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First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft
Domain Name News writes "Until recently, there hasn't been a case of a domain theft where the thief was caught and arrested. However, on July 30th, Daniel Goncalves was arrested at his home in Union, New Jersey and charged in a landmark case, the first criminal arrest for domain name theft in the United States. 'Cases of domain name theft have not typically involved a criminal prosecution because of the complexities, financial restraints and sheer time and energy involved. If a domain name is stolen, the victim of the crime in most cases would need experience with the technical and legal intricacies associated with the domain name system. To move the case forward, they would also need a law enforcement professional who understands the case or is willing to take the time to learn. For example, the Angels told us that in their case they called their local law enforcement in Florida who sent a uniformed officer in a squad car to their home. The first thing you can imagine the officer asked was, "What's a domain?"'"
What's truly ironic is that the anti-taser nonsense exposes the real goals of the nutbag/hoplophobic groups.
The American Criminal Liberties Union, National Association for the Ascendancy of Crappy People, New Black Panthers, et al spent an amazing amount of time in the late '90s/early '00s suing police departments across the country, demanding more "nonlethal" weaponry be used by police (because if you draw a gun, you had better be prepared to shoot to kill.)
Thus we wound up with cops carrying pepper spray (useful only at a range of melee combat: bad thought) and then the Taser, which is normally nonlethal unless someone fits certain conditions; sadly, one of those conditions is "hopped up on drugs like cocaine."
Once they'd gotten that concession, however, the anti-police groups weren't done. Now they want to harm the police even further. The goal is to make it impossible for the police to ever do their jobs. Thus, if they taser someone who's trying to start a fight, and that person happens to have a heart condition or turns out to be on drugs that cause the body to mimic one, and it sends them into cardiac arrest or arrhythmia, then the nutbag groups scream bloody murder about how the cops "should have known" and shouldn't have used the taser.
It's all about the fact that they hate the cops. I agree that there are cops out there that are dicks, but the vast majority of cops are incredible people. They do a job that is almost always thankless. They deal with people every day who approach them with incredibly disrespectful attitudes or try to bait them (see: Henry Louis Gates Jr the Racist Professor), merely because they think they can get away with it or because they have authority issues. They deal with working 12-14 hour shifts, because first they have to work their beat time, and then they have to do the paperwork AFTER their patrol hours. They have to deal with the stress of wondering, every time they put on their uniform, "is today the day some drunk/stoned motherfucker pulls a gun and instead of me coming home, it's the police chief/sergeant coming to my door to tell my wife and kids that I'm dead or in the hospital." They walk into every situation wondering if some stupid motherfucker is going to do something stupid that ends in them getting stuck in lawsuit hell. They get paid an incredibly small paycheck for the enormous amount of work they do.
Re-read what I just posted. Now the next time you see a police officer, whether it is because you got pulled over for speeding or just that they happen to be in a store at the same time you are, tell them THANK YOU for doing the job they do.
According to Slashdot in every piracy article, this isn't "theft," because you're not taking anything physical. So I'm confused about the headline. Help me out, Slashdot.
Being the son of both parents being police officers (my Dad is retired) I can point out that everything you said here is extremely true. I can remember the first time my Mom called me while I was at school just to tell me she loved me so much. She called because she was involved in a shooting. I can tell you I am more afraid of my Dad and I getting a visit from the Police Chief, Captain of Patrol, and the shift Sergent at our house to tell us tat something happened to my Mom in the line of duty. Every day she (and when my Dad wore his) puts that uniform on you draw a big target on yourself.
Not only that but the pay is not only crappy but low for what they do. My Mom has to work extra jobs on her time off in order to make enough money to help pay bills. She makes less then 56,000/yr and has been in law enforcement for 17 years. I have been in the work force less then 5 and have no degree and make 45,000/yr. Something majorly wrong with those pictures.
So to all the officers on Slashdot Thanks!