I'll give you an exact case where that happened: In Kansas City a couple years ago, a woman exited her car for a moment to go into a store, leaving her young son in the back seat. An ex-con just released from a local jail (and I believe they later determined that he was released DESPITE BEING WANTED IN ANOTHER CASE) jumped in the car and attempted to steal it. The woman saw this, ran back to try to get her son out, the man pushed her away and drove off. The son, attempting to get out of the car, became entangled in the SEAT BELTS, hung outside the car and was dragged by the perp for several miles until a number of other drivers on the highway saw the child dangling (quite dead) from the car. Several drivers forced the perp off the road, dragged him from the car and sat on him until the police arrived.
You correctly could ask who is insecure here - the police department that released a wanted fugitive or the seat belts that caused the boy's death? Or the mother who simply left the car for an instant? I vote for the former...
Therefore copyright is totally wrong and should be repealed.
Lest idiots think nothing would be produced, do note that things were produced for thousands for years before the idiot governments thought up the notion of copyright.
It'll look like Star Office's unified GUI - big, slow and useless...
And you can't have TRUE content addressability without conceptual processing...
Longhorn will be bloated, insecure, hardware-tied, expensive crap like everything else Microsoft does...
And yes, their people are idiots...the whole design of their OS WITH A FIVE BILLION DOLLAR R&D BUDGET clearly demonstrates this... With $5B I could have HAL on your desktop by next Tuesday...
Has to do with an aspect of conceptual processing, an AI area which is the core of AI and gets very little work done in it...
But without it, you'll never have AI - nor will you ever have intelligent systems development technologies - which means the crap being sold today will continue to be sold...
George Lucas is the guy who says that an artist should have the legal right to control FOREVER EVERY aspect of his art - for example (HIS example), a sculptor should have the right to prevent someone who bought his sculpture from having it painted blue.
Fuck you, George... I can't wait to see Yoda in underground porn movies...
"If the FBI was called in everytime something that relatively cheap was stolen, they would be overwhelmed"
No, they would not. They will CLAIM to be overwhelmed, go to Congress, get more of your sheep taxpayer money, and go right on arresting people for spitting on the sidewalk...
The only problem they have now is a little thing called the Constitution, which they are busy removing as the slight impediment it is to this scenario...
"I really don't understand why the feds are so eager to expand their jurisdiction so much. Why take on additional work when the states can handle it on their own?"
Oh, the ignorance...
Let me explain it to you: Work takes time and money. More work means more time and more money. The more time means more bodies which means more money - and more managers which means more opportunity for career advancement and authority. More money means a bigger budget and a bigger appropriation which means more power and more influence.
The money? Oh, that just comes from the sheep taxpayers...
NOW do you get the picture? The FBI would make spitting on the sidewalk a Federal crime if they could...(And they will, someday).
In fact, that's how most high-end stores treat celebrity shoplifting, according to stories in the media around the time the Ryder case broke... They just charge the celebrity's credit card which is usually on file anyway in the store, so the celebrity doesn't have to stand in line paying for stuff that they DON'T shoplift...
Personally, it is clear to me that Ryder is being railroaded by a DA who is the son of an FBI agent who doesn't like the fact that Winona is the goddaughter of Tim Leary and that she wears "Free Leonard Peltier" buttons to public functions (Peltier being the Indian activist who allegedly was involved in the shooting of two FBI agents)...
I read about a REAL shoplifting gang - about twenty or thirty black kids who go in a store a dozen at a time or more, steal tons of clothes, and if they get caught, they throw a manikin thru a storefront window and jump out and run away...
I remember reading years ago about how the major credit card companies employ private investigators who go after major credit card fraud perps. These guys are paid to keep chasing you until they catch you - they NEVER stop coming after you, unlike cops that will eventually shelve a case if there is no progress.
Read that book about Kevin Mitnick - he was nearly caught one time because a private investigator who specializes in cell phone company fraud tracked him down using a radio direction finder built into his car.
And that PI carries a 9MM because he tracks down drug dealers doing cell phone fraud as well.
And everyone else's experience in the Fed system - that's why they have something like a 98% conviction rate...
And it doesn't matter if a LOT of the evidence they have against you is from snitches who made up crap about you, or cops that lied under oath to get a bust...
I was sitting in the Marshall's holding tank one day when a guy came back from court laughing about a situation he'd heard. Another guy was up for arraignment, and the Magistrate Judge was suspicious of the testifying agent's testimony. The US Attorney said, "But, Your Honor, this man is a Federal agent and he wouldn't lie!"
The Magistrate LAUGHED IN THE US ATTORNEY'S FACE, and said, "Don't come into my court room and tell me that a Federal agent wouldn't lie!"
The cops in Philly (I think) paid an informant money to finger drug dealers. The guy made up accusations to get money. He fingered a house that he thought was empty because there was no furniture in the house. In fact, the house was owned by a guy who'd just has a messy divorce and his wife got all the furniture.
So the cops from FIVE JURISDICTIONS bust into his house one night. The owner makes the usual "suspicious move" and they shot him. He's lying there in his blood, conscious, for half an hour while they ransack the house looking for drugs that aren't there.
When they realize their mistake, this guy who is conscious but not moving, hears these FIVE JURISDICTIONS of cops discussing whether they should KILL HIM to cover up their mistake! The only reason they eventually decided not to do this was because with FIVE JURISDICTIONS OF COPS in on the raid, they thought they COULDN'T COVER UP THE MURDER OF AN INNOCENT CITIZEN!
This case was report in one of the Philly papers, IIRC. I read it while I was in the joint in a series of articles about why informants are bad news.
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I'll give you an exact case where that happened: In Kansas City a couple years ago, a woman exited her car for a moment to go into a store, leaving her young son in the back seat. An ex-con just released from a local jail (and I believe they later determined that he was released DESPITE BEING WANTED IN ANOTHER CASE) jumped in the car and attempted to steal it. The woman saw this, ran back to try to get her son out, the man pushed her away and drove off. The son, attempting to get out of the car, became entangled in the SEAT BELTS, hung outside the car and was dragged by the perp for several miles until a number of other drivers on the highway saw the child dangling (quite dead) from the car. Several drivers forced the perp off the road, dragged him from the car and sat on him until the police arrived.
You correctly could ask who is insecure here - the police department that released a wanted fugitive or the seat belts that caused the boy's death? Or the mother who simply left the car for an instant? I vote for the former...
I can't believe you said this...
And modded "Insightful"?
AOL is eviil?
Oh, wait...
We knew that, didn't we?
Funny that line should be quoted - I just saw the latest Bond movie (again) last night and that line was used in the movie...
Or as Wolverine once said, "Terrorists? That's what the big army calls the little army!"
By George, I think he's got it...
Copyright is a government-mandated monopoly.
ALL monopolies are economically invalid.
Therefore copyright is totally wrong and should be repealed.
Lest idiots think nothing would be produced, do note that things were produced for thousands for years before the idiot governments thought up the notion of copyright.
Get a grip...
Your AR-15 will protect you from black helicopters if you shoot the pilots before they get on the chopper...
'Course, you've got to find the pilots first...
It'll look like Star Office's unified GUI - big, slow and useless...
And you can't have TRUE content addressability without conceptual processing...
Longhorn will be bloated, insecure, hardware-tied, expensive crap like everything else Microsoft does...
And yes, their people are idiots...the whole design of their OS WITH A FIVE BILLION DOLLAR R&D BUDGET clearly demonstrates this... With $5B I could have HAL on your desktop by next Tuesday...
Morons...
Her on the left, Dr. Fiorella Terenzi on the right...
Or maybe reversed...
Or top and bottom...
Or me on top of them on top of each other...
Oh, the combinations physics can produce...
Actually, your link doesn't work - you have to remove the "ru" from the address to make it work...
Just tried it - that works...
Has to do with an aspect of conceptual processing, an AI area which is the core of AI and gets very little work done in it...
But without it, you'll never have AI - nor will you ever have intelligent systems development technologies - which means the crap being sold today will continue to be sold...
So get on it...
Then I'll worry about the ethical implications...
We're talking about some computers being trashed and then the network slows down or crashes for - what? A few days? A week?
Ice storms do that to the phone system - nobody says the system is "going away" and "I'll survive without my phone"...
Get serious... This is Y2K thinking...
Yes, there are vulnerabilities and somebody should fix them. In other news, the sun rises in the east...
Very interesting link. The links page there has even more interesting stuff on distributed hash table lookup for the Net.
And to think I independently came up with a similar idea several years ago while sitting in prison!
None of you have a clue...
The sooner nanotech fries the human race, the better...
Shut it down, retire gracefully, and go get real jobs or start a real company with a real product or service...
George Lucas is the guy who says that an artist should have the legal right to control FOREVER EVERY aspect of his art - for example (HIS example), a sculptor should have the right to prevent someone who bought his sculpture from having it painted blue.
Fuck you, George... I can't wait to see Yoda in underground porn movies...
>Police are paid to lie, it's part of the job. They just aren't allowed to lie in court.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Oh, wait, you meant they "aren't allowed", as in "you shouldn't do that"...
"If the FBI was called in everytime something that relatively cheap was stolen, they would be overwhelmed"
No, they would not. They will CLAIM to be overwhelmed, go to Congress, get more of your sheep taxpayer money, and go right on arresting people for spitting on the sidewalk...
The only problem they have now is a little thing called the Constitution, which they are busy removing as the slight impediment it is to this scenario...
"I really don't understand why the feds are so eager to expand their jurisdiction so much. Why take on additional work when the states can handle it on their own?"
Oh, the ignorance...
Let me explain it to you: Work takes time and money. More work means more time and more money. The more time means more bodies which means more money - and more managers which means more opportunity for career advancement and authority. More money means a bigger budget and a bigger appropriation which means more power and more influence.
The money? Oh, that just comes from the sheep taxpayers...
NOW do you get the picture? The FBI would make spitting on the sidewalk a Federal crime if they could...(And they will, someday).
More BS...
Tell it to Winona Ryder...
In fact, that's how most high-end stores treat celebrity shoplifting, according to stories in the media around the time the Ryder case broke... They just charge the celebrity's credit card which is usually on file anyway in the store, so the celebrity doesn't have to stand in line paying for stuff that they DON'T shoplift...
Personally, it is clear to me that Ryder is being railroaded by a DA who is the son of an FBI agent who doesn't like the fact that Winona is the goddaughter of Tim Leary and that she wears "Free Leonard Peltier" buttons to public functions (Peltier being the Indian activist who allegedly was involved in the shooting of two FBI agents)...
I read about a REAL shoplifting gang - about twenty or thirty black kids who go in a store a dozen at a time or more, steal tons of clothes, and if they get caught, they throw a manikin thru a storefront window and jump out and run away...
THAT's real crime!
They don't wander around in black jackets with "FBI" emblazoned on them... That's only for raids or forensic work where their suits might get dirty...
They were suits like every other button-down asshole...
Of course, nowadays, with "office casual" they still stand out...
I remember reading years ago about how the major credit card companies employ private investigators who go after major credit card fraud perps. These guys are paid to keep chasing you until they catch you - they NEVER stop coming after you, unlike cops that will eventually shelve a case if there is no progress.
Read that book about Kevin Mitnick - he was nearly caught one time because a private investigator who specializes in cell phone company fraud tracked him down using a radio direction finder built into his car.
And that PI carries a 9MM because he tracks down drug dealers doing cell phone fraud as well.
And everyone else's experience in the Fed system - that's why they have something like a 98% conviction rate...
And it doesn't matter if a LOT of the evidence they have against you is from snitches who made up crap about you, or cops that lied under oath to get a bust...
I was sitting in the Marshall's holding tank one day when a guy came back from court laughing about a situation he'd heard. Another guy was up for arraignment, and the Magistrate Judge was suspicious of the testifying agent's testimony. The US Attorney said, "But, Your Honor, this man is a Federal agent and he wouldn't lie!"
The Magistrate LAUGHED IN THE US ATTORNEY'S FACE, and said, "Don't come into my court room and tell me that a Federal agent wouldn't lie!"
That's how common knowledge THAT is!
Okay, anyone read this one from some years ago:
The cops in Philly (I think) paid an informant money to finger drug dealers. The guy made up accusations to get money. He fingered a house that he thought was empty because there was no furniture in the house. In fact, the house was owned by a guy who'd just has a messy divorce and his wife got all the furniture.
So the cops from FIVE JURISDICTIONS bust into his house one night. The owner makes the usual "suspicious move" and they shot him. He's lying there in his blood, conscious, for half an hour while they ransack the house looking for drugs that aren't there.
When they realize their mistake, this guy who is conscious but not moving, hears these FIVE JURISDICTIONS of cops discussing whether they should KILL HIM to cover up their mistake! The only reason they eventually decided not to do this was because with FIVE JURISDICTIONS OF COPS in on the raid, they thought they COULDN'T COVER UP THE MURDER OF AN INNOCENT CITIZEN!
This case was report in one of the Philly papers, IIRC. I read it while I was in the joint in a series of articles about why informants are bad news.