Better plan: Place a honeypot "screamer" device that sends its GPS location every 30 seconds to a server that you control. Let the thief lead you to *his* lair.
Great idea, but don't forget to check into your local laws and regulations (specifically wiretapping and surveillance laws) prior to deploying such a device.
How much would it suck to get arrested for illegally bugging the guy who just robbed you?
It will just get rounded up or down. If the total is 1.12, then it should go to 1.10. If the total is 1.13, then it should go to 1.15. It's even more straightforward than rounding to the nearest dime, since you don't have to deal with evens and odds.
Prediction: merchants will price their goods so the final cost is never rounded down.
What you've just said... is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Phase II of our descent into a cashless society: the elimination of physical currency, starting with the lowest denominations and working up from there.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my secret bunker, as I believe I hear the Hyperbole Police coming up the stairs. *dons tinfoil hat* Excelsior!!!
The same thing would probably happen if he used a company computer to post profanity: the company would probably be within their legal right to fire him.
Couple issues with that:
1) Private companies != public schools; the students have an involuntary compulsion to attend. If the school requires the students to have school-provided laptops, then the same involuntary compulsion applies. I imagine one could attempt to argue "he could have used his own laptop," but that mentality belies a certain level of ignorance regarding the lack of fiscal security a great number of American families are forced to deal with these days. Also, it would indicate that whoever makes such a statement failed to RTFA, as it states:
[the student] says he doesn't think he should be punished by the school for what he posts on his own time and on his own computer.
Emphasis mine.
2) If a person working for a private company used a company computer to engage in a similar activity, any disciplinary action would likely be a result of the employees violation of the company computer use policy, and not for the specifics of the post; unless, of course, the post was damaging to the company's public image. Of course, I am curious to know what, if any, computer use agreement the parents (as minors cannot legally enter into contracts) signed prior to this incident.
The GOP is open to considering this sort of legislation in a separate bill.
new legislation is superfluous; as Sique pointed out, the practice is a violation of the existing Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as facebook's ToS.
No need to create new laws if we actually enforce the existing ones.
If your potential employer asks you for the password, tell him, that you would infringe on Facebook's Terms and Condition, and if he succeeds, he is infringing on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Suggestion retracted; I like your way of looking at it better.
Not that I disagree with you (quite the opposite actually), but I was merely pointing out that some of the most financially successful people in the world today possess little to no technical background.
To address the content of your post, as a budding hobby-coder myself (always been more of a 'hardware guy' professionally), I too appreciate the increasing amount of quality, free training available online... but what any of that has to do with TFA & AC's assertion that success in life is dependent on possession of computer-related skills, I do not know.
Seriously; we will not see real change in the media marketplace unless we hit the content controllers where it hurts: their bottom line.
I propose a boycott of any company or industry who attempts to impose draconian measures to disable consumers from owning what they paid for.
RIAA suing grandma into oblivion? Boycott the music industry.
MPAA trying to coerce the government into passing unconstitutional, anti-privacy laws? Boycott Hollywood.
In this rare case, collateral damage is a good thing; Those who work in these industries but aren't members of the "bad guy"groups will have incentive to pressure their peers into doing right by consumers.
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That will only work when merchants typically sell only one item.
Got a workaround for that: convenience fees.
C'mon, this is American Capitalism we're talking about! Where there's a will (to screw the consumer), there's a way!
Better plan: Place a honeypot "screamer" device that sends its GPS location every 30 seconds to a server that you control. Let the thief lead you to *his* lair.
Great idea, but don't forget to check into your local laws and regulations (specifically wiretapping and surveillance laws) prior to deploying such a device.
How much would it suck to get arrested for illegally bugging the guy who just robbed you?
I stand corrected; forget I said anything.
...the Canadians are making us look like idiots here....
We don't need Canadians for that, doin' a fine job on our own.
It will just get rounded up or down. If the total is 1.12, then it should go to 1.10. If the total is 1.13, then it should go to 1.15. It's even more straightforward than rounding to the nearest dime, since you don't have to deal with evens and odds.
Prediction: merchants will price their goods so the final cost is never rounded down.
Yep. Though it is also illegal to melt down pennies for their metals anyway.
As the old adage goes, it's only illegal if you get caught.
They should use aluminum like the Japanese 1 yen coin (which is worth about 1 cent US).
Uh, No.
Unless you're talking about the value of the metals used to make the coin, in which case I rescind my criticism.
I consider it an ascent, not a descent.
Uh, good for you...
Want a biscuit or something? Perhaps I could interest you in a slightly used sense of humor?
What you've just said ... is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
- Principal Oblaski, Billy Madison
Not only will retailers revolt...but they're straight go out of business. Gamestop makes the vast majority of its money off of used game sales.
When a large percentage of their income evaporates...it won't bode well for them.
If summary is correct, I see an anti-trust suit on the horizon...
Phase II of our descent into a cashless society: the elimination of physical currency, starting with the lowest denominations and working up from there.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my secret bunker, as I believe I hear the Hyperbole Police coming up the stairs. *dons tinfoil hat* Excelsior!!!
prepending "fundamentalist" to any group pretty much guarantees you're talking about a bunch of bigoted assholes.
And, as we all know, /. summaries are always, always 100% accurate, unbiased, and a fair and thorough representation of the issue.
God help you actually RTFA.
Sounds like their setup was done by an 8 year old.
Doubtful; most 8-year-olds I know are smarter than your average public school administrator.
I bet a cup o' Joe that the schools IT guy's complaints about this horrifically flawed method fell on deaf ears.
Backups aren't supposed to be cheap, once you get past 2-4 TB / night... Welcome to the real world.
Backups are intentionally cost-dependent?
(dons tinfoil hat)
CONSPIRACY!!!!
Crash.
That's the sound of the truck carrying your backups getting in a car accidently, lighting on fire and destroying your tapes.
Yea, cuz as we all know, disks are trauma and fireproof, and thus would have totally survived.
Wait, why the hell are you transporting your backups in an insecure manner, anyway???
Yeah, the RT-707 or RT-909? Heads are way too soft, where do you get new ones?
eBay (or is it Ebay now?), thrift stores, vintage audio stores, flea markets, garage sales, etc.
And where do you even get the metallic leader and splicing tape these days?
The above locations, plus here.
Speaking as the proud owner of a *cherry* TEAC A2300S.
The same thing would probably happen if he used a company computer to post profanity: the company would probably be within their legal right to fire him.
Couple issues with that:
1) Private companies != public schools; the students have an involuntary compulsion to attend. If the school requires the students to have school-provided laptops, then the same involuntary compulsion applies. I imagine one could attempt to argue "he could have used his own laptop," but that mentality belies a certain level of ignorance regarding the lack of fiscal security a great number of American families are forced to deal with these days. Also, it would indicate that whoever makes such a statement failed to RTFA, as it states:
Emphasis mine.
2) If a person working for a private company used a company computer to engage in a similar activity, any disciplinary action would likely be a result of the employees violation of the company computer use policy, and not for the specifics of the post; unless, of course, the post was damaging to the company's public image. Of course, I am curious to know what, if any, computer use agreement the parents (as minors cannot legally enter into contracts) signed prior to this incident.
Did you read the article?
Skimmed it; obviously missed that part.
The GOP is open to considering this sort of legislation in a separate bill.
new legislation is superfluous; as Sique pointed out, the practice is a violation of the existing Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as facebook's ToS.
No need to create new laws if we actually enforce the existing ones.
If your potential employer asks you for the password, tell him, that you would infringe on Facebook's Terms and Condition, and if he succeeds, he is infringing on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Suggestion retracted; I like your way of looking at it better.
... and only "forever alone" guy trolls Slashdot.
What's your point?
OK, so Congress thinks it's perfectly OK for employers to demand access to employee social media accounts, right? Let's think about that for a second:
Who is Congress' employer?
Time to start flooding congresscritter inboxes with requests for their facebook passwords.
Not that I disagree with you (quite the opposite actually), but I was merely pointing out that some of the most financially successful people in the world today possess little to no technical background.
To address the content of your post, as a budding hobby-coder myself (always been more of a 'hardware guy' professionally), I too appreciate the increasing amount of quality, free training available online... but what any of that has to do with TFA & AC's assertion that success in life is dependent on possession of computer-related skills, I do not know.
If I had to wager a guess, I'd say a little from column A, little from column B...
Seriously; we will not see real change in the media marketplace unless we hit the content controllers where it hurts: their bottom line.
I propose a boycott of any company or industry who attempts to impose draconian measures to disable consumers from owning what they paid for.
RIAA suing grandma into oblivion? Boycott the music industry.
MPAA trying to coerce the government into passing unconstitutional, anti-privacy laws? Boycott Hollywood.
In this rare case, collateral damage is a good thing; Those who work in these industries but aren't members of the "bad guy"groups will have incentive to pressure their peers into doing right by consumers.