I think we all know "someone paid me money to do it so it's not my fault" doesn't actually fly. As individuals we have free will and the responsibility to behave ethically. To unquestioningly execute commands is to give up our humanity.
Throughout history we have frequently rejected "I was following orders" and "I was just doing my job". These mantras do not provide absolution.
Nope. In the US that doesn't fly. You'll go to jail, and the ones who gave the orders will put you there. (See Abu Ghraib)
Reading the article helps. He was arrested for "downloading excessive material". In other words, he had a legal JSTOR account, he wasn't accessing it illegally, he just downloaded more material than they wanted him to. Really? That's a crime now?
Where were you when we went over this in all its gory detail? Yes, this is Slashdot and everything The Man does is evil, so I get the whole simplification thing. But the real situation was actually a bit complicated. He basically tried to download every article they had, which went beyond the terms of use of the service. His downloads impacted other users of the service at the time by slowing them down because - wait for it - he was trying to download everything and chewing up resources to do it. His plan was to make all these articles available for free when access to them required a paid service. He also hid the computer doing the work in a closet and took actions to hide his face from security cameras when going to the closet to check on his equipment. From a legal standpoint, this can be interpreted to mean he knew his actions were wrong. There's a lot wrong with how the prosecutors handled this, but he was hardly some innocent school boy who got bullied for no reason.
You vomit during a dissociative experience, while packed in a padded tube. Sign me up. And if you have a heart attack in-flight, you just get ejected a little early.
Besides, Iran's democratically elected government was overthrown by the US for nationalizing the British's oil company (the lead CIA operative was Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of you guessed it, trust bustin' Ted!). Now the British treated the workers like garbage, they used accounting tricks to screw them out of their already small share and it was for the good of the people. (Ironically the US was going 50-50 with the Saudis simultaneously)
In conclusion, it won't happen.
1. It looks like communism 2. It would have such a chilling effect on the profitability of drug discovery we would lose as a species. Despite the evil pharmaceutical company rants they still invest in the mid to high 11 figures. Shutting down the incentive to research drugs would do a disservice to mankind. That is no overstatement.
There is a big difference if (someone who is legally allowed to borrow one) a friend borrows a handgun and says he needs a sidearm while hunting and he then kills someone, or a friend borrows a gun after getting fired and hes been ranting and raving about hurting his boss and he kills them.
There is a big difference between prosecuting a make of a Claw Hammer because it was used in a murder and prosecuting a make of a gun. A gun is for killing or maiming people and is not built for killing people. A claw hammer is built for driving nails and not built for killing people.
I don't think gun makers should be prosecuted either as I think the important thing is the killer's intent.
This case is even worse than the gun case, though. If a safe is bought and used to hide someone's stash does that make the safe maker liable? I would say hell no. I would say the case of secret compartments is more dubious, but there are tons of things it could be used legally for and I don't think the manufacturer of that hiding place has anything to do with the issue.
Is their a difference between a kitchen knife manufacturer or a survival knife manufacturer? What about a maker of machetes?
Your rules are ambiguous. Manufacturers should not be held liable without explicitly knowing that their creation will be used illegally.
If it was proven the compartments were made for certain sized bricks of money, and the maker knew that was why they needed to be that size.
I think this site will be replacing/. as my main nerd new site. The site's quality has declined precipitously lately, and this horrid April fools "prank" has pushed me over the edge.
This was badly thought out, degrading your content is f'kn stupid. There is a reason google doesn't mess with their search functionality.
How about people with super high karma can give an "expert point" every other day to posts with essential insights about certain topics. People can then weight posts from people based on the number of points they have received. Maybe choose experts in their field at the beginning to meta-moderate the assigned points.
specifically didn't post a product due to being called a shill, and as I post alternatives I've seen ill just get "but it doesn't have this," besides I'm not an expert in this area, I know I've seen a kickstarter for one that has add-on board kits that have single and double AA battery power supplies, usb boards, and so on. I believe it had wifi built in as well for a similar price point to the pi A.
I'm sure it lacks something and benefits another way. I'm sure PI is a killer hardware device for certain applications. My main point is talking about a device that has had notable quantities of interest to the point of letting us know when we CAN'T.get it is absurd.
I sometimes wonder if/. gets paid cash for stuffing our faces with certain product news items. "You can't buy something which has been around for quite a while," is hardly news, and certainly not interesting.
Thanks for the lay explanation and the name for further study. I did notice this occurred occurred with materials that would likely glow under a "black ligh."
At least some articles about the raspberry pi have some value added by showing you stuff you can do with it.
This is just a shameless plug to sell the product, and from what I have seen there are a lot of products with similar or better capabilities in smaller form factor with a case and power.
Somebody close to me developed anomic aphasia recently, and I can certainly vouch for a recent finding of a UK health study - anybody who has suffered aphasia will vouch that it is one of the most debilitating disorders you can have. Aphasia is any condition that interferes with speech, and anomic aphasia basically is an inability to assign names to things (you can see an object and fully understand its deign/function/purpose, but you can't come up with the word to describe it and will not remember it even if told it).
Imagine being able to do anything normally, except communicate. This guy was fortunate that he could even write (and depriving him of a pen/paper is COMPLETELY INHUMANE - no different than putting a muzzle on somebody without such a condition). If you end up with damage in the language centers of your brain you're reduced to little more than gestures and a handful of words to communicate (the same regions govern ALL forms of language from speech to writing to sign language - no, there isn't an easy workaround), or pointing at pictures assuming a useful picture is there (and no, you can't spell words by pointing at the letters, or use any kind of symbolic representation of words, since that's the part of your brain that isn't working).
Most people who interact with somebody with aphasia assume they're mentally retarded, and treat them as such. (Not necessarily in an unkind manner, but rather by assuming that they need to be treated paternalistically and that they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions for themselves for their own sake.) While conditions that can cause aphasia can also cause other cognitive problems, they do not always do so. In general somebody with aphasia is no more or less intelligent than anyone else. However, they make poor advocates for themselves so they suffer quite a bit.
A recent episode was when the person I was talking about had to take a driving knowledge test. It was multiple choice, was computer based, and even included some pictures and recorded readings of all the questions and their answers that could be played repeatedly. However, it took about 10-15 attempts to pass the test (one per day per the state's rules, and spending about an hour to get through about a dozen questions). If you had asked them to give a free response to any of the questions they could have answered the questions verbally and satisfied you that they understood basic driving laws. However, somebody with anomic aphasia needs freedom to find words they can understand - it is very difficult for them to understand a fixed sentence just by listening to it over and over. Simply comparing the various choices to determine how they differ took many repetitions. In the end they passed both knowledge and driving examinations, but it was quite an arduous journey. It likely would not have been possible but for the fact that they had recovered quite a bit of their ability to communicate.
In general we as a society do not do a very good job accommodating those with neurlogical disorders.
If you cannot see the difference you need some schooling. See, the United States has the power to be as authoritarian as the government decides, but can hardly be called totalitarian. The fact that you're posting that without the threat of hanging from a rope or fifteen years in a labor camp in Siberia says something.
Read "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denosovich," he spends 15 years in a prison camp for moving past the front lines in "the great patriotic war" (WWII) and was shot at and imprisoned for desertion on getting back to the front. Solzhenitsyn spent time in a Siberian camp, and got the explicit permission from Khrushchev to publish it to show the horrors Stalins cult of personality produced.
Our due process isn't perfect, but it's better than due process meaning whatever they feel like, "you do."
From which country? I'm guessing Muslims (or people who "look like" a Muslim) from places like Morocco or Sri Lanka have an easier time than people flying from Mogadishu.
The US is the united part of America, while there's also this continent called.. you guessed it.. America. It can be subdivided into North and South America, but if you just call it America, it's the whole you'd actually be talking about.
This is iffy. America the Beautiful is not about Panama.
Not that Panama is not beautiful, much is pristine rainforest.
Don't worry, you only get treated like dirt if you're disabled. You get treated like crap if you're a foreigner. You get treated like you're a terrorist if you're brown.
Some of the more impressive shots I've seen were on an A series (A85) 4MP camera which can be had for thirty bucks, and some majestic HDRs from a 6mp Konica Minolta. If you have a decent camera and time and tenacity you can make pretty pictures. And conversely I am sure it wouldn't take long to find someone who should just go sell their 5D.
What's happening when i shine my violet laser at a tennis ball green dog toy and it seems to get brighter and reflect white, or on a marble coffee table and it gets blue-white? Really liked your breakdown.
Uh, I mean virtual differently, obviously you can't eat quality, but eating can stem from compassion. In India, sages would tell parables or give sermons. If people liked your wisdom they fed you. Spiritual enlightenment by means of natural selection. =-)
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I think we all know "someone paid me money to do it so it's not my fault" doesn't actually fly. As individuals we have free will and the responsibility to behave ethically. To unquestioningly execute commands is to give up our humanity.
Throughout history we have frequently rejected "I was following orders" and "I was just doing my job". These mantras do not provide absolution.
Nope. In the US that doesn't fly. You'll go to jail, and the ones who gave the orders will put you there. (See Abu Ghraib)
Reading the article helps. He was arrested for "downloading excessive material". In other words, he had a legal JSTOR account, he wasn't accessing it illegally, he just downloaded more material than they wanted him to. Really? That's a crime now?
Where were you when we went over this in all its gory detail? Yes, this is Slashdot and everything The Man does is evil, so I get the whole simplification thing. But the real situation was actually a bit complicated. He basically tried to download every article they had, which went beyond the terms of use of the service. His downloads impacted other users of the service at the time by slowing them down because - wait for it - he was trying to download everything and chewing up resources to do it. His plan was to make all these articles available for free when access to them required a paid service. He also hid the computer doing the work in a closet and took actions to hide his face from security cameras when going to the closet to check on his equipment. From a legal standpoint, this can be interpreted to mean he knew his actions were wrong. There's a lot wrong with how the prosecutors handled this, but he was hardly some innocent school boy who got bullied for no reason.
I never knew.
He broke an EULA? WHERE'S MAH PITCHFORK?
You vomit during a dissociative experience, while packed in a padded tube. Sign me up. And if you have a heart attack in-flight, you just get ejected a little early.
Until they're phonedos-ed by having your number added to "interested in Mormonism" lists.
That's communism!
Besides, Iran's democratically elected government was overthrown by the US for nationalizing the British's oil company (the lead CIA operative was Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of you guessed it, trust bustin' Ted!). Now the British treated the workers like garbage, they used accounting tricks to screw them out of their already small share and it was for the good of the people. (Ironically the US was going 50-50 with the Saudis simultaneously)
In conclusion, it won't happen.
1. It looks like communism
2. It would have such a chilling effect on the profitability of drug discovery we would lose as a species. Despite the evil pharmaceutical company rants they still invest in the mid to high 11 figures. Shutting down the incentive to research drugs would do a disservice to mankind. That is no overstatement.
Not sure about three+ decades, but 2Pac seems to keep producing new stuff.
That is because 2Pac isn't dead.
Exactly.
There is a big difference if (someone who is legally allowed to borrow one) a friend borrows a handgun and says he needs a sidearm while hunting and he then kills someone, or a friend borrows a gun after getting fired and hes been ranting and raving about hurting his boss and he kills them.
False equivalency. *Total* false equivalency.
There is a big difference between prosecuting a make of a Claw Hammer because it was used in a murder and prosecuting a make of a gun. A gun is for killing or maiming people and is not built for killing people. A claw hammer is built for driving nails and not built for killing people.
I don't think gun makers should be prosecuted either as I think the important thing is the killer's intent.
This case is even worse than the gun case, though. If a safe is bought and used to hide someone's stash does that make the safe maker liable? I would say hell no. I would say the case of secret compartments is more dubious, but there are tons of things it could be used legally for and I don't think the manufacturer of that hiding place has anything to do with the issue.
Is their a difference between a kitchen knife manufacturer or a survival knife manufacturer? What about a maker of machetes?
Your rules are ambiguous. Manufacturers should not be held liable without explicitly knowing that their creation will be used illegally.
If it was proven the compartments were made for certain sized bricks of money, and the maker knew that was why they needed to be that size.
And chocolate flavored pigs. Yes, the holy grail of genetics
Thank you....
I think this site will be replacing /. as my main nerd new site. The site's quality has declined precipitously lately, and this horrid April fools "prank" has pushed me over the edge.
This was badly thought out, degrading your content is f'kn stupid. There is a reason google doesn't mess with their search functionality.
Watch unique hits take a hit.
How about people with super high karma can give an "expert point" every other day to posts with essential insights about certain topics. People can then weight posts from people based on the number of points they have received. Maybe choose experts in their field at the beginning to meta-moderate the assigned points.
specifically didn't post a product due to being called a shill, and as I post alternatives I've seen ill just get "but it doesn't have this," besides I'm not an expert in this area, I know I've seen a kickstarter for one that has add-on board kits that have single and double AA battery power supplies, usb boards, and so on. I believe it had wifi built in as well for a similar price point to the pi A.
I'm sure it lacks something and benefits another way. I'm sure PI is a killer hardware device for certain applications. My main point is talking about a device that has had notable quantities of interest to the point of letting us know when we CAN'T.get it is absurd.
I sometimes wonder if /. gets paid cash for stuffing our faces with certain product news items. "You can't buy something which has been around for quite a while," is hardly news, and certainly not interesting.
Thanks for the lay explanation and the name for further study. I did notice this occurred occurred with materials that would likely glow under a "black ligh."
At least some articles about the raspberry pi have some value added by showing you stuff you can do with it.
This is just a shameless plug to sell the product, and from what I have seen there are a lot of products with similar or better capabilities in smaller form factor with a case and power.
Wow.
Somebody close to me developed anomic aphasia recently, and I can certainly vouch for a recent finding of a UK health study - anybody who has suffered aphasia will vouch that it is one of the most debilitating disorders you can have. Aphasia is any condition that interferes with speech, and anomic aphasia basically is an inability to assign names to things (you can see an object and fully understand its deign/function/purpose, but you can't come up with the word to describe it and will not remember it even if told it).
Imagine being able to do anything normally, except communicate. This guy was fortunate that he could even write (and depriving him of a pen/paper is COMPLETELY INHUMANE - no different than putting a muzzle on somebody without such a condition). If you end up with damage in the language centers of your brain you're reduced to little more than gestures and a handful of words to communicate (the same regions govern ALL forms of language from speech to writing to sign language - no, there isn't an easy workaround), or pointing at pictures assuming a useful picture is there (and no, you can't spell words by pointing at the letters, or use any kind of symbolic representation of words, since that's the part of your brain that isn't working).
Most people who interact with somebody with aphasia assume they're mentally retarded, and treat them as such. (Not necessarily in an unkind manner, but rather by assuming that they need to be treated paternalistically and that they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions for themselves for their own sake.) While conditions that can cause aphasia can also cause other cognitive problems, they do not always do so. In general somebody with aphasia is no more or less intelligent than anyone else. However, they make poor advocates for themselves so they suffer quite a bit.
A recent episode was when the person I was talking about had to take a driving knowledge test. It was multiple choice, was computer based, and even included some pictures and recorded readings of all the questions and their answers that could be played repeatedly. However, it took about 10-15 attempts to pass the test (one per day per the state's rules, and spending about an hour to get through about a dozen questions). If you had asked them to give a free response to any of the questions they could have answered the questions verbally and satisfied you that they understood basic driving laws. However, somebody with anomic aphasia needs freedom to find words they can understand - it is very difficult for them to understand a fixed sentence just by listening to it over and over. Simply comparing the various choices to determine how they differ took many repetitions. In the end they passed both knowledge and driving examinations, but it was quite an arduous journey. It likely would not have been possible but for the fact that they had recovered quite a bit of their ability to communicate.
In general we as a society do not do a very good job accommodating those with neurlogical disorders.
Is it from a stroke/embolism?
If you cannot see the difference you need some schooling. See, the United States has the power to be as authoritarian as the government decides, but can hardly be called totalitarian. The fact that you're posting that without the threat of hanging from a rope or fifteen years in a labor camp in Siberia says something.
Read "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denosovich," he spends 15 years in a prison camp for moving past the front lines in "the great patriotic war" (WWII) and was shot at and imprisoned for desertion on getting back to the front. Solzhenitsyn spent time in a Siberian camp, and got the explicit permission from Khrushchev to publish it to show the horrors Stalins cult of personality produced.
Our due process isn't perfect, but it's better than due process meaning whatever they feel like, "you do."
From which country? I'm guessing Muslims (or people who "look like" a Muslim) from places like Morocco or Sri Lanka have an easier time than people flying from Mogadishu.
The US is the united part of America, while there's also this continent called.. you guessed it.. America. It can be subdivided into North and South America, but if you just call it America, it's the whole you'd actually be talking about.
This is iffy. America the Beautiful is not about Panama.
Not that Panama is not beautiful, much is pristine rainforest.
Don't worry, you only get treated like dirt if you're disabled. You get treated like crap if you're a foreigner. You get treated like you're a terrorist if you're brown.
Quite right.
Some of the more impressive shots I've seen were on an A series (A85) 4MP camera which can be had for thirty bucks, and some majestic HDRs from a 6mp Konica Minolta. If you have a decent camera and time and tenacity you can make pretty pictures. And conversely I am sure it wouldn't take long to find someone who should just go sell their 5D.
What's happening when i shine my violet laser at a tennis ball green dog toy and it seems to get brighter and reflect white, or on a marble coffee table and it gets blue-white? Really liked your breakdown.
And they will be around until 2050, a near 100 year run. Astounding.
The tier 1 providers I read about downplayed it, but then again they have a lot of incentive to downplay it.
Uh, I mean virtual differently, obviously you can't eat quality, but eating can stem from compassion. In India, sages would tell parables or give sermons. If people liked your wisdom they fed you. Spiritual enlightenment by means of natural selection. =-)