That's all it is, the prosecution, investigation should all be on the media owners desk not the ISP's, because it is being set this way it opens the door (already open actually) to completely monitor and prosecute all traffic and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a move to make it retroactive....so those mp3's you got in your college years catch up with you down the road whiel you're working. It's getting to the point where it isn't worth leaving *any* trails on the Inet. Scary stuff.
M$ could lock it down and make it much more difficult but why? With everyone using it because it's easy to pirate they maintain their market share, and it appears there is no shortage of people willing to pay for that crap called Vista. I have to say the other post about "the ones that steal it making it harder for everyone else" is one of the most naive and ignorant post I have ever seen. It isn't "stealing" it's copyright violation, and you have fairly naive view of human behavior.
Relax there are more important things to worry about than some crappy OS.
That's because TV isn't interactive, I remember a study done once that measured the brain activity of a TV viewer and it actually declined, the internet *at a minimum* requires that you be involved. Your brain is in an awake state (well most of us) unlike a TV viewer.
And no, constantly pushing the channel buttons is not interaction.
Based on that letter how about you 1: log into TOR or A proxy grab the torrent file, then 2: how about people that upload not name the archive after the god damn show (Duh?) then 3: just for the fun of it, how about you encrypt the archive in addition. If they don't know what it is it's pretty hard to determine if DMCA needs to be sent out.
Well you aren't actually talking, it's the impulse in your brain that would cause speech to come from your mouth that drive this...but in this case you aren't actually speaking only thinking of speaking.
Do you want the same people you see tailgating, talking on their cell phones, and doing 45 in the fast lane, or drunk flying in the air? I didn't think so.
Only way it would work is if it was all fully automated with no or little human intervention.
I would hope the judges would be able to see the difference, I just don't have a lot of faith when law makers start babbling about "tubes" and various other comments that indicate they are ignorant.
Yes I am aware that the tubes analogy can be valid but the way it was used it was not IMO.
By larger I will assume you mean "causing more problems" and hacking school systems isn't anymore dangerous today than it was 10 years ago, however the punishment has increased under the "penetrating a network" umbrella that includes everything from using your neighbors wireless without permission to hacking the DoJ (which from what I understand is quite easy to do).
So rather than assign blame and punishment address the issues that allows people to hack these networks.
What is the Internet all about? To me it is average mans way to communicate to the world via blog, video or other medium hitting an audience worldwide that was never possible before without financial backing.
Anyone can express an opinion or convey an idea to anyone in the world.
Left to the corporate driven lawmakers it will be reduced to the functionality of a TV set and strictly controlled.
So you don't think lawmakers know how money is printed? It's done with a printing machine...you seriously don't think they know that? The gist of what I said, is that it is easier to increase punishment rather than address the real issue, I would bet that the same school network will be just as hackable a year from now as it was when this person hacked. The difference will be the laws regarding the punishment.
It seems that the punishment for computer crimes has become more harsh, almost as though hiring competent admins and securing the network is more work than changing a law...a law being passed by people that refer to the Inet as "tubes" that get clogged, and haven't the slightest idea of what the internet is all about.
It's just that easy to redact something when it's an electronic document so what is the news going to be like when it's all online?
Will it be like "Saddam seeking yellow cake" then the next day it's gone? No hard copy, no evidence...at least now when something is printed and distributed it's more or less permanent where the electronic copy is all to easy to edit.
How can we verify a source? How can we hold someone to what they printed when it can be instantly redacted, is there going to be a way we can tag/sign/verify a story so we know it's real and will stay around?
Once again from the country with the highest alcohol related brain damage comes a solution that won't work, and...is it me or does Australia seem to be moving towards the harshest big brother state in the world? Apparantly parents are so detached from the actual process of raising a child that this seems like a good solution. Pathetic.
If he was doing it with script kiddie stuff then how many other "pros" are doing it and not getting caught? Has anyone seen a lawsuit where an user can sue AOL or some other corp for not adequately protecting their info? If it can be proven that the exploit was a known exploit then it seems to follow you could sue them for not protecting the info.
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Yes unfortunately I tend to forget how different/. is when it comes to vague posts or ranting. I have used Vista, I do not like it, it's intrusive and annoying to me (yes I do want to run that exe), I personally don't care about eye candy, I am into performance which vista does not have unless you are running a state of the art proc, 4 gig's of RAM and a high end graphics card (which none have decent drivers as of yet) I'm not going to get into the DRM portion of Vista. You're a sucker to buy it and a fool to run it.
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Baloney M$ is doing the same thing with DX10 only on Vista forcing you to upgrade if you want to run it "they are all doing forced upgrades to the consumer", it's the new trend. Why should it take an OS that's released a "year or so" to be "ready" (whatever that means) they had over 5 to start with.
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Notice I said "need", all of the things listed there on wiki can be had on XP via 3rd party tweaks.
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I don't agree with "slightly better than XP" it seems to be a bloated resource hog that does nothing new (UAC? poorly implemented) the fancy GUI could be had on XP and the DX10 only on Vista is scam if I ever saw one. No it's bad news and should be avoided; only I know the tech junkies out there are going to fall for it.
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That's all it is, the prosecution, investigation should all be on the media owners desk not the ISP's, because it is being set this way it opens the door (already open actually) to completely monitor and prosecute all traffic and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a move to make it retroactive....so those mp3's you got in your college years catch up with you down the road whiel you're working.
It's getting to the point where it isn't worth leaving *any* trails on the Inet.
Scary stuff.
M$ could lock it down and make it much more difficult but why? With everyone using it because it's easy to pirate they maintain their market share, and it appears there is no shortage of people willing to pay for that crap called Vista.
I have to say the other post about "the ones that steal it making it harder for everyone else" is one of the most naive and ignorant post I have ever seen.
It isn't "stealing" it's copyright violation, and you have fairly naive view of human behavior.
Relax there are more important things to worry about than some crappy OS.
That's because TV isn't interactive, I remember a study done once that measured the brain activity of a TV viewer and it actually declined, the internet *at a minimum* requires that you be involved.
Your brain is in an awake state (well most of us) unlike a TV viewer.
And no, constantly pushing the channel buttons is not interaction.
yeah ignore it...
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Based on that letter how about you 1: log into TOR or A proxy grab the torrent file, then 2: how about people that upload not name the archive after the god damn show (Duh?) then 3: just for the fun of it, how about you encrypt the archive in addition.
If they don't know what it is it's pretty hard to determine if DMCA needs to be sent out.
Well you aren't actually talking, it's the impulse in your brain that would cause speech to come from your mouth that drive this...but in this case you aren't actually speaking only thinking of speaking.
Then it shouldn't to hard to use the same impulses for control interfaces, so thinking of speaking and manipulating your computer, or other item.
yeah till it lands on you.
Do you want the same people you see tailgating, talking on their cell phones, and doing 45 in the fast lane, or drunk flying in the air?
I didn't think so.
Only way it would work is if it was all fully automated with no or little human intervention.
I would hope the judges would be able to see the difference, I just don't have a lot of faith when law makers start babbling about "tubes" and various other comments that indicate they are ignorant.
Yes I am aware that the tubes analogy can be valid but the way it was used it was not IMO.
By larger I will assume you mean "causing more problems" and hacking school systems isn't anymore dangerous today than it was 10 years ago, however the punishment has increased under the "penetrating a network" umbrella that includes everything from using your neighbors wireless without permission to hacking the DoJ (which from what I understand is quite easy to do).
So rather than assign blame and punishment address the issues that allows people to hack these networks.
What is the Internet all about? To me it is average mans way to communicate to the world via blog, video or other medium hitting an audience worldwide that was never possible before without financial backing.
Anyone can express an opinion or convey an idea to anyone in the world.
Left to the corporate driven lawmakers it will be reduced to the functionality of a TV set and strictly controlled.
So you don't think lawmakers know how money is printed? It's done with a printing machine...you seriously don't think they know that?
The gist of what I said, is that it is easier to increase punishment rather than address the real issue, I would bet that the same school network will be just as hackable a year from now as it was when this person hacked.
The difference will be the laws regarding the punishment.
It seems that the punishment for computer crimes has become more harsh, almost as though hiring competent admins and securing the network is more work than changing a law...a law being passed by people that refer to the Inet as "tubes" that get clogged, and haven't the slightest idea of what the internet is all about.
Troubling.
It's just that easy to redact something when it's an electronic document so what is the news going to be like when it's all online?
Will it be like "Saddam seeking yellow cake" then the next day it's gone? No hard copy, no evidence...at least now when something is printed and distributed it's more or less permanent where the electronic copy is all to easy to edit.
How can we verify a source? How can we hold someone to what they printed when it can be instantly redacted, is there going to be a way we can tag/sign/verify a story so we know it's real and will stay around?
That's all just "lol"
Actually the UK is the #1 police state in the western world, what better test bed than an island?
Yeah sucking up to the minority...why? their votes don't get them elected.
Once again from the country with the highest alcohol related brain damage comes a solution that won't work, and...is it me or does Australia seem to be moving towards the harshest big brother state in the world? Apparantly parents are so detached from the actual process of raising a child that this seems like a good solution.
Pathetic.
I spent my morning wondering what my headline would be if I had access to change FOX's web page...impeach...hours of fun thanks for the post.
I guess the USA isn't the only country with a broken voting system.
If he was doing it with script kiddie stuff then how many other "pros" are doing it and not getting caught?
Has anyone seen a lawsuit where an user can sue AOL or some other corp for not adequately protecting their info? If it can be proven that the exploit was a known exploit then it seems to follow you could sue them for not protecting the info.
Yes unfortunately I tend to forget how different /. is when it comes to vague posts or ranting.
I have used Vista, I do not like it, it's intrusive and annoying to me (yes I do want to run that exe), I personally don't care about eye candy, I am into performance which vista does not have unless you are running a state of the art proc, 4 gig's of RAM and a high end graphics card (which none have decent drivers as of yet)
I'm not going to get into the DRM portion of Vista.
You're a sucker to buy it and a fool to run it.
Baloney M$ is doing the same thing with DX10 only on Vista forcing you to upgrade if you want to run it "they are all doing forced upgrades to the consumer", it's the new trend.
Why should it take an OS that's released a "year or so" to be "ready" (whatever that means) they had over 5 to start with.
Notice I said "need", all of the things listed there on wiki can be had on XP via 3rd party tweaks.
I don't agree with "slightly better than XP" it seems to be a bloated resource hog that does nothing new (UAC? poorly implemented) the fancy GUI could be had on XP and the DX10 only on Vista is scam if I ever saw one.
No it's bad news and should be avoided; only I know the tech junkies out there are going to fall for it.