If a search warrant is granted then law enforcement should be allowed to do whatever is permissable under that warrant to conduct their investigation. Law enforcement has no reason and should not be allowed to snoop, unwarranted, on any type of communication. But to say wiretap laws should in no way be extended to include new communication methods is not pallatable to me as it cripple's law enforcement's powers in this new age. Again, as I have said before I do not think backdoors should be built in to encryption systems to allow for law enforcement convenience but law enforcement should not be blocked from conducting proper and legal investigations over new communication mediums.
Both, MS if they did not fix the flaw in a timely manner from when it was discovered and myself for not taking precautions to guard against such a flaw. I guard against such flaws by not using Windows and implementing multiple layers of security from encrypting individual files to encrypting my home directory to using strong passwords to plugging every hole I don't want or need open on my Macs. Granted I am a bit more proactive than most users, and other than my financial data nothing I have is super sensitive in my estimation, not to mention I have backups of everything I need to make sure I don't lose.
The real issue here though is willingly sharing files that you are not legally permitted to, if this is ocurring then the sharer is solely responsible.
By not extending law enforcement's power to investigate crimes using the internet you are willing to give criminals who communicate via email, VoIP or other electronic means a pass? I definitely agree that the more government stays out of the internet, and most anything else for that matter, the better off we all are. But I do think law enforcement should have the ability to conduct their investigations over any medium given that proper checks and balances are in place and privacy for law abiding citizens can be maintained. This is a hard balance to strike and requires constant vigilance, but that is the price of freedom.
But to go the other route and thus give unfettered freedom to criminals is far less appealing to me.
Civil disobedience has never invloved property laws however, at least not that I am aware of. By your reasoning if a group of individuals, say native americans, were to disagree with laws regarding land title and ownership then they should just go an destroy people's homes and take back the land that they claim should not be 'ownable'? Your solution is much more absurd. It is every persons duties to respect the laws that are in place and to work peacfully to change those which they disagree with. NOWHERE are we given the right to outright disobey the law, that right would in fact destroy the law itself. The second amendment is a poor example for this situation since the second amendment is most applicable in the light of the civil war and the american revolution in which armed resistance was the only method available to protest real and percieved tyranny depending on how you decide to interpret those two historical events.
Artists have a right to 'own' their work as much as I have a right to 'own' my car, my home or any physical property, this digital communism that seems to be your ideal for digitized works is appealing in some ways but dangerous to the capitalist system that exists. Why shouldn't people have right to property, regardless of the form, what is needed is less criminal activity in this arena calling itself 'civil disobedience' and more fair discussion over how property law, IP and copyright as well as privacy should be addressed and reformed in this new age of information.
Theft is wrong, regardless of what is stolen and what form the item takes.
I'm an American and speak from that perspective...
That isn't the legality of it though, and as long as these laws are in place to protect IP and digital, or any other form of property for that matter, we have civic obligation to respect those laws or face the penalties associated with violating them. I would say that if VoIP were to ever be adopted as a full replacement for POTS then yes wire-tap laws should be updated to encompass that to maintain law enforcement's ability to conduct investigation. I would not extend such a update to include internal or privately held VoIP systems, but if it used like any other public utility it should be regulated in some manner, that doesn't mean I would advocate allowing the government to have backdoor type access to any encryption methods, and the normal warrant system should still be maintained but unencrypted traffic over a public system should be open to law enforcment, it helps keep honest people honest. Criminals always subvert and attempt to out manuever surveillance, and advocating that sort of behaviour to people who are breaking the law is unethical and immoral, if a person who is doing nothing wrong wishes to maintain their privacy that is one thing, but to advocate that criminals should do the same in the place of advocating that they stop breaking the law is just not a good thing.
Or you could not distribute stolen/pirated material that you have no legal right to distribute in the first place. I don't share my personal music collection which I have paid for so that someone else can benefit from my expense. I have no fear of the RIAA because I own every song on my machine not to mention I'm not sharing them in the first place.
Why do we have to discuss how to hide yourself from the prying eyes of those trying to protect their legal property? Privacy is important and if you want to be anonymous that is your own perogative, but to advocate trying to hide one's self instead of advocating simple honesty is dangerous in so many ways to all societies.
I think your paranoia is somewhat interesting but the current model that Apple has with distributing XCode and other development resources freely with their operating system is the most valuable model. Heck, MS is talking about have command line development tools available in the default install of Longhorn. The concept of 'every user a developer' is something Apple is and will continue to benefit from if they maintain their current stance.
appears to be wasting more of our time than anyone else...strange, I would have expected porn...or perhaps MS owns all the porn sites...interesting, hmmm....
I like my iPod because it packs a lot of storage in a small package and I don't want to watch video on a stinkin' handheld, that is why I tote my powerbook around. This idea seems plain old dumb to me, but I guess if it is competition it is good for consumers but just strikes me as a dumb idea that I'm not going to consider buying, especially at twice the price of an iPod.
Bluetooth works at a good distance, this requires extremely close proximity. This certainly won't replace my bluetooth mouse, keyboard or cell phone since I don't feel like having to press my mouse and keyboard against my machine to make them work. Ditto for the cell phone. Or am I really missing something?
I guess that could be bothersome, but anything I produce I accept responsibility for so if it bites me I should have seen it coming anyways. Metadata really bites the people who abuse information because if you plagarize or in this case are a mere mouthpiece you will be found out if you aren't careful because the original author is discoverable. The MPAA probably isn't too upset except with the fact that they have an idiot in their pocket as their advocate. The real person to get bit was the person who distributed the document as his own without properly disclosing its origin. The abuser of information suffered more than the originator of that information.
I would say that in the innovation department linux is on par with anything microsoft throws out their. Linux doesn't focus on adding every feature they can think of although it is quite feature rich, but instead focuses on making everything work as best as it can. Reliability is an innovative concept that Linux is highlighting next to the horrible bloated and reliability bankrupt windows OS.
But then again we have a shop like Apple who produce both feature rich and reliable systems, thanks predominantly to their incorporation of BSD derived material. BSD provides the reliability while apple provides the ingenuity to produce a really great system. But even OS X is too bloated for server usage in my opinion. I remember somewhere seeing a funny piece describing the ideal IT world in which Linux ran the servers, Mac ran the desktop and Windows ran solitaire. And I have to say that I think that bit of humor is quite true.
... explain this title to me...is the implication that Linux is slow at innovating or something? Or are they focusing on the 'steady' part from the old fable? The analogy doesn't quite seem to fit since Linux is both 'fast' and 'steady'...Besides Microsoft could be better anologized to a 'retarded turtle' that is both slow and disoriented/unfocused whereas linux is much more like a determined 'rabbit' which is both 'fast' and steady/focused.
Some may not agree with me on the 'focused' point but that's ok, they probably are using the 'retarded turtle' anyways.
As a web designer and admin I will have to find ways to make that data as inaccesible as possible....oh wait, I already do that because it is a good security measure...Database only listens on localhost so unless my server is breached it is already hidden behind the interface, not to mention that Apache already keeps people from reading my PHP. But if these 'deep web' searches are going to resort to trying to crack security then we have another thing to worry about...
The military value is in creating a "death star" by placing a giant "laser" on the moon and deploying two units to run the facility...moon unit alpha and moon unit zappa....
And the society shaking ramifications of this are what? We will stop tossing coins before football games and instead have a pocket sized random number generator and the teams pick a number?
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If a search warrant is granted then law enforcement should be allowed to do whatever is permissable under that warrant to conduct their investigation. Law enforcement has no reason and should not be allowed to snoop, unwarranted, on any type of communication. But to say wiretap laws should in no way be extended to include new communication methods is not pallatable to me as it cripple's law enforcement's powers in this new age. Again, as I have said before I do not think backdoors should be built in to encryption systems to allow for law enforcement convenience but law enforcement should not be blocked from conducting proper and legal investigations over new communication mediums.
Both, MS if they did not fix the flaw in a timely manner from when it was discovered and myself for not taking precautions to guard against such a flaw. I guard against such flaws by not using Windows and implementing multiple layers of security from encrypting individual files to encrypting my home directory to using strong passwords to plugging every hole I don't want or need open on my Macs. Granted I am a bit more proactive than most users, and other than my financial data nothing I have is super sensitive in my estimation, not to mention I have backups of everything I need to make sure I don't lose.
The real issue here though is willingly sharing files that you are not legally permitted to, if this is ocurring then the sharer is solely responsible.
and we'll see a G5 powerbook to complete the line by the end of the year. I know I will be ready to order one when they are released.
By not extending law enforcement's power to investigate crimes using the internet you are willing to give criminals who communicate via email, VoIP or other electronic means a pass? I definitely agree that the more government stays out of the internet, and most anything else for that matter, the better off we all are. But I do think law enforcement should have the ability to conduct their investigations over any medium given that proper checks and balances are in place and privacy for law abiding citizens can be maintained. This is a hard balance to strike and requires constant vigilance, but that is the price of freedom.
But to go the other route and thus give unfettered freedom to criminals is far less appealing to me.
Civil disobedience has never invloved property laws however, at least not that I am aware of. By your reasoning if a group of individuals, say native americans, were to disagree with laws regarding land title and ownership then they should just go an destroy people's homes and take back the land that they claim should not be 'ownable'? Your solution is much more absurd. It is every persons duties to respect the laws that are in place and to work peacfully to change those which they disagree with. NOWHERE are we given the right to outright disobey the law, that right would in fact destroy the law itself. The second amendment is a poor example for this situation since the second amendment is most applicable in the light of the civil war and the american revolution in which armed resistance was the only method available to protest real and percieved tyranny depending on how you decide to interpret those two historical events.
Artists have a right to 'own' their work as much as I have a right to 'own' my car, my home or any physical property, this digital communism that seems to be your ideal for digitized works is appealing in some ways but dangerous to the capitalist system that exists. Why shouldn't people have right to property, regardless of the form, what is needed is less criminal activity in this arena calling itself 'civil disobedience' and more fair discussion over how property law, IP and copyright as well as privacy should be addressed and reformed in this new age of information.
Theft is wrong, regardless of what is stolen and what form the item takes.
I'm an American and speak from that perspective...
That isn't the legality of it though, and as long as these laws are in place to protect IP and digital, or any other form of property for that matter, we have civic obligation to respect those laws or face the penalties associated with violating them. I would say that if VoIP were to ever be adopted as a full replacement for POTS then yes wire-tap laws should be updated to encompass that to maintain law enforcement's ability to conduct investigation. I would not extend such a update to include internal or privately held VoIP systems, but if it used like any other public utility it should be regulated in some manner, that doesn't mean I would advocate allowing the government to have backdoor type access to any encryption methods, and the normal warrant system should still be maintained but unencrypted traffic over a public system should be open to law enforcment, it helps keep honest people honest. Criminals always subvert and attempt to out manuever surveillance, and advocating that sort of behaviour to people who are breaking the law is unethical and immoral, if a person who is doing nothing wrong wishes to maintain their privacy that is one thing, but to advocate that criminals should do the same in the place of advocating that they stop breaking the law is just not a good thing.
Or you could not distribute stolen/pirated material that you have no legal right to distribute in the first place. I don't share my personal music collection which I have paid for so that someone else can benefit from my expense. I have no fear of the RIAA because I own every song on my machine not to mention I'm not sharing them in the first place.
Why do we have to discuss how to hide yourself from the prying eyes of those trying to protect their legal property? Privacy is important and if you want to be anonymous that is your own perogative, but to advocate trying to hide one's self instead of advocating simple honesty is dangerous in so many ways to all societies.
Microsoft's innovation and originality has just hit an all time low....
This guy tried to extort the search engine that allows you to find almost anything including almost anybody and he was expecting to not get caught?
Stupid!
I think your paranoia is somewhat interesting but the current model that Apple has with distributing XCode and other development resources freely with their operating system is the most valuable model. Heck, MS is talking about have command line development tools available in the default install of Longhorn. The concept of 'every user a developer' is something Apple is and will continue to benefit from if they maintain their current stance.
And due to radiation will not exist for a long long time after? :-)
And this is somehow better than we are thought of now? Already nobody likes us because of the semi-firm action we are taking against terrorists.
nuke them first?
appears to be wasting more of our time than anyone else...strange, I would have expected porn...or perhaps MS owns all the porn sites...interesting, hmmm....
I like my iPod because it packs a lot of storage in a small package and I don't want to watch video on a stinkin' handheld, that is why I tote my powerbook around. This idea seems plain old dumb to me, but I guess if it is competition it is good for consumers but just strikes me as a dumb idea that I'm not going to consider buying, especially at twice the price of an iPod.
Bluetooth works at a good distance, this requires extremely close proximity. This certainly won't replace my bluetooth mouse, keyboard or cell phone since I don't feel like having to press my mouse and keyboard against my machine to make them work. Ditto for the cell phone. Or am I really missing something?
I guess that could be bothersome, but anything I produce I accept responsibility for so if it bites me I should have seen it coming anyways. Metadata really bites the people who abuse information because if you plagarize or in this case are a mere mouthpiece you will be found out if you aren't careful because the original author is discoverable. The MPAA probably isn't too upset except with the fact that they have an idiot in their pocket as their advocate. The real person to get bit was the person who distributed the document as his own without properly disclosing its origin. The abuser of information suffered more than the originator of that information.
Yat for metadata!
metadata is a good thing, as long as it is accurate and useful. Go Metadata!
I would say that in the innovation department linux is on par with anything microsoft throws out their. Linux doesn't focus on adding every feature they can think of although it is quite feature rich, but instead focuses on making everything work as best as it can. Reliability is an innovative concept that Linux is highlighting next to the horrible bloated and reliability bankrupt windows OS.
But then again we have a shop like Apple who produce both feature rich and reliable systems, thanks predominantly to their incorporation of BSD derived material. BSD provides the reliability while apple provides the ingenuity to produce a really great system. But even OS X is too bloated for server usage in my opinion. I remember somewhere seeing a funny piece describing the ideal IT world in which Linux ran the servers, Mac ran the desktop and Windows ran solitaire. And I have to say that I think that bit of humor is quite true.
... explain this title to me...is the implication that Linux is slow at innovating or something? Or are they focusing on the 'steady' part from the old fable? The analogy doesn't quite seem to fit since Linux is both 'fast' and 'steady'...Besides Microsoft could be better anologized to a 'retarded turtle' that is both slow and disoriented/unfocused whereas linux is much more like a determined 'rabbit' which is both 'fast' and steady/focused.
Some may not agree with me on the 'focused' point but that's ok, they probably are using the 'retarded turtle' anyways.
As a web designer and admin I will have to find ways to make that data as inaccesible as possible....oh wait, I already do that because it is a good security measure...Database only listens on localhost so unless my server is breached it is already hidden behind the interface, not to mention that Apache already keeps people from reading my PHP. But if these 'deep web' searches are going to resort to trying to crack security then we have another thing to worry about...
So the same people who make the world's most vulnerable OS must also be making these vulnerable spywares eh?
The military value is in creating a "death star" by placing a giant "laser" on the moon and deploying two units to run the facility...moon unit alpha and moon unit zappa....
that Febreze would be a cheaper solution...
And the society shaking ramifications of this are what? We will stop tossing coins before football games and instead have a pocket sized random number generator and the teams pick a number?