The FBI ordered a US-based company to pull for them hard drives that are at that company's England-located facilities. The FBI didn't actually do the pulling in England, but they forced the US-based office into sending the order with the warrant.
Nobody's exactly sure why or how the FBI got warrants to take Indymedia's HDs, but their speculation tends to center around the fact that the Feds were spooked by the fact that Indymedia was able to publish RNC delegate names. This unfortuantely means political motivations are going to be questioned no matter what reasoning is brought forward.
Not much we can do at this hour but hold our breath and wait for more info to be released.
its whether the communication is conducted via a method the user has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" using
That's a standard that the existance of the concept of wardriving shoots a nice big hole through...
A wide-open 802.11x access point can be seen as an open invitation onto that network. Afterall, there are many public places that intentionally set their networks to be wide open in order to encurage use by visitors/customers.
The lack of intent doesn't have much to do with it... if you set up a wide open network, you're giving an internationally recognized signal. One should know the customs of what they're dealing with lest they unintetionally make such a signal.
And don't tell me that this is beyond the savoir faire of Joe Sixpack. Enabling WEP involves checking a box, and entering a passphrase, on a web admin page. About the same level of difficulty as sending an email.
If only that was true....
Setting up WEP at the router is that simple. However, if you're relying just on the passphrase, then all of your 802.11x equipment had better come from the same vendor. If not, you have to realize that the passphrase is converted into four key strings, and type that randomly generated key into each computer on your WiFi system.
For some reason, non-geeks just can't make that connection and all they know is that when they turn on WEP, things don't work.
These people have nobody to blame but themselves... the public needs to be educated that to set up an 802.11x network without turning at least WEP on is the international symbol for a invitation to surf onto the network.
It's just as simple as that. Turn on WEP and the wardrivers won't get into your network.
It's not like this is new logic...
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Will 'fluid programmers' give new meaning to "flowchart"?"
Nice joke... but I don't quite understand what "fluid programming" would be compared to normal programming. Changing out the processor might allow things to be done faster, but it's not like these fluid chips will suddenly be able to complete a whole new set of logical operations, the chip technolgy just decides how the ones-and-zeros get stored... it doesn't really have much say in how they're going to be used, that's the programmer and complier's job.
When it comes down to it, every programming language gets reduced to assembly level code in order to actually runs. This is a new way to do binary logic mechanically, but until they get this to the speed of copper chips they're not going to be useful for much. And I just don't see any form of programming revolution happening from this.
2. Will Stern be unfettered by censorship and take the show to extremely raunchy levels of sexual descriptions and use of raunchy language?
My guess is that this is part of the deal. Just like XM has Playboy Radio and Opie and Anthony on dedicated a-la-carte channels, Sirius will likely give Stern a pay-extra no-kids-zone channel where anybody who can hear him has indicated that they'll take responsiblity for anybody who may hear the show and be offended.
Stern going Sirius alone, is enough to make me go out and buy a Sirius unit. I am willing to pay.
That is the technical definition of a "killer app". One specific application of a system that is so valuable it justifies the purchase of an entire multi-function system.
That's why this is big news. Stern has a lot of fans who don't want to lose access to him on a daily basis. Sirius sales will surge during holiday season 2005.
I don't think you get it. Rhett Reese is a TV producer who is turning out to be a serial fraudster. His best known project is "The Joe Schmo Show" which also airs on SpikeTV (the former TNN) and ends on the same theme of $100,000 and a "We're sorry" party supposedly making good for the fraud.
This guy's turning into a serial con artist creating scripted annoying situations to get the reactions on tape. Now, that's a concept as old as TV itself in the form of Candid Camera... but Candid Camera's stunts always were quick and relatively painless such that the victim would always be willing to smile for the camera once the hidden camera is pointed out... Reese's setups are longer and lead to people reacting in shock rather than surprise. If you're ever on a TV show and your realize Rhett Reese is involved in the production... you might as well start asking questions and ruining him the same way Ingrid Weiss did.
MTV Networks seems to be making a habit of this. MTV itself fooled a half dozen college students who thought they were interning on a music video project into being the stars of Faking the Video. And let's not forget TNN/SpikeTV's project called The Joe Schmo Show.
There oughta be a law against these things... because apparently basic fraud hasn't caught up to when fraud is being done in the name of TV.
I think there was a time limit. The moment the Slashdot effect hit that e-mail address, they most likely stopped using it and only responded to those who answered the puzzles quickly before the solutions were widely published.
Google seems to already be a step ahead of this problem, creating a billboard puzzle in the Boston area and publishing a test for potential applicats to fill out.
Not only do they have the problem of suddenly having a few hundred jobs to fill, but they also have the problem that nearly everybody in the world would like to work for them. By setting up such qualifying quizes before even asking for a resume, Google's trying to filter out the best applicants early in the process so that they don't waste their time on pursuing people they'll not end up hiring.
So, yes, Google's going to lose some key talent because they've just created a bunch of modern-era dot-com millionaires. However, they'll just hire somebody else to replace anybody they lose and will move on.
The critical thing to keep track of is not the realtime data collection, but how much of a storage capability this system would have. Afterall, keeping data on everybody's movements for years would be a ton of data, most of which being useless....
Remember, your right to total privacy ends the moment you step out of the house. Your car already bears a linkable-to-its-owner token in teh form of a license plate. Many of us has willingly added another intentifying device in the form of an electronic toll payer such as EZ-Pass.
Right now, "smart cars" that can drive themselves are confined to specially-designed test tracks because they're basically stuck operating in a vacuum of information... if cars and roads were able to communicate with each other, we'd be halfway there to having the car take over the highway driving of itself.
Imagine stopping your car at the stop line on the way to the major highway, and simply inputing into the car that you'd like to be dropped off at exit 32A, and then relaxing as the car waits for a suitable break in the traffic flow to bring the car into the stream, and then at a rapid speed taking you to the exit while you're free to read a newspaper.
Of course, the Minority Report scene where once your car is told to take you to the police, that's exactly what it'll do would become possible. However, if the police ever do have a warrant to arrest somebody wouldn't we want technology to tell the police where to find the person whenever possible? Afteral, warrants aren't random things, some judge has already seen enough proof of something illegal happening to warrant bringing the person in.
3. A popular/. complaint- they don't know any better.
And that's the critical difference in the word swap from "knowingly" and "willingly". You can willingly do something without fully understanding what you're doing...
Careless use of tools most certainly hurts people, which is why there are safety restrictions on what kind of tools are allowed to be sold, and most tools come with common-sense instructions attached to them.
I wouldn't put it past the ??AA's to send such notices by registered mail with return receipt so that they get proof of the message's delivery. Beyond that point, it's the addressee's responsiblity to read what information they've just been given, as they can't claim nobody tried to tell them anymore.
And while we're at it... can we get the number of stateside Americans who died since the end of major hostilities too? Granted, very few of those would be directly linkable to the war... but it's a stat and just about as useful as the one being requested by the parent post.
OBJECTION! Leading the wit-less...
The use of the word "so-called" does nothing but express the question-writers view on the issue. We shouldn't be telling the candidates how we want them to answer our questions... they should be telling us what they think about the issue.
I don't see the problem. Just because a "Big 5" media interests have formed, it's no worse than the situation we had in the TV business before where a "Big 3" networks were the only ones capable of broadcasting to the whole nation. Five is a bigger number than three...
While there are some megacompanies who own a lot of broadcasting assets... you can't say that the independent media has been stuck without a voice. Just look at all the problems bloggers are causing Dan Rather lately...
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The FBI ordered a US-based company to pull for them hard drives that are at that company's England-located facilities. The FBI didn't actually do the pulling in England, but they forced the US-based office into sending the order with the warrant.
IndyMedia doesn't claim to be unbiased... the site admits that it leans left.
The regular media doesn't get taken down so easily
Today's moral of the story is to keep offsite backups...
The NYC Indymedia site is still up and has coverage of their own downtime.
Nobody's exactly sure why or how the FBI got warrants to take Indymedia's HDs, but their speculation tends to center around the fact that the Feds were spooked by the fact that Indymedia was able to publish RNC delegate names. This unfortuantely means political motivations are going to be questioned no matter what reasoning is brought forward.
Not much we can do at this hour but hold our breath and wait for more info to be released.
its whether the communication is conducted via a method the user has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" using
That's a standard that the existance of the concept of wardriving shoots a nice big hole through...
A wide-open 802.11x access point can be seen as an open invitation onto that network. Afterall, there are many public places that intentionally set their networks to be wide open in order to encurage use by visitors/customers.
The lack of intent doesn't have much to do with it... if you set up a wide open network, you're giving an internationally recognized signal. One should know the customs of what they're dealing with lest they unintetionally make such a signal.
And don't tell me that this is beyond the savoir faire of Joe Sixpack. Enabling WEP involves checking a box, and entering a passphrase, on a web admin page. About the same level of difficulty as sending an email.
If only that was true....
Setting up WEP at the router is that simple. However, if you're relying just on the passphrase, then all of your 802.11x equipment had better come from the same vendor. If not, you have to realize that the passphrase is converted into four key strings, and type that randomly generated key into each computer on your WiFi system.
For some reason, non-geeks just can't make that connection and all they know is that when they turn on WEP, things don't work.
These people have nobody to blame but themselves... the public needs to be educated that to set up an 802.11x network without turning at least WEP on is the international symbol for a invitation to surf onto the network.
It's just as simple as that. Turn on WEP and the wardrivers won't get into your network.
Will 'fluid programmers' give new meaning to "flowchart"?"
Nice joke... but I don't quite understand what "fluid programming" would be compared to normal programming. Changing out the processor might allow things to be done faster, but it's not like these fluid chips will suddenly be able to complete a whole new set of logical operations, the chip technolgy just decides how the ones-and-zeros get stored... it doesn't really have much say in how they're going to be used, that's the programmer and complier's job.
When it comes down to it, every programming language gets reduced to assembly level code in order to actually runs. This is a new way to do binary logic mechanically, but until they get this to the speed of copper chips they're not going to be useful for much. And I just don't see any form of programming revolution happening from this.
2. Will Stern be unfettered by censorship and take the show to extremely raunchy levels of sexual descriptions and use of raunchy language?
My guess is that this is part of the deal. Just like XM has Playboy Radio and Opie and Anthony on dedicated a-la-carte channels, Sirius will likely give Stern a pay-extra no-kids-zone channel where anybody who can hear him has indicated that they'll take responsiblity for anybody who may hear the show and be offended.
Stern going Sirius alone, is enough to make me go out and buy a Sirius unit. I am willing to pay.
That is the technical definition of a "killer app". One specific application of a system that is so valuable it justifies the purchase of an entire multi-function system.
That's why this is big news. Stern has a lot of fans who don't want to lose access to him on a daily basis. Sirius sales will surge during holiday season 2005.
There's one way to get this kind of TV production to stop even if there is ratings... get executive producer Rhett Reese arrested on fraud charges.
I don't think you get it. Rhett Reese is a TV producer who is turning out to be a serial fraudster. His best known project is "The Joe Schmo Show" which also airs on SpikeTV (the former TNN) and ends on the same theme of $100,000 and a "We're sorry" party supposedly making good for the fraud.
This guy's turning into a serial con artist creating scripted annoying situations to get the reactions on tape. Now, that's a concept as old as TV itself in the form of Candid Camera... but Candid Camera's stunts always were quick and relatively painless such that the victim would always be willing to smile for the camera once the hidden camera is pointed out... Reese's setups are longer and lead to people reacting in shock rather than surprise. If you're ever on a TV show and your realize Rhett Reese is involved in the production... you might as well start asking questions and ruining him the same way Ingrid Weiss did.
This seems to be a going trend for TV producers to claim they are working on project A in order to get people to unwittingly participate in project B... here on Slashdot not to look ago there was a warning story about MTV Networks fooling experts into appearing on a Comedy Central project called "Crossballs"
MTV Networks seems to be making a habit of this. MTV itself fooled a half dozen college students who thought they were interning on a music video project into being the stars of Faking the Video. And let's not forget TNN/SpikeTV's project called The Joe Schmo Show.
There oughta be a law against these things... because apparently basic fraud hasn't caught up to when fraud is being done in the name of TV.
I think there was a time limit. The moment the Slashdot effect hit that e-mail address, they most likely stopped using it and only responded to those who answered the puzzles quickly before the solutions were widely published.
Not to mention telling their boss to fuck off and die when he demands that you work late.
Wouldn't that boss be in violation of Google's "Don't Be Evil" policy in the first place?
Google seems to already be a step ahead of this problem, creating a billboard puzzle in the Boston area and publishing a test for potential applicats to fill out.
Not only do they have the problem of suddenly having a few hundred jobs to fill, but they also have the problem that nearly everybody in the world would like to work for them. By setting up such qualifying quizes before even asking for a resume, Google's trying to filter out the best applicants early in the process so that they don't waste their time on pursuing people they'll not end up hiring.
So, yes, Google's going to lose some key talent because they've just created a bunch of modern-era dot-com millionaires. However, they'll just hire somebody else to replace anybody they lose and will move on.
The critical thing to keep track of is not the realtime data collection, but how much of a storage capability this system would have. Afterall, keeping data on everybody's movements for years would be a ton of data, most of which being useless....
Remember, your right to total privacy ends the moment you step out of the house. Your car already bears a linkable-to-its-owner token in teh form of a license plate. Many of us has willingly added another intentifying device in the form of an electronic toll payer such as EZ-Pass.
Right now, "smart cars" that can drive themselves are confined to specially-designed test tracks because they're basically stuck operating in a vacuum of information... if cars and roads were able to communicate with each other, we'd be halfway there to having the car take over the highway driving of itself.
Imagine stopping your car at the stop line on the way to the major highway, and simply inputing into the car that you'd like to be dropped off at exit 32A, and then relaxing as the car waits for a suitable break in the traffic flow to bring the car into the stream, and then at a rapid speed taking you to the exit while you're free to read a newspaper.
Of course, the Minority Report scene where once your car is told to take you to the police, that's exactly what it'll do would become possible. However, if the police ever do have a warrant to arrest somebody wouldn't we want technology to tell the police where to find the person whenever possible? Afteral, warrants aren't random things, some judge has already seen enough proof of something illegal happening to warrant bringing the person in.
3. A popular /. complaint- they don't know any better.
And that's the critical difference in the word swap from "knowingly" and "willingly". You can willingly do something without fully understanding what you're doing...
Careless use of tools most certainly hurts people, which is why there are safety restrictions on what kind of tools are allowed to be sold, and most tools come with common-sense instructions attached to them.
I wouldn't put it past the ??AA's to send such notices by registered mail with return receipt so that they get proof of the message's delivery. Beyond that point, it's the addressee's responsiblity to read what information they've just been given, as they can't claim nobody tried to tell them anymore.
And while we're at it... can we get the number of stateside Americans who died since the end of major hostilities too? Granted, very few of those would be directly linkable to the war... but it's a stat and just about as useful as the one being requested by the parent post.
OBJECTION! Leading the wit-less... The use of the word "so-called" does nothing but express the question-writers view on the issue. We shouldn't be telling the candidates how we want them to answer our questions... they should be telling us what they think about the issue.
I don't see the problem. Just because a "Big 5" media interests have formed, it's no worse than the situation we had in the TV business before where a "Big 3" networks were the only ones capable of broadcasting to the whole nation. Five is a bigger number than three...
While there are some megacompanies who own a lot of broadcasting assets... you can't say that the independent media has been stuck without a voice. Just look at all the problems bloggers are causing Dan Rather lately...