I don't care what his motivations are, whether he's a demagogue or not, at least somebody is standing up for the little guy and trying to put these scumbags in their place.
This may be apocryphal, but there was a story about how Madeline Albright, upon becoming Secretary of State, had to hear her mother make a comment along the lines of "All that education, and still only a secretary."
I work in academe, and the pretention doesn't end there. What used to be committees are now "task forces." An adminstrator doesn't have a secretary any more; he has a "Chief of Staff." New rule: unless you can command troops to land on foreign soil with weapons, you don't get to have a "Chief of Staff."
It'd be pretty convoluted, I know, but you could use the VMware player (brilliant of them to release that when QEMU and similar projects were starting to pose a threat, but I digress) to run Windows under Linux and samba to share your homne directory with the running Windows installation. Free, and wouldn't require a reboot.
That's a machine I'd love to see fully emulated. Last I saw, VICE had support for the SP9000, but no 6809--and that's the interesting part. I hope something will come along someday that will be as much fun as the machines of that era were!
That's exactly the situation, at least with respect to the VeRO program, in which (for example) Microsoft for all intents and purposes can take down auctions they don't like themselves, whether the items being sold are in fact illegal or not.
Hope Knoppix is spoofing your wireless MAC as well, or if you do anything serious, the next door they'll be knocking on is yours. This assumes you didn't pay cash for your machine and NIC in disguise in a store with no cameras in a city no where near your home.
He wrote an essay in 2003, The Digital Imprimatur which reads like a (both technical and social) roadmap for upcoming DRM and Internet surveillance technology.
Sure, that works until the idiot consumers give it critical mass and every site of any importance (e.g. government, bill payment, Slashdot j/k) starts to require it. What's needed is a Sonyesque blunder to make the public aware of the potential and likelihood of this being misused.
You considered the classified information argument circular because you disregarded the fact that such information is kept secret by agreement of the parties with whom it is shared. Information that is already out of government control can't be effectively classified TOP SECRET or anything else.
In the first case, yes. In fact, that right has already been upheld and Esquire (IIRC) published an article that describes how to make a nuclear weapon. In the second case, you're talking about classified material that only those with clearances who agreed not to disclose it would be privy to, and that's not a valid comparison. I find it ironic that someone with the name "think freely" would argue in favor of suppression of information.
Repackaging public domain stuff is fine, but misrepresenting it and claiming copyright on it is not, which is what the vast majority of "information brokers" on eBay are doing. In the case of this and your "free iPod" example, sure, only the less-than-bright get hooked, but that's no reason for eBay to facilitate this by not policing its site.
You mean a security researcher or corporate security officer couldn't have used that information? People who believe that the suppression of information is okay because it could be misused are heading down a dark road, the price of return from which will have to be paid in blood someday by a future generation.
eBay is infested with public domain repackagers and sellers of "information" that they seem to do nothing about. But if Microsoft doesn't like an auction, it's gone, apparently.
Hiding in a crowd isn't an option now that all those logs can and probably are easily indexed in a DBMS. And storage is almost free, so it's not as if the old chestnut hopes that "they" would "never be able to keep all that data" mean much anymore.
Does this make the client only capable of exchanging pieces with other BitComet users? Otherwise, wouldn't it have to transmit the headers in the clear, triggering the ISP's throttling mechanism?
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I don't care what his motivations are, whether he's a demagogue or not, at least somebody is standing up for the little guy and trying to put these scumbags in their place.
This may be apocryphal, but there was a story about how Madeline Albright, upon becoming Secretary of State, had to hear her mother make a comment along the lines of "All that education, and still only a secretary."
I work in academe, and the pretention doesn't end there. What used to be committees are now "task forces." An adminstrator doesn't have a secretary any more; he has a "Chief of Staff." New rule: unless you can command troops to land on foreign soil with weapons, you don't get to have a "Chief of Staff."
It'd be pretty convoluted, I know, but you could use the VMware player (brilliant of them to release that when QEMU and similar projects were starting to pose a threat, but I digress) to run Windows under Linux and samba to share your homne directory with the running Windows installation. Free, and wouldn't require a reboot.
As much as everyone else does, no more, no less.
I'm actually quite surprised the FCC hasn't issued regulations making the hardware for GNU Radio illegal already.
That's a machine I'd love to see fully emulated. Last I saw, VICE had support for the SP9000, but no 6809--and that's the interesting part. I hope something will come along someday that will be as much fun as the machines of that era were!
The SP9000 in the snow was a depressing picture. You could have eBayd it for a hundred or two, though I grant shipping would have been a pain.
. . . that the entertainment industry's precious content becomes more vulnerable?
That's exactly the situation, at least with respect to the VeRO program, in which (for example) Microsoft for all intents and purposes can take down auctions they don't like themselves, whether the items being sold are in fact illegal or not.
Hope Knoppix is spoofing your wireless MAC as well, or if you do anything serious, the next door they'll be knocking on is yours. This assumes you didn't pay cash for your machine and NIC in disguise in a store with no cameras in a city no where near your home.
For starters, the ability to charge you for each machine on the network.
Just as soon as I can kill or maim someone by operating my computer recklessly, we can talk about mandating publicly visible identifiers for them.
That was before 9/11 made it so apparent that we're collectively sheep just dying to give up privacy.
He wrote an essay in 2003, The Digital Imprimatur which reads like a (both technical and social) roadmap for upcoming DRM and Internet surveillance technology.
Sure, that works until the idiot consumers give it critical mass and every site of any importance (e.g. government, bill payment, Slashdot j/k) starts to require it. What's needed is a Sonyesque blunder to make the public aware of the potential and likelihood of this being misused.
You considered the classified information argument circular because you disregarded the fact that such information is kept secret by agreement of the parties with whom it is shared. Information that is already out of government control can't be effectively classified TOP SECRET or anything else.
In the first case, yes. In fact, that right has already been upheld and Esquire (IIRC) published an article that describes how to make a nuclear weapon. In the second case, you're talking about classified material that only those with clearances who agreed not to disclose it would be privy to, and that's not a valid comparison. I find it ironic that someone with the name "think freely" would argue in favor of suppression of information.
Repackaging public domain stuff is fine, but misrepresenting it and claiming copyright on it is not, which is what the vast majority of "information brokers" on eBay are doing. In the case of this and your "free iPod" example, sure, only the less-than-bright get hooked, but that's no reason for eBay to facilitate this by not policing its site.
You mean a security researcher or corporate security officer couldn't have used that information? People who believe that the suppression of information is okay because it could be misused are heading down a dark road, the price of return from which will have to be paid in blood someday by a future generation.
eBay is infested with public domain repackagers and sellers of "information" that they seem to do nothing about. But if Microsoft doesn't like an auction, it's gone, apparently.
Since we're talking about Emacs here, it would be good to clarify whether Emacs will be running under OS X and Cygwin or the other way around.
. . . how when a new fad comes along, people say it's not a fad?
Hiding in a crowd isn't an option now that all those logs can and probably are easily indexed in a DBMS. And storage is almost free, so it's not as if the old chestnut hopes that "they" would "never be able to keep all that data" mean much anymore.
Does this make the client only capable of exchanging pieces with other BitComet users? Otherwise, wouldn't it have to transmit the headers in the clear, triggering the ISP's throttling mechanism?