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Terry Childs Found Guilty
A jury in San Francisco found Terry Childs guilty of one felony count of computer tampering. The trial lasted four months. Childs now faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
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Cause they seem to think it's cool to fuck over the administrator protecting them.
Remember that juries are made up of the twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
...holding a city's computer systems random...
Yes, I see where that might be an issue... ;)
Veni, Vidi, Velcro!
No that would be a simple case of bitnapping. You'd have to request some sort of recompense in exchange for releasing / in order for it to be "holding random".
Is there an "irrelevant california douchebag" tag we can apply to stories?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Best way to save yourself is to use "fuckyou" or "ihavenoidea" as the main password.
-"Terry for the 50th time: what is the password?"
-"fuckyou"
-"officer, arrest him."
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Look on the bright side, at least you've still got your 5 digit Slashdot user ID!
I thought Random was quite on point. :P
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
At Idiotcorp, where I work, the password rules kept getting more and more crazy every 3 months when we had to renew them ("your password must now include 5 Cyrillic letters, an Elbonian tone-poem, 2 cave drawings" and a guitar chord) that I finally threw up my hands on total randomness and started including certain well-known curse expressions aimed the corporate IT director, whom I held in higher contempt than the rest of the Idiotcorp douchebags directors.
It's been 2 years without repercussions (haven't been called on the carpet yet), so I guess they really do get hashed. Either that or the guys in IT feel the same way.
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Now this is spooky: My captcha is "audited" (swallows hard, since he's using a different browser than the corporate-mandated virus magnet)
Funnily enough, I actually considered that. Had my daughter log in once a month. B)
"The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive.....death. I'll eat the pie."
Your comment read "Smart people need to get busy" before I expanded it. Much as your idea appeals to me, I am in favor of that idea more.
Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you...
My password policy is similar. If your mother can type it in without breaking into tears/ vomiting in disgust, it's not strong and/or gross enough.
I agree. The government should impanel special juries comprised of Geek Squad technicians and entry-level LAMP developers just so that Slashdotters can be judged by their "peers".
Kinda related but in first aid training we were told never to give first aid to an American because they'll sue you.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Programmers need specs because they don't know how your field of expertise works. Otherwise you get something geared for programmers, not for the kind of person that's supposed to use the software. There are ways to research it but they take a lot of time and can still fail.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.