I get the impression that this only applies to commercial transactions... So visiting Slashdot alone probably won't run afoul of the law, but donating money to Slashdot might.
Either way this law is ridiculous. Trade is a good thing; they're basically cutting themselves out of the global market.
This seems a bit overboard. He didn't tweet anything about the case, so why should it have any bearing on the outcome? All he did was bitch about coffee and mention that he was on *a* jury (not even which one he was on!)
If he had been tweeting things like "Aww man, $defendant is a scumbag" and the like, that would have been a whole other story. But these were just random tweets about irrelevant minutiae! I agree with the first judge, that the tweets weren't out of line at all.
Funny how the media industry has been raking in record profits, but they still feel they need this sort of legislation.
Search for clips from "The Simpsons" and other popular TV shows on Youtube. Notice you will find little to nothing. The DMCA works, and works well. There's no need for this crap.
If people get their job done and are productive, does it really matter?
I've always hated the idea of micromanaging workers. It should be about getting the job done. If the job isn't done? Discipline/fire the employee. If the job is done, great! Anything else shouldn't matter.
I'm so tempted to get one of these as a toy. Also, they run Android REALLY WELL, apparently. So even if WebOS isn't to your liking they're still quite useful.
>So you don't care if people map your e-mail and publish it?
It's not the same. You can't DO anything with my SSID or access point MAC address. MAYBE you can do a denial of service attack on it by cloning it. But wait.. you'd have to be nearby. And if you're nearby you can get that info yourself anyway without using Google.
Nobody can contact or spam you using your access point's MAC address or SSID. They can't use your network if you have proper encryption set up and they're not near by. There is literally nothing that anyone can do with this database to affect you in any negative way. Some of you really need to think this through and realize that the Google wifi location db/skyhook/etc. is completely harmless privacy-wise, while providing an excellent service to the public.
Why in the heck do you people care if Google maps your AP's location? It's not like this information can be used for anything but it's intended purpose: wifi location services.
Making it opt-in would make it useless as people won't care enough to opt-in.
This isn't a privacy issue at all. The tinfoil-hat crowd really needs to get a life.
Seeing that cooking grease is made of hydrocarbons, and life on earth uses hydrocarbons extensively in its makeup, there's a good chance that grease left sitting in a drum for decades would become something's dinner before you build up enough of it to sell it for even a few dollars.
I doubt there's an open Wifi network in the prison... So why does the presence of a Wifi chipset or ethernet port even matter? There's nothing to connect it to.
I have an iPhone 4 and have no plans to upgrade to the 4s until its at least 2 years old. I boggle at the people who upgrade every year, but oh well, it's their money. I'm glad they're helping the economy.:)
>makes it kinda more important that the names are real.
Some of us use pseudonyms that we've used for over a decade, unchanged. We have dozens of friends who know us by that name, and even more acquaintances. I've been "Zorin" since 1995. This is just as good as a real name for identifying me.
My friends and I joined G+ rather quickly upon its inception. We started having fun on it. It was great.
Then some of our accounts started getting suspended because of violations of a questionable "names policy". The policy said to use the name that people know you by, and those are the names we all used. Apparently that wasn't good enough for Google, though; they suspended accounts anyway, even some with "real looking" Western style names. Once enough people got suspended, the remaining batch of folks that didn't got pissed off that their friends were kicked off the service, and they left voluntarily.
Their name policy was unclear, and people would even get their names approved only to get suspended again later on by a different overzealous admin. It was chaos.
I think the lesson to be learned here is don't alienate your users, ESPECIALLY early adopters. We can make or break a social network.
Facebook may require real names, but at least they were absolutely clear about this from the start. They were not wishy-washy, and didn't mass-suspend new accounts like G+ did.
I doubt they would. ZFS is one of the last remaining reasons to run Solaris, pay for Solaris maint, etc... If they port ZFS to Linux they will lose quite a bit of that revenue stream.
We all want it; ZFS is a beautiful thing, we run it at our site and practically worship its awesomeness....but it probably won't happen.
European standard has its downsides too. For instance, there's a per minute fee to call cel phones in the UK, because you're paying for the recipient's airtime. I'd much rather each person pay for their own minutes, this way, the cost for making a call is always the same without having to worry about what sort of equipment the person you're calling has.
Those collection agency calls where they call you and tell you to call a number and ask for $NAME are a scam. In my case, they'd call wanting to talk about a "check I had written". They were robocalling me for months, probably close to a year before I finally disconnected that land line (for other unrelated reasons, though it was nice to be free of those calls finally)
Turns out this was a fraudster company that would bully people into thinking they had an unpaid debt and to pay the "debt" off. Once you started talking to them they'd even threaten you with legal action if you didn't pay; legal action that would never come, of course, since the whole thing was fraudulent.
I'm not sure if it's still going on. Remember, real debt collectors call you directly (no robocalls), address you by name and can specify precisely what you owe and to whom.
There's no way to determine the source of a key someone entered.
What if a friend found the keys on the net, and decided to pretend they're gifting the person a copy of Dirt 3? Boom, suspended account, all because someone thought they were receiving a gift.
It's a dumb idea to suspend one's entire account for entering a "stolen" key when the key can simply be revoked and the user told that it was stolen. It's the virtual equivalent of throwing someone in jail because a friend bought a stolen laptop at a flea market and gave it to them as a gift.
Just confiscate the laptop, say "sorry for the inconvenience, blame your friend" and MOVE ON.
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I get the impression that this only applies to commercial transactions... So visiting Slashdot alone probably won't run afoul of the law, but donating money to Slashdot might.
Either way this law is ridiculous. Trade is a good thing; they're basically cutting themselves out of the global market.
"cryptogeek fantasy realm" indeed. Reminds me of this comic that tells it like it is.
http://xkcd.com/538/
This seems a bit overboard. He didn't tweet anything about the case, so why should it have any bearing on the outcome? All he did was bitch about coffee and mention that he was on *a* jury (not even which one he was on!)
If he had been tweeting things like "Aww man, $defendant is a scumbag" and the like, that would have been a whole other story. But these were just random tweets about irrelevant minutiae! I agree with the first judge, that the tweets weren't out of line at all.
Funny how the media industry has been raking in record profits, but they still feel they need this sort of legislation.
Search for clips from "The Simpsons" and other popular TV shows on Youtube. Notice you will find little to nothing. The DMCA works, and works well. There's no need for this crap.
If people get their job done and are productive, does it really matter?
I've always hated the idea of micromanaging workers. It should be about getting the job done. If the job isn't done? Discipline/fire the employee. If the job is done, great! Anything else shouldn't matter.
I'm so tempted to get one of these as a toy. Also, they run Android REALLY WELL, apparently. So even if WebOS isn't to your liking they're still quite useful.
>So you don't care if people map your e-mail and publish it?
It's not the same. You can't DO anything with my SSID or access point MAC address. MAYBE you can do a denial of service attack on it by cloning it. But wait.. you'd have to be nearby. And if you're nearby you can get that info yourself anyway without using Google.
Nobody can contact or spam you using your access point's MAC address or SSID. They can't use your network if you have proper encryption set up and they're not near by. There is literally nothing that anyone can do with this database to affect you in any negative way. Some of you really need to think this through and realize that the Google wifi location db/skyhook/etc. is completely harmless privacy-wise, while providing an excellent service to the public.
Why in the heck do you people care if Google maps your AP's location? It's not like this information can be used for anything but it's intended purpose: wifi location services.
Making it opt-in would make it useless as people won't care enough to opt-in.
This isn't a privacy issue at all. The tinfoil-hat crowd really needs to get a life.
Seeing that cooking grease is made of hydrocarbons, and life on earth uses hydrocarbons extensively in its makeup, there's a good chance that grease left sitting in a drum for decades would become something's dinner before you build up enough of it to sell it for even a few dollars.
I doubt there's an open Wifi network in the prison... So why does the presence of a Wifi chipset or ethernet port even matter? There's nothing to connect it to.
Does this even have much of a chance of passing? Considering how hard it's been lately to get IMPORTANT laws passed... do we even have to worry?
Our government can't seem to get much of anything done lately; how is this different?
My actual real name is so common that it wouldn't help anyone find me.
There are millions and millions of me across the country.
This.
I have an iPhone 4 and have no plans to upgrade to the 4s until its at least 2 years old. I boggle at the people who upgrade every year, but oh well, it's their money. I'm glad they're helping the economy. :)
>makes it kinda more important that the names are real.
Some of us use pseudonyms that we've used for over a decade, unchanged. We have dozens of friends who know us by that name, and even more acquaintances. I've been "Zorin" since 1995. This is just as good as a real name for identifying me.
My friends and I joined G+ rather quickly upon its inception. We started having fun on it. It was great.
Then some of our accounts started getting suspended because of violations of a questionable "names policy". The policy said to use the name that people know you by, and those are the names we all used. Apparently that wasn't good enough for Google, though; they suspended accounts anyway, even some with "real looking" Western style names. Once enough people got suspended, the remaining batch of folks that didn't got pissed off that their friends were kicked off the service, and they left voluntarily.
Their name policy was unclear, and people would even get their names approved only to get suspended again later on by a different overzealous admin. It was chaos.
I think the lesson to be learned here is don't alienate your users, ESPECIALLY early adopters. We can make or break a social network.
Facebook may require real names, but at least they were absolutely clear about this from the start. They were not wishy-washy, and didn't mass-suspend new accounts like G+ did.
I doubt they would. ZFS is one of the last remaining reasons to run Solaris, pay for Solaris maint, etc... If they port ZFS to Linux they will lose quite a bit of that revenue stream.
We all want it; ZFS is a beautiful thing, we run it at our site and practically worship its awesomeness....but it probably won't happen.
>I get dozens of robocalls every single day that use text-to-speech to address me by name.
Holy shit, dude. That sucks. I would have changed my phone number ages ago.
I hate unsolicited calls. I'm fairly lucky to have ended up with a phone number that does not receive them...
European standard has its downsides too. For instance, there's a per minute fee to call cel phones in the UK, because you're paying for the recipient's airtime. I'd much rather each person pay for their own minutes, this way, the cost for making a call is always the same without having to worry about what sort of equipment the person you're calling has.
Those collection agency calls where they call you and tell you to call a number and ask for $NAME are a scam. In my case, they'd call wanting to talk about a "check I had written". They were robocalling me for months, probably close to a year before I finally disconnected that land line (for other unrelated reasons, though it was nice to be free of those calls finally)
Turns out this was a fraudster company that would bully people into thinking they had an unpaid debt and to pay the "debt" off. Once you started talking to them they'd even threaten you with legal action if you didn't pay; legal action that would never come, of course, since the whole thing was fraudulent.
I'm not sure if it's still going on. Remember, real debt collectors call you directly (no robocalls), address you by name and can specify precisely what you owe and to whom.
I think I'll stick to TF2, the game that's STILL barrels of fun four years later, and never, EVER gets old.
Ya'll console people don't know what you're missing. :)
Port failure is usually considered an in-warranty repair, so the smartphone makers have every reason to make the ports as durable as possible.
Lately I've started using, for example, 2001-Sep-11, to completely remove ambiguity.
I wish we could agree on how to write numeric dates, but it's doubtful we ever will, so the above way is the best way.
There's no way to determine the source of a key someone entered.
What if a friend found the keys on the net, and decided to pretend they're gifting the person a copy of Dirt 3? Boom, suspended account, all because someone thought they were receiving a gift.
It's a dumb idea to suspend one's entire account for entering a "stolen" key when the key can simply be revoked and the user told that it was stolen. It's the virtual equivalent of throwing someone in jail because a friend bought a stolen laptop at a flea market and gave it to them as a gift.
Just confiscate the laptop, say "sorry for the inconvenience, blame your friend" and MOVE ON.
>Who said there has to be a point?
This is one of the most insightful things I've read in a long time.
So many people are worried about their existence having a "point". We need to relax and enjoy life a bit more.
Do people still wardrive? I always figured that was an early 2000s "geeky fun" activity that's long since become boring and uninteresting.
I know I wardrove a bit during the early days of wifi, but these days I find the idea kind of ridiculous and immature. :)