Just a thought, but last time i checked the reward for turning in someone like this was about 250K. Have someone else do by refusing with the CYA email. When installed turn them in and profit. Im not knocking you, but I am betting that if you are installing Office for end users you job isnt going to pay you 250K for at least several years.
Not that I agree with either party in this whole ordeal, but the evidence should be admissable IMHO. The reason being is the hacker committed a crime, then said crime was admitted to the authorities. In the process of investigated said crime, evidence of another crime by another party became knowledge of the authorites. Evidence found within the scope of an existing investigation that incriminates another individual is admissable in court.
With that being said, I think the hacker should be sitting in the cell next to the ex-judge for the next 27 months or longer. He's a blight on society and should be seen as a pariah. Probably is by women anyway, living in his parents basement.
I dont know if this is the case, but sometimes spending the extra buck on a plextor is worth it. They aren't cheap but I have never had a problem with one. Some of the other value lines like I would find at a rock bottom price on pricewatch haven't been as good to me.
In response to - "If you're designing an OS to run alongside others..."
Isn't Fedora designing an OS to replace Windows and wouldn't it be the GNU Grub project who is designing an application to dual boot? I understand there might be a flaw in the Fedora install that manifests this problem, but the same problem in the reverse order has been there in Windows XP since the begining.
If Fedora was only designed to be a second option OS then what would be the point?
The encryption keys issue sounds fair to me. If you have the keys to an encrypted file and you refuse to decode it and a judge issues a warrant for that data, you have to turn it over or pay the penality for obstructing an investigation.
Whatever happened to the 5th amendment? If said file incriminates me then I should'nt have to provide jack shiat.
Maybe I dont understand fully then. Please clarify this for me.... When I purchase a song from iTMS, am I purchasing a copy of said song or a limited use liscence for this song? If its only a liscence then I follow you, but at the same time they would only have to use a license violation as a reason for the C&D and not the DMCA.
Well its not as if people who started smoking in the last 20 years didn't realize its hazards or "limitations" on your health. So to play devils advocate, isn't no one's fault but their own? They sue the tobacco industry almost everyday. Seems funny since all I see on TV is those damn truth ads. ( And no I don't smoke, but I think smokers have rights and you should be free to exercise your rights to smoke or modify anything you purchase. )
My point is... let people be free. Free with their bodies and free with what they purchase. Its all about choice.
Sorry if this sounds like a rant ( I guess it is a little ), but I just wanted to through in my two cents.
Im not so sure they would be all that much. At my present location we just sent one our mainframe systems to a scrap company. We sold it by the pound. We have been cleaning out all kinds of crap VAX's, VMS clusters, SPARC servers, and all kinds of other nice "weekend toys." Some companies are just abandoning this stuff, you just have to be in the right place at the right time to pick it up.
If everything went into place according to the way that bill is written, Microsoft would have to have a warning label on everything it sells "that it is enabling software and could create a security and privacy risk for the user's computer."
George W Bush and his "Enduring Freedom" campaign that gave these kids the belief that violence would solve their problems as well. I think he has a bigger influence on their lives than Quake 3 or Warriors of Freedom will ever have.
"I'll give up that little bit of safety so that no one else will ever have to experience that phone call. "
You are not giving up your safety, your giving up your freedom. Not only that your giving up others freedom which isn't yours to give. I will agree with you, that an individual that has blatant disregard for others and the law, and then kills someone in the process, should be charged with murder or manslaughter at the least. But if the law enforcement officials are going to start retrieving info from information systems in my car that I did not authorize to be installed and collect data, then that's like an illegal wire tap IMHO. Remember that in the instance someone else mentioned where a judge gave the clearance to make a tap, he had to have some evidence backing the request to do so. If you say the possible top speed of the car being able to go faster than the speed limit is probable cause, then our justice system would be totally askew as we would be guilty (or at least presumed guilty) until proven innocent.
Instead we might consider going after auto makers instead. Why make a car that does 90+MPH? Limit the car's top speed. I've never seen a speed limit over 70MPH in the US. So to continue to allow production of vehicles capable of such speeds seems kind of like entrapment to me.
My question here is why didn't he let the RIAA take him to court. He could represent himself and nullify any expenses on an attorney. Let them drag the case on for next to forever, all the while transfering his savings into a relatives name, then as quickly as it all started file for bankruptcy and give the RIAA a big finger and a nice knowing you letter. Seriously, it seems like he just layed down and took it from these guys.
Maybe he should call on the kid from the Star Wars video and get him help to raise some money. Waxy.org raised $3,254.09 for the kid, even though he got his panties all in wad and is suing over the video now. But I guess thats life in the lawsuit happy society in which we live.
Seems strange that you can sue someone over blocking spam. If Earthlink is protecting their customers, where does Mailblock even have the right to sue? Is it Mailblock that is spamming people and then forcing them into a corner to use their software to stop it? The conspiracy has just begun... but the truth is out there. Or maybe not.
Something like 50% of all folk songs from the 50's and 60's used this combination of guitar chords. So if we say that an artist can't use a sample from something that is already done, shouldn't we say that someone can't play that combination of chords on an acoustic guitar for a new song? The musical scale is limited on most instruments, so there is no way around reuse. Its almost like copyrighting air and then charging everyone eveytime they breathe.
My left hand and my right hand are totally dofferent entities in a way, but shouldn't they do whats best for the whole? I work a contract company for a major automotive manufacturer, and they try to do the same thing. They always try to protect there own division and not the company as a whole. What they end up doing half the time, at least from an IT perspective, is beating themselves into the ground. Hell, even from the IT perspective, my company bids against itself for the same contract. Like I said before it just seems odd. Maybe its that I agree with the Neo-Walrasian General Equilibrium School and John F. Nash, Jr.
I have got to agree with you on that one. I don't know if I am the only one though that thinks that Major Corporations orchestrate it all. They are the strings that control the puppet that is our government. Take for example companies like Sony, they make MP3 players, CDRW drives, and blank recordable media; then they turn around and back the RIAA because people are using their products to illegally reproduce music off of their record labels. I don't know it just all seems kind of odd to me.
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Just a thought, but last time i checked the reward for turning in someone like this was about 250K. Have someone else do by refusing with the CYA email. When installed turn them in and profit. Im not knocking you, but I am betting that if you are installing Office for end users you job isnt going to pay you 250K for at least several years.
Not that I agree with either party in this whole ordeal, but the evidence should be admissable IMHO. The reason being is the hacker committed a crime, then said crime was admitted to the authorities. In the process of investigated said crime, evidence of another crime by another party became knowledge of the authorites. Evidence found within the scope of an existing investigation that incriminates another individual is admissable in court.
With that being said, I think the hacker should be sitting in the cell next to the ex-judge for the next 27 months or longer. He's a blight on society and should be seen as a pariah. Probably is by women anyway, living in his parents basement.
Like this torrent here right?
I dont know if this is the case, but sometimes spending the extra buck on a plextor is worth it. They aren't cheap but I have never had a problem with one. Some of the other value lines like I would find at a rock bottom price on pricewatch haven't been as good to me.
use the $199 you saved by downloading a Linux distro and not buying Windows and upgrade your box?
In response to - "If you're designing an OS to run alongside others ..."
Isn't Fedora designing an OS to replace Windows and wouldn't it be the GNU Grub project who is designing an application to dual boot? I understand there might be a flaw in the Fedora install that manifests this problem, but the same problem in the reverse order has been there in Windows XP since the begining.
If Fedora was only designed to be a second option OS then what would be the point?
"Michael Jackson did not molest those children ... he made love to them."
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The encryption keys issue sounds fair to me. If you have the keys to an encrypted file and you refuse to decode it and a judge issues a warrant for that data, you have to turn it over or pay the penality for obstructing an investigation.
Whatever happened to the 5th amendment? If said file incriminates me then I should'nt have to provide jack shiat.
When you went to the restroom you brought it with you ... so actually you did take it somewhere.
Maybe I dont understand fully then. Please clarify this for me.... When I purchase a song from iTMS, am I purchasing a copy of said song or a limited use liscence for this song? If its only a liscence then I follow you, but at the same time they would only have to use a license violation as a reason for the C&D and not the DMCA.
Well its not as if people who started smoking in the last 20 years didn't realize its hazards or "limitations" on your health. So to play devils advocate, isn't no one's fault but their own? They sue the tobacco industry almost everyday. Seems funny since all I see on TV is those damn truth ads. ( And no I don't smoke, but I think smokers have rights and you should be free to exercise your rights to smoke or modify anything you purchase. )
... let people be free. Free with their bodies and free with what they purchase. Its all about choice.
My point is
Sorry if this sounds like a rant ( I guess it is a little ), but I just wanted to through in my two cents.
Guess they are going to have to sue Al Gore since he invented the internet right? After all that would make it his internet.
According to the following, I guess he can't associate with the President or any of the other members of his big Republican machine.
"as Wilson said he also may not associate with anyone from a group that 'espouses physical force as a means of change.'"
I guess poor Sherman will just have to leave the country and go somewhere where he has freedom of speech.
Im not so sure they would be all that much. At my present location we just sent one our mainframe systems to a scrap company. We sold it by the pound. We have been cleaning out all kinds of crap VAX's, VMS clusters, SPARC servers, and all kinds of other nice "weekend toys." Some companies are just abandoning this stuff, you just have to be in the right place at the right time to pick it up.
If everything went into place according to the way that bill is written, Microsoft would have to have a warning label on everything it sells "that it is enabling software and could create a security and privacy risk for the user's computer."
George W Bush and his "Enduring Freedom" campaign that gave these kids the belief that violence would solve their problems as well. I think he has a bigger influence on their lives than Quake 3 or Warriors of Freedom will ever have.
"I'll give up that little bit of safety so that no one else will ever have to experience that phone call. "
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You are not giving up your safety, your giving up your freedom. Not only that your giving up others freedom which isn't yours to give. I will agree with you, that an individual that has blatant disregard for others and the law, and then kills someone in the process, should be charged with murder or manslaughter at the least. But if the law enforcement officials are going to start retrieving info from information systems in my car that I did not authorize to be installed and collect data, then that's like an illegal wire tap IMHO. Remember that in the instance someone else mentioned where a judge gave the clearance to make a tap, he had to have some evidence backing the request to do so. If you say the possible top speed of the car being able to go faster than the speed limit is probable cause, then our justice system would be totally askew as we would be guilty (or at least presumed guilty) until proven innocent
Instead we might consider going after auto makers instead. Why make a car that does 90+MPH? Limit the car's top speed. I've never seen a speed limit over 70MPH in the US. So to continue to allow production of vehicles capable of such speeds seems kind of like entrapment to me.
Wonder if I can get my money back for Windows 98 then?
My question here is why didn't he let the RIAA take him to court. He could represent himself and nullify any expenses on an attorney. Let them drag the case on for next to forever, all the while transfering his savings into a relatives name, then as quickly as it all started file for bankruptcy and give the RIAA a big finger and a nice knowing you letter. Seriously, it seems like he just layed down and took it from these guys.
Maybe he should call on the kid from the Star Wars video and get him help to raise some money. Waxy.org raised $3,254.09 for the kid, even though he got his panties all in wad and is suing over the video now. But I guess thats life in the lawsuit happy society in which we live.
Seems strange that you can sue someone over blocking spam. If Earthlink is protecting their customers, where does Mailblock even have the right to sue? Is it Mailblock that is spamming people and then forcing them into a corner to use their software to stop it? The conspiracy has just begun ... but the truth is out there. Or maybe not.
Something like 50% of all folk songs from the 50's and 60's used this combination of guitar chords. So if we say that an artist can't use a sample from something that is already done, shouldn't we say that someone can't play that combination of chords on an acoustic guitar for a new song? The musical scale is limited on most instruments, so there is no way around reuse. Its almost like copyrighting air and then charging everyone eveytime they breathe.
God Bless Mozilla .. no more pop-ups. Hopefully it will still block those audio pop-ups "that can't be turned off."
My left hand and my right hand are totally dofferent entities in a way, but shouldn't they do whats best for the whole? I work a contract company for a major automotive manufacturer, and they try to do the same thing. They always try to protect there own division and not the company as a whole. What they end up doing half the time, at least from an IT perspective, is beating themselves into the ground. Hell, even from the IT perspective, my company bids against itself for the same contract. Like I said before it just seems odd. Maybe its that I agree with the Neo-Walrasian General Equilibrium School and John F. Nash, Jr.
I have got to agree with you on that one. I don't know if I am the only one though that thinks that Major Corporations orchestrate it all. They are the strings that control the puppet that is our government. Take for example companies like Sony, they make MP3 players, CDRW drives, and blank recordable media; then they turn around and back the RIAA because people are using their products to illegally reproduce music off of their record labels. I don't know it just all seems kind of odd to me.
on a plate with some cheese and eggs. Ummm spam ... thats some good eatin.