I had a lawyer tell me the reason it was the secret service was because the calling cards put it in their jurisdiction. I can't remember the exact reason, but something along the lines of calling cards are a promise of pay, or some other legal mumbo jumbo.
Look before you phreak.
Today the agency's primary investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States.
Since 1984, the Secret Service's investigative responsibilities have expanded to include crimes that involve financial institution fraud, computer and telecommunications fraud, false identification documents, access device fraud, advance fee fraud, electronic funds transfers and money laundering as it relates to the agency's core violations.
The USA Patriot Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001, mandated the U.S. Secret Service to establish a nationwide network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTFs) to investigate and prevent attacks on financial and critical infrastructures in the United States. As such, this mandate expanded on the agency's first ECTF -- the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force, formed in 1995 -- which brought together federal, state and local law enforcement, prosecutors, private-industry companies, and academia.
The network prioritizes investigations that meet the following criteria:
Significant economic or community impact, Participation of multiple-district or transnational organized criminal groups, Use of new technology as a means to commit crime.
The US Supreme Court decision was more constrained:
In American constitutional law, the Pruneyard decision is famous for its role in establishing two important rules:
under the California Constitution, individuals may peacefully exercise their right to free speech in parts of private shopping centers regularly held open to the public, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by the shopping centers
under the U.S. Constitution, states can provide their citizens with broader rights in their constitutions than under the federal Constitution, so long as those rights do not infringe on any federal constitutional rights.
In refusing to follow Pruneyard, the state supreme courts of New York and Wisconsin both attacked it as an unprincipled and whimsical decision. In 2003, the European Court of Human Rights also considered and refused to follow Pruneyard in a United Kingdom case.
I think a distinction can be made between the interior of the stores that border the commons and the commons itself.
I do not like deception. Using bait used to draw subjects to the hidden camera. Public performance without the knowledge or consent of the participants. This does have the look or smell of "free speech."
''Samsung would likely seek to lower the payment to about $10 in exchange for a deeper alliance with Microsoft''
As the geek tells the story, global industrial giants like General Dynamics and Samsung are being bullied and battered into submission to Microsoft --
Here at last is something closer to the truth:
Strategic alliances are being forged among companies with many common interests --
while Little Brother Evo and Big Daddy Google watch helplessly from the sidelines? This makes no sense whatever if Microsof's patent portfolio is a weak as the geek likes to think.
MS is suing the smaller fish first to set a precedent and build some kind of case for going after the big phone makers
There aren't many bigger fish in the corporate waters than General Dynamics. The fifth largest defense contractor in the world. Guns, tanks and submarines. The first NSA certified smartphone. The smartphone used by Obama.
Amazon wants developers to cough up $100 for the privilege of being listed on their site. Of course they're graciously waive the fee the first year but to me this seems like a deliberate barrier to stop all those scumbags with their free apps and open source ports from bothering listing on the service at all.
If you want your product placed where people can find it, expect to cough up some dough,
Doesn't the Immigrations and Customs department have better things to do than the bidding of corporate lobbyists?
Customs = Foreign Trade and Commerce.
The promotion and protection of which is a federal responsibility.
The Pixar feature costs $200 million to produce. If it is Toy Story 3, it grosses $635 million abroad in first-run theatrical release and anchors a franchise whose economic impact can be measured in the billions of dollars.
The Party of Disney is in the White House, and even moderate Republicans like Obama tend to be welded at the lips to the Great/Media Sphincter.
The geek wants his free media fix.
His middle class entitlement. You can't "do" P2P without a substantial up-front investment in hardfware and services -- which means the plebs are relegated to the Red Box.
The politician sees multi-billion dollar investments in an industry that from its very beginnings has been a politically potent symbol of American culture and technical dominance
Republican or Democrat, that is a much easier sell to the voters in his home district, especially if that district is a production center like New York, Nashville, central Florida or southern California.
The Department of Mission Creep (excuse me, "Homeland Security") is also wasting resources in pursuit of IP violations. All well and good until someone loses a Trade Center.
Homeland Security brought almost all federal law enforcement agencies and services under a single banner - including the Coast Guard. Something that was long overdue.
Government multi-tasks.
The little fish always whine that the net is woven too tight.
Why in the world is the The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency going after piracy websites, how in the world does something on the internet fall into their jurisdiction
The shrort answer is that crimes that cross our international borders tend to fall under the jurisdiction of those responsible for protecting our borders.
Cyber Crimes Center:
C3 brings the full range of ICE computer and forensic assets together in a single location to combat such Internet-related crimes as:
Possession, manufacture and distribution of images of child abuse. International money laundering and illegal cyber-banking. Illegal arms trafficking and illegal export of strategic/controlled commodities. Drug trafficking (including prohibited pharmaceuticals). General Smuggling (including the trafficking in stolen art and antiquities; violations of the Endangered Species Act etc.) Intellectual property rights violations (including music and software). Immigration violations; identity and benefit fraud
I think something like TPB model is there to stay, if necessary they'll just move it to be a TOR onion site, still centralized but anonymous. Not the content itself as that'd be sloooow, just the site itself.
There are many people who shy away from things like Freenet because they believe they are toxic. Something that might bring the Special Victims Unit to their door.
The Pirate Bay is as deep into the shadows as most are willing to go.
There is no obscenity exemption in the Constitution. I've looked.
There is no definition of free speech to be found there, either.
The Constitution was a framework for a federal government. It was not and was never intended to be a statute book or a legal dictonary.
Dictionaries and statute books are bound to a particular time and place.
The Revolutionary generation believed that political debate should be open and fearless. But they were welll aware that libel and slander can profound corrupt that debate.
They gave a lot of thought to failed republics and empires like Rome.
Besides, I though we left terminal computing (either smart or dumb) back in the '80's. Screw that crap, I'll keep my data and aps on my own computer, thank you.
Programs and data may belong to your employer and not to you.
The terminal was a desk-bound heavyweight. The smartphone or tablet is fragile, feather-light by comparison, easily mislaid and a magnet for thieves.
"John, the Penquin Club called to say you left your laptop behind at the bar."
Office 365 can be bundled with a subscription or lease for full - local - install of the MS Office suite beginning at $16/mo, as I recall.
and above all put it on plain english, not that "Lawyer Speak" you see on legal documents (which I'm quite positive are there to baffle and bamboozle the general public)
Legal documents can have an extraordinarily long life.
"Plain English" is deceptively easy to write. The problem is that sixty or seventy-five years down the road it may not be all that easy to read.
So if I, all by myself, draws up a will, I'm breaking the law?
When my grandmother moved into a nursing home, I needed to clear title to her house.
That was my introduction to the mischief and malice that can be written into a will -- and how the heirs trying to put things to right on their own --- and doing it on the cheap -- can only make things worse.
...pay someone (such as Mozilla...) for support? It's Free Software. They've got the source and the license
1 "The Enterprise" is fragmented.
There must be tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of corporate enterprises whose core competence is not to be found in software development.
2 "The Enterprise" has Microsoft.
Do you want corporate-wide deployment and management with fine-grained control?
No problem.
3 "The Enterprise's" interest in FOSS is wholly pragmatic.
Do you want to play internally generated H.264 videos in the corporate browser? If the answer is "Yes" and you are running Chrome, Safari or IE 9, you are good to go.
There were two zingers in this month's news from Net Applications:
The iPad has 0.92% share of all browsing. In other words, the iPad has 53 times the usage share of its nearest competitor.
When Microsoft decided not to support XP for Internet Explorer 9, they narrowed the front for the browser wars to Windows 7. We've been tracking this strategy ever since, and in May, Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 reached 12.2% worldwide (including custom editions). In the U.S., Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 averaged 17% usage share during the last three days of May.
This worthless piece of crap still gets a cheap mod-up.
The only purpose it serves is to save the geek the trouble of trying to understand why Linux as a client OS is on life support. StatCounter Global Stats
I went to the doctor a month ago for some antibiotics - total cost TO ME (insurance picked up more) = $758. I could have purchased a plane ticket to Costa Rica, a couple nights in San Jose, and the medication cheaper than my visit to the local clinic.
This assumes you were fit to travel and the Costa Rican drugs would have been of the same quality.
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I had a lawyer tell me the reason it was the secret service was because the calling cards put it in their jurisdiction. I can't remember the exact reason, but something along the lines of calling cards are a promise of pay, or some other legal mumbo jumbo.
Look before you phreak.
Today the agency's primary investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States.
Since 1984, the Secret Service's investigative responsibilities have expanded to include crimes that involve financial institution fraud, computer and telecommunications fraud, false identification documents, access device fraud, advance fee fraud, electronic funds transfers and money laundering as it relates to the agency's core violations.
US Secret Service
The USA Patriot Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001, mandated the U.S. Secret Service to establish a nationwide network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTFs) to investigate and prevent attacks on financial and critical infrastructures in the United States. As such, this mandate expanded on the agency's first ECTF -- the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force, formed in 1995 -- which brought together federal, state and local law enforcement, prosecutors, private-industry companies, and academia.
The network prioritizes investigations that meet the following criteria:
Significant economic or community impact,
Participation of multiple-district or transnational organized criminal groups,
Use of new technology as a means to commit crime.
United Sttates Secret Service
Does blu ray really reach the definition of "accepted by the public" though?
The neighborhood Red Box rents Blu Ray. Blu Ray disks and players are prominently displayed at the Walmart superstore less than 10 miles up the road.
That is a pretty good working defintion of mainstream - suburban - acceptance.
The Supreme Court disagrees with your AC opinion
The California Supreme Court disagrees.
The US Supreme Court decision was more constrained:
In American constitutional law, the Pruneyard decision is famous for its role in establishing two important rules:
under the California Constitution, individuals may peacefully exercise their right to free speech in parts of private shopping centers regularly held open to the public, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by the shopping centers
under the U.S. Constitution, states can provide their citizens with broader rights in their constitutions than under the federal Constitution, so long as those rights do not infringe on any federal constitutional rights.
In refusing to follow Pruneyard, the state supreme courts of New York and Wisconsin both attacked it as an unprincipled and whimsical decision. In 2003, the European Court of Human Rights also considered and refused to follow Pruneyard in a United Kingdom case.
Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins
I think a distinction can be made between the interior of the stores that border the commons and the commons itself.
I do not like deception. Using bait used to draw subjects to the hidden camera. Public performance without the knowledge or consent of the participants. This does have the look or smell of "free speech."
''Samsung would likely seek to lower the payment to about $10 in exchange for a deeper alliance with Microsoft''
As the geek tells the story, global industrial giants like General Dynamics and Samsung are being bullied and battered into submission to Microsoft --
Here at last is something closer to the truth:
Strategic alliances are being forged among companies with many common interests --
while Little Brother Evo and Big Daddy Google watch helplessly from the sidelines? This makes no sense whatever if Microsof's patent portfolio is a weak as the geek likes to think.
MS is suing the smaller fish first to set a precedent and build some kind of case for going after the big phone makers
There aren't many bigger fish in the corporate waters than General Dynamics. The fifth largest defense contractor in the world. Guns, tanks and submarines. The first NSA certified smartphone. The smartphone used by Obama.
Amazon wants developers to cough up $100 for the privilege of being listed on their site. Of course they're graciously waive the fee the first year but to me this seems like a deliberate barrier to stop all those scumbags with their free apps and open source ports from bothering listing on the service at all.
If you want your product placed where people can find it, expect to cough up some dough,
Doesn't the Immigrations and Customs department have better things to do than the bidding of corporate lobbyists?
Customs = Foreign Trade and Commerce.
The promotion and protection of which is a federal responsibility.
The Pixar feature costs $200 million to produce. If it is Toy Story 3, it grosses $635 million abroad in first-run theatrical release and anchors a franchise whose economic impact can be measured in the billions of dollars.
The Party of Disney is in the White House, and even moderate Republicans like Obama tend to be welded at the lips to the Great /Media Sphincter.
The geek wants his free media fix.
His middle class entitlement. You can't "do" P2P without a substantial up-front investment in hardfware and services -- which means the plebs are relegated to the Red Box.
The politician sees multi-billion dollar investments in an industry that from its very beginnings has been a politically potent symbol of American culture and technical dominance
Republican or Democrat, that is a much easier sell to the voters in his home district, especially if that district is a production center like New York, Nashville, central Florida or southern California.
The Department of Mission Creep (excuse me, "Homeland Security") is also wasting resources in pursuit of IP violations. All well and good until someone loses a Trade Center.
Homeland Security brought almost all federal law enforcement agencies and services under a single banner - including the Coast Guard. Something that was long overdue.
Government multi-tasks.
The little fish always whine that the net is woven too tight.
Why in the world is the The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency going after piracy websites, how in the world does something on the internet fall into their jurisdiction
The shrort answer is that crimes that cross our international borders tend to fall under the jurisdiction of those responsible for protecting our borders.
Cyber Crimes Center:
C3 brings the full range of ICE computer and forensic assets together in a single location to combat such Internet-related crimes as:
Possession, manufacture and distribution of images of child abuse.
International money laundering and illegal cyber-banking.
Illegal arms trafficking and illegal export of strategic/controlled commodities.
Drug trafficking (including prohibited pharmaceuticals).
General Smuggling (including the trafficking in stolen art and antiquities; violations of the Endangered Species Act etc.)
Intellectual property rights violations (including music and software).
Immigration violations; identity and benefit fraud
US Immigration & Customs Endforcement: Ctber Crimes
According to Toyota, Scion iQ can only go 50 miles on a single charge.
Traffic? Roads? Weather?
I need to know what I can ask of the car under less than perfect conditions.
I think something like TPB model is there to stay, if necessary they'll just move it to be a TOR onion site, still centralized but anonymous. Not the content itself as that'd be sloooow, just the site itself.
That would cut deep into its traffic.
Too complex. Too geek. Planet Peer - The anonymous networking community
There are many people who shy away from things like Freenet because they believe they are toxic. Something that might bring the Special Victims Unit to their door.
The Pirate Bay is as deep into the shadows as most are willing to go.
There is no obscenity exemption in the Constitution. I've looked.
There is no definition of free speech to be found there, either.
The Constitution was a framework for a federal government. It was not and was never intended to be a statute book or a legal dictonary.
Dictionaries and statute books are bound to a particular time and place.
The Revolutionary generation believed that political debate should be open and fearless. But they were welll aware that libel and slander can profound corrupt that debate.
They gave a lot of thought to failed republics and empires like Rome.
They did not take as their slogan "Anthing Goes."
It seems that whenever someone has the solution for copyright problems, it always involves somebody else making sacrifices
Or, to put it another way, the "outdated business method" is to expect payment for something which cost $200 million to produce.
Sacrifice takes many forms.
Pixar can go producing amiable kid-safe titles like "Cars 2" with very little financial risk.
It is the animated film with an adult intelligence and impeccable geek cred like "The Incredibles" and "Wall-E" that is in danger.
Besides, I though we left terminal computing (either smart or dumb) back in the '80's. Screw that crap, I'll keep my data and aps on my own computer, thank you.
Programs and data may belong to your employer and not to you.
The terminal was a desk-bound heavyweight. The smartphone or tablet is fragile, feather-light by comparison, easily mislaid and a magnet for thieves.
"John, the Penquin Club called to say you left your laptop behind at the bar."
Office 365 can be bundled with a subscription or lease for full - local - install of the MS Office suite beginning at $16/mo, as I recall.
and above all put it on plain english, not that "Lawyer Speak" you see on legal documents (which I'm quite positive are there to baffle and bamboozle the general public)
Legal documents can have an extraordinarily long life.
"Plain English" is deceptively easy to write. The problem is that sixty or seventy-five years down the road it may not be all that easy to read.
So if I, all by myself, draws up a will, I'm breaking the law?
When my grandmother moved into a nursing home, I needed to clear title to her house.
That was my introduction to the mischief and malice that can be written into a will -- and how the heirs trying to put things to right on their own --- and doing it on the cheap -- can only make things worse.
...pay someone (such as Mozilla...) for support? It's Free Software. They've got the source and the license
1 "The Enterprise" is fragmented.
There must be tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of corporate enterprises whose core competence is not to be found in software development.
2 "The Enterprise" has Microsoft.
Do you want corporate-wide deployment and management with fine-grained control?
No problem.
3 "The Enterprise's" interest in FOSS is wholly pragmatic.
Do you want to play internally generated H.264 videos in the corporate browser? If the answer is "Yes" and you are running Chrome, Safari or IE 9, you are good to go.
The question is, what the hell does Mozilla want? I don't see a vision.
How can it have a vision of its own?
Mozilla remains, for all practical purposes, bound hand and foot to Google:
The receivable from this search engine provider represented 71% and 80% of the December 32, 2009 and outstanding receivables respectively.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements: Note 9 - Concentration of Risks
There were two zingers in this month's news from Net Applications:
The iPad has 0.92% share of all browsing. In other words, the iPad has 53 times the usage share of its nearest competitor.
When Microsoft decided not to support XP for Internet Explorer 9, they narrowed the front for the browser wars to Windows 7. We've been tracking this strategy ever since, and in May, Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 reached 12.2% worldwide (including custom editions). In the U.S., Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 averaged 17% usage share during the last three days of May.
Headlines
Firefox, all versions, all platforms: 22%
IE 6 10% IE 8: 31% IE 9: 4%
Chrome 11 10%
Firefox is the new legacy browser, the browser for platforms in decline.
Especially since they applied for a patent for listening in on online conversations...
Name one enterprise-grade VoIP client and service that doesn't give your employer the ability to listen in on calls.
Right advice, wrong OS.
Hell.
This worthless piece of crap still gets a cheap mod-up.
The only purpose it serves is to save the geek the trouble of trying to understand why Linux as a client OS is on life support. StatCounter Global Stats
I'll be staying on an island accessible only by boat.
For one damn week, kick the habit. Ditch the tech and enjoy your time with these kids.
How long have these scanners been in place? How many TSA employees are there?
How many are smokers?* How many have been diagnosed with cancer? What sort of cancers are we talking about here?
It seems very early on for any meaningful pattern to have become visible.
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*- consider this shorthand for every common risk factor that might be relevant.
Collectively, twitter is faster and more accurate than news outlets.
Where do you do think these twits get their news?
I went to the doctor a month ago for some antibiotics - total cost TO ME (insurance picked up more) = $758. I could have purchased a plane ticket to Costa Rica, a couple nights in San Jose, and the medication cheaper than my visit to the local clinic.
This assumes you were fit to travel and the Costa Rican drugs would have been of the same quality.
Windows Vista was slower than Windows XP.
When, where, why, and by how much?