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  1. Re:Take that Terry Childs on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    Nope. Why would I be?

  2. Re:Cost on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    Tell those CCIEs that if they think that it's proper for a single admin to have complete control of passwords with no oversight then they need better training. The CCIE on the jury seemed to think he broke the law.

  3. Re:Take that Terry Childs on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    He had one law staring him in the face saying that handing over the information insecurely would place him in jail.

    Please provide a citation to this mythical law.

  4. Re:Take that Terry Childs on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    You can get garnishment orders enforced in Canada, too.

  5. Re:Except that isn't what happened. on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    What ACTUALLY happened is that someone who couldn't demand the passwords asked for them,

    No, what actually happened is a supervisor Childs unilaterally decided (a decision outside his pay grade) wasn't entitled to passwords asked for them. I do not understand the mindset that believes implicitly whatever a criminal defendant says in his defense.

  6. Re:What Childs did wasn't. on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    Absolutely wrong. There was no policy other than Childs' unilateral decision. This is the same supervisor who a week before Childs had provided account passwords. This seems to be Childs' problem; as well as the problem of a lot of his defenders on slashdot.

  7. Re:Cannot know for sure on The FSF's Campaign Against the Nintendo 3DS · · Score: 1

    Unless it's Apple or Nintendo, in which case it is insanely good.

  8. Re:Take that Terry Childs on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    It depends, you can actually get a judgment enforced in another state but you typically have to bring a new action to enforce that judgment in the state he moves to. Alternately, if he's working for a national organization with offices in California, the city can serve the writ of garnishment on the California hq.

  9. Re:Let the guy come here... on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    Garnishment orders are sent to the payor, so it doesn't matter whether you pay electronically, by paper check, or sack of cash down by the railroad tracks at midnight, the payor still has to send the garnishor's cut to them.

  10. Re:Repay city? on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    If they weren't already testing for vulnerabilities, they're bigger idiots than we thought.

    You really think that an organization shouldn't do anything more than their usual vulnerability testing after a former admin takes over the network? Presumably you also think banks shouldn't do anything different with security after they've been robbed?

  11. Re:That explains it... on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    What? Someone on SLASHDOT made a completely unsupportable generalization? Impossible.

  12. Re:Take that Terry Childs on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    Eh, you can't garnish every single penny someone has. He'll have this over his head for the rest of his life but doesn't necessarily mean he'll be homeless.

  13. Re:Justice... has been served? on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    Having an affair isn't a crime. What Childs did, is.

  14. Re:Inflammatory summary, anyone? on Judge Orders Former San Francisco Admin Terry Childs To Pay $1.5M · · Score: 1

    I know you just hired me as your chauffeur to drive your car, but I really don't think you take proper care of it, so I'm just going to take it for myself.

  15. hmm on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    As a lawyer who unfortunately has to occasionally work with particularly complicated areas of the tax code, I don't believe this will be nearly as successful as Brin seems to think. A lot of the complexity comes from trying to close off loopholes, not from trying to give people exemptions, and a computer is not going to help much there.

  16. Re:Nuke power on Japan Widens Evacuation Zone Around Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Every time there's a nuke plant disaster, some people argue that the particular situation is a special case that can be safely ignored.

    Welcome to slashdot.

  17. Re:Good on Appeals Court Throws Out Rambus Patent Ruling · · Score: 2

    Outside counsel should be disbarred for what was described in the Micron v. Rambus opinion.

  18. hmm on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: -1, Troll

    Personally I think the argument can be made that the loudest protestors against the TSA are overly neurotic and likely sexually repressed. So a TSA touched you, big deal. What are you, a Victorian schoolmarm, any physical contact is a crime against humanity?

  19. ugh on Apple Patents Keyboard That Knows What You'll Type · · Score: 1

    Great, but it will probably predict it will probably be programmed to predict what the typical Apple user will type: "Let's hit up The Levee for PBRs" "OMG that guy totally almost hit my Vespa" "Dude we should hit up that Animal Collective show next Saturday" "Dad, I really need that $2000 for rent as soon as possible" "Of course I have a career, I'm an unpaid intern at an indie music label"

  20. Re:Hateful and Evil Organization on Assange Handed Sydney Peace Medal · · Score: 1

    You can't even defend your position so you just make up other people's position; you know you've lost the argument when you have to keep saying stuff like "you probably argue X, which is bad!" rather than refute the actual arguments made. And at least I get invited to parties, troll.

  21. Re:Hateful and Evil Organization on Assange Handed Sydney Peace Medal · · Score: 1

    You're again, a liar. I have criticized every goddamn one of those countries you've mentioned. You are morally bankrupt if you think that Israel can escape all criticism (and that's what you're arguing, don't lie about that) because other countries also do bad things. People like you disgust me.

  22. Re:Manning? on Assange Handed Sydney Peace Medal · · Score: 1

    For Assange, he directs the leaking organization and he might have faced death by "assassination" while residing squarely in another country (though it seems unlikely).

    Very unlikely. Assange has been very careful to only anger countries that aren't going to have him liquidated. Do you think Assange has the guts to go against, say, Russia?

  23. Re:Today Assange... on Assange Handed Sydney Peace Medal · · Score: 0

    You might have seen the news about the Spring uprisings in Arab nations?

    Good grief, I knew slashdotters were delusional but this is beyond anything I've seen there. Assange did not cause the Spring uprisings. He may have claimed credit for them because he's a narcissistic little troll, but he did not cause them.

  24. Re:Hateful and Evil Organization on Assange Handed Sydney Peace Medal · · Score: 2

    You are incredibly dishonest, and profoundly ignorant of history. Anyone who equates criticism of the government of Israel with antisemitism is either a fool or a liar.

  25. Re:WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS? on Assange Handed Sydney Peace Medal · · Score: 1

    Riiiiight, because slashdot is sooooo pro-American government.