You can't just redefine what a dirty bomb is just because you think another bomb is dirtier. I don't know what your wikipedia page is telling you but a salted bomb is a wad of specially chosen non-fissile metal with a nuke in the centre, a dirty bomb (or at least the type GWB and other fear mongers have been talking about) is a wad of poor quality fissile material with a conventional explosive in the centre. The burst of neutrons from the nuke makes all the difference in the world when it comes to the effectiveness of the weapon since it causes the tamper to become a radioactive isotope like cobalt 60 which actually DOES create deadly radiation unlike yellowcake refined in your basement that doesn't. A salted bomb may be dirty, but it is different to a dirty bomb.
A salted bomb is waaaay beyond the capibilities of anything but a decent sized nation, since first one must build a nuke and thus it is likely considered that this would not be a terrorist's first weapon of choice. The dirty bomb however can be made fairly quickly and easily so that's what the panic's been about.
Oh, and thanks for the final line, there's nothing like a good dose of ad homenem for making your argument sound better. I don't know who Ann Coulter is for what it's worth.
Covertly refining yellow cake uranium with a heated gas filled centrifuge spinning at the speed of sound so that the isotope U235 separates from the heavier U238 therefore making the core of the dirty bomb
Actually, if you refined the uranium it wouldn't likely be a "dirty bomb" but would be actually the better known A-Bomb (well, after rearranging the insides a bit). The reason for the dirty bomb panic is that they use raw, unrefined fissile material, making them easier for terrorists to theoretically obtain. The problem with dirty bombs however is that the aformentioned raw, unrefined fissile material isn't overly dangerous unless in huge quantities. This is since it's too old and stable for many of the freaky-dangerous isotopes to exist since they have tiny half lives. Only the fallout from a REAL nuclear blast or some very fresh waste from a poorly designed reactor is potent enough to be dangerous in the thin spread you get from explosive dispersal. I guess enrichment, with its higher u235 count would be more effective, though U235 does not have the same zing as some of the crazy stuff you could get if you just made it reach critical mass.
I found this strangely enlightening. Linux has half as many searches as Windows and OSX is tiny (though granted not all OSX users know it by that name). I'd just imagine that people must just have been interested as to what the Linux stuff was all about and now many of them have found out. Linux is great but it does get a lot of hype, that's probably a far bigger factor in searches. That said, strangely Linux searches don't spike in the same way windows ones do which is what I'd expect for hype driven interest so I could be wrong about all that,
This is Slashdot, where the total cost of sale for a CD is $0.25, and distributors and retailers don't charge markup. In this version of reality, record labels make a net profit of $13.25; this ridiculous profitability allows us to rationalize piracy.
Ok, now what you are saying is that by us saving $13.50 we're probably only ripping off the record label by about $8.00 after the various markups are taken into consideration for middle-men we wouldn't be using. Doesn't your version of reality justify piracy more than the Slashdot collective mind's model?
Protestants and Catholics used to hate each other, but now in a world full of Athiests, Muslims, Mormons, new age spirituality, it comes to a point where Protestant clergy are given complimentry membership into Catholic clubs. Differences are only irresolvable for as long as you can't find anyone more different. If we met some aliens, preferably some aliens slightly weaker than us, we could band together to kick their arses and feel really good about it.
Yeah? Then explain why, out of dozens of manufacturers, not a single one has managed to dent Apple's marketshare. Since it is commonly thought that sales are a function of both hype and technical strength, selling more players isn't evidence as to where the sales are coming from. Unless you wish to dispute the assumption that hype is relivent to sales (a difficult argument considering the sales of various fads, movie tieins etc.) you are committing a logical falicy.
In the UK, if a million were sold there you'd have a 1/54 chance [or so] of knowing someone who owned a Zune.
Ok, since the UK has 60 million people, that means if one million were hypothetically sold in the UK means any given person would have a 1/60 chance of having one assuming that no person owns multiple zunes.
We can find out exactly how many people you think this guy knows with the following formula:
The probability that one person DOESN'T own a zune is: 1 - 1/60
The probability that n people don't own a zune is: (1 - 1/60)^n
Thus the probability that n people do own a zune is: 1 - (1 - 1/60)^n
Since we know he has a 1/54 chance of knowing someone with a zune: 1/54 = 1 - (1 - 1/60)^n
(1 - 1/60)^n = 1 - 1/54
n = log(1 - 1/54) / log(1 - 1/60)
n = 1.112155734
Since n must be an integer if we don't want to offend amputees and midgets, he knows somewhere between 1 and 2 people by your estimates.
I'll give a company a chance to change... will you?
I'm not prejudiced against Nintendo. I've bought Nintendo consoles and games right through their moral bad patch because as I said before in a choice between arseholes my decisions can't be ideological in nature and I have simply preferred what Nintendo was offering in that period. I bought the PS3 over the Wii because Wii fans annoy me and I personally like big, high tech and expensive, I'm prejudiced against the Xbox 360 of course but that's neither here nor there. If there was any concrete evidence to suggest that buying a Wii would lead to the increase of love and fairness in the world I would have done it. For the last ten years Nintendo have been nice because they haven't held a monopoly so they haven't had much choice in the matter. Would Nintendo remain nice with a monopoly again? Who knows, if the Wii is successful enough we can find out.
I've had a PS3 for almost a month now and have been impressed by it, partially because of the motion sensitivity ripped off Nintendo and the network ripped off Microsoft of course but it has ample charm of its own. My concern is that slashdotters are undervaluing this wonderful piece of engineering simply because they consider Sony to gape like a moral chasm in the otherwise steady continuum of console manufacturers and my point is that is not the case.
Sony has been on my "Do Not Buy" list for some time
Sadly, if you want to buy a game console these days, you gotta get one from a bunch of evil bastards. Sony of course are bastards of the worst kind and have been naughty with DRM, mainly their rootkits and their evil little killable VM inside the Blueray specification. But Nintendo pretty much invented DRM twenty years ago with the 10NES chip which made sure Nintendo controlled what games could be played on their console in a time where that was novel. Nintendo are notorious for censoring games for simply having religious references and other fairly benign content such as anything set in WWII Germany or anything with rude words. They were also convicted for price fixing in the EU during their mid 90s monopoly and heavily fined. Microsoft of cause has a habit of anti-competitiveness, like forcing PC manufacturers to install windows on every one of their computers, promoting the acceptance of closed formats and protocols, hiding parts of their platform and putting DRM in their operating system. They have been convicted of anti-competitive behavior in multiple jurisdictions such as the US and the EU. Beyond that I could either go Microsoft again for Windows gaming or get Cedega which doesn't contribute back to Wine (which is their entitlement since wine was BSD at the time they forked, but it still doesn't sit well for me).
This is why I can sleep comfortably at night when I own a PS3 despite not liking what Sony does, I thought of buying a Wii of course, but its fans on this site were really annoying me. The PS3 is a nice little gadget, they allow controversial games that I love, the network is free to play on, game add ons are free and there is also at least one free game on it. It also allows linux to be installed on it without needing to hack it. Also, the DRM that it is riddled with doesn't get in the way of what I want to do on it, unlike if someone were to put the horrible stuff on my computer for instance. And finally when I heard about that 8 core chip I knew I needed to have one. I wish I had time to play it, but I still am glad I bought it.
This is extremely shallow and self interested I know, but I hope Sony resolves this issue quickly and either pays up if they did steal this patent or wins if they didn't, I don't want this to get in the way of my gaming.
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I agree.
I had a year one (second year of schooling) teacher who had AIDS (this was back in 1990 before effective antiretrovirals) and he was just a mess, he was too sick to even turn up most of the time and when he was there it was clear that he wasn't in the emotional state to be a good teacher, he was short tempered and angry and would shout at students very often for minor things. He also increasingly had us sing songs and play games all day for weeks at a time presumably he wasn't well enough for proper lessons. It was downright irresponsible for the school not to force him into permanent sick leave as it set the education of most of the students back a year and many students had to repeat a year.
If that HP employee was anything similar it would have been unfair to his subordinates to leave him in his position. An employee needs a boss that can do their job and he is sick there needs to be a new one. Just imagine if one of your co-workers had a bad flu every day for the rest of their life, because AIDS is like a hundred times worse.
It's anecdotal evidence I know, but if you've ever seen a late stage aids patient, especially back when the firing actually happened you'll know what I'm talking about.
Or even simpler, off-the-shelf FM radio control equipment as is used in model planes/boats/cars/helicopters. Do those morons really think that remote detonated bombs have only been around as long as cellphones?
Yeah, and in Saudi Arabia, you can never drink at all. The rest of the world clearly means the bulk of the world. Ignorance is a word used too much these days, usually it is a particularly arrogant way to say that you disagree with someone, but sometimes it is used because someone is trying to make a good point about American drinking ages without enough deference to Canadian administrative regions.
But anyway, I can't see why the Ontario drinking age will remain at 19 for much longer now the last year of your schooling has been dropped, the rest of Canada is drinking at 18 IIRC.
Miguel de Icaza got married recently and I'm pretty sure his wife was the type of Brazilian woman who was born that way. I'm not sure who Jason Reynolds is, but Joel Spolsky is a big Microsoft guy according to Wikipedia.
she never would have willingly entered his vehicle Logical jumps like that are dangerous in criminal investigation, that is simply assumption, each separation is different since they are complex things and so you can't really know where she would or wouldn't go. She was last seen at Hans Reiser's house (which was a large amount of the case against him) and if she is willing to enter his house, why not his car?
Yes, cochineal comes from beetles, the same place it has come from and been safely consumed by humans for centuries. Would you prefer to drink some synthetic petrochemical dye with possibly some unknown properties than something that has come from a harmless animal? People are always going to dye food and Cochineal extract is non-toxic, non-carcinogenic and causes extremely few allergies, why not use the stuff?
We can honestly say that the musical (like Jazz and the internet) is an American invention.
I call bullshit on that. While America can claim most of the blame for musical theatre, the English share much of the guilt, Gilbert and Sullivan were making musical comedies in the early 1870s which were as like today's musical theater as anything that existed at the time. In fact, up tempo English language operas had long runs on London stages when Broadway still lay within the British Empire in the mid eighteenth century.
In fact, though America invented the Internet, nobody apart from esoteric academics used the thing until an Englishman invented the Web
Of course, not being British, I think they are generally a pack of whining dickheads, but credit should go where credit is due and pretty much every interesting technology that exists today from the train to the computer was either invented or first utilised by an Englishman or a Scotsman. Americans are great when everybody knows how something should work like airfoils or fission but nobody can quite do it right. British, despite their stuffy ways are really good at starting industrial revolutions and such. The Chinese are another lot like that, inventing paper, gunpowder and making steel, but most of that stuff was a while ago.
when we could be using the money to get more minorities...into college in general
More of the same faulty reasoning, when statistics show an imbalance, we should forcibly correct it without looking at the underlying causes.
The way it seems to me is that if minorities generally arn't being educated, it's because they generally don't have enough money to afford the education. Why turn an economic imbalance into a racial one? Those who have the least money need the most assistance, regardless of what colour they are. There are plenty of white and asian people in rich countries who are at a real disadvantage due to their parents low income and other circumstances, why shouldn't they have the opportunities that poor people of other races get?
Under the proposed system: 1) CS program changed to allow non-geek women get CS degrees & jobs. 2) Non-geek women meets geek man. 3) Non-geek woman ignores geek man like most other non-geek woman.
The whole idea of this program is to make CS less geeky, how is that going to help geeks? As it stands any woman who's willing to listen about how you "needed to roll a new character because the guild that all use Cedega was on a different server than you started on" is already enrolled in CS. Also the number of CS graduates who actually know how to use a pointer is low enough already, lowing programming proficiency standards still wouldn't be a good idea if it octupled the number of women CS entrants, let alone raised it by 8 percent.
Arsenic can be used for embalming and is very useful to make dead people look living, there's a corpse of a little girl in Sicily that still looks like she is alive 200 years after her death due to arsenic. It's not really the same thing of course but it is fascinating.
Huh? From the fine summary: "the McCain page was pulling an image from Davidson's site" My point is and has always been that the general public will not understand this fact. I don't know why everybody assumes that I somehow managed to avoid reading not only the article but the summary too. The site wasn't hacked, I know it, you know it, but Sen. John McCain probably doesn't even know that it was going on to begin with, he'll just see his page changed and cry defamation.
I actually did read the article but enough information is given in the summary to understand that he didn't modify anything but his own content. But my point is many people will not understand this. To most people he changed the content of the page and the US legal system is not made up of slashdot readers or probably anyone who understands computers in anything but the most superficial way. The general public see the end result and there is a good chance that this is how it would be assessed by the legal system.
I should have clearly acknowledge that he didn't change McCain's site but I assumed that we all knew this and wasn't aware that filling out several lines of reading comprehension was a prerequisite to making a relevant comment.
How long until Mr Davidson gets prosecuted by some lawyer working for McCain who hasn't realised that laughing along with the joke is a lot more dignified than litigation? With the amount the average judge knows about the internet, he could actually be imprisoned for this if some arsehole in a suit and tie crys loud enough. As simple as the case may seem to us, to the general public, defacing a site is illegal hacking, nomatter how it is done and no doubt McCain could get a clueless PHB to testify to that as an "expert witness" if he wanted to.
The referendum was only talking about Cannabis Sativa though, the rest are already legal pretty much everywhere since they can't make you high. I don't know what you're trying to prove, if someone smokes something as a form of recreation, you can pretty confidently call it Marijuana and that's what it's all about.
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You can't just redefine what a dirty bomb is just because you think another bomb is dirtier. I don't know what your wikipedia page is telling you but a salted bomb is a wad of specially chosen non-fissile metal with a nuke in the centre, a dirty bomb (or at least the type GWB and other fear mongers have been talking about) is a wad of poor quality fissile material with a conventional explosive in the centre. The burst of neutrons from the nuke makes all the difference in the world when it comes to the effectiveness of the weapon since it causes the tamper to become a radioactive isotope like cobalt 60 which actually DOES create deadly radiation unlike yellowcake refined in your basement that doesn't. A salted bomb may be dirty, but it is different to a dirty bomb.
A salted bomb is waaaay beyond the capibilities of anything but a decent sized nation, since first one must build a nuke and thus it is likely considered that this would not be a terrorist's first weapon of choice. The dirty bomb however can be made fairly quickly and easily so that's what the panic's been about.
Oh, and thanks for the final line, there's nothing like a good dose of ad homenem for making your argument sound better. I don't know who Ann Coulter is for what it's worth.
Actually, if you refined the uranium it wouldn't likely be a "dirty bomb" but would be actually the better known A-Bomb (well, after rearranging the insides a bit). The reason for the dirty bomb panic is that they use raw, unrefined fissile material, making them easier for terrorists to theoretically obtain. The problem with dirty bombs however is that the aformentioned raw, unrefined fissile material isn't overly dangerous unless in huge quantities. This is since it's too old and stable for many of the freaky-dangerous isotopes to exist since they have tiny half lives. Only the fallout from a REAL nuclear blast or some very fresh waste from a poorly designed reactor is potent enough to be dangerous in the thin spread you get from explosive dispersal. I guess enrichment, with its higher u235 count would be more effective, though U235 does not have the same zing as some of the crazy stuff you could get if you just made it reach critical mass.
I found this strangely enlightening. Linux has half as many searches as Windows and OSX is tiny (though granted not all OSX users know it by that name). I'd just imagine that people must just have been interested as to what the Linux stuff was all about and now many of them have found out. Linux is great but it does get a lot of hype, that's probably a far bigger factor in searches. That said, strangely Linux searches don't spike in the same way windows ones do which is what I'd expect for hype driven interest so I could be wrong about all that,
Protestants and Catholics used to hate each other, but now in a world full of Athiests, Muslims, Mormons, new age spirituality, it comes to a point where Protestant clergy are given complimentry membership into Catholic clubs. Differences are only irresolvable for as long as you can't find anyone more different. If we met some aliens, preferably some aliens slightly weaker than us, we could band together to kick their arses and feel really good about it.
Woops, I meant to say that "the probability that AT LEAST ONE IN n people does own a zune is: 1 - (1 - 1/60)^n"
Ok, since the UK has 60 million people, that means if one million were hypothetically sold in the UK means any given person would have a 1/60 chance of having one assuming that no person owns multiple zunes.
We can find out exactly how many people you think this guy knows with the following formula:
- The probability that one person DOESN'T own a zune is: 1 - 1/60
- The probability that n people don't own a zune is: (1 - 1/60)^n
- Thus the probability that n people do own a zune is: 1 - (1 - 1/60)^n
- Since we know he has a 1/54 chance of knowing someone with a zune: 1/54 = 1 - (1 - 1/60)^n
- (1 - 1/60)^n = 1 - 1/54
- n = log(1 - 1/54) / log(1 - 1/60)
- n = 1.112155734
- Since n must be an integer if we don't want to offend amputees and midgets, he knows somewhere between 1 and 2 people by your estimates.
I calculate that you owe the guy an apology.I'm not prejudiced against Nintendo. I've bought Nintendo consoles and games right through their moral bad patch because as I said before in a choice between arseholes my decisions can't be ideological in nature and I have simply preferred what Nintendo was offering in that period. I bought the PS3 over the Wii because Wii fans annoy me and I personally like big, high tech and expensive, I'm prejudiced against the Xbox 360 of course but that's neither here nor there. If there was any concrete evidence to suggest that buying a Wii would lead to the increase of love and fairness in the world I would have done it. For the last ten years Nintendo have been nice because they haven't held a monopoly so they haven't had much choice in the matter. Would Nintendo remain nice with a monopoly again? Who knows, if the Wii is successful enough we can find out.
I've had a PS3 for almost a month now and have been impressed by it, partially because of the motion sensitivity ripped off Nintendo and the network ripped off Microsoft of course but it has ample charm of its own. My concern is that slashdotters are undervaluing this wonderful piece of engineering simply because they consider Sony to gape like a moral chasm in the otherwise steady continuum of console manufacturers and my point is that is not the case.
Sadly, if you want to buy a game console these days, you gotta get one from a bunch of evil bastards. Sony of course are bastards of the worst kind and have been naughty with DRM, mainly their rootkits and their evil little killable VM inside the Blueray specification. But Nintendo pretty much invented DRM twenty years ago with the 10NES chip which made sure Nintendo controlled what games could be played on their console in a time where that was novel. Nintendo are notorious for censoring games for simply having religious references and other fairly benign content such as anything set in WWII Germany or anything with rude words. They were also convicted for price fixing in the EU during their mid 90s monopoly and heavily fined. Microsoft of cause has a habit of anti-competitiveness, like forcing PC manufacturers to install windows on every one of their computers, promoting the acceptance of closed formats and protocols, hiding parts of their platform and putting DRM in their operating system. They have been convicted of anti-competitive behavior in multiple jurisdictions such as the US and the EU. Beyond that I could either go Microsoft again for Windows gaming or get Cedega which doesn't contribute back to Wine (which is their entitlement since wine was BSD at the time they forked, but it still doesn't sit well for me).
This is why I can sleep comfortably at night when I own a PS3 despite not liking what Sony does, I thought of buying a Wii of course, but its fans on this site were really annoying me. The PS3 is a nice little gadget, they allow controversial games that I love, the network is free to play on, game add ons are free and there is also at least one free game on it. It also allows linux to be installed on it without needing to hack it. Also, the DRM that it is riddled with doesn't get in the way of what I want to do on it, unlike if someone were to put the horrible stuff on my computer for instance. And finally when I heard about that 8 core chip I knew I needed to have one. I wish I had time to play it, but I still am glad I bought it.
This is extremely shallow and self interested I know, but I hope Sony resolves this issue quickly and either pays up if they did steal this patent or wins if they didn't, I don't want this to get in the way of my gaming.
I agree.
I had a year one (second year of schooling) teacher who had AIDS (this was back in 1990 before effective antiretrovirals) and he was just a mess, he was too sick to even turn up most of the time and when he was there it was clear that he wasn't in the emotional state to be a good teacher, he was short tempered and angry and would shout at students very often for minor things. He also increasingly had us sing songs and play games all day for weeks at a time presumably he wasn't well enough for proper lessons. It was downright irresponsible for the school not to force him into permanent sick leave as it set the education of most of the students back a year and many students had to repeat a year.
If that HP employee was anything similar it would have been unfair to his subordinates to leave him in his position. An employee needs a boss that can do their job and he is sick there needs to be a new one. Just imagine if one of your co-workers had a bad flu every day for the rest of their life, because AIDS is like a hundred times worse.
It's anecdotal evidence I know, but if you've ever seen a late stage aids patient, especially back when the firing actually happened you'll know what I'm talking about.
I'm, pretty sure a nation has control of salvage within their Exclusive Economic Zone which extend 200 nautical miles out to sea.
Or even simpler, off-the-shelf FM radio control equipment as is used in model planes/boats/cars/helicopters. Do those morons really think that remote detonated bombs have only been around as long as cellphones?
Yeah, and in Saudi Arabia, you can never drink at all. The rest of the world clearly means the bulk of the world. Ignorance is a word used too much these days, usually it is a particularly arrogant way to say that you disagree with someone, but sometimes it is used because someone is trying to make a good point about American drinking ages without enough deference to Canadian administrative regions.
But anyway, I can't see why the Ontario drinking age will remain at 19 for much longer now the last year of your schooling has been dropped, the rest of Canada is drinking at 18 IIRC.
Miguel de Icaza got married recently and I'm pretty sure his wife was the type of Brazilian woman who was born that way. I'm not sure who Jason Reynolds is, but Joel Spolsky is a big Microsoft guy according to Wikipedia.
Yes, cochineal comes from beetles, the same place it has come from and been safely consumed by humans for centuries. Would you prefer to drink some synthetic petrochemical dye with possibly some unknown properties than something that has come from a harmless animal? People are always going to dye food and Cochineal extract is non-toxic, non-carcinogenic and causes extremely few allergies, why not use the stuff?
I call bullshit on that. While America can claim most of the blame for musical theatre, the English share much of the guilt, Gilbert and Sullivan were making musical comedies in the early 1870s which were as like today's musical theater as anything that existed at the time. In fact, up tempo English language operas had long runs on London stages when Broadway still lay within the British Empire in the mid eighteenth century.
In fact, though America invented the Internet, nobody apart from esoteric academics used the thing until an Englishman invented the Web
Of course, not being British, I think they are generally a pack of whining dickheads, but credit should go where credit is due and pretty much every interesting technology that exists today from the train to the computer was either invented or first utilised by an Englishman or a Scotsman. Americans are great when everybody knows how something should work like airfoils or fission but nobody can quite do it right. British, despite their stuffy ways are really good at starting industrial revolutions and such. The Chinese are another lot like that, inventing paper, gunpowder and making steel, but most of that stuff was a while ago.
More of the same faulty reasoning, when statistics show an imbalance, we should forcibly correct it without looking at the underlying causes.
The way it seems to me is that if minorities generally arn't being educated, it's because they generally don't have enough money to afford the education. Why turn an economic imbalance into a racial one? Those who have the least money need the most assistance, regardless of what colour they are. There are plenty of white and asian people in rich countries who are at a real disadvantage due to their parents low income and other circumstances, why shouldn't they have the opportunities that poor people of other races get?
No, that's the old system.
Under the proposed system:
1) CS program changed to allow non-geek women get CS degrees & jobs.
2) Non-geek women meets geek man.
3) Non-geek woman ignores geek man like most other non-geek woman.
The whole idea of this program is to make CS less geeky, how is that going to help geeks? As it stands any woman who's willing to listen about how you "needed to roll a new character because the guild that all use Cedega was on a different server than you started on" is already enrolled in CS. Also the number of CS graduates who actually know how to use a pointer is low enough already, lowing programming proficiency standards still wouldn't be a good idea if it octupled the number of women CS entrants, let alone raised it by 8 percent.
Arsenic can be used for embalming and is very useful to make dead people look living, there's a corpse of a little girl in Sicily that still looks like she is alive 200 years after her death due to arsenic. It's not really the same thing of course but it is fascinating.
I actually did read the article but enough information is given in the summary to understand that he didn't modify anything but his own content. But my point is many people will not understand this. To most people he changed the content of the page and the US legal system is not made up of slashdot readers or probably anyone who understands computers in anything but the most superficial way. The general public see the end result and there is a good chance that this is how it would be assessed by the legal system.
I should have clearly acknowledge that he didn't change McCain's site but I assumed that we all knew this and wasn't aware that filling out several lines of reading comprehension was a prerequisite to making a relevant comment.
How long until Mr Davidson gets prosecuted by some lawyer working for McCain who hasn't realised that laughing along with the joke is a lot more dignified than litigation? With the amount the average judge knows about the internet, he could actually be imprisoned for this if some arsehole in a suit and tie crys loud enough. As simple as the case may seem to us, to the general public, defacing a site is illegal hacking, nomatter how it is done and no doubt McCain could get a clueless PHB to testify to that as an "expert witness" if he wanted to.
The referendum was only talking about Cannabis Sativa though, the rest are already legal pretty much everywhere since they can't make you high. I don't know what you're trying to prove, if someone smokes something as a form of recreation, you can pretty confidently call it Marijuana and that's what it's all about.