He got arrested because even after they fired him he wouldn't give them the passwords. How are they supposed to manage the network if the only guy who knows the passwords is the guy you fired?
So by refusing to give them the passwords when they fired him, he was denying them access to their property. On the other hand, I agree with the people who think this whole situation smells of a bigger problem somewhere.
If the company's HR department is stupid enough to try and use a cursory Google search of his name to eliminate him, there is nobody competent working there. I just Googled my name to refresh my memory. I have never been patient enough to go through the results far enough to find any that reference me. A lot of people on here seem to think that HR departments are incompetent, I have never worked for a company that did not have an HR department that was good at whether or not potential employees were a good personality for the job. It isn't HR's job to determine if someone is capable of doing the job, how could they? It is the job of someone who knows how to do the job to evaluate if a potential hire knows how to do the job. HR merely screens to see if the applicant has a background that makes it possible he knows how to do a job. Unfortunately, a lot of people who know how to do the job, don't know how to tell in an interview if someone is capable of doing the job.
Where I live we have a very good fire fighting service. Guess what, it isn't state run. It is volunteer. As far as I know all of the firefighters are volunteers, although some of the officers might be paid). They raise much of the money for operating expenses and equipment by community fund raisers. They do occasionally get grants from the local, state and federal government for large equipment purchases (new fire trucks, etc), but not all of the large equipment is paid for this way. Most of the U.S. is serviced by such fire departments. This is the model that provides firefighting service for most of the U.S.. So, I don't see how a state run fire fighting service is vital to a functional, stable society. All of the areas in the U.S. that I know of that have a state run fire fighting service are among the least stable, functional parts of our society.
I believe that the state took over running the fire fighting service because the society in that area was no longer functional and stable enough to maintain that as a volunteer service. However, I think it would be an interesting study to see if the reverse might be true, the society in those areas is less functional and stable because the state took over the fire fighting service (in addition to other services that provided social stability).
The first problem with comparing using standard of living comparisons is that it is a VERY subjective standard. But another problem with using that standard is that the U.S. is the third most populous country in the World. The U.S. has a population of approximately 305 million. As you go down the list, the first country you come to with a standard of living that can be compared to that of the U.S. is Germany at 82 million. Adding to that the U.S. has either the 3rd or 4th largest land area in the world (different sources have somewhat different numbers for the land area of the U.S. and China, the difference between the two is less than the variance between the different sources for the land area of each). The only political organization that is close enough to analogous to the U.S. to make direct comparisons of policy based on things like standard of living is the European Union. Even there there are some significant problems, most notably the recent addition of former Warsaw pact countries.
There was an article on slashdot several months back about a study that showed that overall those who downloaded the most illegal music, also spent the most on buying music. The argument on slashdot was over whether they bought more music because they downloaded more, or if they just consumed more music.
I have also seen articles from Baen Books that they have seen an increase in book sales since they started having their authors put a certain number of each author's titles available for free for electronic download http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm
I'm sorry, but I have trouble imagining a reason for releasing this for any reason that would not still be illegal (or at least still should be illegal). There are lots of things that are legal for me to do that become illegal when they cause harm to others.
May I recommend rabbit stew? It will serve two purposes. One, the rabbit will no longer chew through cables. Two, it is a very tasty dinner. Although if your girlfriend finds out, you will probably need to find a replacement (for the girlfriend, not the rabbit).
Bobcats are not the same as mountain lions, pumas or panthers. The last three are the same (although panther may refer to leopards or jaguars in addition to cougars/pumas/mountain lions, depending on location). Bobcats are types of lynx native to North America. They are smallest of the lynx species. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat
How long have they been practicing democracies?
And what is their population? Democracy works better in smaller populations. All four together would be the third most populous state in the U.S.. Norway would be the New Jersey and North Carolina (the 11th and 10th most populous states), the other three would be between Kentucky and Minnesota (the 26th and 21st most populous states).
The Stimulus bill spends lots, just not very much on infrastructure. The problem with infrastructure spending in an EMERGENCY stimulus bill is that infrastructure spending takes years to impact the economy. So, infrastructure spending should be passed in ordinary legislation because it won't make any difference in the short term and in the long term we have time to debate it out properly.
The only government actions that have rapid positive results on the economy are tax cuts. Personally, I would just as soon Congress stop trying to "stimulate" the economy and go back to ordinary business and pass laws that help the economy in the ordinary course of business. Of course that is not going to happen, because as Rahm Emmanuel says "A crisis is too valuable to waste."
The reason that advertising in L.A. and S.F. is higher than Des Moines is because it reaches more people (voters) in those cities. The real question is how much does the advertising cost per voter. So is advertising in Des Moines 1/18th the price of advertising in L.A.? Is it 1/3 the price of advertising in S.F.? That is the ratio of the population of those cities versus that of Des Moines. And that doesn't take into account the rest of the media market for those cities. The media market for L.A. that is outside of L.A. proper is probably larger than the entire media market for Des Moines.
The point of a parachute is to reduce terminal velocity to the point where impact with the earth does not harm the object being parachuted (most of the time). Without a parachute terminal velocity is much greater.
There have been several satellites which fell from orbit and for the most part burnt up on entry so that little or no solid particles of them reached the earth's surface
Except that as more restrictions have been placed on money in politics, incumbents have been re-elected in ever greater proportions. I have also seen several articles that make a good case that the longer a politician is in office the more beholden to lobbyists and corporate interests he becomes. At least one of them made the argument that even if the politician remains well intentioned, the influence of socializing with the "political class" (sorry, I couldn't think of a better term) changes the way he thinks and makes him (or her) less of his constituents actual interests.
They are trying to sell OS upgrades to people who already own the hardware. If the only way to buy OSX was to buy a whole Mac, Psystar would be out of business.
You know the idea of Stimulus is to get jobs now. The idea of the Stimulus bill that is in Congress and that is being pushed by Obama is to get a bunch of pork through when nobody is looking. According to Rahm Emmanuel "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."
So, instead of the people who want this service paying for it, now everyone who gets their internet service from an ISP that is an "affiliate" get to pay for it, whether they want it or not. Yeah, that's no big deal.
You make the wrong assumption, I am approaching a traffic light, it turns yellow. Ordinarily, I would just continue, because I know that I am close enough to make it through a standard yellow before it turns red. However, I know that this light has a red light camera and a short yellow, so I lock my brakes to avoid the ticket. The guy behind me doesn't lock his brakes, he hits me and drives me into the intersection. A guy coming the other direction doesn't wait for the light to turn green for him, as soon as the light turns red the other way, he punches it. All of a sudden I am in front of him and get T-boned.
There are a lot of scenarios that can lead to accidents when the yellow light is shortened. The biggest cause of problems is some people will know that the light has a short yellow and other people will expect it to meet the legal standard they are familiar with from the majority of traffic lights they go through.
Most states have laws stating the minimum yellow time for a traffic light. This should not be a federal law. It should, however, be a state law. Check what your state law says the minimum yellow time is, then time the lights with red light cameras.
If the yellow is shorter than the legal limit do one of two things. One, contact the local media to publicize it. Or two, run the red light, when you get a ticket, go out and time the yellow again. Challenge the ticket in court and bring a class action law suit against the company that runs the cameras for every other person that got a red light ticket.
Oh yeah, I forgot one more option, bring it up to your state legislator, they are often very responsive to constituent complaints. Generally, the state does not get a cut of red light fines, so your state legislator has no vested interest in maximizing the revenue from it.
Stop slamming liberals, I am a liberal and I support the 2nd amendment.
I think you are confusing god-damn hippies with liberals, there is a defining line.
Any way back to the original topic, non-space based weapons currently have the ability to hit any target on Earth plus they are cheaper to maintain as they do not require a shuttle launch plus in the case of a nuclear sub they are very hard to hide.
The problem with non-space based weapons is that they are very susceptible to neutralization by space based weapons (at least in theory, as insufficient practical testing has been done to prove this). So, if China develops space based weapons and the U.S. does not, it is probable that the U.S. would be at a significant disadvantage.
1993 also marked the first release of the Mosaic web browser and the mainstream introduction of the World Wide Web. Of course, Mosaic was eclipsed by Netscape Navigator the very next year, made by the same people who developed Mosaic.
In addition, 1993 marked the wide spread publication of "The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog" from O'Reilly. That book is largely what caused mass migration to the Internet. It was a well written book. When it hit the best seller lists, it brought attention to what was available on the Internet to a lot of people's attention and they wanted in.
If your argument was correct why not just use the BSD license? The BSD license more closely resembles the situation that would exist with no copyright law.
steal: to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.)without right or acknowledgment
Sorry, I know that this is a meme here on Slashdot, but you don't get to change the definition of a word just because you don't like that meaning. The idea of stealing intellectual property goes back long before the current abuse of the concept.
I'm sorry, where are you getting these cheap thin clients. I couldn't find them. When I took over my current position I inherited a bunch of machines that desperately needed to be replaced, but my bosses didn't want to spend the money. My immediate boss tried to get me on board with thin clients. I priced them out. At that time (about two years ago), the best price I could find on a thin client solution would have cost at least 50% more per seat than the desktop PC solution I found. My boss did some research on his own and reached the same conclusion. Then he got behind my plan and convinced the owners that spending that money would be more than be made up for in the amount of my time freed up from keeping the machines working for other more revenue generating projects.
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He got arrested because even after they fired him he wouldn't give them the passwords. How are they supposed to manage the network if the only guy who knows the passwords is the guy you fired?
So by refusing to give them the passwords when they fired him, he was denying them access to their property. On the other hand, I agree with the people who think this whole situation smells of a bigger problem somewhere.
If the company's HR department is stupid enough to try and use a cursory Google search of his name to eliminate him, there is nobody competent working there. I just Googled my name to refresh my memory. I have never been patient enough to go through the results far enough to find any that reference me. A lot of people on here seem to think that HR departments are incompetent, I have never worked for a company that did not have an HR department that was good at whether or not potential employees were a good personality for the job. It isn't HR's job to determine if someone is capable of doing the job, how could they? It is the job of someone who knows how to do the job to evaluate if a potential hire knows how to do the job. HR merely screens to see if the applicant has a background that makes it possible he knows how to do a job. Unfortunately, a lot of people who know how to do the job, don't know how to tell in an interview if someone is capable of doing the job.
Where I live we have a very good fire fighting service. Guess what, it isn't state run. It is volunteer. As far as I know all of the firefighters are volunteers, although some of the officers might be paid). They raise much of the money for operating expenses and equipment by community fund raisers. They do occasionally get grants from the local, state and federal government for large equipment purchases (new fire trucks, etc), but not all of the large equipment is paid for this way. Most of the U.S. is serviced by such fire departments. This is the model that provides firefighting service for most of the U.S.. So, I don't see how a state run fire fighting service is vital to a functional, stable society. All of the areas in the U.S. that I know of that have a state run fire fighting service are among the least stable, functional parts of our society.
I believe that the state took over running the fire fighting service because the society in that area was no longer functional and stable enough to maintain that as a volunteer service. However, I think it would be an interesting study to see if the reverse might be true, the society in those areas is less functional and stable because the state took over the fire fighting service (in addition to other services that provided social stability).
The first problem with comparing using standard of living comparisons is that it is a VERY subjective standard. But another problem with using that standard is that the U.S. is the third most populous country in the World. The U.S. has a population of approximately 305 million. As you go down the list, the first country you come to with a standard of living that can be compared to that of the U.S. is Germany at 82 million. Adding to that the U.S. has either the 3rd or 4th largest land area in the world (different sources have somewhat different numbers for the land area of the U.S. and China, the difference between the two is less than the variance between the different sources for the land area of each). The only political organization that is close enough to analogous to the U.S. to make direct comparisons of policy based on things like standard of living is the European Union. Even there there are some significant problems, most notably the recent addition of former Warsaw pact countries.
There was an article on slashdot several months back about a study that showed that overall those who downloaded the most illegal music, also spent the most on buying music. The argument on slashdot was over whether they bought more music because they downloaded more, or if they just consumed more music.
I have also seen articles from Baen Books that they have seen an increase in book sales since they started having their authors put a certain number of each author's titles available for free for electronic download http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm
I'm sorry, but I have trouble imagining a reason for releasing this for any reason that would not still be illegal (or at least still should be illegal). There are lots of things that are legal for me to do that become illegal when they cause harm to others.
May I recommend rabbit stew? It will serve two purposes. One, the rabbit will no longer chew through cables. Two, it is a very tasty dinner. Although if your girlfriend finds out, you will probably need to find a replacement (for the girlfriend, not the rabbit).
Bobcats are not the same as mountain lions, pumas or panthers. The last three are the same (although panther may refer to leopards or jaguars in addition to cougars/pumas/mountain lions, depending on location). Bobcats are types of lynx native to North America. They are smallest of the lynx species. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat
How long have they been practicing democracies?
And what is their population? Democracy works better in smaller populations. All four together would be the third most populous state in the U.S.. Norway would be the New Jersey and North Carolina (the 11th and 10th most populous states), the other three would be between Kentucky and Minnesota (the 26th and 21st most populous states).
The Stimulus bill spends lots, just not very much on infrastructure. The problem with infrastructure spending in an EMERGENCY stimulus bill is that infrastructure spending takes years to impact the economy. So, infrastructure spending should be passed in ordinary legislation because it won't make any difference in the short term and in the long term we have time to debate it out properly.
The only government actions that have rapid positive results on the economy are tax cuts. Personally, I would just as soon Congress stop trying to "stimulate" the economy and go back to ordinary business and pass laws that help the economy in the ordinary course of business. Of course that is not going to happen, because as Rahm Emmanuel says "A crisis is too valuable to waste."
The reason that advertising in L.A. and S.F. is higher than Des Moines is because it reaches more people (voters) in those cities. The real question is how much does the advertising cost per voter. So is advertising in Des Moines 1/18th the price of advertising in L.A.? Is it 1/3 the price of advertising in S.F.? That is the ratio of the population of those cities versus that of Des Moines. And that doesn't take into account the rest of the media market for those cities. The media market for L.A. that is outside of L.A. proper is probably larger than the entire media market for Des Moines.
The point of a parachute is to reduce terminal velocity to the point where impact with the earth does not harm the object being parachuted (most of the time). Without a parachute terminal velocity is much greater.
There have been several satellites which fell from orbit and for the most part burnt up on entry so that little or no solid particles of them reached the earth's surface
Except that as more restrictions have been placed on money in politics, incumbents have been re-elected in ever greater proportions. I have also seen several articles that make a good case that the longer a politician is in office the more beholden to lobbyists and corporate interests he becomes. At least one of them made the argument that even if the politician remains well intentioned, the influence of socializing with the "political class" (sorry, I couldn't think of a better term) changes the way he thinks and makes him (or her) less of his constituents actual interests.
They are trying to sell OS upgrades to people who already own the hardware. If the only way to buy OSX was to buy a whole Mac, Psystar would be out of business.
You know the idea of Stimulus is to get jobs now. The idea of the Stimulus bill that is in Congress and that is being pushed by Obama is to get a bunch of pork through when nobody is looking. According to Rahm Emmanuel "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."
So, instead of the people who want this service paying for it, now everyone who gets their internet service from an ISP that is an "affiliate" get to pay for it, whether they want it or not. Yeah, that's no big deal.
You make the wrong assumption, I am approaching a traffic light, it turns yellow. Ordinarily, I would just continue, because I know that I am close enough to make it through a standard yellow before it turns red. However, I know that this light has a red light camera and a short yellow, so I lock my brakes to avoid the ticket. The guy behind me doesn't lock his brakes, he hits me and drives me into the intersection. A guy coming the other direction doesn't wait for the light to turn green for him, as soon as the light turns red the other way, he punches it. All of a sudden I am in front of him and get T-boned.
There are a lot of scenarios that can lead to accidents when the yellow light is shortened. The biggest cause of problems is some people will know that the light has a short yellow and other people will expect it to meet the legal standard they are familiar with from the majority of traffic lights they go through.
Most states have laws stating the minimum yellow time for a traffic light. This should not be a federal law. It should, however, be a state law. Check what your state law says the minimum yellow time is, then time the lights with red light cameras.
If the yellow is shorter than the legal limit do one of two things. One, contact the local media to publicize it. Or two, run the red light, when you get a ticket, go out and time the yellow again. Challenge the ticket in court and bring a class action law suit against the company that runs the cameras for every other person that got a red light ticket.
Oh yeah, I forgot one more option, bring it up to your state legislator, they are often very responsive to constituent complaints. Generally, the state does not get a cut of red light fines, so your state legislator has no vested interest in maximizing the revenue from it.
Right, letting the Chinese develop their weapons with no attempt to stay ahead will end so much better for the U.S.
Stop slamming liberals, I am a liberal and I support the 2nd amendment. I think you are confusing god-damn hippies with liberals, there is a defining line. Any way back to the original topic, non-space based weapons currently have the ability to hit any target on Earth plus they are cheaper to maintain as they do not require a shuttle launch plus in the case of a nuclear sub they are very hard to hide.
The problem with non-space based weapons is that they are very susceptible to neutralization by space based weapons (at least in theory, as insufficient practical testing has been done to prove this). So, if China develops space based weapons and the U.S. does not, it is probable that the U.S. would be at a significant disadvantage.
1993 also marked the first release of the Mosaic web browser and the mainstream introduction of the World Wide Web. Of course, Mosaic was eclipsed by Netscape Navigator the very next year, made by the same people who developed Mosaic.
In addition, 1993 marked the wide spread publication of "The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog" from O'Reilly. That book is largely what caused mass migration to the Internet. It was a well written book. When it hit the best seller lists, it brought attention to what was available on the Internet to a lot of people's attention and they wanted in.
If your argument was correct why not just use the BSD license? The BSD license more closely resembles the situation that would exist with no copyright law.
"You can't steal information." It's intangible. Thank you.
steal: to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.)without right or acknowledgment
Sorry, I know that this is a meme here on Slashdot, but you don't get to change the definition of a word just because you don't like that meaning. The idea of stealing intellectual property goes back long before the current abuse of the concept.
If you are limiting yourself to scientific concepts, then why are you talking about ethics. Ethics is not a scientific concept.
I'm sorry, where are you getting these cheap thin clients. I couldn't find them. When I took over my current position I inherited a bunch of machines that desperately needed to be replaced, but my bosses didn't want to spend the money. My immediate boss tried to get me on board with thin clients. I priced them out. At that time (about two years ago), the best price I could find on a thin client solution would have cost at least 50% more per seat than the desktop PC solution I found. My boss did some research on his own and reached the same conclusion. Then he got behind my plan and convinced the owners that spending that money would be more than be made up for in the amount of my time freed up from keeping the machines working for other more revenue generating projects.