yes this is draconian but i don't think that 'taken into custody without warrant' means what i think the slashdot article implies it does. to me it means that these are now arrestable offences, obviously police can already arrest people without 'a warrant' otherwise no one could ever be arrested or detained on the street for any crime without a judge first being involved.
officer: i saw you hit that woman scrote: fuck you officer: right sonny, just you wait here while i get a warrant so i can make you stay here, hey come back, i haven't got the warrant yet!...
the problem here is that they shouldn't be arrestable offences not that police have the already existing power to arrest people
cryptolockered files will be distinctly different in block content, and not able to just be turned into links.
so if the 'cryptolockering' begins, the dedupe stuff detects that the originals are changing and thus makes full copies instead of links to the now encrypted files, presumably before the encrypting can take place? i don't have any experience of deduplication so perhaps this isn't how it works?
Deduplication is nice. I have a script which moves the files copied from the file server out of the shared drive and into another part. That way, if Cryptolocker stings the machine, it might nail a day's worth of files, but it won't have access past that. Plus, the additional file copies are essentially UNIX hard links, rather than taking additional space.
perhaps i'm being obtuse, but if your copies are just hard links then if the 'originals' get cryptolockered then aren't the copies likewise affected?
currently humblebundle.com/store doesn't load in my linux distro using firefox (24.1.0 esr) and for the past few weeks the weekly and bundle pages haven't worked properly either, i can see the advertised games but the javascript for selecting the payment amount doesn't work, once purchased (using firefox on windows vm) the download page won't respond to clicks to show steam keys or select bittorrent, merely scrolling to the top of the page if not already there. i emailed support, they recommend using a different browser, well konqueror doesn't work either (always used to along with firefox) and i'm not installing a browser specially for one web site
Pardon me? You, your parents and your grandparents have not fought for anyone's freedom.
If you're Generation X, then you were born in America between 1965 and 1980.
a bit late to the party on this thread but i need to say this, my siblings and i span 1967 to 1988 in birthdates, our grandfathers certainly did their thing in ww2, one was a fireman in coventry and one was a boffin, their contemporaries were certainly dying overseas in one of the few wars where despite certain questionable actions by the allies the general cause was clearly right.
We no longer have warehouses filled with people doing nothing more interesting than copying or transcribing text (and those were probably grade C jobs back in the day).
only to be replaced by warehouses full of people packing boxes under oppressive working conditions
Starting in 2011, the NSA has been tracking mobile phone users across the USA, documents provided by ex-analysis Ed Snowden show. This directly contradicts what the head of the NSA, General "Fuck you, I'm the mother fucking NSA chief BITCHES!" Alexander said last week.
I.e. whatever Fuck you, I'm the mother fucking NSA chief BITCHES! says, should be taken directly as a lie, and the reality is obviously much worse. As anon coward said, they lie and they twist the truth. Nothing they say should be trusted. -----------------------
given the continuing statements from the likes of glenn greenwald that there are even more damaging reveals to come i've been wondering why they don't release everything at once rather than risk 'revelation fatigue' (tm), however it occurs to me that snowden and pals may be trying to bait the powers that be into telling lies about 'lesser' revelations that can later be shown for what they are when fuller truth/allegations are pronounced.
how in the world are they gonna pull off functional DRM in a FOSS OS
maybe the same way they do on linux already, the os will be foss but the steam app won't be, it's possible that on steamos the 'steam app' might take the place of a desktop environment instead of being simply an app run in one as it is now, but nothing in the gpl forces an application written to run on linux to also be gpl, as long as you follow the rules
Homes, individually, don't take too much power, so powering each one of them with it's own generator (solar or otherwise) is redundant and expensive
perhaps that's true if you try to power the whole of a modern house, but i can see the advantages of every house having survival level power production (of whatever kind) for the house if the grid goes offline, perhaps even local communitys meshing their individual production together to support vital local services - all at 'barely keep it going' levels of course, but in the event of natural disaster or other traumatic event a great boon to social order and life and limb.
but then i've long thought that we (europe/us) took a wrong turn with the internet, centralising it the way we have centralised a lot of other things and then connecting that centralised internet to our centralised grid, gas supply, communications infrastructure etc. one day it will all go wrong, there doesn't need to be an enemy at the gates for that to happen, nothing is perfect forever.
When is google maps going to have this? I want to trace where my house was back then.
actually this raises an interesting question, if the landmasses are moving - which they are; then there is no actual absolute frame of reference for position on the earths surface over time, we can make informed guesses as to speed of land movement and extrapolate backwards temporally, but there is no actual 'unmoving' part of the earth (that i am aware of). the greenwich meridian is of course moving, perhaps our gps and similar satellites will provide a closer aproximation to absolute position but i don't know enough about their workings, particularly over the long run, to say
How would they know the sticks were at a 90 degree angle? Aliens remain the simplest explanation without resorting to geometric constructions(which are hard)
but how would the aliens know how to make a 90 degree angle? OMG! even the aliens have aliens, it's worse than i thought!
Game consoles need to standardize like DVD players. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo should focus on being software vendors and let JVC, APEX, Mitsubishi, etc... develop the consoles along a standardized spec
isn't that what valve are trying to get going with the steam box? istr that as well as producing their own hardware the idea is for the specs to be common across other oem produced boxes?
indeed it is, but you are not bound by it at all, you can completely ignore it if you want but then you are left with the consequences of copyright law if you do. obey copyright law and anything consistent with that is allowed. want to do something otherwise not allowed under copyright law... follow the gpl. that's the difference to TOSs, no-one says you have to agree to anything use the software, but if you do want to go beyond what the law allows by default then the conditions are already spelled out for you, break those and those conditions won't be laughed out of court.
Slashdot Mirror
wrong mod, posting to kill
yes this is draconian but i don't think that 'taken into custody without warrant' means what i think the slashdot article implies it does. to me it means that these are now arrestable offences, obviously police can already arrest people without 'a warrant' otherwise no one could ever be arrested or detained on the street for any crime without a judge first being involved.
officer: i saw you hit that woman
scrote: fuck you
officer: right sonny, just you wait here while i get a warrant so i can make you stay here,
hey come back, i haven't got the warrant yet!...
the problem here is that they shouldn't be arrestable offences not that police have the already existing power to arrest people
snake
Their preoccupation with men's asses is peculiar. I suppose it goes toward the axiom that a man talks about what he thinks about.
self-awareness not your thing then?
No i'm spartacus! and so's my wife!
They can just claim they found dark life in dark rocks. Solid evidence not required. Works for astrophysics
the obvious guaranteed way to get funding is to claim they've found signs of al qaeda!
cryptolockered files will be distinctly different in block content, and not able to just be turned into links.
so if the 'cryptolockering' begins, the dedupe stuff detects that the originals are changing and thus makes full copies instead of links to the now encrypted files, presumably before the encrypting can take place? i don't have any experience of deduplication so perhaps this isn't how it works?
snake
Deduplication is nice. I have a script which moves the files copied from the file server out of the shared drive and into another part. That way, if Cryptolocker stings the machine, it might nail a day's worth of files, but it won't have access past that. Plus, the additional file copies are essentially UNIX hard links, rather than taking additional space.
perhaps i'm being obtuse, but if your copies are just hard links then if the 'originals' get cryptolockered then aren't the copies likewise affected?
snake
this as yet unknown ancestor from asia,
they wouldn't be telephone sanitisers would they?
There are too many gaps in the historical record for him to be made up
ah, the old "god of the gaps argument";
oh, wait, hang on...
'chucks of liberty', 'fragguccino'? :)
what is this, team fortress 2?
currently humblebundle.com/store doesn't load in my linux distro using firefox (24.1.0 esr) and for the past few weeks the weekly and bundle pages haven't worked properly either, i can see the advertised games but the javascript for selecting the payment amount doesn't work, once purchased (using firefox on windows vm) the download page won't respond to clicks to show steam keys or select bittorrent, merely scrolling to the top of the page if not already there. i emailed support, they recommend using a different browser, well konqueror doesn't work either (always used to along with firefox) and i'm not installing a browser specially for one web site
snake
I was about to say... shouldn't be difficult given that it's the home of the good Count
dracula or duckula?
Pardon me? You, your parents and your grandparents have not fought for anyone's freedom.
If you're Generation X, then you were born in America between 1965 and 1980.
a bit late to the party on this thread but i need to say this, my siblings and i span 1967 to 1988 in birthdates, our grandfathers certainly did their thing in ww2, one was a fireman in coventry and one was a boffin, their contemporaries were certainly dying overseas in one of the few wars where despite certain questionable actions by the allies the general cause was clearly right.
I bet the PLA has lots of young, sexy Chinese grad students in America, seducing older, male professors,
i bet lots of older male professors wish that were true :)
We no longer have warehouses filled with people doing nothing more interesting than copying or transcribing text (and those were probably grade C jobs back in the day).
only to be replaced by warehouses full of people packing boxes under oppressive working conditions
Next week from the Guardian:
Starting in 2011, the NSA has been tracking mobile phone users across the USA, documents provided by ex-analysis Ed Snowden show. This directly contradicts what the head of the NSA, General "Fuck you, I'm the mother fucking NSA chief BITCHES!" Alexander said last week.
I.e. whatever Fuck you, I'm the mother fucking NSA chief BITCHES! says, should be taken directly as a lie, and the reality is obviously much worse. As anon coward said, they lie and they twist the truth. Nothing they say should be trusted.
-----------------------
given the continuing statements from the likes of glenn greenwald that there are even more damaging reveals to come i've been wondering why they don't release everything at once rather than risk 'revelation fatigue' (tm), however it occurs to me that snowden and pals may be trying to bait the powers that be into telling lies about 'lesser' revelations that can later be shown for what they are when fuller truth/allegations are pronounced.
how in the world are they gonna pull off functional DRM in a FOSS OS
maybe the same way they do on linux already, the os will be foss but the steam app won't be, it's possible that on steamos the 'steam app' might take the place of a desktop environment instead of being simply an app run in one as it is now, but nothing in the gpl forces an application written to run on linux to also be gpl, as long as you follow the rules
Homes, individually, don't take too much power, so powering each one of them with it's own generator (solar or otherwise) is redundant and expensive
perhaps that's true if you try to power the whole of a modern house, but i can see the advantages of every house having survival level power production (of whatever kind) for the house if the grid goes offline, perhaps even local communitys meshing their individual production together to support vital local services - all at 'barely keep it going' levels of course, but in the event of natural disaster or other traumatic event a great boon to social order and life and limb.
but then i've long thought that we (europe/us) took a wrong turn with the internet, centralising it the way we have centralised a lot of other things and then connecting that centralised internet to our centralised grid, gas supply, communications infrastructure etc. one day it will all go wrong, there doesn't need to be an enemy at the gates for that to happen, nothing is perfect forever.
MPs rut in early winter. Curious species, beautiful plumage.
if only they were all nailed to a perch as well
perhaps we could celebrate this by crowdfunding a giant statue of Ballmer flinging a chair!
five miles high with the chair held up by art?
When is google maps going to have this? I want to trace where my house was back then.
actually this raises an interesting question, if the landmasses are moving - which they are; then there is no actual absolute frame of reference for position on the earths surface over time, we can make informed guesses as to speed of land movement and extrapolate backwards temporally, but there is no actual 'unmoving' part of the earth (that i am aware of). the greenwich meridian is of course moving, perhaps our gps and similar satellites will provide a closer aproximation to absolute position but i don't know enough about their workings, particularly over the long run, to say
snake
How would they know the sticks were at a 90 degree angle? Aliens remain the simplest explanation without resorting to geometric constructions(which are hard)
but how would the aliens know how to make a 90 degree angle? OMG! even the aliens have aliens, it's worse than i thought!
Which is why the belief that the universe started with a big bang, for example, is faith-based.
only in the same sense that the belief that the universe existed before last tuesday is faith based :)
snake
Game consoles need to standardize like DVD players. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo should focus on being software vendors and let JVC, APEX, Mitsubishi, etc... develop the consoles along a standardized spec
isn't that what valve are trying to get going with the steam box? istr that as well as producing their own hardware the idea is for the specs to be common across other oem produced boxes?
snake
Legally, their TOS is a masterpiece.
indeed it is, but you are not bound by it at all, you can completely ignore it if you want but then you are left with the consequences of copyright law if you do. obey copyright law and anything consistent with that is allowed. want to do something otherwise not allowed under copyright law... follow the gpl. that's the difference to TOSs, no-one says you have to agree to anything use the software, but if you do want to go beyond what the law allows by default then the conditions are already spelled out for you, break those and those conditions won't be laughed out of court.
snake