I guess but if I recall correctly hiroshima did a little bit more then just "blow in some curtains". Even if accurate this is a pretty bad metaphor, the Hiroshima bomb brings on ideas of destruction and chaos. Even if you took the radiation aspect away from the Hiroshima bomb it still would have done far more damage. Guess the whole line of "location, location, location" really is true.
Well, I hardly expect those curtains to be at ground-zero.
Server-based logs from a tracker under control of law enforcement would carry greater evidentiary weight in terms of reliability and chain of custody than IP addresses grabbed from a public torrent by a client.
To my knowing, atleast here in Sweden it's illegal for the police to trick people into comitting crimes. There is a better word for it, though it's lost to me at the moment.
I can only hope this is causing a huge scandal s Sweden as stated by the article. Can any Swedish readers provides us a synopsis of some of the reports on tv and in the newspaper?
It's not huge as of yet, but pretty big. It's not really front-page news with 20 minutes extra coverage on the evening news, yet it's definetly something the general public is aware of; and the police do not come off as the good guys in this drama. Some pretty harsh accusations have been made against the affected minister, that if proven true, will most likely lead to his removal from office.
The bad part is that someone have DoS:ed the Swedish police's website, which has been giving the pirates a really bad name, and has made the "threat" of these sort of attacks against the government and media the latest target of media fearmongering.
Yet still, the piracy party has more than doubled it's memberships.
What changed? Sending letters is one thing, but something pretty heavy must be going on to warrant that kind of response.
Nothing as I can see it. It's still perfectly legal to link to copyright violating material in Sweden. The police probably hopes that they store some violating material on the servers. Which, hopefully, they don't.
That, or they're after the logs so that they can do it the American Way (tm) and start suing blind 90 year olds and quadriplegics.
What I want off my phone:
* The ability to make phonecalls
* The ability to receive phonecalls
* A clock
* Long battery time
* A large clear display
* Large buttons. My fingertips are larger than four buttons on my current phone.
What I don't want off my phone:
* A phonebook. I don't want people to be able to steal my contacts if and when they steal my phone.
* Text messaging.
* Polyphonic signals. I'm comfortable with a reoccuring beep.
* A camera
* Sharks with frickin' lasers attached to their heads
* Colors, animations, whatnot. It's a bleeding phone, not an acid trip.
* The Internet. My 17" screen is small enough.
* Games.
Let's think of something that lots of people do, then say we're going to tax it! Without even considering any of the details on how to apply the tax to the correct person or organization, how to collect that tax, or how to punish those who avoid the tax! Woohoo! Let's run around waving our arms like we're doing something!
How silly of you, the EU already knows who you text-message and e-mail, through the data retention bill that was passed.
Makes one wonder if the idea is to tax the terrorists out of the EU.
If they want to use Linux, great for them. I'm not going to force them to do it, if and when Linux gets ready for the Desktop users, they will migrate. Otherwise, I'm fine with linux being the hobby developer / server os it is.
To pull a christian metaphor, you really can't force salvation upon them.
That probably wouldn't work. Any laser sufficiently powerful enough to destroy a satellite would destroy a mirror too. If the mirror has less than perfect reflectivity it gives the laser something to heat, damaging the mirror and eventually getting through.
Here I thought mirrors was a part of the lasers themselves. Though, that may not apply to all lasers. In any case, you could probably absorb a lot of the laser's effect by surrounding the satellite with an orb of a transparant material, filled with a high pressure gas that absorbs light matching the laser's frequency, this should scatter the beam significantly, sending a large portion out into space, and evenly distributing the rest on the satellite (completly ruining the focus of the beam).
Though, technically, one could use a texture for say an elbow or a knee as a breast. The texture came from the game --> M or AO rating. Probably only a matter of time until someone starts using it to sabotage the competition's game sales this way.
Uh, okay, not quite sure what this thing actually does? Except fire neutrons at stuff... but while I'm sure that's an amusing thing to do, I doubt that would attract 2,000 international scientists annualy. So, what's the point of this thing?
That's a pretty impressive feat. Does it shoot the laser straight through the Earth's core? Or have they managed to get the jumbo to fly at the speed of light?
Actually, I remember something about this from an old episode of The man from U.N.C.L.E, where the bad guys had mounted a laser in some far-away location (italy? switzerland?), and planned to use gravity to arc the beam so that it could hit a target in paris.
Man, they weren't kidding when they said Sci-Fi weapons.
Is there anything that America doesn't "wage war" against? It's like a mentally retarded child who responds in the same way, regardless of stimulus.
Furthermore it raises some interesting questions: If, for an example the US government, or an agent thereof seizes narcotics as part of the war on drugs, woudln't the Geneva convention dictate that the seized drugs should be treated as a prisoner of war?
Units, people, units! "A slope of 35" is almost as useless as "steeper gradient than one in two".
One in two what? Come on, it's not that hard to put some units in there and remove any ambiguity. This is a general interest board, and your terminology is far from clear, especially given that this is a US-centric site and you seem to be using a more UK-like slang.
If you actually read TFA, you would know that the unit in question is degrees. Slashdot seems to filter out those tiny degree-rings for some reason, leaving only the slightly ambiguous (and unitless) value of 35.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I hardly expect those curtains to be at ground-zero.
To my knowing, atleast here in Sweden it's illegal for the police to trick people into comitting crimes. There is a better word for it, though it's lost to me at the moment.
Why would they set one up? I mean, bit torrent is completely open. Anyone can get your IP when you download off a torrent.
It's not huge as of yet, but pretty big. It's not really front-page news with 20 minutes extra coverage on the evening news, yet it's definetly something the general public is aware of; and the police do not come off as the good guys in this drama. Some pretty harsh accusations have been made against the affected minister, that if proven true, will most likely lead to his removal from office.
The bad part is that someone have DoS:ed the Swedish police's website, which has been giving the pirates a really bad name, and has made the "threat" of these sort of attacks against the government and media the latest target of media fearmongering.
Yet still, the piracy party has more than doubled it's memberships.
Nothing as I can see it. It's still perfectly legal to link to copyright violating material in Sweden. The police probably hopes that they store some violating material on the servers. Which, hopefully, they don't.
That, or they're after the logs so that they can do it the American Way (tm) and start suing blind 90 year olds and quadriplegics.
What I want off my phone:
* The ability to make phonecalls
* The ability to receive phonecalls
* A clock
* Long battery time
* A large clear display
* Large buttons. My fingertips are larger than four buttons on my current phone.
What I don't want off my phone:
* A phonebook. I don't want people to be able to steal my contacts if and when they steal my phone.
* Text messaging.
* Polyphonic signals. I'm comfortable with a reoccuring beep.
* A camera
* Sharks with frickin' lasers attached to their heads
* Colors, animations, whatnot. It's a bleeding phone, not an acid trip.
* The Internet. My 17" screen is small enough.
* Games.
Make me that phone, someone, please!
How silly of you, the EU already knows who you text-message and e-mail, through the data retention bill that was passed.
Makes one wonder if the idea is to tax the terrorists out of the EU.
Well, I guess I'll be seeing you in Norway then.
If someone actually does post information about an illegal activity they've parttaken in, I mean seriously, they have none but themselves to blame.
Not only do you discuss it in a public medium, you leave records that you did. I mean, that's just stupid.
Which springs the question: What was used to write ed? (Or was ed created in an explosion of bytes at the dawn of time?)
Or as certain members of today's youth would put it: OMG!!!1 LOL @ team kill!!
(It's a sad world)
If they want to use Linux, great for them. I'm not going to force them to do it, if and when Linux gets ready for the Desktop users, they will migrate. Otherwise, I'm fine with linux being the hobby developer / server os it is.
To pull a christian metaphor, you really can't force salvation upon them.
Anyone who's opposed to this is a terrorist!
Think of the Kids!
Uniting the two yields the classic: Terrorism eats children!
Here I thought mirrors was a part of the lasers themselves. Though, that may not apply to all lasers. In any case, you could probably absorb a lot of the laser's effect by surrounding the satellite with an orb of a transparant material, filled with a high pressure gas that absorbs light matching the laser's frequency, this should scatter the beam significantly, sending a large portion out into space, and evenly distributing the rest on the satellite (completly ruining the focus of the beam).
Though, technically, one could use a texture for say an elbow or a knee as a breast. The texture came from the game --> M or AO rating. Probably only a matter of time until someone starts using it to sabotage the competition's game sales this way.
Uh, you could technically mod any PC game into toplessness. Therefore all PC games should be Mature? Do I smell a console conspiracy?
How about "Windows Forever"? Sounds more poetic.
Uh, okay, not quite sure what this thing actually does? Except fire neutrons at stuff... but while I'm sure that's an amusing thing to do, I doubt that would attract 2,000 international scientists annualy. So, what's the point of this thing?
A feeble encoding, compared to the double-xor + double rot-13 + double character order reversal encoding!
Actually, I remember something about this from an old episode of The man from U.N.C.L.E, where the bad guys had mounted a laser in some far-away location (italy? switzerland?), and planned to use gravity to arc the beam so that it could hit a target in paris.
Man, they weren't kidding when they said Sci-Fi weapons.
Furthermore it raises some interesting questions: If, for an example the US government, or an agent thereof seizes narcotics as part of the war on drugs, woudln't the Geneva convention dictate that the seized drugs should be treated as a prisoner of war?
War comes with responsibilities you know...
Though, was they not two-dimensional?; since mass is volume * density, and volume requires three dimensions, the neutrinos would have no mass.
Check today's date and things will become clear to you...
Clearly this hasn't been thought through, I mean, seriously, don't you think people will set up a robots.txt blocking this specific robot?
This is going to adorn pretty much every wall.
ROBOTS.TXT PLASE READ MR. ROBOT YOU CAN'T BE HERE!
User-agent: Military attack robot
Disallow: *
If you actually read TFA, you would know that the unit in question is degrees. Slashdot seems to filter out those tiny degree-rings for some reason, leaving only the slightly ambiguous (and unitless) value of 35.