They might have just killed something they could have used as a great tool.
Not really?
The site itself is not storing any content. That *might* present a bugaboo to the prosecution, but IANAL, nor am I in the EU, so my mileage is probably in the negative numbers. However, the site *does* store an archive of links to all of that infringing content. The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) now has an indexed list of every single infringing video, as well as a record of how many times that content has been accessed, and possibly a list of *who* accessed it.
So the website owner is going to be in a lot of trouble over this, that much is certain. What you're not going to hear about-until it's too late-is just how many people are going to have their homes raided and computers confiscated because they hosted the movie on their machines. A large majority of the videos-especially nature and history documentaries-were stored on GoogleVideo and other video aggregators, but the full-length feature films were mostly stored on private machines. I smell a purge coming for Google and YouTube in the weeks to come.
I'm also willing to bet that FACT went through the ENTIRE archive over the last few months, checking each and every link, reporting dead links so they could be updated by the "owners".
The seizure of this site isn't a trail of bread crumbs leading to hosters? It's a GPS-guided, chauffeur-driven limousine on a direct rail line to their front door.
Critics fear that the poorest countries need food, malaria protection and clean water far more than computers.
"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." Or teach him to phish and he'll buy a mansion and a couple of Ferraris.
But seriously, this is a fatuous statement at best, and downright offensive otherwise. Look at what happens when you give these people cellphones and PDA's? How PDA's Are Saving Lives in Africa
Imagine what they can do with computers that not only have some serious processing power, but have multiple interfaces? WiFi, keyboard, mouse, screen and more? Now those PDA's and cellphones can get data from the XO Laptop in their home, send it along the cell network to whomever.
Right now, the farmers can take pictures of the bugs eating their crops with a PDA or cellphone and send that image to a research facility for the best advice on how to counter the pests. With the XO, they can download a small library of insect pests common to their region and find it themselves, along with the necessary advice.
THEN they put it out on the XO Net and the PDA/cell network, where it's sent to ALL the farmers in the region. "Look out! Locusts spotted in our village, heading east!"
Suddenly, farmers and villages can take a proactive approach to their lives.
Or howabout this?
"Look out! Soldiers coming from Darfur! Everyone get out, we'll rendezvous at the well and head south!"
Don't underestimate these people. They may need food, but these devices will help them get their OWN food.
First-world students don't have to kill to get their education.
In most non first-world countries, education is the domain of the wealthy. The most education your child can get in 75% of the world either comes from the School of Hard Knocks, or some form of education mated to religion.
All those commercials you see on TV showing those little kids in schools sponsored by charities usually come with a substantial does of some kind of religious indoctrination, with all the subsequent hang-ups that engenders. Just look at what comes out of many Massadras?
And even if they don't come from some religious group, or don't have an agenda of some sort, most children can only attend school until they're old enough to either work in the fields or in the factory. When was the last time a 5th grader in the US had to make a choice between learning or supporting their family?
So when some Indian/Asian/African/South American kid's parents spend 90 hours a week, killing themselves by scrimping and starving to put their kid through a PRIVATE school, you can bet your sweet bippy that child is going to do everything in their power to get those good grades and excel in every way. Because if they succeed, then they can eventually bring mom & dad to live with them, along with the rest of the family.
My friend from Colombia taught me that. He grew up on the streets of Bogotá, fighting for every peso, beating up other kids so he could take their jobs as a runner for the Cartels. He spent every bit he could spare on school for himself and his sisters. When his sisters became eligible for adoption, he was educated enough to bargain with the agency to not only get his sisters adopted, but himself as well.
They are now living the American Dream that most of America has forgotten.
I've had NoScript on my machine for almost a year now, and it's been getting better and better every month, especially now that they've included NoXSS. I've seen the XSS warning mostly on "news" sites, such as FoxNews, CNN and various big-name newspapers, and every time I saw it, NoScript had nixed it.
I've seen the XSS warning in Gmail three times in all, always when clicking on a spam email, and each time it was stopped cold. I didn't dig too deep into it, but not long afterwards there were blurbs on the net about people getting PWN3D by an XSS-enabled email that their anti-virus software had cleared.
Don't forget, the authorities can pluck you straight off the street at any time and charge you with buggering Mother Theresa's corpse. It's up to the judge to decide weather or not they have a chance of making the charge stick in a court of law.
And in this case, the judge-Uncle Sam-is the one who levied the charges in the first place.
Hope this guy is rich, cause' it's not how much "Justice" you can get, it's how much justice you can AFFORD
I first read the subject and thought it said, "Germs Taken Into MySpace May Come Back Deadlier", and I thought, "Well, DUH!?! If they can survive the Stupid of that place, they can live anywhere!"
See, this is why you NEVER call those phone numbers in the Caribbean.
Your local exchange carrier (LEC) can cap your bill once it reaches a certain amount, at which point they'll try to contact you. If they can't contact you, they'll shut off your service, except for 911 and operator calls. This is how things work within the continental US and MOST of it's territories.
But once you leave the US and enter the the territory of another country's LEC, you're now subject to THEIR pricing structure. By making the call to that area, you are voluntarily connecting to and agreeing to their rules and regulations, and your LEC no longer has any say in the matter.
If those R&R's say that connections to a certain number cost $95.00 a minute, then you are S.O.L. That company is going to submit your bill to your LEC, and you will have to pay it.
It's even worse for cellphones. Connecting to the local network means you agree to their R&R's, and that includes their pricing. A regular phone call might not cost you too much? Maybe $2.99 a minute. But data calls are going to rape you sideways with a spiked 2x4, depending on your carrier and connection method.
To shoplift would result in arrest, detention, possible loss of a job and a great amount of embarrassment.
70 years ago, if you got caught shoplifting something, you got your ass shot off right there in the store. If you were really lucky, they used rock salt. And if you managed to make it out the door and kept running, the cops shot you. The 1930's didn't have the nice, friendly laws we have today, and claiming "police brutality" or something similar would earn you a 3-week trip to the hospital.
TWC: "Sir, you have an IRC bot on your machine that's making DDoS attacks."
Majority Computer User: "'IRC'? I'm seeing who??? Who am I seeing and when? Why am I seeing them? What're you talking about?!? Am I being charged for this?!? OMG, did Billy download music or movies or something?!? Oh Jesus Christ I'm going to kill that brat! Oh God, did you report me?!? I'm going to jail, aren't I?!?"
TWC: (sweatdrop)
So. Explain to me how castrating bots without disturbing or distressing the vast and overwhelming majority of computer users is a bad thing?
You've obviously never seen my work desk, driven in my car or been to my cousin's place. Your disk would be safer riding in the cab of a bulldozer in a scrap yard.
...will be going around areas that haven't been Street Viewed with t-shirts, signs, costumes and/or other silliness on the chance that they'll be "immortalized" by Google.
HI MOM!
It sounds pretty easy to take care of with just a little forethought?
!!! WARNING !!!
Security Camera Area
This area is covered by a security camera that records images and audio.
Your continued presence on this property / in proximity to this vehicle / and/or engaging property owners, residents, guests, bystanders, pedestrians or entities within this area / drivers and/or passengers in or around this vehicle / in any fashion shall be considered legal consent to permit the recording of the likenesses, images and/or voices of yourself and your associates, partners, guests, spouses, children, pets and/or entities out of camera range but within audible range of the recording device, for any purpose including but not limited to personal, commercial and/or legal use.
If you do not consent to being recorded in this fashion then you must present a warrant declaring that the owner and/or one of their family or guests is under arrest and/or the property under surveillance is being secured pursuant to the terms dictated in the issued warrant, or you and your associates, partners guests, spouses, children, pets and/or entities must depart the designated security area without delay.
IANAL, but I think that pretty much covers the issue of "informed consent"?
Now, just make this into a sign for your property and a window sticker for your car.
After spending nine years in the US Navy, five years on a US Warship (USS Reuben James), and one year on a USNS (John Lenthall), I can say that nearly 60% of all time on ships is spent doing MAINTENANCE.
US Warships will degrade into a complete rustbucket if you stop doing maintenance for even a single week. One of the biggest expense accounts on any ship is the paint locker and it's associated gear of chipping hammers, knuckle dusters, needle guns, grinders and deck crawlers. You chip paint and then re-paint every single day, non-stop, 365 days a year. And every three years, you pull into drydock to get scoured from stem to stern in a right proper job, inside and out.
And this is just the painting maintenance.
Add in broken electronics, broken pumps, broken valves, broken flanges, bent hinges, worn gaskets and the flood of everyday things that continuously need fixing, upgrading or maintaining, and you suddenly understand why so much of our ship's budget goes towards maintenance.
The ocean is a VERY harsh environment, and it breaks things. Easily.
Our military is able to keep things running smoothly because they have the following:
1. MONEY. 2. Highly trained people. (Yes, even the deck apes.) 3. Highly trained civilian contractors on shore that can be sent to a ship in less than 48 hours. 4. Rules and regulations carved in steel that must be followed or else officers get fired or sent to Leavenworth. 5. MONEY.
This is why we can have nuclear reactors on aircraft carriers without them going *BOOM*. Also, ours are very small, meant only to supply power for the ship and it's crew.
Now then...
The Russians have:
1. No money. 2. No more highly trained people. (They all left because they weren't getting paid.) 3. No civilian contractors that aren't part of the Russian Mafia in some way. 4. No rules that can't be bent with a few rubles. 5. No money.
So please...explain to me just how having the Russians putting nuclear reactors-meant to supply power to cities on the shore-on THEIR ships would be a good idea?
...but has anyone considered the pure PR value of getting video/audio of an RIAA lawyer making a little girl cry on the witness stand?
Congress/Senate nearly craps itself on a daily basis at the thought of kids clicking on porn. What do you suppose they'll do when the poor little moppet is sobbing and rubbing her eyes on FOX News, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and the Colbert Report?
DUDE! Slam that kid in the chair and fire away! Give her a sandwich of raw onions and horseradish beforehand, just to make sure she cranks up the waterworks! It'd be just like rolling a natural 20 with a Vorpal Sword of RIAA Smackdown!
Slashdot Mirror
The Perils of Swag and what it says about the one accepting it.
They might have just killed something they could have used as a great tool.
Not really?
The site itself is not storing any content. That *might* present a bugaboo to the prosecution, but IANAL, nor am I in the EU, so my mileage is probably in the negative numbers. However, the site *does* store an archive of links to all of that infringing content. The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) now has an indexed list of every single infringing video, as well as a record of how many times that content has been accessed, and possibly a list of *who* accessed it.
So the website owner is going to be in a lot of trouble over this, that much is certain. What you're not going to hear about-until it's too late-is just how many people are going to have their homes raided and computers confiscated because they hosted the movie on their machines. A large majority of the videos-especially nature and history documentaries-were stored on GoogleVideo and other video aggregators, but the full-length feature films were mostly stored on private machines. I smell a purge coming for Google and YouTube in the weeks to come.
I'm also willing to bet that FACT went through the ENTIRE archive over the last few months, checking each and every link, reporting dead links so they could be updated by the "owners".
The seizure of this site isn't a trail of bread crumbs leading to hosters? It's a GPS-guided, chauffeur-driven limousine on a direct rail line to their front door.
France has internet?
Critics fear that the poorest countries need food, malaria protection and clean water far more than computers.
"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." Or teach him to phish and he'll buy a mansion and a couple of Ferraris.
But seriously, this is a fatuous statement at best, and downright offensive otherwise. Look at what happens when you give these people cellphones and PDA's? How PDA's Are Saving Lives in Africa
Imagine what they can do with computers that not only have some serious processing power, but have multiple interfaces? WiFi, keyboard, mouse, screen and more? Now those PDA's and cellphones can get data from the XO Laptop in their home, send it along the cell network to whomever.
Right now, the farmers can take pictures of the bugs eating their crops with a PDA or cellphone and send that image to a research facility for the best advice on how to counter the pests. With the XO, they can download a small library of insect pests common to their region and find it themselves, along with the necessary advice.
THEN they put it out on the XO Net and the PDA/cell network, where it's sent to ALL the farmers in the region. "Look out! Locusts spotted in our village, heading east!"
Suddenly, farmers and villages can take a proactive approach to their lives.
Or howabout this?
"Look out! Soldiers coming from Darfur! Everyone get out, we'll rendezvous at the well and head south!"
Don't underestimate these people. They may need food, but these devices will help them get their OWN food.
They should get rid of the Little Red Book and go with this one.
And that dull, red flag is so outdated? Here's a much nicer one.
First-world students don't have to kill to get their education.
In most non first-world countries, education is the domain of the wealthy. The most education your child can get in 75% of the world either comes from the School of Hard Knocks, or some form of education mated to religion.
All those commercials you see on TV showing those little kids in schools sponsored by charities usually come with a substantial does of some kind of religious indoctrination, with all the subsequent hang-ups that engenders. Just look at what comes out of many Massadras?
And even if they don't come from some religious group, or don't have an agenda of some sort, most children can only attend school until they're old enough to either work in the fields or in the factory. When was the last time a 5th grader in the US had to make a choice between learning or supporting their family?
So when some Indian/Asian/African/South American kid's parents spend 90 hours a week, killing themselves by scrimping and starving to put their kid through a PRIVATE school, you can bet your sweet bippy that child is going to do everything in their power to get those good grades and excel in every way. Because if they succeed, then they can eventually bring mom & dad to live with them, along with the rest of the family.
My friend from Colombia taught me that. He grew up on the streets of Bogotá, fighting for every peso, beating up other kids so he could take their jobs as a runner for the Cartels. He spent every bit he could spare on school for himself and his sisters. When his sisters became eligible for adoption, he was educated enough to bargain with the agency to not only get his sisters adopted, but himself as well.
They are now living the American Dream that most of America has forgotten.
I'll second and confirm this.
I've had NoScript on my machine for almost a year now, and it's been getting better and better every month, especially now that they've included NoXSS. I've seen the XSS warning mostly on "news" sites, such as FoxNews, CNN and various big-name newspapers, and every time I saw it, NoScript had nixed it.
I've seen the XSS warning in Gmail three times in all, always when clicking on a spam email, and each time it was stopped cold. I didn't dig too deep into it, but not long afterwards there were blurbs on the net about people getting PWN3D by an XSS-enabled email that their anti-virus software had cleared.
Thanks to NoScript, I wasn't one of them.
Don't forget, the authorities can pluck you straight off the street at any time and charge you with buggering Mother Theresa's corpse. It's up to the judge to decide weather or not they have a chance of making the charge stick in a court of law. And in this case, the judge-Uncle Sam-is the one who levied the charges in the first place. Hope this guy is rich, cause' it's not how much "Justice" you can get, it's how much justice you can AFFORD
I first read the subject and thought it said, "Germs Taken Into MySpace May Come Back Deadlier", and I thought, "Well, DUH!?! If they can survive the Stupid of that place, they can live anywhere!"
He glanced at me quizzically, noticing my apprehension.
"Yeah, I know," he said. "It sounds very Star Trekkish, but that's what's ahead."
Excuse me?!?
Precisely which episode of Star Trek??? Mirror, Mirror or The Wire?
See, this is why you NEVER call those phone numbers in the Caribbean.
Your local exchange carrier (LEC) can cap your bill once it reaches a certain amount, at which point they'll try to contact you. If they can't contact you, they'll shut off your service, except for 911 and operator calls. This is how things work within the continental US and MOST of it's territories.
But once you leave the US and enter the the territory of another country's LEC, you're now subject to THEIR pricing structure. By making the call to that area, you are voluntarily connecting to and agreeing to their rules and regulations, and your LEC no longer has any say in the matter.
If those R&R's say that connections to a certain number cost $95.00 a minute, then you are S.O.L. That company is going to submit your bill to your LEC, and you will have to pay it.
It's even worse for cellphones. Connecting to the local network means you agree to their R&R's, and that includes their pricing. A regular phone call might not cost you too much? Maybe $2.99 a minute. But data calls are going to rape you sideways with a spiked 2x4, depending on your carrier and connection method.
Bottom line? This person is S.O.L.
Put this guy in it. Wheeeee!
To shoplift would result in arrest, detention, possible loss of a job and a great amount of embarrassment.
70 years ago, if you got caught shoplifting something, you got your ass shot off right there in the store. If you were really lucky, they used rock salt. And if you managed to make it out the door and kept running, the cops shot you. The 1930's didn't have the nice, friendly laws we have today, and claiming "police brutality" or something similar would earn you a 3-week trip to the hospital.
I just wanna play God!
Why do you abuse my games so? - Will Wright
Hook up a video camera to your car and start videotaping the police. It is your right and is 100% legal. Federal Judge: Videotaping Police Legal
TWC: "Sir, you have an IRC bot on your machine that's making DDoS attacks."
Majority Computer User: "'IRC'? I'm seeing who??? Who am I seeing and when? Why am I seeing them? What're you talking about?!? Am I being charged for this?!? OMG, did Billy download music or movies or something?!? Oh Jesus Christ I'm going to kill that brat! Oh God, did you report me?!? I'm going to jail, aren't I?!?"
TWC: (sweatdrop)
So. Explain to me how castrating bots without disturbing or distressing the vast and overwhelming majority of computer users is a bad thing?
You've obviously never seen my work desk, driven in my car or been to my cousin's place. Your disk would be safer riding in the cab of a bulldozer in a scrap yard.
...will be going around areas that haven't been Street Viewed with t-shirts, signs, costumes and/or other silliness on the chance that they'll be "immortalized" by Google. HI MOM!
It sounds pretty easy to take care of with just a little forethought?
!!! WARNING !!!
Security Camera Area
This area is covered by a security camera that records images and audio.
Your continued presence on this property / in proximity to this vehicle /
and/or engaging property owners, residents, guests, bystanders, pedestrians
or entities within this area / drivers and/or passengers in or around this
vehicle / in any fashion shall be considered legal consent to permit the
recording of the likenesses, images and/or voices of yourself and your
associates, partners, guests, spouses, children, pets and/or entities out
of camera range but within audible range of the recording device, for any
purpose including but not limited to personal, commercial and/or legal use.
If you do not consent to being recorded in this fashion then you must present
a warrant declaring that the owner and/or one of their family or guests is
under arrest and/or the property under surveillance is being secured pursuant
to the terms dictated in the issued warrant, or you and your associates, partners
guests, spouses, children, pets and/or entities must depart the designated
security area without delay.
IANAL, but I think that pretty much covers the issue of "informed consent"?
Now, just make this into a sign for your property and a window sticker for your car.
Done and dusted!
However, I could whack YOU with the (tennis) racket...
WHERE'S THE LOVE?!?
After spending nine years in the US Navy, five years on a US Warship (USS Reuben James), and one year on a USNS (John Lenthall), I can say that nearly 60% of all time on ships is spent doing MAINTENANCE.
US Warships will degrade into a complete rustbucket if you stop doing maintenance for even a single week. One of the biggest expense accounts on any ship is the paint locker and it's associated gear of chipping hammers, knuckle dusters, needle guns, grinders and deck crawlers. You chip paint and then re-paint every single day, non-stop, 365 days a year. And every three years, you pull into drydock to get scoured from stem to stern in a right proper job, inside and out.
And this is just the painting maintenance.
Add in broken electronics, broken pumps, broken valves, broken flanges, bent hinges, worn gaskets and the flood of everyday things that continuously need fixing, upgrading or maintaining, and you suddenly understand why so much of our ship's budget goes towards maintenance.
The ocean is a VERY harsh environment, and it breaks things. Easily.
Our military is able to keep things running smoothly because they have the following:
1. MONEY.
2. Highly trained people. (Yes, even the deck apes.)
3. Highly trained civilian contractors on shore that can be sent to a ship in less than 48 hours.
4. Rules and regulations carved in steel that must be followed or else officers get fired or sent to Leavenworth.
5. MONEY.
This is why we can have nuclear reactors on aircraft carriers without them going *BOOM*. Also, ours are very small, meant only to supply power for the ship and it's crew.
Now then...
The Russians have:
1. No money.
2. No more highly trained people. (They all left because they weren't getting paid.)
3. No civilian contractors that aren't part of the Russian Mafia in some way.
4. No rules that can't be bent with a few rubles.
5. No money.
So please...explain to me just how having the Russians putting nuclear reactors-meant to supply power to cities on the shore-on THEIR ships would be a good idea?
...but has anyone considered the pure PR value of getting video/audio of an RIAA lawyer making a little girl cry on the witness stand?
Congress/Senate nearly craps itself on a daily basis at the thought of kids clicking on porn. What do you suppose they'll do when the poor little moppet is sobbing and rubbing her eyes on FOX News, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and the Colbert Report?
DUDE! Slam that kid in the chair and fire away! Give her a sandwich of raw onions and horseradish beforehand, just to make sure she cranks up the waterworks! It'd be just like rolling a natural 20 with a Vorpal Sword of RIAA Smackdown!
Smacktalker: "You're an idiot and your mother smells of elderberries!"
Smacktalkee: *reaches across the coffee table and slaps Smacktalker into next Sunday*
Smacktalker: "Attitude adjustment received. Message understood. Public behaviour modified."
See? No "study" necessary. It's called "Common Sense".
1. Faster than P2P: doesn't crap out when mom turns off the computer after Junior goes to school.
2. Kinda-sorta secure connection: nobody else snooping on your IP address.
3. Your choice of recording quality: no "fake" songs uploaded by the RIAA.
I'd buy THAT for a dollar!