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Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System
ceswiedler writes "A disgruntled software engineer has hijacked San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar municipal computer system. When the Department of Technology tried to fire him, he disabled all administrative passwords other than his own. He was taken into custody but has so far refused to provide the password, and the department has yet to regain admin access on their own. They're worried that he or an associate might be able to destroy hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents, including emails, payroll information, and law enforcement documents."
Come on, you all know you were thinking it. ;-)
If you go back and look at when Yoda was first introduced as a character he didn't do that cutesy backwards sentence construction. That came later.
Huh? Have you ever watched Empire Strikes Back (when he was first introduced as a character)? Let me quote you various Yoda phrases from that movie, all of which involve the grammar you say he didn't use:
"Looking? Found someone you have, I would say!" (one of his very first lines, I might add)
"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
"Your father? Powerful Jedi was he!"
"Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not... for my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
"Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is!"
"Anger, fear, aggression... the Dark Side of the Force are they..."
"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will..."
I could go on, but you get the idea. Yoda always used that style of sentence construction.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
going to a disproportionate response is the fault of the one doing the disproportionate response
because we are dealing with human beings
not shark attacks or lightning strikes or animals in cages
don't you think it is condescending and patronizing of you to compare the palestinians to animals in cages?
i see a human being when i look at a palestinian. as such, i expect of them responsibility for their actions, and i grant unto them the freedoms i enjoy
if those freedoms are abridged by someone, then they have a right to respond in the name of justice, but they also have a duty not to be disproportionate
a disproportionate response is never validated or acceptable. ever. to go down a path in your mind justifying a disproportionate response is to leave the path of justice yourself. to leave the path of justice, in the search for justice, is not only logically incoherenty, it is to hobble any sympathy one would have for your cause, and to doom it
if you don't know how the palestinians can have their grievances addressed other than disproportionate violence, then that is a logic failure on your part. i would direct you and them to martin luther king or mahatma gandhi for some guidance
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
If you had an IT Union looking out for your career then you'd be making $25.000 max, and you'd have to go through huge discussions to get a pay raise next year. And if you happen to be better than the next guy then, well, tough sh*t, as he will be making exactly as much as you do.
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
Because it is irrelevant. It has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion, and yet he decided to post it anyway, just out of spite. Maybe troll instead, but still.
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