look, if you want to be able to drive your low gas mileage car, eat tacos and watch the super bowel (without breasts) then you bloody well better co-operate. the war on terror is the single most important war that has ever been fought in the world, ever, this is because they killed 3000 innocent people and that means we have to kill absolutely every last terrorist and their families and everyone who has ever known them, and anyone who ever becomes a terrorist in the future. as you can imagine this requires quite a few 'tools' - for example, the president needs to be able to declare war on anything at any time, such a war needs to be able to continue for as long as is needed and in order to find the enemy (they don't wear uniforms you know) you need to be able to search anyone. if your not a terrorist you have absolutely nothing to hide simply because the war on terror is so important that anything else that anyone might do will be ignored unless its terrorism - if your gay for example fear not, the war on homosexuality is totally on hold for the moment! even if your ISP did forward your gay web-browsing history and emails to the FBI they wouldn't want to know! in fact banning gay marriage has dropped right off the current administrations to-do list because there are so many more important things to do - president bush has actually said that he won't even go to sleep until terrorism is stopped, let alone waste time on less important things like that. now people seem to think that the bill of rights is some set in stone thing that cant be changed - wrong, the bill of rights is just a bit of paper and if it turns out that the terrorists are using free speech and all our crazy prisoner rights against us then we have to drop them from the law! remember politicians can be trusted because we all elect them - when has a politician ever lied or done something dishonest? maybe about once a century!
The hypocrisy of fining people for swearing - it makes absolutely no sense unless they also fine you for swearing in the street - some kid could be walking along and someone could say 'mother fucker' because their car wouldn't start or something and the kid would hear that and be totally scarred for life and the person would totally get away with it! what if you shout it in a crowded area? what if you shout it on a PR system? people should be fined for swearing in public otherwise the whole thing falls apart.
Yes but you don't understand, it wasnt just one old lady or a few small towns contaminated, it was MILLIONS of people, CHILDREN, scarred for life FOR LIFE! you can treat radiation sickness and people die, but you can never EVER fix the scarring from a child seeing a breast, even if they have breasts themselves, it will haunt them for EVER. Can you even imagine what it would have been like to see something like that at a young age, or to hear words like 'fuck'?
In Europe this bank would be in major trouble. Does the US seriously not have any laws what-so-ever regarding personal information? even for banks and medical records!? I know there are some states where you have to be told if its lost but thats pretty pathetic.
I think they lost the backups? they still have the data but now so does someone else.. unless it was encrypted on the tapes.. unlikely knowing US data handling practices.
Actually PHP automatically references variables so when you do $a = $b or $some_array = $a_very_big_array, PHP will automatically make it a reference/pointer and keep track of everything for you, memory management is teh r0x0r. I find its better to write very readable code and then look at which bits are causing problems - tight loops etc, and then optimise those. And of course if you really want to get some extra speed in PHP you can always write your own module for a particularly slow task, nowadays tho, its often cheaper for a business to upgrade their servers and use bad code rather than pay programmers to optimise.
1. find potentially data-damaging bug 2. design system intentionally so that bug will at some stage cause data loss but dont make it too obvious and secretly back up said data 3. wait for bug 4. proffit
I don't see the problem, there are major sites like Amazon which are obviously not back-alley enterprises and its unlikely someone is going to get your credit card number on an encrypted connection - its just not worth the effort to thieves when there are so many easier ways they can do it. Other non-global sites often use well established credit card processing systems like world-pay - as long as there's no phishery involved, the site you are buying from never sees your credit card, they just get a yes or no from the bank, of course if there is some dodgy browser scripting going on then they can do what they like, but at the end of the day the bank is involved and isn't going to want dodgy sites on their books. If people are scared about their details being shared around then they should check that the company is on the data protection register (for Europe) and if not then report them, if a company starts 'loosing' your personal information they're going to end up in trouble.
RFID is increasingly being used for things that have NO real advantage but do have a significant security risk, how lazy do you have to be to even risk compromising security just so you dont have to get your wallet out or just so you dont have to replace your worn out card every year or two?! Maybe this is secure, but is it really worth the effort of upgrading the credit card infrastructure? is there any other advantage to it or is it really just showing off? RFID is nice but good old swipe or smart-card technology has been tried and tested for decades, it works, and never once in my life have i thought "damnit getting cards out and swiping them is such a hassle i wish there was some other way of doing this!" - except the printing system at my uni, someone had the bright idea of buying card readers that don't work 90% of the time and have arrows pointing both ways but don't have any indication of which way or which side to swipe, but thats called cheap hardware.
visa better hope this works or theres going to be one hell of a class action suit.
The problem is that many sites use this method legitimately - as a web designer its frustrating to see this getting abused. Yes the web shouldn't need flashy designs and and all this crap that allows advertisers to push their content but the fact is it does and designers are under allot of pressure by their bosses to do it. Even if everyone decided one day that enough was enough and turned off all css/javascript/flash and style and just read straight text, the advertisers would still find a way to get their noses in - article text would be full of random references to viagra and hosting solutions!
there are various extensions you can use to remove page elements with a single click but automatic filtering is going to need a bit more work, advertisers are going to have to learn that if they screw with the user then only the stupid and easily persuaded masses are going to buy their products.... oh wait.
If you make a recording of 1'3" of silence and title it as that then you have violated the copyright, but if you advertise/title/use it in a different way to the original - ie not in the context of a silent piece of music but in the context of a play-list separator for example, then you're ok.
Now it may be that the original 1'3" of silence (i haven't heard it) was actually subtle background noise, perhaps in a recording studio, therefore technically not '0' silence*, you may still be violating the copyright even if your version is '0' silence if it can be shown that you were taking the same concept, or it maybe that you could show that your absolute silence was in fact a substantially different derivative work that added an alternative artistic expression, in this case even its length could be the same.
This brings me to varying the length of the piece - you may claim it as a sample (im unsure of how sampling works in US copyright law) if it is sufficiently short and/or repeated, obviously this repeating argument is easier to prove for '0' silence because you can almost certainly build a convincing case that you sampled any particular length of time between 0 and 1'3", although unfortunately so can the opposition.
With this and some story a while back that certain countries wanted to have an full European Swastika ban i think we'll keep our distance in the UK. Censorship is not cool.
Im not trolling or anything, but how about we Europeans just ignore everything the US says law wise, treat their patents as null and void, and basically tell companies they can either trade with us or have a nice cup of STFU and we, and the rest of the world will live happily ever after.
Im pretty sure EULAs are not legally binding under the UK Consumer Rights Act (namely the bit that talks about fair legal contracts drawn up buy both parties on equal footing, and also statutory rights) anyone know better?
Personally I think this is a case where the government needs to protect the ignorant and at the same time protect me, because if the idiot masses don't read EULAs and allow their consumer rights to be chipped away, then mine will also be lost.
Well you see the FCC trusts that networks wont abuse this power - for example, they could potentially put the broadcast flag on absolutely everything but the FCC has absolute faith that they won't, they have infact so much trust in the networks that they're relaxing the ownership laws. - of course when it comes to saying fuck, the FCC doesn't trust them any further than they can throw the book at them, because thats so much more important.
Yes because child porn is the ISPs faults and they are basically responsible for it at every level. Infact they are often behind making it in the first place! This isn't exactly hard to enforce - you just scan all user traffic and check for child porn images with that magic AI system that has a 0% failure rate!
Actually Digital Rights Management is not a politically correct term, its the media industries name for what should be "Digital Restrictions Management" - its like the glass half full/half empty idea, but where the media industry drinks half the glass behind our back and then claims its half full.
Absolutely, and if i was a printer manufacturer I would be making it as hard as possible for knock-off cartridges. But the DMCA is a step too far, people have the right to reverse-engineer for interoperability (just like they also have the right to obfuscate to reduce interoperability) but when you abuse a controversial law for something it wasn't even meant for thats the limit at which most people should say "You know what, fuck Lexmark".
They'll be back next year, this time with a patented cartridge that plays (copyrighted) music (or sound) as part of its printing process, try duplicating that legally?
The capitalist way would be to just sell your services re-fitting/flashing BIOS's with this turned off, of course since the DMCA came into effect capitalism now comes second to campaign financing.
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look, if you want to be able to drive your low gas mileage car, eat tacos and watch the super bowel (without breasts) then you bloody well better co-operate. the war on terror is the single most important war that has ever been fought in the world, ever, this is because they killed 3000 innocent people and that means we have to kill absolutely every last terrorist and their families and everyone who has ever known them, and anyone who ever becomes a terrorist in the future. as you can imagine this requires quite a few 'tools' - for example, the president needs to be able to declare war on anything at any time, such a war needs to be able to continue for as long as is needed and in order to find the enemy (they don't wear uniforms you know) you need to be able to search anyone. if your not a terrorist you have absolutely nothing to hide simply because the war on terror is so important that anything else that anyone might do will be ignored unless its terrorism - if your gay for example fear not, the war on homosexuality is totally on hold for the moment! even if your ISP did forward your gay web-browsing history and emails to the FBI they wouldn't want to know! in fact banning gay marriage has dropped right off the current administrations to-do list because there are so many more important things to do - president bush has actually said that he won't even go to sleep until terrorism is stopped, let alone waste time on less important things like that. now people seem to think that the bill of rights is some set in stone thing that cant be changed - wrong, the bill of rights is just a bit of paper and if it turns out that the terrorists are using free speech and all our crazy prisoner rights against us then we have to drop them from the law! remember politicians can be trusted because we all elect them - when has a politician ever lied or done something dishonest? maybe about once a century!
The hypocrisy of fining people for swearing - it makes absolutely no sense unless they also fine you for swearing in the street - some kid could be walking along and someone could say 'mother fucker' because their car wouldn't start or something and the kid would hear that and be totally scarred for life and the person would totally get away with it! what if you shout it in a crowded area? what if you shout it on a PR system? people should be fined for swearing in public otherwise the whole thing falls apart.
Yes but you don't understand, it wasnt just one old lady or a few small towns contaminated, it was MILLIONS of people, CHILDREN, scarred for life FOR LIFE! you can treat radiation sickness and people die, but you can never EVER fix the scarring from a child seeing a breast, even if they have breasts themselves, it will haunt them for EVER. Can you even imagine what it would have been like to see something like that at a young age, or to hear words like 'fuck'?
In Europe this bank would be in major trouble. Does the US seriously not have any laws what-so-ever regarding personal information? even for banks and medical records!? I know there are some states where you have to be told if its lost but thats pretty pathetic.
I think they lost the backups? they still have the data but now so does someone else.. unless it was encrypted on the tapes.. unlikely knowing US data handling practices.
Actually PHP automatically references variables so when you do $a = $b or $some_array = $a_very_big_array, PHP will automatically make it a reference/pointer and keep track of everything for you, memory management is teh r0x0r. I find its better to write very readable code and then look at which bits are causing problems - tight loops etc, and then optimise those. And of course if you really want to get some extra speed in PHP you can always write your own module for a particularly slow task, nowadays tho, its often cheaper for a business to upgrade their servers and use bad code rather than pay programmers to optimise.
1. find potentially data-damaging bug
2. design system intentionally so that bug will at some stage cause data loss but dont make it too obvious and secretly back up said data
3. wait for bug
4. proffit
I don't see the problem, there are major sites like Amazon which are obviously not back-alley enterprises and its unlikely someone is going to get your credit card number on an encrypted connection - its just not worth the effort to thieves when there are so many easier ways they can do it. Other non-global sites often use well established credit card processing systems like world-pay - as long as there's no phishery involved, the site you are buying from never sees your credit card, they just get a yes or no from the bank, of course if there is some dodgy browser scripting going on then they can do what they like, but at the end of the day the bank is involved and isn't going to want dodgy sites on their books. If people are scared about their details being shared around then they should check that the company is on the data protection register (for Europe) and if not then report them, if a company starts 'loosing' your personal information they're going to end up in trouble.
RFID is increasingly being used for things that have NO real advantage but do have a significant security risk, how lazy do you have to be to even risk compromising security just so you dont have to get your wallet out or just so you dont have to replace your worn out card every year or two?! Maybe this is secure, but is it really worth the effort of upgrading the credit card infrastructure? is there any other advantage to it or is it really just showing off? RFID is nice but good old swipe or smart-card technology has been tried and tested for decades, it works, and never once in my life have i thought "damnit getting cards out and swiping them is such a hassle i wish there was some other way of doing this!" - except the printing system at my uni, someone had the bright idea of buying card readers that don't work 90% of the time and have arrows pointing both ways but don't have any indication of which way or which side to swipe, but thats called cheap hardware.
visa better hope this works or theres going to be one hell of a class action suit.
Maybe you just answered the question of 'why is visa doing this'...
The problem is that many sites use this method legitimately - as a web designer its frustrating to see this getting abused. Yes the web shouldn't need flashy designs and and all this crap that allows advertisers to push their content but the fact is it does and designers are under allot of pressure by their bosses to do it. Even if everyone decided one day that enough was enough and turned off all css/javascript/flash and style and just read straight text, the advertisers would still find a way to get their noses in - article text would be full of random references to viagra and hosting solutions!
there are various extensions you can use to remove page elements with a single click but automatic filtering is going to need a bit more work, advertisers are going to have to learn that if they screw with the user then only the stupid and easily persuaded masses are going to buy their products.... oh wait.
If you make a recording of 1'3" of silence and title it as that then you have violated the copyright, but if you advertise/title/use it in a different way to the original - ie not in the context of a silent piece of music but in the context of a play-list separator for example, then you're ok.
Now it may be that the original 1'3" of silence (i haven't heard it) was actually subtle background noise, perhaps in a recording studio, therefore technically not '0' silence*, you may still be violating the copyright even if your version is '0' silence if it can be shown that you were taking the same concept, or it maybe that you could show that your absolute silence was in fact a substantially different derivative work that added an alternative artistic expression, in this case even its length could be the same.
This brings me to varying the length of the piece - you may claim it as a sample (im unsure of how sampling works in US copyright law) if it is sufficiently short and/or repeated, obviously this repeating argument is easier to prove for '0' silence because you can almost certainly build a convincing case that you sampled any particular length of time between 0 and 1'3", although unfortunately so can the opposition.
With this and some story a while back that certain countries wanted to have an full European Swastika ban i think we'll keep our distance in the UK. Censorship is not cool.
Im not trolling or anything, but how about we Europeans just ignore everything the US says law wise, treat their patents as null and void, and basically tell companies they can either trade with us or have a nice cup of STFU and we, and the rest of the world will live happily ever after.
Im pretty sure EULAs are not legally binding under the UK Consumer Rights Act (namely the bit that talks about fair legal contracts drawn up buy both parties on equal footing, and also statutory rights) anyone know better?
Personally I think this is a case where the government needs to protect the ignorant and at the same time protect me, because if the idiot masses don't read EULAs and allow their consumer rights to be chipped away, then mine will also be lost.
Well you see the FCC trusts that networks wont abuse this power - for example, they could potentially put the broadcast flag on absolutely everything but the FCC has absolute faith that they won't, they have infact so much trust in the networks that they're relaxing the ownership laws. - of course when it comes to saying fuck, the FCC doesn't trust them any further than they can throw the book at them, because thats so much more important.
Yes because child porn is the ISPs faults and they are basically responsible for it at every level. Infact they are often behind making it in the first place! This isn't exactly hard to enforce - you just scan all user traffic and check for child porn images with that magic AI system that has a 0% failure rate!
Actually Digital Rights Management is not a politically correct term, its the media industries name for what should be "Digital Restrictions Management" - its like the glass half full/half empty idea, but where the media industry drinks half the glass behind our back and then claims its half full.
a CD?
0, Redundant - have I been outsourced to India!?
Absolutely, and if i was a printer manufacturer I would be making it as hard as possible for knock-off cartridges. But the DMCA is a step too far, people have the right to reverse-engineer for interoperability (just like they also have the right to obfuscate to reduce interoperability) but when you abuse a controversial law for something it wasn't even meant for thats the limit at which most people should say "You know what, fuck Lexmark".
EvaporatingInk technology makes the ink in the cartridge evaporate faster so even while its turned off, the clock is ticking.
They'll be back next year, this time with a patented cartridge that plays (copyrighted) music (or sound) as part of its printing process, try duplicating that legally?
The capitalist way would be to just sell your services re-fitting/flashing BIOS's with this turned off, of course since the DMCA came into effect capitalism now comes second to campaign financing.
1) Release and advertise "Slashdot India"
2) See productivity drop through the floor
3) ???
4) Profit