But he wasn't using that defense to say he's completly innocent, just that 70 years in a US jail is a unfairly harsh. Also, to disprove the US government's accusations that he caused almost 3/4 of a million dollars worth of damage by accessing computers using blank passwords.
I remeber reading an aticle on the BBC website a while ago about this program. From what I recall it isn't going to be shown on the BBC terrestial channels (BBC 1 or 2) for atleast quite a while due to already full schedules. BBC 4 (their documentory/boring channel) should show it in the near future however. Although I could be getting mixed up with some other similar program.
Since when were slashdotters "mainstream society". I admit Slashdot has become very mainstream in recent years but the views of slashdotters are contradictory to those of mainstream America, most of whom see piracy as simply theft.
"The IP lawyers don't play nice to your face then run off "to a little-known on-campus office crammed with computers" to rat out their friends."
This is pretty much exactly what the RIAA has proposed with their idea of having IP enforcement officers on College campuses. It is already done in many colleges from a software perspective.
Maybe, but "successful" is a very subjective word. If you're born into a community of Buddhist monks (unlikely I guess given their vows of celibacy) your definition of a "successful life" is going to be almost the opposite of a "successful life" in a materialistically driven society.
Neither can be truly deemed more successful than the other, it's just down to individual choice (although ironically in the vast majority of cases it is not the individual who actually makes that choice but rather their peers and role models).
I think the opposite. To have something explained to a child is fine, but surely it is much better for the child's development if he/she can discover these things for himself/herself, using (and developing) his/her own intellect.
From what I've seen in life, kids who have over-protective pearents telling them exactly how they should live their life, grow up to be very dull people.
I think by "hand" he means "cursor". I agree it's odd/dumb that he did not do a simple PRINTSCREEN before being disconnected, but as I said he probably only had a second or two between realising someone was at the computer and the image being lost. Also, at the time he would probably have been concentrating on trying to interpret the low-res picture.
(This is hypothetical ofcourse, I'm not saying what he claims is true. Just that it isn't completely infeasible IMHO.)
If he was using software like RemoteAnywhere he would have had no knowledge of someone being about to access the computer locally. From then it would have only been a couple of seconds till he was disconnected (and the frames lost).
He could well have been waiting for the image to finish downloading before taking a screenshot and then not had a chance to take one in the (probably less than) couple of seconds he realised someone else was accessing the computer locally before being disconnected.
This doesn't prove anything but is quite plausable.
The British police (as with the American authorities) would probably only have access to connection details, not data transferred. It was those very details which were reportably used to trace him.
If you had read or watched the interview you would know he was using the remote operating program RemoteAnywhere. In which case his story is totally consistent.
He states that the image was downloading when a staff member physically accessed the computer and disconnected him. I know personally the program can freeze for a couple of seconds on a slow connection while taking screen shots. It is therefor quite plausable that he was waiting for the image to download before taking the screenshot and then did not have time - in the few seconds it takes for a person to go the bottom-right-corner of the screen and select disconnect - to take a screenshot of what had already downloaded (as he would have had no indication of someone being about to use the computer locally). 1 frame later and any cache of the image would have been lost.
This doesn't at all prove his claim of viewing a NASA UFO image are true but they are atleast plausable.
Yes he..I mean I do. I just don't use your heretical "English" language. "You're" and "quater" are words of the devil, he just hasn't told you and I forgot to mention it before now.
Ok, your right, I was using net income to demonstrate how obsurd the claim is but I agree total revenue would have been the correct figure to use.
Still the suit is claiming atleast a quater of all Google's revenue comes from Child Porn and similar nasties, which I think most would agree is quite a ridiculous claim to make.
But that is my point, the genre is stale, yet they pump all their big budgets and best teams at FPSs and Sports Sims (although I'm not complaining about sports sims because the genre still has a long way to go imho).
The new genre games however pretty much never get the sort of investment from EA that a game like Black gets.
Although I haven't actually played Black , it does appear to be just another 'latest graphics' Doom clone, with a highly interactive game enviroment (i.e. a half-life/Sin clone).
This is exactly what I mean, every FPS based game they produce is simply shoot the slightly more realistic baddies, and watch the slightly more realistic 'glass breaking after being shot' effects. Not to mention some of the idiotic weapons that get chucked in to try and seem original because every realistic weapon has been in literally hundreds of other similar FPS games.
"The article also outlines their plans to take on MySpace in the near future."
My bet is that "taking on MySpace" means a huge marketing campaign to 'warn' parents of the supposed 'dangers' of MySpace and how their expensive & restrictive system will be so much safer. Thereby getting the parents to force teenagers and such to switch.
If AOL are lucky they may even be able to get the parents to pay a monthly fee to switch and 'ensure' their childs safety. Such is the paranoia spread by the mainstream media these days.
*Yawn* Please don't act like a child. Ofcourse I read the article. It is completely beside the point if specific products have partial exceptions (btw, they arn't "exempt" from the directive anyway, just treated differently).
Your arguement is still ridiculous. Batteries are amongst the main cause of mercury pollution in the EU. Other batteries (e.g. Lead-Acid) don't do anyone any good at all. Even relativly small amounts of lead and mercury poisoning can cause severe brain damage and death. Not to mention the array of highly toxic chemicals in other batteries.
Anyone arguing that these batteries should be allowed to rot in the ground, inevitably seep into groundwater, has obviously already suffered the aforementioned brain damage.
How about EA produce an original, decently funded, game?
You know, like the ones all those companies that EA has eaten up use to make! I think it's strange how a company with so much cash behind it (far more than almost anyone else), can't find a few bucks to produce a game which hasn't been done at least 10,000 times before.
EA seem to suffer from a problem similar to the "Too many cooks spoil the broth" one, except in EA's case it's too many shareholders spoil the game!
Thats ridiculous. It's not pointless because Mercury based batteries are still being placed in landfills just waiting to seep into groundwater etc. This directive stops that enviromentally damaging practise. There is nothing pointless about that.
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But he wasn't using that defense to say he's completly innocent, just that 70 years in a US jail is a unfairly harsh. Also, to disprove the US government's accusations that he caused almost 3/4 of a million dollars worth of damage by accessing computers using blank passwords.
I remeber reading an aticle on the BBC website a while ago about this program. From what I recall it isn't going to be shown on the BBC terrestial channels (BBC 1 or 2) for atleast quite a while due to already full schedules. BBC 4 (their documentory/boring channel) should show it in the near future however. Although I could be getting mixed up with some other similar program.
Since when were slashdotters "mainstream society". I admit Slashdot has become very mainstream in recent years but the views of slashdotters are contradictory to those of mainstream America, most of whom see piracy as simply theft.
"The IP lawyers don't play nice to your face then run off "to a little-known on-campus office crammed with computers" to rat out their friends."
This is pretty much exactly what the RIAA has proposed with their idea of having IP enforcement officers on College campuses. It is already done in many colleges from a software perspective.
We have tens of thousands of agents who monitor and take down websites here in the West also.
They're called Intellectual Property Lawyers.
Funny how everyone (mainstream soceity atleast) thinks it is so evil when other cultures impose their values, but completely OK when we impose ours.
But dumbing down and catering for non-nerds = more readers = more cash.
Maybe, but "successful" is a very subjective word. If you're born into a community of Buddhist monks (unlikely I guess given their vows of celibacy) your definition of a "successful life" is going to be almost the opposite of a "successful life" in a materialistically driven society.
Neither can be truly deemed more successful than the other, it's just down to individual choice (although ironically in the vast majority of cases it is not the individual who actually makes that choice but rather their peers and role models).
I think the opposite. To have something explained to a child is fine, but surely it is much better for the child's development if he/she can discover these things for himself/herself, using (and developing) his/her own intellect.
From what I've seen in life, kids who have over-protective pearents telling them exactly how they should live their life, grow up to be very dull people.
Maybe, depends what the hell a "water wing" is.
I think by "hand" he means "cursor". I agree it's odd/dumb that he did not do a simple PRINTSCREEN before being disconnected, but as I said he probably only had a second or two between realising someone was at the computer and the image being lost. Also, at the time he would probably have been concentrating on trying to interpret the low-res picture.
(This is hypothetical ofcourse, I'm not saying what he claims is true. Just that it isn't completely infeasible IMHO.)
If he was using software like RemoteAnywhere he would have had no knowledge of someone being about to access the computer locally. From then it would have only been a couple of seconds till he was disconnected (and the frames lost).
He could well have been waiting for the image to finish downloading before taking a screenshot and then not had a chance to take one in the (probably less than) couple of seconds he realised someone else was accessing the computer locally before being disconnected.
This doesn't prove anything but is quite plausable.
The British police (as with the American authorities) would probably only have access to connection details, not data transferred. It was those very details which were reportably used to trace him.
If you had read or watched the interview you would know he was using the remote operating program RemoteAnywhere. In which case his story is totally consistent.
He states that the image was downloading when a staff member physically accessed the computer and disconnected him. I know personally the program can freeze for a couple of seconds on a slow connection while taking screen shots. It is therefor quite plausable that he was waiting for the image to download before taking the screenshot and then did not have time - in the few seconds it takes for a person to go the bottom-right-corner of the screen and select disconnect - to take a screenshot of what had already downloaded (as he would have had no indication of someone being about to use the computer locally). 1 frame later and any cache of the image would have been lost.
This doesn't at all prove his claim of viewing a NASA UFO image are true but they are atleast plausable.
Yes he ..I mean I do. I just don't use your heretical "English" language. "You're" and "quater" are words of the devil, he just hasn't told you and I forgot to mention it before now.
Ok, your right, I was using net income to demonstrate how obsurd the claim is but I agree total revenue would have been the correct figure to use.
Still the suit is claiming atleast a quater of all Google's revenue comes from Child Porn and similar nasties, which I think most would agree is quite a ridiculous claim to make.
They did ...until it became just too ridiculously obvious.
To this day many are amazed that members of the federal government havn't been indicted over why some very suspcious figures won't investigated.
Yea right Billions.
So Google has made more from Child Porn alone than it's actual net yearly income?
What rubbish.
But that is my point, the genre is stale, yet they pump all their big budgets and best teams at FPSs and Sports Sims (although I'm not complaining about sports sims because the genre still has a long way to go imho).
The new genre games however pretty much never get the sort of investment from EA that a game like Black gets.
Although I haven't actually played Black , it does appear to be just another 'latest graphics' Doom clone, with a highly interactive game enviroment (i.e. a half-life/Sin clone).
This is exactly what I mean, every FPS based game they produce is simply shoot the slightly more realistic baddies, and watch the slightly more realistic 'glass breaking after being shot' effects. Not to mention some of the idiotic weapons that get chucked in to try and seem original because every realistic weapon has been in literally hundreds of other similar FPS games.
"The article also outlines their plans to take on MySpace in the near future."
My bet is that "taking on MySpace" means a huge marketing campaign to 'warn' parents of the supposed 'dangers' of MySpace and how their expensive & restrictive system will be so much safer. Thereby getting the parents to force teenagers and such to switch.
If AOL are lucky they may even be able to get the parents to pay a monthly fee to switch and 'ensure' their childs safety. Such is the paranoia spread by the mainstream media these days.
*Yawn* Please don't act like a child. Ofcourse I read the article. It is completely beside the point if specific products have partial exceptions (btw, they arn't "exempt" from the directive anyway, just treated differently).
Your arguement is still ridiculous. Batteries are amongst the main cause of mercury pollution in the EU. Other batteries (e.g. Lead-Acid) don't do anyone any good at all. Even relativly small amounts of lead and mercury poisoning can cause severe brain damage and death. Not to mention the array of highly toxic chemicals in other batteries.
Anyone arguing that these batteries should be allowed to rot in the ground, inevitably seep into groundwater, has obviously already suffered the aforementioned brain damage.
How about EA produce an original, decently funded, game?
You know, like the ones all those companies that EA has eaten up use to make!
I think it's strange how a company with so much cash behind it (far more than almost anyone else), can't find a few bucks to produce a game which hasn't been done at least 10,000 times before.
EA seem to suffer from a problem similar to the "Too many cooks spoil the broth" one, except in EA's case it's too many shareholders spoil the game!
Thats ridiculous. It's not pointless because Mercury based batteries are still being placed in landfills just waiting to seep into groundwater etc. This directive stops that enviromentally damaging practise. There is nothing pointless about that.
So then why haven't other countries and unions already imposed similar directives?
BBC News also has an article on this from a spaceship cloaking perspective:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4968338.stm
But isn't the ability of the end-user to customise the software to their exact preference/need one of the biggest advantages of Open Source?