You are 100% wrong. This is about one's ability to have control over one's own computer, plain and simple. No copyright holder has the right to disable the functionality of my browser. The browser isn't theirs and that functionality is not theirs to change.
The copyright holder does not have the right to sieze control of my property to protect their own.
No, I'm not joking, and note that I said user, not administrator.
Well then you aren't following the original poster's logic. He said your computer. People usually have administrative control over their own computers.
Think about it... what is this whole slashdot story about? People gaining access to files in directories that the webserver usually requires a password to get into. Imagine sending "../some/private/directory" for the show parameter.
It all depends on if the wardriving program you use sends a probe requesting certain info about the router. If it does, then you technically you are hacking their network.
No you're not. You're legally making a regulation-compliant transmission on a public frequency, and legally receiving a reply on that frequency. Not only that, but the reply was specificly addressed to you, so you aren't even eavesdropping.
The probe request itself that you are talking about isn't even an attempt to gain access to anything which it is clear you weren't supposed to have access to.
Its more the fact that you are accessing their private equipment without permission.
It is perfectly reasonable to assume that you do have permission to use their "private" equipment if said equipment is wide open to the world and broadcasting its presence on public airwaves, since many people set their equipment up this way intentionally.
Incorrect. I earned my BS in Geophysics, Minor in Math. BFD. Took about 1/2 the courses for the MS before I got tired of being poor.
When the rubber hits the road, having a paper doesn't mean jack shite in determining whether someone can actually do the job, and that, mi amigo, is all that matters.
What does that have to do with your belief that 30 years ago a computer science degree was about learning how to program a PDP11?
As long as you start with day one being 9/12, then you are ok. We would not be in iraq if 9/11 had not occurred.
I suggest you read up on the Project for the New American Century and some of its publications. Most members of the bush administration have ties to this organization.
Honestly, I don't want you to have to strain yourself with a little bit if introspective examination on such a complicated issue. Especially when you've already got an axe to grind. Get lost troll boy.
Are you unable to answer my question in a way that steers the debate in your favor?
Believe me, I've thought this through. I was just wondering if you have too. Or did you take it on faith?
The people in charge of Wally*Mart most certainly received their degrees decades ago. I doubt there are any PDP-11s--or whatever they programmed their PIC projects on--still in use today. I also doubt they use Pascal/Fortran on the job, but your sundry 80s BS CS has some of that on her transcript.
Which is why the point of CS studies back then wasn't to learn how to program a PDP-11, nor is learning the Win32 API the point of CS studies today.
I take it you do not have a degree. The most important things that a CS degree program will teach you have nothing to do with a particular platform.
So don't buy CDs that don't put their conditions in plain wording on the outside of the package.
Nobody put a gun to your head and made you buy the CD.
Or just go ahead and use your newly acquired property without agreeing to the license. You don't need to enter into contracts to use things you already own.
He just doesn't feel like having a job, but is perfectly OK with his minimal dole. I'm perfectly OK with that, too.
That's fine. You can give him a portion of your income then. I, on the other hand perfer not to go to work every day so some stranger doesn't have to out of pure laziness.
Libertarians aren't against supporting the sick/stupid/poor or even the lazy. They just leave that decision up to the individual, rather than forcing some people's ideals on everyone else.
You want to support the sick or the poor or the minorities? Take the extra income from your reduced income taxes under a libertarian government and donate to the red cross/salvation army/homeless shelters/NAACP/whatever. Or give it to your friend who doesn't feel like supporting himself.
My argument is that most people simply can't handle the life of being truly lazy. Heck, over here people who've been unemployed for months are getting psychological help in order to cope with the situation of having nothing "real" to do
most people? I highly doubt that. I believe most people in this country wouldn't mind spending all day at the beach instead of getting up at 6AM and going to work. I don't think most people have jobs that they like so much that they would still do them even if they didn't need the income.
If the White House wanted to be the final authority in Iraq for years to come why are elections scheduled in Iraq this January?
Are you referring to the elections that were originally slated for this past June but postponed (surely not to be postponed again!)? The elections where all the candidates are chosed by the US? Those "elections"?
[Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq,] said the shell belonged to a class of ordnance that Saddam's government said was destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war (search). Experts believe both the sarin and mustard gas weapons date back to that time.
Still no evidence of recent weapons manufacturing. Still not stockpiles, still no mobile chemical weapons factories.
From the guardian article:
Dozens of mortar rounds believed to be armed with mustard gas have been discovered buried in Iraq, Danish troops said yesterday.
If confirmed, the find will be the first discovery of chemical munitions in Iraq by coalition forces scouring the country for the weapons of mass destruction used as justification for the US-led invasion.
[...]
The rounds were in plastic bags and some were leaking. It seems they had been buried for at least 10 years.
Ditto my above comment and was this discovery ever confirmed (note emphasis above)? If so please provide a more recent reference.
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Didn't you get the memo? DRM stopped being inherently evil around here the day Apple started using it.
You are 100% wrong. This is about one's ability to have control over one's own computer, plain and simple. No copyright holder has the right to disable the functionality of my browser. The browser isn't theirs and that functionality is not theirs to change.
The copyright holder does not have the right to sieze control of my property to protect their own.
save/print/whatever functionality was never Google's to offer or revoke. Such functionality is provided by my software, not google.
Well then you aren't following the original poster's logic. He said your computer. People usually have administrative control over their own computers.
Think about it... what is this whole slashdot story about? People gaining access to files in directories that the webserver usually requires a password to get into. Imagine sending "../some/private/directory" for the show parameter.
No you're not. You're legally making a regulation-compliant transmission on a public frequency, and legally receiving a reply on that frequency. Not only that, but the reply was specificly addressed to you, so you aren't even eavesdropping.
The probe request itself that you are talking about isn't even an attempt to gain access to anything which it is clear you weren't supposed to have access to.
It is perfectly reasonable to assume that you do have permission to use their "private" equipment if said equipment is wide open to the world and broadcasting its presence on public airwaves, since many people set their equipment up this way intentionally.
It is also always acceptable for me to shoot people like you in the head anyplace I see you.
It may not be legal.
But it is always acceptable.
exactly 11 characters? As opposed to filenames 11.0001 characters long?
How did you have another machine scan it?
how do you propose they accelerate the junk to a speed fast enough to actually bring it down rather than just put it into an elliptical orbit?
Your telescreen, of course.
The question is did you read and unerstand the subject yourself before saying the Patriot act is all find and dandy? Apparently not.
What does that have to do with your belief that 30 years ago a computer science degree was about learning how to program a PDP11?
I suggest you read up on the Project for the New American Century and some of its publications. Most members of the bush administration have ties to this organization.
Specificly, see this website's analysis of PNAC, and PNAC's open letter to Clinton in 1998 urging military action in Iraq, signed by Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, among others.
Are you unable to answer my question in a way that steers the debate in your favor?
Believe me, I've thought this through. I was just wondering if you have too. Or did you take it on faith?
Which is why the point of CS studies back then wasn't to learn how to program a PDP-11, nor is learning the Win32 API the point of CS studies today.
I take it you do not have a degree. The most important things that a CS degree program will teach you have nothing to do with a particular platform.
Or just go ahead and use your newly acquired property without agreeing to the license. You don't need to enter into contracts to use things you already own.
Did you try calling them and telling them you didn't accept the license agreement?
Although I know now adays Dell has some sort of bullshit license agreement built right into the BIOS and is displayed at first poweron.
By the way, lower octane gass burns easier, not harder.
That's fine. You can give him a portion of your income then. I, on the other hand perfer not to go to work every day so some stranger doesn't have to out of pure laziness.
Libertarians aren't against supporting the sick/stupid/poor or even the lazy. They just leave that decision up to the individual, rather than forcing some people's ideals on everyone else.
You want to support the sick or the poor or the minorities? Take the extra income from your reduced income taxes under a libertarian government and donate to the red cross/salvation army/homeless shelters/NAACP/whatever. Or give it to your friend who doesn't feel like supporting himself.
most people? I highly doubt that. I believe most people in this country wouldn't mind spending all day at the beach instead of getting up at 6AM and going to work. I don't think most people have jobs that they like so much that they would still do them even if they didn't need the income.
Are you referring to the elections that were originally slated for this past June but postponed (surely not to be postponed again!)? The elections where all the candidates are chosed by the US? Those "elections"?
Both. When done right, encrypted data (and compressed data) by itself is indistinguishable from random data.
I thought so too until the Bush administration came to power.
Still no evidence of recent weapons manufacturing. Still not stockpiles, still no mobile chemical weapons factories.
From the guardian article:
Ditto my above comment and was this discovery ever confirmed (note emphasis above)? If so please provide a more recent reference.