that elenco 500 is sweet, wish I had that when I was a kid. My mom got me the 150 in one when I was around 7, she said now be careful with this we're taking a chance, you're way out of age range for this but we're tired of you trying to take apart the clock radio, so here, and don't break it.
Two years later I required the 200 in 1 and was well on my way into electrical engineering. Every kid that's interested in technology should have a crack at one of these. Leaves the rest of the world behind to open up a computer case and say ooo look at all the pretty little colored thingies, I wonder what they do, I wonder what will happen if I pull one out?
Heathkits were good for learning physically working with electronics. Soldering irons, pin identification, mechanical assembly, but didn't really teach theory.
The 150 and 200-in-1 radio shack kits actually did a fairly good job of this. They started you out with "connect the numbered terminals, here's a picture", to later replacing the picture of the parts with a schematic. They encouraged you to experiment, and there was accompanying text for each project later on that described what was going on in the circuit so you understood what all the parts were doing.
It didn't teach you electronics theory formally in any kind of structured way, but it was an excellent crash-course in basic electronics. It was also a very quick way to teach you how to read, use, and create schematics. There are still 200-in-1 kits available but not by Archer anymore: http://www.quasarelectronics.com/epl200.htm
There really are 200 different projects in that kit, ranging from very very basic, "press the switch to turn on the light" all the way up to "a divide-by-2 counter" and "build your own one way telephone". It teaches the basics of digital computing at the gate level which is interesting. Also there was a very wide variation in the projects. Something interesting for everyone. Photodetector alarms, simple games, noisemakers, just all sorts of variety to keep a kid interested.
Once you want to really start fiddling, this is something you should have. It doesn't teach you anything in itself, but lets you play more: Heathkit ET-3100 electronic design experimenter: http://providence.craigslist.org/ele/696855286.html
I had one of these and it's very basic, but by this point you should have some spare parts around already, and having adjustable voltages and signals and a breadboard takes you to the next step of design. Actually I think it did come with some projects, it's been awhile. This was a kit, so you had to assemble it properly for it to work. I used to spend my free time at school planning out schematics of things I wanted to tinker with, sometimes preplanning how to lay them out on the breadboard when I got home.
ARD has a "do shell command" function in the admin. That's probably what's supposed to use this function. So if you strip the setuid bit, that function of ARD will be disabled.
We had a discussion about this recently here at work. One comment by one person pretty much capped the discussion. "The world needs ditch diggers."
Not meaning to sound cruel, and apologies to some parents, but not all kids are created equal. Some have a brighter future than others, and pouring additional resources into them is not going to have nearly the benefit that even half those resources would yield if directed to students that have more potential. If you can expend the same resources to turn a quickmart employee into a quicmkart manager, or turn an office drone into a physicist, the choice should be obvious.
But of course that's not the way it's done anymore. Now schools are dropping their TAG (talented and gifted") programs to pay for their NCLB programs. What a shameful waste. Glad I got through school before the NCLB farce hit.
but you're going to get a lot more help if you provide your ip address, even if you don't like doing that to the crowd. Or at least let us know what your router's IP address is or some other address in your subnet, since they are probably all the same (wrong).
Unless you are only interested in knowing the generals of how to fix it yourself, not more in depth examination of your problem (and possibly an immediate solution) This will be the difference between "try this and look that up and see what this is and google for that and..." vs "call XXX at 555-1212 and ask for their geo department, problem solved".
osascript runs under the windowserver of whatever user is logged in. So you can do an osascript command from a shell so long as any user is logged into the GUI. (Finder) Probably will not work if fast user switching is enabled and it's at the login window even though a user (or users) are logged in. So yes it will work remotely, if you have an ssh login and ssh is enabled. Doesn't look like ARD service itself needs to be on, which is puzzling. Too bad that, since 99% of macs have this service off. (is off by default)
Would be nice if someone would have reported this instead of releasing it into the public the instant they found it. Apple has a pretty good track record of releasing security fixes for things like this asap. Look for a security update in softwareupdate in the next day or two. (if that) From the looks of it, there will be validation on the source of the applescript or they may just turn off scripting for that ARD component altogether.
Fortunately, on top of having very few such exploits come up, it's that much harder on the mac to get malicious code running in the first place, drive-by downloads and email-auto-execute are the main vectors for a worm to spread with this sort of payload, and those generally aren't possible either. Breaking the chain of disaster is more effective if you are concentrating on more than one of the links.
the device writes to where the os tells it to, and then it tells the OS it's done. if you yank the device, the write does not complete, and the os sees the device go away without notice, frees the memory, and moves on.
I've seen this asked and answered before. Sorry I don't have references handy, but it comes down to designed number of operations. Ethernet cables are not patch cords. They are not meant to be plugged and unplugged several times a day. I see ethernet cables with their lock clips snapped off constantly, and do from time to time run into an ethernet jack that's bad, and often a failed ethernet cord.
I have yet to run into a single failed firewire cord, and only two trashed firewire jacks. (due to them getting used, from what I can tell, about 10 times a day for better than 6 years)
USB and firewire are both designed for many operations. The mere presence of the lock clip on the ethernet cords is a good indicator they don't mean for you to plug and unplug them all the time.
Looking at the eSata connectors I wonder how well they'll stand up to many operations. I haven't ran across any specs on them yet but they don't look too durable. Particularly where the cable meets the connector.
With 1394, sometimes ripping it out at the wrong times can give you a BSOD, or even worse, damage your device.
Sorry for your BSOD but that's not the device's problem, has nothing to do with USB or Firewire. Linux and Macintosh do not have ANY issue with hot swapping firewire.
And I work with firewire and usb storage many times every single day at work so I believe I have a good sampling to speak on.
I can say I've seen firewire damaged devices though... some of the cheap firewire port end cages are split stamped, and can spread if forced. This lets you plug in a firewire cable BACKWARDS if it's behind a machine you can't pull out and are groping in the dark with the cable. bad things happen here, usually shorting out the firewire port on the host, since firewire is heavily powered and doesn't like being hooked up wrong.
Flash drives (and iPods) don't come close to saturating USB2, so what would be the point of using firewire?
Now that's true, but it hasn't always been that way. Look how long we had firewire 400 before we had USB 480? Years. During that time, using USB (12) for file transfer was torture. There are still quite a few machines with the slower USB. There never was a "slow" firewire.
Also USB is used for things that can saturate it. Over 1/2 the external HDs for sale nowadays are USB, and they can and do saturate 480. (which for data transfer on USB ends up being more around 320-350)
Firewire is not designed to run peripherals. It's designed for high speed, efficient transfer of data. The closest it gets to peripherals is high end scanners. Mice, printers, keyboards, basically anything human interface is more appropriate for USB. Universal Serial Bus. Firewire is not universal. The overhead created by being universal makes even the high speed USB (480) transfer data slower than Firewire 400. Then there's Firewire 800 which leaves USB in the dust nicely on file transfers.
Also firewire IO is done on the card/chip, whereas USB is done to a large degree by the CPU. This is why we saw recent threads about the 'security risk' associated with jacking into the firewire port of a computer - you have direct access to system memory on most systems. Try a file copy with USB 2, and again with firewire, watch your processor. BIG difference. This is important when you are processing video, you can't have your video IO making your video processing lag and skip frames. That's one of the reasons firewire remains dominant on video.
The only aspect of this I find puzzling is the scarcity and cost of firewire flash drives. kanguru makes them but they cost 3-4x as much as comparable USB thumb drives. Best guess here is thumb drives started their boon before most PCs had firewire ports, so they were just trying to hit the largest market, which lacked firewire, and so now we're stuck with it.
Too many people wigging out nowadays with the "unattended package" scares to geocache anymore. If you go out in the woods and leave something hidden, or interact with something hidden, and someone sees you, too great of odds that they will call the bomb squad or DNR or something like that.
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My previous ISP did not offer local newsgroup support, so I was left to go looking elsewhere for it. What I encountered was frustrating, because ALL the free usenet services on the network were not complete. Most for example, did NOT cache the entire alt.binaries tree, or any other group that hosted large amounts of data. The few that did were very selective as to which groups they carried, had a low retention (some as little as 4 days) and were god-awful slow.
The free services came and went on a weekly basis, and every couple months I'd have to blow another afternoon looking for another service.
So I ended up ponying up for a pay newsgroup service that carried all the groups, for an extra $20/month I felt my ISP should already be giving me. The service was metered, and once you'd downloaded your monthly limit, you were done until next month. But they did have good speeds and almost 100% of the available groups with at least 2 weeks retention.
Although cost-cutting and censorship are both being blamed here, I don't think that's it. It looks more like a company taking the path of least resistance. The ThinkOfTheChildren tag seems most appropriate. People exercising extremely poor judgement and foresight that result in a massive net-loss in public benefit, under the guise of some holy cause, the only real purpose of which is to shut up a few whiners.
if you're feeling particularly stubborn and annoyed, just try to get them to shut off their phones. You'd think you were asking them to walk on glass or something. It's not that they don't realize everyone is getting annoyed by them - they know it, they just can't force themselves to shut off their phone. Those are the types that would rather be without their cell phone than their car.
I have yet to get a single person to shut off their phone. "but what if someone's trying to call me? what if it's important? what if my brother's been in a car accident or something?" They always say that, what if (friend/relative) was in a car accident?" I wonder if this is their real fear, but it sure is a common excuse.
My fav answer, "dunno. are you a surgeon on call or something? any good at sewing up a chest cavity?" They don't like that reply very much but it sure stumps them.
I move around a lot every day, and my availability varies depending on where I am, and who is trying to IM me. IM's from a coworker or business contact are different than say, IM's from mom or a friend. I modded my IM client to change my status depending on where I'm at, so everyone I interact with can figure out whether or not it's a good time to ask me a question or just chew the fat.
I still occasionally get inappropriate messages, but it's pretty uncommon. Usually they're from someone I don't chat with often and they haven't figured out what all my statuses mean yet.
FYI the script is a cron job that runs every five minutes, and tries to figure out what my WAN ip address is (and sometimes narrows it down by LAN address too) and updates my status, assuming it's not set to something custom already.
Also, sometimes people have something they want to tell me but don't really need to discuss. When they see I'm busy they'll just IM me a one-liner with what was on their mind, ending with an indication that they are not expecting a reply. So at least for me, IM is extremely effective and efficient communication whether I'm at work or at home. It allows me to stay available to everyone without unwelcome distraction.
I wish I could do this with my coworkers' cell phones, omg so tired of a coworker getting continuous calls from relatives/friends while we're trying to get something done, HERE is the real problem!
the funny thing there was, the booklet they provided was such a deep dark red and the letters were small and fine and a medium grey, you'd about go blind trying to read them.
The photocopies were much easier to read.
Downside was the bleach kinda trashed the booklet, making it very brittle and it started to fall apart. So it was quickly thrown away.
I'd like to see every case go to a trial. Every single one.
Agreed. Both times I've done jury duty, the case was "settled" before we started. In both cases, the court representative told us that we were not wasting our time, because the mere threat of us appearing before the accused made him accept a plea bargain. Yes, we did waste our time. I wonder how many priors this person had? Maybe if we made it sting a little more by taking 'em to trial and find guilty and let the judge dish out a good sentencing, this wouldn't be such a repeat issue.
The trick there was bleach. Bleach would strip the color off the paper but not the ink. So it would turn a print that was for example, grey ink on dark red paper (which would B&W copy to a sheet of black paper) into a tannish/reddish/white sheet of paper, and black lettering, easily photocopied.
That's been discussed quite a bit. The popular theory going seems to be he thought he'd done a good enough job covering things up to dodge the guilty verdict. A missing front seat, blood in the vehicle, and an unexplained road trip into the wilderness appear to have done it for him though. With that sort of circumstantial evidence, I don't know what was going through his head to think that wasn't enough. He bet unwisely against the house and lost.
But then we start to explore the decision-making abilities of someone that commits this sort of crime in the first place. You cannot attempt to use logic and probability of sensible decisions to predict such a person's actions.
In other words, lets say he was mentally stable and didn't do it. (those two go together right?) Then an idealistic person would have turned down the deal, expecting truth to somehow win out. But then lets say he was not mentally-stable, and resulted in his doing it. (an equally acceptable combination?) Then such a person would also be less likely to take the deal, thinking he can't possibly get caught, justifying his actions, hoping to "get away with it", etc etc.
So the fact that he turned down the initial deal means nothing, it applies to both scenarios equally well.
Isn't there a plea for an innocent person to make in a case where they're pretty certain they're going to get convicted anyway? "no contest" or something like that?
"...they'll come along and cut off the one wire that delivers freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly."
TFA makes it sound like the internet is the only way to exercise these liberties. I suppose blowing up the courthouse is also one way for me to exercise my voice but they seem to have made that one illegal. Shame on them!
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that elenco 500 is sweet, wish I had that when I was a kid. My mom got me the 150 in one when I was around 7, she said now be careful with this we're taking a chance, you're way out of age range for this but we're tired of you trying to take apart the clock radio, so here, and don't break it.
Two years later I required the 200 in 1 and was well on my way into electrical engineering. Every kid that's interested in technology should have a crack at one of these. Leaves the rest of the world behind to open up a computer case and say ooo look at all the pretty little colored thingies, I wonder what they do, I wonder what will happen if I pull one out?
Heathkits were good for learning physically working with electronics. Soldering irons, pin identification, mechanical assembly, but didn't really teach theory.
The 150 and 200-in-1 radio shack kits actually did a fairly good job of this. They started you out with "connect the numbered terminals, here's a picture", to later replacing the picture of the parts with a schematic. They encouraged you to experiment, and there was accompanying text for each project later on that described what was going on in the circuit so you understood what all the parts were doing.
It didn't teach you electronics theory formally in any kind of structured way, but it was an excellent crash-course in basic electronics. It was also a very quick way to teach you how to read, use, and create schematics. There are still 200-in-1 kits available but not by Archer anymore: http://www.quasarelectronics.com/epl200.htm
There really are 200 different projects in that kit, ranging from very very basic, "press the switch to turn on the light" all the way up to "a divide-by-2 counter" and "build your own one way telephone". It teaches the basics of digital computing at the gate level which is interesting. Also there was a very wide variation in the projects. Something interesting for everyone. Photodetector alarms, simple games, noisemakers, just all sorts of variety to keep a kid interested.
Once you want to really start fiddling, this is something you should have. It doesn't teach you anything in itself, but lets you play more: Heathkit ET-3100 electronic design experimenter: http://providence.craigslist.org/ele/696855286.html
I had one of these and it's very basic, but by this point you should have some spare parts around already, and having adjustable voltages and signals and a breadboard takes you to the next step of design. Actually I think it did come with some projects, it's been awhile. This was a kit, so you had to assemble it properly for it to work. I used to spend my free time at school planning out schematics of things I wanted to tinker with, sometimes preplanning how to lay them out on the breadboard when I got home.
ARD has a "do shell command" function in the admin. That's probably what's supposed to use this function. So if you strip the setuid bit, that function of ARD will be disabled.
We had a discussion about this recently here at work. One comment by one person pretty much capped the discussion. "The world needs ditch diggers."
Not meaning to sound cruel, and apologies to some parents, but not all kids are created equal. Some have a brighter future than others, and pouring additional resources into them is not going to have nearly the benefit that even half those resources would yield if directed to students that have more potential. If you can expend the same resources to turn a quickmart employee into a quicmkart manager, or turn an office drone into a physicist, the choice should be obvious.
But of course that's not the way it's done anymore. Now schools are dropping their TAG (talented and gifted") programs to pay for their NCLB programs. What a shameful waste. Glad I got through school before the NCLB farce hit.
but you're going to get a lot more help if you provide your ip address, even if you don't like doing that to the crowd. Or at least let us know what your router's IP address is or some other address in your subnet, since they are probably all the same (wrong).
..." vs "call XXX at 555-1212 and ask for their geo department, problem solved".
Unless you are only interested in knowing the generals of how to fix it yourself, not more in depth examination of your problem (and possibly an immediate solution) This will be the difference between "try this and look that up and see what this is and google for that and
osascript runs under the windowserver of whatever user is logged in. So you can do an osascript command from a shell so long as any user is logged into the GUI. (Finder) Probably will not work if fast user switching is enabled and it's at the login window even though a user (or users) are logged in. So yes it will work remotely, if you have an ssh login and ssh is enabled. Doesn't look like ARD service itself needs to be on, which is puzzling. Too bad that, since 99% of macs have this service off. (is off by default)
Would be nice if someone would have reported this instead of releasing it into the public the instant they found it. Apple has a pretty good track record of releasing security fixes for things like this asap. Look for a security update in softwareupdate in the next day or two. (if that) From the looks of it, there will be validation on the source of the applescript or they may just turn off scripting for that ARD component altogether.
Fortunately, on top of having very few such exploits come up, it's that much harder on the mac to get malicious code running in the first place, drive-by downloads and email-auto-execute are the main vectors for a worm to spread with this sort of payload, and those generally aren't possible either. Breaking the chain of disaster is more effective if you are concentrating on more than one of the links.
whatdidyouexpect (followed by haha) come immediately to mind.
Those tags alone would negate the need for most comments.
the device writes to where the os tells it to, and then it tells the OS it's done. if you yank the device, the write does not complete, and the os sees the device go away without notice, frees the memory, and moves on.
Explain to me why you need firewire
I've seen this asked and answered before. Sorry I don't have references handy, but it comes down to designed number of operations. Ethernet cables are not patch cords. They are not meant to be plugged and unplugged several times a day. I see ethernet cables with their lock clips snapped off constantly, and do from time to time run into an ethernet jack that's bad, and often a failed ethernet cord.
I have yet to run into a single failed firewire cord, and only two trashed firewire jacks. (due to them getting used, from what I can tell, about 10 times a day for better than 6 years)
USB and firewire are both designed for many operations. The mere presence of the lock clip on the ethernet cords is a good indicator they don't mean for you to plug and unplug them all the time.
Looking at the eSata connectors I wonder how well they'll stand up to many operations. I haven't ran across any specs on them yet but they don't look too durable. Particularly where the cable meets the connector.
With 1394, sometimes ripping it out at the wrong times can give you a BSOD, or even worse, damage your device.
Sorry for your BSOD but that's not the device's problem, has nothing to do with USB or Firewire. Linux and Macintosh do not have ANY issue with hot swapping firewire.
And I work with firewire and usb storage many times every single day at work so I believe I have a good sampling to speak on.
I can say I've seen firewire damaged devices though... some of the cheap firewire port end cages are split stamped, and can spread if forced. This lets you plug in a firewire cable BACKWARDS if it's behind a machine you can't pull out and are groping in the dark with the cable. bad things happen here, usually shorting out the firewire port on the host, since firewire is heavily powered and doesn't like being hooked up wrong.
Flash drives (and iPods) don't come close to saturating USB2, so what would be the point of using firewire?
Now that's true, but it hasn't always been that way. Look how long we had firewire 400 before we had USB 480? Years. During that time, using USB (12) for file transfer was torture. There are still quite a few machines with the slower USB. There never was a "slow" firewire.
Also USB is used for things that can saturate it. Over 1/2 the external HDs for sale nowadays are USB, and they can and do saturate 480. (which for data transfer on USB ends up being more around 320-350)
Firewire is not designed to run peripherals. It's designed for high speed, efficient transfer of data. The closest it gets to peripherals is high end scanners. Mice, printers, keyboards, basically anything human interface is more appropriate for USB. Universal Serial Bus. Firewire is not universal. The overhead created by being universal makes even the high speed USB (480) transfer data slower than Firewire 400. Then there's Firewire 800 which leaves USB in the dust nicely on file transfers.
Also firewire IO is done on the card/chip, whereas USB is done to a large degree by the CPU. This is why we saw recent threads about the 'security risk' associated with jacking into the firewire port of a computer - you have direct access to system memory on most systems. Try a file copy with USB 2, and again with firewire, watch your processor. BIG difference. This is important when you are processing video, you can't have your video IO making your video processing lag and skip frames. That's one of the reasons firewire remains dominant on video.
The only aspect of this I find puzzling is the scarcity and cost of firewire flash drives. kanguru makes them but they cost 3-4x as much as comparable USB thumb drives. Best guess here is thumb drives started their boon before most PCs had firewire ports, so they were just trying to hit the largest market, which lacked firewire, and so now we're stuck with it.
So we should stop doing something perfectly legal and innocent, just in case someone mistakes it for a different activity?
should is the problem. Should can describe something practical, or idealistic, and the two are often very different due to circumstances.
Example:
We should be able to walk to the store and back without locking the door.
BUT, most of us should lock the door before we leave the house for more than a couple minutes or we risk being robbed.
The former is the idealistic should, and the latter is the practical should.
And so in life we engage in the practical, and can only try to change the world so that the practical looks more like the idealistic.
So, while we should be able to geocache without people flipping out, we should take care not to be noticed or simply avoid it altogether.
Too many people wigging out nowadays with the "unattended package" scares to geocache anymore. If you go out in the woods and leave something hidden, or interact with something hidden, and someone sees you, too great of odds that they will call the bomb squad or DNR or something like that.
Read the actual proposal here:
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no, the usual
bend over
same as every article that is or should be tagged ThinkOf TheChildren
My previous ISP did not offer local newsgroup support, so I was left to go looking elsewhere for it. What I encountered was frustrating, because ALL the free usenet services on the network were not complete. Most for example, did NOT cache the entire alt.binaries tree, or any other group that hosted large amounts of data. The few that did were very selective as to which groups they carried, had a low retention (some as little as 4 days) and were god-awful slow.
The free services came and went on a weekly basis, and every couple months I'd have to blow another afternoon looking for another service.
So I ended up ponying up for a pay newsgroup service that carried all the groups, for an extra $20/month I felt my ISP should already be giving me. The service was metered, and once you'd downloaded your monthly limit, you were done until next month. But they did have good speeds and almost 100% of the available groups with at least 2 weeks retention.
Although cost-cutting and censorship are both being blamed here, I don't think that's it. It looks more like a company taking the path of least resistance. The ThinkOfTheChildren tag seems most appropriate. People exercising extremely poor judgement and foresight that result in a massive net-loss in public benefit, under the guise of some holy cause, the only real purpose of which is to shut up a few whiners.
All of the Free Software goes on one side of that line, and all of the lock-down stuff on the other side."
With the trash can being positioned just on the other side of the line...
if you're feeling particularly stubborn and annoyed, just try to get them to shut off their phones. You'd think you were asking them to walk on glass or something. It's not that they don't realize everyone is getting annoyed by them - they know it, they just can't force themselves to shut off their phone. Those are the types that would rather be without their cell phone than their car.
I have yet to get a single person to shut off their phone. "but what if someone's trying to call me? what if it's important? what if my brother's been in a car accident or something?" They always say that, what if (friend/relative) was in a car accident?" I wonder if this is their real fear, but it sure is a common excuse.
My fav answer, "dunno. are you a surgeon on call or something? any good at sewing up a chest cavity?" They don't like that reply very much but it sure stumps them.
I move around a lot every day, and my availability varies depending on where I am, and who is trying to IM me. IM's from a coworker or business contact are different than say, IM's from mom or a friend. I modded my IM client to change my status depending on where I'm at, so everyone I interact with can figure out whether or not it's a good time to ask me a question or just chew the fat.
I still occasionally get inappropriate messages, but it's pretty uncommon. Usually they're from someone I don't chat with often and they haven't figured out what all my statuses mean yet.
FYI the script is a cron job that runs every five minutes, and tries to figure out what my WAN ip address is (and sometimes narrows it down by LAN address too) and updates my status, assuming it's not set to something custom already.
Also, sometimes people have something they want to tell me but don't really need to discuss. When they see I'm busy they'll just IM me a one-liner with what was on their mind, ending with an indication that they are not expecting a reply. So at least for me, IM is extremely effective and efficient communication whether I'm at work or at home. It allows me to stay available to everyone without unwelcome distraction.
I wish I could do this with my coworkers' cell phones, omg so tired of a coworker getting continuous calls from relatives/friends while we're trying to get something done, HERE is the real problem!
the funny thing there was, the booklet they provided was such a deep dark red and the letters were small and fine and a medium grey, you'd about go blind trying to read them.
The photocopies were much easier to read.
Downside was the bleach kinda trashed the booklet, making it very brittle and it started to fall apart. So it was quickly thrown away.
I'd like to see every case go to a trial. Every single one.
Agreed. Both times I've done jury duty, the case was "settled" before we started. In both cases, the court representative told us that we were not wasting our time, because the mere threat of us appearing before the accused made him accept a plea bargain. Yes, we did waste our time. I wonder how many priors this person had? Maybe if we made it sting a little more by taking 'em to trial and find guilty and let the judge dish out a good sentencing, this wouldn't be such a repeat issue.
The trick there was bleach. Bleach would strip the color off the paper but not the ink. So it would turn a print that was for example, grey ink on dark red paper (which would B&W copy to a sheet of black paper) into a tannish/reddish/white sheet of paper, and black lettering, easily photocopied.
Anyone remember MordorCharge?
That's been discussed quite a bit. The popular theory going seems to be he thought he'd done a good enough job covering things up to dodge the guilty verdict. A missing front seat, blood in the vehicle, and an unexplained road trip into the wilderness appear to have done it for him though. With that sort of circumstantial evidence, I don't know what was going through his head to think that wasn't enough. He bet unwisely against the house and lost.
But then we start to explore the decision-making abilities of someone that commits this sort of crime in the first place. You cannot attempt to use logic and probability of sensible decisions to predict such a person's actions.
In other words, lets say he was mentally stable and didn't do it. (those two go together right?) Then an idealistic person would have turned down the deal, expecting truth to somehow win out. But then lets say he was not mentally-stable, and resulted in his doing it. (an equally acceptable combination?) Then such a person would also be less likely to take the deal, thinking he can't possibly get caught, justifying his actions, hoping to "get away with it", etc etc.
So the fact that he turned down the initial deal means nothing, it applies to both scenarios equally well.
Isn't there a plea for an innocent person to make in a case where they're pretty certain they're going to get convicted anyway? "no contest" or something like that?
"...they'll come along and cut off the one wire that delivers freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly."
TFA makes it sound like the internet is the only way to exercise these liberties. I suppose blowing up the courthouse is also one way for me to exercise my voice but they seem to have made that one illegal. Shame on them!