I agree totally, I mean it's the broadcaster's Intellectual Property and they have the right to decide what you can do with it. You don't have any right to use it in a different way than was intended by the distributor.
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If he saw you in the hall, he'd say hi. He mostly ate in the regular employee cafeterias, instead of the Secretary's Dining Room (which has pretty the same food, but also wood paneling and table service).
So your point is that he doesn't piss acid and breathe fire? Real bad guys don't wear black and have metal masks and claws, they wear nice suits and smile and express compassion for the common man. Then they go to work and figure out how to make money by exploiting people who can't defend themselves.
they'll be checked as thoroughly as everyone else in terms of carryons. The difference is that they have their own dedicated line at the airport.
Are you sure about this? Regular travellers are sometimes flagged with a "scarlet letter", a red S under their seat number and the screeners then go through their bags take off their shoes etc. Are registered travellers still subject to this flagging? My understanding is no, but I could be wrong.
The Carnival Booth argument says that whitelisting can only work if the checks are 100% accurate. If there's even a small chance that a terrorist can be whitelisted, then one eventually will be, given enough probes. Do you think Registered Traveller is 100% accurate?
The problem I had with the analysis in the paper is that it seemed to neglect the cost of probing. That is, each failed probe by a terrorist cell has a cost associated with it (e.g., an investigation by the CIA, FBI, or DHS).
Not sure why you think that, the way I read it a failure just means that you get the scarlet letter on your ticket (the big red S under your seat#). The screeners give scarlet letters out as a matter of course and getting one doesn't attract any particular attention. Sure they're expending some amount of money in terms of plane tickets but all indications are that Al Qaeda is well funded.
Exactly. Now all the terrorists have to do is get into the registered traveler program and since they're searched less thoroughly they'll have a very good chance of sneaking weapons in. This system nearly the same as CAPPS, the only difference is that terrorists will definitively know that they've been whitelisted and will therefore be even more confident that they can bring weapons with them. Since this system still relies on whitelisting, the Carnival Booth argument still applies and this system is still weaker than random searches.
Um no. Ethereal was running about 1 remote-shell vuln a week for a long time. Snort has had a couple too. I guess you could argue that they're all fixed now, but you certainly can't be sure of that.
I use 2K/XP nearly every day unfortunately, and virtually every time I install something it asks me to reboot. Whether it's InstallShield's problem or Windows's problem is irrelevant.
Also, your argument about DirectX is laughable. You don't even have to restart Linux to upgrade LIBC! ***LIBC***! Even the package manager that is actually upgrading libc is using libc! And it works just fine. This has been true since ELF was introduced way back in what '96 or so?
The whole reason behind the rebooting problem is the registry, and if MS gets rid of it I'll gladly stop making fun of it. Until then you and the rest of the MS-defender crowd will just have to keep stretching your credibility trying to defend it.
With all her newfound experience with the legal system, when she gets out of the joint she'll be in a perfect position to patent everything she did in her magazine. If you can make $500 million patenting browser plug-ins just think how much you could make patenting do-it-yourself window treatments and floral arrangements.
This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or
vaporware of any kind on a users PC.
What a relief, we can only imagine what disastrous effects it might have if Duke Nukem Forever were to be surreptitiously installed on the defenseless hard drives of innocent beastie-boy fans.
Nah, everybody knows it's Intel who trademarked the letter i(tm).
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But that's the beauty of overbroad laws, when you combine it with selective enforcement against criminals and your enemies you both get the power you want AND you get less political opposition. Since very few people fall into the 'enemies' category most people won't consider the abuse relevant to them.
Add to that a few skilled political operatives to go on CNN and Fox News to confuse the issue (some noted experts at this are e.g. Paul Begala, Clifford May, Daniel Pipes) and a critical mass of opposition will never develop.
Media complicity in legislative corruption.
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I was reading this and I got to thinking...
"Senator Orrin Hatch today introduced a bill that supporters say would prevent software companies from profiting from Internet piracy. But opponents say it would outlaw legitimate technology, possibly even VCRs. Orinn Hatch's campaign received contributions from the bill's industry supporters in his last election."
Sounded like a Headline News blurb until the last sentence huh? Just imagine if news outlets were required to report on Politicians' conflicts of interest when they were mentioned in connection with legislation that would benefit their backers. Just imagine how much effect that little disclaimer would have on the mind of people listening to the story. We could do a better job of controlling campaign influence than McCain-Feingold does without limiting free speech at all. Whores like Hatch and Boxer would be exposed on a regular basis. IANAL though, so what do you guys think?
1) Buy up a software company.
2) Rebrand their software as Microsoft <descriptive term>
3) Bundle your new software with Windows(tm) under the terms that it costs more to not buy it.
4) Profit!
So let me get this straight, you are claiming that (a) Popular culture has no influence on normalizing the behavior of children, they are only influenced by their parents.
(b) Only Americans disagree with (a).
I guess you think that children of only-Spanish-speaking parents who live in English-speaking countries never learn English either, right? Under your theory, if the only English they heard outside their Spanish-speaking home used "explicit lyrics," as you put it, when they spoke English would they replace those explicit terms with more genteel Spanish equivalents or would they instinctively seek out a dictionary to learn the English equivalents? Or is your theory silly? I am not even going to argue with (b), it's obviously untrue.
For a more in-depth rebuttal, have a look at some of the science that's been done in this area, for instance the story of introduction of television into Bhutan.
There's also an article about myostatin in this month's Scientific American, which includes an even more striking photo of a Belgian Blue. Here's the original from Corbis (which belongs to Bill Gates... ugh).
"What happens when a bio-cracker unleashes a plant virus on all the wheat in North America, and the genetic code to 'Wheat 2.0' is closed-source, patented code owned by a corporation?
This analogy is very misleading; with software, a worm that takes out half the net--say, blaster--causes temporary damage. Many people never even noticed blaster. In meatspace, a virus that took out all of the US's wheat would cause mass starvation and civil disorder.
In other words in software we have the luxury of assuming that failure is inevitable and planning out how to fix future failures; in meatspace you absolutely must prevent catastrophic failure or you might not get a second chance.
It's definitely true that we're not far from being in a world where a reasonably smart person can make a doomsday virus, and it's important to think about these issues beforehand, but I think this line of reasoning is misleading.
The problem is that the kids who are buying this get their information about the real world from outlets like MTV. They actually see MTV as being the recapitulation of everything that is cool and they feel a sense of belonging when they watch it. If MTV News doesn't mention it, they will assume that it's their problem. If MTV news presents it as something positive, they will embrace it wholeheartedly. I suspect that MTV will run a piece on MTV news showing artists talking about how this technology will help them keep writing music.
It's incredibly sad and frustrating, but kids at this point are so concerned about living up to the standards that MTV, teen magazines and other media create for them that they have no energy to think about the possibility that these media are the enemy. Marketing has become so powerful at shaping attitudes and creating the desire to obtain useless products to attain the lifestyle they believe they ought to have, that there's virtually no room left in many kids' lives for anything else.
No, incorporating as not-for-profit doesn't necessarily make you tax exempt. All not-for-profit means is that you don't distribute dividends to shareholders, but rather reinvest any profits (or funnel it to management...)
In order to be able to receive tax deductable contributions you have to apply to the IRS to be a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. The blurb on Gentoo.org doesn't say what section they're applying under, but it would be pretty surprising if the IRS granted them charitable status. It's usually reserved for charities, artistic or literary foundations, churches, etc.
If you're really serious, it's pretty easy to roll your own RSA encrypter. The math is actually very straightforward.
Try googling for Fermat's Little Theorem, Euler's Function, and RSA. If you write it yourself it can't possibly be backdoored. Unless of course They 0wnzor your calculator. fnord.
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*sniff* *sniff* Anyone else smell astroturf?
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Are you sure about this? Regular travellers are sometimes flagged with a "scarlet letter", a red S under their seat number and the screeners then go through their bags take off their shoes etc. Are registered travellers still subject to this flagging? My understanding is no, but I could be wrong.
The Carnival Booth argument says that whitelisting can only work if the checks are 100% accurate. If there's even a small chance that a terrorist can be whitelisted, then one eventually will be, given enough probes. Do you think Registered Traveller is 100% accurate?
Not sure why you think that, the way I read it a failure just means that you get the scarlet letter on your ticket (the big red S under your seat#). The screeners give scarlet letters out as a matter of course and getting one doesn't attract any particular attention. Sure they're expending some amount of money in terms of plane tickets but all indications are that Al Qaeda is well funded.
Exactly. Now all the terrorists have to do is get into the registered traveler program and since they're searched less thoroughly they'll have a very good chance of sneaking weapons in. This system nearly the same as CAPPS, the only difference is that terrorists will definitively know that they've been whitelisted and will therefore be even more confident that they can bring weapons with them. Since this system still relies on whitelisting, the Carnival Booth argument still applies and this system is still weaker than random searches.
Um no. Ethereal was running about 1 remote-shell vuln a week for a long time. Snort has had a couple too. I guess you could argue that they're all fixed now, but you certainly can't be sure of that.
Also, your argument about DirectX is laughable. You don't even have to restart Linux to upgrade LIBC! ***LIBC***! Even the package manager that is actually upgrading libc is using libc! And it works just fine. This has been true since ELF was introduced way back in what '96 or so?
The whole reason behind the rebooting problem is the registry, and if MS gets rid of it I'll gladly stop making fun of it. Until then you and the rest of the MS-defender crowd will just have to keep stretching your credibility trying to defend it.
No no, the other editions are re-starters. As in every time you install anything.
With all her newfound experience with the legal system, when she gets out of the joint she'll be in a perfect position to patent everything she did in her magazine. If you can make $500 million patenting browser plug-ins just think how much you could make patenting do-it-yourself window treatments and floral arrangements.
What a relief, we can only imagine what disastrous effects it might have if Duke Nukem Forever were to be surreptitiously installed on the defenseless hard drives of innocent beastie-boy fans.
Nah, everybody knows it's Intel who trademarked the letter i(tm).
Add to that a few skilled political operatives to go on CNN and Fox News to confuse the issue (some noted experts at this are e.g. Paul Begala, Clifford May, Daniel Pipes) and a critical mass of opposition will never develop.
"Senator Orrin Hatch today introduced a bill that supporters say would prevent software companies from profiting from Internet piracy. But opponents say it would outlaw legitimate technology, possibly even VCRs. Orinn Hatch's campaign received contributions from the bill's industry supporters in his last election."
Sounded like a Headline News blurb until the last sentence huh? Just imagine if news outlets were required to report on Politicians' conflicts of interest when they were mentioned in connection with legislation that would benefit their backers. Just imagine how much effect that little disclaimer would have on the mind of people listening to the story. We could do a better job of controlling campaign influence than McCain-Feingold does without limiting free speech at all. Whores like Hatch and Boxer would be exposed on a regular basis. IANAL though, so what do you guys think?
1) Buy up a software company.
2) Rebrand their software as Microsoft <descriptive term>
3) Bundle your new software with Windows(tm) under the terms that it costs more to not buy it.
4) Profit!
(a) Popular culture has no influence on normalizing the behavior of children, they are only influenced by their parents.
(b) Only Americans disagree with (a).
I guess you think that children of only-Spanish-speaking parents who live in English-speaking countries never learn English either, right? Under your theory, if the only English they heard outside their Spanish-speaking home used "explicit lyrics," as you put it, when they spoke English would they replace those explicit terms with more genteel Spanish equivalents or would they instinctively seek out a dictionary to learn the English equivalents? Or is your theory silly? I am not even going to argue with (b), it's obviously untrue.
For a more in-depth rebuttal, have a look at some of the science that's been done in this area, for instance the story of introduction of television into Bhutan.
There's also an article about myostatin in this month's Scientific American, which includes an even more striking photo of a Belgian Blue. Here's the original from Corbis (which belongs to Bill Gates... ugh).
"..He am the Honeymaker and drinkers us them meads
He am the Jacksberry and eaters us them leaves
He am the Trickster and the Woodsie lord He bes."
This analogy is very misleading; with software, a worm that takes out half the net--say, blaster--causes temporary damage. Many people never even noticed blaster. In meatspace, a virus that took out all of the US's wheat would cause mass starvation and civil disorder.
In other words in software we have the luxury of assuming that failure is inevitable and planning out how to fix future failures; in meatspace you absolutely must prevent catastrophic failure or you might not get a second chance.
It's definitely true that we're not far from being in a world where a reasonably smart person can make a doomsday virus, and it's important to think about these issues beforehand, but I think this line of reasoning is misleading.
Funny, I had heard it was going to be delivered in John Kerry's voice. Go figure.
It's incredibly sad and frustrating, but kids at this point are so concerned about living up to the standards that MTV, teen magazines and other media create for them that they have no energy to think about the possibility that these media are the enemy. Marketing has become so powerful at shaping attitudes and creating the desire to obtain useless products to attain the lifestyle they believe they ought to have, that there's virtually no room left in many kids' lives for anything else.
In order to be able to receive tax deductable contributions you have to apply to the IRS to be a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. The blurb on Gentoo.org doesn't say what section they're applying under, but it would be pretty surprising if the IRS granted them charitable status. It's usually reserved for charities, artistic or literary foundations, churches, etc.
It's shift-insert to paste into an xterm. ...don't ask which clipboard you'll be pasting from, it's more fun to try to figure it out on your own.
Try googling for Fermat's Little Theorem, Euler's Function, and RSA. If you write it yourself it can't possibly be backdoored. Unless of course They 0wnzor your calculator. fnord.