I think everyone who is able to work should receive no money whatsoever from the government until they've worked continuously for at least 5 years. Give them food and clothes plus shelter for the night, but that's it.
Yeah, that will have a great effect on their kids. Good plan. Or maybe it would be cheaper to just round them up and gas them? After all, nobody who's lost their job is strictly speaking human, right?
Since the idiots are spawning idiot sprogs much faster than intelligent people are producing normal offspring, it drags the average IQ down.
If the "intelligent people" can't work out that the solution is to settle down and have kids instead of fucking around on scooters snorting coke and aspiring to be DJs until they're in their late thirties, then perhaps they're not as intelligent as they like to think, just arrogant, smug and small-minded.
That's an argument against the existence of publicly traded companies, not an argument in favour of what Google's doing. A law that requires people to act immorally for the sake of money runs contrary to the oldest principles of both morality and law.
"Everything is a file" works fine when 99% of what you need to do is reading, writing or seeking. But if you need a significant number of other operations then using ioctl is like programming in assembly: call a single function with a different integer argument depending on the operation you want to perform, with no type checking of the other arguments... it's primitive. "Everything is a file" was an early and successful example of polymorphism, but it's been superceded.
No, they can just require new camcorders to include DRM, wait for the old camcorders to die, and use draconian punishments to discourage the few people with the skill to build their own from talking about it.
I don't think they'll ever completely close the analogue hole, but they can make it a lot smaller. Building your own camcorder is further than most people are willing to go just to timeshift TV programmes, and that level of effort will make you look more like a professional pirate and less like an ordinary user in the eyes of a jury.
The point of this legislation is that new camcorders will refuse to record an analogue signal that includes DRM (eg hidden in the vertical blanking interval).
They put little codes in the corner of some frames? Oh, okay. Design an analog filter to catch those and stick it in front of the camcorder.
It would be illegal to import, sell, or traffick in such a device - good luck finding schematics...
I was at a networking conference this summer where someone presented a new "black box" interception device that reassembless TCP streams at line speed, removes the relevant data (eg email addresses), and discards the rest. There's no need to log everything.
However with this, they can get one person, get his accounting logs, and then start looking at web forums. Start looking at odd little servers you conect to with ssh or ssl tunnels.
Then they can go get the ISP logs (assuming its in the right country) for that system.... hop hop hop. Between phone numbers and IP logs, chances are you slipped up somewhere.
And they'll find out that Tom from Myspace is the criminal mastermind behind the whole scheme!
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling emo kids..."
My concerns centre around the definition of a "publicly available electronic communications service". This phrase is used several times in the Directive without ever being defined. A broad interpretation of the phrase would include message boards and chatrooms, meaning that private citizens could be obliged to retain traffic data. If you run a website or an IRC server, even on a home computer, you could be obliged to keep logs for six months and hand them over to the police during an investigation.
And there's good reason to worry about record companies asking for access: the Directive allows access to traffic data for the investigation of any crime covered by the European Arrest Warrant, which includes "counterfeiting and piracy".
I wrote to my MEP about this but I was too late. Does anyone know if there's a chance of getting the Directive overturned or amended before it's implemented by member states?
Police today announced that they have arrested the author of the Sober internet worm. The suspect was named as Mr. Qwert Y. Asdfasdf123 of 456 Hjklhjkl Street, Mnbvmnbv, Alabama. He was caught after using his real name and address to register a website used by the worm.
I just hope it doesn't seach the web with a smart algorythm that can interpret human text and read open source software source code to search for more software flaws in networked software
Or the worm carries a public key and monitors Usenet for new exploits signed with the corresponding private key, then distributes them to any other copies of the worm it knows about using a gossip algorithm - only a few copies need Usenet access and the attacker can post updates from anywhere.
Or each copy of the worm scans the local browser history for domain names, concatenates each domain with the date and its own IP address, hashes it, and requests the root web page from the domain if the first byte of the hash is zero. This means each copy scans a different part of the namespace, the area scanned changes each day, and the area scanned matches local usage (less suspicious and harder to block). If one of the copies finds a signed update, it propagates it to the other copies using a gossip algorithm. The attacker doesn't need to choose a domain in advance - when he wants to distribute an update he just cracks a random website, inserts an HTML comment containing the update into the root page, and waits for the worm to pick it up.
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Those are all domains that host websites for their users, so the complete domain name will be something like username.people.freenet.de (or 20a39387c9b9d97693827e98bf17190123.people.freenet. de).
Knocking out the internet for 24 hours could easily trigger a stock market crash: the market's confidence in every communication-dependent business - which means every large business - would be severely shaken if the communication infrastructure turned out to be unstable. In economic terms, that's far more important than the lights going out.
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And I'm gonna do something about it! I'm gonna complain... on the internet!
Yeah, that will have a great effect on their kids. Good plan. Or maybe it would be cheaper to just round them up and gas them? After all, nobody who's lost their job is strictly speaking human, right?
Since the idiots are spawning idiot sprogs much faster than intelligent people are producing normal offspring, it drags the average IQ down.
If the "intelligent people" can't work out that the solution is to settle down and have kids instead of fucking around on scooters snorting coke and aspiring to be DJs until they're in their late thirties, then perhaps they're not as intelligent as they like to think, just arrogant, smug and small-minded.
You might say that the British constitution is an example of evolution, whereas the US constitution is an example of intelligent design. ;-)
So the London bombings were carried out by moderate agnostics?
Except in tanks and helicopters...
That's an argument against the existence of publicly traded companies, not an argument in favour of what Google's doing. A law that requires people to act immorally for the sake of money runs contrary to the oldest principles of both morality and law.
"Everything is a file" works fine when 99% of what you need to do is reading, writing or seeking. But if you need a significant number of other operations then using ioctl is like programming in assembly: call a single function with a different integer argument depending on the operation you want to perform, with no type checking of the other arguments... it's primitive. "Everything is a file" was an early and successful example of polymorphism, but it's been superceded.
They're like a DIY version of eunuchs.
I don't think they'll ever completely close the analogue hole, but they can make it a lot smaller. Building your own camcorder is further than most people are willing to go just to timeshift TV programmes, and that level of effort will make you look more like a professional pirate and less like an ordinary user in the eyes of a jury.
They put little codes in the corner of some frames? Oh, okay. Design an analog filter to catch those and stick it in front of the camcorder.
It would be illegal to import, sell, or traffick in such a device - good luck finding schematics...
What an accurate and concise summary of Slashdot - you should work for Wikipedia.
I was at a networking conference this summer where someone presented a new "black box" interception device that reassembless TCP streams at line speed, removes the relevant data (eg email addresses), and discards the rest. There's no need to log everything.
Then they can go get the ISP logs (assuming its in the right country) for that system.... hop hop hop. Between phone numbers and IP logs, chances are you slipped up somewhere.
And they'll find out that Tom from Myspace is the criminal mastermind behind the whole scheme!
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling emo kids..."
And there's good reason to worry about record companies asking for access: the Directive allows access to traffic data for the investigation of any crime covered by the European Arrest Warrant, which includes "counterfeiting and piracy".
I wrote to my MEP about this but I was too late. Does anyone know if there's a chance of getting the Directive overturned or amended before it's implemented by member states?
Cognitive dissonance is powerful, but the dolphins have sonar...
Maybe the dolphins will be intelligent enough to convince the creationists that they're full of shit.
Don't be silly, people aren't magnetic. It will only affect metal things like coins and buses.
The rootkit's signed by Sony.
Police today announced that they have arrested the author of the Sober internet worm. The suspect was named as Mr. Qwert Y. Asdfasdf123 of 456 Hjklhjkl Street, Mnbvmnbv, Alabama. He was caught after using his real name and address to register a website used by the worm.
Or the worm carries a public key and monitors Usenet for new exploits signed with the corresponding private key, then distributes them to any other copies of the worm it knows about using a gossip algorithm - only a few copies need Usenet access and the attacker can post updates from anywhere.
Or each copy of the worm scans the local browser history for domain names, concatenates each domain with the date and its own IP address, hashes it, and requests the root web page from the domain if the first byte of the hash is zero. This means each copy scans a different part of the namespace, the area scanned changes each day, and the area scanned matches local usage (less suspicious and harder to block). If one of the copies finds a signed update, it propagates it to the other copies using a gossip algorithm. The attacker doesn't need to choose a domain in advance - when he wants to distribute an update he just cracks a random website, inserts an HTML comment containing the update into the root page, and waits for the worm to pick it up.
Those are all domains that host websites for their users, so the complete domain name will be something like username.people.freenet.de (or 20a39387c9b9d97693827e98bf17190123.people.freenet. de).
Knocking out the internet for 24 hours could easily trigger a stock market crash: the market's confidence in every communication-dependent business - which means every large business - would be severely shaken if the communication infrastructure turned out to be unstable. In economic terms, that's far more important than the lights going out.
It's good to know those forms will now be scanned in and turned into 1,000 PDFs. That should lead to an enormous increase in efficiency.
1. 8-year-olds should not have unsupervised access to the internet
2. Porn is a subset of commerce
How would the DNS resolver know when to stop?