It WAS back up. Then they took it back down again. It first went down early sunday morning, was back up for part of the day on sunday, and then went back down sometime sunday evening (PST).
He's being charged with Theft of Services. The wireless is provided for their customers use, just like, for instance, their trash bins (which Theft of Service laws also apply to). If he were to toss out his empty coffee cup in their trash bins, fine. I'm sure they wouldn't even mind if he got rid of his gum wrappers and old receipts too. But if he brings all his trash bags from home and dumps them in their bins for three months straight (and to add insult to injury, doesn't even buy anything), he can indeed be charged with theft of services.
Also, regarding "public property", last I checked, their parking lot doesn't qualify, even if that were a discriminating factor, which I'm not convinced it is.
This all fits in with the discovery which the scientific journal Nature reported on last year: on Flores also the 18,000-year-old bones of a 'dwarf' human. This 'Flores hobbit' was only one metre tall.
This may fit in elegantly, but last I heard (maybe even on slashdot) this discovery was now believed to be a normal human with a disease of some sort.
The sole purpose of pirate bay is to facilitate crime, No. Their sole purpose is to host torrent files. Whether those are torrents of copyrighted works or public domain works is not something they consider, they host them either way. So your statement is inaccurate.
Google removes things from the cache, the pirate bay tells people to fuck off.
Well, duh. When its in google's cache, they are directly hosting it on their servers- that's a crime, no ambiguity included. Do you think they clear all pages of sites like TPB or www.torrentspy.com from their cache as well? Of course not, because they know its not illegal. In fact... hey look, a google cache of a page linking directly to a torrent file of a copyrighted work!
Prosecuting copyright infringement requires a plaintiff. It is a crime against a specific party, not "the people". So unless the people who created the torrent files are interested in taking action, its pretty much irrelevant.
How does writing software restrict someone's freedoms? It takes a government to implement that software, right? They're the ones choosing how it is used, and thus restricting freedoms.
I find it dismaying that on one hand, they claim that freedom is their motivator, and on the other hand, they implicity suggest that software developers should be restrained from writing software that could be used to censor the net. They are able to write and sell this software because the governments are corrupt, not the other way around.
My roommate Rashid Ahmed is Sr. project coordinator for the Unwire Portland project. The city just signed with MetroFi. Project should be rolling out in the very near future!
won't somebody think of the heritage views!!?!??
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from stopillwind.org... (which sounds like an anti-flatulence organization to me) "government should mandate standards for siting huge wind generators which... protect heritage views and property values, and allow nearby residents the quiet enjoyment of their property."
downmodders, go fuck yourselves. Downmodded for pointing out an error in the article? all hail the editor-gods of slashdot who can do no wrong (in the eyes of sycophant/. moderators)
He may not have created any new technologies, but I'd content that he did advance computing by putting a free Unix-like system into the hands of hundreds of millions of people worldwide who likely would not be able to afford a Unix license.
Semantics. Almost every state has an age of consent of 16 for the vast majority of the population. The discrepancies you mention almost unanimously have a condition of marriage, age difference of the participants, or gender of the participants. For all intents and purposes, for the vast majority of those over 18 in the US, the age of consent is 18.
That said, I did misunderstand the previous poster. And I'm not from england, ass.
in england, 16 has worked well for them for a loooong time. In fact, America is in the minority among even western nations in having such a high age of consent.
Only PDF and Sony's proprietary format? What about various things I have in text formats? Could they really not implement a few open-standard text formats?
Not true. Most of the "evidence" cited for ID consists of science's supposed failures to explain certain phenomena. Every one that is able to be explained is then one less weapon in the ID arsenal.
Perhaps, doing it yourself, but encouraging others to do so is also a crime? Then Abby Hoffman should be guilty of many crimes just for writing "Steal This Book".
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It WAS back up. Then they took it back down again. It first went down early sunday morning, was back up for part of the day on sunday, and then went back down sometime sunday evening (PST).
wow, did you steal this, write it previously in preparation, or just have THIS MUCH TIME on your hands?
:)
In any case, its pretty fuckin funny
He's being charged with Theft of Services. The wireless is provided for their customers use, just like, for instance, their trash bins (which Theft of Service laws also apply to). If he were to toss out his empty coffee cup in their trash bins, fine. I'm sure they wouldn't even mind if he got rid of his gum wrappers and old receipts too. But if he brings all his trash bags from home and dumps them in their bins for three months straight (and to add insult to injury, doesn't even buy anything), he can indeed be charged with theft of services.
Also, regarding "public property", last I checked, their parking lot doesn't qualify, even if that were a discriminating factor, which I'm not convinced it is.
Interestingly...
This all fits in with the discovery which the scientific journal Nature reported on last year: on Flores also the 18,000-year-old bones of a 'dwarf' human. This 'Flores hobbit' was only one metre tall.
This may fit in elegantly, but last I heard (maybe even on slashdot) this discovery was now believed to be a normal human with a disease of some sort.
I was gonna bring this up but I thought it might be nitpicky. Thanks for being my whipping boy! :D
The sole purpose of pirate bay is to facilitate crime,
No. Their sole purpose is to host torrent files. Whether those are torrents of copyrighted works or public domain works is not something they consider, they host them either way. So your statement is inaccurate.
Google removes things from the cache, the pirate bay tells people to fuck off.
Well, duh. When its in google's cache, they are directly hosting it on their servers- that's a crime, no ambiguity included. Do you think they clear all pages of sites like TPB or www.torrentspy.com from their cache as well? Of course not, because they know its not illegal. In fact... hey look, a google cache of a page linking directly to a torrent file of a copyrighted work!
Prosecuting copyright infringement requires a plaintiff. It is a crime against a specific party, not "the people". So unless the people who created the torrent files are interested in taking action, its pretty much irrelevant.
Damn, I thought their placeholder page that claimed a day or three of downtime was all bravado!
Good point. Does Google allow any editorials into their news aggregator? If so, it becomes a bit more murky.
Well no, it happened many centuries ago. Does that make it an invalid topic of discussion?
The new media journal [newmediajournal.us] is pushing the Mohamed is a paedophile meme:
He did not spare anyone; even 9 year old girls were not immune to his sexual wrath. Worshiping a sex-maniac and a child molester? I think NOT.
So, are you arguing that the author is wrong, and that Muhammed didn't do this? Or just that he shouldn't be criticizing Islam for it?
How does writing software restrict someone's freedoms? It takes a government to implement that software, right? They're the ones choosing how it is used, and thus restricting freedoms.
I find it dismaying that on one hand, they claim that freedom is their motivator, and on the other hand, they implicity suggest that software developers should be restrained from writing software that could be used to censor the net. They are able to write and sell this software because the governments are corrupt, not the other way around.
My roommate Rashid Ahmed is Sr. project coordinator for the Unwire Portland project. The city just signed with MetroFi. Project should be rolling out in the very near future!
http://www.pdc.us/unwire/faq.asp
from stopillwind.org... (which sounds like an anti-flatulence organization to me)
"government should mandate standards for siting huge wind generators which... protect heritage views and property values, and allow nearby residents the quiet enjoyment of their property."
I think I just might.
wtf? I post a correction to the article summary and get modded down, but this guy gets modded informative?
downmodders, go fuck yourselves. Downmodded for pointing out an error in the article? all hail the editor-gods of slashdot who can do no wrong (in the eyes of sycophant /. moderators)
orbiter maintenance down period
shouldn't that say OMDP?
He may not have created any new technologies, but I'd content that he did advance computing by putting a free Unix-like system into the hands of hundreds of millions of people worldwide who likely would not be able to afford a Unix license.
Semantics. Almost every state has an age of consent of 16 for the vast majority of the population. The discrepancies you mention almost unanimously have a condition of marriage, age difference of the participants, or gender of the participants. For all intents and purposes, for the vast majority of those over 18 in the US, the age of consent is 18.
That said, I did misunderstand the previous poster. And I'm not from england, ass.
in england, 16 has worked well for them for a loooong time. In fact, America is in the minority among even western nations in having such a high age of consent.
Only PDF and Sony's proprietary format? What about various things I have in text formats? Could they really not implement a few open-standard text formats?
Not true. Most of the "evidence" cited for ID consists of science's supposed failures to explain certain phenomena. Every one that is able to be explained is then one less weapon in the ID arsenal.
Perhaps, doing it yourself, but encouraging others to do so is also a crime? Then Abby Hoffman should be guilty of many crimes just for writing "Steal This Book".