If that's not enough, I'm an American, and I was taught about the Kent State massacre in history classes. And no, the presentation of the incident was not blindly supportive of the military. Argument fail.
I posted about the technical details of Chinese censorship here: [http://linuxrocks123.livejournal.com/83456.html]. Basically, for the banned sites, DNS packets are intercepted and hijacked no matter what server they are intended for. If that's what's happening in Denmark, you should be able to work around the problem by typing in the raw IP address of thepiratebay.org (currently 194.71.107.15).
No matter what the details are, a proxy hosted in a freer country should always work, especially if it's backed by SSL. If you want to use the DNS name, you'll of course have to route the DNS requests through the proxy, but my website has instructions on how to do that. Look here for proxy sites: [http://samair.ru].
Please post any details of the censorship you happen to uncover -- I'm very interested.
As has been stated multiple times in this thread already, this is only a problem if you have exactly one client, in which case you really are an employee of the company and, for fairness's sake, should probably be treated that way for tax purposes. However, you can get around that problem even in that case if you organize as a partnership with at least one other person.
First, "Ms. Phelps is the worst teacher I've ever met" is not slander. It's an opinion statement, and she has the right to speak her opinion.
Second, being a student in a public school is not the same as being an employee. You are not entitled to a job. You can be fired for whatever your employer wants, and you can quit for whatever you want. Those under a certain age, however, are ENTITLED to receive an education from the U.S. public school system. They cannot be denied this education without cause.
A more appropriate analogy would be complaining about the DMV on the Internet and then not being able to renew your driver's license. Think how that would go down in court.
> In other words, you believe choice is an illusion, no? Yet the very concept of "illusion" implies that I had a choice, and that I made the wrong choice - where I should have judged that I had no free will, I incorrectly judged that I didn't. The same goes for any other synonym, or even for words themselves. The very words you use, and the concepts in your mind which are represented by those words, imply free will. Anyone attempting to argue that we do not have free will is invalidated by his very attempt to argue.
---
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() { cout << "I have no free will.\n"; return 0; }
Even if they were not, on what would the RIAA obtain a lien? Her house? For all we know, Ms. Thomas might not even own a house. If she does, its value is likely covered by her state's residential exemption for the purposes of bankruptcy, so any judicial liens will be discharged. And, if Ms. Thomas files a bankruptcy petition after the final judgment but before the RIAA obtains an Abstract of Judgment on the target of the lien, the automatic stay created by bankruptcy will prevent the RIAA from pursuing any lien against Ms. Thomas. Considering that the RIAA will be Ms. Thomas's major creditor in bankruptcy anyway, the RIAA would obtain no advantage from pursuing a lien against Ms. Thomas before she has a chance to file for bankruptcy.
Regarding southern U.S. states, the ones I've lived in actually have a fairly moderate sales tax. Illinois and California have much higher sales tax rates than Texas, for instance, and they have state income taxes to boot. Yes, you need taxes for civilization, but efficiency in the use of tax dollars plays a role in how steep the taxes need to be.
You're confused. While it is true that there are a very few limited exceptions to the general rule that civil judgments are automatically discharged in bankruptcy, none of these are applicable to the case against Ms. Thomas, as this case is not about an intentional tort, alimony, child support, or a student loan repayment. Her debt is very clearly dischargeable.
You're wrong. Judgments from a civil lawsuit are dischargeable. You may be confused because fines that are punishment for a crime are sometimes not dischargeable. This case, however, was not a criminal case.
There's no reason you can't actually talk HTTP. See http://www.sensepost.com/research/reDuh/ for one of many examples on how to do this. And, once you have an arbitrary TCP connection, there's no reason you can't perform a public key exchange for SSH as usual, defeating your proxy's man-in-the-middle attack.
Nice try, man, but you'll never be clever enough to accomplish what you intend.
Specifically this: "The 2007 SOX guidance from the PCAOB[1] and SEC[2] state that IT controls should only be part of the SOX 404 assessment to the extent that specific financial risks are addressed, which significantly reduces the scope of IT controls required in the assessment."
> In Vermont, for example, they were met at the state line by militia who told them to fuck off home, because the Fugitive Slave Act was null and void in their state.
I'd like more information on this incident, but I can't seem to find any. Could you point me in the right direction?
Technologically, we are very close to having a system where we can hold cops and everyone else accountable. What we need are the following:
1. A video camera small enough to unobtrusively wear. 2. A wireless Internet connection fast enough to stream the video to a server in a secure location. 3. Enough space on the server to hold the stream for a decent amount of time (say a day or a week).
Once we have that, any individual will be able to provide video evidence of... well, everything. Muggings, unless the suspect's face was fully covered, or police brutality, or anything else the person witnessed. This will be a good day.
>Did you know that in the United States, 1st amendment freedom of expression does NOT apply to advocacy for drug reform or drug use? The Supreme Court has affirmed that speech advocating the use of drugs or reform of drug laws is not protected in any way and government officials can legally ban it or restrict it in any way. The government can, and has, passed laws forbidding depicting the use of drugs on television and radio, or any advocacy for drug use or drug reform.
I call BS. Political speech is always protected speech up to and in some cases including advocating the overthrow of the government. Do you have a case you think stands for that precedent?
Remember that story about the guy facing years in prison over one single undeleted image of child porn? He's pleading guilty on advice of a public defender.
I did fine in calculus, but it probably was a waste of time to require it for a CS degree. I never used it again. It's probably only good for weeding people out who can't think logically and thus would fail in later CS courses. I have no personal knowledge if BlakeyRat was "weeded out" erroneously.
I think they should drop the calculus requirement and maybe teach Automata Theory to first-year students or something.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kent+state+massacre&search_type=&aq=0
If that's not enough, I'm an American, and I was taught about the Kent State massacre in history classes. And no, the presentation of the incident was not blindly supportive of the military. Argument fail.
---linuxrocks123
I posted about the technical details of Chinese censorship here: [http://linuxrocks123.livejournal.com/83456.html]. Basically, for the banned sites, DNS packets are intercepted and hijacked no matter what server they are intended for. If that's what's happening in Denmark, you should be able to work around the problem by typing in the raw IP address of thepiratebay.org (currently 194.71.107.15).
No matter what the details are, a proxy hosted in a freer country should always work, especially if it's backed by SSL. If you want to use the DNS name, you'll of course have to route the DNS requests through the proxy, but my website has instructions on how to do that. Look here for proxy sites: [http://samair.ru].
Please post any details of the censorship you happen to uncover -- I'm very interested.
---linuxrocks123
Hopefully the Bilski decision will come out and invalidate software patents. Then these companies can get back to competing on innovation.
DAMN I wish I had mod points. Good one, man :)
Part of the point of declaring bankruptcy is to stop wage garnishments.
---linuxrocks123
As has been stated multiple times in this thread already, this is only a problem if you have exactly one client, in which case you really are an employee of the company and, for fairness's sake, should probably be treated that way for tax purposes. However, you can get around that problem even in that case if you organize as a partnership with at least one other person.
---linuxrocks123
First, "Ms. Phelps is the worst teacher I've ever met" is not slander. It's an opinion statement, and she has the right to speak her opinion.
Second, being a student in a public school is not the same as being an employee. You are not entitled to a job. You can be fired for whatever your employer wants, and you can quit for whatever you want. Those under a certain age, however, are ENTITLED to receive an education from the U.S. public school system. They cannot be denied this education without cause.
A more appropriate analogy would be complaining about the DMV on the Internet and then not being able to renew your driver's license. Think how that would go down in court.
---linuxrocks123
> In other words, you believe choice is an illusion, no? Yet the very concept of "illusion" implies that I had a choice, and that I made the wrong choice - where I should have judged that I had no free will, I incorrectly judged that I didn't. The same goes for any other synonym, or even for words themselves. The very words you use, and the concepts in your mind which are represented by those words, imply free will. Anyone attempting to argue that we do not have free will is invalidated by his very attempt to argue.
---
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "I have no free will.\n";
return 0;
}
---
HOLY SHIT! MY COMPUTER HAS FREE WILL!
---linuxrocks123
You have shit for brains and probably live in your mother's basement. Judicial liens are, in fact, discharged by bankruptcy exactly to the extent that they would allow a creditor to take a debtor's exempt property: http://law.scu.edu/FacWebPage/Neustadter/article9/main/commentary/36.html
Even if they were not, on what would the RIAA obtain a lien? Her house? For all we know, Ms. Thomas might not even own a house. If she does, its value is likely covered by her state's residential exemption for the purposes of bankruptcy, so any judicial liens will be discharged. And, if Ms. Thomas files a bankruptcy petition after the final judgment but before the RIAA obtains an Abstract of Judgment on the target of the lien, the automatic stay created by bankruptcy will prevent the RIAA from pursuing any lien against Ms. Thomas. Considering that the RIAA will be Ms. Thomas's major creditor in bankruptcy anyway, the RIAA would obtain no advantage from pursuing a lien against Ms. Thomas before she has a chance to file for bankruptcy.
---linuxrocks123
Regarding southern U.S. states, the ones I've lived in actually have a fairly moderate sales tax. Illinois and California have much higher sales tax rates than Texas, for instance, and they have state income taxes to boot. Yes, you need taxes for civilization, but efficiency in the use of tax dollars plays a role in how steep the taxes need to be.
You're confused. While it is true that there are a very few limited exceptions to the general rule that civil judgments are automatically discharged in bankruptcy, none of these are applicable to the case against Ms. Thomas, as this case is not about an intentional tort, alimony, child support, or a student loan repayment. Her debt is very clearly dischargeable.
---linuxrocks123
You're wrong. Judgments from a civil lawsuit are dischargeable. You may be confused because fines that are punishment for a crime are sometimes not dischargeable. This case, however, was not a criminal case.
---linuxrocks123
There's no reason you can't actually talk HTTP. See http://www.sensepost.com/research/reDuh/ for one of many examples on how to do this. And, once you have an arbitrary TCP connection, there's no reason you can't perform a public key exchange for SSH as usual, defeating your proxy's man-in-the-middle attack.
Nice try, man, but you'll never be clever enough to accomplish what you intend.
---linuxrocks123
If what you know about Sarbanes-Oxley comes from Slashdot, you probably think it is significantly wider in scope than it actually is. You're correct: Sarbanes-Oxley is only tangentially related to IT, but somehow Slashdot thinks that it's this big huge-ass problem. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_controls#IT_controls_and_the_Sarbanes-Oxley_Act_.28SOX.29
Specifically this:
"The 2007 SOX guidance from the PCAOB[1] and SEC[2] state that IT controls should only be part of the SOX 404 assessment to the extent that specific financial risks are addressed, which significantly reduces the scope of IT controls required in the assessment."
---linuxrocks123
I didn't really intend to denigrate you; it was meant in jest. Please read "you have the worst imagination ever" as if it had a smiley after it.
Chill out, man :)
---linuxrocks123
"It's hard to name another group that is so eager to use the law to enforce their morality on other people."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34939
You have the worst imagination ever.
---linuxrocks123
> In Vermont, for example, they were met at the state line by militia who told them to fuck off home, because the Fugitive Slave Act was null and void in their state.
I'd like more information on this incident, but I can't seem to find any. Could you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
---linuxrocks123
Technologically, we are very close to having a system where we can hold cops and everyone else accountable. What we need are the following:
1. A video camera small enough to unobtrusively wear.
2. A wireless Internet connection fast enough to stream the video to a server in a secure location.
3. Enough space on the server to hold the stream for a decent amount of time (say a day or a week).
Once we have that, any individual will be able to provide video evidence of ... well, everything. Muggings, unless the suspect's face was fully covered, or police brutality, or anything else the person witnessed. This will be a good day.
---linuxrocks123
>Did you know that in the United States, 1st amendment freedom of expression does NOT apply to advocacy for drug reform or drug use? The Supreme Court has affirmed that speech advocating the use of drugs or reform of drug laws is not protected in any way and government officials can legally ban it or restrict it in any way. The government can, and has, passed laws forbidding depicting the use of drugs on television and radio, or any advocacy for drug use or drug reform.
I call BS. Political speech is always protected speech up to and in some cases including advocating the overthrow of the government. Do you have a case you think stands for that precedent?
---linuxrocks123
Remember that story about the guy facing years in prison over one single undeleted image of child porn? He's pleading guilty on advice of a public defender.
---inuxrocks123
Umm you're saying Google Chrome keeps a record of all the sites you visit? Do you have anything to back that up? It's really scary if it's true.
---linuxrocks123
Yes, because you should know that ^H only deletes one character. You need ^W if you want to delete a whole word :P
---linuxrocks123
Global market share of Mac is just over 4%: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/12/01/apples_iphone_halo_effect_again_carries_mac_sales_to_new_heights.html
I think the 9% figure you quote is for the US, you jingoistic, narrow-minded American swine.
---linuxrocks123
That is not complexity theory.
This is complexity theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory
---linuxrocks123
I did fine in calculus, but it probably was a waste of time to require it for a CS degree. I never used it again. It's probably only good for weeding people out who can't think logically and thus would fail in later CS courses. I have no personal knowledge if BlakeyRat was "weeded out" erroneously.
I think they should drop the calculus requirement and maybe teach Automata Theory to first-year students or something.
---linuxrocks123