Yeah, my postings about the dangers of DRM, DVDs, CSS (the encryption, not the web std) from over a year before the DVD DeCSS/DVDCCA lawsuit are still out there - proof I predicted the future.
Get legal insurance - that will help with the financial side. "Prepaid Legal" is one such plan.
Being in shape and knowing prison culture will help you prevent being raped while awaiting trial or before posting bond.
As for social implications - people won't shun an accused DMCA/intellectual property violator, they'll probably be like "that's illegal?" or "what the heck did they say you did?" or "I don't know that computer mumbo jumbo" or "well as long as you aren't a virus writer I don't care". Its not like being accused of being a child molestor, axe murderer, terrorist or spammer.
The jury system and the courts in general would work a hell of a lot better if people wouldn't weasel out of jury duty.
That is part of why innocent people get convicted and the court system fails so much.
Doing your part as a citizen for a few days is more important than the next 10K lines of code you'll write, for sure.
When all the courts have for a jury pool is whoever is left after people have weasel out, it is no wonder things go the way they do.
We need techie on juries. Else if you go to court, you won't have a jury of your peers, you'll have a jury of former jocks, bullies, preppies and cheerleaders.
That's why you have a much better chance if you are accused of a non-techie crime - since most technical issues are beyond most jurors.
Lotus Notes sucks, don't blame Blackberry for that.
Someone schedules a meeting and then reschedules it, yet the Notes calender still shows the old day/time and sends messages based on it.
I had to have a Lotus Notes email database rebuilt from scratch and the email copied into it - it got that hosed - cross server replicate was bungled - and that was with 2 non-mobile servers. God only knows what problems adding a mobile device would bring.
As for dropping things - most electronic devices don't deal well with that. Even cell phones.
And synching a Palm Pilot with Oracle requires well over $10K in extra software.
Blackberries sound cool - and can't be much worse than the above.
The idea isn't to escape forever, it was just to buy time until you can ensure you have chance of beating the rap or getting enough influence (using money from a public defense campaign) to get locked up in a "safe" place.
(Plus if you were truly being railroaded they'd might deny extradition in those cases - I know Canada will deny extradition if someone faces death - they might also deny extradition if the case is baseless).
It is far easier for the US to accept a voluntary surrender with conditions (like don't put me in Beto unit in Texas, send me to Nellis AFB Federal prison in Las Vegas, Nevada) than to pursue extradition.
The US Atty can tell his boss he won, you buy time to build up a defense and any time you spend might be far more pleasant.
Doing the original sentence plus a couple extra years at Nellis would be better than the original sentence in Texas for sure.
As for me - I hope it never happens - I am a law abiding citizen - but who knows what may be illegal next week - I'd just surrender to the authorities and take my lumps, but I have a Christian faith that things will eventually (even if it is after my death) work out.
I'd get my affairs in order however. And hope to God they'd send me to the local Fed prison (Nellis).
There is no draft for Iraq because that would be POLITICAL SUICIDE for the party in power if it happened.
The Democrats made noise about a draft to hurt the Republicans.
NO ONE WANTS A DRAFT, EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE DAFT.
Also is the 170,000 the number of troops currently there or who had ever served in Iraq. You should use the second, higher number to calculate the risk.
I'd feel safer in Iraq myself. Heck, Baghdad is safer than many parts of some U.S. cities.:|
Let me clarify - you should do what's right and face any charges, civil or criminal - however - don't allow yourself to even spend one day or even an hour in jail - see http://www.spr.org/ for why.
Stay out of jail while getting evidence and aid to your side (or having public supporters do so).
Your #1 priority is staying out of jail until a final disposition of the case (if there is a criminal case).
Even if you win in the end, you must not be left alone in prison for any length of time.
Increasing level of risk:
Police/court lockups -> city jail -> county jail -> state and federal pen
Get the number of a bail bond agency NOW. Read http://www.spr.org/ NOW. Do some weight training to get strong NOW. Train yourself to run fast too - not to escape prison, but to escape the other prisoners. Remember, on the inside, you have no friends, just those who are threats, and those who (currently) are not.
An hour imprisoned can be a death sentence with AIDS.
It is likely that we'd create many insane intelligences in the process.
Well we could make them Slashdot posters, moderators and editors and have them work on Slashcode (*) and it would probably be an improvement.
(*) Especially the part that won't let you post more than once every 2 minutes, but yet has been know to fail posts 13 or more minutes after the last one.
Gtk: Although Gtk is on Windows as well as X, Qt has a far better cross platform implementation. Qt is written in C++, instead of C, has a company standing behind it, and needs much less code to write the same app.
How about mentioning GTK is about as stable as a one-legged table during a 9.0 earthquake?
GTK apps get a NULL pointer exception and abort exceedingly often. What point is exception handling if you just abort? Might as well just deref the NULL pointer and segfault - at least one can use a debugger. And it doesn't appear GTK programs try to save state or even clean up after themselves when they exception abort.
KDE only crashes on me when Xorg kills my computer or Linux's wonderful memory management causes an out of memory error and kernel killing spree - so when Firefox memory leaks - KDE pieces and various daemons get killed too - can't blame Qt or KDE for that.
Also, doesn't Gtk shoehorn C++ like features into C, making for a God awful mess? The disadvantages of C++ without the advantages. Everyone has a C++ compiler available - g++ is free and on all platforms (well at least those supported by gcc - which is anything you'd care about).
Gnome needs to just stop competing against KDE and allow their work to be folded into KDE.
Gnome said it was about the licensing, and that has been resolved for how long now? How many years?
Linux needs a standard desktop - user's don't want to be forced to choose - app writers don't want to have to choose and no matter what - lose some customers - and Gnome is bleeding away resources that could go to KDE.
Since filing a bug didn't help, and isn't even generating any activity, yet Xorg has tons of free time as evidenced by these eye candy plans, now I'm bitching.
I am not doing something against Xorg, I am providing constructive criticism. If they fix these show stopper bugs, X looks good - if they don't - X looks bad and people will stick with or switch to Windows.
Well, it isn't my idea of negligence, but what a court would think of as negligence.
Trusting someone with a job when they aren't even trusted with a vote is very likely to be considered negligent in the eyes of a court.
And I shouldn't have used only violent crimes as examples.
Let's say I hire someone with a drug possession rap to be a coder, and the code has a bug which kills someone - a court will very likely rule against me, even if the conviction is 30 years old - they'd say it was likely the person was stoned or something (even though totally clean and sober people write buggy code every day).
I'm against needless discrimination against felons, especially when the activity resulting in the conviction should be legal.
I just want people to know the courts are a big reason why employers feel they need to discriminate.
See if your employee kills or rapes someone, the courts will take everything you have and give it to their victim.
Even though that crime doesn't make it any more likely that one would do such a thing - courts hate felons - and will be pissed at you for not providing the system with extra-judicial punishment (withholding employment) of the felon.
And anyone you hire (clean record, misdemeanor record, felony record) could kill or rape someone in the future - you never know. But if/when the non-felon kills/rapes someone - the court won't take your assets and give it to the victim. If/when the felon does, they will.
Same goes for not firing someone who gets convicted of a felony ("negligent retention").
Eliminate "negligent hiring/retention" damages and replace it with a work card system - for jobs which truly need to exclude legitimate risks (child care vs child molestors, bank tellers vs career thieves) - require employers to demand a work card from the state. The state would by default have to issue a work card unless the person was convicted of a crime and the statute declaring it a crime provided for denial of a work card for their industry and not allow retroactive application of the law.
Then people would at least know what they are up against, employers wouldn't need to act as an arm of the justice system or have the justice system confiscate all their wealth, and restrictions could be voted down more easily.
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Financial costs of defending and (worst case) losing a lawsuit will have a chilling effect.
Not any stigma.
He isn't being accused of anything that people would shun him for (child molestation, mass murder, spamming).
Yeah, my postings about the dangers of DRM, DVDs, CSS (the encryption, not the web std) from over a year before the DVD DeCSS/DVDCCA lawsuit are still out there - proof I predicted the future.
Hammers were made for killing?
Huh?!
Heck, someone made a joke about the president and got sentenced to over 3 years for it.
Get legal insurance - that will help with the financial side. "Prepaid Legal" is one such plan.
Being in shape and knowing prison culture will help you prevent being raped while awaiting trial or before posting bond.
As for social implications - people won't shun an accused DMCA/intellectual property violator, they'll probably be like "that's illegal?" or "what the heck did they say you did?" or "I don't know that computer mumbo jumbo" or "well as long as you aren't a virus writer I don't care". Its not like being accused of being a child molestor, axe murderer, terrorist or spammer.
Emotionally - well having faith in God will help.
The jury system and the courts in general would work a hell of a lot better if people wouldn't weasel out of jury duty.
That is part of why innocent people get convicted and the court system fails so much.
Doing your part as a citizen for a few days is more important than the next 10K lines of code you'll write, for sure.
When all the courts have for a jury pool is whoever is left after people have weasel out, it is no wonder things go the way they do.
We need techie on juries. Else if you go to court, you won't have a jury of your peers, you'll have a jury of former jocks, bullies, preppies and cheerleaders.
That's why you have a much better chance if you are accused of a non-techie crime - since most technical issues are beyond most jurors.
Because Netcraft confirms, that BSD is dying.
Lotus Notes sucks, don't blame Blackberry for that.
Someone schedules a meeting and then reschedules it, yet the Notes calender still shows the old day/time and sends messages based on it.
I had to have a Lotus Notes email database rebuilt from scratch and the email copied into it - it got that hosed - cross server replicate was bungled - and that was with 2 non-mobile servers. God only knows what problems adding a mobile device would bring.
As for dropping things - most electronic devices don't deal well with that. Even cell phones.
And synching a Palm Pilot with Oracle requires well over $10K in extra software.
Blackberries sound cool - and can't be much worse than the above.
The idea isn't to escape forever, it was just to buy time until you can ensure you have chance of beating the rap or getting enough influence (using money from a public defense campaign) to get locked up in a "safe" place.
(Plus if you were truly being railroaded they'd might deny extradition in those cases - I know Canada will deny extradition if someone faces death - they might also deny extradition if the case is baseless).
It is far easier for the US to accept a voluntary surrender with conditions (like don't put me in Beto unit in Texas, send me to Nellis AFB Federal prison in Las Vegas, Nevada) than to pursue extradition.
The US Atty can tell his boss he won, you buy time to build up a defense and any time you spend might be far more pleasant.
Doing the original sentence plus a couple extra years at Nellis would be better than the original sentence in Texas for sure.
As for me - I hope it never happens - I am a law abiding citizen - but who knows what may be illegal next week - I'd just surrender to the authorities and take my lumps, but I have a Christian faith that things will eventually (even if it is after my death) work out.
I'd get my affairs in order however. And hope to God they'd send me to the local Fed prison (Nellis).
There is no draft for Iraq because that would be POLITICAL SUICIDE for the party in power if it happened.
:|
The Democrats made noise about a draft to hurt the Republicans.
NO ONE WANTS A DRAFT, EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE DAFT.
Also is the 170,000 the number of troops currently there or who had ever served in Iraq. You should use the second, higher number to calculate the risk.
I'd feel safer in Iraq myself. Heck, Baghdad is safer than many parts of some U.S. cities.
Let me clarify - you should do what's right and face any charges, civil or criminal - however - don't allow yourself to even spend one day or even an hour in jail - see http://www.spr.org/ for why.
Stay out of jail while getting evidence and aid to your side (or having public supporters do so).
Your #1 priority is staying out of jail until a final disposition of the case (if there is a criminal case).
Even if you win in the end, you must not be left alone in prison for any length of time.
Increasing level of risk:
Police/court lockups -> city jail -> county jail -> state and federal pen
Get the number of a bail bond agency NOW. Read http://www.spr.org/ NOW. Do some weight training to get strong NOW. Train yourself to run fast too - not to escape prison, but to escape the other prisoners. Remember, on the inside, you have no friends, just those who are threats, and those who (currently) are not.
An hour imprisoned can be a death sentence with AIDS.
Or is it "only" a civil case.
If it is criminal, remember, there is very little border security preventing one from going OUT of the USA and INTO Mexico or Canada.
Remember, most geeks will get violated in prison - as they lack the physical strength and mental hardness needed to survive prison.
Yeah, convicted of a felony (!) for what should've been at worst, considered a disciplary matter between him and his employer.
They could make every city and country link to the website of the Las Vegas casino themed after it.
That actually exists, it is called a suit for "malicious prosecution".
http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/m062.htm
It is likely that we'd create many insane intelligences in the process.
Well we could make them Slashdot posters, moderators and editors and have them work on Slashcode (*) and it would probably be an improvement.
(*) Especially the part that won't let you post more than once every 2 minutes, but yet has been know to fail posts 13 or more minutes after the last one.
And by 2055 it will be enslaving the human race.
Ahem, layperson.
Trolltech is just too kind:
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http://www.qtopia.net/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?
Gtk: Although Gtk is on Windows as well as X, Qt has a far better cross platform implementation. Qt is written in C++, instead of C, has a company standing behind it, and needs much less code to write the same app.
How about mentioning GTK is about as stable as a one-legged table during a 9.0 earthquake?
GTK apps get a NULL pointer exception and abort exceedingly often. What point is exception handling if you just abort? Might as well just deref the NULL pointer and segfault - at least one can use a debugger. And it doesn't appear GTK programs try to save state or even clean up after themselves when they exception abort.
KDE only crashes on me when Xorg kills my computer or Linux's wonderful memory management causes an out of memory error and kernel killing spree - so when Firefox memory leaks - KDE pieces and various daemons get killed too - can't blame Qt or KDE for that.
Also, doesn't Gtk shoehorn C++ like features into C, making for a God awful mess? The disadvantages of C++ without the advantages. Everyone has a C++ compiler available - g++ is free and on all platforms (well at least those supported by gcc - which is anything you'd care about).
Gnome needs to just stop competing against KDE and allow their work to be folded into KDE.
Gnome said it was about the licensing, and that has been resolved for how long now? How many years?
Linux needs a standard desktop - user's don't want to be forced to choose - app writers don't want to have to choose and no matter what - lose some customers - and Gnome is bleeding away resources that could go to KDE.
Ethanol crowd getting into power?
Is that a nice way of saying drunkards are running things?
I did file a bug.
Nothing much has happened. STATUS is still "NEW" and there has been no activity or comments by others.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3473
Original bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93866
Since filing a bug didn't help, and isn't even generating any activity, yet Xorg has tons of free time as evidenced by these eye candy plans, now I'm bitching.
I am not doing something against Xorg, I am providing constructive criticism. If they fix these show stopper bugs, X looks good - if they don't - X looks bad and people will stick with or switch to Windows.
This poster has a valid point.
Xorg crashes my machine on switching from X to a text VC.
This bug is well known and serious - all eye candy and other non-essentials should wait until this and other serious bugs are fixed.
Qaulity before features.
If I wanted it the other way around, I know where to buy Windows.
At least we gave Noriega some Guns n' Roses, albeit at insane decibel levels...
We've got over 1 million people here who subjected themselves to that voluntarily.
Well, it isn't my idea of negligence, but what a court would think of as negligence.
Trusting someone with a job when they aren't even trusted with a vote is very likely to be considered negligent in the eyes of a court.
And I shouldn't have used only violent crimes as examples.
Let's say I hire someone with a drug possession rap to be a coder, and the code has a bug which kills someone - a court will very likely rule against me, even if the conviction is 30 years old - they'd say it was likely the person was stoned or something (even though totally clean and sober people write buggy code every day).
I'm against needless discrimination against felons, especially when the activity resulting in the conviction should be legal.
I just want people to know the courts are a big reason why employers feel they need to discriminate.
I would too, except for 2 words:
"negligent hiring"
See if your employee kills or rapes someone, the courts will take everything you have and give it to their victim.
Even though that crime doesn't make it any more likely that one would do such a thing - courts hate felons - and will be pissed at you for not providing the system with extra-judicial punishment (withholding employment) of the felon.
And anyone you hire (clean record, misdemeanor record, felony record) could kill or rape someone in the future - you never know. But if/when the non-felon kills/rapes someone - the court won't take your assets and give it to the victim. If/when the felon does, they will.
Same goes for not firing someone who gets convicted of a felony ("negligent retention").
Eliminate "negligent hiring/retention" damages and replace it with a work card system - for jobs which truly need to exclude legitimate risks (child care vs child molestors, bank tellers vs career thieves) - require employers to demand a work card from the state. The state would by default have to issue a work card unless the person was convicted of a crime and the statute declaring it a crime provided for denial of a work card for their industry and not allow retroactive application of the law.
Then people would at least know what they are up against, employers wouldn't need to act as an arm of the justice system or have the justice system confiscate all their wealth, and restrictions could be voted down more easily.