in the EU. In the US he risks over 10 years in jail for hacking crappy computers. That's what you'd get around here for murder (except for the worst types I guess)
To those retards who will say "you do the crime you do the time": a basic tenet of the rule of law is that nobody is supposed to ignore the law. Corollary is that you can't be supposed to know the laws of all the fucking countries on the internet when you haven't even set foor there. Here he would hardly get more than a suspended sentence for that harmless thing he did. In the US he risks over 10 years.
What if I post an anti-communist rant on a Chinese server? Or advocate for atheism on a Saudi one? Do I deserve a flogging? This all thing is a major injustice. That some people don't see that makes me mad.
At least not France nor Germany, although it's slightly different within EU countries (or at least Schengen) because it wouldn't be an extradition, and member countries have similar standards -- the US certainly doesn't. McKinnon would hardly get more than a suspended sentence here.
First of all, fuck you and your condescending attitude.
Patents are unreadable by an expert in the field they apply to. I have 15 years experience in IT, as a developer and sysadmin, plus a formal education in a technical field, and I can't understand patents that apply to the work I do. I can not. I might just be stupid, but I can't help notice that most of my peers can't read patents either.
Yet I can get sued should I publish Free software that is infringing on something I can't read.
And here you are, patronising people for not understanding that patent, while the damn things are made unreadable *on fucking purpose* because it's advantageous to the patent holder since it makes it easier to trick east Texan rednecks into awarding them billions for nothing.
I could be mistaken but I reinstalled F12beta after a major disk crash, and I had to auth once to ConsoleKit, which memorized my authorization for my current user. You don't have to memorize the auth, in which case you have to type the root password each time... or did I miss something? I can understand not wanting this for new packages, but for updates to packages already installed, this strikes me as better than the Ubuntu way. There is one security advantage for the average user, it limits the number of times you have to type the damn password, therefore avoiding the numbing down and making trojan type attacks more noticeable. IE if a fake popup asks your for your root password you might not pay attention if you've been asked a thousand times already for something as mundane as updating.
If you happen to commit one murder, and the penalty is the same as for 100 murders, you would be correct in finding it logically desirable to kill every potential witness and their family for good measure, instead of stopping at one victim.
This summer Equinix Paris had a major failure of their cooling system. Of course, they had a backup, but as was expected, the backup was identical to the primary system, and therefore failed identically. Temperature raised over 55C AFAICT. We didn't experience hardware failure since all our servers shut down automagically at 45C. We also had all our systems clustered over a gigabit MAN to another DC, so we suffered only a minor outage.
Shit happens. You always have to keep that in mind. But two things could have made the whole situation better.
- They didn't alert us of the failure. We could have avoided the outage completely had we been called when the cooling system failed, instead of finding out an hour later. We could have supervised the switch over, and there would have been no loss of service at all.
- Datacenters should not get that hot, ever. They should be built so that they don't get much hotter than outside temp; it's not that hard, thanks to a high technology device called a fucking WINDOW. Too hot? AC down? You open the god damn windows! I believe the latests DCs are built that way, with passive cooling doing most of the job.
You don't need high end AC with temperature controlled down to the degree. It's a complete waste of money. Instead you should have reliable AC, with graceful failure modes.
There was a paper published a couple years ago by dutch researchers that proposed to give discounts for refrigerated warehouses. They would lower their thermostats a couple degrees, but would be given a signal to stop their refrigeration units when the load gets too high. The couple degrees would be enough of a buffer to last a few hours. They calculated it would be enough to handle wind up to 30% of the total power generation.
This kind of thing is already done, by the way, but on a limited scale. Large industrial consumers of electricity are already given discounts if they agree to cut their use on demand. The new thing here is to displace electricity use in time even more.
Why do you think the Acta bullshit is being negotiated outside of the Wipo or WTO? That's because those entities, having been founded upon principles such as fairness and equity, cannot be brought to come up with such bullshit. What you're seeing here is not surprising. It's precisely why those motherfuckers in power avoid it.
The first centimetre of the base of the connector of non-grounded plugs is covered with plastic. If you pull the plug enough to expose the conductor, it's not touching the connector inside the female plug.
Grounded plugs are fully exposed; but wall plugs accepting them are recessed at least 1cm, to the same effect.
You know when you have several bank notes of the same amount, they're equivalent. You can mix them, exchange them, it doesn't matter where they come from.
I'm pretty sure I learned that in kindergarten or something. You might want to take a remedial course.
It's going to be very hard to start a fire on the typical 1 to 5V potential used in everyday electronics. I don't suppose that kind of thing will be used for power electronic. And yeah, I know lithium batteries can easily start a fire but they don't need paper PCBs to do that.
In the past 30 years, we've seen the Reagan/Thatcher revilution, which resulted in the rise of the golden boy, top talents going to work as "quants" for Wall Street instead of research, and, last but not least, the current economic crises.
There is a simple solution to this steaming pile of dung: raise taxes on high incomes to the level they were 30 years ago. That would make gambling^Wbanking as dull as it was when it was working properly, ie from the late 40s to the 70s.
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in the EU. In the US he risks over 10 years in jail for hacking crappy computers. That's what you'd get around here for murder (except for the worst types I guess)
To those retards who will say "you do the crime you do the time": a basic tenet of the rule of law is that nobody is supposed to ignore the law. Corollary is that you can't be supposed to know the laws of all the fucking countries on the internet when you haven't even set foor there. Here he would hardly get more than a suspended sentence for that harmless thing he did. In the US he risks over 10 years.
What if I post an anti-communist rant on a Chinese server? Or advocate for atheism on a Saudi one? Do I deserve a flogging? This all thing is a major injustice. That some people don't see that makes me mad.
At least not France nor Germany, although it's slightly different within EU countries (or at least Schengen) because it wouldn't be an extradition, and member countries have similar standards -- the US certainly doesn't. McKinnon would hardly get more than a suspended sentence here.
I guess I should be extradited to Saudi Arabia since that message can be read from there.
"All of SVG" includes stuff like scripting and SMIL animations. No single piece of software implements all of it.
It does not cover all of SVG, that does not mean it's not compliant with the standard.
And my point is, how am I supposed to know he "invented" (for broad values of "invented") the damn thing if the damn thing is unreadable?
That might dissuade them from pulling that crap again in the future.
Or not; being ordered to pay billions for infringement isn't stopping the fuckers from supporting software patents.
It will also protect you overall, considering the amount of crap you find in web ads, even on supposedly reputable networks.
to be supposed to understand C++ code.
Yet I can be found to be infringing on a patent I don't understand.
First of all, fuck you and your condescending attitude.
Patents are unreadable by an expert in the field they apply to. I have 15 years experience in IT, as a developer and sysadmin, plus a formal education in a technical field, and I can't understand patents that apply to the work I do. I can not. I might just be stupid, but I can't help notice that most of my peers can't read patents either.
Yet I can get sued should I publish Free software that is infringing on something I can't read.
And here you are, patronising people for not understanding that patent, while the damn things are made unreadable *on fucking purpose* because it's advantageous to the patent holder since it makes it easier to trick east Texan rednecks into awarding them billions for nothing.
I could be mistaken but I reinstalled F12beta after a major disk crash, and I had to auth once to ConsoleKit, which memorized my authorization for my current user. You don't have to memorize the auth, in which case you have to type the root password each time ... or did I miss something?
I can understand not wanting this for new packages, but for updates to packages already installed, this strikes me as better than the Ubuntu way.
There is one security advantage for the average user, it limits the number of times you have to type the damn password, therefore avoiding the numbing down and making trojan type attacks more noticeable. IE if a fake popup asks your for your root password you might not pay attention if you've been asked a thousand times already for something as mundane as updating.
They infringed the law, they pay the penalty.
If you happen to commit one murder, and the penalty is the same as for 100 murders, you would be correct in finding it logically desirable to kill every potential witness and their family for good measure, instead of stopping at one victim.
This summer Equinix Paris had a major failure of their cooling system. Of course, they had a backup, but as was expected, the backup was identical to the primary system, and therefore failed identically. Temperature raised over 55C AFAICT. We didn't experience hardware failure since all our servers shut down automagically at 45C. We also had all our systems clustered over a gigabit MAN to another DC, so we suffered only a minor outage.
Shit happens. You always have to keep that in mind. But two things could have made the whole situation better.
- They didn't alert us of the failure. We could have avoided the outage completely had we been called when the cooling system failed, instead of finding out an hour later. We could have supervised the switch over, and there would have been no loss of service at all.
- Datacenters should not get that hot, ever. They should be built so that they don't get much hotter than outside temp; it's not that hard, thanks to a high technology device called a fucking WINDOW. Too hot? AC down? You open the god damn windows! I believe the latests DCs are built that way, with passive cooling doing most of the job.
You don't need high end AC with temperature controlled down to the degree. It's a complete waste of money. Instead you should have reliable AC, with graceful failure modes.
I'm not talking about conservation.
And this: Population increases exponentially ... is bullshit. If it did, it would fill the universe in a matter of years.
... then it's only hardly ever dirty. Especially if you only use it once a decade.
There was a paper published a couple years ago by dutch researchers that proposed to give discounts for refrigerated warehouses. They would lower their thermostats a couple degrees, but would be given a signal to stop their refrigeration units when the load gets too high. The couple degrees would be enough of a buffer to last a few hours. They calculated it would be enough to handle wind up to 30% of the total power generation.
This kind of thing is already done, by the way, but on a limited scale. Large industrial consumers of electricity are already given discounts if they agree to cut their use on demand. The new thing here is to displace electricity use in time even more.
Why do you think the Acta bullshit is being negotiated outside of the Wipo or WTO? That's because those entities, having been founded upon principles such as fairness and equity, cannot be brought to come up with such bullshit. What you're seeing here is not surprising. It's precisely why those motherfuckers in power avoid it.
The first centimetre of the base of the connector of non-grounded plugs is covered with plastic. If you pull the plug enough to expose the conductor, it's not touching the connector inside the female plug.
Grounded plugs are fully exposed; but wall plugs accepting them are recessed at least 1cm, to the same effect.
Good stuff.
Edison bulbs are superior tech to CFLs eliminating mercury poisoning, dim turnons, premature heat-death, and high cost.
If you're as right about roads as you are about light bulbs ... well you're just not.
You know when you have several bank notes of the same amount, they're equivalent. You can mix them, exchange them, it doesn't matter where they come from.
I'm pretty sure I learned that in kindergarten or something. You might want to take a remedial course.
It's going to be very hard to start a fire on the typical 1 to 5V potential used in everyday electronics. I don't suppose that kind of thing will be used for power electronic. And yeah, I know lithium batteries can easily start a fire but they don't need paper PCBs to do that.
Oil crash.
Besides those stats were good in the 50s and 60s, when taxes were even *higher*.
In the past 30 years, we've seen the Reagan/Thatcher revilution, which resulted in the rise of the golden boy, top talents going to work as "quants" for Wall Street instead of research, and, last but not least, the current economic crises.
There is a simple solution to this steaming pile of dung: raise taxes on high incomes to the level they were 30 years ago. That would make gambling^Wbanking as dull as it was when it was working properly, ie from the late 40s to the 70s.