As much as the FTC deserves an "A" for effort, however, the timeline of the case is an excellent example of how poorly equipped the government is when it comes to addressing this type of problem. The brief states that RemoteSpy has been available since "at least August 2005.
It hardly seems worth the effort if this time frame is typical. You'd hope any spyware scanner worth using would have picked it up 20x faster.
Am I going to be the only one who asks the obvious? Why should he be allowed to record the movie?
He shouldn't. The reason it's YRO is more concern over how far this will go. The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association was pushing for jail time for this.
People have been arrested before for recording under 1min clips on camera phones. Banning someone from operating any recording devices outside their home is a little odd as well.
The house lights were turned on and the movie was shut off and Calgary police arrested him.
I'm sure all their paying customers enjoyed this. Way to encourage honest people to buy your product.
... his own.
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Agreed. Single-factor authentication based on something that's not reissuable is a recipe for failure.
Eventually people will run out of non-compromised fingers
Makes you wonder what else can be discerned from the pattern of blood vessels and other scan information.
Can't let all that valuable information go to waste, can we?
Hopefully this is the last story before we start with "Stupid pet tricks"
Seeing as this is about emacs tricks, everything else is a subset. Including pet tricks.
Don't get me wrong: Emacs is a great operating system -- it lacks a good editor, though.
Doesn't that violate the TOS?
I'm sure Blizzard would love to have a higher level of AI for its npcs. It would give the players something to aspire to.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson
