No good news here. Bond's concerns about a cyber security bill can only mean he feels it isn't harsh enough. If he's in league with copyright's Prince of Darkness Orrin Hatch, who not too long ago wanted to scan all PCs warrantlessly and without judicial oversight automatically destroy those found with "unauthorized content" (read: entertainment), it shouldn't take too much in the way of imagination to predict his response to information he defines as threats to security.
true, and waste comes quickly to mind. developed by justin frankel (winamp, another aol product) and similar enough to aim or icq that anyone familiar with them would be comfortable with it immediately.
encrypted (and with "chaff" yet) and free of centralized-servers, no self respecting person concerned about private communications should use the internet without it.
"[I] listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history. Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counter-intelligence, inattentive signal analysis... a perfect storm.
"Everywhere there's a U.S. post, there's a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed. It's open diplomacy. World-wide anarchy in CSV format.
"It's Climategate with a global scope, and breathtaking depth. It's beautiful, and horrifying." - SPC Bradley Manning
with prose like that i can't wait for the book. seriously.
they may be convinced that casual personal copyright infringing, even when nearly everyone's doing it, doesn't present a threat to society so grave the "remedy" requires eroding personal civil liberties.
apparently the article was written before word reached torrentfreak about an important development.
teliasonera says it feels so strongly about user privacy that it will take the matter all the way to the swedish supreme court.
"'what we have done today is to announce to the public that we will appeal,' patrik hiselius, the senior adviser of public affairs of the swedish-finnish firm told AFP, adding the company had until june 7th to submit its appeal."
mgm vs grokster was unanimous. i think hollywood can live happily with 8 to 1 rulings. unfortunately it's going to take a lot more than one supreme court nominee to bring balance to america's copyright laws.
not buying this for so many reasons. privacy, ubiquity, safety are just the first three. i simply don't want my stuff on someone else's server, thanks. then there's penetration. how is dick going to share his stuff with jane if every company's running their own little format fiefdom? say what you want about word but everyone can understand your work in that file. then what happens when those cloud servers are compromised and your stuff gets wiped, or sniffed on its way around? you get slammed is what. speed has nothing to do with it, i've had speed for years and i won't park my stuff in the ether. for that i have multiple copies of secure physical media.
i'm dubious that there are any merits to this theory in general, but tfa's specific prognostication is fantastical.
my mom's pc got one of these over the holidays while a teen cousin was surfing flash game sites. the pop-ups would not go away. at boot up pages wouldn't load because the warning box insisted on a click before progressing further. anti-malware had no effect, neither system restore nor anything else i could think of was successful.
even the computer shop was at a loss. after ten days the os required re-installation with a resultant loss of all data.
don't make the mistake of thinking this is merely an issue of rubes accepting come-ons from scareware vendors. it's beyond that now. these apps are injected instantly via poisoned sites and your pc is compromised well before you "accept" any blackmail terms. we found to our dismay nothing for sophisticated users nor technicians to fix.
thanksgiving was a real eye opener for me.
i surf exclusively with adblock and noscript now. no ads. no scripts. period.
until site owners deal with this i won't do otherwise.
the idea that nicotine isn't harmful is laughable and flies in the face of fifty years of rigorous medical studies. the effects on the circulatory system are long documented and begin within seconds of nicotine entering the bloodstream. the only question is of permanence. does the damage to the body diminish after quitting? in many cases yes, if nicotine users actually stop, but that's small comfort to someone dying of heart attack or facing amputations from buerger's disease.
if e-cigs are primarily used by older smokers looking for less harmful alternatives that may be an argument in favor, even if they should get off the nic habit entirely. prescriptions for e-cigs or other alternatives could mitigate this issue.
the real damage is to the next generation of kids who listen to bullshit rants from e-cig apologists and corporate shills. kids who would never consider smoking cigarettes but who now find themselves stuck in an electronic addiction out of some misguided idea there's no harm being done to their bodies.
but there's plenty of harm.
these aren't safe cigarettes.
they're merely proposed to be less deadly to some degree.
and that's a major effing difference you aren't copping to kristin.
minutes can be extremely broad outlines of little specificity, along the lines of "gas peddles brought up, discussion ensued" ending with action taken, if any. dangerous in court? perhaps, but ambiguous enough to sidestep and for that reason not so hot for dispute resolutions. you may be thinking of transcripts, typed recordings of everything said at a meeting, usually backed up with video or audio recordings, which logged IMs would indeed be like. they are especially dangerous in opposing counsels' hands.
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i see a promotion in your future.
Go EFF!
it's why i use adblock and noscript while running.
With state of the art video systems to record the most horrific wrecks in the world.
but, but, but it's ok, because they're fighting crime!
always should have been.
No good news here. Bond's concerns about a cyber security bill can only mean he feels it isn't harsh enough. If he's in league with copyright's Prince of Darkness Orrin Hatch, who not too long ago wanted to scan all PCs warrantlessly and without judicial oversight automatically destroy those found with "unauthorized content" (read: entertainment), it shouldn't take too much in the way of imagination to predict his response to information he defines as threats to security.
- js.
true, and waste comes quickly to mind. developed by justin frankel (winamp, another aol product) and similar enough to aim or icq that anyone familiar with them would be comfortable with it immediately.
encrypted (and with "chaff" yet) and free of centralized-servers, no self respecting person concerned about private communications should use the internet without it.
- js.
the day of the trifids is at hand.
microelements are people man!
"[I] listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history. Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counter-intelligence, inattentive signal analysis... a perfect storm.
"Everywhere there's a U.S. post, there's a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed. It's open diplomacy. World-wide anarchy in CSV format.
"It's Climategate with a global scope, and breathtaking depth. It's beautiful, and horrifying." - SPC Bradley Manning
with prose like that i can't wait for the book. seriously.
- js.
i got a perfect score. seriously.
now go fuck off.
- js.
and while they're at it they should ban people from sidewalks when they make their own copies of florsheims.
warning: nuances ahead
they may be convinced that casual personal copyright infringing, even when nearly everyone's doing it, doesn't present a threat to society so grave the "remedy" requires eroding personal civil liberties.
end of nuances
- js.
apparently the article was written before word reached torrentfreak about an important development.
teliasonera says it feels so strongly about user privacy that it will take the matter all the way to the swedish supreme court.
"'what we have done today is to announce to the public that we will appeal,' patrik hiselius, the senior adviser of public affairs of the swedish-finnish firm told AFP, adding the company had until june 7th to submit its appeal."
more here
- js.
quite a selection: from flacid to morbidly obese. don't bother if you like ballerinas.
nothing to be embarrassed about. actual corporate propaganda against net neutrality is even more divorced from reality.
mgm vs grokster was unanimous. i think hollywood can live happily with 8 to 1 rulings. unfortunately it's going to take a lot more than one supreme court nominee to bring balance to america's copyright laws.
not buying this for so many reasons. privacy, ubiquity, safety are just the first three. i simply don't want my stuff on someone else's server, thanks. then there's penetration. how is dick going to share his stuff with jane if every company's running their own little format fiefdom? say what you want about word but everyone can understand your work in that file. then what happens when those cloud servers are compromised and your stuff gets wiped, or sniffed on its way around? you get slammed is what. speed has nothing to do with it, i've had speed for years and i won't park my stuff in the ether. for that i have multiple copies of secure physical media.
i'm dubious that there are any merits to this theory in general, but tfa's specific prognostication is fantastical.
Well thank God TOR is transparent.
- JackSpratts
Founder, Society for the Elimination of Opacity. ;)
my mom's pc got one of these over the holidays while a teen cousin was surfing flash game sites. the pop-ups would not go away. at boot up pages wouldn't load because the warning box insisted on a click before progressing further. anti-malware had no effect, neither system restore nor anything else i could think of was successful.
even the computer shop was at a loss. after ten days the os required re-installation with a resultant loss of all data.
don't make the mistake of thinking this is merely an issue of rubes accepting come-ons from scareware vendors. it's beyond that now. these apps are injected instantly via poisoned sites and your pc is compromised well before you "accept" any blackmail terms. we found to our dismay nothing for sophisticated users nor technicians to fix.
thanksgiving was a real eye opener for me.
i surf exclusively with adblock and noscript now. no ads. no scripts. period.
until site owners deal with this i won't do otherwise.
-js.
as is typical, lab results are promising, fascinating even, but not yet entirely practical. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/JackSpratts/PUFFER-SMITH-47645.jpg
the times has a different spin. it's not chips so much as low-power hardware/software integration google's paying for. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/google-acquires-another-piece-of-the-tablet-puzzle/?hpw
the idea that nicotine isn't harmful is laughable and flies in the face of fifty years of rigorous medical studies. the effects on the circulatory system are long documented and begin within seconds of nicotine entering the bloodstream. the only question is of permanence. does the damage to the body diminish after quitting? in many cases yes, if nicotine users actually stop, but that's small comfort to someone dying of heart attack or facing amputations from buerger's disease.
if e-cigs are primarily used by older smokers looking for less harmful alternatives that may be an argument in favor, even if they should get off the nic habit entirely. prescriptions for e-cigs or other alternatives could mitigate this issue.
the real damage is to the next generation of kids who listen to bullshit rants from e-cig apologists and corporate shills. kids who would never consider smoking cigarettes but who now find themselves stuck in an electronic addiction out of some misguided idea there's no harm being done to their bodies.
but there's plenty of harm.
these aren't safe cigarettes.
they're merely proposed to be less deadly to some degree.
and that's a major effing difference you aren't copping to kristin.
- js.
minutes can be extremely broad outlines of little specificity, along the lines of "gas peddles brought up, discussion ensued" ending with action taken, if any. dangerous in court? perhaps, but ambiguous enough to sidestep and for that reason not so hot for dispute resolutions. you may be thinking of transcripts, typed recordings of everything said at a meeting, usually backed up with video or audio recordings, which logged IMs would indeed be like. they are especially dangerous in opposing counsels' hands.