Actually, I don't think it applied in that instance and fixing the law didn't happen until after the act.
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McOwen Case Settled
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This decision simply adds an element of criminality to an
already bad situation.
<Cut to courtroom somewhere in the USA>
Defendant: "...and then I installed the application on all the computers."
Prosecutor: "You did this, fully aware that it was vulnerable and subject to attacks, which may paralyze the company email system, compromise data, or worse?"
Defendant: "Yes."
Gallery: *GASP*
Prosecutor: "And what was this application?"
Defendant: "MS Outlook."
The prosecutor, appearing struck, glances at a shadowy figure in the gallery who bears some resemblance to John Ashcroft in a trenchcoat and fedora, the figure quickly draws a finger across his throat and the prosecutor recomposes himself.
Prosecutor: "Your honor, the prosecution humbly requests all charges be dropped and that the defendant be released!"
The State was seeking 8 Felony convictions, which carries a maximum up to 120 year prison sentence and
$50,000 fine for each Felony count plus $ 415,000 in restitution and damages for a total of $815,000!
And when all is said and done of the Enron fiasco, a few people will spend a few years in a country club prison, like Michael Milken, the junk bond king who left retirment accounts in ruins while he put hundreds of millions out of reach, in his wife's name.
Well, of course you wear a raincoat/suit for riding in the wet, but your bike still gets drenched. If you keep it in your cube, or like me, in your apartment (since I don't have a secure garage) a soaked and dripping bike becomes a liability.
Riding on ice was easy, stopping required seeking the nearest (and softest) snowbank and ploughing into it. I'd have made a good flahute, the way I rode in everything to deliver papers (6 mile route) through everything.
YEs, but compare European population density to U.S. Density. The population isn't all that
different, *how many* europes can you fit into the 48 states?
I've heard this question before. Even if there's ~500 million in all of europe and ~270 million in the US, much of the most dense US population centers lag far behind what's available for approximately equal population density in Europe. Looking back, the PWA (Public Works Administration) was probably the best possibility of the USA to build such a system, but the New Deal was already heavily criticized for programs which competed with private industry, particulary where private industry (as we are all told) can do the job better and more efficiently. (Eventually most the the big railroads would go bankrupt or consolidate, cutting way back on services.)
I just remember how, from the midwest to the east there's diddly for rail service and AmTrak continues to struggle (even after the increased revenues after the Sept. 11 attack.) Yes, european rail is heavily government subsidized, but the costs of building and maintaining roads in the USA is staggering and usually ignored in these sorts of analysis.
Oh, I take into account the fixed and variable costs, I just didn't put them into the final equation. i.e. if I'm doing 3k miles, instead of 18K per yer, my truck will last longer, less gas, require less maintenance, etc, less money spent buying the next overly inflated priced truck, etc.
And it's not really the urban folk who realize the majority of the benefit, it's us suburban folk, the ones who shell out a small fortune every year for the privilege of risking our lives among the hungover/cellphoning/makeup-applying/or-other-wise -distracted drivers and sitting in a metal box, bouncing around and silently cursing things as we try to get to work or home. But, they'd benefit, too.
I travelled in Euroupe a few years back and came home feeling like the US was the 3rd world, the way they can get about with excellent mass transit and I don't really have a choice, I *have* to drive to get places, because mass transit in my area isn't anywhere near as good (due to funding going into fixing roads rather than buiding a decent light rail or subway.)
I like this one, because it's so easy to pick apart. Projects of mass transit are idled or killed because of the estimation of costs. Ok, let's break this down...
I have a small 4cyl pickup (you can find it under misc pictures on my website if you're curious) which gets about 25 mpg on a good day and I drive ~38 miles each way to work. The truck was used and cost ~$13,000, expected life ~5 years at the rate I'm putting on mileage. @ 72,000 miles I just put $1K into repairs, as it ages this will happen more frequently due to regular maintentence combined with parts life expectencies met.
Prior to this I had an '86 T-Bird which I piled 273K miles on, with other vehicles (including a very forgettable Fiero) I've typically been stuck with at least 30 miles each day of driving.
At 1.25 per gallon, ~22 mpg, and avg mileage, cost of gas, per year ~$450 (actually more than that now, about $2000 a year)
Cost of truck amortized over 5 years, $2,600 per year (straight depreciation)
Tires, oil, repairs, figure ~$1,000 per year
Time I have to sit and drive my commute, unable to do anything else, ~500 hours per year, figure my personal time is worth $10/hr, and that's $5000
Total cost per year: ~$9000 per year, for which I must earn ~$9000 just to pay the expense and taxes for the actual costs (not including personal time)
Even if I could get these costs down to 2,500 per year, I'd still spend enough to finance my own spur on light rail in a few years, excluding interest I've lost, etc. Watching to flow of traffic on the main commuter routes in my area, I'm hard pressed to believe we can't run a light rail most of the distance, yet, people still would fight the tax. If we had that system the truck would probably accumulate less than 3,000 miles per year (shopping, vacations, visit friends, etc.) the way my T-Bird did for the 3 years I could walk to work.
The irony is that the car, and more lately the SUV, have replaced the bicycle.
Early on transporation within urban areas was accomplished on a bicycle. Along came trolleys, then cabs, then the bus, then everyone had their own auto. When the US had a opportunity to build a rail system (realistic, as opposed to many of the fanciful and doomed ones built by the empire builders) it put the money into interstate highways (actual motivation: national defense, a means to move arms around fast and regular stretches required to be straight for a distance in the event they'd be used as runways) We're living the legacy.
Well, let's be fair and objective. Not everyone can ride a bike. A further purpose served would be giving greater mobility to handicapped (differently abled, for you PC nazis) folks.
In concept it sounds good, but I think this thing shares a lot with monorails and those have been largely a dud. The Simpsons episode aside, the People Mover in Detroit is an example of a good looking design and best intentions which in reality provides too restricted a system to serve more purpose than moving a small number of people, quickly, between a few locations. Better than some options for the handicapped, elderly or heavily burdened (too much shopping, etc.), but not entirely flexible.
Largest problem is the design of urban areas. They were built around quickest routes between points (often cattle or cart paths) and adapt badly to mass transit.
I delivered newspapers (started route with ~75, ended with ~150) for 3.5 years in Michigan on a bike, including in rain and all winter. The last year was on a 3spd with 1" tires. It's entirely impossible, it's just that not many people are willing to put for the effort. I knew a fellow who didn't own a car and commuted to college year-round on a Honda 500(something) motorcycle, ice, snow, drifting snow. Only a couple days the entire year he couldn't make it to class and those were usually days when school would close anyway.
Bicycles have come a long way from when I was hauling around ~100 lbs of paper on slick tires, and I see a number of people commute on them whatever the weather. Hurrah for them. I would, if I lived about 10 miles closer to work. 38 each way is just too much time. The effort is inconsequential.
Yes, bikes are a great solution and at 25mph for these cabs, you could, depending upon level of fitness and cargo, probably keep up with one on your bike. (Which reminds me of these electric bikes (like e-bike) which I see around.)
The bicycle is, IMHO, the ultimate commuter/transportation vehicle, because it can pretty much go anywhere and is highly efficient. Just a bit messy if it rains and requires clips to keep your nice trousers less than perforated by the chainrings. But you can fit a lot of bikes on a path the width this conveyance requires, and they can go at a variety of speeds, which I think poses some logistical challenges. Won't the streets require a lot of track and sidings?
I wonder if the track, like trolley track in San Francisco, would play havoc with cycling. You don't want your tire (or tyre if you're non-american) to drop into one of those tracks. Could hurt a lot and wreck your two-wheeler.
I know, I know, and moreso, my piddly little site still resides on.com Boulevard, because I think a.com tld is still nifty and looks better than.biz, or anything else.
Now... I might reconsider if you could simply just pick your own tld, fine examples could be:
There were some incredible episodes during the early years
Agree, too, that what little I did catch during the first season looked promising.
There were some incredible episodes during the early years
But you just know there's people somewhere who think it's really all been a masterfully presented documentary...!
It's cool to have some sort of a continuing theme that runs through the
life of a program, but The X Files took that to an extreme.
It's what happens when the writing starts to drift. Seems I've seen enough of these shows where the writers start to created little tensions, relationships, etc. which carry from show to show. The Flintstones was a classic (even if animated) example of a standalone episode (with perhaps the notable exception of Wilma getting pregnant and having Pebbles) where each show required no knowledge from previous episodes.
X-Files became a serial, and IMHO a Soap, and to keep things interesting, once the writers go down that path, they have to keep creating new plots, sub-plots, until the thing collapses under its own weight, i.e. each episode requires research to make sure it fits with all the ongoing plots-subplots. At some point, mercifully they just dump it and start a new show, unfettered by the restrictions of maintaining characters, plots, etc. Too bad Lone Gunman faded, it too looked like a good replacement. Maybe they'll give it another look.
I sorta know what you mean. I watched a few episodes over the seasons and caught fragments of it sometimes when it was after KotH and Simpsons, because I left the TV on. It seemed one of the least accessible shows, like a soap, which was somewhat unappealing due to the lack of background info I had. I did like what I caught of the first season, but the last time I watched I was, like, "whaaaat?", aliens, spooks, conspiracies, wheels within wheels, too much. I liked it when I thought it was going to be more like the old show Night Stalker, tuned out when it drifted.
Still, it's been a great run for the actors and will probably rake in some money on re-issue on DVD, unless, it's all true and aliens use space magic to destroy all the master tapes...
Having lived for 35 years in Midland, Michigan, home of Dow Checmical and Dow Corning, I'm well aquainted with the perceptions which can be drawn from a few cases and that objective analysis is often necessary to get to the truth. As far as I can see, PG&E suffered the loss in the first case primarily for their efforts to obstruct. Transparancy and providing complete access to information is their best bet. The public dislikes anyone who attempts to hide things.
The worst pollution happens on land, particulary from Ag run-off, and re-irrigation, which draws salts out of soil and makes downstream water unusable. Just look for dead plants or mutated babies and you'll know enough.
BTW, read in the Sunday paper that Erin Brockovich is on the trail of another suit against PG&E for Chromium 6 in ground water.
Interested in a history of water use and mis-use? Read Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner.
IIRC cable companies charged per set, though many people put in their own splitters (which the cable companies frowned on, to the point of field techs chopping the extra wires or worse.)
I presume there's a way for Philips to collect a fee for this or both them and the cable provider.
For the most part I don't watch much TV anymore, particularly since losing first ABC then WB (and winding up with 2*NBC) in my market, but this is probably in reality a minefield. I have doubts about whether it'll come to pass, like 50% of what I've seen at CES of the past.
At work i'm running Win98SE with 512MB and it runs out of memory frequently. I've always suspected that the OS preloads in all sorts of libraries if it sees there's lots of memory. While this may make some apps appear very fast, when you load them the first time, because they don't have to load all the DLLs, it's a pain, because we put the memory in for other apps, not to feed Window's appetite.
As mentioned in the post and in the articles referred to in the previous slashdot articles, Adams lost enthusiasm and abandoned it. My guess is the family needs the money, after all, he left a wife and child.
Best not to repeat the errors of the Hanford site, near Richland Washington. Most likely part of the project will entail digging up the Hanford mess and re-burying it in Nevada.
In the near future I'll be building a desktop system, maybe Lindows will help in that regard, but plan to dual boot if that's my only option. I currently do my Windows stuff on a Sony Vaio laptop with 300MHz Pentium. It's a dog with Win98, but I look forward to what I'll be able to do if I can move all my windows crap off it and install Linux. With the CPU speed it should do some things nicely, rather than the utter torture of doing anything with Win98. I think there's some sort of Moore's Law thing which applies to versions of windows, i.e. for each version multiply RAM needs by 2. 64 Meg has been fine for my SparcIPX and that's what the laptop has, though I could expand to 128 if I pay Sony's extortion price for proprietary laptop RAM (and battery since that died a couple months ago, I run off the adapter atm)
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Actually, I don't think it applied in that instance and fixing the law didn't happen until after the act.
<Cut to courtroom somewhere in the USA>
Defendant: "...and then I installed the application on all the computers."
Prosecutor: "You did this, fully aware that it was vulnerable and subject to attacks, which may paralyze the company email system, compromise data, or worse?"
Defendant: "Yes."
Gallery: *GASP*
Prosecutor: "And what was this application?"
Defendant: "MS Outlook."
The prosecutor, appearing struck, glances at a shadowy figure in the gallery who bears some resemblance to John Ashcroft in a trenchcoat and fedora, the figure quickly draws a finger across his throat and the prosecutor recomposes himself.
Prosecutor: "Your honor, the prosecution humbly requests all charges be dropped and that the defendant be released!"
And when all is said and done of the Enron fiasco, a few people will spend a few years in a country club prison, like Michael Milken, the junk bond king who left retirment accounts in ruins while he put hundreds of millions out of reach, in his wife's name.
Well, of course you wear a raincoat/suit for riding in the wet, but your bike still gets drenched. If you keep it in your cube, or like me, in your apartment (since I don't have a secure garage) a soaked and dripping bike becomes a liability.
Riding on ice was easy, stopping required seeking the nearest (and softest) snowbank and ploughing into it. I'd have made a good flahute, the way I rode in everything to deliver papers (6 mile route) through everything.
I've heard this question before. Even if there's ~500 million in all of europe and ~270 million in the US, much of the most dense US population centers lag far behind what's available for approximately equal population density in Europe. Looking back, the PWA (Public Works Administration) was probably the best possibility of the USA to build such a system, but the New Deal was already heavily criticized for programs which competed with private industry, particulary where private industry (as we are all told) can do the job better and more efficiently. (Eventually most the the big railroads would go bankrupt or consolidate, cutting way back on services.)
I just remember how, from the midwest to the east there's diddly for rail service and AmTrak continues to struggle (even after the increased revenues after the Sept. 11 attack.) Yes, european rail is heavily government subsidized, but the costs of building and maintaining roads in the USA is staggering and usually ignored in these sorts of analysis.
And it's not really the urban folk who realize the majority of the benefit, it's us suburban folk, the ones who shell out a small fortune every year for the privilege of risking our lives among the hungover/cellphoning/makeup-applying/or-other-wise -distracted drivers and sitting in a metal box, bouncing around and silently cursing things as we try to get to work or home. But, they'd benefit, too.
I travelled in Euroupe a few years back and came home feeling like the US was the 3rd world, the way they can get about with excellent mass transit and I don't really have a choice, I *have* to drive to get places, because mass transit in my area isn't anywhere near as good (due to funding going into fixing roads rather than buiding a decent light rail or subway.)
I have a small 4cyl pickup (you can find it under misc pictures on my website if you're curious) which gets about 25 mpg on a good day and I drive ~38 miles each way to work. The truck was used and cost ~$13,000, expected life ~5 years at the rate I'm putting on mileage. @ 72,000 miles I just put $1K into repairs, as it ages this will happen more frequently due to regular maintentence combined with parts life expectencies met.
Prior to this I had an '86 T-Bird which I piled 273K miles on, with other vehicles (including a very forgettable Fiero) I've typically been stuck with at least 30 miles each day of driving.
At 1.25 per gallon, ~22 mpg, and avg mileage, cost of gas, per year ~$450 (actually more than that now, about $2000 a year)
Cost of truck amortized over 5 years, $2,600 per year (straight depreciation)
Tires, oil, repairs, figure ~$1,000 per year
Time I have to sit and drive my commute, unable to do anything else, ~500 hours per year, figure my personal time is worth $10/hr, and that's $5000
Total cost per year: ~$9000 per year, for which I must earn ~$9000 just to pay the expense and taxes for the actual costs (not including personal time)
Even if I could get these costs down to 2,500 per year, I'd still spend enough to finance my own spur on light rail in a few years, excluding interest I've lost, etc. Watching to flow of traffic on the main commuter routes in my area, I'm hard pressed to believe we can't run a light rail most of the distance, yet, people still would fight the tax. If we had that system the truck would probably accumulate less than 3,000 miles per year (shopping, vacations, visit friends, etc.) the way my T-Bird did for the 3 years I could walk to work.
Early on transporation within urban areas was accomplished on a bicycle. Along came trolleys, then cabs, then the bus, then everyone had their own auto. When the US had a opportunity to build a rail system (realistic, as opposed to many of the fanciful and doomed ones built by the empire builders) it put the money into interstate highways (actual motivation: national defense, a means to move arms around fast and regular stretches required to be straight for a distance in the event they'd be used as runways) We're living the legacy.
In concept it sounds good, but I think this thing shares a lot with monorails and those have been largely a dud. The Simpsons episode aside, the People Mover in Detroit is an example of a good looking design and best intentions which in reality provides too restricted a system to serve more purpose than moving a small number of people, quickly, between a few locations. Better than some options for the handicapped, elderly or heavily burdened (too much shopping, etc.), but not entirely flexible.
Largest problem is the design of urban areas. They were built around quickest routes between points (often cattle or cart paths) and adapt badly to mass transit.
Bicycles have come a long way from when I was hauling around ~100 lbs of paper on slick tires, and I see a number of people commute on them whatever the weather. Hurrah for them. I would, if I lived about 10 miles closer to work. 38 each way is just too much time. The effort is inconsequential.
The bicycle is, IMHO, the ultimate commuter/transportation vehicle, because it can pretty much go anywhere and is highly efficient. Just a bit messy if it rains and requires clips to keep your nice trousers less than perforated by the chainrings. But you can fit a lot of bikes on a path the width this conveyance requires, and they can go at a variety of speeds, which I think poses some logistical challenges. Won't the streets require a lot of track and sidings?
I wonder if the track, like trolley track in San Francisco, would play havoc with cycling. You don't want your tire (or tyre if you're non-american) to drop into one of those tracks. Could hurt a lot and wreck your two-wheeler.
Now... I might reconsider if you could simply just pick your own tld, fine examples could be:
.foo
.foobar
.xyzzy
.y2
.houseatpoohcorner
Agree, too, that what little I did catch during the first season looked promising.
There were some incredible episodes during the early years
But you just know there's people somewhere who think it's really all been a masterfully presented documentary...!
It's cool to have some sort of a continuing theme that runs through the life of a program, but The X Files took that to an extreme.
It's what happens when the writing starts to drift. Seems I've seen enough of these shows where the writers start to created little tensions, relationships, etc. which carry from show to show. The Flintstones was a classic (even if animated) example of a standalone episode (with perhaps the notable exception of Wilma getting pregnant and having Pebbles) where each show required no knowledge from previous episodes.
X-Files became a serial, and IMHO a Soap, and to keep things interesting, once the writers go down that path, they have to keep creating new plots, sub-plots, until the thing collapses under its own weight, i.e. each episode requires research to make sure it fits with all the ongoing plots-subplots. At some point, mercifully they just dump it and start a new show, unfettered by the restrictions of maintaining characters, plots, etc. Too bad Lone Gunman faded, it too looked like a good replacement. Maybe they'll give it another look.
I sorta know what you mean. I watched a few episodes over the seasons and caught fragments of it sometimes when it was after KotH and Simpsons, because I left the TV on. It seemed one of the least accessible shows, like a soap, which was somewhat unappealing due to the lack of background info I had. I did like what I caught of the first season, but the last time I watched I was, like, "whaaaat?", aliens, spooks, conspiracies, wheels within wheels, too much. I liked it when I thought it was going to be more like the old show Night Stalker, tuned out when it drifted.
Still, it's been a great run for the actors and will probably rake in some money on re-issue on DVD, unless, it's all true and aliens use space magic to destroy all the master tapes...
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Having lived for 35 years in Midland, Michigan, home of Dow Checmical and Dow Corning, I'm well aquainted with the perceptions which can be drawn from a few cases and that objective analysis is often necessary to get to the truth. As far as I can see, PG&E suffered the loss in the first case primarily for their efforts to obstruct. Transparancy and providing complete access to information is their best bet. The public dislikes anyone who attempts to hide things.
BTW, read in the Sunday paper that Erin Brockovich is on the trail of another suit against PG&E for Chromium 6 in ground water.
Interested in a history of water use and mis-use? Read Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner.
I presume there's a way for Philips to collect a fee for this or both them and the cable provider.
For the most part I don't watch much TV anymore, particularly since losing first ABC then WB (and winding up with 2*NBC) in my market, but this is probably in reality a minefield. I have doubts about whether it'll come to pass, like 50% of what I've seen at CES of the past.
...It didn't require you to sign up for MS Passport to save your high scores.
Sony is part of the Philips-Sony CD alliance.
It looked like good news on the surface, but I've got mixed feelings about that one...
At work i'm running Win98SE with 512MB and it runs out of memory frequently. I've always suspected that the OS preloads in all sorts of libraries if it sees there's lots of memory. While this may make some apps appear very fast, when you load them the first time, because they don't have to load all the DLLs, it's a pain, because we put the memory in for other apps, not to feed Window's appetite.
As mentioned in the post and in the articles referred to in the previous slashdot articles, Adams lost enthusiasm and abandoned it. My guess is the family needs the money, after all, he left a wife and child.
Desert does not mean, nor is, wasteland.
In the near future I'll be building a desktop system, maybe Lindows will help in that regard, but plan to dual boot if that's my only option. I currently do my Windows stuff on a Sony Vaio laptop with 300MHz Pentium. It's a dog with Win98, but I look forward to what I'll be able to do if I can move all my windows crap off it and install Linux. With the CPU speed it should do some things nicely, rather than the utter torture of doing anything with Win98. I think there's some sort of Moore's Law thing which applies to versions of windows, i.e. for each version multiply RAM needs by 2. 64 Meg has been fine for my SparcIPX and that's what the laptop has, though I could expand to 128 if I pay Sony's extortion price for proprietary laptop RAM (and battery since that died a couple months ago, I run off the adapter atm)