1. Humans cause global warming.
2. Earth's ice caps melt
3. Oceans rise & current flow stops.
4. World cools.
5. Ice caps grow.
6. Ice caps kick human's ass
7. No more humans = no more global warming. Problem solved.
8. Ice caps go back to normal.
Do you think you could convince discovery channel to play more than just the toilet one? Everytime I tune in it's always the one where you try to prove someone smoking on a toilet won't blow themselves up. While this is an important lesson, I'd like to see other episodes as well.
The only people who I see putting this argument forward are people who don't have children. You can't be with a kid (especially age 13+) 24 hours a day to monitor them, and even if you teach them well and they're respectful of your wishes and teaching "don't do this," by definition as human beings, they will do it. Thus, the laws of the state exist to protect the child in the void of their parents' oversight and teaching. It's not bad parenting, as you claim - it's reasonable.
Thats the biggest load of crap I've read in a long time (and I read/. regularly). Sure parents can't be with their kids 24/7... but they can have a say in what they're buying. These games don't just magically appear for kids - they have to acquire them somehow. And with the prices of video games lately, I don't think little johnny's summer lawn mowing business generates enough revenue for him to buy one of these games. And when little johnny wants to go buy the game, how does he get there? Takes the bus? Rides his lawn mower? No! Someone has to take him to the store. Someone has to help him buy the game. And who is this someone? Probably little johnny's parents, or someone little johnny's parents trust.
So yes, it is the parent's fault. They're somewhere in the loop - somewhere to say "you're too young to play that". And now that we have these wonderful rating systems, even the stupid parents know if a game is violent. It breaks down to this:
It's johnny's parent's fault that he's fat, since they took him to mcdonalds and bought him a happy meal
It's johnny's parent's fault that he wants to imitate 50 Cent because they took him to the store and bought the cd for him
It's johnny's parent's fault that he plays violent video games, because they took him to the store and bought the game for him
Don't you see? The parent's are the ENABLERS. The only thing that isn't johnny's fault is that his parents had him without considering they'd actually have to take CARE of him and be a part of his life, rather than letting multimedia resources raise him. And if he's old enough to get a job and drive himself to the store, perhaps he's old enough to seperate fake violence from real life. Otherwise, perhaps johnny should be in a special place away from TVs.
I think the key to this article is not the piece on encryption, but the piece on inter-county cooperation. In the states, it takes a long time for evidence to be approved by the proper authorities for analysis, just because the people doing the analysis don't want to screw up and have the evidence thrown out in court.
And as easy as it is to make fun of the police's analysis methods, my guess is most slashdotter's don't even know what it's like to process evidence for a case. It's not just "running automated tools" on some suspect's hard drive. It's getting to know the case, knowing what you're looking for and where to look for it. Many times it's the police themselves that are writing these "automated tools", which only present the evidence in a way less technical minded officers assigned to the case can understand. And what happens once you get that evidence? You have to try to fit it into the puzzle of the case. It isn't CSI, where you find some email detailing the crime that's digitially signed and the suspect confesses to writing it. Often times its finding some random piece of partially-overwritten text and having to see if it fits into the overall case.
And yes, most digital forensic labs can analyze your precious reiserfs/ext2/ext3/whatever file systems. In fact, I've never run across a lab that couldn't. So don't think you're 1337 linux system will be safe if it's ever involved in a crime. And if they don't have the tools to analyze them, they'll contact a department that does. That's how the real world of forensics works.
Next time you want to talk about a subject you blatently don't understand, do us all a favor and don't hit the submit button.
I think the key to this article is not the piece on encryption, but the piece on inter-county cooperation. In the states, it takes a long time for evidence to be approved by the proper authorities for analysis, just because the people doing the analysis don't want to screw up and have the evidence thrown out in court.
And as easy as it is to make fun of the police's analysis methods, my guess is most slashdotter's don't even know what it's like to process evidence for a case. It's not just "running automated tools" on some suspect's hard drive. It's getting to know the case, knowing what you're looking for and where to look for it. Many times it's the police themselves that are writing these "automated tools", which only present the evidence in a way less technical minded officers assigned to the case can understand.
And what happens once you get that evidence? You have to try to fit it into the puzzle of the case. It isn't CSI, where you find some email detailing the crime that's digitially signed and the suspect confesses to writing it. Often times its finding some random piece of partially-overwritten text and having to see if it fits into the overall case.
And yes, most digital forensic labs can analyze your precious reiserfs/ext2/ext3/whatever file systems. In fact, I've never run across a lab that couldn't. So don't think you're 1337 linux system will be safe if it's ever involved in a crime. And if they don't have the tools to analyze them, they'll contact a department that does. That's how the real world of forensics works.
Next time you want to talk about a subject you blatently don't understand, do us all a favor and don't hit the submit button.
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Good luck when they start a brute force attack! :)
1. Humans cause global warming.
2. Earth's ice caps melt
3. Oceans rise & current flow stops.
4. World cools.
5. Ice caps grow.
6. Ice caps kick human's ass
7. No more humans = no more global warming. Problem solved.
8. Ice caps go back to normal.
You missed two VERY IMPORTANT steps:
9. ?
10. Profit
Do you think you could convince discovery channel to play more than just the toilet one? Everytime I tune in it's always the one where you try to prove someone smoking on a toilet won't blow themselves up. While this is an important lesson, I'd like to see other episodes as well.
Thats the biggest load of crap I've read in a long time (and I read
So yes, it is the parent's fault. They're somewhere in the loop - somewhere to say "you're too young to play that". And now that we have these wonderful rating systems, even the stupid parents know if a game is violent.
It breaks down to this:
Don't you see? The parent's are the ENABLERS. The only thing that isn't johnny's fault is that his parents had him without considering they'd actually have to take CARE of him and be a part of his life, rather than letting multimedia resources raise him. And if he's old enough to get a job and drive himself to the store, perhaps he's old enough to seperate fake violence from real life. Otherwise, perhaps johnny should be in a special place away from TVs.
I think the key to this article is not the piece on encryption, but the piece on inter-county cooperation. In the states, it takes a long time for evidence to be approved by the proper authorities for analysis, just because the people doing the analysis don't want to screw up and have the evidence thrown out in court.
And as easy as it is to make fun of the police's analysis methods, my guess is most slashdotter's don't even know what it's like to process evidence for a case. It's not just "running automated tools" on some suspect's hard drive. It's getting to know the case, knowing what you're looking for and where to look for it. Many times it's the police themselves that are writing these "automated tools", which only present the evidence in a way less technical minded officers assigned to the case can understand. And what happens once you get that evidence? You have to try to fit it into the puzzle of the case. It isn't CSI, where you find some email detailing the crime that's digitially signed and the suspect confesses to writing it. Often times its finding some random piece of partially-overwritten text and having to see if it fits into the overall case.
And yes, most digital forensic labs can analyze your precious reiserfs/ext2/ext3/whatever file systems. In fact, I've never run across a lab that couldn't. So don't think you're 1337 linux system will be safe if it's ever involved in a crime. And if they don't have the tools to analyze them, they'll contact a department that does. That's how the real world of forensics works.
Next time you want to talk about a subject you blatently don't understand, do us all a favor and don't hit the submit button.
I think the key to this article is not the piece on encryption, but the piece on inter-county cooperation. In the states, it takes a long time for evidence to be approved by the proper authorities for analysis, just because the people doing the analysis don't want to screw up and have the evidence thrown out in court. And as easy as it is to make fun of the police's analysis methods, my guess is most slashdotter's don't even know what it's like to process evidence for a case. It's not just "running automated tools" on some suspect's hard drive. It's getting to know the case, knowing what you're looking for and where to look for it. Many times it's the police themselves that are writing these "automated tools", which only present the evidence in a way less technical minded officers assigned to the case can understand. And what happens once you get that evidence? You have to try to fit it into the puzzle of the case. It isn't CSI, where you find some email detailing the crime that's digitially signed and the suspect confesses to writing it. Often times its finding some random piece of partially-overwritten text and having to see if it fits into the overall case. And yes, most digital forensic labs can analyze your precious reiserfs/ext2/ext3/whatever file systems. In fact, I've never run across a lab that couldn't. So don't think you're 1337 linux system will be safe if it's ever involved in a crime. And if they don't have the tools to analyze them, they'll contact a department that does. That's how the real world of forensics works. Next time you want to talk about a subject you blatently don't understand, do us all a favor and don't hit the submit button.
3000 Microsoft programmers have been given the boot.
but yet you failed to see bc90021's post making the same joke...
As long as they have the Internet as a scape-goat.
In the immortal words of Carlin... "The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked."
Onion routing to the rescue!
Now we will FINALLY know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space