The MySpace profile the mother had created did, to all intents and purposes appear to be an actual person. The girl had been in communication with the fake boy for some time before "his" postings turned hostile.
Previous poster makes a good point about the expectation of accurate identity on the 'net, however, the laws against impersonation may apply to this case. The following is from West's Legal Dictionary:
The crime of false impersonation is defined by federal statutes and by state statutes that differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some states, pretending to be someone who does not actually exist can constitute false impersonation...To be charged, the defendant does not need to seek a monetary benefit from the impersonation.
There are caveats in certain jurisdictions that modify the applicability of a charge of false impersonation. In New York, for example, its illegal to impersonate a real person, but perfectly legal to impersonate an imaginary one.
Note that I am not a lawyer and have no desire to get into a debate over whether this particular law applies to this particular case. My original point was that we already have laws that work perfectly well in the real world when they're enforced, and I see no need to create separate laws that apply solely to cyberspace.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Unfortunately, its more like:
Fool me once = shame on you
Fool me twice = shame on me
Fool me thrice = Stop it! I'm warning you!
Fool me four times = No. Seriuosly. Cut it out! I'm warning you.
Fool me five times = Stop, Dammit! You're really starting to make me angry!
Fool me six times = Huff! Huff! Huff! I am very angry!
Continue ad infinitum.
All our outrage is about as threatening to Microsoft as Marvin the Martian is to Bugs Bunny.
If only there were something like a . . . um . . . "justice" department. You know, a place where people could go when they felt like a company was engaging in bullying or monopolistic practices . . .
Don't we already have laws against false impersonation? My understanding was that the police chose not to prosecute the mother pretending to be the "cute boy", not that they couldn't prosecute her.
We don't need new laws, we just need to enforce the ones we already have.
I thought the Republican walk-out was staged in response to the Dems daring to bring contempt citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers
I thought it was about a group of children taking their toys from the playground when they didn't get their way.
Either way, it was infantile, and definitely not a demonstration of working for the people.
How many ISPs do you have to choose from? Unless I go dialup, I've got exactly three.
Ditto. And all three are so cross pollinated with former staff from the others they might as well be the same company.
In my area, the principle provider is AT&T (formerly, Bellsouth). Late in the '90's, the cable company MediaOne was bought by Comcast, which was later bought by AT&T, then re-spun off again as Comcast. A lot of the AT&T management moved to the newly re-structured Comcast. EarthLink's current CEO, is an old AT&T executive, and its current COO comes from MediaOne.
Even though they are still technically three separate entities, these guys are so inbred that I'm surprised the CEO's don't hang out together on bridges picking banjos like the hillbillies in Deliverance - anyone who has ever dealt with either of the three certainly knows how Ned Beatty felt in a certain scene from that movie.
The 2005 U.S. military budget was larger than that of the next 168 biggest spenders combined, and over eight times larger than the official military budget of China.
And...
While FY 2008 budget requests for US military spending are known, for most other countries, the most recent data is from 2005 (at time of writing). Using US spending at that time, we can compare US military spending with the rest of the world:
The US military spending was almost two-fifths of the total.
The US military spending was almost 7 times larger than the Chinese budget, the second largest spender.
The US military budget was almost 29 times as large as the combined spending of the six "rogue" states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.65 billion.
It was more than the combined spending of the next 14 nations.
The United States and its close allies accounted for some two thirds to three-quarters of all military spending, depending on who you count as close allies (typically NATO countries, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan and South Korea)
The six potential "enemies," Russia, and China together spent $139 billion, 30% of the U.S. military budget.
We're not the only country with our spending priorities skewed. Here's Global Spending Priorities in $U.S. Billions:
Military spending in the world - 780
Narcotics drugs in the world - 400
Alcoholic drinks in Europe - 105
Cigarettes in Europe - 50
Business entertainment in Japan - 35
Pet foods in Europe and the United States - 17
Basic health and nutrition - 13
Perfumes in Europe and the United States - 12
Reproductive health for all women - 12
Ice cream in Europe - 11
Water and sanitation for all - 9
Cosmetics in the United States - 8
Basic education for all - 6
Seems to me that with all this money being thrown at defense, we'd be a little better at providing said defense. Instead, we seem to be more interested in perpetuating a vaguely defined need. And what's up with "Basic Education" losing out to "Cosmetics", "Ice Cream", and "Perfume"? An educated world is a saner, safer world. To argue otherwise is to buy into a lie designed to keep you in your place. Let's stop being government's bitches and learn to think and act for ourselves.
I do wonder if Vista fixed the annoying "searching for items" problem. You go into explorer, and you might have a few network drives. You quickly see a flash of your whole file tree, then it blanks it out for your convienence while it "searches for items". This might take a while.
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but there was an issue where, for some damn reason, Windows initiated a scan for scheduled tasks on the whole network whenever you opened an Explorer window. Deleting a registry sub-key fixed it:
This is part of Bush/Cheney's "Spy on Everyone Except Themselves" Program!
Just looking at Cheney is frightening enough, spying on him would just be futile. I know you can detect a black hole, but can you actually see anything when you look into one?
Backup a few of your CDs onto your laptop, and when Customs copies the data, tip off the RIAA. Let them fight with each other.
I was just thinking the same thing.
Kudos to the customs agents for finding an efficient alternative to P2P. If you can't download 'em, just take 'em from a passing traveler. I love America!
People starving in the streets is not an economic problem; it is a mental health problem.
It's a societal problem, as well. The richest and most powerful country in the world (for the time being, anyway), and we're letting our people suffer and starve on the streets?
What ever happened to those "Christian values" I've heard so much about?
Live your life as it comes man....in the end when it's all said and done, you'll find out that it was all bull shit. Don't be a fucking follower. Listen to your brain for once and do what you want to.
Sound to me like that is exactly what he is trying to do. One of the wonders of a free market is that a consumer can choose whether or not he prefers one company's products over the other. This fellow prefers Yahoo! over Microsoft. Don't confuse his preference for one as "hate" for the other.
I couldn't help but think: "Scientists have created an unnatural but successfully replicating new genetic code? Did we just re-invent cancer?" Followed soon after by: "Cool!"
Mine was more "Cool!", followed by "Oh, shit, we're all going to die."
The "computer" is the rectangular box with a few buttons on the front. The "monitor" is the box with the pretty pictures. These two terms are not interchangeable.
Chapter Two: The Internets
Also known as the "web", this is where porn comes from.
Chapter Three: Computer Security
Both the computer and the Internets are very dangerous - Terrorists use both. To keep your computer absolutely secure, DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING, EVER.
Perhaps I've had a very sheltered life, but how in God's name does someone become a corporate high flyer without knowing that there's no such thing as a "reasoned & studied, impartial report"?
The same way they believe that all politicians are honest, that all TV news is truth, and that a certain "herbal supplement' will "enhance your manhood".
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, now I know you're bullshitting . . .
The MySpace profile the mother had created did, to all intents and purposes appear to be an actual person. The girl had been in communication with the fake boy for some time before "his" postings turned hostile.
Previous poster makes a good point about the expectation of accurate identity on the 'net, however, the laws against impersonation may apply to this case. The following is from West's Legal Dictionary:
There are caveats in certain jurisdictions that modify the applicability of a charge of false impersonation. In New York, for example, its illegal to impersonate a real person, but perfectly legal to impersonate an imaginary one.
Note that I am not a lawyer and have no desire to get into a debate over whether this particular law applies to this particular case. My original point was that we already have laws that work perfectly well in the real world when they're enforced, and I see no need to create separate laws that apply solely to cyberspace.
Unfortunately, its more like:
Continue ad infinitum.
All our outrage is about as threatening to Microsoft as Marvin the Martian is to Bugs Bunny.
If only there were something like a . . . um . . . "justice" department. You know, a place where people could go when they felt like a company was engaging in bullying or monopolistic practices . . .
Don't we already have laws against false impersonation? My understanding was that the police chose not to prosecute the mother pretending to be the "cute boy", not that they couldn't prosecute her.
We don't need new laws, we just need to enforce the ones we already have.
I thought it was about a group of children taking their toys from the playground when they didn't get their way.
Either way, it was infantile, and definitely not a demonstration of working for the people.
Who cares? Wasn't the damn thing broken to begin with?
Ditto. And all three are so cross pollinated with former staff from the others they might as well be the same company.
In my area, the principle provider is AT&T (formerly, Bellsouth). Late in the '90's, the cable company MediaOne was bought by Comcast, which was later bought by AT&T, then re-spun off again as Comcast. A lot of the AT&T management moved to the newly re-structured Comcast. EarthLink's current CEO, is an old AT&T executive, and its current COO comes from MediaOne.
Even though they are still technically three separate entities, these guys are so inbred that I'm surprised the CEO's don't hang out together on bridges picking banjos like the hillbillies in Deliverance - anyone who has ever dealt with either of the three certainly knows how Ned Beatty felt in a certain scene from that movie.
Let's start with the defense budget. Say, maybe bringing it inline with the rest of the world.
And...
We're not the only country with our spending priorities skewed. Here's Global Spending Priorities in $U.S. Billions:
Seems to me that with all this money being thrown at defense, we'd be a little better at providing said defense. Instead, we seem to be more interested in perpetuating a vaguely defined need. And what's up with "Basic Education" losing out to "Cosmetics", "Ice Cream", and "Perfume"? An educated world is a saner, safer world. To argue otherwise is to buy into a lie designed to keep you in your place. Let's stop being government's bitches and learn to think and act for ourselves.
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but there was an issue where, for some damn reason, Windows initiated a scan for scheduled tasks on the whole network whenever you opened an Explorer window. Deleting a registry sub-key fixed it:
Key (look here):
Sub-key (delete this):
Why not just type "locate "?
Just looking at Cheney is frightening enough, spying on him would just be futile. I know you can detect a black hole, but can you actually see anything when you look into one?
Make it pass the Windows Genuine Advantage test?
I was just thinking the same thing.
Kudos to the customs agents for finding an efficient alternative to P2P. If you can't download 'em, just take 'em from a passing traveler. I love America!
It wasn't his idea to put a refrigerator on the 'net.
It's a societal problem, as well. The richest and most powerful country in the world (for the time being, anyway), and we're letting our people suffer and starve on the streets?
What ever happened to those "Christian values" I've heard so much about?
Sound to me like that is exactly what he is trying to do. One of the wonders of a free market is that a consumer can choose whether or not he prefers one company's products over the other. This fellow prefers Yahoo! over Microsoft. Don't confuse his preference for one as "hate" for the other.
Mine was more "Cool!", followed by "Oh, shit, we're all going to die."
Chapter One: The Computer
The "computer" is the rectangular box with a few buttons on the front. The "monitor" is the box with the pretty pictures. These two terms are not interchangeable.
Chapter Two: The Internets
Also known as the "web", this is where porn comes from.
Chapter Three: Computer Security
Both the computer and the Internets are very dangerous - Terrorists use both. To keep your computer absolutely secure, DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING, EVER.
THE END
Not only do I have my e-mails from that period (and well before), but I also have all the company e-mail from the same time.
Why, you ask? Because I'm the admin, and it's the fucking law.
That'll do . . .
The same way they believe that all politicians are honest, that all TV news is truth, and that a certain "herbal supplement' will "enhance your manhood".
And Mickey D's managers the world over are thanking them for a steady supply of fry cooks.
I never thought I'd wish this on another human, but . . . I wonder if a strategically placed Goatse pic might do the same for laptop searches?
Why does the seatbelt sign need to be connected to any kind of network? One wire, one switch: on or off. What's the point of doing it any other way?
I hope the Boeing designers aren't buying into the "everything needs to be on the network" trap.
/twitches uncontrollably