That pesky constitution is why. For that matter, the supreme court has already ruled on this issue. In the US you cannot be forced to give up a password. The DOJ can bitch all they want, but it's already a settled issue.
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet. And nobody ever will.' - Networked computer will do everything but protect privacy. It can't be done any more than you can protect a radio broadcast. Even the best encryption depends on trust.
Your italicized statement is correct, but not quite for the reason you describe. It is possible to build secure computer networks: banks do it all the time. The problem is that social networking sites are all about sharing personal information. They would hardly be successful otherwise! Asking for a social network site that didn't compromise anyone's privacy is like asking for a non-flammable fire starter.
Computer Science Research faces the same nowadays. if a researcher is analyzing campus network data they need to talk to the ethics department and sign an agreement. There are very strict rules on what you can and cannot do. social networking data should be no different.
There's a huge difference here. Analyzing network data involves using information not available to the general public. If your job as a network admin gives you access to such information, there certainly are ethical questions that need to be answered before that information can be used in published academic studies.
The case described in the article, as far as I understand it, involves collecting information from Facebook pages which is available to the general public. It would be a different matter if the researchers hacked into student accounts to obtain private information, or if Facebook employees used their positions to access this information and use it in their published research papers. As far as I can tell, what the researchers did here was simply aggregate and analyze information that was already public!
Despite the alarmist headline, if you read the linked article carefully, you'll see that the only type of recall being considered is at the retail level. That is, retailers and distributors will have to remove the product from the shelves. There is no plan under consideration to go after consumers who have already purchased the cables for personal use. So if you already bought, paid for, and are using a cable, you should be okay to continue doing so.
In the US it's illegal for a for-profit company to accept donations and it's illegal to pay someone less than minimum wage.
So, the unpaid internships (at least the legal ones) are only in the non-profit sector.
Actually that's not true. But as the second article linked to in the story The Great Intern Debate points out, internships at private businesses must satisfy six criteria (all of which are broad enough that they can be made to fit almost anywhere). There are many private for-profit businesses that have interns, and the number keeps growing.
The Therac-25 had some "Dangerous Programming Mistakes".
I wonder if the nudie scanners have any similar mistakes.
The Therac-25 had two fundamental flaws, not one. One was a programming mistake. The other was lack of a hardware safety interlock to prevent electron beams from being emitted at dangerously high levels. That was a design mistake: leaving it to software to ensure that no lethal beams were directed at patients. I consider the latter mistake to be the more serious.
ITT: everyone on slashdot but a few misunderstands what bail is.
It's a guarantee of showing up to court. He gets his xbox back if he shows up to court. If he doesn't, it becomes property of the government. Explain how this is unreasonable.
*sigh* No, people here are not misunderstanding what bail is. They're misunderstanding what the issue is. From the fine article:
The judge told the youth it would show him what it was like to have something he valued taken from him.
That's clearly using bail as a form of punishment, not as a way to ensure the person returns to face trial. It's a misuse of the bail system.
Exactly! Is this kid a flight risk? Not likely. And if he is, will a $200 Xbox prevent him from fleeing? Not likely. This is a punishment, pure and simple, and the judge has no business punishing someone before a conviction.
Bear in mind, the kid has been charged, not convicted.
But if you RTFA, you'll see that giving up his Xbox is part of his bail conditions. Over here we tend not to operate bail the way it does in the US
Exactly! Bail is not supposed to be a punishment. Rather it is supposed to be a guarantee that you'll show up in court. If you take the kid's Xbox, but leave him with his cash, he can easily buy another Xbox. After all, it is the games, not the console which have the real monetary value. And is this kid really a flight risk? If not, there should be no bail required at all. Generally speaking, juveniles are released into their parents custody pending trial without bail required.
In any event, praising this as a creative "punishment", when there isn't yet a conviction, seems to me misguided.
As a Canadian, I can tell you that unlike the US, cellphone coverage in Canada isn't universal. There are regions where there is simply no coverage. Make sure, before you invest in one of these plans, that there is coverage where you'll be. Probably the first thing you do is talk to some of the islanders and ask what they use. Maybe someone living there will even let you share their wireless!
Because there are a lot of fictional works and movie depictions of Rape, Murder, Robbery and other "violent and unlawful" stuff. Movie trailers and excerpts of books are often online at studio and store sites. I think they call it advertising.
Actually, according to this article which I read today, the UK government is completely banning the movie Human Centipede II because of violent content. It will not even be legal to view the movie in your private home on DVD.
Exactly. Which is why they sometimes illegally shorten the yellow lights
The NTSB puts out recommended lengths of time for yellow lights but I doubt you will find a lot of local jurisdictions having actual laws to break regarding yellow light times. Shortening the yellows is highly dangerous and makes money from tickets. Guess which factor is overriding to city managers.
I don't know of any jurisdictions that mandate a minimum length of time for a yellow light. Instead, most jurisdictions that have this type of law mandate a minimum length of time between when a light turns yellow and when the opposing light turns green. To increase revenues without compromising safety, the light stays yellow for a very short time before turning red. However, the opposing light doesn't turn green until several seconds later, thereby complying with the law, while increasing tickets.
I agree. The Zork trilogy is the best place to start. Yes, Adventure did come first, but Zork (or Dungeon, the game on which Zork was based) is superior and I can't think of a better introduction to adventuring. My first experience with an adventure game was playing Dungeon on a VAX minicomputer. I was using a DECWriter hardcopy terminal and I had the printouts for many years later, but on my last house cleaning I was unable to find them.
So, you can download them to your computer, but you can't (legally) make a copy for your friend...
No, but you can point your friend to the website where he/she can download it, which is almost as good.
But I have to echo what a previous poster has said: most of these books look useless to ordinary people. They don't seem to be textbooks so much as policy recommendations. Has anyone found any useful books in this collection?
Actually, 67 bits would have been more than sufficient for a symmetric cipher (which Enigma was), if the algorithm were strong, that is to say, that no successful attack against the cipher could be carried out in less time than a brute force key search attack. In fact, DES uses only a 64 bit key and it was considered good enough for banking purposes well into the 1980's, and certainly could not have been decoded by even the most powerful computers of the World War II era.
The reason Enigma was cracked was that the algorithm wasn't truly strong, i.e. there were attacks possible that took less time than brute force. It was weaknesses in the algorithm that allowed the successful cracks to take place, but even those needed fairly strong computing power in the day. (The Enigma would be trivial to crack with an average laptop computer today.)
I have used google talk many times. The quality is better than Skype. BTW anyone knows how to completely close your account with Skype?
How does the security of Google Talk compare to Skype? Are the encryption protocols open? (I realize Skype's aren't really, but I'm curious to know how secure Google Talk is.)
First post - IBM ahead of MS? Big suprise considering OS/2 was such a flop in later years:p
Which is too bad, since OS/2 was vastly superior to Windows at the time. So much so, that OS/2 was the OS of choice in many applications where stability and security was important, such as ATMs.
I thought that in order to be bound by an injunction, you had to be served it?
Not true. If you have a good reason to suspect there's an injunction, you most certainly are bound by it. And if the story you are reporting is the fact there is a superinjuction, then clearly you have reason to believe there is one! Being an accessory to contempt of court makes you just as guilty as if you were in contempt of court yourself.
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That pesky constitution is why. For that matter, the supreme court has already ruled on this issue. In the US you cannot be forced to give up a password. The DOJ can bitch all they want, but it's already a settled issue.
Citation please?
the fifth amendment should shield them if there's anything incriminating on it.
Why? Is this different than if I were forced to turn over incriminating hand written notes?
What if those hand written notes were written in code, and only you knew what they meant?
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet. And nobody ever will.' - Networked computer will do everything but protect privacy. It can't be done any more than you can protect a radio broadcast. Even the best encryption depends on trust.
Your italicized statement is correct, but not quite for the reason you describe. It is possible to build secure computer networks: banks do it all the time. The problem is that social networking sites are all about sharing personal information. They would hardly be successful otherwise! Asking for a social network site that didn't compromise anyone's privacy is like asking for a non-flammable fire starter.
Computer Science Research faces the same nowadays. if a researcher is analyzing campus network data they need to talk to the ethics department and sign an agreement. There are very strict rules on what you can and cannot do. social networking data should be no different.
There's a huge difference here. Analyzing network data involves using information not available to the general public. If your job as a network admin gives you access to such information, there certainly are ethical questions that need to be answered before that information can be used in published academic studies.
The case described in the article, as far as I understand it, involves collecting information from Facebook pages which is available to the general public. It would be a different matter if the researchers hacked into student accounts to obtain private information, or if Facebook employees used their positions to access this information and use it in their published research papers. As far as I can tell, what the researchers did here was simply aggregate and analyze information that was already public!
Despite the alarmist headline, if you read the linked article carefully, you'll see that the only type of recall being considered is at the retail level. That is, retailers and distributors will have to remove the product from the shelves. There is no plan under consideration to go after consumers who have already purchased the cables for personal use. So if you already bought, paid for, and are using a cable, you should be okay to continue doing so.
Why aren't the authorities using their resources to actually find, arrest, and confine the people who actually produce child pornography?
Maybe the child pornography is being produced in a different jurisdiction than the authorities of whom you speak.
This is the worst case of moderator bias I have yet seen on Slashdot. (And I've been reading Slashdot for a long time.)
You may disagree with what the parent says, but it is a very reasonable post.
The bill isn't law quite yet. Stupid bills wanting to become stupid laws get introduced all the time and most of them don't go anywhere.
That's just what people were saying when the DMCA was still a bill. The time to speak up is before a law is passed, not after.
Not so much in the US.
In the US it's illegal for a for-profit company to accept donations and it's illegal to pay someone less than minimum wage.
So, the unpaid internships (at least the legal ones) are only in the non-profit sector.
Actually that's not true. But as the second article linked to in the story The Great Intern Debate points out, internships at private businesses must satisfy six criteria (all of which are broad enough that they can be made to fit almost anywhere). There are many private for-profit businesses that have interns, and the number keeps growing.
The Therac-25 had some "Dangerous Programming Mistakes".
I wonder if the nudie scanners have any similar mistakes.
The Therac-25 had two fundamental flaws, not one. One was a programming mistake. The other was lack of a hardware safety interlock to prevent electron beams from being emitted at dangerously high levels. That was a design mistake: leaving it to software to ensure that no lethal beams were directed at patients. I consider the latter mistake to be the more serious.
Dutch is just swamp German.
Wrong. Dutch is closer to English than German is, so if anything, it is an elevated form of German.
ITT: everyone on slashdot but a few misunderstands what bail is.
It's a guarantee of showing up to court. He gets his xbox back if he shows up to court. If he doesn't, it becomes property of the government. Explain how this is unreasonable.
*sigh* No, people here are not misunderstanding what bail is. They're misunderstanding what the issue is. From the fine article:
The judge told the youth it would show him what it was like to have something he valued taken from him.
That's clearly using bail as a form of punishment, not as a way to ensure the person returns to face trial. It's a misuse of the bail system.
Exactly! Is this kid a flight risk? Not likely. And if he is, will a $200 Xbox prevent him from fleeing? Not likely. This is a punishment, pure and simple, and the judge has no business punishing someone before a conviction.
Bear in mind, the kid has been charged, not convicted.
But if you RTFA, you'll see that giving up his Xbox is part of his bail conditions. Over here we tend not to operate bail the way it does in the US
Exactly! Bail is not supposed to be a punishment. Rather it is supposed to be a guarantee that you'll show up in court. If you take the kid's Xbox, but leave him with his cash, he can easily buy another Xbox. After all, it is the games, not the console which have the real monetary value. And is this kid really a flight risk? If not, there should be no bail required at all. Generally speaking, juveniles are released into their parents custody pending trial without bail required.
In any event, praising this as a creative "punishment", when there isn't yet a conviction, seems to me misguided.
..Make sure it has cell network coverage first.
As a Canadian, I can tell you that unlike the US, cellphone coverage in Canada isn't universal. There are regions where there is simply no coverage. Make sure, before you invest in one of these plans, that there is coverage where you'll be. Probably the first thing you do is talk to some of the islanders and ask what they use. Maybe someone living there will even let you share their wireless!
This may be a non-story after all. According to this CNN story, the TSA is denying that they required this person to remove her adult diaper.
So what you're saying is that he'll have to commit a more serious crime?
If he gets house arrest, all he'll have to do is wander outside of his house. Then he'll be in jail. Problem solved.
Because there are a lot of fictional works and movie depictions of Rape, Murder, Robbery and other "violent and unlawful" stuff. Movie trailers and excerpts of books are often online at studio and store sites. I think they call it advertising.
Actually, according to this article which I read today, the UK government is completely banning the movie Human Centipede II because of violent content. It will not even be legal to view the movie in your private home on DVD.
Exactly. Which is why they sometimes illegally shorten the yellow lights
The NTSB puts out recommended lengths of time for yellow lights but I doubt you will find a lot of local jurisdictions having actual laws to break regarding yellow light times. Shortening the yellows is highly dangerous and makes money from tickets. Guess which factor is overriding to city managers.
I don't know of any jurisdictions that mandate a minimum length of time for a yellow light. Instead, most jurisdictions that have this type of law mandate a minimum length of time between when a light turns yellow and when the opposing light turns green. To increase revenues without compromising safety, the light stays yellow for a very short time before turning red. However, the opposing light doesn't turn green until several seconds later, thereby complying with the law, while increasing tickets.
Zork!
I agree. The Zork trilogy is the best place to start. Yes, Adventure did come first, but Zork (or Dungeon, the game on which Zork was based) is superior and I can't think of a better introduction to adventuring. My first experience with an adventure game was playing Dungeon on a VAX minicomputer. I was using a DECWriter hardcopy terminal and I had the printouts for many years later, but on my last house cleaning I was unable to find them.
So, you can download them to your computer, but you can't (legally) make a copy for your friend...
No, but you can point your friend to the website where he/she can download it, which is almost as good.
But I have to echo what a previous poster has said: most of these books look useless to ordinary people. They don't seem to be textbooks so much as policy recommendations. Has anyone found any useful books in this collection?
What were they thinking!
Actually, 67 bits would have been more than sufficient for a symmetric cipher (which Enigma was), if the algorithm were strong, that is to say, that no successful attack against the cipher could be carried out in less time than a brute force key search attack. In fact, DES uses only a 64 bit key and it was considered good enough for banking purposes well into the 1980's, and certainly could not have been decoded by even the most powerful computers of the World War II era.
The reason Enigma was cracked was that the algorithm wasn't truly strong, i.e. there were attacks possible that took less time than brute force. It was weaknesses in the algorithm that allowed the successful cracks to take place, but even those needed fairly strong computing power in the day. (The Enigma would be trivial to crack with an average laptop computer today.)
I have used google talk many times. The quality is better than Skype. BTW anyone knows how to completely close your account with Skype?
How does the security of Google Talk compare to Skype? Are the encryption protocols open? (I realize Skype's aren't really, but I'm curious to know how secure Google Talk is.)
I guess both of you will have to run windows now.
Actually, Asterisk does run on windows, very nicely thank you.
First post - IBM ahead of MS? Big suprise considering OS/2 was such a flop in later years :p
Which is too bad, since OS/2 was vastly superior to Windows at the time. So much so, that OS/2 was the OS of choice in many applications where stability and security was important, such as ATMs.
I thought that in order to be bound by an injunction, you had to be served it?
Not true. If you have a good reason to suspect there's an injunction, you most certainly are bound by it. And if the story you are reporting is the fact there is a superinjuction, then clearly you have reason to believe there is one! Being an accessory to contempt of court makes you just as guilty as if you were in contempt of court yourself.