Why would any secure system let you reset your password with only 29 bits of entropy (DoB an SSN)? All possible combinations could be tried in seconds...
Most systems wont let you guess a few thousand times for a password- they usually lock you out after the first 3 or 4 incorrect tries.
I would suggest you read columns by George Will and other "social conservatives" on the issue of how the potentially-child-producing male/female marriage has a "civilizing" impact on the culture.
I admit to not being very familiar with the specific arguments of George Will, but it would seem to me that we could allow two men or two women to marry each other without having that greatly affect a male-female marriage. We'd still get the social benefits of traditional male-female marriage, while allowing all members of society to marry whoever they want. Does he address this point?
The underlying idea here is that privacy can legalize ANY action in a home. That's absurdly false. My post was merely pointing out that "privacy" is a flimsy foundation to base laws upon.
The initial post that you responded to was referring to privacy in regards to surfing internet porn and using a dildo.
I suppose the original poster didn't clarify a number of specific offenses that would and would not be allowed behind closed doors, but I don't think one can jump to the conclusion that they were seriously implying that murder was ok in any circumstances.
I think it would be safe to say that in the history of the universe, not one privacy advocate has ever said that murder was OK, as long as it happened in the privacy of one's own home. They kind of take for granted that the implied subtext of the "what people do in the privacy of their own home" is followed by the unspoken "as long as it's between consenting adults, and does not cause harm to non-consenting parties."
So I suppose instead of a generic "nice troll" I should have been more specific: it's a straw-man argument.
Actually I recently heard about some raids in Texas for just this sort of thing. I'd try to find a link, but I'm at work and if anyone checks the logs here I don't want them to wonder why I looked up 'Texas dildo raid' on google.
Any industry that makes a business out of toeing the legal line which borders invasion of privacy, stalking, and identity theft should be hauled into court and put down like a rabid dog.
The original poster never said anything about 'toeing the legal line.'
There are plenty of legal and ethical reasons to track down information that may be considered to be confidential. Maybe he does background checks for employment, or is in law enforcement, or a private investigator to name a few.
Of course, they could just as easily be collecting personal information for unethical or ilelgal purposes.
1)Gun is already armed and I will shoot him when he turns around to leave. No I do not think I am so quick as to be faster then his trigger.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe that if you shoot your mugger in the back as he's turning to leave, you'd be in danger of prosecution.
One thing that I've always heard in self-defense circles is that if you're being robbed, nearly all of the time it's best to just give the robber what they want, and let them go. It sucks to get robbed, but if you try anything fancy you're probably going to get yourself killed.
If you think there's a good chance they're going to kill you no matter what, then of course fight like hell.
There's no way to know their motives for certain, but if you try to remain calm and assess the situation, you can usually make a decent judgement.
You managed to read this part: Civil courts are not there to "punish" lawbreakers
But you must have missed this part: "Punitive" damages do exist in civil cases, and their existance is indeed to punish someone for wrongdoing, but not all civil cases are eligible for them, and I don't believe MPAA is claiming them at this stage.
Among the examples cited by the report include the condemnation of a family's home so that the manager of a planned golf course could live in it; the eviction of four elderly siblings from their home of six decades for a private industrial park; and the removal of a woman in her 80s from her home of 55 years, allegedly to expand a sewer plant but in actuality to give her home to an automobile dealership.
What if your local city council voted to tear down all the houses in your neighborhood (eminent domain) to build a Super Walmart?
Funny you should mention that- the supreme court is hearing a case that questions the ability of a government to seize property from one set of private landowners and hand it over to another set of private landowners.
In almost every case that I've seen, the courts seem to side more with the Super Walmarts of the world than the residents of the homes being seized.
Much of the "abuse" reports coming from Abu Graib (I believe that I misspelled that... too lazy to check) isn't beyond this. 18-25 year olds do stupid shit.
Oh yes. I fondly recall those wacky guys in my dorm who sodomized me, threatened me with dogs, and beat me with blunt objects.
Or that time I was at the frat party and they hooked electrodes to me and told me they were going to electrocute me. Then they threatened me with a gun! Those were the days!
They are going to market real early with their console and a lot of people will be like "Let's wait for PS3." "Oh, and if MS is late with the XBox 2, that could hurt them I think"
well, yeah.. if MS comes out with the XBox2 before the PS3 comes out, some people will say "Lets wait for the PS3."
If they come out with it after the PS3 comes out, then people will say "I just bought this PS3, so why buy another console?"
either way MS would lose, so they're putting their money on the early release, hoping to steal some of the gamers who MUST have the newest system, and hopefully coast by on good reviews and exclusive games.
Actually, the word octopus derives from the Greek oktopous, -odos (unicode: o)kta/pous), so the plural is octopodes. Many of the words that stem from octopus have endings indicative of a Latin root in English, due to the misconception that it comes from the Latin octopus, -i.
From Wikipedia: A note on the plural form: Fowler's Modern English Usage states that "the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses", and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic. The Oxford English Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi, and octopodes (the order reflecting decreasing frequency of use), stating that the last form is rare.
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You forgot good luck not being murdered for being American.
Yeah, but you'll need a work permit first, which makes the possibility of even having the opportunity to be murdered rather remote.
Move.
Good luck getting that work visa.
ninjas have been real ultimate power for longer than terri schiavo has even existed.
they've got stars! and magic!
Move step 4 to step five and replace with 4) Run through standard De-contanimation procedures. Sheesh its not that hard.
I think that's the equivalent of the ??????? step.
1. get dusty
2. ??????
3. be clean!
would it be better if they were waiting in line at the right theater?
The movie is still probably going to suck, and it's pretty stupid to waste a month of their lives for a movie that will most likely be terrible.
Why is it the responsibility of the CANADIAN immigration officer to tell you what the rules are in the USA?
Common human decency?
I thought the Canadians were supposed to be good with that stuff.
That's what police are supposed to do
Not in America, it isn't.
At least not unless they have a good reason to pull you over and question you.
people don't want a big heaping bowl of salt.
speak for yourself!
*eats bowl of salt*
Why would any secure system let you reset your password with only 29 bits of entropy (DoB an SSN)? All possible combinations could be tried in seconds...
Most systems wont let you guess a few thousand times for a password- they usually lock you out after the first 3 or 4 incorrect tries.
Society should not have to subsidise childbirth in a marriage that is incapable of producing children.
excellent idea.
we should thus prevent infertile heterosexual couples from being able to marry.
Additionally, when a married woman reaches menopause, divorce is mandatory.
I would suggest you read columns by George Will and other "social conservatives" on the issue of how the potentially-child-producing male/female marriage has a "civilizing" impact on the culture.
I admit to not being very familiar with the specific arguments of George Will, but it would seem to me that we could allow two men or two women to marry each other without having that greatly affect a male-female marriage. We'd still get the social benefits of traditional male-female marriage, while allowing all members of society to marry whoever they want.
Does he address this point?
The underlying idea here is that privacy can legalize ANY action in a home. That's absurdly false. My post was merely pointing out that "privacy" is a flimsy foundation to base laws upon.
The initial post that you responded to was referring to privacy in regards to surfing internet porn and using a dildo.
I suppose the original poster didn't clarify a number of specific offenses that would and would not be allowed behind closed doors, but I don't think one can jump to the conclusion that they were seriously implying that murder was ok in any circumstances.
I think it would be safe to say that in the history of the universe, not one privacy advocate has ever said that murder was OK, as long as it happened in the privacy of one's own home. They kind of take for granted that the implied subtext of the "what people do in the privacy of their own home" is followed by the unspoken "as long as it's between consenting adults, and does not cause harm to non-consenting parties."
So I suppose instead of a generic "nice troll" I should have been more specific: it's a straw-man argument.
Do we want the government out of the bedroom if the husband is busy murdering the wife?
Nice troll.
Do you really not know the difference between murder and consenting adults having sex in whatever manner they want?
Actually I recently heard about some raids in Texas for just this sort of thing. I'd try to find a link, but I'm at work and if anyone checks the logs here I don't want them to wonder why I looked up 'Texas dildo raid' on google.
Am I the only one that read that as "integration between IE 7.0 and Microsoft's Windows Spyware Approval service"?
actually yes, I think you are the only one.
That's some creative mis-reading right there.
Congratulations, you've just turned this into a democrat vs. republican debate. Ass.
What the hell do you think all politics is?
asshat.
Any industry that makes a business out of toeing the legal line which borders invasion of privacy, stalking, and identity theft should be hauled into court and put down like a rabid dog.
The original poster never said anything about 'toeing the legal line.'
There are plenty of legal and ethical reasons to track down information that may be considered to be confidential. Maybe he does background checks for employment, or is in law enforcement, or a private investigator to name a few.
Of course, they could just as easily be collecting personal information for unethical or ilelgal purposes.
In 1816, Due to volcanic eruptions in Indonesia, the northeastern US was getting snowstorms in june, and seeing lake and river ice in july and august.
Check this out:
Year Without a Summer
1)Gun is already armed and I will shoot him when he turns around to leave. No I do not think I am so quick as to be faster then his trigger.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe that if you shoot your mugger in the back as he's turning to leave, you'd be in danger of prosecution.
One thing that I've always heard in self-defense circles is that if you're being robbed, nearly all of the time it's best to just give the robber what they want, and let them go. It sucks to get robbed, but if you try anything fancy you're probably going to get yourself killed.
If you think there's a good chance they're going to kill you no matter what, then of course fight like hell.
There's no way to know their motives for certain, but if you try to remain calm and assess the situation, you can usually make a decent judgement.
You managed to read this part:
Civil courts are not there to "punish" lawbreakers
But you must have missed this part:
"Punitive" damages do exist in civil cases, and their existance is indeed to punish someone for wrongdoing, but not all civil cases are eligible for them, and I don't believe MPAA is claiming them at this stage.
Really...can you cite one? Two? Three?
I don't know why I'm bothering to reply to an AC but according to the Institute for Justice:
report here
Among the examples cited by the report include the condemnation of a family's home so that the manager of a planned golf course could live in it; the eviction of four elderly siblings from their home of six decades for a private industrial park; and the removal of a woman in her 80s from her home of 55 years, allegedly to expand a sewer plant but in actuality to give her home to an automobile dealership.
What if your local city council voted to tear down all the houses in your neighborhood (eminent domain) to build a Super Walmart?
Funny you should mention that- the supreme court is hearing a case that questions the ability of a government to seize property from one set of private landowners and hand it over to another set of private landowners.
In almost every case that I've seen, the courts seem to side more with the Super Walmarts of the world than the residents of the homes being seized.
Much of the "abuse" reports coming from Abu Graib (I believe that I misspelled that... too lazy to check) isn't beyond this. 18-25 year olds do stupid shit.
Oh yes. I fondly recall those wacky guys in my dorm who sodomized me, threatened me with dogs, and beat me with blunt objects.
Or that time I was at the frat party and they hooked electrodes to me and told me they were going to electrocute me. Then they threatened me with a gun! Those were the days!
They are going to market real early with their console and a lot of people will be like "Let's wait for PS3." "Oh, and if MS is late with the XBox 2, that could hurt them I think"
well, yeah..
if MS comes out with the XBox2 before the PS3 comes out, some people will say "Lets wait for the PS3."
If they come out with it after the PS3 comes out, then people will say "I just bought this PS3, so why buy another console?"
either way MS would lose, so they're putting their money on the early release, hoping to steal some of the gamers who MUST have the newest system, and hopefully coast by on good reviews and exclusive games.
Actually, the word octopus derives from the Greek oktopous, -odos (unicode: o)kta/pous), so the plural is octopodes. Many of the words that stem from octopus have endings indicative of a Latin root in English, due to the misconception that it comes from the Latin octopus, -i.
From Wikipedia:
A note on the plural form: Fowler's Modern English Usage states that "the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses", and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic. The Oxford English Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi, and octopodes (the order reflecting decreasing frequency of use), stating that the last form is rare.