The first part 'loss of life' should already be covered by simply applying murder and/or manslaughter charges. There is no reason to invent a new law for this, only because it's done with a computer.
The second part 'threat to the country's national security' on the other hand is such a broad term, it is basicly a blank check where they can fill in any sentence for any crime as they wish.
So I guess it's really about the second part, and the first part is only there to give it more weight: 'HACKERS MIGHT KILL YOU!'
Considering how sharp badly finished cheap computer case parts can be, it should be totally possible to commit manslaughter or murder by literally hacking up the victim using a computer case sidewall, provided the case is not made from third-rate aluminium.
I wonder whether such a case would fall under this suggested legislation.
And you wonder why Scotland wants out of the UK?;)
Look, the topic is about cyber attacks, not accidentally flashing people with your unmentionables every time you walk up the stairs while wearing a kilt.
Well, considering the damage various wars have caused to the faith in crown and country, some politicians should be very GLAD there's no death penalty for high treason anymore.
Such as the one whose name is an anagram for "B-liar"?
Or try taking a screenshot... what was that obnoxious key combo again? That's right... it makes no sense and can't be remembered by a mere mortal.
Meet Grab: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab_(software) . Very handy, and it has more options for screenshots than just hitting whatever the key combination for taking a screenshot is.
I completely agree. OSX has a poor user interface. Their "Save screen real estate by only having one pull down menu" made sense when we were running on 320x200 screens. At that resolution, a pull down menu took a significant percentage of the screen real estate, and everyone was using a single screen. Today, screen real estate is abundant, and multiple monitors are common. With the single menu, there is no good visual cue to indicate which of your many open windows the pull down menu will affect.
What "one pull down menu"? Do you mean the menu bar, or are you mixing up iOS and OS X?
This is a poor UI giving poor usability. Putting removable media in the trash is the movement for ejecting the media? Total brain dead UI.
There's at least two other options to eject removable media: Command-E and clicking the Eject button. So if you don't like trashing removable devices, just use one of the others.
Sounds like you are complaining about a OS you either haven't used at all, or haven't taken the time to explore (which, given that this is Slashdot, would be very curious).
Or so they say. Because when US companies can be coerced into doing things using letters that forbid said company from revealing it received such a letter under the threat of heavy penalties:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
I frankly don't see the use of coming out with major new OS versions when the previous one's latest service pack (which was also FREE) still has major bugs.
The laptop I'm writing this on is running on OS X 10.4.11. I also have a MacBook Pro, which runs 10.8.5 and has at least two major bugs that aren't fixed in 10.9.2 and that weren't present in 10.4.11 (since they were introduced in 2012). I don't expect them to be fixed in 10.10, even though one means I have to reset my cable modem any time I hook up the MacBook Pro because the DHCP lease renewing is broken. The other bug is a deep sleep issue that appears to corrupt my data upon wake. Sure, these modern OS X versions LOOK nicer, but they are NOT better than older versions of OS X. And instead of fixing such bugs, Apple blames the customer if they complain.
| Women, especially nerds, are horrible, mean, vicious people and all women should be treated as such at all times. Men, on the other hands, are always innocent victims of abuse, are always under threat, and must live their lives like they are about to be abused because women.
So, men, do us all a favor, and just stop. Stop interacting with women. Stop talking to women, stop dating women, stop having sex with women, stop marrying women. Just stop, because if you hate and fear women so much that is exactly what any sane person would do.
I am so fucking sick and tired of hearing how there is something intrinsically wrong with me and that I should be feared because I have two X chromosomes. Fuck you too. I haven't hit, let alone abused, any man, ever. I have been hit three times by a man and not once did I retaliate as I could have. I took it. But, if I had hit him back, I would have been the bad guy.
If men wouldn't reward the behavior of bad women, then there wouldn't be so many bad women, but, as we know, men love bad girls right up until that bad girl is bad to them. When that happens to a man, he thinks back to all the bad women he has dated and concludes all women are bad because the problem couldn't possibly him and his choices.
Don't want to be abused or get beaten? Don't be friends with or date immature, over-entitled, sociopathic bad girls with a history of hurting other people including men. Start looking at character instead of boobs, or clothes, or height or sports. Stop going to clubs, getting wasted, and giving your number to that hot girl in the sick shirt, let alone banging her in a one night stand. Find a better place to meet girls or shut the fuck up about how horrible the women you fuck are because that is you having shallow and/or bad taste.
Oh, and when you get drunk and then go home and fuck a girl, you weren't conned. You were irresponsible. If you can't keep your pants on and cock covered when you get drunk, don't get drunk.
Funny, how changing the gender doesn't really change the message...
They are also turned off by bad social skills, bad physical health, and the inclination to play video games and study all day every day (rather than going out and doing something fun with friends).
I think you will find that there is a lot of variation in this. Some female friends (that is, friends who are female, not girlfriends) I've had were quite the gamers, even mentioning that they had a lot of fun with their (boy)friends playing games the whole day. Some women find bad social skills endearing, which might be motivated by "I can make him better" (usually doesn't work) but also by "I want to protect him"-motherly feelings. The latter can be scary. Bad physical health is also not necessarily a problem, especially if she also has such issues (= identification with someone who can understand).
However, what generally is a big turnoff is males trying to force all women into a single mold, where they all have to match an idealized and unrealistic standard. Don't put women on a pedestal, see them for who they are.
A) GoogleCar OS ("ChromeOS for Cars"?) has a little accident and crashes, while your GoogleCar is doing 130 km/h on the highway. No brakes means you plow head first into the human-controlled truck that illegally decides to change lanes ahead of you. Sure, the black box logs will show you kept hitting the "Stop" button all the time, but due to its softwired nature the car just kept on rolling.
A2) The "Stop" button is hardwired and cuts off the drive, but the lack of hardwired or emergency brakes reveals that mere coasting is insufficient to stop the car in time. You smash into the truck. In your last moment you sure wished your GoogleCar had a steering wheel.
B) An unexpected combination of events triggers an emergency stop and you have no way to restart the car despite being stranded right in the middle of the highway because the conditions triggering the emergency stop has not yet disappeared. The car behind you smashes into you.
C) You just bought your new GoogleCar. You program it and take the road. Someone playing with an emergency stopping tool (a cop who's bored) triggers an emergency stopping action in all automatic cars. Oh, now you're stranded on a level crossing, and the train can't stop on time. Oops.
Anyway, this GoogleCar is illegal in my home country because it lacks several essential parts that are mandated to be attached to a car by law (like rear view mirrors).
Yes, just think of the horror! Those poor Jews/homosexuals/anyone-that-Hitler-hateds whose naked corpses were taken pictures of when the Allied Forces discovered the unhumanities of the concentration camps!
They never gave any consent for those pictures! Destroy that proof now!
Your post would be perfectly suited for a drinking game. Just take a glass for every "fuck" or other reference to gay/hetero/whatever sex and you'll be drunk in no time.
The UK, just like currently the Netherlands, wants all of the advantages of the EU without any of the negatives. So they like receiving money and being able to invest their own money in anything in Europe that will bring their own country more money, but think all of that should come free of charge.
Even better, all other EU countries should pay the UK and the Netherlands for being so nice to the rest of the EU. Think of the children!
I wish that the politicians with these stances (usually right-wing and/or populists) took the advice they so like to give to unwanted foreigners (anything Muslim/Arab, Greeks, Eastern Europeans (unless they can use them as slave-labor)) to go away and followed it themselves. The world would be a better place.
Africa generally doesn't have reliable internet connections, unless they're via satellite, but those are very expensive and therefore only used for the really important things. It also depends whether the OP will be working in Senegal's capital or elsewhere.
Best option: just ask local people where they get their software and use their versions (even if they are illegal). You can also consider using an older (secondhand) version of Access.
For some reason, what people like you always seem to forget is that people need money to buy food and sustain themselves. They can't just go enjoy themselves in their immense seas of free time while they are dying of hunger, you know.
More socialist countries (if by that you mean "Europe"...) are as bad as the ole US of A. A lot of "socialist" political parties are only socialist in name these days, and happily embrace capitalism and all its excesses (even if they say otherwise). As long as "big money" and "short term vision" remains the only way forward in the eyes of the idiots in power (even if they say otherwise) it's not gonna change.
...bigotry against Bigots. They already suffer quite badly from stereotyping. Besides, in the case of Bigot Gamers, it may cause them to stop gaming and go out in the world, where they may meet a real girl and conceive offspring (by rape or otherwise). And that would be bad.
Not until bigotry makes your appendages explode will this ever end. And maybe not even then.
On the other hand, when the age of bigotry-induced appendage explosions comes, the number of transgender operations may increase exponentially as those who were bigots and male will want to become male again (after suffering a non-lethal cock-explosion), while those who were bigots and female will want to become female again (after their boobies flew away).
So anti-transgender bigotry may drop to insignificant levels as those who are not into it...are not into it, and those that are will have a new experience in which they discover another side of themselves...
In a week time, there's a nuclear summit attended by loads of world leaders in my country. Air defense will consist of two F-16s. World leaders will arrive on specially reserved landing strip and navigate to summit in capital by specially closed off roads, which have one nice point of failure: only the roads are closed off, you can still get very close to the world leaders by standing alongside the road. By faking the transponder IDs the 777 would have enough time to reach my country, and plunge into the building were the summit is held.
So someone with a pacemaker can be seen as a cyborg by that part of humanity that is currently dying from heart disease, but since a normal healthy human isn't dying from heart disease at the moment someone with a pacemaker is not a cyborg.
However, if Oscar Pistorius replaces his prosthetic legs by some jet engines and has one of his hands replaced by an incorporated pistol, he can become the first cyborg drone in history and not be arrested for murder
Except that such confining regulation might very well force them to split themselves up. So if what you write is indeed their strategy it might end up backfiring pretty badly if it turns out that the parts can't survive on their own.
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"The first rule of car recall decisions is: you don't talk about car recall decisions."?
Without reading the article (as is usual on /.) I do hope they also fired the manager who was supposed to, you know, manage the guy.
If not, expect a repetition in 3, 2, 1, 0 years.
The first part 'loss of life' should already be covered by simply applying murder and/or manslaughter charges. There is no reason to invent a new law for this, only because it's done with a computer.
The second part 'threat to the country's national security' on the other hand is such a broad term, it is basicly a blank check where they can fill in any sentence for any crime as they wish.
So I guess it's really about the second part, and the first part is only there to give it more weight: 'HACKERS MIGHT KILL YOU!'
Considering how sharp badly finished cheap computer case parts can be, it should be totally possible to commit manslaughter or murder by literally hacking up the victim using a computer case sidewall, provided the case is not made from third-rate aluminium.
I wonder whether such a case would fall under this suggested legislation.
And you wonder why Scotland wants out of the UK? ;)
Look, the topic is about cyber attacks, not accidentally flashing people with your unmentionables every time you walk up the stairs while wearing a kilt.
Well, considering the damage various wars have caused to the faith in crown and country, some politicians should be very GLAD there's no death penalty for high treason anymore.
Such as the one whose name is an anagram for "B-liar"?
Or try taking a screenshot... what was that obnoxious key combo again? That's right... it makes no sense and can't be remembered by a mere mortal.
Meet Grab: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab_(software) . Very handy, and it has more options for screenshots than just hitting whatever the key combination for taking a screenshot is.
I completely agree. OSX has a poor user interface. Their "Save screen real estate by only having one pull down menu" made sense when we were running on 320x200 screens. At that resolution, a pull down menu took a significant percentage of the screen real estate, and everyone was using a single screen. Today, screen real estate is abundant, and multiple monitors are common. With the single menu, there is no good visual cue to indicate which of your many open windows the pull down menu will affect.
What "one pull down menu"? Do you mean the menu bar, or are you mixing up iOS and OS X?
This is a poor UI giving poor usability. Putting removable media in the trash is the movement for ejecting the media? Total brain dead UI.
There's at least two other options to eject removable media: Command-E and clicking the Eject button. So if you don't like trashing removable devices, just use one of the others.
Sounds like you are complaining about a OS you either haven't used at all, or haven't taken the time to explore (which, given that this is Slashdot, would be very curious).
Or so they say. Because when US companies can be coerced into doing things using letters that forbid said company from revealing it received such a letter under the threat of heavy penalties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
I frankly don't see the use of coming out with major new OS versions when the previous one's latest service pack (which was also FREE) still has major bugs.
The laptop I'm writing this on is running on OS X 10.4.11. I also have a MacBook Pro, which runs 10.8.5 and has at least two major bugs that aren't fixed in 10.9.2 and that weren't present in 10.4.11 (since they were introduced in 2012). I don't expect them to be fixed in 10.10, even though one means I have to reset my cable modem any time I hook up the MacBook Pro because the DHCP lease renewing is broken. The other bug is a deep sleep issue that appears to corrupt my data upon wake. Sure, these modern OS X versions LOOK nicer, but they are NOT better than older versions of OS X. And instead of fixing such bugs, Apple blames the customer if they complain.
This is what I get out of these articles:
| Women, especially nerds, are horrible, mean, vicious people and all women should be treated as such at all times. Men, on the other hands, are always innocent victims of abuse, are always under threat, and must live their lives like they are about to be abused because women.
So, men, do us all a favor, and just stop. Stop interacting with women. Stop talking to women, stop dating women, stop having sex with women, stop marrying women. Just stop, because if you hate and fear women so much that is exactly what any sane person would do.
I am so fucking sick and tired of hearing how there is something intrinsically wrong with me and that I should be feared because I have two X chromosomes. Fuck you too. I haven't hit, let alone abused, any man, ever. I have been hit three times by a man and not once did I retaliate as I could have. I took it. But, if I had hit him back, I would have been the bad guy.
If men wouldn't reward the behavior of bad women, then there wouldn't be so many bad women, but, as we know, men love bad girls right up until that bad girl is bad to them. When that happens to a man, he thinks back to all the bad women he has dated and concludes all women are bad because the problem couldn't possibly him and his choices.
Don't want to be abused or get beaten? Don't be friends with or date immature, over-entitled, sociopathic bad girls with a history of hurting other people including men. Start looking at character instead of boobs, or clothes, or height or sports. Stop going to clubs, getting wasted, and giving your number to that hot girl in the sick shirt, let alone banging her in a one night stand. Find a better place to meet girls or shut the fuck up about how horrible the women you fuck are because that is you having shallow and/or bad taste.
Oh, and when you get drunk and then go home and fuck a girl, you weren't conned. You were irresponsible. If you can't keep your pants on and cock covered when you get drunk, don't get drunk.
Funny, how changing the gender doesn't really change the message...
I'm pretty sure the number of assholes is exactly 100%.
After all, every human has a mouth and digestive track that needs an exit.
They are also turned off by bad social skills, bad physical health, and the inclination to play video games and study all day every day (rather than going out and doing something fun with friends).
I think you will find that there is a lot of variation in this. Some female friends (that is, friends who are female, not girlfriends) I've had were quite the gamers, even mentioning that they had a lot of fun with their (boy)friends playing games the whole day. Some women find bad social skills endearing, which might be motivated by "I can make him better" (usually doesn't work) but also by "I want to protect him"-motherly feelings. The latter can be scary. Bad physical health is also not necessarily a problem, especially if she also has such issues (= identification with someone who can understand).
However, what generally is a big turnoff is males trying to force all women into a single mold, where they all have to match an idealized and unrealistic standard. Don't put women on a pedestal, see them for who they are.
So...let's consider a few cases:
A) GoogleCar OS ("ChromeOS for Cars"?) has a little accident and crashes, while your GoogleCar is doing 130 km/h on the highway. No brakes means you plow head first into the human-controlled truck that illegally decides to change lanes ahead of you. Sure, the black box logs will show you kept hitting the "Stop" button all the time, but due to its softwired nature the car just kept on rolling.
A2) The "Stop" button is hardwired and cuts off the drive, but the lack of hardwired or emergency brakes reveals that mere coasting is insufficient to stop the car in time. You smash into the truck. In your last moment you sure wished your GoogleCar had a steering wheel.
B) An unexpected combination of events triggers an emergency stop and you have no way to restart the car despite being stranded right in the middle of the highway because the conditions triggering the emergency stop has not yet disappeared. The car behind you smashes into you.
C) You just bought your new GoogleCar. You program it and take the road. Someone playing with an emergency stopping tool (a cop who's bored) triggers an emergency stopping action in all automatic cars. Oh, now you're stranded on a level crossing, and the train can't stop on time. Oops.
Anyway, this GoogleCar is illegal in my home country because it lacks several essential parts that are mandated to be attached to a car by law (like rear view mirrors).
Yes, just think of the horror! Those poor Jews/homosexuals/anyone-that-Hitler-hateds whose naked corpses were taken pictures of when the Allied Forces discovered the unhumanities of the concentration camps!
They never gave any consent for those pictures! Destroy that proof now!
Your post would be perfectly suited for a drinking game. Just take a glass for every "fuck" or other reference to gay/hetero/whatever sex and you'll be drunk in no time.
Or possibly dead due to alcohol poisoning.
The UK, just like currently the Netherlands, wants all of the advantages of the EU without any of the negatives. So they like receiving money and being able to invest their own money in anything in Europe that will bring their own country more money, but think all of that should come free of charge.
Even better, all other EU countries should pay the UK and the Netherlands for being so nice to the rest of the EU. Think of the children!
I wish that the politicians with these stances (usually right-wing and/or populists) took the advice they so like to give to unwanted foreigners (anything Muslim/Arab, Greeks, Eastern Europeans (unless they can use them as slave-labor)) to go away and followed it themselves. The world would be a better place.
Africa generally doesn't have reliable internet connections, unless they're via satellite, but those are very expensive and therefore only used for the really important things. It also depends whether the OP will be working in Senegal's capital or elsewhere.
Best option: just ask local people where they get their software and use their versions (even if they are illegal). You can also consider using an older (secondhand) version of Access.
For some reason, what people like you always seem to forget is that people need money to buy food and sustain themselves. They can't just go enjoy themselves in their immense seas of free time while they are dying of hunger, you know.
More socialist countries (if by that you mean "Europe"...) are as bad as the ole US of A. A lot of "socialist" political parties are only socialist in name these days, and happily embrace capitalism and all its excesses (even if they say otherwise). As long as "big money" and "short term vision" remains the only way forward in the eyes of the idiots in power (even if they say otherwise) it's not gonna change.
...bigotry against Bigots. They already suffer quite badly from stereotyping. Besides, in the case of Bigot Gamers, it may cause them to stop gaming and go out in the world, where they may meet a real girl and conceive offspring (by rape or otherwise). And that would be bad.
Not until bigotry makes your appendages explode will this ever end. And maybe not even then.
On the other hand, when the age of bigotry-induced appendage explosions comes, the number of transgender operations may increase exponentially as those who were bigots and male will want to become male again (after suffering a non-lethal cock-explosion), while those who were bigots and female will want to become female again (after their boobies flew away).
So anti-transgender bigotry may drop to insignificant levels as those who are not into it...are not into it, and those that are will have a new experience in which they discover another side of themselves...
In a week time, there's a nuclear summit attended by loads of world leaders in my country. Air defense will consist of two F-16s. World leaders will arrive on specially reserved landing strip and navigate to summit in capital by specially closed off roads, which have one nice point of failure: only the roads are closed off, you can still get very close to the world leaders by standing alongside the road. By faking the transponder IDs the 777 would have enough time to reach my country, and plunge into the building were the summit is held.
You + tractor is not an ox, but a biomechanical entity used for plowing.
So a 'robox'?
So someone with a pacemaker can be seen as a cyborg by that part of humanity that is currently dying from heart disease, but since a normal healthy human isn't dying from heart disease at the moment someone with a pacemaker is not a cyborg.
However, if Oscar Pistorius replaces his prosthetic legs by some jet engines and has one of his hands replaced by an incorporated pistol, he can become the first cyborg drone in history and not be arrested for murder
Except that such confining regulation might very well force them to split themselves up. So if what you write is indeed their strategy it might end up backfiring pretty badly if it turns out that the parts can't survive on their own.