Sounds like a remarkably ineffective way to hide anything. Google "public notice"+site:.gov . Should be rather simple to set up publicnotices.org (or.com) if you are worried that such notice will be "hidden".
Publishing in the Pierce County Herald, on the other hand...
> DMCA only cares if the code constitutes a circumvention device or not.
A DMCA takedown notice, which is what Sourceforge received, is about copyright infringement. It is not about circumvention. Read the notice posted at ChillingEffects. Adobe has asserted that the RTMPE documents hosted at Sourceforge infringe its copyrights. If they are clean room implementations this cannot be true.
> People will increase risk by having to write them down...
Depending on your threat model that may not be a risk. You are generally much safer letting your users carry truly random passwords in their wallets than letting them use their pet's names.
> Here is a hint to all of the companies in the OS market: give your best distribution > away and use it as a client for services that google can't profitably provide for free.
> They're really installing drivers by having some schmuck walk around with a USB stick?
I suspect that a driver update came out after the machines had been imaged but before they shipped and somebody decided the update was critical. Or perhaps a new image incorporating the new driver was going to take a few days to get through engineering and QC and manufacturing couldn't wait (they never can) and so they came up with the USB stick trick (poorly thought out, as is usual for manufacturing's ad hoc solutions).
> You know I'm the son of the baby boomer generation. We were promised a lot.
Bullshit. You weren't promised a bloody thing. Predictions were made as to what you would accomplish. You screwed up.
> We were all told we were special and that we'd have all these new things to do things > with and new ways to do stuff.
And so you sat on your ass waiting for someone to create them for you. And there you sit still, whining. Get over it. You aren't special and never were.
> How many people/organizations are one simple fuckup away from making a raft of cryptic > charges to your credit card?
Very few. If such a thing were to happen I would contact the bank and inform them that the charge was unauthorized and I refuse to pay it. In my admittedly limited experience the bank will then charge the amount back to the merchant and demand that he prove I authorized the charge.
> How many more people/organizations could(and possibly already are) tacking on little > charges here and there, semilicitly?
None. You see, the bank sends me a thing called a "statement" each month. It lists all the charges and I check them all.
> Not to mention, of course, the actual criminals.
Those who "tack on little charges" that I did not authorize are criminals.
"This problem reinforces my aversion to automatic bill payment services that give companies the authority to draw money from my bank account at their discretion."
Sensible man. Now as long as he keeps that piece of paper secure (by keeping it in his wallet with his driver's license, perhaps) his account is secure. Until the Web site is cracked.
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> weird...
The story is horseshit. Ethanol derived from maize it not economic, but it won't damage engines.
There are small amounts of everything everywhere, for sufficiently small values of "small".
So you intend to give up the Net and take up reading public notices in newspapers when you get old? BTW how do you define old?
> Who, exactly, is archiving government web site content like this? Nobody, that's who.
Well, what are you waiting for? You think it needs doing: do it.
Sounds like a remarkably ineffective way to hide anything. Google "public notice"+site:.gov . Should be rather simple to set up publicnotices.org (or .com) if you are worried that such notice will be "hidden".
Publishing in the Pierce County Herald, on the other hand...
No. That concentration is far too high to qualify as homeopathic. For that you have to get it down to less than one molecule per liter.
> It must change.
Why?
> DMCA only cares if the code constitutes a circumvention device or not.
A DMCA takedown notice, which is what Sourceforge received, is about copyright infringement. It is not about circumvention. Read the notice posted at ChillingEffects. Adobe has asserted that the RTMPE documents hosted at Sourceforge infringe its copyrights. If they are clean room implementations this cannot be true.
> If you can patent these things, patents have become truly useless and sucky.
These aren't patents. They are patent applications.
> Devices that are both TV and gaming device are so old. Even cellular phones do it. Oh
> and PC's of course.
Did you read the claims? If not you have no idea what they are trying to patent.
> Lawyers are truly, really, degrading human progress.
It's the politicians that make the laws, not the lawyers.
> It kindda still matters.
In your case, yes. In others (locked offices) it may not.
> They won't notice her picking a post-it note from it.
You would probably notice her picking a slip of paper from your wallet.
> People will increase risk by having to write them down...
Depending on your threat model that may not be a risk. You are generally much safer letting your users carry truly random passwords in their wallets than letting them use their pet's names.
> Here is a hint to all of the companies in the OS market: give your best distribution
> away and use it as a client for services that google can't profitably provide for free.
And use it to lock the customers in.
> That's the future.
Grim, isn't it?
> They're really installing drivers by having some schmuck walk around with a USB stick?
I suspect that a driver update came out after the machines had been imaged but before they shipped and somebody decided the update was critical. Or perhaps a new image incorporating the new driver was going to take a few days to get through engineering and QC and manufacturing couldn't wait (they never can) and so they came up with the USB stick trick (poorly thought out, as is usual for manufacturing's ad hoc solutions).
...wipe it and install a new OS. There are several available. They are quite inexpensive. In fact, they are Free.
> What does this say for the wisdom of non-US citizens relying on US companies for their
> business or communication?
What does this say for the wisdom of relying on a free service provided by any company for their business or communication?
BTW it may shock you to learn that the US is not the only country with asinine regulations.
> ...the crew on the Space Station did something that no other astronaut has ever done
> before -- drank recycled urine and sweat.
Everyone drinks recycled urine and sweat every day.
None of the devices currently in use are robots. They're just military waldos.
GPS speeds are inaccurate when computed over short distances. They should be averaging over a kilometer or so. They probably aren't.
> You know I'm the son of the baby boomer generation. We were promised a lot.
Bullshit. You weren't promised a bloody thing. Predictions were made as to what you would accomplish. You screwed up.
> We were all told we were special and that we'd have all these new things to do things
> with and new ways to do stuff.
And so you sat on your ass waiting for someone to create them for you. And there you sit still, whining. Get over it. You aren't special and never were.
> I have been awaiting a lightweight, head-mounted display that actually has decent
> resolution and doesn't look like a brick tied to your face.
It will still look like a brick tied to your face but it will be from Apple so it will be cool.
> How many people/organizations are one simple fuckup away from making a raft of cryptic
> charges to your credit card?
Very few. If such a thing were to happen I would contact the bank and inform them that the charge was unauthorized and I refuse to pay it. In my admittedly limited experience the bank will then charge the amount back to the merchant and demand that he prove I authorized the charge.
> How many more people/organizations could(and possibly already are) tacking on little
> charges here and there, semilicitly?
None. You see, the bank sends me a thing called a "statement" each month. It lists all the charges and I check them all.
> Not to mention, of course, the actual criminals.
Those who "tack on little charges" that I did not authorize are criminals.
But you created such an account anyway.
Clever! Firefox needs a plugin for that.
You are assuming that the answer actually is his password.
Sensible man. Now as long as he keeps that piece of paper secure (by keeping it in his wallet with his driver's license, perhaps) his account is secure. Until the Web site is cracked.