women getting vicious insults flung at them online
Everyone who is visible on the internet will get vicious insults thrown at them, be they man or female. If you're on the internet, putting yourself out there on youtube videos or what ever, you need to learn to deal with it.
There are several instances where Finnish police have shot a threatening person in the leg to solve the situation. Since it has been mostly reported in only Finnish media I can't give you English sources. But here's one in Finnish. The thing is, they don't shoot in the thigh where the big arteries are. They shoot below the knee so the biggest damage can be avoided.
You're a complete moron, in no country will the police not shoot someone who has raised a gun at them. What do you want the police to do, let the dude shoot them?
The difference comes from the fact that when this happens in the USA the cops shoot to kill. When this happens in Finland they shoot to incapacate(in the leg etc.)..or they don't shoot at all and instead take cover and negotiate the guy into dropping the gun.
Depends on the municipality. Some give students laptops from the school, some support students buying their own devices with x euros, some do nothing to help students secure a device.
It's important to note that they've made guidelines on what sort of devices are supported for the exam and the way it's done. It completely rules out any of the current tablets and pretty much narrows it down to a traditional laptops running x86(or amd64) processors. They've also got pretty good rules for setting up the exam environment.
That being said, I think there will be plenty of problems to sort through.
Neither did the parody site. All it did was mimic the layout of the organisations site and change some texts used there(Save the Children turned into Save the Paedophiles etc. Clear parodies and certainly no child porn.)
That's essentially what the copyright organisation is doing here. They mimicked TPB appearance, changed some graphics and texts and where links lead to.
There was recently a case in Finland where a person made a parody of a site that offered the opportunity to report childporn sites to an organisation that would then forward them to the police.
The organisation sued said person and won. What the copyright organisation is doing here is no different from that so under Finnish law they could be in hot water.
Each of my computers has a dedicated external hard drive where I push backups on a regular basis. I have one external hard drive stashed away at my parents where I make an backup of my laptop every time I visit them. My laptop pretty much has all of my important data so it serves its purpose. All the hard drives involved in this are encrypted of course.
On top of that my most important text documents(not necessarily important in the way of having personal information, but a lot of work put into) are backed up to Ubuntu One as well as Wuala.
Given how infrequently a lot of my data changes, I find the backups adequate.
The funny thing is that it's only TeliaSonera contemplating on doing this, all the others are more than fine with the situation as it is, and are even actively promoting unrestricted mobile broadbands.
Some years ago TeliaSonera was also the only ISP in Finland to talk about adding transfer limits to their non-mobile broadband service. They quickly stopped talking about that because they lost customers and the other service providers weren't going to jump aboard. So in a sense they're a front runner in Finland with stupid ideas and restriction.
I doubt their plan will go through in Finland. They'll just lose too many customers.
Yes, someone could in theory use the leaked SSNs to do something malicious but that's extremely difficult.
Oh please. All they have to do is sign up for an e-commerce website, put in the SSN number and they can order stuff with a bill and not have to pay for any of it.
Signing up for a mobile number with that information is very easy and once you have one of those, you can take out small loans from some of the shadier companies. Sure, it's not world ending stuff, but it'll be a pain in the ass for anyone to deal with.
You can, but when the feature was introduced it was enabled by default without asking the user for permission. The Germans think it should have been an opt-in feature, not an opt-out one.
Just remember HTC is already paying Microsoft a few dollars for every Android device they sell. So sad the market is heading to a direction where you can't buy a smart phone without money going to an company you don't want to support.
As long as you know the pass phrase used for the encryption you can stick a LiveCD in and mount the encrypted partitions. The way it's done depends on what was used for the encryption. Google is your friend for finding a relevant HOWTO;)
The filter isn't mandatory and as such not all ISPs use it(not that it makes it much better). For example my ISP(Saunalahti) doesn't use it. Though they often operate in Elisas network which does use the list so if your connection makes use of Elisas name servers you'll be on an filtered connection. To the credit of Saunalahti, all it took was one e-mail to them and I had instructions to use their name servers to avoid the filtering.
The thing with banning people from the internet is it severely affects your ability to function in a modern society. Banking? I can't remember the last time I visited some brick and mortar bank office. Hell, they'd make me pay extra service fees if I went there. Job hunting? Pretty much all is on-line. An increasing amount of government documents and applications are on-line and they're actively pushing people towards using them and discouraging people from visiting any actual office. That trend will only continue and dependence on access to the internet will grow.
Banning someone from the internet for allegedly sharing copyrighted files is an unreasonable punishment, especially if there is no proper investigation, no trial, no judges, no way to defend yourself and no way to appeal for a reversal.
Why the hell am I still not watching zeropunctuation on the subway?
I just spent a few days at a cabin with my friends. Using my Nokia N73 we watched quite a few youtube videos(asshole mario is fun when you're drunk, even if the screen is smallish). Since there was no TV we also watched the latest news broadcast from the web with my phone. So Flash videos do work. All you need is an decent phone, though I suppose since you Americans are hailing the iPhone as the second coming of Jesus you lack such things..
You do realize that Nokia shipped 115.5 million phones just in the first quarter of 2008? 14.6 million of those were in what could be called the "smartphone" category. So something that sells 8-10 million in a time frame of a whole year doesn't really sound so astonishing to them.
While the company may violate the GPL, their legal note says they want some threads removed from the forum that contain instructions on how to conduct an DoS attack against them. That may or may not be illegal where you live, but in no case does it gather sympathy from me.
If they're violating the GPL then sue them for that, but don't complain if they come at you for something that's likely illegal where ever you live.
Like one of the comments in the article said, if they can cut out infringing P2P traffic, they'll dramatically cut their bandwith usage. Less money spent on upgrading infrstructure. Of course, whether there would be any demand for high bandwith after such an event is another matter..
I think the "Mandate" bit means that ISP's must offer this service. The consumer then always has the choice of opting for the service or opt out, no matter who provides their internet access. So the word is used properly;)
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Video explaining the plagiarism claim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CnDD_MXq4
Everyone who is visible on the internet will get vicious insults thrown at them, be they man or female. If you're on the internet, putting yourself out there on youtube videos or what ever, you need to learn to deal with it.
There are several instances where Finnish police have shot a threatening person in the leg to solve the situation. Since it has been mostly reported in only Finnish media I can't give you English sources. But here's one in Finnish. The thing is, they don't shoot in the thigh where the big arteries are. They shoot below the knee so the biggest damage can be avoided.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/poliisi_...
The difference comes from the fact that when this happens in the USA the cops shoot to kill. When this happens in Finland they shoot to incapacate(in the leg etc.)..or they don't shoot at all and instead take cover and negotiate the guy into dropping the gun.
Depends on the municipality. Some give students laptops from the school, some support students buying their own devices with x euros, some do nothing to help students secure a device.
It's important to note that they've made guidelines on what sort of devices are supported for the exam and the way it's done. It completely rules out any of the current tablets and pretty much narrows it down to a traditional laptops running x86(or amd64) processors. They've also got pretty good rules for setting up the exam environment.
That being said, I think there will be plenty of problems to sort through.
Neither did the parody site. All it did was mimic the layout of the organisations site and change some texts used there(Save the Children turned into Save the Paedophiles etc. Clear parodies and certainly no child porn.)
That's essentially what the copyright organisation is doing here. They mimicked TPB appearance, changed some graphics and texts and where links lead to.
There was recently a case in Finland where a person made a parody of a site that offered the opportunity to report childporn sites to an organisation that would then forward them to the police. The organisation sued said person and won. What the copyright organisation is doing here is no different from that so under Finnish law they could be in hot water.
Each of my computers has a dedicated external hard drive where I push backups on a regular basis. I have one external hard drive stashed away at my parents where I make an backup of my laptop every time I visit them. My laptop pretty much has all of my important data so it serves its purpose. All the hard drives involved in this are encrypted of course.
On top of that my most important text documents(not necessarily important in the way of having personal information, but a lot of work put into) are backed up to Ubuntu One as well as Wuala.
Given how infrequently a lot of my data changes, I find the backups adequate.
Some years ago TeliaSonera was also the only ISP in Finland to talk about adding transfer limits to their non-mobile broadband service. They quickly stopped talking about that because they lost customers and the other service providers weren't going to jump aboard. So in a sense they're a front runner in Finland with stupid ideas and restriction.
I doubt their plan will go through in Finland. They'll just lose too many customers.
Given the security problems DropBox has had, no sane person let alone corporation would use it for anything remotely important.
Simply put, yes.
My HTC Desire Z plays the 720p videos it records beautifully on a big TV. No reason why similar things can't be achieved with 1080p.
Yes, someone could in theory use the leaked SSNs to do something malicious but that's extremely difficult.
Oh please. All they have to do is sign up for an e-commerce website, put in the SSN number and they can order stuff with a bill and not have to pay for any of it.
Signing up for a mobile number with that information is very easy and once you have one of those, you can take out small loans from some of the shadier companies. Sure, it's not world ending stuff, but it'll be a pain in the ass for anyone to deal with.
You can, but when the feature was introduced it was enabled by default without asking the user for permission. The Germans think it should have been an opt-in feature, not an opt-out one.
Just remember HTC is already paying Microsoft a few dollars for every Android device they sell. So sad the market is heading to a direction where you can't buy a smart phone without money going to an company you don't want to support.
As long as you know the pass phrase used for the encryption you can stick a LiveCD in and mount the encrypted partitions. The way it's done depends on what was used for the encryption. Google is your friend for finding a relevant HOWTO ;)
For the United States, the choice is clear; on the spectrum of Internet freedom, we place ourselves on the side of openness
That's quite rich considering your government just shut down 84,000 websites "by mistake": http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/
The filter isn't mandatory and as such not all ISPs use it(not that it makes it much better). For example my ISP(Saunalahti) doesn't use it. Though they often operate in Elisas network which does use the list so if your connection makes use of Elisas name servers you'll be on an filtered connection. To the credit of Saunalahti, all it took was one e-mail to them and I had instructions to use their name servers to avoid the filtering.
And other than Symbian (which AFAIK doesn't have a phone with a touchscreen)
There is the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Not sure if it's available in the US though.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-hands-on/
The thing with banning people from the internet is it severely affects your ability to function in a modern society. Banking? I can't remember the last time I visited some brick and mortar bank office. Hell, they'd make me pay extra service fees if I went there. Job hunting? Pretty much all is on-line. An increasing amount of government documents and applications are on-line and they're actively pushing people towards using them and discouraging people from visiting any actual office. That trend will only continue and dependence on access to the internet will grow.
Banning someone from the internet for allegedly sharing copyrighted files is an unreasonable punishment, especially if there is no proper investigation, no trial, no judges, no way to defend yourself and no way to appeal for a reversal.
Why the hell am I still not watching zeropunctuation on the subway?
I just spent a few days at a cabin with my friends. Using my Nokia N73 we watched quite a few youtube videos(asshole mario is fun when you're drunk, even if the screen is smallish). Since there was no TV we also watched the latest news broadcast from the web with my phone. So Flash videos do work. All you need is an decent phone, though I suppose since you Americans are hailing the iPhone as the second coming of Jesus you lack such things..
You do realize that Nokia shipped 115.5 million phones just in the first quarter of 2008? 14.6 million of those were in what could be called the "smartphone" category. So something that sells 8-10 million in a time frame of a whole year doesn't really sound so astonishing to them.
While the company may violate the GPL, their legal note says they want some threads removed from the forum that contain instructions on how to conduct an DoS attack against them. That may or may not be illegal where you live, but in no case does it gather sympathy from me.
If they're violating the GPL then sue them for that, but don't complain if they come at you for something that's likely illegal where ever you live.
Like one of the comments in the article said, if they can cut out infringing P2P traffic, they'll dramatically cut their bandwith usage. Less money spent on upgrading infrstructure. Of course, whether there would be any demand for high bandwith after such an event is another matter..
I think the "Mandate" bit means that ISP's must offer this service. The consumer then always has the choice of opting for the service or opt out, no matter who provides their internet access. So the word is used properly ;)
..discriminating against Europeans with its grand show. See you in court!