The effect of another discussion about grammar errors on/. stories is the same as a loud vuvuzella to the person who comes here only for raw information.
The second-in-command of wikileaks resigned because he felt it was not fair to push that much on US. From what I know he is doing a concurrent organization. I think it is a good thing : wikileaks has incredible materials to question some US policies. Let's be fair : they probably are good but they have been very lucky to find such good sources. They couldn't suddenly say "ok, now let's have all the communications of Russia concerning Chechnya". So they criticize what they have material for criticizing. The fact that there are other organizations trying to get informations on other countries is a good thing.
BTW, I don't think that anyone is judging US harsher than necessary. It is a country that set some rules about how war has to be made. This is commendable. It is only a good thing that this now comes with checks about how war is effectively done.
The law is bad, it is brokent by more than half of the young people in the country. They challenged it. It is a political action.
The parallel may seem out of proportion, but remember that Rosa Park broke the law. Disregarding a bad law is a form of protest, and protest is a pillar of democracy.
So I say, ask for money. Go to the company that owns the patent, say that you clearly have a case as you are mentioned in the patent itself, so prior art is recognized. Threaten slightly, ask for a pay. Depending on your inclinations you may want to give this money to the EFF or keep it for yourself.
Alternatively, you can contact the EFF and ask them if they have any idea on how to use this situation in the battle against software patents. You clearly have the legal high grounds on this one and the EFF has the muscle to make a case out of it. Maybe it can add to the stockpile of arguments they prepare in the case patent war is declared on OSS.
After one year of angry activism I indeed settled for this position : let them mess with things they don't understand and let's enjoy the freedom that is still left.
I also think that his idea is that there should be coherent and working releases everyday. You could talk about Ubuntu 2013.08.19 and download this precise release. You cannot do that today.
You can be robbed. It is what identity theft is all about.
And a lot of the tax evasion today is "legal" because they use difference of legislation between countries and we still don't have a global IRS.
That could be good, but then you will have to force banks to provide means of payement and means of receiving money that are free of charge. Right now, the fee they impose to people who have a terminal for electronic card use is downright racket.
So you get a free pass with the law because you're a celebrity?
No, but you get bonus doubt when you pissed off the Pentagon and are depicted as a "dangerous individual" by an organization that has used and still uses a vast network of agents and has billions of funds (trillions ?) and has an exclusive de fact right to do things that would be illegal for anyone else to do (like killing people it doesn't like, sorry, "people that threathen US interest")
Justice is blind, sure, but don't forget that blind justice is also just a theory that we are trying to implement on imperfect human societies and that some people are actively trying to gain from the glitches of its implementations.
If justice is blind, it will hear Donald Rumsfeld in an international court of law in the same time as Assange is judged in Sweden. In the meantime, I am more worried about the suspected war criminal being not brought in front of a tribunal than about a borderline rapist (none of the victims actually charged him but in Sweden, a rape accusation automatically launches a legal procedure) that happens to be a very needed journalist in the present world.
We are not talking about copyrighted material but about DNS information : how can it be illegal to say what IP is linked to what URL. I am not attacking the spirit of the law but the implementation they propose. They propose to censor some DNS records from US root DNS servers. But If you choose to use an alternate "full" DNS located in Russia or Switzerland, how can they forbid you to do that ? How can they forbid you to copy that information and be a mirror of the DNS yourself ?
They are competent enough to realize that their success relies on making migration from their service hard and on people not understanding what it means. They are actively trying to mantain these two factors. It is enough competence to last a few more years.
I don't understand, why couldn't they just log all the data that went through ? Unencrypted passwords, http authentications, emails sent... It would have the potential to bring a lot of valuable informations. If I was the Chinese CIA, I would have only one goal : make it happen again.
Don't make me laugh. It does take a budget to launch such an attack, but a small one, probably in the 500k - 1M range (2 zero day to buy and one stolen certificate + a few days of development). There are thousands of organizations with that much resources, and Iran isn't loved by many people.
It was a breach because they put some DRM that was easy to break (not things like encrypted files that had to be decoded by a downloaded key each time you wanted to play a file.) and they put a massive catalog under this scheme, forcing things a bit. They didn't care much about people cracking their DRMs, in fact their success coexisting with such cracks was what allowed them to go DRM-free eight years later.
It was thanks to iPods preponderance that this worked. Suggesting that Android devices could have a similar effect like the GGP did is not that far fetched.
But iTunes appeared 9 years ago. At the time we celebrated it like a first breach on the DRM dogma citadel. Nine fucking years. In IT technology that is supposed to be an eternity. Can't we go to the next step now ?
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The effect of another discussion about grammar errors on /. stories is the same as a loud vuvuzella to the person who comes here only for raw information.
The second-in-command of wikileaks resigned because he felt it was not fair to push that much on US. From what I know he is doing a concurrent organization. I think it is a good thing : wikileaks has incredible materials to question some US policies. Let's be fair : they probably are good but they have been very lucky to find such good sources. They couldn't suddenly say "ok, now let's have all the communications of Russia concerning Chechnya". So they criticize what they have material for criticizing. The fact that there are other organizations trying to get informations on other countries is a good thing.
BTW, I don't think that anyone is judging US harsher than necessary. It is a country that set some rules about how war has to be made. This is commendable. It is only a good thing that this now comes with checks about how war is effectively done.
Heh, or just cover your ass : The Pirate Bay still operates, but under the parliamentary immunity granted by the pirate party's elected repreentatives.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-to-run-tpb-from-parliament-010702/
The law is bad, it is brokent by more than half of the young people in the country. They challenged it. It is a political action.
The parallel may seem out of proportion, but remember that Rosa Park broke the law. Disregarding a bad law is a form of protest, and protest is a pillar of democracy.
He also could be French. We go on strikes and riots for less than that here...
...if this is confirmed and continues to happen frequently, I don't think it will be long before we see alternative DNS services appearing.
The man should be punished, but the official should also be punished accordingly and steps taken to prevent that from happening again.
So I say, ask for money. Go to the company that owns the patent, say that you clearly have a case as you are mentioned in the patent itself, so prior art is recognized. Threaten slightly, ask for a pay. Depending on your inclinations you may want to give this money to the EFF or keep it for yourself. Alternatively, you can contact the EFF and ask them if they have any idea on how to use this situation in the battle against software patents. You clearly have the legal high grounds on this one and the EFF has the muscle to make a case out of it. Maybe it can add to the stockpile of arguments they prepare in the case patent war is declared on OSS.
Would the second one be legal for a journalist ?
After one year of angry activism I indeed settled for this position : let them mess with things they don't understand and let's enjoy the freedom that is still left.
If you had put it in that commodity : http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL
You would have had an interesting return too.
I also think that his idea is that there should be coherent and working releases everyday. You could talk about Ubuntu 2013.08.19 and download this precise release. You cannot do that today.
"Stolen"...
When OSS uses patented technology that is "patents are evil !"
When China uses patented technology that is "China is evil !"
I mean... China IS evil, for a lot of reason. The fact that they ignore IP laws is certainly not one of them.
You can be robbed. It is what identity theft is all about.
And a lot of the tax evasion today is "legal" because they use difference of legislation between countries and we still don't have a global IRS.
That could be good, but then you will have to force banks to provide means of payement and means of receiving money that are free of charge. Right now, the fee they impose to people who have a terminal for electronic card use is downright racket.
Heh. It's about preparing you for real life.
So you get a free pass with the law because you're a celebrity?
No, but you get bonus doubt when you pissed off the Pentagon and are depicted as a "dangerous individual" by an organization that has used and still uses a vast network of agents and has billions of funds (trillions ?) and has an exclusive de fact right to do things that would be illegal for anyone else to do (like killing people it doesn't like, sorry, "people that threathen US interest")
Justice is blind, sure, but don't forget that blind justice is also just a theory that we are trying to implement on imperfect human societies and that some people are actively trying to gain from the glitches of its implementations.
If justice is blind, it will hear Donald Rumsfeld in an international court of law in the same time as Assange is judged in Sweden. In the meantime, I am more worried about the suspected war criminal being not brought in front of a tribunal than about a borderline rapist (none of the victims actually charged him but in Sweden, a rape accusation automatically launches a legal procedure) that happens to be a very needed journalist in the present world.
We are not talking about copyrighted material but about DNS information : how can it be illegal to say what IP is linked to what URL. I am not attacking the spirit of the law but the implementation they propose. They propose to censor some DNS records from US root DNS servers. But If you choose to use an alternate "full" DNS located in Russia or Switzerland, how can they forbid you to do that ? How can they forbid you to copy that information and be a mirror of the DNS yourself ?
They are competent enough to realize that their success relies on making migration from their service hard and on people not understanding what it means. They are actively trying to mantain these two factors. It is enough competence to last a few more years.
I'm hoping the EU will be wise enough to reject it, too. They have been very angry about the secret negociations.
And do they forbid to provide alternative DNS servers ? How is the information provided not covered by first amendment ?
I don't understand, why couldn't they just log all the data that went through ? Unencrypted passwords, http authentications, emails sent... It would have the potential to bring a lot of valuable informations. If I was the Chinese CIA, I would have only one goal : make it happen again.
Don't make me laugh. It does take a budget to launch such an attack, but a small one, probably in the 500k - 1M range (2 zero day to buy and one stolen certificate + a few days of development). There are thousands of organizations with that much resources, and Iran isn't loved by many people.
Well, be happy, because of this kind of machines, waitress will focus more on being pleasant and talking and less on serving.
It was a breach because they put some DRM that was easy to break (not things like encrypted files that had to be decoded by a downloaded key each time you wanted to play a file.) and they put a massive catalog under this scheme, forcing things a bit. They didn't care much about people cracking their DRMs, in fact their success coexisting with such cracks was what allowed them to go DRM-free eight years later.
It was thanks to iPods preponderance that this worked. Suggesting that Android devices could have a similar effect like the GGP did is not that far fetched.
But iTunes appeared 9 years ago. At the time we celebrated it like a first breach on the DRM dogma citadel. Nine fucking years. In IT technology that is supposed to be an eternity. Can't we go to the next step now ?