Let's see: those closed source voting machines will either be biased towards Big Oil (Republicans) or towards Big Entertainment (Democrats). Open source voting machines won't be biased: they'll pick up the winner using the random(3) function (hopefully properly seeded). OR... let's follow the example set forth in Asimov's story Franchise and let Multivac decide and save the costs of elections.
Having widely different diopters on both eyes (-7 and -1), and unable to wear contact lenses, I can't enjoy 3D even in real life. So 3D-TV is not my cup of tea. I only hope that if and once 3D-TV gets mainstream, monovision will sill remain an option, because looking at the blurred 3D-image is horrible, and looking at it with colored glasses would make it appear with a green, blue or red tint, which is also bad.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see some congresscritter use this as an example to introduce legislation that makes all of our lives just a little bit worse, by regulating the unholy shit out of the Internet.
So what? Let'em try. "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
i mean, all you need is the information; this isn't the manhattan project.
Getting information was not so difficult, even from within the Manhattan Project. If a government is hellbent on infiltrating secret projects of a rival government, they sure have enough resources at hand.
Uploading is kind of dumb because unless you are a wizard at RIAA dodging technology, these people are looking for you and could, conceivably, actually find you. Especially if you're uploading a lot from your dorm room.
a) DHCP is been defeated using hardware removers for a long time already
Source, please?
b) Despite how some USA companies believe, DMCA is not valid worldwide and in many places rip a DVD or BluRay is perfectly legal as long it's for your personal use at least.
Thanks to ACTA, DMCA-style legislation is coming to your place very soon now. Never underestimate the determination of the US government/legislature to force its notion of Copyright down everybody's throats... esp. after they have cashed in those nice fat checks from the Entertainment Cartel.
Encrypted files have maximum entropy, just like absolutely random files. Basically, you can't tell which one is which. However, absolute random noise on a disk isn't all that usual, so any encrypted file (or pure random file) will stand like a sore thumb: it will be highly visible. But, again, you can't tell the difference.
Amazon's payments services only allow withdrawal of funds to U.S. bank accounts (and only do transactions in U.S. dollars).
The biggest problem for nearly everyone outside the US is to open a U.S. bank account. Try to get such an account as a European citizen living in Europe (of course without a US SSN)... no way. I guess this limitation is related to fiscal reasons: the IRS seems poorly connected to tax services in other countries.
Essentially, if the Justice Department, and more importantly DHS and 'CyberCommand' doesn't step in hear and shut this down as willful domestic 'cyber-terrorism', their existence and purpose is officially complete and utter bullshit.
The only purpose of DoJ, DHS and CyberCommand is to protect the US. The only (remaining) purpose of the US is to protect its MAFIAA. Ergo, the only purpose of DHS and CyberCommand is to protect those spammers who (claim to) protect the US (err... its MAFIAA). All those so called anti-piracy measures with an associated super power as enforcer are the transitive hull of the biggest protection racket that this crazy old world has ever seen.
But these copyright politicians are a tricky bunch. Most are extremely anti-porn or at least they like to be seen that way. As a result, the porn industry lobby fights mostly defensive battles, trying to save itself from being censored or legislated out of existence.
Maybe it's so in the US... but still: they profit from the same Copyright protections than the rest of the IP cartel. And as such, they can take a lot of people to court on the very same grounds. Copyright law doesn't make a difference between porn and non-porn, and that's the law of unintended consequences: politicians may dislike porn (or pretend to do so publicly), but their Copyright laws are so broad that the porn industry can take a free ride alongside RIAA and MPAA -- without having to pay all those annoying but necessary kickbacks to your average senators and Congress critters. They profit directly from RIAA and MPAA's investment in politics.
Why would they be illegal? Just because they have the wrong region code? Even in Europe (region 2), you can order region 1 DVDs from the US, legally; import them, legally (Customs have no problems with that), and watch them, legally, on your multiregion-enabled DVD player. Maybe that player is not really legal because it MAY infringe on some agreements required by the DVD consortium to enforce region codes, but alternatively to a multiregion player, it would be totally legal to import a region 1 player from the US... So, is Brazil acting a lot more restrictively than the EU?
Actually, active noise control may be interesting, especially if the antinoise cancels out all ambient sound, and not just the sound from the car. This way, that car would be noticeable by the sudden cone of silence surrounding it.
Employee loyalty towards the company will be higher in the US because people are dependingon their jobs more.
In Europe you have more opportunity to quit your job and find a new one.
Hmmm..., as opposed to the US, in Europe (esp. in Germany), it can be extremely hard to find a new job, because companies are often very reluctant to hire people they can't fire later should the need arise. The European social nets are there to absorb the risks of people being fired, and not being able to quickly find a new job (due to labor protection laws).
However, the fundamental liberties encoded in the German Basic Law (it's not a Constitution in the US sense) have eroded substantially in the last decades, because, unlike the U.S. with is very reluctant to amend its Constitution, Germans love to modify their Grundgesetz regularly... mostly to make it worse, i.e. take one more liberty away.
Giving someone copyrighted material with the expectation that they will share it (which the Discovery Channel certainly did), then attempting to sue for sharing that same material is entrapment, and it's illegal.
IANAL, but is it really entrapment, given that this is Civil Law?
Perhaps it's not about embarrassment, and maybe it's not about selfish stuff. What about e.g. a journalist wanting to protect his sources even after he's dead? And that's just one example among many others.
I have to agree here. Traffic analysis IS a source for concern for the DoD. It may sound silly because the accessed information is out there in the open, but it isn't silly: the access pattern is NEW information, and this shouldn't be leaked. Of course, DoD could always make those documents available on their internal network (it's their own, after all!) to their employees, if they wished.
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Let's see: those closed source voting machines will either be biased towards Big Oil (Republicans) or towards Big Entertainment (Democrats). Open source voting machines won't be biased: they'll pick up the winner using the random(3) function (hopefully properly seeded). OR... let's follow the example set forth in Asimov's story Franchise and let Multivac decide and save the costs of elections.
Welcome to the wonderful world of ACTA... even before ACTA became reality. A glimpse into the future, proudly presented by SONY.
Having widely different diopters on both eyes (-7 and -1), and unable to wear contact lenses, I can't enjoy 3D even in real life. So 3D-TV is not my cup of tea. I only hope that if and once 3D-TV gets mainstream, monovision will sill remain an option, because looking at the blurred 3D-image is horrible, and looking at it with colored glasses would make it appear with a green, blue or red tint, which is also bad.
Siemens has a support and advisory page on Stuxnet, which is infecting their Simatic WinCC / PCS7 systems.
So what? Let'em try. "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Getting information was not so difficult, even from within the Manhattan Project. If a government is hellbent on infiltrating secret projects of a rival government, they sure have enough resources at hand.
There, fixed that for you.
Source, please?
Thanks to ACTA, DMCA-style legislation is coming to your place very soon now. Never underestimate the determination of the US government/legislature to force its notion of Copyright down everybody's throats... esp. after they have cashed in those nice fat checks from the Entertainment Cartel.
Testing it in a quick throw-away VM (e.g. in VirtualBox) is always instructive though. Just don't run it on your real machine.
Thanks for the hint. Please mod parent up!
Encrypted files have maximum entropy, just like absolutely random files. Basically, you can't tell which one is which. However, absolute random noise on a disk isn't all that usual, so any encrypted file (or pure random file) will stand like a sore thumb: it will be highly visible. But, again, you can't tell the difference.
The biggest problem for nearly everyone outside the US is to open a U.S. bank account. Try to get such an account as a European citizen living in Europe (of course without a US SSN)... no way. I guess this limitation is related to fiscal reasons: the IRS seems poorly connected to tax services in other countries.
But how do we prove that MP != MNP, where MP = {p | p = Math proof that is understandable in polynomial time}?
The only purpose of DoJ, DHS and CyberCommand is to protect the US. The only (remaining) purpose of the US is to protect its MAFIAA. Ergo, the only purpose of DHS and CyberCommand is to protect those spammers who (claim to) protect the US (err... its MAFIAA). All those so called anti-piracy measures with an associated super power as enforcer are the transitive hull of the biggest protection racket that this crazy old world has ever seen.
Maybe it's so in the US... but still: they profit from the same Copyright protections than the rest of the IP cartel. And as such, they can take a lot of people to court on the very same grounds. Copyright law doesn't make a difference between porn and non-porn, and that's the law of unintended consequences: politicians may dislike porn (or pretend to do so publicly), but their Copyright laws are so broad that the porn industry can take a free ride alongside RIAA and MPAA -- without having to pay all those annoying but necessary kickbacks to your average senators and Congress critters. They profit directly from RIAA and MPAA's investment in politics.
Why would they be illegal? Just because they have the wrong region code? Even in Europe (region 2), you can order region 1 DVDs from the US, legally; import them, legally (Customs have no problems with that), and watch them, legally, on your multiregion-enabled DVD player. Maybe that player is not really legal because it MAY infringe on some agreements required by the DVD consortium to enforce region codes, but alternatively to a multiregion player, it would be totally legal to import a region 1 player from the US... So, is Brazil acting a lot more restrictively than the EU?
Yes, but Multiboot is supported (required) by modern microkernels like, say, from the L4 family.
Actually, active noise control may be interesting, especially if the antinoise cancels out all ambient sound, and not just the sound from the car. This way, that car would be noticeable by the sudden cone of silence surrounding it.
Hmmm..., as opposed to the US, in Europe (esp. in Germany), it can be extremely hard to find a new job, because companies are often very reluctant to hire people they can't fire later should the need arise. The European social nets are there to absorb the risks of people being fired, and not being able to quickly find a new job (due to labor protection laws).
However, the fundamental liberties encoded in the German Basic Law (it's not a Constitution in the US sense) have eroded substantially in the last decades, because, unlike the U.S. with is very reluctant to amend its Constitution, Germans love to modify their Grundgesetz regularly... mostly to make it worse, i.e. take one more liberty away.
This is just a "diff -legaleze oldlaw newlaw". We're used to "diff -u" patches, lawyers are used to a slightly different patch format.
IANAL, but is it really entrapment, given that this is Civil Law?
At least, knowing how to use transmission, saves some car trips to your friends...
Perhaps it's not about embarrassment, and maybe it's not about selfish stuff. What about e.g. a journalist wanting to protect his sources even after he's dead? And that's just one example among many others.
I have to agree here. Traffic analysis IS a source for concern for the DoD. It may sound silly because the accessed information is out there in the open, but it isn't silly: the access pattern is NEW information, and this shouldn't be leaked. Of course, DoD could always make those documents available on their internal network (it's their own, after all!) to their employees, if they wished.