Every time "those wackey liberals" make this claim (the one in the subject) the conservatives call it alarmist crap and that civil liberties won't be violated.
It seems to me that the punishment does not fit the crime here. Yes, I know he hasn't been convicted yet, but if he is, how do think that will affect his life? That will go on every resume and permanent record or whatever for the rest of his life. Would you be willing to hire a convicted Cyber Terrorist? I think it's safe to say his life might be ruined. Sure he should be punished, but not of Cyberterrorism.
Does anyone else think this is cruel/unusal punishment? You know, that 8th ammendment thing?(IF he is convicted of course! But appears he likely will be!)
So are there enough Chinese programs to fill 70% of a computer? Does that mean 70% by total number of programs? Or is it by megabytes? Or lines of code?
No, I didn't RTFA, because for some reason, the site doesn't load. *cough!* slashdotted! *cough!* *cough!*
I don't know the details of all 200 lawsuits but the ones mentioned in the SFgate site says the 2 guys are 60 and 70 something. That's a very susceptible age to have cancer in general, I believe. If anything, they are pretty close to the average lifespan in the US anyway for men. However, I think that IBM should offer some sort of compensation as responsible corporation if not for the very minimal effect of avoiding a publicized lawsuit (condidtions of most settlements seem to be sealed.)
Now if there are a bunch of 20-30 year-old workers coming down with cancer, that might be pretty fishy.
Actually, I took a history of science and technology class and a lot of people DO think about this stuff.
Before technology, you had to take a lot of time to complete survival tasks (hunt all day, then clean your food, then cook, etc). Technology allows us to fill our days with lots of tasks. This is pretty stressful. Now you are EXPECTED to raise 2 kids, work 60 hours/week on a project, make love to SO, and so on.
Technology has raised the expectations of everyone to receive things NOW! Fast-food, microwaved dinner, 1 hour lube jobs, 1 hour photo, next day dry cleaning, etc etc.
Have you seen those little announcements around? I went to a credit union and saw one, you can't open an account unless you swear allegiance or some muck.
That's the whole point of a credit union, isn't it? To have some kind of arbitrary rule to decide who can open an account. Of course, most use employment or geographic locations. I don't see why a credit union requiring allegiance to the U.S. or whatever is so bad.
I mean, come on! How could ANY movie live up to that kind of hype? In a way, they set themselves up for failure. OK, so $1B USD isn't exactly a failure, but still...
So is this guy one of those paid consultants who work in govt and defect to private industry? I know a better analogy would be for him to work for the drug cartel or Budweiser, but it still seems wrong for him to use his crime-fighting training to persecute the downloaders. Does he not have anything better to do? Like say finding those pesky terrorists instead of scary downloaders?
It is terrible, but the information is public domain. Why is it so bad to post it online? It would be different if they were using pop-ups and spam to distribute this information (aside from the intrinsicly annoying features of these methods!).
Instead, it's easier to get ONLY IF YOU WANT IT. No longer do you have to trek out to the detention center or DA's office to find that list which may or may not be up to date or accurate(ie other criminals tearing down the flyers). It's just a convenient and easy way of the making public information avaible to its citizens. If they really wanted to persecute the "rehabilitated", they'd actually advertise and actively try to disseminate that info.
I'm not sure the fact that some movies make money (I would certainly hope they do!) represents a failure. Something to keep in mind, is that if a movie might suck, it doesn't get made (well, sometimes!). You can crank out a wide-release CD MUCH much cheaper than even a limited release film. That's why there seem to be so many unprofitable CDs as opposed to movies. I think this aspect is indicitive of the original author's point that the record industry doesn't seem to care as much about producing quality stuff (on the whole). In a limited sense, they don't have to. They play the lottery and hope Eminem or 50cent will crank out another 3X platinum album to make up for the 500 failures they tried to cram down our throats via nasty radio air-time contracts.
I don't think so. I think they should stop price-fixing. I mean, doesn't it seem odd that the Two-Towers extended version, which has 4 DVDs and cost millions to make, costs roughly the same as new release music CDs? What happened to the free-market system of America? Where is that cost coming from? There's no way they could spend the same amount of money on making a CD as a full-length feature film DVD. Is there?
Ever since the World Trade Center collapsed, the world has been polarized even more than it already is. "Us vs them" is prevalent everywhere and more pronounced than in recent years: USA vs terrorists, Muslims vs USA, Everyone vs USA!, etc etc. This movie is an epic, very much like the classics of old (well-defined good vs bad, where good wins despite the bad, FYI).
Almost EVERYONE can relate to these movies because you can envision yourself as hobbits/wizards/kings against the Dark Lord (USA/terrorists/muslims/Bush).
This site (sorry I couldn't find a better one!) says the replacement will ready by 2008. I take this to mean around 2012, realistically, ie cynically.
They should just keep Hubble up long enough until the replacement is up and working. Otherwise, we will suffer a significant lapse in astronomical research.
As for what do with it once it's deactivated? I say we try scavenging it for parts and drop the rest into the Pacific. The UV/IR sensors and whatever else is on board must be worth something to someone...
Tom's has an article detailing the poor range and dreaddully slow connection rates of the SD Wifi card. Anyone know if the memory stick is going to be plagued by the same problems? I can't imagine Sony will have solved them for "the stick."
The NIH, which has a budget of over 20-something billion dollars, already spends a lot of money on brain research (The NIMH, whose budget is $1.3B is a subset of the NIH, FYI). When you add in all of the private foundations, brain research or neuroscience as it's being called now commands a pretty large amount of research money.
That's too bad, because we don't even know the molecular details on several organs/tissues/cells/etc of even healthy individuals. How are we going to do research on illnesses and disorders when we don't know how a lot of things are supposed to work.
I wonder how many of these things will actually be completed in 20 years.
I don't really keep up with politics like I should, but I've been hearing the Bush pretty much raided the piggy bank. Where's the money going to come from for all of these projects? The senate just spent $87B USD for that Iraq thing. I know Congress will spend lots of money they don't have, but will they actually do that for something useful, like advancing science?
Don't get me wrong. As a budding scientist, I'm excited by all these plans. I just don't want to get my hopes up and then crushed.
Computers now play a big part of keeping us safe, alive, and healthy. When some of these computer crimes start occurring at say... hospitals, will people be charged with the low-tech "assault with a deadly weapon?" (probably not murder since people are already at hospitals! See ambulance-homicide theory
Will computer crimes start falling under violent felonies?
They'd better find a good way of determining who's cimmitting these crimes. They may be lethal one day, instead of annoying.
"As computers become more and more prevalent in our infrastructure, the consequences for computer crime become that much more serious. How much responsibility does the owner of an Internet-connected computer have for crimes committed using their equipment, and what are ways we can best determine their involvement, or lack of it, in said crimes?"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if everyone from/. did this, wouldn't CVS collapse? I mean, he's got a GB (4GB overall, I guess). Multiply that by 1000's.... My university only gives out 100M for webdrive type stuff for its staff, and even that amount was a pain to get.
wasn't the first boot sector virus written around 1982 on what was then called the Nova system? i believe it infected the track 0 of the diablo disk drives.
Of the 80 servings of spam a day a get, most refer to body parts I do not possess. I have NEVER EVER goten the Nigerian scam. As far as I can tell, anyways. What with the filters and all...
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It seems to me that the punishment does not fit the crime here. Yes, I know he hasn't been convicted yet, but if he is, how do think that will affect his life? That will go on every resume and permanent record or whatever for the rest of his life. Would you be willing to hire a convicted Cyber Terrorist? I think it's safe to say his life might be ruined. Sure he should be punished, but not of Cyberterrorism.
Does anyone else think this is cruel/unusal punishment? You know, that 8th ammendment thing?(IF he is convicted of course! But appears he likely will be!)
No, I didn't RTFA, because for some reason, the site doesn't load. *cough!* slashdotted! *cough!* *cough!*
Now if there are a bunch of 20-30 year-old workers coming down with cancer, that might be pretty fishy.
Before technology, you had to take a lot of time to complete survival tasks (hunt all day, then clean your food, then cook, etc). Technology allows us to fill our days with lots of tasks. This is pretty stressful. Now you are EXPECTED to raise 2 kids, work 60 hours/week on a project, make love to SO, and so on.
Technology has raised the expectations of everyone to receive things NOW! Fast-food, microwaved dinner, 1 hour lube jobs, 1 hour photo, next day dry cleaning, etc etc.
Of course, I love it!
Disclaimer: I'm not an astronomer so no, I don't know what I'm talking about!
What about calculators? Or an abacus?
That's the whole point of a credit union, isn't it? To have some kind of arbitrary rule to decide who can open an account. Of course, most use employment or geographic locations. I don't see why a credit union requiring allegiance to the U.S. or whatever is so bad.
I mean, come on! How could ANY movie live up to that kind of hype? In a way, they set themselves up for failure. OK, so $1B USD isn't exactly a failure, but still...
So is this guy one of those paid consultants who work in govt and defect to private industry? I know a better analogy would be for him to work for the drug cartel or Budweiser, but it still seems wrong for him to use his crime-fighting training to persecute the downloaders. Does he not have anything better to do? Like say finding those pesky terrorists instead of scary downloaders?
Moore's law is also about cost! Ars has a good article about it.
Instead, it's easier to get ONLY IF YOU WANT IT. No longer do you have to trek out to the detention center or DA's office to find that list which may or may not be up to date or accurate(ie other criminals tearing down the flyers). It's just a convenient and easy way of the making public information avaible to its citizens. If they really wanted to persecute the "rehabilitated", they'd actually advertise and actively try to disseminate that info.
just my 00.02USD.
I'm not sure the fact that some movies make money (I would certainly hope they do!) represents a failure. Something to keep in mind, is that if a movie might suck, it doesn't get made (well, sometimes!). You can crank out a wide-release CD MUCH much cheaper than even a limited release film. That's why there seem to be so many unprofitable CDs as opposed to movies. I think this aspect is indicitive of the original author's point that the record industry doesn't seem to care as much about producing quality stuff (on the whole). In a limited sense, they don't have to. They play the lottery and hope Eminem or 50cent will crank out another 3X platinum album to make up for the 500 failures they tried to cram down our throats via nasty radio air-time contracts.
BTW, has anyone recieved their settlement check?
Almost EVERYONE can relate to these movies because you can envision yourself as hobbits/wizards/kings against the Dark Lord (USA/terrorists/muslims/Bush).
Personally, it's me vs Sauron!
"So store your stuff, give it a reasonable amount of time and if you don't use it, donate it. Get some good karma generated in the process.
I thought donating Insightful/Interesting posts was the only way to raise your karma!
They should just keep Hubble up long enough until the replacement is up and working. Otherwise, we will suffer a significant lapse in astronomical research.
As for what do with it once it's deactivated? I say we try scavenging it for parts and drop the rest into the Pacific. The UV/IR sensors and whatever else is on board must be worth something to someone...
Tom's has an article detailing the poor range and dreaddully slow connection rates of the SD Wifi card. Anyone know if the memory stick is going to be plagued by the same problems? I can't imagine Sony will have solved them for "the stick."
The NIH, which has a budget of over 20-something billion dollars, already spends a lot of money on brain research (The NIMH, whose budget is $1.3B is a subset of the NIH, FYI). When you add in all of the private foundations, brain research or neuroscience as it's being called now commands a pretty large amount of research money.
That's too bad, because we don't even know the molecular details on several organs/tissues/cells/etc of even healthy individuals. How are we going to do research on illnesses and disorders when we don't know how a lot of things are supposed to work.
I don't really keep up with politics like I should, but I've been hearing the Bush pretty much raided the piggy bank. Where's the money going to come from for all of these projects? The senate just spent $87B USD for that Iraq thing. I know Congress will spend lots of money they don't have, but will they actually do that for something useful, like advancing science?
Don't get me wrong. As a budding scientist, I'm excited by all these plans. I just don't want to get my hopes up and then crushed.
Will computer crimes start falling under violent felonies?
They'd better find a good way of determining who's cimmitting these crimes. They may be lethal one day, instead of annoying.
"As computers become more and more prevalent in our infrastructure, the consequences for computer crime become that much more serious. How much responsibility does the owner of an Internet-connected computer have for crimes committed using their equipment, and what are ways we can best determine their involvement, or lack of it, in said crimes?"
You mean PROM? I think that's already taken.
What's the point of saturation?
Which robot should be the next Robot Hall of Fame Inductee?
If there was ever a need for a CowboyNeal Option in a poll...
Anyone old enough to know what I'm talking about?
Of the 80 servings of spam a day a get, most refer to body parts I do not possess. I have NEVER EVER goten the Nigerian scam. As far as I can tell, anyways. What with the filters and all...