What would be fair then? A maximum of 20% net-worth? How about if that individual's entire net worth is because he/she pulled off a massive fraud, ponzi scheme, or whatever?
What if you made a few million bucks but blew most of it on hookers and drugs? Then you've already swindled more than your current "net worth."
That a man who "fights back" is more likely to end up as the one in the back of squad car. I know some pretty big guys who have had their asses kicked by women. Why? Because if they defended themselves with even the slightest bit too much force, they'd be tossed in jail. Heck, there are cases where you have some guy bloodied, bruised, and the woman with maybe a mark on her shoulder (such as from - for example - holding her off), and still it's the guy who gets arrested. Heck, even in cases where the female assailant had a bloody frying pan or carving knife, the guy calls the cops, and when they officers show up they just about cart him off before the operator tells them he's the one that called it in.
Men don't get any say in how a pregnancy turns out, but are still required to pay up in full, even in cases where the woman intentionally got herself pregnant.
Actually, in that case they guy had his say when he unzipped his pants and didn't wrap. Unless the woman was poking pinholes in the condoms etc then the consequences are not unforseeable. For guys the consequences of such are no worse than a woman who ends up with a father-of-the-child who turns out to be a complete dickhead.
I wonder if men really like "dumb", or if they just don't like the competition/arguments. A smart partner may be more likely to argue with you over who is right. Heck, a smarter partner is more likely to *BE* right, which means that you will be *WRONG* more often. Most people don't being wrong - or at least have it pointed out when they are - and that applies especially to a lot of guys I know.
I prefer smarter women myself. Heck, I also prefer older women, mostly because the ones I found in my generation were either a) Already married/attached/etc b) Already done (a), and are now bitter c) Gold-diggers d) Rather unintelligent, or at least pretend to to e) Out-of-area or unavailable f) Had standards I couldn't meet
And yes, with (f) I'm perfectly willing to agree that my inability to find a "perfect partner" was at times because I wasn't good enough for them at the time, but when I was in my early 20's I definitely running into a lot of (c) and (d). And looking back at myself in days past, I can see why (social skills, not at the drooling-in-my-lap variety but definitely needed work). Unattractive in both men/women, and a lot of that tends to fall into the "lack of maintenance" area. A lot of supposedly hot women spend a lot of time in the maintenance area which doesn't leave a lot else in their lives. It tended to be a feedback-loop issue though. A lot of so-called nerds back then actually became a fair bit more attractive *after* dating for the first few times and learning the ropes.
So now I'm dating somebody who's older than me, and smart. She's smart (degree in Accounting, Masters in Business) and done the married to a jerk/cheater before so she seems to appreciate the things I do more than girls I had previously dated.
If I had to compare my parents, I'd have to say my father was smarter, but that a lot of it had to do with my mother simply choosing not to take the responsibility of making a decision one way or another, and/or choosing to act dumb. On the other hand my mother is probably a lot better at acting on people/emotions than my father, who is better at acting on information, etc.
I regards to "warmish" VS "hot" Women not only often undervalue their intelligence, but also their looks. I think that smart people often tend to second-guess themselves though, and assumedly they're less likely to become a ONS, which is what a lot of others who will overlook you are gunning for. Don't underestimate the hotness of a good lookin' gal with a brain.
The problem with the case seems to be that the f*cked up by choosing the wrong charge, had it shot down because of such, and then chose to modify the conditions of the charge in the retrial to make it fit the "crime."
Apparently the perp in question - though he hadn't actually scheduled to meet the underage girl - had discussed with her the things he wanted to do, including oral sex etc. As he hadn't asked to meet her, the initial judge tossed the luring charge.
The second judge greatly expanded the scope of what "luring" is, thus allowing that charge to stick. Now it's *WAY* too broad.
It seems to me that the initial screw-up was charging the guy with luring in the first place. There are appropriate charges for an adult having "dirty talk" (as opposed to just talking about sex, i.e. like a Social Studies or Science class) with a minor. Unfortunately I don't have the exact name of such, but they do exist, and it seems they would have been more appropriate for this scenario than massively broadening the existing law.
Now it seems I'll have to "card" everyone I meet online. And don't forget that this might not just apply to a chatroom. You've got bulletin boards, and even game lobbies/chats etc. So the next time you tell some opponent "I'm going to f*ck you up", and he turns out to be a 14-15 year old, maybe you'll get a visit from the police.
Telus: Crap service. During a period of 3 months where my calls consistently went straight-to-voicemail (even when I was already in a call, it didn't beep my call waiting, so I definitely had signal), I was told there was no problems with the local network. Several of my friends had the same issue. Call doesn't come in, but you do get the voicemail alert 5 minutes later. Terrible customer service when I was with them
Rogers: Has been getting worse lately because they didn't have to compete for the iPhone etc plans and had a better 3G network, but now that Telus/Bell have a high-speed network and more Smartphones Rogers will probably have to smarten up again. Had a similar issue to the Telus one (with calls doing straight-to-voicemail) for about 1.5-2 weeks, admitted the issue and let me know when things were fixed. Customer service was actually quite nice, and they worked with me on the few little problems I came across.
Bell: Never used them. My co-worker did and had a "family plan" where his wife and him were *supposed* to be able to call each other without paying minutes. It never worked, and he spend 3-4 lunch hours every month for 6-8 months getting his bill "fixed" after *HE* meticulously found the overcharges and reported them. Of course it was not really fixed as the next month they screwed it up again. Uses the same network as Telus AFAIK
Fido: Actually a subsidiary of Rogers (I believe they were bought up by them). Slightly better pricing than Rogers on some deals/plans, but it's not worth absolutely terrible customer service. Contracts didn't detail all the charges such as the "network access fee", etc. They also lied about coverage areas when I signed up for my phone, as I checked the area I was moving to and their idea of a "local number" is the next-big-city on the same network (meaning I can call people in my home-city for free, get calls from other cellphones, but local landlines etc cannot call me without it being a long-distance call). They use the Roger's network, which they will happily tell you about when they detail their "coverage", but neglect to mention that you needed to pay a LD fee to call a local-to-where-you-are-calling-from phone unless you've paid for an add-on to your plan. Of course you have no way of knowing where your "local area" is without dialing a special number that is supposed to tell you when you're outside....
Koodo: Telus' no-network-access-fee, supposedly cheaper no-contract plan lovechild. Haven't tried it and have not enough data to make a comparison. They definitely don't advertise their affiliation with Telus though from anything I've seen...
Can anyone comment on the latency of using iptables? Awhile back I was in the process of moving, so I packed up my NAT/samba server and went with just an old SMC router for awhile. I noticed that while using the router, my latency seemed to be a bit better for some games etc
Overally bit-rates were unaffected, but my ping-times seemed lesser with the router. It may just be my firewall rules/configuration though, or the NIC that's on my NAT box.
Anyone else notice a difference? My current NAT box is a mini-ITX PC with a C7 processor and dual gigabit RTL-8110SC/8169SC NICs.
if millions of people find a particular type of behaviour acceptable that it should be legalised?
No. To use the often recycled example, the majority of people once thought that slavery was an acceptable practice, but that doesn't mean it should have been. This isn't to say that downloading and slavery are immediately comparable, but rather that a thing isn't necessarily right because "a lot of people are doing/supporting it."
On the other hand, the huge amount of torrent users shows a fundamental lack of support from the industry for what could be a viable market. Unfortunately it may very well be a case of "too little, too late" to tap, but had they done so they probably could have been making an extra chunk-'o'-change by this point off of online downloads. Things like the iTunes store are definitely still profitable.
They may still have a chance though. Personally, if I could purchase the various episodes of shows I like to watch for a reasonable price (at they are released), especially if they were sans commercials, I'd have my wallet open pretty quickly. Cable and even satellite seem to be dying media, and being able to pick-and-choose what you want online could be a fairly easy sell for studios. Even if they only charged something under a buck, they'd probably still make a fair bit of cash, especially if they threw a few ads on the website (not the video) for related products (e.g. if you're watching a season 2 episode of "show X" and season 1 is available on DVD, advertise!).
The problem I've found with some of the so-called "easier" languages is they tend to attract the lowest common denominator, and they tend to go quickly from "easy" to hard or nearly impossible for more complex tasks that are outside their parameters. This leads to a lot of people without proper education making "applications" which suck horribly, or that do a number of extremely nasty workarounds in order to do a given function
It's not a set rule, but I've seen enough horribly mangled pieces of "simple" programming to believe that it's fairly common.
I had somewhat assumed that Toshiba had created the "dubbing10" program that was being cracked. However I'm unable to find any sources that either confirm or deny that assumption.
Can anyone else find anything on it? Google doesn't come up with much other than various places in which it is used, but not where it was created.
When they talk about auxiliary power/thrusters/life-support whatever, that's the secondary/backup system. Except it's generally not a full-scale-system, but more of a scaled-down system meant to get by until the main system is repaired/replaced.
I'm more concerned about the lack of bathrooms though. I'm not sure I'd want to be on a Starship if the crew are all wearing some futuristic version of Depends...
I use my 360 to play certain movies from my media repository. Doing so requires codecs that don't come standard on the 360 (DivX, whatever). There is no easy way (actually no way I know of), to update the codecs on the machine without using XBL.
OK, so one's thoughts would be that once you've updated the 360, you don't need XBL anyhow. But unfortunately, it seems that the codecs are tied to the XBL account. I can't play my vids without logging into that account whenever I need the codecs. I'd imagine that if it were banned that would be something of an issue.
Actually, aside from the unreasonably high amounts of RROD's, drive failure is also an issue with 360's. The problem is that the hardware - although they're fairly standard drives - is also locked to the motherboard. So a regular SATA DVD-drive will fit into your 360, but doing so without re-tying the hardware/serial will get your a permaban from XBL pretty much immediately.
There *are* ways to update the firmware on replacement drives, but I believe this requires fairly specific models of drives and a fair bit of hackery to do so (and/or also having access to the old drive to get certain details from it's firmware, so hopefully it's just a dead/scratched laser and not a fried board).
One warning though, it does have a pretty big learning curve. The queuing system is MUCH better than other RTS's I've played. It's in many ways an unofficial successor to "Total Annihilation"
One thing to be warned of though, gameplay can vary massively, and it does take quite awhile to get a strategy that works online, especially if you switch to the expansion "Forged Alliance." When I did so I went from games that were often 1-2 hours and massive tech/anti-tech competitions to being swamped by level 1 units... but I've more or less figured out how to get past that now.
My only other warning is that SC is very, very addictive.
Hmm, well I would think that in this case being goatse'ed, rickrolled or other such things would really, really suck. It may be that there's not a tech level where you could overwrite somebody's brain via such an implant, or steal information from it, but it would probably be easier to send somebody to a matrix-like VR and trick them with a bad URL.
Hmmm... what's this "twogirls1cup.vr" file.
For that matter, prankers could have had a lot of fun with a holodeck too. April fool's would surely be a great thing.
That makes the school an intermediary. The primary parties are still the user who did the posting, and the site (actually the parent entity) on which it was posted.
Let me put it another way. When you use a site, you - and not your ISP, school, or public library, etc - are the one who agrees to whatever registration requirements and/or privacy agreements. Therefore they apply between you and the site owners. Otherwise, by my clicking an "I Agree" box on a website registration form, I would be applying that agreement to all the applicable intermediary parties. I am not (unless I am doing so in a capacity as legal representative of the provider), as the agreement is purely between myself and the entity which operates the site.
Again, IANAL, but holding that the school - essentially which operates as a carrier - is a not a third party would open a much bigger can of worms.
IANAL, but it seems that regardless of the "appropriateness" of content of the message, there is an issue here of what is basically breach of contract. The terms-of-use for that site apparently spell out that they WILL NOT release your information to third parties. The IP address combined with nickname was apparently enough information for the school (a third party in the posting process) to identify the individual.
Now that he's been fired, I'd imagine that a lawsuit will - and should - be forthcoming. T
Furthermore, there are plenty degrees of "acceptable" censorship - many of which are used here - such as moderation, or just plain deleted undesired content (which they did). Tracking somebody down and telling their mother/employer/friends/whatever is a pretty far step beyond that line.
I'd imagine a robots.txt file would work nicely if they wished to commit search-engine sepuku in such a way.
But heck, killing off some of the "top 1000" sites might improve my google experience. With no eBay links every time my search possibly evaluates to a product, or "experience exchange" every time I google a semi-technical query, it would actually be an improvement for me.
Providing a sales brochure with sales points tailored to a couple of different potential customer groups is perfectly normal. It is fervently hoped that they, having tried the drug, will sing its praises
Of course, if a drug has a mortality rate of 50%, then the pool of those that are available to discuss the benefits/drawbacks might be a bit limited to the "benefits" side:-)
IANAL, I'd that the usage rights would continue under whatever contract was made for them, similar to other situations where a company has sold a resource or rights to it, and then the ownership of the company itself changed.
Well, the whole "big bang" theory in my mind still seemed rather odd. As far as my understanding go, all existence was in one big super-dense super-hot pinpoint of "something" until it exploded into a universe, and the expansion continues as time goes on.
OK, so where did that pinpoint of something come from. And where - if any - did the something before that come from?
Religion is often used to describe things that science hasn't yet done so for. Essentially the "because God wanted/did it" is the end-answer to unanswerable questions. But that doesn't mean that science and religion have to be at odds. As more and more complexity is discovered in the design of life, etc, the more I have to think "how could that just be a random accident." And if the answer is that existence is so unimaginable immense that even the tiny odds of that "accident" can come true, then how come by that same concept a superintelligent, superpowerful being cannot exist to act as the overseer of human destiny?
OK, so said being may not exist to the expectations/specifications of the religious community. But as said community always seems to state that the ways/intent of God are beyond the understanding of men, then that pretty much captures that whatever we have on "record" is imperfect at best anyways. Of course this is just IMHO, but there are plenty of famous quotes in science that says more or less the same thing.
Of course Billg loves the free market. If a contractor installs unlicensed versions of MS Office on a clients computer, that contractor can earn a million dollars bounty forreporting the company, and then the BSA has every right to put the company out of business with exorbitant and irrational penalties. But if MS steals software, they can just blame it on a contractor and then apologize.
Actually one of the conditions of filing the BSA report (or at least the snitch rewards part, which is more or less the incentive behind them) is that you cannot be the one who installed the software, unless it was under orders from somebody else who could be held responsible.I found a bunch of info on that when the last "what to do if my company is using unlicensed software" question came up on slash.
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But the other kids will whoop their butts at hide-and-seek. It's pretty hard to miss the glowing kid hiding behind the hedge.
What would be fair then? A maximum of 20% net-worth? How about if that individual's entire net worth is because he/she pulled off a massive fraud, ponzi scheme, or whatever?
What if you made a few million bucks but blew most of it on hookers and drugs? Then you've already swindled more than your current "net worth."
That reminds me of this item from despair.com
In Chinese, JiJi is more or less slang along the lines of "willy" or other children's words for such body parts.
That a man who "fights back" is more likely to end up as the one in the back of squad car.
I know some pretty big guys who have had their asses kicked by women. Why? Because if they defended themselves with even the slightest bit too much force, they'd be tossed in jail. Heck, there are cases where you have some guy bloodied, bruised, and the woman with maybe a mark on her shoulder (such as from - for example - holding her off), and still it's the guy who gets arrested. Heck, even in cases where the female assailant had a bloody frying pan or carving knife, the guy calls the cops, and when they officers show up they just about cart him off before the operator tells them he's the one that called it in.
Men don't get any say in how a pregnancy turns out, but are still required to pay up in full, even in cases where the woman intentionally got herself pregnant.
Actually, in that case they guy had his say when he unzipped his pants and didn't wrap. Unless the woman was poking pinholes in the condoms etc then the consequences are not unforseeable. For guys the consequences of such are no worse than a woman who ends up with a father-of-the-child who turns out to be a complete dickhead.
I wonder if men really like "dumb", or if they just don't like the competition/arguments. A smart partner may be more likely to argue with you over who is right. Heck, a smarter partner is more likely to *BE* right, which means that you will be *WRONG* more often. Most people don't being wrong - or at least have it pointed out when they are - and that applies especially to a lot of guys I know.
I prefer smarter women myself. Heck, I also prefer older women, mostly because the ones I found in my generation were either
a) Already married/attached/etc
b) Already done (a), and are now bitter
c) Gold-diggers
d) Rather unintelligent, or at least pretend to to
e) Out-of-area or unavailable
f) Had standards I couldn't meet
And yes, with (f) I'm perfectly willing to agree that my inability to find a "perfect partner" was at times because I wasn't good enough for them at the time, but when I was in my early 20's I definitely running into a lot of (c) and (d). And looking back at myself in days past, I can see why (social skills, not at the drooling-in-my-lap variety but definitely needed work). Unattractive in both men/women, and a lot of that tends to fall into the "lack of maintenance" area. A lot of supposedly hot women spend a lot of time in the maintenance area which doesn't leave a lot else in their lives. It tended to be a feedback-loop issue though. A lot of so-called nerds back then actually became a fair bit more attractive *after* dating for the first few times and learning the ropes.
So now I'm dating somebody who's older than me, and smart. She's smart (degree in Accounting, Masters in Business) and done the married to a jerk/cheater before so she seems to appreciate the things I do more than girls I had previously dated.
If I had to compare my parents, I'd have to say my father was smarter, but that a lot of it had to do with my mother simply choosing not to take the responsibility of making a decision one way or another, and/or choosing to act dumb. On the other hand my mother is probably a lot better at acting on people/emotions than my father, who is better at acting on information, etc.
I regards to "warmish" VS "hot" Women not only often undervalue their intelligence, but also their looks. I think that smart people often tend to second-guess themselves though, and assumedly they're less likely to become a ONS, which is what a lot of others who will overlook you are gunning for. Don't underestimate the hotness of a good lookin' gal with a brain.
The problem with the case seems to be that the f*cked up by choosing the wrong charge, had it shot down because of such, and then chose to modify the conditions of the charge in the retrial to make it fit the "crime."
Apparently the perp in question - though he hadn't actually scheduled to meet the underage girl - had discussed with her the things he wanted to do, including oral sex etc. As he hadn't asked to meet her, the initial judge tossed the luring charge.
The second judge greatly expanded the scope of what "luring" is, thus allowing that charge to stick. Now it's *WAY* too broad.
It seems to me that the initial screw-up was charging the guy with luring in the first place. There are appropriate charges for an adult having "dirty talk" (as opposed to just talking about sex, i.e. like a Social Studies or Science class) with a minor. Unfortunately I don't have the exact name of such, but they do exist, and it seems they would have been more appropriate for this scenario than massively broadening the existing law.
Now it seems I'll have to "card" everyone I meet online. And don't forget that this might not just apply to a chatroom. You've got bulletin boards, and even game lobbies/chats etc. So the next time you tell some opponent "I'm going to f*ck you up", and he turns out to be a 14-15 year old, maybe you'll get a visit from the police.
Telus: Crap service. During a period of 3 months where my calls consistently went straight-to-voicemail (even when I was already in a call, it didn't beep my call waiting, so I definitely had signal), I was told there was no problems with the local network. Several of my friends had the same issue. Call doesn't come in, but you do get the voicemail alert 5 minutes later. Terrible customer service when I was with them
Rogers: Has been getting worse lately because they didn't have to compete for the iPhone etc plans and had a better 3G network, but now that Telus/Bell have a high-speed network and more Smartphones Rogers will probably have to smarten up again. Had a similar issue to the Telus one (with calls doing straight-to-voicemail) for about 1.5-2 weeks, admitted the issue and let me know when things were fixed. Customer service was actually quite nice, and they worked with me on the few little problems I came across.
Bell: Never used them. My co-worker did and had a "family plan" where his wife and him were *supposed* to be able to call each other without paying minutes. It never worked, and he spend 3-4 lunch hours every month for 6-8 months getting his bill "fixed" after *HE* meticulously found the overcharges and reported them. Of course it was not really fixed as the next month they screwed it up again. Uses the same network as Telus AFAIK
Fido: Actually a subsidiary of Rogers (I believe they were bought up by them). Slightly better pricing than Rogers on some deals/plans, but it's not worth absolutely terrible customer service. Contracts didn't detail all the charges such as the "network access fee", etc. They also lied about coverage areas when I signed up for my phone, as I checked the area I was moving to and their idea of a "local number" is the next-big-city on the same network (meaning I can call people in my home-city for free, get calls from other cellphones, but local landlines etc cannot call me without it being a long-distance call). They use the Roger's network, which they will happily tell you about when they detail their "coverage", but neglect to mention that you needed to pay a LD fee to call a local-to-where-you-are-calling-from phone unless you've paid for an add-on to your plan. Of course you have no way of knowing where your "local area" is without dialing a special number that is supposed to tell you when you're outside....
Koodo: Telus' no-network-access-fee, supposedly cheaper no-contract plan lovechild. Haven't tried it and have not enough data to make a comparison. They definitely don't advertise their affiliation with Telus though from anything I've seen...
Can anyone comment on the latency of using iptables?
Awhile back I was in the process of moving, so I packed up my NAT/samba server and went with just an old SMC router for awhile. I noticed that while using the router, my latency seemed to be a bit better for some games etc
Overally bit-rates were unaffected, but my ping-times seemed lesser with the router. It may just be my firewall rules/configuration though, or the NIC that's on my NAT box.
Anyone else notice a difference? My current NAT box is a mini-ITX PC with a C7 processor and dual gigabit RTL-8110SC/8169SC NICs.
if millions of people find a particular type of behaviour acceptable that it should be legalised?
No. To use the often recycled example, the majority of people once thought that slavery was an acceptable practice, but that doesn't mean it should have been. This isn't to say that downloading and slavery are immediately comparable, but rather that a thing isn't necessarily right because "a lot of people are doing/supporting it."
On the other hand, the huge amount of torrent users shows a fundamental lack of support from the industry for what could be a viable market. Unfortunately it may very well be a case of "too little, too late" to tap, but had they done so they probably could have been making an extra chunk-'o'-change by this point off of online downloads. Things like the iTunes store are definitely still profitable.
They may still have a chance though. Personally, if I could purchase the various episodes of shows I like to watch for a reasonable price (at they are released), especially if they were sans commercials, I'd have my wallet open pretty quickly. Cable and even satellite seem to be dying media, and being able to pick-and-choose what you want online could be a fairly easy sell for studios. Even if they only charged something under a buck, they'd probably still make a fair bit of cash, especially if they threw a few ads on the website (not the video) for related products (e.g. if you're watching a season 2 episode of "show X" and season 1 is available on DVD, advertise!).
The problem I've found with some of the so-called "easier" languages is they tend to attract the lowest common denominator, and they tend to go quickly from "easy" to hard or nearly impossible for more complex tasks that are outside their parameters. This leads to a lot of people without proper education making "applications" which suck horribly, or that do a number of extremely nasty workarounds in order to do a given function
It's not a set rule, but I've seen enough horribly mangled pieces of "simple" programming to believe that it's fairly common.
I had somewhat assumed that Toshiba had created the "dubbing10" program that was being cracked. However I'm unable to find any sources that either confirm or deny that assumption.
Can anyone else find anything on it? Google doesn't come up with much other than various places in which it is used, but not where it was created.
When they talk about auxiliary power/thrusters/life-support whatever, that's the secondary/backup system. Except it's generally not a full-scale-system, but more of a scaled-down system meant to get by until the main system is repaired/replaced.
I'm more concerned about the lack of bathrooms though. I'm not sure I'd want to be on a Starship if the crew are all wearing some futuristic version of Depends...
I use my 360 to play certain movies from my media repository. Doing so requires codecs that don't come standard on the 360 (DivX, whatever). There is no easy way (actually no way I know of), to update the codecs on the machine without using XBL.
OK, so one's thoughts would be that once you've updated the 360, you don't need XBL anyhow. But unfortunately, it seems that the codecs are tied to the XBL account. I can't play my vids without logging into that account whenever I need the codecs. I'd imagine that if it were banned that would be something of an issue.
Actually, aside from the unreasonably high amounts of RROD's, drive failure is also an issue with 360's. The problem is that the hardware - although they're fairly standard drives - is also locked to the motherboard. So a regular SATA DVD-drive will fit into your 360, but doing so without re-tying the hardware/serial will get your a permaban from XBL pretty much immediately.
There *are* ways to update the firmware on replacement drives, but I believe this requires fairly specific models of drives and a fair bit of hackery to do so (and/or also having access to the old drive to get certain details from it's firmware, so hopefully it's just a dead/scratched laser and not a fried board).
One warning though, it does have a pretty big learning curve. The queuing system is MUCH better than other RTS's I've played. It's in many ways an unofficial successor to "Total Annihilation"
One thing to be warned of though, gameplay can vary massively, and it does take quite awhile to get a strategy that works online, especially if you switch to the expansion "Forged Alliance." When I did so I went from games that were often 1-2 hours and massive tech/anti-tech competitions to being swamped by level 1 units... but I've more or less figured out how to get past that now.
My only other warning is that SC is very, very addictive.
Hmm, well I would think that in this case being goatse'ed, rickrolled or other such things would really, really suck. It may be that there's not a tech level where you could overwrite somebody's brain via such an implant, or steal information from it, but it would probably be easier to send somebody to a matrix-like VR and trick them with a bad URL.
Hmmm... what's this "twogirls1cup.vr" file.
For that matter, prankers could have had a lot of fun with a holodeck too. April fool's would surely be a great thing.
That makes the school an intermediary. The primary parties are still the user who did the posting, and the site (actually the parent entity) on which it was posted.
Let me put it another way. When you use a site, you - and not your ISP, school, or public library, etc - are the one who agrees to whatever registration requirements and/or privacy agreements. Therefore they apply between you and the site owners. Otherwise, by my clicking an "I Agree" box on a website registration form, I would be applying that agreement to all the applicable intermediary parties. I am not (unless I am doing so in a capacity as legal representative of the provider), as the agreement is purely between myself and the entity which operates the site.
Again, IANAL, but holding that the school - essentially which operates as a carrier - is a not a third party would open a much bigger can of worms.
IANAL, but it seems that regardless of the "appropriateness" of content of the message, there is an issue here of what is basically breach of contract. The terms-of-use for that site apparently spell out that they WILL NOT release your information to third parties. The IP address combined with nickname was apparently enough information for the school (a third party in the posting process) to identify the individual.
Now that he's been fired, I'd imagine that a lawsuit will - and should - be forthcoming. T
Furthermore, there are plenty degrees of "acceptable" censorship - many of which are used here - such as moderation, or just plain deleted undesired content (which they did). Tracking somebody down and telling their mother/employer/friends/whatever is a pretty far step beyond that line.
I'd imagine a robots.txt file would work nicely if they wished to commit search-engine sepuku in such a way.
But heck, killing off some of the "top 1000" sites might improve my google experience. With no eBay links every time my search possibly evaluates to a product, or "experience exchange" every time I google a semi-technical query, it would actually be an improvement for me.
Providing a sales brochure with sales points tailored to a couple of different potential customer groups is perfectly normal. It is fervently hoped that they, having tried the drug, will sing its praises
Of course, if a drug has a mortality rate of 50%, then the pool of those that are available to discuss the benefits/drawbacks might be a bit limited to the "benefits" side :-)
IANAL, I'd that the usage rights would continue under whatever contract was made for them, similar to other situations where a company has sold a resource or rights to it, and then the ownership of the company itself changed.
Well, the whole "big bang" theory in my mind still seemed rather odd. As far as my understanding go, all existence was in one big super-dense super-hot pinpoint of "something" until it exploded into a universe, and the expansion continues as time goes on.
OK, so where did that pinpoint of something come from. And where - if any - did the something before that come from?
Religion is often used to describe things that science hasn't yet done so for. Essentially the "because God wanted/did it" is the end-answer to unanswerable questions. But that doesn't mean that science and religion have to be at odds. As more and more complexity is discovered in the design of life, etc, the more I have to think "how could that just be a random accident." And if the answer is that existence is so unimaginable immense that even the tiny odds of that "accident" can come true, then how come by that same concept a superintelligent, superpowerful being cannot exist to act as the overseer of human destiny?
OK, so said being may not exist to the expectations/specifications of the religious community. But as said community always seems to state that the ways/intent of God are beyond the understanding of men, then that pretty much captures that whatever we have on "record" is imperfect at best anyways. Of course this is just IMHO, but there are plenty of famous quotes in science that says more or less the same thing.
Of course Billg loves the free market. If a contractor installs unlicensed versions of MS Office on a clients computer, that contractor can earn a million dollars bounty forreporting the company, and then the BSA has every right to put the company out of business with exorbitant and irrational penalties. But if MS steals software, they can just blame it on a contractor and then apologize.
Actually one of the conditions of filing the BSA report (or at least the snitch rewards part, which is more or less the incentive behind them) is that you cannot be the one who installed the software, unless it was under orders from somebody else who could be held responsible.I found a bunch of info on that when the last "what to do if my company is using unlicensed software" question came up on slash.