Actually, yes, that exact thing is in Canadian law already.
If your desktop computer is password-protected, the police require a warrant to look through it. If not, it's fair game. The court ruling said that it's like having a lock on your house to show that it's private property. It doesn't necessarily have to be engaged, but it has to be on there. A lock or password shows that you don't want strangers to get in there without your permission.
It's one of the many reasons my laptop is encrypted.
Bear in mind I'm an Engineer and not a lawyer, so I don't have the access, time, or talent to look up the references.
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That's not really what keeps consoles alive.
If I want to play the latest game for a PC, I have to check the specs, buy a new video card every year. I'll have to upgrade the CPU and RAM every 2 years or so as well. A decent gaming rig will set me back $1500 and be a money sink.
If I want to play the latest game for the 360, I buy the game and put it in the drive. It'll run. It cost $500 with the extra controllers and the Kinect. I won't have to upgrade it until I decide to buy the next gen XBox.
They aren't supposed to be online, no. What you have though is the desire to do remote monitoring. One of the SCADA systems I used had an email module so you could get an email when things got all fucked up. That's a super awesome feature to have on a mission critical device.
"Hey, Beardo, it's Loader 1. Probably nothing to worry about, but sensors picked up a fluctuation in the output. Last time this happened the system crashed hard. Yeah, I know you're in a movie. Come check on meeee."
Now if this was up to me, and I know it's not, I'd build that module with an optoelectronic relay so it can send messages but be physically incapable of receiving them. Of course that does limit the usefulness, I can't send back messages, but I could call the place and let the night crew know there's a problem (if they aren't already aware) and how to mediate it.
It would be, if you're in custody and you're trying to find a lawyer immediately and then find out if they're any good. My lawyer's on speed dial. Is yours?
In Canada, anything you say, EVEN AFTER YOU ASK FOR A LAWYER, is admissible in court. The only thing to say is "I have nothing to say. My lawyer's name is [fill in name]." Repeat as required.
TPB (which does not host any pirated material whatsoever) had their copyrighted site design stolen by a group that has been lobbying the government to put people in jail (for longer terms than rape or murder) for copying copyright material.
The copyright lobby group is now trying to say "no no, it's parody" but they've been lobbying hard to get parody removed from the list of exemptions and have recently succeeded.
Thus, TPB is attempting to hoist them on their own petard.
Second, and this is critical, they can pass any laws they want, but that doesn't mean they're legal. The fact is that warrantless wiretapping in Canada is unlawful NO MATTER WHAT NEW LAWS THEY PASS. The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down laws that aren't acceptable, and one notable ruling was a mandatory sentence which was ignored the same day the law was assented. The ink was literally still wet on the Governor General's signature. (I mean "literally" in the English Composition sense, not the Interweb vernacular)
We have a Constitution, and ours is from 1982, so we can actually ask the asshole who got it signed. Highlights are that it says right in there that it's the highest law in the land, end of story. In there, you have the right to privacy. Frankly, anybody who gets convicted on something found by a warrantless wiretap will end up walking because it's just not lawful.
Finally, our governments in the US and Canada think that anything that's not in the Constitution is free game, and that's totally wrong. The Constitution is the only document that allows the government to exist at all. If they don't follow the only laws that let them make choices for us, it's time to kill them all -- every last one of them -- and leave their corpses hanging from the legislature as a warning to others.
Don't burn down the building and salt the land though, it's a heritage building and can't be replaced.
First bad password: 1 second to retry. Second bad password: 2 seconds to retry. Third bad password: 4 seconds to retry. Fourth bad password: 8 seconds to retry. Fifth bad password: 16 seconds to retry.
You get the idea. It'll end brute-force and only mildly inconvenience clueless users with fat fingers.
Max damages in Canada are $5000 for all your piracy ever.
That means they can only sue you in small claims court.
If you go to small claims by yourself and the other guy sends a dozen lawyers, the judge will almost always find in favour of the guy by himself. A really good judge will take 50+ hours to do so in order to mess up the team of lawyers.
Also I have electrical tape over my laptop's camera.
Yeah, no kidding. If you could solve a sticky problem in 30 minutes, that shows your value. If you're worrying THEYRE STERALING MAH IDEEARS! then you're basically a complete fuckup.
Apparently if you have an interest in weapons (I'm a military contractor) and yoga (and fitness instructor), you're also interested in an all-you-can-eat sausage buffet.
The part about caffeine that is dangerous is that, like other stimulants, it gives the impression of improved brain performance without really delivering it.
That's not true for all drugs. For example, ethanol intake makes me funnier, smarter, stronger, and sexier.
That's what my lawyer's told me. "Even if they say something completely wrong and it hurts, they're just trying to hurt your case. You want to say something, say it through me, and I'm not talking."
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What I don't understand is why he didn't just make a note on the document then sign it.
"Oh, hang on."
*writes CDN and initials it*
"there we go!"
*sign*
I do that all the time for things that are worth far more than his boat.
When you're an adult in a fight, you fight to kill and let fly with everything you have.
This might be it.
Actually, yes, that exact thing is in Canadian law already.
If your desktop computer is password-protected, the police require a warrant to look through it. If not, it's fair game. The court ruling said that it's like having a lock on your house to show that it's private property. It doesn't necessarily have to be engaged, but it has to be on there. A lock or password shows that you don't want strangers to get in there without your permission.
It's one of the many reasons my laptop is encrypted.
Bear in mind I'm an Engineer and not a lawyer, so I don't have the access, time, or talent to look up the references.
That's not really what keeps consoles alive.
If I want to play the latest game for a PC, I have to check the specs, buy a new video card every year. I'll have to upgrade the CPU and RAM every 2 years or so as well. A decent gaming rig will set me back $1500 and be a money sink.
If I want to play the latest game for the 360, I buy the game and put it in the drive. It'll run. It cost $500 with the extra controllers and the Kinect. I won't have to upgrade it until I decide to buy the next gen XBox.
You know, I like the blurry internet better.
I've done those too. Hooked up an output signal to an autodialler to call myself.
"Hey Beardo, that loader is all fucked up again. Pick up bananas on the way home."
The only downside is you can't get data on the fly, just a generic error.
That's what I said, an optoelectronic relay.
They aren't supposed to be online, no. What you have though is the desire to do remote monitoring. One of the SCADA systems I used had an email module so you could get an email when things got all fucked up. That's a super awesome feature to have on a mission critical device.
"Hey, Beardo, it's Loader 1. Probably nothing to worry about, but sensors picked up a fluctuation in the output. Last time this happened the system crashed hard. Yeah, I know you're in a movie. Come check on meeee."
Now if this was up to me, and I know it's not, I'd build that module with an optoelectronic relay so it can send messages but be physically incapable of receiving them. Of course that does limit the usefulness, I can't send back messages, but I could call the place and let the night crew know there's a problem (if they aren't already aware) and how to mediate it.
Well, I do know enough people that if I did get a call, I'd still be able to get my lawyer to the PHQ in a hurry.
Or not a hurry, I'd just sit back and play some minecraft on my ph... oh.
I did look it up before I posted. Did you?
It would be, if you're in custody and you're trying to find a lawyer immediately and then find out if they're any good. My lawyer's on speed dial. Is yours?
In Canada, anything you say, EVEN AFTER YOU ASK FOR A LAWYER, is admissible in court. The only thing to say is "I have nothing to say. My lawyer's name is [fill in name]." Repeat as required.
Exactly.
TPB (which does not host any pirated material whatsoever) had their copyrighted site design stolen by a group that has been lobbying the government to put people in jail (for longer terms than rape or murder) for copying copyright material.
The copyright lobby group is now trying to say "no no, it's parody" but they've been lobbying hard to get parody removed from the list of exemptions and have recently succeeded.
Thus, TPB is attempting to hoist them on their own petard.
DUDE.
Dude.
You have to press A to play the game.
Dude.
I hate pressing A, man. It reminds me of those M$ A-HOLES AMIRITE!!!
It's American TV. They conflate fascist and communist all the time.
Well, first, we're talking about Canada.
Second, and this is critical, they can pass any laws they want, but that doesn't mean they're legal. The fact is that warrantless wiretapping in Canada is unlawful NO MATTER WHAT NEW LAWS THEY PASS. The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down laws that aren't acceptable, and one notable ruling was a mandatory sentence which was ignored the same day the law was assented. The ink was literally still wet on the Governor General's signature. (I mean "literally" in the English Composition sense, not the Interweb vernacular)
We have a Constitution, and ours is from 1982, so we can actually ask the asshole who got it signed. Highlights are that it says right in there that it's the highest law in the land, end of story. In there, you have the right to privacy. Frankly, anybody who gets convicted on something found by a warrantless wiretap will end up walking because it's just not lawful.
Finally, our governments in the US and Canada think that anything that's not in the Constitution is free game, and that's totally wrong. The Constitution is the only document that allows the government to exist at all. If they don't follow the only laws that let them make choices for us, it's time to kill them all -- every last one of them -- and leave their corpses hanging from the legislature as a warning to others.
Don't burn down the building and salt the land though, it's a heritage building and can't be replaced.
I pirated Open Office just on principle.
I'd just double the time it takes for each try.
First bad password: 1 second to retry.
Second bad password: 2 seconds to retry.
Third bad password: 4 seconds to retry.
Fourth bad password: 8 seconds to retry.
Fifth bad password: 16 seconds to retry.
You get the idea. It'll end brute-force and only mildly inconvenience clueless users with fat fingers.
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That'll take a couple of years to figure out.
Well, they could just push an update to a BR player to be a packet sniffer.
Max damages in Canada are $5000 for all your piracy ever.
That means they can only sue you in small claims court.
If you go to small claims by yourself and the other guy sends a dozen lawyers, the judge will almost always find in favour of the guy by himself. A really good judge will take 50+ hours to do so in order to mess up the team of lawyers.
Also I have electrical tape over my laptop's camera.
Yeah, no kidding. If you could solve a sticky problem in 30 minutes, that shows your value. If you're worrying THEYRE STERALING MAH IDEEARS! then you're basically a complete fuckup.
The biggest criminals in the US are rich white men.
The amount of petty theft in the history of the US pales in comparison to what the bankers got away with in 2008.
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Apparently if you have an interest in weapons (I'm a military contractor) and yoga (and fitness instructor), you're also interested in an all-you-can-eat sausage buffet.
The part about caffeine that is dangerous is that, like other stimulants, it gives the impression of improved brain performance without really delivering it.
That's not true for all drugs. For example, ethanol intake makes me funnier, smarter, stronger, and sexier.
That's what my lawyer's told me. "Even if they say something completely wrong and it hurts, they're just trying to hurt your case. You want to say something, say it through me, and I'm not talking."