I think we should look at in terms of how we treat printed media. If you write a letter and send it to someone, they can do whatever they want with it. If you write a letter and staple it to a telephone pole, anyone that happens to walk by it can do whatever they want with it. 3rd party monitoring, such as police monitoring of a private 2-way AIM chat should be equivalent to intercepting and opening someone's letter to a friend or listening in on a conversation. If your talking to someone one on one, you assume that your conversation will be private and known to only your recipient. In a public chat room, it's a different story. You are assuming that whatever you say can be used by anyone because you aren't speaking to a specific person, rather posting text in public domain.
Oh also, ignorance has never been a reliable excuse when it comes to the law. I think saying "but, I didn't KNOW it was logging" would be very difficult to prove or disprove.
Us here at/. should put together a fund for him. 500 people sign up, and commit to $1 a month. A dollar a month, that's really nothing when you think about it. Mabey $1.10 each a month to cover overhead & credit card processing ability.
Dude.. Have you noticed how big this god damn thing is?? Don't you think someones going to notice you lugging in a huge HDTV camera into a theater? Wouldn't a more traditional stealthy micro camera be a more wise choice?
Oh wait, the eye patch and the bird probably already give you away...
Mabey this will make wireless networking less of a novelty and more useful. As far as Home / SOHO usage, i'v found 802.11a/b to be pretty useless. 72m/bit at best, i'v tryed top of the line name brand 802.11a / b access points, and had trouble finding one that would bounce a signal thru a sheet of paper without loss of speed / strength / reliability. I'm not a big wireless networking buff, but it seems to me that 802.16 could make wireless more practical for everyone.
Actually, I don't even think that would cover it.
Math from the story: An earthquake 1/15th the scale of what the predicted one would be cost 44 Billion US dollars.
That means if this earthquake where to happen tommorow, it could cost us 660 Billion dollars to clean up.
As I understand it, in the previous story, they actually ment 97 billion dollars. Not trillion. Bazzar miscalculation.
10 thousand years or so. And the last one was about 8 thousand years ago
That dosen't necessarily mean in exactly 1800 years, at 12 midnight, LA is going to be smitten off the earth. It's a rough figure for an approximate date. Who knows.. there could be an earthquake tommorow, or it could be 4000 years off.
What do you do when someone upgrades their computer? A nic goes bad and they swap it out? (i know that dosent happen very often) but on a wide scale, isn't reseting the MAC address lock everytime someone gets a new computer, wants to plug in their notebook, ect. going to be a real pain in the neck?
Also, if someone logs on to a file-trading network and shares even one MP3 file without permission in "expectation" that others will do the same, full criminal penalties kick in automatically.
"I'd imagine there are, at minimum, several thousand file-swappers meeting this definition," said Polk Wagner
I'd say this is a gross under-estimation... How do you criminalize something everyone is doing? This is just like prohibition, if you make it illegal people will just switch to more secure p2p clients.
anyone else notice that the "# of registered users" counter on the Infinium home page is bogus? try hitting reload a couple times.. then wait a minute or two, and reload again. Strange how it jumps around like that?:)
Also there "Corporate address" seems unlikely.. just for fun, I got a map of the address and overlayed it with a satelite photo.. kindof looks like a beach house to me..
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I think we should look at in terms of how we treat printed media. If you write a letter and send it to someone, they can do whatever they want with it. If you write a letter and staple it to a telephone pole, anyone that happens to walk by it can do whatever they want with it. 3rd party monitoring, such as police monitoring of a private 2-way AIM chat should be equivalent to intercepting and opening someone's letter to a friend or listening in on a conversation. If your talking to someone one on one, you assume that your conversation will be private and known to only your recipient. In a public chat room, it's a different story. You are assuming that whatever you say can be used by anyone because you aren't speaking to a specific person, rather posting text in public domain.
Oh also, ignorance has never been a reliable excuse when it comes to the law. I think saying "but, I didn't KNOW it was logging" would be very difficult to prove or disprove.
My 2 cents.
Us here at /. should put together a fund for him. 500 people sign up, and commit to $1 a month. A dollar a month, that's really nothing when you think about it. Mabey $1.10 each a month to cover overhead & credit card processing ability.
eh.. just an idea
-bk
Redundant??? Why? Come on guys, you all know SOMEONE was going to say it :)
The device never leaves its user's pocket or handbag.
2003 - That bastard stole my grandmothers handbag! 2005 - That bastard hacked my grandmothers handbag and DDOS'ed my pockets!
You'v got a beowulf of servers in your pocket. :)
In other news, Microsoft patents the numbers 0 & 1, rendering all computer code their sole property..
A hefty airtight coolance case to keep your computer circuits from molding.
Dude.. Have you noticed how big this god damn thing is?? Don't you think someones going to notice you lugging in a huge HDTV camera into a theater? Wouldn't a more traditional stealthy micro camera be a more wise choice?
Oh wait, the eye patch and the bird probably already give you away...
(directed at a Krusty Burger employee)
The grease on his forhead alone is worth a bounty!
Mabey this will make wireless networking less of a novelty and more useful. As far as Home / SOHO usage, i'v found 802.11a/b to be pretty useless. 72m/bit at best, i'v tryed top of the line name brand 802.11a / b access points, and had trouble finding one that would bounce a signal thru a sheet of paper without loss of speed / strength / reliability. I'm not a big wireless networking buff, but it seems to me that 802.16 could make wireless more practical for everyone.
Actually, I don't even think that would cover it.
Math from the story: An earthquake 1/15th the scale of what the predicted one would be cost 44 Billion US dollars.
That means if this earthquake where to happen tommorow, it could cost us 660 Billion dollars to clean up.
As I understand it, in the previous story, they actually ment 97 billion dollars. Not trillion. Bazzar miscalculation.
10 thousand years or so. And the last one was about 8 thousand years ago
That dosen't necessarily mean in exactly 1800 years, at 12 midnight, LA is going to be smitten off the earth. It's a rough figure for an approximate date. Who knows.. there could be an earthquake tommorow, or it could be 4000 years off.
you know its true
Flying cars huh? Wonder if they could put a digester on that thing :)
What do you do when someone upgrades their computer? A nic goes bad and they swap it out? (i know that dosent happen very often) but on a wide scale, isn't reseting the MAC address lock everytime someone gets a new computer, wants to plug in their notebook, ect. going to be a real pain in the neck?
- Bombkit
decompileing that java script file on lvl 4 was bad, now i just cant wait to move on to 5.. hehe :|
Also, if someone logs on to a file-trading network and shares even one MP3 file without permission in "expectation" that others will do the same, full criminal penalties kick in automatically.
"I'd imagine there are, at minimum, several thousand file-swappers meeting this definition," said Polk Wagner
I'd say this is a gross under-estimation... How do you criminalize something everyone is doing? This is just like prohibition, if you make it illegal people will just switch to more secure p2p clients.
anyone else notice that the "# of registered users" counter on the Infinium home page is bogus? try hitting reload a couple times.. then wait a minute or two, and reload again. Strange how it jumps around like that? :)
Also there "Corporate address" seems unlikely.. just for fun, I got a map of the address and overlayed it with a satelite photo.. kindof looks like a beach house to me..
overlay in photoshop format jpg version
interesting.. huh?