Most girls don't want to get treated like meat. They're as much in the minority as guys who like to treat women as meat... Those two may tend to gravitate to each other, and that's fine with me -- except when that leaves these guys thinking that all (or most) girls are like that.
As for the drunken girls at a frat party, that may be a special case. On the other hand -- where a sloshed girl got (seriously) pressured into sex after she was drunk, or she just got fucked after she passed out, it might be rather hard to prove that it wasn't consentual sex if you don't have ripped clothing and bruises to show for it.
This doesn't mean that there wasn't rape.
There's a big difference between "take me home, I'm horny", and "whaddh are you dooooinnng???"
Fucking a passed-out frat chick would end you up in jail if there was a video to back up the charge -- but absent a video or an independent witness, the rape is unlikely to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt (which is very different than 'on the balance of the probabilities').
For a clear example of this, consider the OJ Simpson case.
First point: If I gave you $10.00 on Friday, does that give you the right to rob me on Thursday? Is there any question of consent there?
Second point (and ignoring the first). Let's say there's some question of consent WRT the one guy that dated the girl. What about the other two guys? Did they present evidince of local orgies too?
Check out Their online banking login. Control-U (view source) will get you a list of 'bank accounts' (it's a real obvious set of case statements). Pick any one to view an account statement. (you can use anything for the PIN number). Note that they're not paying interest on their multi-million dollar bank accounts, even though they claim 1.51 % for checking accounts.
(Yeah, and the fact that they have the account numbers in the source of their web page should tell you something too, never minding the lack of SSL).
Hmm... for the real lazy, it appears that any odd number between 2206076832141101 and 2206076832141165 (among others) will work
There was some poor sod after 9/11 (I think thie was in England). He had a package of Gunpowder Tea, and they wouldn't let him take it on the airplane for fear that it might be explosive. They did, however, finally relent, and let him take it on but without the package. It was one of the candidates for
stupidest security measures.
Now you have to prove that they're the ones who trojaned the systems, and not merely someone who scanned them, found they were compromised, and used them.
If you're right about that (that simply using a trojaned system without permission isn't the heart of the offence), then if you can prove that they compromised a system (or paid for that to be done), and then they used that compromised system to send spam, that that's two charges against these bastards.
What really galls me is the Diebole executive who apologized for getting caught.
"We were caught. We apologize for that," Urosevich said of the mass failures of devices needed to call up digital ballots.
Now, some people may think that he's apologizing for the mess that diebold created, but I honestly think that he was apologizing for getting caught..
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In any case, does anybody know what the chances of a class action suit are? I figure that $10K for each disenfranchised voter might give Diebold pause. Can you also get punitive damages in a class action lawsuit?
I was -1 Karma b/c I posted so much anti-Bush crap.
It's not the anti-Bush that got you in trouble -- there are a lot of people here who think that Bush and crew are only slightly better than (name your [least] favorite despot). What got you introuble was the crap part.
Come up with some well-considered posts on just about any subject, and you should get moderated up, rather than down.
"There's still not any evidence of electronic voting sys- tems anywhere in this country counting votes inaccurately," said Conny McCormack, the Los Angeles County registrar of voters.
Wrong! there was at least one case, in Georgia I believe, where one or more voting machines recorded N times as many votes as there were voters -- They had to divide the votes by N to get something that looked accurate.
I would acutually challenge them in the other direction: I'd say that there is absolutely no evidence that Diebold (or any other paperless) voting machines have ever recorded votes accurately. This goes double, now -- in the face of their California record.
Nothing wrong with leaving an unmarked package at an airport.... But if it is done on purpose (and given the current level of paranoia around airoports), it could easily ammount to a 'mischeif' charge.
But, if your package contains 10KG of plastique, then you can expect a long, undocumented, 'vacation' in Cuba.
Long time ago I used to Play Diplomacy -- kinda like "Risk" except that you got to do some serious negitiations inbetween moves.
There was this one guy who was really good at it. The general rule was: If you allied with him, you'd (usually)
be the last person he killed off... But he still killed you off.
Why work with #2??? Because they're that much less likely to string you up on a moment's notice, and you might have someplace to go when #1 decides that you're expendable.
Right now, the patent system is mandated to make a profit. The way that they do this is by encouraging companies to make as many patent applications as possible, and processing them as quickly as possible. Of course one thing that encourages companies to make applications is a high acceptance rate -- then, of course there are the extra fees for a successful application.
This is why we're getting patents on things like breathing --- The patent office is now a government profit centre. It's gone from being the gatekeeper of patents to a certificate mill. The only way that we're going to change the kinds of patents that the PTO awards is to change their terms of reference.
They should change the way that the patent office is run. They should get a base ammount, based on how much work they're doing now, then they should only get to keep money for patents that they deny.
That should at least give them some incentive to not pass questionable patents or even opaque ones.
Mac's OS-X comes from pretty much the same base (Unix) as Linux does. Given that OS-X has been able to be both more secure and more usable than windows, I'd say that this pretty much proves that usability != insecurity.
That a bunch of Windows admins would so profoundly believe that insecurity is a necessary side effect of usability is simply an indicator of just how ingrained Microsoft's fatalistic view of security is in the windows community.
The problem isn't usability, the problem is Microsoft.
There are already Linux distributions with the usability of Windows that are far more secure. The barrier to Linux acceptance on the desktop is not usability. It's more in areas like organizational inertia, ignorance of the options and the success of Microsoft's FUD campaigns.
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My friends and roommates who I've moved to Linux haven't had any problems with Linux's usability. It's the ones who haven't been willing to try it that have had problems with being afraid of it's usability. The roomate I have now is quite happy with Linux... I tossed him into it because his windows installation self destructed, and I really wasn't willing to provide support for Windows. He tried Linux 'as a test', and hasn't looked back since.
My first roomate that I tossed into the Linux lion's den ended up with Red Hat 6.1 and Windows 95 dual-boot. He started using Linux mostly beause that's where I always left it, and it generally just wasn't worth it to boot into Windows for most things. By the time he moved out, he'd not only given up on Windows... He'd turned into one of the most avid Linux boosters I've ever known.
For people talking to parlimentarians, It might be worthwhile to put together a list of some of the most agregious software patents out there (like the domain name patent, and the plugin patent).
Please put your list here.
What are some of your (least) favorite bad software patents, and what are their (forseeable) effects?
The real problem is, though, that there is no 120 VAC inside your computer,
No big deal.. use a 12V halogen bulb.. Those things burn HOT. I built a handful of 12V halogen flashlights (ran off of jell cells or car accessory plugs). They'd burn pretty hot. I accidently left one on, partially wrapped in a sleeping bag on my bed. Luckily my roommate noticed the smoke smell before we had a full-fledged house fire on our hands, but I still ended up with 3rd degree splash burns on my hand from molten plastic that went flying when I yanked the flashlight out of the hole it had burned in my bed (it was a foam matress).
After that, I started building thermal switches into the flashlights.
Halogen bulbs also have the advantage of being small.. They'd fit real nice in a 5" enclosure. a couple milimetres of shuttle tile material as insulation and you've got a nice, high-tech EZ-Bake oven in a drive bay.
I don't know how you get "easier to install" than WinXP, which on my machine involved putting the CD in rebooting, hitting two keys to format the drive, another to agree to MS's terms, and typing in my Admin password.
You put that sucker on the 'net and it'll be hacked within an hour... You also have to hunt down and install the MS upgrades first.... One of them (god only knows why) took 4 hours, or so (didn't think to track the start time) to install on my friend's computer. and the rest required a handfull more reboots... Pretty much ate an entire evening and into the wee hours of the morning.
Cheaper? The cost of the PC is not going to be itemized, so the fact that it is possible to find Windows PCs for $300 (less than half the price)....
As the price of tbe box drops, the relative cost of an MS license goes up -- and if a company is willing to go to a vendor selling $300 PCs, then you're still gonna save anywhere between a hundred and a thousand dollars by not paying the M$ tax.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "arbitrary 'license violation' warnings,"
As I understand it, if you change your hardware configuration, too often, or by too much Windows will demand that you go to MS to re-authorize your 'license', and MS is under no obligation to grant that re-authorization. (or did they finally back off on that stupid plan?)
In other words, after paying MS $100~$1000 dollars, they still reserve the right to veto your upgrade path and turn your machine into a glorified paperweight.
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Steve Jobs must be very, very, relieved.
Hopefully some overzealous Yahoo isn't going to decide that this is somehow against Mitnick's (rather onerous) bail conditions.
As for the drunken girls at a frat party, that may be a special case. On the other hand -- where a sloshed girl got (seriously) pressured into sex after she was drunk, or she just got fucked after she passed out, it might be rather hard to prove that it wasn't consentual sex if you don't have ripped clothing and bruises to show for it.
This doesn't mean that there wasn't rape. There's a big difference between "take me home, I'm horny", and "whaddh are you dooooinnng???" Fucking a passed-out frat chick would end you up in jail if there was a video to back up the charge -- but absent a video or an independent witness, the rape is unlikely to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt (which is very different than 'on the balance of the probabilities').
For a clear example of this, consider the OJ Simpson case.
Second point (and ignoring the first). Let's say there's some question of consent WRT the one guy that dated the girl. What about the other two guys? Did they present evidince of local orgies too?
(Yeah, and the fact that they have the account numbers in the source of their web page should tell you something too, never minding the lack of SSL).
Hmm... for the real lazy, it appears that any odd number between 2206076832141101 and 2206076832141165 (among others) will work
Oh, never mind.
There was some poor sod after 9/11 (I think thie was in England). He had a package of Gunpowder Tea, and they wouldn't let him take it on the airplane for fear that it might be explosive. They did, however, finally relent, and let him take it on but without the package. It was one of the candidates for stupidest security measures.
If you're right about that (that simply using a trojaned system without permission isn't the heart of the offence), then if you can prove that they compromised a system (or paid for that to be done), and then they used that compromised system to send spam, that that's two charges against these bastards.
TIme to Sue the Bastards
In any case, does anybody know what the chances of a class action suit are? I figure that $10K for each disenfranchised voter might give Diebold pause. Can you also get punitive damages in a class action lawsuit?
It's not the anti-Bush that got you in trouble -- there are a lot of people here who think that Bush and crew are only slightly better than (name your [least] favorite despot). What got you introuble was the crap part.
Come up with some well-considered posts on just about any subject, and you should get moderated up, rather than down.
I would acutually challenge them in the other direction: I'd say that there is absolutely no evidence that Diebold (or any other paperless) voting machines have ever recorded votes accurately. This goes double, now -- in the face of their California record.
My friend will be real happy to hear about this. He's a serious smalltalk geek.
But, if your package contains 10KG of plastique, then you can expect a long, undocumented, 'vacation' in Cuba.
Besides, they might just kill off Apple's music business, not the whole company.
There was this one guy who was really good at it. The general rule was: If you allied with him, you'd (usually) be the last person he killed off... But he still killed you off.
Why work with #2??? Because they're that much less likely to string you up on a moment's notice, and you might have someplace to go when #1 decides that you're expendable.
This is why we're getting patents on things like breathing --- The patent office is now a government profit centre. It's gone from being the gatekeeper of patents to a certificate mill. The only way that we're going to change the kinds of patents that the PTO awards is to change their terms of reference.
That should at least give them some incentive to not pass questionable patents or even opaque ones.
That a bunch of Windows admins would so profoundly believe that insecurity is a necessary side effect of usability is simply an indicator of just how ingrained Microsoft's fatalistic view of security is in the windows community.
The problem isn't usability, the problem is Microsoft.
There are already Linux distributions with the usability of Windows that are far more secure. The barrier to Linux acceptance on the desktop is not usability. It's more in areas like organizational inertia, ignorance of the options and the success of Microsoft's FUD campaigns.
______
My friends and roommates who I've moved to Linux haven't had any problems with Linux's usability. It's the ones who haven't been willing to try it that have had problems with being afraid of it's usability. The roomate I have now is quite happy with Linux... I tossed him into it because his windows installation self destructed, and I really wasn't willing to provide support for Windows. He tried Linux 'as a test', and hasn't looked back since.
My first roomate that I tossed into the Linux lion's den ended up with Red Hat 6.1 and Windows 95 dual-boot. He started using Linux mostly beause that's where I always left it, and it generally just wasn't worth it to boot into Windows for most things. By the time he moved out, he'd not only given up on Windows... He'd turned into one of the most avid Linux boosters I've ever known.
What are some of your (least) favorite bad software patents, and what are their (forseeable) effects?
At Indian prices, I'd be surprised if most of those employees are making $10K/year. I'll bet they'll be asking for a bit of a bonus.
No big deal.. use a 12V halogen bulb.. Those things burn HOT . I built a handful of 12V halogen flashlights (ran off of jell cells or car accessory plugs). They'd burn pretty hot. I accidently left one on, partially wrapped in a sleeping bag on my bed. Luckily my roommate noticed the smoke smell before we had a full-fledged house fire on our hands, but I still ended up with 3rd degree splash burns on my hand from molten plastic that went flying when I yanked the flashlight out of the hole it had burned in my bed (it was a foam matress).
After that, I started building thermal switches into the flashlights.
Halogen bulbs also have the advantage of being small.. They'd fit real nice in a 5" enclosure. a couple milimetres of shuttle tile material as insulation and you've got a nice, high-tech EZ-Bake oven in a drive bay.
Then put him in the oven... No need for the hamster cage.
You put that sucker on the 'net and it'll be hacked within an hour... You also have to hunt down and install the MS upgrades first.... One of them (god only knows why) took 4 hours, or so (didn't think to track the start time) to install on my friend's computer. and the rest required a handfull more reboots... Pretty much ate an entire evening and into the wee hours of the morning.
Cheaper? The cost of the PC is not going to be itemized, so the fact that it is possible to find Windows PCs for $300 (less than half the price)....
As the price of tbe box drops, the relative cost of an MS license goes up -- and if a company is willing to go to a vendor selling $300 PCs, then you're still gonna save anywhere between a hundred and a thousand dollars by not paying the M$ tax.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "arbitrary 'license violation' warnings,"
As I understand it, if you change your hardware configuration, too often, or by too much Windows will demand that you go to MS to re-authorize your 'license', and MS is under no obligation to grant that re-authorization. (or did they finally back off on that stupid plan?)
In other words, after paying MS $100~$1000 dollars, they still reserve the right to veto your upgrade path and turn your machine into a glorified paperweight.
That should have been "might not be eligible to register a .mail address.
In all probability, most people would be compliant with both CAN-SPAM and the .mail requirements (modulo being willing to pay $2K/year to send email).