I have what's known as red/green color blindness and the optical allusion in the summary didn't work on me at all. Both of the squares look like what I perceive to be green.
It IS the same as leaving your front door open in your house, having a visitor stop at the door and ask "may I come in?" and you replying "yes". You can't then turn around and sue for trespassing.
Although I don't agree that it is that simple, equating using someone's connection to walking into their house via an open door is completely irrational. Hacking into someone's wireless router to obtain access is obviously illegal, but using an insecure connection (provided you don't use this connection for illegal means) is far from illegal. It may be a ethically wrong if you don't ask them to use it first, but as long as no damage is caused, it's easily fixable by simply SECURING your wireless. Internet installers and wireless router manufacturers really should try to make a point to push securing access points in the first place. Most people have no idea that it's possible and advisable to secure your wireless access.
I'm not really sure what that blog post entails. Does it mean Google is going to purposely tamper with it's search formulas to make sure that health care companies don't get "Google Bombed"? Or specifically censor anti-health care, Michael Moore related content?
It's one thing to keep health care searches relevant, but it's quite another to accept money to censor content.
I honestly can't believe this got posted. Everything in this description is pure speculation and the only link is to the RIAA website? I know Slashdot has a tendency to flip out over anything the RIAA does, but this is ridiculous. So their website has some downtime. Whatever.
Slashdot needs some better filters for stories or something. Come on.
The article is talking about Ohio University, not Ohio State University. I'm a student at OU and it's amazing how lax the network security is here. Absolutely nothing is blocked here, file sharing or otherwise. I know quite a few people that have gotten in trouble for file sharing but they've only gotten referred to the university officials, not the RIAA.
Not that computer security is highly regarded here at all, considering that hackers recently got their hands on a list of the entire student body's social security numbers. Network security is definitely not a forte here. I doubt the school officials value "sharing information" as much as they're just lazy about their underfunded security. Not that I'm complaining...:-)
We live in a democratic republic -- therefore if elected officials are not serving the people and allowing laws which directly contravene your wishes, you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
That statement doesn't make any sense. Just because you don't like a law doesn't mean you don't have to obey it. You can try and get the law changed, but until then you're stuck. You can't just go around doing whatever you want and act justified. Also, I doubt support of music piracy is the majority at all.
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I have what's known as red/green color blindness and the optical allusion in the summary didn't work on me at all. Both of the squares look like what I perceive to be green.
I'm not really sure what that blog post entails. Does it mean Google is going to purposely tamper with it's search formulas to make sure that health care companies don't get "Google Bombed"? Or specifically censor anti-health care, Michael Moore related content?
It's one thing to keep health care searches relevant, but it's quite another to accept money to censor content.
That made me laugh. So true.
I honestly can't believe this got posted. Everything in this description is pure speculation and the only link is to the RIAA website? I know Slashdot has a tendency to flip out over anything the RIAA does, but this is ridiculous. So their website has some downtime. Whatever. Slashdot needs some better filters for stories or something. Come on.
Oh no he didn't...
Ouch that's definitely not one Microsoft's favor. MySpace has notoriously bad reliability.
The article is talking about Ohio University, not Ohio State University. I'm a student at OU and it's amazing how lax the network security is here. Absolutely nothing is blocked here, file sharing or otherwise. I know quite a few people that have gotten in trouble for file sharing but they've only gotten referred to the university officials, not the RIAA. Not that computer security is highly regarded here at all, considering that hackers recently got their hands on a list of the entire student body's social security numbers. Network security is definitely not a forte here. I doubt the school officials value "sharing information" as much as they're just lazy about their underfunded security. Not that I'm complaining... :-)
...hopefully could keep us from going wherever the dinosaurs went. They didn't go anywhere. They just died.
Geez, who drives that thing... those tracks are going all over the place.
I remember hotmail, I remember having to spend five minutes sorting through two pages of junk emails to read two good ones.
Personally, I find everything runs faster in IE. I only use Firefox because I like the interface better and I hated the security problems with IE.
This is indeed slashdot, meaning I didn't read the article... :)
And the selection is going to be about nothing until somebody makes an entirely user friendly Windows client. I'll stick to my current methods.
I'd like my documents securely on my hard drive and completely under my control. I see no reason to let Google store them for me.
I have yet to see a video on YouTube that has any aspect of "family values".
We live in a democratic republic -- therefore if elected officials are not serving the people and allowing laws which directly contravene your wishes, you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
That statement doesn't make any sense. Just because you don't like a law doesn't mean you don't have to obey it. You can try and get the law changed, but until then you're stuck. You can't just go around doing whatever you want and act justified. Also, I doubt support of music piracy is the majority at all.
Why does no one talk about Facebook.
It was even the first thing I blogged about. Weblogging: Don't play that game.