That was my first thought too. That and storing them in compressed online storage. We'd save valuable disk space and reduce the amount of physical space they take up. Win-win!
Why is that? What does "sophistication" have to do with the underlying crime? You either did something illegal, with an actual victim or you did not. How good you are at doing it should have nothing to do with your punishment. Consider it from the other perspective: just because someone is too stupid to use a proxy to cover their illegal activity means they should get a LOWER sentence? WTF? And what exactly is the purpose?
It actually makes some sense. As a deterrent, a punishment must make even risking the crime not worth it. If the risk is higher (like when doing nothing to hide the act), then the punishment can be lesser because there is more of a chance of being caught.
Who is to say the bactrial colonies of EVERY person are significantly different? They compared twins for which only one was obese, but did they compare twins that were both not obese? (RTFA, yeah right)
And taking something out of context is moreso. My response had a sarcastic tone, which that was a part of. Obviously something's legality isn't dependent on detection, otherwise people wouldn't discuss the legality of fictitious actions (unless perhaps they were discussing fictitious detection).
So, let me get this straight. It's not illegal to break your employer's confidence and send a full dump of sensitive emails automatically to your private email account where you sell them to an interested third party?
Only if you get caught, and only then if you don't have a good lawyer and lots of money (which you should have plenty of after you sold all that private information). In summary, it's only illegal if the little guy does it.
Thank goodness, that contract only lasted for about 12 months. Most horrible conditions I have ever worked in. My hatred of smokers started in that place.
Did you ask them to smoke outside and have them refuse? Did you consider that your health was more important than the work?
I believe it was the philosopher Kant who offered as a moral test the question, "What would the world be like if everyone did this?" One person lying doesn't usually do much harm. Everyone lying would make life almost unbearable.
Actually, if everyone lied all the time, you would just negate the meaning of what anyone said.
Yes, the definition of theft should first require that the property owner exercised reasonable preventative measures (if available). It's like those newspapers suing Google for indexing their sites when they could have just put up a robots.txt to exclude search engines.
This proposal was about an extension to HTML, thus it applies to the web. And if you consider HTML valid in an email, then my argument applies just as well. And for normal (REAL) email that's just text, enclose the URL in angle brackets, or use a URL shortening service (there the service doesn't pose a problem because the message will usually be read and filed away immediately).
First off, why do long URLs even matter? Is this link too long? Ahhh, you don't even care, because it's a normal link!
But let's say the length is a problem. On the linked page, the author suggests that he could have his site also provide an alternate shorter URL for the same page, and have the HTML href tag encode both the long and short versions. Here's what I don't grasp: why not just use the short URL to begin with, and never even post the long one?!? No new HTML features are needed.
So filter out everything except things to username+current_valid_suffixes@gmail.com (apologies to username@gmail.com for posting your address...twice!).
If she'd waited one more year until she was 18, she wouldn't have had to waste all that time learning to play the violin at all! Kids these days, so impatient...
I imagine a lot of these small thumb drives are filled with epoxy, so that the only metal parts exposed to air are the USB connectors, which are often gold-plated.
I think the moral of this story is backup your data, even when it's on a flash based drive,
Even if you had a device which never failed, incremental backups also protect against loss of files due to the OS being asked to delete them. This is what my backups have saved me from on several occasions.
I envision a future where instead of our computers being powered by water wheels and turbines, they are powered by electricity. Don't dismiss my idea out of hand! It will take lots of work, but I believe we can harness the power of the electron and eliminate this massive waste of water in the long term.
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I think the CDRs float better (tried paper once, was a disaster), though I prefer AOL CDs, especially in this sinking economy.
That was my first thought too. That and storing them in compressed online storage. We'd save valuable disk space and reduce the amount of physical space they take up. Win-win!
It actually makes some sense. As a deterrent, a punishment must make even risking the crime not worth it. If the risk is higher (like when doing nothing to hide the act), then the punishment can be lesser because there is more of a chance of being caught.
Who is to say the bactrial colonies of EVERY person are significantly different? They compared twins for which only one was obese, but did they compare twins that were both not obese? (RTFA, yeah right)
I think it's in base 10 (decimal), actually.
And taking something out of context is moreso. My response had a sarcastic tone, which that was a part of. Obviously something's legality isn't dependent on detection, otherwise people wouldn't discuss the legality of fictitious actions (unless perhaps they were discussing fictitious detection).
Only if you get caught, and only then if you don't have a good lawyer and lots of money (which you should have plenty of after you sold all that private information). In summary, it's only illegal if the little guy does it.
Did you ask them to smoke outside and have them refuse? Did you consider that your health was more important than the work?
At least he didn't go soft and write non-portable code like exit(1). His death meant somthing.
Just a suggestion: use the term "car wrecks" or "car crashes" rather than "accidents", as the former terms are less euphemistic.
Actually, if everyone lied all the time, you would just negate the meaning of what anyone said.
Rather than complaining, the Wiki admins should have doctored the stored data, kind of like a guy did to people using his open WiFi access point.
Yes, the definition of theft should first require that the property owner exercised reasonable preventative measures (if available). It's like those newspapers suing Google for indexing their sites when they could have just put up a robots.txt to exclude search engines.
This proposal was about an extension to HTML, thus it applies to the web. And if you consider HTML valid in an email, then my argument applies just as well. And for normal (REAL) email that's just text, enclose the URL in angle brackets, or use a URL shortening service (there the service doesn't pose a problem because the message will usually be read and filed away immediately).
First off, why do long URLs even matter? Is this link too long? Ahhh, you don't even care, because it's a normal link! But let's say the length is a problem. On the linked page, the author suggests that he could have his site also provide an alternate shorter URL for the same page, and have the HTML href tag encode both the long and short versions. Here's what I don't grasp: why not just use the short URL to begin with, and never even post the long one?!? No new HTML features are needed.
But he didn't hack StalkDaily.com, as his terms of service forbid! He hacked twitter.com. So he's doing just as he says. :)
So filter out everything except things to username+current_valid_suffixes@gmail.com (apologies to username@gmail.com for posting your address...twice!).
I thought final was put into code to enforce design decisions, not optimize speed. It allows you to ensure that nothing further overrides a method.
If she'd waited one more year until she was 18, she wouldn't have had to waste all that time learning to play the violin at all! Kids these days, so impatient...
How is it a second chance? There so far has been no first chance, since the votes made the first time around don't count.
That's too reliable, man! We can't leave the outcome of an election up to the voters!
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I imagine a lot of these small thumb drives are filled with epoxy, so that the only metal parts exposed to air are the USB connectors, which are often gold-plated.
Even if you had a device which never failed, incremental backups also protect against loss of files due to the OS being asked to delete them. This is what my backups have saved me from on several occasions.
I envision a future where instead of our computers being powered by water wheels and turbines, they are powered by electricity. Don't dismiss my idea out of hand! It will take lots of work, but I believe we can harness the power of the electron and eliminate this massive waste of water in the long term.