This is one of the real illustrative reasons why we need a "loser pays" system in the courts (where the initiating party would be liable for all legal and court expenses if they lose), since it would discourage megacartels like the MAFIAA from using their financial advantage to manipulate the legal system. ...except that the whole point here is that they didn't lose, they removed the suit before it went to trial when the judge started hinting that they'd lose if they pursued.
However, I think the courts should have some sort of penalty for legal DoS attacks -- that's essentially what the RIAA is pulling here.
While on the personal level, they are tying up their victims in court with their carpetbombing approach to litigation, they are also tying up the courts -- not too many courtrooms, but still clerks etf. who have to record their suits.
I almost feel like there needs to be a "pre-lawyer" stage to all suits, where the actual parties involve notify each other of their stance before any threatening of a lawsuit occurs. I'm not sure how well this would work out in practice, but it seems it would be much better than the current situation.
Just a note, the switch grass, one it is established, doesn't need tilled or anything. It just needs harvested so any Co2 production from it would be a one time thing for the most part. They claim that the root system will capture about 94% of the carbon it takes to produce and use the cellulose ethanol too. Just one question: how is it going to be harvested? Considering the low volume of biomass generated per hectare, 3 harvests per year plus 3 seedings have to be factored in, vs 1 tilling, 1 planting and 1 harvest for crops that generate more biomass.
I wouldn't call this scaremongering. Just having a little fun.
There is something about geeks that leads them to be more suspicious of authority. Perhaps it is being ostracized at a young age or the fact that there are simply a lot of really dumb people out there who have somehow manage to get a little power. I think it's that geeks tend to know a lot about controlling information and how much power that gives a person -- so they tend to see situations that politicians might abuse to gain power that other folk might miss or dismiss.
The federal government can't get involved in district/municipal/state laws -- that's why this law is interstate/intercountry only. They're doing everything they're allowed to legally do, which doesn't include outlawing local bullying.
The trick is that for most people, sites like myspace and facebook are interstate, so the Feds have jurisdiction, even if the bullying is being done locally. If it was being done on some local BBS, it would be up to the state or lower authorities to do something, which they generally don't want to do, as most non-federal governments don't like to get involved in messing with people's lives on that level (bad politics with smaller voting populations).
I love how AC says I say "more than likely" when I said "more likely (than a DNS issue)". Why not suggest one of your thousands of other problems instead of criticizing me for suggesting a common error that matches the scenario is more likely than an error that obviously hasn't happened?
That whois lookup says absolutely nothing... I could add amazon.com.myserver.net as a dns record too, and it would have nothing to do with the lookups for amazon.com. The trick is to use whois to see what IP address www.amazon.com currently points at.
However, as has been pointed out, HTTPS works, so it's defininitely not a DNS issue. More likely someone along the chain corrupted a pooling link to the main http server and it propogated. I've done the same thing on apache2 servers in the past and had the same result; https still works fine, but http returns an error on key pages.
If you're going to make an allegation like that, why not support it with a list of the models in question? Or at least a reference, so as to make your claim credible. Because this is something that has been discussed ad-nauseum on/. in the past, and I don't keep up with all the model numbers. I wasn't making an allegation, I was summarizing. I have no reason to have to make my claim credible, as I'm not saying "Model XYZ Diebold voting machine can be undetectably tampered with."
My statement is similar to me saying (cue car analogy) "There are a number of cars whose gas tanks are placed so that they explode on impact; do not buy one of those cars." Since (almost) everyone already knows this, it becomes a recommendation on something to consider, not an unsubstantiated disparaging remark against Ford for building a pickup truck with the gas tank outside the chassis on the passenger side of the cab.
I'm sure someone will chime in with a reference though; there've been enough studies done in the last 4 years on the topic (and posted to slashdot).
It picked up the moontray.exe executable, which is what puzzled me. I guess it could have been loading the definition file at the time, but I thought this was handled by the main app, not the systray portion.
On election day (since the machine could have an internal clock and work just fine any other day), leave one voting machine alone, and at the end of the day, cast your ballot on it (this may be necessary to "activate" it).
Then check the machine and see if your vote was counted correctly. Expensive, but an extremely good idea; I'd add that you should have a number of people cast ballots who will cast known ballots.
If you make sure all administrative openings are taped over with tamper-resistant tape, keep one (random) stataion aside during the voting and then have a "control" group vote using it, that's about all you can do from your end, apart from preventing e-stations from being used in the first place.
1. What kind of equipment will you be using? There are a number of models which have been shown to be tamperable with no evidence of tampering available at the time of voting. Step 1 is to make sure you aren't using any of these machines.
I think it's more like the NRA saying "I wonder how familiar the new president will be with regards to gun control, munitions supply restrictions and custom gun manufacturing." Come to think of it, gun control and net neutrality have a lot in common, except that guns kill people while networks kill corporations.
While losing his license was not directly responsible for his current status, if he had never lost his license, he likely would never have done anything more than be a local shrink.
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." I think a better quote under the circumstances would be "Just a flesh wound."
Interesting... I decided to try out MoonSecure after you listed it (with AVG running already) and got: Threat detected! Trojan horse Generic9.AUOC Detected on open.
I presume this is just due to the way MS works, but as it's open source and there's the possibility of someone injecting a trojan into the code, I thought I'd verify with the slashdot crowd first.
Why would anyone do this when you can usually rent it for a week cheaper? Because your "rental" time begins whenever you first rip open the container, not when you leave the store. This means you could buy these as gifts for people, take them on a holiday to watch elsewhere or watch them on a portable DVD player in the middle of the Sahara.
Additionally, you could watch them in YOUR DVD player when you are visiting a different DVD region whose discs won't play in your player, etc.
I also hear some people also have entire rooms in their house dedicated to the preparation of food - and even a separate room where they eat it, complete with sets of chairs situated around a table. Surely the end of the restaurant as we know it. ...and people (gasp) have little boxes with copied recipes for preparing food the same way the restaurants do!
Interesting idea though... could you imagine if someone sold recipe books where each recipe disintegrated 2 days after it was first used?
his grandchildren, and even your grandchildren In that case, I hope you teach English in the US... that way, maybe you can get your students to start using commas before "and" when appropriate like the rest of the English speaking world does:D
As per regular medical verbiage, it should go like this:
"Symptoms include increased stress, mild headaches, upset stomache, an eye tick, itchy skin and vague unusual objects seen out of the corner of your eyes. Some or all of these symptoms may become apparent. After this, the symptoms rapidly move to paranoia and hysteria, followed by a complete collapse of all body tissue. The bacteria can travel through almost any substance, including air and lead."
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However, I think the courts should have some sort of penalty for legal DoS attacks -- that's essentially what the RIAA is pulling here.
While on the personal level, they are tying up their victims in court with their carpetbombing approach to litigation, they are also tying up the courts -- not too many courtrooms, but still clerks etf. who have to record their suits.
I almost feel like there needs to be a "pre-lawyer" stage to all suits, where the actual parties involve notify each other of their stance before any threatening of a lawsuit occurs. I'm not sure how well this would work out in practice, but it seems it would be much better than the current situation.
Goohoo.
see post #23731769 and its parent thread. What they hate is confrontation with (their) authority like you've just presented.
/other/ BSA group just as well.
Considering the number of atheist/agnostic BSA leaders I've known, I think your response would probably fit the
There is something about geeks that leads them to be more suspicious of authority. Perhaps it is being ostracized at a young age or the fact that there are simply a lot of really dumb people out there who have somehow manage to get a little power. I think it's that geeks tend to know a lot about controlling information and how much power that gives a person -- so they tend to see situations that politicians might abuse to gain power that other folk might miss or dismiss.
The federal government can't get involved in district/municipal/state laws -- that's why this law is interstate/intercountry only. They're doing everything they're allowed to legally do, which doesn't include outlawing local bullying.
The trick is that for most people, sites like myspace and facebook are interstate, so the Feds have jurisdiction, even if the bullying is being done locally. If it was being done on some local BBS, it would be up to the state or lower authorities to do something, which they generally don't want to do, as most non-federal governments don't like to get involved in messing with people's lives on that level (bad politics with smaller voting populations).
I love how AC says I say "more than likely" when I said "more likely (than a DNS issue)". Why not suggest one of your thousands of other problems instead of criticizing me for suggesting a common error that matches the scenario is more likely than an error that obviously hasn't happened?
That whois lookup says absolutely nothing... I could add amazon.com.myserver.net as a dns record too, and it would have nothing to do with the lookups for amazon.com. The trick is to use whois to see what IP address www.amazon.com currently points at.
However, as has been pointed out, HTTPS works, so it's defininitely not a DNS issue. More likely someone along the chain corrupted a pooling link to the main http server and it propogated. I've done the same thing on apache2 servers in the past and had the same result; https still works fine, but http returns an error on key pages.
That just means you need to change your character encoding. Most of us don't browse with our character encoding set to ISO-8859-7 :D
My statement is similar to me saying (cue car analogy) "There are a number of cars whose gas tanks are placed so that they explode on impact; do not buy one of those cars." Since (almost) everyone already knows this, it becomes a recommendation on something to consider, not an unsubstantiated disparaging remark against Ford for building a pickup truck with the gas tank outside the chassis on the passenger side of the cab.
I'm sure someone will chime in with a reference though; there've been enough studies done in the last 4 years on the topic (and posted to slashdot).
It picked up the moontray.exe executable, which is what puzzled me. I guess it could have been loading the definition file at the time, but I thought this was handled by the main app, not the systray portion.
Then check the machine and see if your vote was counted correctly. Expensive, but an extremely good idea; I'd add that you should have a number of people cast ballots who will cast known ballots.
If you make sure all administrative openings are taped over with tamper-resistant tape, keep one (random) stataion aside during the voting and then have a "control" group vote using it, that's about all you can do from your end, apart from preventing e-stations from being used in the first place.
1. What kind of equipment will you be using?
There are a number of models which have been shown to be tamperable with no evidence of tampering available at the time of voting. Step 1 is to make sure you aren't using any of these machines.
I think it's more like the NRA saying "I wonder how familiar the new president will be with regards to gun control, munitions supply restrictions and custom gun manufacturing." Come to think of it, gun control and net neutrality have a lot in common, except that guns kill people while networks kill corporations.
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." I think a better quote under the circumstances would be "Just a flesh wound."
Good think he didn't know about Hamachi or have a remote ssh available ;)
So Jack thinks he is responsible for Stern becoming extra-terrestrial?
#4: DO NOT represent yourself; #1-3 are almost certain to follow (although #1 usually has a bit more leniency in these cases unless you're a lawyer).
You actually just gave me a rather chilling thought... What do lawyers tend to do when they aren't practicing law?
I just hope the religious right in Florida is sane enough not to vote him into any office....
Interesting... I decided to try out MoonSecure after you listed it (with AVG running already) and got:
Threat detected!
Trojan horse Generic9.AUOC Detected on open.
I presume this is just due to the way MS works, but as it's open source and there's the possibility of someone injecting a trojan into the code, I thought I'd verify with the slashdot crowd first.
Additionally, you could watch them in YOUR DVD player when you are visiting a different DVD region whose discs won't play in your player, etc.
Plus the other reasons siblings have provided.
Shoot! There goes my idea... I was going to suggest that someone find a way to make these discs out of biodegradable paper....
Interesting idea though... could you imagine if someone sold recipe books where each recipe disintegrated 2 days after it was first used?
You had me up until the symptoms.
As per regular medical verbiage, it should go like this:
"Symptoms include increased stress, mild headaches, upset stomache, an eye tick, itchy skin and vague unusual objects seen out of the corner of your eyes. Some or all of these symptoms may become apparent. After this, the symptoms rapidly move to paranoia and hysteria, followed by a complete collapse of all body tissue. The bacteria can travel through almost any substance, including air and lead."