The whole point of having a rehabilitation based criminal justice system is to return criminals to society in a way that allows for them to rejoin society in a productive and healthy way. Attaching a stigma to them for the rest of their life is preventing them from becoming productive and healthy members of society.
your telling me about that? we don't have a "rehabilitation based criminal justice system" we have a "punish you for the rest of your life-based" one...and your right with the public-record scrapers it doesnt even matter anymore that 1. the state never filed or 2. the judge withheld adjudication on the condition that you complete X and Y programs and probation successfully...all that matters is that on day Z the clerk of the courts' website posted that you were charged with possession of a marijuana seed or whatever. they don't go back and record the final dispositions of the case...
maybe if corporations (like Microsoft for example) stopped the practice of refusing to hire developers with 25 years of experience (like myself for example) with 13 year-old drug-possession felonies (like myself for example) they wouldn't be so desperate to hire foreigners...
you know at one time Steve's essay really rang true, but things are soooooooo different now,,,$8000 for "tape" rofl a 32 gb usb stick costs about 20 bucks and will hold all the takes for at least 100 songs...
the point is his numbers are all wrong nowadays. producers are cheap mixing and mastering pros have leveraged the net and are available on a per song basis. i think he wrote this in the late 90's my my things have changed since then...
arent these media companies smart enough to realize that piratebay doesnt have any control whatsoever of the names of the torrents? i mean really...if TPB took down all the Game of Throne links that HBO wanted them to, within 5 minutes they would all reappear with slightly different names and different links.
and yes, i know already the answer is no they aren't.
man...stop freaking out about what may or may not happen if you contribute to a project and just give it a try already...sheesh! you've already created this unreal mental image of how mean or whatever its gonna be but yet you are so paralyzed by your fear you wont even dip you toes to see how the reality compares to your fantasy.
your a (i think) grown person...life isnt always nice or fair thats what your family is for mostly. i truly believe you are much tougher then you think you are, and will be able to EASILY survive whatever words may or may not be thrown at you for forgetting to do exception checking (or whatever) in your chosen OSS project.
yes back in the late 80's i owned a software company that wrote addons for a BBS system called the MajorBBS that was really one of the first true multi-user online systems available for the general public to own and deploy. the interesting thing was that, consistently, when sysops ran the numbers, online chat represented 85-95% of the use of these systems that allowed all sorts of other really cool things to do, in real-time, with other users.
the point of this is that facebook and twitter are really nothing more then personalized chat rooms, and looking back it isnt surprising at all that they represent the 800lb gorillas of the internet because, to be honest, it seems that all everyone really ever wanted to do online is chat (besides pr0n and "research" of course).
i think a facebook backlash is inevitable, like everyone hating nickleback or david guetta...i stopped using it except to get a hold of my kids about a year ago, and i enjoy letting people know i think its a total waste of time...now if i was younger i could see a lot more useful uses for it, like hooking up...but im sure Matt Smith isnt hurting along those lines.
dude im not sure what brand smartphone you are using but trust me when i say i know 100% for certain my smartphone isn't videoing me surreptitiously...and if there was any hint it was i'd reflash the rom in 30 seconds...and how is my ISP videoing me when i dont have any cameras connected to my computer?
unrelated? really i was commenting on the post where the person said CF will probably not do any time in prison...my comment had to do with the way America's legal system is constructed nowadays where two men can both commit crimes, one for basically zero dollar damage and one for millions, yet the jail industrial complex will make the zero dollar one actually suffer in jail.
btw obviously i agree with the poster...CF will hire super lawyers and skip and thru the process...the homeless looking guy wont.
yeah,,,i was in vegas recently and a homeless-looking guy was just pulling a 6-pack out of the cooler when a store employee grabbed him and called the cops. he hadnt even left the store yet. i actually walked over and offered to buy the beer for the guy just dont get him arrested. they would not let me 5 minutes later the cops come and arrest the guy...for what i still have no idea.
the point? that guy will probably do more time in jail then Carl will...oh yeah American justice sure.
...why soooo many people ever EVER talk to the police if the are even the least bit guilty of a crime...just shut up from the start.
i live in florida and have had my issues with law enforcement. what people don't really understand about the Casey Anthony case is that SHE NEVER NEVER INCRIMINATED herself...ever! Its the main reason she got away with it...the prosecution was so used to having someone ANYONE sit on the stand and say "yes SHE DID IT and I saw it" that they hardly knew how to proceed without that bullet in their gun. I've seen the state drop serious felony charges against folks because they just didn't say a word when arrested, even with damning physical evidence!
Don't you all know that 95% of all cases that go to trial are won by the prosecution on eyewitness testimony and self-incriminating statements? In other words, informants and defendants statements...not super-CSI high tech gadgets that network primetime TV likes to brainwash the...well, whoever it is who still watches that stuff...idk anymore who the heck that is.
Oh well...i could go on about personal experiences in this matter but...i would DEFINITELY be incriminating myself...
you know, electrode caps really scare the crap outta me, because its not hard to see how a device used to read your brain signals could be modified to INSERT them too. as governments and take-over-the-world types learn more and more about how the brain works, wouldnt it be a great plan to use brain-caps to control peoples actions and turn them into the true mind-numbed robots that pop culture like to report on so..
it would an interesting career to experiment with sending signals INTO the brain...for the kids, of course...
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does this mean his company can reverse engineer the rocket and sell the design to the highest bidder?
i. for one, welcome our new liquid metal overlords.
The whole point of having a rehabilitation based criminal justice system is to return criminals to society in a way that allows for them to rejoin society in a productive and healthy way. Attaching a stigma to them for the rest of their life is preventing them from becoming productive and healthy members of society.
your telling me about that? we don't have a "rehabilitation based criminal justice system" we have a "punish you for the rest of your life-based" one...and your right with the public-record scrapers it doesnt even matter anymore that 1. the state never filed or 2. the judge withheld adjudication on the condition that you complete X and Y programs and probation successfully...all that matters is that on day Z the clerk of the courts' website posted that you were charged with possession of a marijuana seed or whatever. they don't go back and record the final dispositions of the case...
all he needed to do was use a keystroke logger to work his keystroke logger.
maybe if corporations (like Microsoft for example) stopped the practice of refusing to hire developers with 25 years of experience (like myself for example) with 13 year-old drug-possession felonies (like myself for example) they wouldn't be so desperate to hire foreigners...
you know at one time Steve's essay really rang true, but things are soooooooo different now,,,$8000 for "tape" rofl a 32 gb usb stick costs about 20 bucks and will hold all the takes for at least 100 songs...
the point is his numbers are all wrong nowadays. producers are cheap mixing and mastering pros have leveraged the net and are available on a per song basis. i think he wrote this in the late 90's my my things have changed since then...
yes of course you are correct but who the hell searches google for torrents?
arent these media companies smart enough to realize that piratebay doesnt have any control whatsoever of the names of the torrents? i mean really...if TPB took down all the Game of Throne links that HBO wanted them to, within 5 minutes they would all reappear with slightly different names and different links.
and yes, i know already the answer is no they aren't.
in soviet russia, the internet takes control of the U.N...
man...stop freaking out about what may or may not happen if you contribute to a project and just give it a try already...sheesh! you've already created this unreal mental image of how mean or whatever its gonna be but yet you are so paralyzed by your fear you wont even dip you toes to see how the reality compares to your fantasy.
your a (i think) grown person...life isnt always nice or fair thats what your family is for mostly. i truly believe you are much tougher then you think you are, and will be able to EASILY survive whatever words may or may not be thrown at you for forgetting to do exception checking (or whatever) in your chosen OSS project.
live a little...damn the torpedoes!
sounds exactly both of my ex-wives....
yes back in the late 80's i owned a software company that wrote addons for a BBS system called the MajorBBS that was really one of the first true multi-user online systems available for the general public to own and deploy. the interesting thing was that, consistently, when sysops ran the numbers, online chat represented 85-95% of the use of these systems that allowed all sorts of other really cool things to do, in real-time, with other users.
the point of this is that facebook and twitter are really nothing more then personalized chat rooms, and looking back it isnt surprising at all that they represent the 800lb gorillas of the internet because, to be honest, it seems that all everyone really ever wanted to do online is chat (besides pr0n and "research" of course).
i think a facebook backlash is inevitable, like everyone hating nickleback or david guetta...i stopped using it except to get a hold of my kids about a year ago, and i enjoy letting people know i think its a total waste of time...now if i was younger i could see a lot more useful uses for it, like hooking up...but im sure Matt Smith isnt hurting along those lines.
isnt that simply because Dirac's and Schrodinger's QM wave equations are actually Fourier transforms at heart?
dude im not sure what brand smartphone you are using but trust me when i say i know 100% for certain my smartphone isn't videoing me surreptitiously...and if there was any hint it was i'd reflash the rom in 30 seconds...and how is my ISP videoing me when i dont have any cameras connected to my computer?
was this post supposed to make sense?
..if he could get it recognize, say. the sound of two handclaps...wouldnt that be something?
hey this has given me an idea for the perfect secure font...every char is a blank.
,,,but he got one thing wrong. its not the government who is watching us its corporate America.
im not sure it that's an improvement or not.
unrelated? really i was commenting on the post where the person said CF will probably not do any time in prison...my comment had to do with the way America's legal system is constructed nowadays where two men can both commit crimes, one for basically zero dollar damage and one for millions, yet the jail industrial complex will make the zero dollar one actually suffer in jail.
btw obviously i agree with the poster...CF will hire super lawyers and skip and thru the process...the homeless looking guy wont.
yeah,,,i was in vegas recently and a homeless-looking guy was just pulling a 6-pack out of the cooler when a store employee grabbed him and called the cops. he hadnt even left the store yet. i actually walked over and offered to buy the beer for the guy just dont get him arrested. they would not let me 5 minutes later the cops come and arrest the guy...for what i still have no idea.
the point? that guy will probably do more time in jail then Carl will...oh yeah American justice sure.
...why soooo many people ever EVER talk to the police if the are even the least bit guilty of a crime...just shut up from the start.
i live in florida and have had my issues with law enforcement. what people don't really understand about the Casey Anthony case is that SHE NEVER NEVER INCRIMINATED herself...ever! Its the main reason she got away with it...the prosecution was so used to having someone ANYONE sit on the stand and say "yes SHE DID IT and I saw it" that they hardly knew how to proceed without that bullet in their gun. I've seen the state drop serious felony charges against folks because they just didn't say a word when arrested, even with damning physical evidence!
Don't you all know that 95% of all cases that go to trial are won by the prosecution on eyewitness testimony and self-incriminating statements? In other words, informants and defendants statements...not super-CSI high tech gadgets that network primetime TV likes to brainwash the...well, whoever it is who still watches that stuff...idk anymore who the heck that is.
Oh well...i could go on about personal experiences in this matter but...i would DEFINITELY be incriminating myself...
kinds sounds like Flash on your browser...
perhaps that's exactly what NASA is looking for...a future spacecraft that looks like an old Winnebago. oh imagine the aerodynamics of that puppy!
In another story the families of the irradiated workers are claiming how nice it is to have a night light for free...
you know, electrode caps really scare the crap outta me, because its not hard to see how a device used to read your brain signals could be modified to INSERT them too. as governments and take-over-the-world types learn more and more about how the brain works, wouldnt it be a great plan to use brain-caps to control peoples actions and turn them into the true mind-numbed robots that pop culture like to report on so..
it would an interesting career to experiment with sending signals INTO the brain...for the kids, of course...