The hidden GPS device in the book reader will make the device self destruct when you take it outside your normal locations (work, home, gym, etc) as according to their EULA, you're not permitted to read it in more than three places, ever.
Maybe because 'The people have a right to know' isn't the same thing as 'knowing everything about our people'.
Anyway, when people say 'information wants to be free' - they don't necessarily meen *they* want it to be free! What they meen is *it* wants to be free (i.e. juicy information/data is hard to keep secret) and once it's out there on the internet, it stays out there.
Interesting. Ok, so say that I know my wireless router is insecure and that I know somebody is using my bandwidth and I report it.
Say also that I don't know how to check what they've been surfing (I do, but lets be hyperthetical).......if I report this to the police I get screwed for having kiddy porn but if I hide it and get found out later then I get screwed for knowingly letting someone commit a crime using my network or else they don't even believe that someone else did that and I get screwed for possessing kiddy porn again. How can you win when the big corporations knowlingly sell insecure products?
"the person installing the network, be they a home user or a business, has ultimate responsibility for any criminal activity that takes place on that network," ?
WTF? If someone sneaks into my garden and starts dealing crack does that meen I'm responsible for that crime too? I meen, it was on my property after all.
Enlgish law is f***ed up. Someone should point these dumb-asses at a book about computers which they should read before passing laws like this.
If you're going to fine or jail anyone for having an insecure router it should be the company thats still selling WEP-only routers even though they've been proven to be insecure:
Where are the laws to protect the consumer from purchasing insecure WEP routers? Where's the consumer protection law making it illegal to sell someone an insecure communication device? Nowhere. Typical!
I wonder how many people have actually gone to jail over this? Wouldn't this be a really easy way to set someone up that you didn't like? Hack their WEP, browse to a kiddy pr0n site on their connection and then tip off the police!
"However, the sobering message of many security experts is that the terrorists are unlikely ever to lose a war waged with technology."
I call bullshit on that.
Remember the IRA? How did that problem get solved? After 9/11 Americans had to practise what they preached, i.e. funding terroirsm was wrong: hence they stopped funding the IRA, hence the IRA had a serious cash-flow problem and a compromise was looking more and more necesarry. You want to stop these people? Waging war on England is expensive. Stop their funding and eventually a compromise will be reached, technology or no technology.
Yes, and look where it got them: there was national outrage leading to revolt because of it. If they'd used microwaves, they'd have kept the people at bay and with 'acceptable losses' and maybe avoided national outrage - but it wouldn't change the fact that it's wrong.
My point is that 'Non lethal' does not equate to 'acceptable to use' - it's a marketing gimmick! Authorities are just trying to rebrand 'weapons' to make them seem less threatening in the public eye in order to make it ok for them to be deployed in all sorts of places.
It is not, for instance ok for the poice to break out the lazer beam guns and blind the protesters when one idiot throws a bottle and the demonstration suddenly gets classed as a 'riot'.
see: http://www.laserdazzler.net/ 'POTENTIAL OF CAUSING IRREVERSIBLE EYE DAMAGE AT CLOSE RANGE.'...'close range' being what exactly?
Remember the year 2000 gold rush for contractors? Well prepare for another.
The sad thing about this problem is that it's being created deliberately by a bunch of idiotic beurocrats with too much time on their hands, rather than because of the need to save two bytes of data.
And all to be done at short notice... ha ha... let the over-charging commence!/Rubs paws together.
I'm not sure I like the idea of public tax money being spent on research into 'how can we fry rioters brians / eye-balls / internal organs in such a way as to leave them crippled for life but basically not dead'.
So-called 'non-leathal' weapons are often nastier than just being shot dead. I meen, if I poke out both your eyes, that's a non-leathal act but would you seriously want to live like that afterwards? I sure as hell wouldn't.
This is another weapon in the 'don't f*** with us' pile the government is accumulating to use on its own citizens to keep them in check when it introduces yet more draconian laws robbing people of their personal freedoms.
And before you say to me 'oh but rioting is wrong and they're only going to use it on rioter - so that's ok'.... just take a look at the history books and remind yourself how the USA came to be free from the English Empire. Yep... that's right... rioting, revolt, rebelion.
Good job the British didn't invent the microwave back in 1776 - maybe we'd have used it on you 'rioting colonials'?
The Americans got there first, long before us British created the Jedi religion to anoy the cenus beuro they were experimenting with ESP, atral projection and 'force choaking' goats.
There's nothing hacker-like about a bunch of thugs who fake a website to look like and bank's and send you an email to coax you into logging into the fake page - it's called FRAUD, not hacking.
'professional cyber-criminals have replaced amateur thrill-seeking hackers as the biggest threat on the Web'
When were 'thrill-seeking' hackers ever a *real* threat? The media just makes them out to be that because it's the media's job to stir up panic.
Cyber-criminals were ALLWAYS the the biggest threat on the web - ever since the first site that allowed money to flow via the internet was created.
I actually bought an XBox because of Halo. I love FPSers, although it felt bad to be giving money to the big evil.
I have to say the quality of the XBox hardware sucks donkey parts. They must have used the cheapest bits they could find. After just 1 year of use, (after the guarentee expired): the DVD drive keeps skipping, the power cable had to be replaced because there was a danger of it burning the house down and the joypad makes me run right every time I turn on the system for like, 5 minuites.
This, combined with the fact that it took Bunge an age to release Halo 2 makes me think twice about buying another console that'll probably fall to bits after it's guarentee runs out.
Longhorn will probably address security in the following tried and tested way: copy existing free security tools and protocols, add a Ton of unwanted and unnessesary features (with some good old bugs and security holes to boot) and give it an 'X-tream!'(tm) marketing name, then integrate them into the OS to stop anyone unistalling them and distribute for $500.
I've been hearing the same story in one form or another since I was a kid. You might as well say 'football makes you dumb' - it makes about as much sense.
In every generation of parents, there's allways some new technology to demonise. When are people going to realise that a tool is a tool - it's not inherantly evil, harmfull or good either - it's what's done with it that matters? Parents should stop blaming technology for their kid's bad behaviour and poor grades and start looking at what they're doing wrong as parents.
As I kid, I spent hours and hours messing around with computers, watching TV and playing games but I got a degree and a well paid job!
Regardless of the intent, these companies are installing software on PCs without peoples knowledge a lot of the time and they're probably in a serious grey area when it comes to the 'data protection act (1998)'.
We need the law changed so that these data-collecting software leaches are opt-in rather than opt-out.
Who actually wants to install software that's piggy-backing onto other stuff, soaking up processor time, bandwidth, potentially opening up your system to security vulnerablities and retransmitting your private data (personality identifiable or not)?
My Chyropractor's receptionist uses a computerised typewriter! When I saw this I chuckled to myself and thought how long it had been since I saw one of those but then I thought: why would they need anything else on the front desk? All she ever does is type letters and write down apointments in a little black book - you don't need a 1.3Ghz processor, 500 Meg memory, DVD r/w, flat screen plasma monitor and the latest in fancy-smancy graphics cards to do that! People use technology for it's own sake these days.
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The hidden GPS device in the book reader will make the device self destruct when you take it outside your normal locations (work, home, gym, etc) as according to their EULA, you're not permitted to read it in more than three places, ever.
WTF?
...DON'T BUILD A WEBSITE FOR THEM!!!
If you don't want terrorists to see pictures of your secret nuclear generators....
idiots.
Maybe because 'The people have a right to know' isn't the same thing as 'knowing everything about our people'.
Anyway, when people say 'information wants to be free' - they don't necessarily meen *they* want it to be free! What they meen is *it* wants to be free (i.e. juicy information/data is hard to keep secret) and once it's out there on the internet, it stays out there.
Interesting. Ok, so say that I know my wireless router is insecure and that I know somebody is using my bandwidth and I report it.
...if I report this to the police I get screwed for having kiddy porn but if I hide it and get found out later then I get screwed for knowingly letting someone commit a crime using my network or else they don't even believe that someone else did that and I get screwed for possessing kiddy porn again. How can you win when the big corporations knowlingly sell insecure products?
Say also that I don't know how to check what they've been surfing (I do, but lets be hyperthetical)....
"the person installing the network, be they a home user or a business, has ultimate responsibility for any criminal activity that takes place on that network," ?
..that gets fined or has it's CEO jailed.
WTF? If someone sneaks into my garden and starts dealing crack does that meen I'm responsible for that crime too? I meen, it was on my property after all.
Enlgish law is f***ed up. Someone should point these dumb-asses at a book about computers which they should read before passing laws like this.
If you're going to fine or jail anyone for having an insecure router it should be the company thats still selling WEP-only routers even though they've been proven to be insecure:
http://securityfocus.com/infocus/1814
Where are the laws to protect the consumer from purchasing insecure WEP routers? Where's the consumer protection law making it illegal to sell someone an insecure communication device? Nowhere. Typical!
I wonder how many people have actually gone to jail over this? Wouldn't this be a really easy way to set someone up that you didn't like? Hack their WEP, browse to a kiddy pr0n site on their connection and then tip off the police!
"However, the sobering message of many security experts is that the terrorists are unlikely ever to lose a war waged with technology."
I call bullshit on that.
Remember the IRA? How did that problem get solved? After 9/11 Americans had to practise what they preached, i.e. funding terroirsm was wrong: hence they stopped funding the IRA, hence the IRA had a serious cash-flow problem and a compromise was looking more and more necesarry. You want to stop these people? Waging war on England is expensive. Stop their funding and eventually a compromise will be reached, technology or no technology.
they didn't last time.
Yes, and look where it got them: there was national outrage leading to revolt because of it. If they'd used microwaves, they'd have kept the people at bay and with 'acceptable losses' and maybe avoided national outrage - but it wouldn't change the fact that it's wrong.
...'close range' being what exactly?
My point is that 'Non lethal' does not equate to 'acceptable to use' - it's a marketing gimmick! Authorities are just trying to rebrand 'weapons' to make them seem less threatening in the public eye in order to make it ok for them to be deployed in all sorts of places.
It is not, for instance ok for the poice to break out the lazer beam guns and blind the protesters when one idiot throws a bottle and the demonstration suddenly gets classed as a 'riot'.
see: http://www.laserdazzler.net/
'POTENTIAL OF CAUSING IRREVERSIBLE EYE DAMAGE AT CLOSE RANGE.'
Remember the year 2000 gold rush for contractors? Well prepare for another.
/Rubs paws together.
The sad thing about this problem is that it's being created deliberately by a bunch of idiotic beurocrats with too much time on their hands, rather than because of the need to save two bytes of data.
And all to be done at short notice... ha ha... let the over-charging commence!
....think of how much pr0n you could download with that beast!
I'm not sure I like the idea of public tax money being spent on research into 'how can we fry rioters brians / eye-balls / internal organs in such a way as to leave them crippled for life but basically not dead'.
So-called 'non-leathal' weapons are often nastier than just being shot dead. I meen, if I poke out both your eyes, that's a non-leathal act but would you seriously want to live like that afterwards? I sure as hell wouldn't.
This is another weapon in the 'don't f*** with us' pile the government is accumulating to use on its own citizens to keep them in check when it introduces yet more draconian laws robbing people of their personal freedoms.
And before you say to me 'oh but rioting is wrong and they're only going to use it on rioter - so that's ok'.... just take a look at the history books and remind yourself how the USA came to be free from the English Empire. Yep... that's right... rioting, revolt, rebelion.
Good job the British didn't invent the microwave back in 1776 - maybe we'd have used it on you 'rioting colonials'?
The Americans got there first, long before us British created the Jedi religion to anoy the cenus beuro they were experimenting with ESP, atral projection and 'force choaking' goats.
o f-jedi-goat.html
Oh.... and trying to walk thorugh walls.
Classic.
More here: http://c0dingm0nk3y.blogspot.com/2004/11/revenge-
*CAUGH*inside job*CAUGH*
That information would be worth quite a bit of money in the right hands.
Will people please stop refering to criminals as HACKERS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
There's nothing hacker-like about a bunch of thugs who fake a website to look like and bank's and send you an email to coax you into logging into the fake page - it's called FRAUD, not hacking.
'professional cyber-criminals have replaced amateur thrill-seeking hackers as the biggest threat on the Web'
When were 'thrill-seeking' hackers ever a *real* threat? The media just makes them out to be that because it's the media's job to stir up panic.
Cyber-criminals were ALLWAYS the the biggest threat on the web - ever since the first site that allowed money to flow via the internet was created.
"decreasing supply of computer science students."
That doesn't meen decreaisng supply of IT professionals, does it? Certainly doesn't seem so to me when I go job hunting.
IBM might be concerned about a lack of people joining them - well, maybe thats because people are getting tired of being paid crap wages.
I actually bought an XBox because of Halo. I love FPSers, although it felt bad to be giving money to the big evil.
I have to say the quality of the XBox hardware sucks donkey parts. They must have used the cheapest bits they could find. After just 1 year of use, (after the guarentee expired): the DVD drive keeps skipping, the power cable had to be replaced because there was a danger of it burning the house down and the joypad makes me run right every time I turn on the system for like, 5 minuites.
This, combined with the fact that it took Bunge an age to release Halo 2 makes me think twice about buying another console that'll probably fall to bits after it's guarentee runs out.
Longhorn will probably address security in the following tried and tested way: copy existing free security tools and protocols, add a Ton of unwanted and unnessesary features (with some good old bugs and security holes to boot) and give it an 'X-tream!'(tm) marketing name, then integrate them into the OS to stop anyone unistalling them and distribute for $500.
Oh... and then stop supporting it after 4 years.
I've been hearing the same story in one form or another since I was a kid. You might as well say 'football makes you dumb' - it makes about as much sense.
In every generation of parents, there's allways some new technology to demonise. When are people going to realise that a tool is a tool - it's not inherantly evil, harmfull or good either - it's what's done with it that matters? Parents should stop blaming technology for their kid's bad behaviour and poor grades and start looking at what they're doing wrong as parents.
As I kid, I spent hours and hours messing around with computers, watching TV and playing games but I got a degree and a well paid job!
Regardless of the intent, these companies are installing software on PCs without peoples knowledge a lot of the time and they're probably in a serious grey area when it comes to the 'data protection act (1998)'.
We need the law changed so that these data-collecting software leaches are opt-in rather than opt-out.
Who actually wants to install software that's piggy-backing onto other stuff, soaking up processor time, bandwidth, potentially opening up your system to security vulnerablities and retransmitting your private data (personality identifiable or not)?
"Microsoft is claiming the pre-release versions are stable already"
I think they meen... as stable as the rest of their crap.
Quite possibly the dumest idea since someone decided to glue the bits of sliced bread back together again to make an unsliced loaf.
Maybe then they'd sell it for £30 instead of £300.
My Chyropractor's receptionist uses a computerised typewriter! When I saw this I chuckled to myself and thought how long it had been since I saw one of those but then I thought: why would they need anything else on the front desk? All she ever does is type letters and write down apointments in a little black book - you don't need a 1.3Ghz processor, 500 Meg memory, DVD r/w, flat screen plasma monitor and the latest in fancy-smancy graphics cards to do that! People use technology for it's own sake these days.
Somebody got out of the non-sarcasm-detecting side of bed this morning, huh?