I have to agree especially as you get some complex password rules now days and some folk think you are cleverly using punctuation to meet that complexity. Usually I say something like:
Your password is "generic2011" all lower case. It starts with a "g" and ends with "1". Do not include the quotation marks.
The problem here is you need an outside audit which they won't agree to as it might introduce liability. An independent audit doesn't mean anything (I used to be an auditor) as the audit firm wants repeat business.
Just like we ruin poor dumb kids lives who commit other dumb crimes they wouldn't have committed if they were older like joining a gang, murdering somebody for a pair of shoes, etc etc.
Basically what I hear in your comment is "How dare middle class suburb kids be expected to follow the law and then be prosecuted when they fail.. the outrage!!!"
No, what is stopping the government from moving to the cloud is crazy NIST requirements in some of the archaic parts of NIST SP800-53. If they can give me a fully certified compliant system you would seem movement in droves.
The only surprise here is he lasted so long. The Federal CIO has zero authority hence it's a thankless exercise in futility. Under both FISMA and CCA all IT authority is with the Agency Head, OMB Director, and NIST. The Mr. Kundra had no authority, no control, no budget, no nothing my guess is the only reason he took the job was he was a former private sector employee and most likely had buyers regret within the week. No sane civil servant would take this position short of as a temp position to a backroom deal which ended with a lateral transfer promotion somewhere else or a high three with the expectation of doing nothing and accomplishing nothing (the only realistic goal under the existing legal/regulatory framework which governs that position) .
As a manager I always let those folk walk away. Nobody is indispensible and I don't need the Generation ADD princess syndrome employee's. It's a job, not a lifestyle.
That was the old FreeBSD Team goal. The new management (lets say post 5.0 RELEASE or early 00's) is all about being hip, competing with people they shouldn't be, and shoddy work. Examples:
- See the new RELENG idealogy (articles/releng) - See the new logo that the vocal FBSD communtity despises (see mailing lists) - See this news article (though I agree he did just mention parity... that parity still comes at the cost of neglecting what FreeBSD is all about. Only so many resources to go around) - See the push for BSD Certs. - See how magically show stopper bugs in the RELENG todo list magically become desired features when timelines start getting crunched. Either its a show stopper or its not.
I love FreeBSD and no plans to give it up in the forseable future but with each new release Open is looking better and better. I am starting to see why people like Theo or DJB, unyielding and unchanging.
Been there, done that a couple months ago and been to places even smaller, more obscure, and more dangerous (and yes I either helo or ground convoy once a week to a variety of places all over the country... just centerd out of BIAP). After all, command wants sensors in interesting places. You know damn well building a wireless network on Habbaniyah is no more difficult that building it in any place in America. Tell me, has your uplink or NOC survived a direct mortar hit yet as you seem to imply (surviving rocket attacks and all. You are trying to pass yourself off as some hot shit kid for when you get out but you are not doing anything fancy and defintely doing shit lower speed that the true professional IT folk in Iraq rebuilding the data infrastructure for both the civilian gov, MNF-I, and the commericial providers. Your a fucking poser and it annoys me. As bad as some REMF trying to pass himself off as a secret squirrel to his friends back home.
"right now I am currently serving in Iraq where I run IT operations for a small chunk of the Sunni triangle. One of the major projects that we have accomplished here is setting up an ISP that supports 350 subscribers. It has also survived multiple mortar attacks,"
Wah. Dude there are like 8 wireless providers on BIAP alone, 4 in the IZ. You can get sat from a variety of providers and wireless in Iraq is easy as hell. Survive morters attack my ass. The bases get mortered everyday. Unless you are telling me your NOC got a direct hit (which I highly doubt as I have worked in here for 2 years now and read the daily attack reports) ANY wireless network (or hell, wired) can survive Iraq. Quit talking yourself up like you are something special so you can increase your value when you leave the service.
Hell I can say "I have built a nationwide microwave backbone (centered on signal hill) to feed a variety of sensors (real time video) to the user (soldier) that has survived rockets, morters, small arms, and hell, even blimps falling from the sky". Give me a break, Iraq isn't that bad garrison and you know it. I have a better chance of a backhoe in american taking out my backbone than a fucking mortar. I hate people that talk themself up.
Also you aren't building jack and you know it. All the SECNET11 stuff you aren't briefing in an open forum, NIPR isn't allowed wireless (if you are building a wireless NIPR network, you are in direct violation of AR25-2 regardless of what you command thinks.. you need a 1 star DAA to overrule this, not some captain or LTC), and all the commerical wireless is contract or civilian built. If you built one of the many adhoc wireless network I sniff on a regular basis, bet I have already cracked your WEP key. Only one WEP key I don't have yet and its some local Iraqi ran network. Not you. Fucking showboats.
So lets say you go to Taco Bell. You hand the cashier a $20 for a $1.99 meal. He hands you $8.01 back and you step right to wait on your food. You get bored and count your change, notice the cashier shorted you $10 (maybe he decided to keep it, thought you handed him a $10, or forgot to give you a $10). You are telling me YOU WOULDN'T ask him for your missing $10 because you fucked up by giving him a $20. And if you did ask for it back, you are ok with him tell you to go fuck yourself because he never agreed t be audited by you. Same deal.
Corporations are big and accounting errors happen. You have a responsiblity to give back illgotten gains back. And yes there are laws that confirm this. Your just upset because they fired your ass, I wonder why. Could it be your complete disregard for the law and problems with authority.
Unless of course you think that that Taco Bell cashier has ever right to keep your $10 after your confront him about it. I have my doubts about that though.
"but when a former employer can pay you (via direct deposit), fire you, wait 6 weeks, and then demand that money back in a legal letter (with threats of debt collection)"
Umm was this money owed you or an accounting error? You can't hate your employer for making an accounting error and then you spending your ill gotten gains. I have been in this boat myself. If you are overpaid, it is your responsibility to not spent that money and return it to them. You knew that wasn't your money and didn't want to let them know you were overpaided because you were fired and pissed.. thats your fault, not theirs.
We care because we care about the victim. If I am going to get 20 years for looking at childporn or 20 years for actually raping the neighbor girl, I might as well rape the neighbor girl.
You see this problem a lot in crimes such as rape where the punishment is out of proportion to the actual crime. If the penality for rape is 20 years and the penality for murder is 20 years, I might as well rape and murder you rather than leave a witness alive to talk. I have a better chance of getting away with it and do the same time if caught (as most sentences are served concurently). If I break into your house and murder you (lets say you caught me in the act) I might as well murder the rest of your family while I am at it as I am doing life regardless. This is why we care about fair sentences and not criminalizing petty behavior.
Because we are in America. Just like we have laws against child labour but somehow Hollywood and sports are immune from this. Its legal for child actors to work adult hours and somehow forcing your child to play / practice 10 hours a day for a paid professional sport (as you have to start them young if you plan to be a multimillion dollar sports star at 16) is legal.
Its ok to abuse children in America, just don't have sex with them. Have to love the American way.
"Want to have sex legally with a 13 year-old nymphet? marry her in New Hampshire and bang her with impunity with the courts' blessing."
Just make sure you don't cross state lines. Its illegal to have sex with anybody under the age of 18 (federal law) period. If you cross state or country lines, you fall under federal juristiction and will be jailed for have sex with a minor (your wife). This law was recently passed to curb legal sex tourism (where Americans would go to lets say Burma where sex with 8 years old legal and be immune to prosecution when they came home). Its a BS law but one that can
Also there was a recent case in Kansas where a guy married the 14 year old he knocked up (she was from Missouri, had both parental and HER OWN consent) and then was tossed in jail for raping a minor. The evidence: She was pregnant before they were married. He is now in jail doing 20.
I work 7 days a week which gives me 7 to 8 hours a sleep a day, hour and half at the gym, 2 hours at the bar, and an hour or so for other relaxing activities. I enjoy my sleep and can't honestly imagine wanting less. I can charge commuting and meals so count them as work as they are paying for both (I commute a whooping 10 minutes a day:)
Just finished reading the ruling and I personally think the judge is intentionally misreading a law that hasn't been updated to incorporate the realities of the digital age.
He seems hellbent on 'The decision by the Legislature to specifically include reproductions or copies in defining child sexually abusive material, which term is then incorporated into subsection 145c(2), leaves no room for contrary judicial construction.'
So if our pedo has just MOVED the file to CDR instead of copying them would this not apply? Basically it appears to me that the pedo is getting nailed for making backups. I highly doubt the orginal intent of the law was to prevent people from backing up their data. The problem with reading reproduction as he read it is anything that isn't the orginal is a reproduction. Our pedo reproduced the the images from Russia, reproduced them when he stored them, reproduced them in his cache when he moves them around his drive or views them, etc etc.
This kind of narrow reading really pisses me off and I think people are missing the broader impact of this ruling on other more popular slashdot illicit actions (like warez or copyright infringement). People really need to look past the child porn part of the ruling as the judge wasn't ruling on child pornography, he was ruling on the legal meaning of the word reproduce in the digital age. Hopefully the SC throws this out and sides with our pedo.
So I am reading all the comments on this and everybody seems to be missing the big one, why the hell would you want to do this? People who advocate this really need to get a life outside work and learn to relax (what sleeping is for most people, RELAXING). I put in a 84 hour work week at a tech firm and still find time to sleep 7 to 8 hours a day, go to the gym, drink with friends, and pursue my hobbies (reading and gaming). Lack of time really doesn't seem to be a problem. I just fail to see the need for the uberman keep up with the jones hyperproductivity that plagues America. Sit down and breath for once, you will find life much more enjoyable.
"You're right. As ethical people, we should certainly bail out of any organization that shows signs of corruption. Except that of course, as an American, this would require me to support scrapping my own government."
Not arguing against this point. The best thing that could possibly happen is (on some fluke of scheduling) the UN is in full session at the same time of the State of the Union and two well timed thermonukes take them both out. The millions of war collaborators killed in the vicinity is well worth it.... being an American yourself, just think of them as 'collateral damage'.
"Instead, don't you think we should try to weed out the corruption to save the better parts of the organization? The bits that are sheltering orphans and leading peacekeeping forces? "
Nope. While some institutions are reformable, the UN isn't. It has institutionalized corruption. It should be broken up and disbanded. If a country wants to help orphans, it can so via private funds. You don't need a world body to do so. This is like saying you (as in your personally) can't help the starving kid who digs in your dumpster for food because their isn't an charity organization to give money to to help him. Just give the phreaking kid some food. As for peacekeeping, you really need some first hand experience with them. There has not been a SINGLE successful peacekeeping UN operation that hasn't been led by one of big 5. UN Peacekeeping is just an extension (and legitimatization) of the big 5's foreign policy goals. If you want a good current example here, look at the UN peacekeeping missions on the ethiopian / eritrea border (they are about to to war), india / pakistan board (they shoot each other daily still), and the Ivory Coast (still shooting each other). Or how about the UN missions in Sudan or Rwanda while the UN watched a million folk get chopped up. Real winners there. The UN as in institution has failed as bad as the European Congress and League of Nations. It is time to replace it and start over.
And before you saying it is fixable, lets take a look at yet another example of UN corruption. The oil for food program. Kofie's own nephew was indicted in it. Yet what happened? Kofie still in charge. His son is not in prison. Not a single person was indited or forced to retire. The internal UN backlash was SO GREAT AND IMMENSE that all other UN folk cleaned up their acts immediately for fear of getting caught... give me a break. UN had a great chance to clean up (once again) and failed to do so. Any organization that gives failed nations and their corrupt citizens power WITHOUT HOLDING THEM PERSONALLY ACCOUNTABLE is useless.
"But I'll tell you a secret: the head USians don't want to be rid of the UN because it is corrupt. They want to be rid of the UN because it isn't their kind of corrupt."
I would partially agree with that EXCEPT the USians don't actually want to get rid of them. They make a good scapegoat and ALWAYS cowtow to the US and come around legitimizing ANY action we do eventually (even if years later) as UN (and its members) do not have the political backbone to stand up to the US. They are, and always will be, our bitch.
And yes (in case I didn't make it 100% clear) I am all about disbanding the UN but not for the same reasons as most. I believe in unequivated sovereign rights... the prevents this.
And you sir are naive or haven't had much first hand experience with the other half of the UN, its military wing. I have now worked and lived in 3 war zones for the last 10 years. I have dealt first hand with the UN police keeping operations in all 3 (Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq). You will NEVER see anybody more corrupt or corrupting than the UN. Take UNMUC for example. You take police from corrupt 3rd world UN members and send them to even more corrupt war torn countries where they both:
a) Teach the local cops how to be even more corrupt and extort the locals even more.
b) Directly extort the locals themselves.
In addition many of the UNMIC police have direct access to organized crime back home and often setup trade links in the war torn country they are supposedly helping (often coordinating human, weapon, and drug channels between the domestic and foreign crime rings).
Or shall we talk about the peace keepers themselves? The peace keepers who are used to getting their own way back home and rape and extort the locals who they are suppose to be peacekeeping. Or take bribes to rough up one side or the other. Google away, you will find numerous references to this from all over the world.
Or shall we talk about the UN staff in charge of rebuilding the countries? 1st world doe eyed dogooders who spent their nights getting high, drunk, and partying in local sex clubs. Or the old jaded former dogooder managers who just fuck children on a regular basis while embezzling UN funds to fund their illicit activities and retirements. Or do you mean the 3rd world members who join so they can compete with the jaded 1st worlders who can be more corrupt.
"It strikes me that, of the people who are wholly negative of the UN, the vastly majority are from the USA... ignorant people could claim that the UN is not worth supporting. "
I personally find the only people that support the UN are people who have never first hand had to deal with them down range (not their nice 1st world NY and Geneva offices) on a daily basis, never seen how they have this annoying habit of causing more damage than not, prolonging the amount of time the locals suffer and citizens of 3rd world countries who are just embittered they belong to a failed nation and look for the UN to balance / counteract their betters.
Let me guess, you are a western european living in one of your Ivory Towers like so many of your peers. Try getting out and seeing the world for what it is, dirty, nasty, and corrupt. Just like the UN.
Its not bullshit and you obviously havent' been around the Army. Every troops has an AKO account, maybe (and I say maybe) 20% of them log on a day and maybe 20% of them actually send emails with it. Every unit in the army still runs its own independent unit email system (usually m$ exchange) which handles the vast bulk of US Military email traffic. NETCOM tried to the force the issue with PKI CAC implementation but the Army resisted and DA G6 never backed them up. AKO is a good idea done badly and lacks serious command support but that is OT.
AKO really does have ~2 million accounts and maybe ~3 million emails daily... active accounts is a different item though.
Somebody else said it but want to restate it. Any laptop should do as long as it is no fan / fan minimal. Also working in Iraq and using a regular IBM X40 . While it isn't *toughened*, it also runs low power / low heat... fan almost never kicks in. Haven't had a problem with it the entire year I have been hear... working like a champ.
As for the panasonic toughbook series, not worth the price in my book. Have used them in the past and just aren't worth the additional cost UNLESS you are dealing with water issues. Normal low fan laptops deal with heat / dust just fine. If dealing with water / mud / damp issues, go with the toughbooks. Not the cheapo fashionable toughbook models either, they still make (have to look for it on their site, don't advertise it well) a true toughbook. Water proof (not resistant), touch screen (so can use with gloves), etc etc. Its worth it though.
I would agree with this logic (could care less about dic def of the word) if atheist's were apathetic to God or the idea of. You meet folk in former communist E. Europe who are completely indifferent to whether there is a higher being or not.
The problem is every US / W. Europe atheist I have met is fervent (to the point frenzy) that there is no God. The are have same faith religious folk have in God in there is no God. I pretty much classify a fervent belief that governs ones life that is part of a greater organization of similiar like minded folk as a religion. Atheism is a religion. These folk are religious and have lots of faith there is no god.
I can accept that. I was raised (and have redefined / streamlined) this belief since I was young. By definition I mean a common leay person belief in the meaning of the word, not Oxford. E.g. A or B means A XOR B, not A AND B (ala Give me your money or die means one or the other, not both).
As for useful distinction, I would wager my definition isn't new and is canon somewhere in our history. Not an etymologist. If it works for you, steal it:)... besides/. has some smart folk on it, sure somebody can point out the roots here and either tell me I am dead wrong or at least barking up the right tree.
If you want to know my logic here, its very religous. Good, by def (or common western understanding historically), is God's will... evil being against God's will. Kind of hard to violate a greater supernatural mandate if these supernatural entities don't exist. I think folk in modern times (post 15th century) have redefined these two fields (e.g. decided Ethics means Moral Philosophy) as equals to make themselves feel good about breaking religous teachings. Nobody wants to be evil yet may be borderline atheist. Can sleep better believing Good and Ethical are the same as opposed to believing you are evil (not believing in God) why still acting in an ethical manner. Even the most devout Atheist has to have doubts similiarly to the most devout Christian periodically having a crisis of faith. Think of redefining Ethics to mean Morals as a sort of Pascals' Gambit for doubting philosphers.
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I have to agree especially as you get some complex password rules now days and some folk think you are cleverly using punctuation to meet that complexity. Usually I say something like:
Your password is "generic2011" all lower case. It starts with a "g" and ends with "1". Do not include the quotation marks.
The problem here is you need an outside audit which they won't agree to as it might introduce liability. An independent audit doesn't mean anything (I used to be an auditor) as the audit firm wants repeat business.
Just like we ruin poor dumb kids lives who commit other dumb crimes they wouldn't have committed if they were older like joining a gang, murdering somebody for a pair of shoes, etc etc.
Basically what I hear in your comment is "How dare middle class suburb kids be expected to follow the law and then be prosecuted when they fail .. the outrage!!!"
No, what is stopping the government from moving to the cloud is crazy NIST requirements in some of the archaic parts of NIST SP800-53. If they can give me a fully certified compliant system you would seem movement in droves.
The only surprise here is he lasted so long. The Federal CIO has zero authority hence it's a thankless exercise in futility. Under both FISMA and CCA all IT authority is with the Agency Head, OMB Director, and NIST. The Mr. Kundra had no authority, no control, no budget, no nothing my guess is the only reason he took the job was he was a former private sector employee and most likely had buyers regret within the week. No sane civil servant would take this position short of as a temp position to a backroom deal which ended with a lateral transfer promotion somewhere else or a high three with the expectation of doing nothing and accomplishing nothing (the only realistic goal under the existing legal/regulatory framework which governs that position) .
As a manager I always let those folk walk away. Nobody is indispensible and I don't need the Generation ADD princess syndrome employee's. It's a job, not a lifestyle.
That was the old FreeBSD Team goal. The new management (lets say post 5.0 RELEASE or early 00's) is all about being hip, competing with people they shouldn't be, and shoddy work. Examples:
... that parity still comes at the cost of neglecting what FreeBSD is all about. Only so many resources to go around)
- See the new RELENG idealogy (articles/releng)
- See the new logo that the vocal FBSD communtity despises (see mailing lists)
- See this news article (though I agree he did just mention parity
- See the push for BSD Certs.
- See how magically show stopper bugs in the RELENG todo list magically become desired features when timelines start getting crunched. Either its a show stopper or its not.
I love FreeBSD and no plans to give it up in the forseable future but with each new release Open is looking better and better. I am starting to see why people like Theo or DJB, unyielding and unchanging.
"take a convoy to Habbaniyah"
... just centerd out of BIAP). After all, command wants sensors in interesting places. You know damn well building a wireless network on Habbaniyah is no more difficult that building it in any place in America. Tell me, has your uplink or NOC survived a direct mortar hit yet as you seem to imply (surviving rocket attacks and all. You are trying to pass yourself off as some hot shit kid for when you get out but you are not doing anything fancy and defintely doing shit lower speed that the true professional IT folk in Iraq rebuilding the data infrastructure for both the civilian gov, MNF-I, and the commericial providers. Your a fucking poser and it annoys me. As bad as some REMF trying to pass himself off as a secret squirrel to his friends back home.
Been there, done that a couple months ago and been to places even smaller, more obscure, and more dangerous (and yes I either helo or ground convoy once a week to a variety of places all over the country
"right now I am currently serving in Iraq where I run IT operations for a small chunk of the Sunni triangle. One of the major projects that we have accomplished here is setting up an ISP that supports 350 subscribers. It has also survived multiple mortar attacks,"
.. you need a 1 star DAA to overrule this, not some captain or LTC), and all the commerical wireless is contract or civilian built. If you built one of the many adhoc wireless network I sniff on a regular basis, bet I have already cracked your WEP key. Only one WEP key I don't have yet and its some local Iraqi ran network. Not you. Fucking showboats.
Wah. Dude there are like 8 wireless providers on BIAP alone, 4 in the IZ. You can get sat from a variety of providers and wireless in Iraq is easy as hell. Survive morters attack my ass. The bases get mortered everyday. Unless you are telling me your NOC got a direct hit (which I highly doubt as I have worked in here for 2 years now and read the daily attack reports) ANY wireless network (or hell, wired) can survive Iraq. Quit talking yourself up like you are something special so you can increase your value when you leave the service.
Hell I can say "I have built a nationwide microwave backbone (centered on signal hill) to feed a variety of sensors (real time video) to the user (soldier) that has survived rockets, morters, small arms, and hell, even blimps falling from the sky". Give me a break, Iraq isn't that bad garrison and you know it. I have a better chance of a backhoe in american taking out my backbone than a fucking mortar. I hate people that talk themself up.
Also you aren't building jack and you know it. All the SECNET11 stuff you aren't briefing in an open forum, NIPR isn't allowed wireless (if you are building a wireless NIPR network, you are in direct violation of AR25-2 regardless of what you command thinks
So lets say you go to Taco Bell. You hand the cashier a $20 for a $1.99 meal. He hands you $8.01 back and you step right to wait on your food. You get bored and count your change, notice the cashier shorted you $10 (maybe he decided to keep it, thought you handed him a $10, or forgot to give you a $10). You are telling me YOU WOULDN'T ask him for your missing $10 because you fucked up by giving him a $20. And if you did ask for it back, you are ok with him tell you to go fuck yourself because he never agreed t be audited by you. Same deal.
Corporations are big and accounting errors happen. You have a responsiblity to give back illgotten gains back. And yes there are laws that confirm this. Your just upset because they fired your ass, I wonder why. Could it be your complete disregard for the law and problems with authority.
Unless of course you think that that Taco Bell cashier has ever right to keep your $10 after your confront him about it. I have my doubts about that though.
"but when a former employer can pay you (via direct deposit), fire you, wait 6 weeks, and then demand that money back in a legal letter (with threats of debt collection)"
.. thats your fault, not theirs.
Umm was this money owed you or an accounting error? You can't hate your employer for making an accounting error and then you spending your ill gotten gains. I have been in this boat myself. If you are overpaid, it is your responsibility to not spent that money and return it to them. You knew that wasn't your money and didn't want to let them know you were overpaided because you were fired and pissed
We care because we care about the victim. If I am going to get 20 years for looking at childporn or 20 years for actually raping the neighbor girl, I might as well rape the neighbor girl.
You see this problem a lot in crimes such as rape where the punishment is out of proportion to the actual crime. If the penality for rape is 20 years and the penality for murder is 20 years, I might as well rape and murder you rather than leave a witness alive to talk. I have a better chance of getting away with it and do the same time if caught (as most sentences are served concurently). If I break into your house and murder you (lets say you caught me in the act) I might as well murder the rest of your family while I am at it as I am doing life regardless. This is why we care about fair sentences and not criminalizing petty behavior.
Because we are in America. Just like we have laws against child labour but somehow Hollywood and sports are immune from this. Its legal for child actors to work adult hours and somehow forcing your child to play / practice 10 hours a day for a paid professional sport (as you have to start them young if you plan to be a multimillion dollar sports star at 16) is legal.
Its ok to abuse children in America, just don't have sex with them. Have to love the American way.
"Want to have sex legally with a 13 year-old nymphet? marry her in New Hampshire
and bang her with impunity with the courts' blessing."
Just make sure you don't cross state lines. Its illegal to have sex with anybody under the age of 18 (federal law) period. If you cross state or country lines, you fall under federal juristiction and will be jailed for have sex with a minor (your wife). This law was recently passed to curb legal sex tourism (where Americans would go to lets say Burma where sex with 8 years old legal and be immune to prosecution when they came home). Its a BS law but one that can
Also there was a recent case in Kansas where a guy married the 14 year old he knocked up (she was from Missouri, had both parental and HER OWN consent) and then was tossed in jail for raping a minor. The evidence: She was pregnant before they were married. He is now in jail doing 20.
I work 7 days a week which gives me 7 to 8 hours a sleep a day, hour and half at the gym, 2 hours at the bar, and an hour or so for other relaxing activities. I enjoy my sleep and can't honestly imagine wanting less. I can charge commuting and meals so count them as work as they are paying for both (I commute a whooping 10 minutes a day :)
Just finished reading the ruling and I personally think the judge is intentionally misreading a law that hasn't been updated to incorporate the realities of the digital age.
He seems hellbent on 'The decision by the Legislature to specifically include reproductions or copies in defining child sexually abusive material, which term is then incorporated into subsection 145c(2), leaves no room for contrary judicial construction.'
So if our pedo has just MOVED the file to CDR instead of copying them would this not apply? Basically it appears to me that the pedo is getting nailed for making backups. I highly doubt the orginal intent of the law was to prevent people from backing up their data. The problem with reading reproduction as he read it is anything that isn't the orginal is a reproduction. Our pedo reproduced the the images from Russia, reproduced them when he stored them, reproduced them in his cache when he moves them around his drive or views them, etc etc.
This kind of narrow reading really pisses me off and I think people are missing the broader impact of this ruling on other more popular slashdot illicit actions (like warez or copyright infringement). People really need to look past the child porn part of the ruling as the judge wasn't ruling on child pornography, he was ruling on the legal meaning of the word reproduce in the digital age. Hopefully the SC throws this out and sides with our pedo.
So I am reading all the comments on this and everybody seems to be missing the big one, why the hell would you want to do this? People who advocate this really need to get a life outside work and learn to relax (what sleeping is for most people, RELAXING). I put in a 84 hour work week at a tech firm and still find time to sleep 7 to 8 hours a day, go to the gym, drink with friends, and pursue my hobbies (reading and gaming). Lack of time really doesn't seem to be a problem. I just fail to see the need for the uberman keep up with the jones hyperproductivity that plagues America. Sit down and breath for once, you will find life much more enjoyable.
"You're right. As ethical people, we should certainly bail out of any organization that shows signs of corruption. Except that of course, as an American, this would require me to support scrapping my own government."
.... being an American yourself, just think of them as 'collateral damage'.
... give me a break. UN had a great chance to clean up (once again) and failed to do so. Any organization that gives failed nations and their corrupt citizens power WITHOUT HOLDING THEM PERSONALLY ACCOUNTABLE is useless.
... the prevents this.
Not arguing against this point. The best thing that could possibly happen is (on some fluke of scheduling) the UN is in full session at the same time of the State of the Union and two well timed thermonukes take them both out. The millions of war collaborators killed in the vicinity is well worth it
"Instead, don't you think we should try to weed out the corruption to save the better parts of the organization? The bits that are sheltering orphans and leading peacekeeping forces? "
Nope. While some institutions are reformable, the UN isn't. It has institutionalized corruption. It should be broken up and disbanded. If a country wants to help orphans, it can so via private funds. You don't need a world body to do so. This is like saying you (as in your personally) can't help the starving kid who digs in your dumpster for food because their isn't an charity organization to give money to to help him. Just give the phreaking kid some food. As for peacekeeping, you really need some first hand experience with them. There has not been a SINGLE successful peacekeeping UN operation that hasn't been led by one of big 5. UN Peacekeeping is just an extension (and legitimatization) of the big 5's foreign policy goals. If you want a good current example here, look at the UN peacekeeping missions on the ethiopian / eritrea border (they are about to to war), india / pakistan board (they shoot each other daily still), and the Ivory Coast (still shooting each other). Or how about the UN missions in Sudan or Rwanda while the UN watched a million folk get chopped up. Real winners there. The UN as in institution has failed as bad as the European Congress and League of Nations. It is time to replace it and start over.
And before you saying it is fixable, lets take a look at yet another example of UN corruption. The oil for food program. Kofie's own nephew was indicted in it. Yet what happened? Kofie still in charge. His son is not in prison. Not a single person was indited or forced to retire. The internal UN backlash was SO GREAT AND IMMENSE that all other UN folk cleaned up their acts immediately for fear of getting caught
"But I'll tell you a secret: the head USians don't want to be rid of the UN because it is corrupt. They want to be rid of the UN because it isn't their kind of corrupt."
I would partially agree with that EXCEPT the USians don't actually want to get rid of them. They make a good scapegoat and ALWAYS cowtow to the US and come around legitimizing ANY action we do eventually (even if years later) as UN (and its members) do not have the political backbone to stand up to the US. They are, and always will be, our bitch.
And yes (in case I didn't make it 100% clear) I am all about disbanding the UN but not for the same reasons as most. I believe in unequivated sovereign rights
"The UN has a huge positive effect on the world."
... ignorant people could claim that the UN is not worth supporting. "
And you sir are naive or haven't had much first hand experience with the other half of the UN, its military wing. I have now worked and lived in 3 war zones for the last 10 years. I have dealt first hand with the UN police keeping operations in all 3 (Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq). You will NEVER see anybody more corrupt or corrupting than the UN. Take UNMUC for example. You take police from corrupt 3rd world UN members and send them to even more corrupt war torn countries where they both:
a) Teach the local cops how to be even more corrupt and extort the locals even more.
b) Directly extort the locals themselves.
In addition many of the UNMIC police have direct access to organized crime back home and often setup trade links in the war torn country they are supposedly helping (often coordinating human, weapon, and drug channels between the domestic and foreign crime rings).
Or shall we talk about the peace keepers themselves? The peace keepers who are used to getting their own way back home and rape and extort the locals who they are suppose to be peacekeeping. Or take bribes to rough up one side or the other. Google away, you will find numerous references to this from all over the world.
Or shall we talk about the UN staff in charge of rebuilding the countries? 1st world doe eyed dogooders who spent their nights getting high, drunk, and partying in local sex clubs. Or the old jaded former dogooder managers who just fuck children on a regular basis while embezzling UN funds to fund their illicit activities and retirements. Or do you mean the 3rd world members who join so they can compete with the jaded 1st worlders who can be more corrupt.
"It strikes me that, of the people who are wholly negative of the UN, the vastly majority are from the USA
I personally find the only people that support the UN are people who have never first hand had to deal with them down range (not their nice 1st world NY and Geneva offices) on a daily basis, never seen how they have this annoying habit of causing more damage than not, prolonging the amount of time the locals suffer and citizens of 3rd world countries who are just embittered they belong to a failed nation and look for the UN to balance / counteract their betters.
Let me guess, you are a western european living in one of your Ivory Towers like so many of your peers. Try getting out and seeing the world for what it is, dirty, nasty, and corrupt. Just like the UN.
Maybe I am wrong here but didn't M$ orginally use BSD's tcp stack, ftp, and telnet applications. Last I checked BSD was OSS.
Its not bullshit and you obviously havent' been around the Army. Every troops has an AKO account, maybe (and I say maybe) 20% of them log on a day and maybe 20% of them actually send emails with it. Every unit in the army still runs its own independent unit email system (usually m$ exchange) which handles the vast bulk of US Military email traffic. NETCOM tried to the force the issue with PKI CAC implementation but the Army resisted and DA G6 never backed them up. AKO is a good idea done badly and lacks serious command support but that is OT.
... active accounts is a different item though.
AKO really does have ~2 million accounts and maybe ~3 million emails daily
Somebody else said it but want to restate it. Any laptop should do as long as it is no fan / fan minimal. Also working in Iraq and using a regular IBM X40 . While it isn't *toughened*, it also runs low power / low heat ... fan almost never kicks in. Haven't had a problem with it the entire year I have been hear ... working like a champ.
As for the panasonic toughbook series, not worth the price in my book. Have used them in the past and just aren't worth the additional cost UNLESS you are dealing with water issues. Normal low fan laptops deal with heat / dust just fine. If dealing with water / mud / damp issues, go with the toughbooks. Not the cheapo fashionable toughbook models either, they still make (have to look for it on their site, don't advertise it well) a true toughbook. Water proof (not resistant), touch screen (so can use with gloves), etc etc. Its worth it though.
Accepted .. .now to bed for me.
I would agree with this logic (could care less about dic def of the word) if atheist's were apathetic to God or the idea of. You meet folk in former communist E. Europe who are completely indifferent to whether there is a higher being or not.
The problem is every US / W. Europe atheist I have met is fervent (to the point frenzy) that there is no God. The are have same faith religious folk have in God in there is no God. I pretty much classify a fervent belief that governs ones life that is part of a greater organization of similiar like minded folk as a religion. Atheism is a religion. These folk are religious and have lots of faith there is no god.
I can accept that. I was raised (and have redefined / streamlined) this belief since I was young. By definition I mean a common leay person belief in the meaning of the word, not Oxford. E.g. A or B means A XOR B, not A AND B (ala Give me your money or die means one or the other, not both).
:) ... besides /. has some smart folk on it, sure somebody can point out the roots here and either tell me I am dead wrong or at least barking up the right tree.
... evil being against God's will. Kind of hard to violate a greater supernatural mandate if these supernatural entities don't exist. I think folk in modern times (post 15th century) have redefined these two fields (e.g. decided Ethics means Moral Philosophy) as equals to make themselves feel good about breaking religous teachings. Nobody wants to be evil yet may be borderline atheist. Can sleep better believing Good and Ethical are the same as opposed to believing you are evil (not believing in God) why still acting in an ethical manner. Even the most devout Atheist has to have doubts similiarly to the most devout Christian periodically having a crisis of faith. Think of redefining Ethics to mean Morals as a sort of Pascals' Gambit for doubting philosphers.
As for useful distinction, I would wager my definition isn't new and is canon somewhere in our history. Not an etymologist. If it works for you, steal it
If you want to know my logic here, its very religous. Good, by def (or common western understanding historically), is God's will