Is there anyone who thinks these ISP warnings can't be kept from triggering by judicious proxy use and encrypted traffic? Or is deep-packed inspection good enough to identify P2P traffic? Even if it could, it surely couldn't determine the copyright status of the stream.
I was going to remark that we would surely see services like Tor and FreeNet grow exponentially in response, but what's wrong with a good old simple non-US proxy service plus traffic encryption? At least when we're talking about cyber-locker repositories if not bittorrent.
Hope it's hot-pluggable-- you sure can't do that with any other PCIe card.
NO ONE is going to want a plug-in peripheral that needs rebooting to register. So far it looks like that may be the case with eSATA (at least on my machine).
Dunno about your system but when I plug in a USB 3.0 drive I can use it almost immediately. If I plug in an eSATA drive I not only have to reboot, my motherboard likes to SUBSTITUTE the new drive for one of my original SATAs.
I submit that is one hell of an advantage USB 3.0 has over eSATA.
1. If you have the right sheetfed scanner like a Visioneer Strobe, you just take the document, slide it into a slot behind your keyboard, and it's scanned and filed in a general folder in 20 seconds. I guess it would be a P.I.T.A. to try to use some scanners with lots of software steps to get started on their (fairly slow) scan runs. Yep, I guess if I had to use one of these, I wouldn't be so keen on electronic filing, either. So having the right scanner that effectively becomes a transparent portal onto your desktop seems essential. Later anytime you can drag from the general folder to specific folders. The Fujitsu ScanSnap series of scanners look very good, although the Strobes from Visioneer with their Twain drivers are more versatile, and used to be the easiest to use.
2. Even if scanning takes a bit longer than throwing in a drawer, isn't it WORTH the time a) not to have to take up room in your study or office for a cabinet, b) not to have to hop up 40 times while doing your filing, and c) never having to make copies (just scroll them out of your printer)? Maybe I'm atypical because I was a lawyer for 25 years before switching over to tech, and the value of having my case and client files organized, at my finger tips, and SEARCHABLE was extreme. Even now, for instance, when doing tasks like filling out financial aid forms for my son's college, it is SO EASY to click a mouse and find ALL of our tax data (without getting up), ALL of his transcripts, resumes, and award letters, etc., that I can't imagine having to go looking for paper. And how do you search a filing cabinet? PaperPort 9.0 (the last one that was good) does OCR on all scanned docs and boy is it a boon to find things by word search as in Google.
It is a damned shame that PaperPort, which was a fine product (and still is if you buy Version 9 rather than the current Version 12, which frankly sucks) got Bowdlerized, savaged and vandalized by the current owners (Nuance? which acquired ScanSoft). The product has become a real POS but lucky you can still get Version 9. I wish Nuance would make this product good again (but they aren't capable) or take pity on Userland and spin it off to someone who knows what it can be. It could be an affordable and virtually-as-good Lucion alternative. What a crime that a truly great, superior, even classic program can be trashed by fools and turned into stinkware. Nuance, SHAME ON YOU. Personally I run Win98 in a virtual machine just to use version 9 with the Win98 Visioneer Strobe drivers that make life as easy as sliding all your stuff into the scanslot. Really.
I absolutely know this is going to be an area of huge opportunity. Whoever can wrest PaperPort out of the clutches of Nuance has the potential to become, if not another Adobe, then at least the owner of a product as widely used and useful as Acrobat.
Most dumbfounded I've ever been after reading any thread on Slashdot in at least a decade. There are paper filing cabinets galore, and even PaperPort has its merit, so who with any technical ability would muck with files when every filing cabinet you own, hundreds if you have them, can be on your desktop and every drawer icon a different color for selection by mouse and re-creating in printed form from where you sit??? Tell me about just *one* modern hospital that doesn't store, organize and re-create medical records just like that?
Underutilization of this technology has been one of my largest battlements. Now that I see even Slashdot isn't more into it, I think something more than technophobia is going on here. I'm really scratching my head but I can't see what it is.
The one profession that CAN NOT do without this software is Attorney. Pretty good for CPAs too. Doctors have eClinicalWorks. *What is the excuse* for being so far behind the curve, Slashdot?
...........the case may turn on invasion of privacy principles
It's often the case that the same underlying principles are expressed in different, though not interchangeable, causes of action. In fact, the emergence of the relevant principles in another recognized tort seems a kind of recognition of their wider ambit.
District Judge Denise Reilly threw out four of the five statements, saying they were either opinion or the comments of others on the blog. With respect to the remaining statement, the jury agreed with Clark's claim that Hoff had committed "tortious interference" by meddling with Moore's employment. Clark pointed out to the jury that Hoff, in a later blog post, took partial credit for Moore's firing.
I will agree that close reading of a news source will pay.
Devastating someone's life without a reason or a justification IS illegal, in the sense that there is a remedy for it in the Courts. See earlier post about invasion of privacy, from which the law protects you.
Anyone who really studies it knows the law tries hard to be fair. It really seems fair that a mean, destructive person with no legitimate interest in disclosing the information he did (so the jury would have found) got his nose rubbed in it. If the jury felt he maliciously and without justification caused the harm he did, then damages were and appropriate punishment for the blogger. Blogging is still publishing, even if it's scary to think YOU COULD BE NEXT because you're a blogger too. Tip: No risk if you aren't a malicious SOB. The law applies whether you publish a magazine article or a blog.
Last week there was a post about a 12-year accusing a teacher of being a "pedophile". A number of people came out of the woodwork to chastise this child for potentially ruining the teacher's career and life. I wonder if people are going to speak up against this blogger as he caused Moore to lose his job and impacted his reputation accusing him of being a crook.
The claim the teacher was a pedophile was untrue.
This case deals with when you may and may not disclose even true facts about someone's past.
As a lawyer I can also tell you the case may turn on invasion of privacy principles. The long-recognized tort of invasion of privacy gives a right of action for:
1. False Light -- you can't paint someone in a false light, ie photos with text suggesting that a virtuous person is promiscuous 2. Appropriation -- you can't take someone's image for advertising purposes (though photos taken in public are not invasion) 3. Invasion -- you can't burrow into someone's home life and expose embarrassing intimate detail 4. Disclosure --- you can't disclose even true facts about someone if there ensue unfair disruptive consequences, or if disclosure is done for malicious ends. "Unfair" is up to a jury.
It is (4) that is in play here.
These principles have lived long in the law. One imagines they became recognized as causes of action and continue to be because there is some justice in them, even if they may be occasionally misapplied.
That exploit was minor and didn't allow you to do much of anything. He published a small exploit that he saw. The moment Sony removed OtherOS GeoHot said he was motivated to fully crack the PS3 to enable custom firmware.
You know, it doesn't matter if the exploit was minor. It doesn't even matter if he is legally innocent. PROVING IT is gonna break him. We can come up with 1001 good reasons why, in morality and in law, he is off the hook, but he *isn't*, because *establishing* one or more of those reasons in a court is $expensive$, and in Sony's view that will "teach those hackers a lesson". What an abuse of power-- and of process.
I have always had this idea as a car mechanic to create how to videos for popular model vehicles, instead of just vague books, with high-def video cameras and step by step instructions for each task... such as changing out an A/C Compressor, Replacing a bad power steering pump, fixing broken this that and the other thing.... and selling them for a REASONABLE price all across the nation. This would require a decent amount time and money in equipment, time to film, edit produce etc...
Then I realized that some dickhead would probably just take the videos, put them up on Piratebay and I would be left poor and broke after spending a crapload of time and money on this project so I said fuck it.
Hollywood might overcharge and not provide a distribution model that the people agree with, but there are a lot of other legit businesses with honest hard working people that are not getting their honest pay for the work they did. The spread of "information" could be something YOU spent years working on, then you'd be pretty bitter too.
Possibly in the future the spread of information will become a science, with salaried professors doing their work for the good of the scientific community. If it's not something you or I might make money on, at least IT IS HAPPENING for the good of everyone. (Or more like open source software than the stuff a Microserf gets his paycheck for.)
Would this be a bad thing? I can't say. But if it happened, then you and I would be effectively channeled into other work our economy needed, just like our nation has been channeled away from, say, piecework garment sewing in favor of countries whose economies embrace such work. There are already all kinds of economic pressures to herd us into one occupation vs. another, or into some industries vs. others. I'm not sure I really see yet (but I reserve judgment about) whether one more such guide in our economy would be bad for us, overall.
You must raise the issue there and you must do it clearly and competently.
You won't be given a second chance on appeal.
The court of appeals is only interested in whether the judge or jury made a fundamental legal mistake in their handling of the case.
"Fundamental legal mistake" includes interpreting a statute with an overly-literal eye. The Appeals Court will get to reverse if it finds the legislature did not include Childs' conduct when using the statutory language. IAAL
I've used System Restore on my Win7 64-bit systems. If Win7 really had a habit of deleting System Restore points, it would have been detected and harped upon within hours of its release, 32-bit or 64-bit. Whatever the problem is, it's hard to believe it's Windows' fault.
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How many students at one time, what career track (mostly)? Slackers or hackers? Important to know.
"Basically they are complaining the the DMCA makes them responsible for policing their own content at their expense."
My God, how can this be America?
Yes, so?
Is there anyone who thinks these ISP warnings can't be kept from triggering by judicious proxy use and encrypted traffic? Or is deep-packed inspection good enough to identify P2P traffic? Even if it could, it surely couldn't determine the copyright status of the stream.
I was going to remark that we would surely see services like Tor and FreeNet grow exponentially in response, but what's wrong with a good old simple non-US proxy service plus traffic encryption? At least when we're talking about cyber-locker repositories if not bittorrent.
since it is really just an external PCIe port.
Hope it's hot-pluggable-- you sure can't do that with any other PCIe card.
NO ONE is going to want a plug-in peripheral that needs rebooting to register. So far it looks like that may be the case with eSATA (at least on my machine).
USB 3 offers no advantages over eSATA
Dunno about your system but when I plug in a USB 3.0 drive I can use it almost immediately. If I plug in an eSATA drive I not only have to reboot, my motherboard likes to SUBSTITUTE the new drive for one of my original SATAs.
I submit that is one hell of an advantage USB 3.0 has over eSATA.
Not surprising this emphasis is being put on Indonesia since, if I remember right, it is the world's seventh most populous country.
Hm, two things occur to me.
1. If you have the right sheetfed scanner like a Visioneer Strobe, you just take the document, slide it into a slot behind your keyboard, and it's scanned and filed in a general folder in 20 seconds. I guess it would be a P.I.T.A. to try to use some scanners with lots of software steps to get started on their (fairly slow) scan runs. Yep, I guess if I had to use one of these, I wouldn't be so keen on electronic filing, either. So having the right scanner that effectively becomes a transparent portal onto your desktop seems essential. Later anytime you can drag from the general folder to specific folders. The Fujitsu ScanSnap series of scanners look very good, although the Strobes from Visioneer with their Twain drivers are more versatile, and used to be the easiest to use.
2. Even if scanning takes a bit longer than throwing in a drawer, isn't it WORTH the time a) not to have to take up room in your study or office for a cabinet, b) not to have to hop up 40 times while doing your filing, and c) never having to make copies (just scroll them out of your printer)? Maybe I'm atypical because I was a lawyer for 25 years before switching over to tech, and the value of having my case and client files organized, at my finger tips, and SEARCHABLE was extreme. Even now, for instance, when doing tasks like filling out financial aid forms for my son's college, it is SO EASY to click a mouse and find ALL of our tax data (without getting up), ALL of his transcripts, resumes, and award letters, etc., that I can't imagine having to go looking for paper. And how do you search a filing cabinet? PaperPort 9.0 (the last one that was good) does OCR on all scanned docs and boy is it a boon to find things by word search as in Google.
It is a damned shame that PaperPort, which was a fine product (and still is if you buy Version 9 rather than the current Version 12, which frankly sucks) got Bowdlerized, savaged and vandalized by the current owners (Nuance? which acquired ScanSoft). The product has become a real POS but lucky you can still get Version 9. I wish Nuance would make this product good again (but they aren't capable) or take pity on Userland and spin it off to someone who knows what it can be. It could be an affordable and virtually-as-good Lucion alternative. What a crime that a truly great, superior, even classic program can be trashed by fools and turned into stinkware. Nuance, SHAME ON YOU. Personally I run Win98 in a virtual machine just to use version 9 with the Win98 Visioneer Strobe drivers that make life as easy as sliding all your stuff into the scanslot. Really.
I absolutely know this is going to be an area of huge opportunity. Whoever can wrest PaperPort out of the clutches of Nuance has the potential to become, if not another Adobe, then at least the owner of a product as widely used and useful as Acrobat.
Um BAFFLEMENTS? Sorry.
Most dumbfounded I've ever been after reading any thread on Slashdot in at least a decade. There are paper filing cabinets galore, and even PaperPort has its merit, so who with any technical ability would muck with files when every filing cabinet you own, hundreds if you have them, can be on your desktop and every drawer icon a different color for selection by mouse and re-creating in printed form from where you sit??? Tell me about just *one* modern hospital that doesn't store, organize and re-create medical records just like that?
Underutilization of this technology has been one of my largest battlements. Now that I see even Slashdot isn't more into it, I think something more than technophobia is going on here. I'm really scratching my head but I can't see what it is.
The one profession that CAN NOT do without this software is Attorney. Pretty good for CPAs too. Doctors have eClinicalWorks. *What is the excuse* for being so far behind the curve, Slashdot?
...........the case may turn on invasion of privacy principles
It's often the case that the same underlying principles are expressed in different, though not interchangeable, causes of action. In fact, the emergence of the relevant principles in another recognized tort seems a kind of recognition of their wider ambit.
I apologize for letting myself snipe at the hothead.
District Judge Denise Reilly threw out four of the five statements, saying they were either opinion or the comments of others on the blog. With respect to the remaining statement, the jury agreed with Clark's claim that Hoff had committed "tortious interference" by meddling with Moore's employment. Clark pointed out to the jury that Hoff, in a later blog post, took partial credit for Moore's firing.
I will agree that close reading of a news source will pay.
As a non-lawyer you are certainly entitled to your non-legal opinion.
From your post we might conclude you consider yourself a wit, and in fact, you may be half right.
Devastating someone's life without a reason or a justification IS illegal, in the sense that there is a remedy for it in the Courts. See earlier post about invasion of privacy, from which the law protects you.
Anyone who really studies it knows the law tries hard to be fair. It really seems fair that a mean, destructive person with no legitimate interest in disclosing the information he did (so the jury would have found) got his nose rubbed in it. If the jury felt he maliciously and without justification caused the harm he did, then damages were and appropriate punishment for the blogger. Blogging is still publishing, even if it's scary to think YOU COULD BE NEXT because you're a blogger too. Tip: No risk if you aren't a malicious SOB. The law applies whether you publish a magazine article or a blog.
Last week there was a post about a 12-year accusing a teacher of being a "pedophile". A number of people came out of the woodwork to chastise this child for potentially ruining the teacher's career and life. I wonder if people are going to speak up against this blogger as he caused Moore to lose his job and impacted his reputation accusing him of being a crook.
The claim the teacher was a pedophile was untrue.
This case deals with when you may and may not disclose even true facts about someone's past.
As a lawyer I can also tell you the case may turn on invasion of privacy principles. The long-recognized tort of invasion of privacy gives a right of action for:
1. False Light -- you can't paint someone in a false light, ie photos with text suggesting that a virtuous person is promiscuous
2. Appropriation -- you can't take someone's image for advertising purposes (though photos taken in public are not invasion)
3. Invasion -- you can't burrow into someone's home life and expose embarrassing intimate detail
4. Disclosure --- you can't disclose even true facts about someone if there ensue unfair disruptive consequences, or if disclosure is done for malicious ends. "Unfair" is up to a jury.
It is (4) that is in play here.
These principles have lived long in the law. One imagines they became recognized as causes of action and continue to be because there is some justice in them, even if they may be occasionally misapplied.
That exploit was minor and didn't allow you to do much of anything. He published a small exploit that he saw. The moment Sony removed OtherOS GeoHot said he was motivated to fully crack the PS3 to enable custom firmware.
You know, it doesn't matter if the exploit was minor. It doesn't even matter if he is legally innocent. PROVING IT is gonna break him. We can come up with 1001 good reasons why, in morality and in law, he is off the hook, but he *isn't*, because *establishing* one or more of those reasons in a court is $expensive$, and in Sony's view that will "teach those hackers a lesson". What an abuse of power-- and of process.
....but the one company remaining you would hate more than twice as much.
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I have always had this idea as a car mechanic to create how to videos for popular model vehicles, instead of just vague books, with high-def video cameras and step by step instructions for each task... such as changing out an A/C Compressor, Replacing a bad power steering pump, fixing broken this that and the other thing.... and selling them for a REASONABLE price all across the nation. This would require a decent amount time and money in equipment, time to film, edit produce etc...
Then I realized that some dickhead would probably just take the videos, put them up on Piratebay and I would be left poor and broke after spending a crapload of time and money on this project so I said fuck it.
Hollywood might overcharge and not provide a distribution model that the people agree with, but there are a lot of other legit businesses with honest hard working people that are not getting their honest pay for the work they did. The spread of "information" could be something YOU spent years working on, then you'd be pretty bitter too.
Possibly in the future the spread of information will become a science, with salaried professors doing their work for the good of the scientific community. If it's not something you or I might make money on, at least IT IS HAPPENING for the good of everyone. (Or more like open source software than the stuff a Microserf gets his paycheck for.)
Would this be a bad thing? I can't say. But if it happened, then you and I would be effectively channeled into other work our economy needed, just like our nation has been channeled away from, say, piecework garment sewing in favor of countries whose economies embrace such work. There are already all kinds of economic pressures to herd us into one occupation vs. another, or into some industries vs. others. I'm not sure I really see yet (but I reserve judgment about) whether one more such guide in our economy would be bad for us, overall.
Factual disputes are for the trial courts.
You must raise the issue there and you must do it clearly and competently.
You won't be given a second chance on appeal.
The court of appeals is only interested in whether the judge or jury made a fundamental legal mistake in their handling of the case.
"Fundamental legal mistake" includes interpreting a statute with an overly-literal eye. The Appeals Court will get to reverse if it finds the legislature did not include Childs' conduct when using the statutory language. IAAL
Jeez, what are they going to think of next. Just amazing.
I've used System Restore on my Win7 64-bit systems. If Win7 really had a habit of deleting System Restore points, it would have been detected and harped upon within hours of its release, 32-bit or 64-bit. Whatever the problem is, it's hard to believe it's Windows' fault.
Are you kidding?