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  • On the post: Judge Decreases Amount Jammie Thomas Owes For File Sharing Again (Yes, Again); Says It's Appalling

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2011 @ 02:16pm

    Re: infringement is not theft

    doh *she not he. :(

  • On the post: Judge Decreases Amount Jammie Thomas Owes For File Sharing Again (Yes, Again); Says It's Appalling

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2011 @ 01:33pm

    infringement is not theft

    "The Court concludes that an award of $1.5 million for stealing and distributing 24 songs for personal use is appalling." I would just like to point out that the judge did make one mistake in his write up. The plaintiff didn't steal anything, he infringed on copyrights.

  • On the post: Re-Inventing The Wheel (For Real)

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2011 @ 09:13am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Because you DID miss it.
    from CommonSense's post above yours
    " to this cool new thing that interests him, and point out that even though it was done before, the creator of this particular project had no previous knowledge of the other projects. It's a clear example of independent invention, and that is all. Time between inventions matter as much as the distance between inventors, which should be not at all."

    No one missed where he said it had already been invented before, all Mike is saying is that they did it both independently.

  • On the post: You Don't Own What You Thought You Bought: Verizon Breaks Phones; Turns Off Feature

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 01:07pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    or maybe they did and they just are putting in the contract (albeit in a bad way) that you are only going to get one public IP.

  • On the post: Definition Of Irony: Deus Ex Leak Spawns Conspiracy Theories

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2011 @ 03:48pm

    Re: Re: Re: Uhh...

    They didn't hack the developers servers, they gained access to a journalists steam account.

  • On the post: Can Google+ Succeed Merely By Being Not Facebook?

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 12:47pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Facebook does offer it

    Really, that would be annoying? My wife has done it and annoyed a lot of her friends cause they can't tag her. Is it possible you turned it off only for some certain subset of your friends list?

  • On the post: Can Google+ Succeed Merely By Being Not Facebook?

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 11:23am

    Re: Re: Facebook does offer it

    You know you can turn off the ability of others to tag you in photos right?

  • On the post: Can Google+ Succeed Merely By Being Not Facebook?

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 11:04am

    Re: Facebook does offer it

    I was going to post the same thing. I have groups for different subject matter, like religious debates that I know make some people uncomfortable, tech talk that makes others eyes glaze over, etc. I have hope for Google+ and would love an invite as I'm a current user of Buzz(though not many of my friends use it) and was hoping that it would take off as I go there all the time to check my mail anyway.

  • On the post: How 'Reasonable Andy' Stopped NPR's Lawyers From Threatening Fan, And Actually Connected With Him

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2011 @ 08:25am

    Re:

    I haven't seen the group but the only thing I can think of that would be reasonable would be if the group was implicating that it was PART of NPR otherwise your absolutely correct hobo.

  • On the post: One Mentally Deranged Shooter Is No Reason To Throw Out The First Amendment

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2011 @ 09:18am

    Daily Show

    If you didn't catch it last night the John Stewart had a great opening piece on this exact issue. Essentially saying the same thing in regards to the hyperbolic discourse.

  • On the post: TSA Defending Its Groin Grabbing Or Naked Image Security Techniques

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2010 @ 03:28pm

    Re:

    Flew out of SLC recently and it was the naked scanner or the full grope. No choice, no random, you either flash someone or get molested.

  • On the post: Time To Stop Being So Fascinated With The Cyber- Part Of Cybercrime

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2010 @ 09:38am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Depends on how you use it.

    "I'll grant that police may use such phrases in certain situations for classification that may have validity "in the trade" as it were,"
    That's exactly the point I'm trying to make.

    "but I'd contend that classification is very definitely not the primary intent in most cases when it is used in a news article or political speech. Education isn't going to sort that out for you.
    News is entertainment and emotions get better ratings than dry fact and politics is a popularity contest and emotions are a very good way of tugging the electorate around."
    That part I'm not debating other than to say I think that is what we need to change, will it be easy, no, but I do think it is necessary to make the fight.

  • On the post: Time To Stop Being So Fascinated With The Cyber- Part Of Cybercrime

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2010 @ 08:41am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Depends on how you use it.

    Okay, all very good points.
    "Both would fall under the artificial bucket "street crime" though, and how is it important to seperate a mugging on the street from a mugging where, for example, the victim is attacked in their own home to the same result?" In this scenario one would probably have home invasion as the charge rather than mugging, unless, it was over the internet that the "mugging" happened. Then it wouldn't be street crime, it wouldn't be a home invasion, it would be a cyber-mugging, in which case your both describing the severity of the crime, as well as the method. While it was wrong, you could argue convincingly i would think that it was less wrong then breaking into someones home and stealing from them, as the personal violation would probably feel considerably less.

    As to your other points I have no doubt that there is a certain emotive content to the word, but like I said before we need to educate that away, not stop using it.

  • On the post: Time To Stop Being So Fascinated With The Cyber- Part Of Cybercrime

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2010 @ 08:30am

    Re:

    That's pretty circular logic. You stated something so therefore what you stated is right? You are incorrect and I'm showing why you are, just like we should be doing with these reporters and politicians that are incorrect. Wow, look at that, my logic isn't even circular.

  • On the post: Time To Stop Being So Fascinated With The Cyber- Part Of Cybercrime

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2010 @ 07:57am

    Re: Re: Depends on how you use it.

    I never suggested it should be used to downplay or up the severity of the crime. It is useful however to limit the type of crime we are talking about. If I go punch a guy in the face and steal his wallet that's a violent crime. If I just steal his wallet that's a non-violent crime. I think it's valuable to know that difference and report on it as violent vs non-violent. It makes it easier for the public to understand what happened, that however doesn't mean it should be abused. Like I said I don't agree with a lot of what is reported with the term "cyber-crime" that doesn't mean it's not a valuable label, it just means we need to educate reporters and politicians. That takes time, any new type of crime is always over-reported at first, and with the advent of the 24-hr news media it's that much worse.

  • On the post: Time To Stop Being So Fascinated With The Cyber- Part Of Cybercrime

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2010 @ 07:35am

    Depends on how you use it.

    I don't particularly care for the term cyber-crime either, but we use other words to describe crime all the time. There is violent crime, street-crime, drug-crime, gun-crime, etc. Cyber-crime is just another definition to limit the type of crime that is being talked about. Do some people get it wrong and use it to describe just about anything that had a computer involved at all? absolutely and those people need to be corrected. That doesn't however mean that the term shouldn't exist.

  • On the post: Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2010 @ 09:40am

    Re: Re:

    Just thought I would let you know when your going on about how you can't secure Windows you might want to link to a story that actually has a compromised windows server. From the article "In just one of the many ironies in this story, the compromised server inside of Microsoft appears to have been running Linux, not one of Microsoft’s server technologies. "
    I also have to contend that you can secure Windows, it just isn't done for the majority of consumers out there.

  • On the post: How The Defense Department And NSA Is Hyping Cyberwar To Better Spy On You

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2010 @ 02:50pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Completely off topic here but thanks for the Marcus Ranum info. Hadn't read his stuff. Looks good.

  • On the post: Visiting Australia? Make Sure You Tell The Customs Officials About The Porn On Your Hard Drive

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2010 @ 09:23am

    Re: Standard Mike avoidance, hiding behind "some people'.. typical...

    From the third article linked in the storie.
    "Australian Sex Party leader Fiona Patten said the measure amounted to an invasion of privacy, and warned that many tourists and even Australians would not know what pornography was illegal.

    "They are still totally confusing," she said of the arrival cards.

    "What is illegal to import to our country is not necessarily illegal to possess," she added."

  • On the post: If Sarah Palin Has Someone Else Doing Her Facebooking, Is She A Criminal?

    IshmaelDS ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2010 @ 12:31pm

    Re:

    Not sure they would be guilty, wouldn't their manager be part of the band? (In a legal sense) It would be the same for corporations that run facebook pages, the person updating it is (hopefully) a member of the organization.

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