Publish any type of pornography I want to including child porn?
According to one way of thinking it's not the publication of the child porn where the crime lies. It's in the sexual abuse of a child that resulted in the porn. Even if you're not the one who made the images, even if you're not the one who exploited the child, you become an accessory after the fact.
If you can artificially generate images that look identical to child porn, you're not committing any crime.
The ACLU holds that everywhere else in the constitution, the phrase "the people" refers to each and every individual human being in the United States but for some reason in the 2nd amendment "the people" is supposed to mean the collective people of each state.
It's bullshit. The ACLU has lawyers who damned well understand the intent of the second amendment, they are ignoring it because they're a bunch of liberals and liberals don't like it when regular people own guns.
The law prohibits taping someone if they don't know that they're being taped. The cop knows that he's being taped if there is a camera in his cruiser. IANAL, but I don't believe the laws specifies that you don't have to know who is taping you, only that you're being taped.
Being that the word Assassin comes to us from the Arabic term for "Hashish Eater", the image of the "crazy" stealthy Muslim killer has for a long time had a lot of influence on white european's deepest fears.
So people make a game that some people are sure to find disturbing. So what? GTA anyone?
Tesla lit bulbs from a mile away, ~100 years ago. With a Tesla coil, when I was in high school, I lit a flourescent bulb from several feet away. What is so special about this?
I've always respected McCain. He spent five years in captivity when he could have gotten an early release. I believe that he's an honorable man, I think that he sincerely believes in all of his positions the problem is that because I believe he's sincere I can't vote for him.
I hate to derail the thread, but are you saying Israel tortures people for their encryption keys? Damn, why do I get stuck with all the lousy countries?
I'm saying that Israel tortures and murders people. Mossad isn't above putting a bullet into someone head. They're also not above using torture.
McCain keeps weighing in on the wrong side of every issue.
There are some issues that the only people who care about them are ones that will cost you votes if you choose wrong. McCain seems to have an unnatural ability to zero in on those issues and to pick the wrong side.
Abortion, gun control, campaign finance reform and net neutrality are all kicking McCain's ass.
I think that another big plus is if the listener is familiar with and fond of the music being sampled. I wouldn't be of much help in determining the loss level of classic rock of death metal, but with music that I know and love I am positive that I'd be able to hear the difference.
My girlfriend told me that her nephew was going to college for "Computer Forensics" and my immediate response was, when he's done all he'll be able to do is catch cheating spouses. People who are engaging in real criminal activity are already using strong crypto and it's getting easier every day.
You just can't beat the numbers. If there is a 256 bit keyspace and a secure algorithm, you are not going to be able to crack the machine. I suppose that perhaps American and European law enforcement could take a page out of Israel's book and start using "strong persuasion" to get keys from suspects, but I don't imagine that happening any time soon.
The F77 code I play with now is newer (maybe 12 years old at the oldest), but some of the F66 code I played with at a previous job dated from the mid-1960's and is still running in production.
I think it's funny how people are constantly proclaiming the death of something or other, but it's never anyone who has a clue.
How many times does some manager who has never coded an app think that an entire company should move to Java or.NET and replace all legacy programs only to be shot down when someone explains that it would cost millions of dollars to replace all of the stuff that's working just fine right now?
I work with metallurgists in a place where metals are subjected to all kinds of testing. You don't need to melt it to make it fail. If you get it hot enough, the crystalline structure will change enough to lose it's strength. If you've got hundreds of tons on steel beams that have lost their structural integrity, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what the result will be.
I seek to remain an open-minded skeptic. So, I guess that it's possible that there was some 9-11 conspiracy, but no one has produced any proof of it.
Everything dies, it's just a matter of time. And if you think you're going to get 30 years out of the technologies that are new now, then you're wrong there too.
I still have to perform bugfixes on and add new features to programs written in Fortran, specifically DEC Fortran derived from Fortran 77.
That's right, 20 year old code written in a 30 year old language. C is very much like Fortran. It's so ubiquitous that we're likely going to have to deal with it for quite a long time. It'll be supplemented by Java, C# and all sorts of other technologies, but C will be around for a while.
They can't. As far as I can figure, the only reason for this policy is to try and screw people who didn't intend to spend so much money, or were mistakenly billed.
It's just like how a credit card company can decline any charges if you exceed your limit, even if by one dollar but your bank will allow you to overdraw your debit card so that they can smack you with the overdraft fees.
Bringing up things like some NORAD exercise or Operation Northwoods or all kinds of tenuous, ridiculous, and (co)incidental information about some pilot who worked some particular place 25 years ago is irrelevant and meaningless.
What about the Lone Gunmen episode about the Military Industrial Complex crashing a remote controlled airplane into the WTC to increase defense spending?
Why didn't we have access to the Octium IV chips that could have been used to prevent the disaster?
In my state, Pennsylvania, an SUV is considered the same as a station wagon. I don't have a truck registration. I pay insurance at the same rate as I would if I drove a Subaru.
My last two vehicles have been SUVs. I paid 10K when I bought a 1993 GMC Jimmy in 1999 and I paid 5K when I bought a 1997 Blazer this year. The price was right for me on both counts. I rarely have needed to transport more than 4 people at one time and I can pack as much cargo as I need in the back. The rear seats fold down. Not quite as roomy as a pickup, and I obviously won't haul topsoil or rocks, but I can haul small appliances and computer equipment.
I disagree. Steel only rusts when exposed to moisture, and is uncoated. Are you parking in a pond?
No, but I am parking in an area that gets rainfall. There is a river less than a mile away, so ambient moisture is always present. I don't live in a desert.
Exhausts? No, exhaust systems are nothing more than metal pipes, and do not need replacement when not used.
Moisture in the air is enough, and if those short trips are taken during the winter in an area that gets snow, salt and water will be splashed up onto the exhaust system.
All of this is moot. Most people don't want more cars than the need, most people want just "enough" for them. For the majority, that means that they buy one SUV. You don't have to like it or approve of it. In a free country, people get to do things that you(not necessarily YOU, but greenies) disagree with.
If you don't insist on only owning new vehicles, this isn't a problem. Used cars are dirt-cheap, esp. for models over 10 years old.
I just got a previously owned vehicle. 1997. It cost me $5500. OK, I should have specified. I could afford to buy 5 junkers. A used car in a reasonable state of repair costs a significant amount of money. It also costs money to insure it.
Maintenance is proportional to usage.
Some is. Some is not. Steel rusts. Rubber rots. Exhausts and such will require replacement even if you don't drive often.
(BTW, you don't need to change your oil every 3 months on a vehicle that gets used once a month. Don't buy into the marketing myths about oil change frequency.)
And gasoline doesn't keep well while it's in a fuel system. In industrial containers, it'll keep indefinately. In a car, it only keeps a few weeks.
You know, I think RWD was the best method for dealing with snow. If you couldn't move, you shouldn't be driving anyway. AWD and 4X4 vehicles lull people into a false sense of security.
You must not live in an area that gets snow. I'd much rather take my chances driving home than to be stuck in an empty parking lot all night. I have been stuck for hours in snow in a rear wheel drive vehicle and I have been able to get home in a four wheel drive vehicle, I prefer the latter.
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Publish any type of pornography I want to including child porn?
According to one way of thinking it's not the publication of the child porn where the crime lies. It's in the sexual abuse of a child that resulted in the porn. Even if you're not the one who made the images, even if you're not the one who exploited the child, you become an accessory after the fact.
If you can artificially generate images that look identical to child porn, you're not committing any crime.
LK
I don't see what's "selective" about that.
Then you're clearly not paying attention.
The ACLU holds that everywhere else in the constitution, the phrase "the people" refers to each and every individual human being in the United States but for some reason in the 2nd amendment "the people" is supposed to mean the collective people of each state.
It's bullshit. The ACLU has lawyers who damned well understand the intent of the second amendment, they are ignoring it because they're a bunch of liberals and liberals don't like it when regular people own guns.
LK
The law prohibits taping someone if they don't know that they're being taped. The cop knows that he's being taped if there is a camera in his cruiser. IANAL, but I don't believe the laws specifies that you don't have to know who is taping you, only that you're being taped.
LK
"You were put here to protect us, but who protects us from you?"
LK
Being that the word Assassin comes to us from the Arabic term for "Hashish Eater", the image of the "crazy" stealthy Muslim killer has for a long time had a lot of influence on white european's deepest fears.
So people make a game that some people are sure to find disturbing. So what? GTA anyone?
LK
Tesla lit bulbs from a mile away, ~100 years ago. With a Tesla coil, when I was in high school, I lit a flourescent bulb from several feet away. What is so special about this?
LK
I've always respected McCain. He spent five years in captivity when he could have gotten an early release. I believe that he's an honorable man, I think that he sincerely believes in all of his positions the problem is that because I believe he's sincere I can't vote for him.
LK
I hate to derail the thread, but are you saying Israel tortures people for their encryption keys? Damn, why do I get stuck with all the lousy countries?
I'm saying that Israel tortures and murders people. Mossad isn't above putting a bullet into someone head. They're also not above using torture.
LK
McCain keeps weighing in on the wrong side of every issue.
There are some issues that the only people who care about them are ones that will cost you votes if you choose wrong. McCain seems to have an unnatural ability to zero in on those issues and to pick the wrong side.
Abortion, gun control, campaign finance reform and net neutrality are all kicking McCain's ass.
LK
I think that another big plus is if the listener is familiar with and fond of the music being sampled. I wouldn't be of much help in determining the loss level of classic rock of death metal, but with music that I know and love I am positive that I'd be able to hear the difference.
LK
My girlfriend told me that her nephew was going to college for "Computer Forensics" and my immediate response was, when he's done all he'll be able to do is catch cheating spouses. People who are engaging in real criminal activity are already using strong crypto and it's getting easier every day.
You just can't beat the numbers. If there is a 256 bit keyspace and a secure algorithm, you are not going to be able to crack the machine. I suppose that perhaps American and European law enforcement could take a page out of Israel's book and start using "strong persuasion" to get keys from suspects, but I don't imagine that happening any time soon.
LK
My employer is STILL finishing up migrating code from VAXen to Alphas. There is just so much damned code that it's taken well over 15 years.
LK
Isn't that the whole purpose of the process? You have an original draft and several revisions until you get it the way you want it.
LK
The F77 code I play with now is newer (maybe 12 years old at the oldest), but some of the F66 code I played with at a previous job dated from the mid-1960's and is still running in production.
.NET and replace all legacy programs only to be shot down when someone explains that it would cost millions of dollars to replace all of the stuff that's working just fine right now?
I think it's funny how people are constantly proclaiming the death of something or other, but it's never anyone who has a clue.
How many times does some manager who has never coded an app think that an entire company should move to Java or
LK
I work with metallurgists in a place where metals are subjected to all kinds of testing. You don't need to melt it to make it fail. If you get it hot enough, the crystalline structure will change enough to lose it's strength. If you've got hundreds of tons on steel beams that have lost their structural integrity, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what the result will be.
I seek to remain an open-minded skeptic. So, I guess that it's possible that there was some 9-11 conspiracy, but no one has produced any proof of it.
LK
Everything dies, it's just a matter of time. And if you think you're going to get 30 years out of the technologies that are new now, then you're wrong there too.
I still have to perform bugfixes on and add new features to programs written in Fortran, specifically DEC Fortran derived from Fortran 77.
That's right, 20 year old code written in a 30 year old language. C is very much like Fortran. It's so ubiquitous that we're likely going to have to deal with it for quite a long time. It'll be supplemented by Java, C# and all sorts of other technologies, but C will be around for a while.
LK
They can't. As far as I can figure, the only reason for this policy is to try and screw people who didn't intend to spend so much money, or were mistakenly billed.
It's just like how a credit card company can decline any charges if you exceed your limit, even if by one dollar but your bank will allow you to overdraw your debit card so that they can smack you with the overdraft fees.
LK
Oswald did it. He acted alone. He used a magic bullet.
LK
Bringing up things like some NORAD exercise or Operation Northwoods or all kinds of tenuous, ridiculous, and (co)incidental information about some pilot who worked some particular place 25 years ago is irrelevant and meaningless.
What about the Lone Gunmen episode about the Military Industrial Complex crashing a remote controlled airplane into the WTC to increase defense spending?
Why didn't we have access to the Octium IV chips that could have been used to prevent the disaster?
LK
I got my driving experience in a rear wheel drive car, a Camaro. If it's possible to drive through it, I can and have.
I still prefer the 4WD of my Blazer.
I haven't tried a FWD car so I can't express an opinion on them, but I have no complaints about my current vehicle.
LK
In my state, Pennsylvania, an SUV is considered the same as a station wagon. I don't have a truck registration. I pay insurance at the same rate as I would if I drove a Subaru.
My last two vehicles have been SUVs. I paid 10K when I bought a 1993 GMC Jimmy in 1999 and I paid 5K when I bought a 1997 Blazer this year. The price was right for me on both counts. I rarely have needed to transport more than 4 people at one time and I can pack as much cargo as I need in the back. The rear seats fold down. Not quite as roomy as a pickup, and I obviously won't haul topsoil or rocks, but I can haul small appliances and computer equipment.
LK
I disagree. Steel only rusts when exposed to moisture, and is uncoated. Are you parking in a pond?
No, but I am parking in an area that gets rainfall. There is a river less than a mile away, so ambient moisture is always present. I don't live in a desert.
Exhausts? No, exhaust systems are nothing more than metal pipes, and do not need replacement when not used.
Moisture in the air is enough, and if those short trips are taken during the winter in an area that gets snow, salt and water will be splashed up onto the exhaust system.
All of this is moot. Most people don't want more cars than the need, most people want just "enough" for them. For the majority, that means that they buy one SUV. You don't have to like it or approve of it. In a free country, people get to do things that you(not necessarily YOU, but greenies) disagree with.
LK
If you don't insist on only owning new vehicles, this isn't a problem. Used cars are dirt-cheap, esp. for models over 10 years old.
I just got a previously owned vehicle. 1997. It cost me $5500. OK, I should have specified. I could afford to buy 5 junkers. A used car in a reasonable state of repair costs a significant amount of money. It also costs money to insure it.
Maintenance is proportional to usage.
Some is. Some is not. Steel rusts. Rubber rots. Exhausts and such will require replacement even if you don't drive often.
(BTW, you don't need to change your oil every 3 months on a vehicle that gets used once a month. Don't buy into the marketing myths about oil change frequency.)
And gasoline doesn't keep well while it's in a fuel system. In industrial containers, it'll keep indefinately. In a car, it only keeps a few weeks.
LK
We should start the Pro (Vehicular) Choice party.
Keep your laws off our cars!
LK
You know, I think RWD was the best method for dealing with snow. If you couldn't move, you shouldn't be driving anyway. AWD and 4X4 vehicles lull people into a false sense of security.
You must not live in an area that gets snow. I'd much rather take my chances driving home than to be stuck in an empty parking lot all night. I have been stuck for hours in snow in a rear wheel drive vehicle and I have been able to get home in a four wheel drive vehicle, I prefer the latter.
LK