The sex offenders registration is utterly irrelevant to future criminal issues,
Except he's going to get called in and questioned for every case from rape to public urination that comes up. If he doesn't have an alibi, he'll be a suspect and if his life wasn't alrady screwed up it will be then.
But I'm quite aware of what Slashdot is (if you look at my post count, you'll see I waste far too much of my life here). They do describe themselves as a "news" site though. And I don't think it could be called a blog, as it's usually understood; I think of a blog as essentailly the thoughts of the owner(s), comments are secondary. They rarely write opinion pieces (though they often add a few lines to inflame the readers), and the comments work more like a forum.
In the Alan Dean Foster novelization, the alien tore open food packages that the crew used. So, it's not true that it didn't eat
The novelisation is not the film. But at least it shows someone noticed this was a problem.
And what do the vermin eat on an ore carrier that goes years between ports?
Here's a disgusting thought: maybe the alien ate sewage.
We don't know. But that doesn't mean the film asserts that it's somehow "magic
The film doesn't assert anything, it just happens with no explanation at all.
If something appears out of nowhere (as a couple of hundred kilos of Alien flesh), that is magic. The only possible explantion is that it (in its "tadpole" form) found a can opener and some tins of bully beef. Or maybe the engineers left some pizza crusts behind the machinery (though they'd be a few decades old....
Of course it's viral marketiong -- it costs money and takes talent to make a movie like that, not to mention hosting a 40 MB file. Rather (deliberately) reminsicent of the Dharma Initiative training film found in the show Lost, as well as many other influences.
Not to mention how rarely people in space go to the toilet
There's the scene in 2001 when Floyd is puzzling with the instructions for the Zero-G toilet. But most SF spaceships have some magical artificial gravity so toilets should be fairly conventional.
An early Babylon 5 episode had a couple of guys going to a urinal and doing their business.Lots of toilet humour and gratuitous bathroom nudity on Enterprise, but no actual toilet scenes I can recall.
Alien satisfies both mass audiences with requisite scares, but it also satisfies the scientifically-minded audience,
ORLY? How does the Alien grow from the tadpole that bursts out of the crewman's chest to the full-sized adult, without eating anyone or thing? (Apparently there was a cut scene showing the humans it had caught paralysed and used to incubate more Aliens (like wasps, etc) so it never eats anything at all -- unless it sneaked into the galley and microwaved a TV dinner.) And let's not even consider the economics of an interstellar freighter shipping ore; no ore is that valuable or rare. Yeah, a fun movie, many good things about it, but not at all scientific.
"I can't fucking believe you are actually giving me shit because I did something good, for people I don't even know. What the fuck is wrong with you? Who pisses in your cornflakes every morning?"
But by implying that I should just mind my own business and let it all be,
If you have evidence put it before the authorities. Pressure them to take action. That's what they're for. Otherwise, you are being a vigilante. But if you act with them as you have here, I'm not surprised no one is interested in your ranting.
Now, maybe you are just too fucking apathetic...And I'm appalled that you can't tell the fucking difference. GO crawl back into your apathetic little hole, and keep praying to your genitals that "the powers that be" will make the world a rainbow bright my-little-pony place for you, while you do nothing.
Get your shotgun and blow them away. Let God sort them out. Hoo-rah!
Now, you must have missed.. what.. HALF of my post that you replied to? The jerk in question...
No, I read it all. But the point is you want to be judge, jury and executioner. Let the police deal with him. Don't complain about being obstructed from going vigilante. Sure, you may be righteous, but not everyone is.
Besides who is actually going to search in an archive of an old forum when they want to find a reliable criminal to deal with? There are plenty of live forums where you can do this almost openly. You seem to have a personal venedetta going.
Wayback Machine has never asserted their right to keep anything online. As the article points out, they'll remove stuff that's noncompliant with the current robots.txt, even though it was compliant at the time it was spidered.
I really hate that. When I want to find some info about some hardware made by a long-defunct company, I find old usenet posts referencing their website, This is now taken over by some scumbag who has filled it full of porn and viagra ads. I go to the Wayback Machine and find ALL the history of the site is inaccessible because the current owner of the domain has blocked them in the robots.txt, despite the fact the owners of the original site have no relation to them at all.
However... EACH OF THOSE POSTS is still there in the google cache. Go ahead and see. Why is this important? Because all you need to see, if you are in the market to buy stolen Identities and credit cards, is the contact information.
I don't see what your point is. Surely if these guys are engaged in criminal activity as you suggest, and have contact information, they should be investigated and arrested. The FBI (etc) should take over the contacts and shut them down, or use them to entrap other thieves. It should not be up to you to root them out from the Internet. Giving vigilantes the ability to erase all records of an event is a short, sharp and very slippery slope leading to the "Ministry of Truth". For a preview, see google.cn.
But when a forum is completely anonymous, and completely without an intent on what the content should be, you have something that never needs "control taken back".
Until it gets found by the porn link spammers who have destroyed many unregulated wikis elsewhere.
Depending on how well it works, we're talking about a browser 10% the size of even links.
Since it requires IE 5.5 or above, I expect it uses IE for most functions. Not bad in itself, but it will probably be vulnerable to all the exploits IE is, and users being unaware of that, especially visiting the seamier websites infested with drive-by installers, may be seriously screwed. Nevertheless, if you have to use a PC temporarily and only IE is installed, it would be better than just trying to clean up IE.
Common sense? When a big organisation gets rid of it's old computers it (usually) destroys the harddisks totally. Why should it be any different with mobile phones?
And TFA recommends you should physically destroy your old phones. All very convenient for the phone manufacturers, no competition from the secondhand market. Not to mention the toxic electronic waste. And the phone manufacturers don't provide a simple "wipe/overwrite/wipe command, for fear some idiot will use it unintentionally and complain, or because it takes longer than the "pretend" wipe they do provide that hides but doesn't really delete.
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Except he's going to get called in and questioned for every case from rape to public urination that comes up. If he doesn't have an alibi, he'll be a suspect and if his life wasn't alrady screwed up it will be then.
Yes, he used correct capitalisation, failed to use LOL!! or "Me too!!!"
The agent himself said it was a policy. So someone is lying.
I don't see the word "blog" anywhere.
But I'm quite aware of what Slashdot is (if you look at my post count, you'll see I waste far too much of my life here). They do describe themselves as a "news" site though. And I don't think it could be called a blog, as it's usually understood; I think of a blog as essentailly the thoughts of the owner(s), comments are secondary. They rarely write opinion pieces (though they often add a few lines to inflame the readers), and the comments work more like a forum.
"News for nerds..."
The novelisation is not the film. But at least it shows someone noticed this was a problem. And what do the vermin eat on an ore carrier that goes years between ports?
Here's a disgusting thought: maybe the alien ate sewage.
The film doesn't assert anything, it just happens with no explanation at all. If something appears out of nowhere (as a couple of hundred kilos of Alien flesh), that is magic. The only possible explantion is that it (in its "tadpole" form) found a can opener and some tins of bully beef. Or maybe the engineers left some pizza crusts behind the machinery (though they'd be a few decades old....
Of course it's viral marketiong -- it costs money and takes talent to make a movie like that, not to mention hosting a 40 MB file. Rather (deliberately) reminsicent of the Dharma Initiative training film found in the show Lost, as well as many other influences.
There's the scene in 2001 when Floyd is puzzling with the instructions for the Zero-G toilet. But most SF spaceships have some magical artificial gravity so toilets should be fairly conventional.
An early Babylon 5 episode had a couple of guys going to a urinal and doing their business.Lots of toilet humour and gratuitous bathroom nudity on Enterprise, but no actual toilet scenes I can recall.
The parent post claimed Alien was scientifically sound. I was responding to that.
ORLY? How does the Alien grow from the tadpole that bursts out of the crewman's chest to the full-sized adult, without eating anyone or thing? (Apparently there was a cut scene showing the humans it had caught paralysed and used to incubate more Aliens (like wasps, etc) so it never eats anything at all -- unless it sneaked into the galley and microwaved a TV dinner.) And let's not even consider the economics of an interstellar freighter shipping ore; no ore is that valuable or rare. Yeah, a fun movie, many good things about it, but not at all scientific.
"I can't fucking believe you are actually giving me shit because I did something good, for people I don't even know. What the fuck is wrong with you? Who pisses in your cornflakes every morning?"
If you have evidence put it before the authorities. Pressure them to take action. That's what they're for. Otherwise, you are being a vigilante. But if you act with them as you have here, I'm not surprised no one is interested in your ranting.
I get it when you call me obscene names.
That's the end of taking you seriously.
Get your shotgun and blow them away. Let God sort them out. Hoo-rah!
No, I read it all. But the point is you want to be judge, jury and executioner. Let the police deal with him. Don't complain about being obstructed from going vigilante. Sure, you may be righteous, but not everyone is.
Besides who is actually going to search in an archive of an old forum when they want to find a reliable criminal to deal with? There are plenty of live forums where you can do this almost openly. You seem to have a personal venedetta going.
Could be worse.
I really hate that. When I want to find some info about some hardware made by a long-defunct company, I find old usenet posts referencing their website, This is now taken over by some scumbag who has filled it full of porn and viagra ads. I go to the Wayback Machine and find ALL the history of the site is inaccessible because the current owner of the domain has blocked them in the robots.txt, despite the fact the owners of the original site have no relation to them at all.
I don't see what your point is. Surely if these guys are engaged in criminal activity as you suggest, and have contact information, they should be investigated and arrested. The FBI (etc) should take over the contacts and shut them down, or use them to entrap other thieves. It should not be up to you to root them out from the Internet. Giving vigilantes the ability to erase all records of an event is a short, sharp and very slippery slope leading to the "Ministry of Truth". For a preview, see google.cn.
Iy's only got 37 IPs listed... If it did take off, they'd attack it and pollute it.
Until it gets found by the porn link spammers who have destroyed many unregulated wikis elsewhere.
OK, I can understand, if not agree with, an "off topic" mod, but how the fuck can a post with no poitive mods be "overrated"? Asshole moderator.
It requires IE to be installed. Basically, it's a skin.
Since it requires IE 5.5 or above, I expect it uses IE for most functions. Not bad in itself, but it will probably be vulnerable to all the exploits IE is, and users being unaware of that, especially visiting the seamier websites infested with drive-by installers, may be seriously screwed. Nevertheless, if you have to use a PC temporarily and only IE is installed, it would be better than just trying to clean up IE.
And TFA recommends you should physically destroy your old phones. All very convenient for the phone manufacturers, no competition from the secondhand market. Not to mention the toxic electronic waste. And the phone manufacturers don't provide a simple "wipe/overwrite/wipe command, for fear some idiot will use it unintentionally and complain, or because it takes longer than the "pretend" wipe they do provide that hides but doesn't really delete.