has somehow confused the 4th of July, US Independence Day with April Fool's day and tried to make the April Fool's day version of the new BBC web site.
I think the BBC's funniest April Fool's prank was the Spaghetti Trees.
Oh that British Humor. If only Benny Hill had not passed away or Monty Python broken up they could have made even more practical jokes and even more BBC prototype beta web site designs to insult and offend more Facebook fans.
"We're the BBC, we don't care, we don't have to!" -Ernestine after being fired from her US phone company job and relocated to the UK to work for the BBC help desk to answer calls about this.
We Americans don't know what saddos means, it sounds like some sort of British candy, and we had no idea that the Queen of the UK joined the Pakistan hockey team, but good for her to cross cultural barriers and take up hockey. I am sure her royal highness is the best hip checker in that team and if the Pakistan hockey team wants to win, pass it to the Queen who is so skilled she can shoot a puck past any goalie due to all the hockey practice she took in the UK to get ready to join the Pakistan hockey team to help them win. I hear she took hockey lessons from none other that Sarah Palin herself who as the best hockey mom/pitbull with lipstick in Alaska needed a job after quitting as governor and was glad to teach the Queen all about hockey. I also heard that for her services to HRH and the crown that Sarah Palin was knighted as a female knight or dame or whatever and is moving to the UK to become an adviser to the Queen on hockey and other things they Queen wishes to know like using a sniper rifle in a helicopter to kill surplus wolves and stuff. HRH finds such things amusing that she is making a deal with Obama and Congress to turn the USA into the UK 2.0 so we can rejoin the New British Empire to help fix out economy and use UK laws as our US Constitution was not really being used anymore and then we can adopt the Pound Sterling and drop the US Dollar because now it is worth not more than toilet paper.
in the OS or have an option of and OS update that includes tools to detect attacks and then counter them.
I remember having a Fedora 9 Web Server and all kinds of foreign IP addresses tried to crack passwords and guess user names. I read the logs as root showing me failed attempts using some dictionary attack of English/American first names and passwords from a dictionary list. Now I don't use first names but handles and pen names that are hard to guess and run as a user account and only use root when I need to do something.
A friend of mine told me they will keep trying and cannot be stopped because my Linux server has no defense system to counter attack their hacking attempts and when they send a DoS attack my system does not send one back.
But I was never able to find such programs for Linux that would counter-attack such things and stopped hosting my web site at home and moved it to a web hosting services and let their admins monitor it 24/7. I recall they used an exploit in Apache 2.X and PHP during Halloween when I was taking my wife and son out for collecting candy. I come back home and found that trolls from Kuro5hin hacked my web server and took control and added insulting and untrue stuff about me. Later on they did the same thing to Net Money Chat that used Scoop like Kuro5hin but the admin fixed it to work with Apache 2.X and mod_perl for Apache 2.0, he submitted the code changes to Rusty, but Rusty never did anything about them. Then the Kuro5hin trolls hacked Net Money Chat and make it so it never served web pages and sabotaged the system so no part of it would work.
I would like to see such things available or built into Linux and other operating systems or be part of a security update or some free or open source software that can be gotten by people or small businesses that run web sites and need some way to force hackers and attackers to stay away from their web servers or at least collect enough evidence to submit to the FBI or some other group to hunt down the hackers and crackers by generating an ODF or PDF or whatever file that contains copies of the logs and a list of IP addresses doing the hacking and cracking attempts and attacks and then lists what they did. If needed a court can examine the Linux logs to see the whole history if they want to as well.
Trace the IPs as the source of the attacks, get a warrant for the systems doing the attacks and if they are part of a Botnet zombie virus trace the IP logs back until you find the source it originated from that are controlling the Botnets.
You basically want to set up a Honeypot in a DMZ of the systems being targeted and take every other critical system offline and have the Honeypot act as it with dummy data on it. Then when the terrorists or crooks use the dummy data to register some where have the bank report it and get the IP address and email of the person using the dummy data and get a warrant for their arrest.
If you counter-attack it might be someone's infected system used as part of a BotNet and then if it is a system in a foreign nation our military does a DoS or attack to they might declare war on us.
So it is better we track down these attacks and learn the true source and not the Botnet of infected zombie PCs who don't even know they are infected but are remote controlled by terrorists.
This is basically an Internet 911 attack that keeps happening over and over again until we learn how to stop them.
If you are on Facebook or MySpace do not post personal information about yourself and never post that you are going to work or vacation as robbers will then know when you aren't home so they can break in and steal your Flatscreen TV set, checkbook, credit cards, computer, iPod, iPhone, whatever.
They also pay for advertising that has pop-ups with fake error messages like "Unhandled Expection Error 0x00000000" or "Your computer is infected with 327 viruses click here to remove them" that install a remote access and keylogger trojan horse virus that can tell when you post anywhere even in email that you are going on vacation or to work, and yes they will get your home address if you type it in somewhere.
I've had family members and friends be targeted this way. I don't know if it is just individuals doing this, or an unorganized gansta group, or a more tech savvy MAFIA, or even if it is a terrorist network trying to do this to steal the wealth from the USA on person at a time.
Also if you get an email claiming to be from the FBI to deliver money or cars or even anything to you, do not reply and delete it or move it to your junk folder. The FBI does not deliver money and most of these con artists and scammers try to tell you that you won some foreign lottery or a BMW and the FBI will deliver it to you by giving out your personal information, bank account number, credit cards, SSN, etc. Don't fall for it as it is a modified Nigerian 419 scam. I am 100% certain that the FBI does not deliver lottery money and prizes, who here agrees with me?
To the person who modded my comment as flamebait or anyone else who disagrees.
Please cite the statute in question you referenced to find out that I am wrong on this, word for word. Apparently if you are a legal expert you know this stuff by heart.
You have your 16 year old nephew over at your house to stay in a spare bedroom.
You do not have custodial rights your brother and sister-in-law do.
Your nephew gets on your computer surfs kiddie porn and then trolls and harasses a girl at school who won't go out with him until she does a suicide.
By your retarded argument because you don't have custodial rights, ain't nothing the Police or FBI can do to you. But in that you are not only wrong but a retard.
Even if an adult, parent, guardian, friend, or family member who is an adult or babysitter does not monitor the teenager or child and the teenager or child gets into trouble then that adult is responsible for what the teenager or child did. So if she didn't monitor him, the police and family services would file neglect charges against her plus whatever he did on the Internet she would be responsible for as well.
My areas of law or practice areas I studied in college and the law firm:
Civil Rights Employment Law Business Law Tax Law Constitutional Law Slander/Libel Law Family and Divorce Law
Now if I didn't get sick, I would have passed law school and then my bar exam and became a lawyer for that law firm and sooner or later I'd be a partner in their firm. Even if I didn't, I still have my legal education and experience. So what have you got you armchair lawyer?
A) I was trained in law by lawyers in employment law and also took college classes in law as part of my job so it is relevant.
B) His lawyer who filed the case for him is the retard here as passing a bar exam and not knowing the difference between slander and libel means the lawyer cheated to pass the bar exam. Hiring a retarded lawyer makes one equally retarded.
C) Not having custodial rights is irrelevant if you bothered to read the law. As his mother even if she does not have custodial rights still has some rights. But since you ignore the US Constitution you think she has no rights, freedoms, or liberties at all, right? If that is her son in any way, she still has to check on him or neglect charges will be filed on her by family services even if she doesn't have custodial rights.
The kid is a retard, slander is the spoken word, libel is the written word, I worked for lawyers for four and a half years so I know stuff like that.
If he was my son and did crap like that on Facebook, I'd take away his Internet privileges until he learns his lesson about responsibility and making good decisions instead of bad ones. That would be a consequence of his bad decisions and bad behavior on Facebook and the rest of the Internet. But I'd bet I'd still get sued as the ACLU will claim I violated his rights to troll people on Facebook, Kuro5hin, Slashdot, The Daily Kos, 4Chan, Blogger, Current, Digg, Reddit, etc.
when they modernized it, then tried to appeal to a younger market they shut out us die-hard Doctor Who fans from the 1970's and 1980's. They did the same thing when they rebooted Star Trek with all new actors and the time travel paradox that didn't make any sense. George Lucas did the same thing for Star Wars Episodes I to III, but at least the Cartoon "Clone Wars" is good enough to watch and better than the other prequels.
But this is why Hollywood and California as well as the BBC keep losing money and having to fire the good actors and actresses and replacing them with younger and not as good ones to save on salaries.
The BBC should bring back the old Doctor Who actors that are left for special episodes where the current Doctor Who meets his past selves in a Time Travel paradox. While they beefed Doctor Who up and he kicked the asses of the Family of Blood using time lord technology, that was the best thing they could have done. But after that Doctor Who went back to being a non-violent prat and bleeding heart liberal. At least punish the evil aliens non-violently once in a while, put dwarf star matter chains on them, trap them in a mirror, trick them into the heart of a giant black hole in the center of a galaxy, or freeze them in time and make them a scarecrow. Stuff like that is good TV and gets good ratings. Boring ultra-left-wing non-violent crap only makes ratings go down esp when they add in political crap and propaganda and make Americans look bad by making US characters like Captain Jack Harkness look like a jerk, when clearly he is not and is a Time Cop and never shoots innocent aliens but only shoots the evil ones. No need to sonic screwdriver his time travel wrist watch and stick him in the past, he was a good character that could have been a great character. I don't mind that he was an omnisexual and shoot first before asking questions kind of guy, but we needed to see more of his human side, his love for Earth and Justice tempered with mercy and compassion. They need to make a new Torchwood and bring back Jack Harkness or someone just like him and have humans using alien technology to fight evil aliens and protect the good aliens and protect the good and innocent people. Then throw in more UNIT support and bring in Sarah Jane and K9 to make the show better so it doesn't get canceled again. The BBC killed off most of the popular and interesting characters.
Bring in Romama in a new regeneration as a Time Lady looking for Dr. Who who escaped the destruction of Gallifrey by hiding in E-Space. Bring back Drax, and while The Master is gone and inside that ring, see if The Randi can come back. Invent new aliens who stole Dalek, Cybermen, and Sontauian technology to create a new better race of evil aliens for Doctor Who and Torchwood to team up and fight.Have the Sea Devils come back and plot their revenge against Earth and Doctor Who for trying to wipe them all out in the Classic Doctor Who series when he said "There should have been a better way." and survivors of their race hunt down Doctor Who and his friends and allies.
I thought Microsoft said it would fully 100% support free and open source software including games.
Thank you for proving that you are jerks once again Microsoft by stopping this free Mechwarrior 4 release. It could have been good public relations and got you more business. Now we FOSS developers are going to have to speak against you for some bad public relations and hurt your sales and business and reputation.
if it can work outside of a web browser. If not then I ought to stick with C++, Python, Java, and others as I want to make open source cross platform stand alone applications. Some people don't want to run their business code in a web browser for privacy reasons.
Where Peter Parker aka Spider-Man and his wife Mary Jane make a deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May from dying and make the world forget that Peter Parker was Spider-Man in exchange for changing history so Peter Parket and Mary Jane Watson never got married.
If I would reboot the film, I would base it on the Ultimate Spider-Man or Spider-Man Unlimited versions and then make a Spider-Man 2099 with a different actor just for the heck of it later as a joke.
Actually this is the case with any typical social networking or Internet web site. Even if you have access to privacy controls they aren't good enough to protect you from yourself or someone else violating your privacy and even if you block everyone every game or quiz or program you add has access to your private information and they collect it and harvest it and sell it to spammers and advertisers. Best way to protect your privacy is to not even use the Internet at all, or if you do use a handle or nickname and not your real name and hope nobody traces your IP address back to your private personal information.
When the US Government was founded in the Decoration of Independence our founding fathers claimed that all rights, freedoms, and liberties came from nature's God (or nature itself if you are a non-religious person or don't believe in a God, etc) and that government should not be able to take those away and that doing so would be tyranny. They did it that way instead of having all rights, freedoms, and liberties coming from the government because the power to grant is also the power to take away as England and other nations did to their people Using God or Nature as a source for all freedoms, rights, and liberties is a neutral source that no human being can mess with. In modern times EULA and TOS agreements limit or take away privacy, and other rights, freedoms, and liberties and should be by nature Unconstitutional as it goes against the US Constitution and what our founding fathers believed in. You can only take away freedoms, rights, and liberties via the court system but only after beyond a reasonable doubt that the person is guilty and they have to be considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt to be punished that way. But the EULA and TOS punish users even if they broke no criminal laws and automatically take away freedoms, rights, and liberties all in the name of profit and greed and power and control and politics.
Logan's Run, it wasn't done right the first time it needs better acting and better special effects.
Silent Running, didn't have very convincing robots or plot, bad acting and needs a complete and total rewrite.
Buck Rodgers in the 25st Century only this time when ratings go down don't try to make it a Star trek clone.
Flash Gordan, keep the Queen soundtrack it was the best thing of that movie. That Syfy series wasn't very good and I think it can be done a lot better.
Blake's Seven better special effects, better acting, different ending.
Red Dwarf, make it funnier more like the Novels.
Space: 1999 make it Space: 2099 instead of a nuclear reactor explosion on The Moon, have a Large Hardon Collider malfunction and turn into a gravity drive that creates mini-black holes that turn into wormholes and suck in the Moon and it randomly pops up all over the galaxy.
2001: a Space Odyssey make it 2101: a Space Odyssey have IBM make the HAL hardware and Microsoft the HAL software, due to a defect HAL flips the wrong bit and goes psychotic trying to kill off the crew. Until Dave Bowman an Angry Astronaught with a Screw Driver finds a way to defeat him.
Space: Above and Beyond it was canceled before it started to get good. Have the Earthers violate the Chig colonies that starts up a war, but the Space Marines are not aware of that fact until they discover it later that Xenophobic leaders and military had done the Chigs dirty and that is what started the war. Then see if it has a different ending, does everyone in the Angry Angels die, survive, make a truce with the Chigs, or get captured as POWS and another Space Marine group has to rescue them?
Any open source software project has to accept third party plugins, extensions, and add-ons or else it isn't considered to be open enough to really matter. I love Adblock and NoScript and if Mozilla shuts them out I will move to Chrome or Opera.
Mozilla keep the extensions feature, but just design your own extensions and come up with a way to blacklist the bad extensions that are malware based or Microsoft's.Net Helper crap which you really should blacklist and then disable and block because it is really fricken annoying. Have the users use a feedback system to rate how annoying an extension is so they can be warned not to install them or risk security or being annoyed. I'd rate the Microsoft.Net extension as being annoying to the level of 11 out of 10, none higher than that.
The USA does not, contrary to some believing it, have a monopoly on science and technology.
During the 1970's to 1990's the USA may have made some innovative computer technology and got the Apollo mission to the Moon and the Space Shuttle, but the rest of the world has caught up and in some ways passed us by.
Due to offshoring the work to foreign nations and not hiring enough scientists, engineers, and computer science US citizens in the USA, most of us had to take a job to pay the bills that does not contribute to science and technology. The jobs went to the lower bidders in India, China, Russia, etc instead. Labor goes to where labor costs are cheaper as per classic capitalism and even China has become capitalist. Minimum wage is welfare capitalism and classic capitalism does not use it. The USA has welfare capitalism which means we have welfare ie social programs backed by capitalism via insurance and that means unemployment, COBRA, medicare, disability, welfare, etc. We also force companies to get health insurance for their employees but foreign nations do not. Plus we tax corporations to pay for our welfare capitalism social programs so it also forces companies to move to foreign nations to avoid all that.
When I went to UMR I hung out with the foreign students from China and other places. They were so smart I would play pinball with them in the student lounge and they would win all of these free games because of mechanical engineering and they taught me some of the tricks of playing pinball and gave me their free games, in which I would win more free games and give them to another student. The best of the best from foreign nations come to the USA for college degrees and used to work in the USA, but now thanks to the Internet they can work in a foreign nation and turn out work for pennies on the dollar of what a US citizen wants to earn.
I worked at a few computer shops and trained technicians. One of them was used to working with IBM PC systems at Forsythe and I warned him that the generic PC clones are built different with sharp edges inside of the case that can slice through fingers and your arms if you weren't careful. So I took my time to work on them and prevented accidents. But the rookie who worked on IBM PC systems sliced open his hand on a Chinese made PC clone system built from parts within 15 minutes on the job and refused to listen to what I told him about safety. He filed workman's comp and they blamed me for it and eventually fired me later, even if I did warn him and told him to be careful around the sharp parts inside of the cases. I even gave him a pair of work gloves to use to avoid slicing open his hand, but he refused claiming he was a tough guy and didn't need them.
Today most modern systems are buffered so they aren't as sharp, because of accidents like that and lawsuits against PC makers and PC shops that sold them. But that was back in the days of IC chips and RAM in chips instead of SIMMs or DIMMS. Everything was harder back then, and easier now.
He had to change the subject so people will forget what I wrote and go for the liberal-baiting climate gate topic/troll instead. This is how someone wins an argument by using a sockpuppet account to change the subject to a flamebait one. People use that on me, when I write a reasonably written post that uses logic and reason and critical thinking to speak about something intelligent yet controversial but interesting.
In Europe they went crazy for the Amiga. Most Amiga users are upset at Microsoft and Apple for screwing them in the past and some dual-boot AmigaOS and Yellow Dog Linux or some other PowerPC version of Linux.
If Slashdot had bothered to cover the Amiga we'd know what went wrong and what they are currently doing.
AmigaOS 4.0 was written by Hyperion or some other company and there was licensing deals. AmigaOS 5.0 was supposed to outclass and outperform Windows Vista and Mac OSX. But due to lawsuits it never got released.
The best open source project to come out of the Amiga technology is Amiga Research OS which will work on Intel X86 systems and virtual machines and has a version that runs native inside of Linux. But it lacks proper third party hardware drivers for modern systems so I'd run it in VirtualBox or some other virtual machine like HaikuOS does. AROS is AmigaOS 3.1 based on the APIs and started out as a WINE product and became a full OS.
Amiga, Inc. sells some of the classic Amiga games for Windows and mobile devices under the Amiga Anywhere titles. Some day like the C64 they will port them to the WII, PS3, and XBox 360, etc.
In an attempt to open source and modernize the Amiga and AmigaOS technology they are taking a page from Apple and making an AmigaOS merge with Linux to create Anubis OS but it is not Amiga, Inc that is doing it but another group. While Mac OS X was based on NextStep (A MACH kernel *BSD Unix based OS) and the Classic MacOS series the Anubis OS claims to be Linux based with the Amiga GUI and ability to run Amiga software.
I hereby challenge Slashdot editors and readers to report on the Amiga projects as they mature and make progress. See if 2010 can be the year of the Amiga coverage at Slashdot and create an Amiga category if one doesn't already exist.
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has somehow confused the 4th of July, US Independence Day with April Fool's day and tried to make the April Fool's day version of the new BBC web site.
I think the BBC's funniest April Fool's prank was the Spaghetti Trees.
Oh that British Humor. If only Benny Hill had not passed away or Monty Python broken up they could have made even more practical jokes and even more BBC prototype beta web site designs to insult and offend more Facebook fans.
"We're the BBC, we don't care, we don't have to!" -Ernestine after being fired from her US phone company job and relocated to the UK to work for the BBC help desk to answer calls about this.
We Americans don't know what saddos means, it sounds like some sort of British candy, and we had no idea that the Queen of the UK joined the Pakistan hockey team, but good for her to cross cultural barriers and take up hockey. I am sure her royal highness is the best hip checker in that team and if the Pakistan hockey team wants to win, pass it to the Queen who is so skilled she can shoot a puck past any goalie due to all the hockey practice she took in the UK to get ready to join the Pakistan hockey team to help them win. I hear she took hockey lessons from none other that Sarah Palin herself who as the best hockey mom/pitbull with lipstick in Alaska needed a job after quitting as governor and was glad to teach the Queen all about hockey. I also heard that for her services to HRH and the crown that Sarah Palin was knighted as a female knight or dame or whatever and is moving to the UK to become an adviser to the Queen on hockey and other things they Queen wishes to know like using a sniper rifle in a helicopter to kill surplus wolves and stuff. HRH finds such things amusing that she is making a deal with Obama and Congress to turn the USA into the UK 2.0 so we can rejoin the New British Empire to help fix out economy and use UK laws as our US Constitution was not really being used anymore and then we can adopt the Pound Sterling and drop the US Dollar because now it is worth not more than toilet paper.
in the OS or have an option of and OS update that includes tools to detect attacks and then counter them.
I remember having a Fedora 9 Web Server and all kinds of foreign IP addresses tried to crack passwords and guess user names. I read the logs as root showing me failed attempts using some dictionary attack of English/American first names and passwords from a dictionary list. Now I don't use first names but handles and pen names that are hard to guess and run as a user account and only use root when I need to do something.
A friend of mine told me they will keep trying and cannot be stopped because my Linux server has no defense system to counter attack their hacking attempts and when they send a DoS attack my system does not send one back.
But I was never able to find such programs for Linux that would counter-attack such things and stopped hosting my web site at home and moved it to a web hosting services and let their admins monitor it 24/7. I recall they used an exploit in Apache 2.X and PHP during Halloween when I was taking my wife and son out for collecting candy. I come back home and found that trolls from Kuro5hin hacked my web server and took control and added insulting and untrue stuff about me. Later on they did the same thing to Net Money Chat that used Scoop like Kuro5hin but the admin fixed it to work with Apache 2.X and mod_perl for Apache 2.0, he submitted the code changes to Rusty, but Rusty never did anything about them. Then the Kuro5hin trolls hacked Net Money Chat and make it so it never served web pages and sabotaged the system so no part of it would work.
I would like to see such things available or built into Linux and other operating systems or be part of a security update or some free or open source software that can be gotten by people or small businesses that run web sites and need some way to force hackers and attackers to stay away from their web servers or at least collect enough evidence to submit to the FBI or some other group to hunt down the hackers and crackers by generating an ODF or PDF or whatever file that contains copies of the logs and a list of IP addresses doing the hacking and cracking attempts and attacks and then lists what they did. If needed a court can examine the Linux logs to see the whole history if they want to as well.
They took our jobs!
Almost most IT and Web Development jobs have been outsourced to third world nations.
They took our jobs! Duurkee duuuurr!
Nice try Lostincali. Go back to Kuro5hin where you belong.
ET play World Of Warcraft, Leroy Jenkins!
Yoda Civilization IV play, hmmmm, yes!
Mr. Spock plays Soduko, fascinating.
Captain Kirk plays Modern Warfare 2.0, we come in peace shoot to kill!
Captain Picard plays OMG Ponies!
Commander Data plays Chessmaster and uses the Holodeck too much..
Trace the IPs as the source of the attacks, get a warrant for the systems doing the attacks and if they are part of a Botnet zombie virus trace the IP logs back until you find the source it originated from that are controlling the Botnets.
You basically want to set up a Honeypot in a DMZ of the systems being targeted and take every other critical system offline and have the Honeypot act as it with dummy data on it. Then when the terrorists or crooks use the dummy data to register some where have the bank report it and get the IP address and email of the person using the dummy data and get a warrant for their arrest.
If you counter-attack it might be someone's infected system used as part of a BotNet and then if it is a system in a foreign nation our military does a DoS or attack to they might declare war on us.
So it is better we track down these attacks and learn the true source and not the Botnet of infected zombie PCs who don't even know they are infected but are remote controlled by terrorists.
This is basically an Internet 911 attack that keeps happening over and over again until we learn how to stop them.
If you are on Facebook or MySpace do not post personal information about yourself and never post that you are going to work or vacation as robbers will then know when you aren't home so they can break in and steal your Flatscreen TV set, checkbook, credit cards, computer, iPod, iPhone, whatever.
They also pay for advertising that has pop-ups with fake error messages like "Unhandled Expection Error 0x00000000" or "Your computer is infected with 327 viruses click here to remove them" that install a remote access and keylogger trojan horse virus that can tell when you post anywhere even in email that you are going on vacation or to work, and yes they will get your home address if you type it in somewhere.
I've had family members and friends be targeted this way. I don't know if it is just individuals doing this, or an unorganized gansta group, or a more tech savvy MAFIA, or even if it is a terrorist network trying to do this to steal the wealth from the USA on person at a time.
Also if you get an email claiming to be from the FBI to deliver money or cars or even anything to you, do not reply and delete it or move it to your junk folder. The FBI does not deliver money and most of these con artists and scammers try to tell you that you won some foreign lottery or a BMW and the FBI will deliver it to you by giving out your personal information, bank account number, credit cards, SSN, etc. Don't fall for it as it is a modified Nigerian 419 scam. I am 100% certain that the FBI does not deliver lottery money and prizes, who here agrees with me?
To the person who modded my comment as flamebait or anyone else who disagrees.
Please cite the statute in question you referenced to find out that I am wrong on this, word for word. Apparently if you are a legal expert you know this stuff by heart.
You have your 16 year old nephew over at your house to stay in a spare bedroom.
You do not have custodial rights your brother and sister-in-law do.
Your nephew gets on your computer surfs kiddie porn and then trolls and harasses a girl at school who won't go out with him until she does a suicide.
By your retarded argument because you don't have custodial rights, ain't nothing the Police or FBI can do to you. But in that you are not only wrong but a retard.
Even if an adult, parent, guardian, friend, or family member who is an adult or babysitter does not monitor the teenager or child and the teenager or child gets into trouble then that adult is responsible for what the teenager or child did. So if she didn't monitor him, the police and family services would file neglect charges against her plus whatever he did on the Internet she would be responsible for as well.
My areas of law or practice areas I studied in college and the law firm:
Civil Rights
Employment Law
Business Law
Tax Law
Constitutional Law
Slander/Libel Law
Family and Divorce Law
Now if I didn't get sick, I would have passed law school and then my bar exam and became a lawyer for that law firm and sooner or later I'd be a partner in their firm. Even if I didn't, I still have my legal education and experience. So what have you got you armchair lawyer?
A) I was trained in law by lawyers in employment law and also took college classes in law as part of my job so it is relevant.
B) His lawyer who filed the case for him is the retard here as passing a bar exam and not knowing the difference between slander and libel means the lawyer cheated to pass the bar exam. Hiring a retarded lawyer makes one equally retarded.
C) Not having custodial rights is irrelevant if you bothered to read the law. As his mother even if she does not have custodial rights still has some rights. But since you ignore the US Constitution you think she has no rights, freedoms, or liberties at all, right? If that is her son in any way, she still has to check on him or neglect charges will be filed on her by family services even if she doesn't have custodial rights.
Nope but his lawyer who filed the case for him should know the difference between slander and libel in order to pass a bar exam.
I worked as a developer on OS/390 as well. Standard Bisam not enough room for the first level index.
Let's see every Internet safety class I went to for my son says I have to monitor his Internet usage and then report on it.
When he acts up or misbehaves I have to let him know what he did and use empathy and consequences and how he can correct it to grow up and become a responsible adult that has good behavior, good actions, and makes good decisions and has a good system of morals and ethics. This is also how Critical Thinking works.
But many disagree on how Child Psychology should work and Maddox says don't be a p*ssy beat your kids if she followed the Maddox method he wouldn't even sue her for slander.
The kid is a retard, slander is the spoken word, libel is the written word, I worked for lawyers for four and a half years so I know stuff like that.
If he was my son and did crap like that on Facebook, I'd take away his Internet privileges until he learns his lesson about responsibility and making good decisions instead of bad ones. That would be a consequence of his bad decisions and bad behavior on Facebook and the rest of the Internet. But I'd bet I'd still get sued as the ACLU will claim I violated his rights to troll people on Facebook, Kuro5hin, Slashdot, The Daily Kos, 4Chan, Blogger, Current, Digg, Reddit, etc.
when they modernized it, then tried to appeal to a younger market they shut out us die-hard Doctor Who fans from the 1970's and 1980's. They did the same thing when they rebooted Star Trek with all new actors and the time travel paradox that didn't make any sense. George Lucas did the same thing for Star Wars Episodes I to III, but at least the Cartoon "Clone Wars" is good enough to watch and better than the other prequels.
But this is why Hollywood and California as well as the BBC keep losing money and having to fire the good actors and actresses and replacing them with younger and not as good ones to save on salaries.
The BBC should bring back the old Doctor Who actors that are left for special episodes where the current Doctor Who meets his past selves in a Time Travel paradox. While they beefed Doctor Who up and he kicked the asses of the Family of Blood using time lord technology, that was the best thing they could have done. But after that Doctor Who went back to being a non-violent prat and bleeding heart liberal. At least punish the evil aliens non-violently once in a while, put dwarf star matter chains on them, trap them in a mirror, trick them into the heart of a giant black hole in the center of a galaxy, or freeze them in time and make them a scarecrow. Stuff like that is good TV and gets good ratings. Boring ultra-left-wing non-violent crap only makes ratings go down esp when they add in political crap and propaganda and make Americans look bad by making US characters like Captain Jack Harkness look like a jerk, when clearly he is not and is a Time Cop and never shoots innocent aliens but only shoots the evil ones. No need to sonic screwdriver his time travel wrist watch and stick him in the past, he was a good character that could have been a great character. I don't mind that he was an omnisexual and shoot first before asking questions kind of guy, but we needed to see more of his human side, his love for Earth and Justice tempered with mercy and compassion. They need to make a new Torchwood and bring back Jack Harkness or someone just like him and have humans using alien technology to fight evil aliens and protect the good aliens and protect the good and innocent people. Then throw in more UNIT support and bring in Sarah Jane and K9 to make the show better so it doesn't get canceled again. The BBC killed off most of the popular and interesting characters.
Bring in Romama in a new regeneration as a Time Lady looking for Dr. Who who escaped the destruction of Gallifrey by hiding in E-Space. Bring back Drax, and while The Master is gone and inside that ring, see if The Randi can come back. Invent new aliens who stole Dalek, Cybermen, and Sontauian technology to create a new better race of evil aliens for Doctor Who and Torchwood to team up and fight.Have the Sea Devils come back and plot their revenge against Earth and Doctor Who for trying to wipe them all out in the Classic Doctor Who series when he said "There should have been a better way." and survivors of their race hunt down Doctor Who and his friends and allies.
I thought Microsoft said it would fully 100% support free and open source software including games.
Thank you for proving that you are jerks once again Microsoft by stopping this free Mechwarrior 4 release. It could have been good public relations and got you more business. Now we FOSS developers are going to have to speak against you for some bad public relations and hurt your sales and business and reputation.
Only Microsoft can beat Microsoft in this way and put themselves out of business by 2017, indeed!
if it can work outside of a web browser. If not then I ought to stick with C++, Python, Java, and others as I want to make open source cross platform stand alone applications. Some people don't want to run their business code in a web browser for privacy reasons.
Made in China?
"They took our jobs!" :)
I use a negative rating the lowest score is the best game.
Sucklitude scale rating of 0 to 11. 11 sucks the most, none higher, 0 is worth playing, 5 or 6 is meh, 1 to 3 might be worth it used to buy.
I rate politicians by Hitlertude by how much like Hitler they are, or Stalintude by how much like Stalin they are.
Where Peter Parker aka Spider-Man and his wife Mary Jane make a deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May from dying and make the world forget that Peter Parker was Spider-Man in exchange for changing history so Peter Parket and Mary Jane Watson never got married.
If I would reboot the film, I would base it on the Ultimate Spider-Man or Spider-Man Unlimited versions and then make a Spider-Man 2099 with a different actor just for the heck of it later as a joke.
Actually this is the case with any typical social networking or Internet web site. Even if you have access to privacy controls they aren't good enough to protect you from yourself or someone else violating your privacy and even if you block everyone every game or quiz or program you add has access to your private information and they collect it and harvest it and sell it to spammers and advertisers. Best way to protect your privacy is to not even use the Internet at all, or if you do use a handle or nickname and not your real name and hope nobody traces your IP address back to your private personal information.
When the US Government was founded in the Decoration of Independence our founding fathers claimed that all rights, freedoms, and liberties came from nature's God (or nature itself if you are a non-religious person or don't believe in a God, etc) and that government should not be able to take those away and that doing so would be tyranny. They did it that way instead of having all rights, freedoms, and liberties coming from the government because the power to grant is also the power to take away as England and other nations did to their people Using God or Nature as a source for all freedoms, rights, and liberties is a neutral source that no human being can mess with. In modern times EULA and TOS agreements limit or take away privacy, and other rights, freedoms, and liberties and should be by nature Unconstitutional as it goes against the US Constitution and what our founding fathers believed in. You can only take away freedoms, rights, and liberties via the court system but only after beyond a reasonable doubt that the person is guilty and they have to be considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt to be punished that way. But the EULA and TOS punish users even if they broke no criminal laws and automatically take away freedoms, rights, and liberties all in the name of profit and greed and power and control and politics.
Logan's Run, it wasn't done right the first time it needs better acting and better special effects.
Silent Running, didn't have very convincing robots or plot, bad acting and needs a complete and total rewrite.
Buck Rodgers in the 25st Century only this time when ratings go down don't try to make it a Star trek clone.
Flash Gordan, keep the Queen soundtrack it was the best thing of that movie. That Syfy series wasn't very good and I think it can be done a lot better.
Blake's Seven better special effects, better acting, different ending.
Red Dwarf, make it funnier more like the Novels.
Space: 1999 make it Space: 2099 instead of a nuclear reactor explosion on The Moon, have a Large Hardon Collider malfunction and turn into a gravity drive that creates mini-black holes that turn into wormholes and suck in the Moon and it randomly pops up all over the galaxy.
2001: a Space Odyssey make it 2101: a Space Odyssey have IBM make the HAL hardware and Microsoft the HAL software, due to a defect HAL flips the wrong bit and goes psychotic trying to kill off the crew. Until Dave Bowman an Angry Astronaught with a Screw Driver finds a way to defeat him.
Space: Above and Beyond it was canceled before it started to get good. Have the Earthers violate the Chig colonies that starts up a war, but the Space Marines are not aware of that fact until they discover it later that Xenophobic leaders and military had done the Chigs dirty and that is what started the war. Then see if it has a different ending, does everyone in the Angry Angels die, survive, make a truce with the Chigs, or get captured as POWS and another Space Marine group has to rescue them?
Any open source software project has to accept third party plugins, extensions, and add-ons or else it isn't considered to be open enough to really matter. I love Adblock and NoScript and if Mozilla shuts them out I will move to Chrome or Opera.
Mozilla keep the extensions feature, but just design your own extensions and come up with a way to blacklist the bad extensions that are malware based or Microsoft's .Net Helper crap which you really should blacklist and then disable and block because it is really fricken annoying. Have the users use a feedback system to rate how annoying an extension is so they can be warned not to install them or risk security or being annoyed. I'd rate the Microsoft .Net extension as being annoying to the level of 11 out of 10, none higher than that.
The USA does not, contrary to some believing it, have a monopoly on science and technology.
During the 1970's to 1990's the USA may have made some innovative computer technology and got the Apollo mission to the Moon and the Space Shuttle, but the rest of the world has caught up and in some ways passed us by.
Due to offshoring the work to foreign nations and not hiring enough scientists, engineers, and computer science US citizens in the USA, most of us had to take a job to pay the bills that does not contribute to science and technology. The jobs went to the lower bidders in India, China, Russia, etc instead. Labor goes to where labor costs are cheaper as per classic capitalism and even China has become capitalist. Minimum wage is welfare capitalism and classic capitalism does not use it. The USA has welfare capitalism which means we have welfare ie social programs backed by capitalism via insurance and that means unemployment, COBRA, medicare, disability, welfare, etc. We also force companies to get health insurance for their employees but foreign nations do not. Plus we tax corporations to pay for our welfare capitalism social programs so it also forces companies to move to foreign nations to avoid all that.
When I went to UMR I hung out with the foreign students from China and other places. They were so smart I would play pinball with them in the student lounge and they would win all of these free games because of mechanical engineering and they taught me some of the tricks of playing pinball and gave me their free games, in which I would win more free games and give them to another student. The best of the best from foreign nations come to the USA for college degrees and used to work in the USA, but now thanks to the Internet they can work in a foreign nation and turn out work for pennies on the dollar of what a US citizen wants to earn.
This was true of most PC Clones in the 1980's.
I worked at a few computer shops and trained technicians. One of them was used to working with IBM PC systems at Forsythe and I warned him that the generic PC clones are built different with sharp edges inside of the case that can slice through fingers and your arms if you weren't careful. So I took my time to work on them and prevented accidents. But the rookie who worked on IBM PC systems sliced open his hand on a Chinese made PC clone system built from parts within 15 minutes on the job and refused to listen to what I told him about safety. He filed workman's comp and they blamed me for it and eventually fired me later, even if I did warn him and told him to be careful around the sharp parts inside of the cases. I even gave him a pair of work gloves to use to avoid slicing open his hand, but he refused claiming he was a tough guy and didn't need them.
Today most modern systems are buffered so they aren't as sharp, because of accidents like that and lawsuits against PC makers and PC shops that sold them. But that was back in the days of IC chips and RAM in chips instead of SIMMs or DIMMS. Everything was harder back then, and easier now.
He had to change the subject so people will forget what I wrote and go for the liberal-baiting climate gate topic/troll instead. This is how someone wins an argument by using a sockpuppet account to change the subject to a flamebait one. People use that on me, when I write a reasonably written post that uses logic and reason and critical thinking to speak about something intelligent yet controversial but interesting.
No the rotational axis is along the North Geomagnetic Pole not the Magnetic North Pole. You've obviously confused the two.
Kids are taught to navigate via Polaris but it is not an exact measure of North.
In Europe they went crazy for the Amiga. Most Amiga users are upset at Microsoft and Apple for screwing them in the past and some dual-boot AmigaOS and Yellow Dog Linux or some other PowerPC version of Linux.
If Slashdot had bothered to cover the Amiga we'd know what went wrong and what they are currently doing.
AmigaOS 4.0 was written by Hyperion or some other company and there was licensing deals. AmigaOS 5.0 was supposed to outclass and outperform Windows Vista and Mac OSX. But due to lawsuits it never got released.
The best open source project to come out of the Amiga technology is Amiga Research OS which will work on Intel X86 systems and virtual machines and has a version that runs native inside of Linux. But it lacks proper third party hardware drivers for modern systems so I'd run it in VirtualBox or some other virtual machine like HaikuOS does. AROS is AmigaOS 3.1 based on the APIs and started out as a WINE product and became a full OS.
Amiga, Inc. sells some of the classic Amiga games for Windows and mobile devices under the Amiga Anywhere titles. Some day like the C64 they will port them to the WII, PS3, and XBox 360, etc.
In an attempt to open source and modernize the Amiga and AmigaOS technology they are taking a page from Apple and making an AmigaOS merge with Linux to create Anubis OS but it is not Amiga, Inc that is doing it but another group. While Mac OS X was based on NextStep (A MACH kernel *BSD Unix based OS) and the Classic MacOS series the Anubis OS claims to be Linux based with the Amiga GUI and ability to run Amiga software.
I hereby challenge Slashdot editors and readers to report on the Amiga projects as they mature and make progress. See if 2010 can be the year of the Amiga coverage at Slashdot and create an Amiga category if one doesn't already exist.