All protesters must be willing to accept the consequences of breaking the law. Props to this teen. A true blackhat in the making.

If the universities are still going to provide the same bandwidth... they can essentially be the guaranteed seeders; everyone else supplements the system while update manager is goin.

Soon as you weed out applicants you leave yourself with either less skilled or more expensive employees. Any potential damage to your business has to out value that loss. The reality right now with the state of the economy is businesses can be picky.

He found the exploit... he didnt exploit anything. He is thusly not responsible at all. The mischievous users and twitter are the ones responsible.

If you're smart the feds or whoever can only look at the in between. So if your entire com between safehouse -> hq is say ipsec tunnel. The feds are left with simply a frequency factor. That is to say... they cant decrypt coms between alleged talban safehouse and hq... but typically they have only 1-2 connections a day... but suddenly there's 10 on a day. Something's going to happen soon! However if you randomly pipe /dev/urandom for no reason at all. Then they dont even have that. How do you tell the difference between encrypted random data and encrypted data? pretty unlikely.

>Police deny the charges, saying they injure the reputation of Calgary police officers and interfere with an ongoing homicide investigation. Know what... I bet all of 12 people even heard of any of this before. Now people worldwide think Canada, calgary police, and rcmp are the worst kind of scum; who are corrupt and this is their way of trying to get it to go away. They did far more to damage their reputation.

Well the provincial abilities to shut down freedom of speech aside. There are a couple limitations to freedom of speech similar to both countries. Such as libel and slander. The big difference that makes Canada's weaker is that we dont protect public hate speech. While this ends westboro baptists... how long until hate speech against the government is banned? How long until the subjectivity of it...

Many Many industries run like this. Astronaut? Considering the demands and risks it's terrible pay. Airline pilot? You start @ $15,000/yr to average $30,000/yr. There was a plane crash where everyone had died. it happened somewhat recently of your typical airline and someone found out that the pilot and 1st officer were the poorest people on the plane. People on welfare made more then they had. I guess video game industry is the same; which isnt surprising at all. The industries take advantage of the 'cool factor'

The exploit requires user action. So the exploit isnt going to be as bad as it could have been.

That's what he was alluding to. He's trying to draw comparison to saying that your employer reading your personal info is just as wrong and bad as the red-light cameras. Employees being paid to surf the net is wrong sure.. but some jobs you just dont have anything to do sometimes. Therefore you surf the net. http://xkcd.com/303/

There's a 6 month disclosure timing. They likely reported and got paid months ago for these.

I formed my own new ISP. My service was UP TO 500 mbit; it was simple you just got the 56k modem and dialed in. Naturally I charged as if you got the full 500 mbit. Ofcoarse there are unnameable customers who got the full 500mbit. It was just distance sensitive as in you could only get 500mbit if you were connected at the central office.

The court documents are like 1500 pages long. Quick summary: -He was hired just to design and not build. No passwords needed. -They then hired him to build but not maintain. Passwords used were temporary and never production and didnt need to be entered in database. -They slowly and vaguely had him start to maintain while building. There wasnt a point where it was like 'we need your password for database' -He then became the lead maintainer but never had official password policy and was never asked for the password. He goes for years like this. -He gets a new boss who is a power tripping idiot who has no clue. Except he is the boss and should be God of his dominion and demanded child's password. -The boss is denied several times and eventually gets angry and fires him on the spot. Childs contacts union or whatever and gets his job back because it's wrongful dismissal. -Couple months go by and he goes in late night(IT does this too much lol) and finds an unknown woman accessing his secure stuff and she gets treated like a security threat as she is one. -Turns out she was legit but they get real pissed off and start to find a way to get him fired. Typical government worker bullshit. -Battle of the giant ego with tons of power vs douchebag government workers happens and he goes to jail because the cops are retarded and are easily manipulated.

0.3% chance this report isnt selection bias. Only 1000 torrents? Only 23 trackers? Why not 25? Was those extra 2 going to destroy your stats? How about 1 million torrents, taken from a specific date in time; over as many trackers you can find. http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Legal_torrent_sites Omg I did 250,000 torrents and only went to the above link for 29 trackers. New article: Study analyses 29 trackers, more then previously, finds 100% torrents legal.

The 25% figure is only for those who are known bestsellers. If you are a nobody... you are lucky to get $5000 from the publisher total. JK Rowling for the first harry potter book went to tons of different publishers. They all ignored her. One of the publishers was going to ignore her but a daughter had picked up the book and read it and wanted to know how it ended. The publisher decided to pick it up for $4000 and that's it. The first harry potter book has made about a $1,000,000,000 and JKRowling hasnt seen a dime beyond that original $4000. Publishers are making fucking loads of cash with no risk. That's why kindle ebooks and services like lulu are so much better because you are the author retain the copyright the entire time. Not to mention the 75%-80% author profits. Publishers are losing out on their bullshit.