No, I'm not making any assumptions about the way people think.
You have formed an opinion on the case already.
If I were the prosecuting attorney, I would challenge for cause, the cause being that you've heard about the story in the media and already formulated an opinion. And the judge would grant my challenge, because in the eyes of the justice system, you're already biased.
The problem here is that a jury is only allowed to consider the facts and evidence as presented in the trial. What a juror hears or sees outside of the courtroom should have no bearing on the case whatsoever.
And unfortunately, what the general public sees and what the jury sees aren't even remotely close a lot of the time. So we non-jurors might see an innocent man, but only because the media (read: Slashdot in this case) wants to portray him that way. Conversely, we might see a man who appears guilty, but is in fact innocent. (IMO, as the AC pointed out above, this is likely what happened with Scott Peterson.)
You've already formed an opinion on the case based on one news story you've read.
You do not qualify as a juror, and the DA would have you thrown off the panel (and rightly so, because you do not believe there's any way the prosecution can prove their case).
First thing I always do whenever I have to deal with Word is to turn the grammar checker OFF. It just annoys me. I write quite well, thanks, and I don't need Clippy telling me when he thinks I'm not.
I don't pretend to be anything like an expert on encryption, but if these incident reports are so important to your successor, why isn't there simply a fixed password that's provided in the "Introduction to Proteus's Position" packet? That, at least, doesn't require some joke of an "encryption" framework. Let your boss keep that password in a safe deposit box somewhere.
Hey, that holds huge potential for the condom industry! Just think -- like Tang, freeze-dried ice cream, and Velcro, condoms can be revolutionised by NASA!
People who want to break into weakly-secured wireless networks, duh.
Glad I haven't been using Mail. This is the first I've heard of this problem.
Side question: how would that accidentally happen in the first place? It's not as though someone would deliberately insert code to broadcast a MAC address into a mail client...yet it seems specific enough that simply calling it a "bug", with the arbitrary nature that implies, seems a bit odd.
Not sure. It's been a while since I saw it, too:)/me goes to find someone selling a DVD of it, realising that this movie is on his list of movies he needs to own...
I know that seems like the obvious mistake to make, but I'm pretty sure they used some archive footage (including this) in parts of the movie that actually had Jobs and Gates in it, rather than Wyle and Hall playing them.
Holy crap, put a lightsaber in his hand and he looks like Anakin.
He probably acts better than Hayden Christensen, too, although I'll wager he'd have a hard time (no pun intended) keeping it professional whilst making out with every geek's favourite fantasy, Natalie Portman.
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put hyphens between Fish and And and And and Chips on my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been used between Fish and and and and and And and And and and and and and And and And and and and and and Chips as well as after Chips?
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If this is a joke, someone went to a helluva lot of trouble to create back story for an April Fool's prank that got unleashed two months early.
Seems like kind of a waste if you ask me.
Nope, I don't buy that it's a joke. I wish it was a joke, but I seriously doubt that it is.
(I also wish someone from Slashdot would have the integrity to stand up and say, "Look, we goofed, we're sorry.")
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No, I'm not making any assumptions about the way people think.
You have formed an opinion on the case already.
If I were the prosecuting attorney, I would challenge for cause, the cause being that you've heard about the story in the media and already formulated an opinion. And the judge would grant my challenge, because in the eyes of the justice system, you're already biased.
The problem here is that a jury is only allowed to consider the facts and evidence as presented in the trial. What a juror hears or sees outside of the courtroom should have no bearing on the case whatsoever.
And unfortunately, what the general public sees and what the jury sees aren't even remotely close a lot of the time. So we non-jurors might see an innocent man, but only because the media (read: Slashdot in this case) wants to portray him that way. Conversely, we might see a man who appears guilty, but is in fact innocent. (IMO, as the AC pointed out above, this is likely what happened with Scott Peterson.)
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I'm just basing this off of what has been told.
That's the point.
You've already formed an opinion on the case based on one news story you've read.
You do not qualify as a juror, and the DA would have you thrown off the panel (and rightly so, because you do not believe there's any way the prosecution can prove their case).
And any juror who would base their opinion of the man's guilt or innocence on a story reported on Slashdot...
Well, that person wouldn't be on the jury in the first place.
That's why we have voir dire -- to weed OUT people like you.
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Does this mean I might no longer have to pay the dealer $80 each for duplicate Honda Odyssey keys? Because that would be nice.
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GM might have a thing or two to say about your wholesale violation of their trademark...
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They *already* don't have any numismatic value, because they've been "common enough" for years.
The reason they still have "novelty" value is because no one uses them.
The only way to get around this is going to be for the Fed to force them out into circulation, which they won't do.
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Thank you.
First thing I always do whenever I have to deal with Word is to turn the grammar checker OFF. It just annoys me. I write quite well, thanks, and I don't need Clippy telling me when he thinks I'm not.
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I live in China, and some sites are blocked (BBC News, Miami Herald, etc).
What the fuck is subversive about Dave Barry?
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In that case, let's go ahead and exercise YOUR only human right.
Suddenly, that idea starts to seem a little silly, doesn't it?
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I don't pretend to be anything like an expert on encryption, but if these incident reports are so important to your successor, why isn't there simply a fixed password that's provided in the "Introduction to Proteus's Position" packet? That, at least, doesn't require some joke of an "encryption" framework. Let your boss keep that password in a safe deposit box somewhere.
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Of course she does. She's inflatable! C'mon, this is Slashdot. You didn't expect him to be referring to a *real girl* did you?
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Hey, that holds huge potential for the condom industry! Just think -- like Tang, freeze-dried ice cream, and Velcro, condoms can be revolutionised by NASA!
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Which itself was a troll who somehow snuck into Ask Slashdot...
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People who want to break into weakly-secured wireless networks, duh.
Glad I haven't been using Mail. This is the first I've heard of this problem.
Side question: how would that accidentally happen in the first place? It's not as though someone would deliberately insert code to broadcast a MAC address into a mail client...yet it seems specific enough that simply calling it a "bug", with the arbitrary nature that implies, seems a bit odd.
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Not sure. It's been a while since I saw it, too :) /me goes to find someone selling a DVD of it, realising that this movie is on his list of movies he needs to own...
Well, *that* didn't take long to invoke Godwin's Law...
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I know that seems like the obvious mistake to make, but I'm pretty sure they used some archive footage (including this) in parts of the movie that actually had Jobs and Gates in it, rather than Wyle and Hall playing them.
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I'm pretty sure at least part of this video, if not all of it, was in Pirates of Silicon Valley . I've DEFINITELY seen some of it before.
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There's a Mac in the corner, but I highly doubt it's for testing MacWrite.
MacWrite was an Apple product.
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Oh, hi, Dick! Didn't know you and Mrs. Cheney posted to Slashdot!
Tell George we said hi, will you?
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It's funny because "hummer" is slang for "blowjob."
God, explaining it just fucking ruins it.
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Holy crap, put a lightsaber in his hand and he looks like Anakin.
He probably acts better than Hayden Christensen, too, although I'll wager he'd have a hard time (no pun intended) keeping it professional whilst making out with every geek's favourite fantasy, Natalie Portman.
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No, in Soviet Russia, work drives your mom to YOU!
Oh, God, what an awful mental image.
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Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put hyphens between Fish and And and And and Chips on my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been used between Fish and and and and and And and And and and and and and And and And and and and and and Chips as well as after Chips?
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