I don't think Germany even has laws that are adequate for crimes of this scale. After all, data is knowledge, knowledge is power, power is abusable. More data means more knowledge means more abuse. It is time for lawmakers to react. Knowing beats thinking.:-)
Germany has several laws against this, in fact. At least three were very obviously breached, and criminal proceeds are very likely to be initiated very soon.
Source: I work at a german telecommunications company (not T-Com). Due to my position I had to sign extensive paperwork about all the laws I have to know and follow when I started working there.
Besides, after the buzz wears down, anyone doing these "exercises" will quickly discover there are no results to be had, Do you have any idea what you're talking at all?
As a hobby game designer, one of the first things I noticed about Wii Fit is the carefully crafted positive feedback loop. These guys hired someone who knows about motivation and listened to his input. There are literally dozens of different ways to nudge you to continue, do one more exercise, come back tomorrow, and so on. The unlockables, the minutes you accumulate, the records, the positive remarks of the virtual trainers, the reminders by the animated board, the graphs, the goal you set yourself, the comparison with other people using Wii Fit in your home, and many more.
Sure, playing WiiFit isn't as strenuous as swimming laps, That isn't entirely true, you know?
I own a Wii Fit. I'm also a martial artist. I bought the thing mostly so me and my girlfriend can work out together a little on the weekends.
Turns out, there are some exercises in there - in the advanced section that you have to unlock - that are quite a good workout even for me. Remember that in many cases, it isn't how much weight you lift or how fast you do something, but the number of repetitions. Also, all that yoga stuff and balance training is quite a good addition to my usual training.
There are also parts that I don't like that much (like having to start with the baby stuff, no matter what) but all in all it definitely is good exercise - as long as you don't consider it a total replacement of all other activities, but it does a good job of reminding you about that.
Keep clamoring for corporations to take responsibility for my behavior, and watch our individual rights continue to erode. And which right, exactly, is Nintendo endangering with Wii Fit?
Actually, there are chemical changes in a person that take the choice out of the picture for an addicted smoker. The addiction is the same process as heroine adiction only less severe. I happen to know that. Look, even you are using the word "addiction". We completely agree on that.
When you body doesn't function properly because it is lacking something, that is a disease. According to some 1950s definition of health, partially yes. The current WHO definition of health runs considerably different than the old industrial-age "the-body-as-a-machine" view.
And even in this, your definition of "disease" is overly broad. If I didn't sleep for 3 days, my body is lacking something and doesn't function properly. Would you call that a disease? When I don't eat for a week, same thing, and yet last time I checked hunger wasn't called a disease by anyone.
I mean why don't you do some research on this shit before running your 3rd grade mind across it to spot the differences and coming up with something stupid. Sorry troll, wrong exit. I'm not sure anymore you're actually a physician, I certainly wouldn't want to be treated by you. I'm not a physician, either, but my girl happens to study this stuff and I just helped her finish her master's thesis. I certainly don't know a whole lot of diseases by their latin names, but I do know that disease and addiction aren't the same thing.
I won't even point out the glaring holes in your argument, such as first defining disease as the lack of something, and then saying the cure is to take that which is lacking away. Not to mention the body doesn't produce nicotin naturally, so no matter how much you prompt it it won't start to replace the lack that was taken away.
Yes, I'm bored enough to answer to trolling tonight.:-)
Will CR be reviewing the next installment of Gran Turismo?" No, they won't. You still don't get it, do you? While MS and Sony fought over who gets the bigger piece of cake of the gamer's market, Nintendo choose to make the cake larger. Quite a few of the titles you can get for the Wii are solidly on the borderline of what counts as a "game". Wii Fit is one of them. A few of the mini-games are just that, but the overall package just doesn't belong to the same category as Gran Turismo or Counterstrike or Halo.
People choose to smoke. Really simple. If they can't stop smoking afterwards because it's addictive then it is - surprise - an addiction.
People choose to have sex. If they can't stop having sex afterwards, then they are sex-addicted. If they get AIDS as a side-effect, then they have a disease.
A 3rd grader can spot the difference. Hint: The voluntary part is in bold, the non-voluntary in italics.
This week, in Federal Court, the Bush Administration has asserted that the AUMF (the bill congress passed to give him permission to invade Iraq) also gives him the right to have the military (that's military, not police) have the right to arrest a US citizen on US soil and hold him indefinitely as an enemy combatant. Source?
But that's an entirely different thing. Electromagnetic interference is an age-old, boring topic. In old speaker system I own can also tell you when there's a call coming in to any of the mobile phones in the room.
No, but we have decided as a civilized society that we will allow people with disabilities reasonable accommodations so that they can fully participate in society. Yes, but extreme stupidity isn't (yet) considered a disability.:-)
There are idiots, and there are fucking idiots. And these people belong to the third group for which I lack words.
Please, please have someone in the city subject them to a double-blind test before even listening to them. That should quickly show that the only thing they are allergic to is their own fucked up imagination.
The point of my post is that you can't build a decentralized file sharing protocol. A few dozen research projects prove you wrong already.
You can't just run a program and have it "know" where all the clients are. You have to hit up a server in one manner or another for it to work. That's 1995 knowledge levels. Well, on the trivial level you are correct. But that ain't the whole truth. Bonjour allows you to run a program and know the entire nearby network, with no central server telling you. Various distributed protocolls like Freenet or DHT extend that to a more global scale.
True, you can't immediately know all the clients, but there are a whole lot of ways to do discovery within a fully decentralized network.
For a successful file-sharing network, you don't need to know all the clients, you just need to know enough of them to make your download succeed.
it is too easy for malicious users (*IAA thugs) to poison search results, and I don't see anything on their page that deals with that. You could easily counter that with numbers and peer-reviews. PB already has a comment system that does a fairly good job of telling you about fakes. btjunkie has a rating system. There are solutions out there. None are perfect, but with enough numbers, you don't need perfection.
Whoever modded parent up is an idiot. Of course there is true P2P. If that's suitable for the distribution of movies is another question, but parent obviously has no idea what he's talking about. Yeah, at some point you need to "contact servers to get data", big news. P2P doesn't stand for "all clients, no servers" - in a P2P network, everyone is server and client. So "contacting servers to get data" is, you know, a little bit on the obvious and boring side.
In this one point, a good boycott of **AA et al and their products, say something lasting 2-6 months, the industry would get the message. True, but you would make a ton more money selling the rights to those mind-control rays that you'd need to make such a boycott happen.
These people control the media. How much, exactly, do you read about all this in the mainstream press? Not a whole lot, and almost never the whole story.
RIAA doesn't care if everyone on/. boycotts them. We are a tiny minority.
They apparently have no clue (if you had any ill intentions, you'd have acted on them before handing in your resignation), so play on that:
Tell them you can cause harddrives to erase by knocking on the case in a special way, and access the high-security database with a paperclip and two pens. They'll probably believe it, judge it too high a risk to let you stay even without any access, and make you an offer.
Times have changed. No law is going to change that. They're just embarrassing themselves trying. Except that, like in the "war on drugs" they can ruin thousands upon thousands of lives while they do.
This is serious, even if you're sure that in the end they will fail. You could be one of the victims steamed over on their way to embarrassment.
Cults engage in serious mind control. Religions are just a set of spiritual principles. For example, there are some Christians who worship in a cult-like society, and some that do not. And in the real world, the boundaries are not always easy to define. There is no binary difference. All we can say is that on the extreme end, very strong cults have obvious and serious differences from very relaxed religions. But inbetween, they mingle and mix.
Remember, for example, that the catholic church only accepted freedom of religion in the early 60s. Before that, leaving christianity behind was as unthinkable according to the official church doctrine, as leaving Scientology is today.
If you only have one account you work with, does it matter whether you have access to the small corner of the system that the user has access to, or whether you have access to the whole system? You don't understand how SELinux works.
If I exploit your IRC client on a Linux system, I have the same rights as you do, which means you're fucked. Your root account and your system may be safe, but all your user data is mine. But on an SELinux system, I only gain the same rights as the IRC client program does. Which - if the system is configured properly - is damn little. I can probably read the IRC client config file, which might contain your IRC user password. I can also join IRC servers and rooms as you. I might be able to dump some porn into/tmp - and that's pretty much it.
I question why internet connecting programs like web-browsers and mail-clients still run as the user. It's because users want it that way.
It's trivial to set up a Firefox wrapper that runs Firefox in a different user account, both on Linux and OS X. But that would mean you can't so easily upload your photos to Flickr, and you can't as easily launch a plugin, or an external program. You can't just click on a link and your iTunes opens.
Example, an application is permitted to write to a file, but it is assumed that it will write just a limited amount of data. You can easily solve that with a wrapper, for example. It's right that SELinux doesn't cover that case. It also doesn't make tee. Sorry if I sound sarcastic, but you've selected an example that is simply not within the scope of the whole thing, and intentionally. What you're requesting is a different task for a different tool. Maybe directory- or even file-specific disk use quotas. Or an extended attribute "maximum size" for inodes. I fail to see how this could possibly fall within the scope of SELinux, and that's why I don't consider it a weakness.
I fully agree on the management part, it's my main beef with SELinux and the primary reason why I stopped touring the world giving presentations about how great it is. It's great, but it's almost unusable.
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Germany has several laws against this, in fact. At least three were very obviously breached, and criminal proceeds are very likely to be initiated very soon.
Source: I work at a german telecommunications company (not T-Com). Due to my position I had to sign extensive paperwork about all the laws I have to know and follow when I started working there.
As a hobby game designer, one of the first things I noticed about Wii Fit is the carefully crafted positive feedback loop. These guys hired someone who knows about motivation and listened to his input. There are literally dozens of different ways to nudge you to continue, do one more exercise, come back tomorrow, and so on. The unlockables, the minutes you accumulate, the records, the positive remarks of the virtual trainers, the reminders by the animated board, the graphs, the goal you set yourself, the comparison with other people using Wii Fit in your home, and many more.
I own a Wii Fit. I'm also a martial artist. I bought the thing mostly so me and my girlfriend can work out together a little on the weekends.
Turns out, there are some exercises in there - in the advanced section that you have to unlock - that are quite a good workout even for me. Remember that in many cases, it isn't how much weight you lift or how fast you do something, but the number of repetitions. Also, all that yoga stuff and balance training is quite a good addition to my usual training.
There are also parts that I don't like that much (like having to start with the baby stuff, no matter what) but all in all it definitely is good exercise - as long as you don't consider it a total replacement of all other activities, but it does a good job of reminding you about that.
(and what fool modded that up?)
And even in this, your definition of "disease" is overly broad. If I didn't sleep for 3 days, my body is lacking something and doesn't function properly. Would you call that a disease? When I don't eat for a week, same thing, and yet last time I checked hunger wasn't called a disease by anyone. I mean why don't you do some research on this shit before running your 3rd grade mind across it to spot the differences and coming up with something stupid. Sorry troll, wrong exit. I'm not sure anymore you're actually a physician, I certainly wouldn't want to be treated by you. I'm not a physician, either, but my girl happens to study this stuff and I just helped her finish her master's thesis. I certainly don't know a whole lot of diseases by their latin names, but I do know that disease and addiction aren't the same thing.
I won't even point out the glaring holes in your argument, such as first defining disease as the lack of something, and then saying the cure is to take that which is lacking away. Not to mention the body doesn't produce nicotin naturally, so no matter how much you prompt it it won't start to replace the lack that was taken away.
Yes, I'm bored enough to answer to trolling tonight.
Sorry, I'm from outside the US and not familiar on where to find protocols of court hearings. Can you give me a URL or something?
You're right, this is shocking, which is exactly why I'm asking for a source that I can forward to others.
People choose to smoke. Really simple.
If they can't stop smoking afterwards because it's addictive then it is - surprise - an addiction.
People choose to have sex. If they can't stop having sex afterwards, then they are sex-addicted. If they get AIDS as a side-effect, then they have a disease.
A 3rd grader can spot the difference. Hint: The voluntary part is in bold, the non-voluntary in italics.
No, it's an addiction. As a physician, you should know the difference. Hint: Few people voluntarily start having a disease.
One search at a torrent site would tell you that you're so wrong it's not even +4 funny, much less +4 interesting.
But that's an entirely different thing. Electromagnetic interference is an age-old, boring topic. In old speaker system I own can also tell you when there's a call coming in to any of the mobile phones in the room.
There are idiots, and there are fucking idiots. And these people belong to the third group for which I lack words.
Please, please have someone in the city subject them to a double-blind test before even listening to them. That should quickly show that the only thing they are allergic to is their own fucked up imagination.
True, you can't immediately know all the clients, but there are a whole lot of ways to do discovery within a fully decentralized network.
For a successful file-sharing network, you don't need to know all the clients, you just need to know enough of them to make your download succeed.
Whoever modded parent up is an idiot. Of course there is true P2P. If that's suitable for the distribution of movies is another question, but parent obviously has no idea what he's talking about. Yeah, at some point you need to "contact servers to get data", big news. P2P doesn't stand for "all clients, no servers" - in a P2P network, everyone is server and client. So "contacting servers to get data" is, you know, a little bit on the obvious and boring side.
These people control the media. How much, exactly, do you read about all this in the mainstream press? Not a whole lot, and almost never the whole story.
RIAA doesn't care if everyone on
They apparently have no clue (if you had any ill intentions, you'd have acted on them before handing in your resignation), so play on that:
Tell them you can cause harddrives to erase by knocking on the case in a special way, and access the high-security database with a paperclip and two pens. They'll probably believe it, judge it too high a risk to let you stay even without any access, and make you an offer.
This is serious, even if you're sure that in the end they will fail. You could be one of the victims steamed over on their way to embarrassment.
Remember, for example, that the catholic church only accepted freedom of religion in the early 60s. Before that, leaving christianity behind was as unthinkable according to the official church doctrine, as leaving Scientology is today.
If I exploit your IRC client on a Linux system, I have the same rights as you do, which means you're fucked. Your root account and your system may be safe, but all your user data is mine.
But on an SELinux system, I only gain the same rights as the IRC client program does. Which - if the system is configured properly - is damn little. I can probably read the IRC client config file, which might contain your IRC user password. I can also join IRC servers and rooms as you. I might be able to dump some porn into
It's trivial to set up a Firefox wrapper that runs Firefox in a different user account, both on Linux and OS X. But that would mean you can't so easily upload your photos to Flickr, and you can't as easily launch a plugin, or an external program. You can't just click on a link and your iTunes opens.
And people want that.
I fully agree on the management part, it's my main beef with SELinux and the primary reason why I stopped touring the world giving presentations about how great it is. It's great, but it's almost unusable.