If it can be reverse engineered, that is what will shall be done. Hopefully anonymously so they don't get caught.
Correct me if I am wrong, but, what I got from this is that you do not have any idea what you are doing and that having the source is completely meaningless to you.
To be fair, Buddhism can have God(s). There are not very many restrictions on it. You can be an Atheist/Agnostic Buddhist (like me) or you can be a Christian Buddhist. I also kind of prefer the Hindi approach to Jesus. "Oh, him? Yeah, he is fine. Chuck him up on the wall with the rest of the gods if you want to."
I do not have two xBoxes to test but why can you not use your router to assign them each their own IP address based on MAC address and then use port forwarding as required?
Heh... I imagine you *do* know how many times I have come across a home-user's firewall that is running but is configured to allow all traffic through because they wanted a game or an application to run... "So, yeah, do you want me to just uninstall that firewall for you, you are not using it for anything?"
Should we have the, "It's not a MODEM argument?" It is one of my favorites... The argument starts like this; "It, a DSL or cable 'MODEM' is not a MODEM as it does not MOdulate nor DEModulate. The signal is never analog so no modulation is required thus it is not a MODEM." My typical rebuttal (when I choose that side) is, "Fuck off, nitwit." It is, though, a potentially fun debate.
Anyhow, I sometimes wonder why we do not just different protocols. With dumb devices, such as a fridge on this silly Internet of Things, why not put them on IOTP:// instead of having them use HTTP? This, by itself, would make a nice easy level of separation that home users could (would?) be more inclined to use and understand. It may take a generation (of devices, not of humans) for people to start to understand. At the same time, we could take things like power stations or power control offices, or water or anything that is critical, and put it onto its own protocol as well.
Hopefully the backup includes Encyclopedia Dramatica.
1.2 million years from now... Excited scientists huddle over the display monitor. A new paper has been released, one based on data from the Ancient Knowledge. The study appears on the screen, "A Treatise on 'Poop is Coming Out Now.'" Life will never be the same...
To be honest, I have a hard time accepting psychology as a science and I am not alone in this. Pseudo-science does not really make your point which means your citation is probably not the best - to me, at least. This does not mean that I disagree with you nor does it invalidate your point (if I am understanding you properly.) It simply means that you may be better served with a different citation. People may ignore your citation/point without even taking the time to read the abstract.
To be fair, there are exceptions. I live on the side of a mountain, have a real artesian well and have a dug well that was here when I got here. It is only two tiles deep but near a stream. Neither have ever run dry. I can not have any neighbors move in, I own all the land around me. I have an embarrassing amount of acreage so just suffice to say, I am not going to have neighbors that can impact my water. Ever... I have crops growing, trees. (I have a large garden but that is not what you intended.) I am tree-wealthy I guess. I have more trees than the above poster will see when they drive through the desert until their tank is empty. They can even count shrubs and bushes.
But that is not the point. I will not run out of water. I can't even if I start a free car wash and fill a giant duck pond every year. I will never run out of water, food, or anything. That is not the point. My kids will not run out of water. That, too, is not the point. Eventually, if nothing changes, someone will be here and the tap will run dry. If they still have electricity to spare (solar and grid, putting in three, high mast, wind mills this year) then they will be able to pull from the dug well - maybe. It is not about me, it is not about my children, it is not even about my children's children. It will eventually happen and this will likely be sooner than later if the things I can not control go unchanged.
If you, or anyone, gets the time then go to YouTube, search for, "I Have Seen the World Change," at the search results select to filter them, change to searching for playlists, let it search then find the one that suits your needs (one has all episodes in order), and then watch. The one in Nepal is very moving and full of good information. I am skeptical of the science, the conclusions drawn from a limited an potentially improper data set, but I have no doubt about the changing climate and that humans are impacting this change. I, too, have seen the world change. I am exposed to it daily, notice it daily, and can only cope with it at my end and make the small changes that I can make and do what I can to mitigate it locally.
I lived in North Carolina for a long time. I lived in Virginia for a long time. I spent a moderate amount of time in Florida. I lived in Maine, where I reside now, and I used to live in Maine for much of the year as I came here to attend a prep-school. It is not my perception. The temperature in the winter no longer goes down below zero and stays there for very long, it is usually less than a day now. There are no more storms where you get four feet of snow over a few day-long storm. In the spring the temperature is now in the 70s and 80s, it used to be mostly in the 60s to 70s. We get rain in the winter. It now rains, during the warm months, frequently in the late afternoon or early evening - just like the weather that we had in NC, VA, or FL. The summer temperatures are in the 90s much more frequently and often go over 100. People look at them and say that they are not record temperatures. That is true, they are not, what they are is a trend that shows it to be warming as an overall average. Now this is weather, not climate. This is anecdotal but anecdotes are data as much as people want to change this.
I have a property in Panama City, FL. It is not even across the inlet and in Panama City Beach... Anyhow, this property is *maybe* 300 feet from the beach. I am old, retired, now and I expect that I will be a lot closer to the beach in just my lifetime. I expect my children to be unable to use that property by the time they are my age. Then again, I expect that they could just as easily live up here and find that they have no urge to winter in Florida.
Also, see Fark. Stay away from the Teal Tab of Insanity, if you can - it is like the big red button that says, "Do not push!" That tab is for politics and the posters run the gamut. I have been a member there for a long time (UnspokenVoice) but I have not posted there in a very long time because I got tired of reading the comments - I could not avoid the Teal Tab, the draw, a bit like watching the aftermath of a car accident, was too much and I grew weary. I was not tired from commenting, I still commented fairly frequently and those who know me know that I tend to make long, full (robust?), comments. I was/am fairly popular there but I still do not bother returning but that is me and not the site. So, yeah, if you are looking to find another news site that is different then I highly recommend pointing your browser to Fark. The multiple subjects part is nice so you can limit what you encounter to suit your needs better.
The problem I have, and I suspect I am not alone but I have not read any comments about this, is that they can say these things but I simply can not trust them. I was installing an application that I had seen linked from a comment in here. I do not need to shame them. That application installed what was basically a wrapper and I had selected to install a YouTube viewing agent. During the install, and I watch carefully, they downloaded the application separately as it is not a part of the main application. This downloaded application was from SourceForge. I had to scan my machine with my regular AV, I then had to scan it with MBAM - to be sure, and then I went through the registry and the application's folder to look for anything suspicious. Fortunately, there was nothing that was detected or that I could detect. Maybe it is time for me to move to Linux all the time (I use a few distros very often, only the desktops are used for Windows and those are often dual-boot.) and just use Windows in VM? I do not need Windows but I prefer it in many areas.
We could have some fun with this... Shall we? I say we shall, for the sake of fun and argument.
illegal search and seizure search - we can throw that out and we can discard the and illegal seizure illegal - against the regulations/rules illegal - without permission seizure - taking possession of (not necessarily depriving but to take possession of) illegal - without permission - seizure - taking possession of we can shorten taking possession of to just taking illegal - without permission - seizure - taking switch them around taking without permission definition of theft - taking without permission
Do I agree? Well, no... Not strictly. My ethics are pretty poor and I pirate stuff all the time. Much of what I pirate is stuff I already own, I am just too lazy to go get the disk and rip it so that I can use it how I want to. However, not everything I pirate is actually something I have purchased. I just downloaded Leon - The Professional last night. Yay! PirateBay! Anyhow, I digress, I *used* to own that on DVD but I have given that DVD away to my daughter who really liked the movie (smart kid). I can no longer suggest that I have a legal right to view the movie.
Did I take, in the sense of deprive, anything? No. I did take a set of numbers and make a copy of it to use on my own computer. I am not pedantic and I do not care about escaping justice. I, in short, stole a copy of the movie without paying the creator (worse, I can certainly afford to). I have no problem using the word steal. Arguing over the definition is trivial, trite, and is just an excuse so people can feel better about their immoral activities.
So, is the NSA stealing data? Well, it could be argued that they are. They are taking something without permission. Even if they are taking a copy of which infinite copies could be made, they are still taking a copy. This is morally reprehensible as much as my taking the above movie is reprehensible.
To be fair, and honest, if there were a way that I could simply go a site and click that I pirated this, this, and this and then pay for a license to view those pirated videos I would quite likely go there and pay. I would prefer that it not have the cost of physical media included and it should not charge for infrastructure costs (beyond their site) as I did not download it from them and used infrastructure not belonging to them and I did not get (or create) a physical copy. Hell, if they offered a legit copy via torrent I would certainly go pay for the things I pirated (though it would not be pirating then). It might even be better if I had a choice, "Yes I will pay the extra buck to be able to burn a copy of this to disk." I would be highly unlikely to burn it to disk but I would pay to have that right in case I changed my mind. Hell, if I deleted the copy on my drive it would be akin to losing it or giving it away and I would be willing to pay a second (or third, or fourth, etc.) time if I chose to download it at a latter date.
However, there is no equivalent so that is why I went this route, it is unlikely that - even if the NSA *could* pay that they would, say, by getting a warrant for each and every bit of data, warrants should be specific, for every single person and not scooping broadly defined data and hoping for the best... So the difference between my stealing data and the NSA stealing data is that I would do the right thing to make it ethical and they are almost certain to never do the ethical thing or even worry about the legality of what they are doing. They, and I, are thieves but somehow I have managed to come out on the moral high ground in comparison to them. That is pretty sad, really.
They can come to the US and watch it. If they have a US IP address then the US content is delivered automatically. As they are on US soil they are not putting Netflix in a position where they are violating their contracts with third parties. The person you were replying to is being simplistic but not overly so.
That speaks to your morals, not to the legality. The issue at hand is the legality. Our morals, I do not disagree with you and I pirate stuff all the time, are not the law and are not a part of the discussion. This is, quite likely, illegal in the sense that it is a civil offense (still illegal but not something you can be incarcerated for). I can see the business' justification for this and I accept that it is against their terms of service if I were to do this. I, on the other hand, would just pipe my traffic through VNC here on my home computer if I wanted to access Netflix when I visit the reserve or friends a bit closer.
My guess is that Netflix does not really care. I suspect that they are making noise as they probably have a legal obligation, to the copyright holders/media companies, to try to stop such actions as they do not have a contract that allows them to stream the content to other countries.
I get Canadian TV OTA as I am right near the border. I do not watch it but I have. I wonder what kind of legal ramifications are in store for me. The reverse is also true. I have dual citizenship and often go to Canada. I frequently go up and visit some friends that are right on the border, I generally stay at a small motel for a few days/a week when I do this. I do have internet access at the motel but it is fairly slow which makes streaming problematic so I watch TV and their TV sets are all setup to receive OTA broadcasts from Canada and the United States! I also bring movies on disk or already ripped to my HDD... I must surely be in violation of something... As I have dual citizenship what if I pack my stuff and move to Canada? Do I have to leave all of my movies and, presumably, leave my many many many music CDs behind as well? I cross the border a lot. I have had them paw through my stuff more than once. I have had them paw through it in both directions. They have never, at least not yet, complained about me bringing media back and fourth. I have even bought media in Canada (and in the US) and brought it back!
I hope Border Control does not get any ideas and decide to build their media collection based on confiscating my disks. I really, really, would not put it past them.
A company succeed with having criminal charges filed (I do not recall the outcome but I know that it was linked here on this site) for failing to adhere to the ToS. The charge was unauthorized use of a computer system (as they were in violation of the ToS they were not authorized to use it, that was the mentality/justification for the charges). I do not recall the name of the company but it was linked here on this site and, yes, it got the comments you would expect it to get. I wish I could find it so that people do not think I am more insane than they already think I am.
That kind of depends on how you delete it. If you delete it with the OS' function then it just changes the marker on the blocks to indicate that they are free space. This is why file recovery software works. At least that is how I understand it... Even if you press CTRL while deleting stuff, it is still just being marked as deleted and the information is still there until it has been written over. Even then, I understand, that file recovery facilities can sometimes use a variety of forensic techniques to recover some or all of the data - even if it has been written over.
However, if you delete it with a third party application, for example - and some of us do, then your preferred secure deletion application will probably write over those blocks with a series of random ones and zeros and will do so a number of different times depending on your settings. In this case the information is *probably* truly deleted for good. Some data may remain in RAM and there is still a chance that data could be recovered. There is a slim chance that information from the drive in could still be recovered even after writing over the blocks seven times. I have tested by writing over the blocks randomly seven times (DOD standard I am given to believe from the application(s) selling/bullet points) and never been able to recover anything with off-the-shelf software. Well, to be more accurate, I have never recovered any real data other than a single instance where I was able to recover a file name. The OTS software indicated there was a file there and it still had the proper name (it was a folder with several junk files in it) and the application indicated that it was able to be recovered but no attempt to recover it was successful and other applications did not even find the folder name or offer to recover anything.
This testing was done some years ago, I am going to guess it was seven to ten years ago. The testing was done on an IDE drive that was not the OS drive and contained no swap file or similar. It was, obviously, not in a RAID configuration of any type as that would, depending on RAID type, defeat the whole purpose of testing this. This was OTS software, I am presuming that the government's TLAs have better equipment and software.
My testing was to help somebody by providing a recommendation for effective 'undelete' software. As I recall they had deleted a bunch of family photographs. I had them stop using the computer immediately, not even a legit powerdown but a complete immediate power disconnect and had them follow up with communication on a separate PC. I then had them slave the drive, not the best but would have to do, and read the drive for recovery with an application that allowed one to make a boot disk and perform the recovery outside of an operating system. According to them they were able to recover all the files though some of the filenames had been corrupted and a few had artifacts such as a few missing pixels along an edge or similar. All-in-all it was a successful recovery. I suspect the results would have been marginally better if they had stopped using the computer immediately and not waited nearly a week before making contact to ask for assistance. Given that length of time and the fact that they had installed applications on that disk (it was the OS disk with a single partition) and they had installed applications (garbage) to try to recover their photographs already I was very surprised with the level of success.
Moral of the story: If you are going to delete files and you want them securely deleted make sure to write over the free space when you are done deleting them. Writing random ones and zeros over the blocks a number of times is recommended. I was still able to recover a number of files when I had written over the data a single time. Some files were recoverable even after three iterations. That number was far fewer than the single write-over but will still a surprising percentage. Seven times, DOD standards I am led to believe and also was the application's default configuration, was
To be honest, I think (speculation) you would probably be safer buying locally. The pressure is high in the dark nets right now. I would avoid them if you plan on doing anything that the powers that be decry as illegal. You are almost safer doing an open air buy in your local city park. If your dark net activity can be traced - in any way to you then you run the risk of falling afoul with the feds. If you buy locally you face only State prosecution -- unless you are silly enough to get railroaded in, or participate in, anything that can be construed as conspiracy, which has a horrifically vague definition and a very draconian penalty in federal court. Your best bet is PROBABLY to not do open air (obviously) and not to do dark net purchases for a while. You can usually do some open air and then find someone with a phone number who will deliver or meet you somewhere. Do not, under any circumstances, buy so much as a gram to deliver to someone else. That makes you a part of the conspiracy and if you are on the train for a little you are on the train for it all so you WILL be charged with however much the dealers have on them and however much they can prove they have sold and you will be a part of it and subject to full penalty even though you just bought a gram for your lady friend. You can, however, generally get away with introducing them...
I am not sure that the first one would fall under the category of obstruction if I am reading the law right. I know this is a lot of work, potentially, but do you happen to have a case that you can cite that is analogous? It needn't be EXACTLY the same, I am not that pedantic nor are the courts, it need only be similar enough that it can be understood. Even if he was worried about potential prosecution/providing evidence he is not obligated to store that evidence (nor aid in prosecuting himself) and there is no specific police action/investigation at that time. I am failing to see where this would meet the requirements for criminal prosecution. Without reasonable knowledge of an investigation this should not be illegal if I am understanding the law properly as well as understanding how I have read about it being enforced. I doubt it is available as it probably has not been tried but I would like to see the Supremes ruling on such a thing.
I am, by no means, a lawyer but I have had a lot of experience with lawyers and I do follow the law as a layperson. I try to remain informed and I try to ensure I know what my rights are and what my obligations are. This seems... This seems a bit over the top and not exactly fitting the law's verbiage and intent (the first example only - as you said, the second case is a slam dunk for the prosecutor) so I am not sure that I agree with your conclusion but I would not be surprised to see it prosecuted and prosecuted successfully. My faith in the Just Us system is at an all-time low.
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Fucking shill!
If it can be reverse engineered, that is what will shall be done. Hopefully anonymously so they don't get caught.
Correct me if I am wrong, but, what I got from this is that you do not have any idea what you are doing and that having the source is completely meaningless to you.
To be fair, Buddhism can have God(s). There are not very many restrictions on it. You can be an Atheist/Agnostic Buddhist (like me) or you can be a Christian Buddhist. I also kind of prefer the Hindi approach to Jesus. "Oh, him? Yeah, he is fine. Chuck him up on the wall with the rest of the gods if you want to."
I always assumed it was the alcoholic beverage. This is unimportant.
Talking about 18,446,744,073,709,551,616?
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I do not have two xBoxes to test but why can you not use your router to assign them each their own IP address based on MAC address and then use port forwarding as required?
Heh... I imagine you *do* know how many times I have come across a home-user's firewall that is running but is configured to allow all traffic through because they wanted a game or an application to run... "So, yeah, do you want me to just uninstall that firewall for you, you are not using it for anything?"
Should we have the, "It's not a MODEM argument?" It is one of my favorites... The argument starts like this; "It, a DSL or cable 'MODEM' is not a MODEM as it does not MOdulate nor DEModulate. The signal is never analog so no modulation is required thus it is not a MODEM." My typical rebuttal (when I choose that side) is, "Fuck off, nitwit." It is, though, a potentially fun debate.
Anyhow, I sometimes wonder why we do not just different protocols. With dumb devices, such as a fridge on this silly Internet of Things, why not put them on IOTP:// instead of having them use HTTP? This, by itself, would make a nice easy level of separation that home users could (would?) be more inclined to use and understand. It may take a generation (of devices, not of humans) for people to start to understand. At the same time, we could take things like power stations or power control offices, or water or anything that is critical, and put it onto its own protocol as well.
My IP address is 127.0.0.1... Go ahead and attack me, bro!
Hopefully the backup includes Encyclopedia Dramatica.
1.2 million years from now... Excited scientists huddle over the display monitor. A new paper has been released, one based on data from the Ancient Knowledge. The study appears on the screen, "A Treatise on 'Poop is Coming Out Now.'" Life will never be the same...
To be honest, I have a hard time accepting psychology as a science and I am not alone in this. Pseudo-science does not really make your point which means your citation is probably not the best - to me, at least. This does not mean that I disagree with you nor does it invalidate your point (if I am understanding you properly.) It simply means that you may be better served with a different citation. People may ignore your citation/point without even taking the time to read the abstract.
To be fair, there are exceptions. I live on the side of a mountain, have a real artesian well and have a dug well that was here when I got here. It is only two tiles deep but near a stream. Neither have ever run dry. I can not have any neighbors move in, I own all the land around me. I have an embarrassing amount of acreage so just suffice to say, I am not going to have neighbors that can impact my water. Ever... I have crops growing, trees. (I have a large garden but that is not what you intended.) I am tree-wealthy I guess. I have more trees than the above poster will see when they drive through the desert until their tank is empty. They can even count shrubs and bushes.
But that is not the point. I will not run out of water. I can't even if I start a free car wash and fill a giant duck pond every year. I will never run out of water, food, or anything. That is not the point. My kids will not run out of water. That, too, is not the point. Eventually, if nothing changes, someone will be here and the tap will run dry. If they still have electricity to spare (solar and grid, putting in three, high mast, wind mills this year) then they will be able to pull from the dug well - maybe. It is not about me, it is not about my children, it is not even about my children's children. It will eventually happen and this will likely be sooner than later if the things I can not control go unchanged.
If you, or anyone, gets the time then go to YouTube, search for, "I Have Seen the World Change," at the search results select to filter them, change to searching for playlists, let it search then find the one that suits your needs (one has all episodes in order), and then watch. The one in Nepal is very moving and full of good information. I am skeptical of the science, the conclusions drawn from a limited an potentially improper data set, but I have no doubt about the changing climate and that humans are impacting this change. I, too, have seen the world change. I am exposed to it daily, notice it daily, and can only cope with it at my end and make the small changes that I can make and do what I can to mitigate it locally.
I lived in North Carolina for a long time. I lived in Virginia for a long time. I spent a moderate amount of time in Florida. I lived in Maine, where I reside now, and I used to live in Maine for much of the year as I came here to attend a prep-school. It is not my perception. The temperature in the winter no longer goes down below zero and stays there for very long, it is usually less than a day now. There are no more storms where you get four feet of snow over a few day-long storm. In the spring the temperature is now in the 70s and 80s, it used to be mostly in the 60s to 70s. We get rain in the winter. It now rains, during the warm months, frequently in the late afternoon or early evening - just like the weather that we had in NC, VA, or FL. The summer temperatures are in the 90s much more frequently and often go over 100. People look at them and say that they are not record temperatures. That is true, they are not, what they are is a trend that shows it to be warming as an overall average. Now this is weather, not climate. This is anecdotal but anecdotes are data as much as people want to change this.
I have a property in Panama City, FL. It is not even across the inlet and in Panama City Beach... Anyhow, this property is *maybe* 300 feet from the beach. I am old, retired, now and I expect that I will be a lot closer to the beach in just my lifetime. I expect my children to be unable to use that property by the time they are my age. Then again, I expect that they could just as easily live up here and find that they have no urge to winter in Florida.
Also, see Fark. Stay away from the Teal Tab of Insanity, if you can - it is like the big red button that says, "Do not push!" That tab is for politics and the posters run the gamut. I have been a member there for a long time (UnspokenVoice) but I have not posted there in a very long time because I got tired of reading the comments - I could not avoid the Teal Tab, the draw, a bit like watching the aftermath of a car accident, was too much and I grew weary. I was not tired from commenting, I still commented fairly frequently and those who know me know that I tend to make long, full (robust?), comments. I was/am fairly popular there but I still do not bother returning but that is me and not the site. So, yeah, if you are looking to find another news site that is different then I highly recommend pointing your browser to Fark. The multiple subjects part is nice so you can limit what you encounter to suit your needs better.
The problem I have, and I suspect I am not alone but I have not read any comments about this, is that they can say these things but I simply can not trust them. I was installing an application that I had seen linked from a comment in here. I do not need to shame them. That application installed what was basically a wrapper and I had selected to install a YouTube viewing agent. During the install, and I watch carefully, they downloaded the application separately as it is not a part of the main application. This downloaded application was from SourceForge. I had to scan my machine with my regular AV, I then had to scan it with MBAM - to be sure, and then I went through the registry and the application's folder to look for anything suspicious. Fortunately, there was nothing that was detected or that I could detect. Maybe it is time for me to move to Linux all the time (I use a few distros very often, only the desktops are used for Windows and those are often dual-boot.) and just use Windows in VM? I do not need Windows but I prefer it in many areas.
It is funny. We have come so far just to be begging to return to the days of the dumb terminal.
I was going to say 3. I have since forgotten the question.
We could have some fun with this... Shall we? I say we shall, for the sake of fun and argument.
illegal search and seizure
search - we can throw that out and we can discard the and
illegal seizure
illegal - against the regulations/rules
illegal - without permission
seizure - taking possession of (not necessarily depriving but to take possession of)
illegal - without permission - seizure - taking possession of
we can shorten taking possession of to just taking
illegal - without permission - seizure - taking
switch them around
taking without permission
definition of theft - taking without permission
Do I agree? Well, no... Not strictly. My ethics are pretty poor and I pirate stuff all the time. Much of what I pirate is stuff I already own, I am just too lazy to go get the disk and rip it so that I can use it how I want to. However, not everything I pirate is actually something I have purchased. I just downloaded Leon - The Professional last night. Yay! PirateBay! Anyhow, I digress, I *used* to own that on DVD but I have given that DVD away to my daughter who really liked the movie (smart kid). I can no longer suggest that I have a legal right to view the movie.
Did I take, in the sense of deprive, anything? No. I did take a set of numbers and make a copy of it to use on my own computer. I am not pedantic and I do not care about escaping justice. I, in short, stole a copy of the movie without paying the creator (worse, I can certainly afford to). I have no problem using the word steal. Arguing over the definition is trivial, trite, and is just an excuse so people can feel better about their immoral activities.
So, is the NSA stealing data? Well, it could be argued that they are. They are taking something without permission. Even if they are taking a copy of which infinite copies could be made, they are still taking a copy. This is morally reprehensible as much as my taking the above movie is reprehensible.
To be fair, and honest, if there were a way that I could simply go a site and click that I pirated this, this, and this and then pay for a license to view those pirated videos I would quite likely go there and pay. I would prefer that it not have the cost of physical media included and it should not charge for infrastructure costs (beyond their site) as I did not download it from them and used infrastructure not belonging to them and I did not get (or create) a physical copy. Hell, if they offered a legit copy via torrent I would certainly go pay for the things I pirated (though it would not be pirating then). It might even be better if I had a choice, "Yes I will pay the extra buck to be able to burn a copy of this to disk." I would be highly unlikely to burn it to disk but I would pay to have that right in case I changed my mind. Hell, if I deleted the copy on my drive it would be akin to losing it or giving it away and I would be willing to pay a second (or third, or fourth, etc.) time if I chose to download it at a latter date.
However, there is no equivalent so that is why I went this route, it is unlikely that - even if the NSA *could* pay that they would, say, by getting a warrant for each and every bit of data, warrants should be specific, for every single person and not scooping broadly defined data and hoping for the best... So the difference between my stealing data and the NSA stealing data is that I would do the right thing to make it ethical and they are almost certain to never do the ethical thing or even worry about the legality of what they are doing. They, and I, are thieves but somehow I have managed to come out on the moral high ground in comparison to them. That is pretty sad, really.
They can come to the US and watch it. If they have a US IP address then the US content is delivered automatically. As they are on US soil they are not putting Netflix in a position where they are violating their contracts with third parties. The person you were replying to is being simplistic but not overly so.
That speaks to your morals, not to the legality. The issue at hand is the legality. Our morals, I do not disagree with you and I pirate stuff all the time, are not the law and are not a part of the discussion. This is, quite likely, illegal in the sense that it is a civil offense (still illegal but not something you can be incarcerated for). I can see the business' justification for this and I accept that it is against their terms of service if I were to do this. I, on the other hand, would just pipe my traffic through VNC here on my home computer if I wanted to access Netflix when I visit the reserve or friends a bit closer.
My guess is that Netflix does not really care. I suspect that they are making noise as they probably have a legal obligation, to the copyright holders/media companies, to try to stop such actions as they do not have a contract that allows them to stream the content to other countries.
I get Canadian TV OTA as I am right near the border. I do not watch it but I have. I wonder what kind of legal ramifications are in store for me. The reverse is also true. I have dual citizenship and often go to Canada. I frequently go up and visit some friends that are right on the border, I generally stay at a small motel for a few days/a week when I do this. I do have internet access at the motel but it is fairly slow which makes streaming problematic so I watch TV and their TV sets are all setup to receive OTA broadcasts from Canada and the United States! I also bring movies on disk or already ripped to my HDD... I must surely be in violation of something... As I have dual citizenship what if I pack my stuff and move to Canada? Do I have to leave all of my movies and, presumably, leave my many many many music CDs behind as well? I cross the border a lot. I have had them paw through my stuff more than once. I have had them paw through it in both directions. They have never, at least not yet, complained about me bringing media back and fourth. I have even bought media in Canada (and in the US) and brought it back!
I hope Border Control does not get any ideas and decide to build their media collection based on confiscating my disks. I really, really, would not put it past them.
Then, if you delete your browser's history, they can charge you with a criminal offense! Oh the fun never stops... Never. Really. It never stops.
A company succeed with having criminal charges filed (I do not recall the outcome but I know that it was linked here on this site) for failing to adhere to the ToS. The charge was unauthorized use of a computer system (as they were in violation of the ToS they were not authorized to use it, that was the mentality/justification for the charges). I do not recall the name of the company but it was linked here on this site and, yes, it got the comments you would expect it to get. I wish I could find it so that people do not think I am more insane than they already think I am.
That kind of depends on how you delete it. If you delete it with the OS' function then it just changes the marker on the blocks to indicate that they are free space. This is why file recovery software works. At least that is how I understand it... Even if you press CTRL while deleting stuff, it is still just being marked as deleted and the information is still there until it has been written over. Even then, I understand, that file recovery facilities can sometimes use a variety of forensic techniques to recover some or all of the data - even if it has been written over.
However, if you delete it with a third party application, for example - and some of us do, then your preferred secure deletion application will probably write over those blocks with a series of random ones and zeros and will do so a number of different times depending on your settings. In this case the information is *probably* truly deleted for good. Some data may remain in RAM and there is still a chance that data could be recovered. There is a slim chance that information from the drive in could still be recovered even after writing over the blocks seven times. I have tested by writing over the blocks randomly seven times (DOD standard I am given to believe from the application(s) selling/bullet points) and never been able to recover anything with off-the-shelf software. Well, to be more accurate, I have never recovered any real data other than a single instance where I was able to recover a file name. The OTS software indicated there was a file there and it still had the proper name (it was a folder with several junk files in it) and the application indicated that it was able to be recovered but no attempt to recover it was successful and other applications did not even find the folder name or offer to recover anything.
This testing was done some years ago, I am going to guess it was seven to ten years ago. The testing was done on an IDE drive that was not the OS drive and contained no swap file or similar. It was, obviously, not in a RAID configuration of any type as that would, depending on RAID type, defeat the whole purpose of testing this. This was OTS software, I am presuming that the government's TLAs have better equipment and software.
My testing was to help somebody by providing a recommendation for effective 'undelete' software. As I recall they had deleted a bunch of family photographs. I had them stop using the computer immediately, not even a legit powerdown but a complete immediate power disconnect and had them follow up with communication on a separate PC. I then had them slave the drive, not the best but would have to do, and read the drive for recovery with an application that allowed one to make a boot disk and perform the recovery outside of an operating system. According to them they were able to recover all the files though some of the filenames had been corrupted and a few had artifacts such as a few missing pixels along an edge or similar. All-in-all it was a successful recovery. I suspect the results would have been marginally better if they had stopped using the computer immediately and not waited nearly a week before making contact to ask for assistance. Given that length of time and the fact that they had installed applications on that disk (it was the OS disk with a single partition) and they had installed applications (garbage) to try to recover their photographs already I was very surprised with the level of success.
Moral of the story: If you are going to delete files and you want them securely deleted make sure to write over the free space when you are done deleting them. Writing random ones and zeros over the blocks a number of times is recommended. I was still able to recover a number of files when I had written over the data a single time. Some files were recoverable even after three iterations. That number was far fewer than the single write-over but will still a surprising percentage. Seven times, DOD standards I am led to believe and also was the application's default configuration, was
To be honest, I think (speculation) you would probably be safer buying locally. The pressure is high in the dark nets right now. I would avoid them if you plan on doing anything that the powers that be decry as illegal. You are almost safer doing an open air buy in your local city park. If your dark net activity can be traced - in any way to you then you run the risk of falling afoul with the feds. If you buy locally you face only State prosecution -- unless you are silly enough to get railroaded in, or participate in, anything that can be construed as conspiracy, which has a horrifically vague definition and a very draconian penalty in federal court. Your best bet is PROBABLY to not do open air (obviously) and not to do dark net purchases for a while. You can usually do some open air and then find someone with a phone number who will deliver or meet you somewhere. Do not, under any circumstances, buy so much as a gram to deliver to someone else. That makes you a part of the conspiracy and if you are on the train for a little you are on the train for it all so you WILL be charged with however much the dealers have on them and however much they can prove they have sold and you will be a part of it and subject to full penalty even though you just bought a gram for your lady friend. You can, however, generally get away with introducing them...
I am not sure that the first one would fall under the category of obstruction if I am reading the law right. I know this is a lot of work, potentially, but do you happen to have a case that you can cite that is analogous? It needn't be EXACTLY the same, I am not that pedantic nor are the courts, it need only be similar enough that it can be understood. Even if he was worried about potential prosecution/providing evidence he is not obligated to store that evidence (nor aid in prosecuting himself) and there is no specific police action/investigation at that time. I am failing to see where this would meet the requirements for criminal prosecution. Without reasonable knowledge of an investigation this should not be illegal if I am understanding the law properly as well as understanding how I have read about it being enforced. I doubt it is available as it probably has not been tried but I would like to see the Supremes ruling on such a thing.
I am, by no means, a lawyer but I have had a lot of experience with lawyers and I do follow the law as a layperson. I try to remain informed and I try to ensure I know what my rights are and what my obligations are. This seems... This seems a bit over the top and not exactly fitting the law's verbiage and intent (the first example only - as you said, the second case is a slam dunk for the prosecutor) so I am not sure that I agree with your conclusion but I would not be surprised to see it prosecuted and prosecuted successfully. My faith in the Just Us system is at an all-time low.