Much like MSN messenger did to AIM and ICQ, the default seems to be going to Facebook messenger. Simple and ubiquitous and usually covers all your friends as they usually have facebook too.
Through mobile they're trying to take the voice/video from skype and might pull it off.
Just through sheer numbers facebook will own the chat world just like msn did
The article even states that they want to go after those that don't settle. They want to take it all the way, which means getting the scared to pay up a small, but not insignificant, amount and the pompous you can't touch me a huge destroying amount, both to them and the defence legal team.
Basically, you bankrupt a few high profile piraters the others will cave, either by paying a settlement, or by not pirating anymore.
The judge is going to have to interpret what the motivation behind the practice is. Based on my limited knowledge of precedent in this area, if the judge feels the motivation is profit driven (i.e. Day to day Business as usual) then he could throw it out. Canada is not known for tolerating overly litigious business practices. However if the Judge believes this is to collect lost revenue due to infringement, then this could go right through. Goon is more believable that it's going after lost revenue then Hurt Locker.
I've got four thrift stores in my area: Value Village, St Vincent De Paul, Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity ReStore. None of them ever have Model M keyboards. When I was looking for the one I'm modding, I had friends scouring places for them. I live in Peterborough ON, and I had people here and in the GTA (Greater Toronto) looking for me. Came up zilch.
Just had the impression that most people and businesses got rid of them and the thrift stores sent them to the dump thinking the couldn't move 25 year old computer stuff.
I have a hell of a time finding Model M keyboards. The dump is not an option, one something hits their dumpsters they are not legally allowed to let anyone have it back, or even touch it. Liability stuff. Electronic waste is a bit better, but since I've started speaking with them, they haven't shown up. Computer junk shops don't exist in my area anymore, they've either folded, or got rid of the old and focused on new systems and repair. On ebay they regularly end up going for $50-$100 and shipping for me bumps that up ~$50. Craigslist also usually has them going for $50-$100 (Seems they do their research before posting) and even if I could justify that price on a keyboard, they're gone pretty quickly.
Very frustrating. My only Model M I have right now is undergoing a steampunk conversion. I would love to have one for day to day use.
What I've always found interesting is that despite all the differences between dogs and wolves, they are still the same species. Evolution in process. With dogs we will eventually see that split in species that Darwin first postulated.
Well as long as we don't kill all the wolves first. Then it'll be a bit tougher to see.
Funny, just north of the Border I can get Cable internet without TV, even starting to get competition for the service in place. Still mainly overpriced, but it seems for once we're better than the US in this regard.
The thing is Violet Blue's topics are about sex. That's what she talks and writes about. It wasn't that the organizers didn't know she was going to talk sex, that's what she was invited for. Also the organizers didn't ask the Ada Initiative their opinion (They had other things to deal with) Ada told them their opinion and basically made it clear that if the talk went on, they would make things very uncomfortable for them. Win-win for Ada: if the talk went on, they get to cause a stink and get publicity, if they stop the talk, well they're doing their job.
Shame that the organizers didn't think to say "Hey Ada, here's Violet Blue. Why don't you talk for a bit and figure something out."
This was not only a hacker conference, but also a conference. Men and women will be there and social situations will happen. People will have sex. Talking about it isn't a bad thing.
From Ada's website, I found that they imply that Techie males are more likely to sexually harass and/or rape women (which in and of itself is rather offensive, but since I haven't seen the math I'll allow the possibility). If that is the case, would pushing the discussion of sex to purely social banter reduce the jokes, comments and actions? I think it would make it worse.
What we need to do in society is talk more about sex. Stop making it a taboo and controversial subject and people will be able to deal with it better
No, I'm not. However you are not preventing anyone from entering your home either. What prevents someone entering your home is the trespassing law.
When you are arrested without a warrant, the police have the right to search your person. They can go through your wallet, credit card reciepts, date book, phone book, diary containing a long winded confession. If you could put your house in your pocket, then if the door was unlocked, they could search that too. But, if any of those things were sealed in some way, say an envelope or a cheap lock on the diary, then they could not look inside.
People keep thinking of your pants is the same as your house. In the case of an arrest without warrant the search warrant for your pants is implied, they just don't have the right to jimmy any locks.
Sort of. In an arrest without warrant, the main reason for the search is to find anything that might harm the police officer. The other evidence, though often crucial, is secondary. If all your pockets had locks, they may have just cause to break the locks to see if you had weapons. Only other option I could see is just taking your pants (which is plausible, it's good question for a police foundations course)
The decision was whether or not you made it locked out for other people. That lock screen is there to keep the buttons from accidentally being pushed, or the screen being touched. It is the default state for the phone and it explains right there what to do to get access.
If you go with the door analogy, the slide to unlock is the handle, keeps the door closed so the wind doesn't blow into your house. Turning the latch actually locks it.
I"m not a lawyer, but I was trained on the rules for warrants and searches for Canadian police. So my non legal view would be that yes the single line unlock would be sufficient so long as there are other possible options that could be entered and be incorrect. Like making the combination on your luggage 000. If it's locked the police can't ask you for the password, or try and guess the password without a warrant, no matter how simple it is.
The difference between this situation and your house or car is that the house or car is not being arrested and you don't have them on your person when you are arrested (I'd love to meet someone who can fit a car in their pocket). If you are arrested the police can go through your pockets and search your person. If you have a wallet or datebook, they'll be going through that too. The cell phone is the modern equivalent to those. If you don't put a lock on it and leave it in your pocket it's fair game like anything else.
Makes sense to me. If I were to be arrested without a warrant, the police can go through all the pockets of my wallet and look at every card and piece of paper I have in there, however if I were to have a lock on my wallet, they would need a warrant to open it. The modern cell phone is very much the same as the wallet and datebook of the past. If it's not locked, they can go through it.
The car companies put most of their research dollars into batteries. Really that exactly what the should have done because the batteries are the workhorse. As a range extender the gasoline engine is readily available, cheap and fuel is available everywhere.
Now that Hybrids are common they can start working on alternate options for range extension. Hydrogen engines are probably next, followed by fuel cells.
The professors don't grasp the tech because they haven't used it themselves. They don't see how much more information they can present to students with these tools. Chemistry can be taught using only a whiteboard, but if you put some of that information in an easily accessible and dynamic format that can be used outside the classroom then you can cover so much more.
It's not about them rejecting technology, it's about them rejecting an overhaul of their teaching methods to best use the tools at their disposal.
The old adage is "Those who can't, teach", but I would say it's more like "Those who can't adapt, teach"
Who said anything about killing? I'm looking at stopping. Put a few bullets in a guy, he's going to slow down, maybe even go the other way. Gives time for you to get to safety and the police to get there.
I have done pen testing. You don't warn in advance, you get permission in advance. There is a difference.
I don't advise IT of anything, I go above their heads and get permission from their boss or their boss' boss. Then I advice IT of my findings. This covers my ass legally so when the police come knocking at my door with questions about my activities I hand them the letter that gave me permission.
Exactly. The student was not authorized by the school to be doing what he was doing. If he wanted to check to see if the flaw was still there, then he should have informed the school that he was doing so and got permission to test. Or more entertainingly, inform the press of the flaw and get EVERYONE to test for it. If he gave an anonymous tip the NDA would still hold.
Reminds me of Diamonds. DeBeers got away with, in many cases, literal murder while having a near monopoly on the african diamond mines. As far as people knew then, that was the only place to get diamonds. Now they're showing up all over the place.
Been pretty good for the Northern Canadian economy, hopefully rare earth elements will do the same for Jamaica.
I see these measures as being perfectly reasonable for a country needing arms to hunt or defend itself when it already has a standing army.
Beyond that, you're defending yourself or the American people from tyranny within the government. If you're doing that, you're technically committing treason so why would you care if you're breaking any other laws? It worked for the founding fathers.
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Much like MSN messenger did to AIM and ICQ, the default seems to be going to Facebook messenger. Simple and ubiquitous and usually covers all your friends as they usually have facebook too.
Through mobile they're trying to take the voice/video from skype and might pull it off.
Just through sheer numbers facebook will own the chat world just like msn did
"The Base Database"
Sounds cool in a early nineties BBS kind of way
The article even states that they want to go after those that don't settle. They want to take it all the way, which means getting the scared to pay up a small, but not insignificant, amount and the pompous you can't touch me a huge destroying amount, both to them and the defence legal team.
Basically, you bankrupt a few high profile piraters the others will cave, either by paying a settlement, or by not pirating anymore.
Still a losing game these days.
The judge is going to have to interpret what the motivation behind the practice is. Based on my limited knowledge of precedent in this area, if the judge feels the motivation is profit driven (i.e. Day to day Business as usual) then he could throw it out. Canada is not known for tolerating overly litigious business practices. However if the Judge believes this is to collect lost revenue due to infringement, then this could go right through.
Goon is more believable that it's going after lost revenue then Hurt Locker.
I don't think that listing shipped to Canada.
I've got four thrift stores in my area: Value Village, St Vincent De Paul, Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity ReStore. None of them ever have Model M keyboards. When I was looking for the one I'm modding, I had friends scouring places for them. I live in Peterborough ON, and I had people here and in the GTA (Greater Toronto) looking for me. Came up zilch.
Just had the impression that most people and businesses got rid of them and the thrift stores sent them to the dump thinking the couldn't move 25 year old computer stuff.
I have a hell of a time finding Model M keyboards. The dump is not an option, one something hits their dumpsters they are not legally allowed to let anyone have it back, or even touch it. Liability stuff. Electronic waste is a bit better, but since I've started speaking with them, they haven't shown up. Computer junk shops don't exist in my area anymore, they've either folded, or got rid of the old and focused on new systems and repair. On ebay they regularly end up going for $50-$100 and shipping for me bumps that up ~$50. Craigslist also usually has them going for $50-$100 (Seems they do their research before posting) and even if I could justify that price on a keyboard, they're gone pretty quickly.
Very frustrating. My only Model M I have right now is undergoing a steampunk conversion. I would love to have one for day to day use.
What I've always found interesting is that despite all the differences between dogs and wolves, they are still the same species. Evolution in process. With dogs we will eventually see that split in species that Darwin first postulated.
Well as long as we don't kill all the wolves first. Then it'll be a bit tougher to see.
Funny, just north of the Border I can get Cable internet without TV, even starting to get competition for the service in place. Still mainly overpriced, but it seems for once we're better than the US in this regard.
Now if only we could get speeds like you guys get
Move to Canada.
The thing is Violet Blue's topics are about sex. That's what she talks and writes about. It wasn't that the organizers didn't know she was going to talk sex, that's what she was invited for. Also the organizers didn't ask the Ada Initiative their opinion (They had other things to deal with) Ada told them their opinion and basically made it clear that if the talk went on, they would make things very uncomfortable for them. Win-win for Ada: if the talk went on, they get to cause a stink and get publicity, if they stop the talk, well they're doing their job.
Shame that the organizers didn't think to say "Hey Ada, here's Violet Blue. Why don't you talk for a bit and figure something out."
This was not only a hacker conference, but also a conference. Men and women will be there and social situations will happen. People will have sex. Talking about it isn't a bad thing.
From Ada's website, I found that they imply that Techie males are more likely to sexually harass and/or rape women (which in and of itself is rather offensive, but since I haven't seen the math I'll allow the possibility). If that is the case, would pushing the discussion of sex to purely social banter reduce the jokes, comments and actions? I think it would make it worse.
What we need to do in society is talk more about sex. Stop making it a taboo and controversial subject and people will be able to deal with it better
No, I'm not. However you are not preventing anyone from entering your home either. What prevents someone entering your home is the trespassing law.
When you are arrested without a warrant, the police have the right to search your person. They can go through your wallet, credit card reciepts, date book, phone book, diary containing a long winded confession. If you could put your house in your pocket, then if the door was unlocked, they could search that too. But, if any of those things were sealed in some way, say an envelope or a cheap lock on the diary, then they could not look inside.
People keep thinking of your pants is the same as your house. In the case of an arrest without warrant the search warrant for your pants is implied, they just don't have the right to jimmy any locks.
Sort of. In an arrest without warrant, the main reason for the search is to find anything that might harm the police officer. The other evidence, though often crucial, is secondary. If all your pockets had locks, they may have just cause to break the locks to see if you had weapons. Only other option I could see is just taking your pants (which is plausible, it's good question for a police foundations course)
The decision was whether or not you made it locked out for other people. That lock screen is there to keep the buttons from accidentally being pushed, or the screen being touched. It is the default state for the phone and it explains right there what to do to get access.
If you go with the door analogy, the slide to unlock is the handle, keeps the door closed so the wind doesn't blow into your house. Turning the latch actually locks it.
I"m not a lawyer, but I was trained on the rules for warrants and searches for Canadian police. So my non legal view would be that yes the single line unlock would be sufficient so long as there are other possible options that could be entered and be incorrect. Like making the combination on your luggage 000. If it's locked the police can't ask you for the password, or try and guess the password without a warrant, no matter how simple it is.
Only if you keep your garage in your pocket when you are arrested.
The difference between this situation and your house or car is that the house or car is not being arrested and you don't have them on your person when you are arrested (I'd love to meet someone who can fit a car in their pocket). If you are arrested the police can go through your pockets and search your person. If you have a wallet or datebook, they'll be going through that too. The cell phone is the modern equivalent to those. If you don't put a lock on it and leave it in your pocket it's fair game like anything else.
Makes sense to me. If I were to be arrested without a warrant, the police can go through all the pockets of my wallet and look at every card and piece of paper I have in there, however if I were to have a lock on my wallet, they would need a warrant to open it. The modern cell phone is very much the same as the wallet and datebook of the past. If it's not locked, they can go through it.
The car companies put most of their research dollars into batteries. Really that exactly what the should have done because the batteries are the workhorse. As a range extender the gasoline engine is readily available, cheap and fuel is available everywhere.
Now that Hybrids are common they can start working on alternate options for range extension. Hydrogen engines are probably next, followed by fuel cells.
The professors don't grasp the tech because they haven't used it themselves. They don't see how much more information they can present to students with these tools. Chemistry can be taught using only a whiteboard, but if you put some of that information in an easily accessible and dynamic format that can be used outside the classroom then you can cover so much more.
It's not about them rejecting technology, it's about them rejecting an overhaul of their teaching methods to best use the tools at their disposal.
The old adage is "Those who can't, teach", but I would say it's more like "Those who can't adapt, teach"
Who said anything about killing? I'm looking at stopping. Put a few bullets in a guy, he's going to slow down, maybe even go the other way. Gives time for you to get to safety and the police to get there.
I have done pen testing. You don't warn in advance, you get permission in advance. There is a difference.
I don't advise IT of anything, I go above their heads and get permission from their boss or their boss' boss. Then I advice IT of my findings. This covers my ass legally so when the police come knocking at my door with questions about my activities I hand them the letter that gave me permission.
Exactly. The student was not authorized by the school to be doing what he was doing. If he wanted to check to see if the flaw was still there, then he should have informed the school that he was doing so and got permission to test. Or more entertainingly, inform the press of the flaw and get EVERYONE to test for it. If he gave an anonymous tip the NDA would still hold.
Reminds me of Diamonds. DeBeers got away with, in many cases, literal murder while having a near monopoly on the african diamond mines. As far as people knew then, that was the only place to get diamonds. Now they're showing up all over the place.
Been pretty good for the Northern Canadian economy, hopefully rare earth elements will do the same for Jamaica.
I see these measures as being perfectly reasonable for a country needing arms to hunt or defend itself when it already has a standing army.
Beyond that, you're defending yourself or the American people from tyranny within the government. If you're doing that, you're technically committing treason so why would you care if you're breaking any other laws? It worked for the founding fathers.