Tell that to the US military or go on TPB and watch the flood of information that has freed itself.
How's that working out for Bradley Manning and Jammie Thomas? Not saying the punishment imposed on either of them is fair, but information does not "free itself," and there are frequently consequences for "freeing" it.
There are animals out there and just telling them to respect your right to dress how you want isn't going to change the fact that they are animals and possibly mentally unbalanced.
Then you train the animals when they're still kids that this shit is not acceptable.
The media companies got $6.57 in compensation for their loses... (Similarly, when I broke that shit, I paid around $150 to replace the damaged shit.) The rest was court (or in this case tribunal and other) costs, a fine (in this case $120*3).
Speeding tickets include a lot of administrative costs and shit on top of the fine for actually committing the offense, too. So what? I think most/.ers are just happy the fine wasn't in the tens of thousands of dollars. It's a reasonable punishment for what is, as several folks have pointed out, a crime.
Part of the problem is that/. insists on title-case in headlines, which makes them more confusing more often than not. Most newspapers these days go with sentence case, only uppercasing words that are proper nouns or the first word in the headline. "NZ Copyright Tribunal fines first file sharer" would make it more clear that we're talking about a specific governing body because the capital letters would mean something.
What I'm positing is that there is no more egregious harm in the universe one can do to another than to deprive them of their liberty without just cause.
I think we're of like minds on this. I do, however, see a fair amount of just cause when we're talking about a device that can kill another human being with just eight pounds of finger pressure.
There is NEVER a more urgent, pressing, and immediate need than liberty. Without liberty, and the true freedoms it provides, everything else becomes meaningless.
One problem with this sentiment is that folks who believe this tend to forget that other people have the right to liberty as well. Your right to fire a weapon ends when I'm in the path of your bullet unless I'm threatening your life or limb.
The other problem is that folks who believe this tend to forget that with liberty comes responsibility. When you fire a weapon, you are responsible for the consequences that result from where the bullet lands.
It does. Like you wouldn't believe. Before I got a light therapy lamp, I used to talk 10-20 minutes walks at lunch time whenever the sun shone, especially in winter. -10C? No problem, dress up and head out for a quick 10 minutes keeping the sun on my face as much as possible. You end up getting some nice sunlight and some minor cardio on the side.
Good to know. I suspect some of my depression is seasonally related, so I'll have to give this (and/or the light therapy lamp) a try. Thanks!
Kleptomania is reduced to an illness in mental health, with no particular understanding of its origins. Obviously, we as a species would not exist were it not for the many evolutionary behaviors, including this one, that allowed us to survive. In a supreme gesture of arrogance, an overstatement of an evolutionary imperative becomes a sickness. We do not understand who we are.
Alternately: What was once an evolutionary benefit is now an evolutionary impediment because the social environment itself has evolved.
I have an even more radical solution: Go outside and/or be near a window during the day.
If you're one of those lucky souls who has an office with windows, that is. Because otherwise, going outside for about 15 minutes probably isn't going to help all that much.
But it's a huge problem with no easy solution - Stuxnet, the USAF, they all suffered when airgapped computers got infected. (The USAF when their UAV control PCs got infected because they used a thumbdrive to move a map update across).
The kicker is that it was already against DOD policy to transfer thumbdrives between secure and non-secure networks before the 2008 incident (which I assume is what you're referring to). So policy alone obviously isn't the only piece of the puzzle.
This article is something, coming from a tech site that has blatantly posted advertisements disguised as stories, intentionally or not.
Point, but part of the story here is that New Atlantic was actively deleting negative comments about Scientology while allowing positive comments to remain (albeit with a metric fuckton of downvotes). There's no such process of selective moderation at SlashDot because moderators are assigned at random.
Software that phones home to make sure you didn't rip it off is cheaper than software that has to be priced to take into account the fact that it can and will be ripped off.
Oh, now see, that's just funny. You were trying to make a joke there, right? Because plenty of PC software that doesn't "phone home" is out there, and quite a bit of it is cheaper than the crapware that does. See: Anything sold on GOG.com.
What you're buying is a service that happens to involve a licensed piece of software. If you want the exact same flavor of game to run without phoning home, start up a game company that charges enough per copy to cover piracy losses, and see how it goes.
Oh. You weren't trying to make a joke. That's kinda sad. As I mentioned above, GOG.com seems to be doing pretty well. But you go ahead and accept phone-home-ware... and see what happens when the game company goes out of business or decides to stop supporting the activation servers.
Having to answer the phone is a big one, I find. First is the interruption of the ringing phone itself, then the interruption in your thought process because you have to shift gears to answer someone's question, then the scramble to try and remember what you were doing before you were interrupted.
That *used* to be the case, but between Liberals campaigning to stop "light pollution" and Consevatives campaigning to cut municipal and state budgets we're turning on less existing roadway lights (often only every third lamp or so) and installing fewer lights when we build new roads.
I suspect in the latter case you're referring to Colorado Springs, Colo. As a liberal who believes that reducing light pollution is a worthy endeavor, I'm glad my very conservative city took this step. It Just Makes Sense.
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Your point? None of those things warrant a life sentence.
If he'd only done them once? You're right.
He committed these crimes on 350 separate occasions. So yes, locking the fucker up and throwing away the key is a perfectly proportional punishment.
Tell that to the US military or go on TPB and watch the flood of information that has freed itself.
How's that working out for Bradley Manning and Jammie Thomas? Not saying the punishment imposed on either of them is fair, but information does not "free itself," and there are frequently consequences for "freeing" it.
There are animals out there and just telling them to respect your right to dress how you want isn't going to change the fact that they are animals and possibly mentally unbalanced.
Then you train the animals when they're still kids that this shit is not acceptable.
The media companies got $6.57 in compensation for their loses... (Similarly, when I broke that shit, I paid around $150 to replace the damaged shit.) The rest was court (or in this case tribunal and other) costs, a fine (in this case $120*3).
Speeding tickets include a lot of administrative costs and shit on top of the fine for actually committing the offense, too. So what? I think most /.ers are just happy the fine wasn't in the tens of thousands of dollars. It's a reasonable punishment for what is, as several folks have pointed out, a crime.
Part of the problem is that /. insists on title-case in headlines, which makes them more confusing more often than not. Most newspapers these days go with sentence case, only uppercasing words that are proper nouns or the first word in the headline. "NZ Copyright Tribunal fines first file sharer" would make it more clear that we're talking about a specific governing body because the capital letters would mean something.
What I'm positing is that there is no more egregious harm in the universe one can do to another than to deprive them of their liberty without just cause.
I think we're of like minds on this. I do, however, see a fair amount of just cause when we're talking about a device that can kill another human being with just eight pounds of finger pressure.
The law may be bad and the sentencing guidelines overly punitive, but given they're on the books, I'm not seeing what the DOJ did wrong here.
You're confusing what's legal with what's right.
There is NEVER a more urgent, pressing, and immediate need than liberty. Without liberty, and the true freedoms it provides, everything else becomes meaningless.
One problem with this sentiment is that folks who believe this tend to forget that other people have the right to liberty as well. Your right to fire a weapon ends when I'm in the path of your bullet unless I'm threatening your life or limb.
The other problem is that folks who believe this tend to forget that with liberty comes responsibility. When you fire a weapon, you are responsible for the consequences that result from where the bullet lands.
Anything else is either perverted or European.
But you're repeating yourself. ;)
It does. Like you wouldn't believe. Before I got a light therapy lamp, I used to talk 10-20 minutes walks at lunch time whenever the sun shone, especially in winter. -10C? No problem, dress up and head out for a quick 10 minutes keeping the sun on my face as much as possible. You end up getting some nice sunlight and some minor cardio on the side.
Good to know. I suspect some of my depression is seasonally related, so I'll have to give this (and/or the light therapy lamp) a try. Thanks!
Kleptomania is reduced to an illness in mental health, with no particular understanding of its origins. Obviously, we as a species would not exist were it not for the many evolutionary behaviors, including this one, that allowed us to survive. In a supreme gesture of arrogance, an overstatement of an evolutionary imperative becomes a sickness. We do not understand who we are.
Alternately: What was once an evolutionary benefit is now an evolutionary impediment because the social environment itself has evolved.
I have an even more radical solution: Go outside and/or be near a window during the day.
If you're one of those lucky souls who has an office with windows, that is. Because otherwise, going outside for about 15 minutes probably isn't going to help all that much.
I'm going to have to find some superglue now for the ass I just laughed off.
Thanks a lot all you idiots that jumped on that bandwagon! Nice Job.
I thought the White House did a pretty good job handling that one by turning it into an opportunity to advance the cause of STEM outreach.
How about answering the fucking question? (Not the original anonymous coward, btw.)
But it's a huge problem with no easy solution - Stuxnet, the USAF, they all suffered when airgapped computers got infected. (The USAF when their UAV control PCs got infected because they used a thumbdrive to move a map update across).
The kicker is that it was already against DOD policy to transfer thumbdrives between secure and non-secure networks before the 2008 incident (which I assume is what you're referring to). So policy alone obviously isn't the only piece of the puzzle.
This article is something, coming from a tech site that has blatantly posted advertisements disguised as stories, intentionally or not.
Point, but part of the story here is that New Atlantic was actively deleting negative comments about Scientology while allowing positive comments to remain (albeit with a metric fuckton of downvotes). There's no such process of selective moderation at SlashDot because moderators are assigned at random.
Pfft. If you were really with the CoS, you'd have made Slashdot remove the post.
So you're saying there's no such thing as a "gun nerd"?
There's not as much money in it for them if they don't have access to your data. So of course it's all going to be cloud-based.
Software that phones home to make sure you didn't rip it off is cheaper than software that has to be priced to take into account the fact that it can and will be ripped off.
Oh, now see, that's just funny. You were trying to make a joke there, right? Because plenty of PC software that doesn't "phone home" is out there, and quite a bit of it is cheaper than the crapware that does. See: Anything sold on GOG.com.
What you're buying is a service that happens to involve a licensed piece of software. If you want the exact same flavor of game to run without phoning home, start up a game company that charges enough per copy to cover piracy losses, and see how it goes.
Oh. You weren't trying to make a joke. That's kinda sad. As I mentioned above, GOG.com seems to be doing pretty well. But you go ahead and accept phone-home-ware ... and see what happens when the game company goes out of business or decides to stop supporting the activation servers.
The books are not canon. Canon has only ever been what was in the movies or maybe on the Clone Wars TV series.
... Which sucks, because it means that the Star Wars Holiday Special is canon, while Grand Admiral Thrawn is not.
Having to answer the phone is a big one, I find. First is the interruption of the ringing phone itself, then the interruption in your thought process because you have to shift gears to answer someone's question, then the scramble to try and remember what you were doing before you were interrupted.
That *used* to be the case, but between Liberals campaigning to stop "light pollution" and Consevatives campaigning to cut municipal and state budgets we're turning on less existing roadway lights (often only every third lamp or so) and installing fewer lights when we build new roads.
I suspect in the latter case you're referring to Colorado Springs, Colo. As a liberal who believes that reducing light pollution is a worthy endeavor, I'm glad my very conservative city took this step. It Just Makes Sense.
No. It would, however, prove the old adage, "There's a sucker born every minute."