This all reminds me of stories heard from the peak of the cold ware era. Me being a child of the 80's only remembers the last years of the cold war. The use of wire tapping phone, and listening to millions of peoples conversations all over the US to weed out potential criminals that may side with the enemy is nothing new to hear.
It's just now the government can have a data centers listening to millions of phone calls all day, and night then wait for an alert to pop up in their email with the information of the caller who said something that might go against the government. The reason you don't see any news reports on this is that no one wants to stir up a wasps nest of trouble, and get the general populace scared that their neighbors could potentially be terrorists. Even through in past history this was covered on a large scale, and every one was told to watch each other through government propaganda. Or the media just frankly doesn't care since the government has been doing this for years.
One thing that no one has mentioned out of all of this is that this might potentially be the first major steps of the government regulating the US's portion of the world wide network just like china. Soon we will only be able to consume information that the government wants us to consume. Mull that over while eating your bowl of lucky charms with marshmallows.
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actually you logic wasn't flawed in anyway. You were right. It's just my wording didn't state what my mind was thinking. I blame my retarded hands they have a mind of their own some times.
Yes the TRO can be made permanent after the fact yes, but that would have go to another hearing or trial depending on who serious it was. I really do not see something of this nature becoming permanent as it would set a whole new precedent on this issue. More companies would start putting restraining orders on all news media to keep them from reporting on them whether it is in a good light or bad.
I don't think a judge is ready, and willing to go that extra 1000 miles to set such a precedent. Since such a think would kill the First Amendment completely.
I do agree with you that it was wrong, and I apologize if I did not word my first comment specifically to that degree. That was what I thought was incredible about her ruling in the first place. That a judge would in fact speak in such a manor as to blatantly she didn't give a $*!7 about first amendment rights. To me, and most certainly all of you see that as an ethical issue as it clearly shows in this case that she didn't rule in an unbiased manor. At least that is how I took it on how she worded her reasoning for blocking the reporter on his comment about his first amendment right.
The only thing that I find incredible about this is whole thing is how the judge spoke on her ruling. It seems that everyone else is looking at it that way as well. To be honest I don't really see how this breaks the first amendment anyways in this case as it was only a temporary restraining order. Which means that it will be lifted at some point, and the reporter can print the story till their hearts content.
Obviously the story isn't all there as to who requested the restraining order, and why. If those facts were known in this little blurb then no one would be acting acting all butt hurt over what the judge had said, and why she said it.
Your ISP was half right right. Your IP address is always dynamically assigned unless you have purchase a business account, and requested a static IP address. The reason you have not seen a change in your IP address is that on a DHCP IP address you have what is called a lease time. If you open up a command prompt and type ipconfig /all you will get a bunch of info. Scroll down till you see Lease Obtained, and Lease Expired. That will tell you when you got your ISP's DHCP server handed out your address, and when you should expect to get a new one.
You don't always get a new one when the lease time expires. If you leave your PC on all the time when the lease time expires, and you're still connected online the DHCP server will usually hand out the same address.
That is about the best statement/ruling since the whole crusade against file shares began back in the late 90's. A court that finally realizes that ISP's are nothing more than gate ways for the masses to access content.
The context how this is worded through's me off. After reading patent it's just the order of operations on how each device talks to each other in the collective.
"Workgroup network manager for controlling the operation of workstations within the computer network"
That right there makes it sound like they are talking about programs that specifically control the end machine. You know like being able to remote in, and control what processes/applications/etc... run on a given machine in the collective.
The context how this is worded through's me off. After reading patent it's just the order of operations on how each device talks to each other in the collective.
"Workgroup network manager for controlling the operation of workstations within the computer network"
That right there makes it sound like they are talking about programs that specifically control the end machine. You know like being able to remote in, and control what processes/applications/etc... run on a given machine in the collective.
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Yes they are locked to the carrier, but not to their network which is what they are talking about. Roaming fee's are what we pay to be able to access cell service, and data on other carriers networks.
yeah but the average consumer only wants to deal with dialing a number. Not opening the application, and then type the number, and hope their broadband carrier can handle the traffic.
The tech nerds on the other hand, and those that are hard core "Free" people will use skype. with the way net neutrality is going you will see a decreased performance in video quality, etc... just like with VoIP calls from vonage.
Knowing the size of these games are not the size of the ever popular World of Craft. How are they are they going to keep the servers/network up to date if all they are doing is getting paid off of micro purchases.
Space is vast, and to big to explore by a hand full of people. Career Astronomers don't get to look through telescopes all night when they want to. Most if not all of them have to book observatories days, months, if not years in advance. That's why they embrace the amateur community so well. You read a lot on some farmer in B.F.E North Dakota who watched a super nova on his $100 telescope from wal-mart. The cop(s) who catch meteors falling from the sky on their dash cams when no one else catches them. It's not about money in this field of work unlike the news industry. Yeah career astronomers fight for grants to fund their research, but that's it. When some amateur finds something that they don't have time to investigate, or didn't see the astronomy community gives them the recognition for it.
There is only so much news in the world. New reporters, and journalists have to fight for those good money making stories. When someone unknown amateur comes in with a hot story that person makes the money on it. So yeah if you worked in the news field making money on all the good stories, and a bunch of amateurs come in all the time with the good stuff you'd get pissed off too.
Everyone here is assuming that just by the term "Cyber War" that it actually equates to war fought on a battle field. I've seen nothing but examples that depict using network based attacks on the military. All be this a far fetched example, but if you have watched Ghost in the Shell you will understand the point I am about to make. In the show you see various types of Cyber Terrorism. Companies attacking other competing companies. Individual groups attacking governments, companies, etc... Granted attacks today are not going to be on the level of what is depicted in that show, but the thoughts behind them are completely plausible.
What is more devastating to a country attacking a few hundred thousand soldiers or attacking an entire nation of people. What would happen say if a group of "Hackers" in China attacks Wall Street? How would our economy handle an attack of that nature? Especially in this time where we have no counter measure or laws that kind of scenario. Or how would the global economy take it if key economic super powers we suddenly cut off from the rest of the global network? Most companies have forgone the use of analog media for the day to day communications. To just switch over from a purely digital system to an analog system would cripple a company let alone a nation.
"UC San Diego Professor Ricardo Dominguez spearheaded the March 4 digital protest by calling on demonstrators to visit a webpage that sent a new page request to the UC president's website every one to six seconds. A separate function automatically sent 404 queries to the server. A "spawn" feature allowed participants to run additional pages in another window, multiplying the strain on the targeted website.
"Okay, now just sit back and relax, or open a new browser window and do anything else you need to do, BUT LEAVE THE ACTION WINDOW OPEN IN THE BACKGROUND, THE LONGER THE BETTER," a help page for the protest instructed.""
If that right there does not show intent to commit a DDoS attack I dunno know how it would have to be more obvious. By saying that "That doesn't show intent to do harm to the system" is complete BS. He knew the website would continue to send requests to the page for every webpage opened. Calling on his fellow protesters to follow his cause whether they knew this was going to happen or not can still be considered intent to cause a DoS, or DDoS attack as in this case.
Also your understanding of the law is flawed as well. Re-read it.
"In order for there to be a computer crime there has to be EITHER an intention OR some form of tresspass"
You don't have to have both parts of the law to make it a crime. One or both of those parts full fill the requirement to make this a crime.
There are a lot of articles out there about cops going around war-driving, and telling residents with open WAP's that they are unsecured, and to make sure they take care of it. This has a lot to do with malicious war drivers, and the fact that you can get sues for someone leaching your bandwidth to upload/download movies and music,
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The Cold War Revisited
It's just now the government can have a data centers listening to millions of phone calls all day, and night then wait for an alert to pop up in their email with the information of the caller who said something that might go against the government. The reason you don't see any news reports on this is that no one wants to stir up a wasps nest of trouble, and get the general populace scared that their neighbors could potentially be terrorists. Even through in past history this was covered on a large scale, and every one was told to watch each other through government propaganda. Or the media just frankly doesn't care since the government has been doing this for years.
One thing that no one has mentioned out of all of this is that this might potentially be the first major steps of the government regulating the US's portion of the world wide network just like china. Soon we will only be able to consume information that the government wants us to consume. Mull that over while eating your bowl of lucky charms with marshmallows.
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I don't think a judge is ready, and willing to go that extra 1000 miles to set such a precedent. Since such a think would kill the First Amendment completely.
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I do agree with you that it was wrong, and I apologize if I did not word my first comment specifically to that degree. That was what I thought was incredible about her ruling in the first place. That a judge would in fact speak in such a manor as to blatantly she didn't give a $*!7 about first amendment rights. To me, and most certainly all of you see that as an ethical issue as it clearly shows in this case that she didn't rule in an unbiased manor. At least that is how I took it on how she worded her reasoning for blocking the reporter on his comment about his first amendment right.
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Its a temporary restraining order
Obviously the story isn't all there as to who requested the restraining order, and why. If those facts were known in this little blurb then no one would be acting acting all butt hurt over what the judge had said, and why she said it.
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You don't always get a new one when the lease time expires. If you leave your PC on all the time when the lease time expires, and you're still connected online the DHCP server will usually hand out the same address.
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Good Decision
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"Workgroup network manager for controlling the operation of workstations within the computer network"
That right there makes it sound like they are talking about programs that specifically control the end machine. You know like being able to remote in, and control what processes/applications/etc... run on a given machine in the collective.
Like I said maybe I am not getting it.
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"Workgroup network manager for controlling the operation of workstations within the computer network"
That right there makes it sound like they are talking about programs that specifically control the end machine. You know like being able to remote in, and control what processes/applications/etc... run on a given machine in the collective.
Like I said maybe I am not getting it.
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The tech nerds on the other hand, and those that are hard core "Free" people will use skype. with the way net neutrality is going you will see a decreased performance in video quality, etc... just like with VoIP calls from vonage.
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Concerns
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Bad analogy:
There is only so much news in the world. New reporters, and journalists have to fight for those good money making stories. When someone unknown amateur comes in with a hot story that person makes the money on it. So yeah if you worked in the news field making money on all the good stories, and a bunch of amateurs come in all the time with the good stuff you'd get pissed off too.
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Cyber War not a physical war
What is more devastating to a country attacking a few hundred thousand soldiers or attacking an entire nation of people. What would happen say if a group of "Hackers" in China attacks Wall Street? How would our economy handle an attack of that nature? Especially in this time where we have no counter measure or laws that kind of scenario. Or how would the global economy take it if key economic super powers we suddenly cut off from the rest of the global network? Most companies have forgone the use of analog media for the day to day communications. To just switch over from a purely digital system to an analog system would cripple a company let alone a nation.
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Re: Legal Obstacle
"UC San Diego Professor Ricardo Dominguez spearheaded the March 4 digital protest by calling on demonstrators to visit a webpage that sent a new page request to the UC president's website every one to six seconds. A separate function automatically sent 404 queries to the server. A "spawn" feature allowed participants to run additional pages in another window, multiplying the strain on the targeted website.
"Okay, now just sit back and relax, or open a new browser window and do anything else you need to do, BUT LEAVE THE ACTION WINDOW OPEN IN THE BACKGROUND, THE LONGER THE BETTER," a help page for the protest instructed.""
If that right there does not show intent to commit a DDoS attack I dunno know how it would have to be more obvious. By saying that "That doesn't show intent to do harm to the system" is complete BS. He knew the website would continue to send requests to the page for every webpage opened. Calling on his fellow protesters to follow his cause whether they knew this was going to happen or not can still be considered intent to cause a DoS, or DDoS attack as in this case.
Also your understanding of the law is flawed as well. Re-read it.
"In order for there to be a computer crime there has to be EITHER an intention OR some form of tresspass"
You don't have to have both parts of the law to make it a crime. One or both of those parts full fill the requirement to make this a crime.
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