Re: What about the solicitor?
Fined? How about investigated for professional misconduct?
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Goes back to at least the mid 1940s. Feynman needed to get a paper out of one of a set of combination safes, but the person in charge wasn't there.
Knowing that person was a mathematician, Feynman tried a few obvious things. The safe opened to 'e' to six places.
He checked the other safes. They all opened to the same code.
The content of these safes was a complete duplicate set of all papers for the Manhattan Project. From 'First mine your Uranium' to 'Light the blue touch paper and RUN AWAY'.
He took a piece of paper, wrote 'Guess Who' on it, put it in the safe and locked the door again.
What made the Apple II a hit was not replacing cartridge game machines - others could do that.
What made it a hit in the first place, and distinguished it from the hundreds of other machines around at the time, was that it was the only machine that would run Visicalc, the first spreadsheet.
This was an utter game changer for accountants (who are the people who decide where the money is spent). They used to draw up accounts by hand - and redo the whole thing every time something changed, or was missed out, or was deleted.
If you showed an accountant Visicalc and then stood between him and the nearest computer store, you would have an accountant-shaped hole clear through you.
After that, a company that needed a computer would already have Apple IIs and experience with them.
Quite - any company that is that terrified of reports on their product must be themselves convinced that their product is of very bad quality compared to those of their competitors.
Why would you buy from Atlantis Computing when Atlantis Computing reckon their products are dire?
My understanding of Starwisp is that, being driven by masers, they would sent a slug of maser (radio) energy to meet it at the target star. That would be used to power up the circuitry to make observations, and also to power the return signal.
Starwisp is not a single postage stamp-sized chip, it's a mesh of wires with electronic nodes at the intersections. So it has a wide area for making optical observations, and for shaping the return beam.
require anyone who makes or programs a communications product in the US to provide law enforcement with any data they request in an "intelligible format,"
They had better rephrase that, it reads as that they must break any encryption which the user has applied to the message before sending it.
So if I encrypt a message with a one-time-pad created with a true random number generator, then I send the message and I destroy the pad, they must break that encryption. Good luck with that!
"innocent until proven guilty" implies you're accused of breaking a law.
Cameron has specifically said that this doesn't apply any more.
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'”
Many people have been arrested after they took their computer in for repair and criminal-level porn was found.
The (mostly) blokes who do the repairs do have a tendency to search for *.jpg to see if there's anything juicy that they can copy off. Not all of them, but enough that assuming they won't is a very bad idea.
Install GWX Control Panel to clear out all the settings and files automatically and to watch for attempts to reinstall them.
"Why don't the directors pick up the fine when a company has behaved unlawfully."
You mean these people?
Head-on collision with the cab window is not exactly something you'd want to try, however strong the window is.
But greater problem - if the drone owners think flying near enough to a train to collide with it is OK just because they wanted a close look, what happens when they spot an interesting looking car doing 70 on a crowded motorway? That could easily cause a multi-vehicle pile-up.
"Under the current wording, data access will also be allowed if it is in the "economic well-being" of the country."
I.e. the economic well-being of the big companies. So this authorises any amount of spying on Trade Unions. And on anyone who wants to change the way the capitalist system runs, such as reducing or even slowing down the economic inequality that lets the 1% own most of the country. Or anyone who objects to TTIP. Anyone who objects to the government stealing the crutches from cripples by cutting disability benefit.
Or basically anyone who inconveniences the super-rich in getting richer.
Hey, we've set up this great payment scheme where with a few pieces of information about someone we can set up a payment from them without them needing to actually be present or sign anything or give any form of verifiable authorisation!
What? Someone used it for fraud? Who could have predicted that?
Well, it isn't all spent on that. The main purpose is of course gigantic profits for the arms firms. But there's also the massive payoffs to make sure that the politicians keep voting them the funds, the attacks on anyone who objects, and of course the critically important bribes and propaganda to make sure that there's always at least one war somewhere to test out the new toys, to use them up so that replacements have to be bought, and to show the public that all that defence money really is needed.
Did they try the usual method for rings stuck on fingers? Pass the end of a piece of string under the ring, then wrap it all the way down, then unwrap from the top sliding the ring along as you do.
A penis is presumably more compressible than a finger since there's no bone.
The tech companies have always made it clear that they will cooperate with law enforcement demands for access, on condition that:
1> It is a proper legal demand with all required signed warrants, not a random fishing expedition.
2> It is possible for them to do - to break the encryption on that one message.
3> It does not open the door to decryption of everybody else's messages without proper judicial oversight.
If the French are not satisfied with that then it directly implies that they are intending to break at least one of those conditions. Would they like to publicly declare which one?
"Whittingdale said the changes would be hurried through via secondary legislation"
Thus avoiding proper parliamentary scrutiny to take out the most blatant of the problems in the hastily-written legislation.
"those who enjoy Sherlock or Bake Off"
And are too clueless to type 'Sherlock torrent' into Google.
Though they started as Caldera selling Linux long ago
Soon a huge volcanic crater will be all that's left of SCO
So you want Obama to interfere? To use his presidential power to force companies to pay higher wages?
And that will satisfy the people like you who blame everything on Obama? The people who complain that he is overusing his powers (by using them far less than other presidents)? That he is a nasty socialist who is undermining America by doing things like expecting better conditions for workers?
Well there's no need to worry about whether or not the outsourcers are competent or not. They've included Atos - the people who certified people on the point of death as fit for work. They know for certain the outsourcers are not competent!
Also shows their opinion of the general public, that they'll give more work to those buggers.
"And the basis for impugning Chris Vickery's motives are, aside from a desire to misdirect the attention of observers, what, exactly?"
Security researchers are less likely to check out that site, find problems, and report them. And if nobody reports problems that proves that there are no problems, doesn't it?