Open source vs proprietary is a lot like the tragedy of the commons.
By keeping stuff secret you benefit yourself at global expense.
Open source is good for society as a whole, but for an individual business in cutthroat competition with scoundrels ready to cut them down by any means fair or foul, being nice will get you killed.
The fact that he was capable of even sending the tweet implies access to contraband electronics which very well could have also been used to receive information.
Justice is imperfect becuase PEOPLE are arbitrary.
The only way to have perfect justice is to have someone who knows everything and isn't biased make the decision.
Not only does such a person not even exist, but such a person would never make it into the jury box without being kicked out by court officers with an axe to grind.
We have the FDIC to protect depositors and we have the Fed to protect the banks from liquidity problems.
Liquidity problems only kill a business because they have to dump capital overboard to circling swarms of sharks that take advantage of the emergency to extract bargains.
Which is why we have the FDIC to protect depositors and the FRS to protect the banks
If a bank runs out of cash but still has a healthy balance sheet, it can take out a loan from the fed and not be forced to dump its assets at a loss to the sharks.
The decision was in the hands of someone who got high enough in the corporate chain of command to have the authority to make this decision in the first place.
With that in mind I'm not entirely sure this was an accidental oversight.
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Stealing candy from a baby that can't defend himself is quite profitable indeed.
Open source vs proprietary is a lot like the tragedy of the commons.
By keeping stuff secret you benefit yourself at global expense.
Open source is good for society as a whole, but for an individual business in cutthroat competition with scoundrels ready to cut them down by any means fair or foul, being nice will get you killed.
Actually it's a little known intangible asset called Goodwill.
The fact that he was capable of even sending the tweet implies access to contraband electronics which very well could have also been used to receive information.
The only time a person should die for committing a crime is from a lethal, heat of the moment encounter with self defense by the victim.
Getting the needle on dubious evidence? Not cool.
Getting your heart skewered for trying to rape or rob someone? Fair game.
I wonder what it says when lawyers don't want geniuses on the jury to begin with.
Jurors are only human.
How do we know that all messages were outbound?
The mere presence of a device CAPABLE of contact the outside world, even just to send a message, is a breach enough.
The tweets themselves might not have nailed the jurors but they blew the whistle on the contraband electronics that were used to send them.
Just lock them up for contempt of court.
Jury nullification isn't illegal, but lying during voir dire about your intentions to do so is perjury.
They can also refuse to convict someone of a just law when they happen to hold a low opinion of the victim.
Justice is imperfect becuase PEOPLE are arbitrary.
The only way to have perfect justice is to have someone who knows everything and isn't biased make the decision.
Not only does such a person not even exist, but such a person would never make it into the jury box without being kicked out by court officers with an axe to grind.
Someone human has to make the decision, either by himself or with 11 teammates.
As long as that holds you will always have avenues for bias.
And don't even try replacing jurors with robots, because who is going to program and maintain them?
bingo!
You just figured out how prosecutors stop jury nullification.
And those people are the sour-pusses that need removed.
We have the FDIC to protect depositors and we have the Fed to protect the banks from liquidity problems.
Liquidity problems only kill a business because they have to dump capital overboard to circling swarms of sharks that take advantage of the emergency to extract bargains.
Which is why we have the FDIC to protect depositors and the FRS to protect the banks
If a bank runs out of cash but still has a healthy balance sheet, it can take out a loan from the fed and not be forced to dump its assets at a loss to the sharks.
Any tax scheme that pisses off the lobbyists wont fly.
So basically, SSD is L5 cache between your ram and your hard drive
what if said consumer product was part of the control system for a factory for a life saving drug?
The decision was in the hands of someone who got high enough in the corporate chain of command to have the authority to make this decision in the first place.
With that in mind I'm not entirely sure this was an accidental oversight.
We can plan quite well.
It's just that we're selfish bastards whose plans only exist to cover our own asses and don't give a damn about anyone else's.
The world would also be happier if there wasn't anything to actually complain about.
An RIAA official who in any just world would be in prison right now on perjury charges.
Your story is so lame I would rather face the strange man than allow myself to be used to propagate this evil curse.