It should be noted that book is not really about jury nullification in general. It is specifically about using jury nullification to end the war on peaceful people only some of whom use substances the federal government disapproves of. (also known as the war on drugs by the people who like shooting people who have harmed no one.)
PS: I wholeheartedly approve of the purpose of this book, but I feel this should be mentioned.
Actually, the primary source of terrorism in the US is white-supremacy/crazy-far-right groups. They are the kind of people who make Glenn Beck look like a Marxist.
Honestly, for the most part PETA is doing mostly breaking and entering stupid stuff where they "free" a whole bunch of animals "in the wild." For the most part it is really incompetent stuff. I have a friend who does research on flies and one day when the PETA people couldn't find the monkeys to release, they released thousands upon thousands of flies in her lab. Threw away years of research so the flies could have a couple days of freedom before they died of natural causes. Calling them terrorists is a bit excessive. As for the pro-lifers, you are talking about a very small minority of them and again, they do about as much terrorism as Islamic terrorists. Not a lot.
Are you really arguing that what is appropriate parenting is really all black and white with no grey? Because that sounds even more absurd than creationism.
The chances of collision are dependent upon the hash function and the size of the hash. So for a 256-bit hash. So if you take 2 music files, the chances that their hash matches is 1 in 2^256 (otheerwise known as a TON). However, because of the birthday paradox, if you have a lot of music files, the chances that at least one pair will have the same hash are very high. Really the chances that there exists at least one pair of music files in this world with the same MD5, SHA-1 or SHA-2 are for all intents and purposes 100%. However, if they really depend upon hashes for file identification, the whole scheme falls apart if you flip a single bit in the file. So I doubt that's their approach. They are not THAT stupid.
No offense meant, but you just admitted you don't know how it's done. So while I agree that it's most likely not in headers, there is no way to know how it is done precisely or what distortions this is resistant to. If you wanted to destroy the watermark, I would recommend taking two music streams that play the same music, then, perform the following operation: (((streamA xor streamB) and random) xor streamA). The watermark HAS to be gone since the only commonality between streamA and the result is what was common between streamA and streamB. Of course, that's a bit overkill and you could probably just take a single stream and add to it random noise up to the point where it does not degrade quality noticeably and the watermark should be gone. After all, if the watermark is not removed by that, it means the watermark has to degrade sound quality more than the noise you added which you would hopefully notice. Trust me Anon, this is a mission for information theory.
The point is not that closing the door solves everything. The point is that it solves many problems. The terrorists will necessarily be a small minority of the passengers. If need be passengers can take action and overwhelm the assailants. Sure, some people will get hurt and some people will die, but the terrorists are highly unlikely to retain control of the plane. On the other hand, if the terrorists can lock themselves in the cockpit, the passengers cannot act. So your scenario where they threaten to kill someone every 10 minutes just won't happen.
Perhaps we should have a variety of flights. The normal flights would have you go through a basic screening process (magnetometer etc). The "Coward" flights would put you through whatever indignities the TSA could think of in order to make you feel safer.
Given the number of successful terrorist attacks using pre-9/11 security measures, I would say there was no problem. So let's go back to magnetometer + x-ray machines. Let's add better training for the x-ray operators and keep the reinforced locked cockpit doors. Yes, sometimes, somebody will manage to get on a plane and blow it up. Yes, it will be a bummer. But hey, given how rare this is, the resources we are dedicating to the protection of airplanes is completely absurd. Most importantly get everyone used to the idea that sometimes the terrorists win and that the appropriate response is NOT to abscond our liberties.
Was your worry that your grandma might not be publicly humiliated or that your daughter might not be sexually assaulted? Perhaps you were worried that you might speak English "real good". In any case, nothing to worry about.
As much as I tend to be against "hacktivism" as shortsighted and a violation of rights, I can also see an upside. The Australian government has been having its fun coercing and bullying the ISPs into implementing censorship. Ideally, we would like the government and private companies to listen to reason and do the right thing because it's the right thing. But here, what some "hacktivists" are doing is saying: "Look, you want to do what the government is saying because otherwise you'll get beat up by their thugs. It turns out if you do what they say, we'll send our thugs and beat you up. So forget about not being beat up, it's going to happen either way. So now, you're free of pressure, you can just do the right thing." It makes me uncomfortable, but not that much. After all, if the government lets up, such groups will probably mostly fade away.
If he has signed over his rights to the label, this is a bit hypocritical. On the other hand, it may be he didn't realize what he was signing at the time and that he will leave his label now that he understands what the contract means.
Let's be honest Mike. If you saw an opportunity to make a boat-load of cash simply by calling your lawyer, would you pass it? But I agree with those who point out the two images are not copies of each other. Not even derivative. They look vaguely similar but are clearly different images. Even if copyright made a shred of sense, I don't see how this could possibly be infringement.
I think they should use their money to compensate all the people who had an idea "kind of like [insert successful company name here]" but then either did nothing or just executed poorly due to their own incompetence.
I find it difficult to believe that the ISPs will actually go through with this. As soon as your speed gets throttled, your dump your ISP and go to another one. Sure the competition is small, but hey, a low speed ISP is cheaper than a higher speed one with slowed speed. This would be great actually. The more a monopoly screws with its customers, the more the monopoly is going to generate challengers. The best way to stop this dead in its tracks is as follows: Go online and figure out what internet alternatives you have. Yes, there are alternatives for just about anyone. It may be slower or more expensive but there is an alternative. (At the very least there is satellite) Then, send a letter to your current provider saying something along the lines of: "I hear you are close to an agreement with the MPAA on degrading my Internet connection if the MPAA tells you that I have committed copyright infringement. If you sign that agreement, I will immediately cancel my subscription and switch over to [insert competitor you researched]. Have a nice day."
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Honestly, for the most part PETA is doing mostly breaking and entering stupid stuff where they "free" a whole bunch of animals "in the wild." For the most part it is really incompetent stuff. I have a friend who does research on flies and one day when the PETA people couldn't find the monkeys to release, they released thousands upon thousands of flies in her lab. Threw away years of research so the flies could have a couple days of freedom before they died of natural causes. Calling them terrorists is a bit excessive. As for the pro-lifers, you are talking about a very small minority of them and again, they do about as much terrorism as Islamic terrorists. Not a lot.
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