It happens though, and quite often people get away with it. Remember the Son of Sam was only caught on a fluke that they realized there was a parking ticket on his car at one of the crime scenes. He sent letters to everyone and it terrified a city.
Network logging isn't going to do much if they start their path from a wifi hotspot that's poorly secured. Hop on, create an account, use a prepaid card, and go.
No reason to post as AC, you make a great point. After reading some of the other comments I think the worst case scenario isn't even fetishists, but closeted members of the LGBT community who could be outed. Coming out of the closet is a horrifically painful experience for a number of people, and it should be done on their terms.
I never understood that either. We're perfectly fine with accepting the end of life in all of its horrible ways; but so many of us are repulsed by the act from which all human life springs. Its beautiful (in concept, sometimes in practice). Maybe it has something to do with deep seated fears of our own mortality that we want to see all of the different ways we can be shuffed loose this mortal coil.
Thank god I'm not the only one who wouldn't really care. My girlfriend likes porn too. I also have a pin on my messenger bag that says "I 3 Porn" that I picked up at the sex museum in NYC. I like sex, I like porn, and I don't see anything wrong with that. If anyone does, they can kindly keep their opinions to themselves. I don't dig at them for being ninnieish prudes.
Actually, there is another issue. The phones that motorola ships may in fact work just fine when they leave their warehouse. The OEM then preloads a ton of bloatware (for example, with sprint android phones you can expect AT LEAST the following apps: sprint nascar, sprint TV, sprint NFL, sprint navigation). Each of these apps will run in the background, and sap resources, consume battery life, etc. Simply removing the crap they force on to their users can greatly improve performance. If this is causing the issue, it isn't actually Moto's fault, but the carrier who fills the device with their BS applications no one wants.
Not entirely. There are some very big issues with GMO food - not the least of which is the litigation that goes along with it. A crow eating some corn in your field, digests the kernel, and poops it out in another field where it happens to grow. The other farmer is found to have a GMO plant in the crop, and gets sued for a few million dollars for IP theft. Their farm closes, decreasing the amount of food available in total. Monsanto is notorious for doing these things in areas where their large purchasers are located. So in this case, GMO actually decreases the food supply, albiet indirectly.
Also, recently its been found that Monsanto's GM "Roundup ready" plants seem to have given rise to an organism which can cause disease in both animals and plants, which is directly linked to miscarriages in infected animals link. So no, GM plants are not 100% safe. There are some very real dangers in this toybox that humans haven't quite figured out yet. Until we've worked it out, keep that shit off my plate. I'll continue growing most of my own food until then.
Agreed. I like Lady Gaga. I find it interesting that there seems to be so much vitriol on a site popular with geeks towards a woman who was heavily inspired by things like Metropolis. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, they all stink.
Not all users have been so lucky with netflix. Some reported that they could get in after hammering through the login process numerous times, some report that they simply could not get in, and still others reported no problem. Luckily my wii has none of these issues.
I doubt it. It seems like most of the publishers these days seem to only want to release a game if they can shove leashes up their users' collective asses.
Interesting idea. If you contact your local law enforcement agency and inform them that you found a device that looks like a bomb - about 10 minutes after you contact ALL of your local news agencies so the arriving officers can have a nice little wall of reporters to go through. Ensure that the reporters are on your property, so the officer can't tell them to leave. Its your property.
This way, when they have to make the embarrassing admission that its a GPS tracker, its a matter of public record.
Now, you have a public record that your movements are being tracked. What a great time to rob a bank - after all, you only have one car, and it never left your driveway. Or was it the tracker that never left the driveway? Hmm.
5000 is low. We used to use setups like this when I worked with a radiology software company. The workstations we built averaged upwards of $50-$150k a system. They used specialized video cards initially from the monitor makers, though eventually the companies moved towards both FireGL and Nvidia Quadro cards later on. Those cards were super expensive - but not so much as the monitors. A 5MP grey scale mammography monitor from Barco used to cost around 30k. So if you have a workstation class PC with 4 mammography monitors on it, plus a 21" widescreen primary display, you'd end up with a pc costing almost 150k (after markup). It was pretty crazy hardware.
Not sure why this was marked as flamebait. Its an excellent explanation of what is going on without the chicken-littling that seems to go on so often here. If I had modpoints I'd mark it up.
I disagree with his statement. Stealing databases with user info is only "not cool" if you do something with them. Having a bunch of 1's and 0's stored in a lock box doesn't hurt anyone. It still would make life awfully fun for Sony. Sadly I doubt this will be the outcome in this particular case.
Actually, if you read through the legal proceedings, he was on very solid footing to do just that. I'm assuming Sony made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Laws only deter acts by threat of punishment. They don't stop them. For example, the threat of capital punishment doesn't seem to have slowed the number of murders.
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It happens though, and quite often people get away with it. Remember the Son of Sam was only caught on a fluke that they realized there was a parking ticket on his car at one of the crime scenes. He sent letters to everyone and it terrified a city.
Network logging isn't going to do much if they start their path from a wifi hotspot that's poorly secured. Hop on, create an account, use a prepaid card, and go.
No reason to post as AC, you make a great point. After reading some of the other comments I think the worst case scenario isn't even fetishists, but closeted members of the LGBT community who could be outed. Coming out of the closet is a horrifically painful experience for a number of people, and it should be done on their terms.
I never understood that either. We're perfectly fine with accepting the end of life in all of its horrible ways; but so many of us are repulsed by the act from which all human life springs. Its beautiful (in concept, sometimes in practice). Maybe it has something to do with deep seated fears of our own mortality that we want to see all of the different ways we can be shuffed loose this mortal coil.
Thank god I'm not the only one who wouldn't really care. My girlfriend likes porn too. I also have a pin on my messenger bag that says "I 3 Porn" that I picked up at the sex museum in NYC. I like sex, I like porn, and I don't see anything wrong with that. If anyone does, they can kindly keep their opinions to themselves. I don't dig at them for being ninnieish prudes.
Its a pretty epic troll, i agree.
Actually, there is another issue. The phones that motorola ships may in fact work just fine when they leave their warehouse. The OEM then preloads a ton of bloatware (for example, with sprint android phones you can expect AT LEAST the following apps: sprint nascar, sprint TV, sprint NFL, sprint navigation). Each of these apps will run in the background, and sap resources, consume battery life, etc. Simply removing the crap they force on to their users can greatly improve performance. If this is causing the issue, it isn't actually Moto's fault, but the carrier who fills the device with their BS applications no one wants.
Also, recently its been found that Monsanto's GM "Roundup ready" plants seem to have given rise to an organism which can cause disease in both animals and plants, which is directly linked to miscarriages in infected animals link. So no, GM plants are not 100% safe. There are some very real dangers in this toybox that humans haven't quite figured out yet. Until we've worked it out, keep that shit off my plate. I'll continue growing most of my own food until then.
Perhaps this image of an old man trying to be cool would work? http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv282/videogabe/cool_old_man.jpg
Agreed. I like Lady Gaga. I find it interesting that there seems to be so much vitriol on a site popular with geeks towards a woman who was heavily inspired by things like Metropolis. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, they all stink.
The simple fact is that within the current laws, it is illegal in my country.
FTFY
Not really, just a financial ruin sentence. You can't get out of legal penalties by declaring bankruptcy :(
Citation Needed.
If implemented properly, with actual citations, I think it may be a neat idea. It'd be nice to see relevent facts displayed in context.
Hey you! With the logic and facts, this is Slashdot - we don't do dem der fact thingies here. BURN THE WITCH! BURRRRRN HEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Let's see who gets the reference.
Not all users have been so lucky with netflix. Some reported that they could get in after hammering through the login process numerous times, some report that they simply could not get in, and still others reported no problem. Luckily my wii has none of these issues.
I doubt it. It seems like most of the publishers these days seem to only want to release a game if they can shove leashes up their users' collective asses.
Interesting idea. If you contact your local law enforcement agency and inform them that you found a device that looks like a bomb - about 10 minutes after you contact ALL of your local news agencies so the arriving officers can have a nice little wall of reporters to go through. Ensure that the reporters are on your property, so the officer can't tell them to leave. Its your property. This way, when they have to make the embarrassing admission that its a GPS tracker, its a matter of public record. Now, you have a public record that your movements are being tracked. What a great time to rob a bank - after all, you only have one car, and it never left your driveway. Or was it the tracker that never left the driveway? Hmm.
5000 is low. We used to use setups like this when I worked with a radiology software company. The workstations we built averaged upwards of $50-$150k a system. They used specialized video cards initially from the monitor makers, though eventually the companies moved towards both FireGL and Nvidia Quadro cards later on. Those cards were super expensive - but not so much as the monitors. A 5MP grey scale mammography monitor from Barco used to cost around 30k. So if you have a workstation class PC with 4 mammography monitors on it, plus a 21" widescreen primary display, you'd end up with a pc costing almost 150k (after markup). It was pretty crazy hardware.
...you can't impeach a supreme court justice.
Not sure why this was marked as flamebait. Its an excellent explanation of what is going on without the chicken-littling that seems to go on so often here. If I had modpoints I'd mark it up.
I disagree with his statement. Stealing databases with user info is only "not cool" if you do something with them. Having a bunch of 1's and 0's stored in a lock box doesn't hurt anyone. It still would make life awfully fun for Sony. Sadly I doubt this will be the outcome in this particular case.
Actually, if you read through the legal proceedings, he was on very solid footing to do just that. I'm assuming Sony made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Laws only deter acts by threat of punishment. They don't stop them. For example, the threat of capital punishment doesn't seem to have slowed the number of murders.