Back before word-processors, getting all these laws published at all was an improvement for the public. Being able to go to an official publisher and just buy a copy was much better than having to go down to the court house, do research, and write out the parts you needed by hand. By licensing that public's copyright to a vendor who could handle typesetting and mass production, the government improved access to the laws. That was then.
This is now. Now, word-processors and web sites are everywhere. Now, restricting the right to publish the laws decreases access to them by the public (who are the ultimate owners of these copyrights). It is time for our governments to relicense these copyrights -- to us. In today's world, restrictive licensing serves only an entrenched and useless monopoly. It disserves the public.
Someone I used to know back in the day built a porch add-on to their house. As everyone knows, there's plenty of codes to follow. He went down to city hall, got the necessary paperwork and guidelines, and built his porch. A month later, the city came and demanded that he knock it down, as it was too close to the road.
You know, a lot of cities have a neat little system where they send an inspector to each building site before construction is complete to sign off on issues like that. Sounds like this city should look into that.
What this debacle reveals is that ISO's processes and procedures are poorly designed to deal with a wealthy attacker. Our options are (i) fix ISO's procedures or (ii) fork ISO.
Reforming ISO is probably going to be the easier option, but before we nail any theses to the church door, consider whether we will have anything like a unified, standard church when we're through.
After 2 years of being in 'alpha' status with nothing spent on advertising... hmmm. Imagine that.
I'm imagining ditching my vendor and taking my content to a new partner with a bigger user base. Or maybe doing it all in house, though that sounds like too much work.
So, what happens when the print newspaper gets indexed by a library? How about by a data service like LexisNexis (which happens to allow access via HTTP, to its paying customers)?
This just isn't going to work, nice as that would be. But, perhaps it will start a debate that will get all such records comprehensively suppressed.
While the concern that produced this order is real, this amounts to Security Through Obscurity -- to the extent that you can call a print newspaper obscure.
Yes, George is a tyrant. Don't believe it? Here's a partial list.
The History of [George] is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good. . . . He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and Amount and Payment of their Salaries.
He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance. . . . He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: . . . For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences: . . . He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation. . . . [George] is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
It looks like the judge made a pretty good call in this case. What he really rejected was the MTBA lawyers' assertion that it was an act prohibited by the law . ..
Interesting that the judge waited this long. He could have lifted the TRO days ago when the EFF lawyers first appeared in court. The judge really gave MBTA every opportunity to come up with something.
My guy is evolv^H^H^H^H^Hrunning straight to the middle. Too many moves lately have been transparently directed at undermining the objections of people who didn't like his principles: funding bump to NASA*, doughnut-hole letting people like me not pay necessary social security taxes, telecomm immunity, opposition to DC gun ban, declined public campaign financing.
He's still be better than any other candidate we've been offered since Al Gore, but each passing day I have less and less hope for greatness.
. . . despite being a comedy program The Colbert Report appears to exercise "disproportionate real world influence" -- likely due to the "elite demographic" of its audience.
Disproportionate to what? Do other programs with a 1.3 million-person audience not produce similar effects on fundraising?
Are there no Republican fora with Republican audiences that produce bumps for Republican guests and dips for Democratic ones? I wonder what the O'Reilly Factor data look like.
The graphs only show +/-60 days, a time period in which TFA suggests that the appearance on tCR is causing a shift in fundraising. What we need, to get a sense of the impact of tCR is to look at these same candidates in time periods when tCR is not a possible influence, e.g. +/- 120 days.
It's all well and good to look at non-tCR candidates at the same time as the appearance, but we also need to look at tCR candidates at other times.
Even less explicable in the original article is the bump Republicans exhibit in the 45 days prior to their appearance. It's unclear whether they have even agreed to do the show at that time. Certainly, no one is advertising their appearance.
Lacking any explanation of how tCR could cause that pre-bump, we must consider whether the pre-bump might be causing the appearance on tCR. That is, tCR may invite Republicans who are making headlines and getting donations.
The NBC commentator specifically said, as the footage was being shown, that the event's producers were using a cinematic interlude to convey the concept of the fireworks. The actual firewoks WERE going off at the same time, and in much the same way... but there was simply no way to be sure they could show it well on TV - since . ..
the notional ground speed of the POV of that FX shot was faster than anything short of military jets.
Mod parent up. The hulls of manned subs are designed to maintain a low-pressure environment inside to protect components (e.g., people) that can't handle high pressure.
In an unmanned sub, you can adopt a hull that doesn't keep the pressure out (i.e., one that just keeps out the conductive, corrosive water), but then all your interior components must withstand the high pressure. Components that deform when compressed may not be usable then.
I've borrowed a laptop from my office to download a little . . . well, nevermind. But, the thing is that my manager went apeshit and the laptop turns out to have a lot of valuable data sitting on it. What should I do?
The FBI is searching the homes of all the employees, so I can't keep it. If I give it to a friend, some one will eventually tell and I'll get busted.
If I dump it or destroy it, they'll assume espionage and the investigation will go on for months and I'm sure to slip up eventually.
If I return it to quiet things down, I might provide them with forensic evidence they can link to me, not to mention maybe getting caught doing it.
Please help. If I lose my security clearance, I'll never get another job.
So, what we have here is starting to sound like: employee 'borrows' office computer for home use, manager raises alarm, news media panics, employee waits until dust settles a little to slip 'borrowed' property back into office.
Either that, or the identity thieves who who masterminded the scheme to steal that data were really slow.
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Back before word-processors, getting all these laws published at all was an improvement for the public. Being able to go to an official publisher and just buy a copy was much better than having to go down to the court house, do research, and write out the parts you needed by hand. By licensing that public's copyright to a vendor who could handle typesetting and mass production, the government improved access to the laws. That was then.
This is now. Now, word-processors and web sites are everywhere. Now, restricting the right to publish the laws decreases access to them by the public (who are the ultimate owners of these copyrights). It is time for our governments to relicense these copyrights -- to us. In today's world, restrictive licensing serves only an entrenched and useless monopoly. It disserves the public.
Someone I used to know back in the day built a porch add-on to their house. As everyone knows, there's plenty of codes to follow. He went down to city hall, got the necessary paperwork and guidelines, and built his porch. A month later, the city came and demanded that he knock it down, as it was too close to the road.
You know, a lot of cities have a neat little system where they send an inspector to each building site before construction is complete to sign off on issues like that. Sounds like this city should look into that.
What this debacle reveals is that ISO's processes and procedures are poorly designed to deal with a wealthy attacker. Our options are (i) fix ISO's procedures or (ii) fork ISO.
Reforming ISO is probably going to be the easier option, but before we nail any theses to the church door, consider whether we will have anything like a unified, standard church when we're through.
SWF 23 seeks SWM with sense of humor, mid-six figures, and no RS3-334.
1. Who initiated the meeting between you and MTBA? You or them?
2. Did you ride MBTA using non-genuine fare cards?
3. Did you walk into non-public areas of MTBA?
That was a love-fest, not an interview.
It cannot be patched before the election . . .
. . . which is 70 days away.
There. Is. No. Excuse. For. This. Shit. Either.
After 2 years of being in 'alpha' status with nothing spent on advertising... hmmm. Imagine that.
I'm imagining ditching my vendor and taking my content to a new partner with a bigger user base. Or maybe doing it all in house, though that sounds like too much work.
So, what happens when the print newspaper gets indexed by a library? How about by a data service like LexisNexis (which happens to allow access via HTTP, to its paying customers)?
This just isn't going to work, nice as that would be. But, perhaps it will start a debate that will get all such records comprehensively suppressed.
While the concern that produced this order is real, this amounts to Security Through Obscurity -- to the extent that you can call a print newspaper obscure.
Yes, George is a tyrant. Don't believe it? Here's a partial list.
The History of [George] is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.
. . .
He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and Amount and Payment of their Salaries.
He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.
. . .
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
. . .
For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:
. . .
He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.
. . .
[George] is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
It looks like the judge made a pretty good call in this case. What he really rejected was the MTBA lawyers' assertion that it was an act prohibited by the law . . .
Interesting that the judge waited this long. He could have lifted the TRO days ago when the EFF lawyers first appeared in court. The judge really gave MBTA every opportunity to come up with something.
And they had nada.
My guy is evolv^H^H^H^H^Hrunning straight to the middle. Too many moves lately have been transparently directed at undermining the objections of people who didn't like his principles: funding bump to NASA*, doughnut-hole letting people like me not pay necessary social security taxes, telecomm immunity, opposition to DC gun ban, declined public campaign financing.
He's still be better than any other candidate we've been offered since Al Gore, but each passing day I have less and less hope for greatness.
(*Even though I favor funding NASA.)
I am older, and was raised to always trust a policeman.
If you are in trouble, you need to meet a policeman. If you are not in trouble, meeting a policeman will get you there.
. . . despite being a comedy program The Colbert Report appears to exercise "disproportionate real world influence" -- likely due to the "elite demographic" of its audience.
Disproportionate to what? Do other programs with a 1.3 million-person audience not produce similar effects on fundraising?
Are there no Republican fora with Republican audiences that produce bumps for Republican guests and dips for Democratic ones? I wonder what the O'Reilly Factor data look like.
The graphs only show +/-60 days, a time period in which TFA suggests that the appearance on tCR is causing a shift in fundraising. What we need, to get a sense of the impact of tCR is to look at these same candidates in time periods when tCR is not a possible influence, e.g. +/- 120 days.
It's all well and good to look at non-tCR candidates at the same time as the appearance, but we also need to look at tCR candidates at other times.
Even less explicable in the original article is the bump Republicans exhibit in the 45 days prior to their appearance. It's unclear whether they have even agreed to do the show at that time. Certainly, no one is advertising their appearance.
Lacking any explanation of how tCR could cause that pre-bump, we must consider whether the pre-bump might be causing the appearance on tCR. That is, tCR may invite Republicans who are making headlines and getting donations.
The NBC commentator specifically said, as the footage was being shown, that the event's producers were using a cinematic interlude to convey the concept of the fireworks. The actual firewoks WERE going off at the same time, and in much the same way... but there was simply no way to be sure they could show it well on TV - since . . .
the notional ground speed of the POV of that FX shot was faster than anything short of military jets.
Mod parent up. The hulls of manned subs are designed to maintain a low-pressure environment inside to protect components (e.g., people) that can't handle high pressure.
In an unmanned sub, you can adopt a hull that doesn't keep the pressure out (i.e., one that just keeps out the conductive, corrosive water), but then all your interior components must withstand the high pressure. Components that deform when compressed may not be usable then.
Good call leaving out "You put it in the oven."
After all, this is /. -- people with ovens don't let the kids here play.
Kudos for posting this in Entertainment, not just in Apple.
We haven't had a story this funny since . . .
The more interesting question would be, "Why are there only 8?"
But, we know the answer to that: because mommy was around to protect the kids from themselves.
I, for one, saw the custom picture and wondered: is this /.?
Sure it's cute, but what's it doing here?
Dear Slashdot,
I've borrowed a laptop from my office to download a little . . . well, nevermind. But, the thing is that my manager went apeshit and the laptop turns out to have a lot of valuable data sitting on it. What should I do?
The FBI is searching the homes of all the employees, so I can't keep it. If I give it to a friend, some one will eventually tell and I'll get busted.
If I dump it or destroy it, they'll assume espionage and the investigation will go on for months and I'm sure to slip up eventually.
If I return it to quiet things down, I might provide them with forensic evidence they can link to me, not to mention maybe getting caught doing it.
Please help. If I lose my security clearance, I'll never get another job.
Never mind that any thief who had the keys/access to the office to return the laptop is also rather likely to have had the passwords.
So, what we have here is starting to sound like: employee 'borrows' office computer for home use, manager raises alarm, news media panics, employee waits until dust settles a little to slip 'borrowed' property back into office.
Either that, or the identity thieves who who masterminded the scheme to steal that data were really slow.