If everyone was dumb enough not to see the loophole, I would love that. Talk to my boss and tell him to contract my job to the The_Mystic_For_Real corporation. Which sees fit to maintain an office stocked with food and a TV and only has one client.
Thinking economically about these problems is a good way to approach them, but your reasoning is not complete.
Criminals tend to believe they will get away with it. Obviously instituting the death penalty would dissuade some, but I don't want people to be killed for fraud.
A better way, possibly concurrent to increasing sentences, is to make sure they actually get caught. All the judges and legislators in the world can't do anything if no one can enforce the law.
God forbid anyone regulate behavior in a situation where they are liable for the results. The airline has 100+ strangers including children and overprotective, on edge, a little under the influence parents. They have a duty to keep order on their plane. I'm not sure that I, while I have no problem with porn and have even *gasp* watched it, would want to see a giant gangbang going on right next to me, while my rowmate eyes it longingly.
The links in the parent to www.gofuckyourself.com aren't safe to open at work or in front of more conservative family members. Otherwise it is a very informative post.
Not sure if this is a good thing, an architecture monoculture (as far as consumer devices go) will decrease innovation. We need different architectures to be a breeding ground for new ideas, and to make sure that everyone in the technology field is aware of differences so that they will be more adaptable if a totally new architecture came around.
Also I have seen Theo de Raadt talk about poor security on x86, something about proper separation of processes.
I'll agree with you that for some advanced functions, mostly used for security testing, linux has better support than windows.
The problems I have had seem to be at the application level with gnome network manager (haven't tried KDE on a laptop). The performance was slow, and there were a number of small yet annoying bugs. Also (now for drivers) on return from hibernate the wireless card was not detected. This was with an ipw3945 card on a Thinkpad T60p running Ubuntu Edgy/Feisty/Gutsy. Using a cheap atheros based PCI bus card solved all these problems and I got to use the excellent madwifi-ng drivers as opposed to the binary intel driver.
Terrorists are not known for their computer savvy. I remember a couple years ago Al-Qaeada's supposed head of computing was arrested and he was running windows with his entire hard drive (which was full of evidence) was entirely unencrypted. Apparently they have done some things possibly with freenet that have been fairly anonymous but I would not be surprised to learn that a lot of plaintext e-mail about sensitive matters gets tossed around, like in any organization.
Yes, exactly, if no one is through them they make 0, and the majority of their buyers are not people using e-mail for business.
People are unable to think rationally about spam, because it infuriates them, there are simple solutions, they just require people to actually do something.
What the fuck how would spammers make money if no one bought their products?
And if we take personal e-mails off the market for spammers it will quickly dry up their market.
The people begging for government intervention on spam need to tread carefully. The government has started with CANSPAM, which everyone knows is futile but might scare a few people off, but where is it going to go. Spam does not have a legal solution, it has a technical one. If you do not expect to receive unsolicited e-mail, drop it, and have your friends do the same. Obviously this is unfeasible for many but once the personal e-mails are secure the money will dry up.
Letting any message into your inbox and complaining when it is full of spam is like leaving a cup outside and complaining when it is full of rain.
Maybe video games teach problem solving skills, but equally important in the business world is paying attention to things that aren't an orgy of colors. In the end problem solving only comes after analysis, and video games aren't teaching that.
It seems here that they intend to airgap their country from the rest of the world. Obviously someone could run across the border to bring DVDs, or maybe hack the phones to call an international ISP, but this will certainly make things difficult.
I suppose the 12 year olds creating Geocities pages have grown up and want to incorporate all the extravagant flash into their more grown up web pages. We really need to get back to simple, clean cut pages that display the information and resources that your site is offering. The trend towards flashier page is rapidly decreasing the utility of the web while increasing overhead and security issues. Simple can be beautiful, and it is almost always useful.
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Are you aware of what the word 'acquitted' means? Finally a piece of good news.
If everyone was dumb enough not to see the loophole, I would love that. Talk to my boss and tell him to contract my job to the The_Mystic_For_Real corporation. Which sees fit to maintain an office stocked with food and a TV and only has one client.
Or the next *BSD release...
Once Throwaway Numbers Become Common I Will.
Thinking economically about these problems is a good way to approach them, but your reasoning is not complete.
Criminals tend to believe they will get away with it. Obviously instituting the death penalty would dissuade some, but I don't want people to be killed for fraud.
A better way, possibly concurrent to increasing sentences, is to make sure they actually get caught. All the judges and legislators in the world can't do anything if no one can enforce the law.
God forbid anyone regulate behavior in a situation where they are liable for the results. The airline has 100+ strangers including children and overprotective, on edge, a little under the influence parents. They have a duty to keep order on their plane. I'm not sure that I, while I have no problem with porn and have even *gasp* watched it, would want to see a giant gangbang going on right next to me, while my rowmate eyes it longingly.
The links in the parent to www.gofuckyourself.com aren't safe to open at work or in front of more conservative family members. Otherwise it is a very informative post.
Not sure if this is a good thing, an architecture monoculture (as far as consumer devices go) will decrease innovation. We need different architectures to be a breeding ground for new ideas, and to make sure that everyone in the technology field is aware of differences so that they will be more adaptable if a totally new architecture came around. Also I have seen Theo de Raadt talk about poor security on x86, something about proper separation of processes.
The relevant rule here is that the WTO can award damages, and one way they can do that is to allow Antigua to ignore US IP laws up to a certain value.
Really? How do you shoot someone with a network cable?
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I'll agree with you that for some advanced functions, mostly used for security testing, linux has better support than windows. The problems I have had seem to be at the application level with gnome network manager (haven't tried KDE on a laptop). The performance was slow, and there were a number of small yet annoying bugs. Also (now for drivers) on return from hibernate the wireless card was not detected. This was with an ipw3945 card on a Thinkpad T60p running Ubuntu Edgy/Feisty/Gutsy. Using a cheap atheros based PCI bus card solved all these problems and I got to use the excellent madwifi-ng drivers as opposed to the binary intel driver.
This is exactly the wrong direction for content distributors, I bet the pirated version won't have unskippable ads.
...losses, when they give away their work? This is an interesting aspect of free license law that hasn't really been delved into yet.
Terrorists are not known for their computer savvy. I remember a couple years ago Al-Qaeada's supposed head of computing was arrested and he was running windows with his entire hard drive (which was full of evidence) was entirely unencrypted. Apparently they have done some things possibly with freenet that have been fairly anonymous but I would not be surprised to learn that a lot of plaintext e-mail about sensitive matters gets tossed around, like in any organization.
Yes, exactly, if no one is through them they make 0, and the majority of their buyers are not people using e-mail for business. People are unable to think rationally about spam, because it infuriates them, there are simple solutions, they just require people to actually do something.
What the fuck how would spammers make money if no one bought their products? And if we take personal e-mails off the market for spammers it will quickly dry up their market.
Yes, because eliminating greed is much easier than whitelists for personal accounts.
The people begging for government intervention on spam need to tread carefully. The government has started with CANSPAM, which everyone knows is futile but might scare a few people off, but where is it going to go. Spam does not have a legal solution, it has a technical one. If you do not expect to receive unsolicited e-mail, drop it, and have your friends do the same. Obviously this is unfeasible for many but once the personal e-mails are secure the money will dry up.
Letting any message into your inbox and complaining when it is full of spam is like leaving a cup outside and complaining when it is full of rain.
The editors must have bought one of these for stories.
This comes up a lot, this idea of "preaching". How is advising - even demanding - people to make ethical decisions "preaching"?
That's the definition of preaching, you are just showing why it was correct to preach in this instance.
Maybe video games teach problem solving skills, but equally important in the business world is paying attention to things that aren't an orgy of colors. In the end problem solving only comes after analysis, and video games aren't teaching that.
It seems here that they intend to airgap their country from the rest of the world. Obviously someone could run across the border to bring DVDs, or maybe hack the phones to call an international ISP, but this will certainly make things difficult.
I suppose the 12 year olds creating Geocities pages have grown up and want to incorporate all the extravagant flash into their more grown up web pages.
We really need to get back to simple, clean cut pages that display the information and resources that your site is offering. The trend towards flashier
page is rapidly decreasing the utility of the web while increasing overhead and security issues. Simple can be beautiful, and it is almost always useful.