REAL solutions involve not supporting something that is broken, so that we give people an incentive to change their behaviour. Otherwise, everyone would still be browsing using IE 3.0, Word 2.0, etc. It's time to get rid of the superfluous "www." prefix.
It's a pain in the ass to set up - do YOU want to have to configure everyone's email, etc. to use it?
Yes, actually, if I'm their admin.
Several problems in your "solution":
Who the h*** are YOU that I should trust you, a stranger, to mess around with MY computer? All you've done is add one more link in the chain that needs to be validated. Two people can keep a secret - but only if one of them is dead.
Who's going to do all the home computers?
How are you going to monitor email and web traffic to make sure it conforms to AUP (Acceptable Use Policies) where you work and that someone's not sending your customer list to a competitor?
if you use google docs, you're letting an advertising company look at all your information.
Better one advertising company under a contract that doesn't let them do evil stuff with it
You argue for encryption and yet you trust an advertising company those CEO says If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
Their job is not protecting your privacy. Their job is making money for their shareholders. And do you really think you'll win if you sue google? After all, they'd even have your correspondence with your lawyers, so they'll know your legal strategy.
Encrypt sensitive info as a separate attachment. It's the ONLY way to be sure. Anything else is not secure.
A total failure to treat a social problem. Wasn't Prohibition ! enough for you.
Legalize it and tax the crap out of it.
Who is threatened by that? The crooks. As long as there's a "War on Drugs", crooks are guaranteed monopoly profits and monopoly access, all supported by your tax dollars keeping people in jail.
The first rule of consulting is "No matter what they say, it's ALWAYS a people problem." Well, it's true here to.
Right now, the US has more people in jail than any other country in the world. And the #1 reason is the "War on Drugs." Stop it and you'll reduce crime, reduce drug use, save money and lives, and fix the deficit.
No, it's because when you put a disk in the Wii, you're not just loading the game - you're loading a copy of the OS and the game. The updates to your Wii are a separate supervisor program. That's why you can't "patch" disk-based Wii games. Otherwise, you could have the OS load the game, then grab patches off your SD card slot or the net, or let the console supervisor patch it.
TV broadcasters have been doing this with football games and the billboard in Times Square for years, and game publishers have also been doing it with their virtual street views.
There is NO reason to be dropping notes off in people's mailboxes at 3am.
I already outlined a scenario in which someone might without having any evil intent.
And I already showed that it not only is criminal trespass, not just here, but probably where you live as well. Try that on a dark night in much of the USA and see how quickly you get your head blown off.
If that person doesn't have a dog, the neighbours across the street, or next door, do. Plus, you're trespassing, same as the local public security guy can't go into the driveway after dark to check for up-to-date car registrations or other issues
It's certainly not trespassing. What's the mailbox there for if no one is permitted to access it? The whole point is that it's an invitation to receive messages.
The DoJ already has one anti-trust suit going on with Google, and several EU counties (hello, France) are also investigating. Since google is a large consumer of energy, the potential for market distortions is obvious.
Home owner's associates would tend to claim that being an eyesore is disturbing the peace of others.
That's your problem - we don't have "home-owners associations" up here. Maybe you should pass a law to ban them.
There's nothing inherently harmful in dropping off a note at 3AM, given that not everybody has dogs
How about this - There's nothing inherently harmful in shooting into an open window, seeing as most rooms are unoccupied. Doesn't work. Even if there's zero probability of harm, you simply don't have the right to be prowling around my place after dark - and that's a provincial, not municipal, law.
There is NO reason to be dropping notes off in people's mailboxes at 3am. If that person doesn't have a dog, the neighbours across the street, or next door, do. Plus, you're trespassing, same as the local public security guy can't go into the driveway after dark to check for up-to-date car registrations or other issues. The city tried to claim otherwise, and was handed their ass back to them. The trespassing law is at the provincial level - peace officers only, and only with a valid reason (and checking for unlocked doors or expired car registrations is NOT a valid reason, even for cops).
In no way should someone be arrested or fined for inadvertently causing all of the dogs in a neighborhood to bark, no matter what the hour!
It's not inadvertent. When you hear them starting, that should be a clue to leave. You don't, then you're an asshole. Plus, you ARE trespassing, in the dark. Sounds like a formula to get yourself paint-balled to death.
It seems like a system begging to be abused. What if I file a complaint just to harass someone? I could always make a flier myself and claim they dropped it off, or take one that was delivered during regular hours and claim it was delivered after. If it can be abused it will be abused; the application of the law is likely to be at least as much of a nuisance as whatever it was designed to prevent!
You "excuse" fails in the face of the facts. The reality is the law has worked. It keeps our doorsteps junk-free after 8pm and before 7am. It keeps people from hammering away at all hours of the night. It keeps people from skulking around claiming they have a legitimate purpose when they're up to no good. It keeps people from dumping stuff in the mailbox at 3am. It keeps people who try to dump stuff in my mailbox at 3 am from getting body parts removed by normally-very-friendly dogs (and no, since trespassing is a criminal act, you have no civil recourse here, unlike the U.S., where crooks can sue if they get hurt)
So the entire thing hinges on whether there is a warrant or not?
Well duh! Isn't that what I originally WROTE?
No warrant, no requirement to hand over any of your data. And warrants CAN be quashed post hoc. The cost of quashing warrants is, in the long run, less than the cost of complying - so if they're not contesting them, it's because they want a quid pro quo. "You wash my back, and I'll wash yours." You're being sold out.
So apparently is the guy who cut-n-pasted the original article from CNET to his own site, then claimed in the comments that CNET stole it from him. Crapfloods and page-widening posts, He's a loser losing to the loose trolls. Or something like that.
>>The implication is clear - Google will roll over when there's a request made for your info, rather than saying "no, gimme a warrant, you insensitive clod."
>The only implication is that Google and everyone else has to provide them with that information. They don't have a choice in the question.
To say there's no choice when there's no warrant is insanely dumb. The proper response is as follows:
Cop: We want to search your house.
You: Well, we have to stop by your place first.
Cop: What for?
You: To search it, of course. I have as much of a right as you do!
Cop: You have no right to search my place.
You: I have as much right to search your place without a warrant as you do to search mine without one. So we're agreed you have no right to search my place. But why would you object? Do you have something to hide?
Bonus points if there's at least one witness, and that they're getting it on their cell phone. If not, just discretely dial 911 and let the conversation be recorded - and make sure you have detailed billing on your cell phone plan so the call can't be "lost."
Fortunately, thre's no such thing as a home-owner association up here. You can paint your door whatever colour you want, you can sit nekked in your back yard as long as there's a privacy fence, you can hang up your laundry on a clothesline, or park an ugly car on your lawn or a boat in your driveway if that floats your boat. What you CAN'T do is disturb the peaceable enjoyment of other people. Your rights stop where others begin.
And dropping off notes at 3am gets a lot of people's dogs barking... and whatever's in it will keep until 7am - and if it won't, then a phone call is the better way to deal with it anyways.
It's an effective law to keep the nuisances down. I don't appreciate some fundie kook dropping off a flier in my mailbox at 9:30 at night. That happened a few months ago - they got their one warning - an email telling them that
the bylaw is nothing after 8pm, to anyone in any of the local municipalities,
they should be more aware of local laws when their "mother church" in the USofA sends assholes up here to tell us we're going to hell and need Jeebus, because our freedoms include not having to listen to that sort of shite, and,
next time I *will* file a complaint, and encourage all my heathen neighbours to do the same. At $300 per complaint (and the fine is not tax-deductible as a "church expense"), it adds up fast.
What's looney is people thinking it's okay to bother other people with junk mail at all hours of the night. Or anything short of an emergency.
There IS a law against using power tools before 7am - and ALL heavy equipment - in my municipality, an in most others. Ditto for any sort of construction work. The only exceptions are emergency work and civic and utility maintenance crews - and the utilities have to apply for a permit. there's nothing worse than some idiot doing their "home improvements" through midnight on a week-night when kids have to sleep, or starting at 6 am on a Sunday morning when all us normal "heathens" want to just sleep in until noon!
I am talking about me, let's say a love sick young man, hand delivering a note to a young lady's mailbox at an ungodly hour (because that's when I finished writing it, of course, and I simply cannot wait for the regular post!)
In my municipality, you'd probably be held as a stalker. And/or an idiot. The bylaw is quite clear. NO mail delivery after 8pm means that, and more. No mail, no junk mail, no fliers - nothing. Not even a "door knocker" card. Or your hypothetical "lovesick note." Unless it's being delivered directly into the recipients' hand, you cannot leave it behind. We had problems with advertising companies dumping their junk mail on porches at midnight, so we put an end to it. A few fines, confiscating their trucks, and they respect people's sleeping habits.
And no, in reference to your other point, calling will make less of a disturbance than going to my place at 3 am and sticking an envelope in my mailbox. I don't need the dogs barking. Neither do the neighbours. Besides, this is 2010 - use email, you insensitive clod!
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REAL solutions involve not supporting something that is broken, so that we give people an incentive to change their behaviour. Otherwise, everyone would still be browsing using IE 3.0, Word 2.0, etc. It's time to get rid of the superfluous "www." prefix.
Do the same as tobacco - high taxes, illegal to advertise, gross packaging, fines of up to 2/3 of a million dollars for illegal distrbution, etc.
Several problems in your "solution":
Do you really think anyone cares about Aunt Martha's next post on facebook? It's going to be there for the world to see anyway.
Same with the comments posted here. No need for encryption.
Same thing with a lot of email traffic - why should I waste cpu cycles decrypting spam or lists of jokes and funny gifs?
You argue for encryption and yet you trust an advertising company those CEO says If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Their job is not protecting your privacy. Their job is making money for their shareholders. And do you really think you'll win if you sue google? After all, they'd even have your correspondence with your lawyers, so they'll know your legal strategy.
Encrypt sensitive info as a separate attachment. It's the ONLY way to be sure. Anything else is not secure.
You left out the "War on Drugs"
A total failure to treat a social problem. Wasn't Prohibition ! enough for you.
Legalize it and tax the crap out of it.
Who is threatened by that? The crooks. As long as there's a "War on Drugs", crooks are guaranteed monopoly profits and monopoly access, all supported by your tax dollars keeping people in jail.
The first rule of consulting is "No matter what they say, it's ALWAYS a people problem." Well, it's true here to.
Right now, the US has more people in jail than any other country in the world. And the #1 reason is the "War on Drugs." Stop it and you'll reduce crime, reduce drug use, save money and lives, and fix the deficit.
Either it's prior to version 3, in which case it should be labeled "beta"
Or it's after version 3, in which case it should be labeled "bloatware".
Of course, emailing a site you're accidentally DDoSing, you'd better hope their email server is on another machine ...
The REAL solution to your problem is for everyone to abandon the dumb-as-shite "www" prefix.
Why bother with www.example.com and example.com? Get rid of it. Anyone who still puts "www." on their business cards is a dufus.
Every once in a while, I still see sites that don't serve up unless you include "www." in the address - but it's like I said - a dufus.
Besides, it also messes with the whole sub-domain naming scheme.
"You can have my SysRq key when you pry it from my cold dead ThinkPad!"
Good point. Too bad it the whois says it's owned by google. I'd love for it to have been a trojan site.
"I think that, given Yutube's volume of crap, any codec Google chose would probably be on a blocklist."
There, fixed it for you.
(link NSFW)
No, it's because when you put a disk in the Wii, you're not just loading the game - you're loading a copy of the OS and the game. The updates to your Wii are a separate supervisor program. That's why you can't "patch" disk-based Wii games. Otherwise, you could have the OS load the game, then grab patches off your SD card slot or the net, or let the console supervisor patch it.
TV broadcasters have been doing this with football games and the billboard in Times Square for years, and game publishers have also been doing it with their virtual street views.
Google - for all your patent troll needs.
"You can have my driver dashboard computing when you pry it from my cold dead haCRASH!!!"
A lot of places have rules about displays not being visible from the drivers' position.
Then there's the legal liability to the manufacturers when a pedestrian gets killed. *THEY* never agreed to any EULA.
And insurance companies, who will now raise premiums (it's what they do, you know).
I think I'll take the bus instead.
what a troll - and that was lying about what Stallman said
Can we get him put on some terr'rist list or something?
And I already showed that it not only is criminal trespass, not just here, but probably where you live as well. Try that on a dark night in much of the USA and see how quickly you get your head blown off.
if you're in the US, federal regulations state that >only the post office can put stuff in the mailbox .
So no, you can't stick your hypothetical letter in the mailbox at 3am, 3 pm, noon, or any other time.
It's pretty bad when foreigners know more about your laws than you do. Then again, it must be that "good ole 'merikun edjumacaishun".
The DoJ already has one anti-trust suit going on with Google, and several EU counties (hello, France) are also investigating. Since google is a large consumer of energy, the potential for market distortions is obvious.
That's your problem - we don't have "home-owners associations" up here. Maybe you should pass a law to ban them.
How about this - There's nothing inherently harmful in shooting into an open window, seeing as most rooms are unoccupied. Doesn't work. Even if there's zero probability of harm, you simply don't have the right to be prowling around my place after dark - and that's a provincial, not municipal, law.
There is NO reason to be dropping notes off in people's mailboxes at 3am. If that person doesn't have a dog, the neighbours across the street, or next door, do. Plus, you're trespassing, same as the local public security guy can't go into the driveway after dark to check for up-to-date car registrations or other issues. The city tried to claim otherwise, and was handed their ass back to them. The trespassing law is at the provincial level - peace officers only, and only with a valid reason (and checking for unlocked doors or expired car registrations is NOT a valid reason, even for cops).
It's not inadvertent. When you hear them starting, that should be a clue to leave. You don't, then you're an asshole. Plus, you ARE trespassing, in the dark. Sounds like a formula to get yourself paint-balled to death.
You "excuse" fails in the face of the facts. The reality is the law has worked. It keeps our doorsteps junk-free after 8pm and before 7am. It keeps people from hammering away at all hours of the night. It keeps people from skulking around claiming they have a legitimate purpose when they're up to no good. It keeps people from dumping stuff in the mailbox at 3am. It keeps people who try to dump stuff in my mailbox at 3 am from getting body parts removed by normally-very-friendly dogs (and no, since trespassing is a criminal act, you have no civil recourse here, unlike the U.S., where crooks can sue if they get hurt)
Well duh! Isn't that what I originally WROTE?
No warrant, no requirement to hand over any of your data. And warrants CAN be quashed post hoc. The cost of quashing warrants is, in the long run, less than the cost of complying - so if they're not contesting them, it's because they want a quid pro quo. "You wash my back, and I'll wash yours." You're being sold out.
(or so I heard)
So apparently is the guy who cut-n-pasted the original article from CNET to his own site, then claimed in the comments that CNET stole it from him. Crapfloods and page-widening posts, He's a loser losing to the loose trolls. Or something like that.
>>The implication is clear - Google will roll over when there's a request made for your info, rather than saying "no, gimme a warrant, you insensitive clod."
>The only implication is that Google and everyone else has to provide them with that information. They don't have a choice in the question.
To say there's no choice when there's no warrant is insanely dumb. The proper response is as follows:
Cop: We want to search your house.
You: Well, we have to stop by your place first.
Cop: What for?
You: To search it, of course. I have as much of a right as you do!
Cop: You have no right to search my place.
You: I have as much right to search your place without a warrant as you do to search mine without one. So we're agreed you have no right to search my place. But why would you object? Do you have something to hide?
Bonus points if there's at least one witness, and that they're getting it on their cell phone. If not, just discretely dial 911 and let the conversation be recorded - and make sure you have detailed billing on your cell phone plan so the call can't be "lost."
No warrant, no search. We talk outside.
Fortunately, thre's no such thing as a home-owner association up here. You can paint your door whatever colour you want, you can sit nekked in your back yard as long as there's a privacy fence, you can hang up your laundry on a clothesline, or park an ugly car on your lawn or a boat in your driveway if that floats your boat. What you CAN'T do is disturb the peaceable enjoyment of other people. Your rights stop where others begin.
And dropping off notes at 3am gets a lot of people's dogs barking ... and whatever's in it will keep until 7am - and if it won't, then a phone call is the better way to deal with it anyways.
It's an effective law to keep the nuisances down. I don't appreciate some fundie kook dropping off a flier in my mailbox at 9:30 at night. That happened a few months ago - they got their one warning - an email telling them that
What's looney is people thinking it's okay to bother other people with junk mail at all hours of the night. Or anything short of an emergency.
There IS a law against using power tools before 7am - and ALL heavy equipment - in my municipality, an in most others. Ditto for any sort of construction work. The only exceptions are emergency work and civic and utility maintenance crews - and the utilities have to apply for a permit. there's nothing worse than some idiot doing their "home improvements" through midnight on a week-night when kids have to sleep, or starting at 6 am on a Sunday morning when all us normal "heathens" want to just sleep in until noon!
In my municipality, you'd probably be held as a stalker. And/or an idiot. The bylaw is quite clear. NO mail delivery after 8pm means that, and more. No mail, no junk mail, no fliers - nothing. Not even a "door knocker" card. Or your hypothetical "lovesick note." Unless it's being delivered directly into the recipients' hand, you cannot leave it behind. We had problems with advertising companies dumping their junk mail on porches at midnight, so we put an end to it. A few fines, confiscating their trucks, and they respect people's sleeping habits.
And no, in reference to your other point, calling will make less of a disturbance than going to my place at 3 am and sticking an envelope in my mailbox. I don't need the dogs barking. Neither do the neighbours. Besides, this is 2010 - use email, you insensitive clod!