The Trial of Terry Childs Begins

snydeq writes "Opening arguments were heard today in the trial against IT admin Terry Childs, who was arrested 18 months ago for refusing to hand over passwords to the San Francisco city network. InfoWorld's Paul Venezia, who has been following the case from the start, speculates that the 18-month wait is due to the fact that 'the DA has done no homework on the technical issues in play here and is instead more than willing to use the Frankenstein offense: It's different, so it must be killed.' On the other hand, the city — which has held Childs on $5 million bail despite having already dropped three of the four charges against him — may have finally figured out 'just how ridiculous the whole scenario is but is too far down the line to pull back the reins and is continuing with the prosecution just to save face,' Venezia writes. The trial is expected to last until mid-March. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, to whom Childs eventually gave the city's network passwords, will be included in the roster of those who will testify in the case — one that could put all admins in danger should Childs be found guilty of tampering."

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Everyone Just Settle Down

[Anonymous Coward]

everyone just settle down and find a nice, hot, tight, wet vagina to have fun with tonight. Forget about Terry Childs and think about your own Childs to make.

liars touts & shills, oh my

[Anonymous Coward]

mynuts won; way out of line, trolling for spirits

the head in the sand approach to consideration for others/the future is definitely going to be costly/fatal for many.

water will be the next 'commodity' used to control our behaviours, as we suffocate ourselves. it's not hard to figure which will be the next 'hot commodity' after our water.

meanwhile, go jump into your CO factory & go for a spin. you may be right in that it may not matter anymore. we've heard though, that where there's life, there's hope.

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there is absolutely nowhere left to hide.

this post was deleted from earlier storIEs.

tubgirNl

[Anonymous Coward]

and other party tRut4, for all

there exists in this world

[circletimessquare]

brittle dim minds and supple brilliant minds (and a continuum in between)

i have found that if a lack of capital letters creates enough mental static for someone to find it difficult to read my posts, then they are probably of the brittle mind category. and so i do not wish to speak to such a person anyways, since brittle minds do not have much substance to offer me in regards to the actual intellectual composition of their comments (as opposed to empty stylistic flourishes)

so using only lowercase letters results in a convenient filter that serves simple minds as well as myself. simple minds: they avoid me, because its too much mental noise for them to plow through my unusual writing convention. meanwhile, anyone who does not have difficulty with a novel writing style (due to their mental flexibility) is also someone who tends to have more interesting replies to my comments (due to that same mental flexibility). such minds tend to react honestly to the actual intellectual ideas i am trying to convey, and tend not to spin conversations off into pointless ideological posturing... empty style

in this way, due to my unconventional writing style, i tend to be able to interact with more quality minds

for example, i don't consider you a simple mind: you read my comment, understood it, and replied thoughtfully and honestly. you didn't seem to have any difficulty in this regard. so now all you have to do is let go of your ill placed respect for people whose minds are not as flexible as yours

all you will lose is empty chatter signifying nothing useful to you from subpar minds. that they get hung up on empty stylistic convention is the social cue you need to gain insight into the quality of the mind you are dealing with

someone who has nothing of intellectual novelty and substance to offer you is also usually someone who doesn't have the ability or inclination to plow through a little novelty of writing style

Re:there exists in this world

[jo_ham]

So which is it? Do you deliberately ignore grammar rules because you think it's "a useless convention" or to "filter out brittle minds"?

What happened to ignoring capitals being the measure of a superior writing system? Now suddenly you've instead claimed it is a "simple minds filter" to weed out people unworthy of attempting to read your words. It's interesting that you correlate a simple mind with one that has to put in a little more effort than usual to read a passage of text. It's not about understanding the content, it's about the way the brain works when it reads ahead. The capital letters do serve a purpose that you are ignoring.

I personally think it's because you're lazy and the whole "breaking with useless convention" angle is just an excuse.

Novelty in writing style is all well and good when done properly, but don't try to claim that's why you do it. Novelty in writing style is something like Portrait of the Artist by Joyce, which changes substantially as the book goes on to the point where it becomes like treacle by the end, or sticking to an iambic pentameter (love or hate either, they're merely examples). It's not just choosing to ignore capital letters. There's no novelty in that whatsoever; if I wanted to read prose with no capital letters I'd just browse livejournal or facebook for half an hour.

Again you come back to the point that people who obey the rules of grammar have nothing to offer. I beg to differ, and would not necessarily claim the opposite (since it it clear that even illiterate people can be remarkably smart).

It boils down to people judging your content based on your laziness with grammar.

Re:there exists in this world

[Falconhell]

Crap CTS, you are simply lazy.

We all know it and your pathetic excuses for your incomptence frankly are ridiculous.

Grow up and learn to write properly, and more people might read your posts

i don't know anonymous coward, why?

[circletimessquare]

tell me all about hurling insults from a position of anonymity and what that has to do with being an antisocial ass. i'm fascinated

Re:All admins

[DJRumpy]

See this for info on Nuremberg and the "just following orders" defense:

http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/militarylaw1/a/obeyingorders.htm

Re:Childs should get twenty years

[jcoy42]

> Help me get excellent karma, I promise to always use it positively.

FYI: this mindset is probably why you don't (yet) have excellent karma.

If I could dig it up to link to it I would, but I have seen a person rip me a new one and when I accused them of simply blathering easy answers to jack up their karma the reply was a plain and simple "I couldn't care less about my karma, I'm saying you're wrong because I think you're wrong. And just to prove I don't care about it I'll just say Linux sux, MicroSoft is God, and here's a goatse link", which he did link.

And it was modded +5 insightful.