (heart, liver) Limited storage space - the reason the brain is so folded over is because it's run out of room in the skull Terrible vision compared to cats, eagles No ability to hibernate (bears) or regrow limbs (starfish, some lizards)
Yank your kids from public school. Homeschool or send them to a private school of your choice. If enough people do this the whole public education system would collapse and implode. Then we can figure out how to best spend those property tax revenues.
The traditional family with one wage-earner and one stay-at-home person is not that common any more. Now it's 2 wage earners, or 1 wage earner and an empty seat. Fix that, and maybe you can increase home-schooling.
However, even if the map creator was home-schooled, it wouldn't have helped. The parents of his friends called authorities.
A better idea would be to try to harness the anger and frustration of those of us who drive the NJ Turnpike. You could really support the power grid with all that wasted energy.
Apple said they were only aiming for 1% of the market in the near future. How is Ballmer saying that Apple will meet and possibly exceed their sales goals insightful?
If you did what you suggest---go to a bunch of open WAPs and do child porn searches---then none of the people you target will ultimately get in trouble. They might get their homes searched, but the FBI wouldn't find any evidence of child porn, because you're long gone.
Even if they find nothing, it's standard procedure to take everything that even remotely looks like a computer (like your Xbox/PS3/Wii), along with all accessories - printers, CDs, etc - and then only return it 3 years later when your lawyer hounds them enough.
Give it am MD5 hash and a file length and it will compute all the possible files that could have produced the hash. Automatically filter our the invalid files and the set you're left with can't be that large.
I thought of that, and even created a proof of concept program. It's ridiculously slow.
Imagine a 1 KB file. That's 1024 kilo bytes, or 8192 bits (1 byte = 8 bits). That's 2^8192 (1.09x10^2466) different combinations of 1 and 0 to test.
Assuming you could test each combination in one instruction, and processed 2,000,000,000 instructions per second (2 GHz), you'd have to run for 5.45x10^2456 seconds. That's 1.72 x 10^2449 years.
I have a Mac Pro and was running a non-digital monitor for a long time. I guess you couldn't figure out how to use that dongle that comes with the computer, huh?
Good. Now try using that dongle with TWO monitors, like the guy said.
Keep in mind that some huge fraction of Americans never intend to get an Internet connection.
I would imagine that the cross-section of computer owners and people who are not online is fairly small.
And how would you like it if your C++ compiler or GIMP or Photoshop or 3D Studio Max was a web application? Has anybody thought it through? It's not even a matter of security, just plain utility.
I'd love it.
The service provider is running the app on their huge CPU farms - the browser is just the UI to it. Think of Citrix, VNC, Microsoft Remote Desktop, or any of the other thin-client implementations, except we're using HTML, XML, and Javascript for the UI instead of a binary protocol. Either way, the C++ compiles and image transforms all happen on the remote end.
Think of Photoshop - all the UI needs is to send off coordinates and commands to apply, and receive back image previews and status. If you're working on some huge 6000x6000 94 MB image, but your local browser window is only 1024x768, then the most the app has to send is a 1024x768 bitmap.
3D is probably not a candidate due to the constant refresh and the latencies involved. Games ditto.
But most applications consist of:
1. select a subset of data 2. select a command to apply to that subset of data 3. get result
So only black folks have 20" rims, dark tint, or loud stereos? I think you're Driving While Bigoted.
Good job on reading comprehension. The GP said that police couldn't identify the race of drivers, and I said that police use those accessories as a way to profile the owner of the car as black. Whether or not that profile is accurate - and whether or not *I* believe the profile is accurate (I don't) - that profile is one of the methods police use to identify black drivers.
It was the fault of the asshole in front of me with the broken brake lights who didn't maintain his vehicle.
You are supposed maintain appropriate distance to the vehicle in front of you regardless of what his lights are doing. Downshifting, letting off the gas, pulling the emergency brake, and hitting a deer will all slow down his car without engaging his brake lights.
Don't tailgate, and look at what his car is doing, not his brake lights.
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Right. It would be thrown out if the govt did it, but since the PI did it, it won't be.
Yes, various government officials (and sometimes entire governments) have done illegal things like colluding with lynchers. That's illegal on both the government and the lycher's part, no surprise there.
We're talking about government legally hiring people to do things that they couldn't legally (because they are the govt). Hiring people to lynch, or colluding with them, is illegal on the part of the government. Buying the results of a private investigation is not illegal.
Yes. You can't get information from the contractor using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), for example - only from the hiring government agency. Likewise, the government contractor does not have to follow government procurement rules, hiring standards, etc.
Sort of - they can buy the results of that work. They can't hire people to do illegal things (like lynching, terrible example), but they can buy the results of a private investigator's search.
More commonly, government for the most part has to do things in a open manner - but government contractors don't have to.
Unpaid overtime, sure. Consistent 1.5x rate overtime is awesome, and gets me to early (very early) retirement that much faster.
I'm not so sure about the "double wide" part - makes it sound like a trailer in the country. "of doom" is always awesome though.
As does North Carolina. However, magstripes can easily be zapped and become worthless - those barcodes are more resilient.
Satellites are screwed, but the atmosphere blocks most radiation before it can reach cell phone towers. Anything strong enough to screw them up would also probably fry us.
To be fair, there is a (very small) electricity cost.
I had DSL without a phone line for two years: http://www.speakeasy.net/home/onelink/
(I've since moved and have fiber to the curb, woot)
Right, individuals distributing entire works would have a hard time claiming educational use. Nobody said they could - just that copying for educational use is one of the fair use exemptions. That exemption is really only usable by (surprise!) educational institutions.
I'd love to see the sources you used to study, especially if they're more authoritative than the U.S. Copyright Office's FAQ I linked to.
Distributing mix tapes is obviously illegal. Making your own for your own use is not. If you copy a bunch of songs from different CDs onto one CD, and then use that in your car, there's nothing illegal about that, since it's not distribution. Various trade organizations would like you to think it is, because then they can sell you another copy.
As for educational use - yes, copying for library/educational use is one of the fair use exemptions. See below.
Since you're batting 1 for 3, you should probably read up on fair use, from the US Copyright Office:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Well, yeah, RSA sells a SecurID software token. It's obviously less secure, since it resides on your computer instead of in your hands.
http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1162
You need both the user's PIN and the number displayed on the token, so stolen/copied tokens aren't any use without also compromising the user.
It's really a good system, although expensive.
What US banks offer this?
I've not heard of any working attacks against SecurID (or any other hardware token). Got any links?
It couldn't be that Microsoft built crappy stuff. Nope, must be the technology. After all, Gmail and Google Maps totally reverted to Web 1.0 after finding all these "inherent flaws". Oh wait, they didn't.
After the first visit, all the Javascript, images, and static text should be cached and shouldn't have to be redownloaded.
It's already happened. Last month I placed a housing ad online, and about half the responses contained such bad English that they were close to unintelligible. All of the responses were presumably from adults.
Tonsils, appendix, wisdom teeth - useless things that often need to be removed because they cause trouble
Only redundant in some essential systems (kidneys, eyes, lungs) but not others (heart, liver)
Limited storage space - the reason the brain is so folded over is because it's run out of room in the skull
Terrible vision compared to cats, eagles
No ability to hibernate (bears) or regrow limbs (starfish, some lizards)
The human body is far from perfect.
The traditional family with one wage-earner and one stay-at-home person is not that common any more. Now it's 2 wage earners, or 1 wage earner and an empty seat. Fix that, and maybe you can increase home-schooling.
However, even if the map creator was home-schooled, it wouldn't have helped. The parents of his friends called authorities.
Ghostbusters II: New Jersey Edition?
Apple said they were only aiming for 1% of the market in the near future. How is Ballmer saying that Apple will meet and possibly exceed their sales goals insightful?
Even if they find nothing, it's standard procedure to take everything that even remotely looks like a computer (like your Xbox/PS3/Wii), along with all accessories - printers, CDs, etc - and then only return it 3 years later when your lawyer hounds them enough.
Bah, the math is right, but this is wrong - should be 1KB = 1024 bytes = 8192 bits.
I thought of that, and even created a proof of concept program. It's ridiculously slow.
Imagine a 1 KB file. That's 1024 kilo bytes, or 8192 bits (1 byte = 8 bits). That's 2^8192 (1.09x10^2466) different combinations of 1 and 0 to test.
Assuming you could test each combination in one instruction, and processed 2,000,000,000 instructions per second (2 GHz), you'd have to run for 5.45x10^2456 seconds. That's 1.72 x 10^2449 years.
A long time for 1 KB!
On a similar note, Plan 9's Venti filesystem uses SHA1 to avoid duplicating data on disk.
Good. Now try using that dongle with TWO monitors, like the guy said.
I would imagine that the cross-section of computer owners and people who are not online is fairly small.
I'd love it.
The service provider is running the app on their huge CPU farms - the browser is just the UI to it. Think of Citrix, VNC, Microsoft Remote Desktop, or any of the other thin-client implementations, except we're using HTML, XML, and Javascript for the UI instead of a binary protocol. Either way, the C++ compiles and image transforms all happen on the remote end.
Think of Photoshop - all the UI needs is to send off coordinates and commands to apply, and receive back image previews and status. If you're working on some huge 6000x6000 94 MB image, but your local browser window is only 1024x768, then the most the app has to send is a 1024x768 bitmap.
3D is probably not a candidate due to the constant refresh and the latencies involved. Games ditto.
But most applications consist of:
1. select a subset of data
2. select a command to apply to that subset of data
3. get result
AJAX is fine for that model.
Good job on reading comprehension. The GP said that police couldn't identify the race of drivers, and I said that police use those accessories as a way to profile the owner of the car as black. Whether or not that profile is accurate - and whether or not *I* believe the profile is accurate (I don't) - that profile is one of the methods police use to identify black drivers.
You are supposed maintain appropriate distance to the vehicle in front of you regardless of what his lights are doing. Downshifting, letting off the gas, pulling the emergency brake, and hitting a deer will all slow down his car without engaging his brake lights.
Don't tailgate, and look at what his car is doing, not his brake lights.