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Terry Childs Found Guilty
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that being said....dunno...this sets a bad precedence for sysadmins/IT ppl....as this basically be also interpreted as "if you secure your network from novices who may break the network, you might be guilty of a crime"
If your boss demands the password, give it to them. Send them a letter along with the passwords saying that you are doing it under protest if you want, warn them of the dangers, whatever, but don't be idiotic. So they screw up and the network goes down, big deal, it's a freaking network not the entirety of modern civilization. Some sysadmins have waaay too high an opinion of the importance of their computer systems.
I don't care if it's a government organization or a corporation as far as I'm concerned once they let you go there should be no more ties to anyone from either side.
What are you talking about? He was asked for the passwords before he was suspended.
The idea is that it's just the courts' job to interpret the law; if they interpret it incorrectly chances are that it was the legislators fault for drafting it poorly, or not anticipating certain issues. And unfortunately before the Emancipation Proclamation there was no federal legal impediment to the existence of slavery.
As much as everyone had been beating up on gizmodo for leaking this guy's name, I would not be surprised if the only reason he kept his job was because of the publicity.
The Fourteenth Amendment explicitly binds the States within the Union to the Bill of Rights in it's first section with little room for discussion or debate as to what that means. There is no "so far"- when the Fourteenth was put in, the States got bound and they're obligated to abide by each and every one of the items therein.
As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.
I saw that and found it meaningless, and certainly no "clarification" for the purposes of this thread; I would hope that shielded nuclear waste would release less radiation into the environment than unshielded coal ash. The point remains that while coal plants may produce more radiation per unit of energy created than nuclear plants, "ounce for ounce" coal ash is less radioactive than nuclear waste.
No, it's not. It's like saying there's more cyanide in ocean water than in a glass of cyanide, because there's more cyanide collectively in the ocean as a whole.
I'll take an ugly but fun game over a pretty but boring game any day. I like high-end graphics as much as the next guy, but not at the expense of gameplay.
And I'll take a pretty and fun game over an ugly but fun game any day. You can have both, and I don't think there's anything wrong with putting a lot of effort into the graphics engine and art as well. Artistry is artistry.
Now this is scary. One small step for Apple towards their global technocratic dictatorship.
I know the cultists will shriek, but if Apple had won the PC wars back in the early 80's I have no doubt we would all be using desktops that are exponentially less powerful than the ones we have now. Similarly, if Apple were to monopolize the smartphone market (not that I think they will ever be able to, even with ARM), the rate of progress will slow.
That someone would use a delusional/mentally ill person to further a legislative effort creeps me out almost as much as the idea that people in such a state aren't getting help for their problems.
How did this further a legislative effort? If anything it would have weakened it.
You know, it is crap like this that puts us in the same league as Democrats that ban salt in restaurant food preparation.
DemocratS? Who have banned salt in restaurant food preparation? So you're saying multiple Democrats have successfully banned salt in restaurant food preparation? Where was this?
I grew up LONG before iPods, gameboys, etc. I entertained myself in the backseat of the car on long trips with reading books, playing with toy soldiers/hot wheels....etc. Do kids actually use their imaginations these days anymore? Heck, if nothing else...I'd lay down and sleep some too.
I grew up long before ipods, gameboys, etc., and I have very vivid memories of the crushing boredom of long trips. If I can spare any kids I eventually have from that, then good. Once we get to the beach/park/wherever they can turn them in and go engage in imaginative play.
At $500 a pop, giving two kids their own iPads would cost far less than what the automakers charge for an ICE system.
And the only drawback being they can't play DVDs at all? Why not replace the ICE system with a shiny rock they can look at, even cheaper than the ipad and it can't play DVDs either.
I don't know about you, but I would not want to be willingly running a system with a known-bad CPU core
You underestimate the combination of paranoia and lack of sense that a lot of overclockers have, who are convinced the CPU manufacturers intentionally disable their chips in order to make more money somehow by selling them at a lower price.
As Bruce Schenier said, security through obscurity does not work...
That has been a mantra on slashdot since it started and I have never been convinced that it's necessarily true. There are plenty of examples where a security hole was discovered in 10+ years old open source code. On the other hand, there's no way of knowing how many security holes are never exploited because the company whose systems have it keeps quiet.
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that being said....dunno...this sets a bad precedence for sysadmins/IT ppl....as this basically be also interpreted as "if you secure your network from novices who may break the network, you might be guilty of a crime"
If your boss demands the password, give it to them. Send them a letter along with the passwords saying that you are doing it under protest if you want, warn them of the dangers, whatever, but don't be idiotic. So they screw up and the network goes down, big deal, it's a freaking network not the entirety of modern civilization. Some sysadmins have waaay too high an opinion of the importance of their computer systems.
I don't care if it's a government organization or a corporation as far as I'm concerned once they let you go there should be no more ties to anyone from either side.
What are you talking about? He was asked for the passwords before he was suspended.
The idea is that it's just the courts' job to interpret the law; if they interpret it incorrectly chances are that it was the legislators fault for drafting it poorly, or not anticipating certain issues. And unfortunately before the Emancipation Proclamation there was no federal legal impediment to the existence of slavery.
In the legal field powerpoint slides can be incredibly useful when presenting to juries, when you want to simplify/clarify (or alternately, confuse).
Too bad all that ad space was already sold when they ran the iphone story.
I think a clue may be seen in his slashdot nickname.
As much as everyone had been beating up on gizmodo for leaking this guy's name, I would not be surprised if the only reason he kept his job was because of the publicity.
The Fourteenth Amendment explicitly binds the States within the Union to the Bill of Rights in it's first section with little room for discussion or debate as to what that means. There is no "so far"- when the Fourteenth was put in, the States got bound and they're obligated to abide by each and every one of the items therein.
Not according to the Supreme Court.
As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.
I saw that and found it meaningless, and certainly no "clarification" for the purposes of this thread; I would hope that shielded nuclear waste would release less radiation into the environment than unshielded coal ash. The point remains that while coal plants may produce more radiation per unit of energy created than nuclear plants, "ounce for ounce" coal ash is less radioactive than nuclear waste.
No, it's not. It's like saying there's more cyanide in ocean water than in a glass of cyanide, because there's more cyanide collectively in the ocean as a whole.
most laidback airline personnel I ever dealt with on a long flight.
Well the Germans are so well-known for being laidback...
And traffic and parking is so much more pleasant in Dayton than Chicago...
Ummm, there is a reason for that...
Actually, I choose my words carefully; just because you're a semiliterate oaf don't assume the rest of us are too.
I meant hardware-wise, and no I didn't mean "a lot," I meant as in I think we'd be a few generations behind in processor power.
I'll take an ugly but fun game over a pretty but boring game any day. I like high-end graphics as much as the next guy, but not at the expense of gameplay.
And I'll take a pretty and fun game over an ugly but fun game any day. You can have both, and I don't think there's anything wrong with putting a lot of effort into the graphics engine and art as well. Artistry is artistry.
Now this is scary. One small step for Apple towards their global technocratic dictatorship.
I know the cultists will shriek, but if Apple had won the PC wars back in the early 80's I have no doubt we would all be using desktops that are exponentially less powerful than the ones we have now. Similarly, if Apple were to monopolize the smartphone market (not that I think they will ever be able to, even with ARM), the rate of progress will slow.
Considering basically 99% of all major game releases these days have some kind of DRM
99% of major game releases back in the 80's and 90's had DRM too, which everyone seems to forget.
That someone would use a delusional/mentally ill person to further a legislative effort creeps me out almost as much as the idea that people in such a state aren't getting help for their problems.
How did this further a legislative effort? If anything it would have weakened it.
You know, it is crap like this that puts us in the same league as Democrats that ban salt in restaurant food preparation.
DemocratS? Who have banned salt in restaurant food preparation? So you're saying multiple Democrats have successfully banned salt in restaurant food preparation? Where was this?
I grew up LONG before iPods, gameboys, etc. I entertained myself in the backseat of the car on long trips with reading books, playing with toy soldiers/hot wheels....etc. Do kids actually use their imaginations these days anymore? Heck, if nothing else...I'd lay down and sleep some too.
I grew up long before ipods, gameboys, etc., and I have very vivid memories of the crushing boredom of long trips. If I can spare any kids I eventually have from that, then good. Once we get to the beach/park/wherever they can turn them in and go engage in imaginative play.
At $500 a pop, giving two kids their own iPads would cost far less than what the automakers charge for an ICE system.
And the only drawback being they can't play DVDs at all? Why not replace the ICE system with a shiny rock they can look at, even cheaper than the ipad and it can't play DVDs either.
And the dance continues.
I don't know about you, but I would not want to be willingly running a system with a known-bad CPU core
You underestimate the combination of paranoia and lack of sense that a lot of overclockers have, who are convinced the CPU manufacturers intentionally disable their chips in order to make more money somehow by selling them at a lower price.
As Bruce Schenier said, security through obscurity does not work...
That has been a mantra on slashdot since it started and I have never been convinced that it's necessarily true. There are plenty of examples where a security hole was discovered in 10+ years old open source code. On the other hand, there's no way of knowing how many security holes are never exploited because the company whose systems have it keeps quiet.
For instance, in Planescape: Torment
Now THAT game was art...