"Bloody Jews in the queue ahead of me. Giving disrespectful looks to the SS. All those delays while they're taken out of line and shot. Bits of brain all over my shoes. It's disgusting. About time that someone did something about them."
"Sexual crimes against children are some of the most monsterous things mankind can do"
Not wishing to belittle the offence, I do think that having your skull repeatedly pierced by an electric drill and then your head cut off is more monstrous. Something that now happens on a daily basis in Iraq. So if you were to put your limited time and effort into stopping something bad, should it (a) be spent battling TOR, or (b) be spent bringing Rumsfeld to the International Criminal Court?
Seriously, though, I leave my WAP open. Visitors come with laptops and want to access the net while staying. It's a pain to have to pass round post-it notes with WEP keys, especially when the visitor has only just worked out how to enable WiFi and stares blankly when asked about WEP.
There are some of us out there who write for 128 bytes. We even write in C. Take a look at www.microchip.com. Oh, and that mouse you're using, that's got 128 bytes of RAM in it.
>You want to see the future of the USA? Visit the remnants of Detroit motor city works, Ye Mighty, and despair
It's tragic when you lose an empire, isn't it? The Brits used to rule a quarter of the globe and now.. Let's hope the US decline can be managed as peacefully. Somehow, though, I fear there is going to be a lot of thrashing about militarily and people are going to get hurt.
What you need is a sequences of buzzes from the door, responded to by knocks based on a shared secret. Oh wait, we've reinvented the car door remote blipper.
STUPID STUPID STUPID PEOPLE.
Given that the door knocker needs a microprocessor and battery, and the door lock needs a microprocessor and battery, why not use an existing car RFID remote lock design (costing $0.50)? What a waste of patent fees.
"This isn't a question about network security - this is simply a question of how the defendent is supposed to _know_ whether they were authorised to use the access point."
That's the point. You don't know. It might be OK. It might not. If you get your door kicked in by the police then it wasn't OK, else it was. It becomes de facto prohibited because it leaves any law-abiding person in sufficient doubt to not do it. It's known as a "chilling effect" in American English. There's a lot of it about these days.
K.
Computer laws are pretty out-of-date in the UK (e.g. they are only just considering DoS being an offence). But there is an "unauthorised" use law, which might cover this. And generic fraud laws ("attempting to obtain pecuniary advantage by deception"). The term "deception" might well cover incomprehensible and unfair click-through terms.
Would have to be tested in court, and you'd have to get the Crown Prosecution Service to take the case to get a criminal prosecution. Very unlikely, especially given the malign hold over the Government by Rupert Murdoch.
More likely to succeed is a civil case for damages.
Have you not read the dictionary definition of futility? It's called trying to have a conversation with a London cabbie and you have a liberal viewpoint. All conversations of this form end with "You a fackin' queer or sumthin?" and no tip.
K.
It's not a dichotomy, since the two reasons aren't contradictory. And it's not devoid of meaning. It's devoid of comprehension (on the part of at least one person, anyway).
The Mac appeals to two sorts. Those that just want to get some work done without computer hassles, and those geeks who like Unix, love the bundle of stuff that comes with the Mac (e.g. my favourite editor, vi).
It has two communities, sometimes in the same person: I too have days when I just don't want to be hassled with weird dropped connections, or have to screw around with drivers to get my camera working.
It's not a "test" satellite. It's there to start broadcasting on the frequencies the ITU set aside for the system. Failure to use the frequencies by a certain date this year would have led to the ITU withdrawing the frequency allocation.
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Which one's that? "Any sufficiently abhorrent opinion is indistinguishable from Nazism"?
K.
"Bloody Jews in the queue ahead of me. Giving disrespectful looks to the SS. All those delays while they're taken out of line and shot. Bits of brain all over my shoes. It's disgusting. About time that someone did something about them."
K.
Because everything in America is beige? Talk about a country founded by puritans..
K.
You now can't patent that idea since you disclosed it in public. But hey, nor can anyone else.
K.
"Sexual crimes against children are some of the most monsterous things mankind can do"
Not wishing to belittle the offence, I do think that having your skull repeatedly pierced by an electric drill and then your head cut off is more monstrous. Something that now happens on a daily basis in Iraq. So if you were to put your limited time and effort into stopping something bad, should it (a) be spent battling TOR, or (b) be spent bringing Rumsfeld to the International Criminal Court?
K.
Just another example of RAS Syndrome (RAS = Redundant Acronym Syndrome).
K.
Hey, plausible deniability!
Seriously, though, I leave my WAP open. Visitors come with laptops and want to access the net while staying. It's a pain to have to pass round post-it notes with WEP keys, especially when the visitor has only just worked out how to enable WiFi and stares blankly when asked about WEP.
K.
Resident aliens have to pay tax, but can't vote. They can even get drafted to fight for the country that doesn't give them the vote!
Democracy my butt!
K.
"There's no crime against sending out signal noise is there?"
Sedition.
K.
There are some of us out there who write for 128 bytes. We even write in C. Take a look at www.microchip.com. Oh, and that mouse you're using, that's got 128 bytes of RAM in it.
K.
>You want to see the future of the USA? Visit the remnants of Detroit motor city works, Ye Mighty, and despair
It's tragic when you lose an empire, isn't it? The Brits used to rule a quarter of the globe and now.. Let's hope the US decline can be managed as peacefully. Somehow, though, I fear there is going to be a lot of thrashing about militarily and people are going to get hurt.
K.
Sealand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand
K.
"but when it comes to making money, Sony usually gets it right"
Hehehehe.
K.
No-one creating value? Just look at the $600M value that NTP created recently!
OK, OK, so $600M is going to be worth about 3 kopeks in 12 months, but it's the effort that counts.
K.
What you need is a sequences of buzzes from the door, responded to by knocks based on a shared secret. Oh wait, we've reinvented the car door remote blipper.
STUPID STUPID STUPID PEOPLE.
Given that the door knocker needs a microprocessor and battery, and the door lock needs a microprocessor and battery, why not use an existing car RFID remote lock design (costing $0.50)? What a waste of patent fees.
K.
"This isn't a question about network security - this is simply a question of how the defendent is supposed to _know_ whether they were authorised to use the access point." That's the point. You don't know. It might be OK. It might not. If you get your door kicked in by the police then it wasn't OK, else it was. It becomes de facto prohibited because it leaves any law-abiding person in sufficient doubt to not do it. It's known as a "chilling effect" in American English. There's a lot of it about these days. K.
>What about open 802.11 networks?
You jail users:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4721723.stm
K.
Computer laws are pretty out-of-date in the UK (e.g. they are only just considering DoS being an offence). But there is an "unauthorised" use law, which might cover this. And generic fraud laws ("attempting to obtain pecuniary advantage by deception"). The term "deception" might well cover incomprehensible and unfair click-through terms.
Would have to be tested in court, and you'd have to get the Crown Prosecution Service to take the case to get a criminal prosecution. Very unlikely, especially given the malign hold over the Government by Rupert Murdoch.
More likely to succeed is a civil case for damages.
K.
So did my company. My parents-in-law just switched. My parents are just about to switch.
K.
Have you not read the dictionary definition of futility? It's called trying to have a conversation with a London cabbie and you have a liberal viewpoint. All conversations of this form end with "You a fackin' queer or sumthin?" and no tip. K.
>how are these guys going to deal with the Digital Transition Content Security Act?
By being located outside of Freedonia?
K.
It's not a dichotomy, since the two reasons aren't contradictory. And it's not devoid of meaning. It's devoid of comprehension (on the part of at least one person, anyway).
K.
The Mac appeals to two sorts. Those that just want to get some work done without computer hassles, and those geeks who like Unix, love the bundle of stuff that comes with the Mac (e.g. my favourite editor, vi).
It has two communities, sometimes in the same person: I too have days when I just don't want to be hassled with weird dropped connections, or have to screw around with drivers to get my camera working.
K.
It's not a "test" satellite. It's there to start broadcasting on the frequencies the ITU set aside for the system. Failure to use the frequencies by a certain date this year would have led to the ITU withdrawing the frequency allocation.
K.
Err.. Am I missing something? Can't this be done with the Eclipse platform?
K.