Yes you can. You just risk being prosecuted for the laws you broke to obtain the evidence. If I break into your house to steal your laptop, and consequently find you have kidnapped a child, I can report that crime and my testimony is admissible. I will, however, be tried for breaking and entering at least.
LEOs can't entice you to commit a crime (entrapment), but they can lie, cheat, mislead, pretty much anything else to get you to admit to committing one. They can also break the law in the course of their duties (breaking down your door, for instance, is criminal damage, but liability is wavered if they are correctly discharging their duties as LEOs with a warrant to search your premises).
I would be interested to know how many criminals have been suckered by Hollywood suggesting that a police officer stating "I am not a cop!" is enough to prevent prosecution if they admit a crime. It's not the case at all.
Not because the EU overturned the ban, but because the EU can overrule national decisions in such important matters
You obviously aren't aware of the French response to such interfering in their state affairs. Typically, they ask for the blessings of the EU as a formality; If they don't like the outcome, they don't pay any attention. If they're forced, the populace start setting fire to cars and breaking stuff, French media puts "EU Regulation Causing Riots Across Nation!" across the front pages, and everything goes back to normal.
To break the loop, there needs to be a change. Either I begin purchasing Linux titles to demonstrate a market for Linux gaming, or games developers begin producing Linux titles to create the market themselves.
As I am unable to purchase anything which does not exist, I cannot be held responsible for the market not existing. I would purchase all of the games I own as Linux native binaries, should they be available and stable on my system, and perform at least similarly to the equivalent Windows release. However, until such titles exist, all I'm left with is F/OSS ports or rehashes of 1990s titles, or gaming on Windows. I choose the latter, as I was alive for the former the first time around.
I run Mint as my work OS, Win7 as play. I need Win7 as dual boot so it gets unrestricted access to the excessive hardware I bought to play games. "Serious about running a Linux desktop" doesn't mean that I can't dual boot another OS. I use Linux for everything except playing games. It just so happens that I like PC gaming too, and the games I enjoy don't run (well) on Linux.
More importantly, who the fuck upvoted this PoS from the Firehose?
His "client" is obviously himself, he has serious trust issues and should probably seek professional help in dealing with those. His "client" isn't savvy in the matter of "protecting his family from scammers and unsavory types" yet he thinks that being able to crimp a patch lead is enough of a background to "tap" SSL encrypted sessions, breaching various computer misuse laws depending on your country (Wiretap Act in US, Computer Misuse Act / RIPA in the UK). Not only that, but he wants intelligent and monitoring of communications between two parties without their consent. All of this done with a script, with screenshots (that's desktop integration, mate) and then he wants to blow up his family by confronting them with this "evidence".
That's about $75 pcm more than I'm prepared to pay for single viewings of a show. If I can buy the series on iTunes for $30, I should be able to watch it on TV for less than $30. No, all of the other "added services" do not make up for that price; I am not interested in them. Really, the only option for release-day viewing of the show, outside of the US or stupid bundled packages of 99% dogshit, is piracy.
Not that I'd "buy" it from iTunes; I want it accessible if Apple folds or closes the service (same reason I don't buy Steam games anymore).
So "the hardware can handle it" is an excuse for writing shitty, poorly optimised, lazy and bloated code? Were you on the Windows ME / Vista dev team, buy any chance? If anything fixing the badly coded program will free up resources other applications could make use of, especially if you happen to run both Firefox and $Program WhichCan'tBeChanged.
Yes, I live in an ideal world. Then again, Firefox is on version 12 now. I know Chrome made is "cool" to make every patch a major version change, but there's still no excuse for sloppy code. This isn't "for profit" with penalties for missing deadlines; They can afford to fix this kind of stuff.
I do agree, however, that low level systems should be able to cope with badly written apps. If they didn't, how would anybody be able to release on time?
"David Benioff here. I did the Game of Thrones TV adaptation, which you liked. HBO saw the ratings were falling and pulled out of the third series. If you want to see it, the first three episodes will cost $1.5m. HBO say they'll air it if it's free to them, and the rest of the episodes in the series will be funded by them under the regular arrangement.
You put $10m into a watch which connects to your phone, so I know you donate to projects you are interested in. Get donating."
Oh you misunderstand. It will still return the "right" answer, it'll just be "engineer" right, not "mathematician" right, i.e. "Good enough for all intents and purposes.
Furthermore, posting under the top post when your reply is nothing to do with the OP is considered a faux pas. Minus 50 DKP.
You go ahead and compete in the "free market" with people forced under penalty of imprisonment / violence against family members to work for a fraction of your salary and just see what happens to your beloved first-world living standard.
FTFY. Result is the same, though.
This is free market economics at its best; We buy the shit they make, they keep fucking over the people making that shit.
... I also recognize that a small percentage of users consume a disproportionate amount of bandwidth and that has to be managed somehow.
Why? I'll simplify it a little, but it's applicable: If there are 10 users in an area, 9 of them mom-and-pop who check email, MyBookFace, watch iPlayer sometimes and use up 50GB per month (average for Comcast, apparently), then that leaves 2250GB of the paid capacity (9 x 300GB - (9 x 50GB). That 2550GB of data is assigned to these 10 people, by virtue of the fact that these 10 people have paid for 10 x 300GB data. That is a fully-saturated 10Mb connection for 22 days. Unless the 1/10 is really downloading torrents 24/7, he's not saturating his pipe. Nowhere near.
Charging 10 people for 300GB of data means you have sold 3000GB of data allowance. Penalising the one user who makes use of the data the other nine don't is unjust. They don't lose out.
We're all happy to laugh at CSI when they "enhance" a digital photograph... Why is it so difficult to explain why you can't up-sample digital sound?
Analogy: Put a 1280x1024 (1.3MP) resolution photo up on your monitor, and take a photograph of it with your 20MP DSLR. Do you think you now have a 20MP photo of that scene?
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you can't break the law to catch lawbreakers
Yes you can. You just risk being prosecuted for the laws you broke to obtain the evidence. If I break into your house to steal your laptop, and consequently find you have kidnapped a child, I can report that crime and my testimony is admissible. I will, however, be tried for breaking and entering at least.
LEOs can't entice you to commit a crime (entrapment), but they can lie, cheat, mislead, pretty much anything else to get you to admit to committing one. They can also break the law in the course of their duties (breaking down your door, for instance, is criminal damage, but liability is wavered if they are correctly discharging their duties as LEOs with a warrant to search your premises).
I would be interested to know how many criminals have been suckered by Hollywood suggesting that a police officer stating "I am not a cop!" is enough to prevent prosecution if they admit a crime. It's not the case at all.
Looking at the drawing I can't help but wonder what that "Aero Spike" will feel like as it drives into my skull.
The lawyers thought the term "Catastrophic Failure Euthanasia Device" might put people off.
First comment on /. which actually made me laugh out loud. Many thanks!
Not because the EU overturned the ban, but because the EU can overrule national decisions in such important matters
You obviously aren't aware of the French response to such interfering in their state affairs. Typically, they ask for the blessings of the EU as a formality; If they don't like the outcome, they don't pay any attention. If they're forced, the populace start setting fire to cars and breaking stuff, French media puts "EU Regulation Causing Riots Across Nation!" across the front pages, and everything goes back to normal.
The French do love a good riot now and then.
A good point. Let's address it.
To break the loop, there needs to be a change. Either I begin purchasing Linux titles to demonstrate a market for Linux gaming, or games developers begin producing Linux titles to create the market themselves.
As I am unable to purchase anything which does not exist, I cannot be held responsible for the market not existing. I would purchase all of the games I own as Linux native binaries, should they be available and stable on my system, and perform at least similarly to the equivalent Windows release. However, until such titles exist, all I'm left with is F/OSS ports or rehashes of 1990s titles, or gaming on Windows. I choose the latter, as I was alive for the former the first time around.
I suggest he jacks in his job and lives on welfare for the rest of his life. You morons with your impotent internet rage can pay his fines.
It's the first thing I'd say to my fellow jurors once we'd entered deliberations.
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I run Mint as my work OS, Win7 as play. I need Win7 as dual boot so it gets unrestricted access to the excessive hardware I bought to play games. "Serious about running a Linux desktop" doesn't mean that I can't dual boot another OS. I use Linux for everything except playing games. It just so happens that I like PC gaming too, and the games I enjoy don't run (well) on Linux.
"Horses for courses", mate.
More importantly, who the fuck upvoted this PoS from the Firehose?
His "client" is obviously himself, he has serious trust issues and should probably seek professional help in dealing with those. His "client" isn't savvy in the matter of "protecting his family from scammers and unsavory types" yet he thinks that being able to crimp a patch lead is enough of a background to "tap" SSL encrypted sessions, breaching various computer misuse laws depending on your country (Wiretap Act in US, Computer Misuse Act / RIPA in the UK). Not only that, but he wants intelligent and monitoring of communications between two parties without their consent. All of this done with a script, with screenshots (that's desktop integration, mate) and then he wants to blow up his family by confronting them with this "evidence".
I think 4Chan just trolled Slashdot.
Fuck my history education (what little of it I got); America != N+S America.
Go read here if you care. My point still stands, though.
Uhhh... It's not your culture. I'm well aware that it's fiction, but it's based on feudal Europe. America's native culture is Mayan.
;)
So, technically, we're not paying you for a fantasy spin on Europe's culture.
That's about $75 pcm more than I'm prepared to pay for single viewings of a show. If I can buy the series on iTunes for $30, I should be able to watch it on TV for less than $30. No, all of the other "added services" do not make up for that price; I am not interested in them. Really, the only option for release-day viewing of the show, outside of the US or stupid bundled packages of 99% dogshit, is piracy.
Not that I'd "buy" it from iTunes; I want it accessible if Apple folds or closes the service (same reason I don't buy Steam games anymore).
So "the hardware can handle it" is an excuse for writing shitty, poorly optimised, lazy and bloated code? Were you on the Windows ME / Vista dev team, buy any chance? If anything fixing the badly coded program will free up resources other applications could make use of, especially if you happen to run both Firefox and $Program WhichCan'tBeChanged.
Yes, I live in an ideal world. Then again, Firefox is on version 12 now. I know Chrome made is "cool" to make every patch a major version change, but there's still no excuse for sloppy code. This isn't "for profit" with penalties for missing deadlines; They can afford to fix this kind of stuff.
I do agree, however, that low level systems should be able to cope with badly written apps. If they didn't, how would anybody be able to release on time?
Benjamin "Space-Jesus" Sisko actually was demigod-like. In this context, he is the only choice.
Only in this context, though.
Sorry, I can't hear you over the clacking of the beads on my abacus.
I thought the same of Firefly. Different strokes for different folks, mate.
Thanks for the condescension, though.
Kickstarter?
"David Benioff here. I did the Game of Thrones TV adaptation, which you liked. HBO saw the ratings were falling and pulled out of the third series. If you want to see it, the first three episodes will cost $1.5m. HBO say they'll air it if it's free to them, and the rest of the episodes in the series will be funded by them under the regular arrangement.
You put $10m into a watch which connects to your phone, so I know you donate to projects you are interested in. Get donating."
Oh you misunderstand. It will still return the "right" answer, it'll just be "engineer" right, not "mathematician" right, i.e. "Good enough for all intents and purposes.
Furthermore, posting under the top post when your reply is nothing to do with the OP is considered a faux pas. Minus 50 DKP.
You go ahead and compete in the "free market" with people forced under penalty of imprisonment / violence against family members to work for a fraction of your salary and just see what happens to your beloved first-world living standard.
FTFY. Result is the same, though.
This is free market economics at its best; We buy the shit they make, they keep fucking over the people making that shit.
Stop buying their shit.
... I also recognize that a small percentage of users consume a disproportionate amount of bandwidth and that has to be managed somehow.
Why? I'll simplify it a little, but it's applicable: If there are 10 users in an area, 9 of them mom-and-pop who check email, MyBookFace, watch iPlayer sometimes and use up 50GB per month (average for Comcast, apparently), then that leaves 2250GB of the paid capacity (9 x 300GB - (9 x 50GB). That 2550GB of data is assigned to these 10 people, by virtue of the fact that these 10 people have paid for 10 x 300GB data. That is a fully-saturated 10Mb connection for 22 days. Unless the 1/10 is really downloading torrents 24/7, he's not saturating his pipe. Nowhere near.
Charging 10 people for 300GB of data means you have sold 3000GB of data allowance. Penalising the one user who makes use of the data the other nine don't is unjust. They don't lose out.
Without this step you may as well be using a walmart SPDIF cable, it will be that bad.
HAHAHA they may as well use wire coat hangers XD
We're all happy to laugh at CSI when they "enhance" a digital photograph... Why is it so difficult to explain why you can't up-sample digital sound?
Analogy: Put a 1280x1024 (1.3MP) resolution photo up on your monitor, and take a photograph of it with your 20MP DSLR. Do you think you now have a 20MP photo of that scene?
Getting an A+ is only achievable if you state that you never took the course.
I would find it hard to use a desktop late at night with a toddler in my lap too.
I decided to not have the baby. Horses for courses.
You guys down under are lucky. You just have venomous snakes.
And poisonous spiders.
And poisonous octopii, plants, insects, jellyfish, regular fish with spines or blades on their fins, which again are poisoned.
And crocodiles, alligators, sharks.
Oh! And scorpions! Mustn't forget scorpions.
Seriously. We put our criminals there for a reason. It's like nature's version of Battle Royale.