At which point does it actually become acceptable to say "Look, you are disabled, you are different, and its not worth the cost of doing this - how about we look at it differently and stop trying to pretend that you have the same advantages in life that we non-disabled enjoy?"
I could explain it to you, but it wouldn't be worth it. Stop trying to pretend that you're a real person, shut up and don't take the cork off the fork.
He's getting punished for conspiring to and eventually holding the cities network hostage. It was very clear during the trial that he planned to do what he did. It wasn't just one of those days where everything went wrong and he is being made out to be the bad guy.
But he got a much harsher sentence despite having not caused a single minute of outages on the network he was accused of conducting a denial of service attack on. Maybe someone ought to write (or read) an article comparing these widely disparate sentences.
Until the sue your estate for whatever is left owing, and saddle your family with your debts.
That's what they would like you to believe. Here in the real world your family and beneficiaries do not have any obligation to repay so much as one penny of your debts. Your creditors can go after your estate, but that is all.
Any collection agent who calls you and implies otherwise is lying to you.
My "Gaming" PC is 6 months old. Liquid Cooled, Quad Core, 4 gigs of ram 2 GeForce 250s in SLi and yet hard reboots after about 15min-1hour of SC2... My Xbox 360 is still chugging along 4 years later.
Your XBox 360 has been running Starcraft 2 for four years? That's impressive. Do you have a Delorean parked out back too?
None of them have been charged yet, but I heard that many of these people have been brought in as part of an investigation into child exploitation. On top of that, several of them are self-admited pedagogues, pediatricians or even podiatrists, but they are somehow allowed to continue working in positions which bring them into contact with school children on a regular basis.
Since this is all a matter of public record, can we publish these facts along with their photographs, home and work addresses next to a vaguely worded editorial about the evils of child abuse? That sounds pretty fair to me.
Students who have learned to memorize symbols and who have a limited understanding of the equal sign will tend to solve problems such as 4+3+2=( )+2 by adding the numbers on the left, and placing it in the parentheses, then add those terms and create another equal sign with the new answer,' he explains. 'So the work would look like 4+3+2=(9)+2=11.'"
That's a question of order of operations, not what the equals sign means.
The student in that example was presented with a vague question in a form which I have never seen before and chose to interpret it as two different questions tied together. I'm not going to try to argue that the answer is "right", only that in the absence of an explanation of what "a big blank space in the middle of an equation" means it's an understandable misinterpretation.
And then, because this is/., I will throw in the obligatory XKCD and suggest that it's somehow like complaining that a student in drivers' ed who has only driven automatic transmissions will naturally have trouble behind the wheel of a real car.
My responsibilities and duties as an IT worker end the moment I quit or someone fires me. I do not like the precedence [sic] this trial sets.
Most sane contracts require you to return any company materials or information upon termination of employment or make arrangements to do so within a reasonable time frame. While you are no longer required to show up at the office early Sunday morning to clean all the pr0n off of your manager's notebook, you are still responsible for giving back anything that isn't yours. It's like how the car or bike that you left in the parking lot or all of the personal stuff that was on your desk doesn't become company property the moment they fire you, only in reverse.
Even if this simple detail was not spelled out clearly in your contract, not returning things that don't belong to you for either the employer or employee is a significant Career Limiting Maneuver and in most cases a pretty clear violation of Wheaton's First Rule.
That's why the only car that is truly safe is one that has the engine switched off and starter disconnected, locked in a titanium safe, buried in a concrete vault on the bottom of the sea and surrounded by very highly paid armed guards.
where everything, including going to the bathroom, is done by committee.
I tried Moonbase Alpha, but found the performance to be terrible even with the graphics settings set to the lowest level. If I'm going to be playing a game on the moon, I don't want it to be so realistic that there is a seven second delay between me pressing a key and something happening.
That's unfortunate as it looked like a neat toy. Somehow I doubt that it would have ever let me blow up the nuclear fuel dump though.
It is not enough to recognize that 'social justice' is an empty phrase without determinable content. It has become a powerful incantation which serves to support deep-seated emotions that are threatening to destroy the Great Society. Unfortunately it is not true that if something cannot be achieved, it can do no harm to strive for it. Like chasing any mirage it is likely to produce results which one would have done much to avoid if one had foreseen them. Many desirable aims will be sacrificed in the vain hope of making possible what must forever elude our grasp.
-Friedrich Hayek
"Law, Legislation and Liberty"
"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
All organic life in the Northern Hemisphere is disintegrated at the subatomic level, Pacific Ocean boils away, Indian Ocean freezes solid, everybody in Uganda gets superpowers.
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Maybe they were able to access your router because the password was still password1 ?
So you're suggesting that "Maybe they were able to access the administrative port on your router from the internet, which is only open to the local network and not the internet, because they knew the password"?
That's right up there with "Maybe the crooks were able to take the money out of the safe because they knew the serial numbers on the bills" in terms of insane explanations. Do you write for network television?
Actually, what you're saying is crap. Advanced degrees in the US [...] are for the most part free.
That's funny, because somehow the people graduating with these "free" degrees are ending up with over $20,000 in debt. Perhaps phrases like "most part" and "free" don't mean what one of us thinks they mean.
Logically, you would remove F and give failing student Ds so you have A, B, C and D, but whatever floats your boat.
Perhaps the grades could be "Excellent", "Awesome", "Doing Really Very Well" and "Not Left Behind", so as to comply with government standards for education.
"LYNDSI", whoever that is, could have looked it up too. And perhaps written a few words about it, so that the article would have something approaching value. Strange as it may seem there is a difference between "Here is some data and here are the conclusions that I have drawn from it" and "Here are some conclusions and if you spend enough time clicking on random, completely unlabelled links to other people's work, which may or may not still be in the same state as it was when I last consulted it, then maybe you might find some data to back it up. Good luck with that".
One is good writing. The other is just wasting the reader's time.
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I could explain it to you, but it wouldn't be worth it. Stop trying to pretend that you're a real person, shut up and don't take the cork off the fork.
That's right. If he had been smart he would have just "deleted all company email, caused the email servers to spew out spam, and intentionally crippled at least some servers, rendering them inoperable" like Stephen Barnes did and been out of jail a year ago. Or perhaps he could have "deliberately and painstakingly attempted to sabotage the company he worked for, intentionally writing scripts to destroy valuable data" like Yung-Hsun Lin did and he would be out of jail in three more months.
But he got a much harsher sentence despite having not caused a single minute of outages on the network he was accused of conducting a denial of service attack on. Maybe someone ought to write (or read) an article comparing these widely disparate sentences.
Then I want some of whatever he is smoking.
That's what they would like you to believe. Here in the real world your family and beneficiaries do not have any obligation to repay so much as one penny of your debts. Your creditors can go after your estate, but that is all.
Any collection agent who calls you and implies otherwise is lying to you.
Your XBox 360 has been running Starcraft 2 for four years? That's impressive. Do you have a Delorean parked out back too?
If you can prove to them that you have reached the end of your lifetime, as BFG has, then that would be okay.
None of them have been charged yet, but I heard that many of these people have been brought in as part of an investigation into child exploitation. On top of that, several of them are self-admited pedagogues, pediatricians or even podiatrists, but they are somehow allowed to continue working in positions which bring them into contact with school children on a regular basis.
Since this is all a matter of public record, can we publish these facts along with their photographs, home and work addresses next to a vaguely worded editorial about the evils of child abuse? That sounds pretty fair to me.
In a way, that's the whole point of SF -- To explore how people relate to new technology, new cultures and new ways of living.
In 1966 it may have seemed far fetched to have the crew of the Starship Enterprise carrying around flippy communicators and tricorders while jotting down notes on tiny pad-like computers, but after years of watching and wondering "Why not?", here we are.
That's a question of order of operations, not what the equals sign means.
The student in that example was presented with a vague question in a form which I have never seen before and chose to interpret it as two different questions tied together. I'm not going to try to argue that the answer is "right", only that in the absence of an explanation of what "a big blank space in the middle of an equation" means it's an understandable misinterpretation.
And then, because this is /., I will throw in the obligatory XKCD and suggest that it's somehow like complaining that a student in drivers' ed who has only driven automatic transmissions will naturally have trouble behind the wheel of a real car.
Most sane contracts require you to return any company materials or information upon termination of employment or make arrangements to do so within a reasonable time frame. While you are no longer required to show up at the office early Sunday morning to clean all the pr0n off of your manager's notebook, you are still responsible for giving back anything that isn't yours. It's like how the car or bike that you left in the parking lot or all of the personal stuff that was on your desk doesn't become company property the moment they fire you, only in reverse.
Even if this simple detail was not spelled out clearly in your contract, not returning things that don't belong to you for either the employer or employee is a significant Career Limiting Maneuver and in most cases a pretty clear violation of Wheaton's First Rule.
That's why the only car that is truly safe is one that has the engine switched off and starter disconnected, locked in a titanium safe, buried in a concrete vault on the bottom of the sea and surrounded by very highly paid armed guards.
Even then I wouldn't bet on it.
What, and have everybody find out that it's a cookbook?
Well, if they were then I'm sure the won't mind you spilling their secret to the whole world.
Don't worry, though. It's not like they can find out where you live from information available on the Internet or anything.
Yes. It will be followed by Google Rex, Bo, Hamm and Slink. Somehow, Google Sid will always be with us.
I guess the guys at Google couldn't figure out what it was for either.
where everything, including going to the bathroom, is done by committee.
I tried Moonbase Alpha, but found the performance to be terrible even with the graphics settings set to the lowest level. If I'm going to be playing a game on the moon, I don't want it to be so realistic that there is a seven second delay between me pressing a key and something happening.
That's unfortunate as it looked like a neat toy. Somehow I doubt that it would have ever let me blow up the nuclear fuel dump though.
What, you mean like the Obamas do?
"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
-Homer Simpson
"Burns' Heir" [1F16]
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
If you have to buy one very expensive thing before you can get the other one "free", then it's not free.
So you're suggesting that "Maybe they were able to access the administrative port on your router from the internet, which is only open to the local network and not the internet, because they knew the password"?
That's right up there with "Maybe the crooks were able to take the money out of the safe because they knew the serial numbers on the bills" in terms of insane explanations. Do you write for network television?
And while you're at it, read a good book about String Theory.
That's funny, because somehow the people graduating with these "free" degrees are ending up with over $20,000 in debt. Perhaps phrases like "most part" and "free" don't mean what one of us thinks they mean.
Perhaps the grades could be "Excellent", "Awesome", "Doing Really Very Well" and "Not Left Behind", so as to comply with government standards for education.
"LYNDSI", whoever that is, could have looked it up too. And perhaps written a few words about it, so that the article would have something approaching value. Strange as it may seem there is a difference between "Here is some data and here are the conclusions that I have drawn from it" and "Here are some conclusions and if you spend enough time clicking on random, completely unlabelled links to other people's work, which may or may not still be in the same state as it was when I last consulted it, then maybe you might find some data to back it up. Good luck with that".
One is good writing. The other is just wasting the reader's time.