One that you know about. You're probably talking about Jose Padilla, but what about the two "American Talibans" John Walker Lindh and Yasir Hamdi who are also being given the "enemy combatant" treatment?
This whole holding Americans in detention with no due process, no access to lawyers, no access to family, and no right to appeal is a huge problem. We can only hope the Supreme Court rules that President Bush cannot tred on these American Citizens' Constitutional rights like this.
Sure, these people may be criminals. If they are, charge them with something already. Put them on trial and punish them if they are guilty. That's the American way.
This is something that's bothered me for a long time. If spam largely is fraudulent (direct ripoff) or advertising fraudulent products (real product, doesn't work), or even criminal (selling drugs illegally), why don't we ever hear about prosecutions for this?
A California man on Thursday sued a slew of international companies, including a Greeley distributor, alleging the penis-enlargement products they market and distribute do not work.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, seeks class-action status to represent an estimated 1 million people who ordered the products in response to advertisements on television, radio and spam e-mail.
"I was wondering for a long time why no one has gotten around to suing these penis-enlargement guys, because it seems like a pretty blatant... fraud," said New York lawyer Brad Corsello, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Californian Jeffery Horton. [...]
The correct pluralization of the word "virus" is "viruses". Anyone doubting this is encouraged to read this article which should be titled "Way The Hell More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Latin and Why There Is No Such Thing As 'Viri'".
Standard Disclaimer: The following is not to be taken as legal advice. If you would like legal advice, please consult your attorney.
That being said, your post is incorrect on many levels:
You are confusing agency with Power of Attorney. Even if dekashizl's hooker was indeed his agent (which I will later show that she is not), she cannot enter into an agreement on his behalf without establishing a Power of Attorney. For example, if you were to hire a lawyer, he would be your agent, in the sense that he would be fiduciary to you, but that agency relationship would not be sufficient for him to enter into an agreement on your behalf. For that, you two would, of course, need to establish Power of Attorney.
dekashizl's hooker could not have Power of Attorney in this instance. Obviously dekashizl's hooker could not enter into a Power of Attorney agreement until she reached the age of majority.
It is illegal in (I believe) every state and the District of Columbia to act as the agent of another in exchange for compensation without a license. Since dekashizl described his 'double-clicker' as a 'hooker' and not a 'slave', we must assume that this girl receives compensation for her 'double-clicking' services (as well as any other services that she renders with her fingers, mouth, etc.) We can assume that she does not have any type of professional license because she has not reached the age of majority.
Of course if this ever came to trial, the Thai hooker in question would probably have bigger problems on her hands than this. Practicing law without a license is certainly illegal, but the penalties for engaging in sexual intercourse in exchange for compensation tend to be somewhat stiffer (no pun intended).
Get a video capture card with onboard MPEG-2 encoding and you could build a MythTV box with a Pentium I ($130 for a Hauppauge-250 on ebay). Or better yet, get a video capture card with onboard MPEG-2 encoding and decoding ($180 for a Hauppauge-350 on ebay).
Still think you don't have the spare parts lying around? You don't need much CPU power or RAM (256MB is plenty) if all the encoding/decoding is on the capture card. Grab a PCI IDE controller for $10 and a 200GB drive (I've seen 'em as cheap as $100) and yer' set.
I'm building a MythTV box right now out of crap that I'm not using in my closet. For the cost of a couple of capture cards on ebay ($100-150), I'm gonna build a TiVo.
There is no way in hell you can buy a TiVo with guide info for that price, but you're right, if I had to build from scratch, of course it would be cheaper to just go buy a TiVo. But most geeks have access to old computer parts.
If you are trying to limit the actual amount of downloaded bytes, how would throttling by IP help? If Larry the leach types
wget -l99 http://your.site.org/
he's just gonna walk away from the machine and check back when it's done. If you serve up all those files in 1 minute, 1 day, or 1 week, it doesn't matter. He's still downloaded exactly the same amount of data from you. Your solution only works if you're trying to limit transfer rates, which you should be able to do with your mod_throttles of the world.
If you're just trying to discourage people from downloading so much from you, you need to set up mirrors, bittorrents, or some other protection of your site. Maybe you could reduce the size of your site? Is it an archive of pictures? If so, maybe your friend could reduce the size of them? I mean, if he's offering 100,000 pictures that are 100k in size each, then if he reduces the size/quality so they're only 30k each, then you'll really reduce your bandwidth.
If it's all text, maybe you could use some kind of compression. If it's video, maybe use a lower bitrate. You get the idea.
But just limiting transfer rates by IP is probably not gonna help.
Maybe it's because I just switched to Deb from RedHat, but it took several tries to get Deb to correctly install kde. You'd think an "apt-get install kde" would 'just work' (maybe I'm spoiled because everything else in Deb just works) but that didn't even bring an X server onto the system. I mean, really, is not kde dependent on X?!
Oh well. I eventually got it. But it took a bit of tweaking.
My last project had a bunch of COBOL code being developed in the Phillipines. One day we arrived at work and nothing had been done by the Manila team overnight. It took us a while to learn what had happened, but evenutally we came to know that their section of the city had been taken over by millitants and it was unsafe to attempt the journey into work.
And I thought this snow and ice crap we've been having was making it hard to get into work!
I have no problem with you coming over to the US and competing with me for a job in the US. Come here, pay rent here, pay for food here, in general deal with our high cost of living. If you're willing to do that, then I'm more than happy to compete with you.
But, my friend, you live in India. With that offshored programming job you can live the life of luxury, with maid-servants and everything. So, yes, I am irritated at having to compete for a job with someone who can live on $0.36 a day.
DirecTV with TiVo is $100 plus $5 a month, not $600
But without DirecTV, TiVo really is $650 ($350 for the tivo, $300 for guide info). Not everyone has DirecTV, and you must know that the monthly fee you pay for DTV subsodizes the cost of the tivo.
But if you have a spare machine lying around the house (most geeks do), you can drop $100 on a PVR-250 and $100 on a 200GB HD and all of a sudden you've got a tivo for way less than $650. I'm gonna do that next week, in fact.
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Those of us who don't have directTV don't have that option. New tivos are more expensive. Heck, the guide info alone is $300.
All of a sudden a roll-your-own doesn't look so bad anymore, does it? Especially if you've already got a box lying around doing nothing--something many geeks have. I could easily build a MythTV setup for under $650, which is what a tivo would cost me.
Hate to reply to myself, but I hit submit before I realized that this article was on The Daily Cardinal. Back when I was at school, the Cardinal website was an underpowered Linux box sitting under the advisor's desk. Never would have dreamed of surviving a slashdotting.
Way to move up in the world guys!
router:~# traceroute dailycardinal.com traceroute to dailycardinal.com (66.151.230.160), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets [blah blah blah crap about my network blah blah] 8 ge-2-3-0.r02.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (206.223.115.112) 14.557 ms 20.925 ms 20.379 ms 9 p16-0-1-2.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.62) 25.151 ms 54.217 ms 24.535 ms 10 p16-0-1-1.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.98) 22.702 ms 18.791 ms 20.540 ms 11 p64-0-0-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.32) 58.226 ms 26.475 ms 53.797 ms 12 p16-2-0-0.r00.bstnma01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.25) 23.002 ms 23.992 ms 25.388 ms 13 ge-0-0-0.a00.bstnma01.us.ra.verio.net (129.250.27.225) 25.209 ms 75.003 ms 23.862 ms 14 so-0-2-1.a00.bstnma01.us.ce.verio.net (199.103.138.42) 25.807 ms 32.776 ms 58.398 ms 15 border3.ge2-0-bbnet2.bsn.pnap.net (63.251.128.71) 25.830 ms 23.801 ms 23.535 ms 16 66.151.230.160 (66.151.230.160) 40.518 ms 27.562 ms 26.672 ms
What if I showed up to work and clocked in at 9am, left at 9:30 for a "dentist appointment" without clocking out and back in, took a two hour lunch, spent the rest of the day reading slashdot, then clocked out at 5:30?
Just knowing when I clock in and out doesn't guarantee that you're getting your money's worth of my time, after all. People will find ways to beat any system. Wouldn't it be better to just trust the employees and reward the high performers (and fire the low performers)?
The holding cell is for shoplifters. Theft is a criminal offense. Criminal prosecutions basically go: Arrest (or citizen's arrest, in the case of Macy's) -> jail -> arraignment -> bail (if allowed and you can post it) -> criminal trial by jury requiring proof by reasonable doubt
Copyright infringement is generally a civil offense (I know it can be a criminal offense too, but these guys were not making citizen's arrests, i.e. holding someone 'till the real officers get there). Civil prosecutions basically go: Claim filed in court -> Defendant served with claim -> Both parties show up in court and duke it out in front of a judge and maybe a jury -> Judge enters judgement -> Winner then tries to collect
The big difference is, like I said before, these RIAA thugs are not making citizen's arrests like macy's security guards are doing. If they were, they would have held this parking lot guy on the scene until the FBI got there. But, of course, the FBI was never gonna show up because even if the RIAA did call they FBI, which they didn't, this guy almost certainly didn't have enough "Jammin' to the 80's" CDs for the Feds to give a fuck. Really, their only recouse is going to be civil, and there are no arrests in civil cases.
It'll be interesting to see what the LAPD has to say about these tactics.
This is keynesian economics at its best. Acutal supply and demand.
I stopped reading at this point, because it is simply wrong. Normally I enjoy getting a chuckle at the expense of armchair economists but I am far too hung-over today to appreciate it.
Here's to hoping what you wrote was as funny as it was incorrect.
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Just fyi, the situation he was describing had merchandise not only stacked up in the "backroom" but 6-8 feet in the employee bathroom.
I really hope this is not standard operating procedure for retail stores. Time to go wash my hands.
One that you know about. You're probably talking about Jose Padilla, but what about the two "American Talibans" John Walker Lindh and Yasir Hamdi who are also being given the "enemy combatant" treatment?
This whole holding Americans in detention with no due process, no access to lawyers, no access to family, and no right to appeal is a huge problem. We can only hope the Supreme Court rules that President Bush cannot tred on these American Citizens' Constitutional rights like this.
Sure, these people may be criminals. If they are, charge them with something already. Put them on trial and punish them if they are guilty. That's the American way.
That wasn't so bad, was it?
HTH. HAND.
That being said, your post is incorrect on many levels:
- You are confusing agency with Power of Attorney. Even if dekashizl's hooker was indeed his agent (which I will later show that she is not), she cannot enter into an agreement on his behalf without establishing a Power of Attorney. For example, if you were to hire a lawyer, he would be your agent, in the sense that he would be fiduciary to you, but that agency relationship would not be sufficient for him to enter into an agreement on your behalf. For that, you two would, of course, need to establish Power of Attorney.
- dekashizl's hooker could not have Power of Attorney in this instance. Obviously dekashizl's hooker could not enter into a Power of Attorney agreement until she reached the age of majority.
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It is illegal in (I believe) every state and the District of Columbia to act as the agent of another in exchange for compensation without a license. Since dekashizl described his 'double-clicker' as a 'hooker' and not a 'slave', we must assume that this girl receives compensation for her 'double-clicking' services (as well as any other services that she renders with her fingers, mouth, etc.) We can assume that she does not have any type of professional license because she has not reached the age of majority.
Of course if this ever came to trial, the Thai hooker in question would probably have bigger problems on her hands than this. Practicing law without a license is certainly illegal, but the penalties for engaging in sexual intercourse in exchange for compensation tend to be somewhat stiffer (no pun intended).Hope this helps.
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts & Plugins -> Allow scripts to:
From there you can check and uncheck anything you think it's annoying to have scripts do. One of the choice is [gasp] Move or resize existing windows.
HTH. HAND.
Maybe you should try upgrading your browser?
Get a video capture card with onboard MPEG-2 encoding and you could build a MythTV box with a Pentium I ($130 for a Hauppauge-250 on ebay). Or better yet, get a video capture card with onboard MPEG-2 encoding and decoding ($180 for a Hauppauge-350 on ebay).
Still think you don't have the spare parts lying around? You don't need much CPU power or RAM (256MB is plenty) if all the encoding/decoding is on the capture card. Grab a PCI IDE controller for $10 and a 200GB drive (I've seen 'em as cheap as $100) and yer' set.
There is no way in hell you can buy a TiVo with guide info for that price, but you're right, if I had to build from scratch, of course it would be cheaper to just go buy a TiVo. But most geeks have access to old computer parts.
If you're just trying to discourage people from downloading so much from you, you need to set up mirrors, bittorrents, or some other protection of your site. Maybe you could reduce the size of your site? Is it an archive of pictures? If so, maybe your friend could reduce the size of them? I mean, if he's offering 100,000 pictures that are 100k in size each, then if he reduces the size/quality so they're only 30k each, then you'll really reduce your bandwidth.
If it's all text, maybe you could use some kind of compression. If it's video, maybe use a lower bitrate. You get the idea.
But just limiting transfer rates by IP is probably not gonna help.
Maybe it's because I just switched to Deb from RedHat, but it took several tries to get Deb to correctly install kde. You'd think an "apt-get install kde" would 'just work' (maybe I'm spoiled because everything else in Deb just works) but that didn't even bring an X server onto the system. I mean, really, is not kde dependent on X?!
Oh well. I eventually got it. But it took a bit of tweaking.
Couldn't have been a shorted-out console or 3 that caused that fire, could it?
My last project had a bunch of COBOL code being developed in the Phillipines. One day we arrived at work and nothing had been done by the Manila team overnight. It took us a while to learn what had happened, but evenutally we came to know that their section of the city had been taken over by millitants and it was unsafe to attempt the journey into work.
And I thought this snow and ice crap we've been having was making it hard to get into work!
I have no problem with you coming over to the US and competing with me for a job in the US. Come here, pay rent here, pay for food here, in general deal with our high cost of living. If you're willing to do that, then I'm more than happy to compete with you.
But, my friend, you live in India. With that offshored programming job you can live the life of luxury, with maid-servants and everything. So, yes, I am irritated at having to compete for a job with someone who can live on $0.36 a day.
But if you have a spare machine lying around the house (most geeks do), you can drop $100 on a PVR-250 and $100 on a 200GB HD and all of a sudden you've got a tivo for way less than $650. I'm gonna do that next week, in fact.
Those of us who don't have directTV don't have that option. New tivos are more expensive. Heck, the guide info alone is $300. All of a sudden a roll-your-own doesn't look so bad anymore, does it? Especially if you've already got a box lying around doing nothing--something many geeks have. I could easily build a MythTV setup for under $650, which is what a tivo would cost me.
Hate to reply to myself, but I hit submit before I realized that this article was on The Daily Cardinal. Back when I was at school, the Cardinal website was an underpowered Linux box sitting under the advisor's desk. Never would have dreamed of surviving a slashdotting.
Way to move up in the world guys!
router:~# traceroute dailycardinal.com
traceroute to dailycardinal.com (66.151.230.160), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
[blah blah blah crap about my network blah blah]
8 ge-2-3-0.r02.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (206.223.115.112) 14.557 ms 20.925 ms 20.379 ms
9 p16-0-1-2.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.62) 25.151 ms 54.217 ms 24.535 ms
10 p16-0-1-1.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.98) 22.702 ms 18.791 ms 20.540 ms
11 p64-0-0-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.32) 58.226 ms 26.475 ms 53.797 ms
12 p16-2-0-0.r00.bstnma01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.25) 23.002 ms 23.992 ms 25.388 ms
13 ge-0-0-0.a00.bstnma01.us.ra.verio.net (129.250.27.225) 25.209 ms 75.003 ms 23.862 ms
14 so-0-2-1.a00.bstnma01.us.ce.verio.net (199.103.138.42) 25.807 ms 32.776 ms 58.398 ms
15 border3.ge2-0-bbnet2.bsn.pnap.net (63.251.128.71) 25.830 ms 23.801 ms 23.535 ms
16 66.151.230.160 (66.151.230.160) 40.518 ms 27.562 ms 26.672 ms
I love my Alma Mater.
What if I showed up to work and clocked in at 9am, left at 9:30 for a "dentist appointment" without clocking out and back in, took a two hour lunch, spent the rest of the day reading slashdot, then clocked out at 5:30?
Just knowing when I clock in and out doesn't guarantee that you're getting your money's worth of my time, after all. People will find ways to beat any system. Wouldn't it be better to just trust the employees and reward the high performers (and fire the low performers)?
The holding cell is for shoplifters. Theft is a criminal offense. Criminal prosecutions basically go:
Arrest (or citizen's arrest, in the case of Macy's) -> jail -> arraignment -> bail (if allowed and you can post it) -> criminal trial by jury requiring proof by reasonable doubt
Copyright infringement is generally a civil offense (I know it can be a criminal offense too, but these guys were not making citizen's arrests, i.e. holding someone 'till the real officers get there). Civil prosecutions basically go:
Claim filed in court -> Defendant served with claim -> Both parties show up in court and duke it out in front of a judge and maybe a jury -> Judge enters judgement -> Winner then tries to collect
The big difference is, like I said before, these RIAA thugs are not making citizen's arrests like macy's security guards are doing. If they were, they would have held this parking lot guy on the scene until the FBI got there. But, of course, the FBI was never gonna show up because even if the RIAA did call they FBI, which they didn't, this guy almost certainly didn't have enough "Jammin' to the 80's" CDs for the Feds to give a fuck. Really, their only recouse is going to be civil, and there are no arrests in civil cases.
It'll be interesting to see what the LAPD has to say about these tactics.
Here's to hoping what you wrote was as funny as it was incorrect.
A post by anyone claiming to never make mistakes will inevitably contain one or more mistakes.
I just tried it and the URL appears in the address bar as "http://www.microsoft.com%01@zapthedingbat.com/sec urity/ex01/vun2.htm"