I'm on the fence here. The Red-Blooded American (tm) in me expects to be outraged at the thought of such deliberate baiting and outright entrapment.
But I have to admit there is a second and powerful argument to be made by law enforcement and that is that if you see a link to a file called 8yo_lolita_sucking_cowboyneal_dry.avi and you deliberately attempt to download that file from a forum with known cp issues well then what can you expect.
I still think that this FBI method stinks and is probably entrapment even if the courts appear to think otherwise but I have a hard time explaining to myself exactly under what circumstances would this guy have to be under in order to convince me that he is completely innocent.
the experts. I'm sure the people that built the Titanic were experts too. I know that just the other day I was saying to the wife, "Wife, I really can't stand all of these people saying what is on their minds. What we need is a self appointed elitist university type to run the Internets."
Dude this is/. Not getting sex has more to do with the difficulty in finding a woman willing to dress up like Lt. Ohura and yell "Take me captain" repeatedly while laying on the floor of the home-made transporter room that used to be the basement.
I would just like to point out that the religious flame war such as presented in this thread are exactly the type of public displays that make Joe Sixpack give a hearty "whatever" to science.
Will be fought one vote at a time. If the telecom providers didn't do anything wrong when they assisted the wiretaps then they do not need legal protection from congress. By moving to protect the telecom providers Congress is implicitly admitting that they acted in ways that are probably illegal.
is something to solve the last "175 mile problem." Okay. What if we replace all of that empty space with something that we'll call "FIBER". Only instead of running all of the fiber to the satellite and back we could just run it over land. Barring any service interruptions by 30 story lizards breathing fire all over the data center this might just work!
I could blame TrendNet sure. But the question I have is why would MS go through all of the trouble to produce the HCL (hardware compatibility list), offer drivers through Windows Update, and offer driver signing if none of these can be trusted when purchasing hardware? We're not just talking about "after market tires" here. All of the Dells in my lab have Intel nics in them. These are some of the best supported nics in the world yet Vista doesn't do what Windows 2000, XP, Ubuntu and Fedora can easily do (i.e. transfer files reasonably quickly). Should I call Dell or Intel because the Tcp/Ip stack or Cifs/SMB in Vista eats babies?
and it doesn't appear to have helped reliability or performance as far as we can see. We still have TrendNet wireless nics that will not work using Vista drivers on a factory install of the OS. We still have file copy operations that should be timed with a calendar. We have Vistafied versions of applications that generate interestingly cryptic "unable to assign resource" errors.
I hope that any changes between RC1 and RTM are actually going to deliver on those promises they keep making.
Take one company that isn't being successful at competing with Google. Add to that, one more company that isn't successful at competing with Google.
What you end up with is one much larger company that isn't able to compete with Google.
I find it truly inconceivable that someone thinks this is a good idea for either company. If Yahoo were truly on the bleeding edge I could actually buy this proposal but Yahoo has been in catch up mode itself. The only thing I believe that this does for MS is provide a much larger market share for Google to take from them.
I say that we're being way too ambitious expecting a whole year for the Linux desktop. Let's start with a more reasonable goal. Let's say, March 17th, 2008 at 11:07 AM EST until 11:52 AM EST and we'll call it the Forty-Five minutes of the Linux Desktop. If that works we could bump it up to a whole hour.
With the exception of some bizarre temporal displacement (crossing HOW many city blocks in mere minutes?) the movie was fantastic. I love the big ugly monster genre and this was by far the best of it's breed if you're willing to accept that you are watching a movie about a home movie about an event. The Americanized Godzilla movie turned out to be a metric butt-load of suck and we have been without monsteriffic destruction for too many years.
The military scenes were the best. You weren't watching the scene from three camera angles, you were in there and it was great. I felt more involved in the movie as a result of the first person point of view even if the jerkiness was a little disconcerting at times.
It's really easy to write about Terminators or Cylons and busy ourselves trying to determine the best place for the bunker and ammo dump but there is a serious threat here to people.
Any state not just the U.S. with the ability to engage in war without jeopardizing human lives will more than likely do so with increased frequency and lethality. We need people in war because it helps keep us out of it - well that's the theory anyway (read: Iraq). I am all for saving lives but I really don't believe that automatons with guns are the answer to saving lives. That and when they get tired of working for us that's when it really hits the fan.
Okay. Enough preaching, I have to get a couple of cases of ammo moved before the snow starts.
I didn't say that he would decrypt the volume after discovery. I did say that if they had investigated using methods that didn't jeopardize access to the content later they would have a viable case. As it stands now the prosecutions case is dead.
Nolo clears things up nicely about self incrimination. While I don't know the accused or support his alleged crime, I do think that the judge is correct in his statement. Kudos to the judge! If the prosecution wishes to discover the contents of an encrypted file then they actually need to jump through the hoops of an investigation. Hell, getting a warrant and just installing a camera over his keyboard would sooner or later reveal the passphrase wouldn't it?
Respectfully I disagree. The iTunes music store was presented over two years after the iPod was released. ITunes is a result of dominant hardware not a cause of it. Apple used its market share in hardware to strong arm the labels into cooperating and up until recently (read: Amazon music store etc.) they've been able to continue their strong arm tactics because of the hardwares success. The iPod sold well before iTunes, and could easily survive if the itms ceased to exist. How you ask? The iPod would continue to thrive as long as Apple produces desirable hardware. Someone seems to think that the ipod is a good product given the tens of millions or so they will sell this quarter and most of the buys will not purchase much music from itms at all but rip their existing library to it.
I know that the orbital power plant is expensive, but when I was in the Persian Gulf during Gulf War 1 we had to haul around dozens of generators, fuel trucks, parts, and personnel to manage, install, repair, and pack up those machines. Add a new range of electronics for artillery and mlrs systems and you have many times the power needs today than we had in the army of '91. I think that it will indeed possibly solve problems for the military but the potential here is that we can finally find a way to deliver power to areas where eco-terrorists will not let the poor have access to cheap power sources. This could seriously be a boon to some of the worlds poorest regions if we can learn to do it well.
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I'm on the fence here. The Red-Blooded American (tm) in me expects to be outraged at the thought of such deliberate baiting and outright entrapment.
But I have to admit there is a second and powerful argument to be made by law enforcement and that is that if you see a link to a file called 8yo_lolita_sucking_cowboyneal_dry.avi and you deliberately attempt to download that file from a forum with known cp issues well then what can you expect.
I still think that this FBI method stinks and is probably entrapment even if the courts appear to think otherwise but I have a hard time explaining to myself exactly under what circumstances would this guy have to be under in order to convince me that he is completely innocent.
I for one welcome our uni-toothed, hillbilly overlords. Let the dewling banjoes bigin!
Members of the family huh? You do realize that the only reason your cats do not eat you is that you are bigger than they are.
the experts. I'm sure the people that built the Titanic were experts too. I know that just the other day I was saying to the wife, "Wife, I really can't stand all of these people saying what is on their minds. What we need is a self appointed elitist university type to run the Internets."
Hey! My brother was a homeless drug addicted dealer unable to post to slashdot! How do you feel now you insensitive clod!
Dude this is /. Not getting sex has more to do with the difficulty in finding a woman willing to dress up like Lt. Ohura and yell "Take me captain" repeatedly while laying on the floor of the home-made transporter room that used to be the basement.
I would just like to point out that the religious flame war such as presented in this thread are exactly the type of public displays that make Joe Sixpack give a hearty "whatever" to science.
Will be fought one vote at a time. If the telecom providers didn't do anything wrong when they assisted the wiretaps then they do not need legal protection from congress. By moving to protect the telecom providers Congress is implicitly admitting that they acted in ways that are probably illegal.
is something to solve the last "175 mile problem." Okay. What if we replace all of that empty space with something that we'll call "FIBER". Only instead of running all of the fiber to the satellite and back we could just run it over land. Barring any service interruptions by 30 story lizards breathing fire all over the data center this might just work!
If that title doesn't screan Geek Porn I don't know what does!
You make an excellent point. Keep up the good posting!
Dear God I needed that laugh! You are my "Internet Hero of the Day!"
I could blame TrendNet sure. But the question I have is why would MS go through all of the trouble to produce the HCL (hardware compatibility list), offer drivers through Windows Update, and offer driver signing if none of these can be trusted when purchasing hardware? We're not just talking about "after market tires" here. All of the Dells in my lab have Intel nics in them. These are some of the best supported nics in the world yet Vista doesn't do what Windows 2000, XP, Ubuntu and Fedora can easily do (i.e. transfer files reasonably quickly). Should I call Dell or Intel because the Tcp/Ip stack or Cifs/SMB in Vista eats babies?
and it doesn't appear to have helped reliability or performance as far as we can see. We still have TrendNet wireless nics that will not work using Vista drivers on a factory install of the OS. We still have file copy operations that should be timed with a calendar. We have Vistafied versions of applications that generate interestingly cryptic "unable to assign resource" errors.
I hope that any changes between RC1 and RTM are actually going to deliver on those promises they keep making.
Take one company that isn't being successful at competing with Google.
Add to that, one more company that isn't successful at competing with Google.
What you end up with is one much larger company that isn't able to compete with Google.
I find it truly inconceivable that someone thinks this is a good idea for either company. If Yahoo were truly on the bleeding edge I could actually buy this proposal but Yahoo has been in catch up mode itself. The only thing I believe that this does for MS is provide a much larger market share for Google to take from them.
I say that we're being way too ambitious expecting a whole year for the Linux desktop. Let's start with a more reasonable goal. Let's say, March 17th, 2008 at 11:07 AM EST until 11:52 AM EST and we'll call it the Forty-Five minutes of the Linux Desktop. If that works we could bump it up to a whole hour.
With the exception of some bizarre temporal displacement (crossing HOW many city blocks in mere minutes?) the movie was fantastic. I love the big ugly monster genre and this was by far the best of it's breed if you're willing to accept that you are watching a movie about a home movie about an event. The Americanized Godzilla movie turned out to be a metric butt-load of suck and we have been without monsteriffic destruction for too many years.
The military scenes were the best. You weren't watching the scene from three camera angles, you were in there and it was great. I felt more involved in the movie as a result of the first person point of view even if the jerkiness was a little disconcerting at times.
How long have you been holding on to that one?
It's really easy to write about Terminators or Cylons and busy ourselves trying to determine the best place for the bunker and ammo dump but there is a serious threat here to people.
Any state not just the U.S. with the ability to engage in war without jeopardizing human lives will more than likely do so with increased frequency and lethality. We need people in war because it helps keep us out of it - well that's the theory anyway (read: Iraq). I am all for saving lives but I really don't believe that automatons with guns are the answer to saving lives. That and when they get tired of working for us that's when it really hits the fan.
Okay. Enough preaching, I have to get a couple of cases of ammo moved before the snow starts.
CowboyNeal option? This poll sucks.
I didn't say that he would decrypt the volume after discovery. I did say that if they had investigated using methods that didn't jeopardize access to the content later they would have a viable case. As it stands now the prosecutions case is dead.
Nolo clears things up nicely about self incrimination. While I don't know the accused or support his alleged crime, I do think that the judge is correct in his statement. Kudos to the judge! If the prosecution wishes to discover the contents of an encrypted file then they actually need to jump through the hoops of an investigation. Hell, getting a warrant and just installing a camera over his keyboard would sooner or later reveal the passphrase wouldn't it?
Respectfully I disagree. The iTunes music store was presented over two years after the iPod was released. ITunes is a result of dominant hardware not a cause of it. Apple used its market share in hardware to strong arm the labels into cooperating and up until recently (read: Amazon music store etc.) they've been able to continue their strong arm tactics because of the hardwares success. The iPod sold well before iTunes, and could easily survive if the itms ceased to exist. How you ask? The iPod would continue to thrive as long as Apple produces desirable hardware. Someone seems to think that the ipod is a good product given the tens of millions or so they will sell this quarter and most of the buys will not purchase much music from itms at all but rip their existing library to it.
That depends. From my point of view there aren't any problems with light getting to the inside of a body.
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Hannibal Lecter
I know that the orbital power plant is expensive, but when I was in the Persian Gulf during Gulf War 1 we had to haul around dozens of generators, fuel trucks, parts, and personnel to manage, install, repair, and pack up those machines. Add a new range of electronics for artillery and mlrs systems and you have many times the power needs today than we had in the army of '91. I think that it will indeed possibly solve problems for the military but the potential here is that we can finally find a way to deliver power to areas where eco-terrorists will not let the poor have access to cheap power sources. This could seriously be a boon to some of the worlds poorest regions if we can learn to do it well.