I'm not quite old enough to remember it; I do remember putting localtime(0) in a test case once though, and spending ages wondering why it didn't give the expected results.
Now there's an idea.... anyone here work for television studios, and want a stunt? Here's one. Set up a few hidden cameras in a street. Get a child actor to hang around and look miserable, cry a bit, and obviously be in distress. Film the manner in which every man carefully avoids approaching or looking at the child, and see how long it takes before someone is finally brave or reckless enough to intervene. Use for a news story about how the culture of fear is endangering children.
It's not an original idea. I've seen exactly that thing done on TV. Did it make a difference? Not noticeably.
People aren't complete idiots (well, most aren't anyway), give them a little credit.
I don't think it's a stupid thing, it's a geek thing. When amorsen says "it IS impossible to pick a Nokia phone", what he means (I assume) is "given, a set of requirements, it's almost impossible to select the optimal Nokia phone for my needs". Which may be perfectly true but not something everyone worries about.
I refuse to believe that this survey is representative for the US population. I know too many US people to simply assume that this is what Americans admire.
Surveys without a list of candidates are always heavily biased to well-known people.
This is so much hyperbole it is not even funny. He should get some proper representation instead of these loudmouth lawyers.
Something about extradition hearings always seems to being out the showman in lawyers. However, it doesn't really matter much what his British lawyers say. It's how good his Swedish lawyers are that's important.
I would imagine that the Swedish authorities intend to charge him as soon as he is in within their jurisdiction. I agree with Sarah Ludford, it would be an abuse of the European arrest warrant system to drag him back to Sweden just to answer a few more questions
How can "simply downloading the software" earn a conviction? This software (LOIC) seems to have been developed for legitimate uses for testing networks.
You need criminal intent:
"A person is guilty of an offence if he obtains any article with a view to its being supplied for use to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1 or 3." (Computer Misuse Act 1990)
If some random law firm threatens to sue you for something you haven't done, apparently you MUST respond or you're guilty.
Wrong, three separate ways:
1. No, you should put in a defence when actually served with court papers. 2. You may get a case ruled against you if you don't bother to put in a defence but that didn't happen here. 3. It's a civil case, so guilty does not apply.
Are we expected to believe that based on a non-violent rape allegation (which was dropped, brought up, dropped) - in which he was not even taken into custody - that Britian is arresting a Swedish national to extradict?
No, the British police are arresting him, because the Swedish authorities issued a warrant.
Agreed - these price-comparison sites are almost universally leeches. They provide no added content, the contents are often out-of-date, and you can get the same functionality by just clicking on individual links in Google.
There are some useful ones: e.g. car insurance, electricity and ISP comparison sites. However, they generally spend a lot of money on advertising, so you go to them direct. They aren't lame sites that think Google owes them a living.
I think the problem with IT, or any knowledge-based jobs, is that you don't produce anything tangible so no matter how much you work it rarely feels like there's something to show for it.
Using a GTD tool to manage your time can be helpful:
1. It gets rid all of the vague worries floating around your head, into writing. It makes it easier to switch contexts when you go home.
2. It gets you into the habit of working on smaller chunks, and prioritizing.
3. You always have a list of completed tasks, every day.
True, though it could be done at the distro level, which appears to be the author's plans (the person who wrote this script works for Red Hat, and discussed elsewhere in the thread what Red Hat's plans are for rolling out systemd, which will handle this).
Indeed. "Should we be punting this for userspace tools to handle?" isn't the same question as "should we punt it to the user?".
Are you kidding me? People in the US look at most of the stuff that goes on in the UK... getting arrested for Tweets... We know that this sort of thing would NEVER fly in America, not in spirit nor in the letter of the law. We've got the First Amendment for that.
You can get six months in a federal jail for posting ridiculous threats posting on 4chan though. It seems to me that the main difference between the US and the UK is that you would get punished much more severely in the US.
There's more to being a detective than finding evidence that would be admissible in court. Social networking is likely a good place to find useful leads, or might be solid enough to obtain a search warrant.
It's not as clear cut as JD says, as far as I can tell. The courts have more discretion on when to admit evidence and when not. Where there has been a clear abuse of police power, the courts are likely to throw the evidence out.
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I'm not quite old enough to remember it; I do remember putting localtime(0) in a test case once though, and spending ages wondering why it didn't give the expected results.
Now there's an idea.... anyone here work for television studios, and want a stunt? Here's one. Set up a few hidden cameras in a street. Get a child actor to hang around and look miserable, cry a bit, and obviously be in distress. Film the manner in which every man carefully avoids approaching or looking at the child, and see how long it takes before someone is finally brave or reckless enough to intervene. Use for a news story about how the culture of fear is endangering children.
It's not an original idea. I've seen exactly that thing done on TV. Did it make a difference? Not noticeably.
People aren't complete idiots (well, most aren't anyway), give them a little credit.
I don't think it's a stupid thing, it's a geek thing. When amorsen says "it IS impossible to pick a Nokia phone", what he means (I assume) is "given, a set of requirements, it's almost impossible to select the optimal Nokia phone for my needs". Which may be perfectly true but not something everyone worries about.
Yet somehow Apple managed to clean house in the market on their first try.
Well, second try. Apple Newton?
If anything this should make for an interesting trial.
Not really, because the defendant pleaded guilty.
I refuse to believe that this survey is representative for the US population. I know too many US people to simply assume that this is what Americans admire.
Surveys without a list of candidates are always heavily biased to well-known people.
This is so much hyperbole it is not even funny. He should get some proper representation instead of these loudmouth lawyers.
Something about extradition hearings always seems to being out the showman in lawyers. However, it doesn't really matter much what his British lawyers say. It's how good his Swedish lawyers are that's important.
There are no charges against him, yet.
I would imagine that the Swedish authorities intend to charge him as soon as he is in within their jurisdiction. I agree with Sarah Ludford, it would be an abuse of the European arrest warrant system to drag him back to Sweden just to answer a few more questions
How can "simply downloading the software" earn a conviction? This software (LOIC) seems to have been developed for legitimate uses for testing networks.
You need criminal intent:
"A person is guilty of an offence if he obtains any article with a view to its being supplied for use to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1 or 3." (Computer Misuse Act 1990)
If some random law firm threatens to sue you for something you haven't done, apparently you MUST respond or you're guilty.
Wrong, three separate ways:
1. No, you should put in a defence when actually served with court papers.
2. You may get a case ruled against you if you don't bother to put in a defence but that didn't happen here.
3. It's a civil case, so guilty does not apply.
Are we expected to believe that based on a non-violent rape allegation (which was dropped, brought up, dropped) - in which he was not even taken into custody - that Britian is arresting a Swedish national to extradict?
No, the British police are arresting him, because the Swedish authorities issued a warrant.
Is it really that hard to include a link to Ubuntu's official Alpha 1 page, http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 ?
Yes, apparently. Natty Narwhal Alpha 1
do you use somekind of software to do that, or the paper & bins method?
I'm using a beta of Nirvana at the moment. I like an online tool because it's easy to push things back and forth between work and home.
Agreed - these price-comparison sites are almost universally leeches. They provide no added content, the contents are often out-of-date, and you can get the same functionality by just clicking on individual links in Google.
There are some useful ones: e.g. car insurance, electricity and ISP comparison sites. However, they generally spend a lot of money on advertising, so you go to them direct. They aren't lame sites that think Google owes them a living.
I think the problem with IT, or any knowledge-based jobs, is that you don't produce anything tangible so no matter how much you work it rarely feels like there's something to show for it.
Using a GTD tool to manage your time can be helpful:
1. It gets rid all of the vague worries floating around your head, into writing. It makes it easier to switch contexts when you go home.
2. It gets you into the habit of working on smaller chunks, and prioritizing.
3. You always have a list of completed tasks, every day.
True, though it could be done at the distro level, which appears to be the author's plans (the person who wrote this script works for Red Hat, and discussed elsewhere in the thread what Red Hat's plans are for rolling out systemd, which will handle this).
Indeed. "Should we be punting this for userspace tools to handle?" isn't the same question as "should we punt it to the user?".
Are you kidding me? People in the US look at most of the stuff that goes on in the UK... getting arrested for Tweets... We know that this sort of thing would NEVER fly in America, not in spirit nor in the letter of the law. We've got the First Amendment for that.
You can get six months in a federal jail for posting ridiculous threats posting on 4chan though. It seems to me that the main difference between the US and the UK is that you would get punished much more severely in the US.
There's more to being a detective than finding evidence that would be admissible in court. Social networking is likely a good place to find useful leads, or might be solid enough to obtain a search warrant.
This really reads like something out of fiction.
That's because it is fiction.
they will have to change the DNA marker after one use....Also checking for duplicate natural DNA
Smartwater uses various methods to encode a unique signature. No actual DNA is involved.
The parent said nothing of "trying it out" and only mentioned research.
Unlimited research implies that you are allowed to conduct experiments, so yes, does mean trying it out.
We're talking DNA encoding, right?
No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWater
"The pretext of the war is about some land a thousand leagues off. A country cold, desolate and hideous. "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v3kg5
Maybe his girlfriend was 17?
Well it wouldn't be child porn then, would it?
It's not as clear cut as JD says, as far as I can tell. The courts have more discretion on when to admit evidence and when not. Where there has been a clear abuse of police power, the courts are likely to throw the evidence out.