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Even aside from that, lots of people here (most, I would guess) don't engage in piracy even in the sense that he used the term. We don't even have to argue semantics: he's just full of shit from the outset.
"Any reason why you don't admit this undeniable fact?"
What undeniable fact?
To my eyes, the undeniable fact is that this is nothing like "due process". Due process includes reasonableness and some sense of justice. This is neither.
The supreme court's opinion on this doesn't enter into it.
Here's the funny thing: I originally believed that DotCom was probably guilty as hell, but everything the US government has said and done about this case has changed my mind and convinced me that he's probably innocent.
That it is even possible to file a court case against inanimate objects is a strong indication that the legal system is not just broken, but fundamentally corrupt and insane and is not worthy of any amount of respect.
I am opposed to murder no matter who does it. I still don't see how that's relevant to the question of whether or not we should imprison people who have broken no laws.
1) The error rate is unacceptably high for use as storage 2) It's destructive. 3) In order to do it, you need to use a scanning tunneling microscope. In effect, you're reading the magnetic polarization that is underneath the surface layer's overt polarization.
For practical purposes, this is not a realistic attack vector. However, if a well-funded company or agency was very, very interested in the contents of your drive, then it is possible.
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I'm in the US. The left lane is the fast lane. But yes, I thought it was obvious that I was talking about being in the slow lane. Apparently not, so let be be explicit: I'm talking about being in the slow lane.
Where I live, road funds have come from gasoline taxes for an extremely long time. Already, the state is complaining because electric cars are impacting this funding.
That's only true for certain specific places that have been well mapped. It's not yet true for driving in arbitrary places and under many common but less-than-ideal conditions.
That all sounds a lot more complex than what I do: I slow to 10 MPH or so below the limit and stay there. So far, 100% of the time, the tailgater passes me within a couple of minutes.
It's part of an intentional effort to divide the people along meaningless "left" vs "right" lines in order to distract them so they won't resist the rise of corporatism.
Although, if you're REALLY concerned about this, the better solution is to never write extremely sensitive data to the hard drive in the first place. Even with modern drives, erased data can still be recovered. It's just a lot more difficult.
This is true, but there are still lots of older drives in regular use. If you're concerned enough to be worried about this issue, write multiple passes of random numbers is still a good habit.
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What undeniable fact?
To my eyes, the undeniable fact is that this is nothing like "due process". Due process includes reasonableness and some sense of justice. This is neither.
The supreme court's opinion on this doesn't enter into it.
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No.
It's not a search engine's role to decide what sites are of good or poor quality, let alone to punish sites based on such a determination.
The role of a search engine is to locate web pages that are as close to what people are searching for as possible. That is all. Full stop.
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Yes. At least a mugger is being honest about what he's doing.
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Sure it is. It's not only his fault, but he does bear responsibility for not doing the right thing and just resigning.
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1) The error rate is unacceptably high for use as storage
2) It's destructive.
3) In order to do it, you need to use a scanning tunneling microscope. In effect, you're reading the magnetic polarization that is underneath the surface layer's overt polarization.
For practical purposes, this is not a realistic attack vector. However, if a well-funded company or agency was very, very interested in the contents of your drive, then it is possible.
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Re: Let me get this straight: TD says people who create content have no right to control copies, but purchasers of CDs do have a right to rip the content?
http://info.legalzoom.com/copyright-law-making-personal-copies-22200.html
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