>Although his physical body was in the UK his "presence" if you will, was in the machines he was accessing Stateside.
Sure.
I would prefer to put it like this: Machines in the US accepted connections from remote computers over a public network, and executed code sent to them by a computer in the UK which was being operated by McKinnon.
A machine is a machine - it does what you tell it, especially if you control the power button. A public network is a public network.
>McKinnon did not accidently wander into those systems, he did it intentionally knowing he was breaking the laws in both the UK and the USA
Yes mate. Except as a British citizen who carried out these actions while in Britain, he should be tried under British law.
How would you like it if the Iranian government decided you had broken their law by your actions online while sat at home in the States, and your government acquiesced and shipped you over there to face the music?
Do you think the slave trade should be started up again? There is certainly plenty of both supply and demand, enough to make the market in slaves viable.
Ditto the market in sex slaves. Ditto the market in child sex slaves.
If you don't believe these markets should exist, you do believe in market regulation. It's just a question of how much regulation you want.
PhD Physics? I hope you're trolling, for the sake of all of our futures.
Mach 1.5 is a dimensioned number. It expresses speed in multiples of the speed of sound. The speed of sound is expressed in distance units over time units: m.s^-1 or furlongs.fortnight^-1 or whatever. Mach 1 is just a constant times a speed unit like one of these. eg 5 miles a second, or whatever the speed of sound actually is.
Please do not reply as I do not wish to entertain debate on this point; you are wrong.
I just hope you don't work in nuclear or military industries.
Google are not a content supplier. They index everyone else's content.
They should pay every single person in the world who has a website $100 since if these people took their content elsewhere google would have no search results to sell.
Price differentiation is a basic trick for maximising profit. It introduces a usually artificial or mostly artificial difference between two products, so you can charge a lot to people who'll pay a lot, and not lose the sales of the people who can't pay as much.
it's just that lots of software is licensed as gpl2 or any later version 'at your option'. it's not a fixed part of gpl2. for instance the linux kernel is licensed only under gpl2.
>What appears to be a simple 5 man hours of work can easily balloon into 50, especially when you have to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt for a criminial conviction. [emphasis mine]
surely they can't claim the time spent gathering evidence with which to prosecute him as damages caused by his attack?
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>Although his physical body was in the UK his "presence" if you will, was in the machines he was accessing Stateside.
Sure.
I would prefer to put it like this:
Machines in the US accepted connections from remote computers over a public network, and executed code sent to them by a computer in the UK which was being operated by McKinnon.
A machine is a machine - it does what you tell it, especially if you control the power button. A public network is a public network.
>McKinnon did not accidently wander into those systems, he did it intentionally knowing he was breaking the laws in both the UK and the USA
Yes mate. Except as a British citizen who carried out these actions while in Britain, he should be tried under British law.
How would you like it if the Iranian government decided you had broken their law by your actions online while sat at home in the States, and your government acquiesced and shipped you over there to face the music?
Don't let a guy called Anonymous Coward interpret scripture for you.
Don't tell him.
>Unless your sole personal passion is playing computer games -- unless you play them for joy and identity and learning, and not just entertainment..
You must be new here.
Do you think the slave trade should be started up again?
There is certainly plenty of both supply and demand, enough to make the market in slaves viable.
Ditto the market in sex slaves.
Ditto the market in child sex slaves.
If you don't believe these markets should exist, you do believe in market regulation. It's just a question of how much regulation you want.
But 'science'??
PhD Physics? I hope you're trolling, for the sake of all of our futures.
Mach 1.5 is a dimensioned number. It expresses speed in multiples of the speed of sound. The speed of sound is expressed in distance units over time units: m.s^-1 or furlongs.fortnight^-1 or whatever. Mach 1 is just a constant times a speed unit like one of these. eg 5 miles a second, or whatever the speed of sound actually is.
Please do not reply as I do not wish to entertain debate on this point; you are wrong.
I just hope you don't work in nuclear or military industries.
>they ended up with the distinction of being the only religious group to have war declared against them by the U.S. Government.
what about the Branch Davidians?
either the heir or the executor of the estate of someone now dead who retained while alive the copyright to code in the linux kernel they had written?
if not, she needn't worry.
the problem with language is that it isn't associative.
;)
>except there are 10 octal bits in a byte
to be read
(10 octal) bits in a byte
and not
10 (octal bits) in a byte
yes i know you're supposed to write it o10
but it didn't work for the purpose of what was supposed to be humour.
must have been smoking that hexadecimal crack again, i'll stick to normal stuff in future
thanks for your help.
>The vietnam war was a battle between N and S.
hahahahahaha.
you must be american. is that what they teach you in primary school nowadays?
Google are not a content supplier. They index everyone else's content.
They should pay every single person in the world who has a website $100 since if these people took their content elsewhere google would have no search results to sell.
Welcome to the real world, dude.
Price differentiation is a basic trick for maximising profit. It introduces a usually artificial or mostly artificial difference between two products, so you can charge a lot to people who'll pay a lot, and not lose the sales of the people who can't pay as much.
Everybody does it.
No that's right, except there are 10 octal bits in a byte.
just call someone up using VoIP, and play them the tunes they wish to pirate over the phone.
>It cannot be denied that the model works, to some degree, in some areas.
The same can be said of Nazism, Communism, devil worship, homeopathic medicine..
However, he was wrong.
>Of course it is, windows would be a lot more stable too if you could only buy your machine from Microsoft.
It might just come true.
a really funny joke, too.
>Every Slashdot poster should be using Google Toolbar Spell Check by now.
except those of us who learnt to read and write correctly in primary school.
Do you work in IT support?
it's just that lots of software is licensed as gpl2 or any later version 'at your option'. it's not a fixed part of gpl2.
for instance the linux kernel is licensed only under gpl2.
it was not a hidden backdoor, fuckwit.
it was his own administrator's secureid card which hadn't been cancelled.
>What appears to be a simple 5 man hours of work can easily balloon into 50, especially when you have to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt for a criminial conviction. [emphasis mine]
surely they can't claim the time spent gathering evidence with which to prosecute him as damages caused by his attack?