I suspect you would be better served to ask how many subnets/VLANs he uses, and how they're structured to isolate the BYOD bits from the rest of the infrastructure.
./aversion to RTFA aside, it still makes no sense at all. They have the drive, they have (some of) the contents, they have proof the drive and contents were his.
What the hell more do they need, a signed confession?
having an "intricate electronic folder structure" complete with "detailed personal information" is nefarious?
No, it just proves that the disk belongs to him, and thus with all likelihood also the childporn.
Not really - the typical user's Chrome cache has what can be construed as an "intricate folder structure" and "detailed personal information". All it takes is to visit a few websites of any kind with logons and/or forms, and have the browser save your logon names/passwords and form info for a couple of them.
Conspiracy bits aside, if the FBI found something, why would they demand he open the gates to more?
Could they not simply prosecute him based on just what they have so far? That way there would be no 5th Amendment violation, and they would (should?) have sufficient evidence so far to successfully prosecute him anyway.
Maybe it's just me or my experiences seeing it, but I think it's because the only folks wearing them so far have the air and appearance of utter douchenozzles.
(I spent last week in SanFran, and saw about half a dozen of them...)
I know of folks who have done that for years. In the early days of DSL, the service would stop cold at one end of the street, so the guy's neighbors pitch in to run ethernet to 3-4 different houses around him. He gets his Internet service for free, and his neighbors get a decent connection.
Even as recently as last year, my neighbors and I did something similar. We were close enough so that if one ISP had an outage, the house that was out merely connected to a neighbor's wireless. We had each others' SSID/password combos (in a rural area trust is everything), so you only needed to extend the courtesy of asking your neighbor before you connected. Neither Charter, Dish (Sat), HughesNet (ditto) or (for awhile until I dumped it) Centurylink were the wiser - nor did they apparently care. Made for a very usable and multi-redundant situation, especially considering that I worked from home most of the time.
Reasonable, yes. Sucking down that much bandwidth is well over the usage rate for most businesses, let alone consumers.
OTOH, if Verizon advertised it as unlimited, they (barring any fine print) do have to shut up and provide it. The only loophole I think they can use is that family/friends VPN thing the dude was doing, but otherwise? They either provide it, or they shut the guy off and risk a false advertising lawsuit.
...but this one over here we've added a shit-ton of value to so we want some compensation (below free-market rate IMO) for it.
This leads to a question - exactly what value did they add to it, aside from paying the domain registration fees and keeping the website up? Anyone could do those things for a lot less than $250k, even if done over 10+ years. Also, in fairness to Paul (hypocrisy aside), it was his name. Not too many Ron Pauls out there in this world...
Then again, a previous employer of mine shelled out $7m (yes, million) USD for a.com of their company's name, namely because the dude that had it was using it for his own reasons (the guy had a little hobby website and small hobbyist store, while the company makes commercial/industrial versions of the same thing), and the guy had it for far longer than the company itself existed. The original name owner wasn't interested in offers that were under $1m, and given that he had an airtight case for keeping it, there was nothing the company could do.
Company come along in various guises through various subsidiary and makes vague patent claims against companies further down the chain demanding money.
How is it any different from the patent fraud Microsoft has been perpetrating against Android?
One small problem, dear AC: To be fair, Microsoft actually has filed suits based on their patents, against specific companies, who in turn were proven to be using whatever technology is being contested (not sure how many of those suits actually made it to a verdict, though, since most settled either before or during trial).
While yes, most (IMHO) of Microsoft's patents and claims thereof are either crap or based on crap concepts, they're still legal.
If you pick an A/P department that is overly-busy, ignorant-as-hell, and/or way understaffed (many of them these days are), you could make a pretty tidy profit as a scammer, if you knew how to set it up right.
And a really low barrier of entry into the market. All it takes is a carefully worded email and a public search on people to send it to, and you're good. You don't need to worry about court fees or anything, since you plan on dropping the case before any papers are filed.
It's almost as low a barrier as the stupid "executive directory" scams and the "your $domain.asia domain name has been bought up! For a small ($$$$$!) fee, we can secure it for you." emails.
The sad part is, as a former email admin, having to tell the CEO of your employer that such an email (which he pulled out of his quarantine folder) is a scam (and then still having to provide similar examples to prove it as such) is pretty effing sad sometimes.
...you will lose those "rights" the moment a pressing global need calls for their exclusive use, and having any legal claim to said rights requires full disclosure of the processes. Intellectual property, like any other kind, can very easily be confiscated by government under the same eminent domain rules that govern private property, hotshot.
But, you know, that all depends on your dire prediction coming to pass. Good luck with that (or, well, given the severity of your end-of-world scenario? Maybe bad luck with that.)
So the part of Kyoto which exempted gigantic polluters such as China and India... exactly what science do you consider to be justification for that?
That's what GP was talking about - one can certainly be against a proposed political action, and not really care what scientific measurements or papers were touted to back it up.
Now try and say that, and suddenly you don't get the whole sentence out before everyone of a certain ideological persuasion points and screams "He's anti-science!"
Basically this would not kill the secondhand market, instead it would streamline it.
Actually, it appears that it will "streamline" it right into Microsoft-owned territory, never to leave. Also, it would be less of a market and more like a company store, with all the attendant evils.
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect you would be better served to ask how many subnets/VLANs he uses, and how they're structured to isolate the BYOD bits from the rest of the infrastructure.
./aversion to RTFA aside, it still makes no sense at all. They have the drive, they have (some of) the contents, they have proof the drive and contents were his.
What the hell more do they need, a signed confession?
I noticed the lack of prohibiting a keylogger - though technically would(n't?) that count as observation?
No, it just proves that the disk belongs to him, and thus with all likelihood also the childporn.
Not really - the typical user's Chrome cache has what can be construed as an "intricate folder structure" and "detailed personal information". All it takes is to visit a few websites of any kind with logons and/or forms, and have the browser save your logon names/passwords and form info for a couple of them.
Indeed - if they had something concrete, they could just go after him on what they have.
Conspiracy bits aside, if the FBI found something, why would they demand he open the gates to more?
Could they not simply prosecute him based on just what they have so far? That way there would be no 5th Amendment violation, and they would (should?) have sufficient evidence so far to successfully prosecute him anyway.
What's the purpose of this 'over 18' rule anyway?.
Taxes, unfortunately.
^ That's all.
You need to post that four times over, because it deserves at least 20 mod points...
Maybe it's just me or my experiences seeing it, but I think it's because the only folks wearing them so far have the air and appearance of utter douchenozzles.
(I spent last week in SanFran, and saw about half a dozen of them...)
Think of PETA as the environmentalist equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church, and suddenly it all makes sense.
what it does is makes buying physical copies fucking useless. plenty of companies going to sell games at live for ten bucks though.
...ever stop and think that maybe eliminating physical copies is the whole idea behind the plan?
I know of folks who have done that for years. In the early days of DSL, the service would stop cold at one end of the street, so the guy's neighbors pitch in to run ethernet to 3-4 different houses around him. He gets his Internet service for free, and his neighbors get a decent connection.
Even as recently as last year, my neighbors and I did something similar. We were close enough so that if one ISP had an outage, the house that was out merely connected to a neighbor's wireless. We had each others' SSID/password combos (in a rural area trust is everything), so you only needed to extend the courtesy of asking your neighbor before you connected. Neither Charter, Dish (Sat), HughesNet (ditto) or (for awhile until I dumped it) Centurylink were the wiser - nor did they apparently care. Made for a very usable and multi-redundant situation, especially considering that I worked from home most of the time.
In other news, I bet the guy's pr0n collection is stupendous!
Reasonable, yes. Sucking down that much bandwidth is well over the usage rate for most businesses, let alone consumers.
OTOH, if Verizon advertised it as unlimited, they (barring any fine print) do have to shut up and provide it. The only loophole I think they can use is that family/friends VPN thing the dude was doing, but otherwise? They either provide it, or they shut the guy off and risk a false advertising lawsuit.
Just don't register ronpaul.xxx (*shudder!*)
(now if you'll excuse me, I have to go try and wash my brain out...)
...but this one over here we've added a shit-ton of value to so we want some compensation (below free-market rate IMO) for it.
This leads to a question - exactly what value did they add to it, aside from paying the domain registration fees and keeping the website up? Anyone could do those things for a lot less than $250k, even if done over 10+ years. Also, in fairness to Paul (hypocrisy aside), it was his name. Not too many Ron Pauls out there in this world...
Then again, a previous employer of mine shelled out $7m (yes, million) USD for a .com of their company's name, namely because the dude that had it was using it for his own reasons (the guy had a little hobby website and small hobbyist store, while the company makes commercial/industrial versions of the same thing), and the guy had it for far longer than the company itself existed. The original name owner wasn't interested in offers that were under $1m, and given that he had an airtight case for keeping it, there was nothing the company could do.
Company come along in various guises through various subsidiary and makes vague patent claims against companies further down the chain demanding money.
How is it any different from the patent fraud Microsoft has been perpetrating against Android?
One small problem, dear AC: To be fair, Microsoft actually has filed suits based on their patents, against specific companies, who in turn were proven to be using whatever technology is being contested (not sure how many of those suits actually made it to a verdict, though, since most settled either before or during trial).
While yes, most (IMHO) of Microsoft's patents and claims thereof are either crap or based on crap concepts, they're still legal.
If you pick an A/P department that is overly-busy, ignorant-as-hell, and/or way understaffed (many of them these days are), you could make a pretty tidy profit as a scammer, if you knew how to set it up right.
And a really low barrier of entry into the market. All it takes is a carefully worded email and a public search on people to send it to, and you're good. You don't need to worry about court fees or anything, since you plan on dropping the case before any papers are filed.
It's almost as low a barrier as the stupid "executive directory" scams and the "your $domain.asia domain name has been bought up! For a small ($$$$$!) fee, we can secure it for you." emails.
The sad part is, as a former email admin, having to tell the CEO of your employer that such an email (which he pulled out of his quarantine folder) is a scam (and then still having to provide similar examples to prove it as such) is pretty effing sad sometimes.
... I own the rights to the tech, and...
...you will lose those "rights" the moment a pressing global need calls for their exclusive use, and having any legal claim to said rights requires full disclosure of the processes. Intellectual property, like any other kind, can very easily be confiscated by government under the same eminent domain rules that govern private property, hotshot.
But, you know, that all depends on your dire prediction coming to pass. Good luck with that (or, well, given the severity of your end-of-world scenario? Maybe bad luck with that.)
So the part of Kyoto which exempted gigantic polluters such as China and India... exactly what science do you consider to be justification for that?
That's what GP was talking about - one can certainly be against a proposed political action, and not really care what scientific measurements or papers were touted to back it up.
Now try and say that, and suddenly you don't get the whole sentence out before everyone of a certain ideological persuasion points and screams "He's anti-science!"
Wait - Bush and the GOP are is still in power?
How did that happen?
...so, umm, what if the robot breaks?
Basically this would not kill the secondhand market, instead it would streamline it.
Actually, it appears that it will "streamline" it right into Microsoft-owned territory, never to leave. Also, it would be less of a market and more like a company store, with all the attendant evils.
Without government, and with enough means to hold it, the two terms become one and the same.