Making him decode the cards would be akin to making him testify against himself, hence making it unadmissible in court.
I know in the UK there you can get something like 2 years in prison for refusing to give the police an encryption key. Even if by giving them the key you are allowing access to incriminating evidence.
It is actually one of the worst laws we have, it was introduced to help child porn prosecutions where the incriminating content is encrypted. But as the penalty for not providing the encryption key is much lower than the sentence for possession of child porn it is really just a 'get out of jail considerably earlier' card.
In any case its locked with a fingerprint, now whats the first thing the police are going to get a copy of after arresting you.....
Monday: Patch Windows Tuesday: Stop SCO's latest plan Wednesday: Invent Fusion Thursday: Patch Linux Friday: Stop SCO's latest plan
It just wouldn't be Slashdot without dupes.
Re:Ugh, these aren't viruses...
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The Virus Squad
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Old schoool viruses tended to be designed to do damage. They infected as many files on the system as possible often destroying the file in the process.
This approach is counterproductive if you want it to spread. Modern e-mail worms rarely show much evidence of their presence, if it seems like nothing is wrong then the user won't look for a problem. This leaves the worm free to mail itself to thousands of others and the system is added to the long list of compromised machines at the crackers disposal for DDoS attacks or spam relays.
This is the same reason you don't get any 'wipe your hard drive on a certain date' viruses anymore. It isn't about doing damage it is about infecting as many machines as possible either for the 'fame' or to build up nets of infected drone machines for another purpose.
I am surprised the article didn't mention the real reason MyDoom targeted SCO, it was a diversion. Spammers need new drone machines to send spam from but they don't want the backlash from being connected to a virus so they add in a diversion, the attack on SCO. This took the heat off the spammers and placed it firmly on the OSS community. And it worked, kind of, only recently has the spamming 'features' of MyDoom seen any press. For weeks all that was reported was how it was probably created by a OSS zealot lashing out at SCO.
think a tablet PC would rock if it used a low-power CPU, no HDD, no CD/DVD and no sound/videocards (a chip, may be, but not a heavy/bulky card). With that it must be possible to make a lightweight device. I am thinking of something along the lines of a PalmOS or a stripped down Linux with a custom working environment (running on something like 30MHz CPU and 64Mb of RAM) with a 12" low-power LCD (may be, without backlight and monochrome to improve battery life, but who will use it...). Fill the rest with batteries.
BitTorrent is used extensively for distribution of new game demos and game/movie trailers. It is perfect for anything that has high first day demand. It is no more suited to illegal file trading than ftp, http or any other protocol.
They mention Suprnova in the article but not Filerush or any of the other hundreds of sites offering torrents of legally shared content. I mean torrents of media are posted all the time on/. after hosting servers buckle under the strain.
Why do people always jump on the infringing uses of software and try and make out like that is the whole story.
NYTimes sells the information given when registering. Some people object to having their e-mail and demographic details sold on to anyone who asks. Yes they could just fill in junk details but then no-one wins as it is as much hassle as registering but NYTimes end up with a useless database, and not everyone is that malicious.
When it isn't ideological it is about hassle, internet users take the path of least resistance. If a site requires registration read it somewhere else, there is no reason to register when content is available elsewhere. Why jump through hoops when you don't have to.
XP gives you 30 days to activate, after which it still functions in a somewhat crippled state.
Actually it is more an unusable state than a crippled one. It won't let you past the login screen unless you activate. Other Microsoft apps that use activation do go into a crippled mode after the 30 day period, normally most features are disabled like they ability to save in Office.
If you are into the rush of not knowing where the enemy are or where the next shot might come from, you should check out Vietcong. Single player is a bit of a dissapointment but multiplayer is incredibly tense.
You sneak through the jungle being as quiet as possible, making sure you stay in cover, going from tree to tree bush to bush. You don't hear anything, wonder where everyone is, then suddenly you come out from behind a bush and are literally face to face with an enemy. Its that split second rush where you both just crap yourselves and start firing. This of course pushes everyone else over the edge and suddenly the jungle just erupts with gunfire.
It has the same problems as other games with griefers and people who don't take it seriously but if you get on a good server it can be very tactical.
But, anyone can legally find out what shelter your moms staying at currently
I very much doubt that is true as the whole point of women's shelters is normally that they are confidential. Most women staying there have escaped abusive situations and are essentially hiding from their abusive partner. No way would the shelter give out names of their residents as it would defeat the whole point of the shelter.
Unless you need to install it on new hardware, which would require you to activate it. If the Activation service is no longer in operation you won't be able to use it anymore.
This renders the product completely useless because you won't be able to re-install it in 5 or 10 years to access old data, or if somehow newer MS code is even worse.
See last statement.
Unless of course in 5 years Microsoft decide they aren't supporting XP anymore and shutdown the activation service. I am not saying they will do it, but they aren't normally too bothered about forcing customers to upgrade by ditching old products.
I belong to both the buyer and the pirate group. I'll buy the game, discover that anti-piracy measures in it serve to inhibit gameplay, and have to go searching for a no-CD crack.
No-cd cracking a game you bought doesn't make you a pirate, you aren't infringing on anyones copyright by removing the copy protection. You are of course circumventing copy protection, so the game company could DMCA your ass. I wonder how the case would go in court, trying to prosecute someone for trying to play a game they bought legally? Obvious parallels to DVD Jon and DeCSS.
I'd rather they pull the article than post something like "House on fire! (update) Not really
If they just pull the article then all the people who read it will still think the house caught fire. Whereas if they update the story to make it accurate, and mark it as updated then people who have already read it can see what has changed and why. Seamlessly changing articles without any reference to the changes being included isn't a good thing at all it allows all kinds of abuse.
that gives me one less piece of equipment to lug around
You hardly have to lug around a wristwatch its light and convenient. The whole point is that you can look at a watch without having to get it out of your bag or pocket. All it takes is a glance to know what time it is. For a phone to fulfil the same purpose you would have to have it out on the table, not a good idea in public unless you don't mind it getting snatched.
Oddly enough, most government employees that I've seen tend to leave their monitors at the default resolution....640x480, 16 bit, @60 Hz.
1.Get a job with the government.
2.Run desktop at 640x480@60hz
3.Go blind from awful refresh
4.Sue government
5.Profit!!!
No need for any question marks here.
Re:No, it could be very easy.
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Google v. Microsoft
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· Score: 3, Informative
all they really have to do is offer a new service as a free add-on to Windows, then simply build that service into the next version of Windows
They have effectively already done this. The search function in IE defaults to msn search, and if you mistype a url it sends you to their search engine as well. Because of this the popularity of msn search is massively overstated as a lot of the hits are due to typos.
Amnesty believes Microsoft is in violation of a new United Nations Human Rights code for multinationals which says businesses should 'seek to ensure that the goods and services they provide will not be used to abuse human rights'.
If you had RTFA you need know that this isn't a case of Amnesty International judging Microsoft based on their own ideals. They are saying that if Microsoft (as well as Cisco and Nortel) knew that their software and hardware was going to be used for censorship then they are violating the United Nations Human Rights code.
If China was using OSS to censor web traffic then the same allegations would be leveled at RedHat or other companies selling OSS software. I very much doubt AI care about the Open/Closed Software distinction.
unless the whole server is full of friends I really don't do much talking to my friend
If only I took that advice. My housemate and I started playing Planetside, joined with a squad of 5 or 6 others. Then proceded to spend the next 2 hours mocking them on the voice channel. After two hours of cruelly mocking their playing ability we hear a cough, and realise they had all been listening the whole time. Not good.
Planetside is a great game for playing with friends though and there is enough downtime for conversations. But surely the choice of game is down to what both of you want to play. A game having great voice support is no good if she hates the genre.
There is nothing stopping you from listening to entire albums in order on an iPod. All the tracks are listed by artist, album, or trackname. You don't have to make playlists or use shuffle to get random tracks. Selecting a new album is no different from putting a new cd in a cd based player, except of course you have most if not all of your music right there and don't have to carry around bulky, easily scratched cds.
As to your points about checking all the mp3s before burning them to a cd, how is that different from checking them before transferring to an iPod? I am a total snob for id tags, all of mine have to perfect before they go on the iPod, which is where Tag & Rename comes in.
whereas hdd players imho you're much more likely to switch singles in and out, hear the same songs over and miss the discovery of great new ones, that i get all the time when out with my portable
Surely the higher capacity of a HDD based player allows you to avoid hearing the same songs over and over. Having 5000 songs at your fingertips makes it a lot easier to vary your listening than carrying the equivalent number of cds (28) and having to swap them out and somehow label them so you know which tracks are where.
But a responsible reviewer would have arranged to have a proper installation before he went on with the review, lest the installation problems lead to an inaccurate review.
The software is an integral and essential part of the product. The review therefore covers the software as well as the player itself. As is pointed out in the review more than one issue with the installation process would probably have led to any none tech-savvy person to take the player back to the shop. If you read the article he says that after the initial problem with the installer he then reinstalled the software. So it didn't affect the review of the hardware.
If you want to sell a mass-market product you have to make the installation as fool proof as possible. Joe Sixpack isn't going to go to the forums to find out that his hub (or computer pluggy-in thing) is the reason it isn't detected. He will take it back to the shop and get something else instead. An mp3 player isn't like a new GFX card, the target market isn't geeks who know what they are doing. You can't get away with shoddy documentation and confusing installation because non-geeks expect things to work first time.
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Making him decode the cards would be akin to making him testify against himself, hence making it unadmissible in court.
I know in the UK there you can get something like 2 years in prison for refusing to give the police an encryption key. Even if by giving them the key you are allowing access to incriminating evidence.
It is actually one of the worst laws we have, it was introduced to help child porn prosecutions where the incriminating content is encrypted. But as the penalty for not providing the encryption key is much lower than the sentence for possession of child porn it is really just a 'get out of jail considerably earlier' card.
In any case its locked with a fingerprint, now whats the first thing the police are going to get a copy of after arresting you.....
No it would have to be:
Monday: Patch Windows
Tuesday: Stop SCO's latest plan
Wednesday: Invent Fusion
Thursday: Patch Linux
Friday: Stop SCO's latest plan
It just wouldn't be Slashdot without dupes.
Old schoool viruses tended to be designed to do damage. They infected as many files on the system as possible often destroying the file in the process.
This approach is counterproductive if you want it to spread. Modern e-mail worms rarely show much evidence of their presence, if it seems like nothing is wrong then the user won't look for a problem. This leaves the worm free to mail itself to thousands of others and the system is added to the long list of compromised machines at the crackers disposal for DDoS attacks or spam relays.
This is the same reason you don't get any 'wipe your hard drive on a certain date' viruses anymore. It isn't about doing damage it is about infecting as many machines as possible either for the 'fame' or to build up nets of infected drone machines for another purpose.
I am surprised the article didn't mention the real reason MyDoom targeted SCO, it was a diversion. Spammers need new drone machines to send spam from but they don't want the backlash from being connected to a virus so they add in a diversion, the attack on SCO. This took the heat off the spammers and placed it firmly on the OSS community. And it worked, kind of, only recently has the spamming 'features' of MyDoom seen any press. For weeks all that was reported was how it was probably created by a OSS zealot lashing out at SCO.
Mp3 Bah, i'm not buying one till they have .ogg support.
Scenario 3: Someone snipes your friend from a nearby window. At the same time your head explodes as the other sniper shoots you. Your reaction....
Shock and Awe is all very well, but I would go for getting the job done.
You could have just searched for it .... oh...right.
think a tablet PC would rock if it used a low-power CPU, no HDD, no CD/DVD and no sound/videocards (a chip, may be, but not a heavy/bulky card). With that it must be possible to make a lightweight device. I am thinking of something along the lines of a PalmOS or a stripped down Linux with a custom working environment (running on something like 30MHz CPU and 64Mb of RAM) with a 12" low-power LCD (may be, without backlight and monochrome to improve battery life, but who will use it...). Fill the rest with batteries.
Well done you just accurately described a PDA.BitTorrent is used extensively for distribution of new game demos and game/movie trailers. It is perfect for anything that has high first day demand. It is no more suited to illegal file trading than ftp, http or any other protocol.
They mention Suprnova in the article but not Filerush or any of the other hundreds of sites offering torrents of legally shared content. I mean torrents of media are posted all the time on /. after hosting servers buckle under the strain.
Why do people always jump on the infringing uses of software and try and make out like that is the whole story.
NYTimes sells the information given when registering. Some people object to having their e-mail and demographic details sold on to anyone who asks. Yes they could just fill in junk details but then no-one wins as it is as much hassle as registering but NYTimes end up with a useless database, and not everyone is that malicious.
When it isn't ideological it is about hassle, internet users take the path of least resistance. If a site requires registration read it somewhere else, there is no reason to register when content is available elsewhere. Why jump through hoops when you don't have to.
It helps to tell yourself the current makes it sterile and non gross as you make out with the battery.
Am I the only one that read that as "makes you sterile"?
XP gives you 30 days to activate, after which it still functions in a somewhat crippled state.
Actually it is more an unusable state than a crippled one. It won't let you past the login screen unless you activate. Other Microsoft apps that use activation do go into a crippled mode after the 30 day period, normally most features are disabled like they ability to save in Office.
You sneak through the jungle being as quiet as possible, making sure you stay in cover, going from tree to tree bush to bush. You don't hear anything, wonder where everyone is, then suddenly you come out from behind a bush and are literally face to face with an enemy. Its that split second rush where you both just crap yourselves and start firing. This of course pushes everyone else over the edge and suddenly the jungle just erupts with gunfire.
It has the same problems as other games with griefers and people who don't take it seriously but if you get on a good server it can be very tactical.
But, anyone can legally find out what shelter your moms staying at currently
I very much doubt that is true as the whole point of women's shelters is normally that they are confidential. Most women staying there have escaped abusive situations and are essentially hiding from their abusive partner. No way would the shelter give out names of their residents as it would defeat the whole point of the shelter.
Unless you need to install it on new hardware, which would require you to activate it. If the Activation service is no longer in operation you won't be able to use it anymore.
This renders the product completely useless because you won't be able to re-install it in 5 or 10 years to access old data, or if somehow newer MS code is even worse.
See last statement.
Unless of course in 5 years Microsoft decide they aren't supporting XP anymore and shutdown the activation service. I am not saying they will do it, but they aren't normally too bothered about forcing customers to upgrade by ditching old products.
I belong to both the buyer and the pirate group. I'll buy the game, discover that anti-piracy measures in it serve to inhibit gameplay, and have to go searching for a no-CD crack.
No-cd cracking a game you bought doesn't make you a pirate, you aren't infringing on anyones copyright by removing the copy protection. You are of course circumventing copy protection, so the game company could DMCA your ass. I wonder how the case would go in court, trying to prosecute someone for trying to play a game they bought legally? Obvious parallels to DVD Jon and DeCSS.
I'd rather they pull the article than post something like "House on fire! (update) Not really
If they just pull the article then all the people who read it will still think the house caught fire. Whereas if they update the story to make it accurate, and mark it as updated then people who have already read it can see what has changed and why. Seamlessly changing articles without any reference to the changes being included isn't a good thing at all it allows all kinds of abuse.
I for one still use boot floppies now and then. Therefore I find floppy drives pretty usefull.
You can make bootable cds you know. They work just the same as a boot disk as long as the BIOS is recent enough to boot from a cd.
that gives me one less piece of equipment to lug around
You hardly have to lug around a wristwatch its light and convenient. The whole point is that you can look at a watch without having to get it out of your bag or pocket. All it takes is a glance to know what time it is. For a phone to fulfil the same purpose you would have to have it out on the table, not a good idea in public unless you don't mind it getting snatched.
Oddly enough, most government employees that I've seen tend to leave their monitors at the default resolution....640x480, 16 bit, @60 Hz.
1.Get a job with the government.
2.Run desktop at 640x480@60hz
3.Go blind from awful refresh
4.Sue government
5.Profit!!!
No need for any question marks here.
all they really have to do is offer a new service as a free add-on to Windows, then simply build that service into the next version of Windows
They have effectively already done this. The search function in IE defaults to msn search, and if you mistype a url it sends you to their search engine as well. Because of this the popularity of msn search is massively overstated as a lot of the hits are due to typos.
Amnesty believes Microsoft is in violation of a new United Nations Human Rights code for multinationals which says businesses should 'seek to ensure that the goods and services they provide will not be used to abuse human rights'.
If you had RTFA you need know that this isn't a case of Amnesty International judging Microsoft based on their own ideals. They are saying that if Microsoft (as well as Cisco and Nortel) knew that their software and hardware was going to be used for censorship then they are violating the United Nations Human Rights code.
If China was using OSS to censor web traffic then the same allegations would be leveled at RedHat or other companies selling OSS software. I very much doubt AI care about the Open/Closed Software distinction.
unless the whole server is full of friends I really don't do much talking to my friend
If only I took that advice. My housemate and I started playing Planetside, joined with a squad of 5 or 6 others. Then proceded to spend the next 2 hours mocking them on the voice channel. After two hours of cruelly mocking their playing ability we hear a cough, and realise they had all been listening the whole time. Not good.
Planetside is a great game for playing with friends though and there is enough downtime for conversations. But surely the choice of game is down to what both of you want to play. A game having great voice support is no good if she hates the genre.
As to your points about checking all the mp3s before burning them to a cd, how is that different from checking them before transferring to an iPod? I am a total snob for id tags, all of mine have to perfect before they go on the iPod, which is where Tag & Rename comes in.
whereas hdd players imho you're much more likely to switch singles in and out, hear the same songs over and miss the discovery of great new ones, that i get all the time when out with my portable
Surely the higher capacity of a HDD based player allows you to avoid hearing the same songs over and over. Having 5000 songs at your fingertips makes it a lot easier to vary your listening than carrying the equivalent number of cds (28) and having to swap them out and somehow label them so you know which tracks are where.
But a responsible reviewer would have arranged to have a proper installation before he went on with the review, lest the installation problems lead to an inaccurate review.
The software is an integral and essential part of the product. The review therefore covers the software as well as the player itself. As is pointed out in the review more than one issue with the installation process would probably have led to any none tech-savvy person to take the player back to the shop. If you read the article he says that after the initial problem with the installer he then reinstalled the software. So it didn't affect the review of the hardware.
If you want to sell a mass-market product you have to make the installation as fool proof as possible. Joe Sixpack isn't going to go to the forums to find out that his hub (or computer pluggy-in thing) is the reason it isn't detected. He will take it back to the shop and get something else instead. An mp3 player isn't like a new GFX card, the target market isn't geeks who know what they are doing. You can't get away with shoddy documentation and confusing installation because non-geeks expect things to work first time.