The reason he's a repeat offender and the reason they won't work very hard to catch him are the same -- it's catch and release policing.
The prisons are full with "priority" offenders (like aging hippies growing pot for personal consumption) and consequently low-level burglaries, muggings, car break-ins and other small-time property crimes are almost universally plead down to gross misdemeanors and given "time served" jail sentences and some kind of probation.
This one will probably be solved due to the publicity associated with it (an enemy will phone in a hot tip that gets him arrested), but generally speaking they won't bother tracking this guy down for what amounts to 30 days in county jail.
Burglaries only really get "solved" when they evolve into a regional pattern and the police invest resources in catching the burglars in action.
Really? I served on a jury this summer for an Aggravated Burglary with a deadly weapon. He received 8 years with no possibility of parole (note that the verdict was by jury, the sentence was worked out by the DA.)
Why should we treat the internet any differently than electricity and water utilities?
You seem to think that rates would go up. For many users, rates would go down, at least in theory--and not only that, but people who can't currently afford the price for "unlimited" internet would be able to get on the net, if only for a little bit each month. Rich people can afford to use more water and electricity in their homes--but the poor can still use water and electricity, if not as much.
If anything, we should make the internet more like an electrical utility, where the distribution network can be managed by one company, and ISP's take care of the user billing and purchase bandwidth from the ISP. That's the only way we're going to get competition for service on monopolistic areas.
All these arguments depend on the cost per gigabyte. If the cost is $10/gigabyte, or $0.10/gigabyte--the outcomes we are arguing about would vary widely. So the first step is ensuring competitive pricing, which means ensuring competition.
Ah yes and only those with deep pockets should be able to afford to have it aplenty. Paying by the gig will certainly slow things down, tell me again why we want to slow things down exactly? Meanwhile the likes of Google are working on devices that use the "cloud" for everything lol.
Slow things down HOW? If anything, the carriers would provide end users with FASTER connections, so that the end users rack up larger bills.
It would be like the cell phone network. The reason we have the coverage we do, is because the carriers don't make money if we can't get coverage. It's that simple.
All paying for the gigabyte does is align the desires of the capitalists with those of the consumers.
Why exactly must the pipes only be used for those things that you or others deem "responsible"? Perhaps I want to read a tech blog or forum like Slashdot but someone else who deems that useless says it's not responsible - see where I'm going? I have a huge pipe at home, thank you Verizon, but I don't abuse it and only use full capacity in bursts, thank you Bitorrent. Why is this sort of thing a problem? I was offered and paid for a big pipe. If I were a Comcast customer and my big pipe was unable to perform despite their promises I'd have an issue with their infrastructure. I'm okay with not being allowed to use full capacity full time but from those graphs it's obvious that, if true, peak hours for them is pretty much most of the time normal people want to use the damned pipe. Paying by the gig will simply stunt the use of the resource, why would we want to encourage that? Wouldn't it be better to enhance the infrastructure instead? Lots of things to learn on the 'net so encourage it. Lots of stupid stuff too but that's interesting to others and who am I to say it's a waste? I'd only agree with a by the Gig plan if those gigs were awful cheap and then they'd be in the same place they are now. Oh and I would want them to provide me a tool to monitor my usage - that would be accurate and something I could trust. Yeah right....
I did not say anything about what I think is responsible. It is on you, as the one paying for the bandwidth, to determine what is worth paying for, and what is not.
Lets talk about the other pipes we have--water. Do you think that it would be a good idea to simply pay for 10psi, or 30psi, of unmetered water? I think that would cause plenty of problems with appliances, not to mention over-watering in drought-stricken areas. No, paying by the gallon ensures that people are affected by their own decisions. Consider it a form of empowerment--choose how much you pay!
A bit-meter would be a simple tool, similar to your wireless carrier's minute-meter. It should be available on your ISP's account page, and also on the web-interface of your cable modem. You, the user, can install your own choice of bit-meter on your computer, and compare the numbers.
Let's put this to rest. You are a taxpayer in a state/city where there are 4 lanes of road going in and out of the heart of your city. During rush hour, congestion hits and it's go, stop, go stop. You and all the other citizens who pay taxes in the city/state complain that something must be done. 5 years later there are 6 lanes of traffic. Rush hour is still go, stop, go stop. See where I'm going here? This is a cyclical problem that has no solution.
The solution is to build toll roads, and possibly vary the tolls by hour of the day. That way, people who really need to use the road, will use it, and the road gets used more during off-peak hours.
On the ISP side, Comcast should charge customers by the gigabyte--these pipes are full of horse porn and dancing poodle videos. Or possibly, poodle porn and dancing horses. Either way, if customers actually had to pay per gigabyte, not only would they use their connections in a more responsible manner, Comcast would have an incentive to buy bigger pipes, since that would actually increase their profits, rather than cutting into their margins.
It is a period of civil war. Rebel Linux admins, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Microsoft Empire. During the battle, GNU spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, ISS, a system that brings any self-respecting admin to tears. Pursued by the Empire’s sinister agents, Tove Torvalds races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the network.
Do you mean IIS? Or are you talking about that moon orbiting overhead?
Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal? Rambo fantasies are so lame.
So under American law: anything that a company attempts to keep secret for commercial benefit has federal protection, and it's a crime to spread that information? What a crazy country you guys live in. That is bizarre.
Do you think Coca-Cola would sell in any country that did not have similar trade secrets laws? Their financial success lies entirely on keeping the formula for their product a trade secret.
Read your own laws, before thinking ours are stupid.
I'm not saying it's better than Roboform--it wasn't, which is why nobody used it. I'm saying that Microsoft has tried to integrate password storage into the OS.
I still don't know why Microsoft and other OS makers have not bought out roboform to integrate it into their OS and change the culture over time
That was the original idea behind "Microsoft Wallet", which turned into "Microsoft Passport", currently known as "Windows Live ID". See also: Windows Cardspace.
Me, I wish voting/jury duty was reserved for those that can prove they know something about whats going on instead of getting the most retarded people in the country deciding the fate of everyone.
That's exactly what they said about allowing women and black people the right to vote and serve on juries.
Me? I'll take my chances with blacks, women, and "retarded people" on juries, and voting. Really, I just need one person on the jury that thinks I'm innocent. If 12 people agree that I'm guilty, then I probably am.
He works in IT. Specifically, as a sysadmin like myself. That is extremely relevant to the case, and the fact of the matter is, as sysadmin, the very first rule is to never be the only one with access. Maybe put the password in a sealed envelope in the CEO (or Mayor's) safe, but make sure that several people know about the envelope.
Actually, people should be identified by their state--Texan, New Yorker, Floridian, etc. It's not the United State of America, it's the United States of America--indicating that each one has a level of sovereignty, and people should be identified by that smaller area.
Similarly, people are Scottish or Welsh, and not United Kingdomian.
Yeah, but in the real-world, how many apps work your hardware to its max capacity for long periods of time? Considering how long Koreans are known to play Starcraft, I imagine there will be quite a rash of computer fires south of the 38th parallel, and a subsequent rash of suicides and shooting sprees.
There was no 3D rendering in the original Starcraft. Or are you saying there are no news reports from Korea about SC2 issues?
The problem lies not with the people who are elected, but those who are not. Examples:
Presidential secretaries-- determine who gets to speak to the president. Need I say more?
All the aides and staff to all the members of Congress--these are the people who actually write 800 page laws and tell the members of Congress "how things are done in Washington". These are the reason why simply replacing the elected officials in Washington never seems to work.
Does the Bible say something about windmills being evil? Not much going on in the southeast according to that GIF.
Sweetwater, Texas has one of the largest windfarms in the country. It stretches 40 miles to Abilene, Texas, which houses 3 Christian universities. This is pretty much the "buckle of the Bible belt", and there's plenty of wind turbines.
Come on now. These are adults. If they choose to skip class because they feel their time is better spent elsewhere, that's their business. If they're wrong, they'll be punished at exam time. No attendance checks are necessary.
Based on your statement, I can safely assume that you don't pay taxes that go towards Federal Stafford grants. So you're most likely unemployed, or at least earning less than about $50,000/year. Or you live someplace that doesn't subsidize education. At the very least, you don't care how how your tax dollars are spent.
Also, I'm guessing that you're not a parent who paid thousands of dollars for their child to attend classes. So you're under 50. Since you didn't even consider the fact that some parent's money was wasted, you probably have no children.
I promise you, those who work their way through college using their own money do NOT skip classes unless they have double pneumonia.
It's not a selling point, it's a starting point. It's a sine qua non. For an application like video on the Web, nothing non-free can even enter the conversation.
Says who? XanC? Any format (and its software requirements) can succeed as long as the users will put up with it.
RealPlayer did very well for many years (say 1995-2000).
Apple Quicktime is used on many sites.
And of course, there's Adobe Flash.
To simply say that "nothing non-free can even enter the conversation" is ridiculous. Are your clothes free or open source? Your car? Your house? Your shampoo, your radio, your computer's processor, your keyboard?
Companies can make excellent closed-source products. Communities can make excellent open-source products.
I think that in order to be classified as a Super Star Destroyer, it has to be at least 15km long. Although the salesman will tell you it's worth at least 20 regular Star Destroyers, the price you pay should be no more than the cost of 15 Imperial-class SD's.
Also, be on the lookout for used SSDs. They may be infested with Conduit worms, affecting the ability of the SSD to fire its cannons.
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The reason he's a repeat offender and the reason they won't work very hard to catch him are the same -- it's catch and release policing.
The prisons are full with "priority" offenders (like aging hippies growing pot for personal consumption) and consequently low-level burglaries, muggings, car break-ins and other small-time property crimes are almost universally plead down to gross misdemeanors and given "time served" jail sentences and some kind of probation.
This one will probably be solved due to the publicity associated with it (an enemy will phone in a hot tip that gets him arrested), but generally speaking they won't bother tracking this guy down for what amounts to 30 days in county jail.
Burglaries only really get "solved" when they evolve into a regional pattern and the police invest resources in catching the burglars in action.
Really? I served on a jury this summer for an Aggravated Burglary with a deadly weapon. He received 8 years with no possibility of parole (note that the verdict was by jury, the sentence was worked out by the DA.)
And if a detective is sufficiently motivated and the victims were smart, there were probably some fingerprints on the laptop.
And how can they get those fingerprints when he stole the laptop?
You seem to think that rates would go up. For many users, rates would go down, at least in theory--and not only that, but people who can't currently afford the price for "unlimited" internet would be able to get on the net, if only for a little bit each month. Rich people can afford to use more water and electricity in their homes--but the poor can still use water and electricity, if not as much.
If anything, we should make the internet more like an electrical utility, where the distribution network can be managed by one company, and ISP's take care of the user billing and purchase bandwidth from the ISP. That's the only way we're going to get competition for service on monopolistic areas.
All these arguments depend on the cost per gigabyte. If the cost is $10/gigabyte, or $0.10/gigabyte--the outcomes we are arguing about would vary widely. So the first step is ensuring competitive pricing, which means ensuring competition.
Ah yes and only those with deep pockets should be able to afford to have it aplenty. Paying by the gig will certainly slow things down, tell me again why we want to slow things down exactly? Meanwhile the likes of Google are working on devices that use the "cloud" for everything lol.
Slow things down HOW? If anything, the carriers would provide end users with FASTER connections, so that the end users rack up larger bills.
It would be like the cell phone network. The reason we have the coverage we do, is because the carriers don't make money if we can't get coverage. It's that simple.
All paying for the gigabyte does is align the desires of the capitalists with those of the consumers.
Why exactly must the pipes only be used for those things that you or others deem "responsible"? Perhaps I want to read a tech blog or forum like Slashdot but someone else who deems that useless says it's not responsible - see where I'm going? I have a huge pipe at home, thank you Verizon, but I don't abuse it and only use full capacity in bursts, thank you Bitorrent. Why is this sort of thing a problem? I was offered and paid for a big pipe. If I were a Comcast customer and my big pipe was unable to perform despite their promises I'd have an issue with their infrastructure. I'm okay with not being allowed to use full capacity full time but from those graphs it's obvious that, if true, peak hours for them is pretty much most of the time normal people want to use the damned pipe. Paying by the gig will simply stunt the use of the resource, why would we want to encourage that? Wouldn't it be better to enhance the infrastructure instead? Lots of things to learn on the 'net so encourage it. Lots of stupid stuff too but that's interesting to others and who am I to say it's a waste? I'd only agree with a by the Gig plan if those gigs were awful cheap and then they'd be in the same place they are now. Oh and I would want them to provide me a tool to monitor my usage - that would be accurate and something I could trust. Yeah right....
I did not say anything about what I think is responsible. It is on you, as the one paying for the bandwidth, to determine what is worth paying for, and what is not.
Lets talk about the other pipes we have--water. Do you think that it would be a good idea to simply pay for 10psi, or 30psi, of unmetered water? I think that would cause plenty of problems with appliances, not to mention over-watering in drought-stricken areas. No, paying by the gallon ensures that people are affected by their own decisions. Consider it a form of empowerment--choose how much you pay!
A bit-meter would be a simple tool, similar to your wireless carrier's minute-meter. It should be available on your ISP's account page, and also on the web-interface of your cable modem. You, the user, can install your own choice of bit-meter on your computer, and compare the numbers.
Let's put this to rest. You are a taxpayer in a state/city where there are 4 lanes of road going in and out of the heart of your city. During rush hour, congestion hits and it's go, stop, go stop. You and all the other citizens who pay taxes in the city/state complain that something must be done. 5 years later there are 6 lanes of traffic. Rush hour is still go, stop, go stop. See where I'm going here? This is a cyclical problem that has no solution.
The solution is to build toll roads, and possibly vary the tolls by hour of the day. That way, people who really need to use the road, will use it, and the road gets used more during off-peak hours.
On the ISP side, Comcast should charge customers by the gigabyte--these pipes are full of horse porn and dancing poodle videos. Or possibly, poodle porn and dancing horses. Either way, if customers actually had to pay per gigabyte, not only would they use their connections in a more responsible manner, Comcast would have an incentive to buy bigger pipes, since that would actually increase their profits, rather than cutting into their margins.
It is a period of civil war. Rebel Linux admins, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Microsoft Empire. During the battle, GNU spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, ISS, a system that brings any self-respecting admin to tears. Pursued by the Empire’s sinister agents, Tove Torvalds races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the network.
Do you mean IIS? Or are you talking about that moon orbiting overhead?
that map wasn't correct to begin with--the upper right-hand corner, 240-255, is "class E experimental" addresses and will never be given out.
lawful execution by Castle Doctrine law.
Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal? Rambo fantasies are so lame.
Don't you watch the news?
2 killed
1 killed
So under American law: anything that a company attempts to keep secret for commercial benefit has federal protection, and it's a crime to spread that information? What a crazy country you guys live in. That is bizarre.
Do you think Coca-Cola would sell in any country that did not have similar trade secrets laws? Their financial success lies entirely on keeping the formula for their product a trade secret. Read your own laws, before thinking ours are stupid.
Autocomplete is basically the only part that's left.
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Article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/4699/microsoft_offers_cyber_wallet_for_online_purchases.html
I'm not saying it's better than Roboform--it wasn't, which is why nobody used it. I'm saying that Microsoft has tried to integrate password storage into the OS.
I still don't know why Microsoft and other OS makers have not bought out roboform to integrate it into their OS and change the culture over time
That was the original idea behind "Microsoft Wallet", which turned into "Microsoft Passport", currently known as "Windows Live ID". See also: Windows Cardspace.
Oh you said consumers. Carry on then.
And you don't consume? You don't eat food from the store, you grew your own laptop in your garden?
"Consumer" includes everyone on this planet, with the exception of people who get 100% of the clothes, food, and other stuff from nature.
Keep in mind, Einstein and Hawking are/were both consumers. Even Thoreau bought nails and a hammer to build his shack with.
Whatever you do, do not piss off the janitors.
Me, I wish voting/jury duty was reserved for those that can prove they know something about whats going on instead of getting the most retarded people in the country deciding the fate of everyone.
That's exactly what they said about allowing women and black people the right to vote and serve on juries. Me? I'll take my chances with blacks, women, and "retarded people" on juries, and voting. Really, I just need one person on the jury that thinks I'm innocent. If 12 people agree that I'm guilty, then I probably am.
What if he worked in a different field?
He works in IT. Specifically, as a sysadmin like myself. That is extremely relevant to the case, and the fact of the matter is, as sysadmin, the very first rule is to never be the only one with access. Maybe put the password in a sealed envelope in the CEO (or Mayor's) safe, but make sure that several people know about the envelope.
Actually, people should be identified by their state--Texan, New Yorker, Floridian, etc. It's not the United State of America, it's the United States of America--indicating that each one has a level of sovereignty, and people should be identified by that smaller area. Similarly, people are Scottish or Welsh, and not United Kingdomian.
Yeah, but in the real-world, how many apps work your hardware to its max capacity for long periods of time? Considering how long Koreans are known to play Starcraft, I imagine there will be quite a rash of computer fires south of the 38th parallel, and a subsequent rash of suicides and shooting sprees.
There was no 3D rendering in the original Starcraft. Or are you saying there are no news reports from Korea about SC2 issues?
Presidential secretaries-- determine who gets to speak to the president. Need I say more?
All the aides and staff to all the members of Congress--these are the people who actually write 800 page laws and tell the members of Congress "how things are done in Washington". These are the reason why simply replacing the elected officials in Washington never seems to work.
Does the Bible say something about windmills being evil? Not much going on in the southeast according to that GIF.
Sweetwater, Texas has one of the largest windfarms in the country. It stretches 40 miles to Abilene, Texas, which houses 3 Christian universities. This is pretty much the "buckle of the Bible belt", and there's plenty of wind turbines.
high probability of being a journey to certain death.
I'm pretty sure that I'm almost positive that "high probability" and "certain death" should not be used in the same sentence.
Come on now. These are adults. If they choose to skip class because they feel their time is better spent elsewhere, that's their business. If they're wrong, they'll be punished at exam time. No attendance checks are necessary.
Based on your statement, I can safely assume that you don't pay taxes that go towards Federal Stafford grants. So you're most likely unemployed, or at least earning less than about $50,000/year. Or you live someplace that doesn't subsidize education. At the very least, you don't care how how your tax dollars are spent. Also, I'm guessing that you're not a parent who paid thousands of dollars for their child to attend classes. So you're under 50. Since you didn't even consider the fact that some parent's money was wasted, you probably have no children. I promise you, those who work their way through college using their own money do NOT skip classes unless they have double pneumonia.
It's not a selling point, it's a starting point. It's a sine qua non. For an application like video on the Web, nothing non-free can even enter the conversation.
Says who? XanC? Any format (and its software requirements) can succeed as long as the users will put up with it.
RealPlayer did very well for many years (say 1995-2000).
Apple Quicktime is used on many sites.
And of course, there's Adobe Flash.
To simply say that "nothing non-free can even enter the conversation" is ridiculous. Are your clothes free or open source? Your car? Your house? Your shampoo, your radio, your computer's processor, your keyboard?
Companies can make excellent closed-source products. Communities can make excellent open-source products.
I wish I had mod points for that. Well played, bchernicoff!
I think that in order to be classified as a Super Star Destroyer, it has to be at least 15km long. Although the salesman will tell you it's worth at least 20 regular Star Destroyers, the price you pay should be no more than the cost of 15 Imperial-class SD's. Also, be on the lookout for used SSDs. They may be infested with Conduit worms, affecting the ability of the SSD to fire its cannons.