(This will probably get modded troll or flamebait, but I have karma to burn . . . )
This is one of many very conspicuous double standards on the Left. We have been bombarded with the Left's caterwauling about Israel's occupation of part of Palestine for several years now. Many lefties would go so far as to say 9/11 is America's fault.
That that reasoning is a bit like blaming a rape victim for being raped is beside the point. China is occupying Tibet and the other regions. Cuba is under the bloody dictatorship of Fidel Castro. The list goes on, but not a peep is heard from the Left. But when, for example, Israel defends itself in an aggressive war and wins the OTs fair and square, however, that's condemned in the most vitriolic of terms.
Not meaning to start a flamewar here, just want to bring some much-needed intellectual honesty to this issue.
Back when I worked for a large national wireless carrier, we were told in training that a 911 call from a phone reported as *stolen* will be put through. So yeah, a 911 call from a past due one should have no problem.
Okay, one side (the content providers) wants to impose some DRM scheme on whatever. The other side, the geeks, will attempt to break them.
Now, other than OTP, no encryption scheme is unbreakable. The only value encryption has is to make it more expensive to unlock the data than it's worth. However, when the opposition has a religious fervor and practically unlimited resources, inevitably it will be broken. (SDMI? iTunes? DeCSS?)
Exhibit "A" is DeCSS. Export of strong cryptography is prohibited by law. So whatever they come up with will be fairly trivial for the geeks to break. As for it being a lightning rod for copyright lawsuits, well, P2P continues relatively unabated against the RIAA's jihad of suing 12-year-olds and grandmothers.
I for one do not have much faith in our legal system. forget OJ, look at Microsoft. half a decade in the courts has not forced a change in Microsoft's business practices.
The only reason the court system hasn't forced a change in M$'s practices is because the government, thanks to Dumb-ya, folded a winning hand.
This is not legal advice. You are not a client. I'm not even an attorney. If you want legal advice, contact an attorney admitted to your jurisdiction's bar. What I am saying here is probably 100% wrong and if you do anything in reliance upon it, you are a blithering idiot who deserves whatever bad shit is very likely to befall you.
Okay, now that the requisite idiot-proofing is out of the way . . .
The US Supreme Court passed on this issue a long time ago. The case was Brady v. Maryland 373 US 83 (1963). Quoth the headnote from the opinion:
Suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused who has requested it violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution. Pp. 86-88.
Another US Supreme Court case to pass on this issue was Kyles v. Whitley, 514 US 419 (1995). Here, Kyles was arrested with the murder victim's car, her groceries, and her purse. He was convicted and sentenced to death. He almost definitely did it, but because the prosecutor failed to turn over possibly exculpatory evidence, his conviction was tossed and he was released from Angola prison. So yes, the prosecutor does have to disclose possibly exculpatory evidence and no, it does not vary from state to state.
HTH
If you read the EULA for various security updates, they enable Product Activation on versions of Windows that didn't already have it. But I could be totally wrong.
It used to be that American companies were focused on producing more and better products. Now, the focus is exclusively on how to crank out more expensive versions of the same crap. Also, the notorious shortsightedness of American companies has only gotten worse since the stock market has been inflated to a ridiculous, unsustainable level.
Case in point: Boeing. The Sonic Cruiser was something new and innovative - and was killed. The 7E7 is a more efficient, more polished version of the same thing they've been building for 20 or so years. After all, R&D costs money and you don't recoup those costs this quarter.
Be that as it may, under the "Living Constitution" theory of constitutional interpretation, it's okay to make laws that violate the Constitution. "What? It says you can have guns? Well . . . times have changed." Good - amend the Constitution then! Until then, STFU.
Reading a book or listening to some music instead. And no, the latest oh-so-trendy indie garage techno hip-hop band doesn't count. Listen to some realmusic for once - it'll make you smarter!
Now, convincing people who live in a country where the USA Today is the number one selling newspaper to consume anything longer than three minutes with no eye candy . . .
Yes, you violated the anti-circumvention provision of the Digital Millenium Shower Act. Your non low flow toilet significantly added to the gravity of the offense. You will go to prison for 658,000 years.
On the one hand, I can understand the privacy implications. On the other hand, full and open disclosure of who gives how much to what politician is universally regarded to be a Good Thing. Anyone who doubts this needs only to look at situations like Orrin Hatch sponsoring the monstrosities he is while receiving $14,750 from Viacom.
Because "those damn foreigners" don't have laws on the books to prevent this sort of thing. This chick could have published all that data on the web, violating the privacy of those patients, and there would have been zero recourse against them.
Further, there are simply too many of "those damn foreigners" coming to the US. The Sierra Club is right - immigration is out of control and is causing our population to increase at unsustainable levels. But GWB is just fine with it since it means his big business buddies will get more cheap labor. Meanwhile, native-born Americans can't find a McJob!
This is not legal advice. You are not a client. I'm not even an attorney. If you need/want legal advice, contact an attorney admitted to practice in your jurisdiction. What I am saying here is probably 100% wrong and if you do anything based on it, you are a blitering idiot who deserves whatever bad shit is very likely to befall you.
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Quoth the poster:
So class action suits don't work in reverse. A class can sue an entity, but not the other way around.
Not necessarily. Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP 23) governs class actions.
In a nutshell, the prerequisites are:
(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable,
(2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class,
(3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and
(4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.
When Linux get as popular as Windows, you'll also get all the bugs, all the bloatware, all the spyware, all the idiots, all the exploits and all the garbage you get with Windows. Getting Flash ported is an obvious step in that direction...
Not necessarily. See, a lot of these problems with Windows comes from its being so inherently insecure by design. Windows XP creates root accounts with no password by default! Until recently, Outlook opened attachments automatically by default, even executable ones. Windows has other problems, for example, with ports being left open by default. The list goes on.
By contrast, with Linux, if you set the nodev,noexec,nosuid flags on/home and you're not running as root, you are already orders of magnitudes more secure than with any version of Windows. And there are many, many other ways to harden Linux that Bill can only dream of for his garbage.
The whole front of the car is moulded in one piece which can be removed only by a Volvo mechanic.
Okay, how long before some indie mechanic figures out how to remove the one-piece shell? Keep in mind that most of these guys actually know what they're doing, unlike the dealer parts replacers^W^Wmechanics who are usually little better than Dell techs. You know the type. "BSOD? Monitor replacement!" (The former often work on commission, btw.)
"It is minimal maintenance, really, because the customers have limited time and they don't want a car that gives them a lot of hassle," said Ms Christiansen.
This isn't a car for regular people. This is for white yuppie women who have more money than brains. Every time a light comes on, the mechanic calls. "That'll be $600 please" to reset a switch and the broads will gladly charge it to their Visa Platinum which "only" charges 23% interest. This is in addition to the $700 or so monthly payment to finance the thing.
Volvo will never actually take this car into production, of course.
Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, tinfoil-hat brigade! Not a very accurate headline, but anything for sensationalism and paranoia on/.
Now, am I crooked? Or do I just think that whatever SCO's chances, some fool is going to come a long later and be willing to pay a lot more per share for this stock than I did, allowing me to sell it at a profit before the trial is over and walk away.
That's exactly what the market is betting on.
A lot of people feel that, win or lose, IBM will buy SCOX out. Either way, the stockholders get paid. That's why their stock hasn't tanked . . . yet. Now, when it becomes obvious that the game is up and SCOX will neither win nor be bought out, well . . .
Unfortunately the worst enemy is one who has nothing to lose. SCO knows all their bases belong to IBM and if they lose (which they will) there will be nothing else left.
Excuse me, sir, but I must ask you for your geek card.
All their base are belong to IBM.
IBM to SCO: "You have no chance to survive make your time."
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(This will probably get modded troll or flamebait, but I have karma to burn . . . )
This is one of many very conspicuous double standards on the Left. We have been bombarded with the Left's caterwauling about Israel's occupation of part of Palestine for several years now. Many lefties would go so far as to say 9/11 is America's fault.
That that reasoning is a bit like blaming a rape victim for being raped is beside the point. China is occupying Tibet and the other regions. Cuba is under the bloody dictatorship of Fidel Castro. The list goes on, but not a peep is heard from the Left. But when, for example, Israel defends itself in an aggressive war and wins the OTs fair and square, however, that's condemned in the most vitriolic of terms.
Not meaning to start a flamewar here, just want to bring some much-needed intellectual honesty to this issue.
Back when I worked for a large national wireless carrier, we were told in training that a 911 call from a phone reported as *stolen* will be put through. So yeah, a 911 call from a past due one should have no problem.
Okay, one side (the content providers) wants to impose some DRM scheme on whatever. The other side, the geeks, will attempt to break them. Now, other than OTP, no encryption scheme is unbreakable. The only value encryption has is to make it more expensive to unlock the data than it's worth. However, when the opposition has a religious fervor and practically unlimited resources, inevitably it will be broken. (SDMI? iTunes? DeCSS?) Exhibit "A" is DeCSS. Export of strong cryptography is prohibited by law. So whatever they come up with will be fairly trivial for the geeks to break. As for it being a lightning rod for copyright lawsuits, well, P2P continues relatively unabated against the RIAA's jihad of suing 12-year-olds and grandmothers.
Quoth the poster:
I for one do not have much faith in our legal system. forget OJ, look at Microsoft. half a decade in the courts has not forced a change in Microsoft's business practices.
The only reason the court system hasn't forced a change in M$'s practices is because the government, thanks to Dumb-ya, folded a winning hand.
This is not legal advice. You are not a client. I'm not even an attorney. If you want legal advice, contact an attorney admitted to your jurisdiction's bar. What I am saying here is probably 100% wrong and if you do anything in reliance upon it, you are a blithering idiot who deserves whatever bad shit is very likely to befall you.
Okay, now that the requisite idiot-proofing is out of the way . . .
The US Supreme Court passed on this issue a long time ago. The case was Brady v. Maryland 373 US 83 (1963). Quoth the headnote from the opinion:
Another US Supreme Court case to pass on this issue was Kyles v. Whitley, 514 US 419 (1995). Here, Kyles was arrested with the murder victim's car, her groceries, and her purse. He was convicted and sentenced to death. He almost definitely did it, but because the prosecutor failed to turn over possibly exculpatory evidence, his conviction was tossed and he was released from Angola prison. So yes, the prosecutor does have to disclose possibly exculpatory evidence and no, it does not vary from state to state. HTHIf you read the EULA for various security updates, they enable Product Activation on versions of Windows that didn't already have it. But I could be totally wrong.
Any thoughts?
Hey genius: Neither Brown nor Princeton has a law school!
It used to be that American companies were focused on producing more and better products. Now, the focus is exclusively on how to crank out more expensive versions of the same crap. Also, the notorious shortsightedness of American companies has only gotten worse since the stock market has been inflated to a ridiculous, unsustainable level.
Case in point: Boeing. The Sonic Cruiser was something new and innovative - and was killed. The 7E7 is a more efficient, more polished version of the same thing they've been building for 20 or so years. After all, R&D costs money and you don't recoup those costs this quarter.
I actually would have modded you Insightful.
Be that as it may, under the "Living Constitution" theory of constitutional interpretation, it's okay to make laws that violate the Constitution. "What? It says you can have guns? Well . . . times have changed." Good - amend the Constitution then! Until then, STFU.
Reading a book or listening to some music instead. And no, the latest oh-so-trendy indie garage techno hip-hop band doesn't count. Listen to some real music for once - it'll make you smarter!
Now, convincing people who live in a country where the USA Today is the number one selling newspaper to consume anything longer than three minutes with no eye candy . . .
No, more like, "occifer, I'm not as think as you drunk I am."
Yes, you violated the anti-circumvention provision of the Digital Millenium Shower Act. Your non low flow toilet significantly added to the gravity of the offense. You will go to prison for 658,000 years.
I target you with Mr. Oleoresin or Mr. Glock.
On the one hand, I can understand the privacy implications. On the other hand, full and open disclosure of who gives how much to what politician is universally regarded to be a Good Thing. Anyone who doubts this needs only to look at situations like Orrin Hatch sponsoring the monstrosities he is while receiving $14,750 from Viacom.
Because "those damn foreigners" don't have laws on the books to prevent this sort of thing. This chick could have published all that data on the web, violating the privacy of those patients, and there would have been zero recourse against them. Further, there are simply too many of "those damn foreigners" coming to the US. The Sierra Club is right - immigration is out of control and is causing our population to increase at unsustainable levels. But GWB is just fine with it since it means his big business buddies will get more cheap labor. Meanwhile, native-born Americans can't find a McJob!
$700 - $800?!? That's overpriced even by Apple standards!
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This is not legal advice. You are not a client. I'm not even an attorney. If you need/want legal advice, contact an attorney admitted to practice in your jurisdiction. What I am saying here is probably 100% wrong and if you do anything based on it, you are a blitering idiot who deserves whatever bad shit is very likely to befall you.
DISCLAIMER */
Quoth the poster:
So class action suits don't work in reverse. A class can sue an entity, but not the other way around.
Not necessarily. Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP 23) governs class actions.
In a nutshell, the prerequisites are:
(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable,
(2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class,
(3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and
(4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.
Classic case of people being on the Internet who shouldn't be.
Steve Case, may you rot in Hell.
Quoth the poster:
When Linux get as popular as Windows, you'll also get all the bugs, all the bloatware, all the spyware, all the idiots, all the exploits and all the garbage you get with Windows. Getting Flash ported is an obvious step in that direction...
Not necessarily. See, a lot of these problems with Windows comes from its being so inherently insecure by design. Windows XP creates root accounts with no password by default! Until recently, Outlook opened attachments automatically by default, even executable ones. Windows has other problems, for example, with ports being left open by default. The list goes on.
By contrast, with Linux, if you set the nodev,noexec,nosuid flags on /home and you're not running as root, you are already orders of magnitudes more secure than with any version of Windows. And there are many, many other ways to harden Linux that Bill can only dream of for his garbage.
This is perfect for you guys on a leash out there . . .
In other words, for guys who are pussy whipped?
I thought it said world's smallest homebrew unit.
Oh well, back to my 20-quart boiling pot and carboys . . .
(sigh)
From the article:
The whole front of the car is moulded in one piece which can be removed only by a Volvo mechanic. Okay, how long before some indie mechanic figures out how to remove the one-piece shell? Keep in mind that most of these guys actually know what they're doing, unlike the dealer parts replacers^W^Wmechanics who are usually little better than Dell techs. You know the type. "BSOD? Monitor replacement!" (The former often work on commission, btw.)
"It is minimal maintenance, really, because the customers have limited time and they don't want a car that gives them a lot of hassle," said Ms Christiansen.
This isn't a car for regular people. This is for white yuppie women who have more money than brains. Every time a light comes on, the mechanic calls. "That'll be $600 please" to reset a switch and the broads will gladly charge it to their Visa Platinum which "only" charges 23% interest. This is in addition to the $700 or so monthly payment to finance the thing.
Volvo will never actually take this car into production, of course.
Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, tinfoil-hat brigade! Not a very accurate headline, but anything for sensationalism and paranoia on /.
Quoth the Reagan^Wposter:
Now, am I crooked? Or do I just think that whatever SCO's chances, some fool is going to come a long later and be willing to pay a lot more per share for this stock than I did, allowing me to sell it at a profit before the trial is over and walk away.
That's exactly what the market is betting on.
A lot of people feel that, win or lose, IBM will buy SCOX out. Either way, the stockholders get paid. That's why their stock hasn't tanked . . . yet. Now, when it becomes obvious that the game is up and SCOX will neither win nor be bought out, well . . .
Quoth the poster:
Unfortunately the worst enemy is one who has nothing to lose. SCO knows all their bases belong to IBM and if they lose (which they will) there will be nothing else left.
Excuse me, sir, but I must ask you for your geek card.
All their base are belong to IBM.
IBM to SCO: "You have no chance to survive make your time."
Of the top ten, all are self made . . .
BZZZT! WRONG! Of the Forbes 400, five of the top ten are heirs to the Walton family fortune.
Perhaps you should listen to a source other than Rush Limbaugh. Yes, it really is that bad out there and it's only going to get worse.