The six months is for prosecuting the other guys that he rolled on. His deal is contingent on him cooperating fully with the authorities, which means actually taking the stand against them. I'm betting that the six month delay is to let him take the stand against the other guys, and to let the prosecutors rate his performance, before they figure out this guy's punishment.
This is a very simple-minded and ultimately incorrect view of the fault. It is not the judge's fault. We are the idiots who have allowed our politicians to write these insane laws with statutory damages. A jury of our peers levied these insane damages against this person. The judges didn't write the law and didn't make the decision. They are bound by the law and cannot just make up laws as they see fit.
You don't want to give a gun to a government employee because they have done bad things. Rather, you are willing to give a gun to a complete non-government stranger because complete non-government strangers have never done anything illegal, or the achieve his agenda. *blank stare*
Just what we need.. yet another self-righteous poster who didn't bother to read the freaking article. No one is saying that antibiotics are the sole or even the major reason that children are fat. No one is denying that over-eating is a huge reason for obesity. All these scientists have concluded is that, based on their analysis of evidence, babies who were exposed to antibiotics within the first six months of life were more prone to being overweight at 10, 20, and 38 months of age. They only reported this correlation, and cautioned that there was no causal relationship yet.
But no matter. Random Internet poster dude who didn't read the article is going to rail against anti-medicine when it is actually he who is railing against a team of scientists making a scientific conclusion.
It would be incredibly paranoid to think that a solar flare would destroy hard drives and OPTICAL DISKS but if you want to allay your fears cheaply, burn copies of your source code on a DVD, then onto a hard drive, then on an SSD hard drive, and then onto a USB key drive. Then apply for a safety deposit box at a bank that holds them in the basement. A basement bank vault will serve as a very good Faraday cage indeed. Having the data stored in multiple forms would help against a solar flare.
NOTE that you have traded security of one sort at the expense of security of the other sort. With so many copies of your company's lifeblood floating around, you are at risk of having that information getting stolen. Most people use trade secrets to protect their code. If you are careless about it, and let everyone keep a copy of your source code, then it's really not a "secret" and that's a prerequisite to asserting "trade secrets". Therefore, you should minimize the number of copies floating around. Centralize all the source code onto a server with a RAID array. Put access control methods onto the RAID array. Make an on-site backup onto a separate RAID array. (For instance, the server should have a RAID 5 array, and it should back up onto a NAS with a RAID 5 array.) Make off-site copies of the backup server. For instance, put an encrypted copy of the backup onto a HDD and drop that off into the bank vault.
Using GrooveIP to make free GV phone calls over wifi has been well-known among nerds for a while now. In fact, the best way to do it would be to buy a Bluetooth headset so you don't have to hold the stupid thing against your face.
Yeah, anyone who disagrees with you is a sycophant or astroturfer. You speak the unimpeachable Truth and all others are Damned. Please spare me this BS. I don't disagree with you, necessarily, but I hate the demonization of those who disagree with you. Dissent is healthy.
The difference between blackmail and settlement is that blackmail requires the threat of doing something ILLEGAL if the demands are not met. Whereas, a settlement offer is the forbearance of a LEGAL right if the demands are met. If someone didn't pay me for my work, for instance, I can send a demand letter asking that he pay me or I will sue him for the money, which is a legal right I have. If I demand money or I will shoot him, that's blackmail.
The boundary is close when it comes to porno cases. What if the right to sue is clear cut (the Copyright Laws clearly prohibit downloading the material) but the real damage is the damage to reputation? That becomes closer to the situation of, "Give me money or I'll release this sex tape you made" or "Give me money or I'll tell the world about our love baby."
I was thinking that you needed a Stinger to shoot it down, but then I realized that a Stinger is a heat-seeking missile. This thing is a giant balloon, and it has little propellers but I don't know how much heat it puts out. The Stinger can track leading-wing heat, but this thing is going at 30 mph. That's not a lot of heat, and there are no wings. Sticking a towed decoy If they want to militarize it, they probably want to use a hybrid drive system with electric fans, and vent the exhaust up. All in all, this might be pretty tough to shoot down absent anti-aircraft artillery or a radar-guided SAM. It's also freaking quiet so if you have cloud cover I'm not sure you can even see or hear it.
This, this, this, a million times this. Quickbooks is a laggy POS but it is standard. Your accountant will be able to use it, and various programs and services use it as well, most notably, Expensify. The program itself costs $150 for the Pro version, and it is worth every freaking penny. I run my own law firm, and I tried to do the Excel spreadsheet thing for a year, and it just doesn't work out. You're much better off using Quickbooks, reading the official how-to book, and then using it religiously. In fact, reading the manual and using Quickbooks actually makes me aware of all the various accounting concepts such as accounts receivable and the like.
You already have Windows 7, so Windows 8 doesn't look too appealing to you. But if you're starting from Windows XP/Office 2003, which is being retired on April 8, 2014, then Windows 8/Office 2012/Windows Server 2012 might be the platform you are targeting as replacement instead of Win7/Office 2010. Why? Because if you're the guy who stuck on XP for a decade, then you're probably going to want to go as far forward as you can. The 4/8/14 deadline for retirement is not an accident. Microsoft left enough time for slow adopters to get the first service pack for Win8/Office 2003 when they push out their new systems.
For corporate/business/enterprise users, Windows 8 offers: (1) upgraded version of Windows Defender baked in. (2) faster boot compared to Win7, so it must be so much faster than WinXP, right? Hybrid boot makes this go faster. (3) UEFI will, unfortunately, be sold as "protection against malware".
To make things faster, they will send you a 1 TB disk that you can fill with your data, then return to them. It costs $125 per disk, though, so it'll cost $1,000 to get all this uploaded. You're better off with FIOS and the highest tier of service.
The best bet is to stick everything onto hard drives, then stick the hard drives into a safety deposit box. Don't lose the keys, and don't forget to update the drives once in a while to make sure the data is still good.
Negative, ghost rider. The Double Jeopardy Clause does not apply to actions brought by separate sovereigns. The federal government and the state are two entities and they can each bring charges without being precluded by the other's actions.
RAID is not a backup solution if you are using the drives in production. The concern is that if you delete or otherwise corrupt the file system on the RAID, you have a perfectly redundant copy of garbage without no backup to restore from. However, if you write to a RAID array, then put the device into cold storage, then you have a redundant backup system. That definitely makes sense. Even if this dude gets a dozen 2 TB hard drives, he still isn't going to have redundancy. Copying everything onto RAID will make his life easier as long as he doesn't use the RAID in production.
If I remember correctly, the US has committed itself to not using mines anywhere in the world other than the DMZ between North Korea and South Korea. There are 30,000 Marines stationed at the DMZ as a speed bump to any North Korean invasion. The Marines are supposed to get killed and force America to intervene on behalf of South Korea. As one might imagine, the DMZ is strewn with minefields, and the North Koreans are thought to have substantial tunnels under the entire damned mess. I think American policy is to use landmines only in the DMZ.
Iraq has a huge unexploded mines problem but that is generally from all the other wars that have been fought. The First Gulf War, the Iran-Iraq War, etc. We also have a huge problem with all the depleted uranium we shot all over the place, but one problem at a time, now.
Oh, really? Have you ever tried to buy insurance by yourself if your employer doesn't provide it? It's almost impossible to get an affordable plan unless you go onto one of the socialized health care plans.
My current theory on cyber security is to put all of my eggs in a few baskets rather than spreading them out. My primary email accounts are operated by Google, with Google Authenticator providing two-factor security. I have LastPass providing complex and unique passwords for every website out there, and again, I have Google Authenticator providing two-factor security for that as well. Because LastPass has essentially scrambled all of my logins, I cannot access any website--including the email--without LastPass and two-factor security. All of my pictures and docs are backed up using CrashPlan with client-side encryption, with the key stored on LastPass. This set up seems smarter than spreading everything thinly.
I agree with your post aside from eliminating air to ground from the F-22. The F-15 Strike Eagle has been a great air-to-ground attack plane that has been proven in combat. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, it provided "close air support" to soldiers in combat by dropping JDAMs on targets. The high performance of the F-15 made it a good fit for its role as a deep strike attack plane. It can dash to where its needed and deliver bombs accurately. The F-22 can do the same with the Small Diameter Bomb without compromising its stealth or anti-aircraft performance. So why not?
The AK-47 is great if you just want to kill a bunch of people but that would be terrible if you're an American soldier in Iraq trying to avoid unnecessary civilian casualties during urban combat. The M-16 is very accurate compared to the AK-47. The lighter round of the M-16 means the gun barely kicks. The accuracy of follow-on rounds are very good. The AK-47 jumps around throwing a heavy round. Sure, it looks good if you want to fire an AK-47 on full auto in a movie or during a celebration but the dude with the M-16 going for a headshot is probably going to pwn you all day.
The M-16 and the AK-47 are different tools for different military training regimes. America trains its infantry to fire aimed shots at discrete targets. Even in a crazy firefight, the American soldier is trained to shoot only at hostile targets such as armed men and muzzle flashes. The ethos of aimed shots taken by highly-trained infantrymen pervades to the weapon. The most common version of the M-16 issued to infantry does not fire automatically; soldiers take single shots at discrete targets. Thus, the M-16 is also capable of hitting man-sized targets at 500 meters even though most engagements take place within 300 meters--the ethos is that it is a professional's weapon. It requires maintenance, but the US soldier is assumed to be capable of performing it.
The AK-47 is a tool of militiamen who just spray and pray. Most gunmen who wield it fire automatically, hoping to put up enough lead to hit someone. The users are also assumed to be too dumb to maintain their weapons, so it's meant to be maintenance free. The trade-off is relative inaccuracy, but then again, it's commonly fired at full auto, which destroys accuracy.
The AK-47 and its derivatives are popular because most of the world cannot field infantrymen with the training of the US. The dudes using AKs are Africans killing their countrymen or militiamen shooting at Americans. Neither population really aims before they shoot, and they can't maintain their weapons, so that's why they use the AK-47.
Gatling created his machine gun trying to save human lives. In the days of the Civil War, most of the deaths were from infections of otherwise non-fatal wounds or disease. Most of the soldiers were dying before they had the chance to shoot the other guys. Gatling thought that if he could create a gun that enabled one man to do the work of a hundred men, then 99 men could stay home from the battlefield.
Let's just say that this didn't turn out the way he expected it to.
In the same way that an American bombsmith making his own bombs with his kitchen supplies is also circumventing the law. Guns are only designed to kill things. That makes them different from most other things. Unless you recognize that basic truth, then you're not going to have an honest discussion on gun rights and gun regulation. The NRA says that guns don't kill people, people kill people. Which is true in one sense, but when was there a case where a dude stabbed 50 people to death?
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The six months is for prosecuting the other guys that he rolled on. His deal is contingent on him cooperating fully with the authorities, which means actually taking the stand against them. I'm betting that the six month delay is to let him take the stand against the other guys, and to let the prosecutors rate his performance, before they figure out this guy's punishment.
This is a very simple-minded and ultimately incorrect view of the fault. It is not the judge's fault. We are the idiots who have allowed our politicians to write these insane laws with statutory damages. A jury of our peers levied these insane damages against this person. The judges didn't write the law and didn't make the decision. They are bound by the law and cannot just make up laws as they see fit.
You don't want to give a gun to a government employee because they have done bad things. Rather, you are willing to give a gun to a complete non-government stranger because complete non-government strangers have never done anything illegal, or the achieve his agenda. *blank stare*
Under American law, those parts can be purchased relatively easily. It is the "receiver" that is considered the firearm for regulation purposes.
Just what we need .. yet another self-righteous poster who didn't bother to read the freaking article. No one is saying that antibiotics are the sole or even the major reason that children are fat. No one is denying that over-eating is a huge reason for obesity. All these scientists have concluded is that, based on their analysis of evidence, babies who were exposed to antibiotics within the first six months of life were more prone to being overweight at 10, 20, and 38 months of age. They only reported this correlation, and cautioned that there was no causal relationship yet.
But no matter. Random Internet poster dude who didn't read the article is going to rail against anti-medicine when it is actually he who is railing against a team of scientists making a scientific conclusion.
"Google shopping is simply pathetic -- sorry Newegg and Nextag, never used you never will "
Newegg doesn't charge tax in New York while Amazon does. So you are missing out on that.
It would be incredibly paranoid to think that a solar flare would destroy hard drives and OPTICAL DISKS but if you want to allay your fears cheaply, burn copies of your source code on a DVD, then onto a hard drive, then on an SSD hard drive, and then onto a USB key drive. Then apply for a safety deposit box at a bank that holds them in the basement. A basement bank vault will serve as a very good Faraday cage indeed. Having the data stored in multiple forms would help against a solar flare.
NOTE that you have traded security of one sort at the expense of security of the other sort. With so many copies of your company's lifeblood floating around, you are at risk of having that information getting stolen. Most people use trade secrets to protect their code. If you are careless about it, and let everyone keep a copy of your source code, then it's really not a "secret" and that's a prerequisite to asserting "trade secrets". Therefore, you should minimize the number of copies floating around. Centralize all the source code onto a server with a RAID array. Put access control methods onto the RAID array. Make an on-site backup onto a separate RAID array. (For instance, the server should have a RAID 5 array, and it should back up onto a NAS with a RAID 5 array.) Make off-site copies of the backup server. For instance, put an encrypted copy of the backup onto a HDD and drop that off into the bank vault.
Using GrooveIP to make free GV phone calls over wifi has been well-known among nerds for a while now. In fact, the best way to do it would be to buy a Bluetooth headset so you don't have to hold the stupid thing against your face.
Yeah, anyone who disagrees with you is a sycophant or astroturfer. You speak the unimpeachable Truth and all others are Damned. Please spare me this BS. I don't disagree with you, necessarily, but I hate the demonization of those who disagree with you. Dissent is healthy.
The difference between blackmail and settlement is that blackmail requires the threat of doing something ILLEGAL if the demands are not met. Whereas, a settlement offer is the forbearance of a LEGAL right if the demands are met. If someone didn't pay me for my work, for instance, I can send a demand letter asking that he pay me or I will sue him for the money, which is a legal right I have. If I demand money or I will shoot him, that's blackmail.
The boundary is close when it comes to porno cases. What if the right to sue is clear cut (the Copyright Laws clearly prohibit downloading the material) but the real damage is the damage to reputation? That becomes closer to the situation of, "Give me money or I'll release this sex tape you made" or "Give me money or I'll tell the world about our love baby."
I was thinking that you needed a Stinger to shoot it down, but then I realized that a Stinger is a heat-seeking missile. This thing is a giant balloon, and it has little propellers but I don't know how much heat it puts out. The Stinger can track leading-wing heat, but this thing is going at 30 mph. That's not a lot of heat, and there are no wings. Sticking a towed decoy If they want to militarize it, they probably want to use a hybrid drive system with electric fans, and vent the exhaust up. All in all, this might be pretty tough to shoot down absent anti-aircraft artillery or a radar-guided SAM. It's also freaking quiet so if you have cloud cover I'm not sure you can even see or hear it.
This, this, this, a million times this. Quickbooks is a laggy POS but it is standard. Your accountant will be able to use it, and various programs and services use it as well, most notably, Expensify. The program itself costs $150 for the Pro version, and it is worth every freaking penny. I run my own law firm, and I tried to do the Excel spreadsheet thing for a year, and it just doesn't work out. You're much better off using Quickbooks, reading the official how-to book, and then using it religiously. In fact, reading the manual and using Quickbooks actually makes me aware of all the various accounting concepts such as accounts receivable and the like.
You already have Windows 7, so Windows 8 doesn't look too appealing to you. But if you're starting from Windows XP/Office 2003, which is being retired on April 8, 2014, then Windows 8/Office 2012/Windows Server 2012 might be the platform you are targeting as replacement instead of Win7/Office 2010. Why? Because if you're the guy who stuck on XP for a decade, then you're probably going to want to go as far forward as you can. The 4/8/14 deadline for retirement is not an accident. Microsoft left enough time for slow adopters to get the first service pack for Win8/Office 2003 when they push out their new systems.
For corporate/business/enterprise users, Windows 8 offers:
(1) upgraded version of Windows Defender baked in.
(2) faster boot compared to Win7, so it must be so much faster than WinXP, right? Hybrid boot makes this go faster.
(3) UEFI will, unfortunately, be sold as "protection against malware".
To make things faster, they will send you a 1 TB disk that you can fill with your data, then return to them. It costs $125 per disk, though, so it'll cost $1,000 to get all this uploaded. You're better off with FIOS and the highest tier of service.
The best bet is to stick everything onto hard drives, then stick the hard drives into a safety deposit box. Don't lose the keys, and don't forget to update the drives once in a while to make sure the data is still good.
Negative, ghost rider. The Double Jeopardy Clause does not apply to actions brought by separate sovereigns. The federal government and the state are two entities and they can each bring charges without being precluded by the other's actions.
RAID is not a backup solution if you are using the drives in production. The concern is that if you delete or otherwise corrupt the file system on the RAID, you have a perfectly redundant copy of garbage without no backup to restore from. However, if you write to a RAID array, then put the device into cold storage, then you have a redundant backup system. That definitely makes sense. Even if this dude gets a dozen 2 TB hard drives, he still isn't going to have redundancy. Copying everything onto RAID will make his life easier as long as he doesn't use the RAID in production.
If I remember correctly, the US has committed itself to not using mines anywhere in the world other than the DMZ between North Korea and South Korea. There are 30,000 Marines stationed at the DMZ as a speed bump to any North Korean invasion. The Marines are supposed to get killed and force America to intervene on behalf of South Korea. As one might imagine, the DMZ is strewn with minefields, and the North Koreans are thought to have substantial tunnels under the entire damned mess. I think American policy is to use landmines only in the DMZ.
Iraq has a huge unexploded mines problem but that is generally from all the other wars that have been fought. The First Gulf War, the Iran-Iraq War, etc. We also have a huge problem with all the depleted uranium we shot all over the place, but one problem at a time, now.
Staples was selling 240 GB SSD drives from Sandisk for $119.99 without a mail in rebate. Prices are dropping precipitously, my friends.
Oh, really? Have you ever tried to buy insurance by yourself if your employer doesn't provide it? It's almost impossible to get an affordable plan unless you go onto one of the socialized health care plans.
My current theory on cyber security is to put all of my eggs in a few baskets rather than spreading them out. My primary email accounts are operated by Google, with Google Authenticator providing two-factor security. I have LastPass providing complex and unique passwords for every website out there, and again, I have Google Authenticator providing two-factor security for that as well. Because LastPass has essentially scrambled all of my logins, I cannot access any website--including the email--without LastPass and two-factor security. All of my pictures and docs are backed up using CrashPlan with client-side encryption, with the key stored on LastPass. This set up seems smarter than spreading everything thinly.
I agree with your post aside from eliminating air to ground from the F-22. The F-15 Strike Eagle has been a great air-to-ground attack plane that has been proven in combat. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, it provided "close air support" to soldiers in combat by dropping JDAMs on targets. The high performance of the F-15 made it a good fit for its role as a deep strike attack plane. It can dash to where its needed and deliver bombs accurately. The F-22 can do the same with the Small Diameter Bomb without compromising its stealth or anti-aircraft performance. So why not?
The AK-47 is great if you just want to kill a bunch of people but that would be terrible if you're an American soldier in Iraq trying to avoid unnecessary civilian casualties during urban combat. The M-16 is very accurate compared to the AK-47. The lighter round of the M-16 means the gun barely kicks. The accuracy of follow-on rounds are very good. The AK-47 jumps around throwing a heavy round. Sure, it looks good if you want to fire an AK-47 on full auto in a movie or during a celebration but the dude with the M-16 going for a headshot is probably going to pwn you all day.
The M-16 and the AK-47 are different tools for different military training regimes. America trains its infantry to fire aimed shots at discrete targets. Even in a crazy firefight, the American soldier is trained to shoot only at hostile targets such as armed men and muzzle flashes. The ethos of aimed shots taken by highly-trained infantrymen pervades to the weapon. The most common version of the M-16 issued to infantry does not fire automatically; soldiers take single shots at discrete targets. Thus, the M-16 is also capable of hitting man-sized targets at 500 meters even though most engagements take place within 300 meters--the ethos is that it is a professional's weapon. It requires maintenance, but the US soldier is assumed to be capable of performing it.
The AK-47 is a tool of militiamen who just spray and pray. Most gunmen who wield it fire automatically, hoping to put up enough lead to hit someone. The users are also assumed to be too dumb to maintain their weapons, so it's meant to be maintenance free. The trade-off is relative inaccuracy, but then again, it's commonly fired at full auto, which destroys accuracy.
The AK-47 and its derivatives are popular because most of the world cannot field infantrymen with the training of the US. The dudes using AKs are Africans killing their countrymen or militiamen shooting at Americans. Neither population really aims before they shoot, and they can't maintain their weapons, so that's why they use the AK-47.
Gatling created his machine gun trying to save human lives. In the days of the Civil War, most of the deaths were from infections of otherwise non-fatal wounds or disease. Most of the soldiers were dying before they had the chance to shoot the other guys. Gatling thought that if he could create a gun that enabled one man to do the work of a hundred men, then 99 men could stay home from the battlefield.
Let's just say that this didn't turn out the way he expected it to.
In the same way that an American bombsmith making his own bombs with his kitchen supplies is also circumventing the law. Guns are only designed to kill things. That makes them different from most other things. Unless you recognize that basic truth, then you're not going to have an honest discussion on gun rights and gun regulation. The NRA says that guns don't kill people, people kill people. Which is true in one sense, but when was there a case where a dude stabbed 50 people to death?