It is akin to charging a bank robber for every note they stole, not for the crime as a whole.
Actually it's like suing the robber for all the money he might have stolen if he stole all the money that might have been in the bank...
This suit actually claims that if it wasn't for Limewire, the labels would have earned a similar amount through sales now lost... Plausible, right? Nah!
Has it been determined with any certainty that the crash was caused by something Airbus did or didn't do?
There are some theories floating around but they are vague at best and does NOT point to any errors in manufacture or design that Airbus knew should have been different in some way.
My best interpretation of the theories point more to pilot failure in face of a technical malfunction. Sure the autopilot might have been nonoperational and some instruments gave incorrect information but that shouldn't prevent a decent pilot from manually flying level and straight until either the malfunction fixed itself or they got some visual bearings. They were flying east so as soon as they got out of the storm they should see the beginning daybreak straight ahead.
They were however able to spot a lake with a non-existent monster in it. As the monster was assumed not to exist, the lake and the landmass that contained it was also removed from the data as it was assumed that the satellite accidentally had come to close to the edge of the world and the area traditionally found on old maps labeled "Here Be Monsters" was photographed in error.
It's always fun when moot plays around with the CSS, forcing silly music or crazy layout/colors on those too dumb to know how to avoid...
The good thing about anonymous boards like 4chan is the fact that people can talk (write) about anything without worrying about leaving a stain that will be remembered forever. Sure there are trolls and pedophiles but it's my impression that they get banned pretty quickly.
Some people object to the idea that you can write whatever you like and while it's read by those passing by, it doesn't stick and it won't come back to haunt you. These people obviously feel that if you WRITE something, it's different than if you just SAY it verbally. But they're wrong. There's no difference. Both are ways of expressing your opinion and they should be equally free. The protection of not being face to face is not just a reason to be abusive in ways you wouldn't if you were face to face; it's a reason to speak your heart without fear of someone running out of verbal arguments and resorting to violence, thus ending the discussion in a very useless way.
Now, 4chan cannot in any way be said to be a serious forum for serious discussions. We actually need something like that. The closest are blogs with handles and no stored identification and no logging. You have a handle that's yours. Your real email (or a disposable one) are used only in the setup phase. Sure, you might be able to 'profile' the writing style and that way identify you through comparison with other stuff known to be written by you, but there are ways around that too. This way to can truly speak your mind without fear of reprisals and that's how it should be; that's the essence of free speech.
Whether moots new idea is good or bad remains to be seen though.
Well, if the alternative is as things are today, I prefer the new regulation. It is important to make people AWARE of the fact that their every move is tracked, mapped, mined, interpreted, valued and sold. A lot of people are not aware of this and would object if they knew.
Unfortunately this use of cookies is kind of a form of abuse. The cookie system was meant to store information like login credentials, session IDs and similar, each for a specific site or closely related sites. Using them with ad-servers across countless unrelated sites will open up for cross site tracking and thus data mining and all the other 'bad' stuff. Requiring a site to obtain permission for its own cookies shouldn't be much of a problem. But ad-servers should be forced to obtain a new permission for each site each ad appears on, to severely limit the abuse we see today - because most people will chose "No, now and forever for this site (some ad-server)".
This isn't limited to 'the feds' - most police around the world behave the same way. Oh, and it doesn't even have to be plugged in...:(
Old monitors standing idle in the corner - confiscated. MP3-player in the kids bedroom - confiscated. Ancient 5.25" floppy disks - confiscated. Standard household power-strips and cables - confiscated.
The list goes on and on and doesn't make sense. Quite obviously, it's all about harassment and nothing else.
First I have to comment on the linked article in TFA... The 7 way not to get hacked by Anonymous... They forget the first and most basic: Don't be an moron and piss them off. There was no reason Mastercard should do what they did. Whatever Wikileaks had going (legal or otherwise) did not involve Mastercard, fraud, funding or similar, and therefore they had no right to stop processing their payments. Doing so anyway was stupid beyond words and they deserved what came to them. Actually they deserved much worse but DDoS was a start.
Okay, about anonymity and anonymous emails. Their approach is based on the idea that the structure of writing is unique to the individual writing. That is probably true but it is easy to manipulate. Just use multiple writers (Anonymous does this extensively when they write their announcements) or use Google translate to translate into a language with a different structure and back again, cleaning up the worst mistakes of the mechanical translation. That way different words are used, and the structure is widely different. As you mess with the translation output, the resulting 'identity' is a mixture of the machine and you, and in order not to be profiled on that, switch languages or use two intermediary languages. A third way is the 2011 version of cutting out letters from newspapers/magazines (done to avoid handwriting identification): Use Google and copy-paste sentences from countless sources into your message. That will completely mess up their profiling as well.
The notebook is private, as is the student's mobile phones - I mean, we are talking private phones here, not something issued by the school?
How can this be so hard to understand? - Kids have rights too, and while the full set of human rights doesn't apply to them, they do have a right to privacy and the right to be protected against unreasonable searches.
Now, if there is an incident, i.e. student A claims to have been phone-cyber-bullied by student B, the school should be able to examine the phones of the two students as part of the investigation. But only the phones of those two students and only when there is a tangible incident on the table.
Exactly. People are paying for the bandwidth and if the provider is willing to sell they better provide the merchandise the customer is paying for. Otherwise it's plain fraud. It's not the ISP's business what the bandwidth is used for.
Don't throttle customers, cheating them of what they've paid for. Upgrade your bandwidth or stop selling bandwidth you don't have!
So we actually don't know anything about what made the kids post stuff like that (pedophile, rapist, bipolar etc.) but if several honor-roll students feel the need to post stuff like this I think something is seriously wrong at that school and with that teacher.
Now, we can always discuss whether they went overboard in the content here, but there can be no doubt that students must have the right to criticize a teacher, especially if this teacher does something not right. It is very important that students have a voice and are able to question authority and especially authority abused, as it unfortunately often is when power goes to the head and megalomania ensues. This happens every day in both homes and schools, but these days the abused can fight back using social media, and while it sometimes goes too far, it's often both justified and right.
Let's give these kids the benefit of the doubt - odds are on their side.
The most remarkable part of this story, besides that such a common crime even appears on the/. home page, is that the culprits have been caught and sentenced.
They probably just followed the money... Germany is a strict country when it comes to rules and regulations so I'm guessing that the premium numbers used required a german bank account which require valid ID (they check it!) to set up. The guy probably used his own name or some company traceable to him to set it up, and then it's simple to find the guy. He probably counted on it being an issue with a foreign country and a language barrier, but no such luck. It takes some time but it can be done.
Given his personal behavior, you have to wonder just how corrupt his government actually is, and who may have been in a position to blackmail him for favors over the last twenty years. If he'd managed to avoid sexual misconduct that seemed deplorable to his core supporters, he wouldn't be in trouble now.
Exactly. And it's quite understandable that Berlusconi couldn't keep his hands off the extremely gorgeous 'Ruby' (Karima El Mahroug), so one can actually start wondering if he was set up here in an effort to finally get him - a bit like how Bill Clinton was set up; both leaders were known for their runaway interest in the opposite sex so it wasn't too hard to get them to fall in with both feet...
It isn't about AV here. It's about staff fucking up.
A proper firewall, all updates applied and staff visiting ONLY the sites they're supposed to (which would be a handful of business pages, most of an internal nature) and no way of plugging USB sticks or MP3 players into the system, and you can completely and totally prevent this.
All these things can easily be maintained and enforced by proper security personnel and the correct settings in the relevant OS.
Someone didn't do their job and it seems like both the users and the administration is to blame.
Hey, you're the idiot here! - Properly trained personnel and proper security (updates, firewall, usage policy etc.) can actually prevent stuff like this from happening, Windows or not.
Someone was sloppy and people may die from it. Deal with it.
Global Warming is a bad theory, as bad as they come. Complete with fanatics that see things that just isn't there. A lot like religion as a matter of fact... I'd even call it a cult based on the extremism of both points of view and in the interaction with 'outsiders'.
So now I can say that I'm proud to be a heretic in the cult of global warming.
Actually being retarded in the fields of biology, geology and physics doesn't make you a bad speller or crappy at math... and the US school kids are crappy at almost everything, maybe except sports...
I think it's too easy to blame religious retardedness for all the problems in the schools. A lot have to do with bad teachers, lazy kids and dumb parents, combined with a sick culture at the schools that creates losers on every level - geeks and nerds getting bullied (often with full consent from the faculty), jocks ditto if they even hint at actually trying to learn anything and so on.
There are so many women that tries to rob their ex-husbands in divorces you wouldn't believe it. They stop at nothing and will accuse you of incest and other child abuse, including you being a major child pornographer. There's only one thing to do - fight fire with fire. If you really hate her it's really fun.
There are people that can help you (for a price of course). They will help find her weaknesses and help you use them to break her as much as is needed. Mentally unstable women are the most fun as you can bring them to the brink of suicide - and over if ultimately needed. They can only win if you let them, and if you let them you deserve what's coming to you.
Isn't it about time we got the Internet out of the hands of megalomanical dictators, greedy corporations and power-crazed organizations that wish to control the flow of information and the sharing of data?
Make it a human right to have access to the Internet, possibly at a cost, but the price must be reasonable. Make it impossible for countries to make laws that force ISPs to play police and cut your off from the internet. Make it impossible for governments to censor the flow of information, including a complete disconnection when it suits them.
We also have something similar in the works here in Denmark... A so-called "Hoodlum Register" where violent people are registered and banned from either football events (matches or public screening) or nightclubs. So far they're not linked (two separate systems) but I'm certain they will be linked fairly soon, especially because the same people tend to show up in both registers...
Personally I find it to be a great idea. People that don't know how to behave needs to be taught a lesson they won't forget. A ban for a year is an efficient wake-up-call... when all the mates go to a game or down to the pub to watch a match on the big screen, you're not welcome and will be thrown out if spotted.
If it were up to me, the ban should be extended to all public events or venues... No cinema, no restaurants, no amusement parks, no festivals... for a year or more. That will hurt just as it is supposed to. If it could be combined with a restraining type order with the police that will trigger harsher punishments for relevant offenses (violence, vandalism etc.) while on the ban - it would be perfect. Severe fines are a must too of course.
They also missed the obvious test: Two or more *identical* phones with everything tuned off except the basic interface, each on a different network. They way, data sent by the phone even when everything is turned off will be revealed, as will inflation if it happens.
Actually class C networks are very common indeed, probably because it's such a handy size. But you're as so far as the term shouldn't be used. Call it/24 instead. CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is the new way.
The original poster probably confuses the 'standard' of using a.b.c.255 as the broadcast address in the old class C networks with 255/8, maybe because the subnet mask usually is 255..
No, 255 is not a magic number, except it's 11111111 in binary and thus the largest possible 8-bit number. As the four segments of an IPv4 address are 8-bit numbers, it does have some relevance...;)
There is no closed platform if the same games are also available for the PC. Opening the PS3 only allows its users the same possibilities as their PC-using buddies.
There is no downside to opening the PS3.Sure there will be some pirated games, but the sheer size of a PS3 game will limit distribution a bit. There won't be "CDs filled with all the top games available for a few bucks on the corner". In any case the PS3 problem won't be anywhere near the size of the PC problem, and yet they still make games for the PC... Go figure.
Slashdot Mirror
It is akin to charging a bank robber for every note they stole, not for the crime as a whole.
Actually it's like suing the robber for all the money he might have stolen if he stole all the money that might have been in the bank...
This suit actually claims that if it wasn't for Limewire, the labels would have earned a similar amount through sales now lost... Plausible, right? Nah!
A friend of mine has the exact opposite opinion. After flying Airbus he flatly refuses to go back to flying Boeing... It's the old YMMV I guess...
Has it been determined with any certainty that the crash was caused by something Airbus did or didn't do?
There are some theories floating around but they are vague at best and does NOT point to any errors in manufacture or design that Airbus knew should have been different in some way.
My best interpretation of the theories point more to pilot failure in face of a technical malfunction. Sure the autopilot might have been nonoperational and some instruments gave incorrect information but that shouldn't prevent a decent pilot from manually flying level and straight until either the malfunction fixed itself or they got some visual bearings. They were flying east so as soon as they got out of the storm they should see the beginning daybreak straight ahead.
They were however able to spot a lake with a non-existent monster in it. As the monster was assumed not to exist, the lake and the landmass that contained it was also removed from the data as it was assumed that the satellite accidentally had come to close to the edge of the world and the area traditionally found on old maps labeled "Here Be Monsters" was photographed in error.
It's always fun when moot plays around with the CSS, forcing silly music or crazy layout/colors on those too dumb to know how to avoid...
The good thing about anonymous boards like 4chan is the fact that people can talk (write) about anything without worrying about leaving a stain that will be remembered forever. Sure there are trolls and pedophiles but it's my impression that they get banned pretty quickly.
Some people object to the idea that you can write whatever you like and while it's read by those passing by, it doesn't stick and it won't come back to haunt you. These people obviously feel that if you WRITE something, it's different than if you just SAY it verbally. But they're wrong. There's no difference. Both are ways of expressing your opinion and they should be equally free. The protection of not being face to face is not just a reason to be abusive in ways you wouldn't if you were face to face; it's a reason to speak your heart without fear of someone running out of verbal arguments and resorting to violence, thus ending the discussion in a very useless way.
Now, 4chan cannot in any way be said to be a serious forum for serious discussions. We actually need something like that. The closest are blogs with handles and no stored identification and no logging. You have a handle that's yours. Your real email (or a disposable one) are used only in the setup phase. Sure, you might be able to 'profile' the writing style and that way identify you through comparison with other stuff known to be written by you, but there are ways around that too. This way to can truly speak your mind without fear of reprisals and that's how it should be; that's the essence of free speech.
Whether moots new idea is good or bad remains to be seen though.
Well, if the alternative is as things are today, I prefer the new regulation. It is important to make people AWARE of the fact that their every move is tracked, mapped, mined, interpreted, valued and sold. A lot of people are not aware of this and would object if they knew.
Unfortunately this use of cookies is kind of a form of abuse. The cookie system was meant to store information like login credentials, session IDs and similar, each for a specific site or closely related sites. Using them with ad-servers across countless unrelated sites will open up for cross site tracking and thus data mining and all the other 'bad' stuff. Requiring a site to obtain permission for its own cookies shouldn't be much of a problem. But ad-servers should be forced to obtain a new permission for each site each ad appears on, to severely limit the abuse we see today - because most people will chose "No, now and forever for this site (some ad-server)".
This isn't limited to 'the feds' - most police around the world behave the same way. Oh, and it doesn't even have to be plugged in... :(
Old monitors standing idle in the corner - confiscated.
MP3-player in the kids bedroom - confiscated.
Ancient 5.25" floppy disks - confiscated.
Standard household power-strips and cables - confiscated.
The list goes on and on and doesn't make sense. Quite obviously, it's all about harassment and nothing else.
First I have to comment on the linked article in TFA... The 7 way not to get hacked by Anonymous... They forget the first and most basic: Don't be an moron and piss them off. There was no reason Mastercard should do what they did. Whatever Wikileaks had going (legal or otherwise) did not involve Mastercard, fraud, funding or similar, and therefore they had no right to stop processing their payments. Doing so anyway was stupid beyond words and they deserved what came to them. Actually they deserved much worse but DDoS was a start.
Okay, about anonymity and anonymous emails. Their approach is based on the idea that the structure of writing is unique to the individual writing. That is probably true but it is easy to manipulate. Just use multiple writers (Anonymous does this extensively when they write their announcements) or use Google translate to translate into a language with a different structure and back again, cleaning up the worst mistakes of the mechanical translation. That way different words are used, and the structure is widely different. As you mess with the translation output, the resulting 'identity' is a mixture of the machine and you, and in order not to be profiled on that, switch languages or use two intermediary languages. A third way is the 2011 version of cutting out letters from newspapers/magazines (done to avoid handwriting identification): Use Google and copy-paste sentences from countless sources into your message. That will completely mess up their profiling as well.
In short: Yes.
The notebook is private, as is the student's mobile phones - I mean, we are talking private phones here, not something issued by the school?
How can this be so hard to understand? - Kids have rights too, and while the full set of human rights doesn't apply to them, they do have a right to privacy and the right to be protected against unreasonable searches.
Now, if there is an incident, i.e. student A claims to have been phone-cyber-bullied by student B, the school should be able to examine the phones of the two students as part of the investigation. But only the phones of those two students and only when there is a tangible incident on the table.
Exactly. People are paying for the bandwidth and if the provider is willing to sell they better provide the merchandise the customer is paying for. Otherwise it's plain fraud. It's not the ISP's business what the bandwidth is used for.
Don't throttle customers, cheating them of what they've paid for. Upgrade your bandwidth or stop selling bandwidth you don't have!
So we actually don't know anything about what made the kids post stuff like that (pedophile, rapist, bipolar etc.) but if several honor-roll students feel the need to post stuff like this I think something is seriously wrong at that school and with that teacher.
Now, we can always discuss whether they went overboard in the content here, but there can be no doubt that students must have the right to criticize a teacher, especially if this teacher does something not right. It is very important that students have a voice and are able to question authority and especially authority abused, as it unfortunately often is when power goes to the head and megalomania ensues. This happens every day in both homes and schools, but these days the abused can fight back using social media, and while it sometimes goes too far, it's often both justified and right.
Let's give these kids the benefit of the doubt - odds are on their side.
I was thinking the same... But why Canada?
The most remarkable part of this story, besides that such a common crime even appears on the /. home page, is that the culprits have been caught and sentenced.
They probably just followed the money... Germany is a strict country when it comes to rules and regulations so I'm guessing that the premium numbers used required a german bank account which require valid ID (they check it!) to set up. The guy probably used his own name or some company traceable to him to set it up, and then it's simple to find the guy. He probably counted on it being an issue with a foreign country and a language barrier, but no such luck. It takes some time but it can be done.
Given his personal behavior, you have to wonder just how corrupt his government actually is, and who may have been in a position to blackmail him for favors over the last twenty years. If he'd managed to avoid sexual misconduct that seemed deplorable to his core supporters, he wouldn't be in trouble now.
Exactly. And it's quite understandable that Berlusconi couldn't keep his hands off the extremely gorgeous 'Ruby' (Karima El Mahroug), so one can actually start wondering if he was set up here in an effort to finally get him - a bit like how Bill Clinton was set up; both leaders were known for their runaway interest in the opposite sex so it wasn't too hard to get them to fall in with both feet...
It isn't about AV here. It's about staff fucking up.
A proper firewall, all updates applied and staff visiting ONLY the sites they're supposed to (which would be a handful of business pages, most of an internal nature) and no way of plugging USB sticks or MP3 players into the system, and you can completely and totally prevent this.
All these things can easily be maintained and enforced by proper security personnel and the correct settings in the relevant OS.
Someone didn't do their job and it seems like both the users and the administration is to blame.
Hey, you're the idiot here! - Properly trained personnel and proper security (updates, firewall, usage policy etc.) can actually prevent stuff like this from happening, Windows or not.
Someone was sloppy and people may die from it. Deal with it.
So true!
Global Warming is a bad theory, as bad as they come. Complete with fanatics that see things that just isn't there. A lot like religion as a matter of fact... I'd even call it a cult based on the extremism of both points of view and in the interaction with 'outsiders'.
So now I can say that I'm proud to be a heretic in the cult of global warming.
Actually being retarded in the fields of biology, geology and physics doesn't make you a bad speller or crappy at math... and the US school kids are crappy at almost everything, maybe except sports...
I think it's too easy to blame religious retardedness for all the problems in the schools. A lot have to do with bad teachers, lazy kids and dumb parents, combined with a sick culture at the schools that creates losers on every level - geeks and nerds getting bullied (often with full consent from the faculty), jocks ditto if they even hint at actually trying to learn anything and so on.
Instead of playing nice, play hardball.
There are so many women that tries to rob their ex-husbands in divorces you wouldn't believe it. They stop at nothing and will accuse you of incest and other child abuse, including you being a major child pornographer. There's only one thing to do - fight fire with fire. If you really hate her it's really fun.
There are people that can help you (for a price of course). They will help find her weaknesses and help you use them to break her as much as is needed. Mentally unstable women are the most fun as you can bring them to the brink of suicide - and over if ultimately needed. They can only win if you let them, and if you let them you deserve what's coming to you.
Isn't it about time we got the Internet out of the hands of megalomanical dictators, greedy corporations and power-crazed organizations that wish to control the flow of information and the sharing of data?
Make it a human right to have access to the Internet, possibly at a cost, but the price must be reasonable. Make it impossible for countries to make laws that force ISPs to play police and cut your off from the internet. Make it impossible for governments to censor the flow of information, including a complete disconnection when it suits them.
We also have something similar in the works here in Denmark... A so-called "Hoodlum Register" where violent people are registered and banned from either football events (matches or public screening) or nightclubs. So far they're not linked (two separate systems) but I'm certain they will be linked fairly soon, especially because the same people tend to show up in both registers...
Personally I find it to be a great idea. People that don't know how to behave needs to be taught a lesson they won't forget. A ban for a year is an efficient wake-up-call... when all the mates go to a game or down to the pub to watch a match on the big screen, you're not welcome and will be thrown out if spotted.
If it were up to me, the ban should be extended to all public events or venues... No cinema, no restaurants, no amusement parks, no festivals... for a year or more. That will hurt just as it is supposed to. If it could be combined with a restraining type order with the police that will trigger harsher punishments for relevant offenses (violence, vandalism etc.) while on the ban - it would be perfect. Severe fines are a must too of course.
They also missed the obvious test: Two or more *identical* phones with everything tuned off except the basic interface, each on a different network. They way, data sent by the phone even when everything is turned off will be revealed, as will inflation if it happens.
Actually class C networks are very common indeed, probably because it's such a handy size. But you're as so far as the term shouldn't be used. Call it /24 instead. CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is the new way.
The original poster probably confuses the 'standard' of using a.b.c.255 as the broadcast address in the old class C networks with 255/8, maybe because the subnet mask usually is 255..
No, 255 is not a magic number, except it's 11111111 in binary and thus the largest possible 8-bit number. As the four segments of an IPv4 address are 8-bit numbers, it does have some relevance... ;)
Brilliant idea! - Use'em or lose'em!
There is no closed platform if the same games are also available for the PC. Opening the PS3 only allows its users the same possibilities as their PC-using buddies.
There is no downside to opening the PS3.Sure there will be some pirated games, but the sheer size of a PS3 game will limit distribution a bit. There won't be "CDs filled with all the top games available for a few bucks on the corner". In any case the PS3 problem won't be anywhere near the size of the PC problem, and yet they still make games for the PC... Go figure.