You do know that much of the fundamental literature of the radical feminist movement states that you're essentially a lesser being than a female who secretly wishes to become a woman?
Seriously no joke read the stuff yourself. Maybe your testes do feel funny to you.
Why do so many feminists talk like this? I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, the bad logic, name calling, and anger. I know some feminists who don't talk like this, but they also have atypical feminist views (If the noisy bunch is the typical bunch anyhow).
Actually it's funny you assume that the man jobs that nobody wants are low paying servant jobs. Many of the most dangerous and physically demanding jobs pay between 60 - 140k with very little education or training required, only a willingness to toil and face danger, if you're intelligent at all you're a big fish in a small pond and quickly become the boss near the top of the payrange. (Mining, ship work, construction, hazardous waste) I knew a few women in those fields and they typically were the type of women who demanded and got respect from men wherever they went. Just like most of the other successful women I met in boys club places, CS, economics (none of them acted like you just in case you think you exemplify a strong woman with your angry talk. The economics professor sometimes had her balls/ovaries joked about and she would grin and her eyes would narrow at you at you and you'd be worried, then she'd notice your worry and grin some more and dimples would form on her cheeks and you could see the shine on her teeth. Yikes! (See how much power she commands without saying a word or losing her temper. Men respect this stuff, not tantrums, tantrums are for little kids) She remarked on sexism a few times but it was something along the lines of "Those guys knew I'd eat them for breakfast"
So why isn't there a push to get more women into hazardous waste or cargo handling? It is a valid question. Good pay, good career options, all you have to do is be willing to die early, lose a finger, or just work like a dog... and only for a few years until you're the boss.
None of the women in my CS class ever gave any indication that we made them feel uncomfortable, Jeez we would have probably tore any man limb from limb who chased away our precious little female presence from the classroom. Also one of our most prominent professors was a woman, charming, cute, but she had that holds her own in the boys club thing going on too. Nobody discriminated against her, they could have but it didn't set her back. She told us that she went to every single job interview in sweatpants because that's the sort of place she wanted to work (Bell labs!) now clearly as an interviewer if you don't want a woman working there not hiring the chick in sweatpants is an easy choice to justify.
It only takes about 1/2 second to make a geek abandon his prejudice that you must not understand what we're talking about. To be fair we assume nobody knows what we're talking about. I remember when I saw a girl writing a system call. I knew she was smart, then I have to admit I was next considering when would be a good time to ask her out. Then I met her boyfriend and I stopped acting funny.
I think I asked her about girls in CS, I don't remember exactly how it went but it was basically "Yeah I don't meet many other smart girls either, I don't know why I'm the exception and yes everyone is pretty nice to me and fairly uncreepy" . I admit she'll probably have to get used to having dudes want to ask her out a lot, she's marriage material. I can see where it might get old but I'm sure ugly dumb girls surrounded by other ugly dumb girls all day would trade positions with her in a second.
I remember getting in trouble in algebra for not using the substitution method and not documenting every single step. I thought I was pretty bad at math until I got a CS degree. Now I know I'm bad at math but not for any reasons that my teachers said.
No they want hackers to break into computers, they also want hackers to help them secure their own systems because they're awful at it. This is hardly news either you have no idea what you're talking about.
It's not surprising but the business did have a sincere desire to deliver a quality experience it's customers and getting their billing information leaked isn't in line with those principals. I feel like I should be able to explain this and get taken seriously, I'm supposed to be providing informed opinions to the table and not just be another monkey who does what he's told. Not being able to read email has minimal impact of the business's profits provided it comes back up in an hour or two as long as we're still able to receive email. When the work management system goes down all work not already placed in the hands of a worker stops, the trucks stop, the warehouse stops, order can't be entered, sales can't even make a definitive price quote. They don't like it but typically it doesn't send them pounding on our doors demanding reports and a timeline of action like loss of exchange does.
Our customer list would provide valuable business leads to our competition, our pricefile would tell them what price they need to quote in order to undercut us. If we've delivered a poor customer experience by getting their credit cards stolen, we're not the cheapest, and someone else is calling them up with an alternative I'd say there is a high long lasting cost associated with loss of confidentiality.
We use the term MBA to refer to all the PHB types who have given us headaches over the years but we deserve to be frustrated. Hard work and good performance often goes barely noticed, when you burn out, that's noticed and most IT workers that "self motivate" have no problem self motivating to burnout, I'll do anything you ask without complaint but don't assume that meant it was easy. Also I think we resent getting pushed around by business types who make more than we do and didn't have to work as hard to do it.
The notion of us competing with our cheaper alternatives is also a source of frustration. Management usually doesn't know they're doing it wrong, they don't listen to IT, the sky doesn't fall right away and they assume that everything went ok. Make a mental note that second guessing the geeks in IT renders good results.
I like the term technological debt, you get it working cheap today and then pay for it later. Want a project done quick? It already works? Good roll it out we have to move on! The long term cost of dealing with poor documentation or imperfect implementation comes back when your code has you vendor locked into some insanely expensive piece of outdated technology because your code isn't documented well enough to port (Most of today's midrange mainframe users paying 10x to IBM what they would pay for normal enterprise quality hardware). Also pile enough of these projects on each other and you pretty much spend all your time fixing this stuff, eventually everything will slow down. This is normal most material on the software development lifecycle states you'll spend most of your time fixing code you've already written. Same goes for programmers, if you're a slouch just make everything you write unreadable to anyone else, don't document, save time and look good. Then in a few years start pushing your weight around and slow down, boss couldn't fire you if he wanted to. Security issues? Do it quick and wrong to start with, get hacked later (The current problem with Chinese hackers in american systems does well to make my point here, also lulzsec who turned out to be relatively unskilled) I've worked at some large businesses with super trivial security problems, I don't want to go into too much detail but told my boss, the CEO, and the CIO how our customer database and credit card information and pricing could get stolen with attacks I could expect a bright high schooler to be capable of, I was just the paranoid guy. It wasn't like we hadn't been hacked ever either. All of this could have been fixed with a go ahead from my boss (who had a problem with ideas that weren't his, normally it just meant helping him have an "idea" but if the details were beyond his technical scope, forget it) and a week of uninterrupted time to fix it all.
Loss of confidentiality was completely acceptable, loss of integrity was almost completely acceptable, loss of availability was totally unacceptable particularly for exchange, web browsing, and the database. In that order, pretty much the same order problems would become apparent to upper management, the last only being understood because obviously losing all our records would be undeniably fatal to our enterprise. Though even then when we started running out of space and sent the bill through the company the CEO himself showed up at the door upset we were spending thousands for a few terrabytes of storage, a week to ship, and two days to get it installed when he could get 1tb for like $100 at the store and install it in seconds. I can understand the question, interesting answer actually, but for him to actually believe that we would be capable of being so blatantly lazy and wasteful kind of hurt, he really expected he was about to uncover a massive pile of waste and abuse (We had produced plenty of metrics indicating we operated at a fraction of the cost with a fraction of the people compared to other enterprises of our size or technological dependence, we could have even been much cheaper if it weren't for a handful of poor dec
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You sound like the kind of guy who reads a bunch of philosophy because you want to be right more often yet YOU don't ever change your thinking along the way.
I can also count my own interactions with the police which are overwhelmingly negative, illegal searches, bully tactics, etc. I am wearing a blazer and have a military regulation crew cut. I as unsuspicious as they come. Other than the fact because they exist they may possibly prevent some crimes from ever happening to me, they have never once helped me in any other way, especially when I needed them. Also I know many cops and they generally tell me that there are no shortage of fuckbags where they work. My LAWYER used to be a prosecutor and has told me that she used to do ride-alongs and noted massive differences between what she observed and what was on the police report. Even to the point where she couldn't tell you which police report went with which incident. Not to mention all the shit I hear from friends about the time the police broke the law with them.
The best two interactions I've had with the police in the past 10 years were once when a guy gave me a stern lecture and let me off with a minor ticket for speeding (I don't speed anymore as a result), and once when I got a headlight out and the cop was tired looking and obviously just wanted to give me my ticket and head out.
Please tell me about whistleblower cops cause I want to hear. Go ahead and google it and you'll clearly see that the few cops who do blow the whistle are met with overwhelming backlash by their peers. Blow the whistle and you pretty much have to sue whatever government entity you work for (because you might be unemployable afterward) and move out of state. This isn't isolated.
So I at least have some anecdotes and have done a google. YOU on the other hand have proven NOTHING and tried to use a bunch of assburger philosophy to make yourself right (the irony).
I should also mention that after the military (We treated smugglers better than cops have treated me, probably because someone powerful cares if we treat someone like shit and create an international incident) I entertained the idea of being a cop but when I told one of my friends on the force about it he laughed and told me good fucking luck and resigned himself a few weeks later.
Why is it I object to everything you say?
When Harold Nelthrope submitted a report to internal affairs indicating all was not right with detroits EPU he was told "That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard" and then the incident proceeded to ruin his life and he's since had to move out of state and work at a new department.
He eventually did make enough noise for someone to look into it, the problems with the EPU went all the way to the mayor who was booted out. But you're right cops are busting each other left and right and it's our unnamed biases that keep us blind to this fact.
No the problem with papers please was that they could pull you over for any reason and then ask to see paperwork describing the purpose of your trip. That sucks, and it was unimaginable to americans once upon a time, now the police just regularly break the rules here by pulling over first and deciding why 2nd, if you tell them where you're going is none of their business when they ask, you're sure to be subject to unlawful search many places in the country, if the search turns up nothing you're getting framed up anyhow. traveling papers we don't bother with the papers part. I say law enforcement gets no new help until they demonstrate they're mature enough for the power they already have and that's the day that cops step forward and report those who "make mistakes" as a matter of course doing their job daily. M
I am told by a friend in moscow that they can detain you without reason for 8 days. i believe ukraine just got rid of their traveling papers within the past 10 years... so no your version of why it was bad is totally wrong, the history is too fresh for you to revise it yet sorry. It's human nature to want things that make your job easier but since we don't have some sort of high tech space soviets to use as an example of who we're not supposed to be we'll give LE all the power they want with new tools.
Four legs good two legs better right?
The number of people who think AES can magically be cracked because the NSA is involved is staggering, if anyone can crack it it's probably the NSA, but they probably can't crack it. Slashdot your opsec is horrid, you encrypt secrets because they're secrets not because if the enemy has them you're dead anyhow, if anything it means that your secrets are more secure since they can't be beaten out of you.
Does this sound like a policy we'd use with our own military secrets?
More likely he's not very tech savvy and didn't understand why it would help or like many of the posters here he seemed to believe that the NSA has magical powers so crypto was futile. The man is prone to faulty thinking demonstrated by his belief that the middle east would finally be free from our meddling if he could just manage to kill another 5000 people. The fact that many of you are developers and administrators and don't seem to know the first thing about opsec or crypto is genuinely troubling, no wonder.cn walks through our infrastructure like they own it.
The way he presents his work limits the audience that is capable of applying it and the audience that is capable of critiquing it. If you want to see where I'm going with this visit the academic writings of a fringe humanities subject like radical feminism or transgender studies, you'll plainly see immature academics using academic traditions to protect themselves from criticism. (specialized language, citation, appeals to authority)
A. You don't know what you're talking about because if you did you'd know what I'm talking about
B. I have a memorized cherry picked group of favorite authors and papers that you haven't read to counter any argument that your lay observations of the world conflict with my studied opinion.
C. I've spent 10 years studying this it's almost insulting that you challenge me with a non-academic opinion.
It's easy to spot in young soft subjects with small populations of experts, angry political motives, incestuous publish-cite-publish cycles that have gotten way out of control, but I'm sure we do it as well.
Mathematicians and in general many scientists speak pure jibberish everyone on slashdot should know this well especially if they went through a traditional CS program. It's not that they mean to it's just that new highly domain specific words get introduced into their vocabulary in order to succinctly and accurately convey ideas from their particular knowledge domain, They end up using them when it's not necessary. Also I have a sneaking suspicion that humans have a tendency to generate their own language to help define their group membership and feel "special", it's evident in cults, gangs, management, and military. I'm pretty sure scientists are not immune to this either.
I often see scientific papers that could be rewritten in plain business english without loss of precision or appreciable change in size, it's a huge problem.
Yeah if you find something that was lost and you can return it but don't... It's stealing. Plus if you have my phone it's 1) locked 2) GPS tracked, and 3) going to be reported stolen if for whatever reason I can't get it back (Like I come to your house and you act confused)
The police are regularly notified when stolen phones are brought in to get activated, I've seen it happen before.
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Time to change my business model.
You do know that much of the fundamental literature of the radical feminist movement states that you're essentially a lesser being than a female who secretly wishes to become a woman?
Seriously no joke read the stuff yourself. Maybe your testes do feel funny to you.
Why do so many feminists talk like this? I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, the bad logic, name calling, and anger. I know some feminists who don't talk like this, but they also have atypical feminist views (If the noisy bunch is the typical bunch anyhow).
Actually it's funny you assume that the man jobs that nobody wants are low paying servant jobs. Many of the most dangerous and physically demanding jobs pay between 60 - 140k with very little education or training required, only a willingness to toil and face danger, if you're intelligent at all you're a big fish in a small pond and quickly become the boss near the top of the payrange. (Mining, ship work, construction, hazardous waste) I knew a few women in those fields and they typically were the type of women who demanded and got respect from men wherever they went. Just like most of the other successful women I met in boys club places, CS, economics (none of them acted like you just in case you think you exemplify a strong woman with your angry talk.
The economics professor sometimes had her balls/ovaries joked about and she would grin and her eyes would narrow at you at you and you'd be worried, then she'd notice your worry and grin some more and dimples would form on her cheeks and you could see the shine on her teeth. Yikes! (See how much power she commands without saying a word or losing her temper. Men respect this stuff, not tantrums, tantrums are for little kids) She remarked on sexism a few times but it was something along the lines of "Those guys knew I'd eat them for breakfast"
So why isn't there a push to get more women into hazardous waste or cargo handling? It is a valid question. Good pay, good career options, all you have to do is be willing to die early, lose a finger, or just work like a dog... and only for a few years until you're the boss.
None of the women in my CS class ever gave any indication that we made them feel uncomfortable, Jeez we would have probably tore any man limb from limb who chased away our precious little female presence from the classroom. Also one of our most prominent professors was a woman, charming, cute, but she had that holds her own in the boys club thing going on too. Nobody discriminated against her, they could have but it didn't set her back. She told us that she went to every single job interview in sweatpants because that's the sort of place she wanted to work (Bell labs!) now clearly as an interviewer if you don't want a woman working there not hiring the chick in sweatpants is an easy choice to justify.
Lol how we'd love for the free market to decide what we got paid, there are 2 to 3 jobs for every graduate.
It only takes about 1/2 second to make a geek abandon his prejudice that you must not understand what we're talking about. To be fair we assume nobody knows what we're talking about. I remember when I saw a girl writing a system call. I knew she was smart, then I have to admit I was next considering when would be a good time to ask her out. Then I met her boyfriend and I stopped acting funny.
I think I asked her about girls in CS, I don't remember exactly how it went but it was basically "Yeah I don't meet many other smart girls either, I don't know why I'm the exception and yes everyone is pretty nice to me and fairly uncreepy" . I admit she'll probably have to get used to having dudes want to ask her out a lot, she's marriage material. I can see where it might get old but I'm sure ugly dumb girls surrounded by other ugly dumb girls all day would trade positions with her in a second.
I remember getting in trouble in algebra for not using the substitution method and not documenting every single step. I thought I was pretty bad at math until I got a CS degree. Now I know I'm bad at math but not for any reasons that my teachers said.
No they want hackers to break into computers, they also want hackers to help them secure their own systems because they're awful at it. This is hardly news either you have no idea what you're talking about.
It's not surprising but the business did have a sincere desire to deliver a quality experience it's customers and getting their billing information leaked isn't in line with those principals. I feel like I should be able to explain this and get taken seriously, I'm supposed to be providing informed opinions to the table and not just be another monkey who does what he's told. Not being able to read email has minimal impact of the business's profits provided it comes back up in an hour or two as long as we're still able to receive email.
When the work management system goes down all work not already placed in the hands of a worker stops, the trucks stop, the warehouse stops, order can't be entered, sales can't even make a definitive price quote. They don't like it but typically it doesn't send them pounding on our doors demanding reports and a timeline of action like loss of exchange does.
Our customer list would provide valuable business leads to our competition, our pricefile would tell them what price they need to quote in order to undercut us. If we've delivered a poor customer experience by getting their credit cards stolen, we're not the cheapest, and someone else is calling them up with an alternative I'd say there is a high long lasting cost associated with loss of confidentiality.
We use the term MBA to refer to all the PHB types who have given us headaches over the years but we deserve to be frustrated. Hard work and good performance often goes barely noticed, when you burn out, that's noticed and most IT workers that "self motivate" have no problem self motivating to burnout, I'll do anything you ask without complaint but don't assume that meant it was easy. Also I think we resent getting pushed around by business types who make more than we do and didn't have to work as hard to do it.
The notion of us competing with our cheaper alternatives is also a source of frustration. Management usually doesn't know they're doing it wrong, they don't listen to IT, the sky doesn't fall right away and they assume that everything went ok. Make a mental note that second guessing the geeks in IT renders good results.
I like the term technological debt, you get it working cheap today and then pay for it later. Want a project done quick? It already works? Good roll it out we have to move on! The long term cost of dealing with poor documentation or imperfect implementation comes back when your code has you vendor locked into some insanely expensive piece of outdated technology because your code isn't documented well enough to port (Most of today's midrange mainframe users paying 10x to IBM what they would pay for normal enterprise quality hardware).
Also pile enough of these projects on each other and you pretty much spend all your time fixing this stuff, eventually everything will slow down. This is normal most material on the software development lifecycle states you'll spend most of your time fixing code you've already written.
Same goes for programmers, if you're a slouch just make everything you write unreadable to anyone else, don't document, save time and look good. Then in a few years start pushing your weight around and slow down, boss couldn't fire you if he wanted to.
Security issues?
Do it quick and wrong to start with, get hacked later (The current problem with Chinese hackers in american systems does well to make my point here, also lulzsec who turned out to be relatively unskilled) I've worked at some large businesses with super trivial security problems, I don't want to go into too much detail but told my boss, the CEO, and the CIO how our customer database and credit card information and pricing could get stolen with attacks I could expect a bright high schooler to be capable of, I was just the paranoid guy. It wasn't like we hadn't been hacked ever either. All of this could have been fixed with a go ahead from my boss (who had a problem with ideas that weren't his, normally it just meant helping him have an "idea" but if the details were beyond his technical scope, forget it) and a week of uninterrupted time to fix it all.
Loss of confidentiality was completely acceptable, loss of integrity was almost completely acceptable, loss of availability was totally unacceptable particularly for exchange, web browsing, and the database. In that order, pretty much the same order problems would become apparent to upper management, the last only being understood because obviously losing all our records would be undeniably fatal to our enterprise. Though even then when we started running out of space and sent the bill through the company the CEO himself showed up at the door upset we were spending thousands for a few terrabytes of storage, a week to ship, and two days to get it installed when he could get 1tb for like $100 at the store and install it in seconds. I can understand the question, interesting answer actually, but for him to actually believe that we would be capable of being so blatantly lazy and wasteful kind of hurt, he really expected he was about to uncover a massive pile of waste and abuse (We had produced plenty of metrics indicating we operated at a fraction of the cost with a fraction of the people compared to other enterprises of our size or technological dependence, we could have even been much cheaper if it weren't for a handful of poor dec
A great sex life provides a source of resolution to most other problems in a relationship. You know how much someone loves you without a doubt after great sex.
You sound like the kind of guy who reads a bunch of philosophy because you want to be right more often yet YOU don't ever change your thinking along the way. I can also count my own interactions with the police which are overwhelmingly negative, illegal searches, bully tactics, etc. I am wearing a blazer and have a military regulation crew cut. I as unsuspicious as they come. Other than the fact because they exist they may possibly prevent some crimes from ever happening to me, they have never once helped me in any other way, especially when I needed them. Also I know many cops and they generally tell me that there are no shortage of fuckbags where they work. My LAWYER used to be a prosecutor and has told me that she used to do ride-alongs and noted massive differences between what she observed and what was on the police report. Even to the point where she couldn't tell you which police report went with which incident. Not to mention all the shit I hear from friends about the time the police broke the law with them. The best two interactions I've had with the police in the past 10 years were once when a guy gave me a stern lecture and let me off with a minor ticket for speeding (I don't speed anymore as a result), and once when I got a headlight out and the cop was tired looking and obviously just wanted to give me my ticket and head out. Please tell me about whistleblower cops cause I want to hear. Go ahead and google it and you'll clearly see that the few cops who do blow the whistle are met with overwhelming backlash by their peers. Blow the whistle and you pretty much have to sue whatever government entity you work for (because you might be unemployable afterward) and move out of state. This isn't isolated. So I at least have some anecdotes and have done a google. YOU on the other hand have proven NOTHING and tried to use a bunch of assburger philosophy to make yourself right (the irony). I should also mention that after the military (We treated smugglers better than cops have treated me, probably because someone powerful cares if we treat someone like shit and create an international incident) I entertained the idea of being a cop but when I told one of my friends on the force about it he laughed and told me good fucking luck and resigned himself a few weeks later.
Why is it I object to everything you say? When Harold Nelthrope submitted a report to internal affairs indicating all was not right with detroits EPU he was told "That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard" and then the incident proceeded to ruin his life and he's since had to move out of state and work at a new department. He eventually did make enough noise for someone to look into it, the problems with the EPU went all the way to the mayor who was booted out. But you're right cops are busting each other left and right and it's our unnamed biases that keep us blind to this fact.
No the problem with papers please was that they could pull you over for any reason and then ask to see paperwork describing the purpose of your trip. That sucks, and it was unimaginable to americans once upon a time, now the police just regularly break the rules here by pulling over first and deciding why 2nd, if you tell them where you're going is none of their business when they ask, you're sure to be subject to unlawful search many places in the country, if the search turns up nothing you're getting framed up anyhow. traveling papers we don't bother with the papers part. I say law enforcement gets no new help until they demonstrate they're mature enough for the power they already have and that's the day that cops step forward and report those who "make mistakes" as a matter of course doing their job daily. M I am told by a friend in moscow that they can detain you without reason for 8 days. i believe ukraine just got rid of their traveling papers within the past 10 years... so no your version of why it was bad is totally wrong, the history is too fresh for you to revise it yet sorry. It's human nature to want things that make your job easier but since we don't have some sort of high tech space soviets to use as an example of who we're not supposed to be we'll give LE all the power they want with new tools. Four legs good two legs better right?
The number of people who think AES can magically be cracked because the NSA is involved is staggering, if anyone can crack it it's probably the NSA, but they probably can't crack it. Slashdot your opsec is horrid, you encrypt secrets because they're secrets not because if the enemy has them you're dead anyhow, if anything it means that your secrets are more secure since they can't be beaten out of you. Does this sound like a policy we'd use with our own military secrets? More likely he's not very tech savvy and didn't understand why it would help or like many of the posters here he seemed to believe that the NSA has magical powers so crypto was futile. The man is prone to faulty thinking demonstrated by his belief that the middle east would finally be free from our meddling if he could just manage to kill another 5000 people. The fact that many of you are developers and administrators and don't seem to know the first thing about opsec or crypto is genuinely troubling, no wonder .cn walks through our infrastructure like they own it.
The way he presents his work limits the audience that is capable of applying it and the audience that is capable of critiquing it. If you want to see where I'm going with this visit the academic writings of a fringe humanities subject like radical feminism or transgender studies, you'll plainly see immature academics using academic traditions to protect themselves from criticism. (specialized language, citation, appeals to authority) A. You don't know what you're talking about because if you did you'd know what I'm talking about B. I have a memorized cherry picked group of favorite authors and papers that you haven't read to counter any argument that your lay observations of the world conflict with my studied opinion. C. I've spent 10 years studying this it's almost insulting that you challenge me with a non-academic opinion. It's easy to spot in young soft subjects with small populations of experts, angry political motives, incestuous publish-cite-publish cycles that have gotten way out of control, but I'm sure we do it as well.
Mathematicians and in general many scientists speak pure jibberish everyone on slashdot should know this well especially if they went through a traditional CS program. It's not that they mean to it's just that new highly domain specific words get introduced into their vocabulary in order to succinctly and accurately convey ideas from their particular knowledge domain, They end up using them when it's not necessary. Also I have a sneaking suspicion that humans have a tendency to generate their own language to help define their group membership and feel "special", it's evident in cults, gangs, management, and military. I'm pretty sure scientists are not immune to this either. I often see scientific papers that could be rewritten in plain business english without loss of precision or appreciable change in size, it's a huge problem.
Yeah if you find something that was lost and you can return it but don't... It's stealing. Plus if you have my phone it's 1) locked 2) GPS tracked, and 3) going to be reported stolen if for whatever reason I can't get it back (Like I come to your house and you act confused) The police are regularly notified when stolen phones are brought in to get activated, I've seen it happen before.