Mail programs now need the option to retrieve images through an anonymizer.
Great idea. I can see the commercials now:
Guy 1: Man, every time I try to download child porn from Thunderbird I get hassled by the police.
Guy 2: What? You haven't heard of Eudora Safewank?
Guy 1: Safewank? What's that?
Guy 2: Only the best way to be a total ponce and not get caught!
Guy 1: I am intrigued. Please tell me more.
The film was never dubbed into German, so it is almost unknown in the German speaking world, including the country it was filmed in.
Not true. I had the misfortune to see Sound of Music on ORF a few months ago. It wasn't dubbed for a long time (I think until the 80s or 90s), but it was nonetheless. Which is unfortunate. Speaking of ORF, the girl he kidnapped is giving a TV-interview with them today. Maybe one of the questions the moderators will ask will be about the Commodore. "Natascha, I know you've been through a lot; and this is all very traumatic for you, I'm sure...but I just have to know something that's been on my mind for ages...in all that time you spent in captivity below the floorboards did you ever figure out how to get past the Ice Palace in Ghosts n Goblins? With all due respect I feel like I've been trapped in a dungeon for eight years myself."
I hate to admit it, but it's far from "wrong" in the sense you mean. Imagine if a lawsuit were brought against the CEO of a large company for fraudulent accounting practices, and the CEO went into the office before the trial and dumped all of the records into the garbage incinerator. One would lean towards doubting that he just happened to be doing some spring cleaning briefly before his court appearance. The fact that this woman wiped her hard drive is neither "wrong" nor even surprising. That the RIAA had the naivete (or perhaps arrogance) to ask her to bring her own coffin nails to the court is pretty stupid on their part. Frankly I don't blame her and would probably do something similar if I were in the same situation (luckily the copyright laws here are not yet as rabid as in the US). But I wouldn't expect it to result in a dismissal of the case against me. This sort of action should be one of defiance and protest rather than desperation to escape punishment and little understanding of both tort law and computers. For one thing the hard drive wasn't even necessary to prove the downloading of the files, otherwise the case never would have gone to court as it was never examined by the RIAA prior to bringing the suit. Most likely it was a bait they knew the woman would take (as most people would in that situation, given the fact that only an idiot is going to bring to court with them something that will prove their guilt) and thus save them the long, arduous process of going through a trial.
I qualified my first sentence with "in the sense you mean." I agree that this whole procedure is wrong, but only because I don't feel people should be intimidated and frightened just because they enjoy music. If you download something rather than paying for it, either because you don't want to or for a good reason (like, for example, the fact that here in continental Europe many of the DVDs I would like to have aren't even imported or for sale and on my income simply can't afford to pay excessive amounts to have them shipped from North America) you're a parasite and a leech. If you expect a check to come in the mail every time someone wants to hear a song you recorded 10, 20, 30 years ago, or if you're a manager of someone who does this and you want your percentage of that check for the moderate amount of work you did (or the work done by someone else who then sold you the "rights" to that artist at a later date): you're an upstanding citizen and a role model for the community who is being unfairly persecuted by deviant, criminal masterminds masquerading as witless 12-year-olds with access to the Internet.
Take it from a white trash redneck who joined the Army during daddy's war; where I came from there were not "plenty of other jobs".
My kid brother lives in the US, and he had a similar problem. And he doesn't even live in a rural area, but the husk of a former industrial city in Connecticut (100 years ago there were bustling factories and job opportunities all over the place, now nothing unless you want to work at a strip club, video store, or a supermarket). Let me preface this by saying he is by no means patriotic. If he had the opportunity, he probably would do the same thing I did when I had the chance and just leave the US entirely before it all goes to pot. But he couldn't, so he joined the Coast Guard because he wanted to go to film school but our parents couldn't even afford to send him to a community college let alone a private university. He told me after basic training that in boot camp the drill instructors would be saying all sorts of stuff every day like, "We know most of you joined to proudly serve your country...after the atrocities of 9/11." Then after the drill instructor left most of them were just going, "Who the fuck still cares about 9/11? I joined because I can't afford to go to school and my job at the gas station/Blockbuster/McDonald's sucked, and I saw a commercial on tv for the military saying they'd give me $XXXXX for school after 4 years and free health care/BAH while I'm in in the service." The same with my father. He registered for the draft in Vietnam not because he felt obligated or was gung-ho about killing some Reds, but just because he couldn't go to school without the GI Bill and because he wasn't registered in the draft, most companies refused to employ him. I would say a majority of people in the US military aren't stupid, over-the-hill, flag-waving jingoists. Those types just end up becoming the officers (and the people who are that type of person but too afraid to enlist merely run for political office so they can play with their GI Joe and Cobra action figures from the safety of a leather chair and a desk--or in Bush's case the bathtub). Which is another good reason not to let the former continue dying pointlessly in Iraq and Afghanistan for the latter.
So now that the quote shit hit the fan unquote and you had to remodel your network it looks more like this, I imagine:
$ ls -l/proc Sorry, due to new administrative policies read access to that directory is now made on a case-by-case basis. If you are a running program, please wait 3-4 business days for handling of your request to be made. If you are a human operator, please remain in your seat with your hands away from the keyboard until a team of network security professionals arrives to help you and ask you a few questions.
$ pine Pine has been disabled for this account, but do not worry--all incoming/outgoing messages from the past 3 months have been archived and are available by request from the sysadmin's office.
$ lynx Disabled. See above.
$ rm ~/.bash_history Access denied. But if you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to be worried about?
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Mail programs now need the option to retrieve images through an anonymizer.
Great idea. I can see the commercials now:
Guy 1: Man, every time I try to download child porn from Thunderbird I get hassled by the police.
Guy 2: What? You haven't heard of Eudora Safewank?
Guy 1: Safewank? What's that?
Guy 2: Only the best way to be a total ponce and not get caught!
Guy 1: I am intrigued. Please tell me more.
The film was never dubbed into German, so it is almost unknown in the German speaking world, including the country it was filmed in. Not true. I had the misfortune to see Sound of Music on ORF a few months ago. It wasn't dubbed for a long time (I think until the 80s or 90s), but it was nonetheless. Which is unfortunate. Speaking of ORF, the girl he kidnapped is giving a TV-interview with them today. Maybe one of the questions the moderators will ask will be about the Commodore. "Natascha, I know you've been through a lot; and this is all very traumatic for you, I'm sure...but I just have to know something that's been on my mind for ages...in all that time you spent in captivity below the floorboards did you ever figure out how to get past the Ice Palace in Ghosts n Goblins? With all due respect I feel like I've been trapped in a dungeon for eight years myself."
I hate to admit it, but it's far from "wrong" in the sense you mean. Imagine if a lawsuit were brought against the CEO of a large company for fraudulent accounting practices, and the CEO went into the office before the trial and dumped all of the records into the garbage incinerator. One would lean towards doubting that he just happened to be doing some spring cleaning briefly before his court appearance. The fact that this woman wiped her hard drive is neither "wrong" nor even surprising. That the RIAA had the naivete (or perhaps arrogance) to ask her to bring her own coffin nails to the court is pretty stupid on their part. Frankly I don't blame her and would probably do something similar if I were in the same situation (luckily the copyright laws here are not yet as rabid as in the US). But I wouldn't expect it to result in a dismissal of the case against me. This sort of action should be one of defiance and protest rather than desperation to escape punishment and little understanding of both tort law and computers. For one thing the hard drive wasn't even necessary to prove the downloading of the files, otherwise the case never would have gone to court as it was never examined by the RIAA prior to bringing the suit. Most likely it was a bait they knew the woman would take (as most people would in that situation, given the fact that only an idiot is going to bring to court with them something that will prove their guilt) and thus save them the long, arduous process of going through a trial.
I qualified my first sentence with "in the sense you mean." I agree that this whole procedure is wrong, but only because I don't feel people should be intimidated and frightened just because they enjoy music. If you download something rather than paying for it, either because you don't want to or for a good reason (like, for example, the fact that here in continental Europe many of the DVDs I would like to have aren't even imported or for sale and on my income simply can't afford to pay excessive amounts to have them shipped from North America) you're a parasite and a leech. If you expect a check to come in the mail every time someone wants to hear a song you recorded 10, 20, 30 years ago, or if you're a manager of someone who does this and you want your percentage of that check for the moderate amount of work you did (or the work done by someone else who then sold you the "rights" to that artist at a later date): you're an upstanding citizen and a role model for the community who is being unfairly persecuted by deviant, criminal masterminds masquerading as witless 12-year-olds with access to the Internet.
Take it from a white trash redneck who joined the Army during daddy's war; where I came from there were not "plenty of other jobs".
My kid brother lives in the US, and he had a similar problem. And he doesn't even live in a rural area, but the husk of a former industrial city in Connecticut (100 years ago there were bustling factories and job opportunities all over the place, now nothing unless you want to work at a strip club, video store, or a supermarket). Let me preface this by saying he is by no means patriotic. If he had the opportunity, he probably would do the same thing I did when I had the chance and just leave the US entirely before it all goes to pot. But he couldn't, so he joined the Coast Guard because he wanted to go to film school but our parents couldn't even afford to send him to a community college let alone a private university. He told me after basic training that in boot camp the drill instructors would be saying all sorts of stuff every day like, "We know most of you joined to proudly serve your country...after the atrocities of 9/11." Then after the drill instructor left most of them were just going, "Who the fuck still cares about 9/11? I joined because I can't afford to go to school and my job at the gas station/Blockbuster/McDonald's sucked, and I saw a commercial on tv for the military saying they'd give me $XXXXX for school after 4 years and free health care/BAH while I'm in in the service." The same with my father. He registered for the draft in Vietnam not because he felt obligated or was gung-ho about killing some Reds, but just because he couldn't go to school without the GI Bill and because he wasn't registered in the draft, most companies refused to employ him. I would say a majority of people in the US military aren't stupid, over-the-hill, flag-waving jingoists. Those types just end up becoming the officers (and the people who are that type of person but too afraid to enlist merely run for political office so they can play with their GI Joe and Cobra action figures from the safety of a leather chair and a desk--or in Bush's case the bathtub). Which is another good reason not to let the former continue dying pointlessly in Iraq and Afghanistan for the latter.
So now that the quote shit hit the fan unquote and you had to remodel your network it looks more like this, I imagine:
/proc
$ ls -l
Sorry, due to new administrative policies read access to that directory is now made on a case-by-case basis. If you are a running program, please wait 3-4 business days for handling of your request to be made. If you are a human operator, please remain in your seat with your hands away from the keyboard until a team of network security professionals arrives to help you and ask you a few questions.
$ pine
Pine has been disabled for this account, but do not worry--all incoming/outgoing messages from the past 3 months have been archived and are available by request from the sysadmin's office.
$ lynx
Disabled. See above.
$ rm ~/.bash_history
Access denied. But if you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to be worried about?
$ logout
Oh, I'm afraid you'll find \033 is quite impossible.