A $30000 fine against a company which likely makes at least that in a week is fairly low on the scale of things the Feds can do.
Life without parole was given (twice, but concurrently if that makes any difference) to one of the people who made LSD in a missile silo. The other "only" go 2 concurrent 30-year without parole sentences. He could get out as early as 25 years and 6 months (sentenced 11/26/03 so he'd be out as soon as 5/26/2009)
Chlorine is yellowish green (fluorine is greenish yellow, and iodine is purple).
My guess is perhaps Hydrazine (N2H2) which is very very nasty stuff. Perhaps phosgene which is also, very very nasty. Phosgene is supposed to be colorless, but perhaps there were other reactions going on (perhaps including with atmospheric moisture).
Hydrazine and phosgene can kill in very unpleasant ways (phosgene was used by Germany in World War I and causes the lungs to fill with foam, hydrazine is ammonia + bleach, and killed a janitor after 2 weeks in extreme pain in a hospital which could do nothing to save him or even comfort him sufficiently).
Some colleges won't even let you declare a major until near the end of the freshman year because one hasn't had enough experience to decide. Sure, you will have likely picked a school (e.g. Math, Liberal Arts, Sciences, etc) within the University, but even that can be changed.
I was originally a physics major, but the Internet and computers seemed so much more interesting, and physics majors can't really do anything new until they get a PhD, whereas with computers one could do interesting stuff almost from the beginning. (was true in 1993 and is still true today)
I did some recreating of articles, got warned, but not banned, and warnings were retracted and other users restored articles back to the original form. They may be subject to deletion - but they will go through a more fair process to do so.
Please DO NOT do a donation boycott. Things are getting more fair and balanced as a result of Slashdot's attention and my actions on Wikipedia. They need money to maintain their organization and servers and to do badly needed upgrades (especially with them getting linked to by Slashdot!:)
Work within the system (even though it may have taken some direct action), don't starve it for funds - it isn't the enemy - it just isn't the best it can be.
Someone steals a machine, uses the original ethernet card (he should've bought or shoplifted one) on the same network it was stolen from, and doesn't bother to change the MAC address (which is easy in both Windows and Linux).
Unethical decisions, in the long run, are bad for business... so in the end, it is still about money, but at least we are headed in the right direction.
Too bad many leaders will get removed if they don't bring up profits for the next quarter.
Also, many leaders will do something helpful in the short run albeit destructive in the long run, point to the obvious short term improvement while it lasts and jump ship to a new position elsewhere. When the old company goes down, they don't get the blame, but they keep the credit for the "good times" it had, and possibly even look good because the company failed after their "leadership" was withdrawn ("I was so good I kept it going in spite of the odds while I was there".) - most people don't realize a good leader would've made it so it could survive after they left.
For example, we've got a 30+ mile per hour windstorm going. My cable's still on. Don't know how a dish would be faring. But that doesn't mean I'm happy with Comcast.
If it is just a windstorm without rain, a dish should do fine. Radio waves aren't affected by wind. Of course if the dish is mounted poorly and wiggles and wobbles, or even worse, comes loose, that could interfere with your service. Plus a flying dish would be a frightening, but possibly comical site.
Just because it is their network DOES not give them the right to FORGE IP packets to look as if they come from elsewhere.
That would be like a courier service forging documents from 2 people wanting to communicate saying "Stop sending documents" if they didn't want them to talk. They'd never do something that stupid, and if they did, they couldn't get out of charges by saying they were only forging documents through their service.
Forgery is illegal. Someone who had a forged RST packet sent in their name should have forgery charges pressed and sue for impersonation.
A technical defense is to block RST packets. Probably not hard to do under Linux, and likely trivial.
As far as I know, the death penalty is NEVER allowed (or at least has NEVER been the sentence) except when the person intended a death and did it him or herself.
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And if you do alter the consciousness to the level of a vegetable it can still run for office, and win!
They found a use for dolphins in the military:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dolphin
I am sure a mouse with a bug and transmitter or a microbomb on it could be developed, or more likely IS being developed.
Let's see how well they stand up to a New York City Subway Mouse!
And then they'd come up with another genetic hack to the mice.
:)
They end up playing a cat-and-mouse game!
A $30000 fine against a company which likely makes at least that in a week is fairly low on the scale of things the Feds can do.
Life without parole was given (twice, but concurrently if that makes any difference) to one of the people who made LSD in a missile silo. The other "only" go 2 concurrent 30-year without parole sentences. He could get out as early as 25 years and 6 months (sentenced 11/26/03 so he'd be out as soon as 5/26/2009)
He could get a non-driver ID.
I don't even live in California and it took me less than 10 seconds to find it:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/dl/dl_info.htm
Chlorine is yellowish green (fluorine is greenish yellow, and iodine is purple).
My guess is perhaps Hydrazine (N2H2) which is very very nasty stuff. Perhaps phosgene which is also, very very nasty. Phosgene is supposed to be colorless, but perhaps there were other reactions going on (perhaps including with atmospheric moisture).
Hydrazine and phosgene can kill in very unpleasant ways (phosgene was used by Germany in World War I and causes the lungs to fill with foam, hydrazine is ammonia + bleach, and killed a janitor after 2 weeks in extreme pain in a hospital which could do nothing to save him or even comfort him sufficiently).
Some colleges won't even let you declare a major until near the end of the freshman year because one hasn't had enough experience to decide. Sure, you will have likely picked a school (e.g. Math, Liberal Arts, Sciences, etc) within the University, but even that can be changed.
I was originally a physics major, but the Internet and computers seemed so much more interesting, and physics majors can't really do anything new until they get a PhD, whereas with computers one could do interesting stuff almost from the beginning. (was true in 1993 and is still true today)
I did some recreating of articles, got warned, but not banned, and warnings were retracted and other users restored articles back to the original form. They may be subject to deletion - but they will go through a more fair process to do so.
:)
Please DO NOT do a donation boycott. Things are getting more fair and balanced as a result of Slashdot's attention and my actions on Wikipedia. They need money to maintain their organization and servers and to do badly needed upgrades (especially with them getting linked to by Slashdot!
Work within the system (even though it may have taken some direct action), don't starve it for funds - it isn't the enemy - it just isn't the best it can be.
The same could be said even of Slashdot.
The problem with the open source info being used to gain profits is perfectly legal of course, but I'm thinking more from ethical standpoints.
If they didn't want to allow that, they could have chose a different license. No one force them to choose a license which allows commercial reuse.
What next, are you going to attack Google for making money using Linux, which has a free license?
Its #11 now, off the front page! (top of page 2)
:|
Google kiss of death.
Tell me again the difference between
Treblinka and Guantanamo,
Vaterland and Homeland,
S.S. and Secret Service?
What the hell are you on?
With quantum computing, you can use other universes.
At least it's the Sixth Circuit, and not the Ninth.
The Ninth circuit makes a lot of rulings which get struck down.
Smart?!
Someone steals a machine, uses the original ethernet card (he should've bought or shoplifted one) on the same network it was stolen from, and doesn't bother to change the MAC address (which is easy in both Windows and Linux).
That was a DUMB criminal.
Federal prison does not allow conjugal visits, this is from the official Bureau of Prisons site:
http://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/faqs.jsp#27
http://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/conjugal.jsp
Well couldn't he just use someone else's Master Card to buy it then?
:)
Or more likely a check made using bank account and routing numbers from a 409 scam.
How about this:
On RST start a timer. If a non-RST packet is received in that time, forget the RST. If the timer expires, kill the connection.
Set the timer to 5 seconds or 30 seconds and the problem you raised and the one Comcast is causing are both fixed.
Unethical decisions, in the long run, are bad for business... so in the end, it is still about money, but at least we are headed in the right direction.
Too bad many leaders will get removed if they don't bring up profits for the next quarter.
Also, many leaders will do something helpful in the short run albeit destructive in the long run, point to the obvious short term improvement while it lasts and jump ship to a new position elsewhere. When the old company goes down, they don't get the blame, but they keep the credit for the "good times" it had, and possibly even look good because the company failed after their "leadership" was withdrawn ("I was so good I kept it going in spite of the odds while I was there".) - most people don't realize a good leader would've made it so it could survive after they left.
For example, we've got a 30+ mile per hour windstorm going. My cable's still on. Don't know how a dish would be faring. But that doesn't mean I'm happy with Comcast.
If it is just a windstorm without rain, a dish should do fine. Radio waves aren't affected by wind. Of course if the dish is mounted poorly and wiggles and wobbles, or even worse, comes loose, that could interfere with your service. Plus a flying dish would be a frightening, but possibly comical site.
And if you go over the "secret" (approx 100 GB/month) limit they will warn you once (I think) and then terminate your service and ban you for a year.
It likely is illegal.
Just because it is their network DOES not give them the right to FORGE IP packets to look as if they come from elsewhere.
That would be like a courier service forging documents from 2 people wanting to communicate saying "Stop sending documents" if they didn't want them to talk. They'd never do something that stupid, and if they did, they couldn't get out of charges by saying they were only forging documents through their service.
Forgery is illegal. Someone who had a forged RST packet sent in their name should have forgery charges pressed and sue for impersonation.
A technical defense is to block RST packets. Probably not hard to do under Linux, and likely trivial.
As far as I know, the death penalty is NEVER allowed (or at least has NEVER been the sentence) except when the person intended a death and did it him or herself.
Life in prison, now that's another story.
And the threat of punishment for that is about as much of a deterrent as gun control laws are to hardened criminals.
A fast moving freeway is not too noisy. I stayed in a hotel right next to I-5 in San Diego.
Many hotel reviews complained about the noise.
It didn't bother me, it was a non-offensive whoosh outside, and inaudible inside over the air conditioning.
People screeching to slow down or speed up due to a speed limit change would likely be noisier.