The main issue here is the presense of cryptographic software on the machine. Not a gun with his prints! They have no way of knowing what the software was used for.
It's like saying that they found rope with which he could have used to tie her. Or it could have been used to fix a mechanical problem in his house, or to wrap around bundles of wood, or anything. The presence of cryptographic software should have absolutely nothing to do with the case. Plain and simple.
This is totally outrageous! I mean, it's like saying that because you own a gun that you will be found guilty for a murder or something. The main reason that the courts can function while saying that the presence of encryption technology is harmful is because of the widespread ignorance.
This is the sort of thing we need to fight. There are more legit. uses of cryptography than anyone can shake a bloody stick at! And if they're going to start ruling in such a manner where this becomes a pattern, it won't stop soon. Just watch, within a few years it may be illegal to use crypto for unknown purposes. And in a decade it will be illegal to possess technology in order to do so. These ideas are not crazy; governments have been doing this will all sorts of weapons for a long time, and we all know that they've also been treating strong crypto as a weapon for just as long.
As I said, this is the sort of thing that needs to be fought. Strongly.
indeed. One of the best science fiction movies ever, on tour. It's too bad it's not a flying tour with lots of muusic. Still, though, it'd be cool to see.
Ah, but very, very few of us buy blank CDs. More than 40% of my schoolmates have iPods and the other 50%-60% have mp3 players, NOT CD players. We just don't buy many CDs, it seems.
It certainly is nice to be living in Canada these days. But seriously, do the laws in the US actually stop anyone from sharing music? At all? Like, yeah, it's great to know that here in Canada we're able to do it LEGALLY, but down there in the States, people still do it anyway, right?
The people who should be threatened with jail time are those who designed the poor system, not those who pointed out the mistakes. Yes, yes, I know that'll never happen, but honestly, this way is just plain stupid.
I mean seriously, if you were designing a car, and had released it. Millions of people were driving it. Someone takes theirs out to a desert and does some tests on it. They find that if you press the wrong button, it blows up. You decide to sue them and try to throw them in jail. Does that make ANY sense?
The stupidity in the system is really quite astounding.
That's wrong...Time would pass normally for you. You would think at a slower speed (the same speed you're moving) so you wouldn't notice a difference. When you got off the bike, however, much more time would have passed for everyone else than you.
All this is, of course, assuming Einstein was right (and I think some experiment somewhere proved these effects to be correct)
Eh? Google doesn't offer about 2.2 GB right now, it offers about 2.1.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, but if you're going to be specific that you include the decimal point of how much space google offers, get it right.
The idea of a capitalist world is that there are to be numerous
products in the same category that compete and try to be the best.
That way, the consumer is provided with a choice of what they wish to
have, and often they end up with a better product as a result of the
competition.
The problem is, all these new web mail services are offering basically
the same thing for the same price (that is, no money, but people pay
through the price of ads and such.)
As one can see, I use a gmail account, because it offers the keyboard
shortcuts. In all honesty, that's all that's kept me there because
it's the only unique feature. I don't mean to be bashing the new
services; it just seems as though there's nothing new in each one that
pops up, except for the name.
So...all we have to do is take away the right of everyone down there to use a computer and our spam problem will be solved!
Okay, seriously though. Spam exists for a reason. It exists because it works. So, why is there *so* much emphasis on trying to kill the spam from the source rather than educating people? Because if people just *knew* not to buy things from e-mail (have you EVER seen a legal warning that says "Caution: Buying products through e-mail is dangerous and stupid"? Didn't think so.).
I swear, if spam didn't make money, it wouldn't exist. So why don't we try to educate the population? It only takes a few stickers on PCs and a few lines of warning on hotmail.com...If MS cares at ALL about making the spam issue a small issue, they would do something about it.
Perhaps we should start keeping our own data secure, rather than relying on other people to do it for us? I mean, if you're paranoid about people using this program and gaining access to our "sensitive" data, then it's your own damn fault. Your data shouldn't be so wide open on internet web pages anyhow. Bah.
I'm getting quite sick of this crap. A telephone is a telephone. It should be able to make and receive calls, and that's it. Nothing else. People who use those crappy technologies are just begging for the phone companies to add more bloated features to the telephones and to have more and more reason to charge you more. I mean seriously, you *must* have the new features, right? Otherwise you look like a geek-wannabe and are all of a sudden not so popular. Right?
$10 says that if I submit a story to/. about a "nationwide" event held in luxembourg, it wouldn't get accepted. It's just a matter of nationalism and americans being taught that they are the best in the world. I'm not trying to be a troll here; the British have always been taught the same thing, the Germans went through it, the French, etc...it's not BAD exactly, as much as it is a comment of the times.
I live in Canada and get this sort of thing all the time. One gets used to it after a while.
So I wonder if the comic books being given away are worth anything, anything at all? That is, are they just the ones you can buy anywhere for a few cents? And why not free as in speech, too? I'd be much happier that way...
Well, I live in Canada, so I guess it doesn't matter anyway. There should be an effort to turn this into an international event, rather that just an American one...
This reminds me of old debate about requiring a license to use the internet. The pros being obvious: stupid/ignorant people would not be allowed to open viruses any longer, etc. The cons being that the internet is currently a free, open medium with few restrictions on what can be said/shown.
So images of something that looks just like we thought it would now constitutes as news? Eh?
Is it just me, or are some of the newer/. stories not quite as...decent as they used to be?
Not to mention, it's most likely that the future of "desktop" computing is certainly not in the "tablet"-style machines, anyhow. Bah. It's a waste of time.
Just like cell phones and the voice encoders. They are complete crap most of the time, 'cause it's cheaper for the phone companies, even though the technology exists (and isn't all *that* expensive) to have our voices sound perfect in cell phones.
The audio quality of streaming media can be decent, but it often is not. This appears to be for the reason that websites need to cater to those with poor connections. And sure, some sites offer multiple versions of the same thing of varying quality, but that's a minority.
Streaming media is something that could be fantastic, but with all the lack of abiding to the standards and such, I'm not a huge fan.
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The main problem with this statement is that Windows XP includes encryption software as well. So do most modern Microsoft products.
Are you serious?
The main issue here is the presense of cryptographic software on the machine. Not a gun with his prints! They have no way of knowing what the software was used for.
It's like saying that they found rope with which he could have used to tie her. Or it could have been used to fix a mechanical problem in his house, or to wrap around bundles of wood, or anything. The presence of cryptographic software should have absolutely nothing to do with the case. Plain and simple.
This is totally outrageous! I mean, it's like saying that because you own a gun that you will be found guilty for a murder or something. The main reason that the courts can function while saying that the presence of encryption technology is harmful is because of the widespread ignorance.
This is the sort of thing we need to fight. There are more legit. uses of cryptography than anyone can shake a bloody stick at! And if they're going to start ruling in such a manner where this becomes a pattern, it won't stop soon. Just watch, within a few years it may be illegal to use crypto for unknown purposes. And in a decade it will be illegal to possess technology in order to do so. These ideas are not crazy; governments have been doing this will all sorts of weapons for a long time, and we all know that they've also been treating strong crypto as a weapon for just as long.
As I said, this is the sort of thing that needs to be fought. Strongly.
indeed. One of the best science fiction movies ever, on tour. It's too bad it's not a flying tour with lots of muusic. Still, though, it'd be cool to see.
Ah, but very, very few of us buy blank CDs. More than 40% of my schoolmates have iPods and the other 50%-60% have mp3 players, NOT CD players. We just don't buy many CDs, it seems.
It certainly is nice to be living in Canada these days. But seriously, do the laws in the US actually stop anyone from sharing music? At all? Like, yeah, it's great to know that here in Canada we're able to do it LEGALLY, but down there in the States, people still do it anyway, right?
Fine. They break into someone else's car and do the tests. Doesn't really make much difference when you get right down to the point I was making.
The people who should be threatened with jail time are those who designed the poor system, not those who pointed out the mistakes. Yes, yes, I know that'll never happen, but honestly, this way is just plain stupid.
I mean seriously, if you were designing a car, and had released it. Millions of people were driving it. Someone takes theirs out to a desert and does some tests on it. They find that if you press the wrong button, it blows up. You decide to sue them and try to throw them in jail. Does that make ANY sense?
The stupidity in the system is really quite astounding.
That's wrong...Time would pass normally for you. You would think at a slower speed (the same speed you're moving) so you wouldn't notice a difference. When you got off the bike, however, much more time would have passed for everyone else than you.
All this is, of course, assuming Einstein was right (and I think some experiment somewhere proved these effects to be correct)
Eh? Google doesn't offer about 2.2 GB right now, it offers about 2.1.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, but if you're going to be specific that you include the decimal point of how much space google offers, get it right.
2193/1024 = 2.14, not 2.2.
Geeeeze.
The idea of a capitalist world is that there are to be numerous products in the same category that compete and try to be the best. That way, the consumer is provided with a choice of what they wish to have, and often they end up with a better product as a result of the competition.
The problem is, all these new web mail services are offering basically the same thing for the same price (that is, no money, but people pay through the price of ads and such.)
As one can see, I use a gmail account, because it offers the keyboard shortcuts. In all honesty, that's all that's kept me there because it's the only unique feature. I don't mean to be bashing the new services; it just seems as though there's nothing new in each one that pops up, except for the name.
So...all we have to do is take away the right of everyone down there to use a computer and our spam problem will be solved!
Okay, seriously though. Spam exists for a reason. It exists because it works. So, why is there *so* much emphasis on trying to kill the spam from the source rather than educating people? Because if people just *knew* not to buy things from e-mail (have you EVER seen a legal warning that says "Caution: Buying products through e-mail is dangerous and stupid"? Didn't think so.).
I swear, if spam didn't make money, it wouldn't exist. So why don't we try to educate the population? It only takes a few stickers on PCs and a few lines of warning on hotmail.com...If MS cares at ALL about making the spam issue a small issue, they would do something about it.
And your "important" data shouldn't be on the web where it could be deleted anyhow.
Perhaps we should start keeping our own data secure, rather than relying on other people to do it for us? I mean, if you're paranoid about people using this program and gaining access to our "sensitive" data, then it's your own damn fault. Your data shouldn't be so wide open on internet web pages anyhow. Bah.
I'm getting quite sick of this crap. A telephone is a telephone. It should be able to make and receive calls, and that's it. Nothing else. People who use those crappy technologies are just begging for the phone companies to add more bloated features to the telephones and to have more and more reason to charge you more. I mean seriously, you *must* have the new features, right? Otherwise you look like a geek-wannabe and are all of a sudden not so popular. Right?
$10 says that if I submit a story to /. about a "nationwide" event held in luxembourg, it wouldn't get accepted. It's just a matter of nationalism and americans being taught that they are the best in the world. I'm not trying to be a troll here; the British have always been taught the same thing, the Germans went through it, the French, etc...it's not BAD exactly, as much as it is a comment of the times.
I live in Canada and get this sort of thing all the time. One gets used to it after a while.
So I wonder if the comic books being given away are worth anything, anything at all? That is, are they just the ones you can buy anywhere for a few cents? And why not free as in speech, too? I'd be much happier that way...
Well, I live in Canada, so I guess it doesn't matter anyway. There should be an effort to turn this into an international event, rather that just an American one...
from the British Red Dwarf series. Need I say more?
DMCA = Destruction of My Copyright Abilities
We all know the DMCA is a joke. Good thing us Canadians know it, too.
This reminds me of old debate about requiring a license to use the internet. The pros being obvious: stupid/ignorant people would not be allowed to open viruses any longer, etc. The cons being that the internet is currently a free, open medium with few restrictions on what can be said/shown.
So images of something that looks just like we thought it would now constitutes as news? Eh?
/. stories not quite as...decent as they used to be?
Is it just me, or are some of the newer
Not to mention, it's most likely that the future of "desktop" computing is certainly not in the "tablet"-style machines, anyhow. Bah. It's a waste of time.
Just like cell phones and the voice encoders. They are complete crap most of the time, 'cause it's cheaper for the phone companies, even though the technology exists (and isn't all *that* expensive) to have our voices sound perfect in cell phones.
The audio quality of streaming media can be decent, but it often is not. This appears to be for the reason that websites need to cater to those with poor connections. And sure, some sites offer multiple versions of the same thing of varying quality, but that's a minority.
Streaming media is something that could be fantastic, but with all the lack of abiding to the standards and such, I'm not a huge fan.