So trying to find out whether my network is secure is "plausible" but trying to find out whether too much information about me is floating around the internet and that I want to prepare for the fallout is not?
Yes. A jury could be led to conclude that the first is much more plausible than the second.
I'd use it to find out what someone could find out about me.
Another question, what's your stance towards nmap? It wouldn't be hard to convince a jury that the only reason to own a network sniffing software is to sniff someone else's network.
I think a competent lawyer could convince a jury that sniffing your own network is a believable use of nmap but stalking yourself is not a believable use of a stalking app.
I think the reasoning in this story is stupid. Drivers could get killed many times more when they're driving themself, but at least it's their own fault (or some drunk driver). But I sure as hell don't want to be the one guy in the statistics whos dieing is okay just because the system usually works. At least let me cause my own death, or be in control of avoiding getting hit by a drunk driver so it's at least my own fault!
Reasoning is similar to flying vs. driving. It is a lot more probable that you will die driving, but few people have panic attacks on the highway.
The product hasn't been banned. The wording of an advertisement has. The ASA ruling specifically addressed your point, however concluded that "the overall impression of the ad was such that it encouraged consumers and businesses to copy CDs, vinyl and cassettes" (my emphasis).
Computers aren't advertised to do the things you mention.
RIAA Lawyer: Your Majesty, you are in violation of the law. I shall name you in a lawsuit forthwith. Her Majesty: (Motions to large man wearing a hood and holding a huge broadaxe.) Kneel, good Solicitor, and you shall receive Her Majesty's response.
We're punishing the tool maker for its misuse again? Someone should warn Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.
I can own a gun to defend myself. I might never need to use it. It wouldn't be hard to convince a jury that the only reason to own stalking software was to stalk someone.
Reminds me of when I saw Gate's book back in the mid-90's with a sticker on the cover that read: Now Updated to Include the Internet, or some such wording. I thought maybe they had mistakenly put out a printing from 1986, but no - it was the current one.
Microsoft's crystal ball is a lot like other people's rearview mirror.
"Yes, we know laptops like the iBook are the wave of the future and that PCs and desktops are dead. But some of us see laptops as desktops with more fragile components and a few hundred bucks tacked onto the price."
I have never seen any land on nevada that can be used for farming. Remember for farming you need (1) cheap and plentiful water and (2) high quality soil.
There's more to Nevada than Las Vegas. The entire upper half of the state leading into the Sierras are farms and ranches.
Yes, the leading industry in the rest of Nevada is agriculture, but that is dependent on water - which is in short supply. The soil in a lot of places is alkaline but can be very productive given water. It all goes back to the water.
And when you talk about water in rural Nevada, you talk about the fear that your irrigation water is in the future going to end up in Vegas or Reno to fill pools and mix casino drinks. In Nevada, many water sources are under federal regional compacts, but otherwise, the State Engineer owns all the water in the state. The counties do not have control over their own water.
At work I use copernic Desktop Search. Relatively inexpensive and indexes network drives. It's like a personal miniGoogle. Good for searching the text associated with your multimedia files.
Yes, because I always tell my CEO how our products are going to look and work.
Actually, at every successful company I have ever worked at, this IS how things go. A successful CEO does not dictate things that are outside their expertise.
So at every company you have ever worked at, you personally told the CEO how things were going to be?
From what I've heard, being a "premium" Apple engineer is not so fun... You hear a lot of things like, "The outer metal band HAS to be the antenna, I don't care what the problem is, just make it work!"
Yes, because I always tell my CEO how our products are going to look and work.
Not really, the argument was that it would make filtering slightly simpler in the future by blocking the entire TLD (as well as existing.com porn sites). I don't think conservatives would have a problem with that.
If you think they are going to stop there, you haven't been paying attention.
While I agree that no matter HOW you look at it, it's rubbish, I think it's slightly less than,complete rubbish since Goldblum's character was somehow able to decode their "signal" before they attacked (using whatever mysterious interface he had plugged into his Mac, even if invisible).
I thought he just found chatter/patterned static in the satellite television signal. He didn't understand it, but he could see that the pattern was decreasing somehow over time. He extrapolated to zero and assumed that at zero something bad was going to happen. His laptop would not have needed to be anything but a timer after that.
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If this was government work you'd know without a shadow of a doubt that they're laundering political kickbacks through IT projects
You mean they're overbilling and using the overage to fund black ops projects like unmanned shuttles.
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?"
So trying to find out whether my network is secure is "plausible" but trying to find out whether too much information about me is floating around the internet and that I want to prepare for the fallout is not?
Yes. A jury could be led to conclude that the first is much more plausible than the second.
I'd use it to find out what someone could find out about me.
Another question, what's your stance towards nmap? It wouldn't be hard to convince a jury that the only reason to own a network sniffing software is to sniff someone else's network.
I think a competent lawyer could convince a jury that sniffing your own network is a believable use of nmap but stalking yourself is not a believable use of a stalking app.
I think the reasoning in this story is stupid. Drivers could get killed many times more when they're driving themself, but at least it's their own fault (or some drunk driver). But I sure as hell don't want to be the one guy in the statistics whos dieing is okay just because the system usually works. At least let me cause my own death, or be in control of avoiding getting hit by a drunk driver so it's at least my own fault!
Reasoning is similar to flying vs. driving. It is a lot more probable that you will die driving, but few people have panic attacks on the highway.
The product hasn't been banned. The wording of an advertisement has. The ASA ruling specifically addressed your point, however concluded that "the overall impression of the ad was such that it encouraged consumers and businesses to copy CDs, vinyl and cassettes" (my emphasis).
Computers aren't advertised to do the things you mention.
"Rip. Mix. Burn. " ???
Your analogy is terrible. Using a car is not illegal; using this device at all in the UK, apparently, is.
The device was as legal as a car until the ASA said it wasn't.
Isn't the Queen above the law technically?
RIAA Lawyer: Your Majesty, you are in violation of the law. I shall name you in a lawsuit forthwith.
Her Majesty: (Motions to large man wearing a hood and holding a huge broadaxe.) Kneel, good Solicitor, and you shall receive Her Majesty's response.
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We're punishing the tool maker for its misuse again? Someone should warn Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.
I can own a gun to defend myself. I might never need to use it.
It wouldn't be hard to convince a jury that the only reason to own stalking software was to stalk someone.
Bing News recently added a real-time twitter update. It's a great way to get the best of both worlds on one conveninent page.
You mean Bing, the search engine whose ads brag that using it doesn't give you all the information you could otherwise get?
I hope this guy has a good lawyer, because he's going to be named in more than one lawsuit by the stalked.
Reminds me of when I saw Gate's book back in the mid-90's with a sticker on the cover that read: Now Updated to Include the Internet, or some such wording. I thought maybe they had mistakenly put out a printing from 1986, but no - it was the current one.
Microsoft's crystal ball is a lot like other people's rearview mirror.
"Yes, we know laptops like the iBook are the wave of the future and that PCs and desktops are dead. But some of us see laptops as desktops with more fragile components and a few hundred bucks tacked onto the price."
I edit my own work.
(There was additional unnecessary elaboration in this comment, but I edited it out.)
I poofread my own materail.
Okay, I have been wondering this for a while, and /. might just be the best place to ask this and get intelligent answers.
Does Stephen King call his penis "The King"?
Yes, and he paints a clown face on the end.
I have never seen any land on nevada that can be used for farming. Remember for farming you need (1) cheap and plentiful water and (2) high quality soil.
There's more to Nevada than Las Vegas. The entire upper half of the state leading into the Sierras are farms and ranches.
Yes, the leading industry in the rest of Nevada is agriculture, but that is dependent on water - which is in short supply. The soil in a lot of places is alkaline but can be very productive given water. It all goes back to the water.
And when you talk about water in rural Nevada, you talk about the fear that your irrigation water is in the future going to end up in Vegas or Reno to fill pools and mix casino drinks. In Nevada, many water sources are under federal regional compacts, but otherwise, the State Engineer owns all the water in the state. The counties do not have control over their own water.
At work I use copernic Desktop Search. Relatively inexpensive and indexes network drives. It's like a personal miniGoogle. Good for searching the text associated with your multimedia files.
Yes, because I always tell my CEO how our products are going to look and work.
Actually, at every successful company I have ever worked at, this IS how things go. A successful CEO does not dictate things that are outside their expertise.
So at every company you have ever worked at, you personally told the CEO how things were going to be?
I prefer hyronalin myself. Iodine is such an old school treatment...
Yeah, whoosh and all - but Iodine is not a treatment, its prophylactic.
You want iodide tablets, not iodine.
From what I've heard, being a "premium" Apple engineer is not so fun... You hear a lot of things like, "The outer metal band HAS to be the antenna, I don't care what the problem is, just make it work!"
Yes, because I always tell my CEO how our products are going to look and work.
Not really, the argument was that it would make filtering slightly simpler in the future by blocking the entire TLD (as well as existing .com porn sites). I don't think conservatives would have a problem with that.
If you think they are going to stop there, you haven't been paying attention.
Why is copyright infringement an issue of homeland security?
Man: Perhaps Mr. Reed will tell us what this war is all about?
John Reed: (Rises.) Profits. (Sits down.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
A blind man driving, looks like the driving quality around MIT.
I was told there would be no Asian jokes.
Independence Day... light years away
While I agree that no matter HOW you look at it, it's rubbish, I think it's slightly less than ,complete rubbish since Goldblum's character was somehow able to decode their "signal" before they attacked (using whatever mysterious interface he had plugged into his Mac, even if invisible).
I thought he just found chatter/patterned static in the satellite television signal. He didn't understand it, but he could see that the pattern was decreasing somehow over time. He extrapolated to zero and assumed that at zero something bad was going to happen. His laptop would not have needed to be anything but a timer after that.