Actually compared to many others Sony's conduct in the matter is not at all bad. Plenty of financial institutions, including major banks have been compromised over the years and many have never admitted it even when 'outed'.
The network was almost certainly shut down the moment someone suspected something was amiss but it could easily have taken some time to identify what happened, what the extent of the damage was, notify the authorities and of course make attempts to trace the culprit.
It is also possible that once this became a criminal investigation Sony's subsequent actions were dictated to some degree by the investigating authority. It is standard practice in criminal investigation to restrict as much information as possible, even to those aggrieved and even a victim of a crime can be guilty of interfering with a criminal investigation if they don't comply with instructions.
Or they could argue that he continued publishing the material by keeping the cablegate website online. You know, making an end-run around the constitution has never been problematic for the government...
Absolutely and it's also likely that if it makes it into law they'll probably try to pull something using the 'clear and present danger' option but it's also highly likely that if/when the act is passed into law Wikileaks will take down anything that is likely to lead to criminal prosecution until a way around it is found. The authorities in the US must also have drawn the same conclusion so stalling now, for an opportunity to extradite under the act, is still a pointless exercise.
Personally if the act looks like becoming law I wouldn't be at all surprised to see everything that Wikileaks have being released to go viral then taken down just before the act is sworn into law.
It will not be possible to pursue him under the SHIELD act unless he commits an offence AFTER it is passed as the constitution imposes a blanket ban on ex post facto criminal law so it is unlikely that any kind of stalling for this reason is taking place.
It'll burn the crap out of anything sensitive in the infra red range including the aforementioned 'scanning system' and if it can see you then you can see it.
Which also explains why it won't be on the projector - next time you're in a cinema projection booth put your head alongside the projector and see how much of the audience you can see through the projection window. Some multiplex's actually have seating that's rearward of the projection booth !
If that isn't enough the heat generated/reflected in the projection window glass by the beam, along with the heat generated by the projector if the sensor were anywhere close to it would white it out.
I have yet to come across one of these scanning systems but my guess is the sensors are placed where the cameras are currently placed - front of house facing back and therefore good target practice.
Regardless - sure they'll trip the alarm but by then you've killed an expensive camera(s) without breaking a single law (it's not a recording device) and how often do you suppose the management are going to replace them from the pittance that those who must be obeyed allow them ?
To make life easier many cinemas now have the output from the cameras clearly visible to the public as they enter as a deterrent making locating the cameras easy.
Which is why this is all just another snake oil seller taking advantage of corporate paranoia.
sg.
One the prime reasons that cyber bullying is of particular focus now is that you simply can't escape it.
How on earth did this get modded insightful it's just plain wrong !
Your connection to the internet is a door to the outside just like the physical one and you choose whether to open it or not. Last I checked there is nowhere yet that has mandated the reading of email, visiting Facebook etc and 'always on' does not mean 'can't be turned off' nor do computers follow you around the house hurling abuse!
The moment you indulge yourself in social networking et al you have stepped OUT of the privacy and safety of your home and into a privately managed, public place just the same as when you go down the local mall. You should expect the same degrees of protection from both the commercial enterprises that run them and ultimately the law of the land as if you had gone down the mall but they are NOT invading your home.
Not since the Windows net msg exploit has there been any kind of push system that could make you see stuff on your computer against your will, everything else, including trojans etc, requires some kind of pull from you as a user - don't pull !
The concept of "not being able to escape" only applies if you consider that visiting Facebook, Craigslist etc is somehow an unavoidable part of living that has to be carried out no matter what - it isn't...same deal as your TV, if you don't like what you see then turn it off or change the channel!
Anyone that thinks cyberbullying is something you can't escape from at home ironically needs to get out more.
Some aircraft - some of the Embraer models for instance - now have laptops in the cockpit which the pilots are expected to use for flight plans etc and the copy holders have been removed. Guessing it's still the case that the plane is not allowed off the ground without both laptops being fully operational. These are standard, IBM laptops so justifying frisking pilots for their personal electronics when there are a couple of laptops fitted in the cockpit is not "going to fly" if you'll pardon the pun.
Well only a couple of years ago I put a Guillemot cheapo sound card into my Windows XP machine which had on board IDE raid and once installed it promptly split the RAID 0 volume !!
Fortunately the volume was only used as a scratch disk so no real harm done but it could have been much worse.
"does the USPS scan every mail going through it's buildings for copies of music?"
Don't know about your post office but mine has a poster up saying that anything containing media may be subject to opening and examination. Said poster contains graphics of a cd, vhs tape, floppy disk etc.
Judging from the ever increasing number of odd socks I have after each trip to the laundry someone's going to get very baffled when they start tracking my whereabouts using RFID !!
Many of my clothes were passed down to my brother as we grew so according to RFID info my parents have human cloning cracked !
Although I completely agree with the general privacy concerns I think that this particular aspect of it is so impractical as to be of no concern.
Unfortunately many folks, myself included have the apostrophe in their surname and I can testify it does screw up SQL query engines big time thanks to poor foresight.
"Warez started with BBS, when found they were easy to kill."
Guess my recollection of passing Sinclair Spectrum stuff around on the 2 metre band back in 1982 ( ish - lots of Tequila fog between then and now ! ) is lucid dreaming then:-)
Even had an encryption program called amgine ( enigma backwards ! ) to camouflage the data.
As the father of a growing geek I am constantly looking for signs of any psychological effect of his inevitable games playing and on more than one occasion have discussed with him the violence in them. On every occasion he has put me down saying "don't be stupid it's not real like the stuff on the news".
He's right - the one image I remember most vividly and probably always will was that of a man on his knees, clearly begging for his life ( there was no sound ) as he was shot through the head in a summary execution. Was this in some computer game ? no it was on a six o'clock news report of troubles in Africa ! At no point did anyone say shooting someone in the head is a bad thing because it's assumed we all know. Children don't but then they're insignificant to news network demographics.
We dramatise and sensationalise exactly the same behaviour in reality that which we condemn in non-reality because bad news is big money. Have we seen lots of tv coverage about how the fact that we are still fighting injustice and crimes against humanity is a sad reflection on our ability to evolve ? Has the need to fight terrorism been portrayed as a sad reflection on our ability to live together ? No we portray it in a glorified, gung ho, us against them manner with lots of shows about how efficiently we can kill people these days.
Worse still we now have the epidemic of Reality TV shows which seem to be immune to any kind of censorship. My son has asked me on more than one occasion if this is real because it's so extreme he thinks it can't possibly be so, now tell me which is the more scary !
No doubt recreational activites such as computer games can contribute to the mindset that allows someone to go out and kill but I'd be willing to bet that other aspects of our lives that we willingly accept do also.
The Swiss have 3 times as many guns as people and computer games are freely available yet their incidence of armed crime is virtually nil !
A perfect illustration - Apple Pie is British and the US didn't have apples until the Pilgrim Fathers brought seeds over ! How happy would you be if the British did a SCO over Apple Pie ?
Bandy philosophical arguments around until doomsday but the truth is it's been leaped upon as yet another tool in the arsenal of weapons for making money whilst doing as little as possible. Either in the "lets establish a monopoly so we can grossly overcharge" category or worse still in the "why work at all when you can sue" category.
How can anyone trying to retroactively apply any kind of property rights be ensuring they reap fair rewards before the rest catch up ?
Hey my dick hangs to the left - think I'll patent it, retire to the Bahamas and leave the rest to the lawyers !
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Actually compared to many others Sony's conduct in the matter is not at all bad. Plenty of financial institutions, including major banks have been compromised over the years and many have never admitted it even when 'outed'.
The network was almost certainly shut down the moment someone suspected something was amiss but it could easily have taken some time to identify what happened, what the extent of the damage was, notify the authorities and of course make attempts to trace the culprit.
It is also possible that once this became a criminal investigation Sony's subsequent actions were dictated to some degree by the investigating authority. It is standard practice in criminal investigation to restrict as much information as possible, even to those aggrieved and even a victim of a crime can be guilty of interfering with a criminal investigation if they don't comply with instructions.
Or they could argue that he continued publishing the material by keeping the cablegate website online. You know, making an end-run around the constitution has never been problematic for the government...
Absolutely and it's also likely that if it makes it into law they'll probably try to pull something using the 'clear and present danger' option but it's also highly likely that if/when the act is passed into law Wikileaks will take down anything that is likely to lead to criminal prosecution until a way around it is found. The authorities in the US must also have drawn the same conclusion so stalling now, for an opportunity to extradite under the act, is still a pointless exercise.
Personally if the act looks like becoming law I wouldn't be at all surprised to see everything that Wikileaks have being released to go viral then taken down just before the act is sworn into law.
It will not be possible to pursue him under the SHIELD act unless he commits an offence AFTER it is passed as the constitution imposes a blanket ban on ex post facto criminal law so it is unlikely that any kind of stalling for this reason is taking place.
It'll burn the crap out of anything sensitive in the infra red range including the aforementioned 'scanning system' and if it can see you then you can see it. Which also explains why it won't be on the projector - next time you're in a cinema projection booth put your head alongside the projector and see how much of the audience you can see through the projection window. Some multiplex's actually have seating that's rearward of the projection booth ! If that isn't enough the heat generated/reflected in the projection window glass by the beam, along with the heat generated by the projector if the sensor were anywhere close to it would white it out. I have yet to come across one of these scanning systems but my guess is the sensors are placed where the cameras are currently placed - front of house facing back and therefore good target practice. Regardless - sure they'll trip the alarm but by then you've killed an expensive camera(s) without breaking a single law (it's not a recording device) and how often do you suppose the management are going to replace them from the pittance that those who must be obeyed allow them ? To make life easier many cinemas now have the output from the cameras clearly visible to the public as they enter as a deterrent making locating the cameras easy. Which is why this is all just another snake oil seller taking advantage of corporate paranoia. sg.
Nothing a 1watt 830nm laser diode from ebay and an old flashlight case can't fix ;)
Because every day the sun shines there'll be thousands of cars at the side of the road with their sunglasses-wearing drivers taking a nap :-)
One the prime reasons that cyber bullying is of particular focus now is that you simply can't escape it.
How on earth did this get modded insightful it's just plain wrong !
Your connection to the internet is a door to the outside just like the physical one and you choose whether to open it or not. Last I checked there is nowhere yet that has mandated the reading of email, visiting Facebook etc and 'always on' does not mean 'can't be turned off' nor do computers follow you around the house hurling abuse!
The moment you indulge yourself in social networking et al you have stepped OUT of the privacy and safety of your home and into a privately managed, public place just the same as when you go down the local mall. You should expect the same degrees of protection from both the commercial enterprises that run them and ultimately the law of the land as if you had gone down the mall but they are NOT invading your home.
Not since the Windows net msg exploit has there been any kind of push system that could make you see stuff on your computer against your will, everything else, including trojans etc, requires some kind of pull from you as a user - don't pull !
The concept of "not being able to escape" only applies if you consider that visiting Facebook, Craigslist etc is somehow an unavoidable part of living that has to be carried out no matter what - it isn't...same deal as your TV, if you don't like what you see then turn it off or change the channel!
Anyone that thinks cyberbullying is something you can't escape from at home ironically needs to get out more.
Some aircraft - some of the Embraer models for instance - now have laptops in the cockpit which the pilots are expected to use for flight plans etc and the copy holders have been removed. Guessing it's still the case that the plane is not allowed off the ground without both laptops being fully operational. These are standard, IBM laptops so justifying frisking pilots for their personal electronics when there are a couple of laptops fitted in the cockpit is not "going to fly" if you'll pardon the pun.
Well only a couple of years ago I put a Guillemot cheapo sound card into my Windows XP machine which had on board IDE raid and once installed it promptly split the RAID 0 volume !!
Fortunately the volume was only used as a scratch disk so no real harm done but it could have been much worse.
Be locked out of the house for a week and then find you've gained a son and need a new set of kitchen ware ?
No thanks.
"does the USPS scan every mail going through it's buildings for copies of music?"
Don't know about your post office but mine has a poster up saying that anything containing media may be subject to opening and examination. Said poster contains graphics of a cd, vhs tape, floppy disk etc.
"Industry executives say that this undermines a carefully crafted marketing image."
Odd, when I was at school the word scam was spelled s.c.a.m not i.m.a.g.e.
Always found my British Rail timetable perfectly sufficient thanks.
Not that it's equipped to cross the atlantic but it's a start http://www.huv.com/uSeeker/
Judging from the ever increasing number of odd socks I have after each trip to the laundry someone's going to get very baffled when they start tracking my whereabouts using RFID !!
Many of my clothes were passed down to my brother as we grew so according to RFID info my parents have human cloning cracked !
Although I completely agree with the general privacy concerns I think that this particular aspect of it is so impractical as to be of no concern.
scrolling up/down and left/right - isn't that a trackball ?
So I have downloaded music from Canadian artists on my achine and I move to Canada and can't play them any more - novel.
Unfortunately many folks, myself included have the apostrophe in their surname and I can testify it does screw up SQL query engines big time thanks to poor foresight.
Is it me or does the girl on the messenger download page look like she's giving it the finger on the sly ?
Stand back 6 feet from the monitor and the password is obvious Galaxians !
"Warez started with BBS, when found they were easy to kill."
:-)
Guess my recollection of passing Sinclair Spectrum stuff around on the 2 metre band back in 1982 ( ish - lots of Tequila fog between then and now ! ) is lucid dreaming then
Even had an encryption program called amgine ( enigma backwards ! ) to camouflage the data.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Anyone with Windows on their desktop needs a bigger Office........
or is it the opposite......
or is it a paradox and we'll all blink out of existance ?
Head hurts, need more Tequila.
So Gandalf smote the beast google with his staff uttering the words "photoshop linux" and google replied http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3352
Shame on you.
As the father of a growing geek I am constantly looking for signs of any psychological effect of his inevitable games playing and on more than one occasion have discussed with him the violence in them. On every occasion he has put me down saying "don't be stupid it's not real like the stuff on the news".
He's right - the one image I remember most vividly and probably always will was that of a man on his knees, clearly begging for his life ( there was no sound ) as he was shot through the head in a summary execution. Was this in some computer game ? no it was on a six o'clock news report of troubles in Africa ! At no point did anyone say shooting someone in the head is a bad thing because it's assumed we all know. Children don't but then they're insignificant to news network demographics.
We dramatise and sensationalise exactly the same behaviour in reality that which we condemn in non-reality because bad news is big money. Have we seen lots of tv coverage about how the fact that we are still fighting injustice and crimes against humanity is a sad reflection on our ability to evolve ? Has the need to fight terrorism been portrayed as a sad reflection on our ability to live together ? No we portray it in a glorified, gung ho, us against them manner with lots of shows about how efficiently we can kill people these days.
Worse still we now have the epidemic of Reality TV shows which seem to be immune to any kind of censorship. My son has asked me on more than one occasion if this is real because it's so extreme he thinks it can't possibly be so, now tell me which is the more scary !
No doubt recreational activites such as computer games can contribute to the mindset that allows someone to go out and kill but I'd be willing to bet that other aspects of our lives that we willingly accept do also.
The Swiss have 3 times as many guns as people and computer games are freely available yet their incidence of armed crime is virtually nil !
A perfect illustration - Apple Pie is British and the US didn't have apples until the Pilgrim Fathers brought seeds over ! How happy would you be if the British did a SCO over Apple Pie ?
Bandy philosophical arguments around until doomsday but the truth is it's been leaped upon as yet another tool in the arsenal of weapons for making money whilst doing as little as possible. Either in the "lets establish a monopoly so we can grossly overcharge" category or worse still in the "why work at all when you can sue" category.
How can anyone trying to retroactively apply any kind of property rights be ensuring they reap fair rewards before the rest catch up ?
Hey my dick hangs to the left - think I'll patent it, retire to the Bahamas and leave the rest to the lawyers !