I was in seventh grade in 1965, I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations have run out.
The statute of limitations (SoL, ha!) won't keep you off a no-fly list or prevent you from becoming anything from a Person of Interest to an Unlawful Enemy Combatant.
Admitted past experimental drug use (LSD) beyond the reach of the SoL (let alone being outside US jurisdiction) have caused some scientists to be permanently barred from entering the US.
I learned from my time working for a web site design company (now long out of business) that even though your connection to a site may be secure, that doesn't mean that the site doesn't immediately forward your submitted form data to an aol.com address without the benefit of any encryption.
Only face to face meetings in a surveillance-proof setting is guaranteed private like out in the middle of the desert or off at sea with no other ships seen as far out as the horizon.
You do know surveillance satellites don't always point straight down and can be pointed at the limb of the Earth just as easily to get nearly horizontal views, right?
That reminds me: has anyone transcribed the HAL-lip-reading scene in 2001?
Bart: Dad, you really want to get rid of this trampoline? Homer: Uh huh. Bart: Observe: a bike lock. [Bart locks the trampoline to a post] Bart: Now just turn around, and count to three: one, two, three -- [they turn around to see Snake with a pair of wire cutters] Bart: Uh, better make it five. [snip, snip] Snake: All right! I got me a bed.
I'd argue that the growth of piracy is not only due to the increased ease, thanks to computers and the internet, but also due to the perceived fairness.
Unfortunately, lawmakers see allowing a work to enter the public domain as legalizing piracy of that work, and that's being soft on crime, something they can't risk being accused of when coming up for re-election. And when that work is the beloved Mickey Mouse, they fear the smear campaign for not thinking of the children (who really don't give a damn about Mickey Mouse).
The most recent thing I've seen Mickey Mouse in was him being blown to pieces by terrorists on South Park in the Imaginationland story. And loved it!
I also like shopping while naked - which is easy to do online... but not so easy IRL.
You need to find the right stores. They tend to be along the private beaches or, in landlocked states, near/in the woods. They also tend to require membership fees to access.
the CBS article reads like 1984, urging travelers to treat all electronic devices (from fax to cellphone and back) as compromised and then proceeding to talk about China's aggressive cyber-espionage programs.
This from the television network whose logo is a giant eye looking back at you.
I think all of my cards have switched to Mastercard now
MasterCard has an equivalent system called SecureCode. I haven't encountered it yet, though I checked and the bank with which I have my MasterCard does support it.
So if it is edible, where in my system do these break down? Am I to expect my digestive bacteria to be holding psychedelic rave parties in my intestines?
But the point is, DRM doesn't stop piracy. It simply doesn't. DRM doesn't do anything to piracy at all. There is no reason to use DRM. Using it only hurts your actual paying customers.
On the contrary, the actual paying customers having to break the DRM to use their legitimately licensed software may be a gateway to them becoming pirates of other software, particularly when you're part of the younger set.
Your first crack frees you from the software. Soon you're cracking to make software free for you, then for your friends and/or family in your own private little scene.
It doesn't help if you're in a school where the faculty doesn't like to share their originals between departments and they start leaning on their more tech savvy students to crack the copy protection and there's never been any copyright enforcement oversight.
"Spoofing", although I kind of like the term, makes it sound more drastic than it really is (maybe that's why I like it).
Unfortunately juries can't get over the silliness of the word and don't believe it enough to give them reasonable doubt. They'd understand that a machine can be configured to lie about its identity to frame someone else, but calling it "spoofing" makes it laughable, so that defense fails.
You can buy "eco-bags," but to be perfectly honest, I don't like them. They're synthetic canvas, so I imagine they're much worse for the environment, and they look like crap after about 6 months.
And who says you end up buying the same amount every time you go shopping? Maybe you bring too many bags, or not enough.
Instead, cars should have removable cargo containers that have their own wheels or mate to carts provided at store. Then fill up the container without any bags and load it back into the car. Standardize them so they'll all fit in the aisle between the registers.
But it's still an asinine patent that is a perfect example of one of the many problems with our patent system.
And it apparently ignores people like me who like paper for boxy items (four frozen pizzas fit perfectly in one sack) and plastic for non-boxy items like small cans (cat food).
So I tend to buy in places that let me bag my own items.
Are you sure you know what is in those packages on that FedEx or UPS plane? They could be highly valuable and/or highly dangerous, or they could have brought on board a valuable political hostage snatched earlier.
To beat the Jack Bauers in the world you need contingencies on top of contingencies nigh ad infinitum.
Yeah, I'm still not going to trust the security of my heavy laptop to a plastic zipper. I've had them come apart with even the slightest tension such that there was no reason left to even zip up.
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I was in seventh grade in 1965, I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations have run out.
The statute of limitations (SoL, ha!) won't keep you off a no-fly list or prevent you from becoming anything from a Person of Interest to an Unlawful Enemy Combatant.
Admitted past experimental drug use (LSD) beyond the reach of the SoL (let alone being outside US jurisdiction) have caused some scientists to be permanently barred from entering the US.
I learned from my time working for a web site design company (now long out of business) that even though your connection to a site may be secure, that doesn't mean that the site doesn't immediately forward your submitted form data to an aol.com address without the benefit of any encryption.
And didn't they make sealing envelopes with tamper-evident wax illegal in the late '70s or early '80s?
Only face to face meetings in a surveillance-proof setting is guaranteed private like out in the middle of the desert or off at sea with no other ships seen as far out as the horizon.
You do know surveillance satellites don't always point straight down and can be pointed at the limb of the Earth just as easily to get nearly horizontal views, right?
That reminds me: has anyone transcribed the HAL-lip-reading scene in 2001?
Bart: Dad, you really want to get rid of this trampoline?
Homer: Uh huh.
Bart: Observe: a bike lock.
[Bart locks the trampoline to a post]
Bart: Now just turn around, and count to three: one, two, three --
[they turn around to see Snake with a pair of wire cutters]
Bart: Uh, better make it five.
[snip, snip]
Snake: All right! I got me a bed.
I miss their tea parties.
I'd argue that the growth of piracy is not only due to the increased ease, thanks to computers and the internet, but also due to the perceived fairness.
Unfortunately, lawmakers see allowing a work to enter the public domain as legalizing piracy of that work, and that's being soft on crime, something they can't risk being accused of when coming up for re-election. And when that work is the beloved Mickey Mouse, they fear the smear campaign for not thinking of the children (who really don't give a damn about Mickey Mouse).
The most recent thing I've seen Mickey Mouse in was him being blown to pieces by terrorists on South Park in the Imaginationland story. And loved it!
Lt. Caine: "I guess you could say..."
[turns away, puts on sunglasses]
Lt. Caine: "...you shouldn't work out interpersonal problems with a pencil."
[five flash close shots of impaled eye socket to reversed decay of single musical note]
Music: "YEEEEAAAAHHHH"
will they confiscate laptops indefinitively at the airport too? Oh wait, that's the U.S.
I haven't heard of any cases of U.S. Customs pwning travellers' laptops. I guess that (silently) speaks to their effectiveness.
Or did I just give them ideas?
China has never kidnapped someone from another country, IN another country, and then sent them off to be tortured....
Yeah, right. Next thing you're going to tell us is that Jack Bauer is a fictional character.
Were there a way to reduce thickness to this extent, there would be a huge amount of money to be made.
In lawsuits when they break. One atom thick? That's makes for some pretty sharp edges of busted condom to have in sensitive places for both parties.
I also like shopping while naked - which is easy to do online ... but not so easy IRL.
You need to find the right stores. They tend to be along the private beaches or, in landlocked states, near/in the woods. They also tend to require membership fees to access.
the CBS article reads like 1984, urging travelers to treat all electronic devices (from fax to cellphone and back) as compromised and then proceeding to talk about China's aggressive cyber-espionage programs.
This from the television network whose logo is a giant eye looking back at you.
I think all of my cards have switched to Mastercard now
MasterCard has an equivalent system called SecureCode. I haven't encountered it yet, though I checked and the bank with which I have my MasterCard does support it.
Premier Election Systems (previously known as Diebold)
So their systems are for electing incumbent Premiers?
Blooming space program with loud report. Light and get away.
Slashdot is not in their list of Blog/NewsSites to which you can claim rewards for posting.
You'll need to use a browser that lets you rewrite forms to add Slashdot as a valid response.
So if it is edible, where in my system do these break down? Am I to expect my digestive bacteria to be holding psychedelic rave parties in my intestines?
But the point is, DRM doesn't stop piracy. It simply doesn't. DRM doesn't do anything to piracy at all. There is no reason to use DRM. Using it only hurts your actual paying customers.
On the contrary, the actual paying customers having to break the DRM to use their legitimately licensed software may be a gateway to them becoming pirates of other software, particularly when you're part of the younger set.
Your first crack frees you from the software. Soon you're cracking to make software free for you, then for your friends and/or family in your own private little scene.
It doesn't help if you're in a school where the faculty doesn't like to share their originals between departments and they start leaning on their more tech savvy students to crack the copy protection and there's never been any copyright enforcement oversight.
"Spoofing", although I kind of like the term, makes it sound more drastic than it really is (maybe that's why I like it).
Unfortunately juries can't get over the silliness of the word and don't believe it enough to give them reasonable doubt. They'd understand that a machine can be configured to lie about its identity to frame someone else, but calling it "spoofing" makes it laughable, so that defense fails.
You can buy "eco-bags," but to be perfectly honest, I don't like them. They're synthetic canvas, so I imagine they're much worse for the environment, and they look like crap after about 6 months.
And who says you end up buying the same amount every time you go shopping? Maybe you bring too many bags, or not enough.
Instead, cars should have removable cargo containers that have their own wheels or mate to carts provided at store. Then fill up the container without any bags and load it back into the car. Standardize them so they'll all fit in the aisle between the registers.
Now that's a patentable idea.
But it's still an asinine patent that is a perfect example of one of the many problems with our patent system.
And it apparently ignores people like me who like paper for boxy items (four frozen pizzas fit perfectly in one sack) and plastic for non-boxy items like small cans (cat food).
So I tend to buy in places that let me bag my own items.
Would it have been better if the laptop was found behind the photocopier?
Are you sure you know what is in those packages on that FedEx or UPS plane? They could be highly valuable and/or highly dangerous, or they could have brought on board a valuable political hostage snatched earlier.
To beat the Jack Bauers in the world you need contingencies on top of contingencies nigh ad infinitum.
Yeah, I'm still not going to trust the security of my heavy laptop to a plastic zipper. I've had them come apart with even the slightest tension such that there was no reason left to even zip up.
The jacket! No reason to zip up the jacket!