Actually what I think is the court should take into account is the fact that this person's brain is not developed yet which might lead him to do... that.. and think 1) it's a fine thing to do and 2) he'd get away with it.
He's 19. He is legally an adult and should have more than a well-enough developed brain to realize that sexually blackmailing women is wrong. Most people would easily grasp the concept years before.
That knocks out #1, which is really the only relevant point because you don't deserve any leeway for thinking that it's okay to do something wrong so long as you don't get caught for it. Poor impulse control and an inattention to the consequences of one's actions at that age is the opposite of a mitigating factor.
Everyone involved really ought to consider that before they put him in the no-rehab hell-on-earth called American prisons for 20 years and turn him into a REAL criminal.
This isn't just some little ha-ha prank or delinquency. He broke into a person's computer, commandeered it for his own amusement, and then threatened the future life and career of a woman if she refused to degrade herself for his sick sexual entertainment. The first half? Maybe your argument holds water. The second? That IS being a real criminal. This was sexual assault in all but contact -- that same sort sexual self-gratification through the control and degradation of an unwilling party.
I won't disagree that 20 years in the current system will do next to nothing to reform him or prepare him for better integration into society, but let's not pretend that he deserves to get special, kids-gloves attention just because the system is broken. What he did was flat out evil and deserves to be punished -- harshly -- by whatever standards we have as a society set for sexual predators and blackmailers. Because that is what he is.
she invited him in... since she didn't secure her computer enough
I really can't tell if you're making a tasteless joke parodying blaming rape victims, expressing a sincere belief in support of that train of thought, or being bitterly sarcastic about it, since any of those are believable on Slashdot.
How do I play Street Fighter or any traditional joypad game on that thing? I don't want to dismiss it out of hand, but I have serious doubts.
I'm guessing a lot like on the SNES. The right trackpad should be able to detect the position of the finger when clicked, making it capable of simulating the traditional diamond pattern, and the shoulder buttons fulfill their usual role.
Because they put the left analog stick in the right place, unlike the Playstation's godawful piece of shit of a controller.
If you do nothing but play first-person shooters. There are a lot of games out there for which an analog stick is unnecessary, and the fact that it sticks so far up off the body of the controller makes it awkward to grip as a primary control mechanism. I much prefer the more flush D-pad of a DualShock controller for the types of games I play.
This new design looks interesting because it'll have the fluid control of an analogue stick without the awkward thumb positioning. While I really don't like placing the X&Y buttons on the left side, I can appreciate the superior compromise between D-pad and stick they offer.
At the time the alt-ctl-del sequence was added into the keyboard controller as a special Key-ID-Seq, Macintosh did not yet exist and the equivalent system was the Apple 2 series.
Perhaps I'm confused here, but as far as I'm aware, PC "power" buttons sent an entirely different keypress than ctrl-alt-del. So that's interesting, but not really what we were talking about. AFAIK.
The $64 trillion question is, "Can anybody trace the origin of the meme?". Yeah, people have been eating insects for thousands of years, and there have probably been much earlier suggestions that Westerners try it. I'm talking about a dramatic recent upswing though. What catalyzed it?
The recent media attention and resulting zeitgeist came about because of a recent report by the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization, Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security. As an issue that ties well into concerns about food security & poverty, animal welfare, greenhouse gas reduction, and openness to food options eaten in other parts of the world, the issue has become a bit of a liberal hot topic.
("Elitist" is a bit unfair, though. Most of the buzz, if you'll pardon the pun, is from people who are curious about trying it themselves to see if it is a good idea to popularize to tackle a number of issues that are of mass social concern to them.)
My shift key comment was a joke, by the way. I use both shift keys all the time - several times in this post, actually. I assumed it was so absurd a suggestion that people would know it was a joke, but people are defending my post, so... not such a good joke after all.
Ah, I took as serious as well. You wouldn't be the first to suggest it, and a number of companies have made keyboards with only a single shift key, such as on mobile devices; it's rare in full-size keyboards, though.
Also, a number of people who are used to keeping the right hand on them mouse have trained themselves to use the shift key only. (I have to fight this bad habit when not using the mouse myself.)
So, sorry. My mistake. My curmudgeonly, needlessly provocative mistake.
I had a keyboard once with a dedicated start/shutdown key.
After shutting down my system a few times accidentally I threw that keyboard away.
Seems like a bad design. Macs had a power key for ages on their keyboard, but it pulled up a shutdown prompt instead of killing the whole machine instantly. (You could hold it down for 3 seconds for a force power down, IIRC.) It was also far above the keys and hard to accidentally hit on the machines I remember. This is the one I had on my Performa 5200, and this was the one my old iMac had. (You can see the power key on the latter above the divide between the letter and numeric keypad sections.)
What was the keyboard you used like, and what OS was it for?
My keyboard has two shift keys. He should have used one of those.
Where did you learn to type? Any typing class will teach you that you're supposed to use each shift key for the hand opposite to the hand which types the letter/number. Using one shift key all the time (usually the left) just puts that hand into needlessly slow and awkward claw positions.
Theoretically, you're supposed to do the same with the Ctrl & Alt keys, but keyboard manufacturers refuse to put those in a consistent, pinky-accessible spot on the right side. (Laptop makers, I'm talking about you.) That's probably one of the biggest reasons that one-handed shifting has become so endemic. If you want a redundant set of keys, I'd point the finger at those first.
(P.S. I also was taught to actually use the caps lock key when typing in caps, and it is a big pinky-saver when writing C macros.)
IIRC, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are all specifically mentioned in the Constitution, so the governments power was assumed to be constrained to only those powers listed, while drugs in general aren't mentioned so the government was assumed to have whatever power it wanted, modulo states rights concerns.
You've got a couple of things wrong here.
First, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are not in the main body of the Constitution at all. Firearms are covered by the 2nd Amendment, and alcohol was only addressed in the 18th and 21st Amendments. Tobacco isn't mentioned anywhere.
Second, Congress is given enumerated powers by Article I, including two very broad clauses known as the General Welfare Clause and the Commerce Clause, but the 9th Amendment limits Congress only those powers explicitly mentioned in the Constitution and reserves all other powers to the states. Theoretically, if drugs didn't fall under the Commerce Clause, then they would be solely the province of the states because they weren't mentioned.
However, the Commerce Clause allows Congress to regulate all commerce between the states. That includes banning commerce in certain goods, regulating intrastate commerce that impacts interstate commerce, and regulating commerce that relies on interstate commerce and is thus entangled with it. Thus the power to regulate drugs.
I think you're completely disregarding that the BSA is a Mormon organization. Keep your unsexist, non-racist, scientific minded, freethinking kids far far away...
Right, because enlightened people don't want to be around narrow-minded bigots who stereotype others and advocate excluding them from activities they participate in because of a lack of decent values like... hmm... waitaminute.
... unless you're all for all the oaths and honors and other mindless appeals to duty and unquestionably of authority, second only to that of JROTC.
Yeah, no. Scouting tends to focus a lot more on both self-reliance and on helping others, in my experiences as a kid. I also find it kind of sad that you consider the words "honor" and "duty" to be contemptible things to teach to kids. The world would be a much better place if there more people felt a duty to their fellow man than to just themselves.
Slashdot is not unlike C++.. who uses HTML in comments anyway?
Personally, I tend to use the <quote> and <em> tags in over half the posts I make.
It you don't like Slashdot's default behavior, switch your default posting method to "Extrans" instead of "Plain Old Text," and all your accidental HTML tags will get escaped out approrpriately. (Personally, I'd have used "[ ]" for a substitution indication rather than "< >", but YMMV.)
We needed one to ban Alcohol, was that previously separately protected somewhere in the constitution?
It's debatable. At the time, interstate commerce precedent had not been set to allow effective regulation of alcohol. We had not yet had cases establishing that intrastate commerce that has an impact on or a connection to interstate is covered by the interstate commerce clause. All Congress could do at the time was prohibit the sale of alcohol and not home-brewing.
This was, after all, an era of conservative activism in the court, and Commerce Clause cases at the time held the somewhat ridiculous opinion that broad categories of business like agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and electric generation simply weren't "commerce" and couldn't be regulated. Under that logic, Kidd v. Pearson, 128 U.S. 1 (1888) held that an Iowa law prohibiting the manufacture of alcohol was beyond Congress's ability to regulate, because it was "manufacture" and not "commerce." While this was a pro-dry ruling, it meant that any sort of national prohibition ran up against the wall that Congress simply couldn't ban the manufacture of a good.
And what -- letters are money or something? I mean, AAPL is one freaking letter shorter than Apple. Using the stock tickers in place of the names just makes you look like a character out of Dilbert as well as making the sentence harder to read for no good reason.
This is Slashdot. It's News for Nerds, not Twitter for Tools.
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the others, by the time I finish my song?
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
I like this game. Let's play.
A) Drug dealers: Involves voluntary transfer of goods, only offense that's legal at the state level for all citizens in some states, alliterative name, two words, contains three vowels, most letters total. B) Rapists: Only sex crime on list, only crime disproportionately likely to involve women as the victim, only crime to result in permanent restrictions on where you can live after having "served your time," only word to end in "-ists" instead of an "er/ur" sound. C) Murders: Only capital crime on list, only crime where the perpetrator cannot make an apology or restitution to the victim, only crime not to have a statute of limitations in any state, only word describing an act and not the person committing it. D) Burglars: Only crime that requires intent to commit a second offense to be guilty of, only crime that has to be indoors, only crime that has to be at night (in some jurisdictions), only word to lead with a vertical line in a sans-serif font. E) Muggers: Only crime involving involuntary transfer of goods, only crime involving threat, only crime that has to take outside place in public (as opposed to more generic "robbery"), only crime to be confused with bad acting, only word with double consonants.
So, the answer is ", ", because the comma and space are the only things that are different by being wholly alike something else in the list.
But good parenting will over come what any video game will give her.
That's like saying that a strong enough man doesn't have to worry about lifting with their back instead of their legs. It's true but pointless, and it suggests that you aren't good/strong enough unless you can overcome self-imposed handicaps born from ignoring sensible precaution.
I think, despite its flaws, 4chan has my favorite kind of comment system (if you're willing to wade through the shit). Put all comments on the same level; let users decide for themselves whether or not they agree with each other. You'll always have a healthy mix of perspective that way.
I wouldn't consider 4chan's mix of racism, pedophilia, and meme-spouting to be a "healthy" mix of perspective.
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Actually what I think is the court should take into account is the fact that this person's brain is not developed yet which might lead him to do... that.. and think 1) it's a fine thing to do and 2) he'd get away with it.
He's 19. He is legally an adult and should have more than a well-enough developed brain to realize that sexually blackmailing women is wrong. Most people would easily grasp the concept years before.
That knocks out #1, which is really the only relevant point because you don't deserve any leeway for thinking that it's okay to do something wrong so long as you don't get caught for it. Poor impulse control and an inattention to the consequences of one's actions at that age is the opposite of a mitigating factor.
Everyone involved really ought to consider that before they put him in the no-rehab hell-on-earth called American prisons for 20 years and turn him into a REAL criminal.
This isn't just some little ha-ha prank or delinquency. He broke into a person's computer, commandeered it for his own amusement, and then threatened the future life and career of a woman if she refused to degrade herself for his sick sexual entertainment. The first half? Maybe your argument holds water. The second? That IS being a real criminal. This was sexual assault in all but contact -- that same sort sexual self-gratification through the control and degradation of an unwilling party.
I won't disagree that 20 years in the current system will do next to nothing to reform him or prepare him for better integration into society, but let's not pretend that he deserves to get special, kids-gloves attention just because the system is broken. What he did was flat out evil and deserves to be punished -- harshly -- by whatever standards we have as a society set for sexual predators and blackmailers. Because that is what he is.
she invited him in ... since she didn't secure her computer enough
I really can't tell if you're making a tasteless joke parodying blaming rape victims, expressing a sincere belief in support of that train of thought, or being bitterly sarcastic about it, since any of those are believable on Slashdot.
How do I play Street Fighter or any traditional joypad game on that thing? I don't want to dismiss it out of hand, but I have serious doubts.
I'm guessing a lot like on the SNES. The right trackpad should be able to detect the position of the finger when clicked, making it capable of simulating the traditional diamond pattern, and the shoulder buttons fulfill their usual role.
Because they put the left analog stick in the right place, unlike the Playstation's godawful piece of shit of a controller.
If you do nothing but play first-person shooters. There are a lot of games out there for which an analog stick is unnecessary, and the fact that it sticks so far up off the body of the controller makes it awkward to grip as a primary control mechanism. I much prefer the more flush D-pad of a DualShock controller for the types of games I play.
This new design looks interesting because it'll have the fluid control of an analogue stick without the awkward thumb positioning. While I really don't like placing the X&Y buttons on the left side, I can appreciate the superior compromise between D-pad and stick they offer.
At the time the alt-ctl-del sequence was added into the keyboard controller as a special Key-ID-Seq, Macintosh did not yet exist and the equivalent system was the Apple 2 series.
Perhaps I'm confused here, but as far as I'm aware, PC "power" buttons sent an entirely different keypress than ctrl-alt-del. So that's interesting, but not really what we were talking about. AFAIK.
No, the market says you'll eat bugs when demand for meat outstrips supply.
(Welcome to macroeconomics, you must be new here!)
The $64 trillion question is, "Can anybody trace the origin of the meme?". Yeah, people have been eating insects for thousands of years, and there have probably been much earlier suggestions that Westerners try it. I'm talking about a dramatic recent upswing though. What catalyzed it?
The recent media attention and resulting zeitgeist came about because of a recent report by the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization, Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security. As an issue that ties well into concerns about food security & poverty, animal welfare, greenhouse gas reduction, and openness to food options eaten in other parts of the world, the issue has become a bit of a liberal hot topic.
("Elitist" is a bit unfair, though. Most of the buzz, if you'll pardon the pun, is from people who are curious about trying it themselves to see if it is a good idea to popularize to tackle a number of issues that are of mass social concern to them.)
I'll take my $64 trillion now. :-)
My shift key comment was a joke, by the way. I use both shift keys all the time - several times in this post, actually. I assumed it was so absurd a suggestion that people would know it was a joke, but people are defending my post, so... not such a good joke after all.
Ah, I took as serious as well. You wouldn't be the first to suggest it, and a number of companies have made keyboards with only a single shift key, such as on mobile devices; it's rare in full-size keyboards, though.
Also, a number of people who are used to keeping the right hand on them mouse have trained themselves to use the shift key only. (I have to fight this bad habit when not using the mouse myself.)
So, sorry. My mistake. My curmudgeonly, needlessly provocative mistake.
I am disappointed I didn't think of that too.
I had a keyboard once with a dedicated start/shutdown key.
After shutting down my system a few times accidentally I threw that keyboard away.
Seems like a bad design. Macs had a power key for ages on their keyboard, but it pulled up a shutdown prompt instead of killing the whole machine instantly. (You could hold it down for 3 seconds for a force power down, IIRC.) It was also far above the keys and hard to accidentally hit on the machines I remember. This is the one I had on my Performa 5200, and this was the one my old iMac had. (You can see the power key on the latter above the divide between the letter and numeric keypad sections.)
What was the keyboard you used like, and what OS was it for?
My keyboard has two shift keys. He should have used one of those.
Where did you learn to type? Any typing class will teach you that you're supposed to use each shift key for the hand opposite to the hand which types the letter/number. Using one shift key all the time (usually the left) just puts that hand into needlessly slow and awkward claw positions.
Theoretically, you're supposed to do the same with the Ctrl & Alt keys, but keyboard manufacturers refuse to put those in a consistent, pinky-accessible spot on the right side. (Laptop makers, I'm talking about you.) That's probably one of the biggest reasons that one-handed shifting has become so endemic. If you want a redundant set of keys, I'd point the finger at those first.
(P.S. I also was taught to actually use the caps lock key when typing in caps, and it is a big pinky-saver when writing C macros.)
IIRC, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are all specifically mentioned in the Constitution, so the governments power was assumed to be constrained to only those powers listed, while drugs in general aren't mentioned so the government was assumed to have whatever power it wanted, modulo states rights concerns.
You've got a couple of things wrong here.
First, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are not in the main body of the Constitution at all. Firearms are covered by the 2nd Amendment, and alcohol was only addressed in the 18th and 21st Amendments. Tobacco isn't mentioned anywhere.
Second, Congress is given enumerated powers by Article I, including two very broad clauses known as the General Welfare Clause and the Commerce Clause, but the 9th Amendment limits Congress only those powers explicitly mentioned in the Constitution and reserves all other powers to the states. Theoretically, if drugs didn't fall under the Commerce Clause, then they would be solely the province of the states because they weren't mentioned.
However, the Commerce Clause allows Congress to regulate all commerce between the states. That includes banning commerce in certain goods, regulating intrastate commerce that impacts interstate commerce, and regulating commerce that relies on interstate commerce and is thus entangled with it. Thus the power to regulate drugs.
If something is hard for your to read / understand, do not attempt it.
If something is hard for to communicate, then you probably don't understand it yourself.
(Or should I say, "your" don't understand it?)
I think you're completely disregarding that the BSA is a Mormon organization. Keep your unsexist, non-racist, scientific minded, freethinking kids far far away...
Right, because enlightened people don't want to be around narrow-minded bigots who stereotype others and advocate excluding them from activities they participate in because of a lack of decent values like... hmm... waitaminute.
... unless you're all for all the oaths and honors and other mindless appeals to duty and unquestionably of authority, second only to that of JROTC.
Yeah, no. Scouting tends to focus a lot more on both self-reliance and on helping others, in my experiences as a kid. I also find it kind of sad that you consider the words "honor" and "duty" to be contemptible things to teach to kids. The world would be a much better place if there more people felt a duty to their fellow man than to just themselves.
Yes, because no one would use "Scouts" for girls, would they?
Slashdot is not unlike C++.. who uses HTML in comments anyway?
Personally, I tend to use the <quote> and <em> tags in over half the posts I make.
It you don't like Slashdot's default behavior, switch your default posting method to "Extrans" instead of "Plain Old Text," and all your accidental HTML tags will get escaped out approrpriately. (Personally, I'd have used "[ ]" for a substitution indication rather than "< >", but YMMV.)
We needed one to ban Alcohol, was that previously separately protected somewhere in the constitution?
It's debatable. At the time, interstate commerce precedent had not been set to allow effective regulation of alcohol. We had not yet had cases establishing that intrastate commerce that has an impact on or a connection to interstate is covered by the interstate commerce clause. All Congress could do at the time was prohibit the sale of alcohol and not home-brewing.
This was, after all, an era of conservative activism in the court, and Commerce Clause cases at the time held the somewhat ridiculous opinion that broad categories of business like agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and electric generation simply weren't "commerce" and couldn't be regulated. Under that logic, Kidd v. Pearson, 128 U.S. 1 (1888) held that an Iowa law prohibiting the manufacture of alcohol was beyond Congress's ability to regulate, because it was "manufacture" and not "commerce." While this was a pro-dry ruling, it meant that any sort of national prohibition ran up against the wall that Congress simply couldn't ban the manufacture of a good.
Thus, the 18th Amendment.
And what -- letters are money or something? I mean, AAPL is one freaking letter shorter than Apple. Using the stock tickers in place of the names just makes you look like a character out of Dilbert as well as making the sentence harder to read for no good reason.
This is Slashdot. It's News for Nerds, not Twitter for Tools.
Neither you nor the summary answers my question: Does it do anything different from doing that and provide any extra security?
How is this different from just using HTTPS Everywhere or typing https://google.com/ into the URL bar?
drug dealers, rapists, murders, burglars, muggers
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the others, by the time I finish my song?
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
I like this game. Let's play.
A) Drug dealers: Involves voluntary transfer of goods, only offense that's legal at the state level for all citizens in some states, alliterative name, two words, contains three vowels, most letters total.
B) Rapists: Only sex crime on list, only crime disproportionately likely to involve women as the victim, only crime to result in permanent restrictions on where you can live after having "served your time," only word to end in "-ists" instead of an "er/ur" sound.
C) Murders: Only capital crime on list, only crime where the perpetrator cannot make an apology or restitution to the victim, only crime not to have a statute of limitations in any state, only word describing an act and not the person committing it.
D) Burglars: Only crime that requires intent to commit a second offense to be guilty of, only crime that has to be indoors, only crime that has to be at night (in some jurisdictions), only word to lead with a vertical line in a sans-serif font.
E) Muggers: Only crime involving involuntary transfer of goods, only crime involving threat, only crime that has to take outside place in public (as opposed to more generic "robbery"), only crime to be confused with bad acting, only word with double consonants.
So, the answer is ", ", because the comma and space are the only things that are different by being wholly alike something else in the list.
But good parenting will over come what any video game will give her.
That's like saying that a strong enough man doesn't have to worry about lifting with their back instead of their legs. It's true but pointless, and it suggests that you aren't good/strong enough unless you can overcome self-imposed handicaps born from ignoring sensible precaution.
Don't overthink it. I was just making fun of his pointless use of acronyms.
Sorry, MSFT, I just placed orders for 33 AAPL iPad4 on VZW LTE for my office.
ORLY? IDK why you'd do that. BYOD is the future of IT IYKWIM.
I think, despite its flaws, 4chan has my favorite kind of comment system (if you're willing to wade through the shit). Put all comments on the same level; let users decide for themselves whether or not they agree with each other. You'll always have a healthy mix of perspective that way.
I wouldn't consider 4chan's mix of racism, pedophilia, and meme-spouting to be a "healthy" mix of perspective.