Oh sure, when everyone working in a building went to security screening, it makes sense to recruit ones with the best security clearance. Once we decide that janitors and unclassified scientists shouldn't have to sacrifice their privacy for a background check, foreign agencies will start targeting them to keep an eye for sloppy people and install James bond gadgets that have become far more practical since the movies were released. Think of all the stray RFID tags you are already carrying around in your books and cloth and tell me how difficult it would me to make a lookalike low power audio recorder given no budget constraints.
As you having an affair in the first place demonstrates, that depends on your assessment of probability of getting caught. Your assignment can even be framed in such away that it's not explicitly illegal and yet yields useful information.
no interconnected networking and no network cabling that traverses an open area.
So, does the building also have sections of ceiling, roof or basement that require two-factor authentication? Or do network cables go through hyperspace to avoid "traversing an open area"? Ok, I grant you that this particular problem can be solved by encryption, as long as I can not get my hands on the machines at either end of the secure link. But me having unrestricted access to the floor you work on and ample opportunities for verbal and physical contact with yourself improves my chances for eventual success more than marginally.
Is underwear allowed in "closed areas"? Otherwise, it's not that difficult for me to slip a working audio recorder over the rubber in your boxers while we are working out at company gym. Targeting your suit jacket or your pen might be easier, especially considering the difficulty of retrieval. Your unclassified laptop can be hacked to turn on at a certain time, even when closed and in the bag, and record stuff from mic. Light bulbs inserted by shoulder-to-shoulder escorted electricians can introduce additional signals into electric wiring based on vibration of the glass. If I worked professionally on penetrating a closed area, I am sure I would come up with a lot more ways to spy on someone who eats, talks and goes to the restroom in the same places as me for much of his waking time.
As far as I understand, you will be extradited if a) the country where crime took place requests it, b) sufficient evidence is given according to standards set by american law and c) there is an extradition treaty. For example, if a european citizen chose to volunteer in a firing squad as part of US death penalty, he will probably be Ok, even though the same conduct would be considered murder in his home country. Now consider African countries where murder is effectively not illegal because of absence of effective government. How would you even sort out if a particular accident was murder or self-defense.
Classified materials are never left in the open, unlocked or where someone else could accidentally see them. Where I worked they were only available in special rooms that required clearance to enter. Heck, any notes written while in that room also became classified and couldn't leave either. Only around Congress can someone place a classified document into a briefcase and take it home.
And yet you could see someone's briefcase in the john, dial your number on their cell and hear their classified discussions in that special room. Janitors eventually have to clean the classified room and electricians need to change light bulbs. There are just too many opportunities to snoop on someone you are working with in physical contact 8 hours every day.
It's much easier for me to overhear/steal/tcpdump something on the floor where I work all day than to compromise a secure building with badge+biometrics access somewhere in my neighborhood. In the later case, I only expect security scrutiny if I am found trying to climb a wall of said building with gecko-style hand attachments.
If you work on the same floor as someone handling classified information, you obviously have more chance to steal it than an outsider. And if you have a large gambling debt or are having a clandestine gay (or straight) affair unknown to your spouse, you are more likely to be motivated to sell some of your knowledge or reveal it to avoid damaging exposure. Basically to work on - or around - government secrets you better not have too many secrets of your own.
Either Tivo is considered a derivative work of Linux or it's not. In the former case, the company is required to release the source code to both hypervisor and Windows CE or else cease shipping the device. In the later case, Linux developers have no business telling Tivo what to do with their own hardware and software. Neither should Microsoft have any legal say in people running Vista basic in a VM.
Name me one challenging cause that succeeded by people writing position papers without also keeping the issue in public eye by prominent protests? End of Vietnam war? 40 hour work week? Equal rights for women/minorities? Abolishing fur as popular fashion? Getting British out of India?
Few people really enjoy being hated. Maybe the current president of MPAA - or current president of USA - will do nothing. But the next guy in charge might try to avoid being yelled at every time he/she shows up in public.
Unless you can get the school to organize an official debate on intellectual property, that's all you can do.
Come to the event with a big sign illustrating your message and objections to his status as a distinguished alum. Have a group of students do the same as well as boo and chant before/during/after the event. Engage in civil disobedience by bringing a notebook and helping friends make backups of their own DVDs in his plain sight.
Is Microsoft obliged to provide new technology for old versions of Windows, free of cost? Graphics card manufacturers are free to agree on alternative standards, such as OpenGL, to expose new features of their products without forcing an OS upgrade or locking game writers into a particular OS. Last I heard, OpenGL works fine on Vista, XP, Mac and Linux.
Fine. Just don't go pulling out your gun first if someone tries to rob your house. If you threaten their life, surely they can be justified in protecting themselves and killing you with their own firearm. They should still be charged with robbery, but not murder since, like everyone else, they were just carrying a gun for self-protection and not planning to even threaten you with it.
While I am sure you are correct in most cases, some athletes are just ordinary people who acquired extraordinary skills through hard work since elementary school age. Those are the most unhappy about a competitor getting the same muscles in a few months by taking hormones.
It stores your username, home directory, default shell. Most applications read it at least once, to display your username based on current user id. Shadow passwords are usually in effect, so it's only rarely that this file contains encrypted passwords.
Now add to that the particular insistence of this administration that an American person or corporation has to comply with American laws anywhere around the world
Sounds like a good rule to me - a person should, through maintaining citizenship, agree to follow laws of at least some country in the world rather than escaping all responsibility by moving around. American tourists having sex with child prostitutes should be prosecuted (while adult prostitution or smoking pot should be legal abroad or at home). American companies not paying minimum wage and overtime should be prosecuted. American soldiers engaging in activities that would be illegal for local law enforcement should be prosecuted. I am sure some rich guys will just assume Cayman islands citizenship, but then they would at least have more difficulty voting or lobbying here and can be denied a visa for foreign wrongdoings or domestic crimes like a DUI.
Source code must be made available to any recipient of binary code upon request
The customer must then agree to safeguard the source and be responsible for damages if leaked. The copyright owner can demand a proof that a particular customer is willing and able to honor a contract. Customers can create modified versions for private use distribute binaries and source to anyone who already obtained the corresponding original from the author.
Copyright expires after 14 years, as envisioned by the founders, at which time source becomes public domain.
Anyone, including the original author, can then create derived works from the source and again distribute them under protection of copyright for another 14 years
This will ensure that license incompatibilities only last a limited time, commercial software can be sold/protected from leaks by teenagers and derivative works can be created both during and after the copyright duration.
Oh wait, MySpace is supposed to close and report accounts of sex offenders. How are they going to do this without getting their real names or make sure the information doesn't end up in government's hands for other reasons?
Those civilized Japanese have more than twice the suicide rate of US and most "civilized" european countries like switzerland are also high. That too, with abundant guns we have here that should tempt people with a promise of quick, reliable death and no need for advance planning.
In the same countries, people are not motivated to have enough children for stable population. It appears that Japanese are as discontent with life as we are, but instead of venting the anger out they turn it on themselves and also do not wish to bring children into such a miserable world. It would be better if those polite Japanese businessman had a good fist-fight among themselves and then went home to fuck their wives. After all, a black eye is usually not fatal and public displays of dissatisfaction would eventually boil into a revolution or otherwise force the society to change.
If someone is contemplating the choices of a) stealing by bag of CDs and b) killing himself, by all means take my CDs. I don't want a death on my continuousness. If the choice are a) use my unsecured wireless access point or b) kill himself, the choice becomes a lot easier.
Whether you access it through a wire or over WiFi, you are using their internet connection without authorization - and if you aren't sure whether they are intentionally providing free connectivity or not, you can always find them and ask.
And how do you propose I do that with WiFi - send three people out with specialized triangulation equipment?
The intention of access point owner must be known to the user ahead of time. If the network is completely unsecured, it should be assumed that it's public access. If it is secured, however improperly - 40 bit WEP password of "welcome", mac check, hidden network id - access is illegal without explicit consent of the owner. If you build a water fountain standing in the open, don't be surprised if people drink.
You must hang around with unusually conservative females, because a lot of women do love strong-willed, vigorous man out of Mills and Boon novels who take initiative in bed. Many women love to give oral sex and see their partners go crazy and they are not particular about where bodily fluids go. In turn, many men love performing felatio and stimulating their partners with sex toys. If you are not married yet, please do yourself a favor and explore cultures such as Latin American with healthy and uninhibited attitudes towards sex. If you are already married, working on getting yourself and your wife to accept many joys of human body can be exciting and rewarding.
Music influences your mood and actions. If you listen to swear music most of the time, you are more likely to be angry and destructive. Say there are two songs:
1. Country music: We really tried to work out our relationship, but we just have too many differences. Let's just divorce and move on while trying not to screw up our childrens' lives 2. Rap: Fuck and kill this nappy headed whore
Which lyrics is more likely to motivate you to handle your personal life constructively? Life may not always be beautiful. Art should uplift people rather than helping them work up the rage.
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Oh sure, when everyone working in a building went to security screening, it makes sense to recruit ones with the best security clearance. Once we decide that janitors and unclassified scientists shouldn't have to sacrifice their privacy for a background check, foreign agencies will start targeting them to keep an eye for sloppy people and install James bond gadgets that have become far more practical since the movies were released. Think of all the stray RFID tags you are already carrying around in your books and cloth and tell me how difficult it would me to make a lookalike low power audio recorder given no budget constraints.
As you having an affair in the first place demonstrates, that depends on your assessment of probability of getting caught. Your assignment can even be framed in such away that it's not explicitly illegal and yet yields useful information.
no interconnected networking and no network cabling that traverses an open area.
So, does the building also have sections of ceiling, roof or basement that require two-factor authentication? Or do network cables go through hyperspace to avoid "traversing an open area"? Ok, I grant you that this particular problem can be solved by encryption, as long as I can not get my hands on the machines at either end of the secure link. But me having unrestricted access to the floor you work on and ample opportunities for verbal and physical contact with yourself improves my chances for eventual success more than marginally.
Is underwear allowed in "closed areas"? Otherwise, it's not that difficult for me to slip a working audio recorder over the rubber in your boxers while we are working out at company gym. Targeting your suit jacket or your pen might be easier, especially considering the difficulty of retrieval. Your unclassified laptop can be hacked to turn on at a certain time, even when closed and in the bag, and record stuff from mic. Light bulbs inserted by shoulder-to-shoulder escorted electricians can introduce additional signals into electric wiring based on vibration of the glass. If I worked professionally on penetrating a closed area, I am sure I would come up with a lot more ways to spy on someone who eats, talks and goes to the restroom in the same places as me for much of his waking time.
As far as I understand, you will be extradited if a) the country where crime took place requests it, b) sufficient evidence is given according to standards set by american law and c) there is an extradition treaty. For example, if a european citizen chose to volunteer in a firing squad as part of US death penalty, he will probably be Ok, even though the same conduct would be considered murder in his home country. Now consider African countries where murder is effectively not illegal because of absence of effective government. How would you even sort out if a particular accident was murder or self-defense.
Classified materials are never left in the open, unlocked or where someone else could accidentally see them. Where I worked they were only available in special rooms that required clearance to enter. Heck, any notes written while in that room also became classified and couldn't leave either. Only around Congress can someone place a classified document into a briefcase and take it home.
And yet you could see someone's briefcase in the john, dial your number on their cell and hear their classified discussions in that special room. Janitors eventually have to clean the classified room and electricians need to change light bulbs. There are just too many opportunities to snoop on someone you are working with in physical contact 8 hours every day.
Care to prove your assumptions?.
It's much easier for me to overhear/steal/tcpdump something on the floor where I work all day than to compromise a secure building with badge+biometrics access somewhere in my neighborhood. In the later case, I only expect security scrutiny if I am found trying to climb a wall of said building with gecko-style hand attachments.
to quote a US law in a swedish case? There is a little matter of sovereignty.
If you work on the same floor as someone handling classified information, you obviously have more chance to steal it than an outsider. And if you have a large gambling debt or are having a clandestine gay (or straight) affair unknown to your spouse, you are more likely to be motivated to sell some of your knowledge or reveal it to avoid damaging exposure. Basically to work on - or around - government secrets you better not have too many secrets of your own.
Either Tivo is considered a derivative work of Linux or it's not. In the former case, the company is required to release the source code to both hypervisor and Windows CE or else cease shipping the device. In the later case, Linux developers have no business telling Tivo what to do with their own hardware and software. Neither should Microsoft have any legal say in people running Vista basic in a VM.
Name me one challenging cause that succeeded by people writing position papers without also keeping the issue in public eye by prominent protests? End of Vietnam war? 40 hour work week? Equal rights for women/minorities? Abolishing fur as popular fashion? Getting British out of India?
Few people really enjoy being hated. Maybe the current president of MPAA - or current president of USA - will do nothing. But the next guy in charge might try to avoid being yelled at every time he/she shows up in public.
Unless you can get the school to organize an official debate on intellectual property, that's all you can do.
Come to the event with a big sign illustrating your message and objections to his status as a distinguished alum. Have a group of students do the same as well as boo and chant before/during/after the event. Engage in civil disobedience by bringing a notebook and helping friends make backups of their own DVDs in his plain sight.
Is Microsoft obliged to provide new technology for old versions of Windows, free of cost? Graphics card manufacturers are free to agree on alternative standards, such as OpenGL, to expose new features of their products without forcing an OS upgrade or locking game writers into a particular OS. Last I heard, OpenGL works fine on Vista, XP, Mac and Linux.
Fine. Just don't go pulling out your gun first if someone tries to rob your house. If you threaten their life, surely they can be justified in protecting themselves and killing you with their own firearm. They should still be charged with robbery, but not murder since, like everyone else, they were just carrying a gun for self-protection and not planning to even threaten you with it.
While I am sure you are correct in most cases, some athletes are just ordinary people who acquired extraordinary skills through hard work since elementary school age. Those are the most unhappy about a competitor getting the same muscles in a few months by taking hormones.
It stores your username, home directory, default shell. Most applications read it at least once, to display your username based on current user id. Shadow passwords are usually in effect, so it's only rarely that this file contains encrypted passwords.
Now add to that the particular insistence of this administration that an American person or corporation has to comply with American laws anywhere around the world
Sounds like a good rule to me - a person should, through maintaining citizenship, agree to follow laws of at least some country in the world rather than escaping all responsibility by moving around. American tourists having sex with child prostitutes should be prosecuted (while adult prostitution or smoking pot should be legal abroad or at home). American companies not paying minimum wage and overtime should be prosecuted. American soldiers engaging in activities that would be illegal for local law enforcement should be prosecuted. I am sure some rich guys will just assume Cayman islands citizenship, but then they would at least have more difficulty voting or lobbying here and can be denied a visa for foreign wrongdoings or domestic crimes like a DUI.
This will ensure that license incompatibilities only last a limited time, commercial software can be sold/protected from leaks by teenagers and derivative works can be created both during and after the copyright duration.
Oh wait, MySpace is supposed to close and report accounts of sex offenders. How are they going to do this without getting their real names or make sure the information doesn't end up in government's hands for other reasons?
Those civilized Japanese have more than twice the suicide rate of US and most "civilized" european countries like switzerland are also high. That too, with abundant guns we have here that should tempt people with a promise of quick, reliable death and no need for advance planning.
In the same countries, people are not motivated to have enough children for stable population. It appears that Japanese are as discontent with life as we are, but instead of venting the anger out they turn it on themselves and also do not wish to bring children into such a miserable world. It would be better if those polite Japanese businessman had a good fist-fight among themselves and then went home to fuck their wives. After all, a black eye is usually not fatal and public displays of dissatisfaction would eventually boil into a revolution or otherwise force the society to change.
If someone is contemplating the choices of a) stealing by bag of CDs and b) killing himself, by all means take my CDs. I don't want a death on my continuousness. If the choice are a) use my unsecured wireless access point or b) kill himself, the choice becomes a lot easier.
Whether you access it through a wire or over WiFi, you are using their internet connection without authorization - and if you aren't sure whether they are intentionally providing free connectivity or not, you can always find them and ask.
And how do you propose I do that with WiFi - send three people out with specialized triangulation equipment?
The intention of access point owner must be known to the user ahead of time. If the network is completely unsecured, it should be assumed that it's public access. If it is secured, however improperly - 40 bit WEP password of "welcome", mac check, hidden network id - access is illegal without explicit consent of the owner. If you build a water fountain standing in the open, don't be surprised if people drink.
You must hang around with unusually conservative females, because a lot of women do love strong-willed, vigorous man out of Mills and Boon novels who take initiative in bed. Many women love to give oral sex and see their partners go crazy and they are not particular about where bodily fluids go. In turn, many men love performing felatio and stimulating their partners with sex toys. If you are not married yet, please do yourself a favor and explore cultures such as Latin American with healthy and uninhibited attitudes towards sex. If you are already married, working on getting yourself and your wife to accept many joys of human body can be exciting and rewarding.
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Music influences your mood and actions. If you listen to swear music most of the time, you are more likely to be angry and destructive. Say there are two songs:
1. Country music: We really tried to work out our relationship, but we just have too many differences. Let's just divorce and move on while trying not to screw up our childrens' lives
2. Rap: Fuck and kill this nappy headed whore
Which lyrics is more likely to motivate you to handle your personal life constructively? Life may not always be beautiful. Art should uplift people rather than helping them work up the rage.