You might extrapolate "papers and effects" to include computer networks and files, but until a court does so, preferably SCOTUS, you may be out of luck. And anyway, that other phrase unreasonable searches and seizures could kick in - if you're a suspected terrorist, would it really be unreasonable to search and/or seize and/or bug your property in order to gather evidence?? I think maybe they're finally getting ahold of the fact that not all terrorists look middle-Eastern...
About that report the police wouldn't take - around here there are several TV news channels that have a "works for you" segment, in which they investigate things like people getting ripped off by local companies. It's possible they'd be all over an accusation that the local police refused to take a report of vandalism and criminal damage "because the FBI wouldn't like it" if you didn't fill in some fields in the form. What possible difference could it make to a police investigation if the victim doesn't want to give his age/race/etc?? Why would the FBI be involved anyway, unless there was significant value to the vandalized property??
Responding to a petition from the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Commission determined that providers of certain broadband and interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services must be prepared to accommodate law enforcement wiretaps
I was going remark that the FCC shouldn't have any business updatng laws to suit themselves. However, from that opening paragraph, it rather looks like they're saying: "DOJ, FBI & DEA just told us we had to do this, so here it is. Yep, we're your pound-me-in-the-ass buddies."
You know what I mean - it's similar to that "suggestion" your boss makes, about going into work on Sunday, that you dare not refuse unless you have some kind of tenure. If you don't do the unpaid overtime, or take a laptop on vacation to "keep up with email", you're not a team player...
I welcome the government's attempt to successfully prosecute me for anything whatsoever
There, you went and said the magic word. What make you think they'd actually prosecute you?? Don't we regularly talk here about both foreign nationals and citizens being detained for "terrorist" activities?? With the FBI now being able to approve their own, technically illegal, wiretaps with no judicial oversight, and being able to detain people with no charges actually being made, neither lawyers, nor judges nor juries get involved, so there's no prosecution. Just years of being locked up, with nobody even knowing where you are..
Maybe I just haven't woken up fully, but I don't see why a passive sensor would be generating any traffic visible to the outside world...
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It's been a while since I did chemistry (and I didn't RTFA), but I'd have thought that "igniting the hydrogen" would require oxygen to make it burn. There won't be any spare oxygen to release into the room, or rather, the flame would use room oxygen and that'll be replaced by the released oxygen. Adding oxygen to "adjust the color" is complete crap.
Damn. I guess that means I can't demand the courts hold other software manufacturers to the same high standard if I get hauled in for writing something that could be used to infringe copyrights. I'm thinking specifically of Microsoft's Windows directory sharing capability...
Google's not suing - they're punishing cNet for playing dirty.
But how much of a punishment is that really?? Anything that Google does publically is likely to be available online in a very short time, and CNet will get it from there. OK, so CNet can't claim "First Post!!", but that really doesn't matter a whole lot these days. I mean, if a story about Google appears in Yahoo News, then appears in CNet news a short time later, and if I read CNet before I read Yahoo, then I'll perceive the story as coming from CNet.
I believe that was dealt with very early on. A computer can "copy" a program from disk to memory in order to execute. If that wasn't allowed, nobody would ever sell any software. Similarly for content - if you have the original media and a non-infringing method of viewing/playing it, you're covered. The big stink over DeCSS was because it broke the "effective encryption" and allowed content to be viewed on a machine that was not tightly controlled. DVDs in a regular player usually won't let you skip commercials and copyright warnings. DeCSS ignores that and skips straight to the good stuff.
In the original DMCA the phrase "circumvention device" was linked to breaking "effective" encryption. I don't think "effective" was defined, which would leave it up to a judge to pick from definitions supplied by prosecution and defense lawyers. Prosecution would assert that rot-13 was "effective" in that the content was incomprehensible to the naked eye. Defense would assert that "effective" should mean "not easily breakable". A judge might lean towards whichever side had the most lawyers, or whoever could make the biggest campaign contributions, or whoever looked like rallying the most votes at the next election, or some other random factor.
What percentage of polling places would have to be trashed in order for an election to be re-scheduled?? What would the government do if sufficient voters staged protests that there was no possible way to haul them all away and lock them up??
I'm dreaming, I know - it's tough enough to get people out and exercise their legal right to vote any more, let alone do anything that would get them arrested. That's where the terrorists in the White House win - enough rights have been abrogated that people are fearful of being labelled "terrorist" for attempting to exercise rights granted to them in their own damn Constitution.
anonymous submission sources and the such are not very useful, because then the reporter has no way to judge the credibility of the information.
On the other hand, a good investigative reporter only needs a whiff of a story to start digging, and if he digs up enough information to verify at least part of the tipoff, that could validate the rest. Just asking a few questions in the right places can provoke interesting responses.
In a simple email, everything up to the first blank line is headers. After that comes the body of the message. It's trivial to remove absolutely all the tracking information.
In sendmail, and probably other mailers, you can set up an email alias that pipes through a script. I did exactly that to deliver tape backup logs to a database server. My script loops around reading lines of headers from stdin, saving the To:, From: and Subject: headers, ignoring all others. When it sees the blank line, it stops copying headers and collects the remaining input into a "body" variable. Then it pokes the collected information into the database and fires off a reply.
A reporter could use such a script to strip off all identifying information in incoming email and simply deliver the message with a From address that's a hash of the original sender. That would allow subsequent messages to be attributed to the same source without the reporter knowing who it was.
For extra "sticking it to the man" satisfaction, the reporter could run the system booted from a CD, with the original kept by a friend. Any time a court took his machine away for analysis, he could get another copy of the CD from the friend and boot it up on another $50 486 or pentium bought from eBay or a local recycler.
Couple of minutes after Microsoft buys out Google. Then Google would go downhill, dragged down by the crap that Microsoft will add to try to make it only work nicely with Internet Explorer.
Didn't have to look furiously at all - that broken   is right there in plain sight, rendered almost immediately as it's plain text. Noticed it right away while waiting for the site to finish loading...
Forget the life vest - the guy's a loony... What would that cost anyway??
From reading about one paintball cannon, the vc tubing is good for over 100psi, and the sprinkler valve is good for maybe 120psi. I believe some sprinkler valves are operated by 12v solenoids, so if you can get 12v down to your ROV, you're cooking. One site I looked at was http://corin.com/bill/paintball/aircannon/. He put a bicycle valve on one end of the airchanber, then pressurised it using a bicycle pump. Same could be achieved with a 12v car-lighter powered compressor.
The mechanism would use a standard CO2 cylinder, the kind that is usually punctured with a needle and used to power pellet guns, air dusters, etc.
Try googling for "paintball cannon". I won't post links, but there are some detailed instructions for building a paintball cannon. The part relevant to you would be the gas release from the airchamber. Homebrew cannon often use a lawn sprinkler valve. The air chamber could be charged from a regular air compressor, but some of them use the CO2 bulb screw-in fittings. You'd have the airchamber connected by sprinkler valve to the ballast chamber. Crack the valve, the ballast blows.
Just so long as NASA isn't going to use software from anywhere else in the world. They had enough trouble landing on Mars when different groups used metres or feet & inches. If Congress fucks around with time, the next Mars mission will probably hit Mercury...
Actually, the 12 months was to align with the constellations of the zodiac
That''ll really fuck over the astrologers - adding in an extra sign of the zodiac. So, what'll we call it?? "Yeah, I was born under the sign of ScrewU. I might as well kill myself, nothing ever goes right..."
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You might extrapolate "papers and effects" to include computer networks and files, but until a court does so, preferably SCOTUS, you may be out of luck. And anyway, that other phrase unreasonable searches and seizures could kick in - if you're a suspected terrorist, would it really be unreasonable to search and/or seize and/or bug your property in order to gather evidence?? I think maybe they're finally getting ahold of the fact that not all terrorists look middle-Eastern...
About that report the police wouldn't take - around here there are several TV news channels that have a "works for you" segment, in which they investigate things like people getting ripped off by local companies. It's possible they'd be all over an accusation that the local police refused to take a report of vandalism and criminal damage "because the FBI wouldn't like it" if you didn't fill in some fields in the form. What possible difference could it make to a police investigation if the victim doesn't want to give his age/race/etc?? Why would the FBI be involved anyway, unless there was significant value to the vandalized property??
I was going remark that the FCC shouldn't have any business updatng laws to suit themselves. However, from that opening paragraph, it rather looks like they're saying: "DOJ, FBI & DEA just told us we had to do this, so here it is. Yep, we're your pound-me-in-the-ass buddies."
You know what I mean - it's similar to that "suggestion" your boss makes, about going into work on Sunday, that you dare not refuse unless you have some kind of tenure. If you don't do the unpaid overtime, or take a laptop on vacation to "keep up with email", you're not a team player...
There, you went and said the magic word. What make you think they'd actually prosecute you?? Don't we regularly talk here about both foreign nationals and citizens being detained for "terrorist" activities?? With the FBI now being able to approve their own, technically illegal, wiretaps with no judicial oversight, and being able to detain people with no charges actually being made, neither lawyers, nor judges nor juries get involved, so there's no prosecution. Just years of being locked up, with nobody even knowing where you are..
Well, if it wasn't for nongovernmental & non-state, I'd say that definition fits quite nicely to the current administation...
Maybe I just haven't woken up fully, but I don't see why a passive sensor would be generating any traffic visible to the outside world...
It's been a while since I did chemistry (and I didn't RTFA), but I'd have thought that "igniting the hydrogen" would require oxygen to make it burn. There won't be any spare oxygen to release into the room, or rather, the flame would use room oxygen and that'll be replaced by the released oxygen. Adding oxygen to "adjust the color" is complete crap.
Unfortunately, Cisco doesn't market their routers as tools for infringing copyright. Shame that...
Damn. I guess that means I can't demand the courts hold other software manufacturers to the same high standard if I get hauled in for writing something that could be used to infringe copyrights. I'm thinking specifically of Microsoft's Windows directory sharing capability...
But how much of a punishment is that really?? Anything that Google does publically is likely to be available online in a very short time, and CNet will get it from there. OK, so CNet can't claim "First Post!!", but that really doesn't matter a whole lot these days. I mean, if a story about Google appears in Yahoo News, then appears in CNet news a short time later, and if I read CNet before I read Yahoo, then I'll perceive the story as coming from CNet.
I used some mod point a couple of days ago, and the week before that.
I believe that was dealt with very early on. A computer can "copy" a program from disk to memory in order to execute. If that wasn't allowed, nobody would ever sell any software. Similarly for content - if you have the original media and a non-infringing method of viewing/playing it, you're covered. The big stink over DeCSS was because it broke the "effective encryption" and allowed content to be viewed on a machine that was not tightly controlled. DVDs in a regular player usually won't let you skip commercials and copyright warnings. DeCSS ignores that and skips straight to the good stuff.
And here's me thinking that the AAAAA was a motoring organisation for drunks that drive. Learn something every day on Slashdot... :)
In the original DMCA the phrase "circumvention device" was linked to breaking "effective" encryption. I don't think "effective" was defined, which would leave it up to a judge to pick from definitions supplied by prosecution and defense lawyers. Prosecution would assert that rot-13 was "effective" in that the content was incomprehensible to the naked eye. Defense would assert that "effective" should mean "not easily breakable". A judge might lean towards whichever side had the most lawyers, or whoever could make the biggest campaign contributions, or whoever looked like rallying the most votes at the next election, or some other random factor.
I'm dreaming, I know - it's tough enough to get people out and exercise their legal right to vote any more, let alone do anything that would get them arrested. That's where the terrorists in the White House win - enough rights have been abrogated that people are fearful of being labelled "terrorist" for attempting to exercise rights granted to them in their own damn Constitution.
On the other hand, a good investigative reporter only needs a whiff of a story to start digging, and if he digs up enough information to verify at least part of the tipoff, that could validate the rest. Just asking a few questions in the right places can provoke interesting responses.
You've been reading the IP-over-carrier-pigeon April Fool's RFC, haven't you??
In sendmail, and probably other mailers, you can set up an email alias that pipes through a script. I did exactly that to deliver tape backup logs to a database server. My script loops around reading lines of headers from stdin, saving the To:, From: and Subject: headers, ignoring all others. When it sees the blank line, it stops copying headers and collects the remaining input into a "body" variable. Then it pokes the collected information into the database and fires off a reply.
A reporter could use such a script to strip off all identifying information in incoming email and simply deliver the message with a From address that's a hash of the original sender. That would allow subsequent messages to be attributed to the same source without the reporter knowing who it was.
For extra "sticking it to the man" satisfaction, the reporter could run the system booted from a CD, with the original kept by a friend. Any time a court took his machine away for analysis, he could get another copy of the CD from the friend and boot it up on another $50 486 or pentium bought from eBay or a local recycler.
Couple of minutes after Microsoft buys out Google. Then Google would go downhill, dragged down by the crap that Microsoft will add to try to make it only work nicely with Internet Explorer.
Didn't have to look furiously at all - that broken   is right there in plain sight, rendered almost immediately as it's plain text. Noticed it right away while waiting for the site to finish loading...
From reading about one paintball cannon, the vc tubing is good for over 100psi, and the sprinkler valve is good for maybe 120psi. I believe some sprinkler valves are operated by 12v solenoids, so if you can get 12v down to your ROV, you're cooking. One site I looked at was http://corin.com/bill/paintball/aircannon/. He put a bicycle valve on one end of the airchanber, then pressurised it using a bicycle pump. Same could be achieved with a 12v car-lighter powered compressor.
Try googling for "paintball cannon". I won't post links, but there are some detailed instructions for building a paintball cannon. The part relevant to you would be the gas release from the airchamber. Homebrew cannon often use a lawn sprinkler valve. The air chamber could be charged from a regular air compressor, but some of them use the CO2 bulb screw-in fittings. You'd have the airchamber connected by sprinkler valve to the ballast chamber. Crack the valve, the ballast blows.
You really wouldn't want that much green cheese raining down from orbit. For one thing, it would probably bankrupt Wisconsin...
Just so long as NASA isn't going to use software from anywhere else in the world. They had enough trouble landing on Mars when different groups used metres or feet & inches. If Congress fucks around with time, the next Mars mission will probably hit Mercury...
That''ll really fuck over the astrologers - adding in an extra sign of the zodiac. So, what'll we call it?? "Yeah, I was born under the sign of ScrewU. I might as well kill myself, nothing ever goes right..."