Do the failings of the US Congress make the actions of Yahoo any less reprehensible? No. What matters is that it is very easy to dismiss words spoken by someone you do not respect, especially when they are hypocritical. The pot/kettle analogies highlight the fact that less is going to be done about this then if Congress actually had a moral high ground.
I disagree, the off switch was working fine too;) They should have had a dead man sw... er. A cutoff switch! Um.. a termination switch.. argh! I give up. We can eliminate all this confusion by giving all robots a Kill switch that 2 settings, 'Humans' and 'Machines'.
I'd like to think that there exists a difference between 'not being totally up on the current lingo' and crafting legislation on something you are totally clueless on.
Can you tell I'm from Alaska? Can you tell I appreciate everything he has done for the state? Everything which majorly outweighs anything this federal probe could possibly uncover? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2005/10/20/AR2005102001931.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge Dumping > $200 million on pork projects for your home state does not necessarily make a good senator.
I can't for the life of me recall why I decided to try this but I was able to validate my Ubuntu 5.10 install as Genuine Windows by downloading the GenuineCheck.exe program that they provide you if you're not using IE or the validation failed. In firefox no less! I wasn't able to reproduce it so I assumed that either they where distributing a broken validator or the server side checking they where doing was horribly wrong at that point. Windows Defender ended up proving useless for me but at least I got a funny screenshot out of it.
Someone could peer through the logs and see when/where a person is by themselves late at night on a regular basis. Or better yet, construct an elaborate web of blackmail by seeing which *2* people are together late at night on a regular basis...
Now if Iain Banks would try something like that... We could scam money out of people to build a spaceship, one capable of retrieving the diamond orbiting Pluto.
Are there some sort of "wartime" rules that rise above this Fourth Amendment? No, you're pretty much correct in your reading. At risk of being tagged flamebait, the basic reason this is allowed to happen is because by and large American citizens don't know or care. We're so used to the government operating the way it does that we shrug off practices that foreigners would find absurd or downright illegal by our own laws.
The authorities are going about this all wrong! I intend to write to my representatives urging them to pass legislation that would require all school districts to make Counterstrike maps of their schools avalible to to local police SWAT units and the FBI. Upon receiving word of any potential school shooting, they could race to the scene confident that their hours of playing cs_clements will pay off in lives saved. This young man is to be commended on his work to prevent another tragic incident!
Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you have the right to. I would think that an open AP giving you an IP in response to a DHCP request does in fact give you a right to use their network.
Warning: Computer analogy You walk past a nondescript building bearing a sign that says 'linksys' with it's door propped open. You enter, observe people seated in front of computers and ask aloud where you can sit. A uniformed man gives you a number and points you to an empty seat.
The point is, these things are shipped with everything wide open and as accommodating as possible to simplify operation by end users. The fact that you can boot up a computer with a wireless card and *UNKNOWINGLY* connect to your neighbors AP should really be a cause for concern if these are treated as criminal cases. A vanilla laptop with XP can only connect to an open AP by following standard protocols and authentication. You asked the owner ('s wireless router) if you could use his internet, and he said yes.
Just ban firearms, throughout the whole country. You do not need them. Don't give me any of this defence shit - you don't need guns to defend yourself if nobody has guns. I'll be honest, while I'm fairly libertarian on gun control issues I think weapons have absolutely no place on campus. It's pretty much impossible to secure them from other students, and while I hate to stereotype a college dorm is going to have a hell of a lot more drunk young adults then any other place you'd likely find.
At any rate, in this case, did the shooter have a carry permit and use a legally purchased and registered firearm? If he did, how difficult would it have been to obtain an illegal one? I think the war on drugs has shown that banning something does not mean that they disappear in a puff of smoke. Rather then dwelling on what-if scenarios where heroic armed citizens put a stop to the rampage or a gun free alternate universe with unicorns, perhaps we could drop the Thompsoning and ask where the hell the police and school officials where while this was happening.
Income earned in violation of a contract is still income, and you still have to report and pay taxes on it. In WoW you do not own any virtual items you have, they are the property of Blizzard; they simply let you use them so long as you have an active account. At least in that case the players are immune to any half-baked idea like taxing iron mined from infinitely respawning deposits.
Because economy of MMOG's so closely mirrors the real world it is natural to tax my World of Warcraft income just as they would my earnings in legal U.S. currency. I'd write more but I need to go outside and earn money by killing basilisks and selling their eyeballs.
However, it also presents some less optimistic possibilities: for example, someone might be able to "program" humans as we program computers today. Imagine some terror organization such as Al Qaeda creating a fearless, seven-foot, feel-no-pain specimen.... Heh, the same type of organization that has cost-effective suicide bombers as it's backbone? To be sure, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see 'cyberbrain hacking' a la Ghost in the Shell within my lifetime, but the idea of some terrorist group with 1/100,000th the budget of their enemies making an army of invincible nuclear mutants is just laughable. Besides, it's already possible to 'program' humans to a degree; parents and religions (among others) have been doing it for most of our history.
After using Mozillia and Firefox for many a year, the habit of opening links in new tabs as I'm still reading the article is quite ingrained into me. It was with much dismay that I read your last paragraph, noticed that my mouse stopped working and my harddrive activity light was solid. Firefox died a horrible death, and did so again 3 minutes later as I reflected upon the foolishness of choosing 'Restore last session'. 5 minutes later, I was berating myself for saving the file into a directory that nautalis had open on my desktop, forgetting that it creates thumbnails based on file type, not extension.
Legal notices containing the phrase "I swear, under penalty of perjury" and "I am the copyright owner" should not be very tolerant of any error rate; especially considering that the hosting companies often comply without even looking at the content in question.
PROOF the DMCA is FLAWED! If there's no accountability for parties that commit perjury while using this law then I think we can agree that it's flawed?
I for one know of many systems that have passed WGA despite having an illegitimate serial number. Once, while installing some update for an XP machine their website demanded I download some program to validate it manually, as I had disabled ActiveX (that and because it be pirated!). On a whim, I copied it to a linux machine and ran it under wine, just for the hell of. I didn't really expect it to run, much less produce a number, but it did and much to my surprise the MS web site accepted it and passed me along to the download page. I'm not sure if that means microsoft believes I have a license for my pirated copy of windows XP or Ubuntu.
You know, if this had been any other site, it might have worked. But I doubt that you could find a jury or judge who doesn't know what Google is used for. Google is a big and fairly respectable service that they use every day; good luck convincing a court that they need pr0n to get more hits...
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Leave it to Darl edit Wikipedia anonymously.
I would also imagine it would be pretty demoralizing if people seeking glorious martyrdom only succeeded in killing robots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridg
Dumping > $200 million on pork projects for your home state does not necessarily make a good senator.
I can't for the life of me recall why I decided to try this but I was able to validate my Ubuntu 5.10 install as Genuine Windows by downloading the GenuineCheck.exe program that they provide you if you're not using IE or the validation failed. In firefox no less! I wasn't able to reproduce it so I assumed that either they where distributing a broken validator or the server side checking they where doing was horribly wrong at that point. Windows Defender ended up proving useless for me but at least I got a funny screenshot out of it.
The authorities are going about this all wrong! I intend to write to my representatives urging them to pass legislation that would require all school districts to make Counterstrike maps of their schools avalible to to local police SWAT units and the FBI. Upon receiving word of any potential school shooting, they could race to the scene confident that their hours of playing cs_clements will pay off in lives saved. This young man is to be commended on his work to prevent another tragic incident!
Sadly, 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.com seems to be suspended already.
Warning: Computer analogy
You walk past a nondescript building bearing a sign that says 'linksys' with it's door propped open. You enter, observe people seated in front of computers and ask aloud where you can sit. A uniformed man gives you a number and points you to an empty seat.
The point is, these things are shipped with everything wide open and as accommodating as possible to simplify operation by end users. The fact that you can boot up a computer with a wireless card and *UNKNOWINGLY* connect to your neighbors AP should really be a cause for concern if these are treated as criminal cases. A vanilla laptop with XP can only connect to an open AP by following standard protocols and authentication. You asked the owner ('s wireless router) if you could use his internet, and he said yes.
At any rate, in this case, did the shooter have a carry permit and use a legally purchased and registered firearm? If he did, how difficult would it have been to obtain an illegal one? I think the war on drugs has shown that banning something does not mean that they disappear in a puff of smoke. Rather then dwelling on what-if scenarios where heroic armed citizens put a stop to the rampage or a gun free alternate universe with unicorns, perhaps we could drop the Thompsoning and ask where the hell the police and school officials where while this was happening.
Good thing we all have Diplomacy.
Not only that, you could probably report it to the police, FBI or INTERPOL.
Because economy of MMOG's so closely mirrors the real world it is natural to tax my World of Warcraft income just as they would my earnings in legal U.S. currency. I'd write more but I need to go outside and earn money by killing basilisks and selling their eyeballs.
After using Mozillia and Firefox for many a year, the habit of opening links in new tabs as I'm still reading the article is quite ingrained into me. It was with much dismay that I read your last paragraph, noticed that my mouse stopped working and my harddrive activity light was solid. Firefox died a horrible death, and did so again 3 minutes later as I reflected upon the foolishness of choosing 'Restore last session'. 5 minutes later, I was berating myself for saving the file into a directory that nautalis had open on my desktop, forgetting that it creates thumbnails based on file type, not extension.
I'm now posting this from another computer.
# chmod 000 pandora.jpg
... but does it run Vista? No, but it will run your nVidia hardware...Or just take the easy way out and search for 'Daniela Cicarelli' on a P2P network :)
You know, if this had been any other site, it might have worked. But I doubt that you could find a jury or judge who doesn't know what Google is used for. Google is a big and fairly respectable service that they use every day; good luck convincing a court that they need pr0n to get more hits...