I agree that the journalist writing the article seems to lack even the most fundamental knowledge of electricity. I simply had to stop reading after: "...4 volts of power..." which caused me to eat my own head.
Cold beer, warm pizza and watchable TV.
Public outrage is only genuinely piqued by a restriction in supply or enjoyment of at least two of the above commodities (or their provincial equivalent).
The synopsis states that the facility was... "creating enough energy to power 70,000 homes".
This is, as every physics 101 student knows, fundamentally incorrect.
The facility may have converted or even harvested enough energy to power 70,000 homes, but it did NOT create that energy.
Even the sun, from which the converted energy came, merely converted some of its mass into the heat and light which eventually reached the facility.
Yours etc,
Viscount Pedantic Bastard.
Given the number of servers, gateways, routers, switches any average email gets routed through, it would generally be imprudent to assume that the information contained therein is any more secure than if it were written on a postcard and sent through the mail, with the addition that a copy of the postcard is retained each time it is handled. I can't comment technically on chat messages, but I would assume the same (or similar) to be true.
It is illegal for anyone, including government, to open physical mail not addressed to them without judicial oversight, but to read a postcard? I don't think that requires a warrant, does it? It might require some degree of legalisation for the information gleaned to be admissible in a court of law, but even Mr Postman can do the gleaning without getting knuckles rapped. I would imagine that a similar principle applies to emails / chats etc.
If I intended to communicate anything I believe could get me in trouble with the authorities, I definitely absolutely positively would NOT do so over email or chat. I imagine that anyone else with even a third of a brain would find other methods too, so governments intercepting emails will likely achieve nothing more than:
1) Creating a hell of a lot more work for already overworked analysts
and
2) Seriously pissing off civil liberties groups and the citizenry in general.
So, okay Govt.com go ahead and read all of our postcards to each other, see where it gets you. F#ckin' nowhere except closer to a revolution, I'll warrant.
How and where can I contribute to the legal costs for the family of this student?
I want them to hire the best advocates money can provide, I want to see that judge humiliated for attempting to destroy the future of a curious student who made a mistake leading to an incident where no harm was either done or intended.
Firstly, my condolences to the family. RIP Mr Cusick. We are all thankful for your worthy and enduring legacy.
Secondly, are there any actual journalists at the guardian?
"...suffering from an illness..." can you be a little more specific? Not too impertinent a question, even for a grieving daughter.
The rest of the article I could easily have harvested from Whozines or wiki-whatevers.
They've lost their balls since the NoTW went to the wall.
Tau Ceti V became overrun with sentient robots intent on defending the power grid.
We will need to, at some point, send a volunteer out there to shut down the central nuclear reactor in order to wrest back control of the system.
One of the first games, (i can recall) where you could save your progress.
The good learned lawyer is completely right in his comments. I imagine there are graves of brave servicemen doing a 1200rpm spin-and-rinse over how much of a bureaucratic, oppressive, surveillance police state the UK has become.
The flaming-poppy-posting tosspot has every right to act the goat.
Everybody eles has the right to point out to him, his social network of choice, his ISP and the rest of the straight-thinking world how much of a tosspot he is and insist that he should obligingly remove evidence of his recent idiocy and keep his tosspottery to himself in future.
This situation looks to have jumped a whole big wodge of escalation and gone straight to legal remedies.
It would be awesome as a shooter, where your projectiles travel significantly faster than the speed of light, go back in time and shoot you in the back of the head before you've fired off the round... oh, wait... or, un-wait... err... guru meditation: The operation is attempting circular causality. Re-boot now? Y/N.
The Bum Gardner stream had a 20 min delay so they could cut it in the event of more than his bum getting gardened.
Will the fruity computey folk be rolling something similar y'reckon?
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So why not simply make workahol an illegal substance, or at least license it's production and distribution?
Aided and abetted by Private Parts, Corporal Punishment and Sergeant Rock.
Whaaa thaaa.... ffuuuu..?
That's some tight, tight code going on there. Or not.
I agree that the journalist writing the article seems to lack even the most fundamental knowledge of electricity.
I simply had to stop reading after: "...4 volts of power..." which caused me to eat my own head.
"The true paranoid is just someone in posession of all the facts".
+1 point for the splendid reference, I bow my head in solemn deference.
I was dismayed by the article referring to "entrepreneurs" as though they are distinct from the rest of humanity.
My advice, for what it's worth: Read Marcus Aurelius.
The loneliness of command is certainly not a new thing.
Cold beer, warm pizza and watchable TV. Public outrage is only genuinely piqued by a restriction in supply or enjoyment of at least two of the above commodities (or their provincial equivalent).
The synopsis states that the facility was... "creating enough energy to power 70,000 homes". This is, as every physics 101 student knows, fundamentally incorrect. The facility may have converted or even harvested enough energy to power 70,000 homes, but it did NOT create that energy. Even the sun, from which the converted energy came, merely converted some of its mass into the heat and light which eventually reached the facility. Yours etc, Viscount Pedantic Bastard.
Given the number of servers, gateways, routers, switches any average email gets routed through, it would generally be imprudent to assume that the information contained therein is any more secure than if it were written on a postcard and sent through the mail, with the addition that a copy of the postcard is retained each time it is handled. I can't comment technically on chat messages, but I would assume the same (or similar) to be true. It is illegal for anyone, including government, to open physical mail not addressed to them without judicial oversight, but to read a postcard? I don't think that requires a warrant, does it? It might require some degree of legalisation for the information gleaned to be admissible in a court of law, but even Mr Postman can do the gleaning without getting knuckles rapped. I would imagine that a similar principle applies to emails / chats etc. If I intended to communicate anything I believe could get me in trouble with the authorities, I definitely absolutely positively would NOT do so over email or chat. I imagine that anyone else with even a third of a brain would find other methods too, so governments intercepting emails will likely achieve nothing more than: 1) Creating a hell of a lot more work for already overworked analysts and 2) Seriously pissing off civil liberties groups and the citizenry in general. So, okay Govt.com go ahead and read all of our postcards to each other, see where it gets you. F#ckin' nowhere except closer to a revolution, I'll warrant.
Try here: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot Not yet sure if they're accepting donations, but possible to add ones voice to the already loud throng.
How and where can I contribute to the legal costs for the family of this student? I want them to hire the best advocates money can provide, I want to see that judge humiliated for attempting to destroy the future of a curious student who made a mistake leading to an incident where no harm was either done or intended.
Firstly, my condolences to the family. RIP Mr Cusick. We are all thankful for your worthy and enduring legacy. Secondly, are there any actual journalists at the guardian? "...suffering from an illness..." can you be a little more specific? Not too impertinent a question, even for a grieving daughter. The rest of the article I could easily have harvested from Whozines or wiki-whatevers. They've lost their balls since the NoTW went to the wall.
The Wildfire facility was portrayed as having the facade of an agrigultural research station. hmmm...
Tau Ceti V became overrun with sentient robots intent on defending the power grid. We will need to, at some point, send a volunteer out there to shut down the central nuclear reactor in order to wrest back control of the system. One of the first games, (i can recall) where you could save your progress.
The good learned lawyer is completely right in his comments. I imagine there are graves of brave servicemen doing a 1200rpm spin-and-rinse over how much of a bureaucratic, oppressive, surveillance police state the UK has become. The flaming-poppy-posting tosspot has every right to act the goat. Everybody eles has the right to point out to him, his social network of choice, his ISP and the rest of the straight-thinking world how much of a tosspot he is and insist that he should obligingly remove evidence of his recent idiocy and keep his tosspottery to himself in future. This situation looks to have jumped a whole big wodge of escalation and gone straight to legal remedies.
It would be awesome as a shooter, where your projectiles travel significantly faster than the speed of light, go back in time and shoot you in the back of the head before you've fired off the round... oh, wait... or, un-wait... err... guru meditation: The operation is attempting circular causality. Re-boot now? Y/N.
Definitely the most awesome thing I've seen this lunchtime. The first FPP game I've considered loading onto my system since Portal.
The Bum Gardner stream had a 20 min delay so they could cut it in the event of more than his bum getting gardened. Will the fruity computey folk be rolling something similar y'reckon?