Steam is basically an online-only game DRM service, and it works great, AND has a 'play offline' feature that allows you to use online-purchased software offline. Why this isnt a mandatory feature I will never know, but it feels a little like illegal bundling to force 2 products (download manager and a software title) to function together and not without the both of them...
thats what inalienable means, so unless they clean up the language they will be making portugal the chosen port to bust up recording deals. Which is potentially what they want.
Actually its a good point. Why arent your self-appointed protectors of freedom and democracy yapping off at the mouth about this?
3 words: Soft on terrorism. Those 3 words scare politicians to death, and because of that you wont get a President with the political capital to fight the TSA until one kills Osama Bin Laden with his pair hands on the steps of the White House.
Unless he was literally just guessing the password to the account, in which case if hes a criminal so are tens of millions of people around the world trying to snoop a friend, spouse, coworker or employee
In order to get at any of AOL's email servers, you would have to bypass at least a perimeter firewall (which is a computer) and then attack the mail server (another computer). So in essence, under the law, I think this one could be argued a felony if anybody knew what the hell they were arguing.
*You would also have to spoof at least one of the following, which would be a 3rd computer, or more: Kerberos server, some sort of trusted authority, or even just an IP address to a couple of routers or a DNS server. There are a lot of components involved in even trying something like this to the point where you would even stand out from countless normal attacks on public ranges that anyone competent could paint a dangerous cloud of a massive attack.
Actually, they're pretty stupid and it sometimes works. I had a domain I didnt care about registered with them and in the 2 years I had it with cancelled the credit card they had on file. Because I didnt care about the domain name anymore, I never bothered putting another one in, or cancelling it but figured it would just disappear on its own. Well, they tried to bill it, sent me notices about how it didnt go through and I needed to contact them (which i didnt) but it still renewed for 2 more years....
I know for absolute certainty that there was prior art for the gaming one, as TFC and Counterstrike (valve-based mods) used online ladders that while not associated officially with the games, were used to track progress exactly like Xbox Live and PSN do now.
All security action is done on the threat of violence. The reason the security measures are in place is because the government claims that if they arent, violence will ensure. Also, all government action is done under the threat of force. If you dont comply you will be forcibly arrested.
It helps when your security people have a background and training in, you know, security. We license police to carry deadly weapons and give them the authority to use them, and still they are not allowed to perform perfunctory pat-downs and finger-rape little girls. But some $15/hr TSA lackey is allowed? What kind of background check are they going through? Training? Licensing? Or are they just the friendly neighbourhood finger-rapists?
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3 words: Soft on terrorism. Those 3 words scare politicians to death, and because of that you wont get a President with the political capital to fight the TSA until one kills Osama Bin Laden with his pair hands on the steps of the White House.
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*You would also have to spoof at least one of the following, which would be a 3rd computer, or more: Kerberos server, some sort of trusted authority, or even just an IP address to a couple of routers or a DNS server. There are a lot of components involved in even trying something like this to the point where you would even stand out from countless normal attacks on public ranges that anyone competent could paint a dangerous cloud of a massive attack.
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Someone uses force and the threat of violence to put their hands inside the waistband of an underage girl.
The above statement is accurate, factual, and definitely sexual assault.
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