There's only so much that can be done this way - if you really want to feel like a criminal, you could use code words and other such nonsense in order to get your normal 'Hello.' message out. You're right that you could encrypt email, but most of the rest of your traffic will be difficult to impossible to encrypt.
You mention obscuring the source and destination, since those are in the packet headers regardless of the state of the data itself, the only way to do so is with a string of easily-tracable proxies. Point being, this is a little much to expect from your average Joe.
There's also the fact that meth tends to be cooked in such locations - who knows what the rancher was doing to supplement his income? It's a fair suspicion.
Face it: you can rant all you want about guns, but there are simply not enough details to come to a meaningful conclusion. All that's happening is people, as usual, show their inherient biases one way or another.
Your points about cheating in Steam are well made - to be honest, I have never viewed as onerous the requirement that Steam be used to authenticate for online play. It's a convenient distribution method in addition to a solid way to increase security against exploiters/cheaters. Personally, I have no longing for the days of WON authentication to play TFC, CS or anything else.
Honestly, Steam has to be one of the least obtrusive / offensive copy protection schemes in existence (though I think Valve is cheap for offering XCOM as a direct rip using a fanmade patch and not giving me my money back when I could not run it under XP - I should have just grabbed it from a torrent so I could use DOSBOX.)
If it does not have a phsycial component, it cannot be correctly termed addiction or dependance, no matter how many social studies majors tell me otherwise.
I steadfastly object to the trend of categorizing obsessive behaviours with addiction - and the dumping on the wayside of personal responsibility. Instead, these days it's all 'Poor me! I'm addicted to
It's a load of unsubstantiated crap. Like phlogistons.
Second, it's 'innovative' as it uses voice recognition to command troops, so while you can manually tell your little soldiers to run here; kill there - you can also bark at them for the same result, and in fact it will be required. It is a interesting way to bypass the control problems of console RTS.
Hard to tell if it will be good - Tom Clancy has Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, but also Politika.
As a senior executive at a major company I expect him to be familiar with lots of technical issues with regard to the internet. HAHAHAHAHA! Just like senior execs at the fortune 500 multinational I work at, right?
Music videos are intended as promotional tools anyway. I find it difficult to sympathize.
"If you don't like the law, change it" is cute and trite, but irrelevant. The general public does not have the access, or the bucketloads of cash, to "smooth" the process along.
"Google has a long history of putting its business interests above the law and using their money to fight protracted legal battles, hoping to intimidate others into giving up their rights." What about Viacom? Have they been upstanding corporate citizens or are they only concerned about protecting their little walled garden / flawed business model? I suspect the answer, to anyone without a vested interest, is the latter.
Copying files - or printing DeCSS on t-shirts, is civil disobedience and perhaps the best way to illustrate the law is, in fact, obsolete. If the whole country are criminals, who will prosecute?
That there are plenty of people thinking they are getting a bargain who are going to swallow big writeoffs in value? I always laugh when I hear of home prices in the states, they are so insanely inflated. A family member in Florida is renting for less than the maintenance cost of the mortgage (brand new house) because the owner has several and is basically stuck with them. This is not an uncommon scenario - wait for the market to crash out and prices to start coming back, then buy - otherwise you might be feeling a huge hangover.
Also, of course not all economic news can be bad - it just depends on who you are. In general terms though, the crashing of the housing market is not good for the economy - it might be good for you personally though, if you're smart.
Hmmm... lets see..add extra complexity for no particular reason? Sounds great!
In honesty, sure it would be neat, but outside of the geek factor, what purpose does it serve? v6 won't be deployed on a wide scale for a long time - we've been talking about it forever, but with NAT much of the impetus has gone away.
Seriously, are you a paid shill? Enough about it already, to be honest there is not even a sufferable SSH client available now for the iPhone, so why continue to harp about it like the second coming of Christ?
I like blackberries, but you won't see me holding court in Slashdot pimping them out.
Considering they are trying to resell ROM's that you could easily emulate with MAME for around 5$ a pop, I would say yes.
Live Arcade is like a wasteland of good old coin-munchers that sucker in the nostalgic who were not wise enough - or hardcore enough - to build their own linux MAME cabinet.
Socialism has not been shown to not work - you forget that at it's root, a family is a socialist unit. They share expenses, food, and other benefits. Most representational democracies in the world are overtly socialist, with socialized medicine, policing services, garbage services, fire services, etc. I think a stronger argument could be made that capitalism has been shown to be unworkable.
Capitalism, is, at the core, the philosophy of theft and the primacy of the individual over all else - even societies immediate needs. History is filled with opportunists who used catastrophe to strike it rich - read: selling generators in New Orleans during the flooding or in Montreal during the ice storm - clean drinking water after an earthquake.
The idea of profitting from the sweat of one's own brow certainly is not incompatible with socialism - socialists simply acknowledge that in fact the government's primary duty is to it's citizens, as opposed to only the wealthy or well-connected ones. Dont confuse communism with socialism.
Just a thought: could it be that open collaboration is more condusive to innovation than competition? If there was a free exchange of ideas, would that not stimulate science more than reverse-engineering bans, patent laws and trade secrets?
Probably - but that's not a very capitalist-friendly enviornment. Perhaps we have been fighting for the wrong ideals for 60+ years?
Well said. Coffee almost came out my nose when I read the OP was a self-described 'anarcho-capitalist'. As laws are needed in order to ensure that capitalism does not run amok, accumulating wealth in the hands of a very few who become law onto themselves, it is difficult to picture an 'anarcho-capitalist' state as anything other than mercenary armies run by private syndicates doing whatever they want.
There is this strange faction on Slashdot, though not confined to it, which proclaims the freedom of the indivdual as the highest purpose of government systems. This is fallacy - without any sort of strong central authority chaos reigns and leads to the centralization of power in a tyrannical, unaccountable entity. If you call paying taxes tyranny, you really have a lot to learn.
Find something that should actually be illegal to prosecute her under. But as a minor, I don't want it to be illegal to offend me on the Internet - otherwise, I could sue you (and lose, hopefully) based on your disagreement with me there. I'm an emotionally vulnerable child, and he damaged my psyche! I have no self-respect!
Your point is well made, and I agree. As I said, it's a real tightrope to balance this concern against the benefits of preventing this kind of 'internet stalking'. In truth, any such law will be difficult to enforce. Ideally, we could find laws that already exist to prosecute her under - I think they're going to have difficulty proving the computer access in particular.
Pretty easy to avoid classifying flame wars between beardy geeks on usenet as this sort of crime, make it only applicable to minors.
I'm sorry, I agree that it's a potential legal minefield, but there are enough distinguishing circumstances that your argument does not hold water. You just need legislators with a brain - finding them might be the real issue.
You state that a duel (or a flame war) is entered into by both parties consent - and you're right. However, this adult posed as another child and befriended the child, only later attacking her with the express purpose of causing emotional distress. As I stated earlier in the thread, were this a man, they would have arrested him and charged him with luring - these chats with the girl often had a sexual dimension, and the 40-odd year old woman knowingly participated.
If the perp had have been a man, he would have been arrested. More importantly, we're not talking about a 13 year old harassing another 13 year old, we're talking about a 40-odd year old woman who knew the victim deliberately crafting a fake persona and instigating it into her life. Knowing that the target - a child - had mental issues, this deranged pathetic excuse for a human being nevertheless persisted in her campaign to deceive the child, involving as many of her own daughter's friends as possible.
This is one of the most twisted things I have heard, and your logic echoes that of the sociopathic, fat, middle aged woman who felt the need to do this "I don't feel bad about this because she had issues with depression".
The woman deserves what is coming, and I will laugh happily every time I hear her family has suffered misfortune - losing their business, pulling their daughter from school and hopefully soon being forced from the community. She acted without remorse and deserves to suffer consequences.
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There's only so much that can be done this way - if you really want to feel like a criminal, you could use code words and other such nonsense in order to get your normal 'Hello.' message out. You're right that you could encrypt email, but most of the rest of your traffic will be difficult to impossible to encrypt.
You mention obscuring the source and destination, since those are in the packet headers regardless of the state of the data itself, the only way to do so is with a string of easily-tracable proxies. Point being, this is a little much to expect from your average Joe.
There's also the fact that meth tends to be cooked in such locations - who knows what the rancher was doing to supplement his income? It's a fair suspicion.
Face it: you can rant all you want about guns, but there are simply not enough details to come to a meaningful conclusion. All that's happening is people, as usual, show their inherient biases one way or another.
Um..textures don't have low poly count - those are models - textures have low fidelity aka resolution.
I hate partisans - if you have not noticed yet, all parties are throughly in the pocket of lobbyists.
Divide and rule..
Your points about cheating in Steam are well made - to be honest, I have never viewed as onerous the requirement that Steam be used to authenticate for online play. It's a convenient distribution method in addition to a solid way to increase security against exploiters/cheaters. Personally, I have no longing for the days of WON authentication to play TFC, CS or anything else.
Honestly, Steam has to be one of the least obtrusive / offensive copy protection schemes in existence (though I think Valve is cheap for offering XCOM as a direct rip using a fanmade patch and not giving me my money back when I could not run it under XP - I should have just grabbed it from a torrent so I could use DOSBOX.)
"Seriously, if you want unlimited music, sign up for Rhapsody. Its not that expensive."
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As said before, copying is not stealing - I have deprived noone of their property. Your analogy fails the smell test, as it always does.
'Porn addiction'?
Give me a fsck'in break.
If it does not have a phsycial component, it cannot be correctly termed addiction or dependance, no matter how many social studies majors tell me otherwise.
I steadfastly object to the trend of categorizing obsessive behaviours with addiction - and the dumping on the wayside of personal responsibility. Instead, these days it's all 'Poor me! I'm addicted to
It's a load of unsubstantiated crap. Like phlogistons.
Then you sue said employer for wrongful dismissal and possibly hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars given the US tort system.
C'mon - what a ridiculous argument to use against what seems to me a very good idea that does not compromise the secret ballot.
Movie 'Toys' was horrible but likely prescient in some ways. I think this scenario is quite possible but not coming for several decades.
First off, console RTS - cue the guffaws.
Second, it's 'innovative' as it uses voice recognition to command troops, so while you can manually tell your little soldiers to run here; kill there - you can also bark at them for the same result, and in fact it will be required. It is a interesting way to bypass the control problems of console RTS.
Hard to tell if it will be good - Tom Clancy has Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, but also Politika.
Best line in weeks.
Music videos are intended as promotional tools anyway. I find it difficult to sympathize.
"If you don't like the law, change it" is cute and trite, but irrelevant. The general public does not have the access, or the bucketloads of cash, to "smooth" the process along.
"Google has a long history of putting its business interests above the law and using their money to fight protracted legal battles, hoping to intimidate others into giving up their rights." What about Viacom? Have they been upstanding corporate citizens or are they only concerned about protecting their little walled garden / flawed business model? I suspect the answer, to anyone without a vested interest, is the latter.
Copying files - or printing DeCSS on t-shirts, is civil disobedience and perhaps the best way to illustrate the law is, in fact, obsolete. If the whole country are criminals, who will prosecute?
That there are plenty of people thinking they are getting a bargain who are going to swallow big writeoffs in value? I always laugh when I hear of home prices in the states, they are so insanely inflated. A family member in Florida is renting for less than the maintenance cost of the mortgage (brand new house) because the owner has several and is basically stuck with them. This is not an uncommon scenario - wait for the market to crash out and prices to start coming back, then buy - otherwise you might be feeling a huge hangover.
Also, of course not all economic news can be bad - it just depends on who you are. In general terms though, the crashing of the housing market is not good for the economy - it might be good for you personally though, if you're smart.
Hmmm... lets see..add extra complexity for no particular reason? Sounds great!
In honesty, sure it would be neat, but outside of the geek factor, what purpose does it serve? v6 won't be deployed on a wide scale for a long time - we've been talking about it forever, but with NAT much of the impetus has gone away.
Welcome to the wonderful world of peering.
Seriously, are you a paid shill? Enough about it already, to be honest there is not even a sufferable SSH client available now for the iPhone, so why continue to harp about it like the second coming of Christ?
I like blackberries, but you won't see me holding court in Slashdot pimping them out.
Considering they are trying to resell ROM's that you could easily emulate with MAME for around 5$ a pop, I would say yes.
Live Arcade is like a wasteland of good old coin-munchers that sucker in the nostalgic who were not wise enough - or hardcore enough - to build their own linux MAME cabinet.
Tell me where the puzzle leads when I need PHYSICAL ACCESS to solve it.
Sounds about as useful (outside of weird scenarios for fixing Vista) as a space heater in the desert.
Socialism has not been shown to not work - you forget that at it's root, a family is a socialist unit. They share expenses, food, and other benefits. Most representational democracies in the world are overtly socialist, with socialized medicine, policing services, garbage services, fire services, etc. I think a stronger argument could be made that capitalism has been shown to be unworkable.
Capitalism, is, at the core, the philosophy of theft and the primacy of the individual over all else - even societies immediate needs. History is filled with opportunists who used catastrophe to strike it rich - read: selling generators in New Orleans during the flooding or in Montreal during the ice storm - clean drinking water after an earthquake.
The idea of profitting from the sweat of one's own brow certainly is not incompatible with socialism - socialists simply acknowledge that in fact the government's primary duty is to it's citizens, as opposed to only the wealthy or well-connected ones. Dont confuse communism with socialism.
Just a thought: could it be that open collaboration is more condusive to innovation than competition? If there was a free exchange of ideas, would that not stimulate science more than reverse-engineering bans, patent laws and trade secrets?
Probably - but that's not a very capitalist-friendly enviornment. Perhaps we have been fighting for the wrong ideals for 60+ years?
Well said. Coffee almost came out my nose when I read the OP was a self-described 'anarcho-capitalist'. As laws are needed in order to ensure that capitalism does not run amok, accumulating wealth in the hands of a very few who become law onto themselves, it is difficult to picture an 'anarcho-capitalist' state as anything other than mercenary armies run by private syndicates doing whatever they want.
There is this strange faction on Slashdot, though not confined to it, which proclaims the freedom of the indivdual as the highest purpose of government systems. This is fallacy - without any sort of strong central authority chaos reigns and leads to the centralization of power in a tyrannical, unaccountable entity. If you call paying taxes tyranny, you really have a lot to learn.
Your point is well made, and I agree. As I said, it's a real tightrope to balance this concern against the benefits of preventing this kind of 'internet stalking'. In truth, any such law will be difficult to enforce. Ideally, we could find laws that already exist to prosecute her under - I think they're going to have difficulty proving the computer access in particular.
Pretty easy to avoid classifying flame wars between beardy geeks on usenet as this sort of crime, make it only applicable to minors.
I'm sorry, I agree that it's a potential legal minefield, but there are enough distinguishing circumstances that your argument does not hold water. You just need legislators with a brain - finding them might be the real issue.
You state that a duel (or a flame war) is entered into by both parties consent - and you're right. However, this adult posed as another child and befriended the child, only later attacking her with the express purpose of causing emotional distress. As I stated earlier in the thread, were this a man, they would have arrested him and charged him with luring - these chats with the girl often had a sexual dimension, and the 40-odd year old woman knowingly participated.
If the perp had have been a man, he would have been arrested. More importantly, we're not talking about a 13 year old harassing another 13 year old, we're talking about a 40-odd year old woman who knew the victim deliberately crafting a fake persona and instigating it into her life. Knowing that the target - a child - had mental issues, this deranged pathetic excuse for a human being nevertheless persisted in her campaign to deceive the child, involving as many of her own daughter's friends as possible.
This is one of the most twisted things I have heard, and your logic echoes that of the sociopathic, fat, middle aged woman who felt the need to do this "I don't feel bad about this because she had issues with depression".
The woman deserves what is coming, and I will laugh happily every time I hear her family has suffered misfortune - losing their business, pulling their daughter from school and hopefully soon being forced from the community. She acted without remorse and deserves to suffer consequences.
Wow, after your vitriol filled comment you look quite the regular ass, don't you?