You say that like there is nothing Americans should be proud of. Clearly an uneducated, biased, poisoned response. I'll not honor it with a reply. Fuck off.
They tarred and feathered him for essentially pulling a digital, although an illgal, prank. He was facing serious prison time becuase 1) it was a "hacker" type digital age crime, 2) it embarrassed MIT and the Fed, 3) The Man's reaction to ANY infringement of ANY penal violation is slowly but with increasing pace plain, bald-faced, incarceration; becuase it saves time and money in the short term with an overburdened court system and a legislative branch that measures its productivity in terms of number of bills passed. We're becoming a police state in which anyone who makes a noise and doesn't have money is thrown into prison to get them out of site. Pretty soon they'll be throwing soylant green to everyone who isn't in the 1% and moving on with important things, like making crazy mortgage schemes that bring down entire economies.
He didn't steal the money, nor did he use the bug to get it. It will be a gift from an unconnected 3rd party. Not too sure how this will be a criminal act. Even if they could do it, the only way they could block it is via lawsuit. Unless Facecook has also become a an arm of law enforcement.
On a more cogent point; you'd think the hip geeks at facebook would have heard of the Streisand Effect, demonstrated over and over again in these cases.
My girlfriend keeps asking me why I don't apply at facebook,
I don't think getting snuffed 10 years after you mastermind an attack that kills 3000 people is getting fucked over 1000 times worse, but what do I know?
Well, lets see if this will change anything. If history is any hint and Ballmer has his say he'll appoint a college-days crony. If they're smart they'll hire some one from Facebook, Twitter, some one from new media.
Your looking at it wrong; these clowns are a public entity, and worse, they encourage you to use a flawed publicly available service that they provide. The guy told them about the flaw serveral times which they ignored, endangering the public and screwing up the trust. These guys are WRONG anyway you clide it, and pointing to the bell ringer as the problem is really bad.
I agree with this. While I would love a care that will just go where I tell it, I would like to have the option of driving it myself as well. I can't see manufacturers taking that option away, as long as they even pay lip service to giving the consumers what they want, unless the Government tells them otherwise. Too bad they seem to be so ready to jump when the Gov. tells them.
But that's crazy talk, right? What are they going to do, tell us to buy insurance too?
Oh really? Are they making questionable, backroom deals, playing dirty politics, and generally PLAYING THE GAME as its PLAYED EVERYWHERE by EVERYONE since civilization was created? Oh, the humanity! Maybe they dress like a pack of rabid south african body builders wearing creepy breathing masks and plotting revenge on the world so we can get the full effect of their evil.
You must have missed this part, which is right there near the opening to the article:
Although each legal jurisdiction usually has its own enacted legislation governing maritime matters, admiralty law is characterized by a significant amount of international law developed in recent decades, including numerous multilateral treaties.
um the UN is just a cover for the US. and fuck Israel.
I don't think so, relations between the UN and the US haven't been really good for some time now, and Israel has shown time and time again that it doesn't a fuck what the UN says. The UN is just a fucknut of an org run by fucknut politicians.
Drive-ins were in decline long before the "pirate hordes" started pirating. I started dating a girl in '95, and we decided we wanted to go to a drive in one night. She knew of a drive-in she had frequnted in her life (she lived in the area all her life), so we go. Closed. We wound up at one the next town over. I've been noticing these places closing over the course of the last 30 years though.
There have been cases where a drug dealer's girlfriend picked up the phone, wrote down a message, and was convicted of drug dealing.
I would hope not, such cases would more likely be a situation where the girlfriend knew what was going on, had past dealings with the law regarding, etc. Any public defender worth making his salary should be able to show a message being taken by an innocent bystander, I've seen such scenarios play out in courts. Inncent bystanders usually don't get rail roaded, at least as a matter of prosecutorial policy. Even the real crooked prosecutors get warned by judges to lay off innocent people from time to time, if its plain to see they are in fact innocent.
Several people familiar with the investigation said Dixon and Williams had agreed to meet with undercover agents and teach them how to pass polygraph tests for a fee.
It is, in fact, a first amendment right to discuss ways of beating a polygraph, just becuase the media hasn't figured that out (they are stupid anyway) deosn't mean it isn't so. Any lawyer working this case should be able to glom right on to that fact. Also; I defy you to find any statute anywhere that makes doing this a crime. Why in the world anyone would need to keep such instruction on the low down is beyond me.
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What exactly were you proud of?
You say that like there is nothing Americans should be proud of. Clearly an uneducated, biased, poisoned response. I'll not honor it with a reply. Fuck off.
Of course, the overreaction of charges...
They tarred and feathered him for essentially pulling a digital, although an illgal, prank. He was facing serious prison time becuase 1) it was a "hacker" type digital age crime, 2) it embarrassed MIT and the Fed, 3) The Man's reaction to ANY infringement of ANY penal violation is slowly but with increasing pace plain, bald-faced, incarceration; becuase it saves time and money in the short term with an overburdened court system and a legislative branch that measures its productivity in terms of number of bills passed. We're becoming a police state in which anyone who makes a noise and doesn't have money is thrown into prison to get them out of site. Pretty soon they'll be throwing soylant green to everyone who isn't in the 1% and moving on with important things, like making crazy mortgage schemes that bring down entire economies.
He didn't steal the money, nor did he use the bug to get it. It will be a gift from an unconnected 3rd party. Not too sure how this will be a criminal act. Even if they could do it, the only way they could block it is via lawsuit. Unless Facecook has also become a an arm of law enforcement.
On a more cogent point; you'd think the hip geeks at facebook would have heard of the Streisand Effect, demonstrated over and over again in these cases.
My girlfriend keeps asking me why I don't apply at facebook,
I don't think getting snuffed 10 years after you mastermind an attack that kills 3000 people is getting fucked over 1000 times worse, but what do I know?
I would say less than 30 years ago this was true. Now, not so much.
Well, lets see if this will change anything. If history is any hint and Ballmer has his say he'll appoint a college-days crony. If they're smart they'll hire some one from Facebook, Twitter, some one from new media.
Your looking at it wrong; these clowns are a public entity, and worse, they encourage you to use a flawed publicly available service that they provide. The guy told them about the flaw serveral times which they ignored, endangering the public and screwing up the trust. These guys are WRONG anyway you clide it, and pointing to the bell ringer as the problem is really bad.
I agree with this. While I would love a care that will just go where I tell it, I would like to have the option of driving it myself as well. I can't see manufacturers taking that option away, as long as they even pay lip service to giving the consumers what they want, unless the Government tells them otherwise. Too bad they seem to be so ready to jump when the Gov. tells them.
But that's crazy talk, right? What are they going to do, tell us to buy insurance too?
John Banner was a talent. Here he is in an MST3k production of "Crash of Moons".
Oh really? Are they making questionable, backroom deals, playing dirty politics, and generally PLAYING THE GAME as its PLAYED EVERYWHERE by EVERYONE since civilization was created? Oh, the humanity! Maybe they dress like a pack of rabid south african body builders wearing creepy breathing masks and plotting revenge on the world so we can get the full effect of their evil.
Welcome to politics. I see you're new here...
Hate to break it to you, but I'm pretty sure that is true in the U.S.
Hate to break it to you, but no, you can't be busted for buying baking soda, no matter what you think it is.
mfw when the kids go on about that new "hard rock band" Led Zeppelin.
mfw the kids freak out that most of those songs were old blues standards (20's & 30's).
The kids these days.
Just another example of how fucked up English law is.
OK CNN drone.
Although each legal jurisdiction usually has its own enacted legislation governing maritime matters, admiralty law is characterized by a significant amount of international law developed in recent decades, including numerous multilateral treaties.
Treaties are international law.
$80 of McDonalds...
Well, they weren't health nuts. Your friend might take solace in the fact that they'll die of heart disease.
It's a mistake to point the finger at the United Nations.
No its not. The UN contionues to fuck up and generally do really stupid things, and you say its a mistake to blame it? Right.
Uh.. what?? You wanna restate that in English?
Nowhere. There is no such thing, never has been, never will be.
Maritime Law is infact just such a thing. Also the world court in the Haig would disagree with you.
um the UN is just a cover for the US. and fuck Israel.
I don't think so, relations between the UN and the US haven't been really good for some time now, and Israel has shown time and time again that it doesn't a fuck what the UN says. The UN is just a fucknut of an org run by fucknut politicians.
Becuase like religious fervor most people accept it as reasonable.
That is because the pirates got there first.
Drive-ins were in decline long before the "pirate hordes" started pirating. I started dating a girl in '95, and we decided we wanted to go to a drive in one night. She knew of a drive-in she had frequnted in her life (she lived in the area all her life), so we go. Closed. We wound up at one the next town over. I've been noticing these places closing over the course of the last 30 years though.
There have been cases where a drug dealer's girlfriend picked up the phone, wrote down a message, and was convicted of drug dealing.
I would hope not, such cases would more likely be a situation where the girlfriend knew what was going on, had past dealings with the law regarding, etc. Any public defender worth making his salary should be able to show a message being taken by an innocent bystander, I've seen such scenarios play out in courts. Inncent bystanders usually don't get rail roaded, at least as a matter of prosecutorial policy. Even the real crooked prosecutors get warned by judges to lay off innocent people from time to time, if its plain to see they are in fact innocent.
Several people familiar with the investigation said Dixon and Williams had agreed to meet with undercover agents and teach them how to pass polygraph tests for a fee.
It is, in fact, a first amendment right to discuss ways of beating a polygraph, just becuase the media hasn't figured that out (they are stupid anyway) deosn't mean it isn't so. Any lawyer working this case should be able to glom right on to that fact. Also; I defy you to find any statute anywhere that makes doing this a crime. Why in the world anyone would need to keep such instruction on the low down is beyond me.