If you believe in free speech then you have to put up with people saying things you don't like.
Personally I regard it as a test of integrity, when I find someone claims to support free speech except when it's racist/sexist/whatever/else/they/don't/like I know they're a hypocrite and I needn't give much weight to their opinions.
Revolting as the idea of a polical party campaigning to legalise child abuse may be, I'd campaign to support it's right to exist.
Great Britain hasn't been a monarchy (technically) since the Civil War (1651) long before American Independence (1776).
We could of course argue about suffrage and what percentage of the population need to have a vote in order to be a "true" democracy - but considering the subject matter of this article that might lead to some very uncomfortable questions.
Any important data on my computers is backed up on a memory stick on a chain round my neck. I doubt most police are bright enough to get that at the same time they seize my computer. And if your wondering why I think I need this sort of precaution - I run a freenet node and thus could be subject to something like this. My government may feel they have the right to intercept and decode everything I send or recieve, but I don't agree and intend to make it as difficult as possible.
Isn't attempting to scare people off running TOR nodes a legitimate tactic?
If people use kitchen knives to stab and kill each other wouldn't making kitchen knives illegal and trying to scare people off owning them be a legitimate tactic.
Obviously the problem with this is you end up banning all sorts of things and gain nothing since if there's no knife available somebody with murderous intent will merely use an alternative.
You can ban Tor servers, the internet, even computers and you will not stop these types of people.
Even if banning something would prevent it's abuse there is the question of whether limiting the advancement of civilisation in order to deal with minor problems is proportionate. This is why the abuse is no argument against the use.
Wikipedia... lists several phrases that were reputedly used, so no one is really sure what the exact utterance was to begin with.
You seem to be right - I was just going on what I was taught in school and didn't realise it was a matter of debate. Having said that, I still think you'll find "turbulent priest" is the generally accepted version.
Photons have mass only because they have energy and e=mc2. What the GP is referring to, is rest mass i.e. if a photon were to be at rest and therefore had no kinetic energy (ignoring for the moment that a photon cannot exist at rest) it would then have no mass.
To some extent he's right though, a laptop drive and a usb case are not much more expensive than a memory stick and can hold a lot more. They also fit in a suit pocket quite easily. I use mine for tranferring really large amounts of data sometimes, the ability to slip 30GB into a pocket can come in handy. Finally they do sometimes impress non-technical people who haven't seen them before.
They've got their limitations though:
They're not so easy to carry around full time (you couldn't attach one to your keyring).
You also need to carry a cable to connect it.
It takes nearly an hour to tranfer a disk full of data (not sure if mine's USB 1 or 2).
Buy the drive and the case seperately, for some reason it's a lot cheaper that way.
The hard drive went on my PC just over a year ago. I replaced it with a larger one and tried to boot, the fans started up and then nothing - no beeps, no clicks, no output, nothing. Tried all sorts without any success, eventually I took it into PC World and explained the problem, the lad there said let's have a look and connected it up to his monitor - bingo booted straight up no problem. Once it had booted from another monitor it would then boot fine from mine.
Just over a year later the new drive went as well, so I bought a replacement and installed it but same problem - wouldn't boot, no beeps, nothing.
So I couldn't help thinking it might be something to do with the monitor - borrowed a monitor from a friend and the thing booted straight away.
Firstly, if the plane depressurizes the cockpit crew immediately go on oxygen, which prevents them from passing out.
Secondly, a 747 can descend at 10,000 ft per minute but lets err on the conservative side and say 8,000 ft per minute after all the pilot wouldn't want to overstress a possibly damaged plane. If the plane was flying at say 25,000 ft it would take 1 min 52 seconds to descend to 10,000ft - at 25,000 ft the temperature might be around -20 centigrade even assuming it was that cold all the way down your chances of freezing in that amount of time - zero (but it might feel a little chilly).
I'm not sure why you assume that a case like this would go the small claims route, certainly most of the cases in the US have involved sums which would exceed the limit (sometimes by orders of magnitude).
It's true but bear in mind that this room and board is deducted from compensation payments and is part of the logic of how these awards are calculated, they don't get sent a bill. Not that I think it's right even so, but perhaps it's not quite as unreasonable as you make it sound.
Further, in the UK it's normal practice for costs to be awarded against the losing party in a lawsuit. That's not all positive since even if you're careful about your costs an opponent with plentiful resources may spend hundreds of thousands on legal costs and if you lose (and you can never be sure in a lawsuit) you can end up liable. So this also acts as a deterrent to "the small guy", but perhaps less so than in the US?
I suspect that the differences between the UK and US systems are the reason we haven't seem similar activity from the Recording Rights Association. Plus the UK legal system can turn quite nasty if they think you're playing games with them like the RIAA do in America. Try the same sort of thing here and a UK judge is quite likely to stamp on you.
My ISP does not allow me to share my connection but I do anyway. As far as I can see this is a contract matter between me and my ISP - if they find out they might stop my service (although I doubt they'd bother) but I don't think I'd end up with a criminal record.
What you need is one of those chairs astronauts use for zero G training - that was you could strap yourself in and turn upside down completely along with your laptop.
If you've got a computer which is more on than off you can leave Ethereal in the background and that should give you a good idea whats going on at least while that computer is running.
I can tell you don't live near the sea. Believe me, pigeons are cute little bunnies compared to herring gulls. Gulls are the vermin of the skies, give me pigeons any day.
I chose to leave my wireless network open so that if someone nearby needed a connection it would be available for them.
If someone was to impose an unreasonable load on the network I might do something about it but so far (12 months) I've had about half a dozen people connect and download relatively small amounts of data - my guess is they were checking email.
Why would I object to that? No . . . why would *you* object to that?
The way I see it it's a chance to do something nice for other people, why not get yourself some good karma.
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If you believe in free speech then you have to put up with people saying things you don't like.
Personally I regard it as a test of integrity, when I find someone claims to support free speech except when it's racist/sexist/whatever/else/they/don't/like I know they're a hypocrite and I needn't give much weight to their opinions.
Revolting as the idea of a polical party campaigning to legalise child abuse may be, I'd campaign to support it's right to exist.
Great Britain hasn't been a monarchy (technically) since the Civil War (1651) long before American Independence (1776).
We could of course argue about suffrage and what percentage of the population need to have a vote in order to be a "true" democracy - but considering the subject matter of this article that might lead to some very uncomfortable questions.
it is not illegal to defend your person or property with force in the UK
Perhaps someone should have told the judge in Tony Martin's case.
Plausible deniability
No but data held for the freenet node is encrypted when recieved and never decrypted.
Could you finally settle that age old Slashdot bone of contention:
Is copyright infringement, theft (or not).
Any important data on my computers is backed up on a memory stick on a chain round my neck. I doubt most police are bright enough to get that at the same time they seize my computer. And if your wondering why I think I need this sort of precaution - I run a freenet node and thus could be subject to something like this. My government may feel they have the right to intercept and decode everything I send or recieve, but I don't agree and intend to make it as difficult as possible.
Isn't attempting to scare people off running TOR nodes a legitimate tactic?
If people use kitchen knives to stab and kill each other wouldn't making kitchen knives illegal and trying to scare people off owning them be a legitimate tactic.
Obviously the problem with this is you end up banning all sorts of things and gain nothing since if there's no knife available somebody with murderous intent will merely use an alternative.
You can ban Tor servers, the internet, even computers and you will not stop these types of people.
Even if banning something would prevent it's abuse there is the question of whether limiting the advancement of civilisation in order to deal with minor problems is proportionate. This is why the abuse is no argument against the use.
Wikipedia ... lists several phrases that were reputedly used, so no one is really sure what the exact utterance was to begin with.
You seem to be right - I was just going on what I was taught in school and didn't realise it was a matter of debate. Having said that, I still think you'll find "turbulent priest" is the generally accepted version.
Sorry, I'm not American so it didn't occur to me that school-kid knowledge of history would be regarded as elitism.
If you're going to quote someone at least get it right, Beckett was a "turbulent" priest not a "troublesome" one.
Photons have mass only because they have energy and e=mc2. What the GP is referring to, is rest mass i.e. if a photon were to be at rest and therefore had no kinetic energy (ignoring for the moment that a photon cannot exist at rest) it would then have no mass.
To some extent he's right though, a laptop drive and a usb case are not much more expensive than a memory stick and can hold a lot more. They also fit in a suit pocket quite easily. I use mine for tranferring really large amounts of data sometimes, the ability to slip 30GB into a pocket can come in handy. Finally they do sometimes impress non-technical people who haven't seen them before.
They've got their limitations though:
They're not so easy to carry around full time (you couldn't attach one to your keyring).
You also need to carry a cable to connect it.
It takes nearly an hour to tranfer a disk full of data (not sure if mine's USB 1 or 2).
Buy the drive and the case seperately, for some reason it's a lot cheaper that way.
The hard drive went on my PC just over a year ago. I replaced it with a larger one and tried to boot, the fans started up and then nothing - no beeps, no clicks, no output, nothing. Tried all sorts without any success, eventually I took it into PC World and explained the problem, the lad there said let's have a look and connected it up to his monitor - bingo booted straight up no problem. Once it had booted from another monitor it would then boot fine from mine.
Just over a year later the new drive went as well, so I bought a replacement and installed it but same problem - wouldn't boot, no beeps, nothing.
So I couldn't help thinking it might be something to do with the monitor - borrowed a monitor from a friend and the thing booted straight away.
Why?
Firstly, if the plane depressurizes the cockpit crew immediately go on oxygen, which prevents them from passing out.
Secondly, a 747 can descend at 10,000 ft per minute but lets err on the conservative side and say 8,000 ft per minute after all the pilot wouldn't want to overstress a possibly damaged plane. If the plane was flying at say 25,000 ft it would take 1 min 52 seconds to descend to 10,000ft - at 25,000 ft the temperature might be around -20 centigrade even assuming it was that cold all the way down your chances of freezing in that amount of time - zero (but it might feel a little chilly).
Copyright infringement is not theft.
I'm not sure why you assume that a case like this would go the small claims route, certainly most of the cases in the US have involved sums which would exceed the limit (sometimes by orders of magnitude).
It's true but bear in mind that this room and board is deducted from compensation payments and is part of the logic of how these awards are calculated, they don't get sent a bill. Not that I think it's right even so, but perhaps it's not quite as unreasonable as you make it sound.
Further, in the UK it's normal practice for costs to be awarded against the losing party in a lawsuit. That's not all positive since even if you're careful about your costs an opponent with plentiful resources may spend hundreds of thousands on legal costs and if you lose (and you can never be sure in a lawsuit) you can end up liable. So this also acts as a deterrent to "the small guy", but perhaps less so than in the US?
I suspect that the differences between the UK and US systems are the reason we haven't seem similar activity from the Recording Rights Association. Plus the UK legal system can turn quite nasty if they think you're playing games with them like the RIAA do in America. Try the same sort of thing here and a UK judge is quite likely to stamp on you.
My ISP does not allow me to share my connection but I do anyway. As far as I can see this is a contract matter between me and my ISP - if they find out they might stop my service (although I doubt they'd bother) but I don't think I'd end up with a criminal record.
Well how come Starbucks are providing free access if they can be held liable for kiddie porn or it's illegal to connect?
What you need is one of those chairs astronauts use for zero G training - that was you could strap yourself in and turn upside down completely along with your laptop.
When people like that get caught it's usually through tracing credit card numbers - why? Because and IP number don't mean shit in court.
If you've got a computer which is more on than off you can leave Ethereal in the background and that should give you a good idea whats going on at least while that computer is running.
I can tell you don't live near the sea. Believe me, pigeons are cute little bunnies compared to herring gulls. Gulls are the vermin of the skies, give me pigeons any day.
I chose to leave my wireless network open so that if someone nearby needed a connection it would be available for them. If someone was to impose an unreasonable load on the network I might do something about it but so far (12 months) I've had about half a dozen people connect and download relatively small amounts of data - my guess is they were checking email. Why would I object to that? No . . . why would *you* object to that? The way I see it it's a chance to do something nice for other people, why not get yourself some good karma.