Hammers existed for many, many years as tools of war and knocking things apart before they were put to use as tools of peace and knocking things together.
Current carpenter's hammers are derived directly from the medieval war hammers designed to cuncuss with one end and pierce armor with the other and one of my autobody hammers is an almost exact duplicate of one version (it's a little smaller and the pick end isn't quite as sharp).
. ..considering the materials that have been published relevant to the case.
The fact that the hammer was invented to kill things with (like other people) and still carries the meaning of "to batter" has no affect on the legality of hammers, as they have many perfectly legal and useful purposes.
BitTorrent is simply a file transfer protocol. There is no practical way to find it illegal without impacting on the legality of simply transfering files. It is a tool, not a use.
Note that it is Grokster that has been ruled against and not the Fast Track protocol on which it is based.
KFG
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Nah! If I can just get my rubber powered balsa prototypes to scale up I'll have 'em beat.
I'm not sure if you're being humourous or sarcastic
Yes.
simply sanding the pins was insufficient.
Yes, resoloution is directly related to pin size, and hence their "sharpness." The primary problem with rubber coating them is that you do not read them by pressing your fingers into them, but by sliding your hands along them. Low friction is desirable. Watch a blind person "reading" a face. A teflon coating on the rubber would no doubt alleviate this, but that still leaves the issues of durability and reduced resolution that you bring up.
There comes a point for those with disabilities when you have to simply acknowledge that, despite political correctness, your "different" abilities are, in fact, lowered abilities and you will always be operating at some sort of disadvantage.
A Segway just isn't a substitute for a properly functioning body and that's just the way it is.
1. Use a device that creates a topographical image on a pad based on the screen color values.
Such devices already exist, including those built into mice so the blind can "feel" icons and borders as the pointer slides over them. They are not simple devices to make (you need a controler for each element of the pad), but they are simple in principle.
I'm by no means an expert in such things, but I've done some work helping out blind users and engineers.
I think this is one of those cases where it isn't mere pedantry to point out that the OS and the shell/interface are two very different things and that what you want is an interface designed from scratch for the blind.
You can use any already existing decent OS as the base.
You do not have to reinvent the wheel to invent the wheelchair.
If it were me I think I would start out by trying to scratch build a decent IRC client. What you learn by doing that will teach you things you will need to know about such interfaces before you start out at a lower level.
The stories in question were written specifically to explore the ramifications of the doing "no harm."
It turns out that the simple statement, as such simple statements often are, is far more complicated that appears on the surface.
In my specific case the doctors were, given the knowledge available to them at the time, presented with the choice of deliberate straving me, or allowing me to starve:
Which way "does no harm?"
In fact, they took a third course, they fed me a banana. ..and waited to see if it would kill me.
It did not, and so medical science was advanced, albeit at the risk of my life, in order to save it, and the lives of all of those who came after me, without inordinate risk.
if the server is using anything more intelligent than simple internal drive mirroring (for instance RAID-5) then realistically its easier to grab the entire server.
Congratulations, your objection is the only valid one that has been offered against me. In future I shall try to remember that you are the sort that can look at a situation, evaluate it and offer a reasonable argument based on the actual known facts, rather than going off on some personal argument that you have ready and loaded, but does not actually fit the facts.
the rackspace guys have said "its that one" and if they've got any sense, they've helped the police to dismount the damn thing, rather than have the entire rack chainsawed from the floor and carted off.
However, you seem to have missed the point, which is relevant to my argument and which I pointed out in my post, in the Rackspace case they did not take the server, just the drives They returned them five days later. They were needed for information, not court evidence, a point missed by most of the other objectors to my argument.
In the BIM case it is known that they were looking for information that could be given over the phone if the owner had been so inclined to provide it, and Indymedia claims he can't, since the information doesn't exist, so they took the box to see for themselves. It was a "this old box," like the 486 I've got chugging away in the corner of my room, and it was just easier to take the box instead of having the owner remove the drive for them. ..or copy the drive.
And any good lawyer will tell you that part of their own function is keeping the police within the restrictions of their legal obligations, which is the issue to which my posts have been addressed.
Indymedia was under no legal obligation whatsoever until served with a warrant. That's the whole point of a warrant in the first place, to place the actions of the police under judicial review.
Which would be to copy, or possibly seize, the drive.
I will note also that Indymedia claims they cannot supply the required cooperation because they do not log ips in the first place, because. ..
well, that's the kind of people they are.
According to them there was no request of any kind made of them or of Rackspace in that particular instance, and the hosting company that handles their local in Italy handed over the encryption keys to their mail sever, without anyone telling them.
Because of the nature of digital data and HDs themselves evidence is almost always examined from a mirrored copy to protect the integrity of the original, but such a copy must be produced to forensic standards acceptable to the courts. There are a number of commercially available packages to do this, but dd works just fine.
Depending on the nature of the case the original may be necessary as a standard to compare the copy to, or may not be needed at all.
In this case the data on the drive isn't even primary evidence at all, the sort that would be presented in court, but only needed to help try to determine the identity of someone who claims to have commited a non computer related crime.
Non computer evidence against the poster is what would be needed to bring a case against him to court. It is actually quite common for people to make false confessions to crimes.
The police nabbed the server because someone boasted of violent criminal behaviour on it, and the police want to trace them.
It is not necessary to seize anything to do this. At most all they need to do is mirror the drive, which can be done without even removing it. In the previous case all they really needed was the cooperation of Rackspace in supplying the needed data.
Seizing of computer equipment not actually needed for evidence is very simply a means of discomfiting and intimidating the owner and the case of the siezure from Rackspace itself illustrates that they only really need the drive at most, not the entire computer, as only the drive contains the evidence in question.
Would my freedom of speech be curtailed if the police took it down the station to dust it for prints?
Why don't they just dust it where it is? They're perfectly capable of doing the job. In any case, as per above, this particular case is more like they impounded your typewriter, your desk, everything in it, all of your files and all of your customer's files.
Logic and geometry in their analytical form have been folded into mathematics, astronomy and music have been folded into physics, which is applied mathematics. The Speak & Spell was invented when language was successfully transformed into an analytical, i.e. mathematical, form.
All is number, except for the speaches of philosophers and politicians, which routinely defy analysis.
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Which goes to show that nerdiness causes smartassiness. D'oh!
KFG
Hammers were made for killing?
You think Thor was a carpenter?
Hammers existed for many, many years as tools of war and knocking things apart before they were put to use as tools of peace and knocking things together.
Current carpenter's hammers are derived directly from the medieval war hammers designed to cuncuss with one end and pierce armor with the other and one of my autobody hammers is an almost exact duplicate of one version (it's a little smaller and the pick end isn't quite as sharp).
KFG
. . .considering the materials that have been published relevant to the case.
The fact that the hammer was invented to kill things with (like other people) and still carries the meaning of "to batter" has no affect on the legality of hammers, as they have many perfectly legal and useful purposes.
BitTorrent is simply a file transfer protocol. There is no practical way to find it illegal without impacting on the legality of simply transfering files. It is a tool, not a use.
Note that it is Grokster that has been ruled against and not the Fast Track protocol on which it is based.
KFG
Nah! If I can just get my rubber powered balsa prototypes to scale up I'll have 'em beat.
KFG
And it's a rather obvious joke as well, with a shiney, new user ID.
Sucks to be a dyslexic at the 48th hour and running short on coffee. Wish it were at least for some good reason, but it ain't.
Bummer about that list. You must have done something terrible to a fuzzy kitten in a former life or something.
KFG
Maybe he's trying to to get on our good sides.
Who's we, Whitey?
http://slashdot.org/~Roland%20Piguepaille/foes
KFG
Up yer nose with a rubber hose, and someone change the combination on my luggage.
KFG
Boot scripts are not the OS either.
KFG
. . .the idea of dead people still posting to /. really fucks me up.
:)
You have something against Chicago voters, you insensitive clod?
KFG
Not pressure sensitive, I think.
Right, because in this case its funtion is to give an impression, rather than receive one.
KFG
I'm not sure if you're being humourous or sarcastic
Yes.
simply sanding the pins was insufficient.
Yes, resoloution is directly related to pin size, and hence their "sharpness." The primary problem with rubber coating them is that you do not read them by pressing your fingers into them, but by sliding your hands along them. Low friction is desirable. Watch a blind person "reading" a face. A teflon coating on the rubber would no doubt alleviate this, but that still leaves the issues of durability and reduced resolution that you bring up.
There comes a point for those with disabilities when you have to simply acknowledge that, despite political correctness, your "different" abilities are, in fact, lowered abilities and you will always be operating at some sort of disadvantage.
A Segway just isn't a substitute for a properly functioning body and that's just the way it is.
KFG
It sounds like they've come a long way, though
Yeah, they've learned to sand the pins.
KFG
Ever see a pin board? You know, that thing you can press your hand into and leave an impression?
What do you suppose would happen if you placed controlers under each individual pin?
Aha!
KFG
1. Use a device that creates a topographical image on a pad based on the screen color values.
Such devices already exist, including those built into mice so the blind can "feel" icons and borders as the pointer slides over them. They are not simple devices to make (you need a controler for each element of the pad), but they are simple in principle.
I'm by no means an expert in such things, but I've done some work helping out blind users and engineers.
KFG
I think this is one of those cases where it isn't mere pedantry to point out that the OS and the shell/interface are two very different things and that what you want is an interface designed from scratch for the blind.
You can use any already existing decent OS as the base.
You do not have to reinvent the wheel to invent the wheelchair.
If it were me I think I would start out by trying to scratch build a decent IRC client. What you learn by doing that will teach you things you will need to know about such interfaces before you start out at a lower level.
KFG
The stories in question were written specifically to explore the ramifications of the doing "no harm."
.and waited to see if it would kill me.
It turns out that the simple statement, as such simple statements often are, is far more complicated that appears on the surface.
In my specific case the doctors were, given the knowledge available to them at the time, presented with the choice of deliberate straving me, or allowing me to starve:
Which way "does no harm?"
In fact, they took a third course, they fed me a banana. .
It did not, and so medical science was advanced, albeit at the risk of my life, in order to save it, and the lives of all of those who came after me, without inordinate risk.
KFG
if the server is using anything more intelligent than simple internal drive mirroring (for instance RAID-5) then realistically its easier to grab the entire server.
.or copy the drive.
Congratulations, your objection is the only valid one that has been offered against me. In future I shall try to remember that you are the sort that can look at a situation, evaluate it and offer a reasonable argument based on the actual known facts, rather than going off on some personal argument that you have ready and loaded, but does not actually fit the facts.
the rackspace guys have said "its that one" and if they've got any sense, they've helped the police to dismount the damn thing, rather than have the entire rack chainsawed from the floor and carted off.
However, you seem to have missed the point, which is relevant to my argument and which I pointed out in my post, in the Rackspace case they did not take the server, just the drives They returned them five days later. They were needed for information, not court evidence, a point missed by most of the other objectors to my argument.
In the BIM case it is known that they were looking for information that could be given over the phone if the owner had been so inclined to provide it, and Indymedia claims he can't, since the information doesn't exist, so they took the box to see for themselves. It was a "this old box," like the 486 I've got chugging away in the corner of my room, and it was just easier to take the box instead of having the owner remove the drive for them. .
KFG
And any good lawyer will tell you that part of their own function is keeping the police within the restrictions of their legal obligations, which is the issue to which my posts have been addressed.
Indymedia was under no legal obligation whatsoever until served with a warrant. That's the whole point of a warrant in the first place, to place the actions of the police under judicial review.
KFG
Which would be to copy, or possibly seize, the drive.
.
I will note also that Indymedia claims they cannot supply the required cooperation because they do not log ips in the first place, because. .
well, that's the kind of people they are.
According to them there was no request of any kind made of them or of Rackspace in that particular instance, and the hosting company that handles their local in Italy handed over the encryption keys to their mail sever, without anyone telling them.
KFG
Because of the nature of digital data and HDs themselves evidence is almost always examined from a mirrored copy to protect the integrity of the original, but such a copy must be produced to forensic standards acceptable to the courts. There are a number of commercially available packages to do this, but dd works just fine.
Depending on the nature of the case the original may be necessary as a standard to compare the copy to, or may not be needed at all.
In this case the data on the drive isn't even primary evidence at all, the sort that would be presented in court, but only needed to help try to determine the identity of someone who claims to have commited a non computer related crime.
Non computer evidence against the poster is what would be needed to bring a case against him to court. It is actually quite common for people to make false confessions to crimes.
KFG
The police nabbed the server because someone boasted of violent criminal behaviour on it, and the police want to trace them.
It is not necessary to seize anything to do this. At most all they need to do is mirror the drive, which can be done without even removing it. In the previous case all they really needed was the cooperation of Rackspace in supplying the needed data.
Seizing of computer equipment not actually needed for evidence is very simply a means of discomfiting and intimidating the owner and the case of the siezure from Rackspace itself illustrates that they only really need the drive at most, not the entire computer, as only the drive contains the evidence in question.
Would my freedom of speech be curtailed if the police took it down the station to dust it for prints?
Why don't they just dust it where it is? They're perfectly capable of doing the job. In any case, as per above, this particular case is more like they impounded your typewriter, your desk, everything in it, all of your files and all of your customer's files.
KFG
. . .if there's a known, effective treatment.
I did not posit such a case. I spoke of that area of the medical map wherein is inscribed "Here there be dragons."
"First, do no harm"
Get thee hence and read Asimov's robot stories. You may be "aware," but the evidence suggests you do not understand.
KFG
You'll be stone dead in a moment.
Could well be. I said I got better, not well. Don't worry about being an insenstive clod, black humor helps keep me alive.
KFG
Logic and geometry in their analytical form have been folded into mathematics, astronomy and music have been folded into physics, which is applied mathematics. The Speak & Spell was invented when language was successfully transformed into an analytical, i.e. mathematical, form.
All is number, except for the speaches of philosophers and politicians, which routinely defy analysis.
KFG
". . .do /.'ers know a damn thing about soldiering?"
Colin Powell has a degree in geology. He is a geek.
"Don't put yourselves out of a job!!!"
If a robot can put me out of a job it's likely one I don't want.
KFG