Have you ever looked at the precision data of your gps device? Under perfect conditions you might reach errors less than 10 feet. Get in a valley, under a bridge, dense vegetation, thick clouds, near high buildings and the error goes easily over 150 feet - that is if you don't loose the signal completely.
Whats wrong with the concept of setting a fine make sure it is enforced?
Btw: I really love the concept of some North European countries where fines are set as a percentage of income.
A cook should know how to keep a kitchen clean or should have his restaurant closed. A taxi driver should know traffic laws or loose his license. A musician should know how to play (or at least how to entertain people) or not get hired to perform on stage. A policeman should know to stick to the law and not beat up people, or get fired (among other things). And an editor who wants to sell a paper (to the advertisers or the readers) should know about copyright or not even think about publishing.
We are not talking about a school newspaper that used a copied article and forgot to ask beforehand, neither is this a case of someone copying the article and sharing it with a friend. We are talking about someone who tried to sell an other persons work as their own without even asking or giving credit. It was in her field of profession, so her "excuse" is null and void and she did it to earn money. Know your job or don't do it.
I doubt that you would really need that many resources to do something like this. Small team of programmers, some documentation, access to a test machine and a few guys figuring out how to deploy it without the whole world noticing and trying to find out what is going on. I'd guess most cs/engineering departments could deliver something like this in less than 6 weeks. On the other hand they probably wouldn't stupid enough to make their intentions that obvious. You need either bureaucrats or hobbyists for that.
Cut user off the Internet and reroute all outgoing http requests to a friendly page saying something like: _____ Dear customer, a computer using your connection seems to be infected by *insert name or description of malware* and has been disconnected from the public Internet for your own safety. *Short primer on identity and data theft*
Here are a few programs and instructions to remove the threat
*some freeware and free to try commercial av soft - bonus if you get paid by them to be listed -, faqs, guides etc*
If you need help doing this you can contact: *hotline (free or pay), list of companies- bonus if you get paid by them to be listed*
If you think that the problem has been solved, >click here *Place note, saying that you will be cut off immediately again, if not true.Make them click on "Yes i fixed it" check box or something. Add fixed delay between attempts, otherwise fully automate the process* _____
Users know why they have been cut off, they have an idea how to fix it and might even be somewhat grateful that you notified them of the threat. Getting back online is fast and simple.
Maybe Greedo could take a cute baby puppy as a hostage, but Han talks him out of it, because violence is wrong. Then they could sit down together and discuss apple pie recipes and interior design. Maybe the could add some ponies too. And rainbows and...
Does anybody know the Judge Dredd comic where a criminal jumps through a portal and lands in a pleasant forest from a certain Disney movie? Dredd is right behind him, so this guy takes Bambi as a hostage. Dredd just sprays both with bullets and upon leaving says something like "Hostage? In mega city one we eat those things."
Seriously! And what is with this "internet" thing!? That's not a net, which can be used to catch fish; it's some kind of system of interconnected computers! I can't fish with interconnected computers!
But of course you can! As any fisherman can tell you, attaching something heavy (ie a computer) to your fishing net usually improves performance (although other configurations exist). But behold of the many other possibly methods of including computers in your fish gathering operations:
- Sit! - Add some padding and your old tower p-c turns into a p-seat.
- Smite! - Dropping computers from above.
- Shock! - Leave the power cord on.
- Awe! - Impress fish with latest 3D graphics, but mind the refraction index of water.
- Lure! - Start farmville and collect them whenever you want....
and a mall takes more energy to operate than a mailbox.
And then a strange thought hit me:
What would a mailbox look like, that actually did use more energy than a mall? What could it do? Wouldn't that be an interesting "Ask Slashdot" project? (Probably not, but that didn't stop the other posts either)
Simply adding a bar code scanner, a computer, an x-ray machine, a gas chromatograph, a catapult, an incinerator, a liquid nitrogen cooler, a missile defence system and the like would not even sum up to a fraction of it. Not even if I included a robot butler to bring the mail to me and sharks with lasers to... err...mmh... be sharks with lasers. If I could include a VLHC that might be different, but haven't found a good excuse (to be honest, not even a lousy one) for including the collider in the design yet.
And a political system completely based on the internet, anyone can run and produce campaign videos, and online voting... each campaign gets x amounts of dollars to produce the campaign and can not get any funds from any other source besides petitioning to an AI which will then decide to distribute more funds....
and in related news: President P0wn3d D Lolcatz announced the hamster dance to be the new world anthem. All hail the hamsters!
Slashdot Mirror
Snakes On A Plane!
... allow incompetent companies to access the internet?
For fun and profit!
Not necessarily theirs of course
Thank you. Finally someone who manages without the completely flawed, stupid, unfitting and utterly wrong house analogy.
Mmmh cookies!
Nice episode in german law: If you leave your car unlocked and it gets (or might get) stolen, you can get fined for assisting crime.
East India Trading Company
Have you ever looked at the precision data of your gps device? Under perfect conditions you might reach errors less than 10 feet. Get in a valley, under a bridge, dense vegetation, thick clouds, near high buildings and the error goes easily over 150 feet - that is if you don't loose the signal completely.
Whats wrong with the concept of setting a fine make sure it is enforced?
Btw: I really love the concept of some North European countries where fines are set as a percentage of income.
WYCSIWYCG What you can't see is what you can't get
A cook should know how to keep a kitchen clean or should have his restaurant closed.
A taxi driver should know traffic laws or loose his license.
A musician should know how to play (or at least how to entertain people) or not get hired to perform on stage.
A policeman should know to stick to the law and not beat up people, or get fired (among other things).
And an editor who wants to sell a paper (to the advertisers or the readers) should know about copyright or not even think about publishing.
We are not talking about a school newspaper that used a copied article and forgot to ask beforehand, neither is this a case of someone copying the article and sharing it with a friend. We are talking about someone who tried to sell an other persons work as their own without even asking or giving credit.
It was in her field of profession, so her "excuse" is null and void and she did it to earn money.
Know your job or don't do it.
iSex? Is that like a one hand browsing experience?
Either make sure it doesn't spread to place where people would notice or have so many possibly targets it can't be traced to one specific mission.
I doubt that you would really need that many resources to do something like this. Small team of programmers, some documentation, access to a test machine and a few guys figuring out how to deploy it without the whole world noticing and trying to find out what is going on. I'd guess most cs/engineering departments could deliver something like this in less than 6 weeks. On the other hand they probably wouldn't stupid enough to make their intentions that obvious. You need either bureaucrats or hobbyists for that.
Nice idea though. The implementation on the other hand is as stupid and short sighted as can possibly be.
The Central Intelligence Agency of course. Who else?
What about doing it the simple way:
Cut user off the Internet and reroute all outgoing http requests to a friendly page saying something like:
_____
Dear customer, a computer using your connection seems to be infected by *insert name or description of malware* and has been disconnected from the public Internet for your own safety.
*Short primer on identity and data theft*
Here are a few programs and instructions to remove the threat
*some freeware and free to try commercial av soft - bonus if you get paid by them to be listed -,
faqs, guides etc*
If you need help doing this you can contact:
*hotline (free or pay), list of companies- bonus if you get paid by them to be listed*
If you think that the problem has been solved, >click here
*Place note, saying that you will be cut off immediately again, if not true.Make them click on "Yes i fixed it" check box or something. Add fixed delay between attempts, otherwise fully automate the process*
_____
Users know why they have been cut off, they have an idea how to fix it and might even be somewhat grateful that you notified them of the threat.
Getting back online is fast and simple.
"10 ways the internet is different from a dumptruck"
Which would be? Just curios.
Pointed at? Last time i was flying there was at least a dozen iPhones ON BOARD!!!
How exactly does this help a potential terrorist? I really fail to see the point where this app gives any real advantage over using binoculars.
Maybe Greedo could take a cute baby puppy as a hostage, but Han talks him out of it, because violence is wrong. Then they could sit down together and discuss apple pie recipes and interior design. Maybe the could add some ponies too. And rainbows and ...
Does anybody know the Judge Dredd comic where a criminal jumps through a portal and lands in a pleasant forest from a certain Disney movie? Dredd is right behind him, so this guy takes Bambi as a hostage. Dredd just sprays both with bullets and upon leaving says something like "Hostage? In mega city one we eat those things."
Seriously! And what is with this "internet" thing!? That's not a net, which can be used to catch fish; it's some kind of system of interconnected computers! I can't fish with interconnected computers!
But of course you can! As any fisherman can tell you, attaching something heavy (ie a computer) to your fishing net usually improves performance (although other configurations exist). ...
But behold of the many other possibly methods of including computers in your fish gathering operations:
- Sit! - Add some padding and your old tower p-c turns into a p-seat.
- Smite! - Dropping computers from above.
- Shock! - Leave the power cord on.
- Awe! - Impress fish with latest 3D graphics, but mind the refraction index of water.
- Lure! - Start farmville and collect them whenever you want.
and a mall takes more energy to operate than a mailbox.
And then a strange thought hit me:
What would a mailbox look like, that actually did use more energy than a mall? What could it do? Wouldn't that be an interesting "Ask Slashdot" project? (Probably not, but that didn't stop the other posts either)
Simply adding a bar code scanner, a computer, an x-ray machine, a gas chromatograph, a catapult, an incinerator, a liquid nitrogen cooler, a missile defence system and the like would not even sum up to a fraction of it. Not even if I included a robot butler to bring the mail to me and sharks with lasers to... err...mmh... be sharks with lasers.
If I could include a VLHC that might be different, but haven't found a good excuse (to be honest, not even a lousy one) for including the collider in the design yet.
And a political system completely based on the internet, anyone can run and produce campaign videos, and online voting... each campaign gets
x amounts of dollars to produce the campaign and can not get any funds from any other source besides petitioning to an AI which will then decide
to distribute more funds....
and in related news: President P0wn3d D Lolcatz announced the hamster dance to be the new world anthem. All hail the hamsters!
For once I'm really looking forward to the next guy asking me stupid questions.
Btw, How many percent answered "Jedi" in Britain again?
Denn wer blöde Fragen stellt, bekommt blöde Antworten
that's why the swedish like saunas so much - otoh no running around in bikinis there either, but there are worse things than a total lack of bikinis
You do know where you are posting this?
Aren't there enough inflatible wife sized models (with optional sound) on the market already?
A real engine is more felt than heard