Uh, actually, this program doesn't do the right thing. Surely the right thing to do is not to delete the files but to remove Randall's name from them. Some people deserve to be on those lists.
Yeah, because that no-fly is full of people so dangerous that it is just not safe to let them ride in an airplane, yet so innocent that we can't even arrest them.
The violation of the Copyright statute for non-monetary gain is a civil matter, not a criminal matter.
This has ZERO to do with RIAA, or RIAA's letters to infringers, or any of the 20,000 RIAA civil lawsuits (not a single one is a criminal case), or TFA.
What part of "felony" is compatible with "not a criminal matter?"
Why? If failed because it is defective by design. It failed because they (whomever "they" are) don't have control over all the various bits and pieces. It failed because DRM deliberately breaks things, on purpose.
I doubt it will stay banned for long. Besides, it doesn't really matter now since more or less all 20 million of us have paid some attention to it for free.
My hunch is all 80 of them belong to the bunch of neo-nazi's that call themselves the "Family first" party./blockquote Or just maybe all 80 of them are just one guy working for Hyundai's PR firm.
After all, if the entire population (more or less) has paid attention to the ad, that's the kind of exposure that you just can't buy the normal way.
There are a finite number of keys on each disc. The way keys are "revoked" is by simply not using that key on any new disc pressings. A disc made (prior to) today, on which the key block contains a compromised key, have been well and truly cracked.
It is actually more sophisticated than that, relying on each individual unit having a certain set of 512 keys out of a billion or so, and then providing only enabling a subset of possible keys on each disc in the MKB. The trick is once they know the specific unit they want to disable, they enable a set of keys in the MKB on the disc such that all the "good" players have at least one key in the MKB but the "bad" player does not.
That's how it could work in theory. In practice its going to be hard to identify any compromised hardware players such that they can be revoked and chances are they have not been distributing keys with unique combos per player yet (if they ever do).
They *could* be if the manufacturers were fully implementing the AACS spec, but they aren't even close to doing that. AACS is fully spec'd but the actual implementations are just bare minimums.
The very fact that you've put this off as long as you have long might, in itself, be an argument for why you might not be cut out for a top-tier school.
Yeah, if you haven't mapped out your entire life by junior year in high school then you are just another member of hoi polloi.
You sound like this guy I went to high school with who went to stanford for his engineering degree. 10 years later, he doesn't even have an engineering job -- all he has to show for it is his stanfordlalumni.org email address, which he plasters all over the place. Whoops!! So much for his plans at 17.
Life's too short to worry about getting into the "best" schools. Go somewhere you'll enjoy, socially and academically. There's incredible research being done by brilliant professors at public universities too. Do well as an undergrad, and you should have no problem getting accepted to a big name school for your master's, if you need resume candy.
I totally agree. I did the "stupid" thing and transferred to a college on the other side of the country because I was chasing a girl in my sophomore year. She picked the school because she had her sights set on becoming a lawyer and I had my sights set on her, so the school wasn't anything to speak of for CompSci.
It didn't work out with the girl (big surprise!) but I was still able to get hooked up with the right kind of internship program to really learn some good skills. Sometimes it is a good thing to be a big fish in a small pond. Ten years later -- I'm a consultant selling deep technical expertise that is all based on what I learned during that internship and she's in private practice having previously worked as a deputy state AG. Turns out our hourly billing rates are less than $10 apart.
So, the moral of my story is that the quality of the university program does not matter as much as the quality of your own interest and dedication to learning as long as you are prepared to take full advantage of whatever opportunities come your way.
At least here in the UK, I believe this would be a criminal offense. Of course the pirates might not want to report his crime, but he's still breaking the law.
It is probably a criminal offense in the USA too, falling under the category of unauthorized access to a computer system. Based on the general advice that contract developers should not use software timebombs to insure payment, it is probably a civil offense too.
Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, using someone else's serial number is not a crime - you can't copyright a serial number and the DMCA shouldn't apply to a valid serial# since it isn't an "access control circumvention device" any more than something like a car key is, and even if it was an invalid serial# certainly could not be one since it doesn't even work.
I think this guy is setting himself up for a whole host of problems if he pisses off the wrong guy.
Isn't the hacker in legal trouble for downloading the same 3,000 pictures? (How else did he know the content was illegal?) He had to download them to his computer to view them, thereby committing the same crime as the guy he outed.
Not only that, but the description of the guy sounds like he could easily be in denial and attempting to compensate for it by going all out in the reverse direction -- in the same way that so many fire-and-brimstone anti-gay preachers and politicians turn out to be exactly what they hate the most.
Of course it could just be the reporter exaggerating for effect.
Either way, here's the relevant part of the second article:
Dubbed "Citizen Tipster" by police, Brad Willman, spent night after night writing a Trojan Horse program that gave him complete control over every computer that downloaded it.
Alone and in the dark, he sat for up to 16 hours a day monitoring hundreds of targets, secretly reading their e-mail and tracking their every step online.
He started keeping files on the targeted users. He tracked them for almost three years --recording everything. The majority of his targets were ordinary people -- but some in the files included priests, social workers, soldiers, police officers and justice officials.
He catalogued each file by degree of risk and focused on suspected child-porn producers and molesters.
This was his life. He had no friends in school and skipped the prom. Even these days, his only entertainment away from the computer is going to the odd movie, alone.
The son of a coffee shop owner, Mr. Willman, a.k.a. Omni-Potent, finds if hard to socialize and rarely answers the telephone. He can only be himself online -- staring at the screen and chewing sour candies.
Newegg does [verified By Visa] and signing up is rather trivial actually, the bitch is remembering the password (assuming I'm thinking of the right system). It takes me a lot longer to add an alternative (shipping) address to the CC and many websites require that (including some whose incompetence at being able to check it leaves me shocked).
I use disposable/single-use/single-merchant credit card numbers linked to my Visa card. I've found that when I use one of those numbers at a VBV merchant, the system automagically gives it the VBV approval - at least that is what it tells me as I go through the check-out screens - without any special effort on my part beyond the 'normal' number generation process.
I guess all those "high functioning aspergers" people on the Internet are going to finally realize they don't have some excuse anymore when it turns out they don't have autism at all.
It's about time they tied this down to something that can be tested for so the people with real problems can get help, and all the Internet whiners can learn to deal with life instead of always searching for a cop-out.
How is being autistic anymore of an excuse for not dealing with life than being normal? Life doesn't stop fucking with you just because you have a diagnosable disability. Everybody still has to deal with life regardless of the hand we are dealt. Eventually, everybody has to get past the friday night charades of youth and accept who they are, ravaged faces and lacking in the social graces.
I have to confess that I'm really only concerned with that point of view and don't really care all that much about whether the mobile phone industry is "opened up" in some fashion or another. As long as the service provided is acceptable (it is) at a price I feel is not out of line (it isn't) then that about covers it for me.
Do you realize that's the exact same attitude a majority of Americans had about AT&T before the break-up? When long-distance calls were easily over a dollar a minute and it was illegal to connect a non-telco handset to the phone-line in your house?
Your perception of what is "acceptable service" and a reasonable price is shaped by the status quo and, pretty much by definition, the status quo favors the entrenched businesses and systems.
I say if that's what you're looking for, emigrate. You're free to do that in America,
And he is just as much free to advocate for change in America, despite your terribly self-serving attempt to stick him in a philosophical box of your delusion. If you don't like the fact that he can advocate for change then perhaps you should emigrate to a country where that's not allowed.
The powers that be call it stealing because under the law - that is what it is.
Absolutely false, go look up USC Title 17 none of the words 'theft,' 'steal' or any of their variations are mentioned even once in the body of statutes - the best you get is the sensationalist title of one statute that is mentioned in a footnote. So, under the law that is clearly not what it is.
The ratio doesn't matter at all. The fact that you can be prosecuted for having someone elses goods inexplicably in your possesion matters, the fact that the law exists, and can be enforced matters.
Hey pipe-boy - stop trying to play word games and get it right - being UNENFORCEABLE has nothing to do with whether a law is on the books and everything to do with the practicality of enforcement. You've confused sophomoric word games with how the real world works.
It's not that strict copyright law is unenforceable, it's the fact that the culture overwhelmingly looks at copyright as a minor violation.
In the age of digital copies, strict copyright law is unenforceable.
Regular theft leaves evidence behind - the stolen item is gone - you know you have been robbed. Stealing a copy of something leaves behind no evidence. If you do not know it has been stolen, you can not even begin to start looking for the thief.
Someone is likely to pipe in that there is evidence of theft - the stolen item/copy itself. Before that someone starts piping, ask yourself just how many crimes are investigated because the cops found a guy with stolen items versus how many are investigated because something went missing? I am going to SWAG and say at least 1:10,000 maybe even 1:100,000, which is about as good an example of unenforceable as you are going to get. Of course those 1 out of 10 thousand cases have about a 100% success rate, but that's only because the crimes are already solved by the time they are discovered.
You'd have to look fairly hard to find someone with any idea what the social meaning of crucification was
Do they call it a strawman because you have to reach for straws in order to justify it? Anyone with a high school education living in at least a moderately Christian country will know exactly what it means when used because the new meaning is derived from the old meaning. Just like the other examples.
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So, if I painted my car with the stuff, it would make it immune to lidar and maybe even radar speed guns?
Yeah, because that no-fly is full of people so dangerous that it is just not safe to let them ride in an airplane, yet so innocent that we can't even arrest them.
What part of "felony" is compatible with "not a criminal matter?"
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There are a finite number of keys on each disc. The way keys are "revoked" is by simply not using that key on any new disc pressings. A disc made (prior to) today, on which the key block contains a compromised key, have been well and truly cracked.
It is actually more sophisticated than that, relying on each individual unit having a certain set of 512 keys out of a billion or so, and then providing only enabling a subset of possible keys on each disc in the MKB. The trick is once they know the specific unit they want to disable, they enable a set of keys in the MKB on the disc such that all the "good" players have at least one key in the MKB but the "bad" player does not.
See this about NNL in AACS
That's how it could work in theory. In practice its going to be hard to identify any compromised hardware players such that they can be revoked and chances are they have not been distributing keys with unique combos per player yet (if they ever do).
The very fact that you've put this off as long as you have long might, in itself, be an argument for why you might not be cut out for a top-tier school.
Yeah, if you haven't mapped out your entire life by junior year in high school then you are just another member of hoi polloi.
You sound like this guy I went to high school with who went to stanford for his engineering degree. 10 years later, he doesn't even have an engineering job -- all he has to show for it is his stanfordlalumni.org email address, which he plasters all over the place. Whoops!! So much for his plans at 17.
Life's too short to worry about getting into the "best" schools. Go somewhere you'll enjoy, socially and academically. There's incredible research being done by brilliant professors at public universities too. Do well as an undergrad, and you should have no problem getting accepted to a big name school for your master's, if you need resume candy.
I totally agree. I did the "stupid" thing and transferred to a college on the other side of the country because I was chasing a girl in my sophomore year. She picked the school because she had her sights set on becoming a lawyer and I had my sights set on her, so the school wasn't anything to speak of for CompSci.
It didn't work out with the girl (big surprise!) but I was still able to get hooked up with the right kind of internship program to really learn some good skills. Sometimes it is a good thing to be a big fish in a small pond. Ten years later -- I'm a consultant selling deep technical expertise that is all based on what I learned during that internship and she's in private practice having previously worked as a deputy state AG. Turns out our hourly billing rates are less than $10 apart.
So, the moral of my story is that the quality of the university program does not matter as much as the quality of your own interest and dedication to learning as long as you are prepared to take full advantage of whatever opportunities come your way.
At least here in the UK, I believe this would be a criminal offense. Of course the pirates might not want to report his crime, but he's still breaking the law.
It is probably a criminal offense in the USA too, falling under the category of unauthorized access to a computer system. Based on the general advice that contract developers should not use software timebombs to insure payment, it is probably a civil offense too.
Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, using someone else's serial number is not a crime - you can't copyright a serial number and the DMCA shouldn't apply to a valid serial# since it isn't an "access control circumvention device" any more than something like a car key is, and even if it was an invalid serial# certainly could not be one since it doesn't even work.
I think this guy is setting himself up for a whole host of problems if he pisses off the wrong guy.
Of course it could just be the reporter exaggerating for effect.
Either way, here's the relevant part of the second article:
It's called sharing the cost.
I use disposable/single-use/single-merchant credit card numbers linked to my Visa card. I've found that when I use one of those numbers at a VBV merchant, the system automagically gives it the VBV approval - at least that is what it tells me as I go through the check-out screens - without any special effort on my part beyond the 'normal' number generation process.
I guess that wasn't a Hatto(ri) Hanzo piece after all!
How is being autistic anymore of an excuse for not dealing with life than being normal? Life doesn't stop fucking with you just because you have a diagnosable disability. Everybody still has to deal with life regardless of the hand we are dealt. Eventually, everybody has to get past the friday night charades of youth and accept who they are, ravaged faces and lacking in the social graces.
Do you realize that's the exact same attitude a majority of Americans had about AT&T before the break-up? When long-distance calls were easily over a dollar a minute and it was illegal to connect a non-telco handset to the phone-line in your house?
Your perception of what is "acceptable service" and a reasonable price is shaped by the status quo and, pretty much by definition, the status quo favors the entrenched businesses and systems.
Never said he couldn't advocate for change.
And I never said that you said he couldn't advocate for change. So what's your point?
I say if that's what you're looking for, emigrate. You're free to do that in America,
And he is just as much free to advocate for change in America, despite your terribly self-serving attempt to stick him in a philosophical box of your delusion. If you don't like the fact that he can advocate for change then perhaps you should emigrate to a country where that's not allowed.
It's called a straw man because it's a fallacious argument set up to be easily knocked down.
Get a clue - it's called rhetoric - as in a rhetorical joke at your expense.
I doubt you have any idea what the social meaning of crucification was, either, because it had nothing to do with Christianity.
It has at least as much to do with christianity as the swastika has to do with nazism. Take that bait and run with it now.
You've restated what I wrote almost verbatim, thank you for your contribution.
It's not that strict copyright law is unenforceable, it's the fact that the culture overwhelmingly looks at copyright as a minor violation.
In the age of digital copies, strict copyright law is unenforceable.
Regular theft leaves evidence behind - the stolen item is gone - you know you have been robbed. Stealing a copy of something leaves behind no evidence. If you do not know it has been stolen, you can not even begin to start looking for the thief.
Someone is likely to pipe in that there is evidence of theft - the stolen item/copy itself. Before that someone starts piping, ask yourself just how many crimes are investigated because the cops found a guy with stolen items versus how many are investigated because something went missing? I am going to SWAG and say at least 1:10,000 maybe even 1:100,000, which is about as good an example of unenforceable as you are going to get. Of course those 1 out of 10 thousand cases have about a 100% success rate, but that's only because the crimes are already solved by the time they are discovered.
You'd have to look fairly hard to find someone with any idea what the social meaning of crucification was
Do they call it a strawman because you have to reach for straws in order to justify it? Anyone with a high school education living in at least a moderately Christian country will know exactly what it means when used because the new meaning is derived from the old meaning. Just like the other examples.
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