Thats where someone has already got a copy of the password protected item locally, for example, they have a password protected zip file which they can attempt to open repeatedly as fast as their own hardware can run.
If he is extradited, he will of course be prosectuted under US law, but at this stage, he and all the evidence secured from the raids is under NZ jurisdiction until the NZ legal system makes a decision.
I can't work out if people are deliberately missing the point on this or genuinely don't understand that NZ is a separate country with it's own laws which have to be followed. This entire thread is filled with people arguing that the FBI can do what they like because they represent the US government and variations on that theme completely ignoring that the US government, it's law enforcement agencies and it's laws don't extend beyond US territory.
You don't even need to be a lawyer to work this out just follow some basic logic, the whole point of Extradition Treaties is so that one country can get access to someone who are outside their own jurisdiction, therefore the need for extradition shows US laws and law enforcement agents don't apply and the local legal system applies.
The whole point of the FBI having the copies in the first place is so they can prove they DO have copyrighted content on them...
Wouldn't it be up to the NZ authorities to prove they have copyrighted content on them? It is after all the NZ authorities who have to make a case that Dotcom should be extradited or charged under NZ laws.
The only problem I have with this conspiracy theory is that it might be true for some giant company like MS or Intel which has political connections and hires lots of H1Bs
I think it's an ecosystem problem, if a significant proportion of the IT jobs are being replaced via off-shoring or outsourcing to inshore companies who don't pay as well then for every job lost you've also lost a person keeping their skills up to date and then the next generation see whats happening and say "fuck that, I'll get an MBA instead".
To start with it probably doesn't have a big affect but by the time you start losing the veterans to promotion and retirement after 10-15 years and haven't got their replacement already trained with some experience then it's too late. You need a certain critical mass of people interested in a career to keep it going or skills will be lost and once they are gone it's incredibly hard to get back at a national level.
You need people entering the IT careers at the bottom, to have some exposure to different IT career streams and for them to have a certain expectation of being able to develop a life long career out of it, and I don't think anyone really believes that will happen any more.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy which benefits those to have the ability to influence job markets at the expense of those who don't.
Porn is easy, a single glance, at even a screenshot of a video as opposed to actually watching a video is normally enough to determine if it passes some fairly prudish lines. You simply take a screenshot every 10 minutes and place those shots into a single image to be shown to a human judge, they could determine the nature of the video in a single 10 second glance most of the time.
I remember I used to run a blog on blogger, I had a picture of me in the snow without my shirt on (all you could see was my head and the very top of my chest - didn't even go down as far as my armpits - although you could see the top of a tattoo I have), within a few hours my blog had been recategorized as adult and I told to remove the picture or I wouldn't show up in Google Safe Searches. I assumed it was either flagged by some puritanical yank, or an automated system looking for skin tone colours.
But Copyright enforcement is completely different. The RIAA have requested take down on the basis of copyrighted background music playing at a kid birthday party etc. As a result of that, you would have to analysis every frame for images and all the sounds which can be heard and compare them against a catalog of protected material.
For example:
Background music and conversations against every song and recorded show ever copyrighted
Copyrighted images (posters/ads in the background, tv shows even if they aren't the actual focus of the video being uploaded etc)
Facial recognition for celebrities (both people who might happen to look like a celebrity and people getting themselves videoed in front of actual celebrities)
The amount of stuff that needs to be checked is huge and the catalog of stuff that it needs to be checked against is even bigger. The two areas of enforcement aren't really comparable.
The NZ authorities didn't have this information before?
They aren't saying they haven't seen enough evidence to say Dotcom is guilty of a crime, they are saying that he has a right to defend himself against extradition and that defense needs to be able to review evidence for and against that charge.
Having said that, I think NZ sleep walked into a political quagmire which they would be very happy to get out of with the least amount of embarrassment. It would be very useful for them to find a reason not to extradite Dotcom because then they could say they followed the International Treaties with the US that they had to but their own courts also protected someone from illegal extradition.
medical devices, even those that are not going to be touching patients require a lot of safety testing, especially if this thing is spraying EM all over the place potentially interfering with medical devices in the operating room.
They maybe going for the low hanging fruit to get some revenue flowing in while they develop the device for more safety critical applications.
You're right. Also they should still make cars that look like the Model T
Thats a bad example, Model T ford had a steering wheel, pedals in the foot well etc.
In other words, the UI for modern cars is almost unchanged since the Model T while it's the constant UI changes in OSs that people are complaining about here.
In fact part (certainly not all) of the reason I switched to motorbikes as my only private transport was precisely because car stopped being about transport and started being fashion statements.
there are plenty of times you don't carry a phone, but would wear a watch.....
Really? Like what. I cannot think of one. That even includes swimming!
I use a watch when I go camping because I found lighting up the display just to see what the time was ate into the battery life of the phone (an issue when charging availability is unpredictable). I also prefer to keep the phone in the rucksack or in the tent rather than carrying it in my trouser pockets like I do when not camping to save it getting wet or dropped in mud.
The watch I choose was a Casio Protrek PRG-240, it's solar powered, got a digital compass, barometer with history graph etc.
So although I am carrying a phone, the watch just makes a significantly better form factor compared to the phone in those situations and the functions of the watch are actually more useful than what I have on the phone.
I looked at G+ when it first came out, I was actively looking for an alternative to Facebook, something which didn't keep jerking around with privacy settings which I had already locked down 5 times. I was hoping G+ was going to be that system.
I was just about to sign up when stories of people getting banned from G+ because their names weren't real and because G+ was connected to their standard Google Account, also losing access to GMail etc.
I use GMail as my primary contact address, I decided I didn't want the hassle which could be caused if anything happened to that account so I didn't sign up and I just couldn't be bothered to create yet another account just to try out G+ so that was the end of the experiment for me.
Worse, for Google at least, was that as a result of this I took stock of all the services I was using and realized that a hell of a lot of my online presence was tied to Google in one form or another and if anything happened to my account it would be a nightmare trying to get everything working again. e.g. Bank login details, forum names, IRL social groups were all associated with my GMail account.
As a result, I moved the blog from Blogger to wordpress using my own domain name, which also provides my email address for all personal contacts so GMail isn't getting used for that anymore. I still use GMail for commercial contacts but slowly reducing my reliance on GMail for that as well.
The income to individuals from corps would then be taxable as ordinary income and we wouldn't have the whining about dividends being taxed twice, or the baloney about US taxes on corporations being high.
The problem with that is that people would just run their entire life as an employee of their own company.
They work as subcontractors to their employers who pay the employees wages to his company, the company owns the house provides the food etc.
He would pay himself minimum work wage and everything else would be owned by the company.
This is how we kill legislation. Delay it endlessly until a different government is elected and drops it.
The trouble is, this is the different government.
The DEA was voted in by the last Labour Government in out of hours voting which saw a grand total of 236 (189 for, 47 against) votes cast (out of 650ish MP who could have voted).
The Conservatives didn't bother voting one way or the other for the most part giving Labour a free run at introducing a law the Conservative wanted but knew wouldn't be popular.
DRM is trival to strip out as well, a decade of DRM for books, music and movies have done nothing to slow down piracy but has done a load of damage to public relations between each of the industries and their paying customers.
Watermarking provides some means of tracing a possible source of a pirated copy found on a file sharing service (although that is not necessarily the actual person who has uploaded the file) while not doing anything which prevents customers using the file they have brought.
Someone buys the book, the server builds the book on the fly with the user ID placed at the appropriate places in the book and provides a link for the download which applies to that specific user.
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What a wonderful stable family life you must have.
Pfizer?
Being able to run the same apps on your phone, tablet and PC is an awesome feature.
Lets hope no one buys the WinRT version then.
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Thats where someone has already got a copy of the password protected item locally, for example, they have a password protected zip file which they can attempt to open repeatedly as fast as their own hardware can run.
If he is extradited, he will of course be prosectuted under US law, but at this stage, he and all the evidence secured from the raids is under NZ jurisdiction until the NZ legal system makes a decision.
I can't work out if people are deliberately missing the point on this or genuinely don't understand that NZ is a separate country with it's own laws which have to be followed. This entire thread is filled with people arguing that the FBI can do what they like because they represent the US government and variations on that theme completely ignoring that the US government, it's law enforcement agencies and it's laws don't extend beyond US territory.
You don't even need to be a lawyer to work this out just follow some basic logic, the whole point of Extradition Treaties is so that one country can get access to someone who are outside their own jurisdiction, therefore the need for extradition shows US laws and law enforcement agents don't apply and the local legal system applies.
But what about under NZ legal system, since thats the jurisdiction he is in?
Wouldn't it be up to the NZ authorities to prove they have copyrighted content on them? It is after all the NZ authorities who have to make a case that Dotcom should be extradited or charged under NZ laws.
I think it's an ecosystem problem, if a significant proportion of the IT jobs are being replaced via off-shoring or outsourcing to inshore companies who don't pay as well then for every job lost you've also lost a person keeping their skills up to date and then the next generation see whats happening and say "fuck that, I'll get an MBA instead".
To start with it probably doesn't have a big affect but by the time you start losing the veterans to promotion and retirement after 10-15 years and haven't got their replacement already trained with some experience then it's too late. You need a certain critical mass of people interested in a career to keep it going or skills will be lost and once they are gone it's incredibly hard to get back at a national level.
You need people entering the IT careers at the bottom, to have some exposure to different IT career streams and for them to have a certain expectation of being able to develop a life long career out of it, and I don't think anyone really believes that will happen any more.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy which benefits those to have the ability to influence job markets at the expense of those who don't.
Porn is easy, a single glance, at even a screenshot of a video as opposed to actually watching a video is normally enough to determine if it passes some fairly prudish lines. You simply take a screenshot every 10 minutes and place those shots into a single image to be shown to a human judge, they could determine the nature of the video in a single 10 second glance most of the time.
I remember I used to run a blog on blogger, I had a picture of me in the snow without my shirt on (all you could see was my head and the very top of my chest - didn't even go down as far as my armpits - although you could see the top of a tattoo I have), within a few hours my blog had been recategorized as adult and I told to remove the picture or I wouldn't show up in Google Safe Searches. I assumed it was either flagged by some puritanical yank, or an automated system looking for skin tone colours.
But Copyright enforcement is completely different. The RIAA have requested take down on the basis of copyrighted background music playing at a kid birthday party etc. As a result of that, you would have to analysis every frame for images and all the sounds which can be heard and compare them against a catalog of protected material.
For example:
The amount of stuff that needs to be checked is huge and the catalog of stuff that it needs to be checked against is even bigger. The two areas of enforcement aren't really comparable.
They aren't saying they haven't seen enough evidence to say Dotcom is guilty of a crime, they are saying that he has a right to defend himself against extradition and that defense needs to be able to review evidence for and against that charge.
Having said that, I think NZ sleep walked into a political quagmire which they would be very happy to get out of with the least amount of embarrassment. It would be very useful for them to find a reason not to extradite Dotcom because then they could say they followed the International Treaties with the US that they had to but their own courts also protected someone from illegal extradition.
medical devices, even those that are not going to be touching patients require a lot of safety testing, especially if this thing is spraying EM all over the place potentially interfering with medical devices in the operating room.
They maybe going for the low hanging fruit to get some revenue flowing in while they develop the device for more safety critical applications.
Thats a bad example, Model T ford had a steering wheel, pedals in the foot well etc.
In other words, the UI for modern cars is almost unchanged since the Model T while it's the constant UI changes in OSs that people are complaining about here.
Thirded...
In fact part (certainly not all) of the reason I switched to motorbikes as my only private transport was precisely because car stopped being about transport and started being fashion statements.
I use a watch when I go camping because I found lighting up the display just to see what the time was ate into the battery life of the phone (an issue when charging availability is unpredictable). I also prefer to keep the phone in the rucksack or in the tent rather than carrying it in my trouser pockets like I do when not camping to save it getting wet or dropped in mud.
The watch I choose was a Casio Protrek PRG-240, it's solar powered, got a digital compass, barometer with history graph etc.
So although I am carrying a phone, the watch just makes a significantly better form factor compared to the phone in those situations and the functions of the watch are actually more useful than what I have on the phone.
I looked at G+ when it first came out, I was actively looking for an alternative to Facebook, something which didn't keep jerking around with privacy settings which I had already locked down 5 times. I was hoping G+ was going to be that system.
I was just about to sign up when stories of people getting banned from G+ because their names weren't real and because G+ was connected to their standard Google Account, also losing access to GMail etc.
I use GMail as my primary contact address, I decided I didn't want the hassle which could be caused if anything happened to that account so I didn't sign up and I just couldn't be bothered to create yet another account just to try out G+ so that was the end of the experiment for me.
Worse, for Google at least, was that as a result of this I took stock of all the services I was using and realized that a hell of a lot of my online presence was tied to Google in one form or another and if anything happened to my account it would be a nightmare trying to get everything working again. e.g. Bank login details, forum names, IRL social groups were all associated with my GMail account.
As a result, I moved the blog from Blogger to wordpress using my own domain name, which also provides my email address for all personal contacts so GMail isn't getting used for that anymore. I still use GMail for commercial contacts but slowly reducing my reliance on GMail for that as well.
If they are going to raise and fall in 1 day, why bother welcoming them at all?
The problem with that is that people would just run their entire life as an employee of their own company.
They work as subcontractors to their employers who pay the employees wages to his company, the company owns the house provides the food etc.
He would pay himself minimum work wage and everything else would be owned by the company.
When I said out of hours voting, I meant wash-up period, I couldn't remember the proper term and meant to go back and edit it before hitting submit.
The trouble is, this is the different government.
The DEA was voted in by the last Labour Government in out of hours voting which saw a grand total of 236 (189 for, 47 against) votes cast (out of 650ish MP who could have voted).
The Conservatives didn't bother voting one way or the other for the most part giving Labour a free run at introducing a law the Conservative wanted but knew wouldn't be popular.
DRM is trival to strip out as well, a decade of DRM for books, music and movies have done nothing to slow down piracy but has done a load of damage to public relations between each of the industries and their paying customers.
Watermarking provides some means of tracing a possible source of a pirated copy found on a file sharing service (although that is not necessarily the actual person who has uploaded the file) while not doing anything which prevents customers using the file they have brought.
How is Watermarking not practical?
Someone buys the book, the server builds the book on the fly with the user ID placed at the appropriate places in the book and provides a link for the download which applies to that specific user.
FTFY