This broad range of lawsuits is doomed to fail. So beacuse someone owns a Smartcard reader, DirecTV is entitled to $1500 of their money because they MIGHT be using it to hack their shitty encryptation?
So I guess Coca Cola is entitled to $1500 of my money, because I Pepsi instead of them. And Nintendo is entitled to $1500 of my money because I own a Playstation.
First of all they have to prove damages. No statistics here, they must prove that the user they're suing has done something illegal. How that's remedied, is up to the police. Unless they choose to sue, and then the user will be hit with a huge fine.
Maybe this is just a ploy to get DirecTV employees a bunch of 'free money' and smartcard readers, eh?
And just how might the RIAA be able to track the 'heaviest users'? It seems like they're just putting pressure on some team of 'investigators' to point them out.
What happens in false-positivies? When someone's time and money are wasted because the RIAA took them to court over 'suspected piracy'? How much is the RIAA paying this team? My guess is 'more than they're losing to piracy'. Then they can add the two numbers up and profit in lawsuits.
A good set of vulnerabilities across multiple hardware configurations and OSes is a great start.
An interesting idea would be to sync the worms up based upon a reading from a certain timezone on time.gov. Make them start scanning all IPs for vulnerable, uninfected machines at the same time. So not only do you get the chance to infect, but you DDoS. Fun stuff. Also, you could make it infect unprotected routers and give the virus 'priority' in transmissions, etc, etc.
I saw a report a few years ago about the advantages of using a high-pressure water 'gun' for cutting metal. Some of the advantages was that the cooling was already taken care of, the material was recyclable with a filter, and the edges were already smoothed.
You think they'd rely totally on what the box said to convict you? Wrong. If you hit someone head on doing 95 and they hit you going 55, its going to be pretty obvious that someone was going way over the speedlimit.
Using the almighty powers of algebra, you can pretty much determine the speeds of the cars if one has a box and the other does not.
I've seen a lot of decent suggestions on here, but I'd suggest that your box be labelled 'tamper free' by the company that built it before its used to convict anyone.
The damage done is a pretty good indicator of the speed involved in the accident. Hitting a car going 114mph is going to do a bit more damage than hitting them doing 60mph.
Stupidity is doing 114mph in a neighborhood. As long as necessary information only is kept in the EDR then there aren't any problems.
Look at this situation.
You're driving the speed limit on a two lane road, which is 55mph. Its rainy, but the road is fairly straight. Another car loses control because they were going 100mph and hits you head on. You spend a few days in the hospital because you were lucky. The other driver dies. No one witnessed the wreck. You've just been blamed for his death. However, upon checking the opposing vehicle's EDR, your name is cleared, your insurance rates don't skyrocket, and you've got a new car and are back on track in a few weeks.
And of course this was posted under a privacy heading. If you were speeding and wreck because of it, you deserve to be blamed for said wreck. The EDR is just a bit of hardware to help in an already-confusing process of determining driver fault.
I could have been cleared of fault on my last wreck if my 98 Cavalier had been checked for its EDR. Opposing party said I stopped at an intersection in heavy rain and turned my lights off. EDR could have said I was moving at around 20mph through the intersection when the van with no lights t-boned me doing 80. Fun stuff.
The next big thing will be to monitor your trash--if someone wants whats inside, arrest them and place trash back on the market. That's what Microsoft did anyway...
Dance Dance Revolution taught me how to pick up beats really quickly. Classical music let me pick out 'strings' of sound, even if it were people in big groups I could pick out one voice to listen to. Games that throw a lot at you at once like those shoot-em-ups let me track a bunch of different velocities/trajectories/objects at once. Games like Thief and Thief 2 with really good positional audio taught me to pick out where a sound is coming from with very good accuracy.
However, that new Wario Ware game for the Gameboy Advance teaches you ADD.
I worked at a corporate office for about a week before everyone got laid off. Naturally, they learned of my skill with computers and wanted me to fix them during breaktime and such. Being nice, I did.
AOL Companion. AOL. Bonzi buddy. Gator. Weathercast. With these programs and Windows open only, newly booted, the machines had about 20% free system resources. Considering they'd be working and Gator or Bonzi buddy would popup and make noise and disturb them, how much damage is it doing?
How much fun is it to be in the middle of a big data entry project, in the 'zone' and you get disturbed by a gigantic monkey with no 'off' button that wants to eat/nap/take your money? Not very much, I'd imagine.
So I uninstalled everything. AOL Companion, Bonzi buddy, Gator, Weathercast, but I left AOL on non-startup. Just for their convenience. Next day same thing happens. "I was just clicking the targets and..."
The targets. Isn't it illegal to say you've won something and you've really won nothing? Not even a high score on the high score list. But you've just won SPYWARE for your mad banner-clicking skills.
Don't get me started on how illegal things like Xupiter should be to put on someone's computer without their permission. Even if their computer gracefully accepts the file and will run it, it still should require the users' authorization. And none of those "Installing.." boxes that just pop up with a progress bar and no cancel button or X, either.
I remember a terrible bug with some microwaves from 'back in the day'. They had the usual 'convenience' panel with the usual numbers and the usual preset timers for different meals.
However, this one upon selecting 'chicken', would not only set the timer for 65535 seconds, but wouldn't shut off if the door was opened.
I know these units were recalled, but I always press 'cancel' before opening the door, just because of this story.
Exposure is a good fictional title about a certain floating-point bug in a mainstream CPU by a popular fictional chip maker.
Doesn't matter if the software is perfect if the hardware isn't.
I had this Dreamcast that stopped working a long time ago. Part of me wanted to salvage, and part of me wanted to punish. This was after weeks of frustration trying to repair it myself.
So I went to a friend's house, plugged it in, and popped a music CD into it. Rather than salvaging parts, I tortured it.
I shorted out parts and capacitors directly to sensitive chips. I randomly ripped board components out. All the time it kept playing that CD until the motor itself burnt out from 120vAC directly to its windings.
My point is, maybe its funner to destroy than it is to try to remove everything with such caution. Or maybe I'm just a sick and twisted man that enjoyed preforming fatal brain surgery upon a faulty Dreamcast
Too bad this was caused by a blatant underestimation of the power of curious users. If I had ever used the feature, I would have picked it up instantly.
What ever happened to opting in for things like spam, services, etc.
A few weeks ago, I saw an ad in the paper listing government jobs. I called the number, and it was just a company with a catalog of 'potential future' government jobs for an 'easy' payment of $59.99. Naturally, I wasn't interested. The guy on the other end assumed I would be paying for it, and skipped 'selling' it to me. Instead, he immediately started asking for my credit card, info, etc. Since I had already given him my name and address (for location-based positions, he said), he became increasingly pissed off as I didn't want to buy it.
He even demanded that I go get the 'fucking card and pay for it, its not that expensive'. When I refused, he tried one more time. When I refused again, he said that he was going to send it to me anyway, and that I would be billed to my address.
I asked for the name of the company and its location, but they refused to give it out. Or let me talk to a supervisor. Wish I still had the number, I'd deliver it to the BBB.
On one hand, I'm all for freedom. On the other hand, I'm all for saving my skin.
What happens when the job market only wants to hire people that can lift 200lbs with ease and solve differential equations in their heads while chewing bubble gum?
That means everyone that can't will basically be out of the job. Headed toward being poor.
If our genetic superiors take pity on us 'unskilled workers' they might give us odd jobs, or welfare.
If they don't, they might ship us all off to some country where we can live in cramped conditions while almost starving to death.
So basically, i want jobs in the future for normal people. I don't want any less chance at a job because 70% of the worlds' population is now smarter, stronger, healthier, faster, nicer, etc, etc than me. Not through any work of their own of course, strictly through the money of their parents.
I saw this once in a movie. I think it blows the moon into big chunks which come down on the earth.
Or was that a children's breakfast cereal commercial?
Mmm. Marshmellow moon chunks.
Since the posts thus far are mostly about cell phones regaining power by ringing..
Step 1: Vibrate.
Step 2: Violate laws of thermodynamics.
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Profit!
Speaking of instability..
I feel lighter for some reason..maybe it has something to do with the fact that the measurement of a year just dropped from about 365 days to almost 265, within the lifespan of a Slashdot post!
Woe is us! The last trumpet has sounded!
Add a layer of encryptation to your packets. The government won't like having to waste extra time decoding your Slashdot traffic, so they'll just make it against the DMCA to encrypt your packets.
Eventually, internet traffic today will be like people traffic. I'm sure if I wore a big cloak and walked down the street, the police would be nervous of 'what I'm hiding under there' and might be so inclined to ask me about it.
While its legal to carry a concealed weapon if you have a licence, most people don't bother. So criminals and police alike can see that people aren't hiding a rocket launcher on their person or trying to move their crate of coccaine.
They give us the illusion of freedom by never actually showing us boundaries until we hit them.
Just like all-you-can-eat joints make their selection look bigger with mirrored walls.
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This broad range of lawsuits is doomed to fail. So beacuse someone owns a Smartcard reader, DirecTV is entitled to $1500 of their money because they MIGHT be using it to hack their shitty encryptation?
So I guess Coca Cola is entitled to $1500 of my money, because I Pepsi instead of them. And Nintendo is entitled to $1500 of my money because I own a Playstation.
First of all they have to prove damages. No statistics here, they must prove that the user they're suing has done something illegal. How that's remedied, is up to the police. Unless they choose to sue, and then the user will be hit with a huge fine.
Maybe this is just a ploy to get DirecTV employees a bunch of 'free money' and smartcard readers, eh?
And just how might the RIAA be able to track the 'heaviest users'? It seems like they're just putting pressure on some team of 'investigators' to point them out.
What happens in false-positivies? When someone's time and money are wasted because the RIAA took them to court over 'suspected piracy'? How much is the RIAA paying this team? My guess is 'more than they're losing to piracy'. Then they can add the two numbers up and profit in lawsuits.
A good set of vulnerabilities across multiple hardware configurations and OSes is a great start. An interesting idea would be to sync the worms up based upon a reading from a certain timezone on time.gov. Make them start scanning all IPs for vulnerable, uninfected machines at the same time. So not only do you get the chance to infect, but you DDoS. Fun stuff. Also, you could make it infect unprotected routers and give the virus 'priority' in transmissions, etc, etc.
I saw a report a few years ago about the advantages of using a high-pressure water 'gun' for cutting metal. Some of the advantages was that the cooling was already taken care of, the material was recyclable with a filter, and the edges were already smoothed.
You think they'd rely totally on what the box said to convict you? Wrong. If you hit someone head on doing 95 and they hit you going 55, its going to be pretty obvious that someone was going way over the speedlimit. Using the almighty powers of algebra, you can pretty much determine the speeds of the cars if one has a box and the other does not. I've seen a lot of decent suggestions on here, but I'd suggest that your box be labelled 'tamper free' by the company that built it before its used to convict anyone.
The damage done is a pretty good indicator of the speed involved in the accident. Hitting a car going 114mph is going to do a bit more damage than hitting them doing 60mph.
Stupidity is doing 114mph in a neighborhood. As long as necessary information only is kept in the EDR then there aren't any problems. Look at this situation. You're driving the speed limit on a two lane road, which is 55mph. Its rainy, but the road is fairly straight. Another car loses control because they were going 100mph and hits you head on. You spend a few days in the hospital because you were lucky. The other driver dies. No one witnessed the wreck. You've just been blamed for his death. However, upon checking the opposing vehicle's EDR, your name is cleared, your insurance rates don't skyrocket, and you've got a new car and are back on track in a few weeks. And of course this was posted under a privacy heading. If you were speeding and wreck because of it, you deserve to be blamed for said wreck. The EDR is just a bit of hardware to help in an already-confusing process of determining driver fault. I could have been cleared of fault on my last wreck if my 98 Cavalier had been checked for its EDR. Opposing party said I stopped at an intersection in heavy rain and turned my lights off. EDR could have said I was moving at around 20mph through the intersection when the van with no lights t-boned me doing 80. Fun stuff.
The next big thing will be to monitor your trash--if someone wants whats inside, arrest them and place trash back on the market. That's what Microsoft did anyway...
Dance Dance Revolution taught me how to pick up beats really quickly. Classical music let me pick out 'strings' of sound, even if it were people in big groups I could pick out one voice to listen to. Games that throw a lot at you at once like those shoot-em-ups let me track a bunch of different velocities/trajectories/objects at once. Games like Thief and Thief 2 with really good positional audio taught me to pick out where a sound is coming from with very good accuracy. However, that new Wario Ware game for the Gameboy Advance teaches you ADD.
I was considering removing their databases from operation, but that'd be illegal, and might affect more people than just the owner himself.
I worked at a corporate office for about a week before everyone got laid off. Naturally, they learned of my skill with computers and wanted me to fix them during breaktime and such. Being nice, I did. AOL Companion. AOL. Bonzi buddy. Gator. Weathercast. With these programs and Windows open only, newly booted, the machines had about 20% free system resources. Considering they'd be working and Gator or Bonzi buddy would popup and make noise and disturb them, how much damage is it doing? How much fun is it to be in the middle of a big data entry project, in the 'zone' and you get disturbed by a gigantic monkey with no 'off' button that wants to eat/nap/take your money? Not very much, I'd imagine. So I uninstalled everything. AOL Companion, Bonzi buddy, Gator, Weathercast, but I left AOL on non-startup. Just for their convenience. Next day same thing happens. "I was just clicking the targets and..." The targets. Isn't it illegal to say you've won something and you've really won nothing? Not even a high score on the high score list. But you've just won SPYWARE for your mad banner-clicking skills. Don't get me started on how illegal things like Xupiter should be to put on someone's computer without their permission. Even if their computer gracefully accepts the file and will run it, it still should require the users' authorization. And none of those "Installing.." boxes that just pop up with a progress bar and no cancel button or X, either.
Yeah, most microwaves like to have some kind of safety switch, however, this was one that didn't. It was 'hush-hush' in the late 80's..
I remember a terrible bug with some microwaves from 'back in the day'. They had the usual 'convenience' panel with the usual numbers and the usual preset timers for different meals. However, this one upon selecting 'chicken', would not only set the timer for 65535 seconds, but wouldn't shut off if the door was opened. I know these units were recalled, but I always press 'cancel' before opening the door, just because of this story.
Exposure is a good fictional title about a certain floating-point bug in a mainstream CPU by a popular fictional chip maker. Doesn't matter if the software is perfect if the hardware isn't.
I had this Dreamcast that stopped working a long time ago. Part of me wanted to salvage, and part of me wanted to punish. This was after weeks of frustration trying to repair it myself. So I went to a friend's house, plugged it in, and popped a music CD into it. Rather than salvaging parts, I tortured it. I shorted out parts and capacitors directly to sensitive chips. I randomly ripped board components out. All the time it kept playing that CD until the motor itself burnt out from 120vAC directly to its windings. My point is, maybe its funner to destroy than it is to try to remove everything with such caution. Or maybe I'm just a sick and twisted man that enjoyed preforming fatal brain surgery upon a faulty Dreamcast
Too bad this was caused by a blatant underestimation of the power of curious users. If I had ever used the feature, I would have picked it up instantly.
What ever happened to opting in for things like spam, services, etc. A few weeks ago, I saw an ad in the paper listing government jobs. I called the number, and it was just a company with a catalog of 'potential future' government jobs for an 'easy' payment of $59.99. Naturally, I wasn't interested. The guy on the other end assumed I would be paying for it, and skipped 'selling' it to me. Instead, he immediately started asking for my credit card, info, etc. Since I had already given him my name and address (for location-based positions, he said), he became increasingly pissed off as I didn't want to buy it. He even demanded that I go get the 'fucking card and pay for it, its not that expensive'. When I refused, he tried one more time. When I refused again, he said that he was going to send it to me anyway, and that I would be billed to my address. I asked for the name of the company and its location, but they refused to give it out. Or let me talk to a supervisor. Wish I still had the number, I'd deliver it to the BBB.
On one hand, I'm all for freedom. On the other hand, I'm all for saving my skin. What happens when the job market only wants to hire people that can lift 200lbs with ease and solve differential equations in their heads while chewing bubble gum? That means everyone that can't will basically be out of the job. Headed toward being poor. If our genetic superiors take pity on us 'unskilled workers' they might give us odd jobs, or welfare. If they don't, they might ship us all off to some country where we can live in cramped conditions while almost starving to death. So basically, i want jobs in the future for normal people. I don't want any less chance at a job because 70% of the worlds' population is now smarter, stronger, healthier, faster, nicer, etc, etc than me. Not through any work of their own of course, strictly through the money of their parents.
I saw this once in a movie. I think it blows the moon into big chunks which come down on the earth. Or was that a children's breakfast cereal commercial? Mmm. Marshmellow moon chunks.
The question mark was a form of encryptation, you insensitive clod! DMCA violation! DMCA violation!
Since the posts thus far are mostly about cell phones regaining power by ringing.. Step 1: Vibrate. Step 2: Violate laws of thermodynamics. Step 3: ? Step 4: Profit!
Speaking of instability.. I feel lighter for some reason..maybe it has something to do with the fact that the measurement of a year just dropped from about 365 days to almost 265, within the lifespan of a Slashdot post! Woe is us! The last trumpet has sounded!
Add a layer of encryptation to your packets. The government won't like having to waste extra time decoding your Slashdot traffic, so they'll just make it against the DMCA to encrypt your packets.
Eventually, internet traffic today will be like people traffic. I'm sure if I wore a big cloak and walked down the street, the police would be nervous of 'what I'm hiding under there' and might be so inclined to ask me about it.
While its legal to carry a concealed weapon if you have a licence, most people don't bother. So criminals and police alike can see that people aren't hiding a rocket launcher on their person or trying to move their crate of coccaine.
Eventually, with all these profit-guarentee laws, its going to be illegal to purchase a competitor's items.
They give us the illusion of freedom by never actually showing us boundaries until we hit them. Just like all-you-can-eat joints make their selection look bigger with mirrored walls.