Where the problem??? Obviously, the credit company has some really advanced process that allowed them to determine that he actually sent it in (maybe they check the fingerprints on the tape, who knows)..
If a real criminal would have attempted to tape it togather and send it in, the company would definitely not accept it...
We should all configure our MTAs (Sendmail, Postfix, etc.) to refuse to deliver ANY email to AOL hosts. When AOL customers can't get email from outside AOL, they will switch to a more enlightened ISP.
What you need to add is a block FROM the aol.com domain. When the AOL members see that all mail they send to anyone outside of AOL is returned 'undeliverable', they are more likely to complain.
Google should be forced to turn over evidence in response to a court's order, and by nothing less. The DoJ can shove it.
Noone has, yet... this was just a filing by the DeptOfInjustice to the court. Of course they would reject the claim, if not, they would have their case thrown-out...
Doij: "Yes, Judge we agree with Google that this violates the customer's privacy, but we still want the records anyway."...
Exactly... check out this quote from creative for their new X-Fi soundcards:
X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer enhances MP3s & Movies to sound better than they do on their original CD or DVD.
Once the CD->MP3 conversion is made, information is lost that can not be recreated...
I guess this claim of "sound better" not "is more accurate" can be made, all they have to do is get a bunch of people and ask which "sounds better". A very subjective test and it may not be what the recording was meant to sound like.
if a global megacorporation does something far more insidious (effectively, SELLING you TROJANED media), then "we need regulation"
It's worse than that... read the first paragraph of the article again and I bolded the key words:
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official warned today that if software distributors continue to sell products with dangerous rootkit software, as Sony BMG Music Entertainment recently did, legislation or regulation could follow.
Some people accuse me of being pessimestic, but I think I'm more realistic then most people.
To summerize what they claim to be doing:
You give them the CDs to digitize, they do that, put it on an IPOD that they will give you and also burn you a DVD "back-up" of the songs. You sell them the CDs and then get your new IPOD and DVD "back-up" copy of the CDs...
At the point you sell the CDs, you no longer have the right to keep the songs on the IPOD or to keep the DVD "back-up". You may as well just try to download the MP3 of the CDs you have, I would think that you have a better chance in court arguing that you just downloaded songs that you already own on CD, than selling your CDs and keeping a copy... all the RIAA has to do is sue that company to locate all of their customers...
Everyone seemed to miss the last statements about how the 'scientist' that supports the adminstration doesn't have any of these restrictions. Quote from the article:
Where scientists' points of view on climate policy align with those of the administration, however, there are few signs of restrictions on extracurricular lectures or writing.
One example is Indur M. Goklany, assistant director of science and technology policy in the policy office of the Interior Department. For years, Dr. Goklany, an electrical engineer by training, has written in papers and books that it may be better not to force cuts in greenhouse gases because the added prosperity from unfettered economic activity would allow countries to exploit benefits of warming and adapt to problems.
In an e-mail exchange on Friday, Dr. Goklany said that in the Clinton administration he was shifted to nonclimate-related work, but added that he had never had to stop his outside writing, as long as he identified the views as his own.
"One reason why I still continue to do the extracurricular stuff," he wrote, "is because one doesn't have to get clearance for what I plan on saying or writing."
Hmmm... so why aren't all the companies that have prospered from not having to reduce emissions now paying for the rebuilding of New Orleans and the other areas devasted by the obnormal number/size of the huricanes last year?
"I would think this "Smart Box" would get hacked way too easily, leaving car companies without their money."
This is not the reason that you have to make the payment... if you don't the Repo-man will come and get it. This just makes it much less likely that the repo-man would have to be called.
The Earth is just trying to rid itself of the disease that is the human race. Just as the human body creates a fever to help attack infections, the Earth is attempting to do the same thing with us. We had lived with it a peace for thousands of years, but now all respect for the planet has been lost. The population explosion along with new machines that allow one person to affect the Earth on scale unprecedented will seal our fate. Save the Rain Forrests?... F-that, we need to acceleration the destruction, lets raise money to deliver more large equipment to the people in the Amazon, so that they can more easily destroy the Earth.
What exactly are the "requests"? Are they e-mails? Packets? Also wouldn't one company sending the requests simply be a DOS attack not a DDOS since the extra D is "Distributed" and be easily blocked by the spammer?
Did you even read the article? These requests are coming not coming from the company's computers, the are coming from all of the company's customers computers
From the article:
Now, the spammer wouldn't care if only one person did this. Even if a thousand Blue Frog users followed suit, the spammer still might not care. But Blue Frog's software causes all of its connected users to submit the request/complaint simultaneously--and repeatedly--for a period of time.
Where can you purchase 600GB drives these days? (1.5PB / 2500 drives)
The math doesn't work when you multiply the number of systems out either: 600 systems * 1.6TB/system = 960TB.
Yes, that didn't look right to me either. It's even worse when you calculate 'proper' disk sizes. (I don't care that the drive companies claim 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes, it really equals 1,073,741,824). Thus if it's 960 TB, it's not.96PetaBytes, it's really,.853 PetaBytes. If it is some how '1.5 PB', it's really 1.33 PB.
This is the last thing we need. Syncing up european and american copyright laws is not a reason to change laws. Laws should be passed to serve the people, not to follow others. I hope this doesn't happen.
But you know it's going to happen, their companies are saying "How can we compete with the Americans when they have copyrights for 95 years and we only have them for 50 years? That's not fair.".
The copyright laws need to be put back to their original terms, 14 years and if they apply, one extension of 14 years.
Where did you get the 40% number? The highest tax rate is 35% and then it's only on the marginal income, not all of your income. Looking at IRS's tax Rates and putting it into Excel, the working making $200K is only paying an over all income tax rate of just under 27% (also not factoring any deductions they would have).
if you make $200K in an honest job you pay 40% taxes - so you hire someone specifically to represent you for your taxes. This person (your accountant) earns his money by lowering your taxes. By common sense, you would pay up to $80K to lower your tax bill - but the only way to do that is to take control of the government.
So in making that $200K, the government provided you nothing? Umm... Did you drive on public roads to get to your job? Did you get paid in U.S. Currency(instead of live stock)? Did you have to worry about another country coming in, taking your stuff, and killing you? Did you have to worry about someone with a bigger gun taking over your property (and having no legal recourse if they did)? Does it provide a legal framework in which to enter agreements?
There are so many other things that the government does which allows you to make this money because it takes care of the basics that you no longer have to worry about. It is incredibily ignorant to think that the government does not help you in earning your income.
the top 2% make 10.7% of the "adjusted gross income", and pay 21% of the income tax. So they're taxed at about twice the average rate.
Since the other 89.3% of the income is paying 79% of the income taxes, they're paying about 2.2x the rate the rest of us are.
I bet that number doesn't include the other income tax - Social Security. Social Security is another 15% for most workers(half that you don't see because the company pays it for you). If you make under $87k, you/your company pays an extra 15% in SS taxes. But as earnings increase, the amount as a percent of your total income decreases. Someone making $300K is paying less than 5% to SS but everyone making $87K or less is paying 15%. This may be fair if only SS payouts were being funded by SS taxes, but there are surpluses and where is the surplus going? It's going to the general fund to help pay for the war/income tax cuts the benefit the wealthy more.
Also there is double taxation on the SS taxes - Say your making about $50k and pay about $4k in SS taxes (not even considering the extra amount your company pays), your income taxes are still on $50K of earnings even though $4K of it has already been taken out in taxes that you have never seen. The fair amount for the income tax in this case would be $46K. Now Bush is saying that even though you've paid the SS taxes for years (and overpaid), your benefits are going to be majorly cut.
Mr. Darl C. McBride , 45 Chief Exec. Officer, Pres $ 986.00K N/A Mr. Robert K. Bench , 55 Acting VP of Corp. Devel. $ 189.00K N/A Mr. Bert B. Young , 50 Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer N/A N/A Mr. Scott Lemon , Chief Technologist N/A N/A Mr. Ryan E. Tibbitts , 48 VP, Corp. Sec. and Gen. Counsel $ 58.00K N/A
Not sure why they don't list the CFO or CTO salary. This is the yearly salary, so for the quarter, it looks like it would have saved about $300,000 in cost. Thus, they still would have had a large loss.
The patent pledge is important: it removes the uncertainty that Nokia might find its (already) patented tech in Linux, and sue; Nokia guarantees they wouldn't.
Did you even read the press release??? Here is a critical quote:
Nokia, therefore, issues the legally binding Patent Statement, which has been posted on its website at www.nokia.com/iprstatements. The Patent Statement applies to Nokia's patents infringed by current official releases of the Linux Kernel and all future official releases of the Linux Kernel to the extent that Nokia has not declared new functionality embodied in such releases to be outside the scope of the Patent Statement. With respect to new functionality introduced into future Linux Kernel releases, Nokia reserves the right to declare that the Patent Statement shall not apply.
So all they are saying, is that "whatever is in the kernal now is ok, but if Nokia comes up with something really good, they are not bound by this Patent Statement."
This is unAmerican and you hippies should be ashamed of yourselves!;)
Nope, very American... development things with tax money and make people pay again for the benefits (Just like they do for Prescription Drug Development): As American's that paid Taxes for the NASA project, why is this not free for anyone wanting to develop it further? Now the price of this energy is not just the equipment, but the money to pay back the licensing fees plus if licensing is limited to only a few companies, they will be able to set prices with little competition leading to higher locked-in profits for them and higher costs for everyone else.
If you know evidence could be used against you and then go about destroying it, in certain situations the court is entitled to instruct the jury to presume that the destroyed evidence would be harmful to your case.
Ok, IANAL, but aren't these "certain situations" for Civil not Criminal cases?
To me, this case would be more along the lines of: Someone was accused of murder, the court allows that they have 'criminal intent' because they own a washing machine and some detergent that claims it can get out blood stains...
Defendent: But.. but, that is just the brand I use to wash my cloths...
Prosecutor: Nope, we see that it helps get blood stains out, you only got this detergent to destroy the evidence, you must have 'criminal intent'...
The State Department has traditionally put together a list of industry representatives for these meetings, and anyone in the U.S. telecom industry who had the requisite expertise and wanted to go was generally given a slot, say past participants. Only after the start of Bush's second term did a political litmus test emerge, industry sources say.
It made the news because it's not how it was handled in the past.
Slashdot Mirror
If a real criminal would have attempted to tape it togather and send it in, the company would definitely not accept it...
And for the humor impaired ;-)
Noone has, yet... this was just a filing by the DeptOfInjustice to the court. Of course they would reject the claim, if not, they would have their case thrown-out...
Once the CD->MP3 conversion is made, information is lost that can not be recreated...
I guess this claim of "sound better" not "is more accurate" can be made, all they have to do is get a bunch of people and ask which "sounds better". A very subjective test and it may not be what the recording was meant to sound like.
It's worse than that... read the first paragraph of the article again and I bolded the key words:
Some people accuse me of being pessimestic, but I think I'm more realistic then most people.
That's not legal.
To summerize what they claim to be doing: You give them the CDs to digitize, they do that, put it on an IPOD that they will give you and also burn you a DVD "back-up" of the songs. You sell them the CDs and then get your new IPOD and DVD "back-up" copy of the CDs...
At the point you sell the CDs, you no longer have the right to keep the songs on the IPOD or to keep the DVD "back-up". You may as well just try to download the MP3 of the CDs you have, I would think that you have a better chance in court arguing that you just downloaded songs that you already own on CD, than selling your CDs and keeping a copy... all the RIAA has to do is sue that company to locate all of their customers...
Hmmm... so why aren't all the companies that have prospered from not having to reduce emissions now paying for the rebuilding of New Orleans and the other areas devasted by the obnormal number/size of the huricanes last year?
WOW, that is a pretty impressive trick to do when drives (yes, even SCSI drives) have only one physical head...
AE4 and AE11 are the same although I can't cut-n-paste the items since geek.com decided to make the list a .gif.
This is not the reason that you have to make the payment... if you don't the Repo-man will come and get it. This just makes it much less likely that the repo-man would have to be called.
The Earth is just trying to rid itself of the disease that is the human race. Just as the human body creates a fever to help attack infections, the Earth is attempting to do the same thing with us. We had lived with it a peace for thousands of years, but now all respect for the planet has been lost. The population explosion along with new machines that allow one person to affect the Earth on scale unprecedented will seal our fate. Save the Rain Forrests?... F-that, we need to acceleration the destruction, lets raise money to deliver more large equipment to the people in the Amazon, so that they can more easily destroy the Earth.
Did you even read the article? These requests are coming not coming from the company's computers, the are coming from all of the company's customers computers
From the article:
Yes, that didn't look right to me either. It's even worse when you calculate 'proper' disk sizes. (I don't care that the drive companies claim 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes, it really equals 1,073,741,824). Thus if it's 960 TB, it's not
Along those lines, if they were less than honest on the testing, what's to saw they were honest on this survey.
But you know it's going to happen, their companies are saying "How can we compete with the Americans when they have copyrights for 95 years and we only have them for 50 years? That's not fair.".
The copyright laws need to be put back to their original terms, 14 years and if they apply, one extension of 14 years.
Because breaking the 'old' copy protection is also violating the DMCA.
So in making that $200K, the government provided you nothing? Umm... Did you drive on public roads to get to your job? Did you get paid in U.S. Currency(instead of live stock)? Did you have to worry about another country coming in, taking your stuff, and killing you? Did you have to worry about someone with a bigger gun taking over your property (and having no legal recourse if they did)? Does it provide a legal framework in which to enter agreements?
There are so many other things that the government does which allows you to make this money because it takes care of the basics that you no longer have to worry about. It is incredibily ignorant to think that the government does not help you in earning your income.
I bet that number doesn't include the other income tax - Social Security. Social Security is another 15% for most workers(half that you don't see because the company pays it for you). If you make under $87k, you/your company pays an extra 15% in SS taxes. But as earnings increase, the amount as a percent of your total income decreases. Someone making $300K is paying less than 5% to SS but everyone making $87K or less is paying 15%. This may be fair if only SS payouts were being funded by SS taxes, but there are surpluses and where is the surplus going? It's going to the general fund to help pay for the war/income tax cuts the benefit the wealthy more.
Also there is double taxation on the SS taxes - Say your making about $50k and pay about $4k in SS taxes (not even considering the extra amount your company pays), your income taxes are still on $50K of earnings even though $4K of it has already been taken out in taxes that you have never seen. The fair amount for the income tax in this case would be $46K. Now Bush is saying that even though you've paid the SS taxes for years (and overpaid), your benefits are going to be majorly cut.
It's public information. From yahoo
Not sure why they don't list the CFO or CTO salary. This is the yearly salary, so for the quarter, it looks like it would have saved about $300,000 in cost. Thus, they still would have had a large loss.
Did you even read the press release??? Here is a critical quote:
So all they are saying, is that "whatever is in the kernal now is ok, but if Nokia comes up with something really good, they are not bound by this Patent Statement."
It's better than nothing, but not by much...
Nope, very American... development things with tax money and make people pay again for the benefits (Just like they do for Prescription Drug Development):
As American's that paid Taxes for the NASA project, why is this not free for anyone wanting to develop it further? Now the price of this energy is not just the equipment, but the money to pay back the licensing fees plus if licensing is limited to only a few companies, they will be able to set prices with little competition leading to higher locked-in profits for them and higher costs for everyone else.
Ok, IANAL, but aren't these "certain situations" for Civil not Criminal cases?
To me, this case would be more along the lines of: Someone was accused of murder, the court allows that they have 'criminal intent' because they own a washing machine and some detergent that claims it can get out blood stains...
Defendent: But.. but, that is just the brand I use to wash my cloths...
Prosecutor: Nope, we see that it helps get blood stains out, you only got this detergent to destroy the evidence, you must have 'criminal intent'...
It made the news because it's not how it was handled in the past.
Compressed != Encrypted
You never know, he might get the whole set of PIE digits, but he definitely wouldn't get the whole set of PI digits.