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Re: TOS violations (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
>TOS violations ARE NOT ILLEGAL!
Sadly, you are wrong. We all believed that as well. If I break the TOS of X site, the X has the right to terminate my usage (ie. account) but it wasn't thought of as illegal.
But Lori Drews was convicted because she used another name to create an account, which broke the TOS of the site. The court ruled that she was guilty of (basically) computer fraud.
Again, I do not agree with it. I'm telling you the precedent has been set.
Re: Re: Re: Illegal (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
>if you provide someone with your login information, you
>are GIVING THEM AUTHORIZATION TO ACCESS YOUR ACCOUNT.
Unless the TOS specifically says you may not give your password to someone. Then, according to the Drew case, both you AND (in this case) the person accessing the site would be guilty of violating the ToS and therefore guilty of accessing a computer system illegally.
I didn't say I agreed with it, that was the ruling.
Re: Illegal (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
According to the recent Drew court case, if they were to use those login names and passwords in ANY WAY, that would be a violation of the TOS for the website most likely which would make them guilty under the "accessing protected computers without authorisation to obtain information" that Drew was convicted under.
Not to mention, if the TOS says not to share your password or account information, they are asking you to commit a crime to work for them.
WONDERFUL!
And we WONDER why the terrorists call us the Great Satan?!
Boston Tea Party (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
I would to organize the Boston Tea Party of Music. I say, nationally we should have a day of CD recycling - I certainly wouldn't dump CDs into the bay or even burn them.
But just to show our outrage, I think people should take music CDs on a specific day and drop them off at the recycling centers. Get as much publicity as possible.
It might draw attention to the issue of big business being pretty much an evil dictatorship and having congressional members bought and paid for.
But until we collectively rise up and tell our senators we will not stand for their selling our rights away for real (or political) currency, nothing is going to change.
SERVING as a government official stopping being SERVICE along time ago and is now nothing more than a way to increase personal wealth and power but getting in bed with special interest groups.
I personally think special interest groups should be illegal. I think they do more harm than good. If you want to organize people, organize them to VOTE.
Groups should create their canidates and get the votes to put them in office. Special interest groups should be abolished, along with the current party system. Democrats and Republicans?!
How much wasted energy is there by political posturing on both sides?
This is the 21st century. We have many forms of instant communication. If we millions of people voting for a new American Idol, why can't we have people VOTE on issues? Elected officials could post the issue and vote time and then they would have a CLEAR idea of how their constituents wanted them to vote on a particular issue.... and by a number of respondants, how important the issue was to their constituents.
I personally think this would get more people involved and get more people aware of what the government is doing.
Techs are lying their @sses off... (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
Knowing more than a small bit about computers, I can tell you... there's VERY, VERY little reason to bring up a movie on someone's hard drive when installing a DVD drive.
Rip open the computer, install the drive, boot up the computer, load up the DVD Player softare (if any comes with the DVD drive) and put a DVD in the drive and play it. Tell me how any of those steps involve looking at personal files.
I have several friends who are computer techs and I know MANY techs who would scavenge through a users files and make copies of anything they thought was noteworthy.... music, pictures, etc.
If you give your computer to ANYONE who is computer savvy enough to be fixing it, just assume that every single one of your files will be looked at... private pictures, emails, movies... ANYTHING.
Either encrypt it with PGP or just confess to everything you've done before you drop off your computer.
Think of the Children... (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
Sure... it sounds so seductive. Just give in... this one time. Go ahead, ignore the shield laws. Give up the name of the EVIL JUROR. It's just one time... right? We can stop after just one... can't we?
Kevin is right. The laws are there to protect sources. This allows reporters... ESPECIALLY investigative reporters to do some high power articles on everything from corruption to consumer fraud.
If their sources know that they can be revealed to "just a judge", how do you think they're going to feel about coming forward to tell me the truth about what's going on say... at a daycare where kids are being abused, or a restaraunt where they are using inferior meat, etc?
That's asking to give up attorney-client privledge.... just this one time. Which is always fine... unless it's the one time that affects you.
Re: (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
>by Anonymous Coward - Jun 8th, 2009 @ 10:32am
>"Michael Masnick is an expert at the Insight Community."
>What exactly does it take to be an expert? What are the
>qualifications?
Rest assured, that no matter WHAT the qualifications are... they are FAR, FAR more than being an anonymous coward.
OMG! (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
Mike! What the heck is wrong with you?!
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
=)
(as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
>Mike, perhaps you should spend some time in China before
>slamming them at every turn. You might understand thing a
>little better.
Mike doesn't need to spend time in China to recognize an oppressive government, just as I don't need to spend time with terrorists to "understand thing a little better" about why they do what they do.
Understanding something doesn't make it anymore right. I may UNDERSTAND why a drunk driver killed my child, but it doesn't make it any more right nor does it bring my child back.
The scorpion and frog analogy is good, but a little off the point.
They do what they do, not because it's their nature - although perhaps it really is at this point - but out of FEAR. The leaders fear expression, freedom and choice. Why? Because people could CHOOSE to overthrow the government and they would lose power. They do what they do to stay in power. It has nothing to do with what is best for China and its people. It's all about what is best for those in power.
Interesting.. (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
The auditor didn't certify that they had unbreakable security, just that they were consistant with best practices.
It seems the best practices weren't good enogh.
iPhone Issues (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
As an iPhone app developer, I can tell you... Apple needs some serious help in the approval process department.
I've had updates multiple apps sit for weeks, unapproved when all that changed was a typo. It's been approved for months... but somehow, fixing that typo sends it to the disappearing list of apps.
Other times, I've had them reject an app by saying it didn't add functionality... and yet, we have Baby Shaker and "Oops, I crapped my pants" apps.
I think the real problem is, there are no real guidelines, no real review process and no real review procedures. I suspect it's done on a "feel good" basis. If the app doesn't make the SINGLE reviewer "feel good" about it... then it doesn't get approved.
When they got trashed for the Baby Shaker app, I think they went back and told their people "You need to REALLY feel good about it, and make sure you think it will make other people FEEL good too."
Sad... but probably true.
PSYCHO! (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
You do NOT want a judge or jury judging you on material they can get on the web. EVER!
In about 30 minutes, a decent hacker for hire could have a facebook, twitter, blog, myspace and everything else you can think about created to look like they came from you. And if you're paying someone overseas, it'd cost the defense (or prosecution) about $100 to do all that and make you look however they wanted.
Without any checks and balances or verification or authentication of information, that could warp every case sent to court.
You read all the time of fake facebooks and myspace pages for teachers created by bitter (or just obnoxious) students... how would you like one of those brought up as evidence in a murder trial (assuming you didn't do it), where the jury took that as THE TRUTH?!
Much better to work with the system as is, despite it's many and gaping flaws, than to introduce the chaos element of the internet.
Fan fiction legal? (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
If fan fiction is legal, how is Rowling prevening the Harry Potter Compendium?
I thought derivative works are covered by copyright.
Cool-Aid time... (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
It's Cool-Aid time for the AP.
Sanity... (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
It's good to hear the voice of sanity speaking from time to time.
Part of the problem is, we are cattle. We blindly sit by and allow our rights as consumers to be usurped. Instead of launching campaigns that aim at what the politicians value - their re-election - we sit back and complain and do nothing, and then accept the new rules.
All that is needed for evil to win, is for good men to do nothing.
Go to eff.org and join up and send out emails to your congressional representatives. Tell them that if they can't represent your interests, you will be voting for someone who does.
Is it true? (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
It seems that AT&T and other networks have been milking the data fees for users for some time now without really upgrading their network.
The profits were filling the coffers of the executives instead of being used to expand their network to be ready for the explosive growth that any tech-head in their IS department could have predicted with one pocket protector tied behind his back.
They're more than happy to offer you the world and then charge you for it... but God forbid you ask them to deliver.
I would hope competition would spur them to upgrade networks and offer better plans. In the end, the network that delivers is going to be the network that people move to in order to support their mobile data habit.
Unlike cable companies, most areas have 5+ cell companies in serving them, so people really do have choice.
Blame... (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
I guess aliens and bad water are out of vogue...
It's worse than that... (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
>Imagine if your employer said to you "yeah, we promised a
>$1000 bonus payment to you this month but I lost half of
>it on the horses. Sorry.". Imagining what you could have
>gotten if he'd won would hardly compensate for the loss
>of the money that should have been yours, and I doubt
>you'd be happy about that.
I suspect it's worse than that. I suspect that if they MAKE money, they keep it, but if they LOSE money, it comes out of the musicians' cut.
It's a fantastic scam... if you're not the musician.
Golden Rule (as JohnRaven,CHT,CSH)
Let's face it, it's the Golden Rule at it's finest.
Those with the gold, make the rules. And those with enough money to pay off politicians are immune to prosecution until it hurts the politician more to ignore the injustice (ie. the public finds out and gets outraged).
Sad, but true.