There's no real motivation for US customers to demand more security - our liability is effectively 0 if you don't consider aggravation. Banks run commercials about how they're protecting your money against theft but it's about as meaningful as spray cans which insist they are CFC free(as they have been legally required to be since the middle 70s) Yeah, the bank looks out for theft - because it's THEIR money lost if they don't!
If your account is raided you file a claim - which is often no more difficult than making a phone call - and you get it back. Yes, we all pay for this cost eventually in increased costs but you can look to the health insurance market to see how much attention and concern people pay to costs that -eventually- trickle down vs immediately.
1.1 CAN ONE LINSPOT SERVE MULTIPLE WIRELESS ROUTERS?
Hard to respect a FAQ that shouts at me.
I'd be a lot more convinced to run one of these...
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... if a single damned one of the web pages gave me a good couple of concrete examples of what the payoff is of installing one of these alternatives. That is, beyond whatever disease makes so many linux users desperate to install linux on their toaster, pda and remote control.
OpenWRT touts being small with a focus on installable packages, EWRT says what they have up on the others is the captive portal but none of them have an entry in their FAQ that answers "Why would I replace this currently functioning, rarely crashing pre-installed firmware and features with something else? Does it DO anything other than bragging rights at the geek pub?"
And yes you troll, I know some have bandwidth shaping and other features but any software that purports to be a solution to a problem might want to identify that problem right off the bat or it should just call itself devTitsOnaBull.
Maybe it falls under the approach of "there's no such thing as bad publicity" - lord knows ESR won't miss an opportunity to write something where he can work in a way to mention "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." I'm amazed it took him over 1,000 words to get around to it this time.
Never assume conspiracy when simple malevolence will suffice. Never assume malevolence when simple idiocy will suffice.
Although SCO/MS may have a motivation, plain old muckraking has been a profitable institution even when there's no specific axes to grind.
The economics of buying the cd to rip & release are better - you can take that CD and resell it for some fraction of the cost you paid. Usually brings you under $10 if you had a coupon or something.
HYMN now leaves your purchasing info intact, making it even more undesirable to "catch and release" that way.
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The real crime in all these solutions is that they ignore what the supposed problem was they were supposed to fix - the failure of the voter to be able to discern that what they were submitting reflected the vote they intended to cast.
The touch-screen system is (in theory, although it certainly has just as much potential if not more to be confusing) a solution to the problem with the "butterfly ballot" that impacted a tiny number of people in central Florida - a confusing input system that resulted in a punched card. A punched card that is unreadable to humans in any practical sense, making it almost impossible to look at the thing and say "wait, that's not what I meant!"
The electronic systems completely fail to be a solution to the problem that impacted a much larger number of Florida voters (and perhaps people elsewhere on punch systems that we simply didn't realize) who attempted to indicate their preference on punch cards which then failed to reflect their intentions because of hanging chads or contradictory punches.
Why does it fail? Because after the initial attempt to indicate a preference, whether it be by punchcard or touch-sensitive screen, the result is vote data that is impossible to verify in reverse.
A paper audit trail as called for by many actually improves nothing. Here's a little slip of paper you can hold in your hand to say what you voted. Okay. IS that what you voted? We all know a computer can say one thing and do another.
The challenge that needs to be addressed isn't done by any of the projects I have seen to date, and that is to provide a system where at any given phase you can accurately determine not only a result but a cause - what did that person ACTUALLY vote?
The idea behind Freenet is that you literally cannot know what is being stored in your Freenet node
As a defense, "I installed this software so that I could enable people I don't know to store and distribute things from my machine with no possibility for me to know what it is" is a little lacking. I doubt it would take any prosecutor a whole lot of effort to paint that as irresponsible and reckless.
There are a number of states, Florida among them, which have laws spelling out vicarious liability for the use of your property. If your car is used in a crime there you can be assured your name will be on the civil lawsuit.
Maybe it sticks, maybe it doesn't. But setting your machine up as a possible crackhouse with a double-blind protection for your awareness isn't necessarily going to get you a get out of jail free card.
Ah, but they THINK they would move back - at one point in the mid-90s a survey of refugees got a better than 65% "I would go back if Castro died today" yes response. The local media did the usual Chicken Little about how that would decimate the Florida economy, etc,etc.
Of course they ignored the same survey's portion where about the same quantity believed they'd be able to reclaim the land they left behind when they fled the country, a laughable expectation. "No, really, this was my house before I split in 1980. You have to move!"
PlayFair 0.5 won't work anymore once you've upgraded to 4.5 -OR- if you agree to the new store ToS to get your free daily song.
Sorry, your desperate need for the newest Avril Lavigne tune has cost you your DRM removal tool.
And the counterargument that gets made to comments like yours is that you can burn the tracks to a CD and play it anywhere. You can even re-rip it and listen to the tracks DRM free on 1,000 PCs if you have them.
This ranks only marginally better than "nobody's saying gays can't get married, we're just saying they have to get married to a member of the opposite sex! Heck, they could work out a criss-cross deal with another couple of the opposite sex so everyone could be married."
Previous Supreme Court decisions have validated the idea that you're free to alter the medium upon which you view something you have purchased. They predate DMCA so it's possible tests of this part of that law will fail and it will no longer be the case.
One thing that DMCA does NOT change, however, is that you can not sign away your legal rights in any contract, and everyone should be glad of this fact. If you could, every manufacturer of everything from yo-yos to airplanes would require that you sign off before purchase and nobody would ever sell anything without such an agreement.
I drive on Herndon Parkway in Herndon, Virginia every day to and from work and there are 3 stoplights over an a stretch of about 3 miles that behave this way. Been in place for the last year I've lived in the area, I dunno how much before that.
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There's no real motivation for US customers to demand more security - our liability is effectively 0 if you don't consider aggravation. Banks run commercials about how they're protecting your money against theft but it's about as meaningful as spray cans which insist they are CFC free(as they have been legally required to be since the middle 70s) Yeah, the bank looks out for theft - because it's THEIR money lost if they don't!
If your account is raided you file a claim - which is often no more difficult than making a phone call - and you get it back. Yes, we all pay for this cost eventually in increased costs but you can look to the health insurance market to see how much attention and concern people pay to costs that -eventually- trickle down vs immediately.
1.1 CAN ONE LINSPOT SERVE MULTIPLE WIRELESS ROUTERS?
Hard to respect a FAQ that shouts at me.
... if a single damned one of the web pages gave me a good couple of concrete examples of what the payoff is of installing one of these alternatives. That is, beyond whatever disease makes so many linux users desperate to install linux on their toaster, pda and remote control. OpenWRT touts being small with a focus on installable packages, EWRT says what they have up on the others is the captive portal but none of them have an entry in their FAQ that answers "Why would I replace this currently functioning, rarely crashing pre-installed firmware and features with something else? Does it DO anything other than bragging rights at the geek pub?" And yes you troll, I know some have bandwidth shaping and other features but any software that purports to be a solution to a problem might want to identify that problem right off the bat or it should just call itself devTitsOnaBull.
Maybe it falls under the approach of "there's no such thing as bad publicity" - lord knows ESR won't miss an opportunity to write something where he can work in a way to mention "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." I'm amazed it took him over 1,000 words to get around to it this time.
Never assume conspiracy when simple malevolence will suffice. Never assume malevolence when simple idiocy will suffice. Although SCO/MS may have a motivation, plain old muckraking has been a profitable institution even when there's no specific axes to grind.
this fellow attempted the experiment.
The real crime in all these solutions is that they ignore what the supposed problem was they were supposed to fix - the failure of the voter to be able to discern that what they were submitting reflected the vote they intended to cast.
The touch-screen system is (in theory, although it certainly has just as much potential if not more to be confusing) a solution to the problem with the "butterfly ballot" that impacted a tiny number of people in central Florida - a confusing input system that resulted in a punched card. A punched card that is unreadable to humans in any practical sense, making it almost impossible to look at the thing and say "wait, that's not what I meant!"
The electronic systems completely fail to be a solution to the problem that impacted a much larger number of Florida voters (and perhaps people elsewhere on punch systems that we simply didn't realize) who attempted to indicate their preference on punch cards which then failed to reflect their intentions because of hanging chads or contradictory punches.
Why does it fail? Because after the initial attempt to indicate a preference, whether it be by punchcard or touch-sensitive screen, the result is vote data that is impossible to verify in reverse.
A paper audit trail as called for by many actually improves nothing. Here's a little slip of paper you can hold in your hand to say what you voted. Okay. IS that what you voted? We all know a computer can say one thing and do another.
The challenge that needs to be addressed isn't done by any of the projects I have seen to date, and that is to provide a system where at any given phase you can accurately determine not only a result but a cause - what did that person ACTUALLY vote?
As a defense, "I installed this software so that I could enable people I don't know to store and distribute things from my machine with no possibility for me to know what it is" is a little lacking. I doubt it would take any prosecutor a whole lot of effort to paint that as irresponsible and reckless.
There are a number of states, Florida among them, which have laws spelling out vicarious liability for the use of your property. If your car is used in a crime there you can be assured your name will be on the civil lawsuit.
Maybe it sticks, maybe it doesn't. But setting your machine up as a possible crackhouse with a double-blind protection for your awareness isn't necessarily going to get you a get out of jail free card.
Ah, but they THINK they would move back - at one point in the mid-90s a survey of refugees got a better than 65% "I would go back if Castro died today" yes response. The local media did the usual Chicken Little about how that would decimate the Florida economy, etc,etc.
Of course they ignored the same survey's portion where about the same quantity believed they'd be able to reclaim the land they left behind when they fled the country, a laughable expectation. "No, really, this was my house before I split in 1980. You have to move!"
PlayFair 0.5 won't work anymore once you've upgraded to 4.5 -OR- if you agree to the new store ToS to get your free daily song. Sorry, your desperate need for the newest Avril Lavigne tune has cost you your DRM removal tool.
Maybe if they'd taken 7 seconds to determine if it worked with any other browser than IE I'da gotten my free song :(
So I was close, and NOW say... odd that they'd support deploying something that's ABOUT to be discontinued in support.
How odd that they would officially support the installation of an OS that's been EOLed (WinME is the oldest 16 bit still supported, yes?)
This ranks only marginally better than "nobody's saying gays can't get married, we're just saying they have to get married to a member of the opposite sex! Heck, they could work out a criss-cross deal with another couple of the opposite sex so everyone could be married."
Previous Supreme Court decisions have validated the idea that you're free to alter the medium upon which you view something you have purchased. They predate DMCA so it's possible tests of this part of that law will fail and it will no longer be the case.
One thing that DMCA does NOT change, however, is that you can not sign away your legal rights in any contract, and everyone should be glad of this fact. If you could, every manufacturer of everything from yo-yos to airplanes would require that you sign off before purchase and nobody would ever sell anything without such an agreement.
I drive on Herndon Parkway in Herndon, Virginia every day to and from work and there are 3 stoplights over an a stretch of about 3 miles that behave this way. Been in place for the last year I've lived in the area, I dunno how much before that.