So I'm betting that 10 tones is far less than a 5% increase in overall weight. So the increase in costs divided among the passengers is going to get pretty small pretty quickly.
It seems like they're being penny-wise/pound foolish on this...
If Samoa Air were a normal international airline, you would be right. However, they are a regional airline with small prop planes, where individual passenger weight does make up a significant percentage of the total flying weight.
Hate to tell you, but security auditing is mostly about documentation. Checking that the right documents are in place and have been updated, verifying office procedures, physical security, etc. Technical tests are mostly about checking for the status and presence of files or configurations, not about probing networks or white hat hacking. There is a vaild business opportunity in pen testing, which is just one component of auditing, and is not even needed for every type of audit.
This. While it would seem logical to put a round of known vulnerabilities into a scanner (like a Virus Scanner works) in the real world this is extremely tricky. Vulnerabilities that come about from combinations of different packages and different configurations interacting are very hard to systematically detect, and even if you do detect them they are just one piece in the huge puzzle that is information security.
Case in point, I often get audit reports from "creditable" security professionals that there are a set of vulnerabilities in XYZ product, specific to "somesoft operating system 9.0", when in fact the product in question uses no such operating system (or even one similar to it) so the "audit" was obviously just a set of false-positives from a scanner tool. Scanner tools are just that, a TOOL, they are not even close to a true security solution that would produce a meaningful audit; that can only come (at least in this day and age) from a combination of tools and a *lot* of expertise.
Do you really get 50 mbit sustained through 4G? My downloads always start fast, then quickly drop down to a much slower speed - I've always assumed that my carrier is throttling me on big downloads... i.e. small 1MB things like web pages load fast, sustained downloads are throttled. Do people really get fast 4G speeds for tens or hundreds of megabytes?
I'm on Verizon and I have had a few sessions of 100MB+ downloads running at top speed all the way. Granted, I am not in a spot with a 10 Mbit+ signal very often but when I am, it is blazing. Of course take this with a grain of salt; Verizon is both creative and clandestine when it comes to service shaping, so they could very well use that tactic in certain congested areas.
It's not difficult to have a phone draw more than the capacity of a USB port (the official spec limits power usage to 500mA/port).
I remember when you put the Google/HTC G1 in wifi hotspot mode it would drain the battery, even when plugged in.
Most phones ship now with a 1000mA charger, which is enough to just about top out the CPU (the HTC G1 days are LONG gone). I suggested a safeguard anyway, that is to make sure the phone is done charging before starting an app like that. If the phone has to go back into charging mode (if it is outstripping the current limit on the charger) then the (currently just hypothetical) app will pause again while the battery charges. Same goes for heat, current phones all have temperature sensors to monitor for battery runaway, that could be used to keep the temperature at a reasonable level.
Your desktop idling, with the CPU governor set to 'conservative,' even with an IGP, would probably skate circles around an ARM device.
My desktop idling will still consume more than 10W, and no it won't outperform my phone (my phone is a lot newer than my desktop, I suspect the same goes for a lot of people).
You have 50 megabit wired service? That's good, but most people don't have anywhere near that for their home/office, but can get it through 4G. That's what I was suggesting, since to save any time you basically need to saturate the google server sending you the app but not saturate the internet uplink, which is pretty damn hard to do.
Totally agree. After all, it's not like we need to care about some hurricane in the middle of the ocean ever making its way to our shores. Or about wind patterns in China, those could never impact what happens on the opposite side of the globe.
By the way, that was sarcasm.
Good thing you specified, the weather satellite picked it up as freezing rain.
It depends on whom you trust more -- a corporation or the US government.
I trust the government about as far as I can throw it. On the other hand, I trust corporations completely. I trust them to lie, cheat, steal, dump toxic waste, then get their government cronies to bail them out while the investors laugh all the way to the bank.
You forgot the Pièce de résistance, wherein they abandon their investors with a shady bankruptcy, give all of the executives cushy bonuses, and let huge swaths of employees go without even a two week notice. Oh, and the government steps in to assure us it's "all right" and issue scathing but trivial reports on how much we have all learned from the disaster. Yep, we learned all right.
Government satellites are already, by-and-large, built by private contractors for overpriced contracts, by rent-seeking engineering firms. GOES sattellites, for example, weren't designed and manufactured by NOAA scientists, but BOEING or Space Systems/Loral or Lockheed Martin. The difference here would only be the job of running them.
So, you propose we trade rent-seekers in the up-front purchase (who at least compete with each other), for rent-seekers in the long term operation (of which there is as of today, one)... Hmm...
The only way privatizing makes sense to an economist is if there are multiple companies out there offering the same service. Trading a public entity (which can and do get audited on a regular basis) for a private one that is free to waste money at will, in the hopes that they will somehow find a way to do it cheaper, pretty much never works out. At best, they end up charging the same amount, but paying their workers/vendors less and issuing huge bonuses to the executives. Competition is key, and it's completely missing from this scenario. Get a few more bids, and it will get interesting.
Also, my Nexus 7 certainly seems to download multiple files at once.
This. Certain apps (like the play store) download one at a time because they are trying to be nice on your phone (since the time saved from multiple downloads is negligible anyway, unless you have a really good 4G signal). How much time do you spend waiting on play store app downloads anyway? The OS at large has no such restriction, you can download things from the play store while you are downloading things from a web page, or things from a Torrent, or whatever; it is all up to the app. I have run a Torrent client with 32 connections across 5 file downloads and Android had no problem with it (it did make video playback skip occasionally). I agree that phones are generally more powerful than the software expects at this point, but the way the question was worded, this is a problem looking for a solution.
How about this: How can I get my phone/tablet to do compute work (folding @home, whatever) when it's plugged in and fully charged (like, most of the night)? These devices have multiple GB of ram, 2 to 4 CPU cores, and 4 to 8 GPU cores, why not put them to work if they are on-charger and full of juice (when the charger's role is done)?
This is true, but not all phone hardware OR all versions of Android support USB OTG, in fact only handsets that are less than about 2 years old typically do. Check up on the phone and the compatible software before making any plans. Then, the question becomes is there a particular pre-built APP or even a stable API for working with the hardware I/O and to that I would suspect the answer is no (since the hardware itself is extremely scarce). Bluetooth serial is probably the only thing remotely close to this sort of application that already exists on Android, and that even has a pretty specific use case and would take some hacking to turn into universal I/O.
While it is definitely a worthy project for someone skilled in hardware and software, the "hobbyist" grade of accessibility of Arduino or Raspberry Pi put them way way ahead for someone who just wants to tinker a bit.
Perhaps if Mastercard and Visa hadn't allowed PaypaI to usurp what they could very well have done themselves, long ago, they wouldn't be in this situation. I've always wanted the ability to painlessly send someone money, directly, and it's idiotic that paypaI (and other 3rd party wallet services) are the only way to do it. Completely redundant.
The problem with those kinds of transactions is that they are inherently risky, since there is not a merchant on hand to blame in the event of a chargeback. Visa and Mastercard stayed the hell away from that nightmare, and it is telling that only a company as skeezy as PayPal has managed to make it profitable for so long.
It used to be that Paypal and similar services weren't there to take away transactions from normal merchants (since only small "peer to peer" transactions, like you mention, went through them) but Paypal has grown to be a behemoth that has elbowed it's way into every online merchant's payment options, for some strange reason (what good is it unless you for some reason already have money stored at the bank of paypal?). Mastercard and Visa are naturally skeptical, because PayPal is basically taking mindshare that they could easily shift to their own credit service (if they wanted to start being regulated like a legitimate business, that is.) This is the writing on the wall that PayPal should either rethink their strategy, or accelerate it. Visa, in their own right, has started basically a competitive service (V.me) and is actively going at merchants to reclaim some ground.
While it is all pretty trivial considering the timescale, Oil (from plant sources) only ceases to be renewable AFTER the sun has died. So conceptually (as long as we don't kill off all plant life on the planet first) there will be oil longer than there will be things which are directly solar powered. Of course, one other likely scenario is that we find a way to make more efficient use of newly created bio-material and therefore use it all up at or near the same time as the sun goes cold, so it wont have a chance to become oil. But, that is pretty optimistic considering the pace that humans are on for self-extinction.
The other thing is that "using" renewable energy is possible on the normal grid by purchasing renewable energy through the utility. As long as you know the store's consumption, you pay the utility that delivers it for the rate they have to purchase/generate it at. This is the same way "competitive" energy markets in the US work, the electricity enters the grid from a mix of where the customers want it. Just because you didn't get the electrons that were pushed by a windmill doesn't mean you aren't using a renewable resource.
It was included in the very interesting report... 400 million or so that replied to pings (about 15% of all the possible valid addresses). That suggests either a LOT of the IPV4 space is blocking pings, or that a lot of it is poorly allocated (I bet it's a little of the former and a lot of the latter). Many huge blocks are allocated to groups that couldn't possibly use them, such as developing nations or specific institutions with a relatively small number of users/servers.
Was that the first time it was 11:30 that fall night or the second time? Oh that's a good question, I didn't think to write that down. I guess this trial is fucked.
If you write time down (especially if you suspect such confusion is possible) you better write the current timezone along with it, or you are a pretty sorry detective. This is how all computerized logs are already written. I guess, if you are a murderer, you can expect a little leeway right after 2am twice a year, but i would eat my hat if you could point out a single time this confusion actually caused a problem in a criminal trial.
No, Its not 3.25 per Kilowatt hour. They paid 3.25 for the half hour. The amount of charge transferred is not known. It could be 3.25 per kilowatt hour, but there is not enough information to state that.
You are right that there is not enough info (never said there was) but it is the right question to ask, since you can't "use" a kilowatt and for utility billing purposes, a half-hour guesstimate isn't going to fly.
Uhm, they most certainly only want to give loans to people who can repay it.
If you don't repay it, you wait 7 years and it goes away. That is not profitable for a card company. They don't want those people. They want people who can pay it every month.
Their goal is to find people who can pay it back, but have never learned self control and want to spend money before they get it.
Its not about 'need', its about greed. Its about wanting to put the cart before the horse.
It is most certainly not about finding people who will default on their loans, as you seem to think.
Nowhere did I suggest they were looking for people who were going to default, only those who could not fully repay... Big difference.
Must be getting a lot dumber. I'm willing to bet an insane amount of money relative to my income that the credit cards companies are FAR FAR better at predicting who to loan money too than any Googler. They have the advantage of having Googler level employees, years of experience, and financial greed driving them.
You can not predict what they will be worth in 10 years, they don't have any idea what they'll even like NEXT YEAR, let alone 10 years.
Once you get a little older you realize that the person you were when you got out of school is entirely different than the person you are 10 years later. Its well accepted fact that no one under 25 knows who they are, and no one under 30 is really sure who they are.
The thing is, a credit card company is really only trying to find and/or convince customers to borrow to the point where they have too much debt to fully repay at any point in the near or medium term, and then charge just enough interest to keep them paying instead of filing for some sort of debt relief or bankruptcy. To think that credit card companies are in the business of only giving credit to those most worthy/capable of repaying is to completely miss the nature of the global banking/debt industry. Quite the opposite, if you are in a position to easily repay credit card debt you aren't a sought after customer.
The model for that is certainly different compared to one whose intention is to find candidates who will be relatively successful and capable of full repaying at some medium-term point (10 years) and yield a comfortably high return for the investors.
What you are referring to is a Collective action problem and yes, trying to call individuals to act against the problem directly is often fruitless, which gives way to gestures like this that hope to slowly turn the public sentiment.
Judging by all the responses this has gotten, the earth is fucked.
After all, we're already not using the best time for our time zones so having clocks for any purpose other than keeping track of time is already gone.
Amen, I once tried to use a clock as a skateboard, and the goddamn thing just crumbled into a million little shards of plastic. I guess the old saying is true, "a broken clock is right as long as you don't give a shit what time it is."
Oh, you meant clocks serve no purpose other than measuring time relative to itself, and especially are not for determining the optimal moment for any given activity that relates to the position of the sun... Right...
Getting at those addresses took some deliberate work on his part
That "deliberate work" amounted to this:
Weev: "Can I have the email address for whoever is associated with this number?"
AT&T: "Sure, it's xxx@yyy.zzz!"
Now that's a criminal mastermind hacker if I ever saw one!
There isn't really a specific sentence for "criminal mastermind" when it comes to computer crimes, so the judge was in no place to make an exception...
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So I'm betting that 10 tones is far less than a 5% increase in overall weight. So the increase in costs divided among the passengers is going to get pretty small pretty quickly.
It seems like they're being penny-wise/pound foolish on this...
If Samoa Air were a normal international airline, you would be right. However, they are a regional airline with small prop planes, where individual passenger weight does make up a significant percentage of the total flying weight.
not over the water you can't
Exactly. There is no water between Brooklyn and Queens (they are both on Long Island). I LOLed.
Hate to tell you, but security auditing is mostly about documentation. Checking that the right documents are in place and have been updated, verifying office procedures, physical security, etc. Technical tests are mostly about checking for the status and presence of files or configurations, not about probing networks or white hat hacking. There is a vaild business opportunity in pen testing, which is just one component of auditing, and is not even needed for every type of audit.
This. While it would seem logical to put a round of known vulnerabilities into a scanner (like a Virus Scanner works) in the real world this is extremely tricky. Vulnerabilities that come about from combinations of different packages and different configurations interacting are very hard to systematically detect, and even if you do detect them they are just one piece in the huge puzzle that is information security.
Case in point, I often get audit reports from "creditable" security professionals that there are a set of vulnerabilities in XYZ product, specific to "somesoft operating system 9.0", when in fact the product in question uses no such operating system (or even one similar to it) so the "audit" was obviously just a set of false-positives from a scanner tool. Scanner tools are just that, a TOOL, they are not even close to a true security solution that would produce a meaningful audit; that can only come (at least in this day and age) from a combination of tools and a *lot* of expertise.
Do you really get 50 mbit sustained through 4G? My downloads always start fast, then quickly drop down to a much slower speed - I've always assumed that my carrier is throttling me on big downloads... i.e. small 1MB things like web pages load fast, sustained downloads are throttled. Do people really get fast 4G speeds for tens or hundreds of megabytes?
I'm on Verizon and I have had a few sessions of 100MB+ downloads running at top speed all the way. Granted, I am not in a spot with a 10 Mbit+ signal very often but when I am, it is blazing. Of course take this with a grain of salt; Verizon is both creative and clandestine when it comes to service shaping, so they could very well use that tactic in certain congested areas.
It's not difficult to have a phone draw more than the capacity of a USB port (the official spec limits power usage to 500mA/port).
I remember when you put the Google/HTC G1 in wifi hotspot mode it would drain the battery, even when plugged in.
Most phones ship now with a 1000mA charger, which is enough to just about top out the CPU (the HTC G1 days are LONG gone). I suggested a safeguard anyway, that is to make sure the phone is done charging before starting an app like that. If the phone has to go back into charging mode (if it is outstripping the current limit on the charger) then the (currently just hypothetical) app will pause again while the battery charges. Same goes for heat, current phones all have temperature sensors to monitor for battery runaway, that could be used to keep the temperature at a reasonable level.
Your desktop idling, with the CPU governor set to 'conservative,' even with an IGP, would probably skate circles around an ARM device.
My desktop idling will still consume more than 10W, and no it won't outperform my phone (my phone is a lot newer than my desktop, I suspect the same goes for a lot of people).
You have 50 megabit wired service? That's good, but most people don't have anywhere near that for their home/office, but can get it through 4G. That's what I was suggesting, since to save any time you basically need to saturate the google server sending you the app but not saturate the internet uplink, which is pretty damn hard to do.
Totally agree. After all, it's not like we need to care about some hurricane in the middle of the ocean ever making its way to our shores. Or about wind patterns in China, those could never impact what happens on the opposite side of the globe.
By the way, that was sarcasm.
Good thing you specified, the weather satellite picked it up as freezing rain.
It depends on whom you trust more -- a corporation or the US government.
I trust the government about as far as I can throw it. On the other hand, I trust corporations completely. I trust them to lie, cheat, steal, dump toxic waste, then get their government cronies to bail them out while the investors laugh all the way to the bank.
You forgot the Pièce de résistance, wherein they abandon their investors with a shady bankruptcy, give all of the executives cushy bonuses, and let huge swaths of employees go without even a two week notice. Oh, and the government steps in to assure us it's "all right" and issue scathing but trivial reports on how much we have all learned from the disaster. Yep, we learned all right.
While I agree:
Government satellites are already, by-and-large, built by private contractors for overpriced contracts, by rent-seeking engineering firms. GOES sattellites, for example, weren't designed and manufactured by NOAA scientists, but BOEING or Space Systems/Loral or Lockheed Martin. The difference here would only be the job of running them.
So, you propose we trade rent-seekers in the up-front purchase (who at least compete with each other), for rent-seekers in the long term operation (of which there is as of today, one)... Hmm...
The only way privatizing makes sense to an economist is if there are multiple companies out there offering the same service. Trading a public entity (which can and do get audited on a regular basis) for a private one that is free to waste money at will, in the hopes that they will somehow find a way to do it cheaper, pretty much never works out. At best, they end up charging the same amount, but paying their workers/vendors less and issuing huge bonuses to the executives. Competition is key, and it's completely missing from this scenario. Get a few more bids, and it will get interesting.
Also, my Nexus 7 certainly seems to download multiple files at once.
This. Certain apps (like the play store) download one at a time because they are trying to be nice on your phone (since the time saved from multiple downloads is negligible anyway, unless you have a really good 4G signal). How much time do you spend waiting on play store app downloads anyway? The OS at large has no such restriction, you can download things from the play store while you are downloading things from a web page, or things from a Torrent, or whatever; it is all up to the app. I have run a Torrent client with 32 connections across 5 file downloads and Android had no problem with it (it did make video playback skip occasionally). I agree that phones are generally more powerful than the software expects at this point, but the way the question was worded, this is a problem looking for a solution.
How about this: How can I get my phone/tablet to do compute work (folding @home, whatever) when it's plugged in and fully charged (like, most of the night)? These devices have multiple GB of ram, 2 to 4 CPU cores, and 4 to 8 GPU cores, why not put them to work if they are on-charger and full of juice (when the charger's role is done)?
With an Android phone, you just need this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go
Buy one here: http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/micro-to-micro-otg (site might be blocked at some work locations as they might think it's hacking related)
This is true, but not all phone hardware OR all versions of Android support USB OTG, in fact only handsets that are less than about 2 years old typically do. Check up on the phone and the compatible software before making any plans. Then, the question becomes is there a particular pre-built APP or even a stable API for working with the hardware I/O and to that I would suspect the answer is no (since the hardware itself is extremely scarce). Bluetooth serial is probably the only thing remotely close to this sort of application that already exists on Android, and that even has a pretty specific use case and would take some hacking to turn into universal I/O.
While it is definitely a worthy project for someone skilled in hardware and software, the "hobbyist" grade of accessibility of Arduino or Raspberry Pi put them way way ahead for someone who just wants to tinker a bit.
Perhaps if Mastercard and Visa hadn't allowed PaypaI to usurp what they could very well have done themselves, long ago, they wouldn't be in this situation. I've always wanted the ability to painlessly send someone money, directly, and it's idiotic that paypaI (and other 3rd party wallet services) are the only way to do it. Completely redundant.
The problem with those kinds of transactions is that they are inherently risky, since there is not a merchant on hand to blame in the event of a chargeback. Visa and Mastercard stayed the hell away from that nightmare, and it is telling that only a company as skeezy as PayPal has managed to make it profitable for so long.
It used to be that Paypal and similar services weren't there to take away transactions from normal merchants (since only small "peer to peer" transactions, like you mention, went through them) but Paypal has grown to be a behemoth that has elbowed it's way into every online merchant's payment options, for some strange reason (what good is it unless you for some reason already have money stored at the bank of paypal?). Mastercard and Visa are naturally skeptical, because PayPal is basically taking mindshare that they could easily shift to their own credit service (if they wanted to start being regulated like a legitimate business, that is.) This is the writing on the wall that PayPal should either rethink their strategy, or accelerate it. Visa, in their own right, has started basically a competitive service (V.me) and is actively going at merchants to reclaim some ground.
While it is all pretty trivial considering the timescale, Oil (from plant sources) only ceases to be renewable AFTER the sun has died. So conceptually (as long as we don't kill off all plant life on the planet first) there will be oil longer than there will be things which are directly solar powered. Of course, one other likely scenario is that we find a way to make more efficient use of newly created bio-material and therefore use it all up at or near the same time as the sun goes cold, so it wont have a chance to become oil. But, that is pretty optimistic considering the pace that humans are on for self-extinction.
The other thing is that "using" renewable energy is possible on the normal grid by purchasing renewable energy through the utility. As long as you know the store's consumption, you pay the utility that delivers it for the rate they have to purchase/generate it at. This is the same way "competitive" energy markets in the US work, the electricity enters the grid from a mix of where the customers want it. Just because you didn't get the electrons that were pushed by a windmill doesn't mean you aren't using a renewable resource.
It was included in the very interesting report... 400 million or so that replied to pings (about 15% of all the possible valid addresses). That suggests either a LOT of the IPV4 space is blocking pings, or that a lot of it is poorly allocated (I bet it's a little of the former and a lot of the latter). Many huge blocks are allocated to groups that couldn't possibly use them, such as developing nations or specific institutions with a relatively small number of users/servers.
Was that the first time it was 11:30 that fall night or the second time? Oh that's a good question, I didn't think to write that down. I guess this trial is fucked.
If you write time down (especially if you suspect such confusion is possible) you better write the current timezone along with it, or you are a pretty sorry detective. This is how all computerized logs are already written. I guess, if you are a murderer, you can expect a little leeway right after 2am twice a year, but i would eat my hat if you could point out a single time this confusion actually caused a problem in a criminal trial.
No, Its not 3.25 per Kilowatt hour. They paid 3.25 for the half hour. The amount of charge transferred is not known. It could be 3.25 per kilowatt hour, but there is not enough information to state that.
You are right that there is not enough info (never said there was) but it is the right question to ask, since you can't "use" a kilowatt and for utility billing purposes, a half-hour guesstimate isn't going to fly.
Does anyone else find it slightly ironic that Tesla's charging stations are using direct current...
You wouldn't want the charging station to kill any wayward elephants, now would you? I mean, think of the elephants
/Edison
per however many kilowatts are used in an average 30 minute charge.
facepalm. You mean kilowatt-hours. Or, you can call them joules, or calories, or maybe even BTUs. come on, read a wikipedia article already.
Uhm, they most certainly only want to give loans to people who can repay it.
If you don't repay it, you wait 7 years and it goes away. That is not profitable for a card company. They don't want those people. They want people who can pay it every month.
Their goal is to find people who can pay it back, but have never learned self control and want to spend money before they get it.
Its not about 'need', its about greed. Its about wanting to put the cart before the horse.
It is most certainly not about finding people who will default on their loans, as you seem to think.
Nowhere did I suggest they were looking for people who were going to default, only those who could not fully repay... Big difference.
Must be getting a lot dumber. I'm willing to bet an insane amount of money relative to my income that the credit cards companies are FAR FAR better at predicting who to loan money too than any Googler. They have the advantage of having Googler level employees, years of experience, and financial greed driving them.
You can not predict what they will be worth in 10 years, they don't have any idea what they'll even like NEXT YEAR, let alone 10 years.
Once you get a little older you realize that the person you were when you got out of school is entirely different than the person you are 10 years later. Its well accepted fact that no one under 25 knows who they are, and no one under 30 is really sure who they are.
The thing is, a credit card company is really only trying to find and/or convince customers to borrow to the point where they have too much debt to fully repay at any point in the near or medium term, and then charge just enough interest to keep them paying instead of filing for some sort of debt relief or bankruptcy. To think that credit card companies are in the business of only giving credit to those most worthy/capable of repaying is to completely miss the nature of the global banking/debt industry. Quite the opposite, if you are in a position to easily repay credit card debt you aren't a sought after customer. The model for that is certainly different compared to one whose intention is to find candidates who will be relatively successful and capable of full repaying at some medium-term point (10 years) and yield a comfortably high return for the investors.
What you are referring to is a Collective action problem and yes, trying to call individuals to act against the problem directly is often fruitless, which gives way to gestures like this that hope to slowly turn the public sentiment.
Judging by all the responses this has gotten, the earth is fucked.
After all, we're already not using the best time for our time zones so having clocks for any purpose other than keeping track of time is already gone.
Amen, I once tried to use a clock as a skateboard, and the goddamn thing just crumbled into a million little shards of plastic. I guess the old saying is true, "a broken clock is right as long as you don't give a shit what time it is."
Oh, you meant clocks serve no purpose other than measuring time relative to itself, and especially are not for determining the optimal moment for any given activity that relates to the position of the sun... Right...
Getting at those addresses took some deliberate work on his part
That "deliberate work" amounted to this:
Weev: "Can I have the email address for whoever is associated with this number?"
AT&T: "Sure, it's xxx@yyy.zzz!"
Now that's a criminal mastermind hacker if I ever saw one!
There isn't really a specific sentence for "criminal mastermind" when it comes to computer crimes, so the judge was in no place to make an exception...
"Basic security" seems equally mysterious to you...
--Matt Jones
Basic security != computer crime legislation...
But ask anyone on slashdot and of course, laws should be written accommodating for ones ability to write firewall rules.