This has been done before. In 2003, the swedish minister of foreign affairs, Anna Lindh, was murdered in a shopping mall. Once the police had a suspect and samples of his hair, they requested a DNA sample from a national blood bank containing samples from all newborns since 1975 and matched it. The blood bank was originally set up for research only but has since been used in this high profile murder case and for identifying victims of the 2004 tsunami. There's an ongoing investigation on making the entire blood bank available to police authorities, meaning 3,3 million blood samples will be available for matching.
tell me again, how is this different than the bill to allow the president of the united states to "shut down the Internet" in case of emergency? or is this simply a case of different intentions?
Why would you call the BSA on your own organization rather than trying to correct the problem yourself? Also, what open source software would you recommend as a replacement for Adobe Creative Suite? And please don't say GIMP.
this is one example of why this might be problematic (from TFA):
"It seems that my dad is 'unfaithful'," wrote one 15-year-old boy. "I read his MSN conversation log. I was just curious. And then I saw that he was talking to, like, young girls. And the disgusting part is that he's 53! And they talk about sex and how they're going to meet and everything. It makes me want to puke. It really makes me feel bad. I don't know if I should tell mum because I'm worried they'll get a divorce. Please, what should I do?"
I never understood why the american SSN needs to be kept secret, all swedish citizens have a similar number based on your date of birth (yymmdd) + four digits that makes it unique. A lot of online stores, communities and such, that wants confirmation of your age or a way to track you down if needed will require it, but since we have to use it so often and sometimes publicly, it's not considered a secret. If someone wants to positively identify you, they will mail a letter to you with a password or require your signature.
Thank you. It's very important to not forget the fact that a lot of p2p content is questionable to say the least, but for it to be illegal it must be subject to investigation by professionals and tried in a court of law. Sadly for our legal system, the swedish police authority wants to cut the process a lot shorter. Also, just because pictures of scantily clad children and teens upset a lot of people doesn't make it illegal. I would consider TPB to be hypocritical if they let their own judgement decide what's ethical to share through their service instead of the law.
quoting one of TPB's admins, brokep, from his blog (http://blog.brokep.com/2007/07/06/swedish-police- will-censor-the-pirate-bay/):
To make things perfectly clear - we don't host any content. And I have never seen child porn on the bay. Our moderators work on all the reports we receive from the public and they contact ECPAT or other organisations if they found suspicious stuff. The police has never contacted us in any aspect regarding child porn!
even so, the very reason why The Pirate Bay has not yet been shut down by swedish authorities is because no copyrighted material actually exists on their servers due to the nature of Bittorrents and simply linking to it is not a crime (yet atleast). swedish child pornography laws only prohibit posession of child pornographic material, linking to it or viewing it, even posession of it in the form of a browser cache in some cases is not considered illegal. the staff of TPB does not have the resources to view the contents of all torrents they track, but they do remove what they can whenever they discover virus or child pornography.
it has also been suggested in various swedish blogs that the reason for this could be to label the pirate bay and file sharing in general as a dirty business and to scare people away from it by associating it with child porn. representatives of the danish antipiracy movement has stated that child porn is actually a good tool for fighting piracy (source http://forum.piratpartiet.se/Topic79221-15-5.aspx# bm79282), if service providers agree to filter child porn and help prosecute those who distribute it (as is the case for most providers in sweden today), it will be a much smaller step to do the same for copyrighted material.
The attack on the police homepage was nothing but a very simple javascript function on a HTML page, constantly reloading a large JPEG on www.polisen.se. The URL was then spread on a large discussion forum (namely flashback), which made everyone upset with the piratebay raid contribute to bringing down the site. Good luck charging thousands of people with broadband connections for visiting a webpage.
a solo sailor with 10 years of experience should probably have known to bring an EPIRB that is either activated manually or when getting in contact with water, even though they're still quite expensive, there's no faster way of getting help out there.
satellite navigation is obviously just an aid in both cars and boats. there's been a lot more accidents at sea because people trust their GPS navigation blindly, not realizing the maps are still as old as the 19th century in some places (atleast in swedish waters) and believing that the accurancy is way better than with good old fashioned navigation techniques.
realtid.se är ett skämt, jag har inte sett någon annan artikel om detta än på deras site, en slump? jag ser inte någon annan sätta sig emot APB, så tills dess kanske vi alla kan sätta den kollektiva avundssjukan mot jens åt sidan och vara glada att vi inte är helt utlämnade till bolagen och politikerna.
Jens is commonly known as being one of the few public figures in sweden standing up against the swedish equivalence of RIAA/MPAA, Antipiratbyrån ("The Antipiracy Bureau").
sure you can, most countries are liberal when it comes to what you can photograph, in Sweden there's only one thing you can't photograph and that's special military areas. but it is when you publish the photos that you have to watch out. so if the owner of Mona Lisa disagrees with you publishing that photo, you're open for lawsuits.
they've finally fixed the MSN buddylist synchronization so that if a buddy exists only locally and not on the server you can choose to add it again or not. this previously caused me lots of grief since i have the same accounts at work and at home, so I couldn't remove buddies because they'd get re-added when I fired up gaim on the other computer.
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I know it's idle, but where is the news..? I don't come to slashdot for comics, that's what RSS feeds are for.
This has been done before. In 2003, the swedish minister of foreign affairs, Anna Lindh, was murdered in a shopping mall. Once the police had a suspect and samples of his hair, they requested a DNA sample from a national blood bank containing samples from all newborns since 1975 and matched it. The blood bank was originally set up for research only but has since been used in this high profile murder case and for identifying victims of the 2004 tsunami. There's an ongoing investigation on making the entire blood bank available to police authorities, meaning 3,3 million blood samples will be available for matching.
Still, with such a tight schedule, there's really no time for Stalin.
tell me again, how is this different than the bill to allow the president of the united states to "shut down the Internet" in case of emergency? or is this simply a case of different intentions?
Why would you call the BSA on your own organization rather than trying to correct the problem yourself? Also, what open source software would you recommend as a replacement for Adobe Creative Suite? And please don't say GIMP.
this is one example of why this might be problematic (from TFA):
"It seems that my dad is 'unfaithful'," wrote one 15-year-old boy."I read his MSN conversation log. I was just curious. And then I saw that he was talking to, like, young girls. And the disgusting part is that he's 53!
And they talk about sex and how they're going to meet and everything. It makes me want to puke. It really makes me feel bad.
I don't know if I should tell mum because I'm worried they'll get a divorce. Please, what should I do?"
I never understood why the american SSN needs to be kept secret, all swedish citizens have a similar number based on your date of birth (yymmdd) + four digits that makes it unique. A lot of online stores, communities and such, that wants confirmation of your age or a way to track you down if needed will require it, but since we have to use it so often and sometimes publicly, it's not considered a secret. If someone wants to positively identify you, they will mail a letter to you with a password or require your signature.
Thank you. It's very important to not forget the fact that a lot of p2p content is questionable to say the least, but for it to be illegal it must be subject to investigation by professionals and tried in a court of law. Sadly for our legal system, the swedish police authority wants to cut the process a lot shorter. Also, just because pictures of scantily clad children and teens upset a lot of people doesn't make it illegal. I would consider TPB to be hypocritical if they let their own judgement decide what's ethical to share through their service instead of the law.
even so, the very reason why The Pirate Bay has not yet been shut down by swedish authorities is because no copyrighted material actually exists on their servers due to the nature of Bittorrents and simply linking to it is not a crime (yet atleast). swedish child pornography laws only prohibit posession of child pornographic material, linking to it or viewing it, even posession of it in the form of a browser cache in some cases is not considered illegal. the staff of TPB does not have the resources to view the contents of all torrents they track, but they do remove what they can whenever they discover virus or child pornography.
it has also been suggested in various swedish blogs that the reason for this could be to label the pirate bay and file sharing in general as a dirty business and to scare people away from it by associating it with child porn. representatives of the danish antipiracy movement has stated that child porn is actually a good tool for fighting piracy (source http://forum.piratpartiet.se/Topic79221-15-5.aspx# bm79282), if service providers agree to filter child porn and help prosecute those who distribute it (as is the case for most providers in sweden today), it will be a much smaller step to do the same for copyrighted material.
and the rest of the metric world.
The attack on the police homepage was nothing but a very simple javascript function on a HTML page, constantly reloading a large JPEG on www.polisen.se. The URL was then spread on a large discussion forum (namely flashback), which made everyone upset with the piratebay raid contribute to bringing down the site. Good luck charging thousands of people with broadband connections for visiting a webpage.
a solo sailor with 10 years of experience should probably have known to bring an EPIRB that is either activated manually or when getting in contact with water, even though they're still quite expensive, there's no faster way of getting help out there.
satellite navigation is obviously just an aid in both cars and boats. there's been a lot more accidents at sea because people trust their GPS navigation blindly, not realizing the maps are still as old as the 19th century in some places (atleast in swedish waters) and believing that the accurancy is way better than with good old fashioned navigation techniques.
realtid.se är ett skämt, jag har inte sett någon annan artikel om detta än på deras site, en slump? jag ser inte någon annan sätta sig emot APB, så tills dess kanske vi alla kan sätta den kollektiva avundssjukan mot jens åt sidan och vara glada att vi inte är helt utlämnade till bolagen och politikerna.
Jens is commonly known as being one of the few public figures in sweden standing up against the swedish equivalence of RIAA/MPAA, Antipiratbyrån ("The Antipiracy Bureau").
you might want to reconsider the choice of database for a read/write application like this.
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should I be worried that this got modded "Informative"? :)
"Wouldn't it be great if one of these devices had WiMAX to upload directly to the internet?"
Wouldn't it be better if it had 802.11a/b/g so you could actually use it in the near future?
how would they go about jamming all signals but emergency calls? that would require screening the actual numbers people dial no?
sure you can, most countries are liberal when it comes to what you can photograph, in Sweden there's only one thing you can't photograph and that's special military areas. but it is when you publish the photos that you have to watch out. so if the owner of Mona Lisa disagrees with you publishing that photo, you're open for lawsuits.
no. if you're not allowed to make copies of the work you can't photograph and redistribute it either, it's the same thing.
they've finally fixed the MSN buddylist synchronization so that if a buddy exists only locally and not on the server you can choose to add it again or not. this previously caused me lots of grief since i have the same accounts at work and at home, so I couldn't remove buddies because they'd get re-added when I fired up gaim on the other computer.