If a state has thousands of young offenders on file with necessary criminal & rehabilitation data to make predictions of future behaviour, why shouldn't they do it?
Exactly. And if some anomalous data comes down the pipe showing the prediction may have been wrong for some child who was locked away due to being convicted of pre-crime all we have to do is bury the minority report.
I found OS/2 quite stable for the year I ran it. I ran it because it was the only 32 bit os out at the time for intel hardware. I don't recall any stability issues that were above anything I experienced on Windows 3.1 at the time. And OS/2 came with something I think a lot of people would be on board with: REXX. REXX was an awesome shell language.
Arabs do in fact have a marvelous sense of humor, see Anthony Bourdain's excellent No Reservations episode where he travels to Saudi on the invitation of a viewer, Danya Alhamrani, who sent in an idea for him to go there last year and accompanied him. I think the trip was as much a surprise to me as well as to him.
That's what I'm talking about. I used to have this presumption that lawyers were people too and rational like most. Obviously I'm wrong. Wouldn't a lawyer with a brain advise his client to sue the device manufacturer rather than the neighbor? This is assuming his neighbor isn't a person of means, of course.
Name one other country that allows anyone to cross into its borders regardless of the reason. Not only that, but allows those illegal immigrants to demand that their language be accepted and spoken by government service workers, and even goes so far as to essentially take over a government office for a day and fly the flag of the migrants country on that office's flag pole. http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3007/mexican-flag-raised-over-us-post-office
"A CEO of a company cannot go about leaking any information that could damage the company unless he ok with all the shareholders suing him.
And a CEO does not necessarily own the company he runs, meaning he can(and would) be replaced."
Ok, I'm not sure you're in your right mind, what with all the broken English you're spouting, so I should give you the benefit of the doubt- your point is a bit lost on me; but its obvious you're missing the one important fact here: SCHWARTZ IS NO LONGER THE CEO OF SUN. Or are you talking about some other, CURRENT CEO of some other corp????
"This is the guy who wrote an entire book about how e-commerce was "baloney" and who now makes a living selling things on the Net."
I'm a little surprised. Stoll is best known to me as the author of "Cuckoo's Egg", I think his first book, about his take-down of an early hacker (a kid in Eastern Europe who used a simple mail exploit to pwn a couple of Stoll's UC Berkley IT lab machines, if I remember correctly.) First, I'm a bit surprised a hacker-catcher would take a luddite view of the future of the Internet, and second; I find it interesting as well that he would trash eCommerce. For such an interesting-sounding person he appears to utterly lack any real vision.
And alternatively, how much more detail were you expecting them to give in one tweet?
There's little they can say, but I can tell you that THAT statement is absurd. I'd have been more vague, like "We are looking into the matter", as THAT statement is simply ridiculous. That emperor is standing completely naked in the village square. Its completely useless to say something like that when the truth is obvious. If they want my money ever again they need to be completely clean, or less looking like they are idiots.
I'm a customer (or I was in the past, or a potential customer) and I have little time on my hands for such foolishness. The typical customer has time on his hands so he fakes return merchandise? With a plastic mold of a cpu fan, a clearly fake aluminum cpu, and a clearly fake intel seal? I don't think so. That's an operation, you don't make ONE fake shrink wrap of product with all that plus misspelled words. That's a Chinese or Singaporean designed to deceive vendors with pallets of faked merchandise.This was designed to appear as a shipment of valid goods, not one returned product.
The first link says "After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes..." My ass. Demo units with misspellings? Give me a break.
Agreed, seems a little elaborate for a customer or even Newegg insider, I wonder if their supplier is playing fast and loose with the merchandise. A white plastic mold of a fan with a sticker of flan blades on top? That's going far for a simple return.
Kinda reminds me of the TrueCrypt attack that made a splash a couple of years ago in which the attacker can compromise an encrypted partition by obtaining possession of the host hardware right after a power-down, getting inside the chassis and spraying down the RAM DIMMS with an inverted can of air so as to cool them down to slow the entropy of the down-powered chips; the attacker then has to create and analyze the leftover ram images with his own hardware and pull the encryption key out of that mess. As the Mythbusters would say: plausible? Yes. Practical? not really. I guess if you think you're in possession of some pretty valuable data you'll go to lengths.
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So tell me, Ireland, if I stand out in the middle of, say, Dublin's Victoria Quay, and yell out "Jesus sucks!", would I really get taken to jail?
If a state has thousands of young offenders on file with necessary criminal & rehabilitation data to make predictions of future behaviour, why shouldn't they do it?
Exactly. And if some anomalous data comes down the pipe showing the prediction may have been wrong for some child who was locked away due to being convicted of pre-crime all we have to do is bury the minority report.
I found OS/2 quite stable for the year I ran it. I ran it because it was the only 32 bit os out at the time for intel hardware. I don't recall any stability issues that were above anything I experienced on Windows 3.1 at the time. And OS/2 came with something I think a lot of people would be on board with: REXX. REXX was an awesome shell language.
I thought "Choking the Beast" was some sort of Republican sex act, like the "wide stance" or the "lesbian bondage club."
Of course not. It was printed on a few of the receipts left in the drawer of the Oval Office desk after Bill Clinton moved out.
Ubuntu: Debian unstable + Shuttleworth's "pick of the day" apps and themes My god, Ubuntu has become Windows! ;)
But if you're trolling it makes the effort much easier?
Arabs do in fact have a marvelous sense of humor, see Anthony Bourdain's excellent No Reservations episode where he travels to Saudi on the invitation of a viewer, Danya Alhamrani, who sent in an idea for him to go there last year and accompanied him. I think the trip was as much a surprise to me as well as to him.
That's what I'm talking about. I used to have this presumption that lawyers were people too and rational like most. Obviously I'm wrong. Wouldn't a lawyer with a brain advise his client to sue the device manufacturer rather than the neighbor? This is assuming his neighbor isn't a person of means, of course.
I have the RiffTrax version of it and its hilarious.
I don't fault companies who refuse to do business in China for whatever reason. Its simply the right thing to do.
Name one other country that allows anyone to cross into its borders regardless of the reason. Not only that, but allows those illegal immigrants to demand that their language be accepted and spoken by government service workers, and even goes so far as to essentially take over a government office for a day and fly the flag of the migrants country on that office's flag pole. http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3007/mexican-flag-raised-over-us-post-office
"A CEO of a company cannot go about leaking any information that could damage the company unless he ok with all the shareholders suing him.
And a CEO does not necessarily own the company he runs, meaning he can(and would) be replaced."
Ok, I'm not sure you're in your right mind, what with all the broken English you're spouting, so I should give you the benefit of the doubt- your point is a bit lost on me; but its obvious you're missing the one important fact here: SCHWARTZ IS NO LONGER THE CEO OF SUN. Or are you talking about some other, CURRENT CEO of some other corp????
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1573900&cid=31384826
A shipment meant to deceive.
"...UNIX hacker for over 10 years. It's not like computers were a brand new technology then."
You sound like a clone of me. Your point is...?"
"There isn't much room for ambiguity."
Sure there is, when you can't remember if you were ever were a customer and really don't care, and that status hardly matters for an opinion.
I DID read the book. Do you remember how long ago it was published? Christ.
"This is the guy who wrote an entire book about how e-commerce was "baloney" and who now makes a living selling things on the Net."
I'm a little surprised. Stoll is best known to me as the author of "Cuckoo's Egg", I think his first book, about his take-down of an early hacker (a kid in Eastern Europe who used a simple mail exploit to pwn a couple of Stoll's UC Berkley IT lab machines, if I remember correctly.)
First, I'm a bit surprised a hacker-catcher would take a luddite view of the future of the Internet, and second; I find it interesting as well that he would trash eCommerce. For such an interesting-sounding person he appears to utterly lack any real vision.
And alternatively, how much more detail were you expecting them to give in one tweet?
There's little they can say, but I can tell you that THAT statement is absurd. I'd have been more vague, like "We are looking into the matter", as THAT statement is simply ridiculous. That emperor is standing completely naked in the village square. Its completely useless to say something like that when the truth is obvious. If they want my money ever again they need to be completely clean, or less looking like they are idiots.
I'm a customer (or I was in the past, or a potential customer) and I have little time on my hands for such foolishness. The typical customer has time on his hands so he fakes return merchandise? With a plastic mold of a cpu fan, a clearly fake aluminum cpu, and a clearly fake intel seal? I don't think so. That's an operation, you don't make ONE fake shrink wrap of product with all that plus misspelled words. That's a Chinese or Singaporean designed to deceive vendors with pallets of faked merchandise.This was designed to appear as a shipment of valid goods, not one returned product.
The first link says "After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes..."
My ass. Demo units with misspellings? Give me a break.
Agreed, seems a little elaborate for a customer or even Newegg insider, I wonder if their supplier is playing fast and loose with the merchandise. A white plastic mold of a fan with a sticker of flan blades on top? That's going far for a simple return.
This means we can fire Howard Schmidt since his position is not needed and we can put his salary towards the Fed. deficit.
Jobs: "I've got it! We'll make the iPhone... LESS USEFUL!"
Nessun completely bungle this trial, still, its an odd judgment.
Kinda reminds me of the TrueCrypt attack that made a splash a couple of years ago in which the attacker can compromise an encrypted partition by obtaining possession of the host hardware right after a power-down, getting inside the chassis and spraying down the RAM DIMMS with an inverted can of air so as to cool them down to slow the entropy of the down-powered chips; the attacker then has to create and analyze the leftover ram images with his own hardware and pull the encryption key out of that mess. As the Mythbusters would say: plausible? Yes. Practical? not really. I guess if you think you're in possession of some pretty valuable data you'll go to lengths.
...kowtow much?