> If he's just in a bigger cell now, then I guess that means that we are both in the cell together with alot of other people too.
But the difference is, the other people are allowed to leave when they want, whereas he is not. Yes, theoretically he could take the Greyhound to San Diego, and from there just walk to Tijuana (if he finds some unguarded border post... how easy is it really to cross the Mexican without a passport?), but risk is far too high. If caught too early he (and his "custodian"...) would face much stiffer penalties than he would now...
> I can, from my desk, while writing this, hear two conversations whose words are audible, several which aren't. One person giggling, and easily half a dozen phones have rung during the writing of this.
And during the same time, 5 probes of Code Red have hit the Web server, and 11 probes of Code Red II. If at least Joe hadn't put in that silly beeper into default.ida.cgi which goes off on every probe... How can anybody work in such an environment?
> So fuck it...if ya'll want to play the assholes and be all high and mighty about how 'l33t ya'll are go ahead. Its exactly the reason you had no friends in high school. Geeks think they are always right and everyone else is wrong. Its the same attitude the jocks had, but worse.
Yeah, and you're attitude is the reason why we occasionnally have to scrape the jocks' brains (or what little of it that they had) from the library floor...
> Oh, that's so cool, but I'm too chicken to try it (can you get arrested for that?)
Nope. They probed you first, so it's just "fair retaliation". And "fair retaliation" is an integral part of the anti-piracy laws, which Supreme Court insisted to add in order to keep the law in line with the Second Amendment of the Constitution;-)
> In one case, you have something that results in an almost imperceptible slowdown while, in the "analogy", you have a computer completely failing to work one out of ten times.
Oddly enough, most Windows users don't seem to mind...
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> If he's just in a bigger cell now, then I guess that means that we are both in the cell together with alot of other people too.
But the difference is, the other people are allowed to leave when they want, whereas he is not. Yes, theoretically he could take the Greyhound to San Diego, and from there just walk to Tijuana (if he finds some unguarded border post... how easy is it really to cross the Mexican without a passport?), but risk is far too high. If caught too early he (and his "custodian"...) would face much stiffer penalties than he would now...
And during the same time, 5 probes of Code Red have hit the Web server, and 11 probes of Code Red II. If at least Joe hadn't put in that silly beeper into default.ida.cgi which goes off on every probe... How can anybody work in such an environment?
Won't work, unless Code Red has suddenly become smart enough to click on banner ads...
Yeah, and you're attitude is the reason why we occasionnally have to scrape the jocks' brains (or what little of it that they had) from the library floor...
Nope. They probed you first, so it's just "fair retaliation". And "fair retaliation" is an integral part of the anti-piracy laws, which Supreme Court insisted to add in order to keep the law in line with the Second Amendment of the Constitution ;-)
Look at his relatively low user-id: he had had that Slashdot name all along, and did not just create it recently for the virus.
Oddly enough, most Windows users don't seem to mind...