1) Buy a wireless router (~$60). Set it up unencrypted, and use it to route all your internet traffic via NAT.
2) When you receive your notice from the RIAA, simply reformat your harddrive, then reply "It wasn't me... it could have been anyone in the neighborhood!"
3) Get help from the EFF; take the RIAA to court, and make them prove it was you that downloaded and/or uploaded the files.
Welcome to the real world, where there is a 4 year wait for a green card. Guess where all those people in the INS now busy searching for terrorists came from? Hint: the INS didn't hire any new people.
That's not entirely true. Linux owes it's existance to all those old PCs that too underpowered to run the latest bloatware from Redmond. If there had been no M$, there would have been no PC, and hence no Linux, and Unix would still only be running on $10,000 proprietary workstations.
Uh, last year Microsoft threatened to audit Northwest schools and charge them hundreds of thousands of dollars for any licenses they couldn't find. Doesn't exactly sound "cheaper" to me! Bear in mind half the computers are donated, not necessarily with documentation, and that most teachers have better things to do with their time then keep track of the Windows license that came with their computer... yeah, right, MS is _real_ generous to schools!
I can envision a situation where one parent might 'kidnap' their own kid and the other parent could get a court to use the Onstar system to locate the vehicle (or something like that).
Note to self: be sure to use a rental car when committing custodial interference.
You really think it's cost effective to have an FBI agent listening live to every wiretap 24/7? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, they might be using a voice-activated recorder, so that they come back days later and just listen to the actual conversations? I say the chances of there being a live agent listening to your "oh, shit!" and responding to it in real time are practically nil.
Doesn't this create the possibility of a whole new product to sell to the tin-foil hat crowd -- a simple device to attach to on-star, etc., that lights up an led when it's transmitting? These things DO have antennas, don't they?
So, it's ok to tap all my phone lines, since my wife is a non-citizen, even though I am a citizen? Plus, her parents are Moslem, so she's probably a terrorist anyway, right? Yes, I try not to say anything on the phone that I wouldn't want an FBI agent overhearing...
If they are carrying guns, perhaps your best strategy would be to comply now, get their badge numbers, and sue them later. Look what happened recently when the police raided a high school to look for drugs. A few students laboring under the impression that they had rights refused to get down on the floor as ordered. That resulted in drawn weapons being pointed at them, and probably in their being thrown up against the wall and hog-tied... oh, and by the way, they didn't find any drugs.
Bad example. Some people really are born both, although the number is small enough so as to be statistically insignificant. There are a lot fewer categorical variables than you think -- in real life, variances usually occur in a continuous spectrum. Classifiation is a delusion invented by scientists as an expedient; don't be fooled into thinking it accurately mirrors the real world.
Is anybody still laboring under the impression that SCO's business model still involves selling software to customers? I thought everybody has moved on to the assumption that actually selling software is just a pretense SCO must now keep up to make their real business model (pissing off everybody they can think of and hoping they'll get paid hush money to shut up) not look too much like extortion to the judges.
Run their web connections through a proxy, and log every site they access. Tell them before hand that you're recording every URL, and explain to them that if there are any sites they'd be embarrassed about you knowing they accessed, they'd best not navigate to them from their home computers. Then explain to them that you're open to discussing anything, and that if they are unsure how you will react to visiting certain sites, they should discuss it with you BEFORE, not AFTER, going to those sites. Also explain that you're willing to accept an explaination of "It was an accident; I didn't know it was a goatse.cx link!" God knows I've been to sites that embarrased even me...
I can't imagine that AT&T would sell spam technology, because it would be a public relations nightmare.
Boeing now derives over half it's revenue from military equipment, and it doesn't seem to have suffered any public relations damage. Are you trying to say that if you sell technology designed to circumvent spam filters, it will make everybody hate you, but it you sell technology designed to simply kill people, nobody will mind? I think AT&T has a much greater chance of forcing their patents to be used only for good than Boeing does...
And so far, NONE OF THE CUSTOMERS has complained about their service! Little hard to obtain those customer testimonials, though... seriously, if they don't send the email, who's going to sue them, or even ask for their money back?
Can't people fresh off the boat from Somalia with not even a high school degree make more than that, as soon as they pass the test for their Certified Nursing Assistant certification?
Uh... call forwarding to a disposable cell phone? Of course, if you call mommy back, and she checks the caller id, you're screwed. By the way, the article never says this device encorporates a cell phone, although it does support SMS messaging, which is strange -- if you've already got the transmitter and receiver for SMS, isn't adding cell capability pretty cheap?
Do you think we could interest one of the drive manufacturers in building windowed drives? I'd certainly rather buy a factory-sealed unit then cut up my own. Or perhaps use a raid configuration and mirror each modified drive with a non-modified one?
"Alarm is sent to parents when device is carried outside of prescribed zone." Uh, won't that simply teach children to set the device down before wandering off?
I guess M$ figures that if G.W. Bush can get away with defying the EU (by slapping tarriffs on EU steel, which the WTO has ruled are illegal) then why should B. Gates be able to get away with it?
Slashdot Mirror
2) When you receive your notice from the RIAA, simply reformat your harddrive, then reply "It wasn't me... it could have been anyone in the neighborhood!"
3) Get help from the EFF; take the RIAA to court, and make them prove it was you that downloaded and/or uploaded the files.
Welcome to the real world, where there is a 4 year wait for a green card. Guess where all those people in the INS now busy searching for terrorists came from? Hint: the INS didn't hire any new people.
So, why isn't Darl McBride dead yet?
That's not entirely true. Linux owes it's existance to all those old PCs that too underpowered to run the latest bloatware from Redmond. If there had been no M$, there would have been no PC, and hence no Linux, and Unix would still only be running on $10,000 proprietary workstations.
Uh, last year Microsoft threatened to audit Northwest schools and charge them hundreds of thousands of dollars for any licenses they couldn't find. Doesn't exactly sound "cheaper" to me! Bear in mind half the computers are donated, not necessarily with documentation, and that most teachers have better things to do with their time then keep track of the Windows license that came with their computer... yeah, right, MS is _real_ generous to schools!
Note to self: be sure to use a rental car when committing custodial interference.
Doesn't this create the possibility of a whole new product to sell to the tin-foil hat crowd -- a simple device to attach to on-star, etc., that lights up an led when it's transmitting? These things DO have antennas, don't they?
So, it's ok to tap all my phone lines, since my wife is a non-citizen, even though I am a citizen? Plus, her parents are Moslem, so she's probably a terrorist anyway, right? Yes, I try not to say anything on the phone that I wouldn't want an FBI agent overhearing...
Obviously, this is just one more thing they copied from Apple...
If they are carrying guns, perhaps your best strategy would be to comply now, get their badge numbers, and sue them later. Look what happened recently when the police raided a high school to look for drugs. A few students laboring under the impression that they had rights refused to get down on the floor as ordered. That resulted in drawn weapons being pointed at them, and probably in their being thrown up against the wall and hog-tied... oh, and by the way, they didn't find any drugs.
Bad example. Some people really are born both, although the number is small enough so as to be statistically insignificant. There are a lot fewer categorical variables than you think -- in real life, variances usually occur in a continuous spectrum. Classifiation is a delusion invented by scientists as an expedient; don't be fooled into thinking it accurately mirrors the real world.
Should't that be "419 times a day"?
... and closed today at 13.86, up a whopping 1.54%. More FUD Darl... it's not working!
Is anybody still laboring under the impression that SCO's business model still involves selling software to customers? I thought everybody has moved on to the assumption that actually selling software is just a pretense SCO must now keep up to make their real business model (pissing off everybody they can think of and hoping they'll get paid hush money to shut up) not look too much like extortion to the judges.
They're not self-replicating Von Neuman machines... yet!
Run their web connections through a proxy, and log every site they access. Tell them before hand that you're recording every URL, and explain to them that if there are any sites they'd be embarrassed about you knowing they accessed, they'd best not navigate to them from their home computers. Then explain to them that you're open to discussing anything, and that if they are unsure how you will react to visiting certain sites, they should discuss it with you BEFORE, not AFTER, going to those sites. Also explain that you're willing to accept an explaination of "It was an accident; I didn't know it was a goatse.cx link!" God knows I've been to sites that embarrased even me...
Boeing now derives over half it's revenue from military equipment, and it doesn't seem to have suffered any public relations damage. Are you trying to say that if you sell technology designed to circumvent spam filters, it will make everybody hate you, but it you sell technology designed to simply kill people, nobody will mind? I think AT&T has a much greater chance of forcing their patents to be used only for good than Boeing does...
And so far, NONE OF THE CUSTOMERS has complained about their service! Little hard to obtain those customer testimonials, though... seriously, if they don't send the email, who's going to sue them, or even ask for their money back?
Can't people fresh off the boat from Somalia with not even a high school degree make more than that, as soon as they pass the test for their Certified Nursing Assistant certification?
Uh... call forwarding to a disposable cell phone? Of course, if you call mommy back, and she checks the caller id, you're screwed. By the way, the article never says this device encorporates a cell phone, although it does support SMS messaging, which is strange -- if you've already got the transmitter and receiver for SMS, isn't adding cell capability pretty cheap?
Do you think we could interest one of the drive manufacturers in building windowed drives? I'd certainly rather buy a factory-sealed unit then cut up my own. Or perhaps use a raid configuration and mirror each modified drive with a non-modified one?
Can they now patent this virus, or does God's work count as prior art?
So leave the box at the library before you head off to party... it's not like it's shackled to your wrist, is it?
"Alarm is sent to parents when device is carried outside of prescribed zone." Uh, won't that simply teach children to set the device down before wandering off?
I guess M$ figures that if G.W. Bush can get away with defying the EU (by slapping tarriffs on EU steel, which the WTO has ruled are illegal) then why should B. Gates be able to get away with it?