This is simply a ploy to entice potential targets with a guilty conscience to identify themselves, so they can be flagged automatically for later tapping.
I started drafting a letter, but I quickly realized that I didn't have anything of substance to say. If anyone drafts a letter that cites specific violations of professional codes of conduct for lawyers, I would gladly put my name on a copy and send it in. However, all the evidence I have for Mr. Thompson's lack of character come from excerpts of private communications (such as the scan of the fax) and anecdotes from people that have dealt with him. While it's my opinion that it's unprofessional for a lawyer to accuse someone of "criminal harassment" without just cause (as is clearly the case here), I can't bring myself to write to the Florida Bar Association without specific greivances. I wish I had the time to research this more.
Imagine this: You've finally located your family and friends in your area of the city, and have started to make your way to higher ground. Your home is gone, your business destroyed. As you struggle to keep your aging grandmother's head above the rising water, a surge of water cresting with sewage and filled with debris submerged to varying degrees pours down the street and sends her careening into your wife, laden with your youngest child and a bag of the few meager posessions you managed to save. The current whisks them away before they even start thrashing, and they are sucked under an overpass, now protruding from the water like a boat ramp.
You can feel the blood rushing back into your hand, now set free from the frail grip of your grandmother, and realize you will never see any of them again.
A stripper approaches.
"Free lap dance?"
The/. editors make the tacit (and, admittedly, probably valid) assumption that we all wish we could go party at the Googleplex. Fluff stories about "insider" events at Google are like MTV Cribs for nerds.
To everyone complaining that it's shitty of Google not to debut with a Linux version of Earth because they use Linux, shut the fuck up. Do you expect a discount from your ISP if they use Linux on their servers? Do you expect free tickets to movies that used Linux render farms for their special effects?
I bet most of you bitching don't even contribute to the body of open source software.
I wasn't so lucky, and I didn't even disable the Fortres software we had.
I was bored in the computer lab in high school one day so I fired up ResEdit and Photoshop 3.0 and modified the Netscape Navigator splash screen to read "Netscape Agitator". The clever lady that supervised the lab took screenshots over the network as I did this, and confronted me the next day with the evidence that I was "Hacking into Netscape." She banned me from the lab for the rest of the semester.
Berkeley Breathed would like a word with you about your username. Also, if you have to provide references for your jokes, you might want to reconsider how funny they are.
And anecdotal evidence is the best kind of evidence...
I'd be willing to bet that if you weren't expecting to get stunned, you'd be startled and disoriented enough (was it a knife? what the fuck just happened?) that you'd hardly have the presence of mind to "clinch" anyone, let alone "continue an assault". Maybe if you're already in an adrenaline-fed kill-and-destroy mode, but certainly not over an iPod.
Also, disrupting voluntary muscle control enough for brief paralysis isn't going to stop anyone's heart. For one thing, the heart is controlled by a completely different cranial nerve, and although the metaphor works sometimes, nerves aren't wires, and the charge won't feed back and short out everything.
And, as mentioned before, in the documentary TT DVD one guy talks about being chased by ruffians containing (if memory serves) a full-length almost-done version of TT.
Wow. I hope the ruffians had Firewire too, or did they have to type the movie out by hand?
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I wish the market were smart enough to demand this (a sell-back feature) if we are to accept DRM at all. Oh well.
This is simply a ploy to entice potential targets with a guilty conscience to identify themselves, so they can be flagged automatically for later tapping.
I started drafting a letter, but I quickly realized that I didn't have anything of substance to say. If anyone drafts a letter that cites specific violations of professional codes of conduct for lawyers, I would gladly put my name on a copy and send it in. However, all the evidence I have for Mr. Thompson's lack of character come from excerpts of private communications (such as the scan of the fax) and anecdotes from people that have dealt with him. While it's my opinion that it's unprofessional for a lawyer to accuse someone of "criminal harassment" without just cause (as is clearly the case here), I can't bring myself to write to the Florida Bar Association without specific greivances. I wish I had the time to research this more.
an intelligent beer mug that doesn't require an intelligent coaster??
What about assembly? That would be horrible to read over the phone! We should do away with that cryptic crap.
Imagine this: You've finally located your family and friends in your area of the city, and have started to make your way to higher ground. Your home is gone, your business destroyed. As you struggle to keep your aging grandmother's head above the rising water, a surge of water cresting with sewage and filled with debris submerged to varying degrees pours down the street and sends her careening into your wife, laden with your youngest child and a bag of the few meager posessions you managed to save. The current whisks them away before they even start thrashing, and they are sucked under an overpass, now protruding from the water like a boat ramp. You can feel the blood rushing back into your hand, now set free from the frail grip of your grandmother, and realize you will never see any of them again. A stripper approaches. "Free lap dance?"
With all the crap jokes people crack around here, this one needs way more love.
The /. editors make the tacit (and, admittedly, probably valid) assumption that we all wish we could go party at the Googleplex. Fluff stories about "insider" events at Google are like MTV Cribs for nerds.
Yeah, I have the same problem when people talk about Mambo (the PHP-based CMS)
DJB already has one of the coolest domain names. How can you not love a name like 'cr.yp.to'?
Also, his ego may be huge, but it's not entirely unwarranted. The man wrote qmail.
I know, right! I'm just mad I didn't think of charging for /. first.
If you are at all concerned about your blood pressure, I would avoid reading Slashdot discussion of your research, or of anything at all.
To everyone complaining that it's shitty of Google not to debut with a Linux version of Earth because they use Linux, shut the fuck up. Do you expect a discount from your ISP if they use Linux on their servers? Do you expect free tickets to movies that used Linux render farms for their special effects?
I bet most of you bitching don't even contribute to the body of open source software.
Dude, it's okay, they're indymedia. The indy means they're independent.
I wasn't so lucky, and I didn't even disable the Fortres software we had.
I was bored in the computer lab in high school one day so I fired up ResEdit and Photoshop 3.0 and modified the Netscape Navigator splash screen to read "Netscape Agitator". The clever lady that supervised the lab took screenshots over the network as I did this, and confronted me the next day with the evidence that I was "Hacking into Netscape." She banned me from the lab for the rest of the semester.
--File Transfer Protocol Used to Transfer Files. Story at 11.
Um, where did you get this word, "panurgism"? I can't find it anywhere.
Berkeley Breathed would like a word with you about your username. Also, if you have to provide references for your jokes, you might want to reconsider how funny they are.
You've had to provide your e-mail address when connecting to so-called "anonymous" FTP servers for years. What's the big deal?
Oh, wait, you mean nobody actually checks what you put in there? Well, what's the use of that!? Oh...
Can someone explain this "touch -- -i" business?
I enjoyed watching your video. Thank you for making it!
2megapixel is wayyy higher resolution than on most camera phones....
And anecdotal evidence is the best kind of evidence... I'd be willing to bet that if you weren't expecting to get stunned, you'd be startled and disoriented enough (was it a knife? what the fuck just happened?) that you'd hardly have the presence of mind to "clinch" anyone, let alone "continue an assault". Maybe if you're already in an adrenaline-fed kill-and-destroy mode, but certainly not over an iPod. Also, disrupting voluntary muscle control enough for brief paralysis isn't going to stop anyone's heart. For one thing, the heart is controlled by a completely different cranial nerve, and although the metaphor works sometimes, nerves aren't wires, and the charge won't feed back and short out everything.
What, no image search?