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Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network
samzenpus writes "A 27-year-old man serving six years for stealing £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet was recruited to help write code needed for the installation of an internal prison TV station. He was left unguarded with unfettered access to the system and produced results that anyone but prison officials could have guessed. He installed a series of passwords on all the machines, shutting down the entire prison computer system. A prison source said, 'It's unbelievable that a criminal convicted of cyber-crime was allowed uncontrolled access to the hard drive. He set up such an elaborate array of passwords it took a specialist company to get it working.'"
Is it just me or is there a lot of Troll/Flamebait moderating going on lately about things that are not quite a majority opinion? I suspect someone doesn't like me much, too, as I'm getting modded Troll days after having been modded Insightful or some such. And I'm not the only one.
Anyone else get the same vibes?
Who has more ethics, the asshole gassing the Kurds or the asshole that bombs the asshole gassing the Kurds (regardless of the reason)?
Huh? There was no "asshole gassing the Kurds". There was an "asshole who gassed the Kurds over a decade previously".
I mean, you aren't seriously trying to imply that GWB's actions were an attempt to prevent/stop an attack that happened back in 1988, are you? Because I'm pretty sure that asshole didn't have time travel technology.
Nooo, not at all. We just have a "community organizer", not stupid at all, nooooo /sarcasm
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Blame it on years of us frothing-at-the-mouth liberals trying to explain rationally all the factors of complex foreign policy to batsh*t crazy conservatives who only look at the world in terms of black and white and get their information from Fox News as opposed to actually reading books on the subject.
Your point is irrelevant for two reasons:
1) I was really making a reference to marijuana, which is most certainly less harmful than LSD, cocaine, meth, alcohol, and even tobacco, yet for some reason is illegal even though alcohol and tobacco, which are physically addictive and cost our society enormous amounts of money, are completely legal.
2) All of these things are things which don't hurt anyone except the user (secondhand smoke aside, and assuming you have laws against DUI), so even if they are harmful, that's no reason to ban them. Alcohol is very very harmful for many reasons (including DUI, which though illegal still happens a lot), but it remains legal, so the harmfulness angle is BS because they're not consistent with it.
As for vitalism, sorry, I don't buy that.