It sounds to me like the system is already being DOSed, but from the inside. Locating and capturing one guy produced 13,000 separate case files?

The lesson every government agency will take from this is that each action, investigation, or report, no matter how petty or inconsequential, should somehow involve generating enormous tomes worth of documentation. Attach a reference to the entire United States Code to every case file, for example; some part of it must be pertinent. Then anytime anyone files any FOIA request, no matter how narrow or mundane it is, the cost-satisfy burden will simply be too high to meet.

During the webcast, the product manager for Falcon kept referring to a telemetry problem on the SpaceX side that they needed to resolve before T -2:00. Somewhere around T -8:00, reports started showing up online that there was also an issue with the AF radar. The webcast never clarified what the telemetry issue was. Elon mentioned a "1st stage video transmitter (not needed for launch, but nice to have)." It sure sounded like they intended to scrub the launch if they hadn't fixed the telemetry problem by T -2:00, so either the video transmitter really was needed, or they had another problem.

Here you are. Don't be offended if I don't wait for you to finish reading, it's going to take you a long while.

I bought computers with the ability to infringe copyright (which is illegal), make unauthorized connections to and/or deny service to other computer systems (which is illegal), utter forged instruments (which is illegal), and they can do a lot of other illegal things too.

My computers' operating systems have evolved over the years to enforce various DRM, Windows in particular has some socket limitations by default, most image software and printer/scanner drivers use the eurion constellation so I can't scan and print $100 bills. I accepted these things by choice because I don't feel like they deprive me of any functionality that I would use.

In other words, even if he gets his car "upgraded" to disable a feature that he paid for, he can still do essentially the same thing? Why get the "upgrade" and remove a paid-for feature, then? As I mentioned and you reiterated, there are police to take care of unlawful operation of his vehicle's features.

Heh. I bought a car with the ability to go 120MPH, and I know it will do at least 100MPH (erm, according to what the speedometer claims that is, of course I've never ever tested that personally...). That speed is not legal in any jurisdiction in the United States. Should it be okay if the next time I go in for an oil change, they install a governor that stops my car from going over 75? Fuck no, and if that became some sort of mandatory thing, I'd start changing my own oil.

"You might do something illegal with that!" is never a valid reason to take something away from someone.

If he's operating his headlights in an unlawful manner, there are police who can deal with that. He bought a car with feature X, he should be able to keep that feature.

To use a computer analogy in a car thread, imagine that due to piracy, a law was passed stating that computers can no longer play video and that any PCs coming in for repair must have their video capabilities disabled. Are you going to take your PC straight to Geek Squad the next time they send you a flyer in the mail, or are you going to null route the update servers for your OS and keep using the feature you paid for?

It's still required by law that the W2 be mailed out, so that's where the payroll company's name (or a ten-digit identifier that's also supplied to the IRS, or any of a number of other security features) could go. For what it's worth, I'm 35 and will always request paper paychecks as long as they're an option.

There are numerous spiders slurping up the entire public corpus of Pastebin. You can observe this by creating a new public paste. Check it 24, 48, 72 hours later and watch as the view count increments. Their recently added pastes list is heavily mined, and who knows who's saving it all. I doubt the "private" pastes are much more secure.

And with good reason; this story is yet another confirmation that they are out to get us. I wish everyone would be as paranoid as "gun nuts."

Except the article specifically mentions multiple legal commercial uses. Television news broadcasts can use clips of the game during their sports reporting, without the NFL's permission; grocery stores can have a Super Bowl sale on hot wings and Doritos, without the NFL's permission.

Doesn't this describe just about every 12-year-old in a first world country? Knowing how to use Facebook and Instagram is hardly the hallmark of "incredible capability" on the internet.

"Big Data" is like sex in high school. Nobody really knows for sure how to do it properly, but everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone says they're doing it, too.

I'm pretty sure I recall reading that most of Lizard Squad's botnet, the one used to attack PSN and XBL, is comprised of rooted routers.

Thanks, that explains everything nicely.

We had that in the US for awhile. I remember when my city was serviced by Time Warner Cable and their RoadRunner internet service. At one point, Time Warner was forced to offer competitors the ability to sell cable modem service. Earthlink and AOL entered the market. As a RoadRunner customer, I could fire up a sniffer and see all the .earthlink.net and .aolbroadband.com ARP traffic flying past; all three vendors were sharing the same coax, and it was working just fine. I don't recall quite what happened, but that arrangement didn't last very long, I don't think a year had transpired before ELN and AOL were booted back off the pipes.

Is there a preference or a killbit to block McAfee from hitching a ride? Java's installer lets you set a registry key to suppress the Ask.com toolbar offer from appearing, would be nice to see something similar for Flash.