"But when you're dealing with someone that's planning on driving a handful of truck bombs up to a refinery or shipping port, you have to act. Usually on very, very short notice."
Such as the 72-hour retroactive window FISA gives law enforcement to apply for a warrant after the tapping, you mean?
"If you can't be bothered to follow the directions in order to secure your tens of thousands of dollars, then you shouldn't be working on ATMs."
Probably not, but if you can't come up with a security model better than "revert to default" when a user fat-fingers a password change, then you sure as fuck shouldn't be working in security.
"I guess the problem is trying to strike the right balance between allowing good students to take advantage of this resource, but discourage bad students from staying at home all the time and watching all the lectures right before the exam."
I'm confused. Why do you care what decisions other adults make for themselves? "Bad students"? What about the student who had a doctor's appointment during class time, for whom an immediately available lecture download would be most useful?
When I was in college, adults weren't treated like kids.
"Why do people care so much if somebody else knows who you vote for?"
Because it leads to abuse of the voting system. For instance, if I really wanted to win a race I could spend my money on cash bribes instead of advertising, and have an easily way of verifying that the people I paid really voted for me.
"If you were a hiring from a pool and you learned that an applicant stole items or cheated seriously in an MMOG (even if it wasn't truly illegal in any sense of the word) would you hire them? I wouldn't."
In that case, you'd want to haul me in front of a firing squad for my KotOR2 adventures.
"fair-use DOES come into play with P2P so long as you own the original media."
Better check your definition of "P2P" there. *My* point being that owning the original media doesn't give you the right to distribute it worldwide, and any judge in the land would laugh you out of court for even thinking about the fair use doctrine.
It's a good thing we've cured the common cold and ended world hunger so we can put our energy into the really important things in life. Like getting keyboard manufacturers to remove the capslock key.
Along these lines, Wal-Mart wanted my driver's license before I could purchase cold medicine in a bottle, claiming it was a new federal law. The same store had the same brand with the same ingredients in the same quantities in caplet form, no ID required. A large chain grocery store 2 minutes away had both liquid and caplet form for sale, no ID required.
As someone else said, companies will only get away with this shit if we let them.
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"But when you're dealing with someone that's planning on driving a handful of truck bombs up to a refinery or shipping port, you have to act. Usually on very, very short notice."
Such as the 72-hour retroactive window FISA gives law enforcement to apply for a warrant after the tapping, you mean?
You retards are easy.
I'm glad to see Slashdot's on the cutting edge of science with this ~18-month-old dupe.
"Put some clothes on, you flabby bastards."
Good core point, but instead of the fluffy religious bullshit, I'd settle for "stealing is wrong."
"If you can't be bothered to follow the directions in order to secure your tens of thousands of dollars, then you shouldn't be working on ATMs."
Probably not, but if you can't come up with a security model better than "revert to default" when a user fat-fingers a password change, then you sure as fuck shouldn't be working in security.
"or even a resident of any of the precinct(s) they decide to vote in."
Ann Coulter, is that you?
More likely a bad case of "didn't bother to read the fucking article."
"I guess the problem is trying to strike the right balance between allowing good students to take advantage of this resource, but discourage bad students from staying at home all the time and watching all the lectures right before the exam."
I'm confused. Why do you care what decisions other adults make for themselves? "Bad students"? What about the student who had a doctor's appointment during class time, for whom an immediately available lecture download would be most useful?
When I was in college, adults weren't treated like kids.
"Why do people care so much if somebody else knows who you vote for?"
Because it leads to abuse of the voting system. For instance, if I really wanted to win a race I could spend my money on cash bribes instead of advertising, and have an easily way of verifying that the people I paid really voted for me.
Wait, Slashdot has editors?
"If you were a hiring from a pool and you learned that an applicant stole items or cheated seriously in an MMOG (even if it wasn't truly illegal in any sense of the word) would you hire them? I wouldn't."
In that case, you'd want to haul me in front of a firing squad for my KotOR2 adventures.
"When Is a Con Not a Con?"
Allow me to answer that with another question. To wit, "when is a game not real fucking life, you nerd?"
Sweet Jesus.
"fair-use DOES come into play with P2P so long as you own the original media."
Better check your definition of "P2P" there. *My* point being that owning the original media doesn't give you the right to distribute it worldwide, and any judge in the land would laugh you out of court for even thinking about the fair use doctrine.
"laywers fuck people over. I on the other hand, do not."
You would if you advised a client that fair use had fuck-all to do with P2P. On the bright side, you wouldn't be a lawyer for long.
This story made me sad, so I stomped on some puppies.
There's probably a reason you aren't a lawyer.
"Any time I see that term - I smell bias and ignore the rest of whats said."
Presumably the same way you ignored what was said in your English classes, you fucking bumpkin.
"Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime"
That's good, because the type of CD copying discussed in TFA isn't a crime. It's a civil offense.
"How are the courts going to "protect" macrovision without making time-base correctors illegal?"
If time-base correctors are outlawed, only outlaws will have time-base correctors.
Hmm...not catchy enough.
Dear Macrovision:
While you were busy making life hard for legitimate customers, I downloaded four movies that had been Macrovision-scrubbed for my convenience.
Sincerely,
Ha Ha Ha!
PS: Eat a dick.
It's a good thing we've cured the common cold and ended world hunger so we can put our energy into the really important things in life. Like getting keyboard manufacturers to remove the capslock key.
The bad news is, we lost 700GB of email. The good news is, all but 40K of it was spam.
Along these lines, Wal-Mart wanted my driver's license before I could purchase cold medicine in a bottle, claiming it was a new federal law. The same store had the same brand with the same ingredients in the same quantities in caplet form, no ID required. A large chain grocery store 2 minutes away had both liquid and caplet form for sale, no ID required.
As someone else said, companies will only get away with this shit if we let them.
"Neither you, your home, or your possessions were searched, nor was any of your property seized."
Were you going to make a relevant point here?
"The Sinus Show guys have been doing this for a while now"
No they haven't, and whoever modded you up as informative can't read.