Most people want AC, power steering, and other standard luxuries
AC is not a luxury in Houston in the summer. In fact I survived 9 years without AC in my Home, but there was no way I could have survived without it in my car. When people are driving for hours in 95+ degrees, AC is not an option....
I was suprised to see the EFF seems to have a totally different motivation. It seems their real motivation is that the government can't demand logs that don't exists, or more specifically you can't get in trouble for not providing what you don't actually have.
Same thing libraries did to get around having to turn over patron's reading habits to the police.
Of course the next step the government will take is passing a law requiring everyone to keep their logs for 5 years.
Creepy stuff. Not that the logs are all the useful -- considering just how many people and IPs will be in them. That's like getting a list of 5 million people... you can't send them all to jail and/or fine them. Or... can they?
Depends on how much they want a slave population. The one difference I see between this IP war and the war on drugs is the population is fairly affluent.
From the Article "The cop who checks your car license does not own a car," said Raghu Raman, who heads an information security firm called Mahindra Special Services Group. "The passport official who checks your passport does not go abroad. The cop to whom you go to register a credit card misuse does not own a credit card. If a cop is in no position to own a computer, how can he fight cybercrime? The field cop (and) the beat constable live in another world."
'No where USA' has the same problems. I can remember back in the 80s when I had a user on my BBS that crashed the BBS on purpose. He was working on his PHD in Physics at RICE and was bored. I didn't know that at the time though. I tried to get Friendswood, TX Police involved. It took an eternity to get them to understand what the crime was and then they were so happy to have the first computer crime. Long story short the cops didn't know anything about computers and we ended up catching the guy by a plain old wire tapped phone call.
I think Einstein contributed a lot, but he also made a lot of mistakes later in his life.
what I find interesting about Einstein is he married a radical woman that was as brilliant as himself only to dump her for a more traditional wife later in life.
Radical to traditional in both scientific and private life....odd parallels
if they are *actually effective* they won't be a requirement, but you'll take them if you want to effectively compete for jobs against other people who are taking them.
Odd choice for companies. If the enhancing chemicals cause someone to test positive for drugs, would the company want to hire the person? I see a chemical Gattaca.....
Next time just round out to 20% is outright correct or something that rings very true.
Anything less than or equal to 20% can use the 80-20 Rule
Quote: The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 Rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many phenomena 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. Moreover, among those "top 20" it is also the case that 80% of consequences result from 20% of causes, and so on. Thus, for example, 20% of 20% of 20% is 0.008, or 0.8%, i.e., eight-tenths of one percent, and 80% of 80% of 80% is 51.2%, so 51.2% of consequences come from eight-tenths of one percent of causes.
The principle was suggested by management thinker Joseph M. Juran. It was named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of property in Italy was owned by 20% of the Italian population. It is often applied to data such as sales figures (20% of clients are responsible for 80% of sales volume) or organizational productivity applied via aircraft bodies whereby 20% of an aircraft structure provides 80% of the lift (in turn would apply to 20% of individuals in an organization perform 80% of the work).
It your case 80% of what people take away is junk and 20% understand or gain insight.
I doubt this test shows anything more than if you are recalling a recent event under no stress you use very little brain power. I'd like to see it preformed on people that are trying to remember something 6 months ago and if they answer wrong could go to jail (or some other stress induced consequence.) I am will to bet there would be a ton of brain activity.
Here's my version of the test: have a pretty girl listen to a nerdy guy and decide if he is telling the truth or lying. Shock him if he is lying. You can probably post an ad for this test in the personals of your local free newspaper.
As for defending yourself in court I would recommend looking at this/. post
Or for those that don't want to click on the link, here is the text:
A Lawyer's Opinions (Score:5, Informative) by Liza (97242) * on Wednesday May 12, @04:56AM (#9125127) I'm a lawyer, not a law student. (I'm not your lawyer. I don't practice in your jurisdiction. This isn't legal advice. And I've never been a prosecutor or a criminal defense attorney. But I have worked a lot on issues related to kids, sexual content, and the Internet.)
Any possession, whatsoever, of child porn is a federal felony offense. It doesn't matter how you got it, that you didn't want it, or that the computer made you do it.
Maybe you could challenge the statute, but good luck finding a lawyer who wants to argue that possession of actual child porn shouldn't be illegal because the statute didn't include an element of mens rea. The ACLU had a hard enough time challenging the law prohibiting images that just looked like child porn, but didn't involve actual children.
Back in 1998 or 1999, there was a senior exec at Infoseek who was arrested for travelling interstate to have sex with a minor -- who turned out to be an FBI agent, not a little girl. He was also charged with possession of child porn.
When the case finally went to trial, he brought out expert witnesses, who were able to convince the jury that plenty of people go online and pretend to be someone other than they are to have sex. He said that he never thought she was a real child; he thought she was a woman who liked to pretend she was a child having sex.
As I remember it, he agreed to a plea during the trial. I think the prosecutors must have found the expert persuasive. Ultimately, he pled guilty to possession of child porn, and agreed to some sort of community service helping the FBI improve its enforcement of child sexual exploitation laws.
In this case, here's what I think happened: This shmuck was deliberately looking at porn that was, at the very least, borderline. But he didn't want to admit it. And he was afraid of the cost of defending himself. So he copped a plea, and now regrets it.
Judges won't let you plead guilty unless they are convinced that you understand what you are agreeing to, and what rights you are giving up by pleading guilty. But they can't stop you from making a stupid decision. That's why you have a lawyer.
Incidently, in many cases a public defender is going to get a better deal for a defendant than an average defense lawyer. (Texas is an infamous counter-example.)
Why? They're in the system all the time. They have a relationship with the judges and the prosecutors. In that plea negotiation process, they know how strong or weak the case is, and the judge and prosecutor know that someone with whom they work frequently isn't going to bullshit them. (Or they know the person is always full of shit, but I'm talking about a good public defender.)
Who are you more likely to offer a good plea agreement to -- someone you work with every week, who has pretty much backed up what he's said when you've gone to trial with a weak case before? Or someone you don't know or have worked with occasionally, who might be right that your case is weak or might be completely full of it?
Of course, none of this applies if you can afford a seriously elite defense lawyer. Like the Infoseek guy had, or OJ, or Martha Stewart. But many elite defense lawyers worked as public defenders for a few years early in their careers.
Liza
These opinions are my own. My employer is not aware of them, does not endorse them, and is not responsible for them.
The 93% voting turnout should have been the first red flag of the human error. A 93% voter turn-out should be standard operating procedure. But, unfortunately in this country, it is a red flag.
When people talk about red flags and red states, the first thing that pops into my mind is Communist countries.
so as John Ashcroft sings, 'Let that eagle soar...'
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Be VERY afraid of the first RFID generation, ones who grow up with this commonplace, who never knew an age without it. Who will think we are a bunch of kooks for opposing it.
That is why those who want to social engineer people ALWAYS want to start with the schools...
I've always wondered how we can expect our kids to fight for liberty later when we gave them none.
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Most people want AC, power steering, and other standard luxuries
AC is not a luxury in Houston in the summer. In fact I survived 9 years without AC in my Home, but there was no way I could have survived without it in my car. When people are driving for hours in 95+ degrees, AC is not an option....
This is not the autoduel I was envisioning when I played the role playing game.
Lets see for the crew, we'll need a driver, a navigator, and backseat hacker.
Then we also have a weight problem. Normally people who drive cars weigh less than the average hacker.
Who cares? I patented yeast. Half of everyone uses derivatives of my patent.
I'll be nice. Just give me a quarter of everything you own.
And darn it, where is my beer and bread royalties?
I think you are getting Armwrestling confused with sumo wrestling.
I find it hard to think of torrent as anything other than another transmission protocol.
/. Would start torrent/mirroring it.....
I know it isn't since it is acting at another layer, but for all purposes how is it different from tcpip?
I think if it was bundled with a browser websites would start using this for load balancing. People that love
I know it wouldn't work like that, but I can see a lot of potential in bittorrent for legal purposes
It could happen, but the format is in a .tivo
.tivo)
I think the only people going to be sharing it are other tivo users....(at least until a crack is made for
I was suprised to see the EFF seems to have a totally different motivation. It seems their real motivation is that the government can't demand logs that don't exists, or more specifically you can't get in trouble for not providing what you don't actually have.
Same thing libraries did to get around having to turn over patron's reading habits to the police.
Of course the next step the government will take is passing a law requiring everyone to keep their logs for 5 years.
Also I read about someone with a Vonage account in college in CA who moved to India.
He took his Vonage router with him, got broadband in India, and kept his CA phone number.
When Mankind can prove it can live in equilibrium oni Earth, then it can spread elsewhere.
Not going to happen. All primates make a mess and move on...
you're asking every person not to have any weaknesses even when primates never had to do that in the past.
Creepy stuff. Not that the logs are all the useful -- considering just how many people and IPs will be in them. That's like getting a list of 5 million people... you can't send them all to jail and/or fine them. Or... can they?
Depends on how much they want a slave population. The one difference I see between this IP war and the war on drugs is the population is fairly affluent.
I can remember playing so much starcrack, that I couldn't close my eyes without seeing Zerg prancing around.
Little zergs scratching at the door.
Little zergs digging holes.
little zergs racing across the landscape.
It was wonderful.
When I go to game paper & dice rpg, I take my laptop. It makes keeping track of the game easier...anyway, my friend's SSID is I_AM_NOT_A_SLUT
In reality, I guess he's not an easy slut (WEP&MAC filtering), but still a slut to the right wardriver.
From the Article "The cop who checks your car license does not own a car," said Raghu Raman, who heads an information security firm called Mahindra Special Services Group. "The passport official who checks your passport does not go abroad. The cop to whom you go to register a credit card misuse does not own a credit card. If a cop is in no position to own a computer, how can he fight cybercrime? The field cop (and) the beat constable live in another world."
'No where USA' has the same problems. I can remember back in the 80s when I had a user on my BBS that crashed the BBS on purpose. He was working on his PHD in Physics at RICE and was bored. I didn't know that at the time though. I tried to get Friendswood, TX Police involved. It took an eternity to get them to understand what the crime was and then they were so happy to have the first computer crime. Long story short the cops didn't know anything about computers and we ended up catching the guy by a plain old wire tapped phone call.
What? Interplay is liquidating France??? What is the world coming to?
Just part of Bush's plan to help corporate America and get revenge at the same time.
I think Einstein contributed a lot, but he also made a lot of mistakes later in his life.
what I find interesting about Einstein is he married a radical woman that was as brilliant as himself only to dump her for a more traditional wife later in life.
Radical to traditional in both scientific and private life....odd parallels
if they are *actually effective* they won't be a requirement, but you'll take them if you want to effectively compete for jobs against other people who are taking them.
Odd choice for companies. If the enhancing chemicals cause someone to test positive for drugs, would the company want to hire the person? I see a chemical Gattaca.....
Next time just round out to 20% is outright correct or something that rings very true.
Anything less than or equal to 20% can use the 80-20 Rule
Quote:
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 Rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many phenomena 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. Moreover, among those "top 20" it is also the case that 80% of consequences result from 20% of causes, and so on. Thus, for example, 20% of 20% of 20% is 0.008, or 0.8%, i.e., eight-tenths of one percent, and 80% of 80% of 80% is 51.2%, so 51.2% of consequences come from eight-tenths of one percent of causes.
The principle was suggested by management thinker Joseph M. Juran. It was named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of property in Italy was owned by 20% of the Italian population. It is often applied to data such as sales figures (20% of clients are responsible for 80% of sales volume) or organizational productivity applied via aircraft bodies whereby 20% of an aircraft structure provides 80% of the lift (in turn would apply to 20% of individuals in an organization perform 80% of the work).
It your case 80% of what people take away is junk and 20% understand or gain insight.
Troll, I say.
Or at least a slashdoter with a memory of this article
argh now I'm trolling...it is a recursive trolling...
I doubt this test shows anything more than if you are recalling a recent event under no stress you use very little brain power. I'd like to see it preformed on people that are trying to remember something 6 months ago and if they answer wrong could go to jail (or some other stress induced consequence.) I am will to bet there would be a ton of brain activity.
Here's my version of the test: have a pretty girl listen to a nerdy guy and decide if he is telling the truth or lying. Shock him if he is lying. You can probably post an ad for this test in the personals of your local free newspaper.
maybe he bought it. higher number = less geek = more dates.
Look at me, my number is higher and I'm married.
As for defending yourself in court I would recommend looking at this /. post
Or for those that don't want to click on the link, here is the text:
A Lawyer's Opinions (Score:5, Informative)
by Liza (97242) * on Wednesday May 12, @04:56AM (#9125127)
I'm a lawyer, not a law student. (I'm not your lawyer. I don't practice in your jurisdiction. This isn't legal advice. And I've never been a prosecutor or a criminal defense attorney. But I have worked a lot on issues related to kids, sexual content, and the Internet.)
Any possession, whatsoever, of child porn is a federal felony offense. It doesn't matter how you got it, that you didn't want it, or that the computer made you do it.
Maybe you could challenge the statute, but good luck finding a lawyer who wants to argue that possession of actual child porn shouldn't be illegal because the statute didn't include an element of mens rea. The ACLU had a hard enough time challenging the law prohibiting images that just looked like child porn, but didn't involve actual children.
Back in 1998 or 1999, there was a senior exec at Infoseek who was arrested for travelling interstate to have sex with a minor -- who turned out to be an FBI agent, not a little girl. He was also charged with possession of child porn.
When the case finally went to trial, he brought out expert witnesses, who were able to convince the jury that plenty of people go online and pretend to be someone other than they are to have sex. He said that he never thought she was a real child; he thought she was a woman who liked to pretend she was a child having sex.
As I remember it, he agreed to a plea during the trial. I think the prosecutors must have found the expert persuasive. Ultimately, he pled guilty to possession of child porn, and agreed to some sort of community service helping the FBI improve its enforcement of child sexual exploitation laws.
In this case, here's what I think happened: This shmuck was deliberately looking at porn that was, at the very least, borderline. But he didn't want to admit it. And he was afraid of the cost of defending himself. So he copped a plea, and now regrets it.
Judges won't let you plead guilty unless they are convinced that you understand what you are agreeing to, and what rights you are giving up by pleading guilty. But they can't stop you from making a stupid decision. That's why you have a lawyer.
Incidently, in many cases a public defender is going to get a better deal for a defendant than an average defense lawyer. (Texas is an infamous counter-example.)
Why? They're in the system all the time. They have a relationship with the judges and the prosecutors. In that plea negotiation process, they know how strong or weak the case is, and the judge and prosecutor know that someone with whom they work frequently isn't going to bullshit them. (Or they know the person is always full of shit, but I'm talking about a good public defender.)
Who are you more likely to offer a good plea agreement to -- someone you work with every week, who has pretty much backed up what he's said when you've gone to trial with a weak case before? Or someone you don't know or have worked with occasionally, who might be right that your case is weak or might be completely full of it?
Of course, none of this applies if you can afford a seriously elite defense lawyer. Like the Infoseek guy had, or OJ, or Martha Stewart. But many elite defense lawyers worked as public defenders for a few years early in their careers.
Liza
These opinions are my own. My employer is not aware of them, does not endorse them, and is not responsible for them.
Admittedly I haven't looked at the states in question, but some states force their electors to vote a certain way under penalty of jail time.
The electors could vote Kerry into office and then the states with those laws in effect could throw the electors in jail.
One of the multiple pluses of them voting in Kerry would be hopefully changing the constitution to toss out the Electoral College.
But to say that it is non-polluting probably isn't true.
agreed, but I'd rather have a central source of pollution than the millions of small ones in Houston.
The 93% voting turnout should have been the first red flag of the human error.
A 93% voter turn-out should be standard operating procedure. But, unfortunately in this country, it is a red flag.
When people talk about red flags and red states, the first thing that pops into my mind is Communist countries.
so as John Ashcroft sings, 'Let that eagle soar...'
Be VERY afraid of the first RFID generation, ones who grow up with this commonplace, who never knew an age without it. Who will think we are a bunch of kooks for opposing it.
That is why those who want to social engineer people ALWAYS want to start with the schools...
I've always wondered how we can expect our kids to fight for liberty later when we gave them none.
How can you miss something you never had?