Oh, that's ok. The US Government has that part covered. They'll just declare virus writing/deploying as a terrorist act and use as an excuse to invade the Philipines or other asian countries.
I'll admit that the original poster is in a very gray area (probably darkish gray even). But as a principle I would consider his actions just and not in violation with the statute.
After all it is not generally considered extortion to pursue payment for an item sold/service rendered.
Going to the supervisor of the party you're dealing with should not be considered extortion if the party you're dealing with has not held up to their end of the deal. I mean, would you consider it an extortion if you got a bad burger at McD (ok ok, bad example), and you threatened the clerk you'd report him to the manager if he didn't refund the said burger.
Since when did it become extortion to demand payment for rendered services/work?
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You do reallize, that apart from possibly nr. 2 if you're the paranoid sort, oh, and nr. 1 with regards to North America you've described what is standard in many GSM models all over the world.
It just annoys the hell out of me everytime some "yank" spits out something about how the US came in and kicked nazi ass, like the rest of the Allied Forces were just sitting around with their thumbs up their asses (which thei weren't btw.).
Ya know, this argument is getting old and is very misleading, hell, it's flat out wrong!
Let's just say that I saw two teams in a tug of war, and both sides aren't budging either way. If I join either team, causing that same team to win, then by your argument (and that of many of your countrimen) there was only one winner of that competition, namely, _me_, not the team I joined. ME ME ME ME, I won, I pulled the entire opposition over so I won. Not the jerks on my team. It was ME, ME, all ME!
If you think it was selfish of me to act like this, I was after all a member of a team, GET OF YOUR HIGH FUCKING HORSE AND GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL THAT IT WAS TEAM EFFORT THAT BEATED HITLER'S REIGN (There is no "I", or "USA" or "America" in the word "team").
Sheesh, and they wonder why the rest of the world hates the US so much? (Hint: it's not the money or so called freedom, IT'S THE ARROGANCE)
If you choose Express update you'll only download what you need, with my setup it only downloaded 50 megs.
For a Linux/Windows similarity, think of it as the difference between running "apt-get dist-upgrade" or Redhat's up2date versus downloading a brandnew ISO image.
The Icelandic system has a builtin defence for these situations. It's very similar to the other nordic systems (yymmdd-nnnn), but in Iceland the first 3 of the last 4 represent a checksum of the first 6 (i.e. the birthdate). The last number however is protection against 106 year olds being asked to go to school as that number represents the century.
Two fictional examples, two persons, one born in 1980 and one born today.
I might get arrested upon entering the US for doing nothing more than running a mirror site containing a region crack for my DVD player? Hell, even if I just send it to a friend via email I'm still in violation.
Just a small question, are your senators pissing the world off intentionally or is it really just by accident?
When you use a stored procedure it's nearly always treated as an atomic action with regards to locking and rollback conditions, even though that very same stored procedure inserts and updates many tables/rows at once. You also get the added bonus of an optimized action when using a stored procedure. Now, I don't know what kind of a guru witchcraft programmer you are, but a stored procedure will most definately play nicer with DB locking, rollback conditions, system load etc. than if the same activity were programmed into the DB application.
The SuSE live evaluation CD is amazing! I ran my laptop, which also doubles as a home machine, of it for 2 weeks non-stop when the HD died. Every piece of HW in my laptop was supported. The only thing I had to do to make it usable for every day tasks was to create a user, and mount my $HOME over NFS from my home server. Granted, running KDE was just a bit slow, but that's to be expected when every file you read or write is located on another machine with only a 10Mbit ethernet connection between.
So it's illegal for me to lend someone a CD? After all, they don't own said CD and I'm sharing said CD. If I do that, can I expect an RIAA agent coming in on a silent black helicopter landing on my rooftop and prosecute me for the simple and genourous act of, god forbid, doing what I was tought was nice back in kindergarten, and SHARE?
Of course they exist, they exist all western countries, they even have a word for it. Constitution. Therein lies the ground law which overrides every other law in the country and usually it takes a great deal of effort to make alterations in it. For example in my country (a wee island in the Atlantic called Iceland) it takes a major effort to change the constitution. The parliament MUST be dis-assembled before any changes are made to the constitution and the changes are voted on/off by the people. This usually coincides with the general parliamentary elections.
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Oh, that's ok.
The US Government has that part covered.
They'll just declare virus writing/deploying as a terrorist act and use as an excuse to invade the Philipines or other asian countries.
The keyword in the statute (IMO) is "wrongful".
I'll admit that the original poster is in a very gray area (probably darkish gray even). But as a principle I would consider his actions just and not in violation with the statute.
After all it is not generally considered extortion to pursue payment for an item sold/service rendered.
Going to the supervisor of the party you're dealing with should not be considered extortion if the party you're dealing with has not held up to their end of the deal. I mean, would you consider it an extortion if you got a bad burger at McD (ok ok, bad example), and you threatened the clerk you'd report him to the manager if he didn't refund the said burger.
But IANAL, and that's just my two cents.
Since when did it become extortion to demand payment for rendered services/work?
You do reallize, that apart from possibly nr. 2 if you're the paranoid sort, oh, and nr. 1 with regards to North America you've described what is standard in many GSM models all over the world.
I know that. :-)
It just annoys the hell out of me everytime some "yank" spits out something about how the US came in and kicked nazi ass, like the rest of the Allied Forces were just sitting around with their thumbs up their asses (which thei weren't btw.).
Ya know, this argument is getting old and is very misleading, hell, it's flat out wrong!
Let's just say that I saw two teams in a tug of war, and both sides aren't budging either way.
If I join either team, causing that same team to win, then by your argument (and that of many of your countrimen) there was only one winner of that competition, namely, _me_, not the team I joined. ME ME ME ME, I won, I pulled the entire opposition over so I won. Not the jerks on my team. It was ME, ME, all ME!
If you think it was selfish of me to act like this, I was after all a member of a team, GET OF YOUR HIGH FUCKING HORSE AND GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL THAT IT WAS TEAM EFFORT THAT BEATED HITLER'S REIGN (There is no "I", or "USA" or "America" in the word "team").
Sheesh, and they wonder why the rest of the world hates the US so much?
(Hint: it's not the money or so called freedom, IT'S THE ARROGANCE)
If you choose Express update you'll only download what you need, with my setup it only downloaded 50 megs.
For a Linux/Windows similarity, think of it as the difference between running "apt-get dist-upgrade" or Redhat's up2date versus downloading a brandnew ISO image.
It must be one of their new EULA's. The ones that say "By clicking 'I agree', you agree to agree to all future EULA's".
... who thinks it's just sad that the parent post is modded as "Interesting"
We're ALL X-Men?
Going to the doctor's and hear him say:
"Well Mr. Smith, I've finally found out what's wrong with you, but I'm afraid I can't tell you"
The Icelandic system has a builtin defence for these situations. It's very similar to the other nordic systems (yymmdd-nnnn), but in Iceland the first 3 of the last 4 represent a checksum of the first 6 (i.e. the birthdate). The last number however is protection against 106 year olds being asked to go to school as that number represents the century.
Two fictional examples, two persons, one born in 1980 and one born today.
060880-1239
and
060802-1230
It's a shorthand for "Die Nazional Sozialistische Arbeiter Partei Deutschland's" or the NSAPD.
Or in English: The Nationalist Socialist Workers Party of Germany.
I might get arrested upon entering the US for doing nothing more than running a mirror site containing a region crack for my DVD player? Hell, even if I just send it to a friend via email I'm still in violation.
Just a small question, are your senators pissing the world off intentionally or is it really just by accident?
No, I actually believe it to be the Improbability Force. Which will be used to drive Improbability Drives.
So, how come you don't include drivers yakking away at passengers in your "hate list"?
Driving a car while talking on the cellphone using a handsfree device is in NO way any more distracting than talking to someone in the passenger seat.
Since everybody keeps bringing SouthPark references everywhere (phase 1, steal underpants...) I'll make my little reference (sorta) here:
"What would John boy Carmack do
if OpenGL went closed,
He would kick an ass or two,
That's what John boy Carmack'd do."
or will metric time make dates/timestamps become almost like dates/timestamps in Star Trek?
Actually, no.
When you use a stored procedure it's nearly always treated as an atomic action with regards to locking and rollback conditions, even though that very same stored procedure inserts and updates many tables/rows at once.
You also get the added bonus of an optimized action when using a stored procedure.
Now, I don't know what kind of a guru witchcraft programmer you are, but a stored procedure will most definately play nicer with DB locking, rollback conditions, system load etc. than if the same activity were programmed into the DB application.
The SuSE live evaluation CD is amazing! I ran my laptop, which also doubles as a home machine, of it for 2 weeks non-stop when the HD died. Every piece of HW in my laptop was supported. The only thing I had to do to make it usable for every day tasks was to create a user, and mount my $HOME over NFS from my home server. Granted, running KDE was just a bit slow, but that's to be expected when every file you read or write is located on another machine with only a 10Mbit ethernet connection between.
So it's illegal for me to lend someone a CD? After all, they don't own said CD and I'm sharing said CD. If I do that, can I expect an RIAA agent coming in on a silent black helicopter landing on my rooftop and prosecute me for the simple and genourous act of, god forbid, doing what I was tought was nice back in kindergarten, and SHARE?
Well, at least with Coke, they don't have 2 litre bottles for everything, i.e. everything from the volume of a small can up to a 2 litre bottle.
Those wouldn't happen to be the same people that find nothing wrong with hearing a big *BOOM* when something explodes in space?
and STOP shipping with WU-FTPD :-).
Of course they exist, they exist all western countries, they even have a word for it. Constitution. Therein lies the ground law which overrides every other law in the country and usually it takes a great deal of effort to make alterations in it. For example in my country (a wee island in the Atlantic called Iceland) it takes a major effort to change the constitution. The parliament MUST be dis-assembled before any changes are made to the constitution and the changes are voted on/off by the people. This usually coincides with the general parliamentary elections.