i know that legally corporations are individuals. what crime against another individual would require death? murder?
ok so here's the deal, you start killing hackers *only* if they take down the company.
if not, quit trying to get special priveleges for your corporate individual, and trying to punish other people because your HR Department is doesn't hire qualified techs, or you haven't given your tech tema the opportunity to update the machines, or haven't trained your employees to not be computer idiots.
lets not kill some kid for exposing your company's incompetence.
With the spread of identity theft, its time that we who undertand a bit about social egineering make identity theft obsolete and start creating more bunk identities.
Next time you change apartments, get all your utility bills put in the name of someone who doesn't exist. Then when that identity gets stolen who cares?
Get a credit card for your pet if you can.
The more fake identities that are out there the less identity theft matters, and the less companies like choicepoint will be relevant.
Public domain information is only as useful to society as people can access it. You cannot have an Open society without access to the public domain information.
Charging for public domain content makes access a privelege for those who can afford it. Public domain information must be easily available to *all* of the public, or else its not public domain.
And since libraries (particularly in US public schools) are divesting in books, and investing in technology, but they generally cannot afford access to pricey information bases.
Verizon is claiming that a project, namely the one in PA, but also similar low income community bandwidth projects, is competition?
We are talking about areas,that mostly don't have high speed internet infrastructure. Why not? Because telecos haven't invested in poor urban neighborhoods. Why? No market.
We are talking about communities of people who already *don't pay* for internet, Verizon and most other ISPs recognize that.
I don't see how you can say there is no market for paid internet services, and then say that free interent services are competing.
One more thing, try to use your overpriced verizon wireless in a poor urban neighborhood, like those in Philadelphia, you think it will work?
I would say no. Verizon is trying to clamp down on the idea of free bandwidth. They are hiding behind the market making this a competition issue.
Free and For Sale are indeed two different things.
Growing up I had this neighbor who was a stereo nut, and had been building his own speakers since the 60's. I learned about going to radio shack and soldering things together. I learned a little about fixing stereos. I learned lots about transmission of sound through the air.
Unfortunately, as a youg internet generation geek (I'm 21), I look around at geekly peers my age, and see very few people who know how to solder.
I fear that the age of computer geeks going and buying the parts from Radio Shack and building stuff might be passing. Radio Shack has noticed this too, and stores with a good parts selection are getting harder to find.
there have been lots of image exploits put out there.
if memory serves there was even a png patch for linux this past summer.
gif exploits have been around for a while too.
the real worry here, as with most M$ security releases is how long they knew about it, and whether they waited until SP2 was released so they could say that their new software didn't have that vulnerability.
microsoft security department, we take orders from marketing!
1. the US military has been using video games for a while to convince people to do things. When I was in high school 6 years ago my friends brother was recruited into the army with the promise that if he signed up five of his friends he'd get either a Playstation or a N64 (i forget which) and five games.
needless to say he couldn't sign up five friends, and got nothing but a few years of military service, and for all i know is in iraq now.
2. as the computer technology for all modern combat increases the ui changes; these games are a really great way to get kids used to the ui of some weapons systems; and also awesome market research on what the people playing their game find as intuitive.
this will all go into producing easier to use weapons; and a generation of soldiers who can't distinguish the ui if their simulations from the ones in the helicopters that actually kill people.
any person who has an ez-pass which is the new trend at least on the east coast is already having their travels through toll booths recorded in a database.
if you enter the NJ turnpike at the south end and drive to the north end, its a simple equation to figure out if your average speed was higher than the speed limit.
there are ez-pass scanners everywhere, including buildings all over manhatten. but everyone in the NYC area has them because it makes their lives and their commutes easier (as the name would suggest) and cheaper.
people don't seem to have a problem with those things being recorded if it means they don't have to pay more/ wait in line.
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i know that legally corporations are individuals. what crime against another individual would require death? murder? ok so here's the deal, you start killing hackers *only* if they take down the company. if not, quit trying to get special priveleges for your corporate individual, and trying to punish other people because your HR Department is doesn't hire qualified techs, or you haven't given your tech tema the opportunity to update the machines, or haven't trained your employees to not be computer idiots. lets not kill some kid for exposing your company's incompetence.
With the spread of identity theft, its time that we who undertand a bit about social egineering make identity theft obsolete and start creating more bunk identities.
Next time you change apartments, get all your utility bills put in the name of someone who doesn't exist. Then when that identity gets stolen who cares?
Get a credit card for your pet if you can.
The more fake identities that are out there the less identity theft matters, and the less companies like choicepoint will be relevant.
So come on everyone... lets make up fake people!
Of course.
Public domain information is only as useful to society as people can access it. You cannot have an Open society without access to the public domain information.
Charging for public domain content makes access a privelege for those who can afford it. Public domain information must be easily available to *all* of the public, or else its not public domain.
And since libraries (particularly in US public schools) are divesting in books, and investing in technology, but they generally cannot afford access to pricey information bases.
This data needs to be kept freely accessable.
Verizon is claiming that a project, namely the one in PA, but also similar low income community bandwidth projects, is competition?
We are talking about areas,that mostly don't have high speed internet infrastructure. Why not? Because telecos haven't invested in poor urban neighborhoods. Why? No market.
We are talking about communities of people who already *don't pay* for internet, Verizon and most other ISPs recognize that.
I don't see how you can say there is no market for paid internet services, and then say that free interent services are competing.
One more thing, try to use your overpriced verizon wireless in a poor urban neighborhood, like those in Philadelphia, you think it will work?
I would say no. Verizon is trying to clamp down on the idea of free bandwidth. They are hiding behind the market making this a competition issue.
Free and For Sale are indeed two different things.
Growing up I had this neighbor who was a stereo nut, and had been building his own speakers since the 60's. I learned about going to radio shack and soldering things together. I learned a little about fixing stereos. I learned lots about transmission of sound through the air.
Unfortunately, as a youg internet generation geek (I'm 21), I look around at geekly peers my age, and see very few people who know how to solder.
I fear that the age of computer geeks going and buying the parts from Radio Shack and building stuff might be passing. Radio Shack has noticed this too, and stores with a good parts selection are getting harder to find.
there have been lots of image exploits put out there.
if memory serves there was even a png patch for linux this past summer.
gif exploits have been around for a while too.
the real worry here, as with most M$ security releases is how long they knew about it, and whether they waited until SP2 was released so they could say that their new software didn't have that vulnerability.
microsoft security department, we take orders from marketing!
does this mean that we can develop a psychoactive drug that will rid us of those pesky conservatives.
(or liberasls, plenty of other things to troll about)
imagine... doctors controlling elections through drugs. that sounds like some good sci-fi
When did you stop trusting sponsored 'research'?"
About the time I understood what the term 'corporate interests' meant.
the scientific method does not apply to business ventures.
1. the US military has been using video games for a while to convince people to do things. When I was in high school 6 years ago my friends brother was recruited into the army with the promise that if he signed up five of his friends he'd get either a Playstation or a N64 (i forget which) and five games.
needless to say he couldn't sign up five friends, and got nothing but a few years of military service, and for all i know is in iraq now.
2. as the computer technology for all modern combat increases the ui changes; these games are a really great way to get kids used to the ui of some weapons systems; and also awesome market research on what the people playing their game find as intuitive.
this will all go into producing easier to use weapons; and a generation of soldiers who can't distinguish the ui if their simulations from the ones in the helicopters that actually kill people.
any person who has an ez-pass which is the new trend at least on the east coast is already having their travels through toll booths recorded in a database.
if you enter the NJ turnpike at the south end and drive to the north end, its a simple equation to figure out if your average speed was higher than the speed limit.
there are ez-pass scanners everywhere, including buildings all over manhatten. but everyone in the NYC area has them because it makes their lives and their commutes easier (as the name would suggest) and cheaper.
people don't seem to have a problem with those things being recorded if it means they don't have to pay more/ wait in line.
"The Metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hogs head and that's the way I likes it!" --Grandpa