Spain and Italy are sovereign nations. They can repudiate their debts and their is nothing private investors can do about it (other sovereign states can resort to force). Of course they might have some difficulty borrowing in the future...
Make that "dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" for a bit more speed. And ask permission first. Don't tell them exactly what you are going to do, though (unless they ask). Just say "Is it ok if I clean out my machine?" or something equally vague.
There is also fancy stuff like "Wipe" but it is overkill.
It was "the Authories" that had access and used it to spy on citizens...
No shit. And do you really think that the UK authorities would have denied the company a license to sell the software to the Egyption authorities? Remember, they were our allies in the War On Terror.
To your second point...
Which is that this is just another bit of malware, different from the usual kind only in that it is "legit", commercial, and very expensive.
...do you really believe that they have no way of brute forcing a hunk of Spyware on to any Windows PC?
It's Windows. "Brute force" may be too strong a term. Maybe "gentle push"?
I would rather see how they do it to be not found out by anti-virus programs and what we can do now to detect if we (well, those who might be at risk) are infected or not.
Well, once it is properly "regulated" as the article suggests is necessary the antivirus vendors will be prohibited from warning users about licensed spyware as it will only be used in authorized police investigations.
Oooh. People doing things without permission. Oooh. This must be stopped! Only the Authorities should have access to this sort of thing (because you know we can trust them).
From anywhere on the globe, the software can penetrate the most private spaces, turning on computer web cameras and reading documents as they are being typed.
Let them build their own "cloud". Siezing other people's property is not the way to guarantee uninterrupted access (assuming, of course, that that is what this is actually about).
Perhaps, but in American "Columbia" refers either to the river or to the district while "Colombia" refers to the nation in South America. "Columbia" is also an archaic term for the USA, as in "Columbia Gem of the Ocean".
How about we just get Voter ID laws passed first so we know who is actually voting.
Existing law already requires that you identify yourself to the satisfaction of the electoral judges and provides precedures for protests. Electoral judges who fail their duties under present law are not going to notice fake IDs.
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Spain and Italy are sovereign nations. They can repudiate their debts and their is nothing private investors can do about it (other sovereign states can resort to force). Of course they might have some difficulty borrowing in the future...
That's what he's worried about.
Make that "dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" for a bit more speed. And ask permission first. Don't tell them exactly what you are going to do, though (unless they ask). Just say "Is it ok if I clean out my machine?" or something equally vague.
There is also fancy stuff like "Wipe" but it is overkill.
They'll enable that feature for an extra $80,000.
No shit. And do you really think that the UK authorities would have denied the company a license to sell the software to the Egyption authorities? Remember, they were our allies in the War On Terror.
Which is that this is just another bit of malware, different from the usual kind only in that it is "legit", commercial, and very expensive.
It's Windows. "Brute force" may be too strong a term. Maybe "gentle push"?
Well, once it is properly "regulated" as the article suggests is necessary the antivirus vendors will be prohibited from warning users about licensed spyware as it will only be used in authorized police investigations.
Right. Export controls: that's the ticket. It worked so well for encryption software and inconvenienced no one.
"Blind eye"? Who the hell do you think are the customers for this sort of stuff?
If it is installed on your computer.
How do they respond to cruise missiles? Or a squad of SEALS with sachel charges? Or even just blackholing of all their IPs?
Or your Google glasses automatically beaming audio and video to the police when it decides you are doing something suspicious.
> Once this thing passes...
"Passes"? Do you labor under the delusion that this is legislation? It's just a private, voluntary agreement among some businesses.
So that limits us to Project Gutenberg. Everything else is "copyrighted", and every time you "visit" A Web site you "download material".
Let them build their own "cloud". Siezing other people's property is not the way to guarantee uninterrupted access (assuming, of course, that that is what this is actually about).
Horseshit. The hazard is significant for a few hundred years at most. People are not going to dig the stuff up and eat it by the ton.
> Seriously, the TSA and DHS need to be abolished,
Damn right.
> How is this a problem? If the device detects explosives then
> you are taken to a secondary more "personal" search.
How is that not a problem?
Perhaps, but in American "Columbia" refers either to the river or to the district while "Colombia" refers to the nation in South America. "Columbia" is also an archaic term for the USA, as in "Columbia Gem of the Ocean".
You assume that the thief is observant enough to notice that the vehicle is unlocked.
In any case, you can fix the roof with duct tape.
And yet he uses it, adding the myth that all anarchists hate science to the myth that all anarchists advocate violence.
"Why are are journalists jerks?" Don't be offended: I am under no illusion that all journalists are jerks. It's just a line.
> ...the Olympic motto of "faster, higher, stronger"...
I thought the Olympic motto was "Winning is everything".
BTW aren't we going to get sued for using the word Olympic without a license?
Especially after pranksters start leaving magnets in random places...
Or outcheated him.
Existing law already requires that you identify yourself to the satisfaction of the electoral judges and provides precedures for protests. Electoral judges who fail their duties under present law are not going to notice fake IDs.
There are far too many of them.
> Like having an non-partisan...
Only a fool believes that there is any non-partisan anything.