An employee at an ISP could download child pornography and disguise it as traffic from a customer. Why, then, does ICE not seize the ISP's equipment as part of their investigation, just to see whether or not that is the case?
Because very few police organizations would have the forensic skills to even determine that (outside of the FBI, most police agencies are lucky to have a copy of EnCase and maybe one or two guys on staff who know a little about computers). And a prosecutor would have an almost impossible time proving the case because of the nature of it being an ISP. So they don't waste their time.
Real life law enforcement isn't about being fair. Most of the time they're just going after the low-hanging fruit and the shit they can't ignore.
Even if running a Tor exit node is legal or not, it still wouldn't change the fact that it's an excellent way to end up with the the feds kicking your door in and sticking a gun in your face. Sure; after you spend a fortune on lawyers, fix your door, deal with the fallout of a public arrest and having your name in the papers a kiddie porn aficionado, and (maybe) get your computer(s) back; you may well win your court case. But that's a pyrrhic victory at best.
In all fairness, I got pretty bad on MMO's too for a while. WoW had to actually ban chat for new users because they were getting so many Chinese bots wanting to tell everyone on their server about a "Great deal I've heard about!" I think if I were starting a MMO or online world today, I would be very tempted to just ban all Asian IP addresses en masse (though they would probably just find a way to spoof U.S. ones).
All those greedy bastards who invested with Madoff and were pissed that all they would get back was their *actual* investment have been whining for months about not getting their fictional 10%-a-year interest back too. Now they'll probably use stuff like this to sue the SEC and recoup their fictional gains out of all of *our* pockets. Just great.
Considering the nature of society portrayed in Star Trek, I would argue that it's fantasy too. Putting aside The Force, characters in Star Wars act way more like real human beings than any crewmember of the Enterprise.
Ha, I remember back in 2000, before the first internet bubble burst, Leo Laporte was talking about Dialpad on Screensavers. When he explained how it gave long distance calling away for free, Patrick Norton asked him how they make money. Laporte laughed and said "Oh, nothing on the internet actually makes *real* money." That pretty much sums up the first internet bubble in my memory. You make your millions from investors and your IPO, then worry about the actual business model later.
Whenever some one gives me a survey, I always have fun with it. When they do surveys that find that 25% of the American people don't know that Washington, D.C. is the U.S. capital, I'm one of those 25%. If someone asks me what tastes better, I always go for the drink that tastes like raw sewage. When asked what I think of legislation, I complain that it doesn't include a rider re-legalizing slavery. When a reporter asks me questions, I start giving well-thought-out and insightful answers on a completely different news topic. I write essay responses to multiple-choice questions. I'm just that guy.
I love your mind, am fascinated by everything you say, and think your interests are amazing. And also, I suck, and am not worthy of someone as amazing as you. And yes, I *do* agree that that bitch at work has no business talking shit about you behind your back.
I've always had high hopes for Home. Social worlds are one of those areas (along with MMO's) where consoles have always lagged WAY behind PC's. Personally, I think that consoles need to move beyond the same-old FPS-with-a-slightly-new-skin strategy and expand the horizons a bit. Unfortunately, Home in implementation was pretty weak tea. In typical Sony fashion, they locked it down early on to where there wasn't a whole lot to do (cutting off voice chat, for example, and limiting customization) and, of course, commercializing the hell out of it (why not let me create my OWN furniture, instead of just buying your crap, Sony?).
I am interested to hear him mention "user-generated content" in the announcement. But, this being Sony, I expect all this means is that there will be even MORE ads and blatant commercialism, taking it even farther away from social worlds like Second Life than it already was.
Oh, and for you naysayers, you should note that social worlds are one of the few online gaming areas that attract women in DROVES. Second Life is a great place to meet women who are ACTUALLY women.
Oh. it's SCIENCE, huh? Thanks for letting me know that there is now an objective blood test for this condition. Because I was ignorantly under the impression that diagnosis still consisted of subjective observations from some random asshole doctor, who may or may not have any fucking clue what he's even doing.
Do they really need an in-depth analysis for something that bloody simple?
Yeah sure, you can beat the iPad if you offer similar features and sell it for $100--no shit. How is that in ANY way analogous too offering your pad for $50-$100 cheaper than an iPad? Oooh, let's all run out an buy the Amazon maxiPad because it's $650 instead of the iPad's $700!! Unless you're prepared to absolutely bleed money on every maxiPad sale, you're not going to soak up even a single percentage point of the iPad's market dominance.
They're also just the kind of obsessive types who will become convinced that their kid has autism the second he/she acts a little shy....and the kind of people who will take him/her to the pediatrician and pepper the good doctor with their "autism" observations until he finally relents and labels the kid an autistic tard and dopes him up on whatever-the-fuck autism drug happens to be hot today....and the kind of people who will then tell everyone who will listen all the details of the "autistic" kid and his/her treatments, in elaborate and excruciating fucking detail, whether they want to hear it or not.
I live in a shitty state, and most teachers here make WAY more than that. The *starting* salary for teachers here is somewhere around $40,000, and they get GUARANTEED raises every year. So a teacher who has been working 20 or 30 years can easily end up making in the $90,000 range (not administrators, we're talking classroom teachers). All that and they get summers off.
If your local school district posts salaries (they have to where I'm at, since they're considered state employees), do yourself a favor and look at the salary information for your local school. If you buy into the myth of the poor, underpaid teacher, it will shock you to see the truth. I'm an experience programmer and there are teachers at my kids school making considerably more than me. And I certainly don't get summers off.
I do, dipshit. But I would still like to be able to watch the best in the high level tournaments. You know, kind of like how *you* have a 2-inch dick but still like to watch porn videos with guys who are well-endowed?
Over 1,000 channels on my cable box, several hundred of them dedicated to sports. And not *one* dedicated to videogame competitions. So apparently a pretty niche market (though personally, I would love to be able to spectate Halo tournaments, Arena battles in MMO's, etc.). For that matter, almost no videogames have any kind of "spectator" mode for players who just want to watch (and not participate).
This first time I ever saw a Claymore and saw that, I laughed my ass off. It occurred to me that the fact that they had to put that on there must mean that they had enough soldiers make that mistake to make it worth spelling out explicitly. Maybe in the early days they just handed Claymores out with no training, necessitating the "Hey dipshit, you've got it backwards" warning label.
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The feds don't see it that way, anymore than they see someone's illegal computer files as "just a bunch of 1's and 0's."
An employee at an ISP could download child pornography and disguise it as traffic from a customer. Why, then, does ICE not seize the ISP's equipment as part of their investigation, just to see whether or not that is the case?
Because very few police organizations would have the forensic skills to even determine that (outside of the FBI, most police agencies are lucky to have a copy of EnCase and maybe one or two guys on staff who know a little about computers). And a prosecutor would have an almost impossible time proving the case because of the nature of it being an ISP. So they don't waste their time.
Real life law enforcement isn't about being fair. Most of the time they're just going after the low-hanging fruit and the shit they can't ignore.
Even if running a Tor exit node is legal or not, it still wouldn't change the fact that it's an excellent way to end up with the the feds kicking your door in and sticking a gun in your face. Sure; after you spend a fortune on lawyers, fix your door, deal with the fallout of a public arrest and having your name in the papers a kiddie porn aficionado, and (maybe) get your computer(s) back; you may well win your court case. But that's a pyrrhic victory at best.
you know that there are few things that are worse for electronics than water
That's such a crock. Saltwater is actually an excellent conductor of electricity. Electronics need good conductors. Hence, electronics need saltwater.
So relax and stop it with all that plywood and tarp. Have a beer instead.
In all fairness, I got pretty bad on MMO's too for a while. WoW had to actually ban chat for new users because they were getting so many Chinese bots wanting to tell everyone on their server about a "Great deal I've heard about!" I think if I were starting a MMO or online world today, I would be very tempted to just ban all Asian IP addresses en masse (though they would probably just find a way to spoof U.S. ones).
All those greedy bastards who invested with Madoff and were pissed that all they would get back was their *actual* investment have been whining for months about not getting their fictional 10%-a-year interest back too. Now they'll probably use stuff like this to sue the SEC and recoup their fictional gains out of all of *our* pockets. Just great.
Considering the nature of society portrayed in Star Trek, I would argue that it's fantasy too. Putting aside The Force, characters in Star Wars act way more like real human beings than any crewmember of the Enterprise.
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Ha, I remember back in 2000, before the first internet bubble burst, Leo Laporte was talking about Dialpad on Screensavers. When he explained how it gave long distance calling away for free, Patrick Norton asked him how they make money. Laporte laughed and said "Oh, nothing on the internet actually makes *real* money." That pretty much sums up the first internet bubble in my memory. You make your millions from investors and your IPO, then worry about the actual business model later.
Whenever some one gives me a survey, I always have fun with it. When they do surveys that find that 25% of the American people don't know that Washington, D.C. is the U.S. capital, I'm one of those 25%. If someone asks me what tastes better, I always go for the drink that tastes like raw sewage. When asked what I think of legislation, I complain that it doesn't include a rider re-legalizing slavery. When a reporter asks me questions, I start giving well-thought-out and insightful answers on a completely different news topic. I write essay responses to multiple-choice questions. I'm just that guy.
Wow thanks, such flowing praise!
I love your mind, am fascinated by everything you say, and think your interests are amazing. And also, I suck, and am not worthy of someone as amazing as you. And yes, I *do* agree that that bitch at work has no business talking shit about you behind your back.
An SL "job" pays pennies per hour.
or as the Chinese call it, a "living wage."
I've always had high hopes for Home. Social worlds are one of those areas (along with MMO's) where consoles have always lagged WAY behind PC's. Personally, I think that consoles need to move beyond the same-old FPS-with-a-slightly-new-skin strategy and expand the horizons a bit. Unfortunately, Home in implementation was pretty weak tea. In typical Sony fashion, they locked it down early on to where there wasn't a whole lot to do (cutting off voice chat, for example, and limiting customization) and, of course, commercializing the hell out of it (why not let me create my OWN furniture, instead of just buying your crap, Sony?).
I am interested to hear him mention "user-generated content" in the announcement. But, this being Sony, I expect all this means is that there will be even MORE ads and blatant commercialism, taking it even farther away from social worlds like Second Life than it already was.
Oh, and for you naysayers, you should note that social worlds are one of the few online gaming areas that attract women in DROVES. Second Life is a great place to meet women who are ACTUALLY women.
I always thought it suspicious that I never saw Taco and Steve Jobs in the same room. Now I finally know for sure that they're the same person!
Thanks for giving us this forum Taco/Steve. But I still hate iOS.
Oh. it's SCIENCE, huh? Thanks for letting me know that there is now an objective blood test for this condition. Because I was ignorantly under the impression that diagnosis still consisted of subjective observations from some random asshole doctor, who may or may not have any fucking clue what he's even doing.
Do they really need an in-depth analysis for something that bloody simple?
Yeah sure, you can beat the iPad if you offer similar features and sell it for $100--no shit. How is that in ANY way analogous too offering your pad for $50-$100 cheaper than an iPad? Oooh, let's all run out an buy the Amazon maxiPad because it's $650 instead of the iPad's $700!! Unless you're prepared to absolutely bleed money on every maxiPad sale, you're not going to soak up even a single percentage point of the iPad's market dominance.
Now all my Facebook friends can get raped WITH me! Thanks, Ticketmaster!
They're also just the kind of obsessive types who will become convinced that their kid has autism the second he/she acts a little shy....and the kind of people who will take him/her to the pediatrician and pepper the good doctor with their "autism" observations until he finally relents and labels the kid an autistic tard and dopes him up on whatever-the-fuck autism drug happens to be hot today....and the kind of people who will then tell everyone who will listen all the details of the "autistic" kid and his/her treatments, in elaborate and excruciating fucking detail, whether they want to hear it or not.
Stupid Russians, acting like they *invented* modern space flight or something.
Houston, we have the DT's.
I live in a shitty state, and most teachers here make WAY more than that. The *starting* salary for teachers here is somewhere around $40,000, and they get GUARANTEED raises every year. So a teacher who has been working 20 or 30 years can easily end up making in the $90,000 range (not administrators, we're talking classroom teachers). All that and they get summers off.
If your local school district posts salaries (they have to where I'm at, since they're considered state employees), do yourself a favor and look at the salary information for your local school. If you buy into the myth of the poor, underpaid teacher, it will shock you to see the truth. I'm an experience programmer and there are teachers at my kids school making considerably more than me. And I certainly don't get summers off.
I do, dipshit. But I would still like to be able to watch the best in the high level tournaments. You know, kind of like how *you* have a 2-inch dick but still like to watch porn videos with guys who are well-endowed?
Over 1,000 channels on my cable box, several hundred of them dedicated to sports. And not *one* dedicated to videogame competitions. So apparently a pretty niche market (though personally, I would love to be able to spectate Halo tournaments, Arena battles in MMO's, etc.). For that matter, almost no videogames have any kind of "spectator" mode for players who just want to watch (and not participate).
This first time I ever saw a Claymore and saw that, I laughed my ass off. It occurred to me that the fact that they had to put that on there must mean that they had enough soldiers make that mistake to make it worth spelling out explicitly. Maybe in the early days they just handed Claymores out with no training, necessitating the "Hey dipshit, you've got it backwards" warning label.