Isnt Nintendo an American corporation (not japanese) - that would mean they have priority given that American corporations police the world. (if they're not then sorry, but i still get to rip on fuckwit American corporations:P )
i agree with that, you solve a problem at the source (ie stop the pedophiles in the first place) not at the end (censoring sites), im pretty sure sites arnt censored in the "you have tried to access an illigal site" way or people would be screaming anti censorship, but in the news you generally hear "computers were seized" which is fair enough as they're evidence, and an isp would have its own policies and would probably would probably have to give the machines up too. In the end its a touchy subject but if a site is off-shore then i dont think my government has any right to censor access to it whatever the content.
"Saudi Arabia says explicitly that they censor the internet to preserve their Islamic culture and heritage, which is a pretty valid claim to make,"
Im not an expert but i know that allot of laws that are said to be part of a religion are infact not and leaders have twisted and bent ideals and laws under the guise of religion and that goes for all countries everywhere including the USA. Saudi Arabian law (apparently) also says its ok to beat your wife to within an inch of her life because thats part of islamic law and im pretty sure that its not part of the religion, in other countries its the law to cover your head with a scarf or burka and i know (correct me if im wrong) that the koran does not say that, as for censorship i think thats not in there either, im giving islamic examples because of the quote but i know there are many other examples in other countries where law and what people actually believe in are not the same.
Frankly if someone tries to access a website (and the web is a pull-medium not a push/broadcast-medium) then they have pretty much said "i want to see this", unless its a pop-up or advert that they didnt ask for, but thats the risk you take when your on the net. if an entire country decides that it does not want to see certain things from outside fair-do's, but then really they should have themselves an intranet, not an internet because there is no such thing as 100% effective filtering - you wanna try filtering even 'winzipped' traffic? you wanna try filtering traffic with even the most basic low-tech stenography or encryption? on a country-wide basis? get real.
As for my country (UK) i think i speak for everyone when i say "dont even fucking think about censoring the net! - you can stop pedophiles but thats as far as it goes, period"
Nah anyone can put something into practice, its actually thinking it through properly and coming up with a good (maybe modular) solution thats not a hack and is open-ended and compatable with whatever it should be and if its software has meaningful code and names and a good maintainable structure. And if possible doesnt re-invent the wheel unless it must, and uses existing standards/formats etc.
When Big Business can win by costing too much to litigate against, you are deprived of the fundamental rule of law, by being unable to meet legal remedy.
Welcome to America, the land where your rights are tied to size of your bank account.
Oh thank god, for a minute there i thought they were raising sentences for assult! im glad i can still go around with my gang beating the crap out of people without the risk of too much time in jail cos that would totally suck. Also i think its my right to carry an M16 and a 2 foot sword around wherever i go and i wouldnt want to get into lots of trouble for that (well no more trouble than my rich daddy couldnt pay off;) Its not like im bad or anything - just a little messing crap up around town, smashing things, kicking people, you know how it is being a kid, anyway i better go my mates outside with some new wheels he just jacked - were going for a little spin!
And there was me thinking the number 1 music service and digital music player in the world was compact disc!
The real number 1 is the masses and their p2p file-sharing and as long as your music player plays mp3 who cares who made it? And given that all other DRM'd music formats can and always will be cracked or circumnavigated its like saying segway is number 1 against human legs!
I hate apple so much, but OSX rocks and so do their notebooks:(
The reason for Outlook vulnerabilities stems mostly from Microsofts Visual-Basic script, which basically has access to things like your address book and the 'send mail' function, add to this that an email can contain a script and it will run just from the user opening the email and you have a great combination. It gets even stranger when you think how many times these 'worms' have got major media coverage and taken down entire mail servers from all the traffic they generate and guess who gets the blame? some script kiddie who although being an idiot, isnt as incompetent as Microsoft for leaving such a gaping hole open in the first place.
Frankly if it was a car and with a security flaw that ment _anyone_ could barehandedly get in and start the locked and alarmed car in less than 5 seconds without setting off any alarms there would be outrage against the manufacture and a recall and upgrade!
Opening executable attachments comes from the windows hack-around approach to programming, so no-one is quite sure of a zip file is an exe file or a screen saver is a virus, Thunderbird and other clients dont have script holes and i think they wont allow you to execute an attachment without saving it to disk first (prooving that you atleast know roughly what you're doing).
It's times like these I wish people like that would be given a Mac or BeOS machine.
Would probably be better to give me the new machines, and give her a slap round the face and some pencels and paper. Or just tell her that the software had problems and you had a new version which fixed everything - then install firefox or opera.
Er one slight problem: what student (pissed or not) would actually use a taxi!? Thats like wasting drink money! and text books?!? WTF? A real student manager should have Locate women, Locate drinks, Locate toilet.
Let me save you a R of the FA by answering those questions here: No, No and No, the examiner will most likely be an idiot, experienced or otherwise, but slip in a nice bribe and you'll get the result you want.
Guys just remember, America is a democracy, if you dont like a law you know what you can do! Yes thats right you must form a large corporation and worm your way into the old-boys network that is congress and then influence the relevent politician into changing the law. Think im trolling? explain this: why are all these obviously crack/corruption induced laws around? you think normal everyday people would actually vote to have someone thrown in jail for just _possesion_ of a video camera in a cinema while assulting the projectionist would probably land you with less time!? Or maybe people are actually so stupid they've managed to consistently vote the worst politicians into power? You think if there wasnt corruption that a single organisation would be able to convince the government to make such a law in less time than it takes to organise a post-9/11 enquiry? America is just falling all the way down the drain, even the sewer rats think it stinks.
Its pretty clear that who-ever came up with this law was either lighting up more than a joint at the time or is just corrupt - anyone care to argue differently? well thats settled there are corrupt or stoned politicians, why is no-one doing anything about it?
Sure filming off the screen is clearly violating copyright, and as stupid as i think that is its the law, but jail-time for this is is totally wrong!
It would seem to me that if your on their property they have the right to look around with night-vision goggles and kick you out if they want, but this is really going to cause a back-lash if it gets public attention, people wont like the feeling of being spied on especially if their doing something like eating food they didnt buy there or god-forbid making-out! (which will soon be illigal under Bushs war on freedom and sex)
Does this mean people will stop comming up to me and asking where Marble Gate and Lei-chester Square are? Although complex visual recognition instead of phone triangulation does seem abit like blowing a blind old man up with 3 helicopter-gunships.
Myth: If I have bad credit I will be flagged in CAPPS II. Fact: CAPPS II will not review creditworthiness, as it has no correlation to whether an individual is a terrorist or other security risk.
That just says it all. Here i've got some more for their list:
Myth: I once burnt an american flag, im scared ill be flagged (heh) Fact: CAPPS II will only flag people who are known to be a security risk, it will have no knowledge of new risks and works on the basis that a hijacker will come back to life and attempt a second target.
Myth: When I was in highschool I got a fake ID so I could get some booze, will I be screened? Fact: CAPPS II will flag you if: you share birthday with a known terrorist/suspect (hint there are only 365 days in the year), if your name is of middle-eastern origin or is a clever anagram of 'Osama Bin Laden', or if you have taken flying lessions within the past month.
Myth: If I have sex in a swimming pool I cant get pregnant Fact: CAPPS II will not flag teenagers taking part in President Bush's abstinance programme, or christians who have registered with their local authority.
Just how much crack was involved in the creation of side-talking i think no-one will ever know. But thats nothing on some of Sony's mobile software, these are the fuckwits that thought it would be cool to have the phone loose the text message you were typing when someone calls or miss-alls, although i have to give it to them, ive smashed my phone against hard surfaces many many times in outrage at its poorly designed software and i mean really smashed it with all my heart and its still working!
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Isnt Nintendo an American corporation (not japanese) - that would mean they have priority given that American corporations police the world. (if they're not then sorry, but i still get to rip on fuckwit American corporations :P )
i agree with that, you solve a problem at the source (ie stop the pedophiles in the first place) not at the end (censoring sites), im pretty sure sites arnt censored in the "you have tried to access an illigal site" way or people would be screaming anti censorship, but in the news you generally hear "computers were seized" which is fair enough as they're evidence, and an isp would have its own policies and would probably would probably have to give the machines up too. In the end its a touchy subject but if a site is off-shore then i dont think my government has any right to censor access to it whatever the content.
"Saudi Arabia says explicitly that they censor the internet to preserve their Islamic culture and heritage, which is a pretty valid claim to make,"
Im not an expert but i know that allot of laws that are said to be part of a religion are infact not and leaders have twisted and bent ideals and laws under the guise of religion and that goes for all countries everywhere including the USA. Saudi Arabian law (apparently) also says its ok to beat your wife to within an inch of her life because thats part of islamic law and im pretty sure that its not part of the religion, in other countries its the law to cover your head with a scarf or burka and i know (correct me if im wrong) that the koran does not say that, as for censorship i think thats not in there either, im giving islamic examples because of the quote but i know there are many other examples in other countries where law and what people actually believe in are not the same.
Frankly if someone tries to access a website (and the web is a pull-medium not a push/broadcast-medium) then they have pretty much said "i want to see this", unless its a pop-up or advert that they didnt ask for, but thats the risk you take when your on the net. if an entire country decides that it does not want to see certain things from outside fair-do's, but then really they should have themselves an intranet, not an internet because there is no such thing as 100% effective filtering - you wanna try filtering even 'winzipped' traffic? you wanna try filtering traffic with even the most basic low-tech stenography or encryption? on a country-wide basis? get real.
As for my country (UK) i think i speak for everyone when i say "dont even fucking think about censoring the net! - you can stop pedophiles but thats as far as it goes, period"
hehe whichever way around it is, my life is hell - even when serving a different patch css to each browser!
Nah anyone can put something into practice, its actually thinking it through properly and coming up with a good (maybe modular) solution thats not a hack and is open-ended and compatable with whatever it should be and if its software has meaningful code and names and a good maintainable structure. And if possible doesnt re-invent the wheel unless it must, and uses existing standards/formats etc.
And I apologise for the pun in the headline.
Virgina MagLev Project??
Great now if they could make their browsers more conformant to the w3c standards id be much happier, yeah im talking to you IE 5.2 on Mac OSX!
When Big Business can win by costing too much to litigate against, you are deprived of the fundamental rule of law, by being unable to meet legal remedy.
Welcome to America, the land where your rights are tied to size of your bank account.
Oh thank god, for a minute there i thought they were raising sentences for assult! im glad i can still go around with my gang beating the crap out of people without the risk of too much time in jail cos that would totally suck. Also i think its my right to carry an M16 and a 2 foot sword around wherever i go and i wouldnt want to get into lots of trouble for that (well no more trouble than my rich daddy couldnt pay off ;) Its not like im bad or anything - just a little messing crap up around town, smashing things, kicking people, you know how it is being a kid, anyway i better go my mates outside with some new wheels he just jacked - were going for a little spin!
I guess its better than the "PATRIOT" and "PIRATE" acts.
And there was me thinking the number 1 music service and digital music player in the world was compact disc!
:(
The real number 1 is the masses and their p2p file-sharing and as long as your music player plays mp3 who cares who made it? And given that all other DRM'd music formats can and always will be cracked or circumnavigated its like saying segway is number 1 against human legs!
I hate apple so much, but OSX rocks and so do their notebooks
The reason for Outlook vulnerabilities stems mostly from Microsofts Visual-Basic script, which basically has access to things like your address book and the 'send mail' function, add to this that an email can contain a script and it will run just from the user opening the email and you have a great combination. It gets even stranger when you think how many times these 'worms' have got major media coverage and taken down entire mail servers from all the traffic they generate and guess who gets the blame? some script kiddie who although being an idiot, isnt as incompetent as Microsoft for leaving such a gaping hole open in the first place.
Frankly if it was a car and with a security flaw that ment _anyone_ could barehandedly get in and start the locked and alarmed car in less than 5 seconds without setting off any alarms there would be outrage against the manufacture and a recall and upgrade!
Opening executable attachments comes from the windows hack-around approach to programming, so no-one is quite sure of a zip file is an exe file or a screen saver is a virus, Thunderbird and other clients dont have script holes and i think they wont allow you to execute an attachment without saving it to disk first (prooving that you atleast know roughly what you're doing).
It's times like these I wish people like that would be given a Mac or BeOS machine.
Would probably be better to give me the new machines, and give her a slap round the face and some pencels and paper. Or just tell her that the software had problems and you had a new version which fixed everything - then install firefox or opera.
Er one slight problem: what student (pissed or not) would actually use a taxi!? Thats like wasting drink money! and text books?!? WTF? A real student manager should have Locate women, Locate drinks, Locate toilet.
Let me save you a R of the FA by answering those questions here: No, No and No, the examiner will most likely be an idiot, experienced or otherwise, but slip in a nice bribe and you'll get the result you want.
Guys just remember, America is a democracy, if you dont like a law you know what you can do! Yes thats right you must form a large corporation and worm your way into the old-boys network that is congress and then influence the relevent politician into changing the law. Think im trolling? explain this: why are all these obviously crack/corruption induced laws around? you think normal everyday people would actually vote to have someone thrown in jail for just _possesion_ of a video camera in a cinema while assulting the projectionist would probably land you with less time!? Or maybe people are actually so stupid they've managed to consistently vote the worst politicians into power? You think if there wasnt corruption that a single organisation would be able to convince the government to make such a law in less time than it takes to organise a post-9/11 enquiry? America is just falling all the way down the drain, even the sewer rats think it stinks.
Watching them get crowbarred and darted would be worth the ticket price alone!!
Its pretty clear that who-ever came up with this law was either lighting up more than a joint at the time or is just corrupt - anyone care to argue differently? well thats settled there are corrupt or stoned politicians, why is no-one doing anything about it?
Sure filming off the screen is clearly violating copyright, and as stupid as i think that is its the law, but jail-time for this is is totally wrong!
It would seem to me that if your on their property they have the right to look around with night-vision goggles and kick you out if they want, but this is really going to cause a back-lash if it gets public attention, people wont like the feeling of being spied on especially if their doing something like eating food they didnt buy there or god-forbid making-out! (which will soon be illigal under Bushs war on freedom and sex)
Does this mean people will stop comming up to me and asking where Marble Gate and Lei-chester Square are? Although complex visual recognition instead of phone triangulation does seem abit like blowing a blind old man up with 3 helicopter-gunships.
1.6Ghz Athlon, 512MB RAM, ATI 9200SE (128MB) 1024x768 - looks great! runs about 2fps :\
Hopefully they'll release a renaming tool like firefox/bird/toad.
Myth: If I have bad credit I will be flagged in CAPPS II.
Fact: CAPPS II will not review creditworthiness, as it has no correlation to whether an individual is a terrorist or other security risk.
That just says it all. Here i've got some more for their list:
Myth: I once burnt an american flag, im scared ill be flagged (heh)
Fact: CAPPS II will only flag people who are known to be a security risk, it will have no knowledge of new risks and works on the basis that a hijacker will come back to life and attempt a second target.
Myth: When I was in highschool I got a fake ID so I could get some booze, will I be screened?
Fact: CAPPS II will flag you if: you share birthday with a known terrorist/suspect (hint there are only 365 days in the year), if your name is of middle-eastern origin or is a clever anagram of 'Osama Bin Laden', or if you have taken flying lessions within the past month.
Myth: If I have sex in a swimming pool I cant get pregnant
Fact: CAPPS II will not flag teenagers taking part in President Bush's abstinance programme, or christians who have registered with their local authority.
graham norton used to show all the parody versions, if i was mastercard id be stoked i was getting all that free advertising, sex and gore sell!
Just how much crack was involved in the creation of side-talking i think no-one will ever know. But thats nothing on some of Sony's mobile software, these are the fuckwits that thought it would be cool to have the phone loose the text message you were typing when someone calls or miss-alls, although i have to give it to them, ive smashed my phone against hard surfaces many many times in outrage at its poorly designed software and i mean really smashed it with all my heart and its still working!
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in soviet russia critical vulnerabilities announce Microsoft!
1. Announce critical vulnerability
2. ??
3. Profit
if people used linux/oss this wouldnt happen
- oh sure, just because slashdot doesnt report linux vulnerabilities!
natalie portman naked and vulnerable?
can someone point me to a mirror the site is down?
can someone point me to an open source version of this?
this wouldnt happen if it was ogg based.