Thanks--I thought all priests did as well as religious. As you've pointed out, not all do--it appears that dioscesan priests don't while priests in religious orders do.
Precisely. And the library's AP was transmitting an SSID, and ran an open network, demonstrating its intent to offer service to all comers. Case closed.
Not that this has anything to do with anything, but having taken a vow of poverty, it's not at all unlikely that a particular Roman Catholic priest pays no income or property taxes (which typically support libraries). Of course, that doesn't change his standing with respect to the rights to services offered to all citizens.
Ironically, this is my 666th comment with this account.
And how is one to know these hypothetical TOS? The FBI representative that briefed us on reporting computer intrusions said we had to have banners warning users that unauthorized access was prohibited in order to have any hope of prosecuting a perpatrator (assuming we could extradite him from China or Eastern Europe, but I digress).
Given that there was apparently no gateway that provided such notice, I find it difficult to believe that a crime could have been established. The librarian or his/her representative was simply being a dolt, and abusing the armed force of the state to enforce what I'd lay five bucks had at least before that point been an unwritten rule, had it existed at all.
The bit where he was told to "move along", I'd have asked the officer for his badge number, name and the law that I was infringing.
Then you might have "fallen" up a flight of stairs while "resisting arrest." Don't tip off a cop that you're going to report something--figure out what you can and report it when you're safely aware, so long as it's worth harassment from his colleagues whenever you happen to again cross that jurisdiction, or continually if, heaven forbid, you live in it.
Remember, we now live in a country where failure to produce "your papers" for the police is an arrestable offense, affirmed by our corrupt Supreme Court. It doesn't pay to be excessively vocal about invoking rights that, when it comes down to it, we no longer have for all practical purposes, unless you have a martyr complex. And as we see demonstrated every day here, holding one's breath waiting for the outraged public to agitate for your release would be fatal save for the autonomous nervous system.
the only incentive beyond pure altruism I can see for becoming a cop is the power trip.
That, and the salary of an engineer with only a high school education. I know a few good cops, but most of them get a dopamine rush from the power, which agrees with your assessment.
Truly. Cheney one pacemaker failure from the grave and tainted by scandal, McCain is a viable 2008 if W gets a second term and doesn't start a nuclear war or another Great Depression.
A different set of rules applies to you and me than applies to our "elected" rulers and their praetorian guard. They are entitled to have servers confiscated and people arrested when their phone numbers leak onto a web site.
Well, then they're pretty much screwed even if they can shut down the peer-to-peer networks, then, unless we're going to have DMCA death squads machine gunning face-to-face traders.
What moron modded that tripe insightful? If you took the trouble to read the article, you would have known that this wasn't a list of books libraries simply chose not to carry, but that were specifically challeneged.
Your comparison to porn is disingenuous or ignorant--most of the books were banned, yes, banned in those school district or public libraries because they contained cultural or political views that offended a few squeaky wheels.
Lastly, while it's nice that you and I have plenty of money to buy whatever books may not be found in a library, I for one would like to see my tax-funded libraries not reacting for or against some would-be censor's political agenda.
That, and it's not as if the cost savings are going to be passed on to us. The insurance companies will reap a windfall for requiring outsourced tests analyzed by "technicians" instead of qualified people.
I think the best hope is for the man on the street to become aware that new devices and services are being purveyed which won't allow him to do things with media that he can do now. The problem is that, as Apple has shown, the IP cartel can get the camel's nose underneath the tent with gentle DRM, then crank down the screws as time goes on.
Talk all you want about the RIAAs business model, you simply can't possibly claim there's any shred of hope of making money when people just snag all theirs songs off of radio.
Exactly. Which explains why the music industry was utterly destroyed by the cassette recorder, and finished off by ISA FM radio cards.
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Thanks--I thought all priests did as well as religious. As you've pointed out, not all do--it appears that dioscesan priests don't while priests in religious orders do.
Precisely. And the library's AP was transmitting an SSID, and ran an open network, demonstrating its intent to offer service to all comers. Case closed.
How does the library having been closed change the fact that no TOS was provided to the user, and that the access point was run as a public resource?
Not that this has anything to do with anything, but having taken a vow of poverty, it's not at all unlikely that a particular Roman Catholic priest pays no income or property taxes (which typically support libraries). Of course, that doesn't change his standing with respect to the rights to services offered to all citizens.
Ironically, this is my 666th comment with this account.
Given that there was apparently no gateway that provided such notice, I find it difficult to believe that a crime could have been established. The librarian or his/her representative was simply being a dolt, and abusing the armed force of the state to enforce what I'd lay five bucks had at least before that point been an unwritten rule, had it existed at all.
Then you might have "fallen" up a flight of stairs while "resisting arrest." Don't tip off a cop that you're going to report something--figure out what you can and report it when you're safely aware, so long as it's worth harassment from his colleagues whenever you happen to again cross that jurisdiction, or continually if, heaven forbid, you live in it.
Remember, we now live in a country where failure to produce "your papers" for the police is an arrestable offense, affirmed by our corrupt Supreme Court. It doesn't pay to be excessively vocal about invoking rights that, when it comes down to it, we no longer have for all practical purposes, unless you have a martyr complex. And as we see demonstrated every day here, holding one's breath waiting for the outraged public to agitate for your release would be fatal save for the autonomous nervous system.
That, and the salary of an engineer with only a high school education. I know a few good cops, but most of them get a dopamine rush from the power, which agrees with your assessment.
Truly. Cheney one pacemaker failure from the grave and tainted by scandal, McCain is a viable 2008 if W gets a second term and doesn't start a nuclear war or another Great Depression.
A different set of rules applies to you and me than applies to our "elected" rulers and their praetorian guard. They are entitled to have servers confiscated and people arrested when their phone numbers leak onto a web site.
The key word being own, not license.
You hardly represent the world, anonymous troglodyte.
Just because a large part of the world is uninformed or chooses to be incorrect does not mean he has to succumb to their ignorance.
To the cockbreath that modded that post "overrated": I have about ten accounts, all capped. Fire away, assmunch.
Cool--thanks!
Likely good enough, yes, but not the same as the convenience of a mounted, encrypted filesystem, though. Thanks :).
with some nice integrated encryption (saving a manual gpg step) for backup of small, important files.
Well, then they're pretty much screwed even if they can shut down the peer-to-peer networks, then, unless we're going to have DMCA death squads machine gunning face-to-face traders.
Banning, attempted banning, whatever. No matter how you slice it, would-be book burners want to act as censors for the rest of us.
With respect to demanding removal vs. opposing acquisition--what's the difference, really, not regarding the false dichotomy presented?
Your comparison to porn is disingenuous or ignorant--most of the books were banned, yes, banned in those school district or public libraries because they contained cultural or political views that offended a few squeaky wheels.
Lastly, while it's nice that you and I have plenty of money to buy whatever books may not be found in a library, I for one would like to see my tax-funded libraries not reacting for or against some would-be censor's political agenda.
That, and it's not as if the cost savings are going to be passed on to us. The insurance companies will reap a windfall for requiring outsourced tests analyzed by "technicians" instead of qualified people.
I think the best hope is for the man on the street to become aware that new devices and services are being purveyed which won't allow him to do things with media that he can do now. The problem is that, as Apple has shown, the IP cartel can get the camel's nose underneath the tent with gentle DRM, then crank down the screws as time goes on.
Just read your reply to their C&D. Quite heartwarming :).
Exactly. Which explains why the music industry was utterly destroyed by the cassette recorder, and finished off by ISA FM radio cards.
You could work on the budget :).