Should have thrown in some 9/11 or Obama references for added traffic. Maybe mention Haiti or Thailand a bit.
Here goes.
Instead of changing the color of the screen later in the day, we should really just use computers less, and turn them off. This will reduce the U.S. energy consumption, which will improve our energy security, and hence our national security. We will no longer have to send money overseas to buy oil, money which was used to finance the 9/11 attacks. We are also at risk due to disruptions is supply due to natural disasters (Haiti's unexpected devastating earthquake is testimony to that) or politicial disturbances (such as the recent instability in Thailand makes clear). Obama is working on many policies to reduce consumption and increase alternative fuels.
I sleep with a loaded pistol on my nightstand because I live in a second floor apartment with no means of escape. Such behavior would be unthinkable if I had kids but is perfectly acceptable for an adult living by himself.
Just be careful if the phone rings.
Someone got a Darwin award for shooting himself with a gun when he put it to his ear when the phone rang.
Throw me in jail, I still know what I did wasn't wrong, so I will still sleep like a baby at night. In the end, isn't that what matters? Besides, as Thoreau said "Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.". I see no reason to cower in fear that some thug might come and try to oppress me.
In prison, plenty of thugs would be oppressing you at night. You'll get no sleep!
This was a CRIMINAL case. They were fined 100 euros (since when is that only $126 US, what is going on with exchange rates?!) for having an open WiFi. So it is now illegal in Germany to provide free WiFi, unless you are an ISP or a business providing it.
I guess if you opened a coffee shop in your living room it might be a legal gray area...
Automobiles can and do kill -- but when was the last time you saw someone receive a criminal charge for an automobile accident that resulted in property damage and no personal injury?
Often. In Las Vegas, almost any accident results in someone getting a ticket, and traffic violations in Nevada are criminal offenses. *
* Misdemeanors actually, we appear to not have a violation/infraction severity, although most tickets in practice only result in fines/points/traffic school. Which is good, because otherwise half the city would be in jail with the way people drive here!:)
I guess it is illegal for a private person to leave their WiFi open, even if they were doing in the the spirit of sharing, or for convienience of guests, or anything.
Starbucks is a company, doing it to get more business and more money, and hence they would be considered to not be breaking the law, I guess.
We will see if a private individual explicitly leaves an open WiFi as a public service, and still gets fined, rather than "negligently" leaving it open. Then they could raise that as a defense and the gov't would have to admit there are different rules for different people or do something else.
Furthermore, the crucial advantage of hydrogen is the lack of carbon atoms, its combustion (or catalyzed oxidation, as in a fuel cell) resulting only in water.
Which is irrelevant when the carbon is obtained from CO2 in the atmosphere - in which case the amount removed when producing the fuel is equal to the amount added when burning the fuel so the net effect is zero.
They found the body, but millions of files have gone missing for good.
He was only good at deceiving the Linux community into drinking his Kool Aid, and getting his sentenced dropped from 25 to life down to 15 to life. I guess that is 2 things he was good at.
We may find that in his sentencing, he may be barred from doing that line of work in the future. I don't think anyone would hire him in an IT department after doing a simple background check on him (this being a felony would definitely show up). So the question I propose is, was it worth it? I know a lot of IT Admins that have this "Holier than thou" attitude and unfortunately for Mr. Childs, it bit him where it hurts.
If I were an prospective employer, the risk of being locked out of my own systems would worry me much more than a felony conviction.
Since what he did, if he did it to someone, would leave them in a very bad position. Being locked out of your own systems is very damaging to a business. Having to pay ransom to get back in would also be very bad. (*)
Insubordination, and locking one's superiors out of a system are much more involved with the bottom line of (interfering with) running a business than some public record in a court system database, which it itself is only useful in letting you know what he did - which could be considered the cyberspace equivalent of kidnapping.
One would have reason to always be worrying if they'd ever see their data or network "alive" again.
Look at the damage the bad McAfee virus update did (even if not malicious - it was still damaging).
(*) With some systems, if you lose the password, there IS NO way back in, even with physical access. Some routers could be essentially bricked.
The real question is later, after he finishes whatever jail/house arrest/probation period, who will hire him?
A company he himself founds.
They haven't made having your own company illegal yet, but its fairly likely they'll close this loophole in the future to keep the "wrong" kind of people from being productive and having a life.
Florida is also the state where innocent people (mostly Black) were listed as felons and purged from the voter rolls in order to influence the election.
It is also the state where someone got the death penalty for allowing someone to borrow their car and that person committed a crime where someone was killed. The death penalty, for lending your car to someone who decides to use it in a crime.
And Florida also makes a lot of things felonies that are misdemeanors or legal in other states.
And Florida is one of few states that permanently revokes voting rights from anyone convicted of a felony, even juveniles.
And Florida also is one of few states that executed juveniles, until it was made illegal, and still sentences juveniles to life without eligibility for parole. Taking kids, and throwing away the key, and if the Supreme Court didn't outlaw it, injecting poison into children, and calling it justice.
And Florida is really bad in how Black people are treated. Likely worse that the states that usually come to mind.
Florida is about to as close to fascism as one can get in the US. It's a shame, the weather down their is nice, and it is nice to visit, but forget about justice.
Or do what Arizona does where all the dealer has to do (other than a few formalities) is ask you to return the car, OR ELSE.
Since the OR ELSE in Arizona is a class 6 felony!
Facing up to 2 1/4 years in prison and being a felon for not turning it in makes having repo woman/man kinda redundant (surprisingly they exist, even though a dealer can have the police get the car back for free).
P.S. I'd HATE that law if I was a repo company employee or owner! Less reason to be used, and people in prison don't drive cars and felons have trouble getting them, so bad for repeat business. I can see how the deadbeats were unable to stop such a law, but surprised the repo companies didn't pay someone off to have it not pass or get repealed. There's big money in that business.
Also surprised the repo companies didn't get behind lobbying to make the remote black boxes illegal (have a "consumer protection" front lobby against it). No need to hire a repo company when all you need is a remote shutoff box and a tow truck.
As far as I know AZ is the only state with the law making it a felony to not return a car, although others make it a crime to "conceal collateral" (IL felony (*), CA misdemeanor).
P.P.S.:
(*) IL is probably the state with the most things defined as felonies I have seen. Not NY or CA or UT or anywhere else you'd expect (except maybe FL, but you don't even need to be convicted of a felony - they took people off the voter rolls in 2004 for felonies "committed" in 2007 - plus that state seems to be in a race with TX to see how pro-execution they can be.)
I want a full public database with detailed information about every dollar owned and every move made by politicians and members of a corporation board. I want every government contract to be published on an easily searchable database. I want all meetings between corporation boards and/or government officials transcribed and published on another publicly search able database.
Before you ask for more intrusion of gov't into corporate affairs, step back and realize most corporations are small businesses owned by regular people.
Luckily a school can't press criminal charges, only law enforcement can, and unless they are REALLY stupid, they won't. (and will probably laugh at the school)
I don't see how a small business can be reasonably expected to comply with all laws simultaneously, only that they act in good faith that the person ordering the material is legally allowed to do so by their local laws.
They're not.
This accomplishes 2 things.
1. Gets rid of small businesses in many industries. Makes room for the big businesses and their "right" to be profitable. 2. Means that the most strict standards of any applicable jurisdiction apply. For the Internet, that means the only stuff that is legal anywhere is stuff that is legal anywhere. Which is very little indeed. Just wait until international law gets involved, anything you say needs to be legal in China and Iran.
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Should have thrown in some 9/11 or Obama references for added traffic. Maybe mention Haiti or Thailand a bit.
Here goes.
Instead of changing the color of the screen later in the day, we should really just use computers less, and turn them off. This will reduce the U.S. energy consumption, which will improve our energy security, and hence our national security. We will no longer have to send money overseas to buy oil, money which was used to finance the 9/11 attacks. We are also at risk due to disruptions is supply due to natural disasters (Haiti's unexpected devastating earthquake is testimony to that) or politicial disturbances (such as the recent instability in Thailand makes clear). Obama is working on many policies to reduce consumption and increase alternative fuels.
I sleep with a loaded pistol on my nightstand because I live in a second floor apartment with no means of escape. Such behavior would be unthinkable if I had kids but is perfectly acceptable for an adult living by himself.
Just be careful if the phone rings.
Someone got a Darwin award for shooting himself with a gun when he put it to his ear when the phone rang.
Throw me in jail, I still know what I did wasn't wrong, so I will still sleep like a baby at night. In the end, isn't that what matters? Besides, as Thoreau said "Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.". I see no reason to cower in fear that some thug might come and try to oppress me.
In prison, plenty of thugs would be oppressing you at night. You'll get no sleep!
This was a CRIMINAL case. They were fined 100 euros (since when is that only $126 US, what is going on with exchange rates?!) for having an open WiFi. So it is now illegal in Germany to provide free WiFi, unless you are an ISP or a business providing it.
I guess if you opened a coffee shop in your living room it might be a legal gray area...
I agree with you, but would you say the beer manufacturer should get sued too?
That's what they do in the US with guns, sue the producers of a legal product which was misused.
Automobiles can and do kill -- but when was the last time you saw someone receive a criminal charge for an automobile accident that resulted in property damage and no personal injury?
Often. In Las Vegas, almost any accident results in someone getting a ticket, and traffic violations in Nevada are criminal offenses. *
* Misdemeanors actually, we appear to not have a violation/infraction severity, although most tickets in practice only result in fines/points/traffic school. Which is good, because otherwise half the city would be in jail with the way people drive here! :)
I guess it is illegal for a private person to leave their WiFi open, even if they were doing in the the spirit of sharing, or for convienience of guests, or anything.
Starbucks is a company, doing it to get more business and more money, and hence they would be considered to not be breaking the law, I guess.
We will see if a private individual explicitly leaves an open WiFi as a public service, and still gets fined, rather than "negligently" leaving it open. Then they could raise that as a defense and the gov't would have to admit there are different rules for different people or do something else.
Furthermore, the crucial advantage of hydrogen is the lack of carbon atoms, its combustion (or catalyzed oxidation, as in a fuel cell) resulting only in water.
Which is irrelevant when the carbon is obtained from CO2 in the atmosphere - in which case the amount removed when producing the fuel is equal to the amount added when burning the fuel so the net effect is zero.
The code doesn't technically belong to anyone, but the rights to it do.
Considering the state of the law down in Florida, the less of their job the legislators do, the better!
Florida, the only state where you can get 5 years in prison for speeding.
Ideologically Theora would be great. It's open and patent-free (supposedly). But it's not as good as H.264.
What's wrong with it?
I fail to see how including other codecs would cause harm... it's not like H.264 suddenly stops working if it detects Theora on the system...
Don't give them any ideas!
Read about piercing the corporate veil.
It applies to LLCs too.
Read about the case of Western Blue Sky LLC.
Clearance is a special case.
Your obligation to protect national security overrides everything else.
Hans Reiser is just another inept murderer, the fact that happened to be good at something else is irrelevant.
Good at what?
Writing filesystems?
Ha ha!
They found the body, but millions of files have gone missing for good.
He was only good at deceiving the Linux community into drinking his Kool Aid, and getting his sentenced dropped from 25 to life down to 15 to life. I guess that is 2 things he was good at.
We may find that in his sentencing, he may be barred from doing that line of work in the future. I don't think anyone would hire him in an IT department after doing a simple background check on him (this being a felony would definitely show up). So the question I propose is, was it worth it? I know a lot of IT Admins that have this "Holier than thou" attitude and unfortunately for Mr. Childs, it bit him where it hurts.
If I were an prospective employer, the risk of being locked out of my own systems would worry me much more than a felony conviction.
Since what he did, if he did it to someone, would leave them in a very bad position. Being locked out of your own systems is very damaging to a business. Having to pay ransom to get back in would also be very bad. (*)
Insubordination, and locking one's superiors out of a system are much more involved with the bottom line of (interfering with) running a business than some public record in a court system database, which it itself is only useful in letting you know what he did - which could be considered the cyberspace equivalent of kidnapping.
One would have reason to always be worrying if they'd ever see their data or network "alive" again.
Look at the damage the bad McAfee virus update did (even if not malicious - it was still damaging).
(*) With some systems, if you lose the password, there IS NO way back in, even with physical access. Some routers could be essentially bricked.
The real question is later, after he finishes whatever jail/house arrest/probation period, who will hire him?
A company he himself founds.
They haven't made having your own company illegal yet, but its fairly likely they'll close this loophole in the future to keep the "wrong" kind of people from being productive and having a life.
How did you survive in there?!
My impression is that any geek in prison would be brutalized at best.
Florida is also the state where innocent people (mostly Black) were listed as felons and purged from the voter rolls in order to influence the election.
It is also the state where someone got the death penalty for allowing someone to borrow their car and that person committed a crime where someone was killed. The death penalty, for lending your car to someone who decides to use it in a crime.
And Florida also makes a lot of things felonies that are misdemeanors or legal in other states.
And Florida is one of few states that permanently revokes voting rights from anyone convicted of a felony, even juveniles.
And Florida also is one of few states that executed juveniles, until it was made illegal, and still sentences juveniles to life without eligibility for parole. Taking kids, and throwing away the key, and if the Supreme Court didn't outlaw it, injecting poison into children, and calling it justice.
And Florida is really bad in how Black people are treated. Likely worse that the states that usually come to mind.
Florida is about to as close to fascism as one can get in the US. It's a shame, the weather down their is nice, and it is nice to visit, but forget about justice.
Shut off power will result in death for a few people who depend on home-oxygen equipment.
Already happened (not a remote turn off, just a normal deliquent shut off). I believe it was in Australia.
Person lost use of their O2 concentrator (produces O2 from the air).
They aren't supposed to do that, if one has a medical condition their account can be flagged at the power company to prevent that (in theory).
Or do what Arizona does where all the dealer has to do (other than a few formalities) is ask you to return the car, OR ELSE.
Since the OR ELSE in Arizona is a class 6 felony!
Facing up to 2 1/4 years in prison and being a felon for not turning it in makes having repo woman/man kinda redundant (surprisingly they exist, even though a dealer can have the police get the car back for free).
P.S. I'd HATE that law if I was a repo company employee or owner! Less reason to be used, and people in prison don't drive cars and felons have trouble getting them, so bad for repeat business. I can see how the deadbeats were unable to stop such a law, but surprised the repo companies didn't pay someone off to have it not pass or get repealed. There's big money in that business.
Also surprised the repo companies didn't get behind lobbying to make the remote black boxes illegal (have a "consumer protection" front lobby against it). No need to hire a repo company when all you need is a remote shutoff box and a tow truck.
As far as I know AZ is the only state with the law making it a felony to not return a car, although others make it a crime to "conceal collateral" (IL felony (*), CA misdemeanor).
P.P.S.:
(*) IL is probably the state with the most things defined as felonies I have seen. Not NY or CA or UT or anywhere else you'd expect (except maybe FL, but you don't even need to be convicted of a felony - they took people off the voter rolls in 2004 for felonies "committed" in 2007 - plus that state seems to be in a race with TX to see how pro-execution they can be.)
I want a full public database with detailed information about every dollar owned and every move made by politicians and members of a corporation board. I want every government contract to be published on an easily searchable database. I want all meetings between corporation boards and/or government officials transcribed and published on another publicly search able database.
Before you ask for more intrusion of gov't into corporate affairs, step back and realize most corporations are small businesses owned by regular people.
Or is a terrorist.
Luckily a school can't press criminal charges, only law enforcement can, and unless they are REALLY stupid, they won't. (and will probably laugh at the school)
I don't see how a small business can be reasonably expected to comply with all laws simultaneously, only that they act in good faith that the person ordering the material is legally allowed to do so by their local laws.
They're not.
This accomplishes 2 things.
1. Gets rid of small businesses in many industries. Makes room for the big businesses and their "right" to be profitable.
2. Means that the most strict standards of any applicable jurisdiction apply. For the Internet, that means the only stuff that is legal anywhere is stuff that is legal anywhere. Which is very little indeed. Just wait until international law gets involved, anything you say needs to be legal in China and Iran.