Have you ever looked at car color names? I am sure there are "black" cars, but how many are "midnight gray" or some such poetic name. Very few car colors have normal names.
Laws need to be specific, and if my car color is "Asshole Legislature", then I guess it isn't "Black".
However, full disclosure has me admit that I too, did use punched cards. However, I "cheated" and used my privileged access to interactive terminals to compile and debug my code BEFORE I sent it to a card punch for output (since the punched deck of cards was the class requirement. In retrospect, I doubt they spend the money to run the assignments, so it probably didn't matter if they were correct or not. This was back in the day when each print job finished with a "billing" page showing your the not-so-cheap cost to print things).
I pity the poor souls who had to use the public card-punch terminals... it was literally the very last year punched cards were required. heh.
Heh, on a similar, but unrelated note; If every smoker really quit there would be such a tax revenue loss that you'd see greed-bag politicians shitting enough bricks to rebuild all kinds of infrastructure.
Here in California, a lot of uninsured motorists are also not in the country legally... maybe they will crack down on that too, or at least fine them. Nah.
...and with everyone a criminal, it is just a matter of how much "they" like you, as to whether or not they come after you for a violation.
Some laws are "right", they proscribe a behavior most would agree is wrong. However, some laws claim to prevent a crime, after all, "the law's the law"; But, they're really nothing more than a "Thought Crime", IMHO.
As you suggest, possession of a shotgun, for example, that is "too short" (Say 16" instead of 18.5") is, in and of itself, a "crime". I'd rather have every law abiding citizen own such a weapon against than a single criminal legally owning the 18.5" model. Of course if either group used either weapon in a crime they should be punished in a like manner. After all, if one of your loved ones were criminally assaulted, would you really want the penalty to be any different if they perpetrated the crime with one weapon over another?
There doesn't appear to be any easy way for average folk to get around the law like the privileged can, by simply bowing to the "spirit" of the law. We are stuck with the "letter" of the law...
Also, for reference, here is something I saw recently that seems like a reasonable idea.
Remember, kids, it's not about big scary guns... someday, in a jurisdiction near you, mere possession of strong encryption may mark you as a publisher of child pornography just as much as the possession of brass knuckles makes one a thug.
Clearly, when one has $16,000 to spend on a PC, they have "better" taste as well - they probably have fugly bags with little G's or LV's all over them too.
Thank you for pointing that out; The law needs to be more specific
As a programmer, I should know that. If there is anything more pedantic than a stupid compiler, it's a fuckin lawer. Those guys must be idiots or assholes (Note the ambiguity of "fuckin" versus "stupid". It all depends on whether you've hired one to attack you or defend you - "fuckin" can be a good thing or bad.)
Notification of a "breach" is all well and good, but in many cases there shouldn't be as much data to breach in the first place.
A recent personal example makes my point; I am a bit disturbed that both the University I graduated from decades ago, and the guy a bought a car from 3 years ago, both send me birthday cards... I don't find it a nice gesture, I find it just wrong that they have retained my personal ID info for their marketing purposes. Therefore I will stop donating to the university and I will not buy a car from that dealership again. (It's not like I signed up for the "birthday club" or anything. Obviously they have "mined" my data collected for other purposes.)
Seems like a better law would be that personal information be purged from the records of any place that has no legitimate reason to retain them.
110 baud - skipped that one
300 baud - acoustic coupler, for phones they don't make anymore.
2400 - no more phone cups!
9600 - almost too fast to read (still 80x25 char screens)
14.4K, maybe 28.8K... I forget. Went to cable around then and never looked back.
A lot of sites allow you to write anonymous postings. And a lot of sites don't care if you violate the TOS a little bit as long as you don't harm the use of that site for other users. Probably not, just a foot in the door, or a nose in the tent.
Is a discussion site required to log any information about who wrote comments Probably, more and more. This brings the sites themselves under scrutiny. Additional pressure for cooperation. Lack of record keeping will be conspiracy to abet.
If somebody decides to give you some kind of access to their network connection through TOR or a WiFi access point, then using that access is not a crime It will be, if they don't keep the proper records.
If I had to, under certain circumstances, I would take a stab at doing what a heart surgeon would do. If it didn't go right, then I might consider reading up on the procedure.
However, if the patient survives long enough to be released, I am confident that I could simply document any lingering anomalies he might suffer as a feature, not malpractice.
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No really, make sure a real human is voting, and all that.
Have you ever looked at car color names? I am sure there are "black" cars, but how many are "midnight gray" or some such poetic name. Very few car colors have normal names.
Laws need to be specific, and if my car color is "Asshole Legislature", then I guess it isn't "Black".
About half of us were also born with schlongs.
And HALF of those have schlorts, if you suffer in the comparison the blue guy, I can see why you'd rather not be reminded that schlongs exist.
Now I don't have to state the obvious.
However, full disclosure has me admit that I too, did use punched cards. However, I "cheated" and used my privileged access to interactive terminals to compile and debug my code BEFORE I sent it to a card punch for output (since the punched deck of cards was the class requirement. In retrospect, I doubt they spend the money to run the assignments, so it probably didn't matter if they were correct or not. This was back in the day when each print job finished with a "billing" page showing your the not-so-cheap cost to print things).
I pity the poor souls who had to use the public card-punch terminals... it was literally the very last year punched cards were required. heh.
I boot without a bios - by toggling in raw machine code from the front panel switches!
He wasn't dicking around, the summary said he was dickering around. Obviously his phone became sentient and he negotiated the information out of it.
they don't see the positive side of their efforts
Heh, on a similar, but unrelated note; If every smoker really quit there would be such a tax revenue loss that you'd see greed-bag politicians shitting enough bricks to rebuild all kinds of infrastructure.
Here in California, a lot of uninsured motorists are also not in the country legally... maybe they will crack down on that too, or at least fine them. Nah.
...and with everyone a criminal, it is just a matter of how much "they" like you, as to whether or not they come after you for a violation.
Some laws are "right", they proscribe a behavior most would agree is wrong. However, some laws claim to prevent a crime, after all, "the law's the law"; But, they're really nothing more than a "Thought Crime", IMHO.
As you suggest, possession of a shotgun, for example, that is "too short" (Say 16" instead of 18.5") is, in and of itself, a "crime". I'd rather have every law abiding citizen own such a weapon against than a single criminal legally owning the 18.5" model. Of course if either group used either weapon in a crime they should be punished in a like manner. After all, if one of your loved ones were criminally assaulted, would you really want the penalty to be any different if they perpetrated the crime with one weapon over another?
There doesn't appear to be any easy way for average folk to get around the law like the privileged can, by simply bowing to the "spirit" of the law. We are stuck with the "letter" of the law...
Also, for reference, here is something I saw recently that seems like a reasonable idea.
Remember, kids, it's not about big scary guns... someday, in a jurisdiction near you, mere possession of strong encryption may mark you as a publisher of child pornography just as much as the possession of brass knuckles makes one a thug.
$420,000 to a Kentucky company...
:-)
Doesn't everybody in Kentucky have the same fingerprints?
sorry!
Clearly, when one has $16,000 to spend on a PC, they have "better" taste as well - they probably have fugly bags with little G's or LV's all over them too.
This is the kind of news that keeps me on track. When I release an SBD, I maintain a poker face.
High or low? I guess it would be "dumping" if low...
You should think more along the lines of a Beowulf Cluster of Roombas.
Thank you for pointing that out; The law needs to be more specific
As a programmer, I should know that. If there is anything more pedantic than a stupid compiler, it's a fuckin lawer. Those guys must be idiots or assholes (Note the ambiguity of "fuckin" versus "stupid". It all depends on whether you've hired one to attack you or defend you - "fuckin" can be a good thing or bad.)
Notification of a "breach" is all well and good, but in many cases there shouldn't be as much data to breach in the first place.
A recent personal example makes my point; I am a bit disturbed that both the University I graduated from decades ago, and the guy a bought a car from 3 years ago, both send me birthday cards... I don't find it a nice gesture, I find it just wrong that they have retained my personal ID info for their marketing purposes. Therefore I will stop donating to the university and I will not buy a car from that dealership again. (It's not like I signed up for the "birthday club" or anything. Obviously they have "mined" my data collected for other purposes.)
Seems like a better law would be that personal information be purged from the records of any place that has no legitimate reason to retain them.
Shouldn't it have been:
Pentagon may control weather!
Seems like buying books for cash is more anonymous than leaving an e-commerce trail.
I supposed it depends on how big a town you live in.
OMG, you can find hookers online!
Now I know where to look. Thanks, Sheriff!
In tiny print, at the bottom of each page: "Please do not use this site where prohibited."
110 baud - skipped that one
300 baud - acoustic coupler, for phones they don't make anymore.
2400 - no more phone cups!
9600 - almost too fast to read (still 80x25 char screens)
14.4K, maybe 28.8K... I forget. Went to cable around then and never looked back.
As far as I know, the Arctic is a pretty deep ocean, why not survey the ice from the bottom?
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
A lot of sites allow you to write anonymous postings. And a lot of sites don't care if you violate the TOS a little bit as long as you don't harm the use of that site for other users. Probably not, just a foot in the door, or a nose in the tent.
Is a discussion site required to log any information about who wrote comments Probably, more and more. This brings the sites themselves under scrutiny. Additional pressure for cooperation. Lack of record keeping will be conspiracy to abet.
If somebody decides to give you some kind of access to their network connection through TOR or a WiFi access point, then using that access is not a crime It will be, if they don't keep the proper records.
Even if the access was not opened intentional, it is not something the user would always know. Ignorance of the law is However bizarre you might think the law.
If I had to, under certain circumstances, I would take a stab at doing what a heart surgeon would do. If it didn't go right, then I might consider reading up on the procedure.
However, if the patient survives long enough to be released, I am confident that I could simply document any lingering anomalies he might suffer as a feature, not malpractice.