I think it might be more useful to target the artists more directly -- "Let the RIAA sue regular folks on your behalf, and we'll mod your videos into oblivion".
When it's something the average man knows nothing about, you stand a better chance of convincing ONE ignorant person (the judge) to see sense, than you do of convincing TWELVE ignorant persons (the jury).
And as someone else once put it, your jury is comprised of 12 people too dim to weasel their way out of jury duty. From the jury-selection procedings I've watched, there's a good deal of truth in that.:(
Not sure what you'd do with a sat transmitter, tho might be fun to see if you could use it for your own mini comm network -- if there are any public use comm sats??
I've finally got to where I turn up my nose at anything before about a P150, but even so, there's the already-accumulated collection of 486-era junk that takes up a good bit of floor space in my barn... not to mention even older shit cluttering my library closet. (Which was a walk-in master bedroom closet in a saner life.)
Wow, porn *GIFs*. Oooh, the BBS memories, the grainy images, the pain of 2400 baud modems...
Fans are (usually) easy enough to replace, but I've found you just never know when you'll need that old card... get some machine that has dead onboard video and its AGP slot isn't playing nice til you can get into the BIOS and bang on the settings, and all of a sudden that ancient PCI card looks right useful.
Interesting comments here (the above, and the one about "tantamount to handing over your thoughts").
I also found this bit from TFA interesting:
The law has been criticized for the power its gives investigators, which is seen as dangerously broad. Authorities tracking the movement of terrorist funds could demand the encryption keys used by a financial institution, for instance,
thereby laying bare that bank's files on everything from financial transactions to user data.
And even if only the cops see that data -- are you sure every cop in your district is honest?? this data would be worth a lively fortune in the fraud market.
Further interesting points:
Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton said in May of 2006 that such laws would only encourage
businesses to house their cryptography operations out of the reach of UK investigators, potentially harming the
country's economy. "The controversy here [lies in] seizing keys, not in forcing people to decrypt. The power to seize
encryption keys is spooking big business," Clayton said.
"The notion that international bankers would be wary of bringing master keys into UK if they could be seized as part of
legitimate police operations, or by a corrupt chief constable, has quite a lot of traction," he added. "With the
appropriate paperwork, keys can be seized. If you're an international banker you'll plonk your headquarters in Zurich."
Can't argue with that assessment.
And yet there's this point, also from TFA:
Yet the law, in a strange way, almost gives criminals an "out," in that those caught potentially committing serious crimes
may opt to refuse to decrypt incriminating data. A pedophile with a 2GB collection of encrypted kiddie porn may find it
easier to do two years in the slammer than expose what he's been up to.
In fact, the two years in the slammer would likely be less traumatic than the court case and media circus, even should said (alleged or actual) pedo be deemed innocent in the end. (Witness the infamous McMartin Preschool case in the U.S.)
Ahh, that sucks... but goes to show how ephemeral even the most durable digital media are, compared to good old paper and ink. Scary how dependent we are on data that could go POOF any time...
Shame about the magic smoke escaping. Well, now we know the lifespan of THAT batch of electronics...
The old video card likely does still work, and you betcha, ANY card is better'n none in an emergency. The only cards that seem to die for no reason, just laying on the shelf doing nothing, are VLB IDE cards. Older ISA IDE adapters don't do this, why VLB??
I used to have the same problem. Recently they've changed preferences to let you include the year in the comment headers. Quite useful, even tho it screws up the comment-list display in a non-CSS browser.
[I read/. in low-bandwidth mode using Netscape 3 (believe it or not -- STILL my fave browser!) which makes it effectively plaintext. Couldn't use it otherwise; the CSS version makes my eyes bleed.]
"legal fundamentalist" -- Best description of the problem yet.
And that's exactly what it parallels: By this black cat and yon bundle of herbs, thou needs must be a witch, and though we see not that thou hast performed any witchery, we'll keep dunking thy sorry ass until thou admits to thine perfidy!
Frex, damnear every college student has grown salmonella and other "dangerous bacteria" in their fridge, simply by neglecting leftovers until they started crawling around under their own power.
I agree.. even tho it means someone *might* get hurt that you had no right to hurt.
Because anything else is prosecution for INTENT (which is to say, thought crime), even if no harm is actually done. Even if no harm COULD be done.
Anyone here who hasn't, at some point, wished a well-deserved and painful death on someone else -- and at the time, MEANT it? maybe even planned it?? Well, if you believe that intent is all that matters, you're a murderer in the eyes of your preferred system of justice. Even tho no one was harmed and you never in ANY way acted on your "intent".
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I think it might be more useful to target the artists more directly -- "Let the RIAA sue regular folks on your behalf, and we'll mod your videos into oblivion".
To paraphrase a lawyer-and-judge friend:
:(
When it's something the average man knows nothing about, you stand a better chance of convincing ONE ignorant person (the judge) to see sense, than you do of convincing TWELVE ignorant persons (the jury).
And as someone else once put it, your jury is comprised of 12 people too dim to weasel their way out of jury duty. From the jury-selection procedings I've watched, there's a good deal of truth in that.
But think of the poor folks who'll think their $10k stereo system is broken... ;)
Hmm. It could be worse. They could be playing Dr.Hook.
"You don't want your "Down on the Corner" played by Creedence Clearwater sounding like a busker in a subway station."
But I thought CCR was *supposed* to sound like a busker in a subway station!!
Dunno... Rusty 'N' Eddie doesn't sound familiar, but I came into the BBS scene in 1993, and most of the newsworthy sysop jailings were before that.
... telnet://techware.dynip.com if you want to sneak in and say hello.
I still use a telnet BBS
Sounds like Dad knows you well :)
Not sure what you'd do with a sat transmitter, tho might be fun to see if you could use it for your own mini comm network -- if there are any public use comm sats??
Haha!! yep, I understand that one all too well :D
I've finally got to where I turn up my nose at anything before about a P150, but even so, there's the already-accumulated collection of 486-era junk that takes up a good bit of floor space in my barn... not to mention even older shit cluttering my library closet. (Which was a walk-in master bedroom closet in a saner life.)
Wow, porn *GIFs*. Oooh, the BBS memories, the grainy images, the pain of 2400 baud modems...
Fans are (usually) easy enough to replace, but I've found you just never know when you'll need that old card... get some machine that has dead onboard video and its AGP slot isn't playing nice til you can get into the BIOS and bang on the settings, and all of a sudden that ancient PCI card looks right useful.
I'm reminded that rapid weight loss, from no visible cause, can occur in the early stages of some cases of insulin-dependent diabetes.
I'm also reminded that obesity is a strong factor in adult-onset diabetes.
Kinda looks like we're all on the same track here, even if we're driving in different lanes.
Special bonus points for using this technique to "prove" that your unfavourite politician is a pedophile.
I foresee accusations of "destroying the evidence we required you to hand over" :(
I also found this bit from TFA interesting:
The law has been criticized for the power its gives investigators, which is seen as dangerously broad. Authorities tracking the movement of terrorist funds could demand the encryption keys used by a financial institution, for instance, thereby laying bare that bank's files on everything from financial transactions to user data.
And even if only the cops see that data -- are you sure every cop in your district is honest?? this data would be worth a lively fortune in the fraud market.
Further interesting points:
Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton said in May of 2006 that such laws would only encourage businesses to house their cryptography operations out of the reach of UK investigators, potentially harming the country's economy. "The controversy here [lies in] seizing keys, not in forcing people to decrypt. The power to seize encryption keys is spooking big business," Clayton said.
"The notion that international bankers would be wary of bringing master keys into UK if they could be seized as part of legitimate police operations, or by a corrupt chief constable, has quite a lot of traction," he added. "With the appropriate paperwork, keys can be seized. If you're an international banker you'll plonk your headquarters in Zurich."
Can't argue with that assessment.
And yet there's this point, also from TFA:
Yet the law, in a strange way, almost gives criminals an "out," in that those caught potentially committing serious crimes may opt to refuse to decrypt incriminating data. A pedophile with a 2GB collection of encrypted kiddie porn may find it easier to do two years in the slammer than expose what he's been up to.
In fact, the two years in the slammer would likely be less traumatic than the court case and media circus, even should said (alleged or actual) pedo be deemed innocent in the end. (Witness the infamous McMartin Preschool case in the U.S.)
Ahh, that sucks... but goes to show how ephemeral even the most durable digital media are, compared to good old paper and ink. Scary how dependent we are on data that could go POOF any time...
Shame about the magic smoke escaping. Well, now we know the lifespan of THAT batch of electronics...
The old video card likely does still work, and you betcha, ANY card is better'n none in an emergency. The only cards that seem to die for no reason, just laying on the shelf doing nothing, are VLB IDE cards. Older ISA IDE adapters don't do this, why VLB??
I used to have the same problem. Recently they've changed preferences to let you include the year in the comment headers. Quite useful, even tho it screws up the comment-list display in a non-CSS browser.
/. in low-bandwidth mode using Netscape 3 (believe it or not -- STILL my fave browser!) which makes it effectively plaintext. Couldn't use it otherwise; the CSS version makes my eyes bleed.]
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Your first comment:
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Monday October 30 2000
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8544&cid=666771
You shoulda took warning from how that cid started
Wow, that was a fun little trip. Thanks for the snack!
[wanders around] Oh, *you're* the Marswar guy! I've played that a dozen times or more. No day is complete until some hellspawn have died!!
Geez. Your antique shitpile makes mine look pathetically inadequate. Tho I probably do have a QIC80 drive here somewhere. Might even work.
Imagine if everyone had a certain infamous picture on their headgear....
Hmm. Maybe that hail of bullets came from a 21-gun salute. ;)
No, it's the beginning of the Forbin Project.
4. Give the police a new respect for the citizens -- "Gee, maybe they're not so stupid after all!!"
:)
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BTW, 2m 41s on the 50 states, not bad for being in no rush
An AC remarks, 'Actually, I think he meant "Heil".'
:/
Likely so, but the homonym works just as well for this discussion
"legal fundamentalist" -- Best description of the problem yet.
And that's exactly what it parallels: By this black cat and yon bundle of herbs, thou needs must be a witch, and though we see not that thou hast performed any witchery, we'll keep dunking thy sorry ass until thou admits to thine perfidy!
This could get awfully fuzzy (literally!)
Frex, damnear every college student has grown salmonella and other "dangerous bacteria" in their fridge, simply by neglecting leftovers until they started crawling around under their own power.
I agree .. even tho it means someone *might* get hurt that you had no right to hurt.
Because anything else is prosecution for INTENT (which is to say, thought crime), even if no harm is actually done. Even if no harm COULD be done.
Anyone here who hasn't, at some point, wished a well-deserved and painful death on someone else -- and at the time, MEANT it? maybe even planned it?? Well, if you believe that intent is all that matters, you're a murderer in the eyes of your preferred system of justice. Even tho no one was harmed and you never in ANY way acted on your "intent".