Exactly, if you think the punishment was wrong, advocate a change in the law. This guy took the risk he did based on the potential punishment he faced based on the law at the time, and changing laws retroactively is always dangerous.
Uh, there is (at least since XP) an easily-accessible checkbox: right-click the Recycle Bin and among the options is "Display Delete Confirmation Dialog."
True in general, but some Windows installation disks do more than just run setup.exe on startup and instead have rather involved scripts in autorun.inf. I had a driver/utility CD for an NAS device that created a menu of the manufacturer's different models via autorun and could not be invoked any other way. Since I had autorun disabled, this was very annoying.
Those are the countries of origin for the news items, I gather. The former item was from Vancouver, and this one is out of Manchester. I don't know what phone booths have to do with anything, though. They are usually brought up with questions of volume. (How many of my pals can fit in this one?)
Fortunately, the phone box isn't blue, making the question relatively easy to answer.
Why would you trust a light switch? It could, for example, be made of a memory alloy designed to deform under certain conditions and change the state of the circuit--or perhaps to zap you the next time you touch it.
Happened to me once on Orbitz, too: the flight changed to an earlier time and they and the airline neglected to tell me (but I noticed the discrepancy when printing boarding passes the day before so it was fine).
At least they're honest. That's better than promoting drugs that are less effective than the previous standard, with worse side effects, as big pharma has been known to do.
You're right. I assumed that most DDoS attacks used large botnets, but read this: http://www.monkey.org/~labovit/nanog50.pdf and learned otherwise. It does seem like there just aren't good statistics on what the distribution of such attacks is.
No, it’s analogous to saying “Aww, you pissed off a few million people and now your switchboards are jammed with angry phone calls. Cry me a river. That’s just an occupational hazard, in your line of business.”
A DDOS is not like angry phone calls. Angry phone calls represent people attempting to express an opinion, using their own resources. The resources for a DDOS are typically far beyond the level of individuals' own computers, and involve a botnet or similar distributed collection of machines, many of whose owners are not condoning this use of their resources: the closer telephone analogy would be hacking into an exchange to force all the lines to call the target.
By that same logic they should fire their entire PR department and instead they should lobby the government to try to have laws passed so that if any significant number of people spoke out against them, they could all be prosecuted. PR departments are expensive. Boo hoo.
No, IT security is more like real world security: of course a business running a large website needs it, just like a store needs to spend money to prevent shoplifting. But that does not constitute an argument that it's okay to attack a site. You might as well tell a judge, "Of course I robbed the bank, but they had armed guards, so clearly they were expecting it, which must mean it's okay."
Speech is a fundamentally different category of action. There's a difference between picketing a business to get your message across to potential customers and blockading the door so nobody can get in or out. A DDOS is like the latter; it is not speech but a way of denying others their right to speak.
Why have so many major sites (such as the credit card companies) been DDOSed successfully recently? Are their admins just incompetent?
The fact the defenses exist doesn't make the attack irrelevant. You argument is analogous to saying, "It's your fault you got shot in the chest--you should have worn a bulletproof vest" or "Who cares if I poison someone--there's an antidote." Moreover, defenses are expensive and the attack forces the target to bear an unreasonable cost (including extra server capacity).
How so? Apart from the minor detail that a legal distinction has been made where no real distinction exists, I mean.
Flooding someone with snailmail does not prevent them from receiving more (even if it does make them harder). And it certainly does not prevent them from SENDING mail, while a DDOS affects the target from sending information out. A DDOS is more like dumping a truckload of mail across someone's front door, so they can't even leave the house, or more aptly like redialing someone's phone so they can't call out (which is illegal in some places).
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Exactly, if you think the punishment was wrong, advocate a change in the law. This guy took the risk he did based on the potential punishment he faced based on the law at the time, and changing laws retroactively is always dangerous.
Your sample is not statistically valid, because people who have been shot are less likely to be on /.
Uh, there is (at least since XP) an easily-accessible checkbox: right-click the Recycle Bin and among the options is "Display Delete Confirmation Dialog."
If you need greater assurance than that, physically destroy the drive. It's the only way to be sure.
Technically, that is only one way to be sure. The other is to leave the drive intact but destroy the rest of the universe.
Presumably, you could run it on iOS or Android device that is not a phone (e.g., an Archos music player or an iPod Touch).
Not if you're in an internet café in a country where your cell phone doesn't work.
It also has a frickin torch built in
I sincerely hope you were speaking British there.
Some backs in Europe have these, and give them to you when you sign up for online backing. Works pretty well.
True in general, but some Windows installation disks do more than just run setup.exe on startup and instead have rather involved scripts in autorun.inf. I had a driver/utility CD for an NAS device that created a menu of the manufacturer's different models via autorun and could not be invoked any other way. Since I had autorun disabled, this was very annoying.
They did conduct some arrests ('ton' is a very subjective term in this context).
On the contrary, I thought it was quite objective: it indicates that the total mass of the individuals arrested exceeds 1,000 kg.
(the Soviet Union and China fell out in the early 1970s
Early 60s, actually.
Those are the countries of origin for the news items, I gather. The former item was from Vancouver, and this one is out of Manchester. I don't know what phone booths have to do with anything, though. They are usually brought up with questions of volume. (How many of my pals can fit in this one?)
Fortunately, the phone box isn't blue, making the question relatively easy to answer.
Cochineal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal) is derived from a member of the order Hemiptera ("true bugs"), not a beetle.
Does that mean you can't turn on your iPod if there are no clouds?
What's wrong with doer? It's a perfectly good English word--it was quite old already when Shakespeare used it.
Why would you trust a light switch? It could, for example, be made of a memory alloy designed to deform under certain conditions and change the state of the circuit--or perhaps to zap you the next time you touch it.
Happened to me once on Orbitz, too: the flight changed to an earlier time and they and the airline neglected to tell me (but I noticed the discrepancy when printing boarding passes the day before so it was fine).
At least they're honest. That's better than promoting drugs that are less effective than the previous standard, with worse side effects, as big pharma has been known to do.
I meant Grenada, of course. Hartman's Law strikes again.
The US has never invaded mainland Spain, to my knowledge. It did invade Granada in 1983, but the invasion of Panama in 1989 is more recent.
You're right. I assumed that most DDoS attacks used large botnets, but read this: http://www.monkey.org/~labovit/nanog50.pdf and learned otherwise. It does seem like there just aren't good statistics on what the distribution of such attacks is.
No, it’s analogous to saying “Aww, you pissed off a few million people and now your switchboards are jammed with angry phone calls. Cry me a river. That’s just an occupational hazard, in your line of business.”
A DDOS is not like angry phone calls. Angry phone calls represent people attempting to express an opinion, using their own resources. The resources for a DDOS are typically far beyond the level of individuals' own computers, and involve a botnet or similar distributed collection of machines, many of whose owners are not condoning this use of their resources: the closer telephone analogy would be hacking into an exchange to force all the lines to call the target.
By that same logic they should fire their entire PR department and instead they should lobby the government to try to have laws passed so that if any significant number of people spoke out against them, they could all be prosecuted. PR departments are expensive. Boo hoo.
No, IT security is more like real world security: of course a business running a large website needs it, just like a store needs to spend money to prevent shoplifting. But that does not constitute an argument that it's okay to attack a site. You might as well tell a judge, "Of course I robbed the bank, but they had armed guards, so clearly they were expecting it, which must mean it's okay."
Speech is a fundamentally different category of action. There's a difference between picketing a business to get your message across to potential customers and blockading the door so nobody can get in or out. A DDOS is like the latter; it is not speech but a way of denying others their right to speak.
Lastpass.
How so? Apart from the minor detail that a legal distinction has been made where no real distinction exists, I mean.
Flooding someone with snailmail does not prevent them from receiving more (even if it does make them harder). And it certainly does not prevent them from SENDING mail, while a DDOS affects the target from sending information out. A DDOS is more like dumping a truckload of mail across someone's front door, so they can't even leave the house, or more aptly like redialing someone's phone so they can't call out (which is illegal in some places).