Can guns kill people? Sure they can, but so can many other things that the typical person owns
It's getting so the gun nuts try to hijack every discussion about civil liberties here. Soon I'll have to skip them as I do every discussion that refers to evolution, which invariably turns into an 800 post creationism vs evolution flamewar.
The "(Leonardon) Da Vinci referece = promotion of lame movie" stance I shall ignore.
From TFA "The voices are part of the intense promotion of the Hollywood film on Microsoft's Japanese site."
And the whole story is bullshit anyway. The methodology:
For Leonardo, Suzuki made his voice around the time when he was 60 years old to match his bearded face in the famous sketched portrait. "Because the beard covers his jaws in his portrait, we could not tell his exact skeletal features. We assumed that he had a heavy-jowled face, giving him a nice, bass tone," Suzuki says.
I suppose it's appropriate to use bogus science to promote a movie based on bogus history.
There are many reasons that the word "crack" (or some such) and the name of a piece of software can legitimately be on the same page.
For instance, just seaching for serverscheck crack finds on the first hit a legit shareware site with the admonition "Software piracy is theft, Using crack, password, serial numbers, registration codes, key generators (keygens), warez is illegal and prevent future software development." Which is frustrating if you actually DID want a crack..... But I don't know how hte "suggest" feature works, perhspas it should be more positively vetted than a normal search.
RTFA. The results cited are all based on the simailarites and divergences between our and chimp DNA. The differences can be measured, indicating how long since we had a common ancestor. You can quibble about the methodology, and the exact numbers (5-10 million years ago); but the conclusion, that we have common ancestry, is indisputable. Your argument would have been weak in the 19th century, now it's willful ignorance.
Mostly the Asian ones.
Oddly enough Japanese/Chinese spree killers often manage to kill more with knives than americans with guns
Which Asian countries? Oddly enough, I live in China. Perhaps you can be more specific about these "spree killers". As in names, dates, number of victims. I can't recall any off hand. Certainly none on the scale of Columbine, or similar American cases, for example.
That's why I wrote "actually". There were some media files that could crash and possibly exploit WinAmp, but that never was a threat. The only real world example I've heard of was the WMF bug.
What's more, why porn?
Music - RIAA would love to attack P2P music services. Movies - substitue MPAA for RIAA and the same applies. Warez, you got the BSA...
But who the heck cares about porn?
I note that stupid as the article in PC World was, that the Slashdot editors went one better. PCW didn't even mention "porn" or "warez" in TFA.
The trojan deletes ANY FILES it finds in various standard locations used to share files by P2P. As for "attacking malware"; more anthropomorphic fantasy. If anyone has actually put malware into mp3 or mpeg files I haven't heard of it.
For people in a home environment, there are no practical backup mechanisms.
I can backup my email (10 years' worth), and a few files with addresses, serial numbers, etc, in 20 MB. I do that to a UDF CD. That's everthing I really need. You're talking about multimedia. That would be nice to have multiply-redundant copies of, but is it a disaster if you lose one home movie? Also, you talk about backing up 100s of GB at a time. Who, aside from Weta, generates that much NEW data? Surely you have each original video on a DVD or tape anyway. And when you make the edited version, just make two copies to DVD as insurance.
If you really want to backup everything at once, buy an external or removable hard disk. Buy two and alternate, stashing one at a secure location (eg, in a toolbox in your garage). Clone your data daily, weekly or however often you feel appropriate.
well if there was a national register of DNA and finger prints then it would be rather quite easy to find the person who committed any crime
I think you've been watching too much CSI. It's quite easy to shoot or otherwise kill someone without leaving any of your own DNA at the scene. It's totally irrelevant to most computer crime, which is what Lamo was convicted of.
It should even cut down on wrongful convictions
If DNA evidence would exonerate an accused, their lawyer will insist on it.
And there's not much point directing anyone to this article, the whole server has disappeared. Hosted by a free server, so that was entirely predictable. Mirrordot only has the intro.
I think a less complex interface would do wonders for the PEBKAC angle... If we were to hide most of what the computer can do, then users could focus
MS tried that. So Outlook Express didn't ask you if you wanted to display HTML in an email, to "present a less complex interface", it just did it. And ran any scripts or exes. People are suckers for features that look good in the demo, or give it more checkmarks in the magazine surveys. People voted with their wallets for more feautures, ignoring security or stability for the most part. Or left that up to a monolithic security app, trusting it would save them from having to think about anything.
Yes, it's hideous. He's used OpenOffice.org as a typesetting tool.
Agreed, this is not an advertisement for doing typography in FOSS. OOo: import text, export to PDF; simple, effective; ugly. TFA says he tried using Scribus, but gave it up for OOo as it was too hard. I was hoping for an article about someone using Scribus in the real world.
One thing the proprietary DTP publishers are doing is opening up their APIs to allow users to add new functions -- Adobe's InDesign notably. Not free, but you get the "right to timker". I personally have been using Ventura for many years, it has a macro language too, but Corel has abandoned it and I'll eventually have to move, probably to InDesign.
If the police suspect anybody in your circle of friends, couldn't they do any of the following
Yes, of course. The idea is to allow people to access blocked websites relatively easily despite blocks; not to allow people who are already under suspicion to operate with impunity. Any targetted surveillance, eg just seizing their PC, installing keyloggers, etc, is going to get them. Just having this software installed is going to get you in trouble if you weren't already. Also it doesn't protect your email, unless you are using a foreign webmail server via this system.
If Apple doesn't act against anyone publishing their confidential service manuals in whole or in part without authorization, then they lose control of the service of Macs, which results in slipshod work performed by unqualified technicians.
Some unwarranted assumptions there. Many manufacturers make their service manuals available to the public, gratis or for a fee. Simple possession of such doesn't give anyone the right to call themselves a certified/qualified/affiliated or whatever technician. In fact, and in this case, the information in said manuals would be used by owners of Apple hardware to make their own repairs -- at their own risk, as they know. If any slipshod work is done, Apple has no responsibility, for that, and will probably profit if "real" Apple technicians have to clean up the mess, out of warranty. I personally have used other service manuals to repair and maintain my own Macs; If I had to pay an "Apple Certified Technician" for that I would have just junked them.
if I scan and publish an article from my *real genuine* Citroën CX workshop manual (only available to Citroën garages) then that's very very not OK. The *real* manual isn't for public consumption
It may be "not OK", but that doesn't make it illegal. If you have a relationship with Citroen, you might face consequences, but it would not be a criminal matter.
Some of Apple's service manuals contain information that would clearly be classified "confidential". Usually related to an issue where a customer may demand a certain service if specifically requested, but that should not otherwise be volunteered, or where a certain flaw has strict guidelines for what is and is not considered defective and the guidelines are not meant to be public knowledge. (so that Apple still has the power of choice on whether or not to repair something that may be considered defective, publishing this information would eliminate their "wiggle room" on their level of generosity)
No sane business would allow this kind of information to be released to the public.
Actualy, having read several Apple Service Manuals (though not his one) I don't recall anything like that. Not to say there couldn't be. However, even if they did, that explains why Apple might be unhappy about the information becoming public. Being unhappy doesn't give thenm a LEGAL to threaten anyone in relation to this.
From my knowledge, it has been a longstanding policy for Apple to be complete bastards about people linking to service manuals -- LINKING, not offering directly. If you innocently ask for a reference on many Mac mailing lists, you find yourself abused and/or banned, as the moderators live in fear of Apple's lawyers. In my case, trying to look after some obsolete Macs (Quadras, a G3, a CRT iMac at diffent times), just to work out how to change the battery requires checking out the manual -- the "user manual" tells you to take it to a service centre, which would cost more than the whole machine is worth. Because Macs are (or were) put together in non-standard ways, even knowing my way around a PC left me somewhat at a loss as to how to access parts. That the mechanism of opening the latches on a 10-year-old, obsolete computer are trade secrets I find hard to credit. The kind of "trade secrets" revealed in these manuals anyway would be completely obvious to any knowledgable competitor who bought and disassembled them.
It's only advertising if the sign is posted on someone else's property, or is taking up space on a printed page in a magazine I already paid for.
If there weren't any ads in magazines or newspapers, they'd cost several times what they do now. And no free TV. No professional websites (Slashdot included, though "profesisonal" is a courtesy terms here).
To break it down VOIP is just sending 1's and 0's like evreything else as long as there is a constant agreement between both sides it will work. I guess we just have to do it
Follow the link in the summary to Phil Zimmermann's page on Zfone. He's already done it.
If the Star Wars films were in the public domain by now, as it could easily be argued they "should" be, according to the original idea of copyright law, would we ever see releases on new and better formats?
Of course you would. You can buy DVDs of Charlie Chaplin's early comedies, which are in the public domain. At a bookshop you will find beautiful editions of many books in the public domain (eg, Shakespeare, Dickens, Melville...). The whole point of the public domain is that anyone can reuse them.
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It's getting so the gun nuts try to hijack every discussion about civil liberties here. Soon I'll have to skip them as I do every discussion that refers to evolution, which invariably turns into an 800 post creationism vs evolution flamewar.
Not TFA referenced that has the actual content.
The "(Leonardon) Da Vinci referece = promotion of lame movie" stance I shall ignore.
From TFA "The voices are part of the intense promotion of the Hollywood film on Microsoft's Japanese site."
And the whole story is bullshit anyway. The methodology:
I suppose it's appropriate to use bogus science to promote a movie based on bogus history.For instance, just seaching for serverscheck crack finds on the first hit a legit shareware site with the admonition "Software piracy is theft, Using crack, password, serial numbers, registration codes, key generators (keygens), warez is illegal and prevent future software development." Which is frustrating if you actually DID want a crack..... But I don't know how hte "suggest" feature works, perhspas it should be more positively vetted than a normal search.
RTFA. The results cited are all based on the simailarites and divergences between our and chimp DNA. The differences can be measured, indicating how long since we had a common ancestor. You can quibble about the methodology, and the exact numbers (5-10 million years ago); but the conclusion, that we have common ancestry, is indisputable. Your argument would have been weak in the 19th century, now it's willful ignorance.
I've heard of them. Never heard of anyone actually being infected by them. Probably happens, but it's a pretty remote threat I think.
Which Asian countries? Oddly enough, I live in China. Perhaps you can be more specific about these "spree killers". As in names, dates, number of victims. I can't recall any off hand. Certainly none on the scale of Columbine, or similar American cases, for example.
That's why I wrote "actually". There were some media files that could crash and possibly exploit WinAmp, but that never was a threat. The only real world example I've heard of was the WMF bug.
I note that stupid as the article in PC World was, that the Slashdot editors went one better. PCW didn't even mention "porn" or "warez" in TFA.
The trojan deletes ANY FILES it finds in various standard locations used to share files by P2P. As for "attacking malware"; more anthropomorphic fantasy. If anyone has actually put malware into mp3 or mpeg files I haven't heard of it.
How about substantiating that? Whihc countries for a start?
I can backup my email (10 years' worth), and a few files with addresses, serial numbers, etc, in 20 MB. I do that to a UDF CD. That's everthing I really need. You're talking about multimedia. That would be nice to have multiply-redundant copies of, but is it a disaster if you lose one home movie? Also, you talk about backing up 100s of GB at a time. Who, aside from Weta, generates that much NEW data? Surely you have each original video on a DVD or tape anyway. And when you make the edited version, just make two copies to DVD as insurance.
If you really want to backup everything at once, buy an external or removable hard disk. Buy two and alternate, stashing one at a secure location (eg, in a toolbox in your garage). Clone your data daily, weekly or however often you feel appropriate.
I think you've been watching too much CSI. It's quite easy to shoot or otherwise kill someone without leaving any of your own DNA at the scene. It's totally irrelevant to most computer crime, which is what Lamo was convicted of.
It should even cut down on wrongful convictions
If DNA evidence would exonerate an accused, their lawyer will insist on it.
It's interesting that in 4 billion years, nature (or Whoever) never did invent a wheel (unless it was using us to do so).
That must be why you missed the pro's and con's.
And there's not much point directing anyone to this article, the whole server has disappeared. Hosted by a free server, so that was entirely predictable. Mirrordot only has the intro.
MS tried that. So Outlook Express didn't ask you if you wanted to display HTML in an email, to "present a less complex interface", it just did it. And ran any scripts or exes. People are suckers for features that look good in the demo, or give it more checkmarks in the magazine surveys. People voted with their wallets for more feautures, ignoring security or stability for the most part. Or left that up to a monolithic security app, trusting it would save them from having to think about anything.
Agreed, this is not an advertisement for doing typography in FOSS. OOo: import text, export to PDF; simple, effective; ugly. TFA says he tried using Scribus, but gave it up for OOo as it was too hard. I was hoping for an article about someone using Scribus in the real world.
One thing the proprietary DTP publishers are doing is opening up their APIs to allow users to add new functions -- Adobe's InDesign notably. Not free, but you get the "right to timker". I personally have been using Ventura for many years, it has a macro language too, but Corel has abandoned it and I'll eventually have to move, probably to InDesign.
Yes, of course. The idea is to allow people to access blocked websites relatively easily despite blocks; not to allow people who are already under suspicion to operate with impunity. Any targetted surveillance, eg just seizing their PC, installing keyloggers, etc, is going to get them. Just having this software installed is going to get you in trouble if you weren't already. Also it doesn't protect your email, unless you are using a foreign webmail server via this system.
It's to a selected group; not available to anyone (eg police) who's interested. Which is still advertising, but the writer was trying to simplify.
exactly what separate network is this
HTTPS.
See Psiphon: Analysis and Estimation.
Some unwarranted assumptions there. Many manufacturers make their service manuals available to the public, gratis or for a fee. Simple possession of such doesn't give anyone the right to call themselves a certified/qualified/affiliated or whatever technician. In fact, and in this case, the information in said manuals would be used by owners of Apple hardware to make their own repairs -- at their own risk, as they know. If any slipshod work is done, Apple has no responsibility, for that, and will probably profit if "real" Apple technicians have to clean up the mess, out of warranty. I personally have used other service manuals to repair and maintain my own Macs; If I had to pay an "Apple Certified Technician" for that I would have just junked them.
It may be "not OK", but that doesn't make it illegal. If you have a relationship with Citroen, you might face consequences, but it would not be a criminal matter.
Actualy, having read several Apple Service Manuals (though not his one) I don't recall anything like that. Not to say there couldn't be. However, even if they did, that explains why Apple might be unhappy about the information becoming public. Being unhappy doesn't give thenm a LEGAL to threaten anyone in relation to this.
From my knowledge, it has been a longstanding policy for Apple to be complete bastards about people linking to service manuals -- LINKING, not offering directly. If you innocently ask for a reference on many Mac mailing lists, you find yourself abused and/or banned, as the moderators live in fear of Apple's lawyers. In my case, trying to look after some obsolete Macs (Quadras, a G3, a CRT iMac at diffent times), just to work out how to change the battery requires checking out the manual -- the "user manual" tells you to take it to a service centre, which would cost more than the whole machine is worth. Because Macs are (or were) put together in non-standard ways, even knowing my way around a PC left me somewhat at a loss as to how to access parts. That the mechanism of opening the latches on a 10-year-old, obsolete computer are trade secrets I find hard to credit. The kind of "trade secrets" revealed in these manuals anyway would be completely obvious to any knowledgable competitor who bought and disassembled them.
If there weren't any ads in magazines or newspapers, they'd cost several times what they do now. And no free TV. No professional websites (Slashdot included, though "profesisonal" is a courtesy terms here).
Follow the link in the summary to Phil Zimmermann's page on Zfone. He's already done it.
"Valued at $3000". By who? How can they say something like this wiht a straight face?
Of course you would. You can buy DVDs of Charlie Chaplin's early comedies, which are in the public domain. At a bookshop you will find beautiful editions of many books in the public domain (eg, Shakespeare, Dickens, Melville...). The whole point of the public domain is that anyone can reuse them.