Really, who gives a shit if they have your PSN password. Their service is down right now. When it comes back up, they just need to do a forced password change. Easy.
Unless, you were stupid enough to use the same password for everything.
If you talk with police much you find out that "the other kind" are responding to a knock on the door with shots fired through it. There may also be various things in the house that can be quantified as high explosives used in the production of meth amphetamine drugs.
True, if they had reasonable evidence that drugs or weapons were involved, I expect them to be highly armed and bust doors down, and use some flashbangs.
However, they had child porn and an IP address. If that is enough to think that they're about to deal with someone that shoots their way out the front door, where does it stop? Will the police bust my door down to discuss parking tickets? If not, why not?
Look at it another way: The host of this TV show stands with no gun and no visible body armor when confronting people actively attempting to have sex with minors. I don't know about you, but I find these people to be one step higher on the level of danger from the person downloading child porn.
If some TV host can do it, I expect a police office can do it, too.
The end result is that every interaction with the police is assumed to be potentially deadly.
Do you realize how much is wrong with that sentence?
I was always under the assumption that a uniformed officer knocks on your door and hands you a slip of paper to escort you "downtown."
So was I. This highlights the 2nd part of this whole case that is very wrong (other than the IP == identity which everyone else is doing a good job of debunking).
If someone was breaking through my rear door as described, I'd inform them that there is a high-powered rifle pointing at the door, and that they will not be warned again. If they hit the door again, they would be shot.
In this case, it is likely that my rifle would kill at least one officer, and it is also likely that I or some of my family might be killed. I would have been acting in my rights (See castle law).
However, if they would knock on the front door (with officers watching all other exits), confront me directly, I could then point out the public WiFi running at my home. Perhaps I'd still have to go downtown and be interviewed while they scanned my computer, but the whole process could be much more civil and with far fewer dead bodies.
The point is that the parent poster is making refers to live TV stations. As in, watching a sports event live, or a 1,000 other things that people rather watch live, if for no other reason than to keep from reading spoilers before they get it from their DVR.
I agree, I really wish the Mbone actually connected to ISPs, but they don't use it. Even if Xbox and the TV station supported it, the ISPs won't simply because they can't figure out how to bill each other for 1 stream that goes to 100,000 endpoints.
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No, you've been committing tax fraud, as have I, and just about everyone else. There is a part of your state tax form that we are supposed to fill in with every purchase that did not have state sales tax on it. Almost everyone sees this as something nearly impossible to track, and the better we track it, the more taxes we pay, so we don't. If we just forced the companies to collect tax for the state that the product is shipped to, the tax that is already in place will be enforced. So, yes, you will end up paying more in taxes, but it isn't a tax increase or new taxes.
Your very long point is that this can be abused by the government so that their control can be maintained.
I see that point, and in certain ways I agree with you.
That is EXACTLY why I support using social networks right now, when places like the USA are not (currently) in that state.
However, until that time, you have yet to show the danger I'm in.
If I ever fear for my safety from the government, I want to have a perfect way to mislead them. If today, while the sun is shining, I upload pix with EXIF data and they can verify that I'm not screwing with them, then they begin to trust that I basically self-report.
Now, when the day comes that we have to rise up against our government, I have the perfect tool to show that I'm still one of the loyal citizens. I can upload pictures with modified EXIF data, use proxy servers, and all sorts of things to look like a normal citizen while I'm actually doing things to overthrow the government.
If the government becomes as corrupt as you fear, who do you think they're going to send the black helicopters after to watch every move? You, who has avoided social media because you feared exactly this, or me, who appears to be another mindless person uploading their party pictures at Starbucks?
In the meantime, until that day comes that we have to fight our government again, you have yet to demonstrate any present risk to me, drinking my expensive coffee and tweeting about how I'm so pissed about the lack of 4G coverage while I watch my TV over my iPhone.
I don't know about you, but anyone that knows my work email address has just as good of a chance of predicting my location tomorrow at 5:00pm.
Anyone that knows my name and general part of the state that I live in (or just my phone number) knows pretty well where I'll be tonight at 11pm.
At the very least, it would take them less than 24 hours to figure out my daily patterns just by knowing where I live.
So, now that I've established that it is trivial to predict where most people will be at any given time, what is going to happen?
Are they going to be murdered / raped / robbed? Are the chances of that any higher than they were before the Internet?
Don't send links of a few cases where someone used the Internet to stalk a person and do something bad. People used horses and a spyglass to do that before, and cars and binoculars to do it later. Show me a study that links "danger" to "social network".
Very few Top Gear viewers have that much disposable income, desire for an all-electric two-seater, and would accept without question what they saw on Top Gear.
You have the statement reversed. It doesn't matter what the average Top Gear viewer is likely to do. What matters is how likely the average Tesla buyer is to watch Top Gear.
Not everyone that buys a Tesla is looking for only an all-electric two-seater. I've talked to a few people that are in the market for a two-seat sports car in that price range, but they're not sure the Tesla is ready for prime time since it is so new.
If they're on the fence and see that episode, they're likely to go ahead an buy the Porsche, Lotus, etc..
When you purchase a CD, you do get license to play that CD
I do? I've never seen a license. I've seen a disc with music on it, and a notice that I can't distribute it illegally, but I've never seen a license. I've certainly never agreed to a contract.
Of course in China they won't have any of these "only green cars in the city" restrictions, so I bet a lot of companies will just pack-up shop and move over there. To avoid the hassle.
You've never heard of Dongtan, then. It has not been built yet, but plans started in 2005. I'm not saying China will do the same thing with all their cities, but you've got a hell of a crystal ball to assume they won't, too.
I assume you're talking about my suggestion about the police being on the "dirt road" to get the people avoiding the checkpoint.
My point is that they could have their well-advertised checkpoint, and then just *observe* people on the "dirt road". When they see the guy puking out the window on the wrong side of the road, they'll have probable cause.
So, you think it is better to try to ban an app (only on non-jailbroken iPhones, as Androids and rooted devices can certainly still run these apps) and pretended it isn't something to worry about anymore than to use the app to your advantage?
I'm not suggesting an arms race. That would be more like trying to detect the users of the app with some tech, and then more tech to hide the users (see radar detector detector detectors).
I'm suggesting turning your adversary's weapon into your advantage. Very different from an arms race.
I always get a chuckle from the police that freak out over apps like this.
Police: Learn to use the false sense of security that these apps give lawbreakers.
Run the same apps in your police car. Have the department buy you a smartphone if needed, they are much cheaper than some of your other police toys. When a speedtrap app spots you, you'll get an alert since it thinks you're just another speeder. Move 1 mile against traffic and trap the speeders before they get the alert. When a DUI checkout app spots your checkpoint, post a couple of police on the obvious alternate routes that DUI people would use to avoid the posted checkpoint. Hell, save time and post the checkpoint yourself, and then give a closer inspection to all of the people that take the gravel road the GPS recommends to avoid the checkpoint that NO ONE ever drives on. Your % of DUI drivers should be higher in that group.
These things make it easier on the police, not harder, if they would adapt to it!
Don't mistake my poking holes in your hindsight for thinking that nuke power isn't the safest form of mass power we have. I'm all for using nuke instead of coal/oil/dam-hydro.
It is just easy to sit back after the event and point out all of the things that could have been done to protect it. Maybe they'll do that next time, or maybe someone will decide that it isn't worth the money to keep all of these 4th or 5th level redundant components working.
All of these cooling problems could have been solved by some sort of waterproof backup power, even if it had to be stored 50 miles away and delivered via an underground cable that comes up under the reactors.
Right, because an underground cable wouldn't be harmed by an earthquake?
In theory, if you don't establish exactly who you are talking to, you can have a man in the middle reading everything, thereby rendering the encryption useless.
In practice, we either trust Verisign to only give certs to people that are trustworthy or we ignore SSL cert errors.
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Really, who gives a shit if they have your PSN password. Their service is down right now. When it comes back up, they just need to do a forced password change. Easy.
Unless, you were stupid enough to use the same password for everything.
True, if they had reasonable evidence that drugs or weapons were involved, I expect them to be highly armed and bust doors down, and use some flashbangs.
However, they had child porn and an IP address. If that is enough to think that they're about to deal with someone that shoots their way out the front door, where does it stop? Will the police bust my door down to discuss parking tickets? If not, why not?
Look at it another way: The host of this TV show stands with no gun and no visible body armor when confronting people actively attempting to have sex with minors . I don't know about you, but I find these people to be one step higher on the level of danger from the person downloading child porn.
If some TV host can do it, I expect a police office can do it, too.
Do you realize how much is wrong with that sentence?
So was I. This highlights the 2nd part of this whole case that is very wrong (other than the IP == identity which everyone else is doing a good job of debunking).
If someone was breaking through my rear door as described, I'd inform them that there is a high-powered rifle pointing at the door, and that they will not be warned again. If they hit the door again, they would be shot.
In this case, it is likely that my rifle would kill at least one officer, and it is also likely that I or some of my family might be killed. I would have been acting in my rights (See castle law).
However, if they would knock on the front door (with officers watching all other exits), confront me directly, I could then point out the public WiFi running at my home. Perhaps I'd still have to go downtown and be interviewed while they scanned my computer, but the whole process could be much more civil and with far fewer dead bodies.
How about a citation on where that impairs freedom. Can you show any action the NSA has taken to restrict free speech?
The point is that the parent poster is making refers to live TV stations. As in, watching a sports event live, or a 1,000 other things that people rather watch live, if for no other reason than to keep from reading spoilers before they get it from their DVR.
I agree, I really wish the Mbone actually connected to ISPs, but they don't use it. Even if Xbox and the TV station supported it, the ISPs won't simply because they can't figure out how to bill each other for 1 stream that goes to 100,000 endpoints.
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Report your sales or use tax liability on this line.
You owe sales or compensating use tax if you:
â purchased an item or service subject to tax that is delivered to
you in New York State without payment of New York State and
local tax to the seller; or
â purchased an item or service outside New York State that is
subject to tax in New York State (and you were a resident of
New York State at the time of purchase) with subsequent use
in New York State.
Note: You may be entitled to a credit for sales tax paid
to another state. See the exact calculation method in the
instructions for Form STâ'140, Individual Purchaserâ(TM)s Annual
Report of Sales and Use Tax.
For sales and use tax purposes, a resident includes persons who
have a permanent place of abode in the state. Accordingly, you
may be a resident for sales tax purposes even though you may
not be a resident for income tax purposes. See the instructions
for Form STâ'140 for more information.
You may not use this line to report:
â any sales and use tax on business purchases if the business is
registered for sales and use tax purposes. You must report this
tax on the businessâ(TM)s sales tax return.
â any unpaid sales and use tax on motor vehicles, trailers,
allâ'terrain vehicles, vessels, or snowmobiles. This tax is paid
directly to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
An unpaid sales or use tax liability commonly arises if you made
purchases through the Internet, by catalog, from television
shopping channels, or on an Indian reservation, or if you
purchased items or services subject to tax in another state and
brought them back to New York for use here.
Example 1: You purchased a computer over the Internet
that was delivered to your house in Monroe County,
New York, from an out-of-state company and did not
pay sales tax to that company.
Example 2: You purchased a book on a trip to
New Hampshire that you brought back to your residence
in Nassau County, New York, for use there.
You may also owe an additional local tax if you made a
purchase in a locality in New York State and brought the item
into or subsequently used the service in another New York State
locality where you were a resident and that locality had a higher
tax rate than where you made the purchase.
Failure to pay sales or use tax may result in the imposition of
penalty and interest. The Tax Department conducts routine
audits based on information received from third parties,
including the U.S. Customs Service and other states.
If you owe sales or use tax, you may report the amount
you owe on your personal income tax return rather than filing
Form STâ'140.
Using the sales and use tax chart below is an easy way to
compute your liability for all your purchases of items or services
costing less than $1,000 each (excluding shipping and handling)
that are not related to a business, rental real estate, or royalty
activities.
Personally, I'm fine with what you suggest as well. I just want it to be fair.
No, you've been committing tax fraud, as have I, and just about everyone else.
There is a part of your state tax form that we are supposed to fill in with every purchase that did not have state sales tax on it. Almost everyone sees this as something nearly impossible to track, and the better we track it, the more taxes we pay, so we don't.
If we just forced the companies to collect tax for the state that the product is shipped to, the tax that is already in place will be enforced.
So, yes, you will end up paying more in taxes, but it isn't a tax increase or new taxes.
I heard that about an X.25 barbed wire network. Might be the same story.
It's worth noting that the Earth is by far the most valuable real estate in the Solar System.
Per square kilometer, yes. By object, the Sun has it beat in terms of value.
Your very long point is that this can be abused by the government so that their control can be maintained.
I see that point, and in certain ways I agree with you.
That is EXACTLY why I support using social networks right now, when places like the USA are not (currently) in that state.
However, until that time, you have yet to show the danger I'm in.
If I ever fear for my safety from the government, I want to have a perfect way to mislead them. If today, while the sun is shining, I upload pix with EXIF data and they can verify that I'm not screwing with them, then they begin to trust that I basically self-report.
Now, when the day comes that we have to rise up against our government, I have the perfect tool to show that I'm still one of the loyal citizens. I can upload pictures with modified EXIF data, use proxy servers, and all sorts of things to look like a normal citizen while I'm actually doing things to overthrow the government.
If the government becomes as corrupt as you fear, who do you think they're going to send the black helicopters after to watch every move? You, who has avoided social media because you feared exactly this, or me, who appears to be another mindless person uploading their party pictures at Starbucks?
In the meantime, until that day comes that we have to fight our government again, you have yet to demonstrate any present risk to me, drinking my expensive coffee and tweeting about how I'm so pissed about the lack of 4G coverage while I watch my TV over my iPhone.
I don't know about you, but anyone that knows my work email address has just as good of a chance of predicting my location tomorrow at 5:00pm.
Anyone that knows my name and general part of the state that I live in (or just my phone number) knows pretty well where I'll be tonight at 11pm.
At the very least, it would take them less than 24 hours to figure out my daily patterns just by knowing where I live.
So, now that I've established that it is trivial to predict where most people will be at any given time, what is going to happen?
Are they going to be murdered / raped / robbed? Are the chances of that any higher than they were before the Internet?
Don't send links of a few cases where someone used the Internet to stalk a person and do something bad. People used horses and a spyglass to do that before, and cars and binoculars to do it later. Show me a study that links "danger" to "social network".
It usually takes something like this to shake them up enough to understand the dangers of social network
Please, enlighten me to the dangers.
What if you know exactly where I was 2 hours ago?
What exact harm is going to come to me? Do we really live in such a dangerous world?
Very few Top Gear viewers have that much disposable income, desire for an all-electric two-seater, and would accept without question what they saw on Top Gear.
You have the statement reversed. It doesn't matter what the average Top Gear viewer is likely to do. What matters is how likely the average Tesla buyer is to watch Top Gear.
Not everyone that buys a Tesla is looking for only an all-electric two-seater. I've talked to a few people that are in the market for a two-seat sports car in that price range, but they're not sure the Tesla is ready for prime time since it is so new.
If they're on the fence and see that episode, they're likely to go ahead an buy the Porsche, Lotus, etc..
When you purchase a CD, you do get license to play that CD
I do? I've never seen a license. I've seen a disc with music on it, and a notice that I can't distribute it illegally, but I've never seen a license. I've certainly never agreed to a contract.
when's the last time anyone had packet loss that wasn't on their own network?
Today. Seriously, I see packet loss on intercontinental links all the time. Not my ISP's network, and not my network, but it still affects me.
Of course in China they won't have any of these "only green cars in the city" restrictions, so I bet a lot of companies will just pack-up shop and move over there. To avoid the hassle.
You've never heard of Dongtan, then. It has not been built yet, but plans started in 2005.
I'm not saying China will do the same thing with all their cities, but you've got a hell of a crystal ball to assume they won't, too.
I hope this was a lame attempt at a joke, but if not, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode
I assume you're talking about my suggestion about the police being on the "dirt road" to get the people avoiding the checkpoint.
My point is that they could have their well-advertised checkpoint, and then just *observe* people on the "dirt road". When they see the guy puking out the window on the wrong side of the road, they'll have probable cause.
So, you think it is better to try to ban an app (only on non-jailbroken iPhones, as Androids and rooted devices can certainly still run these apps) and pretended it isn't something to worry about anymore than to use the app to your advantage?
I'm not suggesting an arms race. That would be more like trying to detect the users of the app with some tech, and then more tech to hide the users (see radar detector detector detectors).
I'm suggesting turning your adversary's weapon into your advantage. Very different from an arms race.
I always get a chuckle from the police that freak out over apps like this.
Police: Learn to use the false sense of security that these apps give lawbreakers.
Run the same apps in your police car. Have the department buy you a smartphone if needed, they are much cheaper than some of your other police toys.
When a speedtrap app spots you, you'll get an alert since it thinks you're just another speeder. Move 1 mile against traffic and trap the speeders before they get the alert.
When a DUI checkout app spots your checkpoint, post a couple of police on the obvious alternate routes that DUI people would use to avoid the posted checkpoint.
Hell, save time and post the checkpoint yourself, and then give a closer inspection to all of the people that take the gravel road the GPS recommends to avoid the checkpoint that NO ONE ever drives on. Your % of DUI drivers should be higher in that group.
These things make it easier on the police, not harder, if they would adapt to it!
Don't mistake my poking holes in your hindsight for thinking that nuke power isn't the safest form of mass power we have. I'm all for using nuke instead of coal/oil/dam-hydro.
It is just easy to sit back after the event and point out all of the things that could have been done to protect it. Maybe they'll do that next time, or maybe someone will decide that it isn't worth the money to keep all of these 4th or 5th level redundant components working.
All of these cooling problems could have been solved by some sort of waterproof backup power, even if it had to be stored 50 miles away and delivered via an underground cable that comes up under the reactors.
Right, because an underground cable wouldn't be harmed by an earthquake?
In theory, if you don't establish exactly who you are talking to, you can have a man in the middle reading everything, thereby rendering the encryption useless.
In practice, we either trust Verisign to only give certs to people that are trustworthy or we ignore SSL cert errors.