At my school (ASU), after sniffing one lecture, I threw up a little in my mouth. Damned sweaty bohemians that think a magic crystal works as deodorant. Not in Arizona heat...
I suggest you read up on the military industrial complex. Without war it fails. Without MIC, the US economy fails. We became dependent on it during and after ww 2. There hasn't been 8 years in our history since WW II where we were not at war in some capacity, on alert, or preparing for war, which kept the MIC (and a large portion of the american work force) in business more or less constantly.
Bill Clinton screwed us over by not vetoing the the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (repeal of Glass-Steigel from 1933, regulations to prevent another depression) act passed by the republican controlled congress. This was one of the biggest executive/legislative goofs ever and directly led to the mortgage crisis (even Barak Obama has stated this). He was hardly a "benevolent king". Not only that he ignored warnings by major players on wall street that we were like the titanic headed for the iceberg, as early as the year it was passed (1999). He also signed off on mergers like Citifinancial-Travelers, that were illegal when they were signed, but became legal under the (as of yet not passed) GLB.
A bunch of nobel economic prize winning economists agree with Obama. A couple of politicians don't. I'm inclined to agree with the PhD's and history.
I'm not much of a fan of Obama, but when he's right, he's right.
Picture this scenario: you leave your wi fi unlocked perv uses your wi fi to download kiddie porn feds trace it back to your connection feds remove all of your equipment, dvds, video tapes, cds, thumb drives, and every other storage you own to gather evidence you get arrested for suspicion of child porn consumption and need to post bail all of your friends find out because someone reads the police blotter your storage devices and computers sit in the FBI evidence room for a year while they take their sweet old time getting to you eventually they look for the porn on your storage devices and find nothing they return your gear to you, due to lack of evidence and suggest you lock your wi fi down you get to enjoy coming up in google results for a child porn arrest forever, most of your acquaintances think you are a child molester and believe you are guilty of something because you got arrested on suspicion of child porn, you probably lose your job and none of your former co-workers will talk to you.
Isn't it easier to just set a password? Just sayin'... The gov tends to shoot first and ask questions later, within the limits of the constitution, of course.
If the criminal returns the gun, and gives the police an anonymous tip that you killed someone with it, you'd better have a good alibi or you'll get charged with the murder, especially if you shoot it regularly and have burnt powder traces on your skin. It may break down in court, but once the ballistics match was made, I'd think you did it if I was investigating the crime. I'm not a police officer or lawyer, but it would be easy to make that inference.
Your gun, ballistics match, powder traces, no alibi? It would look pretty bad on the surface.
It's much easier to lock your door than deal with something like that and pay a lawyer to get you off the hook. That's just the criminal case... You'd have to deal with a civil case too.
Not only that, any OSS developer with any sense, includes something like this in his license agreement to reduce/eliminate his liability attack surface: Warning: This software is not fit for any use or purpose. Use at your own risk.
I'm thinking a judge would laugh at anyone that tried to sue the developer with such a warning in his license/copyright notice.
Actually according to the definition of "professional" if a hobbyist sells a copy of his software, he is no longer a hobbyist. He's a professional by definition:
2 a : participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs b : having a particular profession as a permanent career c : engaged in by persons receiving financial return
For someone so learned, I'd expect you to know the definition of such a common term since you are using it in a sentence (albeit abbreviated)
I recently moved to a place where the quality of dialup I had in 1991 is considered broadband. Occasionally a text gets through on my iphone but I can't hold a normal call. I have a verizon 3g card but it drops connection when I get up for coffee. There is no cable TV or broadband service. I have to drive 3 miles to get out of the valley I live in to get cell phone service with AT&T which will allow me to place a call and finish it.
Yup. A state IT supervisor monkey should be at least capable of using google. It should be part of the interview process.
"reset cisco router password [model]" returns the correct answer as the first result. You'll see similar results for other brands and types of equipment.
The IT supervisor and Terry Childs' co-workers should be on trial for gross incompetence. Terry Childs was right to not give his uid and pw to his co-workers. Given the fact that they can't use google, they're so stupid they may have taken down the network with it. Then he'd be on trial for giving up his passwords and letting them break the network.
TC was in a no-win situation and this jury needs to be educated about IT best practices as well as what to do with someone that would have committed a crime no matter what he'd done. Isn't there something on the law books about no-win situations like this? Giving city or state owned router passwords to an incompetent should be a crime, and his supervisor is either incompetent, or was trying to railroad him, in which case, he'd be going to jail for giving up his passwords, had he complied.
There is no middle ground.
That being said, I agree that 5 years is harsh, but that's the maximum sentence. Given that it's his first offense, he's likely to get time served and probation unless he pissed off the judge.
You are supposed to turn anything of significant value which you find to the police and get a receipt. In most states the owner has a number of days to claim it. If they don't, then it's yours. It works the same way for found cash. The police run the serial numbers and see if the money is stolen. If it's not, and no one claims it within the time allotted, you get to keep it. If you find a wallet with someone's ID in it, you can avoid the whole legality deal by simply dropping it into any mailbox.
If you don't do this, as far as I know as IANAL, you have stolen it. I think I learned this in 3rd grade or so. My dad told me how it worked. Besides being The Right Thing to Do(tm) it keeps you out of jail for theft.
Against the Moskit, you generally have 15-20 seconds to react to an object traveling at Mach 3. The guy in charge of fire control had better not hesitate;)
The NATO SS-N-22 designation is actually used for 2 very different missiles with very different capabilities, the P-80 Zubr, and the P-270 Moskit. Without knowing which missile the parent is referring to, there is only speculation.
The Zubr (also known as Oniks) was an early anti-ship rocket propelled cruise missile of short range with a 250kg warhead.
The Moskit is ramjet propelled to mach 3 at 15 ft above sea level and is considered one of the most lethal anti ship missiles available today with a 320kg warhead.
This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, considering that the US companies supplied and supported the nazis in ww II. We kept the gold bars for them in a bank presided over by Thomas H. McKittrick, a US citizen, their troops driven in ford trucks built under license (which remained in effect throughout the war) standard oil supplying them fuel via Switzerland. There was Chase and Morgan banks servicing nazi soldiers in occupied France. Then there was GM, ITT, RCA, General Aniline etc etc etc. The rabbit hole is very deep.
GM built JU-88's, ITT supplied communications equipment used to crack our own coded messages. Ford built the factory which supplied Rommel's tanks to the Afrika Corps, among other things. This went on until after 1944, which is basically when Nazi Germany's credit rating started to fall like a stone, after D-Day.
This is the tip of the iceburg... Wars are good for everyone except the soldiers and other people that die and the US corporations are no better than anyone else. You can trace this pattern right up to the present day, I'm sorry to say. US companies still sell arms to countries that supply our enemies. If they have money, our corporations will sell to them.
Sad really but that's how the world works. I suggest you read 1984. There's always a war somewhere because it's good for business and every government needs at least one enemy.
It's likely that if we come into contact with a space-faring alien race, it's because they needed to get off their planet and find a new habitable one, for one reason or another. I'll wager that contact with ETs will prove to be our undoing if we succeed.
However if they are a space-faring race capable of interstellar travel, we couldn't avoid getting detected by them if they were less than 70 or so light years away. We couldn't hide if we wanted to. If they have the technology to fly faster than light, it's likely they have much more sensitive and sophisticated communication capability than we do.
While SETI is important scientifically, it serves no real purpose to broadcast our presence. They'll see us long before we see them with or without the "We're here!" broadcasts.
That being said, I believe intelligent life somewhere else is a statistical certainty. I don't know if I believe they've visited us or even know we're here.
the time it would take to gather the data and put it on disk for him. The question I have is if this data has been used in climate models, it's already gathered and consolidated. Why not just run a copy of the data for him, which was used to do the climate models? That couldn't take longer than an hour to put on a dvd, since it's already sitting on a hard drive somewhere. It has to be or they couldn't have used it for the climate modeling.
I smell a rat... Why don't they want anyone from the outside to verify their conclusions? It would only validate their findings and conclusions if someone else were to run the numbers. Why would they not want anyone else to have the data? It's in their best interest, if they are honest, to give out as many copies as they can. In fact they should have a zip file sitting on their web server for anyone and everyone to download it so they can get back to their research and not be bothered by data requests.
The problem with this is that the banks make the merchants agree that the merchant is responsible for covering the loss. The banks don't lose a dime, they charge back the fraud to the merchant. This is a condition of the bank accepting your merchant application.
This is because the bank puts the responsibility of verifying the identity (for credit applications and credit cards) on the merchant. I don't know about you,but I've filled out credit applications at merchants that never asked me for ID.
By doing this, the banks are able to completely wash their hands of fraud. The merchant employees don't give a fuck, all they care about is their commission. It's in their best interest to get everyone that walks in the door approved. Half of checkout people never check your ID when you use the card.
The problem lies with employees at the merchants, and online credit card sales.
Clinton and Greenspan could have stopped it at any time by raising interest rates and vetoing GLBA changes.
Moral of the story: never allow a liberal president into power that cares more about getting his cock sucked than the US economy.
This was a bipartisan fuckup. Don't kid yourself. The Clinton administration was asleep at the wheel and democrats voted for it en masse too. They'd have done whatever clinton wanted them to. In case your memory is fuzzy, here's the numbers House Democrats: 75% yay (155-51) House Republicans: 98% yay (207-5) Senate Democrats: 84% yay (38-7) Senate Republicans: 98% yay (52-1)
A veto and a democrat united front would have killed it because the 2/3 majority needed to override the veto wouldn't have been there.
Clinton and the democrats were squarely in the "Lets loan money to anyone with a pulse" camp.
Like I said, it was a bipartisan fuckup.
Anyone that says different is drinking too much koolaid.
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>It's also why you can be arrested for indecent exposure when you are naked in your home.
yup. happened in my neighborhood.
At my school (ASU), after sniffing one lecture, I threw up a little in my mouth. Damned sweaty bohemians that think a magic crystal works as deodorant. Not in Arizona heat...
I suggest you read up on the military industrial complex. Without war it fails. Without MIC, the US economy fails. We became dependent on it during and after ww 2. There hasn't been 8 years in our history since WW II where we were not at war in some capacity, on alert, or preparing for war, which kept the MIC (and a large portion of the american work force) in business more or less constantly.
Bill Clinton screwed us over by not vetoing the the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (repeal of Glass-Steigel from 1933, regulations to prevent another depression) act passed by the republican controlled congress. This was one of the biggest executive/legislative goofs ever and directly led to the mortgage crisis (even Barak Obama has stated this). He was hardly a "benevolent king". Not only that he ignored warnings by major players on wall street that we were like the titanic headed for the iceberg, as early as the year it was passed (1999). He also signed off on mergers like Citifinancial-Travelers, that were illegal when they were signed, but became legal under the (as of yet not passed) GLB.
A bunch of nobel economic prize winning economists agree with Obama. A couple of politicians don't. I'm inclined to agree with the PhD's and history.
I'm not much of a fan of Obama, but when he's right, he's right.
Picture this scenario:
you leave your wi fi unlocked
perv uses your wi fi to download kiddie porn
feds trace it back to your connection
feds remove all of your equipment, dvds, video tapes, cds, thumb drives, and every other storage you own to gather evidence
you get arrested for suspicion of child porn consumption and need to post bail
all of your friends find out because someone reads the police blotter
your storage devices and computers sit in the FBI evidence room for a year while they take their sweet old time getting to you
eventually they look for the porn on your storage devices and find nothing
they return your gear to you, due to lack of evidence and suggest you lock your wi fi down
you get to enjoy coming up in google results for a child porn arrest forever, most of your acquaintances think you are a child molester and believe you are guilty of something
because you got arrested on suspicion of child porn, you probably lose your job and none of your former co-workers will talk to you.
Isn't it easier to just set a password? Just sayin'... The gov tends to shoot first and ask questions later, within the limits of the constitution, of course.
If the criminal returns the gun, and gives the police an anonymous tip that you killed someone with it, you'd better have a good alibi or you'll get charged with the murder, especially if you shoot it regularly and have burnt powder traces on your skin. It may break down in court, but once the ballistics match was made, I'd think you did it if I was investigating the crime. I'm not a police officer or lawyer, but it would be easy to make that inference.
Your gun, ballistics match, powder traces, no alibi? It would look pretty bad on the surface.
It's much easier to lock your door than deal with something like that and pay a lawyer to get you off the hook. That's just the criminal case... You'd have to deal with a civil case too.
No you said hobbyists shouldn't sell their software. "Shouldn't" has an entirely different meaning than "don't".
Your second post was nothing like your first.
Not only that, any OSS developer with any sense, includes something like this in his license agreement to reduce/eliminate his liability attack surface:
Warning: This software is not fit for any use or purpose. Use at your own risk.
I'm thinking a judge would laugh at anyone that tried to sue the developer with such a warning in his license/copyright notice.
Actually according to the definition of "professional" if a hobbyist sells a copy of his software, he is no longer a hobbyist. He's a professional by definition:
2 a : participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs b : having a particular profession as a permanent career c : engaged in by persons receiving financial return
For someone so learned, I'd expect you to know the definition of such a common term since you are using it in a sentence (albeit abbreviated)
Why do we think it's our (or anyone's) place to tell someone (or their company) what they should or shouldn't do with the linux kernel?
The premise of this article stinks like my neighbor sticking her head into my house and telling me why I shouldn't twice bake a potato.
I recently moved to a place where the quality of dialup I had in 1991 is considered broadband. Occasionally a text gets through on my iphone but I can't hold a normal call. I have a verizon 3g card but it drops connection when I get up for coffee. There is no cable TV or broadband service. I have to drive 3 miles to get out of the valley I live in to get cell phone service with AT&T which will allow me to place a call and finish it.
I've never felt more alive.
...pretty damned sharp. I bet it even works on the Edge network.
And that would explain why democrats control senate, house, and the white house, yet nothing is changing.
Republicrats are the same party with 2 heads. Wake up.
Yup. A state IT supervisor monkey should be at least capable of using google. It should be part of the interview process.
"reset cisco router password [model]" returns the correct answer as the first result. You'll see similar results for other brands and types of equipment.
The IT supervisor and Terry Childs' co-workers should be on trial for gross incompetence. Terry Childs was right to not give his uid and pw to his co-workers. Given the fact that they can't use google, they're so stupid they may have taken down the network with it. Then he'd be on trial for giving up his passwords and letting them break the network.
TC was in a no-win situation and this jury needs to be educated about IT best practices as well as what to do with someone that would have committed a crime no matter what he'd done. Isn't there something on the law books about no-win situations like this? Giving city or state owned router passwords to an incompetent should be a crime, and his supervisor is either incompetent, or was trying to railroad him, in which case, he'd be going to jail for giving up his passwords, had he complied.
There is no middle ground.
That being said, I agree that 5 years is harsh, but that's the maximum sentence. Given that it's his first offense, he's likely to get time served and probation unless he pissed off the judge.
Childs must have one hell of a crappy lawyer.
>Did not pay your bill? box deactivated and you no longer have cable tv. no need to roll a truck.
DirecTV has had this capability for years.
You are supposed to turn anything of significant value which you find to the police and get a receipt. In most states the owner has a number of days to claim it. If they don't, then it's yours. It works the same way for found cash. The police run the serial numbers and see if the money is stolen. If it's not, and no one claims it within the time allotted, you get to keep it. If you find a wallet with someone's ID in it, you can avoid the whole legality deal by simply dropping it into any mailbox.
If you don't do this, as far as I know as IANAL, you have stolen it. I think I learned this in 3rd grade or so. My dad told me how it worked. Besides being The Right Thing to Do(tm) it keeps you out of jail for theft.
Against the Moskit, you generally have 15-20 seconds to react to an object traveling at Mach 3. The guy in charge of fire control had better not hesitate ;)
The NATO SS-N-22 designation is actually used for 2 very different missiles with very different capabilities, the P-80 Zubr, and the P-270 Moskit. Without knowing which missile the parent is referring to, there is only speculation.
The Zubr (also known as Oniks) was an early anti-ship rocket propelled cruise missile of short range with a 250kg warhead.
The Moskit is ramjet propelled to mach 3 at 15 ft above sea level and is considered one of the most lethal anti ship missiles available today with a 320kg warhead.
They don't need to when delivered via submarines.
This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, considering that the US companies supplied and supported the nazis in ww II. We kept the gold bars for them in a bank presided over by Thomas H. McKittrick, a US citizen, their troops driven in ford trucks built under license (which remained in effect throughout the war) standard oil supplying them fuel via Switzerland. There was Chase and Morgan banks servicing nazi soldiers in occupied France. Then there was GM, ITT, RCA, General Aniline etc etc etc. The rabbit hole is very deep.
GM built JU-88's, ITT supplied communications equipment used to crack our own coded messages. Ford built the factory which supplied Rommel's tanks to the Afrika Corps, among other things. This went on until after 1944, which is basically when Nazi Germany's credit rating started to fall like a stone, after D-Day.
This is the tip of the iceburg... Wars are good for everyone except the soldiers and other people that die and the US corporations are no better than anyone else. You can trace this pattern right up to the present day, I'm sorry to say. US companies still sell arms to countries that supply our enemies. If they have money, our corporations will sell to them.
Sad really but that's how the world works. I suggest you read 1984. There's always a war somewhere because it's good for business and every government needs at least one enemy.
here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1626766&cid=31942386
Maybe I'm a genius.
It's likely that if we come into contact with a space-faring alien race, it's because they needed to get off their planet and find a new habitable one, for one reason or another. I'll wager that contact with ETs will prove to be our undoing if we succeed.
However if they are a space-faring race capable of interstellar travel, we couldn't avoid getting detected by them if they were less than 70 or so light years away. We couldn't hide if we wanted to. If they have the technology to fly faster than light, it's likely they have much more sensitive and sophisticated communication capability than we do.
While SETI is important scientifically, it serves no real purpose to broadcast our presence. They'll see us long before we see them with or without the "We're here!" broadcasts.
That being said, I believe intelligent life somewhere else is a statistical certainty. I don't know if I believe they've visited us or even know we're here.
the time it would take to gather the data and put it on disk for him. The question I have is if this data has been used in climate models, it's already gathered and consolidated. Why not just run a copy of the data for him, which was used to do the climate models? That couldn't take longer than an hour to put on a dvd, since it's already sitting on a hard drive somewhere. It has to be or they couldn't have used it for the climate modeling.
I smell a rat... Why don't they want anyone from the outside to verify their conclusions? It would only validate their findings and conclusions if someone else were to run the numbers. Why would they not want anyone else to have the data? It's in their best interest, if they are honest, to give out as many copies as they can. In fact they should have a zip file sitting on their web server for anyone and everyone to download it so they can get back to their research and not be bothered by data requests.
The problem with this is that the banks make the merchants agree that the merchant is responsible for covering the loss. The banks don't lose a dime, they charge back the fraud to the merchant. This is a condition of the bank accepting your merchant application.
This is because the bank puts the responsibility of verifying the identity (for credit applications and credit cards) on the merchant. I don't know about you,but I've filled out credit applications at merchants that never asked me for ID.
By doing this, the banks are able to completely wash their hands of fraud. The merchant employees don't give a fuck, all they care about is their commission. It's in their best interest to get everyone that walks in the door approved. Half of checkout people never check your ID when you use the card.
The problem lies with employees at the merchants, and online credit card sales.
Clinton and Greenspan could have stopped it at any time by raising interest rates and vetoing GLBA changes.
Moral of the story: never allow a liberal president into power that cares more about getting his cock sucked than the US economy.
This was a bipartisan fuckup. Don't kid yourself. The Clinton administration was asleep at the wheel and democrats voted for it en masse too. They'd have done whatever clinton wanted them to. In case your memory is fuzzy, here's the numbers
House Democrats: 75% yay (155-51)
House Republicans: 98% yay (207-5)
Senate Democrats: 84% yay (38-7)
Senate Republicans: 98% yay (52-1)
A veto and a democrat united front would have killed it because the 2/3 majority needed to override the veto wouldn't have been there.
Clinton and the democrats were squarely in the "Lets loan money to anyone with a pulse" camp.
Like I said, it was a bipartisan fuckup.
Anyone that says different is drinking too much koolaid.
oh yea, like the backgrounder app I've had on my iphone since I bought it and jailbroke it (a week later) over a year ago.
Sounds like iPhone OS4 is jailbroken OS3, with some restrictions.