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So there you go, spacerich.com offers VPS for $3.99/month.
This is a complete perversion of the concept of Intellectual Property. The US Consitution allows things like patents and other IP "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". Recent patents granted by USPTO are just absurd, and do not fulfill the original intent of the Consitutional basis for IP in the US.
The case does not require any person to identify themselves to any police officer at any time. Reading from the court's opinion, you see that identification is only required when "a person [is] detained by an officer under suspicious circumstances". Civil liberties advocates should be further relieved by the court's affirmation of Brown v. Texas that the detention of a person must satisfy Fourth Amendment requirements. Even in the absence of a court-issued warrant, Terry v. Ohio affirmed "an officer's reasonable suspicion that a person may be involved in criminal activity permits the officer to stop the person for a brief time and take additional steps to investigate further" and further, "an officer may ask a suspect to identify himself during a Terry stop".
Answering the obvious question, the court notes: "Hiibel argues unpersuasively that the statute circumvents the probable-cause requirement by al-lowing an officer to arrest a person for being suspicious, thereby creating an impermissible risk of arbitrary police conduct. These fa-miliar concerns underlay Kolender [v. Lawson], Brown [v. Texas], and Papachristou [v. Jacksonville]. They are met by the requirement that a Terry stop be justified at its inception and be 'reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified' the initial stop."
And on one last note pertaining to the Fifth Amendment: "Hiibel's contention that his conviction violates the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on self-incrimination fails because disclosure of his name and identity presented no reasonable danger of incrimination."
/. is great for getting an overview of the news, but sometimes the story isn't quite right. Remember to check your sources!
It belongs in the OS? That would the Microsoft model. Integrate everything, so that 1. the user's easiest option is to use the Microsoft product and 2. it's impossible to determine which component has failed, causing a crash.
The primary job of the OS is to sit between the hardware and the userland software. A well designed OS with good APIs doesn't need unnecessary "features" (read: bugs) to be integrated. If the OS manages only what it must, the quality will be better.
Microsoft's security track record is very poor. Like the original post said, they can't keep their primary product, Windows, up to date. How can MS be expected to keep up with the hundreds of new virii released every month? Microsoft AV, whether integrated with the OS, bundled with the OS, or sold separately, will just open up a new venue for attack.
Robin Williams' impression of Bill Gates: "Monopoly's just a game, Senator, I'm trying to control the world!"
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And by ripe.org, I obviously meant ripe.net.
Well, if you read the article, you find a link: "You can read the full background to the story here [http://178.63.252.42/]." Look up 178.63.252.42 at ripe.org and you find it's owned by spacerich.com. Visit spacerich.com and you see in large, friendly letters: "Virtual Private Servers from $3.99/month"
So there you go, spacerich.com offers VPS for $3.99/month.
This is a complete perversion of the concept of Intellectual Property. The US Consitution allows things like patents and other IP "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". Recent patents granted by USPTO are just absurd, and do not fulfill the original intent of the Consitutional basis for IP in the US.
Once again, /. has almost reported the news.
/. is great for getting an overview of the news, but sometimes the story isn't quite right. Remember to check your sources!
The case does not require any person to identify themselves to any police officer at any time. Reading from the court's opinion, you see that identification is only required when "a person [is] detained by an officer under suspicious circumstances". Civil liberties advocates should be further relieved by the court's affirmation of Brown v. Texas that the detention of a person must satisfy Fourth Amendment requirements. Even in the absence of a court-issued warrant, Terry v. Ohio affirmed "an officer's reasonable suspicion that a person may be involved in criminal activity permits the officer to stop the person for a brief time and take additional steps to investigate further" and further, "an officer may ask a suspect to identify himself during a Terry stop".
Answering the obvious question, the court notes: "Hiibel argues unpersuasively that the statute circumvents the probable-cause requirement by al-lowing an officer to arrest a person for being suspicious, thereby creating an impermissible risk of arbitrary police conduct. These fa-miliar concerns underlay Kolender [v. Lawson], Brown [v. Texas], and Papachristou [v. Jacksonville]. They are met by the requirement that a Terry stop be justified at its inception and be 'reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified' the initial stop."
And on one last note pertaining to the Fifth Amendment: "Hiibel's contention that his conviction violates the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on self-incrimination fails because disclosure of his name and identity presented no reasonable danger of incrimination."
It belongs in the OS? That would the Microsoft model. Integrate everything, so that 1. the user's easiest option is to use the Microsoft product and 2. it's impossible to determine which component has failed, causing a crash.
The primary job of the OS is to sit between the hardware and the userland software. A well designed OS with good APIs doesn't need unnecessary "features" (read: bugs) to be integrated. If the OS manages only what it must, the quality will be better.
Microsoft's security track record is very poor. Like the original post said, they can't keep their primary product, Windows, up to date. How can MS be expected to keep up with the hundreds of new virii released every month? Microsoft AV, whether integrated with the OS, bundled with the OS, or sold separately, will just open up a new venue for attack.
Robin Williams' impression of Bill Gates: "Monopoly's just a game, Senator, I'm trying to control the world!"