Re: Re: Re: No news here. Lessig the nutter is wrong again.
" They didn't even have to because they weren't even based in the U.S."
Even inside the US, there is no legal requirement to comply with DMCA takedown notices. Companies do it because they get additional legal protections if they do, but it is not required.
There is no need to have a special device to do this. Anybody with a smartphone (at least an Android one, but I assume iPhones as well) can start sniffing MAC addresses in a matter of minutes.
The only "value add" the cop could be providing is to run a database of such addresses, but considering that MAC addresses are not guaranteed to be unique and are easily changeable by the user, the value of such a database is very low.
It's also insulting and not really true (unless you consider "people" somme sort of monolithic entity, but at that point you're talking about something fictional). I actively work to make government less awful and I vote accordingly. In what sense do I "deserve" the government I have?
Yes. I'm half a continent away from Texas, but when my daughter was in middle school, they put the entire school on lockdown once because a kid got his head stuck in a fence.
A hoax bomb is indeed a thing. So are hoax guns. The differentiator is what they are being represented as being, not what they look like. If you bundle up a few dowels and tell everyone it's a bomb, you've made a "hoax bomb". Legally, hoax weapon perpetrators can be punished as if they were the real thing.
The flip side is that if you made a device that looks like a real bomb and tell everyone it's not a real bomb, then you haven't made a "hoax bomb".
This student made something that didn't look like a bomb, and that he wasn't claiming was a bomb, and so what he made was obviously not a hoax bomb.
This is so, but most people don't want money. They want to be able to meet their life needs. Money is just a tool to do that.
That this is an important point is demonstrated by the fact that having too much money makes you just as unhappy as having too little. The sweet spot is to have just a bit more than is necessary to pay for your necessities.
"Windows 10 for desktops managed not to suck outside the security and privacy issues"
If we ignore the security issues, then "sucks" may be too harsh a term for Windows 10. However, I do think it's fair to say that on the whole Windows 10 is inferior to Windows 7.
It needs more than that. You also need to be running a supported operating system. I still cannot watch Netflix on Linux machines without doing an awful lot of hacking.
meaning that Netflix made a judgement call and decided this content was content that its customers can live without.
And they may be right, or right enough to reach their profit goals. I am a Netlfix customer and I find their catalog satisfying enough to continue. I am not a customer of any other similar services such as Hulu or Amazon. (Disclaimer: I am an Amazon Prime customer and as such I can technically watch their video offerings. I just don't do it since Netflix has me covered.)
The lack of many recent big name movies doesn't bother me at all, since there are very few recent big name movies that are of any interest to me.
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Re: Chill out people, nobody threatened anybody
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Re: Re: Re: No news here. Lessig the nutter is wrong again.
Even inside the US, there is no legal requirement to comply with DMCA takedown notices. Companies do it because they get additional legal protections if they do, but it is not required.
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The funny thing is
The only "value add" the cop could be providing is to run a database of such addresses, but considering that MAC addresses are not guaranteed to be unique and are easily changeable by the user, the value of such a database is very low.
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On the post: Cop Invents Device That Sniffs MAC Addresses To Locate Stolen Devices
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I track which is which through certs.
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I only wish I were joking.
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The flip side is that if you made a device that looks like a real bomb and tell everyone it's not a real bomb, then you haven't made a "hoax bomb".
This student made something that didn't look like a bomb, and that he wasn't claiming was a bomb, and so what he made was obviously not a hoax bomb.
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On the post: Big, Confusing Mess Of A Fair Use Decision Over DMCA Takedowns
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Ahem.
On the post: Burning Man Threatens Quizno's For 'Theft Of Intellectual Property' Because Of A Quizno's Ad Mocking Burning Man
Re: No sense of humor?
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Re: Re: The purpose of Free Speech is not incitement to violence.
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Re: Re: Re: Not just the music industry
That this is an important point is demonstrated by the fact that having too much money makes you just as unhappy as having too little. The sweet spot is to have just a bit more than is necessary to pay for your necessities.
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Proof
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If we ignore the security issues, then "sucks" may be too harsh a term for Windows 10. However, I do think it's fair to say that on the whole Windows 10 is inferior to Windows 7.
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So they claim. I have not found this to be acutally true.
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It needs more than that. You also need to be running a supported operating system. I still cannot watch Netflix on Linux machines without doing an awful lot of hacking.
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And they may be right
And they may be right, or right enough to reach their profit goals. I am a Netlfix customer and I find their catalog satisfying enough to continue. I am not a customer of any other similar services such as Hulu or Amazon. (Disclaimer: I am an Amazon Prime customer and as such I can technically watch their video offerings. I just don't do it since Netflix has me covered.)
The lack of many recent big name movies doesn't bother me at all, since there are very few recent big name movies that are of any interest to me.
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