This was illegal; the guy admitted it was illegal; close the book...
He admitted that cracking websites to spread his message was illegal, he didn't admit that bomb info was illegal.
As for the question of: When does is it become illegal to advocate breaking the law? As far as I can tell, the case law goes something like obscenity case law. It has a long history with major decisions contradicting each other. It has various tests (Brandenburg test , Clear and Present Danger) being proposed. And it's essentially a gray area with no obvious place to draw the line, but a line must be drawn because one extreme is clearly legal and the other extreme is almost certainly illegal.
Hotmail has ads with it, so hotmail pays for itself as long as a user has a graphical browser.
Slashdot.org is also concerned about ad revenues... one of the big reasons they've given for not having a usenet feed of the comments here is that they wouldn't be able to pay for the cost of those users' network and computer usage.
It's not evil to want to be able to at least break even on a service you're providing.
The article mentions that this satellite was designed to be decommisioned this way-- no steering mechanism was included. Is this a common occurance? Can't the designers be held liable if damage occurs?
External dependancies might include open files (what if you freeze, and then delete the file?), open TCP sockets to daemons elsewhere that wouldn't get frozen, sub processes, etc... These would probably have to be revived, but how?
You forget one thing-- because of the platforms that the XBox is based on, it gets backwards compatibility for free. Due to the interdependancy of content and hardware, MS can't put out new XBox releases as fast as they can for their applications, but free backwards compatibility will allow them to release new hardware versions faster than other console makers can.
This is good. Previously, the best commercial computer-in-car setup was the Q-PC.
Otherwise, many people have just hacked an old PC to work in their trunk or under the passenger's seat, see MP3Car's registry.
Hopefully my car will be on there soon. I'm going to try straping a wireless keyboard around my neck, and type with my right hand with a half Qwerty setup, with sound output only, for safety's sake. There's already software written for this setup-- visually impared people have to work with this type of setup every day.
Small peices of information can't be copyrighted (eg. numbers), and excerpts of larger copyrighted peices can be freely passed around (eg. a paragraph of text, 30 seconds of music). I'd imagine that a paragraph of text that wasn't even created by you (post office/telephone company) couldn't be copyrighted.
As others have said, the caps aren't new or don't matter. But... the quality of service I'm getting has done down the toilet in the past month or two. It used to be completely lag-free 97% of the time. That's dropped to about 55%. And it's almost unusable even for telnet 10% of the time. Hopefully this is temporary and will be cleared up once my provider (Insight Comm) switches off of Excite and on to AT&T's network.
I fear that the contract renegotiations have resulted in less money being spent on upkeep, and that either prices will go up, or quality will go down.
Both of you are probably correct; Real is targetted to a lower bandwidth than Windows Media is. So if you're on a high speed connection, Real looks crappy. If you're on a low speed connection, Windows Media skips too much. Available bandwidth is always getting faster though...
Also note this Reuters article. 3G phones began shipping to the US last wednesday. Sure, it'll take a little time for the carriers to get their CDMA 1x towers going, but it's very close to being available in the US.
You can still forge return addresses, you just can't do it with unsolicited commercial mail. You can still send whatever you want, just that in some cases you have to use a real return address. Does this still seem problamatic?
AFAIK, patents cover an implementation of an idea, not the idea itself. So, while MS might have a patent on a specific way to do DRM-OS, there are probably a few other ways to do it, and there would be a financial incentive to find the other solutions. (so it'll be an oligopoly instead, unless some OSS people create an alternate implentation and publicly document before someone else can start patenting the idea)
All USB drives are "driverless" because the USB spec details the interface to a "USB Mass Storage Device". Each OS only has to implement one USB storage device driver, and then all USB drives will work on it. Linux's can be found here.
There's a variant of that problem used for weapons systems and such... If you combine an intertial sensor with GPS, you get a very accurate version of GPS, without the accumulated integration error. Here's a random link to an intertial GPS system. The algorithm is somewhat laid out on page 5, but you may be able to find more by looking into this topic.
I'd imagine that for this particular problem, the bottlenecks are more with the sattelite time that's available, and (to a lesser extent) disk space. Especially for the government.
Also, 61cm is no big deal to the government; the government has long had access to much better equipment than civilians have access to. The US govmnt has been doing this sort of thing since the 60's, it's only recently that it's become available to the public. This is partially because of government restrictions and treaties (sorry for the old link, I haven't kept up on this sort of stuff), but also because of the costs involved.
Last christmas I got my little brother a GameShark for his N64. I ended up monopolizing it the entire christmas break to hack on Mario Kart 64. While I only came up with 3 codes, and have many programming challenges at my job, it was the most enjoyable hacking experience I've had in a long time. There's just something about trying to get inside the heads of the game programmers, finding clues to indicate how they coded a particular feature, persevering by spending a couple hours looking over numbers, and finally finding a result that impresses even your non-geek friends.
Can't they then just claim common carrier status? I'm not sure how common carrier + we own everything turns out, but maybe it's sorta like... we accumulate so much IP every day that it's impractical for us to make sure all of it is legal.
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Get one of those prepaid visa cards from the grocery store. "My best friends call me cash."
Can you really get them at grocery stores? The Visa Buxx FAQ says that the cards are issued by individual banks, are usable through ATMs via a PIN you set, etc... is it practical to get a new one of these every once in a while? Are they really completely separate from the rest of your info?
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NES had a 7-Up version of Othello called Spot. The game rocked for its time, fast graphics and funny animations.
He admitted that cracking websites to spread his message was illegal, he didn't admit that bomb info was illegal.
As for the question of: When does is it become illegal to advocate breaking the law? As far as I can tell, the case law goes something like obscenity case law. It has a long history with major decisions contradicting each other. It has various tests (Brandenburg test , Clear and Present Danger) being proposed. And it's essentially a gray area with no obvious place to draw the line, but a line must be drawn because one extreme is clearly legal and the other extreme is almost certainly illegal.
Slashdot.org is also concerned about ad revenues... one of the big reasons they've given for not having a usenet feed of the comments here is that they wouldn't be able to pay for the cost of those users' network and computer usage.
It's not evil to want to be able to at least break even on a service you're providing.
I personally much prefer government-sponsored education to government-mandated restrictions.
The article mentions that this satellite was designed to be decommisioned this way-- no steering mechanism was included. Is this a common occurance? Can't the designers be held liable if damage occurs?
External dependancies might include open files (what if you freeze, and then delete the file?), open TCP sockets to daemons elsewhere that wouldn't get frozen, sub processes, etc... These would probably have to be revived, but how?
You forget one thing-- because of the platforms that the XBox is based on, it gets backwards compatibility for free. Due to the interdependancy of content and hardware, MS can't put out new XBox releases as fast as they can for their applications, but free backwards compatibility will allow them to release new hardware versions faster than other console makers can.
This is good. Previously, the best commercial computer-in-car setup was the Q-PC.
Otherwise, many people have just hacked an old PC to work in their trunk or under the passenger's seat, see MP3Car's registry.
Hopefully my car will be on there soon. I'm going to try straping a wireless keyboard around my neck, and type with my right hand with a half Qwerty setup, with sound output only, for safety's sake. There's already software written for this setup-- visually impared people have to work with this type of setup every day.
The company firewall I'm going through blocks the google translater because it thinks I'm trying to use it to circumvent its content restrictions.
Small peices of information can't be copyrighted (eg. numbers), and excerpts of larger copyrighted peices can be freely passed around (eg. a paragraph of text, 30 seconds of music). I'd imagine that a paragraph of text that wasn't even created by you (post office/telephone company) couldn't be copyrighted.
I fear that the contract renegotiations have resulted in less money being spent on upkeep, and that either prices will go up, or quality will go down.
Both of you are probably correct; Real is targetted to a lower bandwidth than Windows Media is. So if you're on a high speed connection, Real looks crappy. If you're on a low speed connection, Windows Media skips too much. Available bandwidth is always getting faster though...
Also note this Reuters article. 3G phones began shipping to the US last wednesday. Sure, it'll take a little time for the carriers to get their CDMA 1x towers going, but it's very close to being available in the US.
- has a fraudulent return address
- is unsolicited commercial mail
You can still forge return addresses, you just can't do it with unsolicited commercial mail. You can still send whatever you want, just that in some cases you have to use a real return address. Does this still seem problamatic?AFAIK, patents cover an implementation of an idea, not the idea itself. So, while MS might have a patent on a specific way to do DRM-OS, there are probably a few other ways to do it, and there would be a financial incentive to find the other solutions. (so it'll be an oligopoly instead, unless some OSS people create an alternate implentation and publicly document before someone else can start patenting the idea)
Though... this is probably my one chance to get an article submitted.
All USB drives are "driverless" because the USB spec details the interface to a "USB Mass Storage Device". Each OS only has to implement one USB storage device driver, and then all USB drives will work on it. Linux's can be found here.
There's a variant of that problem used for weapons systems and such... If you combine an intertial sensor with GPS, you get a very accurate version of GPS, without the accumulated integration error. Here's a random link to an intertial GPS system. The algorithm is somewhat laid out on page 5, but you may be able to find more by looking into this topic.
Also, 61cm is no big deal to the government; the government has long had access to much better equipment than civilians have access to. The US govmnt has been doing this sort of thing since the 60's, it's only recently that it's become available to the public. This is partially because of government restrictions and treaties (sorry for the old link, I haven't kept up on this sort of stuff), but also because of the costs involved.
Last christmas I got my little brother a GameShark for his N64. I ended up monopolizing it the entire christmas break to hack on Mario Kart 64. While I only came up with 3 codes, and have many programming challenges at my job, it was the most enjoyable hacking experience I've had in a long time. There's just something about trying to get inside the heads of the game programmers, finding clues to indicate how they coded a particular feature, persevering by spending a couple hours looking over numbers, and finally finding a result that impresses even your non-geek friends.
Can't they then just claim common carrier status? I'm not sure how common carrier + we own everything turns out, but maybe it's sorta like... we accumulate so much IP every day that it's impractical for us to make sure all of it is legal.
Best post I've seen on slashdot this month.
Still, your credit card is associated with your Passport account. So, any falsified personal info is essentially pointless.
Basically, no... TOS:
As a part of establishing this Card account, you will receive with your Card a copy of the Bank of America Privacy Policy for Consumers, which generally addresses Bank of America's policy for handling and disclosing information. You may view this policy at www.bankofamerica.com/privacy. With respect to Your Card account, from time to time, subject to any applicable financial privacy laws or other laws or regulations, We may provide information about You and the Card account: (1) to Chex Systems, Inc. or other account information services; (2) to anyone who We reasonably believe is conducting a legitimate credit inquiry, including, without limitation, inquiries to verify the existence or condition of an account for a third party such as a lender, merchant or credit bureau; (3) in response to any subpoena, summons, court or administrative order, or other legal process which We believe requires Our compliance; (4) in connection with collection of indebtedness or to report losses incurred by Us; (5) in compliance with any agreement between Us and a professional, regulatory or disciplinary body; (6) in connection with potential sales of business; and (7) to carefully selected service providers who help Us meet Your needs by providing or offering Our services. In addition, if You or the Teen agree to provide an electronic mail address for purposes of receiving information regarding possible special merchant offers, We will consider that Your consent to provide that address to such merchants.
Can you really get them at grocery stores? The Visa Buxx FAQ says that the cards are issued by individual banks, are usable through ATMs via a PIN you set, etc... is it practical to get a new one of these every once in a while? Are they really completely separate from the rest of your info?