However, I feel that the line should be drawn with certain things. You shouldn't give information that would jepordize the lives of servicemen and women by disclosing precise positions of military units (*cough*Geraldo Rivera*cough*), and you shouldn't give information that would jepordize the safety of active duty field agents by disclosing their identity (the whole Valarie Plame incident - yeah that information should not have been leaked, but they reporter shouldn't have published it - someone could have gotten killed over the whole mess).
This does pose an interesting question with regards to fighting spam. Spamhaus is safe from the $11.5M judgement in this case because they are based in the UK, and because their blacklist is hosted on UK servers, they are only subject to UK law. However, by the nature of the beast, Spam must travel to the E-Mail servers of people in the country the recieptiant (sp) lives in. So, my question is this - can we use Mr. Linhardt's tactics against him, and file suits against spammers in, say, China, Nigeria, and countries outside the US because their spam must pass through US mail servers to reach US users?
IANAL, but I know there are lawyers who read/. Is this idea reasonable, or am I just blowing smoke out of an orafice other then my mouth.
Google: I cannot kill my friend. (turns to lobbyist) Kill my friend.
I kid, I kid. As somebody else said, if Google is hiring these guys to help win the fight for net neutrality, and to help make sure the government can't force them to "do evil", then I wouldn't call hiring them "doing evil".
They will probably do that first, if only for PR purposes, before moving on to testing it on citizens (either volunteers, or as using them as riot control). I remember the last Portland Police Chief (Derek (sp?) Foxworth) volunteering to get Tased when the Portland Police Department was getting it's first big rollout of tasers to beat cops.
Well, I'd been holding back on getting an iPod before, but I guess I'll be getting one now. Horslip's Book of Invasions doesn't sound quite right with a gap between, for instance, "Dusk" and "Sword of Light".
EU competition law is being broken. If the population of Europe wants those laws changed they can try to get something done. As it is, MS is breaking the law and is being punished for it.
Well then. This now begs the question of what to do when laws meant to encourage competition hurt consumers by making software less secure. Frankly, I see no problem with Microsoft bundling a software firewall with Vista. I wouldn't connect any computer running any OS to the internet that wasn't running at an absolute minimum a software firewall (that includes OSX or Linux).
Now, if you want to, put ZoneAlarm for Vista on your computer, you still have to download it first. Now, you could download it on another computer, burn it to CD, and then sneakernet it over to your Vista machine. Personally, I'd rather just enable the Vista software firewall, download ZoneAlarm on the Vista machine, and then install it, and if the EU Comission thinks that doing things that way is "discouraging competition", then they've been spending too much time in hash bars.
I don't know if it was a King Richard II thing ("Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?")
It's Henry II, but you've got the quote right.
What I find interesting is that the Justice department is checking this "pretexting" business out. Are they interested in prosecuting it... or duplicating it?
I doubt it's duplication. They can easily get access to this information anyway with a warrant (and, with the Patriot Act, possibly without a warrant).
How could you like Terminator 3? The film basically contradicted one of the major points from the first two films - "There is no fate but which we make for ourselves. The Future is not set." Not to mention setting up another little bit of head asplody - why would John Connor have Kyle Reese carry the aforementioned message back to his mother when he knows for a fact that it's not true, and acknowledges it as such in his closing monologue. Frankly, unless James Cameron writes and directs T4 and it completely retcons T3 then I'm going to avoid it like the plague it is (unless some friends and I get togeather to record a Podcast Commentary for the film and riff it a new duckhole).
I've read the books, and, frankly, removing Tom Bombadil was probably a good idea, as adding would have stopped the momentum the film was building for the entire flight from Hobbiton dead.
The only thing I could really think of that would be "consequences" would be that European software developers would not have access to Vista, and thus, in theory, applications that those developers have in the pipeline for Vista would be delayed until they got the actual OS.
(And I'm pretty sure these "consequences" I just made up are completely bogus anyway - as I have no experience developing software.)
Why wouldn't an answering machine be practical (at least if you don't already have voice mail)? I, personally, would like to know if I got an important phone call when I'm out of the house, and have the convience of letting the machine get it when I'm indisposed.
IANAL, but I think the prosecutors will make an argument that Mr. Dicks knowingly provided a service that was illegal in the US, to US citizens who were on US soil at the time. On the one hand, it's a clever way of getting the guy. On the other hand, it could set up some dangerous precidents. Getting a hacker under US law because the server he penetrated was on US soil is one thing. However, the strategy I think they're going to use could, in theory, be used by the **AA against, say, The Pirate Bay.
IBM is also building a slightly slower computer, called "Wile E. Coyote", which is slightly slower. They are currently attempting to work out the bugs, as it keeps crashing...
Has anyone written up an program to emulate the functions of the Turing Bombe (and, for that matter, software to encrypt something in the Enigma cypher?)
One of the things I like about the Final Fantasy Origins collection for the GBA is, in addition to ditching that annoying "feature" where you have to pay for every single gorram casting of your spells, you can also save at almost any time (you can't save in the middle of a battle - which is not necessarily a bad thing), anywhere, without having to use a save point. If only all the Final Fantasy games implemented this (and I hope that 12, when it comes out, will implement this as well).
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I enjoy unlocking stuff, providing the unlocking process is fun. Problably one of the games which I find is really good at this is the WWE Smackdown series (especially Smackdown vs. Raw 2006). You want to unlock Jimmy Hart as a manager? Just win 10 matches as a created guy. You want to unlock the Wrestlemania 21 arena, beat all the Easy challenges (which are, with the exception of eliminating 10 guys from the Royal Rumble, pretty easy), and it lets you carry out the challenges with a second player as well, to make some of the more difficult processes easier.
Let me put this a different way. If you hacked into the computer systems of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which are not only hosted in Canada, but are also property of the Canadian government, and kept access for 2 years and then got caught, should you be prosecuted in Canada?
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Hence the number of people referencing "SoaP" instead.
...that we've got lasers on a mutha-f'ing chip?
Well, I thought MTV2 still did, though, then again, I haven't had cable or satellite TV for a while.
However, I feel that the line should be drawn with certain things. You shouldn't give information that would jepordize the lives of servicemen and women by disclosing precise positions of military units (*cough*Geraldo Rivera*cough*), and you shouldn't give information that would jepordize the safety of active duty field agents by disclosing their identity (the whole Valarie Plame incident - yeah that information should not have been leaked, but they reporter shouldn't have published it - someone could have gotten killed over the whole mess).
1242 of course! Slept right through the '52, '74, '85 quakes.
This does pose an interesting question with regards to fighting spam. Spamhaus is safe from the $11.5M judgement in this case because they are based in the UK, and because their blacklist is hosted on UK servers, they are only subject to UK law. However, by the nature of the beast, Spam must travel to the E-Mail servers of people in the country the recieptiant (sp) lives in. So, my question is this - can we use Mr. Linhardt's tactics against him, and file suits against spammers in, say, China, Nigeria, and countries outside the US because their spam must pass through US mail servers to reach US users?
IANAL, but I know there are lawyers who read /. Is this idea reasonable, or am I just blowing smoke out of an orafice other then my mouth.
Google: I cannot kill my friend. (turns to lobbyist) Kill my friend.
I kid, I kid. As somebody else said, if Google is hiring these guys to help win the fight for net neutrality, and to help make sure the government can't force them to "do evil", then I wouldn't call hiring them "doing evil".
They will probably do that first, if only for PR purposes, before moving on to testing it on citizens (either volunteers, or as using them as riot control). I remember the last Portland Police Chief (Derek (sp?) Foxworth) volunteering to get Tased when the Portland Police Department was getting it's first big rollout of tasers to beat cops.
Well, I'd been holding back on getting an iPod before, but I guess I'll be getting one now. Horslip's Book of Invasions doesn't sound quite right with a gap between, for instance, "Dusk" and "Sword of Light".
Now, if you want to, put ZoneAlarm for Vista on your computer, you still have to download it first. Now, you could download it on another computer, burn it to CD, and then sneakernet it over to your Vista machine. Personally, I'd rather just enable the Vista software firewall, download ZoneAlarm on the Vista machine, and then install it, and if the EU Comission thinks that doing things that way is "discouraging competition", then they've been spending too much time in hash bars.
It's Henry II, but you've got the quote right.
I doubt it's duplication. They can easily get access to this information anyway with a warrant (and, with the Patriot Act, possibly without a warrant).
How could you like Terminator 3? The film basically contradicted one of the major points from the first two films - "There is no fate but which we make for ourselves. The Future is not set." Not to mention setting up another little bit of head asplody - why would John Connor have Kyle Reese carry the aforementioned message back to his mother when he knows for a fact that it's not true, and acknowledges it as such in his closing monologue. Frankly, unless James Cameron writes and directs T4 and it completely retcons T3 then I'm going to avoid it like the plague it is (unless some friends and I get togeather to record a Podcast Commentary for the film and riff it a new duckhole).
I've read the books, and, frankly, removing Tom Bombadil was probably a good idea, as adding would have stopped the momentum the film was building for the entire flight from Hobbiton dead.
The only thing I could really think of that would be "consequences" would be that European software developers would not have access to Vista, and thus, in theory, applications that those developers have in the pipeline for Vista would be delayed until they got the actual OS.
(And I'm pretty sure these "consequences" I just made up are completely bogus anyway - as I have no experience developing software.)
What state are you in? In Oregon we've had a lot of college student protests over the summer about the war in Iraq and other, important, issues.
Why wouldn't an answering machine be practical (at least if you don't already have voice mail)? I, personally, would like to know if I got an important phone call when I'm out of the house, and have the convience of letting the machine get it when I'm indisposed.
IANAL, but I think the prosecutors will make an argument that Mr. Dicks knowingly provided a service that was illegal in the US, to US citizens who were on US soil at the time. On the one hand, it's a clever way of getting the guy. On the other hand, it could set up some dangerous precidents. Getting a hacker under US law because the server he penetrated was on US soil is one thing. However, the strategy I think they're going to use could, in theory, be used by the **AA against, say, The Pirate Bay.
IBM is also building a slightly slower computer, called "Wile E. Coyote", which is slightly slower. They are currently attempting to work out the bugs, as it keeps crashing...
Has anyone written up an program to emulate the functions of the Turing Bombe (and, for that matter, software to encrypt something in the Enigma cypher?)
Agreed. The real question here is why does a /. Editor even need to ask that question?
One of the things I like about the Final Fantasy Origins collection for the GBA is, in addition to ditching that annoying "feature" where you have to pay for every single gorram casting of your spells, you can also save at almost any time (you can't save in the middle of a battle - which is not necessarily a bad thing), anywhere, without having to use a save point. If only all the Final Fantasy games implemented this (and I hope that 12, when it comes out, will implement this as well).
I enjoy unlocking stuff, providing the unlocking process is fun. Problably one of the games which I find is really good at this is the WWE Smackdown series (especially Smackdown vs. Raw 2006). You want to unlock Jimmy Hart as a manager? Just win 10 matches as a created guy. You want to unlock the Wrestlemania 21 arena, beat all the Easy challenges (which are, with the exception of eliminating 10 guys from the Royal Rumble, pretty easy), and it lets you carry out the challenges with a second player as well, to make some of the more difficult processes easier.
Let me put this a different way. If you hacked into the computer systems of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which are not only hosted in Canada, but are also property of the Canadian government, and kept access for 2 years and then got caught, should you be prosecuted in Canada?