See above about "information". There is no information available as to why the lone holdout on the jury was replaced. Certainly no information as to why he was holding out. You can't indict the justice system just because you don't like the way it decided this case.
I don't have a link, but in the specific configurations Childs performed, he caused that feature to be useless. In some cases attempting to access the routers by password recovery would wipe the configs, and the backup config was kept only on a CD that Childs carried around. In other cases password recovery simply wasn't possible. It took Cisco engineers several days to discover that in some of the equipment, configuring another router in parallel would automatically transfer the config, but not for all of the equipment.
Childs took pains to ensure that anyone trying to crowbar into the system would find a brick wall behind the door they just jimmied. The only way to keep it running without having to reverse-engineer the physical layout and re-enter the configs manually was to have the server passwords and backup CDs, and he was keeping those away from their rightful owners, and he was doing it not out of conscience but out of intent to cause trouble while pretending to be the good guy.
No, he was found guilty. In the eyes of a Jury and a Judge, he's a criminal, and deserves to be where he is, in jail.
If an appeal does succeed, it won't be on the facts of the case. Appeals don't work that way. They're not like second trial. They are an examination of the conduct of the trial, and whether the law was correctly applied.
"Innocent until proven guilty" has already been executed to completion.
Finding out more of the facts, it's becoming clearer to me that Childs was trying either to get revenge or extort some sort of offer of compensation for releasing the network to its owners' control. You don't go on the lam over a misunderstanding. His behavior in the weeks before the meeting indicates it was contemplated and suggests it was planned. His actions in stalling during and after the meeting, and then his flight, prove he had intent to continue to disrupt the business of the city.
Yesterday I was okay with the verdict and with the idea of "time served" being the extent of the punishment. Today, I'd push for the 5 years.
What I want to know now is why did the trial take so long? And why did it have to go into technical detail? The issue wasn't technological in nature. It was a simple matter of a guy having authority, losing that authority, and refusing to give the tools of that authority back to the owners of the authority. The use of the "denial of service" charge is a bit obtuse, but was sufficient; in truth, there should be a law specifically dealing with intentional refusal to relenquish control of government property, whether it's of any use or not.
windmills don't blow up, vaporizing a dozen men and dozens more to flee into the water
and they don't require permanent operating staff in situ, just occasional maintenance
there is zero chance you'll be able to come up with a convincing case for one oil rig being less dangerous to workers than any practical size of wind farm
We don't use any foreign oil whatsoever to generate electricity.
You got proof of that?
We use oil to generate 3% of our electricity. It's bigger than all "alternative" sources (like wind farms) combined. If we use less oil for electricity, we will need less oil overall, which will reduce demand for foreign and domestic oil alike.
If we have more electricity, we may use more electricity for home heating or cars, so this works on both supply and demand.
So unless you've got a credible citation for your claim, I'm going to say fie.
The rules made it so he could insist on giving the passwords only to the Mayor and only in a secure situation.
He used that as an excuse.
It's pretty clear from all I've read that he really was holding the city hostage because he was disgruntled at the changing employment situation, and in the process he prevented city personnel from accessing data they needed to do their jobs.
The Jury was sympathetic that the city acted like idiots once it all started, but they were also cognizant that he wasn't completely blameless in what followed.
So, in reality, when the rules say not to give the password to your boss, you don't. And when they say not to give the password out over unsecure communications, you don't. But you also don't make a pest of yourself; you take the initiative to find a way to get the password to the right person in a secure manner.
No, it's a pretty simple application of basic undercover investigative technique.
They pretended to be part of the Tor web, joining it at a point where the user's IP address was visible.
People willingly handed them the IP address.
And since the web was fairly limited in size, and connection points were selected randomly, and most users did multiple connections over time, eventually 70% of users willingly handed them the IP address. Since Tor has no way of ensuring trust in its security servers, its security is void. You couldn't have designed it better to funnel users' IP addresses to a spy unless you had only one server in the whole web and faked the rest of the topology.
it was wide-open to being exploited by sting operations.
This is also the reason you should never trust anonymizing proxy servers or Arab sheiks.
There's nothing so useless as a lock with a voice imprint - Lord President Borusa
I'd rather have a pilot who's staying awake updating his facebook status than one who's nodding off staring out the window at the night sky.
The airplanes are controlled autonomously in flight, and can even take off and land themselves. Pilots are unnecessary unless you need to change course mid-flight for a storm or mechanical or political problem.
As for distraction, all you have to do is set a waypoint alarm, and heed it when it goes off.
We'll never really know what those two dopes were doing when they overshot their destination, clearly they were a couple of morons who don't deserve to drive, much less fly, but making everyone else's lives less safe this way is not the answer.
Human rights don't include being caged behind imaginary lines in the desert.
And this is America. This nation was founded by people who came here without regard to borders. We hold as one of our most cherished mores that this land is open for those who are oppressed or whose opportunities are otherwise exhausted.
We thought we'd fought a war against the idea that a man could own a country, against exclusion and selfishness. We didn't realize that those ideals could arise from within, and that those who would grow those ideals would somehow forget that they were our original enemies.
All jobs involved in expansive bandwidth usage will be controlled by the owners of the pipes, period.
They will rule the net, preventing end-users from accessing servers that can serve vast amounts of data.
And that will stifle growth. Forever.
So when I say 16 billion, I'm not only mimicking their act of pulling a number out of one's ass, I'm inverting their overestimate by vastly underestimating.
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See above about "information". There is no information available as to why the lone holdout on the jury was replaced. Certainly no information as to why he was holding out. You can't indict the justice system just because you don't like the way it decided this case.
I don't have a link, but in the specific configurations Childs performed, he caused that feature to be useless. In some cases attempting to access the routers by password recovery would wipe the configs, and the backup config was kept only on a CD that Childs carried around. In other cases password recovery simply wasn't possible. It took Cisco engineers several days to discover that in some of the equipment, configuring another router in parallel would automatically transfer the config, but not for all of the equipment.
Childs took pains to ensure that anyone trying to crowbar into the system would find a brick wall behind the door they just jimmied. The only way to keep it running without having to reverse-engineer the physical layout and re-enter the configs manually was to have the server passwords and backup CDs, and he was keeping those away from their rightful owners, and he was doing it not out of conscience but out of intent to cause trouble while pretending to be the good guy.
No, he was found guilty. In the eyes of a Jury and a Judge, he's a criminal, and deserves to be where he is, in jail.
If an appeal does succeed, it won't be on the facts of the case. Appeals don't work that way. They're not like second trial. They are an examination of the conduct of the trial, and whether the law was correctly applied.
"Innocent until proven guilty" has already been executed to completion.
Finding out more of the facts, it's becoming clearer to me that Childs was trying either to get revenge or extort some sort of offer of compensation for releasing the network to its owners' control. You don't go on the lam over a misunderstanding. His behavior in the weeks before the meeting indicates it was contemplated and suggests it was planned. His actions in stalling during and after the meeting, and then his flight, prove he had intent to continue to disrupt the business of the city.
Yesterday I was okay with the verdict and with the idea of "time served" being the extent of the punishment. Today, I'd push for the 5 years.
What I want to know now is why did the trial take so long? And why did it have to go into technical detail? The issue wasn't technological in nature. It was a simple matter of a guy having authority, losing that authority, and refusing to give the tools of that authority back to the owners of the authority. The use of the "denial of service" charge is a bit obtuse, but was sufficient; in truth, there should be a law specifically dealing with intentional refusal to relenquish control of government property, whether it's of any use or not.
windmills don't blow up, vaporizing a dozen men and dozens more to flee into the water
and they don't require permanent operating staff in situ, just occasional maintenance
there is zero chance you'll be able to come up with a convincing case for one oil rig being less dangerous to workers than any practical size of wind farm
Haha.
We don't have 300 years before we need it.
At current usage growth rates, using current estimates of known and undiscovered reserves, all of the oil will be gone in 30 - 60 years.
300 years from now generating energy from petroleum will be as antique an idea as killing whales to light our houses.
We don't use any foreign oil whatsoever to generate electricity.
You got proof of that?
We use oil to generate 3% of our electricity. It's bigger than all "alternative" sources (like wind farms) combined. If we use less oil for electricity, we will need less oil overall, which will reduce demand for foreign and domestic oil alike.
If we have more electricity, we may use more electricity for home heating or cars, so this works on both supply and demand.
So unless you've got a credible citation for your claim, I'm going to say fie.
Well, no.
The rules made it so he could insist on giving the passwords only to the Mayor and only in a secure situation.
He used that as an excuse.
It's pretty clear from all I've read that he really was holding the city hostage because he was disgruntled at the changing employment situation, and in the process he prevented city personnel from accessing data they needed to do their jobs.
The Jury was sympathetic that the city acted like idiots once it all started, but they were also cognizant that he wasn't completely blameless in what followed.
So, in reality, when the rules say not to give the password to your boss, you don't. And when they say not to give the password out over unsecure communications, you don't. But you also don't make a pest of yourself; you take the initiative to find a way to get the password to the right person in a secure manner.
That's not funny because that's not RPN, it's just typing the number backwards.
That must be it. HP is planning on giving away a free Palm device with every ink cartridge sold starting in 2011.
Palm's software and hardware are way overmatched by Apple and the Droids.
HP will have to come out with something pretty spectacular to get their money back on this.
No, it's a pretty simple application of basic undercover investigative technique.
They pretended to be part of the Tor web, joining it at a point where the user's IP address was visible.
People willingly handed them the IP address.
And since the web was fairly limited in size, and connection points were selected randomly, and most users did multiple connections over time, eventually 70% of users willingly handed them the IP address. Since Tor has no way of ensuring trust in its security servers, its security is void. You couldn't have designed it better to funnel users' IP addresses to a spy unless you had only one server in the whole web and faked the rest of the topology.
it was wide-open to being exploited by sting operations.
This is also the reason you should never trust anonymizing proxy servers or Arab sheiks.
There's nothing so useless as a lock with a voice imprint - Lord President Borusa
If you don't know then I don't know either.
Dunno. He'd paint under a roof if he didn't mind weathering.
But he's probably not all that enamored of negligence. Unless that's what he's trying to do, give the negligent something to expose themselves over.
Same deal for those who maliciously deface his work or steal it.
So maybe he does "like" it.
And what's lost? Some high-precision doodles, really. But we get a whole slashdot thread out of it.
Well...in the Idle section...
The person who ordered the graffiti removal did not.
I'd rather have a pilot who's staying awake updating his facebook status than one who's nodding off staring out the window at the night sky.
The airplanes are controlled autonomously in flight, and can even take off and land themselves. Pilots are unnecessary unless you need to change course mid-flight for a storm or mechanical or political problem.
As for distraction, all you have to do is set a waypoint alarm, and heed it when it goes off.
We'll never really know what those two dopes were doing when they overshot their destination, clearly they were a couple of morons who don't deserve to drive, much less fly, but making everyone else's lives less safe this way is not the answer.
That $500k may have been the price when it was new in 1992.
But if you try to sell it now you might get 79 cents a pound for it.
Thanks for your opinion, Carly.
And there are people who tell you that if there's a flag with a fringe on it in the courtroom it's not a legal trial.
Those people are dumbasses.
Get a lawyer, and if your lawyer doesn't see these situations as ridiculous and easy to beat, GET ANOTHER LAWYER.
Unless, of course, you're guilty. Then go to jail.
If you keep fucking retards as lawyers, anyone can have you. There are a zillion lawyers out there. Shop around next time.
I was going to buy an Omega watch at some time in the future. They're much cooler than Rolexes, which keep shitty time.
Now Omega can blow me.* I'll get an IWC instead.
* - "Now Omega can blow me" is (c) 2010 blair1q
Your lawyer was a fucking retard. Nobody does life for damaging a shitter.
Saxby Chambliss's ads painting Max Cleland as a supporter of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were the utter depths of Repug douchebaggery.
It doesn't get much more disgusting than saying a man who lost both legs and an arm in Viet Nam is a traitor.
Human rights don't include being caged behind imaginary lines in the desert.
And this is America. This nation was founded by people who came here without regard to borders. We hold as one of our most cherished mores that this land is open for those who are oppressed or whose opportunities are otherwise exhausted.
We thought we'd fought a war against the idea that a man could own a country, against exclusion and selfishness. We didn't realize that those ideals could arise from within, and that those who would grow those ideals would somehow forget that they were our original enemies.
That's right. 16 billion.
All jobs involved in expansive bandwidth usage will be controlled by the owners of the pipes, period.
They will rule the net, preventing end-users from accessing servers that can serve vast amounts of data.
And that will stifle growth. Forever.
So when I say 16 billion, I'm not only mimicking their act of pulling a number out of one's ass, I'm inverting their overestimate by vastly underestimating.