Since this article is talking about what ISPS do in the US... Violation of Free Speech in terms of the US Constitution only applies to government regulated speech. This is an ISP blocking valid websites and thus it is not a violation of your first amendment right to freedom of speech.
This is merely a company providing a service and that service is degraded...
GODZILLA!!! Seriously I expect some kind of freakishly mutated super animal to come crawling out of Chernobyl. Hopefully it is something cool like a Dunish Giant Sand Worm!
I have a Logitech and its not some super secret weapon that allows you to do all these things that you couldn't normally do. Really the best part of it for WoW is that the keyboard has extra keys so you can assign more buttons. You can create macros in game and assign them to a key on a normal keyboard. This is no different and is allowed via WoWs user interface. It isn't against their EULA to assign keys (even a macro to swap weapons) to a keyboard. If this person is telling the truth then he did nothing against their EULA.
Does WoW install monitoring software on your PC that actively checks what programs you are running and/or websites you visit? I don't remember seeing that identified in the ToS/ToU and if it isn't I would think that violates some US laws related to spyware?
The game itself allows you to create macros in game through the/m command and then in game you can assign a key to the macro button you just created. Maybe I'm being overly simple here, but to me that would mean that Blizzard does in fact not only allow macros but also assists the player in setting them up?
And this is why the US is not purely a capitalist or socialist economy. Its a mixed economy and has been for a very long time. In my opinion though the oligarchy aspect is coming on a bit strong of late (at least too strong or my tastes) and needs to be checked else it will become a monster that cannot be stopped.
Its never gonna be an Escape from NY type situation where I get sent to the island for not being Christian enough or for liking the pr0n too much, but I personally dont like whats going on today.
And back to the point of outsourcing I believe that keeping jobs here for our people falls inline with National Interests and government incentives to companies who dont outsource (such as tax breaks or etc) would be better than encouraging the outsource of labor to foreign competition. And lets be honest here. The US is a huge market and I believe we have some leverage for trading with or without having to outsource.
Policy or not its an At Will state just like most of the rest of the country and since the firing isn't because of any protected reason (race, sex, age, etc) then he's out of luck. Shit they could have fired him because they thought he talked too much or they didnt like the way he was looking at them. Right or wrong doesnt really matter when at-will rules the workforce today. Doesnt matter if there was a computer use policy or not. Sucks but its the law of the land for 49 states...
And good luck trying to prove wrongful termination in court without blatent supporting evidence.
I dont think its an issue of budget. Most major papers such as the NYT Company and Washington Post have a strong online presence and large budgets. Also the articles penned in online format are written by the same authors writing the articles in paper format for large stories. IMO the only place budget factors in is for small news outlets in general that have no budget for writers in paper or online.
Besides all news is crap nowadays anyway whether on paper or online. Its more about sales than it is about providing an informational service anymore. Thats why kids only get kidnapped for about 2 months (then it gets boring) so we move on to reporting school shootings for a few weeks (then it gets boring) so then we move on to some congressional scandal...
Tons of scans and pen attempts have been coming out of the Guangdong Province for years. Funny thing is if you trace the scan back to the IP admin and etc... you can often Google the names listed as contacts and find they are linked to Chinese IW...
This is not big news IMO just a resurfacing of info that has been seen before... (FUD for new book sales maybe?)
I personally donate a healthy amount to charities, but to rule that someone must pay out to a charity just doesn't seem right to me. In my opinion a portion of the money to be paid out should have firstly gone to covering the state's costs for the trial (why should we pay for this idiot's mistake).
I honestly dont know what a good solution for disbursement of the money is here (and yes I know charity is great), but it just doesn't seem right to me to force someone to donate.
And yes I know that the charity receivers probably dont give a damn where the money is coming from as long it helps, but if I am not mistaken this guy has the choice of what charities to donate to. Wouldn't it be spiteful of him to donate it to a bunk charity, something like Save the Ants... (It could be a real charity, but one that in 99% of peoples opinion is not deserving...)
We should also hold Target responsible for when some kid spraypaints Tina has AIDS on its walls...
Site owners can be held responsible if they refuse to take off libelous comments after a legal request is made, but there is no way that site providers or ISPs should or can monitor postings to ensure that no defamation is taking place. Yes it may suck that anyone can post something to a website that is totally untrue about another person, but unless you want to turn the Internet into a speech regulator and pretty much disallow any negative information then you are SOL in my opinion.
Besides wanting Bluetooth one of the reasons I got a Moto E815 is because of the transflash memory card. You can make a few easy modifications to the phone software and then enable copying/moving of files from the transflash, which means putting MP3s on that for free and using them as ringtones or whatever... All the instructions on how to do this for this phone and others are on howardforums.com if interested.
If a user isn't using IE as their primary browser and someone sends a malicious page via email and it is opened within Outlook will it make a call to IE and still run the exploit? I would think yes.
This company is all about making sales pitches and has been spreading FUD since at least 1999. I remember all the way back to the sensationalization of the so-called Israeli-Pakistani Cyber War... Which was more like a couple script kiddie hacker groups defacing web pages.... Ohhhh but they called it a Cyber War.... I would take anything you hear from these guys with a very big grain of salt.
--Remember when they were in hot water for simply rewriting other people's materials and not citing original author or when Jericho and the Attrition crew started to campaign against them...
(I will give them credit for a few decent vulnerability discoveries though, but I tend to stay away from their reporting of cyber news...)
Actually a virus infects and this doesn't but that doesn't matter really. Can you tell me what vulnerability is being exploited in DRM to get malicious files on your computer? Like I said before, the worm that was released exploited human stupidity to install itself on a victims PC. It used a function of DRM to better obfuscate itself, but not to initially execute. There hasn't been any examples of malicious code released yet that exploit the DRM app itself to gain access to a computer.
Actually it doesn't. The worm that was released did not exploit a flaw in Sony's DRM application. Now if Sony's program had a flaw in it that allowed exploitation to gain access to a computer then I would agree with you. But that isn't the case at all yet.
If you are trying to say that because hackers are looking to create malware now in which a part of the program using a naming scheme that takes advantage of Sony's DRM file hiding capability then that is still a moot point because the initial exploitation will work whether or not the PC has DRM on it in the first place. Maybe we should yell at PC game creators because crackers make malware to infect PCs and specifically target video game key codes?
In the US if a school has a no tolerance policy and they find proof of a student committing a crime such as underage drinking or drug use the student can be expelled by the school.
Also in the US if you get into a pub brawl and your company doesn't like you getting in pub brawls then they can fire you without any issue. They can also fire you because they simply do not like you. Its called At-Will Laws and every state except Montana abides by them. You can be fired for any reason whatsoever except for reasons such as termination due to race, sex, age, national origin and other factors like these.
Actually they didnt severely compromise your computer's security. If Sony's program contained a flaw that allowed infection of a computer then that would be compromising, or if the program shut down the firewall or changed your security settings that would also be compromising. The program does not make your computer more susceptible to worms and viruses. It simply allows a process/file to hide itself. You can classify it as a virus if you want, but by definition it is not.
Sony's DRM is being used as a means to hide malicious files. Not sticking up for Sony whatsoever here, but if a worm is released that uses DRM to better hide itself the person(s) who created and released the worm would be responsible and face the jail-time/civil lawsuits, not Sony. Just because email makes it easier to spread a virus does not mean that the creators of SMTP get sued each time one comes out...
No. Look at past examples of disruption. First off the worm is using Sony's DRM to hide itself, but not as the infection vector. The infection vector for this seems to be human stupidity in opening an executable file contained within an email so if anyone wants to sue they should start with the person who opens the email then work their way up.
Whoever told you that either didn't know what they were talking about or knew what they were talking about and banked that you wouldn't do further research. Like the previous reply said there are some age restrictive constitutional rights such as voting, but other than those the Constitution applies to all U.S. citizens. There are some unusual circumstances involving search and seizure on school property... That differ slightly because a warrant is not necessary in most cases... But if I were you I would check out the ACLU specifically the student free speech section... at http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechlist.cfm? c=87
If school officials are acting as investigators outside the boundaries of school or school-related/sponsored activities then any "evidence" they gather and use to administratively punish you could be challenged in court... Honestly if my school officials had ever come up to me and said we are suspending you because teacher X saw you smoking at a party or saw your website about how much our school stinks then I would have immediately contacted the ACLU and filed a lawsuit against them. It is 100% inappropriate for a school official to pursue an external investigation of a person simply because it is not their job to do so. This is doubly true for public vs. private schools.
On the topic of free speech for students:
ACLU Sues Pennsylvania School District Over Expulsion of Middle School Rapper for Songs Written at Home (08/03/2005) PITTSBURGH-The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania today filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a 14-year-old rap artist and his parents charging that the Riverside Beaver School District violated the student's First Amendment free speech rights by expelling the boy for rap music he wrote at home and posted on the Internet.
Following ACLU Action, Northern California High School Students Win First Amendment Victory (07/14/2005) SAN FRANCISCO -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California announced today that a student group at Deer Valley High School has won the right to hold a peace rally in the fall. The Antioch Unified School District agreed to allow the rally to continue after the ACLU of Northern California intervened on behalf of the students.
West Virginia School Officials Violated Student's Rights By Punishing Him Over a T-Shirt, Court Rules (06/01/2005) CHARLESTON, WV -- A federal court today found that school officials violated a high school student's rights when they disciplined him for wearing a t-shirt bearing an image of the Confederate flag. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia.
Iowa Civil Liberties Union Defends Right of Students to Wear Anti-Abortion T-Shirts (04/29/2005) DES MOINES -- The Iowa Civil Liberties Union today blasted school officials for threatening to punish two teenage girls who wore anti-abortion T-shirts to school. The group also offered to assist the students in their quest to continue wearing the shirts at school.
After ACLU Intervention on Behalf of Student Wearing Anti-Bush T-shirt, Broward School Board Agrees to Amend Code of Conduct (04/22/2005) FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- A local school board has agreed to rewrite school policy to give students greater protection under the First Amendment, after the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida's Broward Chapter stepped in to defend a student's right to wear an anti-Bush t-shirt.
Slashdot Mirror
Since this article is talking about what ISPS do in the US... Violation of Free Speech in terms of the US Constitution only applies to government regulated speech. This is an ISP blocking valid websites and thus it is not a violation of your first amendment right to freedom of speech.
This is merely a company providing a service and that service is degraded...
GODZILLA!!! Seriously I expect some kind of freakishly mutated super animal to come crawling out of Chernobyl. Hopefully it is something cool like a Dunish Giant Sand Worm!
I have a Logitech and its not some super secret weapon that allows you to do all these things that you couldn't normally do. Really the best part of it for WoW is that the keyboard has extra keys so you can assign more buttons. You can create macros in game and assign them to a key on a normal keyboard. This is no different and is allowed via WoWs user interface. It isn't against their EULA to assign keys (even a macro to swap weapons) to a keyboard. If this person is telling the truth then he did nothing against their EULA.
Does WoW install monitoring software on your PC that actively checks what programs you are running and/or websites you visit? I don't remember seeing that identified in the ToS/ToU and if it isn't I would think that violates some US laws related to spyware?
The game itself allows you to create macros in game through the /m command and then in game you can assign a key to the macro button you just created. Maybe I'm being overly simple here, but to me that would mean that Blizzard does in fact not only allow macros but also assists the player in setting them up?
And this is why the US is not purely a capitalist or socialist economy. Its a mixed economy and has been for a very long time. In my opinion though the oligarchy aspect is coming on a bit strong of late (at least too strong or my tastes) and needs to be checked else it will become a monster that cannot be stopped.
Its never gonna be an Escape from NY type situation where I get sent to the island for not being Christian enough or for liking the pr0n too much, but I personally dont like whats going on today.
And back to the point of outsourcing I believe that keeping jobs here for our people falls inline with National Interests and government incentives to companies who dont outsource (such as tax breaks or etc) would be better than encouraging the outsource of labor to foreign competition. And lets be honest here. The US is a huge market and I believe we have some leverage for trading with or without having to outsource.
Policy or not its an At Will state just like most of the rest of the country and since the firing isn't because of any protected reason (race, sex, age, etc) then he's out of luck. Shit they could have fired him because they thought he talked too much or they didnt like the way he was looking at them. Right or wrong doesnt really matter when at-will rules the workforce today. Doesnt matter if there was a computer use policy or not. Sucks but its the law of the land for 49 states...
And good luck trying to prove wrongful termination in court without blatent supporting evidence.
I dont think its an issue of budget. Most major papers such as the NYT Company and Washington Post have a strong online presence and large budgets. Also the articles penned in online format are written by the same authors writing the articles in paper format for large stories. IMO the only place budget factors in is for small news outlets in general that have no budget for writers in paper or online.
Besides all news is crap nowadays anyway whether on paper or online. Its more about sales than it is about providing an informational service anymore. Thats why kids only get kidnapped for about 2 months (then it gets boring) so we move on to reporting school shootings for a few weeks (then it gets boring) so then we move on to some congressional scandal...
Which is the fart-riddled chairs that release a stinky puff of poot everytime you sit on them!
Tons of scans and pen attempts have been coming out of the Guangdong Province for years. Funny thing is if you trace the scan back to the IP admin and etc... you can often Google the names listed as contacts and find they are linked to Chinese IW...
This is not big news IMO just a resurfacing of info that has been seen before... (FUD for new book sales maybe?)
I personally donate a healthy amount to charities, but to rule that someone must pay out to a charity just doesn't seem right to me. In my opinion a portion of the money to be paid out should have firstly gone to covering the state's costs for the trial (why should we pay for this idiot's mistake).
I honestly dont know what a good solution for disbursement of the money is here (and yes I know charity is great), but it just doesn't seem right to me to force someone to donate.
And yes I know that the charity receivers probably dont give a damn where the money is coming from as long it helps, but if I am not mistaken this guy has the choice of what charities to donate to. Wouldn't it be spiteful of him to donate it to a bunk charity, something like Save the Ants... (It could be a real charity, but one that in 99% of peoples opinion is not deserving...)
We should also hold Target responsible for when some kid spraypaints Tina has AIDS on its walls...
Site owners can be held responsible if they refuse to take off libelous comments after a legal request is made, but there is no way that site providers or ISPs should or can monitor postings to ensure that no defamation is taking place. Yes it may suck that anyone can post something to a website that is totally untrue about another person, but unless you want to turn the Internet into a speech regulator and pretty much disallow any negative information then you are SOL in my opinion.
after you guys weren't casted for The Lone Gunmen series?
Besides wanting Bluetooth one of the reasons I got a Moto E815 is because of the transflash memory card. You can make a few easy modifications to the phone software and then enable copying/moving of files from the transflash, which means putting MP3s on that for free and using them as ringtones or whatever... All the instructions on how to do this for this phone and others are on howardforums.com if interested.
If a user isn't using IE as their primary browser and someone sends a malicious page via email and it is opened within Outlook will it make a call to IE and still run the exploit? I would think yes.
This company is all about making sales pitches and has been spreading FUD since at least 1999. I remember all the way back to the sensationalization of the so-called Israeli-Pakistani Cyber War... Which was more like a couple script kiddie hacker groups defacing web pages.... Ohhhh but they called it a Cyber War.... I would take anything you hear from these guys with a very big grain of salt.
--Remember when they were in hot water for simply rewriting other people's materials and not citing original author or when Jericho and the Attrition crew started to campaign against them...
(I will give them credit for a few decent vulnerability discoveries though, but I tend to stay away from their reporting of cyber news...)
Actually a virus infects and this doesn't but that doesn't matter really. Can you tell me what vulnerability is being exploited in DRM to get malicious files on your computer? Like I said before, the worm that was released exploited human stupidity to install itself on a victims PC. It used a function of DRM to better obfuscate itself, but not to initially execute. There hasn't been any examples of malicious code released yet that exploit the DRM app itself to gain access to a computer.
Actually it doesn't. The worm that was released did not exploit a flaw in Sony's DRM application. Now if Sony's program had a flaw in it that allowed exploitation to gain access to a computer then I would agree with you. But that isn't the case at all yet.
If you are trying to say that because hackers are looking to create malware now in which a part of the program using a naming scheme that takes advantage of Sony's DRM file hiding capability then that is still a moot point because the initial exploitation will work whether or not the PC has DRM on it in the first place. Maybe we should yell at PC game creators because crackers make malware to infect PCs and specifically target video game key codes?
In the US if a school has a no tolerance policy and they find proof of a student committing a crime such as underage drinking or drug use the student can be expelled by the school.
Also in the US if you get into a pub brawl and your company doesn't like you getting in pub brawls then they can fire you without any issue. They can also fire you because they simply do not like you. Its called At-Will Laws and every state except Montana abides by them. You can be fired for any reason whatsoever except for reasons such as termination due to race, sex, age, national origin and other factors like these.
Actually they didnt severely compromise your computer's security. If Sony's program contained a flaw that allowed infection of a computer then that would be compromising, or if the program shut down the firewall or changed your security settings that would also be compromising. The program does not make your computer more susceptible to worms and viruses. It simply allows a process/file to hide itself. You can classify it as a virus if you want, but by definition it is not.
Sony's DRM is being used as a means to hide malicious files. Not sticking up for Sony whatsoever here, but if a worm is released that uses DRM to better hide itself the person(s) who created and released the worm would be responsible and face the jail-time/civil lawsuits, not Sony. Just because email makes it easier to spread a virus does not mean that the creators of SMTP get sued each time one comes out...
No. Look at past examples of disruption. First off the worm is using Sony's DRM to hide itself, but not as the infection vector. The infection vector for this seems to be human stupidity in opening an executable file contained within an email so if anyone wants to sue they should start with the person who opens the email then work their way up.
Pirate unions will be requiring the wearing of ear plugs due to on-the-job safety hazards from LRAD devices.
Whoever told you that either didn't know what they were talking about or knew what they were talking about and banked that you wouldn't do further research. Like the previous reply said there are some age restrictive constitutional rights such as voting, but other than those the Constitution applies to all U.S. citizens. There are some unusual circumstances involving search and seizure on school property... That differ slightly because a warrant is not necessary in most cases... But if I were you I would check out the ACLU specifically the student free speech section... at http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechlist.cfm? c=87
If school officials are acting as investigators outside the boundaries of school or school-related/sponsored activities then any "evidence" they gather and use to administratively punish you could be challenged in court... Honestly if my school officials had ever come up to me and said we are suspending you because teacher X saw you smoking at a party or saw your website about how much our school stinks then I would have immediately contacted the ACLU and filed a lawsuit against them. It is 100% inappropriate for a school official to pursue an external investigation of a person simply because it is not their job to do so. This is doubly true for public vs. private schools.
On the topic of free speech for students:
ACLU Sues Pennsylvania School District Over Expulsion of Middle School Rapper for Songs Written at Home (08/03/2005)
PITTSBURGH-The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania today filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a 14-year-old rap artist and his parents charging that the Riverside Beaver School District violated the student's First Amendment free speech rights by expelling the boy for rap music he wrote at home and posted on the Internet.
Following ACLU Action, Northern California High School Students Win First Amendment Victory (07/14/2005)
SAN FRANCISCO -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California announced today that a student group at Deer Valley High School has won the right to hold a peace rally in the fall. The Antioch Unified School District agreed to allow the rally to continue after the ACLU of Northern California intervened on behalf of the students.
West Virginia School Officials Violated Student's Rights By Punishing Him Over a T-Shirt, Court Rules (06/01/2005)
CHARLESTON, WV -- A federal court today found that school officials violated a high school student's rights when they disciplined him for wearing a t-shirt bearing an image of the Confederate flag. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia.
Iowa Civil Liberties Union Defends Right of Students to Wear Anti-Abortion T-Shirts (04/29/2005)
DES MOINES -- The Iowa Civil Liberties Union today blasted school officials for threatening to punish two teenage girls who wore anti-abortion T-shirts to school. The group also offered to assist the students in their quest to continue wearing the shirts at school.
After ACLU Intervention on Behalf of Student Wearing Anti-Bush T-shirt, Broward School Board Agrees to Amend Code of Conduct (04/22/2005)
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- A local school board has agreed to rewrite school policy to give students greater protection under the First Amendment, after the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida's Broward Chapter stepped in to defend a student's right to wear an anti-Bush t-shirt.