In order to have a conspiracy there must be more than one person knowingly involved.
They can say that you conspired with an unindicted, unknown co-conspirator.
Legal definitions and common sense definitions are not necessarily the same. For example, legally Cocaine is a narcotic, even though it is not an opiate. To a pharmacist only opiates are narcotics.
A name is a name (Jack Brown), and gives the officer something to call you besides "Hey You", but as long as we're not required to produce some sort of definitive, unique-identity-signifying number of the beast, I'm not too worried.
In my state (PA), it is perfectly legal to use any name of your choice so long as there is no fraudulent intent.
Though it's not the name on my driver's license or birth certificate, Kijoro Kano is the name I use when someone has no legitimate reason to ask for it.
The court held that police, based on reasonable suspicion that a person is involved in criminal activity can compel him to identify themself.
If you are "suspected" of conspiracy to delay or obstruct a peace officer, the police would then have the reasonable suspicion necessary to ask for your identity.
Yes, TOS was so horrible they made a few movies and brought it back after 20+ years as another group of space crusaders.
Nice way to argue against a point that I never made.
TNG was a more successful franchise. Why would it make sense to follow a formula that was less successful?
For example, Nike has made tons of money by getting endorsements from top shelf athletes. They have also made some money by getting endorsements from unknown athletes. Does it make more sense for them to get Venus and Serena Williams or Susie Lynn Shoemaker to endorse their new line of ladies footwear?
Obviously it makes more sense to go with the strategy that has been more successful.
Trek's longevity is owed not to any boldness on it's part but a clever legerdermain of appearing to be progressive and bold while playing it safe on every issue it covered.
Remember the episode where Picard was tortured by the Cardassians? How progressive it was at that time to take a stand against toture! Do you think that the new series will take such a stand in light of the revelation that the US thinks that it is not bound by the Geneva convention not to torture people that it labels as "terrorists"?
Only a fool would use a floppy for long term data storage in this day and age, but they are VERY convienent for taking small files from place to place.
Just a few years ago, I would use floppies to transfer data between the campus computer lab and my machine at home.
Apple's lack of a floppy drive becomes less of a liability with each passing month, but that doesn't mean that it's not a liability at all.
I'm so sick of reading on/. about how our rights are being taken away and then no one else i know offline knows anything is happenning. FUCK!!!
To be honest, the people who don't know about most of these things don't really care either.
For example, groups disseminate information based upon the interests of their members. Every gun club will distribute information about newly proposed gun laws. "Women's organizations" will let its members know about new abortion regulations./. lets people know about new laws that will impact technology.
though I'm not sure what the damages would be... probably something similar to what we might charge virus writers with?
The EFF should sue and issue a press release accusing the distributors with distributing a virus/trojan horse. For good measure, someone out there could whip up a resident program that screams "VIRUS DETECTED" whenever such a CD is inserted.
If they want to keep selling Linux servers, they'll need to support a "trusted" BIOS. In order to abide by the GPL, they will have to release the source.
No, they won't have to release the source to their own BIOS. GPL doesn't mandate that every piece of code on a system is open. Now THAT would be a viral GPL.
The real reason 3D content hasn't taken off is that it frankly isn't very useful for every-day browsing.
Just wait until the porno industry gets involved. Imagine being able to freeze frame and get Matrix-like fly arounds of the money shot.
Seriously, my first jpgs and gifs were of porno. Not schematics, or technical info. But big bouncing boobies. I'd be willing to bet that most of you who go back to the 1980s or before had a similar experience. Or how about streaming video? Porno and Mac World expos were the first streaming videos that I ever heard about. If this type of thing is going to take off it'll be because of smut. Sad isn't it?
The result was we got Presidents that more than half the voters thought were not the best men for the job.
The results were that both men moved towards the center. Bush chose to restrict rather than end federal funding for fetal stem cell research. Clinton enacted welfare reform. Had Perot and Nader not been factors, both administrations woulg have followed different courses.
It's like that whole Al Gore invented the internet versus helped create the internet thing. He said the latter, but the former, which is only subtly different, sounds much worse.
No. It's not. Al Gore was making things up. Pure and simple. He stated that "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet". The funding for the ARPAnet was passed years before Al Gore got into congress. Email and file copying (UUCP primarily) were going on for YEARS before he was elected to congress.
Just like when he claimed to have a hand in the creation of the strategic petroleum reserve, but that was established two years before he entered congress.
the end result was that most Americans thought the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. This may actually be true but I'll be skeptical since I don't have a link to back it up, but anecdotally it demonstrates the point well.
Those who were truely not involved in stealing DirecTV's signal should have allowed the lawsuit to go forward, let DirecTV put on their case, and then move for dismissal immediately after that case before even needing to put on a defense.
Welcome to the USA. You must be new here. The legal system has nothing to do with the merits of the case. The party with the best lawyer usually wins. I don't know about you, but most people aren't willing to risk it. What you'll spend in lawyer's fees will be higher than the cost of settling. That's why groups like the EFF are so desparately needed.
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Funny... you'd think Intel would learn from Microsoft's example instead of repeating the same mistakes...
What? Being a multibillion dollar company that clears tens of millions of dollars per day in profit?
Bad example.
LK
In order to have a conspiracy there must be more than one person knowingly involved.
They can say that you conspired with an unindicted, unknown co-conspirator.
Legal definitions and common sense definitions are not necessarily the same. For example, legally Cocaine is a narcotic, even though it is not an opiate. To a pharmacist only opiates are narcotics.
LK
A name is a name (Jack Brown), and gives the officer something to call you besides "Hey You", but as long as we're not required to produce some sort of definitive, unique-identity-signifying number of the beast, I'm not too worried.
In my state (PA), it is perfectly legal to use any name of your choice so long as there is no fraudulent intent.
Though it's not the name on my driver's license or birth certificate, Kijoro Kano is the name I use when someone has no legitimate reason to ask for it.
LK
The court held that police, based on reasonable suspicion that a person is involved in criminal activity can compel him to identify themself.
If you are "suspected" of conspiracy to delay or obstruct a peace officer, the police would then have the reasonable suspicion necessary to ask for your identity.
LK
some asshole downloads kiddie porn and ruins it for everyone else?
LK
Yes, TOS was so horrible they made a few movies and brought it back after 20+ years as another group of space crusaders.
Nice way to argue against a point that I never made.
TNG was a more successful franchise. Why would it make sense to follow a formula that was less successful?
For example, Nike has made tons of money by getting endorsements from top shelf athletes. They have also made some money by getting endorsements from unknown athletes. Does it make more sense for them to get Venus and Serena Williams or Susie Lynn Shoemaker to endorse their new line of ladies footwear?
Obviously it makes more sense to go with the strategy that has been more successful.
LK
Trek's longevity is owed not to any boldness on it's part but a clever legerdermain of appearing to be progressive and bold while playing it safe on every issue it covered.
Remember the episode where Picard was tortured by the Cardassians? How progressive it was at that time to take a stand against toture! Do you think that the new series will take such a stand in light of the revelation that the US thinks that it is not bound by the Geneva convention not to torture people that it labels as "terrorists"?
I doubt it.
LK
It needs to get back to its roots.
WTF are you talking about? TNG had a MUCH longer run than TOS. How can you suggest that going back to the formula that resulted in less of a success?
LK
Only a fool would use a floppy for long term data storage in this day and age, but they are VERY convienent for taking small files from place to place.
Just a few years ago, I would use floppies to transfer data between the campus computer lab and my machine at home.
Apple's lack of a floppy drive becomes less of a liability with each passing month, but that doesn't mean that it's not a liability at all.
LK
So...how would you do it?"
Leave network cable plugged in.
Install WinXP from a CD that has been streamlined with SP1.
Install Norton AV.
Live Update.
Windows Update.
Oh, did I forget to tell you that all of my machines are behind a firewall?
LK
Casual Monday-Friday?
Is the new prospective boss a female?
If so, is she hot?
If so, is she married?
If so, is she faithful?
Could this person do your job?
It pisses me off to no end when I have a boss who can't do my job try to tell me what I'm supposed to be doing.
Will this person allow you do get your job done withough assigning you extra bullshit work?
I could keep going, but I'd run out of room.
LK
Be careful. Pretty soon someone is going to offer you a tinfoil hat.
But if it makes you feel any better, you're right.
LK
I'm so sick of reading on /. about how our rights are being taken away and then no one else i know offline knows anything is happenning. FUCK!!!
/. lets people know about new laws that will impact technology.
To be honest, the people who don't know about most of these things don't really care either.
For example, groups disseminate information based upon the interests of their members. Every gun club will distribute information about newly proposed gun laws. "Women's organizations" will let its members know about new abortion regulations.
LK
lol - if you thought Americans got mad when you went for their guns, wait till you see what happens when you go for their TVs.
Somebody is going to get shot over this.
LK
though I'm not sure what the damages would be... probably something similar to what we might charge virus writers with?
The EFF should sue and issue a press release accusing the distributors with distributing a virus/trojan horse. For good measure, someone out there could whip up a resident program that screams "VIRUS DETECTED" whenever such a CD is inserted.
LK
If they want to keep selling Linux servers, they'll need to support a "trusted" BIOS. In order to abide by the GPL, they will have to release the source.
No, they won't have to release the source to their own BIOS. GPL doesn't mandate that every piece of code on a system is open. Now THAT would be a viral GPL.
LK
The real reason 3D content hasn't taken off is that it frankly isn't very useful for every-day browsing.
Just wait until the porno industry gets involved. Imagine being able to freeze frame and get Matrix-like fly arounds of the money shot.
Seriously, my first jpgs and gifs were of porno. Not schematics, or technical info. But big bouncing boobies. I'd be willing to bet that most of you who go back to the 1980s or before had a similar experience. Or how about streaming video? Porno and Mac World expos were the first streaming videos that I ever heard about. If this type of thing is going to take off it'll be because of smut. Sad isn't it?
LK
Not a Christian? Then why did he quote Bible verses at his trial?
Because many on the jury likely were.
LK
My only question is: If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?
Outsourcing.
LK
If you can't attack the argument, attack the man.
I attacked both. Accurately.
The result was we got Presidents that more than half the voters thought were not the best men for the job.
The results were that both men moved towards the center. Bush chose to restrict rather than end federal funding for fetal stem cell research. Clinton enacted welfare reform. Had Perot and Nader not been factors, both administrations woulg have followed different courses.
LK
It's like that whole Al Gore invented the internet versus helped create the internet thing. He said the latter, but the former, which is only subtly different, sounds much worse.
No. It's not. Al Gore was making things up. Pure and simple. He stated that "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet". The funding for the ARPAnet was passed years before Al Gore got into congress. Email and file copying (UUCP primarily) were going on for YEARS before he was elected to congress.
It was not a misunderstanding, he got caught lying.
Just like when he claimed to have a hand in the creation of the strategic petroleum reserve, but that was established two years before he entered congress.
the end result was that most Americans thought the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. This may actually be true but I'll be skeptical since I don't have a link to back it up, but anecdotally it demonstrates the point well.
Most of them were (Saudi) Arabian expatriots.
LK
Those who were truely not involved in stealing DirecTV's signal should have allowed the lawsuit to go forward, let DirecTV put on their case, and then move for dismissal immediately after that case before even needing to put on a defense.
Welcome to the USA. You must be new here. The legal system has nothing to do with the merits of the case. The party with the best lawyer usually wins. I don't know about you, but most people aren't willing to risk it. What you'll spend in lawyer's fees will be higher than the cost of settling. That's why groups like the EFF are so desparately needed.
LK
Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?
Outsourcing and consolidation.
LK
If people made the kind of logic errors they do on freerepublic on kuro5hin, they'd get immediately called out.
On K5 you can't even point someone to a certain doctored jpg without getting banned.
After the Oklahoma City bombing the FBI instructed police to be on the look out for the muslim men they assumed were behind it.
There was rampant media speculation about Muslim involvement, the FBI never made such a claim.
Luckily, the White Christian ex-Marine who did it was already in custody for speeding.
1 for 3. McVeigh was white. He was not a Christian. Remember that "captain of my own soul" business? And he was ex-Army.
LK