I'm trying hard to remember verbatim, but the gist is that the major manufacturer was sued and had to show their testing procedures, which when independently verified, showed that they did a decimal place typo and left it uncorrected in their math... leading to 25% rather than 2.5. A rather big difference. Again, don't quote me, I'm sure Google has it written down.
why the evidence presented was not questioned as to its scientific veracity? From what I read and hear, there is valid reason for questioning every technology that is used against you, whether that is a radar gun, camera, eye witness, anything. Your lawyer should never accept anything as fact, and should attempt to prove in court that it is not valid. For instance, the breathalyzer tests have been shown to read higher than actual in more than 25% of tests. Can't remember the story lead or I'd link it.
It's things like this that ensure that the party with the most money will win...
"New Scientist examines why people are in general more rude and abusive online [CC]. This "research team" has never been to a LA rush hour turkey shoot, now have they? And it is quite obvious to even the most calm observer that they have not yet experienced a proper football match in Europe.
WTF? People are rude everywhere. Now don't get me wrong, dear reader. Of course I do not mean you, but the two idiots on either side of your cubicle, yes THEM, those hideous bastards and their soccer practicing spouses.
Clearly, this research team did all their research reading emails inside a nice warm coffee shop in Seattle, AND if you lift the rock off their heads, I'm betting both ears are flattened.
By the way, Flat Ear Syndrome (FES) has been diagnosed as affecting 1 in three research scientists by doctors at UCLA and WSU. Pfizer, working closely with the Bursars office of these highly respected institutes, has develope UnfesION, that relieves the symptoms of FES in 1 out of 16 patients with no dramatic side effects. Note: consult with your physician before taking UnfesION. Side effects may include; sudden outbreaks of common sense, clarity of vision, actual merit based grant funding, possible curricular related job opportunities, and possible respect among the greater community.
Here we go again, as mentioned, we are trying to enact laws that punish the wrong person(s). The fact that they have personal data on a laptop that is not physically secured is a sign that the organization that they work for is corrupt or inept. Please please please let's look at how such incidents happen, then punish the culpable, not simply state that the bag man is going to hang.
I believe that you will find that in more than 90% of such cases, the end user was following the given policies for the data they were using. We ALREADY have laws for how that data is to be treated. Breaches of those laws must be processed before we look for new laws. I cannot cite any specific regulations, but financial institutions and basic corporations now have legal requirements on how to treat privacy information. SarBox law in the US, and I'm sure that the UK has similar regulations. The fact that the information is getting 'lost' to someone in the public is not indication of criminal activity, but lax processes in the organization for which they work. Laptop theft is rampant, some would say, because they are easy to take. Often because the theft is easy, and done by someone who has no idea what is on the laptop hard drive.
So, lets just have guidance on how to process the legal side of such breeches. Find out what safeguards were in place, if they were being used, if the end user was obviously ignoring them etc. There is seldom need for new laws, simply better processes or guidelines for using what currently exists. Remember, tax evasion was used to get some mobsters? Misuse of government equipment? How about dereliction of duty? There are tons of ways to punish someone without creating new laws. I sometimes think that people would enact a law to prohibit large turds if it would stop the problems with the outdated treatment plants. Look at all the silly laws that are still on the books. Do we really need a new law that will be useless in 5 years?
I was thinking the same thing. If I were in charge (generally speaking) I'd lawyer up, and if it came down to having to do something, I'd outsource all student connections to some large ISP, then source the school's backbone infrastructure as a service through that ISP. Now, the school no longer has responsibility for the internet connection of students, and it is no longer a federal issue. Congress cannot force an ISP to become network un-nuetral:)
Not sure about all the details, but the idea seems sound. Throwing the student's connections onto a public ISP resolves the issue IMO. I've always wondered about something: if the **AA can sue me even if someone hacked my wireless AP, why don't they just sue the schools instead of individuals? Why don't they just sue Comcast or Verizon? I'm afraid the answer is that they only want to target those that can least afford the fight.
I'm rather curious about the legal position this puts the schools in, forcing them to help enforce laws. does anyone have a legal view of that issue? Does that make the schools complicit in further file sharing? Is there legal precedent for strong-arming the schools into assisting law enforcement in such a manner? What happens when some kids start using Wi-Fi to share where the kid is on campus and the AP is not? What happens when someone gets smart enough to set up a ssh tunnel to a server off campus and use it for P2P access; is the school responsible?
Imagine creating toothpaste that when combined with mashed up peanuts (salted) becomes an explosive?
On a lighter note, do you think they can turn lead into gold? I hear Ron Paul would like to have some more of it to back the dollar?
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What happens when half of what is recorded is you looking at 'past memories' on your pc? Does this echo logarithmically through the storage system until you are considered dead when there are no new memories being added?
Does the management software manage to do what CmdrTaco cannot? Remove dupes?
I disagree. Listening outside your bedroom requires physical presence on your property. He committed no such act. In fact, what he did was no more incriminating than you putting a packet analyzer on your Internet connection in your living room. If you happen to hear some music on a radio station that was played without royalty payments, are you guilty of copyright infringement?
Had he only claimed to have the login credentials, it might not seem so bad, but he has made his point in spectacular fashion. The recovery is rather simple, and no permanent damage exists, other than what information became public as a result.
It might also be easy to argue that anyone who used the logins to see what was there knowingly violated computer security laws.
In either case, shooting the messenger is never a workable solution.
Whether the document is real and true or not does not matter. It does bring to the public light that there is more than a slight possibility that the US government has, and is using tactics and methods it publicly denounces as horrendous. If it is true, it is fuel for the fire, if not true, perhaps the fuel will get used in more appropriate areas. Publishing this document is what we are supposed to be fighting for... Freedoms, remember those things that the arabs hate us for? Ostensibly, the US government was trying to give such freedoms and democracy to Iraqis. If in fact the US has been abusive in doing so, even on a small scale, it brings into question ALL that the Bush administration has done, and I do mean ALL of it, and every person he has appointed etc.
The simple fact that this exists highlights the general disdain for the Bush administration, and what has been done on his watch, and/or under his order. If all was rosy and righteous, this would be seen as a easily recognizable joke. The fact that it is not should be telling you something, perhaps you should be listening to that nagging voice in the back of your mind.
by some twist of cosmic fate, mag tapes get mixed up in Germany, and the **AAs European email backups are accidentally transmitted, decoded in Bletchly, and passed to the entirety of the tech/geek world in less than 4 hours, thanks to WWII technology. The quantum mind-fsck this would cause is entirely acceptable if all the **AAs plans are laid bare before the world:)
In years to come, we can look forward to underground voting for the **AA awards for cracking the business plans of evil corporate entities. The awards ceremonies celebrated simultaneously with the Cannes film festival.. since no geeks get invited to Cannes and they have nothing else to do at that time. Yes, will entertainment world is celebrating its most visible, its most invisible will be quietly revealed to the world.
Okay, perhaps that is just dreaming, but it's a good dream.
Oh yes, there is age appropriate learning, but let me tell you, kids have not stopped being kids and as I remember it, you only have to be ignorant of one subject and they let you know how fscking stupid they think you are to prop up their own egos. Yes, for GOD's sake, hide information from your children at all costs, spare no effort. Half the ignorant people of the US believe that the Muslims of the world hate their freedom, and that they are heathen devils... when in fact, The Jews, Muslims, and Christians believe in the same messed up deity. Oh, please please please hide the truth of the world from your children, let them grow old in ignorance of the real world. While you may not wish your children to find out about scat porn at the tender age of 6, trying to keep them from knowing about it at 15 or 16 is both futile, and a guarantee that they will not come to you for positive and sound sexuality advice... yes, please help create another sexually dysfunctional teen/adult, hide their eyes from everything but the missionary position.
to ensure that gambling in Mass. will be full of corruption than to have politicians involved in it. I'm sure the penalties are just, as is the promise of a ride to the beach with a Kennedy.
I'm all for smaller government sooner rather than later. Apparently, at least in Mass., it's okay to propose legislation that makes you look so corrupt that half the world is reading about you. The throngs of people (Honorable J Carter even) that want to decriminalize things that have been prohibited for a while is getting bigger and bigger, approaching critical mass, yet the US believes it can ban all online gambling? WTF? Prohibition and censorship do NOT work. I wish the US had a government that understood that. Oh, let me add abstinence to that list also. If only god had been so forward thinking as to add an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not legislate morality. Even if Moses had had an epiphany on the way down the mountain... two really good opportunities missed!! Just one little commandment, 5 words, even in stone tablet writing costs, that is cheap.
How much death and mayhem could have been avoided in the world?
that is exactly the point...censorship does not work. If you don't teach your kids to be responsible no matter of the amount of danger, they will never be safe. You see, children (gasp) are really just adults that don't know enough to be called adults yet. If people over the magic age of 18 can kill and die, as well as determine what is appropriate for them to view on the Internet, I'm betting there are a large percentage of them that can do it at a much younger age if they are well informed and taught about the dangers. Wow, when you think about it, there are a very large number of people that are older than 18 who fall prey to the dangers of the Internet. Why are we so afraid?
Do you personally know of all the sex offenders in your local area? If not, why are you worried about the dangers of the Internet? And ooops, but most sexual abuse seems to be perpetrated by someone the victim knows rather than a stranger from the Internet. http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=70342&id=34001 How does the dangers of the Internet affect those statistics??????? Please please please will someone explain that to us. Are you certain the priest you see each week is not overly friendly? How about your wife's uncle bill?
If you are worried about the kids learning about sex, I can tell you straight up, better you tell them and guide them than they learn it from little johnny whose idea of sex is abusing girls... in a kid kind of way.
The real dangers are close enough for you to touch, NOT on the Internet.
I didn't realize that you could have an article that long on/. Aside from that, what's with all the common sense about teaching children about the dangers of the Internet before allowing them to use it? That is just politically incorrect, the author can't possibly be an American! Does Homeland Security know this guy is trying to take their job from them? Absolutely criminal!
I really like this idea... time to set up the relay to send a copy via script that encodes the message as random garbage to random email addresses, or rather coherent email names at random valid email domains... joebloggs@abc.com for instance... that would double the amount of email that I send, as well as the amount that is encrypted, and with an unbreakable encryption ROFL
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along Seriously ( FBI/NSA/DHS SUCKS ) who would have thought they would try to monitor the ENTIRE internet? Certainly not George Orwell. Makes you wish Dueling politicians were a more common day occurrence, doesn't it? I'm sure we could even manage to use sports stadiums rather than the Whitehouse lawn. Talk about reality tv...
As they stand back to back, sports center anchors are whispering into their mics, telling the audience the voting history of each combatant, theorizing what a loss on either side would mean to upcoming votes on legislation...
I only wonder how long before we are truly living in a fascist state where such monitoring is not questioned? I am going to begin using encryption for everything.. like the rest of this message for instance...
qproiavpofi qeproi n qwcrpfouih np vf qroipasodv nc 4nqa 4p9iva 4padn a p0 oit adpoi
With phishing being outsourced to China, manufacturing being outsourced to China, Can we expect lead based paint recall phishing to come from China soon?
Nothing like a little searching around... Google for translate and you get a few choices, surely a wise person would check what they were sending?? oops, my bad, these were journalists? Fox news wanna be journalists?
smack this guy in the head with a heavy blunt object and get it over with already. There is a good reason that people don't flock to smart phones in their droves. The north american cellular market is so manipulated that it really can't be called a market. When you can get a GSM smartphone that you can transfer from one carrier to the next as you see fit, it will be worth spending 300+ dollars on a PDA. So long as you can get a 0$ phone for the same contract (more or less) there is no perceived value in getting a smart phone. What a putz.
If the gPhone fails, it will be for the same reason that any phone fails, CARRIERS in North America SUCK. I personally use the SideKick, and for several years now have yet to see anyone say that it is a waste, and not cool. Many of my friends have smart phones and use the PDA functions regularly. When carriers start marketing them to the average joe (see the new sidekick) it will begin to be more common than it already is. There will always be people that buy cheap, utilitarian devices only. See the throw away cameras in the grocery store still? Why? That is how people spend money.
Yes, there is a reason for search other than getting directions... I can disply a MAP also. I have used it to look up exotic drink mixes when a bartender did not know the recipe (no comments on that one) as well as many other uses that don't even touch on the value of a qwerty keyboard when replying to an SMS or email.
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I'm trying hard to remember verbatim, but the gist is that the major manufacturer was sued and had to show their testing procedures, which when independently verified, showed that they did a decimal place typo and left it uncorrected in their math... leading to 25% rather than 2.5. A rather big difference. Again, don't quote me, I'm sure Google has it written down.
why the evidence presented was not questioned as to its scientific veracity? From what I read and hear, there is valid reason for questioning every technology that is used against you, whether that is a radar gun, camera, eye witness, anything. Your lawyer should never accept anything as fact, and should attempt to prove in court that it is not valid. For instance, the breathalyzer tests have been shown to read higher than actual in more than 25% of tests. Can't remember the story lead or I'd link it.
It's things like this that ensure that the party with the most money will win...
WTF? People are rude everywhere. Now don't get me wrong, dear reader. Of course I do not mean you, but the two idiots on either side of your cubicle, yes THEM, those hideous bastards and their soccer practicing spouses.
Clearly, this research team did all their research reading emails inside a nice warm coffee shop in Seattle, AND if you lift the rock off their heads, I'm betting both ears are flattened.
By the way, Flat Ear Syndrome (FES) has been diagnosed as affecting 1 in three research scientists by doctors at UCLA and WSU. Pfizer, working closely with the Bursars office of these highly respected institutes, has develope UnfesION, that relieves the symptoms of FES in 1 out of 16 patients with no dramatic side effects. Note: consult with your physician before taking UnfesION. Side effects may include; sudden outbreaks of common sense, clarity of vision, actual merit based grant funding, possible curricular related job opportunities, and possible respect among the greater community.
I hope someone mods you funny for that
that if Apple brings back the old logo they will rule the Intarweb tubes?
Next year's list will include MS Vista operating software !
Here we go again, as mentioned, we are trying to enact laws that punish the wrong person(s). The fact that they have personal data on a laptop that is not physically secured is a sign that the organization that they work for is corrupt or inept. Please please please let's look at how such incidents happen, then punish the culpable, not simply state that the bag man is going to hang.
I believe that you will find that in more than 90% of such cases, the end user was following the given policies for the data they were using. We ALREADY have laws for how that data is to be treated. Breaches of those laws must be processed before we look for new laws. I cannot cite any specific regulations, but financial institutions and basic corporations now have legal requirements on how to treat privacy information. SarBox law in the US, and I'm sure that the UK has similar regulations. The fact that the information is getting 'lost' to someone in the public is not indication of criminal activity, but lax processes in the organization for which they work. Laptop theft is rampant, some would say, because they are easy to take. Often because the theft is easy, and done by someone who has no idea what is on the laptop hard drive.
So, lets just have guidance on how to process the legal side of such breeches. Find out what safeguards were in place, if they were being used, if the end user was obviously ignoring them etc. There is seldom need for new laws, simply better processes or guidelines for using what currently exists. Remember, tax evasion was used to get some mobsters? Misuse of government equipment? How about dereliction of duty? There are tons of ways to punish someone without creating new laws. I sometimes think that people would enact a law to prohibit large turds if it would stop the problems with the outdated treatment plants. Look at all the silly laws that are still on the books. Do we really need a new law that will be useless in 5 years?
Politicians and the Internet.... oil and water.
I was thinking the same thing. If I were in charge (generally speaking) I'd lawyer up, and if it came down to having to do something, I'd outsource all student connections to some large ISP, then source the school's backbone infrastructure as a service through that ISP. Now, the school no longer has responsibility for the internet connection of students, and it is no longer a federal issue. Congress cannot force an ISP to become network un-nuetral :)
Not sure about all the details, but the idea seems sound. Throwing the student's connections onto a public ISP resolves the issue IMO. I've always wondered about something: if the **AA can sue me even if someone hacked my wireless AP, why don't they just sue the schools instead of individuals? Why don't they just sue Comcast or Verizon? I'm afraid the answer is that they only want to target those that can least afford the fight.
I'm rather curious about the legal position this puts the schools in, forcing them to help enforce laws. does anyone have a legal view of that issue? Does that make the schools complicit in further file sharing? Is there legal precedent for strong-arming the schools into assisting law enforcement in such a manner? What happens when some kids start using Wi-Fi to share where the kid is on campus and the AP is not? What happens when someone gets smart enough to set up a ssh tunnel to a server off campus and use it for P2P access; is the school responsible?
Imagine creating toothpaste that when combined with mashed up peanuts (salted) becomes an explosive?
On a lighter note, do you think they can turn lead into gold? I hear Ron Paul would like to have some more of it to back the dollar?
What happens when half of what is recorded is you looking at 'past memories' on your pc? Does this echo logarithmically through the storage system until you are considered dead when there are no new memories being added?
Does the management software manage to do what CmdrTaco cannot? Remove dupes?
I disagree. Listening outside your bedroom requires physical presence on your property. He committed no such act. In fact, what he did was no more incriminating than you putting a packet analyzer on your Internet connection in your living room. If you happen to hear some music on a radio station that was played without royalty payments, are you guilty of copyright infringement?
Had he only claimed to have the login credentials, it might not seem so bad, but he has made his point in spectacular fashion. The recovery is rather simple, and no permanent damage exists, other than what information became public as a result.
It might also be easy to argue that anyone who used the logins to see what was there knowingly violated computer security laws.
In either case, shooting the messenger is never a workable solution.
will it be able to detect dupes?
Whether the document is real and true or not does not matter. It does bring to the public light that there is more than a slight possibility that the US government has, and is using tactics and methods it publicly denounces as horrendous. If it is true, it is fuel for the fire, if not true, perhaps the fuel will get used in more appropriate areas. Publishing this document is what we are supposed to be fighting for... Freedoms, remember those things that the arabs hate us for? Ostensibly, the US government was trying to give such freedoms and democracy to Iraqis. If in fact the US has been abusive in doing so, even on a small scale, it brings into question ALL that the Bush administration has done, and I do mean ALL of it, and every person he has appointed etc.
The simple fact that this exists highlights the general disdain for the Bush administration, and what has been done on his watch, and/or under his order. If all was rosy and righteous, this would be seen as a easily recognizable joke. The fact that it is not should be telling you something, perhaps you should be listening to that nagging voice in the back of your mind.
by some twist of cosmic fate, mag tapes get mixed up in Germany, and the **AAs European email backups are accidentally transmitted, decoded in Bletchly, and passed to the entirety of the tech/geek world in less than 4 hours, thanks to WWII technology. The quantum mind-fsck this would cause is entirely acceptable if all the **AAs plans are laid bare before the world :)
In years to come, we can look forward to underground voting for the **AA awards for cracking the business plans of evil corporate entities. The awards ceremonies celebrated simultaneously with the Cannes film festival.. since no geeks get invited to Cannes and they have nothing else to do at that time. Yes, will entertainment world is celebrating its most visible, its most invisible will be quietly revealed to the world.
Okay, perhaps that is just dreaming, but it's a good dream.
Oh yes, there is age appropriate learning, but let me tell you, kids have not stopped being kids and as I remember it, you only have to be ignorant of one subject and they let you know how fscking stupid they think you are to prop up their own egos. Yes, for GOD's sake, hide information from your children at all costs, spare no effort. Half the ignorant people of the US believe that the Muslims of the world hate their freedom, and that they are heathen devils... when in fact, The Jews, Muslims, and Christians believe in the same messed up deity. Oh, please please please hide the truth of the world from your children, let them grow old in ignorance of the real world. While you may not wish your children to find out about scat porn at the tender age of 6, trying to keep them from knowing about it at 15 or 16 is both futile, and a guarantee that they will not come to you for positive and sound sexuality advice... yes, please help create another sexually dysfunctional teen/adult, hide their eyes from everything but the missionary position.
to ensure that gambling in Mass. will be full of corruption than to have politicians involved in it. I'm sure the penalties are just, as is the promise of a ride to the beach with a Kennedy.
I'm all for smaller government sooner rather than later. Apparently, at least in Mass., it's okay to propose legislation that makes you look so corrupt that half the world is reading about you. The throngs of people (Honorable J Carter even) that want to decriminalize things that have been prohibited for a while is getting bigger and bigger, approaching critical mass, yet the US believes it can ban all online gambling? WTF? Prohibition and censorship do NOT work. I wish the US had a government that understood that. Oh, let me add abstinence to that list also. If only god had been so forward thinking as to add an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not legislate morality. Even if Moses had had an epiphany on the way down the mountain... two really good opportunities missed!! Just one little commandment, 5 words, even in stone tablet writing costs, that is cheap.
How much death and mayhem could have been avoided in the world?
that is exactly the point...censorship does not work. If you don't teach your kids to be responsible no matter of the amount of danger, they will never be safe. You see, children (gasp) are really just adults that don't know enough to be called adults yet. If people over the magic age of 18 can kill and die, as well as determine what is appropriate for them to view on the Internet, I'm betting there are a large percentage of them that can do it at a much younger age if they are well informed and taught about the dangers. Wow, when you think about it, there are a very large number of people that are older than 18 who fall prey to the dangers of the Internet. Why are we so afraid?
Do you personally know of all the sex offenders in your local area? If not, why are you worried about the dangers of the Internet? And ooops, but most sexual abuse seems to be perpetrated by someone the victim knows rather than a stranger from the Internet. http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=70342&id=34001 How does the dangers of the Internet affect those statistics??????? Please please please will someone explain that to us. Are you certain the priest you see each week is not overly friendly? How about your wife's uncle bill?
If you are worried about the kids learning about sex, I can tell you straight up, better you tell them and guide them than they learn it from little johnny whose idea of sex is abusing girls... in a kid kind of way.
The real dangers are close enough for you to touch, NOT on the Internet.
I didn't realize that you could have an article that long on /.
Aside from that, what's with all the common sense about teaching children about the dangers of the Internet before allowing them to use it? That is just politically incorrect, the author can't possibly be an American! Does Homeland Security know this guy is trying to take their job from them? Absolutely criminal!
I really like this idea... time to set up the relay to send a copy via script that encodes the message as random garbage to random email addresses, or rather coherent email names at random valid email domains... joebloggs@abc.com for instance... that would double the amount of email that I send, as well as the amount that is encrypted, and with an unbreakable encryption ROFL
As they stand back to back, sports center anchors are whispering into their mics, telling the audience the voting history of each combatant, theorizing what a loss on either side would mean to upcoming votes on legislation...
I only wonder how long before we are truly living in a fascist state where such monitoring is not questioned? I am going to begin using encryption for everything.. like the rest of this message for instance...
qproiavpofi qeproi n qwcrpfouih np vf qroipasodv nc 4nqa 4p9iva 4padn a p0 oit adpoi
And I mean it!!
With phishing being outsourced to China, manufacturing being outsourced to China, Can we expect lead based paint recall phishing to come from China soon?
You know Turkish? Do you eat falafel? You just voted Democrat? You are a terrorist!
Nothing like a little searching around... Google for translate and you get a few choices, surely a wise person would check what they were sending?? oops, my bad, these were journalists? Fox news wanna be journalists?
smack this guy in the head with a heavy blunt object and get it over with already. There is a good reason that people don't flock to smart phones in their droves. The north american cellular market is so manipulated that it really can't be called a market. When you can get a GSM smartphone that you can transfer from one carrier to the next as you see fit, it will be worth spending 300+ dollars on a PDA. So long as you can get a 0$ phone for the same contract (more or less) there is no perceived value in getting a smart phone. What a putz.
If the gPhone fails, it will be for the same reason that any phone fails, CARRIERS in North America SUCK. I personally use the SideKick, and for several years now have yet to see anyone say that it is a waste, and not cool. Many of my friends have smart phones and use the PDA functions regularly. When carriers start marketing them to the average joe (see the new sidekick) it will begin to be more common than it already is. There will always be people that buy cheap, utilitarian devices only. See the throw away cameras in the grocery store still? Why? That is how people spend money.
Yes, there is a reason for search other than getting directions... I can disply a MAP also. I have used it to look up exotic drink mixes when a bartender did not know the recipe (no comments on that one) as well as many other uses that don't even touch on the value of a qwerty keyboard when replying to an SMS or email.
Sorry to Dvorak fans, but this guy is a putz.
This story going public may be the first introduction to the phrase "online privacy" and its associated menagerie for most FaceBook users.