A first amendment challenge (against being compelled to speak) may also apply.
and finally, if you really are determined, you may find yourself weighing the merits of a contempt citation vs (eg) embezzlement charges. Or just to prove a point. The difference in time spent 'confined', between serving out contempt and being vindicated on privacy grounds, may or may not be comparable.
A friend of mine related to me that his boss asked him, "If you come into the office shooting people at random, could you start at the front so I can get away?"
His reply: "If I come into the office shooting people, it won't be at random."
The scary part is that neither one was joking. Yes, Virginia, work environments really can get that toxic.
Your analysis of the math involved is correct, but irrelevant.
A 2048 bit key is a 256 byte key.
At some point, say, the password to a PGP key ring, the password that needs to be cracked will probably be between 6-8 bytes, possibly up to 32 bytes, worth of specific ASCII characters.
And that IS brute force guessable by a reasonable number of computers over a reasonable amount of time.
If you've been a clever lad and are using some bitmap to define your 2048 bit key, chances are that breaking the key is even easier. That bitmap is going to be around somewhere for you to use, after all... And wouldn't it purely suck if you used an image from the web and that link went offline...
People in the film industry are his constituents. To say that he represents only the Hollywood/San Fernando Valley, that is "voters in his district" (which you didn't, but implied) is to say:
I (for any given person) am disenfranchised in any Congressional Committee or subcommittee that does not include the congressman for MY district.
IMNSHO, Any representative in government who believes that that is right and proper should be removed from office. The laws they vote for affect us all, rich and poor, saint and sinner, corporate and private.
The scans aren't being postponed because the reactor was shut down longer than a week. They're being postponed because there is zero redundant production capacity in the world.
The arguments you've made, "it's not a power reactor", and "it's in the middle of nowhere" are relevant only to the "what happens to US if this reactor dies". They don't touch at all on the "what happens to those people who were relying on that production if this reactor dies".
You moan about people dying on a daily basis because a scan is postponed. How long would the shortage, and thus the lack of scans, go on if we had to build an entire new plant?
I know it's offtopic, but I had to comment anyway...
since he votes against federal funding for anything not authorized by the constitution The 'commerce clause' has been used as an umbrella for almost everything that the federal government does except the military.
Did Ron Paul vote for Social Security increases? Federal Highway funds? Emergency Relief funds for Katrina? Show me the constitutional mandate. Preamble doesn't count; it just states intent, not implementation.
Obviously, a downward trend cannot continue forever, or criminals would at some point be resurrecting the dead. Surely you have heard of resurrectionists? Or frankenstein? Just dig deep enough, and you're bound to come up with someone... er, something.
It's not bricked if you can just reinstall or repair Windows and have it work again. That's just the point. If you're not technically savvy, it's real easy to get the computer to a point you cannot repair it. If you have to pass it to someone else to have it repaired, it really makes little difference whether the fix was "boot off a floppy and copy file X on top of the file on the hard disk", or "reflash the rom with a dedicated piece of hardware attached to a second computer.
"Can't do it" is "can't do it". Anything else is a matter of degree.
The real problem: of the 59% "who were actually vulnerable", how many allowed the previously unknown company iTracks to run (what they called) a security check on their computer? How many of the other 41%? How many verified iTracks in any way whatsoever?
Even if they really were what they said they were, if they allowed iTracks onto their computer without checking, they really are vulnerable.
The scaremongering: of the 59% "who were actually vulnerable", how many had already succumbed to some online threat - discounting iTracks, that is? The article doesn't say...
Or as bad: from http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=799704:
The tool [Verizon Security Advisor, from Radialpoint], which is now available free of charge from Verizon to all Internet users (http://www.verizon.net/securityadvisor),... allows users to scan their PCs for the presence and proper functioning of virus, spyware or personal firewall protection software ... which leaves you to trust the tool to rate the AV software and firewall you have. How well does it do that rating? Who's to say they have no bias, or make a judgement based on obsolete or faulty information?
And a last tidbit for the paranoid: Running without images or javascript (my own paranoia showing), TFA is completely obscured by an ad for Qualys, a company guaranteed to have a vested interest in a scare like this. Particularly a corporate scare.
Hope you've a sufficient supply of slightly iodized sodium chloride on hand.
"Not genuflecting" in this case would have meant that Google would have moved to quash, not leave it up to the EFF.
Google is a US corporation; simply ignoring a court order, regardless of the plaintiff, would hurt more than it is worth to them. They didn't object, ergo, they were going to roll over...
But I expect that you said all that in jest, and it went whizzing over the heads of the folks who modded you "interesting" and "Flamebait"...:)
If I had one million lines of Linux code and 1000 lines of my own, I would likely publish the source code. If I had 1000 lines of GPL'd code and one million lines of my own, I might be more willing to pay damages.
Copyright law isn't a percentages game; 'your lines' vs 'their lines' won't change the damages.
Perhaps you're thinking something more along the lines of
If I made only $1000 I'd publish; if I made $10,000,000 I'd pay damages.
As people pointed out earlier, it's not a game currently being published, so the only drawbacks for Sony involve how much more money they were planning to get for it. Which probably amounts to less than the cost to have an executive even think about this whole GPL issue.
I like our Oregon voting methods too... According to Wikipedia, in the 2006 election, ~73% of those estimated eligible, or ~ 70% of those registered, bothered to vote. About 30%, then, didn't care enough to vote.
Which is good, by comparison. Florida gubernatorial election, 2006, apparently had only a 46% turnout.
I'm not sayin' cause-and-effect of good vs bad voting methods.... But I did just plant it in your mind, didn't I?
I don't even have to point at an analogy, just at parallels - Napster. Kazaa. Both were very successfully litigated against for complicity in copyright infringement, no? Where your parallels break down is that Kazaa and Napster are both services. Their equivalents in the Bittorent world are folks like Pirate Bay, hosts of torrent seeds.
A better example would be Lik-Sang, as a "provider of copyright infringement technology". And even that is diluted, as bittorent is a protocol with many clients now. The protocol itself does not infringe on the copyrights of the media, though it is conceivable someone could dig up a patent out there. (Boo! Hiss!)
(7) No playing World of Warcraft One of the advantages of Dialup is that I get a meter of bytes transferred, because those numbers are ususally small.
If memory serves (prior to WoW voice chat) WoW Downloaded some 4MB an hour or so during regular usage.
Say you're running a 5 person LAN, and running each 24 hours a day. For the sake of hygiene, assume shifts, please.:) about 15GB a month. Cut it down to only 1 person, and you're still only talking 3GB.
There's any number of caveats there...
that's regular usage. Downloading a patch torrent is a different matter
Other games by default (City of Heroes, for example), and WoW with voice chat, take up more bandwidth in normal operation. Also, you may be running Vent or another voice chat service to take up more bandwidth.
gaming is, as you pointed out elsewhere, not on the "approved use" list.
... just under normal use (18 hours/day, occasional patches) you would still come in under the wire. Just barely. With the right games.
To to rain on your calculations, but did you also figure in... * casualties on the ground (directed to inflict, vs directed to avoid) (That is, the cost is not to you alone, or even limited to those in the plane.) * encouragement by success (The "not only do you prevent the 1 attack, but you prevent N other successful/unsuccessful incidents by copycats.) * further security crackdowns as a result of previous perceived security failure, brought on by mass outcry from the public to "do something"?
Politicians being what they are, failing to "do something", even if it is the wrong thing, gets pointed out by people who then become incumbents, if you take my meaning. Politicians who actually do the wrong thing can point and say "at least I tried" if it gets shown to be bogus. Doesn't make it any less wrong, but they're a bit more likely to retain their job.
And make no mistake, I think the no-fly lists are as ineffective as you can get. Flash a newly-minted fake ID at the boarding gate, and there you go.
Sorry, not so.... Unless you picture her as intentionally sabotaging her own computer before sending it to Best Buy. Or assume the Geek-squad guy was lying as well.
Try again for your obvious evidence of guilt, please.
> I have no wish to fund your care while you spend 30 years fading to black in a vegetative state because your brain got scrambled in a relatively minor accident.
You might consider: you aren't doing the funding. The insurance company is. Or, more likely, isn't, if it's quite so catastrophic as all that. Discounting, of course, the possibility of death instead of injury.
Another argument used by the "pro-motorcycle helmet lobby" is "think of the poor emergency room workers", and "think of the poor employers and their insurance bills".
There is something to be said for personal responsibility here, and for the freedom to make that informed choice.
> Except that it was easily proven that the benefits of shoulder belts, air bags, and third brake lights outweighed any drawbacks.
Y'know, I never did see any of those studies about the proven effects of the third brake light. Could you point one or two out to me? And... at the time they were mandated, they were a novelty. Are they still as effective as they were initially?
I'll not argue the benefits of seat belts or air bags; my '91 cavalier was built before the air bags were mandated, and my '64 Polara before seat belts. I did see the point of the seat belts (but really really disliked the auto-enforcing ones), but I'm not yet convinced on the air bags (assuming seat belts are properly used).
> What if a controlled remote kill of a vehicle under police supervision that has been reported stolen or is the subject of a court order has the same results? Returning stolen properly safely, preventing high speed police chases and death?
I think you can safely remove the "stolen property" argument from the lineup. Police stumble across stolen cars when they find them at all; it's seldom that that said stolen cars are involved in high speed chases. Make On-star mandatory, and it becomes one more item in the chop-shop checklist before making off with the car.
Which means that the most likely person to be driving a vehicle the police 'control' this way will be the owner. Which pretty much leads to your point about mandated installation...
> Same thing with Tasers. One may recall a scandal about using the sleeper hold in Portland, OR, some time back. Training is important in new technology as well as with new techniques, and there'll be some problems with that, always. (The headline from the article comes from some T-shirts some members of the police made in response to the scandal, basically making your "is better than the alternatives" argument. It wasn't received well...)
>... Somebody besides MediaSentry downloaded the songs in question.
The jury instructions included the "making available" argument. That is, that no, they didn't have to prove that someone other than MediaSentry downloaded the songs.... and the jury has rendered a verdict, mentioned on http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/.
The forces of established capitalism won this round.
One might well consider City of Villains an expansion pack for CoH. I will concede that considerable content has been added gratis, and for which I am grateful. In addition, they recognize that their main income from CoH/CoV is from monthly revenue, so after an initial sales period, they've offered many "new package" benefits (costume elements, product-granted powers like a limited teleport, etc that were granted with particular promotionally packaged items like the "Good Vs Evil" pack) for a nominal cost.
On the other hand, NCSoft also runs GuildWars, which HAS had expansion packs. GuildWars's revenue stream, though, IS those expansion packs.
Despite the vast number of Tabula Rasa sites out there, all I could find on pricing was the initial outlay for the game. My opinion, then, is that they'll follow one of the two paths - roll profits from monthly subscription back into the expansion packs, or regularly pump out expansion packs for a fee, but not charge a subscription price.
Now if only I was a patent attorney, and could answer intelligently on this...
But I suspect that if they were to simply patent a different part of the existing MP3 format, the prior MP3 format itself would be prior art.
So, they patent a different style of handle on the milk jug, then "indented panels allowing for thinner jug walls" then "screw on cap", yadda yadda yadda, making as small and inexpensive a change as possible, that remains a "new feature".
But this argument is all hot air. As I said, I'm not a patent attorney...
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The MPAA, of course, won't lift a finger on any lawsuit where jurors may have been swayed by that report. That's for the defendants to do...
If they've charged you with some crime, then there may be a precedent.
A first amendment challenge (against being compelled to speak) may also apply.
and finally, if you really are determined, you may find yourself weighing the merits of a contempt citation vs (eg) embezzlement charges. Or just to prove a point. The difference in time spent 'confined', between serving out contempt and being vindicated on privacy grounds, may or may not be comparable.
A friend of mine related to me that his boss asked him, "If you come into the office shooting people at random, could you start at the front so I can get away?"
His reply: "If I come into the office shooting people, it won't be at random."
The scary part is that neither one was joking. Yes, Virginia, work environments really can get that toxic.
Your analysis of the math involved is correct, but irrelevant.
A 2048 bit key is a 256 byte key.
At some point, say, the password to a PGP key ring, the password that needs to be cracked will probably be between 6-8 bytes, possibly up to 32 bytes, worth of specific ASCII characters.
And that IS brute force guessable by a reasonable number of computers over a reasonable amount of time.
If you've been a clever lad and are using some bitmap to define your 2048 bit key, chances are that breaking the key is even easier. That bitmap is going to be around somewhere for you to use, after all... And wouldn't it purely suck if you used an image from the web and that link went offline...
I (for any given person) am disenfranchised in any Congressional Committee or subcommittee that does not include the congressman for MY district.
IMNSHO, Any representative in government who believes that that is right and proper should be removed from office. The laws they vote for affect us all, rich and poor, saint and sinner, corporate and private.
The scans aren't being postponed because the reactor was shut down longer than a week. They're being postponed because there is zero redundant production capacity in the world.
The arguments you've made, "it's not a power reactor", and "it's in the middle of nowhere" are relevant only to the "what happens to US if this reactor dies". They don't touch at all on the "what happens to those people who were relying on that production if this reactor dies".
You moan about people dying on a daily basis because a scan is postponed. How long would the shortage, and thus the lack of scans, go on if we had to build an entire new plant?
Careful who you give
that saliva to...
Did Ron Paul vote for Social Security increases? Federal Highway funds? Emergency Relief funds for Katrina? Show me the constitutional mandate. Preamble doesn't count; it just states intent, not implementation.
"Can't do it" is "can't do it". Anything else is a matter of degree.
The scaremongering: of the 59% "who were actually vulnerable", how many had already succumbed to some online threat - discounting iTracks, that is? The article doesn't say...
Or as bad: from http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=799704: The tool [Verizon Security Advisor, from Radialpoint], which is now available free of charge from Verizon to all Internet users (http://www.verizon.net/securityadvisor),
And a last tidbit for the paranoid: Running without images or javascript (my own paranoia showing), TFA is completely obscured by an ad for Qualys, a company guaranteed to have a vested interest in a scare like this. Particularly a corporate scare.
Hope you've a sufficient supply of slightly iodized sodium chloride on hand.
"Not genuflecting" in this case would have meant that Google would have moved to quash, not leave it up to the EFF.
:)
Google is a US corporation; simply ignoring a court order, regardless of the plaintiff, would hurt more than it is worth to them. They didn't object, ergo, they were going to roll over...
But I expect that you said all that in jest, and it went whizzing over the heads of the folks who modded you "interesting" and "Flamebait"...
Copyright law isn't a percentages game; 'your lines' vs 'their lines' won't change the damages.
Perhaps you're thinking something more along the lines of If I made only $1000 I'd publish; if I made $10,000,000 I'd pay damages.
As people pointed out earlier, it's not a game currently being published, so the only drawbacks for Sony involve how much more money they were planning to get for it. Which probably amounts to less than the cost to have an executive even think about this whole GPL issue.
I like our Oregon voting methods too... According to Wikipedia, in the 2006 election, ~73% of those estimated eligible, or ~ 70% of those registered, bothered to vote. About 30%, then, didn't care enough to vote.
... But I did just plant it in your mind, didn't I?
Which is good, by comparison. Florida gubernatorial election, 2006, apparently had only a 46% turnout.
I'm not sayin' cause-and-effect of good vs bad voting methods.
A better example would be Lik-Sang, as a "provider of copyright infringement technology". And even that is diluted, as bittorent is a protocol with many clients now. The protocol itself does not infringe on the copyrights of the media, though it is conceivable someone could dig up a patent out there. (Boo! Hiss!)
I am not a number, I am a free man!
To to rain on your calculations, but did you also figure in...
* casualties on the ground (directed to inflict, vs directed to avoid) (That is, the cost is not to you alone, or even limited to those in the plane.)
* encouragement by success (The "not only do you prevent the 1 attack, but you prevent N other successful/unsuccessful incidents by copycats.)
* further security crackdowns as a result of previous perceived security failure, brought on by mass outcry from the public to "do something"?
Politicians being what they are, failing to "do something", even if it is the wrong thing, gets pointed out by people who then become incumbents, if you take my meaning. Politicians who actually do the wrong thing can point and say "at least I tried" if it gets shown to be bogus. Doesn't make it any less wrong, but they're a bit more likely to retain their job.
And make no mistake, I think the no-fly lists are as ineffective as you can get. Flash a newly-minted fake ID at the boarding gate, and there you go.
Sucks for us, though, don't it?
>wiping the hard drive after she got in trouble
... Unless you picture her as intentionally sabotaging her own computer before sending it to Best Buy. Or assume the Geek-squad guy was lying as well.
Sorry, not so.
Try again for your obvious evidence of guilt, please.
Reminds me of the DRM debate.
... except that you can disable it quite so simply...
Gee, this widget will protect us all!
Yay! Breeding smarter car thieves! Give 'em a checklist of things to do before pulling out with the hotwired car...
> I have no wish to fund your care while you spend 30 years fading to black in a vegetative state because your brain got scrambled in a relatively minor accident.
You might consider: you aren't doing the funding. The insurance company is. Or, more likely, isn't, if it's quite so catastrophic as all that. Discounting, of course, the possibility of death instead of injury.
Another argument used by the "pro-motorcycle helmet lobby" is "think of the poor emergency room workers", and "think of the poor employers and their insurance bills".
There is something to be said for personal responsibility here, and for the freedom to make that informed choice.
> Except that it was easily proven that the benefits of shoulder belts, air bags, and third brake lights outweighed any drawbacks.
Y'know, I never did see any of those studies about the proven effects of the third brake light. Could you point one or two out to me? And... at the time they were mandated, they were a novelty. Are they still as effective as they were initially?
I'll not argue the benefits of seat belts or air bags; my '91 cavalier was built before the air bags were mandated, and my '64 Polara before seat belts. I did see the point of the seat belts (but really really disliked the auto-enforcing ones), but I'm not yet convinced on the air bags (assuming seat belts are properly used).
> What if a controlled remote kill of a vehicle under police supervision that has been reported stolen or is the subject of a court order has the same results? Returning stolen properly safely, preventing high speed police chases and death?
I think you can safely remove the "stolen property" argument from the lineup. Police stumble across stolen cars when they find them at all; it's seldom that that said stolen cars are involved in high speed chases. Make On-star mandatory, and it becomes one more item in the chop-shop checklist before making off with the car.
Which means that the most likely person to be driving a vehicle the police 'control' this way will be the owner. Which pretty much leads to your point about mandated installation...
> Same thing with Tasers.
One may recall a scandal about using the sleeper hold in Portland, OR, some time back. Training is important in new technology as well as with new techniques, and there'll be some problems with that, always. (The headline from the article comes from some T-shirts some members of the police made in response to the scandal, basically making your "is better than the alternatives" argument. It wasn't received well...)
> ... Somebody besides MediaSentry downloaded the songs in question.
... and the jury has rendered a verdict, mentioned on http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/.
The jury instructions included the "making available" argument. That is, that no, they didn't have to prove that someone other than MediaSentry downloaded the songs.
The forces of established capitalism won this round.
One might well consider City of Villains an expansion pack for CoH. I will concede that considerable content has been added gratis, and for which I am grateful. In addition, they recognize that their main income from CoH/CoV is from monthly revenue, so after an initial sales period, they've offered many "new package" benefits (costume elements, product-granted powers like a limited teleport, etc that were granted with particular promotionally packaged items like the "Good Vs Evil" pack) for a nominal cost.
On the other hand, NCSoft also runs GuildWars, which HAS had expansion packs. GuildWars's revenue stream, though, IS those expansion packs.
Despite the vast number of Tabula Rasa sites out there, all I could find on pricing was the initial outlay for the game. My opinion, then, is that they'll follow one of the two paths - roll profits from monthly subscription back into the expansion packs, or regularly pump out expansion packs for a fee, but not charge a subscription price.
Now if only I was a patent attorney, and could answer intelligently on this...
But I suspect that if they were to simply patent a different part of the existing MP3 format, the prior MP3 format itself would be prior art.
So, they patent a different style of handle on the milk jug, then "indented panels allowing for thinner jug walls" then "screw on cap", yadda yadda yadda, making as small and inexpensive a change as possible, that remains a "new feature".
But this argument is all hot air. As I said, I'm not a patent attorney...