The PDF also states that part of what helped form his opinion about the hard drive being the wrong one was that the son's resume was found on the drive, a resume that indicated the son was living and working in Brooklyn during the alledged period of sharing.
With that in mind, is it possible or even probable that the son sent his resume to his mother to look over, edit, brag about to her friends, or print out and hand to a potential employer?
Furthermore does the lack of emails on a drive prove anything? Many users now do not use POP3 for their email and instead rely on an ISPs webmail features to send and read email, that wouldn't leave emails on the hard drive in question now would it?
Also speaking to the IP question, can a wireless router be configured to be a transparent bridge to the internet? He says this computer he has a drive image for had a public IP assigned to it, in bridging mode the DHCP functions of a wireless router would be disabled...
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We called it "Butts Up" and played with racquetballs. Good times
We get this response a lot on the CS servers I help admin, our rules are simple, no porn sprays, don't be a dick, and occasional mild cussing is allowed. The hell with the kids, I don't like listening to Ipwn00bs38 tell me in detail how he's going to f*** my mother before buring a cross strapped to a gay man's toungue...
Seriously if you're not mature enough to keep it to yourself, you shouldn't be playing violent video games.
See, this is what happens when parents are afraid to spank their kids. The day my son thinks he's old enough to talk to me like that is the day my son is old enough to get a job and start paying rent =)
Entertainment Weekly may be calling Serenity a failure and Joss Wheedon may be washing his hands of this project, but that doesn't change the fact that out of two Blockbusters and a Hollywood video in my town, none of them had copies to rent. All were checked out today...
The Narnia novels actually started as bedtime stories that C.S. Lewis would tell to his Grandchildren, eventually he wrote them down. If you want very intellectual discussions of Christianity I wouldn't suggest children's stories, start with Lewis' "Mere Christianity" and move on to his more scholarly works.
I for one can't wait to see the movies, I love thes books!
The Boston Globe is more or less a very liberal ie left wing paper out here (I'm guessing from your previous posts you're not a US Citizen) A year or so ago they, along with several other news agencies were caught reporting stories without doing any fact checking. This is one of those cases, they were tricked into running pornography somewhere near the front page of a sunday edition. These pictures that you and others are trumpeting around as fact are from two different porn sites and if you read the article I posted a link to earlier, you'd know what I was talking about.
So you know, I don't go around saying "Photoshop" to everything espeically to spectacular videos because Photoshop is a tool for retouching and editing PHOTOS, not Videos. Hence the video you saw of Saddam's statue falling wasn't "Photoshopped" still images of it could have been.
You ask what is stopping a porn site from using those photos as their own to "support the war" If I follow your logic you're saying the photos are real and two different porn sites, one in Tunasia, the other in Virginia, took the blame for US troops misbehavior...Ok I'll give you the Virginia one, perhaps the proprietor is a patriotic soul and wants the President to look good. But Tunasia??? Doesn't quite make sense does it?
No Saddam Hussien did not cause 9/11, if you look closely you'll see that I never said he did.
This thread was about a KU Professor, creationism, intelligent design, and peoples rabid misconceptions about Christians, if you'd like to further discuss this, I propose we continue via email, you can find my address in my profile or at www.dancingmonkey.org
As for the rape photo sets, both sites you link to have the same ones, these are the photos that the Boston Globe ran that were debunked, the Abu Garib photos from inside the prison are very different than the ones of the woman being gang-raped by a bunch of "soldiers"
I'm actually surprised at the number of sites that still hold to the claim that that photo set is real...It took a bit of digging on Google to find the original article, most stuff seems buried by blogs these days.
Being a young man myself I won't argue that sex is on our minds a lot of the time, however raping someone is a FAR FAR cry from thinking about having sex and quote, unquote normal people will not make that leap. Is there a bad element in our Military? Sure, it's present in every society, except Canada, they're the Alderaan of North America, but I think in this particular case, the rape photos, it'd be a better assumption that they are faked, especially because the porn sites that own them HAVE claimed ownership of them.
I've also seen that photo with the GI and the kid holding up a sign I'm pretty sure it's a photoshop, Fark.com actually had a contest with that picture not too long ago and they made it say everything from the sentence you stated to "Jeb Bush 2008"
Orgrish is the site I had some trouble with, after seeing some of the stuff on their main page I shyed away from looking further, it smecks of rotten.com. Also really what I was talking about were the large flash movies on several of your other links that seemed to be more political satire than discussion and/or pictures of violence from the war.
As an addendum I think you do a lot of people a disservice to say they "hate the [Iraqi] people so much" A number of my friends have been there and back again with the Military and they don't "hate" the Iraqi people, they may hate the people shooting at them, which I can understand, but there doesn't seem to be this overall blanket of hatred I keep hearing about.
You've got a lot of content there, though I wouldn't trumpet those "Iraqi Rape Photos" very loudly, they were debunked shortly before the Boston Globe decided to run them as "news"
Some propaganda sites, yes, there are such things as left wing propaganda sites, just like the right wing, took them from porn sites and spread them over the internet purporting them to be American servicemen raping Iraqi women.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=38335
Some of the other stuff you posted was interesting, a lot of it has dissappeared or changed, or is very off topic even for this tangent we're on.
You can just let your son log in to Steam on his machine using your Steam account. Hell, Steam will even let him download all the games you've registered without having the physical media present.
All Steam prohibits is logging two copies of the same game (ie. the cd-key) into Steam at the same time.
I've done this a number of times with Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Couter-Strike:Source and Half-Life2, playing at friends houses and such.
Don't get me wrong, Steam is a gigantic PITA, Valve seems to use it to beta test software updates on their installed userbase, but that's another rant.
There's a driver patch for those cards, I just got it running myself this weekend, email me and I'll help you out with it.
snixon (at) gmail (dot) com
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If you want to throw rates around try this one, the suicide rate for males in Japan is nearly twice that of the USA's. 36 per 100,000 to our 17.5 per 100,000. For females it's over 3 times as high, 14 per 100,000 to our 4 per 100,000.
So perhaps Japan has a better handle on teen pregnancy and birth control than we do, but on the other hand, perhaps we're not doing so bad over here in the States.
My figures came from the World Health Organization, also not exactly an obscure or untrustworthy source,
Oh, one more comment, someone can probably verify this for me, don't Japanese children usually spend about 12 hours of their day in school 6 days a week? Sure, they're well educated, but at what cost in lost childhood?
Hilmar over here...
With a nick like PhosterPharms, someone from Modesto on Slashdot, I'm guessing there's a good chance I know you, or you know a few of my friends out in IT.
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Actually that trench the rebels flew down to set off the conveniently placed self-destruct button houses the hyper and sublight engines, that's why it's on the equator.
Don't remember where I read that, I think it's in one of the Star Wars dictionaries or encyclopedias.
Since corporate and business owned email systems are meant to be used by employees for business and not personal communications then yes, I don't see a problem with it. If you have something to hide, do it on your own time.
Hardly chucking anything out the window. He was using a closed system that we happened to own to do some very illegal and immoral activities. While I don't know your personal definition of evil, let me point out this man was a 6th grade teacher who had folders of printed out pictures IN HIS CLASSROOM in locked drawers, as well as a hard drive full of pictures on his school laptop. It also later came out that he had abused his son in the pursuit of his "hobby". In the end, email was the only way to catch him, he was covering his other tracks pretty well.
I don't think people should have an expectation of privacy when dealing with corporate or business email accounts, in our case users signed agreements before being issued accounts telling them we monitored email and that email was for school business and nothing else.
Besides, corporations filtering and monitoring THEIR OWN EMAIL systems hardly constitute a privacy threat for "everyone in the whole world"
While it's not the most popular option, especially on/. Email monitoring has it's benefits.
I worked in the IT department for an elementary school district, we were testing a new product that, among other things, could filter email, and from that we were able to catch a teacher who also happened to be a child pornographer and put him behind bars.
He was using his school email account to correspond with other members of his group.
You know who the perfect Mac customer is? It's the new parents. Late twenties, disposable income, technologically savvy, and you just had a baby. You've got the CD collection from college. You've got the digital camera. Now, for the baby, you've got the video camera. And you've got grandparents, aunts and uncles who are just begging you for pictures and video of the baby.
The Mac is the perfect addition to that lifestyle.
Wow....they got you early! It's too early for propaganda where I'm at. You sound exactly like a PR release for Apple. Let's try rearranging some of your options.
Windows is for the masses, they have no choice, they have no idea what an operating system really is. Some acutally are aware of the choices and LIKE Windows.
Linux is for the tinkerers, the thinkers, the hobbyists, the people who want to actually do things with their computers. This is the market Apple used to sell to.
Apple is marketed as a glorified media editing suite in a neat box for people with a lot of money....
Golf clap for Apple...
Allow me to post the contents of the last few emails I've recieved from Tiscali...
FROM:ALH YAKASIA BANK MANAGER (UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC) MARINA LAGOS
Private email:yakasia_mohammed@hotmail.com
Dear ME,
REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED BUSINESS ASISTANCE/NEXT OF KIN TO LATE ENGR.WILLIAM NIXON
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Alh Yakasia, a Manager at the Union Bank Nigeria PLC, Lagos. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. A foreigner, Late Engineer William Nixon, an oil Merchant/contractor with the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the Union Bank PLC,Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$7.2M (Seven Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war collage here in Nigeria....
Yea I've seen enough...real bang up operation you guys are running over there, keep patting yourself on the back for the quality IT work you do for spammers and scammers.
I remember it somewhat differently; unfortunately the posts were deleted by the admin. This is why I think that responding to criticism is preferable to deleting it: there's no way to determine in hindsight whether the criticism was valid.
Granted each will see things differently, and I agree that it was a mistake to delete all of those postings. Although I did read several large threads of nonsense that was users taking advantage of anonymous posting. (Not just slackers although it was a common thread)
But he claims to have "hundreds of users and several people on the development team and also a new commercial team that does the commercial side here in NZ". Presumably one of these hundreds of minions wouldn't mind proofreading the website. Shouldn't crafting a decent website be the job of the Yoper commercial team?
Hundreds of users, yes, not hundreds of employees and developers. My "little guy" comment was in comparison to SUSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Debian with their Millions of installs worldwide. I don't know anything about the commercial side of yoper, I'm on a whole other continent so I can't post much about that. As for the website, I was actually going to ask permission to rewrite certain sections of it, along with some of the instructions in the installer and FAQ. =)
I can see what you're saying about packages, I don't think it should be a huge concern, the repository really is rather large and when someone requests something be added, it's usually added within a week if not sooner. About a week ago someone posted a requst in the forums for "Bibletime" the latest version was in the repository within 2-3 days.
I see this linuxforums review as outside affirmation, there's other reviews of the distro out there. (The linked site isn't yoper's) but the best test of the distro is really to run it yourself and see if you like it.
We've been talking about x.org vs XFree over on the yoper forums, right now the developers have said they feel stability is more important than the license change. Yoper will most likely change over to x.org, just not right this second. A lot of testing will be done before a change like that is made.
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The PDF also states that part of what helped form his opinion about the hard drive being the wrong one was that the son's resume was found on the drive, a resume that indicated the son was living and working in Brooklyn during the alledged period of sharing.
With that in mind, is it possible or even probable that the son sent his resume to his mother to look over, edit, brag about to her friends, or print out and hand to a potential employer?
Furthermore does the lack of emails on a drive prove anything? Many users now do not use POP3 for their email and instead rely on an ISPs webmail features to send and read email, that wouldn't leave emails on the hard drive in question now would it?
Also speaking to the IP question, can a wireless router be configured to be a transparent bridge to the internet? He says this computer he has a drive image for had a public IP assigned to it, in bridging mode the DHCP functions of a wireless router would be disabled...
We called it "Butts Up" and played with racquetballs. Good times
YES! I was waiting for this comment from someone.
To: Steve Ballmer
RE: Possible Patent Infringement Linux Kernel Source
Dear Mr. Ballmer,
http://www.kernel.org/
Have at it!
Cheers,
Linus
We get this response a lot on the CS servers I help admin, our rules are simple, no porn sprays, don't be a dick, and occasional mild cussing is allowed. The hell with the kids, I don't like listening to Ipwn00bs38 tell me in detail how he's going to f*** my mother before buring a cross strapped to a gay man's toungue...
//my $0.02
Seriously if you're not mature enough to keep it to yourself, you shouldn't be playing violent video games.
Damn...
See, this is what happens when parents are afraid to spank their kids. The day my son thinks he's old enough to talk to me like that is the day my son is old enough to get a job and start paying rent =)
Entertainment Weekly may be calling Serenity a failure and Joss Wheedon may be washing his hands of this project, but that doesn't change the fact that out of two Blockbusters and a Hollywood video in my town, none of them had copies to rent. All were checked out today...
Hear Hear!
The Narnia novels actually started as bedtime stories that C.S. Lewis would tell to his Grandchildren, eventually he wrote them down. If you want very intellectual discussions of Christianity I wouldn't suggest children's stories, start with Lewis' "Mere Christianity" and move on to his more scholarly works.
I for one can't wait to see the movies, I love thes books!
::sigh:: You didn't RTFA did you?
The Boston Globe is more or less a very liberal ie left wing paper out here (I'm guessing from your previous posts you're not a US Citizen) A year or so ago they, along with several other news agencies were caught reporting stories without doing any fact checking. This is one of those cases, they were tricked into running pornography somewhere near the front page of a sunday edition. These pictures that you and others are trumpeting around as fact are from two different porn sites and if you read the article I posted a link to earlier, you'd know what I was talking about.
So you know, I don't go around saying "Photoshop" to everything espeically to spectacular videos because Photoshop is a tool for retouching and editing PHOTOS, not Videos. Hence the video you saw of Saddam's statue falling wasn't "Photoshopped" still images of it could have been.
You ask what is stopping a porn site from using those photos as their own to "support the war" If I follow your logic you're saying the photos are real and two different porn sites, one in Tunasia, the other in Virginia, took the blame for US troops misbehavior...Ok I'll give you the Virginia one, perhaps the proprietor is a patriotic soul and wants the President to look good. But Tunasia??? Doesn't quite make sense does it?
No Saddam Hussien did not cause 9/11, if you look closely you'll see that I never said he did.
This thread was about a KU Professor, creationism, intelligent design, and peoples rabid misconceptions about Christians, if you'd like to further discuss this, I propose we continue via email, you can find my address in my profile or at www.dancingmonkey.org
As for the rape photo sets, both sites you link to have the same ones, these are the photos that the Boston Globe ran that were debunked, the Abu Garib photos from inside the prison are very different than the ones of the woman being gang-raped by a bunch of "soldiers" I'm actually surprised at the number of sites that still hold to the claim that that photo set is real...It took a bit of digging on Google to find the original article, most stuff seems buried by blogs these days.
Being a young man myself I won't argue that sex is on our minds a lot of the time, however raping someone is a FAR FAR cry from thinking about having sex and quote, unquote normal people will not make that leap. Is there a bad element in our Military? Sure, it's present in every society, except Canada, they're the Alderaan of North America, but I think in this particular case, the rape photos, it'd be a better assumption that they are faked, especially because the porn sites that own them HAVE claimed ownership of them.
I've also seen that photo with the GI and the kid holding up a sign I'm pretty sure it's a photoshop, Fark.com actually had a contest with that picture not too long ago and they made it say everything from the sentence you stated to "Jeb Bush 2008"
Orgrish is the site I had some trouble with, after seeing some of the stuff on their main page I shyed away from looking further, it smecks of rotten.com. Also really what I was talking about were the large flash movies on several of your other links that seemed to be more political satire than discussion and/or pictures of violence from the war.
As an addendum I think you do a lot of people a disservice to say they "hate the [Iraqi] people so much" A number of my friends have been there and back again with the Military and they don't "hate" the Iraqi people, they may hate the people shooting at them, which I can understand, but there doesn't seem to be this overall blanket of hatred I keep hearing about.
You've got a lot of content there, though I wouldn't trumpet those "Iraqi Rape Photos" very loudly, they were debunked shortly before the Boston Globe decided to run them as "news"
I CLE_ID=38335
Some propaganda sites, yes, there are such things as left wing propaganda sites, just like the right wing, took them from porn sites and spread them over the internet purporting them to be American servicemen raping Iraqi women.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART
Some of the other stuff you posted was interesting, a lot of it has dissappeared or changed, or is very off topic even for this tangent we're on.
You can just let your son log in to Steam on his machine using your Steam account. Hell, Steam will even let him download all the games you've registered without having the physical media present.
All Steam prohibits is logging two copies of the same game (ie. the cd-key) into Steam at the same time.
I've done this a number of times with Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Couter-Strike:Source and Half-Life2, playing at friends houses and such.
Don't get me wrong, Steam is a gigantic PITA, Valve seems to use it to beta test software updates on their installed userbase, but that's another rant.
There's a driver patch for those cards, I just got it running myself this weekend, email me and I'll help you out with it. snixon (at) gmail (dot) com
If you want to throw rates around try this one, the suicide rate for males in Japan is nearly twice that of the USA's. 36 per 100,000 to our 17.5 per 100,000. For females it's over 3 times as high, 14 per 100,000 to our 4 per 100,000.
d e/suiciderates/en/
So perhaps Japan has a better handle on teen pregnancy and birth control than we do, but on the other hand, perhaps we're not doing so bad over here in the States.
My figures came from the World Health Organization, also not exactly an obscure or untrustworthy source,
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suici
Oh, one more comment, someone can probably verify this for me, don't Japanese children usually spend about 12 hours of their day in school 6 days a week? Sure, they're well educated, but at what cost in lost childhood?
Annnnnnd....I'm done.
Hilmar over here... With a nick like PhosterPharms, someone from Modesto on Slashdot, I'm guessing there's a good chance I know you, or you know a few of my friends out in IT.
Actually that trench the rebels flew down to set off the conveniently placed self-destruct button houses the hyper and sublight engines, that's why it's on the equator.
Don't remember where I read that, I think it's in one of the Star Wars dictionaries or encyclopedias.
Two words...cod piece!
=)
Since corporate and business owned email systems are meant to be used by employees for business and not personal communications then yes, I don't see a problem with it.
If you have something to hide, do it on your own time.
Hardly chucking anything out the window. He was using a closed system that we happened to own to do some very illegal and immoral activities. While I don't know your personal definition of evil, let me point out this man was a 6th grade teacher who had folders of printed out pictures IN HIS CLASSROOM in locked drawers, as well as a hard drive full of pictures on his school laptop. It also later came out that he had abused his son in the pursuit of his "hobby". In the end, email was the only way to catch him, he was covering his other tracks pretty well.
I don't think people should have an expectation of privacy when dealing with corporate or business email accounts, in our case users signed agreements before being issued accounts telling them we monitored email and that email was for school business and nothing else.
Besides, corporations filtering and monitoring THEIR OWN EMAIL systems hardly constitute a privacy threat for "everyone in the whole world"
While it's not the most popular option, especially on /. Email monitoring has it's benefits.
I worked in the IT department for an elementary school district, we were testing a new product that, among other things, could filter email, and from that we were able to catch a teacher who also happened to be a child pornographer and put him behind bars.
He was using his school email account to correspond with other members of his group.
You know who the perfect Mac customer is? It's the new parents. Late twenties, disposable income, technologically savvy, and you just had a baby. You've got the CD collection from college. You've got the digital camera. Now, for the baby, you've got the video camera. And you've got grandparents, aunts and uncles who are just begging you for pictures and video of the baby.
The Mac is the perfect addition to that lifestyle.
Wow....they got you early! It's too early for propaganda where I'm at. You sound exactly like a PR release for Apple. Let's try rearranging some of your options.
Windows is for the masses, they have no choice, they have no idea what an operating system really is. Some acutally are aware of the choices and LIKE Windows.
Linux is for the tinkerers, the thinkers, the hobbyists, the people who want to actually do things with their computers. This is the market Apple used to sell to.
Apple is marketed as a glorified media editing suite in a neat box for people with a lot of money....
Golf clap for Apple...
Tiscali?!?!?!
/contractor with the ,Lagos, and had a closing balance of
Allow me to post the contents of the last few emails I've recieved from Tiscali...
FROM:ALH YAKASIA BANK MANAGER
(UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC)
MARINA LAGOS
Private email:yakasia_mohammed@hotmail.com
Dear ME,
REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED BUSINESS ASISTANCE/NEXT OF KIN TO
LATE ENGR.WILLIAM NIXON
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the
end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of
this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of it's swiftness and
confidentiality.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Alh
Yakasia, a Manager at the Union Bank Nigeria PLC, Lagos. I came to know of
you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle
a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge
sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. A
foreigner, Late Engineer William Nixon, an oil Merchant
federal Government of Nigeria,
until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us
here at the Union Bank PLC
USD$7.2M (Seven Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the
bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available
foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust
fund for arms and ammunition at a military war collage here in Nigeria....
Yea I've seen enough...real bang up operation you guys are running over there, keep patting yourself on the back for the quality IT work you do for spammers and scammers.
Granted each will see things differently, and I agree that it was a mistake to delete all of those postings. Although I did read several large threads of nonsense that was users taking advantage of anonymous posting. (Not just slackers although it was a common thread)
But he claims to have "hundreds of users and several people on the development team and also a new commercial team that does the commercial side here in NZ". Presumably one of these hundreds of minions wouldn't mind proofreading the website. Shouldn't crafting a decent website be the job of the Yoper commercial team?
Hundreds of users, yes, not hundreds of employees and developers. My "little guy" comment was in comparison to SUSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Debian with their Millions of installs worldwide. I don't know anything about the commercial side of yoper, I'm on a whole other continent so I can't post much about that. As for the website, I was actually going to ask permission to rewrite certain sections of it, along with some of the instructions in the installer and FAQ. =)
I can see what you're saying about packages, I don't think it should be a huge concern, the repository really is rather large and when someone requests something be added, it's usually added within a week if not sooner. About a week ago someone posted a requst in the forums for "Bibletime" the latest version was in the repository within 2-3 days.
I see this linuxforums review as outside affirmation, there's other reviews of the distro out there. (The linked site isn't yoper's) but the best test of the distro is really to run it yourself and see if you like it.
We've been talking about x.org vs XFree over on the yoper forums, right now the developers have said they feel stability is more important than the license change. Yoper will most likely change over to x.org, just not right this second. A lot of testing will be done before a change like that is made.
I've only used debian a handfull of times, but by reputation apt on Debian "just works."
Yoper's apt works just fine. OTOH, if you prefer portage, apt-get install emerge will install with no fuss and you can use that.