One of the results of DMCA (and similar laws outside of the US) is that in addition to hosting materials somehow illegal it is also equally illegal to link to someone else hosting such materials, regardless of the obvious inability of the linkee to verify the legality of whatever he or she links to on his homepage. And even second order links (linking to something that links to the offending material) have been ruled equally illegal, and third order links as well in a few cases.
Now, the absolute core of the web is links. The result of the DMCA has been that you are equally responsible for the links provided by someone you link to, thus severely inhibiting the cross linking for those worried about culpability in this matter.
In essense, whenever you put up a link, you are doing something illegal because it is highly probable that someone elsewhere has put up something that's illegal and that this material is reachable though the link you're putting up after only a few additional clicks. And when you're already responsible for at least third order links, you just might be responsible for this as well, so it's safer NOT to put up the link - and thus you've broken the essence of the web: Links. So the DMCA breaks the web, not saves it.
Now, when are the MAFIAA going after Google? - I mean, I can equally fast go to Google and type "heroes s03e07" (looking for the very latest episode of the tv-series "Heroes") as I can go to a torrent portal like isohunt.com (who's already been sued) and type the very same query, and in both cases get a result with a link directly to the.torrent file (a first order link). The torrent portal have been sued but Google has not... go figure.
Why do the religious nuts fear Richard Dawkins so much?
All he does is tell people to question their religion - he doesn't tell people to do anything besides thinking for themselves. Of course it means that people are very likely to abandon their beliefs if they actually thought about the stupidities inherent in any religion, the major ones in particular...
I guess independent thought is the enemy of any religion and to those in power because of it in particular.
It must be a power thing of some kind, the concept of forcing some aspect of your faith upon others. Muslims want us to not insult Mohammad by drawing him or referencing the pedophile nature of his marrige with 9 year old Aisha whom he called 'his favorite wife'. They also want non-Muslims to dress and act in certain ways, and actually feel free to call normally dressed western women for 'whores' because 'they are practically naked'. Christians have similar issues, and historically we only need to mention the Inquisition and the Witch hunts to show that they also have serious issues in letting non-Christians (and 'not enough' Christians as well) be in peace.
Why can't religious people just mind their own business and other people mind theirs? - Be happy in the belief that you will be saved because you 'have the faith' and let other people deal with their eternal damnation or whatever?
Hmmm... Just thought of that famous physics question about whether Hell is exothermic or not... If there are more than one religion in the world that believes that you'll go to Hell if you believe something else, it follows that everybody will go to Hell (maybe not the same Hell but still) so no matter what you do you'll be damned forever, and you might as well enjoy your time here on Earth before that one-way trip to Hell...;)
TFA states that they claim to be able to scan inside encrypted files too - in real time! - which is downright bullshit!
This tool will not work against SSL connections, VPN- or SSH tunnels or just plain old encrypted P2P or TOR networks. Those protocols are designed to detect and defeat man-in-the-middle attacks like this would be. Even the NSA cannot break strong encryption in reasonable time, let alone real time (as far as we know anyway).
It can only - as AOLs equivalent tool does - work against plain text emails and similar, and as it is a hash scanner, altering a single bit in a banned image or its file name would fool it.
In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will.
I challenge the court! - Demonstrate how to obtain an encryption key from a completely uncooperative person without using illegal means like torture or mind altering drugs. A physical key can always be found and secured if it exists and the suspect is able to do so. A memory pattern is a completely different matter.
No, a memory pattern is a most certainly an irremovable part of the person in whose brain it resides.
What is the plan in case a person blankly refuses to cooperate? - Barring torture and drugs, they can only use the method of keeping the suspect in custody until he or she reveals the key, which also happens to be considered against basic human rights and a form of torture.
If it was made legal to incarcerate people until they reveal an encryption key, it would be a police state backdoor to imprisoning people indefinately if they have any form of computer at the time of their arrest...
"We suspect there is a hidden container on your harddrive! - Reveal the key or else!" "But I know nothing of any hidden containers!" "Just give us the key" "I don't know any key!" "Okay, you'll rot in a prison until you reveal it."
Remember, with programs like TrueCrypt is it impossible to prove the existence of a hidden container without the key so either the court will never grant the unlimited imprisoning or it will blindly trust the police when they say that "it's likely there is a hidden container" and you have yet another element of a police state.
The repair man should have plugged in a laptop or similar, showing a working connection, thus placing the issue squarely on the customers computer. If the repair man couldn't make his laptop connect either, the issue is either with both computers or - much more likely - the connection, and thus he knows he has work to do.
It's not only China that have ISP's that manipulate DNS records... Here in Denmark for instance most ISP's voluntarily manipulate DNS for a whole list of domains known to host kiddie porn causing a redirect to a warning page. But they also censor the net by 'preventing access' to domains like allofmp3.com and thepiratebay.org which were 'banned' by Fodgedretten, a commerce-oriented court, based on bogus claims of extending danish jurisdiction to foreign-based websites (Russia and Sweden). Unfortunately nobody has yet filed an appeal of these verdicts, so they stand - unvalidated.
Anyway, this censorship has caused most somewhat technically-oritented people to switch to other nameservers than those provided by their ISPs, usually OpenDNS but also private nameservers they trust. I use our company's which I run (and keep patched!) so I can circumvent the censorship.
Let's leave the pedophile angle completely out of this for now because it really doesn't matter what the authorities think is stored inside an encrypted container. The principle is that you are allowed to keep secrets from the authorities and hang on to these. Any small breach is equivalent to a thought police and a big brother police state (in the making anyway).
The thing is - everything stored inside an encrypted container have to come from somewhere. The police can easily prove that someone downloaded pedophilia from a site whose logs they have. The culprit could have deleted (wiped) everything and still be convicted. So it's not like all cyber-pedophiles have a free run here. The police can still convict.
So let's rejoice that this judge was awake and didn't fall for the police-state-for-the-sake-of-the-children angle here. It's about the right to privacy, a right that should have been a central part of the human rights declaration since forever.
The problem is... You have to be breaking Italian law to make your argument valid in Italy, and there's a lot of stuff on TPB/LB that's quite legal to download in Italy simply because it either is free or not protected in Italy (the same goes for the all other countries). So, you say that because someone does download something illegal in Italy it is quite okay that all Italians loose certain freedoms and legal protections?
Good point. How do we know this really is Slashdot?
Easy! - Post a URL to something smaller than google.com and see if it gets slashdotted... If it does, it was the real thing. If it didn't, well... maybe it just wasn't interesting...
Well, I'll chalk that up to the 'if only stupidity was painful' clause... If you don't patch and don't backup... you'll now end up hurting badly... and I for one don't mind that at all...;)
On a serious note, the easiest way to get the key is from the people that wrote this thing and profits from it... Just follow the damned money!! - With a bit of cooperation from the people at PayPal and whatever bank the money goes to from there, these bozos will be caught in minutes...
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...the SUVs will come back in some form. After all, they are pretty safe (for the driver) and pretty handy as soon as you get out of the cities. Sure it'll hurt if you get run down by one, but the thing is - a huge majority of pedestrians and bicyclists that gets hurt by SUVs are actually to blame themselves. A common mindset seems to be something along these lines: "Sure I see that SUV coming at me but I was here first and I have the right of way so I just keep going! - Hey, it isn't stopping... AUCH!!!". Sure the driver gets blamed but you get hurt (or killed)... It's just so stupid and here we can honestly say that in traffic stupidity usually hurts (or will hurt).
Airports are pure Security Theater. The checks are far from perfect but all the hassle and the absurd details (shoes in the carry-on scanner, the stupid small liquid bottles etc.) make for a great show. They really doesn't do much but it's cumbersome and annoying so it must be really efficient...
The facts are that you can make bomb that can down a jetliner with less than 200ml of liquid, you can hijack a jetliner (then kill the pilots and fly the plane into a building or two) using materials that would not show up on any of the current scans.
If you work at an airport you can place as many big bombs in the cargo hold as you like because the security is all shell and no depth, and the shell has holes... the background checks are shallow (journalists with simple fake identities have been able to get jobs at airports with full access to otherwise secured areas) and does not take into account neither 'sleeper agents' nor sudden radicalization post check.
So yes, airports are one of the worst cases of Security Theater.
The Legal team over at google is looking at this and going 'oh fuck no'.
Exactly, and yet no. Google is simply too big for MPAA/RIAA to go after. Googles lawyers can keep a case like this tied up in courts for decades and the MAFIAA knows this.
But in reality it is exactly the same thing. The court actually said that despite efforts to remove copyrighted materials, despite inplementing a tool that made it easy for rights owners to remove their IP, TorrentSpy are still liable for the stuff they index. Google indexes millions of pages containing illegal stuff, from kiddie porn, over terrorist manuals to IP in all its forms, and they've made no effort to make it easy to remove these things from the index (which would be censorship, but still), so if TorrentSpy is liable, so is Google and to a much higher degreee.
T-Mobile is stupid beyond belief doing this. Their trademark is a *combination* of things, including the color, but also a specific typeface and a trademark name. The color itself is such a general item that polling a stunt like will anger so many people it will create an avalance of badwill against the company. Their legal department must have gone insane.
Just introduce a rating system where trusted editors can rate the ACCURACY of the information in an entry, and you can screen out entries with low ratings when searching, or just ignore results with too low ratings. This way the 'trivia' is still there and can be found (and later upgraded if nessesary) and is easily ignored if you don't care for it. This way, everybody's happy. Well, except for those (IMHO) morons that would like to censor information just because they don't like it, don't care for it or find it 'useless'.
Face it, information is never useless or trivial. It may be uninteresting to someone but you mileage may vary and one mans useless trivia is another mans treasure - and of course information always wants to be free...:)
I have to jump in here... Hamas may be democratically chosen but that in itself doesn't make it legitimate in any way. Both Saddam and Hitler were also democratically chosen... in sham-elections but still. As long as Hamas shoots deadly rockets into Israel every day, hitting more or less randomly, and send in suicide bombers to kill specifically women and children, then they're terrorists by every definition of the word. They need to make peace with Israel and get their own state, not run around thinking they can 'exterminate' Israel in any way. Israel is there to stay so they better find a way to live with that fact. The people from Fatah has done so.
The immediate solution is obviously to just make it hard enough to open the case of the computer - make it take too long to get at the RAM and extract it.
So... Make sure all enclosure screws are in, add the padlock there's usually a eyelet for, and obviously make sure to cut the power as soon as you realize it's a raid. I know TrueCrypt has a very nice hotkey mechanism that will dismount one or all crypto drives upon activation, and I know most OS's are able to actually power down the system at the end of the shutdown sequence. So, make it possible to use a hotkey or (even better) an external trigger (like a physical intrusion detection system) to dismount drives, scramble the memory used for keys and go straight to a full powerdown. That would competely invalidate this cold attack.
Because if The Pirate Bay gets convicted, the next obvious target is Google. You can find at least as much pirated content using Google as you can using The Pirate Bay, and they're both indexing services that just provide links to sites or other means to retrieve the illegal content. So if The Pirate Bay goes down, providing links to means to retrieving illegal content is banned and Google has to be next. And I'd love to see the fool trying to do a legal face-off with Google on their very core business... It's gonna be more bloody than all the real life pirate confrontations throughout history!
It's a very nessesary fight! - It is about the right of one industry to restrict the freedom of expression in general just because it's possible, convinient and of great symbolic value. The core issue is that IFPI should spend their money on making people choose to pay for their music and movies instead of downloading them for free. Procecuting your potential customers is beyond stupidity and only works due to monopolitic laws surrounding intellectual property.
Why does people break the law and download mosic and movies? - Well, that question isn't hard to answer and IFPI is sure to know the answer: Price and availability. People mostly download new movies because it isn't available in other forms locally or in a convinient form (for home use). People discuss new movies globally but the release of them are hardly ever global; rather it's usually region by region, format by format - a very outdated method. Changing this would eliminate many more downloads than a thousand lawsuits. Lowering the prices to the bargain bin level from the start would also make more willing and able to afford DVDs. The production cost of a DVD is still so low that there's a profit even at bargain bin level. Sure it might also mean that the stars need to stop getting obscene paychecks but that's a detail. If you're truly interested in the acting art, the pay shouldn't need to be more than what you need to live on (including savings for out-of-work periods).
The swedish torrent portal "The Pirate Bay" was convicted for "facilitating copyright violations" in the court yesterday, but the compelling case caused a surprising co-conviction - all roads and cars were banned, as were bikes, pavements, shoes and the use of hands for any purpose, as the case made it clear that despite many obvious innocent uses, all these things were almost always part of many serious crimes, including murder and terrorism, just like The Pirate Bay was part of many copyright violations as shown by the procecution, and as they made a convincing argument about facilitating crimes, the extensive ban was unavoidable...
Besides, Thinkgeek tells us that the green laser pointer is perfect for sky pointing... Is it our fault that a stupid helicopter flies into the beam...?:)
Stealing a stop sign may have resulted in the accident, but if the cause was a missing stop sign, the responsible party might equally be the county who failed to replace the missing sign. Depends on the time span between the sign going missing and the accident.
If the intent was to cause an accident, such harsh punishments are fair. If the intent was to goof around, the punishment should reflect only the theft, nothing more. After all, it is allowed to think while you're driving, which includes taking care when crossing other roads, especially if the layout is such that there ought to be a stop sign (stolen or just not set up yet).
I mean, when the athletes are competing they're probably to be found on the court/track whatever, right?
When they're not competing, they're either preparing/training or taking some time off. If they're doing stuff (drugs) during that time that affects their performance, it has to be tracable during the following event if it has any effect. Otherwise we have to ban milk during childhood because it helps build stronger bones which will benefit athletic performance later in life - and so on. Completely stupid. If a substance isn't measurable just before, during or after an event, it should be legal and thus it's irrelevant where the athletes are.
Tracking athletes between events is stupid, bordering on insane. Next thing they must be locked up in special houses between events just to be sure we know exactly where they are, 24/7... and next only people raised since infancy in such houses can be allowed to compete... It's taking the anti-doping thing way, way, way, way too far - but it's right around the corner if this idea is allowed.
If it was up to me anyway, just allow all forms of doping and let the athletes decide how far they want to go in their quest to win. It's equal access for all.
Also from TFA: Equally, if Deckard really is a Nexus 7 created to work as an exterminator, why is he lacking the strength of the inferior Nexus 6 models he is chasing? He seems to spend a large part of the film being bashed to a pulp.
Well, the answer to that lies clearly in Tyrells words: "The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long and you have burned so very, very brightly Roy." - In other words, the superior strength and durability comes at the price of a reduced lifespan.
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... is more stupid than words can express!
One of the results of DMCA (and similar laws outside of the US) is that in addition to hosting materials somehow illegal it is also equally illegal to link to someone else hosting such materials, regardless of the obvious inability of the linkee to verify the legality of whatever he or she links to on his homepage. And even second order links (linking to something that links to the offending material) have been ruled equally illegal, and third order links as well in a few cases.
Now, the absolute core of the web is links. The result of the DMCA has been that you are equally responsible for the links provided by someone you link to, thus severely inhibiting the cross linking for those worried about culpability in this matter.
In essense, whenever you put up a link, you are doing something illegal because it is highly probable that someone elsewhere has put up something that's illegal and that this material is reachable though the link you're putting up after only a few additional clicks. And when you're already responsible for at least third order links, you just might be responsible for this as well, so it's safer NOT to put up the link - and thus you've broken the essence of the web: Links. So the DMCA breaks the web, not saves it.
Now, when are the MAFIAA going after Google? - I mean, I can equally fast go to Google and type "heroes s03e07" (looking for the very latest episode of the tv-series "Heroes") as I can go to a torrent portal like isohunt.com (who's already been sued) and type the very same query, and in both cases get a result with a link directly to the .torrent file (a first order link). The torrent portal have been sued but Google has not... go figure.
Why do the religious nuts fear Richard Dawkins so much?
All he does is tell people to question their religion - he doesn't tell people to do anything besides thinking for themselves. Of course it means that people are very likely to abandon their beliefs if they actually thought about the stupidities inherent in any religion, the major ones in particular...
I guess independent thought is the enemy of any religion and to those in power because of it in particular.
It must be a power thing of some kind, the concept of forcing some aspect of your faith upon others. Muslims want us to not insult Mohammad by drawing him or referencing the pedophile nature of his marrige with 9 year old Aisha whom he called 'his favorite wife'. They also want non-Muslims to dress and act in certain ways, and actually feel free to call normally dressed western women for 'whores' because 'they are practically naked'. Christians have similar issues, and historically we only need to mention the Inquisition and the Witch hunts to show that they also have serious issues in letting non-Christians (and 'not enough' Christians as well) be in peace.
Why can't religious people just mind their own business and other people mind theirs? - Be happy in the belief that you will be saved because you 'have the faith' and let other people deal with their eternal damnation or whatever?
Hmmm... Just thought of that famous physics question about whether Hell is exothermic or not... If there are more than one religion in the world that believes that you'll go to Hell if you believe something else, it follows that everybody will go to Hell (maybe not the same Hell but still) so no matter what you do you'll be damned forever, and you might as well enjoy your time here on Earth before that one-way trip to Hell... ;)
TFA states that they claim to be able to scan inside encrypted files too - in real time! - which is downright bullshit!
This tool will not work against SSL connections, VPN- or SSH tunnels or just plain old encrypted P2P or TOR networks. Those protocols are designed to detect and defeat man-in-the-middle attacks like this would be. Even the NSA cannot break strong encryption in reasonable time, let alone real time (as far as we know anyway).
It can only - as AOLs equivalent tool does - work against plain text emails and similar, and as it is a hash scanner, altering a single bit in a banned image or its file name would fool it.
I challenge the court! - Demonstrate how to obtain an encryption key from a completely uncooperative person without using illegal means like torture or mind altering drugs. A physical key can always be found and secured if it exists and the suspect is able to do so. A memory pattern is a completely different matter.
No, a memory pattern is a most certainly an irremovable part of the person in whose brain it resides.
What is the plan in case a person blankly refuses to cooperate? - Barring torture and drugs, they can only use the method of keeping the suspect in custody until he or she reveals the key, which also happens to be considered against basic human rights and a form of torture.
If it was made legal to incarcerate people until they reveal an encryption key, it would be a police state backdoor to imprisoning people indefinately if they have any form of computer at the time of their arrest...
"We suspect there is a hidden container on your harddrive! - Reveal the key or else!"
"But I know nothing of any hidden containers!"
"Just give us the key"
"I don't know any key!"
"Okay, you'll rot in a prison until you reveal it."
Remember, with programs like TrueCrypt is it impossible to prove the existence of a hidden container without the key so either the court will never grant the unlimited imprisoning or it will blindly trust the police when they say that "it's likely there is a hidden container" and you have yet another element of a police state.
When do governments learn that the Internet is WAY outside their jurisdiction?!?! - As it should be!
The repair man should have plugged in a laptop or similar, showing a working connection, thus placing the issue squarely on the customers computer. If the repair man couldn't make his laptop connect either, the issue is either with both computers or - much more likely - the connection, and thus he knows he has work to do.
It's not only China that have ISP's that manipulate DNS records... Here in Denmark for instance most ISP's voluntarily manipulate DNS for a whole list of domains known to host kiddie porn causing a redirect to a warning page. But they also censor the net by 'preventing access' to domains like allofmp3.com and thepiratebay.org which were 'banned' by Fodgedretten, a commerce-oriented court, based on bogus claims of extending danish jurisdiction to foreign-based websites (Russia and Sweden). Unfortunately nobody has yet filed an appeal of these verdicts, so they stand - unvalidated.
Anyway, this censorship has caused most somewhat technically-oritented people to switch to other nameservers than those provided by their ISPs, usually OpenDNS but also private nameservers they trust. I use our company's which I run (and keep patched!) so I can circumvent the censorship.
Let's leave the pedophile angle completely out of this for now because it really doesn't matter what the authorities think is stored inside an encrypted container. The principle is that you are allowed to keep secrets from the authorities and hang on to these. Any small breach is equivalent to a thought police and a big brother police state (in the making anyway).
The thing is - everything stored inside an encrypted container have to come from somewhere. The police can easily prove that someone downloaded pedophilia from a site whose logs they have. The culprit could have deleted (wiped) everything and still be convicted. So it's not like all cyber-pedophiles have a free run here. The police can still convict.
So let's rejoice that this judge was awake and didn't fall for the police-state-for-the-sake-of-the-children angle here. It's about the right to privacy, a right that should have been a central part of the human rights declaration since forever.
The problem is... You have to be breaking Italian law to make your argument valid in Italy, and there's a lot of stuff on TPB/LB that's quite legal to download in Italy simply because it either is free or not protected in Italy (the same goes for the all other countries). So, you say that because someone does download something illegal in Italy it is quite okay that all Italians loose certain freedoms and legal protections?
That's not enforcing the law, that's fascism.
Good point. How do we know this really is Slashdot?
Easy! - Post a URL to something smaller than google.com and see if it gets slashdotted... If it does, it was the real thing. If it didn't, well... maybe it just wasn't interesting...
Well, I'll chalk that up to the 'if only stupidity was painful' clause... If you don't patch and don't backup... you'll now end up hurting badly... and I for one don't mind that at all... ;)
On a serious note, the easiest way to get the key is from the people that wrote this thing and profits from it... Just follow the damned money!! - With a bit of cooperation from the people at PayPal and whatever bank the money goes to from there, these bozos will be caught in minutes...
...the SUVs will come back in some form. After all, they are pretty safe (for the driver) and pretty handy as soon as you get out of the cities. Sure it'll hurt if you get run down by one, but the thing is - a huge majority of pedestrians and bicyclists that gets hurt by SUVs are actually to blame themselves. A common mindset seems to be something along these lines: "Sure I see that SUV coming at me but I was here first and I have the right of way so I just keep going! - Hey, it isn't stopping... AUCH!!!". Sure the driver gets blamed but you get hurt (or killed)... It's just so stupid and here we can honestly say that in traffic stupidity usually hurts (or will hurt).
Nope.
Airports are pure Security Theater. The checks are far from perfect but all the hassle and the absurd details (shoes in the carry-on scanner, the stupid small liquid bottles etc.) make for a great show. They really doesn't do much but it's cumbersome and annoying so it must be really efficient...
The facts are that you can make bomb that can down a jetliner with less than 200ml of liquid, you can hijack a jetliner (then kill the pilots and fly the plane into a building or two) using materials that would not show up on any of the current scans.
If you work at an airport you can place as many big bombs in the cargo hold as you like because the security is all shell and no depth, and the shell has holes... the background checks are shallow (journalists with simple fake identities have been able to get jobs at airports with full access to otherwise secured areas) and does not take into account neither 'sleeper agents' nor sudden radicalization post check.
So yes, airports are one of the worst cases of Security Theater.
Exactly, and yet no. Google is simply too big for MPAA/RIAA to go after. Googles lawyers can keep a case like this tied up in courts for decades and the MAFIAA knows this.
But in reality it is exactly the same thing. The court actually said that despite efforts to remove copyrighted materials, despite inplementing a tool that made it easy for rights owners to remove their IP, TorrentSpy are still liable for the stuff they index. Google indexes millions of pages containing illegal stuff, from kiddie porn, over terrorist manuals to IP in all its forms, and they've made no effort to make it easy to remove these things from the index (which would be censorship, but still), so if TorrentSpy is liable, so is Google and to a much higher degreee.
Brilliant initiative that free magenta website!
T-Mobile is stupid beyond belief doing this. Their trademark is a *combination* of things, including the color, but also a specific typeface and a trademark name. The color itself is such a general item that polling a stunt like will anger so many people it will create an avalance of badwill against the company. Their legal department must have gone insane.
Just introduce a rating system where trusted editors can rate the ACCURACY of the information in an entry, and you can screen out entries with low ratings when searching, or just ignore results with too low ratings. This way the 'trivia' is still there and can be found (and later upgraded if nessesary) and is easily ignored if you don't care for it. This way, everybody's happy. Well, except for those (IMHO) morons that would like to censor information just because they don't like it, don't care for it or find it 'useless'.
:)
Face it, information is never useless or trivial. It may be uninteresting to someone but you mileage may vary and one mans useless trivia is another mans treasure - and of course information always wants to be free...
I have to jump in here... Hamas may be democratically chosen but that in itself doesn't make it legitimate in any way. Both Saddam and Hitler were also democratically chosen... in sham-elections but still. As long as Hamas shoots deadly rockets into Israel every day, hitting more or less randomly, and send in suicide bombers to kill specifically women and children, then they're terrorists by every definition of the word. They need to make peace with Israel and get their own state, not run around thinking they can 'exterminate' Israel in any way. Israel is there to stay so they better find a way to live with that fact. The people from Fatah has done so.
The immediate solution is obviously to just make it hard enough to open the case of the computer - make it take too long to get at the RAM and extract it.
So... Make sure all enclosure screws are in, add the padlock there's usually a eyelet for, and obviously make sure to cut the power as soon as you realize it's a raid. I know TrueCrypt has a very nice hotkey mechanism that will dismount one or all crypto drives upon activation, and I know most OS's are able to actually power down the system at the end of the shutdown sequence. So, make it possible to use a hotkey or (even better) an external trigger (like a physical intrusion detection system) to dismount drives, scramble the memory used for keys and go straight to a full powerdown. That would competely invalidate this cold attack.
Because if The Pirate Bay gets convicted, the next obvious target is Google. You can find at least as much pirated content using Google as you can using The Pirate Bay, and they're both indexing services that just provide links to sites or other means to retrieve the illegal content. So if The Pirate Bay goes down, providing links to means to retrieving illegal content is banned and Google has to be next. And I'd love to see the fool trying to do a legal face-off with Google on their very core business... It's gonna be more bloody than all the real life pirate confrontations throughout history!
It's a very nessesary fight! - It is about the right of one industry to restrict the freedom of expression in general just because it's possible, convinient and of great symbolic value. The core issue is that IFPI should spend their money on making people choose to pay for their music and movies instead of downloading them for free. Procecuting your potential customers is beyond stupidity and only works due to monopolitic laws surrounding intellectual property.
Why does people break the law and download mosic and movies? - Well, that question isn't hard to answer and IFPI is sure to know the answer: Price and availability. People mostly download new movies because it isn't available in other forms locally or in a convinient form (for home use). People discuss new movies globally but the release of them are hardly ever global; rather it's usually region by region, format by format - a very outdated method. Changing this would eliminate many more downloads than a thousand lawsuits. Lowering the prices to the bargain bin level from the start would also make more willing and able to afford DVDs. The production cost of a DVD is still so low that there's a profit even at bargain bin level. Sure it might also mean that the stars need to stop getting obscene paychecks but that's a detail. If you're truly interested in the acting art, the pay shouldn't need to be more than what you need to live on (including savings for out-of-work periods).
The swedish torrent portal "The Pirate Bay" was convicted for "facilitating copyright violations" in the court yesterday, but the compelling case caused a surprising co-conviction - all roads and cars were banned, as were bikes, pavements, shoes and the use of hands for any purpose, as the case made it clear that despite many obvious innocent uses, all these things were almost always part of many serious crimes, including murder and terrorism, just like The Pirate Bay was part of many copyright violations as shown by the procecution, and as they made a convincing argument about facilitating crimes, the extensive ban was unavoidable...
Besides, Thinkgeek tells us that the green laser pointer is perfect for sky pointing... Is it our fault that a stupid helicopter flies into the beam...? :)
Stealing a stop sign may have resulted in the accident, but if the cause was a missing stop sign, the responsible party might equally be the county who failed to replace the missing sign. Depends on the time span between the sign going missing and the accident.
If the intent was to cause an accident, such harsh punishments are fair. If the intent was to goof around, the punishment should reflect only the theft, nothing more. After all, it is allowed to think while you're driving, which includes taking care when crossing other roads, especially if the layout is such that there ought to be a stop sign (stolen or just not set up yet).
I mean, when the athletes are competing they're probably to be found on the court/track whatever, right?
When they're not competing, they're either preparing/training or taking some time off. If they're doing stuff (drugs) during that time that affects their performance, it has to be tracable during the following event if it has any effect. Otherwise we have to ban milk during childhood because it helps build stronger bones which will benefit athletic performance later in life - and so on. Completely stupid. If a substance isn't measurable just before, during or after an event, it should be legal and thus it's irrelevant where the athletes are.
Tracking athletes between events is stupid, bordering on insane. Next thing they must be locked up in special houses between events just to be sure we know exactly where they are, 24/7... and next only people raised since infancy in such houses can be allowed to compete... It's taking the anti-doping thing way, way, way, way too far - but it's right around the corner if this idea is allowed.
If it was up to me anyway, just allow all forms of doping and let the athletes decide how far they want to go in their quest to win. It's equal access for all.