Judges hate minimum sentences. Legislators should stop making them.
Yeah, you can see how this will go wrong. Someone finds an open facebook at a netcafe, and decide to post some dopey comment on the unsuspecting security-ignoramasus page. The person flips out and calls the cops, and the cops charge him, because technically it is hacking.
The judge hears the case and goes "Well I have to find this guy guilty, and normally I'd give him a $50 fine and tell him to quit being a dick, but instead he's going to jail for 2 years and having the rest of his life ruined because of a harmless prank.
Yes indeed, theres a very good reason judges hate mandatory minimums.
I spend my days working as a mac tech, so no, I really do not. I am, however, still highly amused that it happens this way. In much the same fashion as I am amused when wine is used to exploit a linux box.
You may laugh, but its truer than you think. Many many moons ago I was admining a small network of linux desktops for students at the local university. Management , non technnical of course, demanded that internet explorer be installed on them. After protesting loudly and losing the argument, I ended up deploying ie6 across the network via wine. It took aproximately 3 days before they became infested.
In a strange way, I took that as a surprising confirmation of wine's compatibility.
In the end I replaced the Mozilla browsers icons with E icons and the office twonks where happy. God I hate tech support
It sure as hell isn't in australia. Judges here hate fine-print. If a reasonable customer can't understand it, then a judge isn't going to believe its reasonable unless the product says "FOR LAWYERS ONLY" in big print. The big concept is a "reasonable person". Ie , not a lawyer, and not a retard, but your average joe. And if the sign says "YOU GET 4G" and the fine print says "not really" , your in big frigging trouble with the judge.
The competition watchdog is a reluctant litigant here, and generally wont sue unless it believes it can win.
Yeah the hockey stick model has not been found to be wrong, and Mann definately was not discovered to have altered his numbers.
I really wish the denialists would quit with this talking point. The "climategate" thing was largely found to be nonsense, with the only misadventure found being that the CRU where not fully living up to FOI requests from a certain crank blogger. And even this not so much, since most of the data was under a commercial NDA and thus they couldnt release it even if they wanted to.
I'm sure I'm not the only coder who rolled his eyes when the non technical press started ranting about fudge factors (for non programmers this is just geek slang for a linear calibration) and poor fortran (physicists write bad fortran as a rule rather than exception. The code however checks out to the model). Hell mann even published a frigging paper years before this false scandal on the calibration. There are no secrets in that code.
I can give a good example of something that actually IS legal yet is interfered with because the govt dont like it. Wikileaks.
Wikileaks remains within the first ammendment (And should Assange be charged, any competent judge will throw it out based on the Elesburg precedent) yet because its extremely difficult to make real-world payments due to the internet nature of it, their ability to tell samizdat news has been wrecked by interference from governments and their bank lackeys.
If cash payments become impossible everywhere you can expect that to extend to other things where govts dont like it, particularly political parties with agendas unpopular with government, such as socialists , anarchists and stateless capitalists, or groups such as sea-shephard etc that strongly agitate governments.
Finally there are legal products that one might want off the record, such as sex products or in the US firearms.
Privacy is important dude, and there really is no such thing as anonymous online currenct. Even bitcoin (aka "comedy currency") isnt anonymous, in fact the oposite, once you know someones block address you can easily trace their transactions just by examining the record of the block-chain.
No, its not that voters only vote for rich folks. Thats not the problem. The problem is only rich folks get to run, at least for the major partys, and the ancient voting system america uses (seriously, some voting reform to get run-off or something like that would be a wonderful transformation in the system) means its pointless voting for minor parties.
The costs involved with just getting on the ticket are astronomical.
So really its not a fault of democracy, its a fault of broken democracy.
I think we need something here in australia too. I've had a long running dispute with apple for "cancelling" my one year warranty over what it claims is water damage (but was confirmed by a third party repairer to not be water damage at all) , when australian law is really specific that you cant actually cancel warranty unless damage is *caused* by user misuse. The govt body in charge of such things here has acknowledged that I'm in the right after investigating but pretty much said they'd probably need a bunch more cases to be worth taking them to court over it.
Also they by law have to sell end users spare-parts once the warranty has ended, but they dont, and thats a big no-no.
This its really playing whack-a-mole from the moles perspective. It might get your head above ground for a while, but ultimately that hammer will hit you smack on the head.
The problem really is Turkey is not acting like the modern liberal democracy it claims to be, and I think it really needs to be called out on that fact.
That said, I think we all should treat this sort of thing as the canary in the coal mine of democracy. If turkey can pull this garbage off and get away with it, then so can America, Europe, UK and Australia, because after all, turkey is just another liberal democracy right? The enemys of of our democracy, conservatives and pseudo-progressive alike at home are taking notes as we speak.
Its a bit more complicated than that with SMS. SMS isn't a point-to-point protocol, if the reciever isn't available, it stores somewhere and waits its turn. Its then up to the implementation as to whether its filed away in some database or deleted. SMS's are tiny little messages so its not certain that it would be delted. On the other hand theres no overwhelming reason not to delete either , unless some sort of data retention mandate is in place.
I do not believe any of the current generation of smart-phones by default store contacts on the card.
[quote]You don't know that. And your wild exaggerations do not help you make your point, if indeed you have one.[/quote]
No, I can confirm that. I worked for a fairly major provider of white-label VOIP software, and we where mostly hired by telcos to produce VOIP apps branded to the telco.
In hundreds of those contracts I can not remember a single instance where the manufacturers of the handsets provided us with free handsets. Sometimes the *client* would provide one or two,
But considering that early Android versions had a very difficult hardware API (We could not use the old bridge-back-to-java trick because it introduced terrible latency) for audio that introduced subtle variations per model.
In the end all we could do was guarantee our work for a certain select range of handsets.
And the support calls would always be for some mysterious handset model we'd never heard of produced by some obscure chinese manufacturer that no, they would not give us a free handset.
If we couldn't get the freebies, and remember with android we are talking *hundreds* of variations here, sure as hell the obscure basement game devs wouldn't be.
And we'd still get paid more for the iphone apps anyway. And the only substantial differences we ever saw was that the older ones where a bit slow for certain codecs.
Well, I guess we can send an eletricity spike down the phone wire to them.
Seriously speaking though, I'd honestly prefer terrorists to hack then, you know, blow shit up.
I'm 99.999% that everyone except perhaps the sysadmin at the WTC would have prefered al quaida to have defaced the WTC website than crashed fucking jumbo jets into the side of the WTC offices. God knows how many wars later, I think all of us would have.
Ive been thinking this for a while. It well might be time to start thinking about some sort of DNS MK II that cant just be siezed by the americans to abuse the internet with. Fix the fucking.com policies that have left 99% of it squatted with linkfarm assholes, and embed some sort of distributed trust concept into it.
And bloody replace the SSL cert system too.
The whole system needs a rethink right now. As it stands our free internet of the 1990s and early 2000s is captive to govts and corporations and thats not good.
Your missing a key point though. Human brains make associations where none exist precisely for the same reason they are good at what computers are not.
Human brains are amazingly powerful pattern recognizers. We pick up almost any pattern that exists. Sometimes however those patterns are not significant and we get confused by it, but in this case, SETI just wants *any* pattern to be picked up. The RFI junk can be filtered out easily enough, but its finding the patterns thats hard. Its better to find all the patterns that exist but include some that are not significant, then not find any including the ones that are significant
Since when are Tanenbaum and Linus enemies? Seriously, a lot of folks get riled up by a ridiculous debate nearly 20 years ago between an old professor and a young student over theoretically correct vs practically preferable (do the drivers live in ring zero. yeah, thats pretty much the crux of it)
Here's one for you. Opt in citizenship to a nationless, territory free country.
Awesome, two sets of laws to follow instead of one! Why just the other day I was thinking "Shit , you know what I dont have enough of in my life? Laws!"
If the subsidary sold it, and the subsidary is wholy owned by the main company, then its the main company. The main company has to wear it, because *it* decided to sell it. Its of no interest to the buyer the internal mechanics or decision making processes of a company.
Its like if an employee of a company buys something stupid in the companys name. The company might hate it, but its anger has to be directed at the employee, not the seller. The same goes the other way around.
Actually Cern did not claim it. It said that it had found some results that it could not account for yet. At no point did cern go "We have found FTL neutrinos".
Half the crap the private companies collect are at the behest of the government. Everyone wants to blame Bush, but Bush's America was under attack. That was then. This is now. But Obama's America is still saddled with all the things Bush put in place and all the additions Obama put in place, and nothing has been scaled back.
I shouldn't have to tell an american this, because I'm an australian and you are an american and you should know this. But show your damn constitution and founding principles some bloody respect.
Your own forefathers told your people that they should chose liberty over security. The attack you talk of, September 11, was sad, but could a single, albeit well executed, attack really justify the abandonment of centuries of american struggle?
George bush instituted the patriot act, invaded sovereign countries , drove away numerous liberty oriented allies including the very people, the french, who gifted you with the statue of liberty to symbolise your struggle, and put in place a chain of events that lead to catastrophic decline in the international respect America once yielded, because of a paranoic belief that the world was out to get you, and finally ruined a once vibrant economy by placing the interests of a wealthy elite over the interests of the citizenry and its liberties.
Barack Obama has been a deep disapointment, but by arguing that by deifying the most destructive president the united states has endured in living history you invalidate the very measures that one should judge a president.
Do not forgive Mr Obama, but god damn it, Don't forgive george bush. America is better than that. And if me, a man who has never visited your country can believe that, for fuck sake so can you.
Except in the case of politicians who actually embezel cash for themselves, I dont think billing politicians for bad decisions is a good idea, because it means that only the super rich could afford to be politicians. That means that only your bushes and cheyneys of the world who a couple of million dollars bill wont send them broke, could do it. But your Ron pauls, obamas , and sarah palins could not, because these guys are just upper-middle class folks who would be bankerupted by it. And it means they could not have run.
Do we really want to guarantee a future run by the filthy rich, folks who for the most part got rich by corruption and gouging others for cash?
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Yeah, you can see how this will go wrong. Someone finds an open facebook at a netcafe, and decide to post some dopey comment on the unsuspecting security-ignoramasus page. The person flips out and calls the cops, and the cops charge him, because technically it is hacking.
The judge hears the case and goes "Well I have to find this guy guilty, and normally I'd give him a $50 fine and tell him to quit being a dick, but instead he's going to jail for 2 years and having the rest of his life ruined because of a harmless prank.
Yes indeed, theres a very good reason judges hate mandatory minimums.
You may laugh, but its truer than you think. Many many moons ago I was admining a small network of linux desktops for students at the local university. Management , non technnical of course, demanded that internet explorer be installed on them. After protesting loudly and losing the argument, I ended up deploying ie6 across the network via wine. It took aproximately 3 days before they became infested.
In a strange way, I took that as a surprising confirmation of wine's compatibility.
In the end I replaced the Mozilla browsers icons with E icons and the office twonks where happy. God I hate tech support
I still think pirate bay should use ronpaul blimps. Clustering up the absurdity makes easier shooting I reckon.
It sure as hell isn't in australia. Judges here hate fine-print. If a reasonable customer can't understand it, then a judge isn't going to believe its reasonable unless the product says "FOR LAWYERS ONLY" in big print. The big concept is a "reasonable person". Ie , not a lawyer, and not a retard, but your average joe. And if the sign says "YOU GET 4G" and the fine print says "not really" , your in big frigging trouble with the judge.
The competition watchdog is a reluctant litigant here, and generally wont sue unless it believes it can win.
Apple is in deep shit.
Yeah the hockey stick model has not been found to be wrong, and Mann definately was not discovered to have altered his numbers.
I really wish the denialists would quit with this talking point. The "climategate" thing was largely found to be nonsense, with the only misadventure found being that the CRU where not fully living up to FOI requests from a certain crank blogger. And even this not so much, since most of the data was under a commercial NDA and thus they couldnt release it even if they wanted to.
I'm sure I'm not the only coder who rolled his eyes when the non technical press started ranting about fudge factors (for non programmers this is just geek slang for a linear calibration) and poor fortran (physicists write bad fortran as a rule rather than exception. The code however checks out to the model). Hell mann even published a frigging paper years before this false scandal on the calibration. There are no secrets in that code.
I can give a good example of something that actually IS legal yet is interfered with because the govt dont like it. Wikileaks.
Wikileaks remains within the first ammendment (And should Assange be charged, any competent judge will throw it out based on the Elesburg precedent) yet because its extremely difficult to make real-world payments due to the internet nature of it, their ability to tell samizdat news has been wrecked by interference from governments and their bank lackeys.
If cash payments become impossible everywhere you can expect that to extend to other things where govts dont like it, particularly political parties with agendas unpopular with government, such as socialists , anarchists and stateless capitalists, or groups such as sea-shephard etc that strongly agitate governments.
Finally there are legal products that one might want off the record, such as sex products or in the US firearms.
Privacy is important dude, and there really is no such thing as anonymous online currenct. Even bitcoin (aka "comedy currency") isnt anonymous, in fact the oposite, once you know someones block address you can easily trace their transactions just by examining the record of the block-chain.
No, its not that voters only vote for rich folks. Thats not the problem. The problem is only rich folks get to run, at least for the major partys, and the ancient voting system america uses (seriously, some voting reform to get run-off or something like that would be a wonderful transformation in the system) means its pointless voting for minor parties.
The costs involved with just getting on the ticket are astronomical.
So really its not a fault of democracy, its a fault of broken democracy.
I think we need something here in australia too. I've had a long running dispute with apple for "cancelling" my one year warranty over what it claims is water damage (but was confirmed by a third party repairer to not be water damage at all) , when australian law is really specific that you cant actually cancel warranty unless damage is *caused* by user misuse. The govt body in charge of such things here has acknowledged that I'm in the right after investigating but pretty much said they'd probably need a bunch more cases to be worth taking them to court over it.
Also they by law have to sell end users spare-parts once the warranty has ended, but they dont, and thats a big no-no.
This its really playing whack-a-mole from the moles perspective. It might get your head above ground for a while, but ultimately that hammer will hit you smack on the head.
The problem really is Turkey is not acting like the modern liberal democracy it claims to be, and I think it really needs to be called out on that fact.
That said, I think we all should treat this sort of thing as the canary in the coal mine of democracy. If turkey can pull this garbage off and get away with it, then so can America, Europe, UK and Australia, because after all, turkey is just another liberal democracy right? The enemys of of our democracy, conservatives and pseudo-progressive alike at home are taking notes as we speak.
Clearly you went to all the wrong parties in college.
Damn I miss being that age....
Its a bit more complicated than that with SMS. SMS isn't a point-to-point protocol, if the reciever isn't available, it stores somewhere and waits its turn. Its then up to the implementation as to whether its filed away in some database or deleted. SMS's are tiny little messages so its not certain that it would be delted. On the other hand theres no overwhelming reason not to delete either , unless some sort of data retention mandate is in place.
I do not believe any of the current generation of smart-phones by default store contacts on the card.
[quote]You don't know that. And your wild exaggerations do not help you make your point, if indeed you have one.[/quote]
No, I can confirm that. I worked for a fairly major provider of white-label VOIP software, and we where mostly hired by telcos to produce VOIP apps branded to the telco.
In hundreds of those contracts I can not remember a single instance where the manufacturers of the handsets provided us with free handsets. Sometimes the *client* would provide one or two,
But considering that early Android versions had a very difficult hardware API (We could not use the old bridge-back-to-java trick because it introduced terrible latency) for audio that introduced subtle variations per model.
In the end all we could do was guarantee our work for a certain select range of handsets.
And the support calls would always be for some mysterious handset model we'd never heard of produced by some obscure chinese manufacturer that no, they would not give us a free handset.
If we couldn't get the freebies, and remember with android we are talking *hundreds* of variations here, sure as hell the obscure basement game devs wouldn't be.
And we'd still get paid more for the iphone apps anyway. And the only substantial differences we ever saw was that the older ones where a bit slow for certain codecs.
Well, I guess we can send an eletricity spike down the phone wire to them.
Seriously speaking though, I'd honestly prefer terrorists to hack then, you know, blow shit up.
I'm 99.999% that everyone except perhaps the sysadmin at the WTC would have prefered al quaida to have defaced the WTC website than crashed fucking jumbo jets into the side of the WTC offices. God knows how many wars later, I think all of us would have.
It has been said that on the internet, comedy is tragedy that ends in the words "And then I lost my bitcoins".
Thankyou randoids, thank you once again for proving that in the world there are people more comically thoughtless than I.
Ive been thinking this for a while. It well might be time to start thinking about some sort of DNS MK II that cant just be siezed by the americans to abuse the internet with. Fix the fucking .com policies that have left 99% of it squatted with linkfarm assholes, and embed some sort of distributed trust concept into it.
And bloody replace the SSL cert system too.
The whole system needs a rethink right now. As it stands our free internet of the 1990s and early 2000s is captive to govts and corporations and thats not good.
Your missing a key point though. Human brains make associations where none exist precisely for the same reason they are good at what computers are not.
Human brains are amazingly powerful pattern recognizers. We pick up almost any pattern that exists. Sometimes however those patterns are not significant and we get confused by it, but in this case, SETI just wants *any* pattern to be picked up. The RFI junk can be filtered out easily enough, but its finding the patterns thats hard. Its better to find all the patterns that exist but include some that are not significant, then not find any including the ones that are significant
Since when are Tanenbaum and Linus enemies? Seriously, a lot of folks get riled up by a ridiculous debate nearly 20 years ago between an old professor and a young student over theoretically correct vs practically preferable (do the drivers live in ring zero. yeah, thats pretty much the crux of it)
Awesome, two sets of laws to follow instead of one! Why just the other day I was thinking "Shit , you know what I dont have enough of in my life? Laws!"
If the subsidary sold it, and the subsidary is wholy owned by the main company, then its the main company. The main company has to wear it, because *it* decided to sell it. Its of no interest to the buyer the internal mechanics or decision making processes of a company.
Its like if an employee of a company buys something stupid in the companys name. The company might hate it, but its anger has to be directed at the employee, not the seller. The same goes the other way around.
Contracts and all that.
Yet another way the consumer is being raped by this senseless patent war. Call a truce you loopy money hungry bastards..
Actually Cern did not claim it. It said that it had found some results that it could not account for yet. At no point did cern go "We have found FTL neutrinos".
I shouldn't have to tell an american this, because I'm an australian and you are an american and you should know this. But show your damn constitution and founding principles some bloody respect.
Your own forefathers told your people that they should chose liberty over security. The attack you talk of, September 11, was sad, but could a single, albeit well executed, attack really justify the abandonment of centuries of american struggle?
George bush instituted the patriot act, invaded sovereign countries , drove away numerous liberty oriented allies including the very people, the french, who gifted you with the statue of liberty to symbolise your struggle, and put in place a chain of events that lead to catastrophic decline in the international respect America once yielded, because of a paranoic belief that the world was out to get you, and finally ruined a once vibrant economy by placing the interests of a wealthy elite over the interests of the citizenry and its liberties.
Barack Obama has been a deep disapointment, but by arguing that by deifying the most destructive president the united states has endured in living history you invalidate the very measures that one should judge a president.
Do not forgive Mr Obama, but god damn it, Don't forgive george bush. America is better than that. And if me, a man who has never visited your country can believe that, for fuck sake so can you.
Haha no. University administrators dont care about books or papers or whatever. They care about grants, and you DONT get grants by writing books.
"Reasearch output" almost certainly means "satisfying a grant board".
Except in the case of politicians who actually embezel cash for themselves, I dont think billing politicians for bad decisions is a good idea, because it means that only the super rich could afford to be politicians. That means that only your bushes and cheyneys of the world who a couple of million dollars bill wont send them broke, could do it. But your Ron pauls, obamas , and sarah palins could not, because these guys are just upper-middle class folks who would be bankerupted by it. And it means they could not have run.
Do we really want to guarantee a future run by the filthy rich, folks who for the most part got rich by corruption and gouging others for cash?
Philosophers have a very succinct answer to "What is a consistent universe".
Its one that does not violate the laws of non-contradition.
If X contradicts Y , only one of the two can be correct, in a consistent universe.
But if X can contradict Y and both be true, your universe is inconsistent, and woohoo anything goes
But personally I doubt this is an inconsistent universe.