What we DONT want however is if I go raping or beating people I can get news articles about me supressed.
But that is exactly what the ruling does. Someone got into legal trouble, some time ago (over 12yrs), and complained to the court that it was unfair to have his legal troubles still come up in search results - and the court agreed.
As an offline example, as long as your raping and beating didn't get you more than four years in prison, in UK law your conviction would be "spent" after at most 7 years after release, and you would then not have to disclose it to employers etc. In such a case, it seems perfectly clear that this ruling would then apply to search results covering your conviction - after all, not much point in saying you don't have to put it on the job application if it's on the front page when your prospective employer puts your name into Google.
The issue (as the GP says) is that the law applies to _everybody_
- people who are good and just made a mistake a long time ago and want a level playing field with those that didn't make a mistake - people who were bad but are now reformed and want a level playing field with those that were good all along - people who were bad, still are bad, and don't want you to find out easily
Who is going to determine what sort of person the complainant is ?
Some, arguably the smarter ones, pray for guidance, then see a doctor and take medical treatment, then thank god for guiding them to what they could have figured out themselves. But, they are happy.
Others pray only for a miracle, knowing that miracles are rare, and die knowing that either that was God's purpose or they just didn't deserve the miracle enough. But, they are happy.
Then there's those who really don't get that "God works in mysterious ways" might mean that God wants them to assign perfectly normal human interventions (like medical treatment) to being his work (and why not?, builds faith, saves work, lets him do more of whatever gods do when not babysitting their createes). Such people rarely go happy, as with the old flood joke: http://jokes.cc.com/funny-god-...
There is another interesting thing for disrupted users - service was only supposed to be stopped for sumdomains on the court list or subsequently found to be hosting malware. So if your service is now stopped, MS are effectively publicly asserting that you are a malware host (and hence possibly a Doe defendant in the suit). If you aren't hosting malware, looks like potential defamation by MS as well...
The Ex-Parte motion and TRO has to be fololowed by real court action. You should be able to file your own Amicus brief to the court if affected by this action - or maybe as part of a group e.g. through EFF if they are interested.
If several thousand individuals and businesses file briefs that their subdomains were not of the malware list and were not hosting malware and the MS ceased service causing them damage and loss... then the court might take some notice. might.
First check your sub domain is not on the list for which they are allowed to fail to return a response, see http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com... - if so, they are accusing you directly of hosting malware, probably best check that out first...
Otherwise, if you are not on that list then it looks to me like they are violating the order if they are failing to return response for your subdomain. You would need to collect evidence (failed dns resolutions etc.), and evidence of your costs (alternative service provision, trips to check security manually, don't forget to charge your time at normal daily rate... etc.) and then you could sue them - since they have UK presence. Class action is not an option (usually in the UK) but small claims is, although it costs, but it may be worth it depending on how much damage they have done you. Remember you are not challenging the US court order but rather MS failure to deliver continued dns service to subdomains not on the court order (as it implies they will). If you are UK based and since MS has UK presence, UK court is probably correct venue. If (and IANAL) this is feasible, then it would be best if lots of affected people did it at once - since like most courts MS has to file defence / turn up, or they lose, and if there are a _lot_ of cases all at once...
Before small claims court you are supposed to try and resolve the issue and there are some rules (letter before action, http://www.justice.gov.uk/cour...) - basically you can start writing complaint letters to MS in the UK (where you may sue) and cc MS in the US, and you can start costing them lawyer time right now, for very little cost and essentially no risk to yourself.
Or maybe talk to the EFF, they might get involved in the US because if MS have ceased service to legit users not on the list in the order and not hosting malware, then they may be in violation of their own court order. EFF might want to get involved at next stage and submit Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of innocent users.
* and ? are illegal characters in windows filenames, which prevents this. As is/, which is used to indicate parameters in windows command prompt (dos style), which effectively means that the style of attack in TFA doesn't work. Except maybe for unix (GNU, cygwin etc.) apps on windows which use "--" to indicate command option , and "--" is allowed in windows filenames, thus porting this Unix bug/hole/feature to Windows.
And of course Windows has other idiosyncrasies. Nothing is perfect.
frustrated by the lack of consideration of style in the medical device development process. Despite all the progress made in other areas, the devices still look more or less like a "wooden stick." Bender wants to challenge what we think is possible with prosthetics.
Ditto, can place it to summer 1988. The VAXStations (must have been a 2000 based on the date) were very impressive (when you were used to washing-machine sized VAXen). Wasn't allowed to play with it much (at all) though.
Then it was another year of green-screens (terminals + mainframe) at college before they threw out the old mainframe and replaced with HP-UX boxes. As someone else said - Athena Widgets and TWM (in our case apparently motif was too expensive).
Installing SLS (and later Slackware) from floppies and spending hours tweaking XConfig and praying you weren't about to fry your monitor was two or three years later.
Much like Windows XP. But try telling the geniuses around here who think it's just a matter of buying everyone a new PC.
Nobody round here thinks that - here we all think it's just a matter on sticking [[insert flavour of the month Linux distro]] CD and clicking install. Because it really is that easy to rejuvenate your old XP machine, and all that software you had before has a new free replacement that you just need to learn. If there are any missing features or applications then you didn't really need them because if they were useful there would be a free software equivalent by now. Same for you old files if they won't convert.
Fact that your old XP box is probably less powerful than your phone, uses 100s (if not 1000s) of times as much power and the electric savings alone would probably pay for a replacement inside 2 or 3yrs isn't relevant, it just _must_ be the hardware upgrade cost that's the problem, and Linux fixes that... It can't possibly be that people actually rely on loads of software that runs on XP, because XP is so old and rubbish...
If you want a fair comparison you need to take that 76MPG and multiply it by 2/3rd to get the rough equivalent in gas. Or if you like in Europe you can compare the carbon emissions per mile on the sticker which you will find are roughly equivalent to the gas model. The only time you see a difference is if one of the engines is advantaged by a turbo charger.
For other manufacturers it's usually the diesels that are quite a lot lower in CO2 than their petrol equivalents. Maybe Fiat makes a good petrol engine and a lousy diesel - but I think it's more likely that diesel engines are better at larger scale, and just don't seem to work so well in very small cars.
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I read an article that Microsoft got rid of the start->shutdown button to turn off your computer. This freaked people out, even though for 15 years you've been able to just hit the power button and it would turn off properly.
Yeah, but isn't it idiotic that to stop everything and shut down your computer, you clicked on "Start"?
Yep. In fact almost to decades ago when the start menu arrived (with Win 95 I think) that was major complaint - "how do I shut down, start ?, but that's the last place you'd look to shut down". Personally, from a Unix background, I thought it was perfectly reasonable to "start" a "shutdown", but hey - the majority seemed to think that the file menu of program manager was the logical place...
Now everyone's complaining that they took it away from "start" and put it under "power" on the settings menu.
Some things don't change - "people don't like change" is one.
Some (most?) of the world's major religions, and most legal jurisdictions, emphatically do _not_ provide for a patient, even terminally ill, to make that decision and to action it (themselves or by proxy). That's a lot of humans you are condemning (ok, some of them are politicians and religious leaders who won;t change rules to match what is now the majority viewpoint, but still).
Some people think that, for instance, those who work for Dignitas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignitas_(assisted_dying_organisation)) are horrible people, precisely because they work to enable the patient to "get to decide that herself".
Maybe you are thinking it's ok the other way round, i.e. the patient can decide to live - but it's one and the same decision (keep me alive or let me die), and in most places it's not the patient's decision to make.
Seconded. Stroke prognosis, especially so soon, is a gamble at best and I believe brain stem stroke is doubly so (and this isn't even a straightforward one of those given tumour involved). I've had a relative have a severe brain stem stroke, so have some personal knowledge.
How much recovery she will get is unknown - even a year from now. Don't believe doctors if they say there is no hope of further improvement - do believe the ones who just say they don't know.. Because they don't.
Don't bother investing time and energy in fancy tech solutions now. Seriously. You have no idea what capabilities will be in a week let alone a month - your tech could be irrelevant by then and the time and effort the patient spends learning it would be better used, at this point, in learning / re-wiring brain to breathe again (for a start). The time to look at assistance tech is months down the line when the motor capabilities have more or less settled (but may still change for the better - see above about not giving up hope). For now I would guess that simple blink charts, that someone suggested further up the page, are your best bet.
Secondly, do not think you can solve the tiredness, or increase the useful communication time, with tech. Fatigue (chronic) is very common in stroke victims, but I don't think it is like "normal" fatigue, walking may tire them, eating may tire them, talking may tire them - but just sitting listening may tire them just as much. Basically, understand that her useful interaction time, before she _needs_ to sleep, _may_ be measured in minutes - and that that _may_ be permanent no matter how far the recovery of motor control gets. You, as a family, need to work out how to cope with that - but it's people not tech. I don't think anyone knows why stroke victims are often so tired, but we don't know how the brain re-wires itself either, we just know that in some stroke victims it does. Some think that the brain uses sleep time to re-wire - join the dots... but it's just speculation.
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And laptops that support secondary batteries, where one entire battery could be explosive, just don't exist, right ?
What we DONT want however is if I go raping or beating people I can get news articles about me supressed.
But that is exactly what the ruling does. Someone got into legal trouble, some time ago (over 12yrs), and complained to the court that it was unfair to have his legal troubles still come up in search results - and the court agreed.
As an offline example, as long as your raping and beating didn't get you more than four years in prison, in UK law your conviction would be "spent" after at most 7 years after release, and you would then not have to disclose it to employers etc. In such a case, it seems perfectly clear that this ruling would then apply to search results covering your conviction - after all, not much point in saying you don't have to put it on the job application if it's on the front page when your prospective employer puts your name into Google.
The issue (as the GP says) is that the law applies to _everybody_
- people who are good and just made a mistake a long time ago and want a level playing field with those that didn't make a mistake
- people who were bad but are now reformed and want a level playing field with those that were good all along
- people who were bad, still are bad, and don't want you to find out easily
Who is going to determine what sort of person the complainant is ?
Some, arguably the smarter ones, pray for guidance, then see a doctor and take medical treatment, then thank god for guiding them to what they could have figured out themselves. But, they are happy.
Others pray only for a miracle, knowing that miracles are rare, and die knowing that either that was God's purpose or they just didn't deserve the miracle enough. But, they are happy.
Then there's those who really don't get that "God works in mysterious ways" might mean that God wants them to assign perfectly normal human interventions (like medical treatment) to being his work (and why not?, builds faith, saves work, lets him do more of whatever gods do when not babysitting their createes). Such people rarely go happy, as with the old flood joke: http://jokes.cc.com/funny-god-...
It just isn't "interesting" in the area of Bigfoot,
Um, 2 of the hair samples from the Himalayas match polar bears. 40,000yr old fossil polar bears. That is pretty interesting, no ?
Amen (and mod parent up).
There is another interesting thing for disrupted users - service was only supposed to be stopped for sumdomains on the court list or subsequently found to be hosting malware. So if your service is now stopped, MS are effectively publicly asserting that you are a malware host (and hence possibly a Doe defendant in the suit). If you aren't hosting malware, looks like potential defamation by MS as well...
The Ex-Parte motion and TRO has to be fololowed by real court action. You should be able to file your own Amicus brief to the court if affected by this action - or maybe as part of a group e.g. through EFF if they are interested.
If several thousand individuals and businesses file briefs that their subdomains were not of the malware list and were not hosting malware and the MS ceased service causing them damage and loss... then the court might take some notice. might.
Ruling is here: http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com...
There is a lot of it.
First check your sub domain is not on the list for which they are allowed to fail to return a response, see http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com...
- if so, they are accusing you directly of hosting malware, probably best check that out first...
Otherwise, if you are not on that list then it looks to me like they are violating the order if they are failing to return response for your subdomain. You would need to collect evidence (failed dns resolutions etc.), and evidence of your costs (alternative service provision, trips to check security manually, don't forget to charge your time at normal daily rate... etc.) and then you could sue them - since they have UK presence. Class action is not an option (usually in the UK) but small claims is, although it costs, but it may be worth it depending on how much damage they have done you. Remember you are not challenging the US court order but rather MS failure to deliver continued dns service to subdomains not on the court order (as it implies they will). If you are UK based and since MS has UK presence, UK court is probably correct venue. If (and IANAL) this is feasible, then it would be best if lots of affected people did it at once - since like most courts MS has to file defence / turn up, or they lose, and if there are a _lot_ of cases all at once...
Before small claims court you are supposed to try and resolve the issue and there are some rules (letter before action, http://www.justice.gov.uk/cour...) - basically you can start writing complaint letters to MS in the UK (where you may sue) and cc MS in the US, and you can start costing them lawyer time right now, for very little cost and essentially no risk to yourself.
Or maybe talk to the EFF, they might get involved in the US because if MS have ceased service to legit users not on the list in the order and not hosting malware, then they may be in violation of their own court order. EFF might want to get involved at next stage and submit Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of innocent users.
* and ? are illegal characters in windows filenames, which prevents this. As is /, which is used to indicate parameters in windows command prompt (dos style), which effectively means that the style of attack in TFA doesn't work. Except maybe for unix (GNU, cygwin etc.) apps on windows which use "--" to indicate command option , and "--" is allowed in windows filenames, thus porting this Unix bug/hole/feature to Windows.
And of course Windows has other idiosyncrasies. Nothing is perfect.
"Bite my shiny, metal ass!"
[sorry, someone had to say it...]
Someone called Paul McArthur does, in fact, have a bunch of patents in this area:
http://www.google.com/patents/...
https://www.google.com/search?...
if it's the same Paul McArthur, then the answer is "yes they do have a patent".
Whether you can actually build what is in the marketing or the patent is another matter entirely.
Probably only in beta...
Maybe it came already installed... sounds awfully like one that does (just buy the phone from the ad in the web page...):
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
Ditto, can place it to summer 1988. The VAXStations (must have been a 2000 based on the date) were very impressive (when you were used to washing-machine sized VAXen). Wasn't allowed to play with it much (at all) though.
Then it was another year of green-screens (terminals + mainframe) at college before they threw out the old mainframe and replaced with HP-UX boxes. As someone else said - Athena Widgets and TWM (in our case apparently motif was too expensive).
Installing SLS (and later Slackware) from floppies and spending hours tweaking XConfig and praying you weren't about to fry your monitor was two or three years later.
Much like Windows XP. But try telling the geniuses around here who think it's just a matter of buying everyone a new PC.
Nobody round here thinks that - here we all think it's just a matter on sticking [[insert flavour of the month Linux distro]] CD and clicking install. Because it really is that easy to rejuvenate your old XP machine, and all that software you had before has a new free replacement that you just need to learn. If there are any missing features or applications then you didn't really need them because if they were useful there would be a free software equivalent by now. Same for you old files if they won't convert.
Fact that your old XP box is probably less powerful than your phone, uses 100s (if not 1000s) of times as much power and the electric savings alone would probably pay for a replacement inside 2 or 3yrs isn't relevant, it just _must_ be the hardware upgrade cost that's the problem, and Linux fixes that... It can't possibly be that people actually rely on loads of software that runs on XP, because XP is so old and rubbish...
nobody saw Logon's Run here? Am I that old...?
You might be. I certainly am. I fondly remember the movie but didn't think the spin-off TV series was all that good.
Ditto. Of course the TV series didn't have Jenny Agutter minus clothing, which made it instantly much more forgettable...
"Hi, I am Eugene Goostman, 13yr old boy from Ukraine. I haz some networks, can I help ?"
It's in Pro edition as of Windows 8.
Frankly, useless crypto kits backdoored entire time are.
FTFY
If you want a fair comparison you need to take that 76MPG and multiply it by 2/3rd to get the rough equivalent in gas. Or if you like in Europe you can compare the carbon emissions per mile on the sticker which you will find are roughly equivalent to the gas model. The only time you see a difference is if one of the engines is advantaged by a turbo charger.
I think the Fiat 500 petrol (gas) models are actually lower CO2 than the diesel - try here: http://www.nextgreencar.com/ne...
For other manufacturers it's usually the diesels that are quite a lot lower in CO2 than their petrol equivalents. Maybe Fiat makes a good petrol engine and a lousy diesel - but I think it's more likely that diesel engines are better at larger scale, and just don't seem to work so well in very small cars.
I read an article that Microsoft got rid of the start->shutdown button to turn off your computer. This freaked people out, even though for 15 years you've been able to just hit the power button and it would turn off properly.
Yeah, but isn't it idiotic that to stop everything and shut down your computer, you clicked on "Start"?
Yep. In fact almost to decades ago when the start menu arrived (with Win 95 I think) that was major complaint - "how do I shut down, start ?, but that's the last place you'd look to shut down". Personally, from a Unix background, I thought it was perfectly reasonable to "start" a "shutdown", but hey - the majority seemed to think that the file menu of program manager was the logical place...
Now everyone's complaining that they took it away from "start" and put it under "power" on the settings menu.
Some things don't change - "people don't like change" is one.
or 10secs on google.
SLP: Speech and Language Pathologist
AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Some (most?) of the world's major religions, and most legal jurisdictions, emphatically do _not_ provide for a patient, even terminally ill, to make that decision and to action it (themselves or by proxy). That's a lot of humans you are condemning (ok, some of them are politicians and religious leaders who won;t change rules to match what is now the majority viewpoint, but still).
Some people think that, for instance, those who work for Dignitas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignitas_(assisted_dying_organisation)) are horrible people, precisely because they work to enable the patient to "get to decide that herself".
Maybe you are thinking it's ok the other way round, i.e. the patient can decide to live - but it's one and the same decision (keep me alive or let me die), and in most places it's not the patient's decision to make.
Seconded. Stroke prognosis, especially so soon, is a gamble at best and I believe brain stem stroke is doubly so (and this isn't even a straightforward one of those given tumour involved). I've had a relative have a severe brain stem stroke, so have some personal knowledge.
How much recovery she will get is unknown - even a year from now. Don't believe doctors if they say there is no hope of further improvement - do believe the ones who just say they don't know.. Because they don't.
Don't bother investing time and energy in fancy tech solutions now. Seriously. You have no idea what capabilities will be in a week let alone a month - your tech could be irrelevant by then and the time and effort the patient spends learning it would be better used, at this point, in learning / re-wiring brain to breathe again (for a start). The time to look at assistance tech is months down the line when the motor capabilities have more or less settled (but may still change for the better - see above about not giving up hope). For now I would guess that simple blink charts, that someone suggested further up the page, are your best bet.
Secondly, do not think you can solve the tiredness, or increase the useful communication time, with tech. Fatigue (chronic) is very common in stroke victims, but I don't think it is like "normal" fatigue, walking may tire them, eating may tire them, talking may tire them - but just sitting listening may tire them just as much. Basically, understand that her useful interaction time, before she _needs_ to sleep, _may_ be measured in minutes - and that that _may_ be permanent no matter how far the recovery of motor control gets. You, as a family, need to work out how to cope with that - but it's people not tech. I don't think anyone knows why stroke victims are often so tired, but we don't know how the brain re-wires itself either, we just know that in some stroke victims it does. Some think that the brain uses sleep time to re-wire - join the dots... but it's just speculation.
The downside of centralisation is when things DO go wrong they go wrong in a big way.
Amen. It's not a bug - it's a big fat feature, very useful and very dangerous also.
Confucius probably say: He who think big gun always better than small gun, blow whole f***ing leg off.