False premise. Sysadmins can be foxed, just like anybody else and admit a supposedly whitelisted user who is actually a Bad Guy masquerading as a whitelister.
It also doesn't necessarily protect you from someone on the whitelist doing something stupid, like taking home work, updating the files and copying them onto a cd from an infected system.
It also fails to address the issue of the disaffected or disgruntled employee doing something deliberate and direct to damage the system by loading malware, directly.
But the law schools are NOT going to protect the students charged with illegally downloading music - at least not without the student having to pay the law school SOMETHING, not to mention the mandatory court costs, fees, deposition transcriptionist fees, ad nauseam, which many students simply cannot afford.
Add to that the fact that a court trial, even the prep time, TAKES TIME, which, for a student in a degree program, simply cannot afford to use up, either, as many of their classes happen during business hours as well, when the law school's legal aid offices are open.
Time lost from study + money lost to legal expenses over possible legal losses from the RIAA running the clock out to nearly forever through the use of continuances and out-of-state venues FOR their cases = a broke student who has flunked out of the degree program they were IN, who is in debt forever to the RIAA as well as to the courts.
Not a pretty picture.
The RIAA seems to be banking on this and, to be honest, mailing more threatening letters on their way TO the bank.
And the above paradigm works whether the student is guilty of illegal downloading or NOT.
Which sucks for the student and is rapidly becoming what seems to be a second-stream cash-cow for the RIAA... and the recording ARTISTS, whom the RIAA is SUPPOSED to be PROTECTING, never see DIME ONE OF ANY OF THESE MONIES!
a Free Press shall not be infringed, did Oregon fail to understand?
Anyone...?
Bueller?
Because anything, viewed by a mind seeking titillation, will FIND titillation in ANYTHING it reads... even some tech manuals... "the male connector seats into female socket, firmly..." Yep! That's titillating to some engineers I know...!
So he wants to expand the definition of "tangible" to include "intangible."
That sounds about right for California (or Indiana) politics.
The next thing they will do is legislate the mathematical value of pi to equal 3 so that school kids won't have to deal with all of those pesky decimals, too!
I can hardly wait to see what the INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION will have to say about this proposal... but I am willing to bet that the first responses, if recorded, would get "bleeped" if played on the nightly news... or on Comedy Central, where this proposal belongs!
Unicorns exist. It's just that we NOW call them Rhinos.
Or "Compassionate conservatives..."
Or "honest politicians..."
Or "trustworthy talent agents..."
Or "a recording Industry association that truly seeks to protect the rights of the individual artist..."
doesn't work, sucks rock salt through a small straw and is the biggest debacle for MicroSoft since Windows ME.
So much for Vista being "The OS for the New Decade" as previously touted, I guess!
By money alone, I do set my mind in motion by the Coins of Profit, the project acquires speed, the audiences acquire the popcorn, by money alone, I do set my mind in motion...
A civil litigation lawyer has several respinsibilities:
1) To represent his or her client(s) in the best and most effective manner possible.
2) To plead cases that they can win - to do otherwise violates Responsibility #1
3) To make money for their client or to prevent their client from losing money by counseling them not to try a case that is not winnable and/or to settle out if necessary to minimize damages.
The attorneys for the RIAA are civil litigation attorneys.
When the target of litigation is Harvard University, arguably the most prestigious law school in the world, by counseling against pressing action against the university, these attorneys are flfilling all three of these Responsibilities because you can bet your bottom dollar that the legal counsel for Harvard University will most assuredly make the pressing of ANY case against them an EXTREMELY costly affair, indeed! Not to mention that trying to win against the best law school in the world is a really, really tough thing to do...
And, by doing so, they are effectively representing their clients.
In any law practice, that's a Good Day at the office!
Welcome to the modern-day equivalent of "Banned in Boston," which people who read might know about from the book bannings that came out of there from a private source in the early through mid-20th Century... And which actually helped severaal books which would have, in all probability, become less than a literary footnote, become intensely popular.
Thanks, Senators, for helping to popularize the exact thing you are trying to censor!
Now, how about doing something to relieve the pressure on the middle class for a change?
---------------------
"Did you ever notice that when a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it ALL WRONG? - Don Marquis
It reads to me like Bennett did not argue successfully that the spammer did not know him (Bennett) on a personal level, nor did he argue this post was spammed to others, effectively, as noted by others.
These seem to be two critical faults and two good arguments for having a licensed attorney argue your cases for you in a court of law, instead of trying to try your own cases pro se.
"The attorney who has himself for a client has a fool for an attorney." My addition to this is that it goes double for Pro Se litigants, in general (with a few specific exceptions, obviously).
Some businesses, historically speaking, have been here to do more than that. Look at Hearst's little war as a good example or Krupp's actually fostering wars for profit AND political advantage as another. There are many, many other examples.
The way to control a population is not by military force, but by controlling what the population thinks. By controlling the media and the methods by which information is stored, disseminated, displayed and processed, one can, without firing a shot, take over the world because, by doing so, one will be able to control what the public sees and, more importantly, what the public does NOT see and therefore one can control what the public will BELIEVE and THINK (when the public bothers to think at all, that is!).
This was one of the key premeses of Henlein's "Revolt in 2100."
Microsoft, if you look not all that closely, seems to be striving to gain control of the way media is processed, stored, transmitted and displayed.
Connect the dots.
It would be not a very great leap to go from where they are to a full-on assault to take over the world's media processing and programming infrastrusture.
Of course, "Revolt in 2100" was science fiction. But so were cell phones, personal computers, motorcycles, magnetic scanning technology, lasers, microwave cookers, palm-sized computers, television, radar, television and space stations...!
Paranoid fantasy? Quite possibly.
If nothing else, it might make a pretty good novel...! And that's NOVEL, not NOVELL!
Or simply put thrusters on the satellites you are supposedly repairing so you can drop them on whomever you'd like TO drop them on... and blame it on the owners for making shoddy products!
Mass drivers like that are very cheap and VERY effective.
500kg dropped from geostationary orbit has quite a bit of slam when it hits... Now do the math with a 5 TON package... or drop them in groups of ten or twenty... there's not enough Bactine to cover an ouchie THAT size on the whole planet.
JPEG will remain for quite some time simply because there are so many OF them OUT there.
There IS something to be said for quantity in the supply-side of the equation...
And this new format - HD-M$ or whatever - is simply ANOTHER way that Microsoft is trying to keep a tight grip on a software market that is slipping through their fingers...
Grand Moff Gates...?..."Run? From a handful of formats? I hardly think... BLAM!!"
With apologies to Moebius Strip Theater's classic "Stage Wars (or "Who's Biggs?")"... and the character takeoff of the Grand Off Target...
It doesn't matter if YOU disable the chip, because it can be cloned BEFORE THE OWNER EVER GETS THE FRENORKING THING!!
If you read the article, the cloning took place while it was IN TRANSIT TO the intended receipient - which means that ANYONE getting a Passport through the mail could have their Passport cloned BEFORE they ever GET it.
Without the package that the Passport is shipped in EVER BEING OPENED!
Try reading for content next time.
So, even if you disable the RFID after you GET it, the thing has been compromised BEFORE you ever get your hands ON it!
RFID = Real Fast Identity Destruction... courtesy of Homeland Security and the rest of the paranoids who don't understand technology up on the Hill who probably think that RFID is "totally tubular, man! Like the internets!"
And I will bet long odds that this post gets me audited - again - too.
Slashdot Mirror
The Andromeda Strain.
as if anybody hadn't thought of THAT one yet!
False premise. Sysadmins can be foxed, just like anybody else and admit a supposedly whitelisted user who is actually a Bad Guy masquerading as a whitelister.
It also doesn't necessarily protect you from someone on the whitelist doing something stupid, like taking home work, updating the files and copying them onto a cd from an infected system.
It also fails to address the issue of the disaffected or disgruntled employee doing something deliberate and direct to damage the system by loading malware, directly.
No security system works 100% of the time.
Ask any security expert - the rule is:
"There is NO defense against competence."
Fortunately, TRUE competence is a rare commodity.
Some random thoughts on this:
IE - It Executed
0 Day - 0 Productivity. Nothing works.
So It Executed 0 Day and nothing works and there was no productivity.
And ol Br'er Mac User, he jus' sits back and LAFFS!!
Against stupidity, the gods contend in vain. - Fredrich von Schiller
Or, to put it another way - Common sense ain't. If it was, there'd be more OF it! (Darrow's First Law)
And Brady just supported that law, instead of testing it as the Fourth Estate is supposed to do...!
Lee Darrow, C.H.
But the law schools are NOT going to protect the students charged with illegally downloading music - at least not without the student having to pay the law school SOMETHING, not to mention the mandatory court costs, fees, deposition transcriptionist fees, ad nauseam, which many students simply cannot afford.
Add to that the fact that a court trial, even the prep time, TAKES TIME, which, for a student in a degree program, simply cannot afford to use up, either, as many of their classes happen during business hours as well, when the law school's legal aid offices are open.
Time lost from study + money lost to legal expenses over possible legal losses from the RIAA running the clock out to nearly forever through the use of continuances and out-of-state venues FOR their cases = a broke student who has flunked out of the degree program they were IN, who is in debt forever to the RIAA as well as to the courts.
Not a pretty picture.
The RIAA seems to be banking on this and, to be honest, mailing more threatening letters on their way TO the bank.
And the above paradigm works whether the student is guilty of illegal downloading or NOT.
Which sucks for the student and is rapidly becoming what seems to be a second-stream cash-cow for the RIAA... and the recording ARTISTS, whom the RIAA is SUPPOSED to be PROTECTING, never see DIME ONE OF ANY OF THESE MONIES!
How "fair" is that?
a Free Press shall not be infringed, did Oregon fail to understand?
Anyone...?
Bueller?
Because anything, viewed by a mind seeking titillation, will FIND titillation in ANYTHING it reads... even some tech manuals... "the male connector seats into female socket, firmly..." Yep! That's titillating to some engineers I know...!
Son, we have NOTHING to worry about. We will know when they are coming... Earth has has BORG WARNER for DECADES!
Bwahahahahah!
You're a better man that I am,
Hunka Tin!
At 3PM, Eastern Daylight Time, everybody look up, raise your right hands and FLIP THE BASTARDS OFF!
Then, aside from calling Guinness, make sure that someone stayed indoors and got a good copy of the several satellite feeds out there!
If we don't TELL the government what we think about this surveillance bullschiznet, then they will drive on as if nobody CARED!
So he wants to expand the definition of "tangible" to include "intangible."
That sounds about right for California (or Indiana) politics.
The next thing they will do is legislate the mathematical value of pi to equal 3 so that school kids won't have to deal with all of those pesky decimals, too!
I can hardly wait to see what the INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION will have to say about this proposal... but I am willing to bet that the first responses, if recorded, would get "bleeped" if played on the nightly news... or on Comedy Central, where this proposal belongs!
Unicorns exist. It's just that we NOW call them Rhinos. Or "Compassionate conservatives..." Or "honest politicians..." Or "trustworthy talent agents..." Or "a recording Industry association that truly seeks to protect the rights of the individual artist..."
doesn't work, sucks rock salt through a small straw and is the biggest debacle for MicroSoft since Windows ME. So much for Vista being "The OS for the New Decade" as previously touted, I guess!
By money alone, I do set my mind in motion
by the Coins of Profit, the project acquires speed,
the audiences acquire the popcorn,
by money alone, I do set my mind in motion...
The Producer-tat's Mantra...
Lee Darrow, C.H.
Man are YOU wrong about the load handling capabilities of the island's IT infrastructure!
The Hedonism Resort operation alone can handle a load of over 500,000 users, simultaneously, from what I understand of their operations there!
And they aren't the ONLY resort on the island, mon! T-3 trunks run off that island like tentacles off a colony of squid hatchlings!
So the US will probably appeal this decision to the World Court, which will uphold the copyright laws - as they should.
legal subpoenaes being issued? Or was it done without them?
If so, when and where were they issued and by whom? If not - WHY not?
Inquiring minds want to know.
So does the ACLU, I bet.
A civil litigation lawyer has several respinsibilities:
1) To represent his or her client(s) in the best and most effective manner possible.
2) To plead cases that they can win - to do otherwise violates Responsibility #1
3) To make money for their client or to prevent their client from losing money by counseling them not to try a case that is not winnable and/or to settle out if necessary to minimize damages.
The attorneys for the RIAA are civil litigation attorneys.
When the target of litigation is Harvard University, arguably the most prestigious law school in the world, by counseling against pressing action against the university, these attorneys are flfilling all three of these Responsibilities because you can bet your bottom dollar that the legal counsel for Harvard University will most assuredly make the pressing of ANY case against them an EXTREMELY costly affair, indeed! Not to mention that trying to win against the best law school in the world is a really, really tough thing to do...
And, by doing so, they are effectively representing their clients.
In any law practice, that's a Good Day at the office!
Welcome to the modern-day equivalent of "Banned in Boston," which people who read might know about from the book bannings that came out of there from a private source in the early through mid-20th Century... And which actually helped severaal books which would have, in all probability, become less than a literary footnote, become intensely popular.
Thanks, Senators, for helping to popularize the exact thing you are trying to censor!
Now, how about doing something to relieve the pressure on the middle class for a change?
---------------------
"Did you ever notice that when a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it ALL WRONG? - Don Marquis
It reads to me like Bennett did not argue successfully that the spammer did not know him (Bennett) on a personal level, nor did he argue this post was spammed to others, effectively, as noted by others.
These seem to be two critical faults and two good arguments for having a licensed attorney argue your cases for you in a court of law, instead of trying to try your own cases pro se.
"The attorney who has himself for a client has a fool for an attorney." My addition to this is that it goes double for Pro Se litigants, in general (with a few specific exceptions, obviously).
"Mistaking an artist
who works in full view of the public,
whose work can be found in a minute's googling,
who documents every step he takes,
"for a terrorist
who might be expected to make at least a token effort to keep his doings secret, no matter how inept he is,
"is pretty idiotic."
Ars Gratia Calaboose?
Ars Brevis, Jailus Longus?
One has to wonder...
Some businesses, historically speaking, have been here to do more than that. Look at Hearst's little war as a good example or Krupp's actually fostering wars for profit AND political advantage as another. There are many, many other examples.
The way to control a population is not by military force, but by controlling what the population thinks. By controlling the media and the methods by which information is stored, disseminated, displayed and processed, one can, without firing a shot, take over the world because, by doing so, one will be able to control what the public sees and, more importantly, what the public does NOT see and therefore one can control what the public will BELIEVE and THINK (when the public bothers to think at all, that is!).
This was one of the key premeses of Henlein's "Revolt in 2100."
Microsoft, if you look not all that closely, seems to be striving to gain control of the way media is processed, stored, transmitted and displayed.
Connect the dots.
It would be not a very great leap to go from where they are to a full-on assault to take over the world's media processing and programming infrastrusture.
Of course, "Revolt in 2100" was science fiction. But so were cell phones, personal computers, motorcycles, magnetic scanning technology, lasers, microwave cookers, palm-sized computers, television, radar, television and space stations...!
Paranoid fantasy? Quite possibly.
If nothing else, it might make a pretty good novel...! And that's NOVEL, not NOVELL!
Insecurity Is Better Than NO Security ... Maybe...
'Nuff Said.
Or simply put thrusters on the satellites you are supposedly repairing so you can drop them on whomever you'd like TO drop them on... and blame it on the owners for making shoddy products!
Mass drivers like that are very cheap and VERY effective.
500kg dropped from geostationary orbit has quite a bit of slam when it hits... Now do the math with a 5 TON package... or drop them in groups of ten or twenty... there's not enough Bactine to cover an ouchie THAT size on the whole planet.
'Nuff Said...!
JPEG will remain for quite some time simply because there are so many OF them OUT there.
..."Run? From a handful of formats? I hardly think... BLAM!!"
There IS something to be said for quantity in the supply-side of the equation...
And this new format - HD-M$ or whatever - is simply ANOTHER way that Microsoft is trying to keep a tight grip on a software market that is slipping through their fingers...
Grand Moff Gates...?
With apologies to Moebius Strip Theater's classic "Stage Wars (or "Who's Biggs?")"... and the character takeoff of the Grand Off Target...
So is this idea of theirs...
Your compression may vary, obviously.
It doesn't matter if YOU disable the chip, because it can be cloned BEFORE THE OWNER EVER GETS THE FRENORKING THING!!
If you read the article, the cloning took place while it was IN TRANSIT TO the intended receipient - which means that ANYONE getting a Passport through the mail could have their Passport cloned BEFORE they ever GET it.
Without the package that the Passport is shipped in EVER BEING OPENED!
Try reading for content next time.
So, even if you disable the RFID after you GET it, the thing has been compromised BEFORE you ever get your hands ON it!
RFID = Real Fast Identity Destruction... courtesy of Homeland Security and the rest of the paranoids who don't understand technology up on the Hill who probably think that RFID is "totally tubular, man! Like the internets!"
And I will bet long odds that this post gets me audited - again - too.
BILK it for ALL IT'S WORTH!!!
Only Microsoft could POSSIBLY have the stones to charge their users for a fix that their own system programming fails to address!
Bravo, Redmond! You have, once again, shown the World a NEW WAY into the wallets of the businesses OF the world!
Kudos!