but he was also caught stealing personal information and credit card numbers which, while not a violent act, can have a pretty wide spread negative impact on people and probably should be considered a fairly serious crime. Identity theft (which such data is sold for) can be pretty life altering, even if non-violent.
I agree, but I think the people who need to be punished severely for that are primarily the people who we entrusted that data to and whose security provisions were obviously inadequate.
Punishing people like Hammond doesn't improve security, and it discourages people from actually finding and exposing security holes, because they are at risk of being charged with "hacking" even if they never intended to harm anybody. In different words, as a customer, I can't probe my bank's security because I would be accused of hacking and punished severely. My bank, on the other hand, which has piss poor security, is just getting away free with it and the hassles they cause me.
This guy wasn't just any "hacktivist", he did some pretty high profile stuff:
Arrested in March 2012, Hammond is currently serving the remainder of a 10-year prison sentence for his involvement in a series of high-profile cyberattacks targeting federal agencies, private government contractors, and police departments.
I have my doubts whether "cyberattacks" (presumably things like denial of service, taking advantage of weak passwords, etc.) should receive such harsh penalties. But given that such actions are treated as more serious than many violent crimes, it doesn't seem surprising or inconsistent for the federal government to want to keep an eye on him.
The point is: if you don't like what happened to Hammond, complaining about him ending on a terrorist watch list won't do any good; what you should complain about is the harsh laws that made him a serious felon in the eye of the law to begin with.
Sorry, that comparison just doesn't make sense to me. Are you an experienced cook or a novice? Did you start from scratch or did you "cook yourself" with helpers (sauces, spice packages, etc.)? Did you buy premium ingredients (fresh meats and vegetables) or bulk and inexpensive ones (mostly frozen, cheaper cuts)? How did you account for the startup costs of spices etc.?
I think OLPC's failure was less due to their relationship with Microsoft and more to the rise of cheap tablets in the consumer market. I don't see any consumer product competing with the RPI yet. The ChromeBox is close, but ChromeOS is too limited really to compete.
What fantasy world do you live in? Less than 5% of Americans "work two jobs", and most of the ones who do don't do it for the money. Americans tend to work a couple of hours more per week than Europeans (not enough to make a difference), but less than Asians (who are less overweight and cook for themselves more). And unprocessed foods are cheaper than processed foods.
A good book analyzing the history of food misinformation is Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health"; another good book by him is "Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It". If you just want a good book on losing weight, Bob Harper's "The Skinny Rules" has some advice I found helpful; it's less about "diets" and more about how to structure your life so that you end up eating both better and less.
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I agree, but I think the people who need to be punished severely for that are primarily the people who we entrusted that data to and whose security provisions were obviously inadequate. Punishing people like Hammond doesn't improve security, and it discourages people from actually finding and exposing security holes, because they are at risk of being charged with "hacking" even if they never intended to harm anybody. In different words, as a customer, I can't probe my bank's security because I would be accused of hacking and punished severely. My bank, on the other hand, which has piss poor security, is just getting away free with it and the hassles they cause me.
No institution or corporation has more money than the Catholic church; not even close. http://www.slate.com/articles/...
I have my doubts whether "cyberattacks" (presumably things like denial of service, taking advantage of weak passwords, etc.) should receive such harsh penalties. But given that such actions are treated as more serious than many violent crimes, it doesn't seem surprising or inconsistent for the federal government to want to keep an eye on him. The point is: if you don't like what happened to Hammond, complaining about him ending on a terrorist watch list won't do any good; what you should complain about is the harsh laws that made him a serious felon in the eye of the law to begin with.
Sorry, that comparison just doesn't make sense to me. Are you an experienced cook or a novice? Did you start from scratch or did you "cook yourself" with helpers (sauces, spice packages, etc.)? Did you buy premium ingredients (fresh meats and vegetables) or bulk and inexpensive ones (mostly frozen, cheaper cuts)? How did you account for the startup costs of spices etc.?
I think OLPC's failure was less due to their relationship with Microsoft and more to the rise of cheap tablets in the consumer market. I don't see any consumer product competing with the RPI yet. The ChromeBox is close, but ChromeOS is too limited really to compete.
What fantasy world do you live in? Less than 5% of Americans "work two jobs", and most of the ones who do don't do it for the money. Americans tend to work a couple of hours more per week than Europeans (not enough to make a difference), but less than Asians (who are less overweight and cook for themselves more). And unprocessed foods are cheaper than processed foods.
A good book analyzing the history of food misinformation is Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health"; another good book by him is "Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It". If you just want a good book on losing weight, Bob Harper's "The Skinny Rules" has some advice I found helpful; it's less about "diets" and more about how to structure your life so that you end up eating both better and less.