I'm sure they can charge him with something to the effect of unauthorized access to a government computer system.
You're sure? How can they charge him with unauthorized access when his only action was to not give them passwords? The passwords were set when he was still employed, and had the authority to do so.
I hope everyone just refuses to do business with Rambus and let it go bankrupt.
In a way, the problem is self-solving in that regard. Rambus is no longer a member of JEDEC, and you can bet that anyone associated with JEDEC (which includes the memory manufacturers) is probably going to consider Rambus a perpetual "second choice" for RAM tech. In the end, they need to sell their product to survive beyond the patent expiration of the stuff they slipped into SDRAM on the sly, and making a name for yourself as a "bad faith" company is a bad way to do that.
It's not a very good razor though, and it cuts inaccurately on a consistent basis. Seriously, everybody (I mean EVERYBODY) over the age of, say, 6, has pretended that something they did on purpose is an "accident".
You're misapplying the razor. It has nothing to do with accidents. It starts from the premise of "Subject A knowingly and consciously took action X, which had a negative effect upon me". It takes this premise as a given, an established fact. Hanlon's Razor is an admonishment against paranoia. While it may appear that Subject A took the action with the intent of harming you, the razor points out that if Subject A might have taken the action out of ignorance of the consequences, then that is actually the more likely explanation. Hanlon's Razor assumes some initial intent combined with a failure to appreciate the outcome.
I say we just let the news industry go back to it's more honest past...
When was that? It must've been before 1770, because it only takes a moment to tell which side any of the period illustrations of the Boston Massacre were on. The engraving by Paul Revere is the only one you ever see anymore, but there were others published in loyalist papers that showed a handful of frightened, panicked british soldiers firing in helpless self defense as they are set upon by a huge mob of angry, rioting colonists.
The media has never been honest. At best, it may have had a brief period where it pretended to be honest in a fairly convincing way.
who do you go to for your political coverage? Your sports coverage? How about your technical coverage? All of those have "amateur" coverage, yet here *you* are, on a site managed by professionals.
Snigger. Professionals? Professional what? They're paid to click some sort of "send to front page" button, but I'd hardly call that a "profession". Their job title claims "editor", but I've seen better editing from a high school paper. 90% of what you see on slashdot could be replicated by selectively mirroring highly rated posts at digg and reddit, and making up titles for them that may or may not accurately reflect the content. For best results, wait 2 days before mirroring, so as to accurately reflect the normal slashdot lag...
Now if you'd said "it costs money for bandwidth and servers", I'd have been right there with you.
To be fair, the quality of CmdrTaco's submissions has been steady since the very beginning... but even if he's the template against which the others ought to be measured based on his status as site creator, the others still come up short.
do you really think the locals are going to report on human rights abuses against women in Iran?
They already are. Do you think the women of Iran are simply going to knuckle under, or that Nazila Fathi is just going to go be a waitress somewhere just because the NY Times disappeared?
And why would we need Woodward and Bernstein, when we could simply look at Nixon's or Deep Throat's blog?
It's not an all or nothing proposition. The media isn't staffed wholly by Woodwards and Bernsteins. The vast majority of them are feeble drones who copy-paste the Reuters feed. There'll still be a niche for true investigative journalism, it just won't be funded by a behemoth organization which makes its money off full page ads for pantyhose and discount tires. People crave reasonably accurate news. Someone will find a way to make a buck giving it to them.
Guys used to have mysterious allotments coming out of their LES' now and then, with little recourse to find out other than some pay clerk telling you to do a "pay inquiry". Over-payments, no-pay-due's, all kinds of random stuff that was just inevitable in a paper-and-red-tape bureaucracy.
Ah yes, I remember the "good old days" of my first enlistment (87-93) how we used to joke about the "Lies and Exaggerations Statement". I never had any expenses beyond beer and cigarettes, so the "surprises" never hurt me, but I watched a lot of married guys with kids go through hell. It was so regularly F'd up that our company commander at Ft Hood had to borrow three bucks from me for lunch off base because he'd loaned all his spare money to a guy whose LES had come up ZERO with a wife and screaming baby (or was it a screaming wife and baby?) to contend with. I suppose DFAS fixed a lot of it, but I never paid much attention on my second active duty period (2001-2003)... I just came home and found a bunch of unspent money in my account.
I suggest you read the various smarmy bullshit TPB frontmen have issued over the years before accusing the prosecutors of being immature.
No one claimed TPB guys were more or less immature than the prosecutors. It was simply noted that the prosecutors were behaving like 5 year olds. Do you have something that contradicts that observation, or only irrelevancies like "they did it first"?
I must say, it was entertaining being present at one of the Rogers Commission hearings and watching Feynman lay into the Thiokol guys about the O-rings.
My favorite part of Feynman's report was how he pointed out that they claimed that the O-rings had "a safety factor of 3" because they were regularly only 1/3 eroded (!) by blow-by gas leakage, when any leakage of combustion gases was already an anomalous event according to the design. Perfect illustration of the exact kind of boneheaded idiocy that has gone into the effort to keep the boondoggle shuttle flying.
after all, they did somehow manage to rule the growing pot and other things for personal consumption somehow could be construed as interstate commerce
Actually, they didn't "rule" anything on that subject. The DEA is simply completely ignoring the issue of lack of constitutional authority and conducting the raids anyway.
Except that I am not receiving any highway funds, so they cannot use it as extortion to make me retain logs. They might be able to force state legislatures to pass such laws, but highway funds give them no leverage over individuals.
Have a "knock first" mode: callers hear "I'm busy or asleep - press one to ring me anyway if it's an emergency, otherwise leave a message."
That's called an Auto Attendant system, and that's not something that could reasonably be done at the phone. Rather, it would necessarily be a function your carrier's voicemail system. How would your phone push the call "back" to the voicemail system if they didn't press 1? What kind of battery life would you get from a phone with a built in voicemail and auto attendant?
Have built-in, onscreen, location-aware, always-cached phone book search.
Sure, because an accurate reverse lookup by address system that can create a distance-sorted list based on arbitrary location inputs at real-time speeds is a trivial undertaking.
Automatically sync your contacts to your computer via Wi-Fi when you walk in range of your home network.
They can already do that (all Windows Mobile phones can) but since keeping the wi-fi system up all the time sucks the battery down fast, hardly anyone does it that way. Generally, people just use bluetooth, which is already turned on for their headset. Phones that can't, generally can't synchronize at all except through hacks like BitPIM, but that has more to do with assholes like Verizon wanting to put a coin box on every communication event the phone generates than the capability not being there.
SOME phones have SOME of these features, but stuff like this should be basic to any phone that's supposed to be "smart." Let it be a great phone before you make it a camera and a computer and a bagel slicer.
The reason they only have some of these features is that some of them are quite non-trivial to implement. Honestly, if you have no idea how these systems would necessarily have to work, you're simply in no position to judge what qualifies as a "basic" type function for a low power device with a sub-200mhz processor. Your comments are a classic example of pointy-haired boss
logic , the kind that goes "if I don't know anything about the subject, it must be easy".
...of pointing people to the myriad of mobile phones out there that -are- nothing but a phone because the response, invariably, is:
- but I do still want it to carry WiFi?
- but it doesn't have a color screen?
- can I can't run custom apps on it?
- does it have a bluetooth?
and so forth and so on.
Damn straight! I just went through this with my wife. She wanted a phone with a keyboard because everyone she works with uses text messaging while organizing events, so she got a Pantech Slate. She got the phone and got mad because it didn't do voice command dialing! Well yeah, it's a toy phone for teenagers. She then continued to gripe about not being able to find a phone with a keyboard and voice command that didn't have "all that crap I don't need". I was finally able to get it into her head that if she wanted sophisticated digital signal processing based voice command capability, she was going to have to buy a non-toy phone. Eventually I talked her into an HTC Excalibur, but not until after a lot of complaints. Of course now that she has it, she thinks it's great...
the title of a post is more like the title of a book. It should summarize the content, but the body of the work should stand on its own. Putting the first line of your post in the title is stupid.
Could I use baling wire to make a new bail for my bailing bucket? If so, would my wire bail made from baling wire become bailing wire?
Concerned and puzzled.
No, because the noun "bail" in the sense you use it means "handle in the shape of an arc". There is no verb form in reference to that noun, therefore there can be no "bailing wire". It's still just "a baling wire bail on your bailing bucket".
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I'm sure they can charge him with something to the effect of unauthorized access to a government computer system.
You're sure? How can they charge him with unauthorized access when his only action was to not give them passwords? The passwords were set when he was still employed, and had the authority to do so.
I hope everyone just refuses to do business with Rambus and let it go bankrupt.
In a way, the problem is self-solving in that regard. Rambus is no longer a member of JEDEC, and you can bet that anyone associated with JEDEC (which includes the memory manufacturers) is probably going to consider Rambus a perpetual "second choice" for RAM tech. In the end, they need to sell their product to survive beyond the patent expiration of the stuff they slipped into SDRAM on the sly, and making a name for yourself as a "bad faith" company is a bad way to do that.
It's not a very good razor though, and it cuts inaccurately on a consistent basis. Seriously, everybody (I mean EVERYBODY) over the age of, say, 6, has pretended that something they did on purpose is an "accident".
You're misapplying the razor. It has nothing to do with accidents. It starts from the premise of "Subject A knowingly and consciously took action X, which had a negative effect upon me". It takes this premise as a given, an established fact. Hanlon's Razor is an admonishment against paranoia. While it may appear that Subject A took the action with the intent of harming you, the razor points out that if Subject A might have taken the action out of ignorance of the consequences, then that is actually the more likely explanation. Hanlon's Razor assumes some initial intent combined with a failure to appreciate the outcome.
Lexus-Nexus
LexisNexis. "Lexus" is a fucking Toyota.
I say we just let the news industry go back to it's more honest past...
When was that? It must've been before 1770, because it only takes a moment to tell which side any of the period illustrations of the Boston Massacre were on. The engraving by Paul Revere is the only one you ever see anymore, but there were others published in loyalist papers that showed a handful of frightened, panicked british soldiers firing in helpless self defense as they are set upon by a huge mob of angry, rioting colonists. The media has never been honest. At best, it may have had a brief period where it pretended to be honest in a fairly convincing way.
who do you go to for your political coverage? Your sports coverage? How about your technical coverage? All of those have "amateur" coverage, yet here *you* are, on a site managed by professionals.
Snigger. Professionals? Professional what? They're paid to click some sort of "send to front page" button, but I'd hardly call that a "profession". Their job title claims "editor", but I've seen better editing from a high school paper. 90% of what you see on slashdot could be replicated by selectively mirroring highly rated posts at digg and reddit, and making up titles for them that may or may not accurately reflect the content. For best results, wait 2 days before mirroring, so as to accurately reflect the normal slashdot lag...
Now if you'd said "it costs money for bandwidth and servers", I'd have been right there with you.
To be fair, the quality of CmdrTaco's submissions has been steady since the very beginning... but even if he's the template against which the others ought to be measured based on his status as site creator, the others still come up short.
bloggers != reporters out there reporting
Brilliant unsupported assertion. Now explain why you think it's true.
Snort. Very clever. Now let me know how you gauge the Signal to Noise Ratio of what comes out of Dan Rather et al.
do you really think the locals are going to report on human rights abuses against women in Iran?
They already are. Do you think the women of Iran are simply going to knuckle under, or that Nazila Fathi is just going to go be a waitress somewhere just because the NY Times disappeared?
And why would we need Woodward and Bernstein, when we could simply look at Nixon's or Deep Throat's blog?
It's not an all or nothing proposition. The media isn't staffed wholly by Woodwards and Bernsteins. The vast majority of them are feeble drones who copy-paste the Reuters feed. There'll still be a niche for true investigative journalism, it just won't be funded by a behemoth organization which makes its money off full page ads for pantyhose and discount tires. People crave reasonably accurate news. Someone will find a way to make a buck giving it to them.
yes.
Oh man, no joke.
Guys used to have mysterious allotments coming out of their LES' now and then, with little recourse to find out other than some pay clerk telling you to do a "pay inquiry". Over-payments, no-pay-due's, all kinds of random stuff that was just inevitable in a paper-and-red-tape bureaucracy.
Ah yes, I remember the "good old days" of my first enlistment (87-93) how we used to joke about the "Lies and Exaggerations Statement". I never had any expenses beyond beer and cigarettes, so the "surprises" never hurt me, but I watched a lot of married guys with kids go through hell. It was so regularly F'd up that our company commander at Ft Hood had to borrow three bucks from me for lunch off base because he'd loaned all his spare money to a guy whose LES had come up ZERO with a wife and screaming baby (or was it a screaming wife and baby?) to contend with. I suppose DFAS fixed a lot of it, but I never paid much attention on my second active duty period (2001-2003)... I just came home and found a bunch of unspent money in my account.
"the prosecution acts like a five year old"
I suggest you read the various smarmy bullshit TPB frontmen have issued over the years before accusing the prosecutors of being immature.
No one claimed TPB guys were more or less immature than the prosecutors. It was simply noted that the prosecutors were behaving like 5 year olds. Do you have something that contradicts that observation, or only irrelevancies like "they did it first"?
Mr. X is not on trial.
holy fucking shit, when did that happen? Turn your back for one second....
Since it's not illegal to go drinking in Canada, what does it matter?
I must say, it was entertaining being present at one of the Rogers Commission hearings and watching Feynman lay into the Thiokol guys about the O-rings.
My favorite part of Feynman's report was how he pointed out that they claimed that the O-rings had "a safety factor of 3" because they were regularly only 1/3 eroded (!) by blow-by gas leakage, when any leakage of combustion gases was already an anomalous event according to the design. Perfect illustration of the exact kind of boneheaded idiocy that has gone into the effort to keep the boondoggle shuttle flying.
after all, they did somehow manage to rule the growing pot and other things for personal consumption somehow could be construed as interstate commerce
Actually, they didn't "rule" anything on that subject. The DEA is simply completely ignoring the issue of lack of constitutional authority and conducting the raids anyway.
Except that I am not receiving any highway funds, so they cannot use it as extortion to make me retain logs. They might be able to force state legislatures to pass such laws, but highway funds give them no leverage over individuals.
Not if you're a "smart" mod and use Underrated/Overrated--- they aren't subject to metamoderation....
Have a "knock first" mode: callers hear "I'm busy or asleep - press one to ring me anyway if it's an emergency, otherwise leave a message."
That's called an Auto Attendant system, and that's not something that could reasonably be done at the phone. Rather, it would necessarily be a function your carrier's voicemail system. How would your phone push the call "back" to the voicemail system if they didn't press 1? What kind of battery life would you get from a phone with a built in voicemail and auto attendant?
Have built-in, onscreen, location-aware, always-cached phone book search.
Sure, because an accurate reverse lookup by address system that can create a distance-sorted list based on arbitrary location inputs at real-time speeds is a trivial undertaking.
Automatically sync your contacts to your computer via Wi-Fi when you walk in range of your home network.
They can already do that (all Windows Mobile phones can) but since keeping the wi-fi system up all the time sucks the battery down fast, hardly anyone does it that way. Generally, people just use bluetooth, which is already turned on for their headset. Phones that can't, generally can't synchronize at all except through hacks like BitPIM, but that has more to do with assholes like Verizon wanting to put a coin box on every communication event the phone generates than the capability not being there.
SOME phones have SOME of these features, but stuff like this should be basic to any phone that's supposed to be "smart." Let it be a great phone before you make it a camera and a computer and a bagel slicer.
The reason they only have some of these features is that some of them are quite non-trivial to implement. Honestly, if you have no idea how these systems would necessarily have to work, you're simply in no position to judge what qualifies as a "basic" type function for a low power device with a sub-200mhz processor. Your comments are a classic example of pointy-haired boss logic , the kind that goes "if I don't know anything about the subject, it must be easy".
...of pointing people to the myriad of mobile phones out there that -are- nothing but a phone because the response, invariably, is: - but I do still want it to carry WiFi? - but it doesn't have a color screen? - can I can't run custom apps on it? - does it have a bluetooth? and so forth and so on.
Damn straight! I just went through this with my wife. She wanted a phone with a keyboard because everyone she works with uses text messaging while organizing events, so she got a Pantech Slate. She got the phone and got mad because it didn't do voice command dialing! Well yeah, it's a toy phone for teenagers. She then continued to gripe about not being able to find a phone with a keyboard and voice command that didn't have "all that crap I don't need". I was finally able to get it into her head that if she wanted sophisticated digital signal processing based voice command capability, she was going to have to buy a non-toy phone. Eventually I talked her into an HTC Excalibur, but not until after a lot of complaints. Of course now that she has it, she thinks it's great...
the title of a post is more like the title of a book. It should summarize the content, but the body of the work should stand on its own. Putting the first line of your post in the title is stupid.
... but copying files, even copy-written ones ...
Please tell me you wrote that because you were drinking, and not because you think the right in "copyright" has something to do with writing.
Could I use baling wire to make a new bail for my bailing bucket? If so, would my wire bail made from baling wire become bailing wire?
Concerned and puzzled.
No, because the noun "bail" in the sense you use it means "handle in the shape of an arc". There is no verb form in reference to that noun, therefore there can be no "bailing wire". It's still just "a baling wire bail on your bailing bucket".