You do accept a deal for 4 years if your lawyer tells you there's 5 year minimum and a 20 year maximum for the crime. Odds are he was facing 10+ years, and guilty or not you have to consider what a jury is going to think of your case.
A stack of CDs in his room was not put there over his open WAP, but once the government deems them child pornography the Adam Walsh Act prohibits access to child pornography evidence as contraband, as though it were a kilo of cocaine. What this really mean is that in child porn cases, people can be convicted without the prosecution turning over evidence to the defense. If the defense doesn't make enough of a stink, they may never get more than an affidavit. And the defense can hire an expert to examine the evidence, but that expert will have to do all their work at a government facility.
A guy that lives with a roommate probably can't afford a seriously good lawyer, and even a really good lawyer would still have to fight to get access to the evidence. It is your right to demand evidence be examined, validated and otherwise poked at by a neutral party. And we need to demand the rights of ACCUSED child pornographers be defended as we would have our rights defended...a few more laws like this and we won't have rights to worry about.
Clearly child porn shouldn't be handed out on the street, but if you are being accused of possessing it they still need to make it available to your defense so someone besides the prosecution can say "Yup, that's child porn". CDs full of pictures of 17 year olds and skinny asians in pigtails is WAY different from toddlers, but 100% identical to the prosecution.
That's brilliant! May I steal that idea, implement it in a completely different way and potentially derive profit from it?:)
I also wrote bookmark page that I use as my home page, but it was cobbled together in ASP with an access database so I'm not about to put a link to it on slashdot. The poor thing can hardly handle me.
The big time saver I put on mine is a weather.com xml feed so I don't need four clicks to check the weather, saving me countless weather-obsessive clicks!
And yes, I'm properly ashamed of using an access database for this long. I've got a PHP/mySQL version in the works.
The police are supposed to ticket people driving while talking without a hands free set in NY and NJ. I want them to enforce this STRONGLY. I'm TIRED of driving in fear of these idiots.
If you want to survive a trip on any major highway around here, you need be prepared to evade someone who is about to slam into you at 55 MPH because they can't properly steer their enormous SUV while they're chatting with their dear Aunt Millie.
No, people will continue to be
1) ignorant about the existence of "alternative" browsers
2) habitually addicted to their fave browser
3) HTML Coders being whipped daily by nitpicking, mac-using designers who have to make sure the roughly 70% to 85% of the population still using IE get the nicest looking version of the site EVER...and everyone else does too.
I would LOVE it if everyone stopped using IE and moved to Firefox. Sure, whatever. Any one overwhelmingly popular browser is fine. I don't miss coding three different version of the same site. IE versus Firefox just blows...f-ing box model is the only think IE is really doing right.
For the love of all that is holy, think of the front-end people tortured by designers! We just stopped hearing about Netscape 4.7 regularly!
Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico were still counting votes as of this morning at noonish EST.
Since we live in a society where you can be approved for a credit card in minutes, buy toothpaste over the internet with that card AND ship it overnight so you can brush in the morning, I wouldn't say there's no case for SOMETHING to be fixed.
Sure you might die rather than live in disgrace, but would you make someone else die for your inflated sense of morality? The "price" might not be a benefit, but rather a lack of detriment.
Hypothetically speaking, of course. I hope we haven't reached the point where someone out there is saying "Write me a mass mailer or I'll kill your mother."
I've had the Casio Exilim EX-Z3 for about a year now and I just plain love it...once I got one that would charge.
My gripe was also the battery. It's some kind of special Casio-only battery model, apparently handmade by a single very busy, very slow person! And they must have that same slow busy person making the travel chargers for it, because everywhere I tried to get it had a backlog. The ONLY way to charge my camera was the dock, and my camera arrived with a damaged dock. At that point I pretty much had to suck it up until they sent a new one.
I would have much prefered they use a popular type of battery so I wouldn't have had to gaze adoringly at my cool and compact, but utterly useless brand new camera for almost a month. I'd still like rechargable, but I'd like it to be easy to find and not absurdly expensive to buy three of them to keep on hand.
I'll forgive them based on the not exceptional, but good quality battery life when the dock issue was solved. Also, the video with sound feature elevated me from "black sheep" to "honored amateur videographer" when I used it to capture the only videos of my cousin's wedding. Bad first impressions aside, it's an excellent camera.
Besides the general "Help, I've been slashdotted!" meaning, I didn't follow this after "database problem" and babelfish isn't coming through for me like it usually does.:)
Database problem! Vi beklager meget, men lige nu kæmper vores server med at følge med de mange forspørgsler. Tak for opmærksomheden. Vi håber at du vil besøge siden senere.
If you found someone's wallet with their driver's license, you'd have a name and address to send it back to. I don't imagine most people have "If lost mail to..." with an address on their memory cards.
But this blog might just generate enough buzz to get word to the owner...and make it possible to return the media. As long as the blogger takes the pictures down if/when the owner asks, and keeps it clean, I see very little REAL harm here. This isn't exactly the high road, but the finder could have just wiped the pictures and used the media for himself/herself and never considered this person's photos.
As for the owner, if they have ANY sense of humor they'd get over the inital angry shock pretty quick and laugh along. You really can't just turn to the courts every time you end up as the butt of a joke.
So far I haven't had any problems with just glaring angrily at the other drivers myself, and my car's unchanging and expressionless front-end doesn't betray my internal turmoil OR get me shot at.
They should get my stupid air bag and anti-lock brakes to work properly before they "humanize" cars.
For spaceflight it seems to take fewer imperfections to kill you. For a first run mostly perfect is fantastic...especially since the not perfect parts didn't involve dying.
The flight was a success, the pilot survived, and the ship wasn't damaged? Good job guys! Don't get lazy!
About two years ago I got sick of missing a bookmark at work that I had at home, or the reverse. I sat down and made a simple database with a web frontend and stuck it on my website. Then I set all my default pages to that page.
When I open a brower, I see my bookmarks regardless of where that browser happens to be. Very handy!
You misunderstand my point, as I misunderstood yours. I have little expectation of privacy on the internet at this point. I'm posted all over, and even if I took it all down today it would still be cached, mirrored, copied and hidden off in places I'd never think of.
I'm not worried about people finding out information about me IF THEY MAKE THE BAREST EFFORT TO HUNT IT DOWN. I'd rather not have it plastered on my slashdot account in a way that reduces my characteristics to a pink or blue dot and a number. A/S/L checks, anyone? <shudder> But then again, that was my misunderstanding of your point.
And if you feel like weeding around in the polls for a while, I'm sure you can dig up a lot more info about the 18-35 year old men living in an apartment in the city or their parent's basement then you could ever want or need.
However, I would rather remain genderless, ageless, and locationless until I define myself in my post specifically.
Why let prejudice cloud your judgement when you hate my beliefs on their own terms?
The reality is organ damage, serious wounds, broken bones, spinal injury, miscarriage, blindness, and death.
I can believe most of those, but when is the last time you saw a pregnant woman in a crowd rolling a cop car over? Smashing parking meters, setting fires or looting stores and houses?
Isn't adding "miscarriage" to that list going a bit far? I'm sure it can happen, but an over-the-top statement like that makes it reek of propaganda. (These are the weapons of the baby-killers!!!)
We outnumber the cops, and some people like to get violent when they have a large crowd to get lost in. The police should not be using these less-lethal weapons casually, but there are situations where they are needed for the police to protect people and their property when those folks with less self-control make trouble.
Well, it does seem to be doing WONDERS for the CD industry in general. I know I personally have bought...oh wait...hrmm.
No, I started to steal all my music because they did this. Until all these music stores started up I didn't consider actually paying money for music unless I REALLY liked the band...after months of listening to my stolen tunes.
Looks like it's back to almost-exclusive music stealing...
DishNetwork will stop offering BET, MTV, Nick at Night, Comedy Central...and many others. DishNetwork subscribers, call DishNetwork and tell them you want to keep the channels you paid for.
It seemed to me like they were really saying:
DishNetwork subscribers, please call DishNetwork and tie up their support lines with furious indignance while we spread disinformation!
But the message had a complete lack of WHY those channels were going away, if at all. Anyone have some insight?
I absolutely refuse to walk to my office without headphones. Every morning I walk north from Penn Station NY down 8th ave. I only have a few blocks to go, but it's like a gauntlet of questionable social interactions. People furiously wave papers for barbershops and other crap in your way, "Change? Change?", and the nasty people who spend all day hanging around hitting on anything in heels.
Add sunglass and headphones and the world is my music video. Not to mention I'm preserving my desire to have children some day by wearing headphones on the train.
Then I spend all day listening to internet radio so I can focus on my work and not hear the loud office gossip over from the next area. We have an open office design where teams share a large square space, all facing outward to a shared desk. Good for teamwork, bad for concentration.
I would get nothing done without headphones...and that only on the days I could bear to come to work.
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I got that same email. It's all a crock.
You get an email that there's info about you for the asking, you just have to sign up. Then you find out that you have to pay to find out anything more than "There is information".
The best part is you have to pay something like $20 to contact whoever posted this mysterious information about you to find out what it is or have it removed or anything at all. If you contact the site they won't delete information if you don't want to participate because "reports are owned by their creators".
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You do accept a deal for 4 years if your lawyer tells you there's 5 year minimum and a 20 year maximum for the crime. Odds are he was facing 10+ years, and guilty or not you have to consider what a jury is going to think of your case.
A stack of CDs in his room was not put there over his open WAP, but once the government deems them child pornography the Adam Walsh Act prohibits access to child pornography evidence as contraband, as though it were a kilo of cocaine. What this really mean is that in child porn cases, people can be convicted without the prosecution turning over evidence to the defense. If the defense doesn't make enough of a stink, they may never get more than an affidavit. And the defense can hire an expert to examine the evidence, but that expert will have to do all their work at a government facility.
A guy that lives with a roommate probably can't afford a seriously good lawyer, and even a really good lawyer would still have to fight to get access to the evidence. It is your right to demand evidence be examined, validated and otherwise poked at by a neutral party. And we need to demand the rights of ACCUSED child pornographers be defended as we would have our rights defended...a few more laws like this and we won't have rights to worry about.
Clearly child porn shouldn't be handed out on the street, but if you are being accused of possessing it they still need to make it available to your defense so someone besides the prosecution can say "Yup, that's child porn". CDs full of pictures of 17 year olds and skinny asians in pigtails is WAY different from toddlers, but 100% identical to the prosecution.
That's brilliant! May I steal that idea, implement it in a completely different way and potentially derive profit from it? :)
I also wrote bookmark page that I use as my home page, but it was cobbled together in ASP with an access database so I'm not about to put a link to it on slashdot. The poor thing can hardly handle me.
The big time saver I put on mine is a weather.com xml feed so I don't need four clicks to check the weather, saving me countless weather-obsessive clicks!
And yes, I'm properly ashamed of using an access database for this long. I've got a PHP/mySQL version in the works.
The police are supposed to ticket people driving while talking without a hands free set in NY and NJ. I want them to enforce this STRONGLY. I'm TIRED of driving in fear of these idiots.
If you want to survive a trip on any major highway around here, you need be prepared to evade someone who is about to slam into you at 55 MPH because they can't properly steer their enormous SUV while they're chatting with their dear Aunt Millie.
No, people will continue to be
1) ignorant about the existence of "alternative" browsers
2) habitually addicted to their fave browser
3) HTML Coders being whipped daily by nitpicking, mac-using designers who have to make sure the roughly 70% to 85% of the population still using IE get the nicest looking version of the site EVER...and everyone else does too.
I would LOVE it if everyone stopped using IE and moved to Firefox. Sure, whatever. Any one overwhelmingly popular browser is fine. I don't miss coding three different version of the same site. IE versus Firefox just blows...f-ing box model is the only think IE is really doing right.
For the love of all that is holy, think of the front-end people tortured by designers! We just stopped hearing about Netscape 4.7 regularly!
Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico were still counting votes as of this morning at noonish EST.
Since we live in a society where you can be approved for a credit card in minutes, buy toothpaste over the internet with that card AND ship it overnight so you can brush in the morning, I wouldn't say there's no case for SOMETHING to be fixed.
Sure you might die rather than live in disgrace, but would you make someone else die for your inflated sense of morality? The "price" might not be a benefit, but rather a lack of detriment.
Hypothetically speaking, of course. I hope we haven't reached the point where someone out there is saying "Write me a mass mailer or I'll kill your mother."
I've had the Casio Exilim EX-Z3 for about a year now and I just plain love it...once I got one that would charge.
My gripe was also the battery. It's some kind of special Casio-only battery model, apparently handmade by a single very busy, very slow person! And they must have that same slow busy person making the travel chargers for it, because everywhere I tried to get it had a backlog. The ONLY way to charge my camera was the dock, and my camera arrived with a damaged dock. At that point I pretty much had to suck it up until they sent a new one.
I would have much prefered they use a popular type of battery so I wouldn't have had to gaze adoringly at my cool and compact, but utterly useless brand new camera for almost a month. I'd still like rechargable, but I'd like it to be easy to find and not absurdly expensive to buy three of them to keep on hand.
I'll forgive them based on the not exceptional, but good quality battery life when the dock issue was solved. Also, the video with sound feature elevated me from "black sheep" to "honored amateur videographer" when I used it to capture the only videos of my cousin's wedding. Bad first impressions aside, it's an excellent camera.
So we've gone right past blaming the programs and computers and now they're so infallible that people are the problem?
I think I can feel myself slipping from the top of the food chain already.
Don't forget the FEQ. Still unanswered, but more sneakily.
Bah, I wasn't redunant when I was the first one who posted this message. Doesn't anyone sort oldest first anymore?
Besides the general "Help, I've been slashdotted!" meaning, I didn't follow this after "database problem" and babelfish isn't coming through for me like it usually does. :)
Database problem! Vi beklager meget, men lige nu kæmper vores server med at følge med de mange forspørgsler. Tak for opmærksomheden. Vi håber at du vil besøge siden senere.
Med venlig hilsen,
Nerdorama
If you found someone's wallet with their driver's license, you'd have a name and address to send it back to. I don't imagine most people have "If lost mail to..." with an address on their memory cards.
But this blog might just generate enough buzz to get word to the owner...and make it possible to return the media. As long as the blogger takes the pictures down if/when the owner asks, and keeps it clean, I see very little REAL harm here. This isn't exactly the high road, but the finder could have just wiped the pictures and used the media for himself/herself and never considered this person's photos.
As for the owner, if they have ANY sense of humor they'd get over the inital angry shock pretty quick and laugh along. You really can't just turn to the courts every time you end up as the butt of a joke.
When you see their IP in your logs, it's already too late to run.
/what's that white van doing in my driveway?
So far I haven't had any problems with just glaring angrily at the other drivers myself, and my car's unchanging and expressionless front-end doesn't betray my internal turmoil OR get me shot at.
They should get my stupid air bag and anti-lock brakes to work properly before they "humanize" cars.
For spaceflight it seems to take fewer imperfections to kill you. For a first run mostly perfect is fantastic...especially since the not perfect parts didn't involve dying.
The flight was a success, the pilot survived, and the ship wasn't damaged? Good job guys! Don't get lazy!
About two years ago I got sick of missing a bookmark at work that I had at home, or the reverse. I sat down and made a simple database with a web frontend and stuck it on my website. Then I set all my default pages to that page.
When I open a brower, I see my bookmarks regardless of where that browser happens to be. Very handy!
We were on about 5000 pounds a year, each, fresh out of uni, one year into our careers.
For some reason, after reading this line I can only picture you as a sushi chef.
Mmm...sea urchin.
You misunderstand my point, as I misunderstood yours. I have little expectation of privacy on the internet at this point. I'm posted all over, and even if I took it all down today it would still be cached, mirrored, copied and hidden off in places I'd never think of.
I'm not worried about people finding out information about me IF THEY MAKE THE BAREST EFFORT TO HUNT IT DOWN. I'd rather not have it plastered on my slashdot account in a way that reduces my characteristics to a pink or blue dot and a number. A/S/L checks, anyone? <shudder> But then again, that was my misunderstanding of your point.
Well, there's this poll, and this poll, and this one too.
And if you feel like weeding around in the polls for a while, I'm sure you can dig up a lot more info about the 18-35 year old men living in an apartment in the city or their parent's basement then you could ever want or need.
However, I would rather remain genderless, ageless, and locationless until I define myself in my post specifically.
Why let prejudice cloud your judgement when you hate my beliefs on their own terms?
The reality is organ damage, serious wounds, broken bones, spinal injury, miscarriage, blindness, and death.
I can believe most of those, but when is the last time you saw a pregnant woman in a crowd rolling a cop car over? Smashing parking meters, setting fires or looting stores and houses?
Isn't adding "miscarriage" to that list going a bit far? I'm sure it can happen, but an over-the-top statement like that makes it reek of propaganda. (These are the weapons of the baby-killers!!!)
We outnumber the cops, and some people like to get violent when they have a large crowd to get lost in. The police should not be using these less-lethal weapons casually, but there are situations where they are needed for the police to protect people and their property when those folks with less self-control make trouble.
Well, it does seem to be doing WONDERS for the CD industry in general. I know I personally have bought...oh wait...hrmm.
No, I started to steal all my music because they did this. Until all these music stores started up I didn't consider actually paying money for music unless I REALLY liked the band...after months of listening to my stolen tunes.
Looks like it's back to almost-exclusive music stealing...
There's the natural course of geek development and we should mess with it as little as possible.
New young geeks should have to wait for beer to develop social skills just like we did.
The message was something like this:
DishNetwork will stop offering BET, MTV, Nick at Night, Comedy Central...and many others. DishNetwork subscribers, call DishNetwork and tell them you want to keep the channels you paid for.
It seemed to me like they were really saying:
DishNetwork subscribers, please call DishNetwork and tie up their support lines with furious indignance while we spread disinformation!
But the message had a complete lack of WHY those channels were going away, if at all. Anyone have some insight?
I absolutely refuse to walk to my office without headphones. Every morning I walk north from Penn Station NY down 8th ave. I only have a few blocks to go, but it's like a gauntlet of questionable social interactions. People furiously wave papers for barbershops and other crap in your way, "Change? Change?", and the nasty people who spend all day hanging around hitting on anything in heels.
Add sunglass and headphones and the world is my music video. Not to mention I'm preserving my desire to have children some day by wearing headphones on the train.
Then I spend all day listening to internet radio so I can focus on my work and not hear the loud office gossip over from the next area. We have an open office design where teams share a large square space, all facing outward to a shared desk. Good for teamwork, bad for concentration.
I would get nothing done without headphones...and that only on the days I could bear to come to work.
I got that same email. It's all a crock.
You get an email that there's info about you for the asking, you just have to sign up. Then you find out that you have to pay to find out anything more than "There is information".
The best part is you have to pay something like $20 to contact whoever posted this mysterious information about you to find out what it is or have it removed or anything at all. If you contact the site they won't delete information if you don't want to participate because "reports are owned by their creators".
Total scam. Don't pay any attention.