They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. .
"The magistrate should obey the Laws, the People should obey the magistrate." - Almanack 1734.
Franklin is always quotable.
But Franklin was always a man of the city.
The man who reforms and professionalizes the night watch - a man who thinks in terms of maintaining the public roads, the postal service, the fire department, the library.
The liberties which concern him most are not necessarily those of the individual, but of the community in which he lives.
If a presumed-innocent person drops an actual key into a hole-in-the-ground, and refuses to divulge its location, the police can't incarcerate him simply because he refuses to say where it's located. That's loss of liberty without due process. They have to let him go. .
No they don't.
The procedure is the same:
The judge will decide whether the demand for the key is legitimate. The judge will decide whether it is reasonable to believe you can produce it.
That is "due process."
If his answer to both questions is "Yes" then you can either cough up the key or reconsider your options from inside a 6x8 cell.
Whenever I trash MS-DOS 1.0 on Slashdot, I get a contradictions ("arguments" presumes too much actual knowledge) from people who insist that it's the best OS that could have been implemented on the hardware available in 1981. The counterexamples I usually answer are things like CP/M (the leader before commodity PCs took over) .
You could have argued the technical superiority of CP/M-86. But it arrived too lste for the launch of the IBN PC and at a $200 premium - your argument had to be pretty damn good.
A very salient point: If they're still a danger to society at large, why the hell are they not behind bars?
Answer: Because without a group of people to vilify there is no easy way to sway the mindset of the public at large .
Have you ever taken a look at your county's registry of sex offenders?
It tends to strip away any illusions you might have about how these men came to make the list.
It wasn't for pissing in the park:
From upstate New York:
Victims: Females Ages 1, 4, 7, and 10
Attempted sexual intercourse
MoreThanOnce Deviate Sexual Intercourse MoreThanOnce Sexual Contact
MoreThanOnce Promoting/Possessing Sexual Performance by a Child
Force used: Threat
Computer used: Yes
Pornography involved: Yes
So your standard $50 DVD player can dim the lights in your living room when a movie starts? That's just one example of hundreds of little features that become trivial when everything in your house (not just bulbs) has a data connection
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That doesn't tell me why devices living inside your home network needs IPv6.
Microsoft isn't evil. It simply spends a lot of it's time exploring the boundaries of the law around the world. .
Which makes it no different from any other public or private corporation in the world.
If you can name an enterprise that operates on a global scale, rakes in $60 billion a year in revenues, and has never had its own encounters with the law, you are welcome to do so - now.
While RenderMan is used in Asia this is the first certified Asian training program in RenderMan.
Roadside Romeo, the first big budget 3D feature in India from Disney/Yashraj has been entirely rendered on RenderMan at VCL. Many other studios are on the verge of adopting RenderMan as their rendering solution.
The criminal trial won't be based on a single download.
It will be based on behavior that exposed a lot of traffic in movies and music that could be traced to your account.
Traffic that could - let us say - be monitored more closely and with more sophisticated tools under a warrant.
The standard for conviction is guilt beyond a "reasonable" doubt.
The danger for the geek lies in over-confidence and a tendency to spin out theories that are increasingly implausible - as if every argument had equal value.
It's easy to start a grassroots campaign to get a new bill instated that will have this one eclipsed or overturned. We just need everyone we know to write letters to their congressmen -- Letters written on hundred dollar bills. .
The production budget for WALL-E was $180 million.
If you know a congressman who doesn't like to see hundreds of millions of dollars being invested in clean industry, skilled labor and high-paying jobs in his home district, I would very much like to meet him.
I doubt you are going to find him in California, New York, or Florida - not in this election and not in an economy where every export dollar matters.
When you live within an office suite for nine hours out of twenty-four, six days out of seven, you should find a new job. .
Where?
MS Office isn't simply Word or Excel or Outlook or PowerPoint. It is every application that is woven into the MS Office eco-system. Your Small Business Accouting progran, for example.
For your employer, there is no excape. The office suite is in use 24/7/365. Staffing matters. Deadlines matter. Productivity matters.
That sound you hear is the sound of a company dieing...seriously .
Firefox has a built-in spell checker. Seriously.
MS is the first U.S. industrial company in ten years to get a AAA credit rating from S&P and Moody's. It's a damn short list these days.
If your company's bonds are rated "below investment grade" - aka "junk" - and the odds are 7 in 10 that they are - then you are the one who is looking death in the face, not Microsoft.
Can it recognise that someone's about to pick up a chair? .
In a financial crisis the prize goes to the last man standing
Microsoft is the first U.S. industrial corporation in ten years to earn a AAA bond rating from S&P and Moody's.
More than 70 percent of S&P ratings for U.S. nonfinancial companies are currently below investment grade and classified as "junk", or speculative-grade bonds. That's up from 32 percent in 1980.Microsoft wins top credit ratings from S&P, Moody's
A subtle "if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear" poke. Haha. .
The international border is inherently a "no man's land."
Nothing is fixed or certain until you are safely across the line - one side or the other - and not always even then.
It makes perfect sense to limit your exposure.
In real life, spies hate gadgets. No matter how cleverly disguised, the gadget is always a danger. It's a lesson in survival the geek might usefully remember.
Probably the best solution is to have a hidden partition with the secure operating system whereby the secure operating system is only booted if a "key" (typically a USB memory module or other USB device) is inserted during the boot process AND then the corresponding password entered at the prompt. .
It would seem likely that USB key would be taken in for examination as well. If border security sees a key and a lock what happens when they ask you to open the door?
The border police on duty likely have no knowledge of TrueCrypt and its various technical modes (that information is above their pay grade)
That assumption strikes me as pure Geek - just a little too arrogant and careless.
You can't make a deal with a prosecutor if you have zero leverage. .
You have leverage only if you have something significant to offer in return.
Breaking into the e-mail of a state governor and vice presidential candidate is not the best place to begin. The prosecutor's first instinct will be to set an example.
He can stay out of jail for now as long as he stays off his computer Can someone explain to me why judges get away with doing things like this, in the 21st century? .
What part of "he can stay out of jail" don't you understand?
The grand jury Indictment on the felony charge implies some loss of privileges.
He can accept the terms of his release or spend the holidays looking out at the world from the wrong side of an electrified fence.
This bill is going nowhere until the next session of Congress - and that on the assumption that Obama wins and the Democrats have a much stronger hold on the Senate.
Slashdot Mirror
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"The magistrate should obey the Laws, the People should obey the magistrate."
- Almanack 1734.
Franklin is always quotable.
But Franklin was always a man of the city.
The man who reforms and professionalizes the night watch - a man who thinks in terms of maintaining the public roads, the postal service, the fire department, the library.
The liberties which concern him most are not necessarily those of the individual, but of the community in which he lives.
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No they don't.
The procedure is the same:
The judge will decide whether the demand for the key is legitimate. The judge will decide whether it is reasonable to believe you can produce it.
That is "due process."
If his answer to both questions is "Yes" then you can either cough up the key or reconsider your options from inside a 6x8 cell.
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You won't be missed.
Take a look at Amazon's sales charts.
Sandbox games like The Sims and Spoor have enormous appeal outside the hardcore geek-gamer community.
The SIMS 3 has already hit the top 40 in PC game sales at Amazon and it won't be released until February.
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You could have argued the technical superiority of CP/M-86. But it arrived too lste for the launch of the IBN PC and at a $200 premium - your argument had to be pretty damn good.
Answer: Because without a group of people to vilify there is no easy way to sway the mindset of the public at large
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Have you ever taken a look at your county's registry of sex offenders?
It tends to strip away any illusions you might have about how these men came to make the list.
It wasn't for pissing in the park:
From upstate New York:
Victims: Females Ages 1, 4, 7, and 10
Attempted sexual intercourse
MoreThanOnce Deviate Sexual Intercourse
MoreThanOnce Sexual Contact
MoreThanOnce Promoting/Possessing Sexual Performance by a Child
Force used: Threat
Computer used: Yes
Pornography involved: Yes
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The Amazon.com Best Sellers in PC Games [4 PM ET - Oct 15]
1. WoW: Wrath of the Liche King
2. Fallout 3
3. Spore
7. Fallout 3 Collector's Edition
8. Fallout 3 $120 Amazon.com Survival Edition
9. Far Cry 2
11. Dead Space {EA]
16. C&C: Red Alert 3
19. FIFA Soccer [EA]
20. C&C: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition
21. SIMS 2: Apartment Life
26. Crysis Warhead
39. The SIMS 3 [February Release]
So behold the power of the Geek in Mob Force:
"The Great American Poop-Out."
No one is listening, no one gives a damn.
You flood a forum you debase a forum until no one takes it - or you - seriously.
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That doesn't tell me why devices living inside your home network needs IPv6.
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When the dice are loaded in your favor, you don't need luck.
Microsoft is the first U.S. "industrial" company to get a AAA credit rating from S&P and Moody's in ten years.
It's become a damn short list.
If your employer is trying to raise money, the odds are 7 in 10 that his bonds are rated "below investment grade" - junk.
In November Vista will have 20% of the desktop market - based on mass-market webstats - and Windows 90% of the whole.
Top Operating System Share Trend
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Which makes it no different from any other public or private corporation in the world.
If you can name an enterprise that operates on a global scale, rakes in $60 billion a year in revenues, and has never had its own encounters with the law, you are welcome to do so - now.
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I can find no evidence that WALL-E was anything other than 100% American in casting and production. WALL-E
Pixar partners with Maximus to provide RenderMan Training in India [October 5, 2008]
While RenderMan is used in Asia this is the first certified Asian training program in RenderMan.
Roadside Romeo, the first big budget 3D feature in India from Disney/Yashraj has been entirely rendered on RenderMan at VCL. Many other studios are on the verge of adopting RenderMan as their rendering solution.
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The criminal trial won't be based on a single download.
It will be based on behavior that exposed a lot of traffic in movies and music that could be traced to your account.
Traffic that could - let us say - be monitored more closely and with more sophisticated tools under a warrant.
The standard for conviction is guilt beyond a "reasonable" doubt.
The danger for the geek lies in over-confidence and a tendency to spin out theories that are increasingly implausible - as if every argument had equal value.
.
The production budget for WALL-E was $180 million.
If you know a congressman who doesn't like to see hundreds of millions of dollars being invested in clean industry, skilled labor and high-paying jobs in his home district, I would very much like to meet him.
I doubt you are going to find him in California, New York, or Florida - not in this election and not in an economy where every export dollar matters.
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Where?
MS Office isn't simply Word or Excel or Outlook or PowerPoint. It is every application that is woven into the MS Office eco-system. Your Small Business Accouting progran, for example.
For your employer, there is no excape. The office suite is in use 24/7/365. Staffing matters. Deadlines matter. Productivity matters.
The temp has to slip into place without a glitch.
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When you live within an office suite for nine hours out of twenty-four, six days out of seven, the UI matters.
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Market share = survival.
Microsoft's bread & butter is the home and office workhorse.
The Windows PC that can run damn near every client-side app on the planet - including the marquee products of free and open source.
For the server room there is Exchange and SharePoint and...pretty much everything else you might need or want for a small to mid-sized business.
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Firefox has a built-in spell checker. Seriously.
MS is the first U.S. industrial company in ten years to get a AAA credit rating from S&P and Moody's. It's a damn short list these days.
If your company's bonds are rated "below investment grade" - aka "junk" - and the odds are 7 in 10 that they are - then you are the one who is looking death in the face, not Microsoft.
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In a financial crisis the prize goes to the last man standing
Microsoft is the first U.S. industrial corporation in ten years to earn a AAA bond rating from S&P and Moody's.
More than 70 percent of S&P ratings for U.S. nonfinancial companies are currently below investment grade and classified as "junk", or speculative-grade bonds. That's up from 32 percent in 1980. Microsoft wins top credit ratings from S&P, Moody's
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There is no "ruling" here.
Promoters have always known that the star performer is the best guarantee of success at the box office.
Joe Lewis in the ring. Babe Ruth at bat. Elvis on tour.
It is all money in the bank.
Asus ships Windows because they are in this business to make money.
We have been around this track before.
Confirmed orders for the Linux only XO laptop stalled at around 700,000 units. Summary of laptop orders
When MSI ran into serious trouble with Linux returns, the geek was there with 660 excuses. Netbook Return Rates Much Higher For Linux Than Windows
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The international border is inherently a "no man's land."
Nothing is fixed or certain until you are safely across the line - one side or the other - and not always even then.
It makes perfect sense to limit your exposure.
In real life, spies hate gadgets. No matter how cleverly disguised, the gadget is always a danger. It's a lesson in survival the geek might usefully remember.
.
It would seem likely that USB key would be taken in for examination as well. If border security sees a key and a lock what happens when they ask you to open the door?
The border police on duty likely have no knowledge of TrueCrypt and its various technical modes (that information is above their pay grade)
That assumption strikes me as pure Geek - just a little too arrogant and careless.
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You have leverage only if you have something significant to offer in return.
Breaking into the e-mail of a state governor and vice presidential candidate is not the best place to begin. The prosecutor's first instinct will be to set an example.
Can someone explain to me why judges get away with doing things like this, in the 21st century?
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What part of "he can stay out of jail" don't you understand?
The grand jury Indictment on the felony charge implies some loss of privileges.
He can accept the terms of his release or spend the holidays looking out at the world from the wrong side of an electrified fence.
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I'll assume you are living in a suburban fantasy land where hospitals and clinics are not being closed or consolidated.
But it is simply delusional to think that the government does not have a big say in what level of care you can get today
- and will be making most of the big decisions tomorrow when you can no longer afford a private health care plan.
This bill is going nowhere until the next session of Congress - and that on the assumption that Obama wins and the Democrats have a much stronger hold on the Senate.