Neither you nor the government owns that plane, the shareholders of your airline do. As having customers die in giant fireballs tends to be expensive (planes aren't cheap), they, too, are merely protecting their investment.
And it's not like the government regulates flight, right? I mean seriously, why should a government have any say in the matter of flying bombs travelling over the country?
You seem to have the impression that the American government has a mission to destroy your privacy. That's right, they're all out to get you.
Do you ever stop to think that maybe an initiative like this is being done in the interest of the American people? The government is not a "big brother" organization that is looking to turn you into another node in "the matrix".
The American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal think tanks are getting in the way of what is important, and they don't realize that we have to sacrifice a certain amount of privacy in excange for national security.
I really think the terrorists won, it's over. The United States of America lost and it's over. I am truly saddened by this, I really am. Where can I live now, where is there a country that truly cares about it's citizens?
You think the terrorists, who are now running, won this? No, they started it. The United States is extremely resilient, and will not be stopped by a loosely knit group of radicals. As fora country that cares about its citizens, America represents so much in the world. If American didn't care for its citizens, then why have a democracy? Why take such measures to protect the people?
Hey, does this mean that along with the 35 year old virgins living in their parents' basement, there will be screaming teenage girls camped out in front of the movie theater on opening night?
This would cause a mass confusion in the crowd as Star Wars geeks meet these strange creatures called "girls". I just wonder what happens if one of the geeks asks a teenie bopper if she wants to see his "light saber".
Couldn't this all be avoided by a good open source business model? Isn't that what we're really looking for here? I don't think a software company can run completely funded by donations.
If governments were to abuse this, how would they do it? They track polotical foes, but is this any different than modern day surveilance techniques? Don't you think that if someone who is high up in the government wishes to track one of their enemies, that they would enlist the skills of the FBI in the process?
As for international tracking, such as the search for bin Laden, this would be a good idea, but only if the system could be implemented by every government.
I think we have to work more on improving cellular and digital networks around the country/world before we get excited over some fancy new phone that can make a 5 course meal if you press *2211. What good is a phone like this if you don't have service? I live in Connecticut, and my StarTac doesn't work in my house, at my office, intermittently in NYC streets, and never in a subway train. Cool phones are great, but more service would be better.
You are still taking this out of context. The law can be broken in a number of ways, but it's up the individual to decide whether or not to break the law. For example, should it be illegal to sell cars if they can be used to run people over? And about information, the web site broke the EULA to the software. They broke the law, like it or not.
The information being provided is not instructions on how to remove a file, it's instructions on how to bypass a mechanism, which includes deleting a file from your hard drive.
You're taking this way too far. You are saying that we should sue paper compaines for providing a means of "disseminating illegal information". Intel and Xerox provide machines that perform an action, what action is performed is the choice of the user. It's like suing gun makers when someone is shot.
The coolest part about this thing is that it lets you skip commercials in replayed shows. I want one of these things, if anything, it will make my TV experience more enjoyable. Plus, how many of us are going to share 200MB+ TV show recordings over the internet? Can't we just set our SonicBlue to record the show instead of downloading it? Seems like over-paranioa by the industry.
Warning! This new internet worm infects and Linux/UNIX computer with a blank password for the account "root"! It will also infect any WindowsNT computer with a blank password for the account "Administrator"!
Finally, a worm that will feed off of the stupidity of the admin rather than the mistake of a programmer. Admins have no one to blame but themselves for this one, it's not some fancy buffer overflow, it's a blank password. Duh.
Actaully, let's call it an "exploit" for the moment, to concur with the media. This new "exploit" allows any script kiddie to telnet/ssh to your box, and get root! This is of course, assuming that your machine is vulnerable. To fix this vulnerability, please download and install adminIsAMoron-patch.tar.gz.
Deploying Magic Lantern like a virus has a number of problems. As a virus, it will no doubt exploit some kind of security vulnerability, if not using backdoors created by the software company (No names will be mentioned to spare the obvious).
Companies have seen this so far, that when something so-called "secret" or "proprietary" is released out onto the internet, it is eventually reverse-engineered. Case in point, the SDMI challenge. Another case in point, CSS, and we ALL know the controversy over that one.
The point here is that whatever the FBI is using as a vehicle for their code will be uncovered, and used by someone other than our government. Its the makings for CodeRed on a much larger scale. Or, it's an invitation to leet kiddies, seriously, how easy would this make it?
MS seems to be pushing this ".NET" thing very hard, but it seems like it's just vaporware, a name for whatever the "latest and greatest" from MS is. However, they seem to be up to something with XP and Passport, but I don't think it's going to go very far, because developers aren't going to spend the time to make something for this market share, because from the looks of it, XP isn't topping the sales charts.
It's not very coincidential that MS blocks non-IE broswers on the day they release their flagship new OS, designed to put.NET's foot in the door. What does this mean? Since Passport is becoming a big deal with them, and is only supported on the Windows platform with IE, why should non-IE browsers even try to access Passport sites? This is all part of MS's strategy to push.NET out, so that Windows will be the one and only OS that will "take full advantage of the internet".
Micromarketing does a much better job than mass marketing. If an ad company sees that I am looking around for car prices, then hell, let them show me ads for cars. If they collect the data from my web surfing, and see that I am in the market for a new PC, then by golly, show me prices and products! Personally, I would much rather see MegaUltraSuperComputerWorld's prices on new CPU's than a "new herbal cure for arthritis". We're not going to get rid of marketing, so why not settle for targeted marketing? Any ad agencies reading? My interests are BMW's and BWM accessories, Linux, and PC hardware. Let the ads come!
Well, obviously, the FBI is doing some creative sneaking around the law to avoid intercepting electronic communication. Great, clever work. But, what we can infer from this is that the FBI or the NSA does not have a very good grip on PGP. If the government had PGP cracked, there would be no necessity for a key logger.
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Neither you nor the government owns that plane, the shareholders of your airline do. As having customers die in giant fireballs tends to be expensive (planes aren't cheap), they, too, are merely protecting their investment.
And it's not like the government regulates flight, right? I mean seriously, why should a government have any say in the matter of flying bombs travelling over the country?
Oh, right, there's the FAA.
Think before you post.
It figures that the People's Republic of California would've done something like this...
Or not, seeing as California is a pretty liberal state. Remember, that's Condit Country.
You seem to have the impression that the American government has a mission to destroy your privacy. That's right, they're all out to get you.
Do you ever stop to think that maybe an initiative like this is being done in the interest of the American people? The government is not a "big brother" organization that is looking to turn you into another node in "the matrix".
The American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal think tanks are getting in the way of what is important, and they don't realize that we have to sacrifice a certain amount of privacy in excange for national security.
I really think the terrorists won, it's over. The United States of America lost and it's over. I am truly saddened by this, I really am. Where can I live now, where is there a country that truly cares about it's citizens?
You think the terrorists, who are now running, won this? No, they started it. The United States is extremely resilient, and will not be stopped by a loosely knit group of radicals. As fora country that cares about its citizens, America represents so much in the world. If American didn't care for its citizens, then why have a democracy? Why take such measures to protect the people?
Of course the more entertaining question is, who would win in a fight, Boucher or Hollings?
..I miss the days of good old fashioned Senate floor ass whoopings, we haven't had a good one since before the Civil War.
Oh well.
Hey, does this mean that along with the 35 year old virgins living in their parents' basement, there will be screaming teenage girls camped out in front of the movie theater on opening night?
This would cause a mass confusion in the crowd as Star Wars geeks meet these strange creatures called "girls". I just wonder what happens if one of the geeks asks a teenie bopper if she wants to see his "light saber".
Couldn't this all be avoided by a good open source business model? Isn't that what we're really looking for here? I don't think a software company can run completely funded by donations.
If governments were to abuse this, how would they do it? They track polotical foes, but is this any different than modern day surveilance techniques? Don't you think that if someone who is high up in the government wishes to track one of their enemies, that they would enlist the skills of the FBI in the process?
As for international tracking, such as the search for bin Laden, this would be a good idea, but only if the system could be implemented by every government.
This "Slashdot" is far from my native land. When I click, no rocket fires. When I push my arrow keys, I do not sidestep.
Longing to frag, I wait.
I think we have to work more on improving cellular and digital networks around the country/world before we get excited over some fancy new phone that can make a 5 course meal if you press *2211. What good is a phone like this if you don't have service? I live in Connecticut, and my StarTac doesn't work in my house, at my office, intermittently in NYC streets, and never in a subway train. Cool phones are great, but more service would be better.
You are still taking this out of context. The law can be broken in a number of ways, but it's up the individual to decide whether or not to break the law. For example, should it be illegal to sell cars if they can be used to run people over? And about information, the web site broke the EULA to the software. They broke the law, like it or not.
So the information can potentially be missused.
Yes, but by finding this out, they had to break the EULA, which does stand as the law.
...but it seems to me that the folks who put together the CD are to blame.
Of course, like the people who make guns are to blame for shooting homicides. I see your logic with perfect clarity.
The information being provided is not instructions on how to remove a file, it's instructions on how to bypass a mechanism, which includes deleting a file from your hard drive.
You're taking this way too far. You are saying that we should sue paper compaines for providing a means of "disseminating illegal information". Intel and Xerox provide machines that perform an action, what action is performed is the choice of the user. It's like suing gun makers when someone is shot.
The coolest part about this thing is that it lets you skip commercials in replayed shows. I want one of these things, if anything, it will make my TV experience more enjoyable. Plus, how many of us are going to share 200MB+ TV show recordings over the internet? Can't we just set our SonicBlue to record the show instead of downloading it? Seems like over-paranioa by the industry.
expect to find a book on our bookshelves titled "Genetic Engineering for Dummies
Yes, accompanied by, "Buying 1.5 Million Dollar Genetic Sequencing Equipment on Which to Run Open Source Sequencing Software for Dummies"
It's not like you run the software on your PC while sucking on a serial cable.
NEW WORM REPORTED!
Warning! This new internet worm infects and Linux/UNIX computer with a blank password for the account "root"! It will also infect any WindowsNT computer with a blank password for the account "Administrator"!
Finally, a worm that will feed off of the stupidity of the admin rather than the mistake of a programmer. Admins have no one to blame but themselves for this one, it's not some fancy buffer overflow, it's a blank password. Duh.
Actaully, let's call it an "exploit" for the moment, to concur with the media. This new "exploit" allows any script kiddie to telnet/ssh to your box, and get root! This is of course, assuming that your machine is vulnerable. To fix this vulnerability, please download and install adminIsAMoron-patch.tar.gz.
Deploying Magic Lantern like a virus has a number of problems. As a virus, it will no doubt exploit some kind of security vulnerability, if not using backdoors created by the software company (No names will be mentioned to spare the obvious).
./uber_exploit www.microsoft.com
Companies have seen this so far, that when something so-called "secret" or "proprietary" is released out onto the internet, it is eventually reverse-engineered. Case in point, the SDMI challenge. Another case in point, CSS, and we ALL know the controversy over that one.
The point here is that whatever the FBI is using as a vehicle for their code will be uncovered, and used by someone other than our government. Its the makings for CodeRed on a much larger scale. Or, it's an invitation to leet kiddies, seriously, how easy would this make it?
[leet_kid@leet_box sploits]$
Government sanctioned security holes are bad. I've said my piece.
MS seems to be pushing this ".NET" thing very hard, but it seems like it's just vaporware, a name for whatever the "latest and greatest" from MS is. However, they seem to be up to something with XP and Passport, but I don't think it's going to go very far, because developers aren't going to spend the time to make something for this market share, because from the looks of it, XP isn't topping the sales charts.
It's not very coincidential that MS blocks non-IE broswers on the day they release their flagship new OS, designed to put .NET's foot in the door. What does this mean? Since Passport is becoming a big deal with them, and is only supported on the Windows platform with IE, why should non-IE browsers even try to access Passport sites? This is all part of MS's strategy to push .NET out, so that Windows will be the one and only OS that will "take full advantage of the internet".
Pretty slick.
Yeah, this is KDE. We don't tolerate that kind of krap.
Yes, well, I see you didn't get the joke. It is a play on Poe's "The Raven".
And yes, I suck at spelling Penguin.
If robots are picking up trash now, will janitors be sent into space or making cars?
Micromarketing does a much better job than mass marketing. If an ad company sees that I am looking around for car prices, then hell, let them show me ads for cars. If they collect the data from my web surfing, and see that I am in the market for a new PC, then by golly, show me prices and products! Personally, I would much rather see MegaUltraSuperComputerWorld's prices on new CPU's than a "new herbal cure for arthritis". We're not going to get rid of marketing, so why not settle for targeted marketing? Any ad agencies reading? My interests are BMW's and BWM accessories, Linux, and PC hardware. Let the ads come!
Well, obviously, the FBI is doing some creative sneaking around the law to avoid intercepting electronic communication. Great, clever work. But, what we can infer from this is that the FBI or the NSA does not have a very good grip on PGP. If the government had PGP cracked, there would be no necessity for a key logger.