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It I wasn't authorized, why did the webserver comply?

The fact the webserver willingly gave the information I requested to me (did not 403 or 531), so I must be authorized.

Tptacek is pretty much a nutjob. He was going on and on against 1st sale doctrine about reimportation, how is it evil and such.

He also despises republicans completely, given this thread alone.

I'd set equal the anger in Tptacek to the craziness in sparrowos.

This link works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs

Then justify the distinction of

Trespass: up to 30 days in jail and/or 100$ fine

!!!COMPUTER!!! trespass: Years and years in jail, hundreds of thousands of dollars fine, Federal felony.

Yeah. SOUNDS LEGIT.

YouTube does automated dispute handling. They aren't even DMCA complaints. So they have no real burden.

Hosting with The Pirate Bay would seem like an option. They seem to have 'stop shutdowns' stopped pretty well.

When people while about getting 'removed from friends list' like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, MSN networks...

If it is free, they can do this anytime they like. Your proper answer is to set up your own server and do it yourself. I guess taking it public and getting responses from individuals in that company is your response. Still doesn't mean you shouldn't set up shop in your own right.

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It's yet another sudoku game. No matter how good it is, or looks, you compete with the multitude of free sudoku games out there.

Try something more vertical niche, and hunker down. A fill-in-the-blank game is not super-profit worthy. Even Rovio took a decade before they hit it with Angry Birds.

I think this is a problem too: Price: Free

Well, unless you make up for it in quantity...?

This argument goes towards the DMCA, as well as what is considered under the CFAA..

"Intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain: ....Information from any protected computer."

What does 'without authorization' mean, and what does 'protected' mean?

Does without authorization mean you violate a click-through license? Or is there some nebulous authentication chit you are handed? Is it a felony to fake your name on a website demanding your name?

And with that keyword 'protected', how do we know it is indeed protected? What steps one must take to protect, and what steps one must go through to understand that it is indeed protected computer/data?

In other words, we are all felons-on-standby. The laws are so vague as to entrap all by default.

Companies really hate it when you use globalization to bolster your side.

Whether that be buying DVDs, software, books, watches, or any type of good or service, the big buys will try to make it illegal.

Boo fucking hoo.

Yeah. Tell me about how that death star is going to go again?

That's why these petitions are an utter joke.

I wonder how many subscribers and advertising clients threatened (or did) pull their funding of The Atlantic?

The the time I saw it hit front page here, to now hasn't been that long. Must have hurt their bottom line.

"So by your judgement, all these folks could be sacked and nothing of value would be lost?"

I would argue that value would be gained by sacking these people (and organizations).

Most of the money they (and other journals) uses is dependent on excessive licensing fees charged to universities. The universities turn around and add that to each person's tuition.

And all the work the journal publishes WAS owned by the students of the very university, until the journal demands transfer of copyright to the journal... So they can sell them back work at 1000X the profit.

By definition, they are parasites. What we need is a good anti-parasitic medicine.

I "break into" computer systems all the time.

Since I do not follow the EULA/license agreement for each website, and I send a handshake requesting files over a webserver, I am in violation of federal law for unauthorized computer usage.

That's fucking bullshit.

You're right Kliment. I was too harsh, only due to my anger. It's also a sore point to me and quite a few of my friends.

I'm sorry, cmsmith.

You mean all the work the grad students do when they write the content.... And all the work other grad students do when they typeset it? Sure. Apologist.

A mail server and website combination is cheap to build. Your only cost is bandwidth.

The only real cost is bandwidth. That's when you have the schools host these cheap servers. "instead of 15 million USD, we want to colo. Deal?"

And to completely trounce your idea, publishing is easy for journals. It's called "load page and press print". There's hardly any reason to print tomes that can easily loaded ip on a web page as needed. And if you need a bound book, go to lulu or other JIT publisher.

And trite sayings don't mean they are correct, either.

The social contract in the constitution was to grant people with limited exclusivity for works they created. Patents have roughly stayed within that parameter (with exception to patent abuses on design and software).

For copyright, it was originally 17 years, extendable another 17 years. Works released in 1981 (my date of birth) will expire in 120 years. I will be dead before they are in public domain.

The social contract was 'reneogiated' by campaign donations, without input from the people. The supreme court found that forever extensions the way congress is implementing them as 'constitutional' and it was Congress's problem.

So yes, I believe that should open up the debate on piracy as a legitimate solution.

I'm bisexual.. So the opposite is bisexual? I'm fine with that.

Can I have my upvote?

The guy's "transformative conversation" is akin to staying up late and going to forums and 'correcting' them. Why? Because somebody is wrong on the Internet!

Just substitute internet for real life.

There is a time and place for everything.

An open problem that Google has admitted with their car automation project is a certain problem endemic to the northern part of this country: Snow and Ice.

Admittedly, ice is rather difficult in any condition. However, many human drivers drive safely on snow cover with minimal problems. Accidents are higher during those times, but traffic still keeps flowing. Google-car-AI cannot handle these events at all (at this time).

"The car can also communicate with other vehicles"

This topic is interesting in quite a few aspects. Firstly, it's something I thought of long ago, but due to implementation details (ECM is a closed, obfuscated PITA).

The biggest ideas revolving around this com device is how it processes the communication. Is the communication an authenticated protocol? Being an amateur radio operator and a fellow hacker, I can think of plenty of things to do regarding this device, both good and bad. Does it take "suggestions" from other devices? If so, do these suggestions get stored in a sort of a log to prove action your AI takes is the fault of another?

And there's the security involved in the local processor. Many in this community are turned off to the idea of secure computing. In this case however, could lead to a bad user fake-signing messages to other cars. This is an open question, due to many secure implementations successfully hacked (Nintendo DS, PS2, PS3, Blu-Ray, various media stores).

I'm sure there is a way to make a car-puter that interfaces with other vehicles for a mesh network. However, I would believe that this network would have to be one of those close to being mathematically provable languages. And I would not think that TOYOTA would be capable of this.

Too bad Mosh cannot work with X display redirects. That one would have been rather handy.

I'd like to see this used as evidence that the movie viewing may cost 12$ for a ticket, the movies are actually worth negative dollars.

Use their own tax cheating against themselves.

The energy curve sounds like a parabola (f(x)=x^2) curve of "energy", where nothing can actually sit at 0,0 or go through it.

The energy translation used to flip a slight positive temp to a negative temp sounds like a reflection to the negative side of the curve.

I just removed the module from loading. I dont have any firewire stuff anyways, so it's just some useless 4 pin port at the bottom left of my thinkpad.

No driver, no workey.

For those reading this outside of the USA, this grandparent and parent poster are why this country suffers from backbiting and lack of any sort of progressive reform, like basic health. This view exists from the very bottom to the very top of the socio-economic ladder.

Being a citizen of Indiana, I am embarrassed to have such people at the helm in this country. It is all [pro-democrat, hate republican] or [pro-republican, hate democrat] with no room for even discussion of what works or not. It's all platform based demagoguery.

That is an awesome analysis of video and working through the physics.

Complete aside: Mind exploded from unit mismatch. Miles per hour then meters? Gah....

Just please dont use gradians for angle measurement :)

That's ACTUALLY where Le gran K is still stored. (outside paris)

It's the last artifact of a physical object used to measure all others. And that fucker changes weight too, so the kilogram ISNT stable. Its just like all those nasty imperial measurements used to be.

I've always been happy with "The Bread Bible", by Rose Levy Beranbaum. That book contains all recipes in both metric and imperial.

When I make short meads, I do it a little more off the cuff.. Then it's what tastes right for the honey water in terms of concentration.

I well realize that now. Many of us worked with metric in the sciences for our university career, as well as prior high/middle/ele school teachings of metrication. Some of the lesser known units of imperial measure throw us off.

I asked him to please explain this unfamiliar unit to us. He was rather surprised we hadn't heard of it prior. One very good thing about metric is that it is precise in the definitions of the units. Hence the distinction between kg and N.

Added note: even though pound may be technically a force measurement, it at first confused the hell out of me how a pascal( N/m^2) could be converted to lbs/in^2. I did wonder what exactly a pound was, but soon didn't really care. After all, we didn't really use imperial much, with exception of general "consumer measurements".