Sadly for the plaintiff the account came from a member of the family in a published journal (her daughter's website).
Not quite so simple. First the daughter is only 16. Second I don't know how this particular site works, but it may be only accessible to members. No matter how easy is is to join, that would be different from "publishing" to all and sundry. It's at least nominally a private communication.
Regardless of legality, it was a sleazy thing to do and I have no sympathy for the newspapers. They should have sent reporters to the actual scene and confirmed the story. Slashdot publishes all kinds of unsourced rumours and hoaxes someone blogs about. That's why they have no credibility. When you pay for news you expect a bit more.
You can't print bank notes from Photoshop
Nonsense. I scanned and edited (and destroyed the original image in accordance with Treasury rules that allow this) a $100 bill in Photoshop for a project I was working on, worked quite fine.
For the last 4 or 5 years Photoshop has had a module that prevents that. See
this Wired article.
Adobe acknowledged last week that its Photoshop CS digital editing package includes a "counterfeit deterrence system" designed to prevent users from accessing images of currency.... The anti-counterfeit software in Photoshop CS was developed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group
It's not hard to circumvent, but it certainly is there.
Even if they live a while, Timothy has already had this strain and is likely immune, no?
Yes but his wife may not be...
Unless he's been eating and sleeping in the garage, all his family has already been well and truly exposed. If they didn't come down with it from his freshly sprayed germs, a few laggards on the keyboard are uinlikely to be more virulent.
Attempting is the operative word here. Someone with limited bandwidth may consider the fact that their browser is attempting to download several dozen web pages simultaneously to be somewhat less than helpful. Not to mention, someone who is at or near their ISP's (stated or unstated) bandwidth caps may find this to be pretty obnoxious too.
Good God! Australian ISP Telstra has have a bandwidth cap of 2GB/month -- that's with DSL. And if you were stuck on dial-up, you'd probably freeze trying to use Google unless you worked out what was going on and turned it off.
In case of what? Nuclear war?
Because I'm pretty sure that's the only thing that could make a model M stop working
I wish. I've got a couple with dead keys. Haven't got the heart to throw them out. One day I'll spend a few hours stripping them down and cleaning them in the hope they'll come back to life....
And you can't plug them into modern mobos, they go crazy with phantom presses and wild repeats. Supposedly you can solder a resistor on its board to make it match, or just use a USB/PS2 adapter.
See http://www.geocities.com/jszybowski/keyboard/index.htm
Turn on any live sporting event or news broadcast and enable closed captioning on your TV (or receiver, DVR, whatever) - they have been doing this for a LONG time.
These are all currently topical subjects. How is suggesting critical thinking/discussion on these a bad idea?
Aside from all the direct arguments, consider this from TFA: "Discovery [Institute] fellows helped write the bill and arranged for testimony in its favor in the legislature."
I find it a good rule of thumb that anything promoted by the Discovery Institute is a "bad idea".
The Center for Science and Culture
"Started in 1996, the Center for Science and Culture is a Discovery Institute program which:
supports research by scientists and other scholars challenging various aspects of neo-Darwinian theory;
supports research by scientists and other scholars developing the scientific theory known as intelligent design;"
These assholes have made it hard to be a Christian without feeling like an idiot. By putting religion in opposition to science, they drive thinking people to athiesm.
In short, yes, the point of all those guns is so crowds of angry citizens can overthrow their corrupt leaders. Whenever they want.
And that works so well as a method of keeping a government honest. A "crowd of angry citizens", say 0.1% of the population, can depose a popularly elected government at any time.
What works in cowboy movies does not scale up to nations. What you need is elections, and I see no sign of elections being abolished and a "President for Life" installing himself in the USA.
if you had the military start to invade Small Town USA, you'd probably have plenty of people in the surrounding area exercising their right to keep and bear arms.
This is so ludicrous....
Just why is the military going to invade "small town USA"? Barack Obama is Osama's love child and is going to convert all the Baptists to Islam at swordpoint?
Okay, your government goes insane and really does "invade small town USA". Will they at the same time allow the yokels to "exercise their right to bear arms"?
Think of Iraq -- not now, when the Iraqis are energised by their hatred of a foreign invader, but during the decades of Saddam's rule. There were just as many guns around then as there are now. Was Saddam breaking a sweat at local rebellions? A judicious massacre here, some nerve gas there. No problem. If a government as evil as you imagine existed, with the full power of the world's strongest military behind it, you can only hope to be a martyr and give them a few headaches.
Or consider another gun happy country: Somalia. Arguably widespread guns have made the country ungovernable. Great place to bring up your kids, if you're a warlord.
The real reason you guys want guns is not to "defend liberty from oppressive government". It's to defend yourselves against discontented members of the underclass, mostly, but not exclusively, blacks.
I never considered WTF to be "l33tspeek" or anything technological. FUBAR, SNAFU have been around for decades, probably originally fronm the military, with their love of both obscenity and acronyms.
And as far as finding it impossible to communicate with people in the US is concerned, you can see the how and the why in action.
No, I can't. I'm trying to contact friends and people I'm doing business with in the US, their ISPs bounce me because I live in the same continent as some spammers. And it doesn't stop spam to any extent anyway.
But I'm well aware that the majority of spammers are in the US.
So why did you say "China and Russia won't stop their criminals" when the criminals Are American?
But a lot of them use non-US hosts to send their stuff out. It's still a very effective measure. Further, if US spammers were forced to resort to using hijacked computers in the US to do their spamming, they'd be in jail a LOT sooner or simply out of business...I wish there were a better expression than "out of business" because they are in criminal activity, not business.
Brilliant. Hey, I hear the black people are more likely to be violent criminals than whites. Why not just lock them all up? Or at least, put a curfew on them? That would be a "very effective measure", don't you think?
And if you think I'm angry at being collateral damage, yes, I'm really pissed off. Aside from the basic injustice, trying to block the hosts is hopeless. The moment you start slowing them down, they'll just switch to another country. The only way to stop it is to stop the actual spammers, IN AMERICA. Most of them are committing fraud of one kind or another, selling drugs illegally, etc. Your government makes no more than a token effort to enforce the laws. How many spammers have been sent to jail? One? Two? in the last 10 years. Or are they still out on appeal? Put them in jail. Stop the credit card companies from processing their accounts. That would stop most of them cold.
It would also make sense for users and businesses to restrict all communications with peers outside of their borders if, in fact, it has no adverse affect to their business flows.
And it's because of thinking like that that I, in Hong Kong, find it impossible to communicate with some people in the US.
I am undecided about whether or not this is a good idea, but if China and Russia won't stop their criminals
"Their" criminals? The criminals are OVERWHELMINGLY AMERICAN. They use hosting services overseas. The US government could crack down on these if it wasn't in thrall to commercial interests. Trace the money. Block their credit card activity. No money, no spam.
See the ROKSO list:
72 of the top 115 spammers are American.
CLEAN UP YOUR OWN HOUSE BEFORE YOU START FUCKING WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
Yep. Except they don't have to spend a cent pressing discs. And it's totally deniable; every now an then they make a protest. When there is a mature market it already belongs to them.
Hrmm... if a majority of the software in china is pirated, then can a company really hold a "monopoly" there? MS might have a majority of the desktop market(I'm not sure if they do)
They certainly do dominate the desktop as much as in any other country. And big OEMs (Legend, Lenovo, eg) preinstall legal copies of MS software, the same as they do in the US.
By tolerating piracy for a few years, now they've got the market and can monetize it. Sure, there's RedFlag Linux, but it's just as much a minority (and server) enthusiasm as Linux is anywhere else.
an article provided by an American submitter, which links to an American news organization, and finalized by American editors, is pretty damn ridiculous.
TFA is in Nature, a British journal, published in London, written by British writers and edited by British editors. it says:
A survey of 39 North American tree species over an area spanning 50 degrees of latitude has shown that plants protect one of their most important functions -- photosynthesis -- by maintaining average leaf temperatures at around 21 C, regardless of the weather.
So TFA DID have the temperature in Celsius (and annotated as such). It was the submitter who fucked around with it, both converting it to Americanise it, and worse, not bothering to mention the scale used. Yeah 70 degrees is fairly obviously Fahrenheit (for those of us old enough to be familiar with the units -- it became obsolete in Australia 30 years ago). If it had been below 40, it would have been quite ambiguous.
Slashdot Mirror
She wasn't a "source", she didn't sell her story to the press. She should have known it would get to them, but she's only 16.
Try again though.
Try not being a supercilious twat.
Not quite so simple. First the daughter is only 16. Second I don't know how this particular site works, but it may be only accessible to members. No matter how easy is is to join, that would be different from "publishing" to all and sundry. It's at least nominally a private communication.
Regardless of legality, it was a sleazy thing to do and I have no sympathy for the newspapers. They should have sent reporters to the actual scene and confirmed the story. Slashdot publishes all kinds of unsourced rumours and hoaxes someone blogs about. That's why they have no credibility. When you pay for news you expect a bit more.
I'd assume Apple signed a contract obliging them to take such measures. They don't really care how effective they are.
Nonsense. I scanned and edited (and destroyed the original image in accordance with Treasury rules that allow this) a $100 bill in Photoshop for a project I was working on, worked quite fine.
For the last 4 or 5 years Photoshop has had a module that prevents that. See this Wired article.
It's not hard to circumvent, but it certainly is there.
It would be quite convenient if one could just piss in any doorway when the need arose. We don't do it (most of us) because it is antisocial.
Accessing every webpage you see a link to multiplies the bandwidth you use by at least an order of magnitude.
Yes but his wife may not be...
Unless he's been eating and sleeping in the garage, all his family has already been well and truly exposed. If they didn't come down with it from his freshly sprayed germs, a few laggards on the keyboard are uinlikely to be more virulent.
You don't even need that -- just any USB keyboard with a 2-metre long cord, plug it in, put the laptop itself on a shelf above the food-spray area.
Good God! Australian ISP Telstra has have a bandwidth cap of 2GB/month -- that's with DSL. And if you were stuck on dial-up, you'd probably freeze trying to use Google unless you worked out what was going on and turned it off.
Hong Kong. No captioning required here.
I wish. I've got a couple with dead keys. Haven't got the heart to throw them out. One day I'll spend a few hours stripping them down and cleaning them in the hope they'll come back to life....
And you can't plug them into modern mobos, they go crazy with phantom presses and wild repeats. Supposedly you can solder a resistor on its board to make it match, or just use a USB/PS2 adapter.
See http://www.geocities.com/jszybowski/keyboard/index.htm
Well, not on any stations where I live.
If they could get someone who could transcribe them in real time. Possible, I guess, stenographers need to be able to do something like that.
TFA (corerctly" has "Wednesday was the 40th anniversary of the Carterfone Decision..."
Well done Timothy. All you had to do was cut and paste, but you had to try to type.
Aside from all the direct arguments, consider this from TFA: "Discovery [Institute] fellows helped write the bill and arranged for testimony in its favor in the legislature."
I find it a good rule of thumb that anything promoted by the Discovery Institute is a "bad idea". The Center for Science and Culture
"Started in 1996, the Center for Science and Culture is a Discovery Institute program which: supports research by scientists and other scholars challenging various aspects of neo-Darwinian theory; supports research by scientists and other scholars developing the scientific theory known as intelligent design;"
These assholes have made it hard to be a Christian without feeling like an idiot. By putting religion in opposition to science, they drive thinking people to athiesm.
And that works so well as a method of keeping a government honest. A "crowd of angry citizens", say 0.1% of the population, can depose a popularly elected government at any time.
What works in cowboy movies does not scale up to nations. What you need is elections, and I see no sign of elections being abolished and a "President for Life" installing himself in the USA.
This is so ludicrous....
Just why is the military going to invade "small town USA"? Barack Obama is Osama's love child and is going to convert all the Baptists to Islam at swordpoint?
Okay, your government goes insane and really does "invade small town USA". Will they at the same time allow the yokels to "exercise their right to bear arms"?
Think of Iraq -- not now, when the Iraqis are energised by their hatred of a foreign invader, but during the decades of Saddam's rule. There were just as many guns around then as there are now. Was Saddam breaking a sweat at local rebellions? A judicious massacre here, some nerve gas there. No problem. If a government as evil as you imagine existed, with the full power of the world's strongest military behind it, you can only hope to be a martyr and give them a few headaches.
Or consider another gun happy country: Somalia. Arguably widespread guns have made the country ungovernable. Great place to bring up your kids, if you're a warlord.
The real reason you guys want guns is not to "defend liberty from oppressive government". It's to defend yourselves against discontented members of the underclass, mostly, but not exclusively, blacks.
I never considered WTF to be "l33tspeek" or anything technological. FUBAR, SNAFU have been around for decades, probably originally fronm the military, with their love of both obscenity and acronyms.
No, I can't. I'm trying to contact friends and people I'm doing business with in the US, their ISPs bounce me because I live in the same continent as some spammers. And it doesn't stop spam to any extent anyway.
But I'm well aware that the majority of spammers are in the US.
So why did you say "China and Russia won't stop their criminals" when the criminals Are American?
But a lot of them use non-US hosts to send their stuff out. It's still a very effective measure. Further, if US spammers were forced to resort to using hijacked computers in the US to do their spamming, they'd be in jail a LOT sooner or simply out of business...I wish there were a better expression than "out of business" because they are in criminal activity, not business.
Brilliant. Hey, I hear the black people are more likely to be violent criminals than whites. Why not just lock them all up? Or at least, put a curfew on them? That would be a "very effective measure", don't you think?
And if you think I'm angry at being collateral damage, yes, I'm really pissed off. Aside from the basic injustice, trying to block the hosts is hopeless. The moment you start slowing them down, they'll just switch to another country. The only way to stop it is to stop the actual spammers, IN AMERICA. Most of them are committing fraud of one kind or another, selling drugs illegally, etc. Your government makes no more than a token effort to enforce the laws. How many spammers have been sent to jail? One? Two? in the last 10 years. Or are they still out on appeal? Put them in jail. Stop the credit card companies from processing their accounts. That would stop most of them cold.
And it's because of thinking like that that I, in Hong Kong, find it impossible to communicate with some people in the US.
I am undecided about whether or not this is a good idea, but if China and Russia won't stop their criminals
"Their" criminals? The criminals are OVERWHELMINGLY AMERICAN. They use hosting services overseas. The US government could crack down on these if it wasn't in thrall to commercial interests. Trace the money. Block their credit card activity. No money, no spam.
See the ROKSO list: 72 of the top 115 spammers are American.
CLEAN UP YOUR OWN HOUSE BEFORE YOU START FUCKING WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
Spam from domains registered in China. Not at all the same thing.
I'm sorry, but I haven't taken enough drugs to be able to follow your logic.
Yep. Except they don't have to spend a cent pressing discs. And it's totally deniable; every now an then they make a protest. When there is a mature market it already belongs to them.
They certainly do dominate the desktop as much as in any other country. And big OEMs (Legend, Lenovo, eg) preinstall legal copies of MS software, the same as they do in the US.
Since Bill had dinner with Hu Jintao, lots of deals have been made to licence MS software.
By tolerating piracy for a few years, now they've got the market and can monetize it. Sure, there's RedFlag Linux, but it's just as much a minority (and server) enthusiasm as Linux is anywhere else.
The original article is in Nature, and is the first link cited in the summary.
TFA is in Nature, a British journal, published in London, written by British writers and edited by British editors. it says:
So TFA DID have the temperature in Celsius (and annotated as such). It was the submitter who fucked around with it, both converting it to Americanise it, and worse, not bothering to mention the scale used. Yeah 70 degrees is fairly obviously Fahrenheit (for those of us old enough to be familiar with the units -- it became obsolete in Australia 30 years ago). If it had been below 40, it would have been quite ambiguous.