Yeah, an IP address isn't enough, but an IP address with a timestamp is plenty.
No, it's not. And if you think it is, you clearly don't understand the issue.
Thing about it is, courts have ruled both ways, which tells me that judges are experts in law, not technology. Lawyer buddies tell me that 99% of winning a case is snowing the judge with the precedents that 'prove' your argument.
Hell, an Italian court just ruled that some guy's brain tumor was linked to his cell phone use. Science is still out on the matter, but the judge 'knows better'. Like I say, judges are experts on law, but their expertise doesn't necessarily extend any further, and in the case of IPs as unique identifiers, most judges aren't techie enough to have a clue. The *AAs have enough money to out-lawyer anyone. Win even a temporary victory against them, they'll come after you with intent to burn and loot. They have to, or their little extortion racket falls apart.
As we saw here on Slashdot just the other day, the first "three strikes" prosecution in the Netherlands was thrown out of court on that very basis: all they had was an IP address. It could have been anybody.
Doesn't matter what they do in the Netherlands, we're talking about ISPs in the US. You're comparing apples and hand grenades.
What's stopping them from extorting people by blanketing these notices and collecting $$$ for "reviews"?
Nothing.
Can I sue them for defamation instead?
Maybe, but unless you're Warren Buffett, they'll outlawyer you and you'll lose bigtime. Keep in mind these are the exact same people who claim that an IP address is 'positive identification' of a pirate's 'guilt'. This is just a way to scam up $36 bucks at a time off millions of customers, which will make them tons more money than spamming the odd hundred thousand customers to cough up a 5-10K 'settlement' since there's no paperwork or lawyers involved. All they'll ever have to show is a kindly-supplied logfile from your ISP showing 'unusual downstream bandwidth in use' and the judges will find for them if it ever comes to trial. For $36 bucks? Not likely. Think economy of scale.
I agree. A xenogenetics lab on Earth is not a good idea, especially if they decide to work with 'hot' DNA. Better to put it on the Moon, or even better, in a free orbit between Earth and Mars so that if something does go wrong, the solar wind will blow the bugs out of the solar system.
Nonsense.
Xenogenetics labs working on tiny fragments of alien DNA (or equivalent) would be of no danger whatsoever. How do I know? Bacteria. Millions of species of hardy, survivalist badasses that have survived through more globe-spanning apocalypses than you've had hot dinners. So let's say there's an accident and some tiny sequenced fragments of alien genetics fall into a pond somewhere. Assuming A) the environment doesn't immediately kill them and B) they're complete enough to form autonomous life, they'll have to contend with the fact that they're competing for survival against creatures that are built to survive the shit that Earth throws at them. Not a chance in hell.
Sure, the odds are against it. Probably, the odds are better for you to hit the Lotto, the Powerball and keno in Vegas on the same day. But do you really want to roll those dice? I'm crazy. I'm not stupid. There's a considerable difference. And I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks.
I agree. A xenogenetics lab on Earth is not a good idea, especially if they decide to work with 'hot' DNA. Better to put it on the Moon, or even better, in a free orbit between Earth and Mars so that if something does go wrong, the solar wind will blow the bugs out of the solar system.
We got close once. We had companies with paid murderers that killed unionists and trouble makers. Monopolist tactics that make MS look like Mother Theresa. That's what we call the "good ol' days."
Those guys were still economic royalists. They were for everything but competition in a free market. And they're still with us today, they just changed tactics.
I love the Free Market. And maybe with luck, I'll live long enough to see one.
Fact is, there is no free market on the planet. They're all run by economic royalists out to fill their own pockets at everybody else's expense, and regulated to assure the big dogs their profits at the expense of the little guy. But keep on spouting the 'free market' line.
Yes, the US has a lot of rail accidents. No, hardly anybody rides the train anymore. Too damned expensive, something like 3 or 4 times the cost of a plane ticket. Kinda hard to kill someone on a train if they're not riding it.
Keep in mind that the 100Bil figure is 'all in'. Maintanance, salaries, upkeep, expansion, the whole enchilada. It's costing the Chinese about $66.67 per person (1.5 billion Chinese on the mainland last I heard, probably a lot more now. Still, that's not too bad. Comparable figures for the US at 66.67/person is about 20Bil, which kinda high. The whole Amtrak budget is here.
I used to run Kubuntu, until some runaway process kept bringing my quad processor to its knees on occasion. So for over a year I've been running XFCE on top of Kubuntu. Why haven't I switched to Xubuntu? Because I don't want to do a fresh install.
sudo apt-get install xbuntu-desktop
I became a fan of LXDE myself, but I still have the Gnome & KDE libraries/most of the apps installed as well. In this era of 2TB hard drives, what's a couple megs of disc space on a desktop machine?
What TFS should have mentioned
is the upgrade from TeXlive 2009 to
TeXlive 2012. Ridiculous that an OS
with a 6 month release cycle gets new
versions so seldom (except Firefox and
LibreOffice).
Well, the whole idea was to get something out there that 'just works', for Joe User, not necessarily the '4 meters in front of the bleeding edge' stuff that old-time Linux users are somewhat used to. The original watchword was, stable and usable. Some apps just aren't ready for primetime even with a multiyear development cycle.
They've obviously gone past the 'for everyman' routine lately with Unity. Personally, I use LXDE. It just works.
Well, to be fair, back with Win98, OEMs were bundling all kinda shit in the way of online services like AOL, MSN, etc, when they shipped a new computer out. They got a 'kickback' from the service for each license they shipped, which helped lower the cost of the computer. This is just more of the same, with an eye to put a buck or 3 in Canonical's pocket without too much fanfare or hassle.
"We can't use dogs to spy on everybody, everyplace, all the time."
You wouldn't want to anyway. In blind studies, drug- and explosive-sniffing dogs actually have a pretty terrible track record. A literally unacceptable percentage of false positives, for example.
Turned out, the dogs were responding to very subtle cues from their handlers, rather than their own senses. Which renders them completely inappropriate for law-enforcement use.
Not to mention the probable fact that the dogs are most likely smarter than the average TSA employee.
Have any lawyers won with the argument that the dogs were taking cues from their handlers yet?
Since the moon shots, the space loon brigade has had DECADES to show us something, ANYTHING, that manned space makes a shred of sense.
And every time we come up with something, the JOEs shoot it down by saying 'We can't do that now, therefore we'll never be able to do it so don't even bother getting out of bed'. And Congress seems to listen to the JOEs, especially when they can game the system to pump and dump 'development money' into their districts as purest pork without having to come up with anything tangible with the money, rinse and repeat.
The thing about research is you don't always know what you are looking for in the raw data until you see it.
See also my sig for a summary of the raw image data of a face and two upraised arms for an example.
Which is why you put a manned base on Farside as well.
Those are not real difficulties. The computing centre would be underground, that provides excellent radiation shielding. Computer just needs to survive transportation (when it will not be running) once. much simpler than the shuttle. You don't repair anything, just send a bit extra and apply fail-in-place maintenance strategy... What would be really cool is if they plan to operate at a natural temp... they could be designed for exploit superconduction... maybe the computer would be completely different from earthbound designs.
So you're advocating for a radically different, first-of-its-kind computer to be installed in a place that's almost impossible to get to.
Yeah, I'm sure that'll work out well.
What do you mean, 'nearly impossible to get to'? Apollo orbited the moon, passing regulary over the far side. The only reason NASA never landed a manned expedition there is because there were radio blackouts due to the big fuckin rock in the way, aka, the Moon. We got there before. We ought to go back. And stay.
Leave the computing power here on Earth, where it can easily be installed, repaired, and upgraded as necessary without budget-busting missions. Put a simple relay station on the moon if you feel it's necessary. Put two - one primary, once backup. Good god.
Put the damned computer on the far side of the moon. Let it crunch the raw data and phone home the summaries, it'll save bandwidth. If we need the raw data, just tell it 'Send us Batch 19725/B/alpha/9' and be done with it. For upgrades, build a fucking chip factory in orbit, you won't have to lift against gravity and spend $25,000/kilo, it'll already be halfway to the moon. And yeah, put a manned base on Farside along with the 'scopes.
When the computer will get self-aware, its first objective will be to learn abiut itself, oin order to understand what it is. Therefore it will connect to technology sites, especially Slashdot. And that will be its end, because all its resources will go into trying to imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods in Soviet Russia where Linux runs YOU.
But of course. The real question is, will it worship a nude statue of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits?
This might be a problem if the US wasn't doing it in return.
If you are actively trying to sabotage someone else's infrastructure, you have to expect them to do it back.
I'd put money on who started it.
I have no sympathy for the US in this regard..
Thing is, this is getting reported like it was something Iran was doing out of the blue. Nobody's saying anything about the US's cyberattacks on Iran in an attempt to shut down their nuclear program, irregardless of whether it was a weapons development project like the US claims it is, or if it really was a peaceful power reactor program. It's looking to me like this is becoming a severe case of 'Look what you made me do NOW' just before the US sends in the drones, cruise missiles and tanks. I feel Yet Another Desert War coming on...
Slashdot Mirror
Thing about it is, courts have ruled both ways, which tells me that judges are experts in law, not technology. Lawyer buddies tell me that 99% of winning a case is snowing the judge with the precedents that 'prove' your argument.
Hell, an Italian court just ruled that some guy's brain tumor was linked to his cell phone use. Science is still out on the matter, but the judge 'knows better'. Like I say, judges are experts on law, but their expertise doesn't necessarily extend any further, and in the case of IPs as unique identifiers, most judges aren't techie enough to have a clue. The *AAs have enough money to out-lawyer anyone. Win even a temporary victory against them, they'll come after you with intent to burn and loot. They have to, or their little extortion racket falls apart.
Doesn't matter what they do in the Netherlands, we're talking about ISPs in the US. You're comparing apples and hand grenades.
Nothing.
Can I sue them for defamation instead?
Maybe, but unless you're Warren Buffett, they'll outlawyer you and you'll lose bigtime. Keep in mind these are the exact same people who claim that an IP address is 'positive identification' of a pirate's 'guilt'. This is just a way to scam up $36 bucks at a time off millions of customers, which will make them tons more money than spamming the odd hundred thousand customers to cough up a 5-10K 'settlement' since there's no paperwork or lawyers involved. All they'll ever have to show is a kindly-supplied logfile from your ISP showing 'unusual downstream bandwidth in use' and the judges will find for them if it ever comes to trial. For $36 bucks? Not likely. Think economy of scale.
I agree. A xenogenetics lab on Earth is not a good idea, especially if they decide to work with 'hot' DNA. Better to put it on the Moon, or even better, in a free orbit between Earth and Mars so that if something does go wrong, the solar wind will blow the bugs out of the solar system.
Nonsense.
Xenogenetics labs working on tiny fragments of alien DNA (or equivalent) would be of no danger whatsoever. How do I know? Bacteria. Millions of species of hardy, survivalist badasses that have survived through more globe-spanning apocalypses than you've had hot dinners. So let's say there's an accident and some tiny sequenced fragments of alien genetics fall into a pond somewhere. Assuming A) the environment doesn't immediately kill them and B) they're complete enough to form autonomous life, they'll have to contend with the fact that they're competing for survival against creatures that are built to survive the shit that Earth throws at them. Not a chance in hell.
Sure, the odds are against it. Probably, the odds are better for you to hit the Lotto, the Powerball and keno in Vegas on the same day. But do you really want to roll those dice? I'm crazy. I'm not stupid. There's a considerable difference. And I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks.
I agree. A xenogenetics lab on Earth is not a good idea, especially if they decide to work with 'hot' DNA. Better to put it on the Moon, or even better, in a free orbit between Earth and Mars so that if something does go wrong, the solar wind will blow the bugs out of the solar system.
We got close once. We had companies with paid murderers that killed unionists and trouble makers. Monopolist tactics that make MS look like Mother Theresa. That's what we call the "good ol' days."
Those guys were still economic royalists. They were for everything but competition in a free market. And they're still with us today, they just changed tactics.
... if they'll use it to track down all that missing maple syrup?
I love the Free Market. And maybe with luck, I'll live long enough to see one.
Fact is, there is no free market on the planet. They're all run by economic royalists out to fill their own pockets at everybody else's expense, and regulated to assure the big dogs their profits at the expense of the little guy. But keep on spouting the 'free market' line.
Yes, the US has a lot of rail accidents. No, hardly anybody rides the train anymore. Too damned expensive, something like 3 or 4 times the cost of a plane ticket. Kinda hard to kill someone on a train if they're not riding it.
Keep in mind that the 100Bil figure is 'all in'. Maintanance, salaries, upkeep, expansion, the whole enchilada. It's costing the Chinese about $66.67 per person (1.5 billion Chinese on the mainland last I heard, probably a lot more now. Still, that's not too bad. Comparable figures for the US at 66.67/person is about 20Bil, which kinda high. The whole Amtrak budget is here.
I'm waiting for Ölande Ödlan. "Beer guzzling lizard"
The Dallas Linux User Group????
12.04 here with LXDE/Openbox and KDE/Gnome installed for the apps. It just works.
I used to run Kubuntu, until some runaway process kept bringing my quad processor to its knees on occasion. So for over a year I've been running XFCE on top of Kubuntu. Why haven't I switched to Xubuntu? Because I don't want to do a fresh install.
sudo apt-get install xbuntu-desktop
I became a fan of LXDE myself, but I still have the Gnome & KDE libraries/most of the apps installed as well. In this era of 2TB hard drives, what's a couple megs of disc space on a desktop machine?
What TFS should have mentioned is the upgrade from TeXlive 2009 to TeXlive 2012. Ridiculous that an OS with a 6 month release cycle gets new versions so seldom (except Firefox and LibreOffice).
Well, the whole idea was to get something out there that 'just works', for Joe User, not necessarily the '4 meters in front of the bleeding edge' stuff that old-time Linux users are somewhat used to. The original watchword was, stable and usable. Some apps just aren't ready for primetime even with a multiyear development cycle.
They've obviously gone past the 'for everyman' routine lately with Unity. Personally, I use LXDE. It just works.
Well, to be fair, back with Win98, OEMs were bundling all kinda shit in the way of online services like AOL, MSN, etc, when they shipped a new computer out. They got a 'kickback' from the service for each license they shipped, which helped lower the cost of the computer. This is just more of the same, with an eye to put a buck or 3 in Canonical's pocket without too much fanfare or hassle.
"We can't use dogs to spy on everybody, everyplace, all the time."
You wouldn't want to anyway. In blind studies, drug- and explosive-sniffing dogs actually have a pretty terrible track record. A literally unacceptable percentage of false positives, for example. Turned out, the dogs were responding to very subtle cues from their handlers, rather than their own senses. Which renders them completely inappropriate for law-enforcement use.
Not to mention the probable fact that the dogs are most likely smarter than the average TSA employee.
Have any lawyers won with the argument that the dogs were taking cues from their handlers yet?
Since the moon shots, the space loon brigade has had DECADES to show us something, ANYTHING, that manned space makes a shred of sense.
And every time we come up with something, the JOEs shoot it down by saying 'We can't do that now, therefore we'll never be able to do it so don't even bother getting out of bed'. And Congress seems to listen to the JOEs, especially when they can game the system to pump and dump 'development money' into their districts as purest pork without having to come up with anything tangible with the money, rinse and repeat.
Let's use that as a setting for a sci fi movie and waste it on contortionist zombies and scientists who act like complete douchebag morons. Awesome.
Seriously, dood, you gotta stop writing for SyFy Channel.
The thing about research is you don't always know what you are looking for in the raw data until you see it. See also my sig for a summary of the raw image data of a face and two upraised arms for an example.
Which is why you put a manned base on Farside as well.
Those are not real difficulties. The computing centre would be underground, that provides excellent radiation shielding. Computer just needs to survive transportation (when it will not be running) once. much simpler than the shuttle. You don't repair anything, just send a bit extra and apply fail-in-place maintenance strategy... What would be really cool is if they plan to operate at a natural temp... they could be designed for exploit superconduction... maybe the computer would be completely different from earthbound designs.
So you're advocating for a radically different, first-of-its-kind computer to be installed in a place that's almost impossible to get to.
Yeah, I'm sure that'll work out well.
What do you mean, 'nearly impossible to get to'? Apollo orbited the moon, passing regulary over the far side. The only reason NASA never landed a manned expedition there is because there were radio blackouts due to the big fuckin rock in the way, aka, the Moon. We got there before. We ought to go back. And stay.
Leave the computing power here on Earth, where it can easily be installed, repaired, and upgraded as necessary without budget-busting missions. Put a simple relay station on the moon if you feel it's necessary. Put two - one primary, once backup. Good god.
Put the damned computer on the far side of the moon. Let it crunch the raw data and phone home the summaries, it'll save bandwidth. If we need the raw data, just tell it 'Send us Batch 19725/B/alpha/9' and be done with it. For upgrades, build a fucking chip factory in orbit, you won't have to lift against gravity and spend $25,000/kilo, it'll already be halfway to the moon. And yeah, put a manned base on Farside along with the 'scopes.
When the computer will get self-aware, its first objective will be to learn abiut itself, oin order to understand what it is. Therefore it will connect to technology sites, especially Slashdot. And that will be its end, because all its resources will go into trying to imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods in Soviet Russia where Linux runs YOU.
But of course. The real question is, will it worship a nude statue of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits?
This might be a problem if the US wasn't doing it in return.
If you are actively trying to sabotage someone else's infrastructure, you have to expect them to do it back. I'd put money on who started it.
I have no sympathy for the US in this regard..
Thing is, this is getting reported like it was something Iran was doing out of the blue. Nobody's saying anything about the US's cyberattacks on Iran in an attempt to shut down their nuclear program, irregardless of whether it was a weapons development project like the US claims it is, or if it really was a peaceful power reactor program. It's looking to me like this is becoming a severe case of 'Look what you made me do NOW' just before the US sends in the drones, cruise missiles and tanks. I feel Yet Another Desert War coming on...
Nw, just build it on the far side of the Moon already and be done with it. Steering? doable..
Can we just check to see if the virtual machine drivers are already installed in this universe?
They're installed, but they can't load because the certificates aren't signed with a valid current key.