In fact, the mere idea that free software is a security threat is topsy-turvy. In general, proprietary software is more vulnerable. That Microsoft would lump FSF in with Pirate Bay is outrageous. How does their threat management system label C|Net or download.com?
Cyberwar would make just about everything we discuss here on TechDirt irrelevant. Here we are speaking of communication over the net almost as a human right and certainly part of our identity and as a kind of air we breathe. Cyberwar would end that in an instant.
Imagine so many worms traversing the net that no other traffic gets through. Imagine not being able to network or possibly even use your computers without reinstalling your OS from scratch and possibly re-entering all your data. Imagine having to completely isolate your LAN from the larger net, or having to keep your communications within some sort of green zone, protected by Big Brother. Of course to maintain such a green zone Big Brother would need DPI and every other kind of intrusion into your computer. If you don't want to compute and communicate in this kind of environment then STFU with your Neuromancer wet dreams.
Inman would have been much smarter not to provoke the other side with the yo-mama-bestiality angle. So, dumb on both sides, yes. Leave out the bear stuff and I am wholly on Inman's side.
What if someone owned some fenced land but left the gate unlocked and there were crimes being committed on the land by others and the owner knew or should have known and never locked the gate.
Would the land owner be negligent in this case? Would they have owed a duty to the crime victims?
Preferring cyber war over conventional war is incredibly stupid. We have a huge advantage in conventional arms. On the cyber side we are incredibly vulnerable and it would be a significant evening of the battlefield. Goodbye asymmetry.
To have war over the internet would bring militarization to every device on the net. It would mean the total end to freedom on the net. Every packet would be deep inspected and require approval to move. Every business has moved significant functions to the web. The entire economy would grind to a standstill.
I will never understand how they can use the wind to force people to buy buy their licenses.
Also, while I am not particularly concerned about ingesting GMOs in general, I am not at all interested in consuming soybeans that have been doused in Roundup, not matter how resistant they are, because the resistance is at the cellular level, which means the chemicals are still absorbed.
Penalties for police and prosecutorial misconduct, including concealing evidence, should be equal to those for the crimes which the defendants are being tried for. PROBLEM SOLVED.
This whole tugboat thing is just bizarre. How is the tugboat case germane other than a law school definition of negligence? Surely, a judge would be more impressed with a negligence example that bore more similarity to T & W.
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That would just be inviting the enemy to fight on our territory.
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Imagine so many worms traversing the net that no other traffic gets through. Imagine not being able to network or possibly even use your computers without reinstalling your OS from scratch and possibly re-entering all your data. Imagine having to completely isolate your LAN from the larger net, or having to keep your communications within some sort of green zone, protected by Big Brother. Of course to maintain such a green zone Big Brother would need DPI and every other kind of intrusion into your computer. If you don't want to compute and communicate in this kind of environment then STFU with your Neuromancer wet dreams.
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Would the land owner be negligent in this case? Would they have owed a duty to the crime victims?
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Preferring cyber war over conventional war is incredibly stupid. We have a huge advantage in conventional arms. On the cyber side we are incredibly vulnerable and it would be a significant evening of the battlefield. Goodbye asymmetry.
To have war over the internet would bring militarization to every device on the net. It would mean the total end to freedom on the net. Every packet would be deep inspected and require approval to move. Every business has moved significant functions to the web. The entire economy would grind to a standstill.
GLASS HOUSES!
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Also, while I am not particularly concerned about ingesting GMOs in general, I am not at all interested in consuming soybeans that have been doused in Roundup, not matter how resistant they are, because the resistance is at the cellular level, which means the chemicals are still absorbed.
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