I hope the Texas Attorney General extracts hundreds of millions from Sony. And then that the other states' attorneys general smell blood and jump on the bandwagon, just like the tobacco settlement. Imagine Sony forced to fund a foundation that makes commercials warning youth of the dangers of DRM:).
In 18 months, Vista will have shipped, most corporate desktops will be running it, and Office documents will be unreadable without the keys from the Microsoft Rights Management Server having been provided to the Fritz chip. The formats will be open, and it'll be a DMCA violation to read them.
"They have apologized for their mistake, ceased manufacture of CDs with that technology,and pulled CDs with that technology from store shelves. Seems very responsible to me."
Sure they did, after they were exposed in the national media. Their first response, though, was to deny they had made any mistake. Only the bright spotlight of media embarrassment induced them to do the "right thing." And that was too little, too late. I hope the Texas Attorney General shakes them down for millions and the other 49 states pile on. This could be like the tobacco settlement!
The problem is her emails is written at a grade 9 level if that!!! This from a teacher with a graduate degree? I don't think so!
I don't find it hard to believe at all. I am acquainted with several people with graduate degrees in education with similar language deficiencies. Apparently, the M.A. in educational fields isn't all that hard to come by.
I would think a good workaround would be to choose a fairly unique username and register it on all the major IM services. And mention in your profile that you enjoy IMing, without blatantly saying you're @imservice.com. Then marry the first one that contacts you via Jabber:).
And since he's made himself a public figure, there's a pretty damn high bar for libel. That's why I can say he's a donkey-raping fuckwit with impunity.
You know this isn't just about the sale of generic equipment. It's about the provision of expertise and specific deliverables related to the Great Firewall. No one's advocating hanging Sam Walton's heirs because the Chinese could buy Linksys routers at Wal*Mart.
If the other shareholders who are pressing for the company to act morally are causing such a problem, why don't you divest? Frankly, I think the executives at Cisco and Yahoo who authorized aiding and abeting the oppression of the Chinese people should clapped in irons, tried for crimes against humanity and hanged.
They filed a bogus suit to try to quiet a concerned citizen, and instead have turned her into a cause célèbre on the Internet, and savvy government officials will play up punishing Activa for votes. When will these idiots learn?
It doesn't matter if it can be used against the "enemy," e.g. Sony. Sony and their ilk will never be prosecuted under this kind of law, because they can 1) fight back and 2) provide large "donations" to those in power.
"He has a huge lesbian and anal sex porn collection. He has some pirated MP3's. He has a couple shots of bourbon and trolls usenet, picking fights just to amuse himself. He torments people on slashdot with inane poorly written rambling diatribes because, in his words, 'he was bored.' He appears to have an addiction to gory 'first person shooters', and used the online pseudonym 'diefuckers'. This man is clearly deranged, a menace to civilized society."
Jeez, it's like you read my diary or something. I'd have modded you up if I hadn't already posted in the story.
Exactly -- and who is most likely to have an incompetent attorney? Probably 90% of the people. The people who can hire a Johnny Cochran type can literally get away with murder, but a typical middle class Joe facing this kind of prosecution is, most of the time, going down.
Also, it can be characterized as not just absence of evidence, but evidence of likely destruction of evidence. "We found no blood on the scene, ladies and gentleman. However, the defendant's entire home and set of tools had been cleaned with bleach minutes before the police arrived."
It's not my attitude, but I can't imagine a prosecutor wouldn't run with it. "How convenient that when the warrant was served, the defendant's hard drive had been overwritten with random data. The defendant also claims he has 'forgotten' his cryptographic keys."
They won't say. In other words, yes. It's probably a more than reasonable precaution to use TOR or a similar network for searching Google, and to shun persistent cookies. Don't forget that at work, all those search strings are probably being logged, and who knows by who else en route.
I bet the fact that your computer was forensically cleaned would be very interesting to prosecutors, investigators, and a jury. Let's hope you don't find out.
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I hope the Texas Attorney General extracts hundreds of millions from Sony. And then that the other states' attorneys general smell blood and jump on the bandwagon, just like the tobacco settlement. Imagine Sony forced to fund a foundation that makes commercials warning youth of the dangers of DRM :).
In 18 months, Vista will have shipped, most corporate desktops will be running it, and Office documents will be unreadable without the keys from the Microsoft Rights Management Server having been provided to the Fritz chip. The formats will be open, and it'll be a DMCA violation to read them.
Sure they did, after they were exposed in the national media. Their first response, though, was to deny they had made any mistake. Only the bright spotlight of media embarrassment induced them to do the "right thing." And that was too little, too late. I hope the Texas Attorney General shakes them down for millions and the other 49 states pile on. This could be like the tobacco settlement!
Wow, The Source. Greetings, fellow old-timer!
I don't find it hard to believe at all. I am acquainted with several people with graduate degrees in education with similar language deficiencies. Apparently, the M.A. in educational fields isn't all that hard to come by.
I would think a good workaround would be to choose a fairly unique username and register it on all the major IM services. And mention in your profile that you enjoy IMing, without blatantly saying you're @imservice.com. Then marry the first one that contacts you via Jabber :).
And since he's made himself a public figure, there's a pretty damn high bar for libel. That's why I can say he's a donkey-raping fuckwit with impunity.
What resale value? Used Powerbooks aren't worth much anyway since the Intel announcement.
You mean like this?
You're wrong. Google it.
You know this isn't just about the sale of generic equipment. It's about the provision of expertise and specific deliverables related to the Great Firewall. No one's advocating hanging Sam Walton's heirs because the Chinese could buy Linksys routers at Wal*Mart.
If the other shareholders who are pressing for the company to act morally are causing such a problem, why don't you divest? Frankly, I think the executives at Cisco and Yahoo who authorized aiding and abeting the oppression of the Chinese people should clapped in irons, tried for crimes against humanity and hanged.
They filed a bogus suit to try to quiet a concerned citizen, and instead have turned her into a cause célèbre on the Internet, and savvy government officials will play up punishing Activa for votes. When will these idiots learn?
It doesn't matter if it can be used against the "enemy," e.g. Sony. Sony and their ilk will never be prosecuted under this kind of law, because they can 1) fight back and 2) provide large "donations" to those in power.
Jeez, it's like you read my diary or something. I'd have modded you up if I hadn't already posted in the story.
That's why I said Johnny Cochran like :) (and by "like," I of course didn't mean "also dead.")
Sadly enough, there seem to be more and more similarities these days.
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Yup. I remember that you could specify a date range. Great for searching for content with a short life. I also remember when it didn't have ads.
It's fortunate for you to live in such a country. In my country, I would rot in jail for contempt for refusing to give up a passphrase.
Exactly -- and who is most likely to have an incompetent attorney? Probably 90% of the people. The people who can hire a Johnny Cochran type can literally get away with murder, but a typical middle class Joe facing this kind of prosecution is, most of the time, going down.
Also, it can be characterized as not just absence of evidence, but evidence of likely destruction of evidence. "We found no blood on the scene, ladies and gentleman. However, the defendant's entire home and set of tools had been cleaned with bleach minutes before the police arrived."
It's not my attitude, but I can't imagine a prosecutor wouldn't run with it. "How convenient that when the warrant was served, the defendant's hard drive had been overwritten with random data. The defendant also claims he has 'forgotten' his cryptographic keys."
They won't say. In other words, yes. It's probably a more than reasonable precaution to use TOR or a similar network for searching Google, and to shun persistent cookies. Don't forget that at work, all those search strings are probably being logged, and who knows by who else en route.
I bet the fact that your computer was forensically cleaned would be very interesting to prosecutors, investigators, and a jury. Let's hope you don't find out.