Note: Not legal advice, not leegull advice, not even advice but a converted, transmitted, reassebled representation of not legal advice. Call an amulance chaser for more clarification.
First Circuit holds that prohibitions found in a website's Terms of Use can be used to establish that a visitor to that site exceeded his authorized use thereof for the purposes of establishing a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA").
You can be charged for the crime of illegal access
if you fail to follow a TOS.
While prohibitions on authorized usage can also be established by reliance on such things as password protected access, the First Circuit rejected the notion that courts should look to the "reasonable expectations" of the parties to determine if a particular usage was in fact authorized.
The door can be unlocked and you can enter, but a you must follow a posted sign that states what you can do.
The court affirmed a preliminary injunction enjoining defendant Zefer Corporation ("Zefer") from utilizing a "scrapper" tool it designed to obtain pricing information from plaintiff's website on the ground that Zefer was doing so to assist defendant Explorica, Inc. ("Explorica"), which was itself enjoined from such activity by virtue of its improper use of confidential information obtained from plaintiff to aid it in gathering this information.
I need my legal deobfuscator for this, my brain just fried.
>>Little off the norm for Slashdot, but it's interesting since computers have vastly simplified forgery."
The first major remake of the 20 dollar bill was supposed to prohibit forgery, yet forgery increased, probably due to counterfeiters capitalizing on the newness of the bills.
Many stores now use the gold detector pens. Those pens actually work sometimes, try them on different papers.
I have worked as a cashier and these bills look worse than some pictures printed off a computer.
In fact one method of counterfeit detection is to look for the ink runs, the glitter ink that comes of, misalignments, poor quality paper, etc. The others methods are on that chart showing an absolutely perfect bill, but if I follow the chart they are all counterfeit.
Forgery prevention through quality mismanagement is just plain wierd.
Oh, and they stink too, the smell is just nauseating. A rather poor showing by printers of the most collected product in human history.
ObURL:
The mysterious link between the 20 and 9-11
"Besides, anytime I see references to Tesla, I start to think that black helicopters and aliens can't be far behind. Not a fair bias, perhaps, but it is nevertheless one from which I suffer."
Telsa died broke but invented AC power and the gadgets to make it work. AC power tavels much farther with less energy loss than DC, it can also do more useful work with less material investment in equipment.
Tesla wasn't as viscious a showman as Edison. Edison fried small animals to prove AC was dangerous.
Tesla merely held on to a cable with several millon volts AC.
All the other hoopla, especially that film by his countrymen does more harm to his reputation than good.
Look at his patents and the devices it spawned, one made Westinghouse(?) a litteral powerhouse.
Next time someone says they've unlocked the secrets of the ancients, free energy, zpe, wind free beans with Tesla's note book please consider breaking one of their limbs or making them eat their copy with the beans.
Tesla did that already. It EATS power and lit a string of bulbs 10 miles away.
Now a low power, generally recognized as safe, fat free, low cal, microwave trasmitter that powers tiny/micro/nano net devices over a broad area......Priceless.
The reason for all the fuss is that if I am an out of town mail order customer and I order something from Amazon, the state where it's at cannot get me for a tax, that tax must go to the state I live in. Kalifornicate can only charge me a tax when I'm physically in their state breathing thier polluted air.
A dodge around the Kalifornicate tax would be to place the order by Internet but call and confirm the order by phone or by fax. Null law.
I am required to pay a MUCH cheaper tax to my state, it requires filling out forms and nasty mathematics and stuff.
I out to buy something that gives them a dollar then sue for damages or something. If nothing else the entire tax needs to come back to my home state WITHOUT any fees to Kalifornicate. Mainly because I don't want to pay for their incompetence.
I have enough incompetent politicians on my back as it is.
I think my state would dearly love this, a free tax collector at their beck and call.
Actually I do not dislike this language, I was just in a poor mood and that never translates well via text. The text isn't as cute as I thought at the time.
The U.S. is at a disadvantage when it comes to even learning another language, we're indoctrinated from birth with a disrespect for other languages. This may encourage unity but it is poor at facilitating clarity.
This is improving in *some* areas, my niece can speak three languages and plays the violin which could be considered a fourth.
I would love a distributed beowulf cluster, there are several projects I need to do.
Only problem with distributing internal stuff to external machines is trust and better is denyability.
So ripping and compressing 1000 DVDs or 1million MP3s with better quality is probably not a good idea unless there is some method to cloak what is happening.
And close is all you ever get in that language. It isn't very specific, sounds goofy at least with Klingon you sound as if your tearing apart small animals.
The same stuff that makes fireflys flash and glowsticks work was supposed to be used to detect the presence of DNA on mars a while back. I don't remember the time frame but 10 years sounds about right.
Yep and the 8.5" drives I had were for the PET seris and they worked fine with the C64, it was the same communication bus. I think they held 170K on only one side. You could string a a lot of them together, I think 15 so that gave 30 disks for a grand total of 4.9meg? It's been a long time and they are long gone now. Now I run C64 and Pet stuff in emulation, mainly Zork, Planetfall, etal.
I taught my brother to read and comprehend much better on a C64, he got hooked on several of the Infocom games.
Storage is a problem, DVD, CDROM, IDE may not be available even in the near future. Try finding an 8.5inch floppy drive to play back those nifty Commodore 64 games your saved on an old Pet one or even a proprietary 5.25 one. As another example try to get an XT harddrve to work on a PC with PCI slots, try to get one to work on a PC that still has 16 bit ISA slots.
Software is also an issue, will the code that plays the file run in the future? Will it even compile? Will the file format have current code to view it?
I have code I cannot run from Linux's beginning because I don't code and can't pay to have someone work it over, bit rot is alive and well.
But I can play that C64 stuff if I can get it off those 8.5inch floppies because of the emulators available.
I don't see CD's as an option, nor any sort of tape format currently available due to hardware obsolesence.
A data warehousing company paid to preserve the files for 20 years may be a better option. Better would be two of them.
VHS, CD, SVCD, DVD, IDE, SCSI will probably die soon. Try to find an RCA video disc player, try finding a current VHS player that won't destroy a tape.
Rather depressing, so.
Pick three, burn the CD's with enough quality to satisfy, generate the files for storage, and buy a good quality USB hard drive enclosure and an IDE drive (maxtor's reduced component IDE for high reliability comes to mind), get a good laptop and have them professionally packaged in nitrogen for long term storage, store the batteries seperate (Have the internal backup one removed). The laptop should have a CD/DVD and USB port. I don't assume you'd store 650 hours worth of video on the internal harddrive, and I don't trust those smaller drives.
While you are at it preserve the OS+player software in an acceptable format so that it can be booted in emulation. Where Linux or MS depends on your preference and whether you think one or the other will work.
I assume that there will still be a Linux solution for total x86 emulation of this if nothing else, x86 code will die off in the near future so emulation may be the only way to run it if that hardware you squirelled away died.
I could go on, having three options is my choice, the three you choose is up to you. The hardware option is an extreme case but I can fumble up a laptop that will work for a little money.
Quote: "It's the largest private IT firm in the nation. It's turned a profit for 33 straight years. And it's on the front lines of the war on terror. So why haven't you heard of SAIC?"
Dammit, it's not for want of trying and there were quite a few of us who did a few years ago.
They are quite arrogant, SAIC/CIAS it's where old spokes go to pasture.
Of course they want a tax, thay means money and control.
Re:This makes Linux users look like morons.
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I agree with your assesment. I set up an OLD linux router with someones hacked procmail script that stripped off all but the text.
The script wasted the MIME, later I added HTML stripping. The messages came out fairly well actually.
The admins loved it, they had some windows program for sending binaries and they had total control over it or a user could send the binary a specific address and they would handle getting it to the destination.
This was WFW 3.11 running some TCP/IP stack and a non-MS mail program. They did not allow browsing at all, it was just too much trouble.
They called me around the time of the iluvu virus and said the linux box (in a corner, unnoticed) was beeping incessantly. It seems the system by 'someone else' would beep if it got X number of tainted messages. I told them not to worry and call me if it became a problem.
It's been a LONG time since I installed that, I haven't gotten a call on it since iluvu.
If access can be had the key can be copied. Granted using some massaged binary from an image to encrypt something is interesting, but stuff changes over time and could become worthless unless the generated key was stored. If it were too sloppy then it'd be about as useful as voice print identification.
Information that is of a 'slightly less than life threatening' level could be stored off as a shared secret with severel trusted key management companies and/or friends. Reliability of either determines the number of shares and the number of shares needed to remake the secret.
But if I cannot remember the password, nor keep the password stored securely I don't need or deserve the privacy and should act accordingly so as to avoid social or legal consequences.
As to copying any biometric, the data has to be stored at some point. Unless I have hardware (smart card) which I authorize with a biomentric scan that does the challenge/response with a private/secret key pair then I GIVE THAT BIOMETRIC DATA to whomever scans it for authorization. So I wound'nt be able to copy an asspass but uber hacker could get hold of the digital data, either hacking the soft/hardware of the machines storing the data or by using a really nice axe on the wetware managing the machines storing the data.
Chop...chop, how do I get all the retinal scans? No? Chop...chop....Now? No? U. Hacker consults wireless PDA. Your daughter has brown hair and blue eyes and a teddy bear named Chuck, she should be leaving school about...now.........
I have LOTS of people I want to ween from Microsoft, they are not power MS users (yea, an oxymoron).
Most are older folk, you don't want games, don't do much but surf, order stuff, instant message, and pay a few bills.
Heck as often as I rape this system I need a virgin to do all that too.;-)
I really do like the way this fellow talks, I may be adding something in but all I here is loathing when he speaks of Micro-Soft and that's music to me.
Q: Does Lindows run on thin clients? I might, just might be able to use that.
Slashdot Mirror
From some ancient sci-fi novel I can't recall.
I know companies that sell spam generating software have been talked about but what about the people doing the coding?
Note: Not legal advice, not leegull advice, not even advice but a converted, transmitted, reassebled representation of not legal advice. Call an amulance chaser for more clarification.
First Circuit holds that prohibitions found in a website's Terms of Use can be used to establish that a visitor to that site exceeded his authorized use thereof for the purposes of establishing a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA").
You can be charged for the crime of illegal access if you fail to follow a TOS.
While prohibitions on authorized usage can also be established by reliance on such things as password protected access, the First Circuit rejected the notion that courts should look to the "reasonable expectations" of the parties to determine if a particular usage was in fact authorized.
The door can be unlocked and you can enter, but a you must follow a posted sign that states what you can do.
The court affirmed a preliminary injunction enjoining defendant Zefer Corporation ("Zefer") from utilizing a "scrapper" tool it designed to obtain pricing information from plaintiff's website on the ground that Zefer was doing so to assist defendant Explorica, Inc. ("Explorica"), which was itself enjoined from such activity by virtue of its improper use of confidential information obtained from plaintiff to aid it in gathering this information.
I need my legal deobfuscator for this, my brain just fried.
>>Little off the norm for Slashdot, but it's interesting since computers have vastly simplified forgery."
The first major remake of the 20 dollar bill was supposed to prohibit forgery, yet forgery increased, probably due to counterfeiters capitalizing on the newness of the bills.
Many stores now use the gold detector pens. Those pens actually work sometimes, try them on different papers.
I have worked as a cashier and these bills look worse than some pictures printed off a computer.
In fact one method of counterfeit detection is to look for the ink runs, the glitter ink that comes of, misalignments, poor quality paper, etc. The others methods are on that chart showing an absolutely perfect bill, but if I follow the chart they are all counterfeit.
Forgery prevention through quality mismanagement is just plain wierd.
Oh, and they stink too, the smell is just nauseating. A rather poor showing by printers of the most collected product in human history.
ObURL: The mysterious link between the 20 and 9-11
"Besides, anytime I see references to Tesla, I start to think that black helicopters and aliens can't be far behind. Not a fair bias, perhaps, but it is nevertheless one from which I suffer."
Telsa died broke but invented AC power and the gadgets to make it work. AC power tavels much farther with less energy loss than DC, it can also do more useful work with less material investment in equipment.
Tesla wasn't as viscious a showman as Edison. Edison fried small animals to prove AC was dangerous.
Tesla merely held on to a cable with several millon volts AC.
All the other hoopla, especially that film by his countrymen does more harm to his reputation than good.
Look at his patents and the devices it spawned, one made Westinghouse(?) a litteral powerhouse.
Next time someone says they've unlocked the secrets of the ancients, free energy, zpe, wind free beans with Tesla's note book please consider breaking one of their limbs or making them eat their copy with the beans.
Tesla did that already. It EATS power and lit a string of bulbs 10 miles away.
...Priceless.
Now a low power, generally recognized as safe, fat free, low cal, microwave trasmitter that powers tiny/micro/nano net devices over a broad area...
"Ubiquitous networking, here we come."
Followed by Ubiquitous law enforcement.
The reason for all the fuss is that if I am an out of town mail order customer and I order something from Amazon, the state where it's at cannot get me for a tax, that tax must go to the state I live in. Kalifornicate can only charge me a tax when I'm physically in their state breathing thier polluted air.
A dodge around the Kalifornicate tax would be to place the order by Internet but call and confirm the order by phone or by fax. Null law.
I am required to pay a MUCH cheaper tax to my state, it requires filling out forms and nasty mathematics and stuff.
I out to buy something that gives them a dollar then sue for damages or something. If nothing else the entire tax needs to come back to my home state WITHOUT any fees to Kalifornicate. Mainly because I don't want to pay for their incompetence.
I have enough incompetent politicians on my back as it is.
I think my state would dearly love this, a free tax collector at their beck and call.
We need a consistant integrated development environment with a method to install distributed packages as painlessly as possible.
We really need some more handholding companies, RedHat and SuSE are out front for now.
Actually I do not dislike this language, I was just in a poor mood and that never translates well via text. The text isn't as cute as I thought at the time.
The U.S. is at a disadvantage when it comes to even learning another language, we're indoctrinated from birth with a disrespect for other languages. This may encourage unity but it is poor at facilitating clarity.
This is improving in *some* areas, my niece can speak three languages and plays the violin which could be considered a fourth.
I would love a distributed beowulf cluster, there are several projects I need to do.
Only problem with distributing internal stuff to external machines is trust and better is denyability.
So ripping and compressing 1000 DVDs or 1million MP3s with better quality is probably not a good idea unless there is some method to cloak what is happening.
Well have it explain all this:
B 96 /sld001.htm
God, Yahwey, Jesus, Allah
Gort Klatu Verada Nicto
The meaning of life the universe and everything
Polyalbuterol
Dioxyribo Neucleic Acid
Dinitrotoulene (for the overtime guys)
Mutually assured destruction
Xray lithography
e=mc^2
del^2(phi) = 4 * pi * G * rho
Oh, lookie:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~moux/presentations/SA
Mi moku jan.
And close is all you ever get in that language. It isn't very specific, sounds goofy at least with Klingon you sound as if your tearing apart small animals.
To kill or not to kill is this the answer?
t ml
4 s1.htm
http://liun.hektik.org/hightech/herf/shopping.h
Most of these ideas need a feedback system and highly intellegent processing to work, especially the ones that work on live humans.
The 'sticky' stuff would need to be 'intellegent' as well so as not to suffocate the victim.
The various pulse and sound weapons would need some sort of life sensor as feed back so that they would 'know' enough is enough.
That's been the problem with non-lethal wepons, as an aside a simple net doesn not generate federal funding.
Damn, I'm wrong about the net, here's a gov't shopping cart:
http://www.govexec.com/features/0501/0501s
Some comparisons of non lethal weapons between Hollydood (includes the news spews) and reality:
http://www.aele.org/technology2-01.html
This is a panicky, shriek, probably a troll for a new laws restricting access to electronics and defeat devices to be placed in future devices.
2 /tec-brag g-06-12-00.asp
Facing armed hackers
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/061
Dammit I NEED a self configuring Linux distro. Not IT supervision, no user intervention it just boots, configures and works.
I need one that works for Windows users so that it does not impact their work.
A related article states 'I'm locking the desktop down...", well I want that too.
And pay big!
The same stuff that makes fireflys flash and glowsticks work was supposed to be used to detect the presence of DNA on mars a while back. I don't remember the time frame but 10 years sounds about right.
Yep and the 8.5" drives I had were for the PET seris and they worked fine with the C64, it was the same communication bus. I think they held 170K on only one side. You could string a a lot of them together, I think 15 so that gave 30 disks for a grand total of 4.9meg? It's been a long time and they are long gone now. Now I run C64 and Pet stuff in emulation, mainly Zork, Planetfall, etal.
I taught my brother to read and comprehend much better on a C64, he got hooked on several of the Infocom games.
Storage is a problem, DVD, CDROM, IDE may not be available even in the near future. Try finding an 8.5inch floppy drive to play back those nifty Commodore 64 games your saved on an old Pet one or even a proprietary 5.25 one. As another example try to get an XT harddrve to work on a PC with PCI slots, try to get one to work on a PC that still has 16 bit ISA slots.
Software is also an issue, will the code that plays the file run in the future? Will it even compile? Will the file format have current code to view it?
I have code I cannot run from Linux's beginning because I don't code and can't pay to have someone work it over, bit rot is alive and well.
But I can play that C64 stuff if I can get it off those 8.5inch floppies because of the emulators available.
I don't see CD's as an option, nor any sort of tape format currently available due to hardware obsolesence.
A data warehousing company paid to preserve the files for 20 years may be a better option. Better would be two of them.
VHS, CD, SVCD, DVD, IDE, SCSI will probably die soon. Try to find an RCA video disc player, try finding a current VHS player that won't destroy a tape.
Rather depressing, so.
Pick three, burn the CD's with enough quality to satisfy, generate the files for storage, and buy a good quality USB hard drive enclosure and an IDE drive (maxtor's reduced component IDE for high reliability comes to mind), get a good laptop and have them professionally packaged in nitrogen for long term storage, store the batteries seperate (Have the internal backup one removed). The laptop should have a CD/DVD and USB port. I don't assume you'd store 650 hours worth of video on the internal harddrive, and I don't trust those smaller drives.
While you are at it preserve the OS+player software in an acceptable format so that it can be booted in emulation. Where Linux or MS depends on your preference and whether you think one or the other will work.
I assume that there will still be a Linux solution for total x86 emulation of this if nothing else, x86 code will die off in the near future so emulation may be the only way to run it if that hardware you squirelled away died.
I could go on, having three options is my choice, the three you choose is up to you. The hardware option is an extreme case but I can fumble up a laptop that will work for a little money.
Quote:
"It's the largest private IT firm in the nation. It's turned a profit for 33 straight years. And it's on the front lines of the war on terror. So why haven't you heard of SAIC?"
Dammit, it's not for want of trying and there were quite a few of us who did a few years ago.
They are quite arrogant, SAIC/CIAS it's where old spokes go to pasture.
feces they are a walking biohazard.
Sic the EPA on them!
Of course they want a tax, thay means money and control.
I agree with your assesment. I set up an OLD linux router with someones hacked procmail script that stripped off all but the text.
The script wasted the MIME, later I added HTML stripping. The messages came out fairly well actually.
The admins loved it, they had some windows program for sending binaries and they had total control over it or a user could send the binary a specific address and they would handle getting it to the destination.
This was WFW 3.11 running some TCP/IP stack and a non-MS mail program. They did not allow browsing at all, it was just too much trouble.
They called me around the time of the iluvu virus and said the linux box (in a corner, unnoticed) was beeping incessantly. It seems the system by 'someone else' would beep if it got X number of tainted messages. I told them not to worry and call me if it became a problem.
It's been a LONG time since I installed that, I haven't gotten a call on it since iluvu.
If access can be had the key can be copied. Granted using some massaged binary from an image to encrypt something is interesting, but stuff changes over time and could become worthless unless the generated key was stored. If it were too sloppy then it'd be about as useful as voice print identification.
Information that is of a 'slightly less than life threatening' level could be stored off as a shared secret with severel trusted key management companies and/or friends. Reliability of either determines the number of shares and the number of shares needed to remake the secret.
But if I cannot remember the password, nor keep the password stored securely I don't need or deserve the privacy and should act accordingly so as to avoid social or legal consequences.
As to copying any biometric, the data has to be stored at some point. Unless I have hardware (smart card) which I authorize with a biomentric scan that does the challenge/response with a private/secret key pair then I GIVE THAT BIOMETRIC DATA to whomever scans it for authorization. So I wound'nt be able to copy an asspass but uber hacker could get hold of the digital data, either hacking the soft/hardware of the machines storing the data or by using a really nice axe on the wetware managing the machines storing the data.
Chop...chop, how do I get all the retinal scans?
No?
Chop...chop....Now?
No?
U. Hacker consults wireless PDA.
Your daughter has brown hair and blue eyes and a teddy bear named Chuck, she should be leaving school about...now.........
I have LOTS of people I want to ween from Microsoft, they are not power MS users (yea, an oxymoron).
;-)
Most are older folk, you don't want games, don't do much but surf, order stuff, instant message, and pay a few bills.
Heck as often as I rape this system I need a virgin to do all that too.
I really do like the way this fellow talks, I may be adding something in but all I here is loathing when he speaks of Micro-Soft and that's music to me.
Q: Does Lindows run on thin clients? I might, just might be able to use that.