Is Governor Herbert really trying to "restore confidence in the public"? Are we sure he's not trying to restore their confidence in him? I'm not sure that anyone would ever have confidence in the public as a whole - small groups and individuals are fine, but beyond that...
According to the original paperwork and release by the DOJ - http://www.justice.gov/usao/txn/PressRel09/mcgraw_cyber_indict_pr.html - the two counts each carried a maximum of 10 years (to which he got close) and a £250,000 fine. At least they only fined him $31,881.75, so he'll only be slightly poor when he eventually gets out.
Do we have a winner for the prize of "stupidest person alive"? Who, with the slightest semblance of common sense, would think that posting a video of themselves doing this was a good idea? This ranks up there with the guy who used a camera mounted to his motorbike to record himself doing 140mph+ in the UK, then posted it on YouTube with his face and licence-plate.
I managed to create life - in fact I did it twice. All I needed was my willing wife and 9 months each time. Come to think about it, I'm not sure that the "willing" part would be that important either.
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What was it that Microsoft claimed? 2.4 million in the first 24 hours? Nice to see that Firefox is up at 2.8 million and counting. Obviously many more fools out there like me who run Linux and want new, shiny toys but refuse point blank to ever let IE onto our system. Seriously though, I quite like the new FF - seems fairly minimal to me, the add-ons I want work (Ad-Block is all I find I need), and no problems with memory so far on my old 1.5GHz, 512MB RAM Laptop.
If you read the summary;- "researchers from Quebec City's Université Laval" - That's in Canada and if you read TFA;- "Prof. Gaétan Laroche of Laval's Faculty of Sciences and Engineering led the research" - He's a French-Canadian.
I've just got out of my shower and can't see through my living-room windows as they've all fogged up. On the plus side - it's cold and wet outside, and I can't see it anymore! However, to get back on topic, I think this is a seriously cool bit of tech if they can pull it off cheaply enough to enable it to be used widely. How many times have you got in your car in the winter, cleared the snow, turned the heaters on and promptly found that every window in the vehicle steams up so you can't see anyway - how useful would this be? Hell, I'd quite happily pay to have this coating added to my car - much better use of my money than tinting the windows.
I'm surprised he didn't get hit with an even longer sentence for a 'frivolous appeal' - coz that could certainly have happened to him if he'd tried this in the UK.
I don't know what the law is in the US but, given that we here in England seem to get most of our laws from you second-hand it's probably the same as here. It's a criminal offense called "Grooming" - or "Intent to solicit a minor to carry out a sexual act" (may not be the exact wording though). Would you say it was OK and shouldn't be a criminal offense if it was a 60-year old pervert sending your 13-year old daughter pornographic videos and telling her all the things he wanted to do to her?
I don't think it would matter what the emoticon showed or said. The guy is 60 and he went to meet up with a girl he genuinely believed to be 13 for sex - it doesn't matter how much encouragement there may have been from her (or someone pretending to be 13), it would still be illegal in most countries round the world (and, yes, that includes every state in the USA.
Precisely how is this "News for nerds" - or is someone suggesting that maybe we should start trying to think up a better defense for when we are arrested for the same thing?
Is Sony going to come after me for reading TFA? Do we now need to start incorporating "Caution: Reading the following article may result in you being sued to the ends of the earth" logos over the top of stories?
Actually, the heart of Tokyo is 140 miles away from the reactor site. If you want to see how wide-spread the fallout area can be and the levels at different distances then have a look here;- http://users.owt.com/smsrpm/Chernobyl/glbrad.html
I certainly wouldn't be planning on staying in Tokyo or returning there for a long time if the reactor does go.
Given Japan's position as the third biggest economy in the world and the amount that they produce which is exported to the rest of the world, as well as their technological knowledge, I think we should all be massively concerned about the impact that will be had on the rest of the world, not just from what has already occurred with the tsunami, but also if there is a nuclear meltdown and possible explosion at the plant. Chernobyl still has a 20 mile exclusion zone to this day and the are directly affected by the disaster was far, far wider. If something similar happens in Japan then Tokyo could quite easily become a ghost town for years to come, along with huge areas of Japan. Hell, wind factors could quite easily carry any fallout across Korea and China at the very least. I seriously think that the time has come for them to do to the Fukushima Daiichi plant what was eventually done to Chernobyl and encase the whole thing in a concrete-mix shroud now before it is too late to stop something worse happening in the days to come.
Whilst I agree whole-heartedly with the school being made responsible for stopping bullying (verbal or physical) during school time and on school grounds, they cannot realistically control what the children do outside of school. The only way to achieve this would be to change the rules by which FB operates. If you read FBs T- "No information from children under age 13. If you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register for Facebook or provide any personal information about yourself to us...... Parental participation. We strongly recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices......" Maybe the way round this all is either;- a) Anything posted by a person under the age of 18 (verifiable age by credit card or similar) MUST be approved by either a parent or their school before it goes live - lots of work, but it would mean employing at least 1 person in each school just to carry out this job. b) Anyone signing up to FB must provide a credit card or similar proof or age. If they are under 18 then the parent/guardian provides this proof and take FULL responsibility for EVERYTHING that is posted by the child - from a legal as well as a moral standpoint. How many parents are going to allow their kids to post "Jonny's a fu$$ing fag and I'm gonna kill him" if they know that the law will come after them for inciting hatred or something similar.
"Jeff Orkin says that the best time to play Improviso is between 7 pm and 10 pm". What timezone? Is he talking GMT or American time? If American then which one - don't they have 6? Maybe he's talking about Australian (unlikely as he works at MIT, but you never know). Maybe it's supposed to be 7pm to 10 pm local time wherever in the world you are?
And, to make it worse, TFA seem to indicate that she shut the event down on FB after more than 200k people RSVPed, then created a new event which more than 70k people have replied to. Don't people ever learn? This is why evolution should dictate that she can't breed.
It says, in TFA, that "A 17-year-old boy was charged today for hijacking the invitation". I wonder what he has actually been charged with? Hijacking of an on-line invite seems a little over-exuberant by the Aussie police.
I can see somewhere where people would gladly volunteer for this. Here in the UK (and in the US AFAIK) there is a hell of a lot of monitoring of ex-offenders in the community once their sentence is over. Almost every offender has this for a certain amount of time, but those convicted of the more serious range of offences (murder, manslaughter, rape etc) can find this goes on for life. They can end up being visited every couple of months for many, many years by Police just to see what they are up to, and in many cases to check their computers etc (which can be very disheartening especially for those who are genuinely trying to turn their lives around and do nothing wrong). How many of them do you think would volunteer to live in one of these communities? They would know that they were being tracked all the time. If they went on-line somewhere they shouldn't (FB, Second Life etc), or looking for things they shouldn't (CP, trying to track down their victim or whatever) then they would be immediately flagged up and dealt with. If they were just getting on with their lives then nothing would flag, so they could be left alone to live a normal life without interference. I think that Scott Adams quite possibly has the right idea, but maybe the wrong target audience for this.
I feel that anyone seriously considering responding to this should probably do a little more reading first. A good start would be a published article by Aaron Smuts (Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin) which was published in November 2005. http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=299 He puts far more detailed discussion and argument in there than TFA listed above. At the end of the day though, as Len Wein said, "Art is always in the eyes of the beholder." If you think it is art, then for you - it is art. Doesn't really matter what anyone else says about it.
I like to use my laptop in bed sometimes while my wife is watching some crap on TV. I can just imagine her expression when I rest the EvoMouse between her breasts so that I can use her stomach as the 'Virtual Trackpad'. "It's OK Darling, the instruction manual tells me I can use... oh crap - it said 'Any flat surface'.".
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Is Governor Herbert really trying to "restore confidence in the public"? Are we sure he's not trying to restore their confidence in him? I'm not sure that anyone would ever have confidence in the public as a whole - small groups and individuals are fine, but beyond that...
According to the original paperwork and release by the DOJ - http://www.justice.gov/usao/txn/PressRel09/mcgraw_cyber_indict_pr.html - the two counts each carried a maximum of 10 years (to which he got close) and a £250,000 fine. At least they only fined him $31,881.75, so he'll only be slightly poor when he eventually gets out.
Do we have a winner for the prize of "stupidest person alive"? Who, with the slightest semblance of common sense, would think that posting a video of themselves doing this was a good idea? This ranks up there with the guy who used a camera mounted to his motorbike to record himself doing 140mph+ in the UK, then posted it on YouTube with his face and licence-plate.
To celebrate I'm going to go out on a bender - if you don't get it ask a Brit what it means!
I managed to create life - in fact I did it twice. All I needed was my willing wife and 9 months each time. Come to think about it, I'm not sure that the "willing" part would be that important either.
What was it that Microsoft claimed? 2.4 million in the first 24 hours? Nice to see that Firefox is up at 2.8 million and counting. Obviously many more fools out there like me who run Linux and want new, shiny toys but refuse point blank to ever let IE onto our system.
Seriously though, I quite like the new FF - seems fairly minimal to me, the add-ons I want work (Ad-Block is all I find I need), and no problems with memory so far on my old 1.5GHz, 512MB RAM Laptop.
If you read the summary;-
"researchers from Quebec City's Université Laval" - That's in Canada
and if you read TFA;-
"Prof. Gaétan Laroche of Laval's Faculty of Sciences and Engineering led the research" - He's a French-Canadian.
Hence - "Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating". Clear enough?
I've just got out of my shower and can't see through my living-room windows as they've all fogged up. On the plus side - it's cold and wet outside, and I can't see it anymore!
However, to get back on topic, I think this is a seriously cool bit of tech if they can pull it off cheaply enough to enable it to be used widely. How many times have you got in your car in the winter, cleared the snow, turned the heaters on and promptly found that every window in the vehicle steams up so you can't see anyway - how useful would this be? Hell, I'd quite happily pay to have this coating added to my car - much better use of my money than tinting the windows.
...to my own posting. He was found guilty of "felony use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime". That was on top of the previous offences, child pornography and everything else.
Further articles (and further offences) about the same person;-
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/article_b53c4ad3-7a27-5791-bb48-770cced5037b.html
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/article_02f1700c-36e5-5f88-b7b2-426ed40d3d22.html
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/article_25b66060-41a2-5c07-ba82-22a6f1f1c40a.html
I'm surprised he didn't get hit with an even longer sentence for a 'frivolous appeal' - coz that could certainly have happened to him if he'd tried this in the UK.
I don't know what the law is in the US but, given that we here in England seem to get most of our laws from you second-hand it's probably the same as here. It's a criminal offense called "Grooming" - or "Intent to solicit a minor to carry out a sexual act" (may not be the exact wording though). Would you say it was OK and shouldn't be a criminal offense if it was a 60-year old pervert sending your 13-year old daughter pornographic videos and telling her all the things he wanted to do to her?
I don't think it would matter what the emoticon showed or said. The guy is 60 and he went to meet up with a girl he genuinely believed to be 13 for sex - it doesn't matter how much encouragement there may have been from her (or someone pretending to be 13), it would still be illegal in most countries round the world (and, yes, that includes every state in the USA.
Precisely how is this "News for nerds" - or is someone suggesting that maybe we should start trying to think up a better defense for when we are arrested for the same thing?
Is Sony going to come after me for reading TFA? Do we now need to start incorporating "Caution: Reading the following article may result in you being sued to the ends of the earth" logos over the top of stories?
I was trying to be flippant, but never mind.
I know you were trying to be humorous with the title, but did you actually mean to say "Their English sucks" - coz your's does too.
Actually, the heart of Tokyo is 140 miles away from the reactor site. If you want to see how wide-spread the fallout area can be and the levels at different distances then have a look here;-
http://users.owt.com/smsrpm/Chernobyl/glbrad.html
I certainly wouldn't be planning on staying in Tokyo or returning there for a long time if the reactor does go.
Given Japan's position as the third biggest economy in the world and the amount that they produce which is exported to the rest of the world, as well as their technological knowledge, I think we should all be massively concerned about the impact that will be had on the rest of the world, not just from what has already occurred with the tsunami, but also if there is a nuclear meltdown and possible explosion at the plant. Chernobyl still has a 20 mile exclusion zone to this day and the are directly affected by the disaster was far, far wider. If something similar happens in Japan then Tokyo could quite easily become a ghost town for years to come, along with huge areas of Japan. Hell, wind factors could quite easily carry any fallout across Korea and China at the very least.
I seriously think that the time has come for them to do to the Fukushima Daiichi plant what was eventually done to Chernobyl and encase the whole thing in a concrete-mix shroud now before it is too late to stop something worse happening in the days to come.
Whilst I agree whole-heartedly with the school being made responsible for stopping bullying (verbal or physical) during school time and on school grounds, they cannot realistically control what the children do outside of school. The only way to achieve this would be to change the rules by which FB operates. If you read FBs T- ..... ....."
"No information from children under age 13. If you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register for Facebook or provide any personal information about yourself to us.
Parental participation. We strongly recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices.
Maybe the way round this all is either;-
a) Anything posted by a person under the age of 18 (verifiable age by credit card or similar) MUST be approved by either a parent or their school before it goes live - lots of work, but it would mean employing at least 1 person in each school just to carry out this job.
b) Anyone signing up to FB must provide a credit card or similar proof or age. If they are under 18 then the parent/guardian provides this proof and take FULL responsibility for EVERYTHING that is posted by the child - from a legal as well as a moral standpoint. How many parents are going to allow their kids to post "Jonny's a fu$$ing fag and I'm gonna kill him" if they know that the law will come after them for inciting hatred or something similar.
"Jeff Orkin says that the best time to play Improviso is between 7 pm and 10 pm". What timezone? Is he talking GMT or American time? If American then which one - don't they have 6? Maybe he's talking about Australian (unlikely as he works at MIT, but you never know).
Maybe it's supposed to be 7pm to 10 pm local time wherever in the world you are?
And, to make it worse, TFA seem to indicate that she shut the event down on FB after more than 200k people RSVPed, then created a new event which more than 70k people have replied to. Don't people ever learn? This is why evolution should dictate that she can't breed.
It says, in TFA, that "A 17-year-old boy was charged today for hijacking the invitation". I wonder what he has actually been charged with? Hijacking of an on-line invite seems a little over-exuberant by the Aussie police.
That's not slavery. He's merely pimping himself to the highest bidder. Sounds like good economic sense - for him at least.
I had to double-take when that headline popped up on my screen - "Facebook kills Mark Zuckerberg".
I thought the machines had finally arisen from their shackles and decided to start with revenge rather than taking over the world.
I for one welcome our Social Network-based Overlords - they already know everything about us.
I can see somewhere where people would gladly volunteer for this. Here in the UK (and in the US AFAIK) there is a hell of a lot of monitoring of ex-offenders in the community once their sentence is over. Almost every offender has this for a certain amount of time, but those convicted of the more serious range of offences (murder, manslaughter, rape etc) can find this goes on for life. They can end up being visited every couple of months for many, many years by Police just to see what they are up to, and in many cases to check their computers etc (which can be very disheartening especially for those who are genuinely trying to turn their lives around and do nothing wrong).
How many of them do you think would volunteer to live in one of these communities? They would know that they were being tracked all the time. If they went on-line somewhere they shouldn't (FB, Second Life etc), or looking for things they shouldn't (CP, trying to track down their victim or whatever) then they would be immediately flagged up and dealt with. If they were just getting on with their lives then nothing would flag, so they could be left alone to live a normal life without interference.
I think that Scott Adams quite possibly has the right idea, but maybe the wrong target audience for this.
I feel that anyone seriously considering responding to this should probably do a little more reading first. A good start would be a published article by Aaron Smuts (Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin) which was published in November 2005.
http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=299
He puts far more detailed discussion and argument in there than TFA listed above. At the end of the day though, as Len Wein said, "Art is always in the eyes of the beholder." If you think it is art, then for you - it is art. Doesn't really matter what anyone else says about it.
I like to use my laptop in bed sometimes while my wife is watching some crap on TV. I can just imagine her expression when I rest the EvoMouse between her breasts so that I can use her stomach as the 'Virtual Trackpad'.
"It's OK Darling, the instruction manual tells me I can use... oh crap - it said 'Any flat surface'.".