The government aren't the girl being raped. They're the father, telling the girl that there's nothing wrong walking alone down a darkened alley in a high crime area late at night. Sure, the rape wasn't the father's fault but that doesn't stop him being a pretty lousy father who did nothing to ensure his daughter's safty.
For a more apt analogy. If the government was to sack every police officer within 100 miles of you, would you be ok with that? Afterall, it's not the government who would then start embarking on a crime spree.
Whether or not it was used or not doesn't matter. The point is, it wasn't WIDELY used.
Lots of people know how to make incredibly toxic gases with household ingredients. Would you then say it's perfectly fine to show a step by step guide telling you how on a prime time TV show?
Just because there's a possibility that a select few may already know something dangerous that doesn't mean it's morally fine to tell as many people as possible.
There's a difference between finding an exploit and making exploit code public before any company with a widely distributed product could possibly react.
He's no better than a malware developer. At least they tend to keep their code secret. There will always be bugs and exploits in any code.
Lost sales revenue comes from one or more of the following:
The original sale of the cart you'd have been buying
Flooded market. The more cheap pirated versions (that are incredibly hard to tell from the real thing) there are, the harder it is to sell legit copies. It costs sales as well as devalues the product.
Reputation hit. When the (innocently bought) pirated cart turned out not to have a battery for save games or the flash memory and people couldn't save their game, they'd blame Nintendo. Likewise there was a tabloid piece in the UK about a family who bought a pirated kids game (neither the family or the newspaper realised it was pirated) and it featured swear words that they got typically outraged about.
No scarcity & demand = no reprint. Sometimes if a game is rare enough and the ebay values get insane, It's worthwhile a publisher going in and printing a few thousand brand new copies. Believe this happened towards the end of the PS1's life with rare games like Suikoden
People are willing to throw their lives away if they think there's a good chance of success. They're less willing to throw their lives away if there's a good chance of embarrassing failure.
Say you know there's a 5% chances of slipping through the cracks and bombing a plane. That sounds really worrying as a passenger. However look at it from a potential terrorists PoV: There's a 95% chance you'll fail, get no virgins and spend several decades in a maximum security hellhole.
You're not going to get many volunteers for that. Even suicide bombers put value on their lives.
"I stick my fingers in my ears and go 'lalalalala' when people talk about the envoironmental impact and risks involved in oil drilling so I'm blameless!"
Yeah, getting paid for your work is so out of date! Those actors, photographers, musicians, writers and so on should all be grateful that I deem their lowly works worthy of my time!
You're also forgetting that copyright law is vitally important to the GPL and creative commons too.
The summary seems to be abusing the negativity around patent trolls and the actions of the companies in question.
This isn't companies sitting on pools of copyrighted content they've no intent to distribute. This is companies hiring a third party to protect their material.
Lots of small companies can't afford their own legal teams to protect themselves so it makes sense to outsource this type of thing.
People working for the government are also part of the public. There is a line that's crossed when it stops being about the government and it starts being about the individual.
You see it on Reddit and other similar sites. Someone finds out the name of a police officer, someone then digs a bit and finds his address and phone number. The officer and his (entirely innocent) family then have to deal with harrassment and death threats (realistic or not, imagine your 8 year old daughter answering the phone to one).
Sometimes these videos are genuine cases of police brutality but the vast majority of the time its a video of some kid or young guy who edits out the actions that caused him to get arrested out of the video and just cut to him being incapacitated and arrested.
Being restrained physically never looks good, especially if the person is young or screams/whines noisily but this is something actually done, not only for the protection of the officer, but for the protection of the suspect too (if you're struggling and unrestrained, you're going to fall over and with your hands cuffed, you'll probably crack your skull on the pavement).
Personally I'd like to see a compromise. Videoing a cop is fine but there should be a requirement for the video to be treated responsibly, ie given to the press or the courts. Not heavily edited and posted on youtube to demonise someone doing a by-the-numbers arrest.
Perhaps they find it insulting because it IS insulting?
They wish to be called Doctor and they've earnt the right to be called doctor. If someone named Richard says "please call me Rich, not Dick", do you then go around calling him Dick? Do you address important business clients you're meeting for the first time just by their first name?
You are deliberately choosing not to address them by their title against their wishes. That is a calculated insult.
You're running a piece of code. Your phone is already compromised.
You could give the user an option to give an application permission to use the phone functions but in all likelihood, the application could quite easily authorise itself, trick the user ("submit your high score?") or just disable the checks.
Even if you put in a permissions system modelled after Unix or Windows 7, there's still plenty of damage malware can do (how about changing every number in your phone book to a premium rate number?).
The only thing to protect against malware is Apple style code reviews and signed apps or high levels of sand boxing (which break all sorts of handy functionality).
A Nuke will eat up any oxygen for those materials to combust. One of the most successfull examples of a nuke being used was to put an uncontrolled gas fire that had been burning for 6 months
Nuke the hole, bury with concrete. Tried and tested and known to work.
How long is Obama going to sit by and let BP try lots of experimental procudures which could all make things worse when he's been sitting on a known solution all this time?
They've all been viable solutions so far with what was thought to be a real chance of success. Ultimately most of the solutions were impossible to test beforehand.
One solution known to work (the russians did this method), is nuking the hole and collapsing it to an extent that the pressure of the oil can't breach it. You then concrete over the rubble.
BP cannot use this method themselves. It requires Obama to step in and take some responsibility. It's a proven method that's probably a whole lot cheaper and reliable than anything BP has done and the envoironmental implications aren't anywhere near as bad as all the oil. BP can then foot the bill for the nuke and handle any decontamination needed.
Sadly Obama was all too willing to let companies drill for oil in the gulf, knowing there's risk of something like this happening and is content to sit there saying how awful BP are to deflect any blame he might receive.
Yeah! Lets punish a group of people, 95% of which had absolutely nothing to do with the safty of oil rigs just to satisfy the screaming mob! They're rich, who cares about how innocent they are!
If this keeps going, we can go down to the local BP petrol station with some ropes too!
I've been using drupal for the first time to design a site fully from scratch (rather than just using a theme) and I'm both impressed and frustrated by it.
I wish more module developers would use more specific class names so I can customise things easier. I've got dozens of.tpl.php files in my theme folder largely because I've had to go in and insert styling into their classless elements (ul,li and h2 being the most frequent offenders).
Probably approaching it wrong (I usually am) but adding a simple 'modulename_element' class to elements would save so much time.
Privacy laws in most countries have a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' term. Generally speaking, if you expect something to be treated as private, it should be.
Unless there is a concious effort to make this data public, it remains private. Ignorance of security measures is not permission to use their data.
Treat private information as if it was a wallet left on the street. You can have a look at it, maybe try to notify the owner but you've no right to put it in your pocket and keep it(or perhaps for a more appropriate analogy, to photocopy their credit cards).
If this is true, doesn't it mean the predicted ocean rises will all be considerably out?
Most people are taught that the ocean levels rise due to melting ice caps but thermal expansion of water is behind at least half of the predicted rise in ocean level.
If there's less water in the ocean, there'll be a smaller expansion.
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Your analogy is false and stupid.
The government aren't the girl being raped. They're the father, telling the girl that there's nothing wrong walking alone down a darkened alley in a high crime area late at night. Sure, the rape wasn't the father's fault but that doesn't stop him being a pretty lousy father who did nothing to ensure his daughter's safty.
For a more apt analogy. If the government was to sack every police officer within 100 miles of you, would you be ok with that? Afterall, it's not the government who would then start embarking on a crime spree.
No matter how you spin it. Waiting 5 days is not waiting 60 days.
Whether or not it was used or not doesn't matter. The point is, it wasn't WIDELY used.
Lots of people know how to make incredibly toxic gases with household ingredients. Would you then say it's perfectly fine to show a step by step guide telling you how on a prime time TV show?
Just because there's a possibility that a select few may already know something dangerous that doesn't mean it's morally fine to tell as many people as possible.
There's a difference between finding an exploit and making exploit code public before any company with a widely distributed product could possibly react.
He's no better than a malware developer. At least they tend to keep their code secret. There will always be bugs and exploits in any code.
Lost sales revenue comes from one or more of the following:
The original sale of the cart you'd have been buying
Flooded market. The more cheap pirated versions (that are incredibly hard to tell from the real thing) there are, the harder it is to sell legit copies. It costs sales as well as devalues the product.
Reputation hit. When the (innocently bought) pirated cart turned out not to have a battery for save games or the flash memory and people couldn't save their game, they'd blame Nintendo. Likewise there was a tabloid piece in the UK about a family who bought a pirated kids game (neither the family or the newspaper realised it was pirated) and it featured swear words that they got typically outraged about.
No scarcity & demand = no reprint. Sometimes if a game is rare enough and the ebay values get insane, It's worthwhile a publisher going in and printing a few thousand brand new copies. Believe this happened towards the end of the PS1's life with rare games like Suikoden
You'd be surprised actually
People are willing to throw their lives away if they think there's a good chance of success. They're less willing to throw their lives away if there's a good chance of embarrassing failure.
Say you know there's a 5% chances of slipping through the cracks and bombing a plane. That sounds really worrying as a passenger. However look at it from a potential terrorists PoV: There's a 95% chance you'll fail, get no virgins and spend several decades in a maximum security hellhole.
You're not going to get many volunteers for that. Even suicide bombers put value on their lives.
"I stick my fingers in my ears and go 'lalalalala' when people talk about the envoironmental impact and risks involved in oil drilling so I'm blameless!"
Yeah, getting paid for your work is so out of date! Those actors, photographers, musicians, writers and so on should all be grateful that I deem their lowly works worthy of my time!
You're also forgetting that copyright law is vitally important to the GPL and creative commons too.
The summary seems to be abusing the negativity around patent trolls and the actions of the companies in question.
This isn't companies sitting on pools of copyrighted content they've no intent to distribute. This is companies hiring a third party to protect their material.
Lots of small companies can't afford their own legal teams to protect themselves so it makes sense to outsource this type of thing.
Libel and Slander are civil. Criminal impersonation is a felony.
If the victim was a US citizen and the servers involved were on US soil, it would be quite easy for a court to claim jurisdiction on it.
People working for the government are also part of the public. There is a line that's crossed when it stops being about the government and it starts being about the individual.
You see it on Reddit and other similar sites. Someone finds out the name of a police officer, someone then digs a bit and finds his address and phone number. The officer and his (entirely innocent) family then have to deal with harrassment and death threats (realistic or not, imagine your 8 year old daughter answering the phone to one).
Sometimes these videos are genuine cases of police brutality but the vast majority of the time its a video of some kid or young guy who edits out the actions that caused him to get arrested out of the video and just cut to him being incapacitated and arrested.
Being restrained physically never looks good, especially if the person is young or screams/whines noisily but this is something actually done, not only for the protection of the officer, but for the protection of the suspect too (if you're struggling and unrestrained, you're going to fall over and with your hands cuffed, you'll probably crack your skull on the pavement).
Personally I'd like to see a compromise. Videoing a cop is fine but there should be a requirement for the video to be treated responsibly, ie given to the press or the courts. Not heavily edited and posted on youtube to demonise someone doing a by-the-numbers arrest.
Perhaps they find it insulting because it IS insulting?
They wish to be called Doctor and they've earnt the right to be called doctor. If someone named Richard says "please call me Rich, not Dick", do you then go around calling him Dick? Do you address important business clients you're meeting for the first time just by their first name?
You are deliberately choosing not to address them by their title against their wishes. That is a calculated insult.
You're running a piece of code. Your phone is already compromised.
You could give the user an option to give an application permission to use the phone functions but in all likelihood, the application could quite easily authorise itself, trick the user ("submit your high score?") or just disable the checks.
Even if you put in a permissions system modelled after Unix or Windows 7, there's still plenty of damage malware can do (how about changing every number in your phone book to a premium rate number?).
The only thing to protect against malware is Apple style code reviews and signed apps or high levels of sand boxing (which break all sorts of handy functionality).
A Nuke will eat up any oxygen for those materials to combust. One of the most successfull examples of a nuke being used was to put an uncontrolled gas fire that had been burning for 6 months
That's a better chance than any of the methods tried so far were given. Top Kill was 70% at best according to BP before they tried it.
Rumour? It's well documented the Russians did it. Several times too.
Nuke the hole, bury with concrete. Tried and tested and known to work.
How long is Obama going to sit by and let BP try lots of experimental procudures which could all make things worse when he's been sitting on a known solution all this time?
They've all been viable solutions so far with what was thought to be a real chance of success. Ultimately most of the solutions were impossible to test beforehand.
One solution known to work (the russians did this method), is nuking the hole and collapsing it to an extent that the pressure of the oil can't breach it. You then concrete over the rubble.
BP cannot use this method themselves. It requires Obama to step in and take some responsibility. It's a proven method that's probably a whole lot cheaper and reliable than anything BP has done and the envoironmental implications aren't anywhere near as bad as all the oil. BP can then foot the bill for the nuke and handle any decontamination needed.
Sadly Obama was all too willing to let companies drill for oil in the gulf, knowing there's risk of something like this happening and is content to sit there saying how awful BP are to deflect any blame he might receive.
Yeah! Lets punish a group of people, 95% of which had absolutely nothing to do with the safty of oil rigs just to satisfy the screaming mob! They're rich, who cares about how innocent they are!
If this keeps going, we can go down to the local BP petrol station with some ropes too!
Did you also moan about a 133mhz MMX system with 32mb of ram not running XP when upgrading from 95?
Sometimes they do which is helpfull. However all too often they use a generic class like item-list or content
I've been using drupal for the first time to design a site fully from scratch (rather than just using a theme) and I'm both impressed and frustrated by it.
.tpl.php files in my theme folder largely because I've had to go in and insert styling into their classless elements (ul,li and h2 being the most frequent offenders).
I wish more module developers would use more specific class names so I can customise things easier. I've got dozens of
Probably approaching it wrong (I usually am) but adding a simple 'modulename_element' class to elements would save so much time.
In your view, which views book offers the best views on views?
Privacy laws in most countries have a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' term. Generally speaking, if you expect something to be treated as private, it should be.
Unless there is a concious effort to make this data public, it remains private. Ignorance of security measures is not permission to use their data.
Treat private information as if it was a wallet left on the street. You can have a look at it, maybe try to notify the owner but you've no right to put it in your pocket and keep it(or perhaps for a more appropriate analogy, to photocopy their credit cards).
If this is true, doesn't it mean the predicted ocean rises will all be considerably out?
Most people are taught that the ocean levels rise due to melting ice caps but thermal expansion of water is behind at least half of the predicted rise in ocean level.
If there's less water in the ocean, there'll be a smaller expansion.