"inspirational, funny, and probably familiar"...not to mention illegal and dangerous to themselves and other people. I understand the concept of pranks, etc., but these kids are putting themselves and others at risk every time they get caught in elevator shafts and the like.
But, if we don't have just cause we aren't allowed to search your garbage.
So, if I do search your garbage and publicize it's contents, and it turns out that you aren't guilty of whatever I'm investigating you for, I'm in deep shit. You can sue me or whatever you want.
Once, when we were working on a Hispanic drug dealer case, we sent in a warrant to look for drug dealer supplements in his garbage (half-used joints, cloth with coke residue on it, etc.). It didn't get approved for two weeks (due to nothing but slow buereaucracy) and as a result this drug dealer was able to get away with three murders in the mean time.
"Why not work on shortening the time required instead of giving more leeway to the police?"
Some people just don't have an incentive to work quickly, and in this case the judge doesn't have an incentive. In fact, if he hurries the process he could end up approving a warrant for a wrong person, which happened once with me.
It was Thanksgiving week, so we were waiting for a lot of warrants to be approved and the judge was only in for two days out of the normal five. We were out to get a Mafia hitman, and the judge wrote the wrong name and address on the warrant. Needless to say, we showed up at the address and name on the warrant (we didn't know any better, we we just muscle for the detective on the case), and we found a 75 year old grandmother in tears because she thought she was going to jail for tax evasion.
Also, government doesn't take well to being told to speed up. Remember how when you first got your drivers license it took you an hour and a half to get through all the DMV paperwork? Now, remember when you renewed your license and it took the same time as it did as when you first got your license?
"police to seize a citizen's garbage without a search warrant. But when some reporters swiped their garbage (and reported the contents!) they screamed foul play!"
Because being a policeman myself, I know that by the time a search warrant is signed off by a judge and executed (around a week), the trash will be long gone. So, the policeman have a perfectly valid arguement.
The councilman have every right to call foul play, because the police are an investigation bureaucracy devoted to helping people (legally), while the reporters are going through garbage in order to report what bills the councilman paid last week (illegally).
Wheter the reporters were trying to make a point or not, they still broke the law.
Seems ridiculous to me. All he did was look through trash bins for old film, even I could do that. The film hasn't even yet acquired a distributer, most likely due to the distinct possibility that no one outside of the extremely devoted art film crowd would enjoy watching it.
Per the article: "It wasn't even well accepted at Sundance"
If you make an artsy film, and it doesn't even generate buzz at Sundance, you're probably not worthy of being released to the mainstream public.
I can understand that having left-brained tendencies I could possibly just don't "understand" this film, but this story smells of a reporter needing a story on New Year's Eve to me, which isn't nessacarily a bad thing. He provided a struggling artist with publicity.
Fuck this. I'm a lawyer, and it chafes my ass to see this godman stupid patents lawsuits made over and over again. But, let me ask you this question: How many lawsuits do you think you saw in the Soviet Union?
I mean it. Lawsuits are a sign of freedom. They're a sign that the government has decided to leave as much as possible to the free market and the law of contract and tort, and not to come in with a big wet fucking nanny agency. Which of course still generates work for lawyers through a regulatory practice, but less open and less honest work.
Would you rather Big Fucking Brother came in and spent fifty fucking years drawing up a piece of legislation on your thorax precisely specifiyng what information could and couldn't be collected? All stuffed with pork, and with a big-ass federal agency to enforce it? Or would you rather this was decided in terms of general principles of tort and property, in an open court?
Well, I've got news for you, dickhead, the second method involves lawsuits. And those lawsuits have to be argued by lawyers. And that means that lawyers get rich. Check out the alternative any time you grudge us our big fucken' payoff. We don't get stock options, you know.
If the woman has a case, she will win. If she's whining like a bitch, she won't. End of. It's like a free market, only it's better than a free market because the smartest lawyer with the best argument always wins. How many other industries are there where the best product always wins? Not software.
Lawsuits are freedom. That's why we have so many in America, and they have so many government agencies in Europe.
Also, anonymity on slashdot lets me cuss anonymously like this. Keep up not giving out account info Taco, and anoymous cowards.
The lady from the Free Software movement is trying to say that the W3C wouldn't allow free software used any more. I doubt it, but too bad I can't read the article since it's filled with still more doublespeak.
My thorax aches, but I must say it: Theres needs to be a "Learn Linux" for a generic distro for new users, instead of "Red Hat 8.0 Bible". Too imposing and specific.
My thorax is aching because of my cold right now, but I must say this: No one besides servers can use 64 bit chips right now, so there's no point in buying them for about 3 or 4 years, until the developers catch up with the hardware.
"Like everything Microsoft has done, Xbox Live is done, and done well"
Well, I can name at least one instance this isn't true. Anyone remember the unmitigated disaster that Windows 95 was? They had 5 years to work on it, and it was still extremely buggy. We were all starving for a nicer GUI back then though, so all the problems with that launch tend to be overlooked.
However, they forgot to mention that one little hole in your equipment will ruin your computer without warning. You'll when your computer blows up, destroying your pretty 3.0 ghz Pentium IV with the GeForce FX.
OK troll, I'll bite: 1. NEVAR call me kiddo again 2. It's not like they're saying "unless you pay $50, you have to use the right-mouse button to select icons!". THAT is a technique. The manual is intellectual property. There's a big difference dumbfuck. 3. ??? 4. PROFIT!!!
"and you must pay $50 to join their Support Forum to get the information. It gets better. The associated Membership Agreement for the Support Forum includes the clause 'You shall not to share [sic] the information contained herein with any other party.' So if I join up, am I locked out of sharing valuable information with the open source community about how to install this open source product? "
No, you're just limited from spreading information around for free that they own. If you wrote a book, would you want people copying it and giving it away for free outside Barnes + Noble?
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"inspirational, funny, and probably familiar" ...not to mention illegal and dangerous to themselves and other people. I understand the concept of pranks, etc., but these kids are putting themselves and others at risk every time they get caught in elevator shafts and the like.
He's really jewish.
Contact me at my e-mail address if you need more info, we'll set up a chat on AIM/IRC.
Studying at night at UB with idiot 20 year olds is stressful, thanks for asking.
But, if we don't have just cause we aren't allowed to search your garbage.
So, if I do search your garbage and publicize it's contents, and it turns out that you aren't guilty of whatever I'm investigating you for, I'm in deep shit. You can sue me or whatever you want.
Once, when we were working on a Hispanic drug dealer case, we sent in a warrant to look for drug dealer supplements in his garbage (half-used joints, cloth with coke residue on it, etc.). It didn't get approved for two weeks (due to nothing but slow buereaucracy) and as a result this drug dealer was able to get away with three murders in the mean time.
"Why not work on shortening the time required instead of giving more leeway to the police?"
Some people just don't have an incentive to work quickly, and in this case the judge doesn't have an incentive. In fact, if he hurries the process he could end up approving a warrant for a wrong person, which happened once with me.
It was Thanksgiving week, so we were waiting for a lot of warrants to be approved and the judge was only in for two days out of the normal five. We were out to get a Mafia hitman, and the judge wrote the wrong name and address on the warrant. Needless to say, we showed up at the address and name on the warrant (we didn't know any better, we we just muscle for the detective on the case), and we found a 75 year old grandmother in tears because she thought she was going to jail for tax evasion.
Also, government doesn't take well to being told to speed up. Remember how when you first got your drivers license it took you an hour and a half to get through all the DMV paperwork? Now, remember when you renewed your license and it took the same time as it did as when you first got your license?
"police to seize a citizen's garbage without a search warrant. But when some reporters swiped their garbage (and reported the contents!) they screamed foul play!"
Because being a policeman myself, I know that by the time a search warrant is signed off by a judge and executed (around a week), the trash will be long gone. So, the policeman have a perfectly valid arguement.
The councilman have every right to call foul play, because the police are an investigation bureaucracy devoted to helping people (legally), while the reporters are going through garbage in order to report what bills the councilman paid last week (illegally).
Wheter the reporters were trying to make a point or not, they still broke the law.
Seems ridiculous to me. All he did was look through trash bins for old film, even I could do that. The film hasn't even yet acquired a distributer, most likely due to the distinct possibility that no one outside of the extremely devoted art film crowd would enjoy watching it.
Per the article: "It wasn't even well accepted at Sundance"
If you make an artsy film, and it doesn't even generate buzz at Sundance, you're probably not worthy of being released to the mainstream public.
I can understand that having left-brained tendencies I could possibly just don't "understand" this film, but this story smells of a reporter needing a story on New Year's Eve to me, which isn't nessacarily a bad thing. He provided a struggling artist with publicity.
Fuck this. I'm a lawyer, and it chafes my ass to see this godman stupid patents lawsuits made over and over again. But, let me ask you this question: How many lawsuits do you think you saw in the Soviet Union?
I mean it. Lawsuits are a sign of freedom. They're a sign that the government has decided to leave as much as possible to the free market and the law of contract and tort, and not to come in with a big wet fucking nanny agency. Which of course still generates work for lawyers through a regulatory practice, but less open and less honest work.
Would you rather Big Fucking Brother came in and spent fifty fucking years drawing up a piece of legislation on your thorax precisely specifiyng what information could and couldn't be collected? All stuffed with pork, and with a big-ass federal agency to enforce it? Or would you rather this was decided in terms of general principles of tort and property, in an open court?
Well, I've got news for you, dickhead, the second method involves lawsuits. And those lawsuits have to be argued by lawyers. And that means that lawyers get rich. Check out the alternative any time you grudge us our big fucken' payoff. We don't get stock options, you know.
If the woman has a case, she will win. If she's whining like a bitch, she won't. End of. It's like a free market, only it's better than a free market because the smartest lawyer with the best argument always wins. How many other industries are there where the best product always wins? Not software.
Lawsuits are freedom. That's why we have so many in America, and they have so many government agencies in Europe.
Also, anonymity on slashdot lets me cuss anonymously like this. Keep up not giving out account info Taco, and anoymous cowards.
The lady from the Free Software movement is trying to say that the W3C wouldn't allow free software used any more. I doubt it, but too bad I can't read the article since it's filled with still more doublespeak.
Moderators can start moderating troll posts funny?
Seriously, it really gets on my nerves when I troll and am marked accordingly, when shit like this gets on the front page.
My thorax aches, but I must say it: Theres needs to be a "Learn Linux" for a generic distro for new users, instead of "Red Hat 8.0 Bible". Too imposing and specific.
> ability to run legacy 32-bit instructions
But, if you read the article, you would have noticed that they mentioned the very poor performance of Opteron while executing those instructions.
My thorax is aching because of my cold right now, but I must say this: No one besides servers can use 64 bit chips right now, so there's no point in buying them for about 3 or 4 years, until the developers catch up with the hardware.
What's the over/under on Uncle John's Bathroom Reader using this new technology first?
"Like everything Microsoft has done, Xbox Live is done, and done well"
Well, I can name at least one instance this isn't true. Anyone remember the unmitigated disaster that Windows 95 was? They had 5 years to work on it, and it was still extremely buggy. We were all starving for a nicer GUI back then though, so all the problems with that launch tend to be overlooked.
There was a kid who tried building a reactor once for his Boy Scout merit badge, and he got arrested for it. Do you want to risk that?
However, they forgot to mention that one little hole in your equipment will ruin your computer without warning. You'll when your computer blows up, destroying your pretty 3.0 ghz Pentium IV with the GeForce FX.
I know from experience...
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OK troll, I'll bite:
1. NEVAR call me kiddo again
2. It's not like they're saying "unless you pay $50, you have to use the right-mouse button to select icons!". THAT is a technique. The manual is intellectual property. There's a big difference dumbfuck.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
"and you must pay $50 to join their Support Forum to get the information. It gets better. The associated Membership Agreement for the Support Forum includes the clause 'You shall not to share [sic] the information contained herein with any other party.' So if I join up, am I locked out of sharing valuable information with the open source community about how to install this open source product? "
No, you're just limited from spreading information around for free that they own.
If you wrote a book, would you want people copying it and giving it away for free outside Barnes + Noble?
considering the only way for them to make money is to charge for support, this makes sense to me
"the music industry is greedy (already asking for a bigger slice of this pie!)"
THEY OWN THE FUCKING MUSIC
for chrissake, if someone liked your car and started driving it everywhere, wouldn't you want them to pay?
doesn't DNA have 4 letters only anyway?
thats what my bio teacher said, i think...
So, in response to them trying to make money, you'll teach them a lesson and give away their rightful property???