How is it possible that I get more jail time for cracking into and defacing a web page than I'd get for shooting someone?
For this proposed law, the maximum jail time is 5 years. I'm pretty sure the maximum penalty for murder is a bit longer than that.
Instead of creating crazy fines for spammers (although I want to see them pay just like everyone else) and model the punishments similarly to the do-no-call lists?
The fine for violating the do-not-call registry is $11,000 per call. Spamming a million emails, that adds up pretty quick.
...start lobbying officials in the other 49 states to ban free WiFi as well. According to the article, Pennsylvania has already fallen victim to such a law...
No problem with that, from our viewpoint. The network, however, only gets one sale from you in relation to that show/episode. They can't sell you to the advertisers again and again.
We are not the consumer. We are the product. The advertisers are the consumers.
The main/only reason a network wants a successful show is so they can sell the limited and fixed ad time at a higher price. And they can sell it over, and over, and over again. Once you have 'bought' last weeks episode of "24" and have it in your l=hot little hands, that's it. The network/local affiliate will never make another dime from your viewership. Subscription-based at its finest. Except we are not the subscribers.
The writers and actors, of course, want higher viewership for its own sake. But the money side of things is not yours to control, but rather the advertisers and networks.
One day, if the media companies are smart, they'll start distributing shows with commercials intact
They can't. 1/2 of the commercials are local, and almost all of them are time sensitive. The release of a new car model, or cellphone promotion doesn't play well after the promotion is over.
I know this is/., where not bothering to read before commenting is a badge of honor, but please...
The person whose conviction was overturned was the 'accomplice', Jessica DeGroot. The judge upheld the conviction of her brother, Jeremy Jaynes, who is said to have led the operation. He will indeed be remaining a guest of the state for the next few years.
With music, while it is much harder to control, (i.e. the files are smaller), this is where I see the MPAA really cracking down on the useage. I would expect to see, even if this fails, more attempts by the MPAA to harass users and ISP's in order to get the trading of music to stop.
The Motion Picture Association of America has little to do with the distribution of music. The other evil **AA, though...
It's along the lines of when someone 'steals' a db full of personal data from the bank. The bank still has the original copy, so nothing has been 'stolen', right?
Except, as has been documented before, the ID requirement does absolutely nothing to increase security. All 19 hijackers on Sept. 11 would have been able to freely board, as they would have had the necessary documents and likely would have not necessarily been on any watchlist.
You're looking at the wrong problem. The real problem was lack of information sharing between the various agencies. At least a couple of them were wanted by ther INS for overstaying their student visas. An ID check by the airline, along with better cooperation between the various agencies, might have caught that.
I'm not saying this ID check requirement by the airline is right or wrong, but your oft repeated statement looks at the situation from the wrong angle.
An ID check may not necessarily prevent such an attack. But no ID check at all leaves that very tempting hole wide open.
what possible reason can they have for such opposition; or whether, what reason that does not mark them as irredeemably evil?
One reason might be that this moves some of the responsibility and jurisdiction for elections from the States to the Federal. Whether that is a GoodThing or not is open for debate.
The pilot is secondary. The aircraft, and its technology, is the key thing. However, Fossett has proven, at least to Rutan, that he is a capable pilot, able to navigate all the way around the world (mostly), by himself. The people who have done that comprises a very short list.
I will happily PayPal $1 per episode to download HDTV LOL XVID....
You are waaaaay out on the bleeding edge.
SciFi shows + HDTV resolution + downloading TV shows/movies + paying w/ PayPal + getting that video to your HDTV to enjoy the HD part = 0.0001% of the population.
They're not ready for you yet. And that 0.0001% is being generous.
These records were stolen during transfer on a *commercial airliner*. Why the hell would you put something that important on something you have no control over?
Sure, the senators are outraged that this happened. But they should be even more outraged that BoA chose to use a method so cheap to transfer critical data.
Quite a lot of 'critical data' and other items is moved on commercial airlines every day. Backup data such as this, organ transplants, diplomatic pouches, etc.
The airline is merely a subcontrator of BoA, charged with moving the stuff from A to B. An organization cannot handle everything inhouse. Quite a lot of functions are subcontracted out. The only more secure way would be for BoA to own and operate their own fleet of transport aircraft, with their own baggage handlers, and the data moved from the data center to the airport by their own security personnel, in their own armored trucks.
Same for a hospital. If they have to send your records somewhere, should the have to do it on their own aircraft?
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In the US, probably. The TOS for RoadRunner, for instance, specifically says that any usage of your connection is your responsibility.
For this proposed law, the maximum jail time is 5 years. I'm pretty sure the maximum penalty for murder is a bit longer than that.
Instead of creating crazy fines for spammers (although I want to see them pay just like everyone else) and model the punishments similarly to the do-no-call lists?
The fine for violating the do-not-call registry is $11,000 per call. Spamming a million emails, that adds up pretty quick.
The kind that realizes that free services provided by the government are not actually 'free'.
So that would be the other 48?
No problem with that, from our viewpoint. The network, however, only gets one sale from you in relation to that show/episode. They can't sell you to the advertisers again and again.
The main/only reason a network wants a successful show is so they can sell the limited and fixed ad time at a higher price. And they can sell it over, and over, and over again. Once you have 'bought' last weeks episode of "24" and have it in your l=hot little hands, that's it. The network/local affiliate will never make another dime from your viewership. Subscription-based at its finest. Except we are not the subscribers.
The writers and actors, of course, want higher viewership for its own sake. But the money side of things is not yours to control, but rather the advertisers and networks.
They can't. 1/2 of the commercials are local, and almost all of them are time sensitive. The release of a new car model, or cellphone promotion doesn't play well after the promotion is over.
The person whose conviction was overturned was the 'accomplice', Jessica DeGroot. The judge upheld the conviction of her brother, Jeremy Jaynes, who is said to have led the operation. He will indeed be remaining a guest of the state for the next few years.
Sounds (as much as this layman can determine) quite a lot like the process used in Michael Crichton's novel Timeline.
You forgot to insert the word "solo".
The Motion Picture Association of America has little to do with the distribution of music. The other evil **AA, though...
"THIS PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN NUTS"
ummm...WTF is supposed to be in there?
It's along the lines of when someone 'steals' a db full of personal data from the bank. The bank still has the original copy, so nothing has been 'stolen', right?
Old aviation maxim:
It's better to lose an engine rather than the engine.
You're looking at the wrong problem. The real problem was lack of information sharing between the various agencies. At least a couple of them were wanted by ther INS for overstaying their student visas. An ID check by the airline, along with better cooperation between the various agencies, might have caught that.
I'm not saying this ID check requirement by the airline is right or wrong, but your oft repeated statement looks at the situation from the wrong angle.
An ID check may not necessarily prevent such an attack. But no ID check at all leaves that very tempting hole wide open.
One reason might be that this moves some of the responsibility and jurisdiction for elections from the States to the Federal.
Whether that is a GoodThing or not is open for debate.
The many NASA Mercury flights, and the first set of Russian flights.
The pilot is secondary. The aircraft, and its technology, is the key thing. However, Fossett has proven, at least to Rutan, that he is a capable pilot, able to navigate all the way around the world (mostly), by himself. The people who have done that comprises a very short list.
The mission: the first solo, nonstop circumnavigation of the globe, in an aircraft, without refueling.
Satisfied?
The same can't be said for 1 iTunes song vs 1 TV episode.
You are waaaaay out on the bleeding edge.
SciFi shows + HDTV resolution + downloading TV shows/movies + paying w/ PayPal + getting that video to your HDTV to enjoy the HD part = 0.0001% of the population.
They're not ready for you yet. And that 0.0001% is being generous.
You forgot blameBush().
This is /. Anytime anything bad happens, MS has to be implicated somehow. I believe there is a function for that in SlashCode.
Sure, the senators are outraged that this happened. But they should be even more outraged that BoA chose to use a method so cheap to transfer critical data.
Quite a lot of 'critical data' and other items is moved on commercial airlines every day. Backup data such as this, organ transplants, diplomatic pouches, etc.
The airline is merely a subcontrator of BoA, charged with moving the stuff from A to B. An organization cannot handle everything inhouse. Quite a lot of functions are subcontracted out. The only more secure way would be for BoA to own and operate their own fleet of transport aircraft, with their own baggage handlers, and the data moved from the data center to the airport by their own security personnel, in their own armored trucks.
Same for a hospital. If they have to send your records somewhere, should the have to do it on their own aircraft?
As this also includes some senators records, maybe now something will be done about this type of thing.