this only works if the user knows for a fact that say, cocacola isn't running some sort of viral internet ad campaign as goatse.cx.. it could be animated animals with the new coke X for all people know.

perhaps a better method might be to have the scanner software "cloud based"(wooo buzz words!) and server side pull a thumbnail of the site to be displayed.

sure you get goatse'd.. but you don't get ZOMG I GAWTS YER UDID!!!111'd

which is why it's fun! caution to the wind, drink until your eyes bleed and light things on fire!
it's what the 4th of july used to be until someone decided a sparkler was a danger to humanity.

and these documents are from a perpetual "war on cold" ha ha, but seriously. the rooski's were our "enemies" for a lot longer than terrorists have been.

once you get into the realm of confiscation the whole things falls apart.. maybe a "you aren't allowed on the intarwebs" type ruling.. though today that would be pretty much un-enforcable.

Of course in this case.. it's also not like the guy didn't KNOW it was stolen goods. He freely admitted it. Down side there is you either have copyright laws.. or corporate espionage to deal with. he didn't steal it, but he received with the intent to distribute. But you have to look at the culture you're fighting with these laws. Sadly, the internet culture doesn't seem to care about people "being made example of" which is why we have escalated to crap like SOAP and the ip act.

if it's between those, and some uploader getting a year in jail.. for the love of the spaghetti monster give the guy a year!

i think the logic would be more akin to the guy who bought your stereo from the guy who bought your stereo, from the guy who bought your stolen stereo from the guy who broke into your house and took your stereo, shouldn't be held responsible for breaking into your house.

while I don't think we need more nanny laws (increase fines when i do something stupid and have the cell phone in my ear and my seat belt whipping in the wind) a person in the car has a specific need to shut the hell up and not bother you when you're suddenly dodging burning barrels and zombies. the person on the phone not so much.

internet toughbot? ha ha

except you can get to the same result with a different purpose or end number.
sort of like saying you can't patent a new type of car because it's just the sum of it's parts.

there IS space for software patents.
there isn't space for component software patents.
sure patent MS office, trademark the "look and feel", but don't patent the "ribbon" that is like "patenting" the sound of a harley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007#Patenting_controversy

republican candidates, democratic candidates.. all the same, MADE IN TIAWAN!

I've often wondered why there isn't a proper setup here.
I mean why are they connected?
if not
why can people access them directly?

I mean.. you can whitelist traffic instead of blacklisting.. you KNOW what is supposed to happen between the "critical side" and it's controller machine.. block anything that doesn't fit that mold.. done

as an override have a terminal that connects to the control box with a door that sets off every siren in the world when opened. basically saying, something went horribly wrong.

true
iphones fail slightly more often than blackberries in my organization.. and are broken/"lost" FAR more often.
apple laptops are great.. for consumers, once you make a corporate image and strip out all of that crap that makes "it just work" (file sharing, web servers, the basic "consumer facing junk" that is called bloatware if it's on a dell) it has the same random lockups and freezes as a corporate windows machine. though failure is less common, it is MUCH more spectacular.. generally total loss, hope you were using your network drive sort of failure.

you know.. i prefer to think it was because he was a douche... but if he wasn't, this is probably the best answer I've ever seen.

I think a better study would be the "feature gap" of those updates.

though software just not being updated is, from a security perspective, terrible, which sadly puts the iphone in a more secure arena than any android device..

with the iphone there are always little things that don't get enabled with the update if you don't have the newest hardware. Hopefully ICS will pave the way for this same manner of thinking in the android world. though looking at "the list" of equipment that will be getting it, it's looking like that idea is catching on like pogs.

reelection, cash income from "security companies", reelection (and/or stock market boost for retail companies)

my only worry is the problems I've heard about earthquakes near these things.. i mean sure.. you can power a city, but if it falls over every 2 years because of the increase in activity.. then what?