I see laws as formalized morals, personally. But I don't see the issue here; If someone is doing something Evil, with a very precise and limited definition of Evil (like, for instance, actually causing physical damage to someone against their will, with the expectation that it will continue to happen in the future), it would be wrong, IMO, to not use whatever tools are at hand to stop it, regardless of legality. Besides, I didn't say the hypothetical person wasn't breaking any laws; I was indicating that there was no usable evidence that would allow them to be arrested for the greater crime.
If that is not what I managed to convey, I apologize.
I'm not arguing. well, except a little on point 1. Sometimes, for whatever reason, evidence isn't admissible in court. If you know a person is doing evil, it would be moral to use whatever you CAN use to put them away. Note, I said Evil, not breaking the law.
I'm not saying that there is a backdoor into AES-256, but I AM saying I wouldn't trust the security of any information on a system that has a TPM chip. And, no, I don't have any inside information. It just seems obvious to me that TPM is a privacy and anonymity nightmare.
I have some experience on this from the law enforcement side of things. I can see a few possibilities: 1) They know the guy did something, but they can't back it up with evidence; they make a deal with the DA to bust him for what they CAN find evidence for. 2) A lot of departments & agencies have dedicated child porn people; they have a soft quota that they have to meet to justify their budget. They might not have to bust 4 people a month, but if they don't bust close to 48 a year, they are going to lose funding. 3) He pissed someone off. The DA may be a copyright vigilante, and the guy had tons of copyrighted stuff he had download. The image was the only thing they could use in a criminal prosecution. Or someone just didn't like him.
It's just sad that GDW isn't still in business (I originally thought TFA was about GDW, which sort of freaked me out); Surely GDW could take any argument GW is using to destroy them in court.
It's safe for microsoft to give kudos to opera, because their is almost no chance that an IE user will switch to opera; disaffected IE users already switched to Firefox. I think Opera gets the most of it's users from Diehard netscape fans and people who switched from macs. Since TFA has essentially no details about how they did their study, I will continue to use Seamonkey and firefox, and continue to worry about which of my plugins is trying to kill me.
Infoseek was better. I may be remembering things through a rose colored monitor, but I remember them being really close to google, when they started out at least, when it came to accuracy. Too bad Disney destroyed the search code, FWIH. But AltaVista was always better at finding the truly obscure stuff.
I'm also pretty surprised by how Palm is handling this; one of the strengths of the platform (well, up until they did away with garnet, at least, I don't have a pre, the chick on the commercial is just too creepy) is that it has always been so easy to develop for; a quick google found a 3rd party application for Garnet that allows you to use a remotely controlled PC to act as a go-between for iTunes, for instance.
So that's another thing I can do besides watch TV, have a universal remote, watch or listen to any media format on the planet, emulate any hand-held well except for the PSP, hack WEP protected WiFi, record conversations on nearby peoples bluetooth headsets, really damned near anything you can conceive of. Except, of course, run a decent Linux implementation except on a Pre.
I beg to disagree. I've lived pretty much everywhere, except the Northeast, but I have driven there. In my completely non-humble opinion, 2 places in the United States tie for Most Insane Drivers. The 1st is St. Louis, Missouri; I grew up relatively close to it, and spent a lot of my formative driving years there. It wasn't until I moved away that I realized that in most places Bumper-to-Bumper traffic was supposed to exist at speeds UNDER 70mph. Atlanta, GA ties it. If you've driven there, there is no point in going into details; I don't want to cause anyone to have a PTSD attack. Most other places, like the Mass turnpike, LA freeway system, they are just annoying.
Sorry, the only comment that comes to mind is "you are stoned on batshit". I don't mean that in a harsh or mean way, it's just what comes to mind. I had a computer store when Warp & 95 came out. On identical 486-40's, I had Warp and 95 running; Warp would run ANY Dos or 16-bit program easily, obviously faster than '95. There was no real comparison, it did EVERYTHING better. I've never forgiven IBM for screwing that up so badly.
1: You are the only person, of the several who replied that stated this. 2: Google "Office 2007 sucks". 3: You are the 3rd person I've ever encountered who likes office 2007; the first person had never used any other version, so didn't know that it could be better; they had an excuse. The 2nd just likes whatever is newest, just because it's newest. He did have some problems loving Vista, but luckily Windows 7 came out soon enough that he didn't have to suffer with it for long. 4: Seriously? you like the ribbon?
Openoffice HAS been around for a while. But seriously, I just simply do not believe that aspect of the data; Office 2007 sucks balls, and the vast majority of business installations I've seen have been Office 2003 or Office 2000. It sort of kills the validity of the whole thing to me, even if the Vista adoption numbers look right.
1st off, I can't duplicate it for Win2k. I'm using Windows 2000 Advanced Server as my testing machine, but that really shouldn't be an issue. 2nd off, the release says the worst possible thing that can happen to Win2k is a DoS; the intense hatred microsoft has for people still using Win2k makes me think that they are possible telling an untruth. 3rd off, I'd be sort of suspicious when the same thing applies to Win2k3 also; they aren't making money from windows 2003 these days, only the operating systems that ARE drastically affected by the problem. Regardless, with either Win2k or Win2k3, set it up right and you don't have to worry about it. TCP/IP filtering for the win. Tiny personal Firewall v2.x doesn't hurt.
There is actually some interesting insight into this debate at the University of Kentucky Library in Murray, KY (of all places). I'm not going to go in to details, as I've been labeled a crank a few times to many lately, but if you have access check out the Stubblefield papers in reference to Tesla, ignore the respective wiki article, and form your own opinions.
I see one good thing about this; they positively could not have poisoned Freenet, (unless they are talking Freenet 0.7, maybe) but every additional Freenet 0.5 user makes the network faster and more anonymous; by trying to screw with it, they made it a little better.
That IS pretty big news. Does anyone here have any inside details? While SF has made great use of Tunneling Diodes, there are some genuinely freaky potential applications of this; the process outlined ITFA makes me think that they might be able to produce very strongly matching tunneling diodes....and that is just scary (in a mainly good way).
There is NO good reason to use Vista, unless you have a tablet PC. I still use Windows 2000 on my Surfing/Gaming system; so far, I've only had to use my dual boot to XP for 2 games, everything else works perfect.
Really want to be safe, and have all the bells and whistles? Windows Server 2008. It Rocks.
I have some insight on this. I ran a Computer store from '92 to '95. I started doing a "buy, sell or trade" thing on computer games in 94, I immediately noticed a big jump in new game sales, and the reason was told to me by hundreds of customers, being able to sell or trade the game in when they were done was a gigantic incentive to buy the games in the first place. I also tried renting them out, BTW; that helped sales a little, but only because every 3rd or 4th customer ended up buying the game through late fees. Up until Microsoft's attempt to kill or seriously injure the PC gaming industry came out, the "games for windows" program, I would have said that PC game reselling was a 100% good thing for the gaming industry; I imagine it would be impossible with the state of EULA's to do it legally, these days. Blatant Plug: www.gotthefire.net/dnn. Go. Be Round.
Disclaimer: I've been mainly retired since 2004. I love the "Paper Raj" comment. Gods, I hate process Nazi's. Has anything innovative EVER been done with full process control?
Scary. Sort of off the subject, but does anyone know of a database of surveillance cameras? I've found one in New York, and one in Chicago, but that is WAY too far to lug a soon-to-be-burning tire.
Not necessarily. Mediasentry could have gotten it wrong. It could have been a Trojan on her machine (seen this several times). It could have been a ex-boyfriend. It could have been the kid next door, even though there is no Wireless involved. It could have been bundled in with another download. It could have been someone relatively skilled who was screwing with her. If this trial was closer, I would offer to be an expert witness.
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I see laws as formalized morals, personally.
But I don't see the issue here; If someone is doing something Evil, with a very precise and limited definition of Evil (like, for instance, actually causing physical damage to someone against their will, with the expectation that it will continue to happen in the future), it would be wrong, IMO, to not use whatever tools are at hand to stop it, regardless of legality.
Besides, I didn't say the hypothetical person wasn't breaking any laws; I was indicating that there was no usable evidence that would allow them to be arrested for the greater crime.
If that is not what I managed to convey, I apologize.
I'm not arguing.
well, except a little on point 1.
Sometimes, for whatever reason, evidence isn't admissible in court. If you know a person is doing evil, it would be moral to use whatever you CAN use to put them away.
Note, I said Evil, not breaking the law.
I'm not saying that there is a backdoor into AES-256, but I AM saying I wouldn't trust the security of any information on a system that has a TPM chip.
And, no, I don't have any inside information. It just seems obvious to me that TPM is a privacy and anonymity nightmare.
I have some experience on this from the law enforcement side of things.
I can see a few possibilities:
1) They know the guy did something, but they can't back it up with evidence; they make a deal with the DA to bust him for what they CAN find evidence for.
2) A lot of departments & agencies have dedicated child porn people; they have a soft quota that they have to meet to justify their budget. They might not have to bust 4 people a month, but if they don't bust close to 48 a year, they are going to lose funding.
3) He pissed someone off. The DA may be a copyright vigilante, and the guy had tons of copyrighted stuff he had download. The image was the only thing they could use in a criminal prosecution. Or someone just didn't like him.
It's just sad that GDW isn't still in business (I originally thought TFA was about GDW, which sort of freaked me out); Surely GDW could take any argument GW is using to destroy them in court.
huh?
How many years? I was a True Blue Full Bore Star Trek geek up until about 1990, and I never heard of it.
It's safe for microsoft to give kudos to opera, because their is almost no chance that an IE user will switch to opera; disaffected IE users already switched to Firefox.
I think Opera gets the most of it's users from Diehard netscape fans and people who switched from macs.
Since TFA has essentially no details about how they did their study, I will continue to use Seamonkey and firefox, and continue to worry about which of my plugins is trying to kill me.
Infoseek was better. I may be remembering things through a rose colored monitor, but I remember them being really close to google, when they started out at least, when it came to accuracy. Too bad Disney destroyed the search code, FWIH.
But AltaVista was always better at finding the truly obscure stuff.
I'm also pretty surprised by how Palm is handling this; one of the strengths of the platform (well, up until they did away with garnet, at least, I don't have a pre, the chick on the commercial is just too creepy) is that it has always been so easy to develop for; a quick google found a 3rd party application for Garnet that allows you to use a remotely controlled PC to act as a go-between for iTunes, for instance.
So that's another thing I can do besides watch TV, have a universal remote, watch or listen to any media format on the planet, emulate any hand-held well except for the PSP, hack WEP protected WiFi, record conversations on nearby peoples bluetooth headsets, really damned near anything you can conceive of.
Except, of course, run a decent Linux implementation except on a Pre.
I beg to disagree.
I've lived pretty much everywhere, except the Northeast, but I have driven there.
In my completely non-humble opinion, 2 places in the United States tie for Most Insane Drivers. The 1st is St. Louis, Missouri; I grew up relatively close to it, and spent a lot of my formative driving years there. It wasn't until I moved away that I realized that in most places Bumper-to-Bumper traffic was supposed to exist at speeds UNDER 70mph.
Atlanta, GA ties it. If you've driven there, there is no point in going into details; I don't want to cause anyone to have a PTSD attack.
Most other places, like the Mass turnpike, LA freeway system, they are just annoying.
Sorry, the only comment that comes to mind is "you are stoned on batshit". I don't mean that in a harsh or mean way, it's just what comes to mind.
I had a computer store when Warp & 95 came out. On identical 486-40's, I had Warp and 95 running; Warp would run ANY Dos or 16-bit program easily, obviously faster than '95. There was no real comparison, it did EVERYTHING better.
I've never forgiven IBM for screwing that up so badly.
Amen.
OS/2 is a close 2nd, though.
That would be a pretty interesting innovation for clippy.
1: You are the only person, of the several who replied that stated this.
2: Google "Office 2007 sucks".
3: You are the 3rd person I've ever encountered who likes office 2007; the first person had never used any other version, so didn't know that it could be better; they had an excuse. The 2nd just likes whatever is newest, just because it's newest. He did have some problems loving Vista, but luckily Windows 7 came out soon enough that he didn't have to suffer with it for long.
4: Seriously? you like the ribbon?
Openoffice HAS been around for a while.
But seriously, I just simply do not believe that aspect of the data; Office 2007 sucks balls, and the vast majority of business installations I've seen have been Office 2003 or Office 2000.
It sort of kills the validity of the whole thing to me, even if the Vista adoption numbers look right.
1st off, I can't duplicate it for Win2k. I'm using Windows 2000 Advanced Server as my testing machine, but that really shouldn't be an issue.
2nd off, the release says the worst possible thing that can happen to Win2k is a DoS; the intense hatred microsoft has for people still using Win2k makes me think that they are possible telling an untruth.
3rd off, I'd be sort of suspicious when the same thing applies to Win2k3 also; they aren't making money from windows 2003 these days, only the operating systems that ARE drastically affected by the problem.
Regardless, with either Win2k or Win2k3, set it up right and you don't have to worry about it. TCP/IP filtering for the win. Tiny personal Firewall v2.x doesn't hurt.
There is actually some interesting insight into this debate at the University of Kentucky Library in Murray, KY (of all places).
I'm not going to go in to details, as I've been labeled a crank a few times to many lately, but if you have access check out the Stubblefield papers in reference to Tesla, ignore the respective wiki article, and form your own opinions.
plug: gotthefire.net
I see one good thing about this; they positively could not have poisoned Freenet, (unless they are talking Freenet 0.7, maybe) but every additional Freenet 0.5 user makes the network faster and more anonymous; by trying to screw with it, they made it a little better.
plug: gotthefire.net
That IS pretty big news.
Does anyone here have any inside details?
While SF has made great use of Tunneling Diodes, there are some genuinely freaky potential applications of this; the process outlined ITFA makes me think that they might be able to produce very strongly matching tunneling diodes....and that is just scary (in a mainly good way).
There is NO good reason to use Vista, unless you have a tablet PC.
I still use Windows 2000 on my Surfing/Gaming system; so far, I've only had to use my dual boot to XP for 2 games, everything else works perfect.
Really want to be safe, and have all the bells and whistles? Windows Server 2008. It Rocks.
I have some insight on this.
I ran a Computer store from '92 to '95. I started doing a "buy, sell or trade" thing on computer games in 94, I immediately noticed a big jump in new game sales, and the reason was told to me by hundreds of customers, being able to sell or trade the game in when they were done was a gigantic incentive to buy the games in the first place.
I also tried renting them out, BTW; that helped sales a little, but only because every 3rd or 4th customer ended up buying the game through late fees.
Up until Microsoft's attempt to kill or seriously injure the PC gaming industry came out, the "games for windows" program, I would have said that PC game reselling was a 100% good thing for the gaming industry; I imagine it would be impossible with the state of EULA's to do it legally, these days.
Blatant Plug: www.gotthefire.net/dnn. Go. Be Round.
Disclaimer: I've been mainly retired since 2004.
I love the "Paper Raj" comment.
Gods, I hate process Nazi's. Has anything innovative EVER been done with full process control?
Scary.
Sort of off the subject, but does anyone know of a database of surveillance cameras? I've found one in New York, and one in Chicago, but that is WAY too far to lug a soon-to-be-burning tire.
Not necessarily.
Mediasentry could have gotten it wrong.
It could have been a Trojan on her machine (seen this several times).
It could have been a ex-boyfriend.
It could have been the kid next door, even though there is no Wireless involved.
It could have been bundled in with another download.
It could have been someone relatively skilled who was screwing with her.
If this trial was closer, I would offer to be an expert witness.