But Anne Frank's Diary was published in 1947. Extending that copyright beyond the term in effect at the time it was published is a violation of the constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws.
The geek remains ignorant of the most fundamental distinctions between civil and criminal law.
Over the years, when deciding ex post facto cases, the United States Supreme Court has referred repeatedly to its ruling in Calder v. Bull, in which Justice Samuel Chase held that the prohibition applied only to criminal matters, not civil matters...
Calder v. Bull, 3 U.S. 386 (1798) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided four important points of constitutional law.
First that the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution only applies to criminal acts, and then only if the law does one of four things: ''1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender.'' The decision restates this later as laws ''hat create, or aggregate, the crime; or encrease(sic) the punishment, or change the rules of evidence, for the purpose of conviction.''
The cash register was invented by a saloon keeper who grew tired of bartenders tapping the till and not the keg.
The downside to doing business in cash has always been the need the need to embed expensive physical defenses against fraud and theft. The merchant will need a safe or a vault. Alarm systems. Video. Perhaps an armored courier service.
Every transaction leaves a trail.
Given time and patience all but your most mundane purchases can be traced.
By PC do you mean Windows? or can we expect something more useful?
Linux --- all flavors --- represents 1.7% of the desktop market. Win 7, alone, 53%, Win 10. 12%. Desktop Operating System Market Share The PC gamer who has the hardware needed to run the latest AAA titles is almost certainly running Windows.
Reading these posts, I can't help wondering how the geek would respond if someone at Microsoft were to cancel an order for a Surface laptop because its CEO thought a blogger was too persistent, too visible and too annoying a critic.
Why isn't this article entitled "Red Hat Linux executive tells the sheeple to quit buying Red Hat Linux - there are plenty of identical and cheaper alternatives available?"
Because it wouldn't be true?
Of the myriad changes found in RHEL 7, a few are certain to cause consternation. First and foremost of those is the move to the Systemd system and process manager. This represents a major departure from Red Hat's -- and Linux's -- history and from the tried-and-true Unix philosophy of using simple, modular tools for critical infrastructure components. Systemd replaces the simplicity of Init scripts with a major management system that offers new features and capabilities but adds significant complexity.
Both sides of the Systemd divide have their adherents, but in RHEL 7, the Systemd argument has clearly won. I believe, however, that this will ultimately rankle many veteran Linux admins, and we may be on the road to a real schism in the RHEL community and in the Linux world at large.
Slashdot was "News for Nerds"
Lately though, half the posts are some SJW topic. Bring back the tech.
You can't have news sections of general interest like "Your Rights Online" and ignore gender issues in tech. You can't be a professional in tech and ignore gender issues in education or in the workplace.
Many websites are blocking Windows XP as it doesn't support stronger than SHA-1 certs so the numbers will be skewed.
But not enough to matter.
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of HitsLink Analytics and SharePost clients. The network includes over 40,000 websites, and spans the globe. We 'count' unique visitors to our network sites, and only count one unique visit to each network site per day. This is part of our quality control process to prevent fraud, and ensure the most accurate portrayal of Internet usage market share.
The data is compiled from approximately 160 million unique visits per month. The information published on www.netmarketshare.com is an aggregation of the data from this network of hosted website traffic statistics.
In addition, we classify 430+ referral sources identified as search engines. Aggregate traffic referrals from these engines are summarized and reported monthly. The statistics for search engines include both organic and sponsored referrals.
These statistics include monthly information on key statistics such as browser trends (e.g. Internet Explorer vs. Firefox market share), search engine referral data (e.g. Yahoo vs. Bing vs. Google traffic market share) and operating system share (Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux market share or even the iOS market share vs. Android) The data is made available free of charge on a monthly basis that includes monthly usage market share and trends for browsers, operating systems and search engines.
I would like to see some examples of sites which are blocking XP and draw numbers on the scale of, let us say, Amazon.com, CNN, Fox News, Disney or Universal Studios.
Open Source highway gothic font created by Red Hat.
In a crowded and eye-searing web page, Red Hat describes Overpass is a web font family "inspired" by Highway Gothic. In truly microscopic type, Red Hat concludes by saying that "Today's enterprise brands all have distinct typographic expressions. In the software arena, Overpass is strongly aligned to [the] Red Hat brand."
To me, this reads as something less than an unqualified commitment to open source licensing. What matters now, however, is that nowhere does Red Hat endorse the use of Overpass for highway signage. It wasn't designed or tested for that purpose.
Jurisdictions that adopt Clearview must purchase a standard license for type, a one-time charge of between $175 (for one font) and $795 (for the full 13-font typeface family) and up, depending on the number of workstations.
That doesn't seems like a very good use of tax money, for something that can be nondestructively reused once created.
To install a sign:
All costs listed are for a complete sign assembly in place, including all legend, fabricating, transportation, labor, hardware, and painting of posts.
Sign panels:
Regulatory/Warning/Marker: $15 to 18 / sq.ft. Large Guide Signs: $20 to 25 / sq.ft. Electronic Variable Message Sign: $50,000 to $150,000 each.
Sign Posts:
U-Channel: $125 to $200 each Square Tube (Telespar): $10 to $15 per foot
Large Steel Breakaway Posts: $15 to $30 per foot Cantilever Sign: $15,000 to $20,000 each Sign Bridge: $30,000 to $60,000 each
Foundations:
Square Tube: $150 - $250 each Breakaway Post: $250 to $750 each
Cantilever / Bridge: $6,000 - $7,000 each
STOP signs are considered among the most expensive signs. Due to their critical importance in intersection safety, they must be replaced as soon as is reasonably feasible - even if that means driving 300+ miles round trip at 3 AM, at $1.00 per mile for the truck, and $25-$40 per hour overtime for each sign crewperson. Taking this into account, a simple $75 STOP sign suddenly becomes a $500+ item.
Engineering costs with respect to signing are more difficult to define. If a 3 month study results in installation of only 3 signs, it may not be equitable to charge the whole egineering cost to those installations. Normally, engineering costs are treated separately, but if there is a need to take them into account, then a rule of thumb estimate is engineering cost = 10% to 15% of construction cost.
Precision manufacturing and economies of scale work against you.
The making of a Lego brick requires very high temperatures and enormous pieces of equipment, so machines, rather than people handle most of their creation.
When the ABS granules arrive at Lego manufacturing facilities, they're vacuumed into several storage silos. The average Lego plant has about fourteen silos, and each can hold about 33 tons of ABS granules. When production begins, the granules travel through tubes to the injection molding machines. The machines use very accurate molds --- their precision tolerance is often as little as 0.002 millimeters.
A British filmmaker has forced the people who decide how to censor films to watch a 10-hour movie of paint drying on a wall following a protest fundraising campaign.
Does viewing the film imply viewing the whole of it in real time --- or that it can't be broken down into smaller, more manageable, pieces that can be screened independently?
The easiest way to put an end to stunts like this is to blandly give your grass-growing documentary an inoffensive rating without any further comment.
Then "the others" need to learn that without the white hats bringing things to attention, the criminal scum would already be abusing them left, right, and center.
If you prefer your security by obscurity, good luck.
You still don't get it. This isn't about "security through obscurity." It is about Shodan.
It is about how the geek is perceived by others. It is about how he undermines relationships with those outside his own community for what he perceives to be the greater good.
Because sweeping this under the rug means bad guys won't ever attack these devices. *rolls eyes* Their point won't have been made until these *groan* IoT *groan* device making shitheads secure their crapware.
The geek makes this argument whenever one of his pet "white hat" hacking projects is clearly open to abuse.
The problem here is that the argument appeals only to other geeks --- not to those who see only an invasion of privacy made possible --- made easier --- by a search engine like Shodan. That a door was unlocked or the lock was broken does not imply a right to enter.
The geek needs to learn that others see him as the shithead whether he is wearing the white hat or the black.
Older drivers are prized because they usually own their own cars, have adequate auto insurance and, according to insurance statistics, have fewer crashes.
Fewer crashes because they are on the road less often?
The infosec community came to defend Shodan, and even its founder said that Shodan is uselessly branded as a tool of evil, saying that attackers have their own scanning tools.
It won't matter to the families of the children you have exposed that other scanning tools are available. Yours is public and visible --- and it has a deliberately provocative name. You can't search Google for Shodan and miss the connection.
Enterprise Linux is a different beast altogether from desktop Linux. When someone can pay for professional support, that's typically what they get. If you think Linux is inherently inconsistent and unstable, it shows your own lack of knowledge of the platform.
It shows how the Linux platform can appear to someone who cannot afford enterprise-grade technical support.
Those that are not responsible will just buy or print a fake "license plate" (or more likely, skip the license plate entirely) and fly their drone into a car and then walk away.
and if the owner of the drone can be traced by other means, what then?
The geek's willingness to amp up a routine civil case into a criminal one is astonishing.
More than thirty years in tech, and I have yet to see first-hand, or hear second-hand, of one, single harassment case.
There is safety in posting as an anonymous coward. ---
But, to my ears, you describe a male-dominated workforce that has circled the wagons and s profoundly hostile and suspicious of women:
men actively avoid meeting one-on-one with women. Two people need to talk about a project? If it's a man and a woman, the man (if he has a brain) will refuse to meet anywhere but a public space. No man will mentor a women, for fear of being accused of ulterior motives. Male-dominated teams actively avoid hiring women, because doing so risks unfounded harassment complaints, gender discrimination lawsuits, etc..
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But Anne Frank's Diary was published in 1947. Extending that copyright beyond the term in effect at the time it was published is a violation of the constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws.
The geek remains ignorant of the most fundamental distinctions between civil and criminal law.
Over the years, when deciding ex post facto cases, the United States Supreme Court has referred repeatedly to its ruling in Calder v. Bull, in which Justice Samuel Chase held that the prohibition applied only to criminal matters, not civil matters...
Ex post facto law
Calder v. Bull, 3 U.S. 386 (1798) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided four important points of constitutional law.
First that the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution only applies to criminal acts, and then only if the law does one of four things: ''1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender.'' The decision restates this later as laws ''hat create, or aggregate, the crime; or encrease(sic) the punishment, or change the rules of evidence, for the purpose of conviction.''
Calfer v. Bull
The cash register was invented by a saloon keeper who grew tired of bartenders tapping the till and not the keg.
The downside to doing business in cash has always been the need the need to embed expensive physical defenses against fraud and theft. The merchant will need a safe or a vault. Alarm systems. Video. Perhaps an armored courier service.
Every transaction leaves a trail.
Given time and patience all but your most mundane purchases can be traced.
Any government interested in keeping its data and secrets safe but runs Windows is likely populated by imbeciles.
But an OS designed to serve Putin's interests is a better alternative? The geek mind at work is a fascinating thing to watch.
This is how social justice warrior feminists destroy companies, by imposing their own sense of self-hatred on their customers.
This is how Microsoft wins acceptance for Cortana in the workplace.
The geek who wants to remain employable leaves his blow-up dolls at home and doesn't expect his corporate assigned PDA to double as a sex toy.
Cortana responds to speech.
Which means you may be overheard --- a little less embarrassing, perhaps, then being caught masturbating in the men's room, but still....
By PC do you mean Windows? or can we expect something more useful?
Linux --- all flavors --- represents 1.7% of the desktop market. Win 7, alone, 53%, Win 10. 12%. Desktop Operating System Market Share The PC gamer who has the hardware needed to run the latest AAA titles is almost certainly running Windows.
Reading these posts, I can't help wondering how the geek would respond if someone at Microsoft were to cancel an order for a Surface laptop because its CEO thought a blogger was too persistent, too visible and too annoying a critic.
Why isn't this article entitled "Red Hat Linux executive tells the sheeple to quit buying Red Hat Linux - there are plenty of identical and cheaper alternatives available?"
Because it wouldn't be true?
Of the myriad changes found in RHEL 7, a few are certain to cause consternation. First and foremost of those is the move to the Systemd system and process manager. This represents a major departure from Red Hat's -- and Linux's -- history and from the tried-and-true Unix philosophy of using simple, modular tools for critical infrastructure components. Systemd replaces the simplicity of Init scripts with a major management system that offers new features and capabilities but adds significant complexity.
Both sides of the Systemd divide have their adherents, but in RHEL 7, the Systemd argument has clearly won. I believe, however, that this will ultimately rankle many veteran Linux admins, and we may be on the road to a real schism in the RHEL community and in the Linux world at large.
Review: RHEL 7 lands with a jolt [August 2014]
Slashdot was "News for Nerds"
Lately though, half the posts are some SJW topic.
Bring back the tech.
You can't have news sections of general interest like "Your Rights Online" and ignore gender issues in tech. You can't be a professional in tech and ignore gender issues in education or in the workplace.
The stained glass icon for the Windows OS is long overdue for retirement. It is --- to speak plainly --- nothing more than a license to troll.
Many websites are blocking Windows XP as it doesn't support stronger than SHA-1 certs so the numbers will be skewed.
But not enough to matter.
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of HitsLink Analytics and SharePost clients.
The network includes over 40,000 websites, and spans the globe.
We 'count' unique visitors to our network sites, and only count one unique visit to each network site per day. This is part of our quality control process to prevent fraud, and ensure the most accurate portrayal of Internet usage market share.
The data is compiled from approximately 160 million unique visits per month.
The information published on www.netmarketshare.com is an aggregation of the data from this network of hosted website traffic statistics.
In addition, we classify 430+ referral sources identified as search engines. Aggregate traffic referrals from these engines are summarized and reported monthly. The statistics for search engines include both organic and sponsored referrals.
These statistics include monthly information on key statistics such as browser trends (e.g. Internet Explorer vs. Firefox market share), search engine referral data (e.g. Yahoo vs. Bing vs. Google traffic market share) and operating system share (Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux market share or even the iOS market share vs. Android) The data is made available free of charge on a monthly basis that includes monthly usage market share and trends for browsers, operating systems and search engines.
I would like to see some examples of sites which are blocking XP and draw numbers on the scale of, let us say, Amazon.com, CNN, Fox News, Disney or Universal Studios.
Fucking explain DRM then.
20 to 40 million music tracks. 20,000 feature-length films, accessible instantly to subscribers paying about $10-$15 month.
Open Source highway gothic font created by Red Hat.
In a crowded and eye-searing web page, Red Hat describes Overpass is a web font family "inspired" by Highway Gothic. In truly microscopic type, Red Hat concludes by saying that "Today's enterprise brands all have distinct typographic expressions. In the software arena, Overpass is strongly aligned to [the] Red Hat brand."
To me, this reads as something less than an unqualified commitment to open source licensing. What matters now, however, is that nowhere does Red Hat endorse the use of Overpass for highway signage. It wasn't designed or tested for that purpose.
Jurisdictions that adopt Clearview must purchase a standard license for type, a one-time charge of between $175 (for one font) and $795 (for the full 13-font typeface family) and up, depending on the number of workstations.
That doesn't seems like a very good use of tax money, for something that can be nondestructively reused once created.
To install a sign:
All costs listed are for a complete sign assembly in place, including all legend, fabricating, transportation, labor, hardware, and painting of posts.
Sign panels:
Regulatory/Warning/Marker: $15 to 18 / sq.ft.
Large Guide Signs: $20 to 25 / sq.ft.
Electronic Variable Message Sign: $50,000 to $150,000 each.
Sign Posts:
U-Channel: $125 to $200 each
Square Tube (Telespar): $10 to $15 per foot
Large Steel Breakaway Posts: $15 to $30 per foot
Cantilever Sign: $15,000 to $20,000 each
Sign Bridge: $30,000 to $60,000 each
Foundations:
Square Tube: $150 - $250 each
Breakaway Post: $250 to $750 each
Cantilever / Bridge: $6,000 - $7,000 each
STOP signs are considered among the most expensive signs. Due to their critical importance in intersection safety, they must be replaced as soon as is reasonably feasible - even if that means driving 300+ miles round trip at 3 AM, at $1.00 per mile for the truck, and $25-$40 per hour overtime for each sign crewperson. Taking this into account, a simple $75 STOP sign suddenly becomes a $500+ item.
Engineering costs with respect to signing are more difficult to define. If a 3 month study results in installation of only 3 signs, it may not be equitable to charge the whole egineering cost to those installations. Normally, engineering costs are treated separately, but if there is a need to take them into account, then a rule of thumb estimate is engineering cost = 10% to 15% of construction cost.
Costs of Traffic Signs
The making of a Lego brick requires very high temperatures and enormous pieces of equipment, so machines, rather than people handle most of their creation.
When the ABS granules arrive at Lego manufacturing facilities, they're vacuumed into several storage silos. The average Lego plant has about fourteen silos, and each can hold about 33 tons of ABS granules. When production begins, the granules travel through tubes to the injection molding machines. The machines use very accurate molds --- their precision tolerance is often as little as 0.002 millimeters.
How Lego Bricks Work
They may have a harder time with that here, though. I doubt they will find a lot of capital C consumers here.
You have got to be kidding me. The geek has an insatiable appetite for pop culture. ThinkGeek, This Is Why I'm Broke
A British filmmaker has forced the people who decide how to censor films to watch a 10-hour movie of paint drying on a wall following a protest fundraising campaign.
Does viewing the film imply viewing the whole of it in real time --- or that it can't be broken down into smaller, more manageable, pieces that can be screened independently?
The easiest way to put an end to stunts like this is to blandly give your grass-growing documentary an inoffensive rating without any further comment.
Then "the others" need to learn that without the white hats bringing things to attention, the criminal scum would already be abusing them left, right, and center. If you prefer your security by obscurity, good luck.
You still don't get it. This isn't about "security through obscurity." It is about Shodan.
It is about how the geek is perceived by others. It is about how he undermines relationships with those outside his own community for what he perceives to be the greater good.
Because sweeping this under the rug means bad guys won't ever attack these devices. *rolls eyes* Their point won't have been made until these *groan* IoT *groan* device making shitheads secure their crapware.
The geek makes this argument whenever one of his pet "white hat" hacking projects is clearly open to abuse.
The problem here is that the argument appeals only to other geeks --- not to those who see only an invasion of privacy made possible --- made easier --- by a search engine like Shodan. That a door was unlocked or the lock was broken does not imply a right to enter.
The geek needs to learn that others see him as the shithead whether he is wearing the white hat or the black.
Maybe they don't like the concept of thoughtcrime.
It is again rather a pity that Orwell didn't live long enough to see the geek in full flight.
The crime is defined as the possession of child pornography. That is an act not a thought.
Older drivers are prized because they usually own their own cars, have adequate auto insurance and, according to insurance statistics, have fewer crashes.
Fewer crashes because they are on the road less often?
Male drivers 65+ average 10,000 miles on the road a year. That is about 9,000 miles less than males aged 35-54. Average Annual Miles per Driver by Age Group [Feb 2015]
The infosec community came to defend Shodan, and even its founder said that Shodan is uselessly branded as a tool of evil, saying that attackers have their own scanning tools.
It won't matter to the families of the children you have exposed that other scanning tools are available. Yours is public and visible --- and it has a deliberately provocative name. You can't search Google for Shodan and miss the connection.
Enterprise Linux is a different beast altogether from desktop Linux. When someone can pay for professional support, that's typically what they get.
If you think Linux is inherently inconsistent and unstable, it shows your own lack of knowledge of the platform.
It shows how the Linux platform can appear to someone who cannot afford enterprise-grade technical support.
Those that are not responsible will just buy or print a fake "license plate" (or more likely, skip the license plate entirely) and fly their drone into a car and then walk away.
and if the owner of the drone can be traced by other means, what then?
The geek's willingness to amp up a routine civil case into a criminal one is astonishing.
More than thirty years in tech, and I have yet to see first-hand, or hear second-hand, of one, single harassment case.
There is safety in posting as an anonymous coward. ---
But, to my ears, you describe a male-dominated workforce that has circled the wagons and s profoundly hostile and suspicious of women:
men actively avoid meeting one-on-one with women. Two people need to talk about a project? If it's a man and a woman, the man (if he has a brain) will refuse to meet anywhere but a public space. No man will mentor a women, for fear of being accused of ulterior motives. Male-dominated teams actively avoid hiring women, because doing so risks unfounded harassment complaints, gender discrimination lawsuits, etc..