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  1. Re:Get a clue, idiot. on T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1
    In the states "bubba" is the person that is refered to as commiting the rape. In many high-profile criminal cases people joke about them getting raped in prison, they accept it as part of the punishment. For example, just a few days ago I heard:

    "Scott Peterson may have killed his wife, but I hear he just got a new one in jail"

  2. Re:no way, jose on T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 4, Insightful
    No way. Even for a hacker restricting computer use is WAY too far. Computers are a part of life that one can not avoid. It would be like restricting the use of the kitchen because you hurt someone with a knife.

    As for your comment about fuck up once and your out, keep in mind many convictions are of innocent people. Also, the only way to start to get these people into society is to get them JOBS! Give them a meaning to life and a way to support it. I know I would want help if I ever fell into crime. To humans purpose is extremely important. Onc eyour in jail long enough you just loose all sense of that. I had an uncle in prision and he told me all about how it screws with your mind. He is now legit and all, but some of it still lingers.

  3. Re:Operation Firewall on T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    Working on it right now =)

  4. Re:Summary is misleading... on T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    No, it was a techie hack. They described him as "sofiticated hacker" so this had to be more than just script kiddie.

  5. Better article on T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 4, Informative
    This article has WAY more information. Great read

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/12/hacker_pen etrates_t-mobile/

  6. Operation Firewall on T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is an article about Operation Firewall. Interesting that wikipedia does not yet have an entry on it... http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=154205192

  7. Secret Service! on T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Nicholas Lee Jacobsen accessed US Secret Service email...

    Why the hell are the secret service sending unencrypted emails (!!!) other a PUBLIC, wireless phone system. I don't like our president or anything, but he deserves more than some hack jobs practically advertising themselves to the world.

  8. Re:Summary is misleading... on T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It is one thing to crack into a network. Stealing social security numbers and personal photos is another, however.

    Other than the "respect" we give him for being able to pull it off, he had no noble intensions in mind what so ever. This man deserves none of our, or your, sympathy.

  9. Re:Duh on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 1
    Cool, I will have to look those up =) Already found this picture: http://www.llnl.gov/eng/mdg/Codes/DYNA3D/JetEngine .GIF

    See, you can learn/talk on Slashdot, it's not all trolls!

  10. Re:Darn it on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 1

    Actually I beleive they use Flight Simulator or a similar product for training students before they get into the plane. That way they can spend less money on running a small plane just for teaching about controls. The plane can then be dedicated to final teaching of the controls and the act of real-world flying.

  11. Re:Duh on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 1
    Thought so, seems like more of a novelty than something that gives trustable results.\

    I'm sure companies have the money and processing power for a COMPLETE crash testing of a car/plane but some prosecutor in Pu-Dunk Kansas will not. Good observation smitty45.

  12. Re:Duh on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are right, they can semi-trust it to give an idea of what happened (Car A hits Car B directly on side, moves Car A 10-30 feet). This is not good enough for a court case. Take the "lie detector" for example. Even if it was way more accurate than it is currently courts would still not allow it into evidence.

  13. Re:Duh on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 1
    I did not mean it as "the most complex thing ever", I meant it as "very, very complex, so complex the human mind would not be able to imagine all the parts and variables involved."

    Car crash simulations are more than two boxes of different masses hitting each other. That is pretty much how the GTA engine simulates crashes. Sure it looks like a cool mysterious thing but it very simplistic compared to the real world.

  14. Re:Duh on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, in a controlled enviroment with all variables accounted for and the actual blueprint of object.

  15. Re:Duh on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 1
    You would also need the temperature of the car parts acounting for wind cooling (based on the speed the car was traveling, which is impossible to know).

    This is because, as we all know, metal weakens as it is heated. This is important because how a centain important part broke (bar reinforcing a sliding door, for instance) can make a big difference in how the other car bouces/hits/goes over the initial car.

  16. Re:In other news on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember children, global warming all made up by evil pinko-commie liberals! Even though the ocean is rising, temperature is increasing, ice thickness is decreasing and computer simulations point to it, thats just plain no good enough! Unless of course it is the bible, so we should just trust that because someone wrote it 2,000 years ago.

  17. Duh on Washington Finds Computer Simulation Unreliable · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Vehicle crashes are way more complex than anything we could currently think of.

    Every part on a car would need to be tested for strength, width, height, depth, shape, mass, the connections holding it to another part, and that bolt tested...You get the idea. You would also need the conditions that happened the second the crash occured. Road type, amount of friction, temperature, slope, etc. As a juror I would never trust a computer simulation.

  18. Re:I can't speak as a parent.. on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 0

    Students ARE livestock. They are herded from class to class, inventoried, surveyed, and collected. All for money. Money money money.

  19. Re:Kids these days on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Natural selection has been all but stopped in developed nations, which is a bad, bad way to screw with nature.

  20. Re:I don't get it on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1
    Amen!

    Searching backpacks is not going to prevent a school shooting. Then you just make it happen soon because that child will just shoot the person looking in his/her backpack.

    School grounds are still some of the safest places, invading privacy en-masse will solve nothing. There never has been a problem with violence as school and we have no problem now. If a kid is going to shoot a school nothing is going to stop him.

  21. Re:I don't get it on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1
    RFID tags or GPS receivers are not tasers that shock bullies. How is an RFID supposed to protect children?

    It doesn't, which is why this is a stupid idea implemented by a stupid school paid by a company with no shame.

  22. Re:Nothing like a good controversy... on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It has nothing really to do with the childrens' privacy, after all, in elementry school that doesn't mean shit to you.

    It is about INSTILLING the idea that tracking people is ok in young minds. People will grow up thinking hey government, put a GPS receiver on my back, I have nothing to hide! Due to this our future governments will have absolute power over the people because as children they were taught it was ok.

  23. Re:Go Troll, go! on Apache 2.0.53 Released, Fixes 2 Security Problems · · Score: 1

    Ok, now WTF WAS THAT?!?!

  24. Re:The motivation is religious. on MIT Certifies Biological Engineering Major · · Score: 2, Insightful
    These embryos do not have that option.

    I don't know what the fuss is about, an embryo is just a egg treated with another cell. Women kill eggs all the time, wats the difference?

  25. Re:Animals...humans. on MIT Certifies Biological Engineering Major · · Score: 1
    I know humans are animals.

    I agree that anyone who denys we are anything but just another animal failed biology or is really relgious.