I disagreed with apple's reaction to him based on the details in article I read about that. I don't have any information on his dealings with google so I can't judge. Is there part of that that's unreasonable or am I supposed to automatically condemn all companies if I condemn one?
Depends on if and why they banned him. I can't find anything to suggest they have. If they did, why? Was it for reporting a flaw in their security? Or did he actually do something wrong?
Yes, because he did so without their permission and violated the ToS. That hardly means they hate him. Only a moron would think that someone is just going to welcome you with open arms when you do stuff they explicitly didn't approve.
Only a moronic company would punish someone for pointing out a security problem to them. The lesson Apple appears to have been trying to teach Charlie is that the next time he discovers a security hole in the app store, he should sell that information to criminals.
The American people are as much to blame as anyone.
Oh, don't worry: I hold them in even lower estimation than anyone elected to congress. Thing is I have no way of controlling them or voting them out. A hoard of ignorant fellow voters is a constant, the elected on the other hand can sometimes be changed for the better.
One of the articles I came across, his lawyer was saying he was paraphrasing "American Psycho."
However, that, or whether or not he was joking, isn't going to get him off unfortunately. I mean, I could quote plenty of movies with terrorists in them on a plane, and would still be thrown in jail for it.
It's always funny when you tell proponents of the death penalty that it costs a huge amount more. In my experience, they generally suggest cheap ways of killing people. You know, because the logical first assumption would be not lawyer costs but that we were killing prisoners using thousands of diamond swords or something.
One, you would need to have NFC enabled, which people may do, but at least I never do by default.
What ARE the uses for NFC right now. I know google wallet works for the galaxy nexus and a few phones by sprint, and ISIS hasn't come out yet, but what are people actually doing with it besides hacking phones and thinking about how at some point in the future, they'll be able to buy coffee with their phone?
You can think about crime all you like, telling someone you are going to kill people is a crime
But in this specific case, he DIDN'T threaten to do it. Couldn't immediately find a direct quote, but the articles all say he said he "wouldn't mind" doing it.
There are a lot of crimes I wouldn't mind doing. Did I just threaten to do a lot of crimes? No. I won't be doing any crimes today if I can help it. Aside from jaywalking and maybe some copyright crimes. Actually, I'm pretty sure I already did both already, now that I think about it...
Anyway, this is not threatening to kill a specific person to their face to terrify them, which is clearly something that should be illegal. This is saying something tasteless about children, which should not be a crime, and being near an unregistered gun, which depends on the circumstances. And one million dollar bail is quite high even if he had said to a specific kid that he was going to kill them.
A professor I knew who taught anatomy at the local medical school said they were using Grey's anatomy texts. Another professor, understandably shocked, asked "Aren't there any newer textbooks with color pictures of real anatomy they could use?" The first one replied that, yes, but they were copyrighted and generally couldn't be used for overheads without highway robbery, and the texts were expensive for the students. He said they would simply refuse to buy them, which wouldn't do well for the school's ranking.
I'm guessing the situation isn't quite the same between medical schools and (ahem) art schools. If your art students at your art school don't know art history, well, they can still find jobs in retail just as easily. Still, students there should try striking and seeing where that gets them. If no one takes the class and the school has a bunch of texts printed up and not bought, that's going to be an incentive to change in some way. If it's a required class, try not buying them and just google it or fake it.
Which just goes to show you that the world is now officially Bat Fuck Crazy.
Have some perspective: we've stopped talking about mutually assured thermonuclear destruction as if it were the most natural thing ever. We're starting to end the prohibition of pot, and haven't tried nationally to ban alcohol in decades. The west has not had anything quite at the level of the crusades in quite some time.
One idiotic committee at one shitty school who made a very stupid decision about copyright doesn't mean the world is heading to legal hell in a briefcase. That said, I do think the idea of lynching some lawyers to set an example has some merit.
Crazy JJ did. He/she was implying that anyone concerned about GMO was trying to ban it worldwide. It's a common tactic for smearing a movement you don't like: make it sound like they're advocating something absurd that they're not.
Yes, and those signs are to keep the lawyers at bay, not to ban all the thousands of substances which could cause cancer. Those signs about jet fuel causing cancer if ingested, for example, are not part of a movement to replace jet fuel with hydroelectricity.
Where the hell was anyone suggesting information be suppressed? No one was saying weed was a perfect substance which had absolutely no problems. It does cause problems, much as every other physical thing out there does.
Aircraft carriers == countries grandstanding about how big & strong they are
While transferring a huge amount of taxpayer money large defense contractors, who transfer some of it into the private pockets of government officials.
I suspect the real reason we keep building huge obsolete ships to fight tiny terrorists is that, more than the penis symbol thing.
Maybe the solution is to say "Alright, we'll start building smaller, cheaper, more efficient war vehicles, and we'll just give some of the money we'll save directly to the politicians." More efficient that way, since evidently, we're too fucking stupid to have trimmed down the military industrial complex after the cold war ended.
Seriously, how twisted does one have to be to get themselves hooked on heroin, yet thinks pot and people who smoke it, is evil? And people listen to this guy.
But it goes both ways. I pointed out in the 80's that if they made cars huge and called them SUVs, they would eat more gas and americans would buy them like hotcakes. Big oil paid for a CRAAAAAZZY weekend in Vegas for that one.
I'm aware windows 8 is widely predicted to be a disaster on the desktop, but on the tablet I thought it was supposed to actually make sense.
Office, meanwhile... I hate office. Because I'm used to it now and can't get away. Fucking one note, keeping me tied to windows. There's nothing like it on linux, so I can't completely switch over.
I probably just need to detox and make a clean break. I'm never touching a windows tablet with office installed, that's for sure. Not even once.
Well, I'm convinced climate change is a real threat that can't be solved by happy thoughts. Drugs and terrorism, on the other hand, are not serious problems in my book. Furthermore, I don't see anyone giving the government carte blanche to step on our civil rights to fight global warming. But I'm glad you claim to find humor in it.
Let me start out by saying that I don't have any dog in the global warming fight, whatsoever (don't own any stock/have no affiliation with big oil OR big green)
I question the equivalence here. "Big green"? Big oil made 137 billion dollars in profits in 2011 and owns more politicians than you can shake a stick at. How many billions of dollars does "big green" make in a year and how many senators do they control?
But I won't take it as far as the anti-human agenda of many of the fundie AGW supporters.
Anti-human? You do realize the fossil fuel FUD about "Al Gore wants to TAX YOUR BREATHING!" is complete BS, right? Coal is the target of AGW supporters. Not humanity. You seem to be judging the movement by the extremists. That's always a foolish move: you wouldn't say that Anne Coulter represents America, would you?
If anything, I say release all the emails, release all the data, be as open and transparent as possible. Funny how the people who scream about openness the most are the first to hide when the request comes their way.
Okay, put your money where your mouth is. What is your personal e-mail address and password? Where are the e-mails from the fossil fuel industry? The issue here is not data, the issue here is e-mails. As in they were fishing for something to smear the guy with. The data is out there for legitimate criticisms to be made.
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I disagreed with apple's reaction to him based on the details in article I read about that. I don't have any information on his dealings with google so I can't judge. Is there part of that that's unreasonable or am I supposed to automatically condemn all companies if I condemn one?
Depends on if and why they banned him. I can't find anything to suggest they have. If they did, why? Was it for reporting a flaw in their security? Or did he actually do something wrong?
Yes, because he did so without their permission and violated the ToS. That hardly means they hate him. Only a moron would think that someone is just going to welcome you with open arms when you do stuff they explicitly didn't approve.
Gasp! He violated the sacred ToS and revealed to the world that apple's walled garden isn't going to keep out all malware?!? NO!!!! It was perfect before, he obviously broke it! BURN HIM!!!
Only a moronic company would punish someone for pointing out a security problem to them. The lesson Apple appears to have been trying to teach Charlie is that the next time he discovers a security hole in the app store, he should sell that information to criminals.
Er... that should be "horde." Probably a sign from the universe that I should re-evaluate whether or not I'm part of the ignorant voters...
The level of the oceans will only raise if inland ice melt such as in Antartica or Groenland.
Which ARE in fact, melting due to climate change, if I remember correctly.
The American people are as much to blame as anyone.
Oh, don't worry: I hold them in even lower estimation than anyone elected to congress. Thing is I have no way of controlling them or voting them out. A hoard of ignorant fellow voters is a constant, the elected on the other hand can sometimes be changed for the better.
Think of it like a comedy roast. You don't have one for someone you genuinely don't like.
One of the articles I came across, his lawyer was saying he was paraphrasing "American Psycho." However, that, or whether or not he was joking, isn't going to get him off unfortunately. I mean, I could quote plenty of movies with terrorists in them on a plane, and would still be thrown in jail for it.
I'm not sure the people who claim wifi sickness are keen on Darwin. Real science confuses and annoys them.
It's always funny when you tell proponents of the death penalty that it costs a huge amount more. In my experience, they generally suggest cheap ways of killing people. You know, because the logical first assumption would be not lawyer costs but that we were killing prisoners using thousands of diamond swords or something.
Well, this wasn't the BEST medical school. The students all really loved crappy soap operas and hated reading.
(yes, you're right, my mistake)
One, you would need to have NFC enabled, which people may do, but at least I never do by default.
What ARE the uses for NFC right now. I know google wallet works for the galaxy nexus and a few phones by sprint, and ISIS hasn't come out yet, but what are people actually doing with it besides hacking phones and thinking about how at some point in the future, they'll be able to buy coffee with their phone?
You can think about crime all you like, telling someone you are going to kill people is a crime
But in this specific case, he DIDN'T threaten to do it. Couldn't immediately find a direct quote, but the articles all say he said he "wouldn't mind" doing it.
There are a lot of crimes I wouldn't mind doing. Did I just threaten to do a lot of crimes? No. I won't be doing any crimes today if I can help it. Aside from jaywalking and maybe some copyright crimes. Actually, I'm pretty sure I already did both already, now that I think about it...
Anyway, this is not threatening to kill a specific person to their face to terrify them, which is clearly something that should be illegal. This is saying something tasteless about children, which should not be a crime, and being near an unregistered gun, which depends on the circumstances. And one million dollar bail is quite high even if he had said to a specific kid that he was going to kill them.
A professor I knew who taught anatomy at the local medical school said they were using Grey's anatomy texts. Another professor, understandably shocked, asked "Aren't there any newer textbooks with color pictures of real anatomy they could use?" The first one replied that, yes, but they were copyrighted and generally couldn't be used for overheads without highway robbery, and the texts were expensive for the students. He said they would simply refuse to buy them, which wouldn't do well for the school's ranking.
I'm guessing the situation isn't quite the same between medical schools and (ahem) art schools. If your art students at your art school don't know art history, well, they can still find jobs in retail just as easily. Still, students there should try striking and seeing where that gets them. If no one takes the class and the school has a bunch of texts printed up and not bought, that's going to be an incentive to change in some way. If it's a required class, try not buying them and just google it or fake it.
Which just goes to show you that the world is now officially Bat Fuck Crazy.
Have some perspective: we've stopped talking about mutually assured thermonuclear destruction as if it were the most natural thing ever. We're starting to end the prohibition of pot, and haven't tried nationally to ban alcohol in decades. The west has not had anything quite at the level of the crusades in quite some time.
One idiotic committee at one shitty school who made a very stupid decision about copyright doesn't mean the world is heading to legal hell in a briefcase. That said, I do think the idea of lynching some lawyers to set an example has some merit.
Crazy JJ did. He/she was implying that anyone concerned about GMO was trying to ban it worldwide. It's a common tactic for smearing a movement you don't like: make it sound like they're advocating something absurd that they're not.
Yes, and those signs are to keep the lawyers at bay, not to ban all the thousands of substances which could cause cancer. Those signs about jet fuel causing cancer if ingested, for example, are not part of a movement to replace jet fuel with hydroelectricity.
False dichotomy. No one is saying we must ban everything that gives you cancer.
Where the hell was anyone suggesting information be suppressed? No one was saying weed was a perfect substance which had absolutely no problems. It does cause problems, much as every other physical thing out there does.
Aircraft carriers == countries grandstanding about how big & strong they are
While transferring a huge amount of taxpayer money large defense contractors, who transfer some of it into the private pockets of government officials.
I suspect the real reason we keep building huge obsolete ships to fight tiny terrorists is that, more than the penis symbol thing.
Maybe the solution is to say "Alright, we'll start building smaller, cheaper, more efficient war vehicles, and we'll just give some of the money we'll save directly to the politicians." More efficient that way, since evidently, we're too fucking stupid to have trimmed down the military industrial complex after the cold war ended.
Seriously, how twisted does one have to be to get themselves hooked on heroin, yet thinks pot and people who smoke it, is evil? And people listen to this guy.
But it goes both ways. I pointed out in the 80's that if they made cars huge and called them SUVs, they would eat more gas and americans would buy them like hotcakes. Big oil paid for a CRAAAAAZZY weekend in Vegas for that one.
No one likes office or no one likes windows 8?
I'm aware windows 8 is widely predicted to be a disaster on the desktop, but on the tablet I thought it was supposed to actually make sense.
Office, meanwhile... I hate office. Because I'm used to it now and can't get away. Fucking one note, keeping me tied to windows. There's nothing like it on linux, so I can't completely switch over.
I probably just need to detox and make a clean break. I'm never touching a windows tablet with office installed, that's for sure. Not even once.
Well, I'm convinced climate change is a real threat that can't be solved by happy thoughts. Drugs and terrorism, on the other hand, are not serious problems in my book. Furthermore, I don't see anyone giving the government carte blanche to step on our civil rights to fight global warming. But I'm glad you claim to find humor in it.
Let me start out by saying that I don't have any dog in the global warming fight, whatsoever (don't own any stock/have no affiliation with big oil OR big green)
I question the equivalence here. "Big green"? Big oil made 137 billion dollars in profits in 2011 and owns more politicians than you can shake a stick at. How many billions of dollars does "big green" make in a year and how many senators do they control?
But I won't take it as far as the anti-human agenda of many of the fundie AGW supporters.
Anti-human? You do realize the fossil fuel FUD about "Al Gore wants to TAX YOUR BREATHING!" is complete BS, right? Coal is the target of AGW supporters. Not humanity. You seem to be judging the movement by the extremists. That's always a foolish move: you wouldn't say that Anne Coulter represents America, would you?
If anything, I say release all the emails, release all the data, be as open and transparent as possible. Funny how the people who scream about openness the most are the first to hide when the request comes their way.
Okay, put your money where your mouth is. What is your personal e-mail address and password? Where are the e-mails from the fossil fuel industry? The issue here is not data, the issue here is e-mails. As in they were fishing for something to smear the guy with. The data is out there for legitimate criticisms to be made.