So this guy clearly violated the law. He has the right to make a copy of his DVDs, but lacks the proper equipment to do so without violating other laws. The correct solution is to acquire the proper equipment. This guy should go out and buy a commercial DVD read/write drive so that he can make a proper copy without resorting to cracking the DRM.
Since everyone loves car analogies, let's say I have the inalienable right to drive my vehicle on the road. However, the only vehicle I have is a non-street legal Formula 1 car that exceeds noise levels, emits too much pollution, and doesn't have mandated safety equipment such as turn signals, daytime running lights, and so on. Because I can't drive my Formula 1 car, does that mean I am denied my right to drive, or that I'm free to drive a noisy, polluting, unsafe vehicle on the road in order to exercise that right? Absolutely not... I simply possess the wrong equipment to do so.
Yes. Instead of relying on a hidden file system where all the configurations are stored, rewrite the API so those calls write values on the file system as a bunch of folders and files. This alone should mitigate the case where a single byte written incorrectly into the registry file will cause the entire contents to be unavailable.
The registry is a database. If writing a single byte incorrectly into a database makes everything else unavailable, then the database engine needs to be fixed. It doesn't mean that databases are bad.
I must've missed your posts in other stories, but could you please enumerate the number of major releases of other operating systems that you haven't used? Be sure to cover OS X, the various BSDs and Linuxes, OS/2, BeOS, real-time operating systems, and so on.
$30 is about what the os, in its MAX config, is worth. any os. linux, freebsd, opensolaris: all free and all way more stable. paying $100+ for an o/s is so 1990's.
And $30/day is what you, in your MAX productivity, are worth to hire. Any person. India, China, Vietnam: all lower cost and way more productive. Paying $100+/day for a worker is so 1990's.
I'd go with a different approach. A tightly packed array of 50x50 green lasers with a calibrated spotting scope on it. Optionally, protect the person manning the laser station with bulletproof shielding. When you see an obviously hostile craft approaching, everyone on the friendly ship dons their protective eyewear which blocks out the green laser frequency in case of any bounce-back. Then spot them through the scope and flip the switch and pan across the whole ship. Makes them nice and blind.
After that, the crew can follow up with a little napalm or ship-mounted flamethrower. A sulfuric acid cannon would be pretty sweet too. Or a few remote controlled.50 cal turrets with armor piercing bullets setup to pin each vessel in a crossfire. Or these mounted on the bow and stern of the ship setup to be armed when enemy vessels approach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP6GpAnmAPU
Other than an effective firewall, a patched system, and the use of SSL, what else should I do to protect my information?
There is nothing you can do. Keep strangers away from your machine. If you use SSL, check certificates or maybe even remember signatures of most important certs.
Nothing? Because locally stored information can't be encrypted? Because sites that don't use SSL (like Slashdot) can't be made secure by using an encrypted VPN?
Yeah, just throw up your hands and surrender now... there's nothing you can do!
My credit union still has a system for doing much of my banking over a phone line. I'd rather take my bets on the security through the phone lines than the interwebs.
Because touch tones are so much more difficult to intercept than 128 bit SSL secured connections??
There were guys who have just 60 days worth of living money and if some idiot intern rejects their application, they will be financially doomed. I speak about not being able to buy bread to your home.
And if their app doesn't sell, they'll be ruined as well. I'm with the other poster. This can simply be chalked up to stupidity on their part.
On a future operating room wall: To ensure your hands have been sterilized of all contaminents, please insert arms into this plasma conduit for 10 seconds before beginning any medical procedure.
And four compass directions: North, South, East, and West. The bible mentions the four corners of the (flat, square) Earth too. All these references to four! Before you know it, your post will get modded to Score: 4, Interesting.
I don't know what the French/German equivalents would be, but in the US that might qualify as negligent homicide.
Exactly. So that goes back to the question. In which country? Most have said McKinnon should be tried in the UK. But if the crime happened in the US, then shouldn't he be tried there?
So far in my thought experiment here, some have said France and others have said definitely Germany because it's not illegal to shoot an arrow, but it is illegal to kill someone. Given that it's not illegal to type, but it is illegal to break into a computer system (regardless of how weak the security was) then didn't the crime happen in the US and shouldn't he be tried there?
Consider someone who stood inside France and shot an arrow into Germany. That arrow strikes a Kraut and kills them. Did the murder occur in France or in Germany?
If it isn't a crime in France to launch arrows at other people, then maybe Germans should just stand back from the border.
If your intent was to hit a proper archery bullseye but your aim was wildly off, there never would have been intent to shoot an arrow at other people. So if it's not a crime to be an amateur archer in France, then no crime would have been committed?
The funny thing about jurisdiction is that traditionally it is based on where the crime took place. Nowadays it seems to be a matter of convenience.
But where did the crime take place? Consider someone who stood inside France and shot an arrow into Germany. That arrow strikes a Kraut and kills them. Did the murder occur in France or in Germany?
So, inventing your own currency, eh? Fed and banks don't like that, and there are enough laws in the book to put you in jail.
Have you heard of *any* legal exchange of virtual money and real money? No. It is not doable. Maybe it is doable if you have enough money, connection and experience to clear all the hurdles - then why don't you just open a good old bank.
You've never heard of Second Life and Linden dollars, as one of many examples?
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So this guy clearly violated the law. He has the right to make a copy of his DVDs, but lacks the proper equipment to do so without violating other laws. The correct solution is to acquire the proper equipment. This guy should go out and buy a commercial DVD read/write drive so that he can make a proper copy without resorting to cracking the DRM.
Since everyone loves car analogies, let's say I have the inalienable right to drive my vehicle on the road. However, the only vehicle I have is a non-street legal Formula 1 car that exceeds noise levels, emits too much pollution, and doesn't have mandated safety equipment such as turn signals, daytime running lights, and so on. Because I can't drive my Formula 1 car, does that mean I am denied my right to drive, or that I'm free to drive a noisy, polluting, unsafe vehicle on the road in order to exercise that right? Absolutely not... I simply possess the wrong equipment to do so.
The fine should be $$Amount x (Ticketed Speed - Posted Speed - Margin of Error)
Cool... so you'd get paid if you got a ticket for speeding above the posted speed but below the posted speed + margin of error? The ticket should be:
if (Ticketed Speed > Posted Speed) && ((Ticketed Speed - Posted Speed) > Margin of Error)
then Fine = Amount * (Ticketed Speed - Posted Speed) / Posted Speed
Yes. Instead of relying on a hidden file system where all the configurations are stored, rewrite the API so those calls write values on the file system as a bunch of folders and files. This alone should mitigate the case where a single byte written incorrectly into the registry file will cause the entire contents to be unavailable.
The registry is a database. If writing a single byte incorrectly into a database makes everything else unavailable, then the database engine needs to be fixed. It doesn't mean that databases are bad.
I must've missed your posts in other stories, but could you please enumerate the number of major releases of other operating systems that you haven't used? Be sure to cover OS X, the various BSDs and Linuxes, OS/2, BeOS, real-time operating systems, and so on.
"Gates! I live to see you eat that blue screen. But I hope you save room for my fist, because I'm going to ram it into your computer and break your goddamn motherboard!"
$30 is about what the os, in its MAX config, is worth. any os.
linux, freebsd, opensolaris: all free and all way more stable.
paying $100+ for an o/s is so 1990's.
And $30/day is what you, in your MAX productivity, are worth to hire. Any person.
India, China, Vietnam: all lower cost and way more productive.
Paying $100+/day for a worker is so 1990's.
Absolutely brilliant!
Terra = Firma. :)
I don't have the capacity to resist posting...
I'd go with a different approach. A tightly packed array of 50x50 green lasers with a calibrated spotting scope on it. Optionally, protect the person manning the laser station with bulletproof shielding. When you see an obviously hostile craft approaching, everyone on the friendly ship dons their protective eyewear which blocks out the green laser frequency in case of any bounce-back. Then spot them through the scope and flip the switch and pan across the whole ship. Makes them nice and blind.
After that, the crew can follow up with a little napalm or ship-mounted flamethrower. A sulfuric acid cannon would be pretty sweet too. Or a few remote controlled .50 cal turrets with armor piercing bullets setup to pin each vessel in a crossfire. Or these mounted on the bow and stern of the ship setup to be armed when enemy vessels approach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP6GpAnmAPU
There is nothing you can do. Keep strangers away from your machine. If you use SSL, check certificates or maybe even remember signatures of most important certs.
Nothing? Because locally stored information can't be encrypted? Because sites that don't use SSL (like Slashdot) can't be made secure by using an encrypted VPN?
Yeah, just throw up your hands and surrender now... there's nothing you can do!
My credit union still has a system for doing much of my banking over a phone line. I'd rather take my bets on the security through the phone lines than the interwebs.
Because touch tones are so much more difficult to intercept than 128 bit SSL secured connections??
There were guys who have just 60 days worth of living money and if some idiot intern rejects their application, they will be financially doomed. I speak about not being able to buy bread to your home.
And if their app doesn't sell, they'll be ruined as well. I'm with the other poster. This can simply be chalked up to stupidity on their part.
I can't help but think that site really stands for "Believe all things first, then try and find a story which fits afterward".
I was thinking next we'll be hearing about biogenic weapons made from algae. When will it end?!?
On a future operating room wall: To ensure your hands have been sterilized of all contaminents, please insert arms into this plasma conduit for 10 seconds before beginning any medical procedure.
And four compass directions: North, South, East, and West. The bible mentions the four corners of the (flat, square) Earth too. All these references to four! Before you know it, your post will get modded to Score: 4, Interesting.
I don't know what the French/German equivalents would be, but in the US that might qualify as negligent homicide.
Exactly. So that goes back to the question. In which country? Most have said McKinnon should be tried in the UK. But if the crime happened in the US, then shouldn't he be tried there?
So far in my thought experiment here, some have said France and others have said definitely Germany because it's not illegal to shoot an arrow, but it is illegal to kill someone. Given that it's not illegal to type, but it is illegal to break into a computer system (regardless of how weak the security was) then didn't the crime happen in the US and shouldn't he be tried there?
Garry McKinnon didn't murder anyone. There are degrees of significance to consider.
It's a thought exercise. I'm not comparing his actions to murder.
If you have a problem with this, I suggest you make it known to the embassy/consul.
I do not, but thank you anyways for your kind suggestion on what I should do.
Consider someone who stood inside France and shot an arrow into Germany. That arrow strikes a Kraut and kills them. Did the murder occur in France or in Germany?
If it isn't a crime in France to launch arrows at other people, then maybe Germans should just stand back from the border.
If your intent was to hit a proper archery bullseye but your aim was wildly off, there never would have been intent to shoot an arrow at other people. So if it's not a crime to be an amateur archer in France, then no crime would have been committed?
The funny thing about jurisdiction is that traditionally it is based on where the crime took place. Nowadays it seems to be a matter of convenience.
But where did the crime take place? Consider someone who stood inside France and shot an arrow into Germany. That arrow strikes a Kraut and kills them. Did the murder occur in France or in Germany?
So, inventing your own currency, eh? Fed and banks don't like that, and there are enough laws in the book to put you in jail.
Have you heard of *any* legal exchange of virtual money and real money? No. It is not doable. Maybe it is doable if you have enough money, connection and experience to clear all the hurdles - then why don't you just open a good old bank.
You've never heard of Second Life and Linden dollars, as one of many examples?
Did you invest in this one?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=LNUX&t=my&l=off&z=l&q=l&c=
You mean...
You're not...m-m-m-my...friend?!
*runs away sobbing*
Cheer up... you're a friend of my friend. *poke*