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Thief Posts His Photo To Facebook Victim's Account
An anonymous reader writes "Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher discovered his house had been burgled; money, a winter coat, an iPod and his son's laptop were stolen. Imagine his surprise when Facebook friends of his 15-year-old son reported that a photo of the apparent thief, wearing Fisher's coat and holding a wad of notes, had been uploaded to his son's Facebook account. How addicted do you have to be to a social network to post a status update and upload your photo *while* you're burgling someone's house?"
There was a /. story a few months ago about a burglar who got busted because he used the victim's PC to check his FB status. But it is a new level of stupidity (arrogance? weirdness?) to go ahead and post a pic of yourself.
What's next, posting to the victim's wall before you break in? Maybe to the police's wall too?
It's not all about the bling yo!
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Wow, I feel totally out of it. Someone who looks like (posing with cash and handsign) that is doing facebook and I don't. On the other hand, the geeks have won if computing has become so pervasive.
nuff said
I'm sure that this fine upstanding young man was just doing it to show off and demonstrate that he was powerful. Marking his turf. Kind of like when my wife's chihuahua pisses around the house. The funny thing is that the chihuahua has more class than this looser.
"It seems that we are at the age where life stops giving us things, and starts taking them away..." Indiana Jones
I almost have to believe that someone put this theif up to the stunt. "Prove you got what it takes to be one of us." or some other "making your bones" testing of the new guy. "Do this, get caught, don't rat and we will have bigger and better things for you afterwards." Or maybe he just missed someone in jail that he really wanted to spend the holidays with. There is deifinately some unique logic at work here.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's enough green to put some spinner hubcaps on the 'ol 1998 Accord Sedan.
will some post his MUG shot as well?
So I am guessing the next pic will be of Ben Stein. Must have been a very large 15yr old, because the jacket fits Shaq o' so well. Lol
I'll find you! ...oh well, it was probably nothing.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
If this guy manages to successfully breed then Darwin might have been wrong but I think it also would weigh against "intelligent design".
This fool will outbreed you. And make you pay for it.
This fool will outbreed you. And make you pay for it.
And that, my friends, is the welfare state in a nutshell.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
From the fine article:
The good news, of course, is that no one was hurt, and virtually everything the burglar took is replaceable. One exception: On my son's computer, but never backed up, was one of the greatest documents ever, something he would have cherished all his life. He had meticulously kept a running list of every movie he had ever seen, hundreds and hundreds, with his comments on each. It's gone -- a reminder of the new reality that computers and Facebook have created, a world in which a document meant to last a lifetime can disappear in an instant, and a photograph meant as an impulsive gloat lives forever.
How is it that someone has a laptop where important files (files other than the OS and apps that can be re-installed from original media) aren't backed-up to removable media or a service like Carbonite, Mozy, etc.? This isn't 1995 when "backup" meant inserting and removing multiple 1.44MB floppies.
"The Freeze ray needs work. I also need to be a little more careful about what I say on this blog. Apparently the LAPD and Captain Hammer are among our viewers. . ."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
when this guy gets caught he'll probably end up on Letterman's show.
There was an article a while back that talked about how groups of people track down someone... http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/0253253/Chinas-Human-Flesh-Search-Engine?from=rss
and why Darwin should be invoked.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Too bad they seem to be in his brain, instead of the regular place.
How is it that someone has a laptop where important files aren't backed up...
People don't think about backups. I actually like Windows 7's backup nag... i think that's probably gotten more backups done than anything anyone else has done in the history of computers.
Because he's a 15 year old? Seriously, not everyone is a data hoarder. Removable media is no more safe a backup. A subscription based service isn't exactly what people want to do either. Nobody thinks "i need to back this file up" just as people wouldn't think they need multiple copies of important paper documents. Myself, I use Google Docs to back up personal documents. This is something I picked up from years of experience. In no way is practices like this considered common knowledge. Give the kid a break.
Removable media is no more safe a backup.
Keeping two up-to-date copies is always more safe than having just one, regardless of what sort of media it’s stored on. If there’s even a chance of reading it back off, it’s better than not having it at all.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
was one of the greatest documents ever, something he would have cherished all his life. He had meticulously kept a running list of every movie he had ever seen, hundreds and hundreds, with his comments on each.
If you cherish this your whole life, you have no life.
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That's enough green to put some spinner hubcaps on the 'ol 1998 Accord Sedan.
Not in my area, here it would be the amount required for them to put a down payment on a set of rent to own spinners. After which they then go to the local check into cash or title loan and put up the title of the car they just put the spinners on to make the next payment on the rims.
Amazing the number of cars in my area where the rims cost more than the car they are on, and the driver is making payments on both.
"Curiouser and Curiouser...." -Alice
WTF... welfare state? Burglary falls strictly under the category of individual enterprise, I'm afraid.
Read more closely, were not talking about burglary at this point.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
The welfare state only enables them 9 instead of 7 children vs. your 2 or 3.
You missed the part about “And make you pay for it”.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
You see this all the time where I work (tech support for a small university): when people don't back stuff up, it's the computer's fault for not being a stone tablet keep in a salt-cavern in Siberia. If his son had been keeping a notebook with said list in it, the loss of that notebook to fire or water wouldn't be "a reminder of a new reality where paper and ink are no match for the whims of nature." People need to realize that expecting your computer never to be lost or to break is as unrealistic as, if not more so than, expecting a sheet of looseleaf to do the same.
The media it is stored on doesn't mean anything to the information itself. Backing it up on a home server or a cloud service are my recommended practices. No where did I say that backing up isn't a good idea. I only say that removable media is a volatile approach to backing up and subscription services aren't worth the money since there are free alternatives.
Also, did I mention this kid is a kid? You don't berate someone inexperienced for not knowing best practices. You encourage them to learn from those mistakes. Backing data up doesn't occur to most people, let alone a teenager on facebook, as being important.
No where did I say that backing up isn't a good idea. I only say that removable media is a volatile approach to backing up
Perhaps volatile, but still a perfectly good backup unless you’re expecting it to have a shelf life of years.
Also, did I mention this kid is a kid? You don't berate someone inexperienced for not knowing best practices. You encourage them to learn from those mistakes. Backing data up doesn't occur to most people, let alone a teenager on facebook, as being important.
And luckily all he lost in this learning experience was just a silly list of movies anyway, not really anything that’s truly valuable.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
I happen to disagree entirely.
Not because I feel much sympathy for thieves... believe it or not, I have been robbed. In fact, some barbarian got into my car, went through the glove box, and stole my GPS, just last weekend. Not to mention the time my old apartment got broken into and laptop stolen, or the few other times I have been taken, robbed, etc. Hell about 10 years ago I was a drug dealer for all of 2 weeks.... got shut down and put out of business by a box that was supposed to be filled with weed, and instead ended up being the most expensive pack of marshmallows that I ever bought.
So why would I not be in favor of just killing them? Well... I have a friend who used to be a thief. He stole cars, he did all manner of bad things. What does he do now? Well... he spent the past 15 years turning his life around. He has been working as a professional Carpenter for almost 8 years before an unfortunate accident with a saw sent him home and back to school. (and showed him and all our friends that insurance companies can be bigger crooks than outright thieves.... seriously... the games they play are downright abusive)
People grow up, people change. Killing one doesn't stop the next one, its not even a particularly good deterrent (actually severity of punishment is easy to show is not a good deterrent) on the other hand, increasing the likelyhood of being caught, even with relatively minor punishment, turns out to be a far more effective deterrent. (lojack is more effective, for example, than long jail sentences at reducing theft rates).
So.... in the end, harsh punishments are really just petty attempts to make the victim FEEL better. They don't really lessen crime rates. Which makes them perfect for justification of increasing budgets.... a bureaucratic wet dream... an ineffective and expensive remedy that people like, and keep coming back for.... it is political crack.
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
AC said hubcaps, not rims. Hubcaps are those things you put over the standard steel rim that comes on the base model cars.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
You, Sir, need to get out of your basement and mingle with the average computer user more often. We've got billion dollar social networks based on airing your humilitation.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
You're assuming that whenever the rest of us suffers misfortune at the hand of another person, we want their entire demographic obliterated. Thankfully, not many people think like you.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Nothing like a Black or Mexican mugshot to bring out the AC epithets. I'll miss the legitimate AC comments unfortunately...
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Don't buy your computers at BestBuy. Dell and HP allow you to select to have your media shipped with the computer, totally worth the $5 charge.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Eh? I'll take burgled over burglarize.
Backups are something people just forget. Computers are generally pretty reliable these days and that fools people in to thinking they are totally reliable. They won't want to bother with backups. "Too much work," or whatever. Stays that way up until they get nailed with data loss. Then they cry about how precious their data was and so on.
We fight with this shit at work all the time. We have some high quality central storage. redundant NetApps, backed up to LTO, rotated out to a vault. The kind of that that is high availability and high reliability, designed to survive even if our building was leveled because there is data that would still matter then. Well it is limited, of course, because it is expensive. Everyone gets 10GB by default and can buy more (I work for a university so research groups pay from grants).
Well since they can't store everything on it many people store nothing on it. Too inconvenient to think about what they really need. They also then bitch as to why do we charge a couple bucks a gig when they can get a 1TB HDD for less than $100.
Then they lose a drive and whine and scream and cry about how we have, HAVE to recover their data because it is to important and they really need it and so on. They get all huffy that it wasn't "automatic" and basically in defensive mode since they know they fucked up but won't admit it.
Only after a crisis do people start to understand backups it seems.
Someone here at work had his laptop stolen. It had CompuTrace on it. We hadn't activated it, but since it was corporate (well University but they treat us the same) they were willing and able to do it remotely upon proper authorization. They did so and started to track the laptop. They and we worked with the police on this.
It was not fast, the cops didn't grab their guns and rush out, but after a month or two, they were ready, they'd gotten what they needed, done what they needed, whatever. They had Computrace tighten the tracking period to 15 minutes, got information from the ISP, and raided the house. Arrested a guy and girl with a lot of stolen goods.
More months went by for other shit related to the case, and then, finally, we got the laptop back.
It wasn't fast, it wasn't flash justice, but they did their job. The reason was that there was actually information to go on. Computrace, and our sworn statement, could give them the information they needed for a subpoena and a warrant, and Computrace plus the information subpoena'd from the ISP could give them a place to serve the warrant.
Had we not had that, had our call just been "Someone stole the laptop," they would have taken a report but done nothing else because what else could they do? There is no information to go on.
Actually, I think that's only a single hundred. Folded funny, though.
Killing one doesn't stop the next one, its not even a particularly good deterrent (actually severity of punishment is easy to show is not a good deterrent) on the other hand, increasing the likelyhood of being caught, even with relatively minor punishment, turns out to be a far more effective deterrent. (lojack is more effective, for example, than long jail sentences at reducing theft rates).
[citation needed]. The problem with every study about crime deterrent is that almost everyone who writes about it is so politicized, either left or right.
I have absolutely no idea whether some kind of punishment is a good deterrent or not. There's only one certainty, dead people don't commit crimes, so I support the death penalty for heinous crimes.
Other than that, is it better to have stiffer punishment or to increase the likelihood of getting caught? I don't know, so let's have both.
harsh punishments are really just petty attempts to make the victim FEEL better.
Well, if something makes the victim FEEL better, why not? Do you have anything against the victim?
I would honestly guess that he didn't vote.
Citation would be where I read about this was "More Sex is Safer Sex" by some economist whose name could easily be looked up from that. (its friday man). I believe that he devoted a whole chapter to LoJack.
While its true that dead people don't commit crimes, the courts don't always punish the right person. Several people have been put to death for "heinous crimes" that it was later shown that they did not commit.
Also, as I said, people change. I have heard it noted, a few times, by people who have studied or interviewed death row inmates who have said that it seemed like many of these people had changed significantly from when they comited their crime (often many years ago) and, by the time they were executed, didn't seem like a real danger to anyone.
Don't get me wrong, there are really broken people out there. I don't think anyone is going to be rehabilitating serial rapist/killers. There probably are a, very few, that will never be ok to be released to the public again... but, so few that whats the harm of just housing them forever in a jail? (give them a rope or something... I do believe suicide should be considered a right... if they choose to die thats another story) In terms of the HUGE cost of running prison systems, I doubt the difference here is more than.... fractions of a penny on the hundred dollars.
As for making the victim FEEL better... why not? I ask why? You don't know that what you do will definitely make them feel better. How about, all this "justice" is expensive. You don't get everything you want. Actually.... I have a better example.....
I know that some things would make me feel better. I would like to see political crimes get the death penalty. I rant and rave all the time about what groups of people should be curb stomped/swinging above the ground/etc.... but... if this organization wants to earn (still waiting) the right to have me call them "my government" then I don't want them to be acting in the impuslive ways that I do, I want them to be better and more reasoned, and not so quick to jump to outlandish and draconian ideas like an individual (even myself) would.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
The problem with the apparent disconnect between severe/harsh punishmet and deterrence is the delay between the act and the punishment. This is more or less mandated by the idea of a fair trial, the incredible backlog in the court system and the prosecution ability to schedule the trial after forcing the defendant to sit in jail for years.
Back in the 1800s and earlier there was a lot less foofaraw between a criminal act and the punishment. A thief was seen leaving the scene of the crime and 30 minutes later was in the stocks or being whipped. This acted as much more of a deterrent. Similarly, while some folks did get away with crime today we have a conviction rate of less than 20% for many crimes. If you kill someone your actual chances of being convicted and going to prison is rather small - unless you arrogantly brag about it or decide the law enforcement folks are too stupid to catch you. And murder is one of the highest rates of conviction there is.
Which is why burglary and shoplifting are so incredibly popular. You aren't going to get caught and if you do you will probably not ever serve a day in prison or jail because of it.
In some places I feel it would be far more appropriate if public executions were carried out immediately. And have a penalty of a year in prison for anyone that could be proven to have witnessed the crime and not reported it or come forward. In most communities there is a sense of just not wanting to get involved or being fearful of the repercussions of snitching. Society can't function very well with a "stop snitching" rule in place as it is today. As can be seen by the murder rates in the US - every major city has at least a murder a day in the metro area and most of these are unsolved. Why? Because nobody in the right mind is going to tell the police anything for fear of the murderer's friends retailiating.
So there is no more "hue and cry" and criminals are more or less free to go about their ways.
Or you could just use OSX and Time Machine and have it do auto backups for you. No need to nag unless it can't reach the backup server.
That would require you to think about backups, and pro-actively set up time machine.
You've been able to automate backups on most operating systems for over a decade, if you were inclined to to so.
Windows 7 actually suggests that setting up backups is something you should do, and flags it as an issue if you don't.
I kind of wanted to mod you -1 for that, but it felt wrong to punish the truth. Even if it makes me sad.
How is it that someone has a laptop where important files (files other than the OS and apps that can be re-installed from original media) aren't backed-up to removable media or a service like Carbonite, Mozy, etc.? This isn't 1995 when "backup" meant inserting and removing multiple 1.44MB floppies.
Seriously. When purchasing a laptop for me or a family member, I usually price in two additional things: 1) A service plan if the recipient isn't tech-savvy and 2) An external hard drive with equal or slightly higher capacity for backups. Both of these together usually don't run that much, usually only add about 10-20% to the price, but really make any time investment (usually worth far more than the device) in the laptop worth it.
For backup, I use SuperDuper/CCC/TimeMachine for Mac, and Macrium Reflect (free) for the PC, and just setup a recurring calendar event so the owner is notified to backup the device.
I've found backups on the Mac are a whole lot easier since the cloned boot disks are easily booted on other Mac hardware, but it's pretty livable on the PC side as well.
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To quote a Mozy user,
http://mozy.com/blog/misc/backing-up-hundreds-of-gigabytes-with-mozy/
"Gregory had mentioned that there is a 5mbps upload speed cap. In my experience, it’s much lower than that. The fastest I have seen uploads are around 1.8mbps or so. So maybe a 2mbps upload cap. "
I currently have about 1 TB of material that needs to be backed up. That will take 48.5 days to make the initial backup using Mozy...or about 2 hours to backup to another HDD. Honestly I think most people acquire or create new data faster than you could upload with a continuous stream...not to mention that if your upload pipe was 100% filled all the time, it would congest your ability to download or use the internet in any useful way.
Of course, backups are useless if you only make them once, so I want to do a backup about once a week. Guess which option I use??
Backups are something people just forget. Computers are generally pretty reliable these days and that fools people in to thinking they are totally reliable. They won't want to bother with backups. "
Our workplace policy is that all stuff should live on our network shares. For information that isn't on the share, and for instant recovery purposes, every computer comes with an external disk that can be used for backup or disk imaging software. We also offer something like network backup service, but few use it.
Dealing with the crybabies is hard, but we're a bit lucky in that our management agrees that keeping the users informed and armed is the best approach, so we do monthly training sessions and spam the users semi-regularly for this kind of stuff.
People are lazy, but when they know you're trying to help them, it makes things easier.
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Swift and certain punishment is possible with community support - make snitching mandatory and a penalty for not snitching. Without it crime will always be rampant and enforcement a joke like it is today.
With swift and certain punishment you might punish the wrong person. When it is a capital crime that is really a shame. But, when the alternative is housing people for 50 years and creating incredibly abusive environments in prisons is this really an alternative? Why are prisons so abusive? It might have something to do with people being there who have (a) lost any empathy for others and (b) have nothing to lose by abusing others. So you have beatings, killings and rapes. And, the enslavement of the weaker by the stronger. We could make sure that prisons were populated by strong, caring people or we could just not house them for so long.
With swift and certain punishment there would have to be clear penalties for not snitching or for ratting on the wrong people. OK, so you get in good with the neighborhood gang lord by ratting out someone else as the killer... but if you then are executed because of this (because it will eventually come out) it makes it plain to everyone there is no percentage in lying. Make the executions public and televised. Make other punishments equally swift and certain. And we start to take control away from the criminals.
Today I can buy a untracable gun and kill someone and be assured of never getting caught. OK, I have to do this away from a crowded public street with a police car on it, but the point is I can do this. So can anyone else. It happens every day and it isn't just because with 330 million people there are bound to be some killings. The point is that it is known that burglars and shoplifters aren't going to be caught and aren't going to do any time - so these are safe occupations. If a homeowner is killed the police have plenty of sympathy but little else. The witnesses will do nothing and there is no power to compel their compliance with law enforcement.
It is like auto accidents. Every year 40,000 people are killed and it is treated as a fact of life that is unpreventable. So we have 20,000 murders a year - down from 33,000 recently - and they are considered equally unpreventable and just a fact of life. Burglary? How about 2.3 million a year. Do you not think this is a problem?
Should be "... Victim's Facebook Account", eh?
Also, move the backups away from the same place to avoid them being stolen too. ;)
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If the penalty for some heinous crime was being publicly flayed and tortured to death for 3 days under medical supervision, it would almost certainly cut down on that crime. We tend to hide the death penalty behind a veneer of civility and it doesn't really imprint on people's minds. "Oh, if I get caught _and_ convicted _and_ they go for the death penalty _and_ I can't appeal out of it over 20 years, I might die if I do this". It's all too abstract. Now, show some guy suffering the above torture on TV, might be a different story for some subset of the criminals.
Note I'm not advocating this by any means, though there are people I would like to see it done to it would never work in the real world and would do more harm than good overall.
Or you could just use OSX and Time Machine and have it do auto backups for you. No need to nag unless it can't reach the backup server.
The problem is that the burglar can also steal the Time Machine or external HD.
Don't get me wrong, Apple have definitely done a nice job of making backup friendlier and more mainstream, but there's still a lot to do in that area. There's no Time Machine equivalent for off-site backup so far. (Not that there aren't friendly online backup solutions, but not with the level of friendliness and OS integration as Time Machine.)
Basically, the industry is not in any hurry to make all computers come with redundant storage, make OSes automatically keep multiple copies of everything, make all ISP accounts come with off-site backup, make encryption easy to use and secure enough for the population at large, etc.
Are you adequate?
Oh how typical. So "Bush's fault", huh?
Yes, I'm joking.
Some 15 years ago, when I was in graduate school, everybody in the department (some 100 faculty members and few hundred graduate students) had all their home directories network mounted from a central location. A faculty member would have a Sun workstation on his or her desk, but all their files would be on a central server somewhere. A grad student could walk up to any public workstation or terminal and do their work from there. The admins took care of all the backups, we did not have to worry about that at all. That was 15 years ago. Why isn't something like that possible now? You can blame stupid users, but this is clearly a system failure. At home, I am responsible for my own backups. At work, I should not have to worry about it.
AccountKiller
Honestly, yes, those are facts of life. I honestly don't believe you will lower the number of auto deaths per year much below what it is... or... even here keep it from rising in step with population growth... so long as humans are behind the wheel. Possibly by making cars, themselves, safer, sure.
No amount of laws is going to change this, the best you will do is grind more lives through the legal system, to nobodies ultimate benefit. You are going to chew up tax dollars to ruin peoples lives, and, for what.... to delay a few peoples deaths? 40,000 really isn't that many in a country of 300 million.
Seriously, life is 100% fatal, get over it. I don't want to live in the world that you envision, at all. Such a system is too easily bent towards evil. We should not allow a central authority to have so much power over us and what we do.
Honestly, fascism scares the shit out of me. The last thing is I want to see is it to come back.
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Also.... I really don't feel that ALL of the petty crimes and dangers of modern American life add up to even a fraction of the cost to society as the crimes pushed by central governments.
By people who insist on raising armys and turning other peoples homes into war zones. You want to talk about a paultry 20,000 murders, 40,000 auto accidents... things that are mostly random and unplanned, or the work of impulsive kids.
Central governments kill hundreds of thousands with their wars, rob from millions. You know how big the Social Security Trust Fund is? I will tell you what, at least the simple theives that have robbed me over the years total maybe 10 grand. The US government has been telling me it wants 6% of my income so it can write IOUs to itself. You really think petty thieves and gangs come CLOSE?
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
... you must be new in this planet, amirite? *Nobody* in here backups their cherished data until it hits them. And it must be a really hard blow, ot they won't pay attention to it ("it wasn't really that important, y'know? I'll rewrite the thing, then set up backups later." Always later...)
...with what you believe was the level of education of the supposed intellectual elite. A belief which is probably very far from the truth.
Remember, they trialed Galileo over heliocentrism a century and a half after the discovery of America, and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake 30 years prior.
And if you want another utterly wrong but common belief from that time that lasted all the way to the middle of the 19th century - try bloodletting.
BTW... I know for a fact that there are still people around who don't believe in the Earth being round nor it turning around the Sun. Or turning around at all.
And not for religious reason or anything - they simply "don't believe any of that shit".
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I think burglary was more a Nixon thing. ;-)
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Cause about 30 of them "liked" the new photo.
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That IS what we have. The problem is we can't force users to put their files on the storage. They have access to their local drive, there isn't a way to lock them out of that, not if you want the system to function. Also the central storage is limited. Like I said, 10GB per user unless they pay for more. Plenty for work, not for your MP3s. This is because it is expensive. The department isn't interested in spending tens of thousands of dollars so that people can have tons of expensive space so people can store shit they don't need backed up.
RE: Campaign for Liberty
"...Tell them to approve a short-term version that removes the FDA's War on Food..."
I stopped reading that site the instant I saw that. If wanted to read infantile Libertarian fantasy, I've got an old L. Neil Smith paperback around here someplace. Probably doing something useful, like being stuck under the short leg of a wobbly table.
Apparently, the FDA seeking to enforce its mandate to ensure the cleanliness of food and food processing facilities is, according to the Randroids, a "War on Food".
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MaryAyn Rand
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"That would require you to think about backups, and pro-actively set up time machine."
"...pro-actively set up time machine"???
You plug in an external drive. It asks if you want to use it as the Time Machine drive. You click 'YES'.
"...pro-actively set up time machine" Jeebus!
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This sounds like a great use for Facebook's new facial recognition feature -- they should be able to identify pictures with a face similar to the one the thief uploaded and correlate based on geography to narrow down the search. Then a human can review the matches to make a positive ID.
You plug in an external drive. It asks if you want to use it as the Time Machine drive. You click 'YES'.
Right. Now what happens if you don't plug in an external drive? Its not like your Mac came with one, and most people who bought a computer didn't buy an external drive with it. OSX says nothing.
What if you plugged in the external drive to read/write files from/to it, which is what most people who aren't thinking specifically about backups are doing. The time-machine message is actually an annoying pop-up you have to cancel. Even if I should set up a backup, and even if I -want- to set up a backup... I don't want to use *this disk right now*, so I cancel it...and then its out of sight out of mind again.
Windows 7 flags it as an ongoing issue and says "Setup a backup. Your files are not being backed up. [button - Set up backup]"
I'll give OSX full props for time machine its great software. But Windows 7 gets the win for actually telling people they actually should be backing up. Windows 7 defines "no backups" as a *problem* (unless you specifically tell it not to.) This is a good thing.
The people who mattered: sailors, navigators, the merchants and nobles who sponsored their voyages; they all knew the world was round. People with an education knew, because it had been a known fact for centuries (The Greeks proved it in their heyday). Sailor and navigators knew because it was (and still is) observable on the oceans. Ships leaving port or sailing away from each other on a clear day could observe it. Objects in the distance didn't just fade away, they sunk into the horizon like you would expect with a curve. Even the Church never questioned this particular idea.
The opinions of farmers or other shorebound were largely irrelevant to the journey. They weren't on the boats, and they had no say in the financing of the expeditions. The whole idea that Columbus was some sort of visionary who saw what others didn't and knew what others hadn't realized was largely an invention of late 19th and early 20th century "history as civics". They wanted to make the hero more heroic. It's been known to pretty much be bunk since before it's invention. My bachelors is in History, and we specifically looked at this case study in Historiography.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
Sorry, more to the point of the original comment, the opinions of farmer or other shorebound are largely unknown. No one asked them, they didn't really write, and the official policy of the church (for anyone that cared) was that the Earth was round.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
A simple photo editor would allow you to raise the gamma setting on the photo revealing the guys whole face....
- A Frog in a pond utters an azure cry. -
They have access to their local drive, there isn't a way to lock them out of that,
Well, that's the problem. In the setup I was describing, we did not have write access to the local disk (except dirs like /tmp and so on, that must be world writable.) Still, since most applications save files to some default location, say My Documents or whatnot, can't you mount that remotely?
AccountKiller
Maybe the kid is a Stallmanite, and refused to trust his data to the cloud....
What you do in private is irrelevant - you probably all scratch your arses too.
But if you were communicating in a situation where it was important to avoid ambiguity you'd either use the SI prefixes or exponential notation.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yeah, no. This isn't addiction. This is straight-up goddamn stupidity. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference, but there definitely IS a difference.
I'm still waiting to hear about someone tweeting "Robbin' a house~" using their iPhone, with location reporting turned on.
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
And that, my friends, is the welfare state in a nutshell.
Yes, if there were a welfare state, someone unsavory may have children and those children may get fed, clothed and educated. Screw that, scrap the whole thing.
You realize they will get born either way, right?
Some privacy policy Slashdot.
> Awww -- just two weeks? Any chance you permanently fucked up some other kids'
> lifetimes during your two weeks? How do their parents feel about you? Would
> they prefer that you be snuffed instead of their kids?
Who said anything about kids? Why bring kids into this? Ridiculous. Consenting adults in the privacy of their own home. I resent the implication that I would have even known anyone else... I can't stand kids. Dealing with them would have meant... knowing them and spending time with them. I avoid that whenever possible.
The rest well.... your anecdote is sad but, N=1 is not a study. It says nothing about the average case. I never said thievery was great, or condonable.... just that people change.
Your story doesn't seem to mention what happened to those thieves/murders. Do they still thieve and murder? How many times since then? Way to totally ignore the actual point.
I would feel no differently if this happened to my friends or family. I would probably want to kill the bastards myself.
Let me turn it around another way... if the husband said that he wanted them set free immediately with no punishment, and be let to spend the rest of their lives feeling guilty for what they did and knowing that a better man then them forgave them.... would you be mad at the state for locking them up anyway?
Afterall... if its what makes him feel better... isn't that the point?
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Yes, if there were a welfare state, someone unsavory may have children and those children may get fed, clothed and educated. Screw that, scrap the whole thing.
Yes, someone unsavory's children will get brought up in the same educational system as someone unsavory. The problem with the welfare state is that it divorces actions from the consequences of those actions. It reduces the consequences of having a child out of wedlock, especially when it is modeled repeatedly that you can get away with it and it is an acceptable way of life. Most of us want to see children fed, clothed and educated, we don't like to see someone unsavory creating unnecessary burdens for everyone else to bear because they don't accept the consequences of their own actions.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.