Considering you have to pay them somehow, won't the authorities be able to extradite the client information that way? Granted, The Pirate Bay claims they won't log your activity, but having an account with them might put you under scrutiny.
Suppose someone starts-up a stall in your town market where they buy TPB VPN accounts on their credit card and sell them for cash. Voila! no further link between payment info and VPN user.
Now the source IP address for the VPN connection on the other hand, that probably has the correct person paying for it...
Hopefully TPB will be okay because the VPN can be used to bypass censorship on the net
I must have missed the part where Australian, German, and UK governments (to name just the big three) have expressly said that censorship of the net is a good thing.
The idea of western governments supporting a tool whose purpose is to guarantee free speech and private communications... well let's just say it never used to sound so depressingly unlikely
TPB is a good choice to offer this because their admins have proven themselves to be excellent at communications security, not because it's somehow linked to their torrent trackers.
If they [BSA] show up, tell reception not to let them past the waiting room. Call the cops IMMEDIATELY if they won't follow your instructions or requests (your business is private property.) Fetch the highest person in the company, preferably an officer, and tell them the BSA has no legal ability to search without a warrant or court order (which requires a lawsuit) and they need to shoo them away. The BSA should get nothing but the phone number of your lawyer.
Uhh, did't your users agree on behalf of the company to allow audits and access to your computers/offices when they clicked yes to the EULA and thus formed a contract with the software vendor?
You'll get increasingly strongly-worded letters and then, eventually, a court summons.
What rate of change of word-strength were you seeing? Last I checked, their very first letter was "we will prosecute you and you will be fined GBP1000" in 106-point #FF0000 Impact Bold, and the subsequent letters haven't offered anything more original than repetitions of that.
Unfortunately, most idiots who spout drivel like this don't even have a strong correlation in the first place. Sales of violent video games may be up, and knife crimes might be up, but is it even the kids playing the games committing the crimes?
In the UK, the parent of anyone murdered is allowed to create one new law, preferably something dumb, against whatever they suppose it is in the murderer's life that offends them.
I wonder how this will play out with regards to illegal downloads? If one gets caught/charged/accused of transferring "digital goods" to which they don't own the copyright to
Back when that building was used in the Bond film, HIGNFY reported: "MI6 were concerned the film might reveal the location of... one of London's most distinctive landmarks"
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Why would anyone need to "cover their tracks when torrenting" unless he was doing something illegal?
Go ask a military base with secure communications whether they're doing anything illegal.
Considering you have to pay them somehow, won't the authorities be able to extradite the client information that way? Granted, The Pirate Bay claims they won't log your activity, but having an account with them might put you under scrutiny.
Suppose someone starts-up a stall in your town market where they buy TPB VPN accounts on their credit card and sell them for cash. Voila! no further link between payment info and VPN user.
Now the source IP address for the VPN connection on the other hand, that probably has the correct person paying for it...
Hopefully TPB will be okay because the VPN can be used to bypass censorship on the net
I must have missed the part where Australian, German, and UK governments (to name just the big three) have expressly said that censorship of the net is a good thing.
The idea of western governments supporting a tool whose purpose is to guarantee free speech and private communications... well let's just say it never used to sound so depressingly unlikely
TPB is a good choice to offer this because their admins have proven themselves to be excellent at communications security, not because it's somehow linked to their torrent trackers.
Since I use the ctrl-return hot key to send...
That being the one huge cause of accidental emails.
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Enter. Oops, didn't take your finger off ctrl early enough, and the email is sent!
Oh, and never use contaminated cotton swabs. I think that was day two.
Tell that to the Manchester police, who used swabs that had been stored in alcohol to test alcohol-levels in drivers...
If they [BSA] show up, tell reception not to let them past the waiting room. Call the cops IMMEDIATELY if they won't follow your instructions or requests (your business is private property.) Fetch the highest person in the company, preferably an officer, and tell them the BSA has no legal ability to search without a warrant or court order (which requires a lawsuit) and they need to shoo them away. The BSA should get nothing but the phone number of your lawyer.
Uhh, did't your users agree on behalf of the company to allow audits and access to your computers/offices when they clicked yes to the EULA and thus formed a contract with the software vendor?
You'll get increasingly strongly-worded letters and then, eventually, a court summons.
What rate of change of word-strength were you seeing? Last I checked, their very first letter was "we will prosecute you and you will be fined GBP1000" in 106-point #FF0000 Impact Bold, and the subsequent letters haven't offered anything more original than repetitions of that.
It's amazing how fast a filesystem can be if it makes no guarantees that your data will actually be on disk when the application writes it.
Backups redirected to /dev/null, run much faster... ;)
Unfortunately, most idiots who spout drivel like this don't even have a strong correlation in the first place. Sales of violent video games may be up, and knife crimes might be up, but is it even the kids playing the games committing the crimes?
It's worse than that. Knife crime is down. The number of people injured by knives and other sharp instruments is down (although not by as much as was previously reported). Incidence of violent crime in general is down.
The problem with stats like those, is that they're widely believed to have been falsified
In the UK, the parent of anyone murdered is allowed to create one new law, preferably something dumb, against whatever they suppose it is in the murderer's life that offends them.
For details of the process, ask Liz Longhurst
I wonder how this will play out with regards to illegal downloads? If one gets caught/charged/accused of transferring "digital goods" to which they don't own the copyright to
When reading someone's email is charged as unlawful electronic transmission of material outside Tennessee, it seems there is no limit to how far laws can be stretched to fit an action that someone really wishes to prosecute.
not the colour, it's EURion constellation
There was some prize available for anyone who could figure-out how to print it on a t-shirt such that digital cameras refused to take photos of you.
May as well correct myself before anyone else does.
not the colour, it's EURion constellation
There was some prize available for anyone who could figure-out how to print it on a t-shirt such that digital cameras refused to take photos of you.
Which is why it's caught on. Sharing someone else's copyrighted material is still not legal
However, being accused of sharing someone else's copyrighted material is most definitely still legal.
What the gov't is pissed off about is that you can see 2 nuclear subs docked ... scroll up to the top of the bay, zoom in.
Are those the decommissioned ones?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HMNB_Clyde#Swiftsure_class_SSNs
You know Google probably have a vast amount of information about secret government facilities.
not least because the people building them and working in them probably do google searches for each little thing that they're working on
For more info, read the 4-part series on secret bases:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan-turnbull/secret.htm
Anyone know what the circular mounds are to the north of the base?
Fuel store? (c.f. these)
As usual, El Reg has useful commentary
Back when that building was used in the Bond film, HIGNFY reported: "MI6 were concerned the film might reveal the location of... one of London's most distinctive landmarks"
huh? you mean the supposed virtual-landlord of those churches isn't powerful enough to protect his own property?
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And all I'm asking you to do is show me the increase in terrorist attacks since Online Maps have become available
We had one terrorist attack on US soil so far this century that cost almost 3,000 lives
And that building wasn't a church, it wasn't a school, and it wasn't a government building.
So Joel Anderson's proposal would have actually helped the 9/11 terrorists, by diverting security money away from the real targets.
You can't tell something is peaking until after it goes down.
challenge: predict mid-day
Who wants to open up a page that suddenly uses all of their cycles and makes their computer useless for anything else while this is running.
Can you actually do that on a modern OS and a modern CPU?
Slashdot manages it on an eee and xubuntu. Both were developed recently, if that counts as 'modern'.