he used the password that his wife had written down in a book next to the computer, so from the provider's viewpoint, he was authorized.
By "provider" do you mean the email hosting service? If so, then every "hacker" is authorized. It's clear that the "authorization" the law is referring to is authorization given by the account owner/user.
No he didn't do any of those and didn't have intent to do those.
He most certainly intended to acquire her emails and the information within, and he did.
Oh yeah. The article mentioned that she was having an affair? That is most definitely the husband's legitimate concern. He has the right to know that the ho is cheating on him.
And, also, a child's welfare was mentioned as the reason for forwarding the emails to a third party? Extenuating circumstances. It's ILLEGAL for a large percentage of the population to FAIL to report possible child abuse and endangerment.
Your expectation of privacy (if you have one*) doesn't disappear because you broke a law or behaved immorally.
*I agree that a spouse mail and probably email should be fair game, but this part of your argument is not valid.
'Our engineers are creating new 'mega-supernodes' as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal.'
"Unfortunately, the 'mega-supernodes' started consuming more bandwidth than Netflix, so they are now creating new 'ultra-mega-supernodes' as fast as they can. Our engineers assure us that they will in no way impact the habitat of the zebra mussel or asian carp."
I agree with what you said. Even for a moderately tech savvy person like myself, I prefer Netflix for convenience and ease of use. The only drawback is the size of the library.
It's a double edged sword. I hope they get big enough to be able to get similar deals with a lot of other content providers (maybe they already are). But at the same time, I don't want to see them be the only game in town. They killed Blockbuster. Maybe Redbox or someone else will come along and provide some good competition. I'd hate to see them get complacent and stop innovating or expanding their library.
The main reason I've been keeping Dish Network is because my two toddlers love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Now, if Netflix can ink a deal with Nickelodeon so we can get Wow Wow Wubbzy, Dora and Diego, I'll be set.
And if they can get more adult content streaming (e.g. AMC, HBO, etc.), I'd be willing to pay up to $20 or $30 per month, even if there is a couple week delay
It's 1/2 the price of the phone if you are dumb and subsidize it through the cellphone carrier. iPhone though AT&T is $299+$1500.00 over the next 2 years.
If you include your connection cost for the phone, then you need to include the connection cost for your PC. I'm sure you pay less for broadband to your house than you do for 3G for your phone, but you still need to compare apples to apples.
And if it's "not dumb" to buy an unsubsidized phone, what is the not dumb way to get connectivity for it, and how much do you pay for it?
Except that the $3B spent wasn't spent by the government. Had that money not been spent by network operators and email admins they would have spent that money on other things, such has other IT capital, dividends got their stock holders, or new carpet for the office.
The bottom line is that there is no moral or legal justification for the capital punishment of a spammer, much less the summary execution without due process.
Wealth mobility is sticky, but it's not as sticky as you would think. Several months ago I counted the US members of the Forbes 400 whose wealth didn't come from inheritance, and I got something like 40% which was a lot higher than I expected.
Take a look at Figure 8 on page 8 of this paper (PDF). Fully 64% of children of parents in the top wealth quintile actually end up in a lower quintile. Granted, if there was perfect mobility this number would be 80%, but I'm surprised it's as high as it is. On the other side of the spectrum, 64% of children of parents in the lowest quintile end up doing better than their parents.
I know you got modded up to +4 Insightful, but I'm going to call bullshit.
Killing an actual human being feels very different primarily because humans didn't evolve in a context where it was possible for someone to be evil by harming lots of people a tiny bit. But the point should be clear: By any rough metric this person is equivalent to a mass murderer.
The problem is, you can't equate 1 year of lost time for 75 people to 75 years (read: one lifetime) of lost time for one person. Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Basically you are trying to put a dollar value on human life by equating it to lost time, which is hard enough to value in and of itself (I make $x/hour, but that doesn't mean I'll give up my 6-10pm time slot on Friday night for $4X). I don't think you can put a dollar value on life from a moral standpoint, even though we do it in law all the time.
Think about it this way: from your way of looking at it, executing a single prisoner is equivalent to locking up tens or scores of prisoners for a finite period of time. "Hey, in both cases we deprived society of X man-hours of productivity/life." Umm.... no.
We're big believers that not everyone has a high-speed Internet connection.
What enterprise, in search of cloud solutions, is still on dial-up? What enterprise period?
At my job, in terms of reliability, the ERP software is the most important (which is why it runs on Linux). Number two is internect access (read: mostly email, but also EDI). A far distant third is Office apps. To say that offline support is a big selling point because people don't have high-speed access is naive at worst and (more likely) a bad sales pitch at best.
That's not your, nor PG's, call to make.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of IP, and my opinion is that Golden Age SF is probably best preserved and distributed in the public domain, but it appears that these works do have legitimate owners who don't necessarily agree.
Can you elaborate? In order to see any website, you need to buy bandwidth (access) from an ISP. If you want more bandwidth (faster access), you have to pay them more. Are you suggesting that the "Two-tier" idea means an ISP would not allow you to see certain sites? That's not the impression the article gives.
Can you explain that a little more to the lest tech savvy? What do you mean by "DNS control?" I'm guessing that simply using a DNS server that doesn't belong to your ISP isn't enough, is that correct? Is off-line keys the only way?
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he used the password that his wife had written down in a book next to the computer, so from the provider's viewpoint, he was authorized.
By "provider" do you mean the email hosting service? If so, then every "hacker" is authorized. It's clear that the "authorization" the law is referring to is authorization given by the account owner/user.
No he didn't do any of those and didn't have intent to do those.
He most certainly intended to acquire her emails and the information within, and he did.
Oh yeah. The article mentioned that she was having an affair? That is most definitely the husband's legitimate concern. He has the right to know that the ho is cheating on him.
And, also, a child's welfare was mentioned as the reason for forwarding the emails to a third party? Extenuating circumstances. It's ILLEGAL for a large percentage of the population to FAIL to report possible child abuse and endangerment.
Your expectation of privacy (if you have one*) doesn't disappear because you broke a law or behaved immorally.
*I agree that a spouse mail and probably email should be fair game, but this part of your argument is not valid.
All the cards were in my name.
Don't get divorced.
'Our engineers are creating new 'mega-supernodes' as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal.'
"Unfortunately, the 'mega-supernodes' started consuming more bandwidth than Netflix, so they are now creating new 'ultra-mega-supernodes' as fast as they can. Our engineers assure us that they will in no way impact the habitat of the zebra mussel or asian carp."
1) Too big for governments to influence
2) Too big to fail
Do you see the inherent contradiction in what you wrote?
Strangely enough, nobody ever guesses those ;)
Until now.
..... I'm going to go do some shopping at Amazon. If we all shop their, eventually it will crash and they won't be able to do any more business.
Mod +1 Insightful.
I agree with what you said. Even for a moderately tech savvy person like myself, I prefer Netflix for convenience and ease of use. The only drawback is the size of the library.
It's a double edged sword. I hope they get big enough to be able to get similar deals with a lot of other content providers (maybe they already are). But at the same time, I don't want to see them be the only game in town. They killed Blockbuster. Maybe Redbox or someone else will come along and provide some good competition. I'd hate to see them get complacent and stop innovating or expanding their library.
We're not talking about the Disney channel. Quoth the article:
A host of content from the Disney Channel, including the hits “Phineas and Ferb” and “Good Luck Charlie,” which are also new to Netflix;
We aren't? ;)
None of the Toy Stories are available streaming, though Bolt and Up are.
No. It's so Disney continues to make money from advertisers.
The kid's Disney channel (with MM Clubhouse, etc.) doesn't show commercials except between the shows.
The main reason I've been keeping Dish Network is because my two toddlers love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Now, if Netflix can ink a deal with Nickelodeon so we can get Wow Wow Wubbzy, Dora and Diego, I'll be set. And if they can get more adult content streaming (e.g. AMC, HBO, etc.), I'd be willing to pay up to $20 or $30 per month, even if there is a couple week delay
It's 1/2 the price of the phone if you are dumb and subsidize it through the cellphone carrier. iPhone though AT&T is $299+$1500.00 over the next 2 years.
If you include your connection cost for the phone, then you need to include the connection cost for your PC. I'm sure you pay less for broadband to your house than you do for 3G for your phone, but you still need to compare apples to apples.
And if it's "not dumb" to buy an unsubsidized phone, what is the not dumb way to get connectivity for it, and how much do you pay for it?
Strangely enough, the name of my first grade teacher was "6F(x8~sD".
I for one welcome Eevee and the rest of our robotic overlords.
Except that the $3B spent wasn't spent by the government. Had that money not been spent by network operators and email admins they would have spent that money on other things, such has other IT capital, dividends got their stock holders, or new carpet for the office. The bottom line is that there is no moral or legal justification for the capital punishment of a spammer, much less the summary execution without due process.
Wealth mobility is sticky, but it's not as sticky as you would think. Several months ago I counted the US members of the Forbes 400 whose wealth didn't come from inheritance, and I got something like 40% which was a lot higher than I expected.
Take a look at Figure 8 on page 8 of this paper (PDF). Fully 64% of children of parents in the top wealth quintile actually end up in a lower quintile. Granted, if there was perfect mobility this number would be 80%, but I'm surprised it's as high as it is. On the other side of the spectrum, 64% of children of parents in the lowest quintile end up doing better than their parents.
Congratulations to Oleg Nikolaenko for achieving so much at such a young age!
Cue job offers from Zynga, Facebook, etc.
what I'm asking for is a example or two of where else this is happening.
How about Russia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
Of course, there's no proof that the Russian government was involved, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Yes, spamming is a massive crime, akin to murder.
I know you got modded up to +4 Insightful, but I'm going to call bullshit.
Killing an actual human being feels very different primarily because humans didn't evolve in a context where it was possible for someone to be evil by harming lots of people a tiny bit. But the point should be clear: By any rough metric this person is equivalent to a mass murderer.
The problem is, you can't equate 1 year of lost time for 75 people to 75 years (read: one lifetime) of lost time for one person. Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Basically you are trying to put a dollar value on human life by equating it to lost time, which is hard enough to value in and of itself (I make $x/hour, but that doesn't mean I'll give up my 6-10pm time slot on Friday night for $4X). I don't think you can put a dollar value on life from a moral standpoint, even though we do it in law all the time.
Think about it this way: from your way of looking at it, executing a single prisoner is equivalent to locking up tens or scores of prisoners for a finite period of time. "Hey, in both cases we deprived society of X man-hours of productivity/life." Umm.... no.
(a biopoly?)
Duopoly. HTH
We're big believers that not everyone has a high-speed Internet connection.
What enterprise, in search of cloud solutions, is still on dial-up? What enterprise period?
At my job, in terms of reliability, the ERP software is the most important (which is why it runs on Linux). Number two is internect access (read: mostly email, but also EDI). A far distant third is Office apps. To say that offline support is a big selling point because people don't have high-speed access is naive at worst and (more likely) a bad sales pitch at best.
They should be in the public domain.
That's not your, nor PG's, call to make. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of IP, and my opinion is that Golden Age SF is probably best preserved and distributed in the public domain, but it appears that these works do have legitimate owners who don't necessarily agree.
Can you elaborate? In order to see any website, you need to buy bandwidth (access) from an ISP. If you want more bandwidth (faster access), you have to pay them more. Are you suggesting that the "Two-tier" idea means an ISP would not allow you to see certain sites? That's not the impression the article gives.
But I'm a one-percenter in more ways than one.
You're in a motorcycle gang?
Can you explain that a little more to the lest tech savvy? What do you mean by "DNS control?" I'm guessing that simply using a DNS server that doesn't belong to your ISP isn't enough, is that correct? Is off-line keys the only way?