"[The investigation] soon be-came an extraordinary battle of wits, involving as many as 50 officers from the Thames Valley police, the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service."
So, 50 cops and several reporters against one thief? Heh. I can't decide if that's sad or funny. --
From 2600's report, it seems likely to me that McGuckin did in fact direct people to block an intersection and is therefore responsible for obstructing a highway.
If he's innocent, let's hear him say so.
If he's guilty, let's see some evidence, and let them prove it. Pointing and talking on a cell phone is not "disorderly conduct", and he was never even in the intersection they convicted him of blocking. Those were the charges he was convicted of, by the way, on no evidence. --
Whatever moderator thought that was "interesting", fuck you. Let's see, according to the AC, we should disenfranchise the poor, because they're most likely to be uneducated. The elderly and young, who are least likely to be employed, and most likely to get fired during an economic downturn. Criminals, even though the government is the one that decides every crime, and could, for example, criminalize criticizing this voting scheme. And oh yes, those who are under 21, because old people are afraid of young people.
The cure for the problems of democracy is more democracy. We are legally adults at 18. That means we get to vote, get to drink, get to euthanize ourselves, and decide every other personal issue, and oh, by the way, fight and die for the old rich men that start wars.
Literacy tests and job requirements are as unconstitutional as denying 18 year olds the right to vote.
And, since the government keeps criminalizing more and more actions, what we should actually do is get rid of the "non-felon" provision of voting eligability. Or make a lot more things legal, like drug possession and sale, for starters. --
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OS X includes all the unix tools, GCC, that kind of thing. If linuxPPC would run on your G3, then I'm guessing a version of gimp compiled for that would run on OS X (Doesn't BSD run most linux apps natively?). If not, not much tweaking should be necessary, because I'm sure glib, gdk, and gtk+ are in use on the *BSDs, or easy to port. --
But he doesn't tell us how it turned out! This is the kind of religious trivia that is extremely amusing. "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" "Is the blood of Christ itself God?" Questions that seem stupid at first, but their underpinnings are great examples of metaphysical insight; ie, the angels question revolves around whether angels (and thus, perhaps, God) have a body somewhere and take up space (none on the head of a pin), whether they are wholly spiritual but exclusive (so maybe one on the head of a pin), or if they can kind of overlap (infinite angels on the head of a pin?). I don't want to have to track down the guy's thesis to find out how it resolved! --
Simcity always made me mad, because I would fill up that stupid tiny little city square, and then look enviously at the neighboring cities, which would only have like 1000 people. And then I would get a military base, but they wouldn't let me use it to conquor the neighboring cities! WTF! --
I wanted to see what it looked like; didn't notice any pictures in the Wired article (not unusual, since it was about the man, not his inventions per se). I found these, and it doesn't look awkward at all, it actually looks very agile, this thing is amazing. --
Well, it doesn't happen for an hour yet, so I guess it's not too late to post this. Didn't someone make a palm trojan that came in the guise of this same program, Liberty? Here is one link I found, on zdnet. So if you go to this chat, and someone offers to send you a file, well, caveat emptor. --
>>I had a guy ask me once how did some things on my web page. It was mostly done in JavaScript, so I said that he needed to learn JavaScript if he wanted to copy it.
Or, maybe he wanted to learn javascript,/so/ he was going to copy it? I will completely admit that's how I have learned javascript, CSS, and html, in fact. You see a neat trick, see how it works, take the plaintext and play with it a bit to see how it works, add another widget to your skills. It probably just meant that the guy was impressed with your site. --
I think it's common knowledge that the *FIRST* thing you do with a new distro is go in and disble these. If you are *really* worried about inetd's security, why not STOP RUNNING IT ALTOGETHER? As for 'login' and such... see above. Commenting out inetd is standard pratcice. EVERYBODY knows that. Um, nope. When I started running linux, the redhat 5.2 manual said nothing about that. Neither did any of the docs I found online, or in the new-linux-user-help type webpages, nor anyone I spoke to on IRC, or over email. I just happened to be talking to a friend and the subject came up, and he said the same thing, "oh, you should turn a bunch of stuff off, everybody knows that." If it's enabled by default, but "everyone" knows to turn it off, why not have it off by default, and let the people that need it, enable it? --
Metallica, after all, has long allowed fans to bootleg their concerts Um, I was just at their makeup show in Kentucky, last wednesday. There were very prominent signs, obviously put up for that event, which proclaimed that no recording equipment of any kind was allowed inside the arena. So I'm not sure what kind of bootlegging they think they are allowing, unless I'm supposed to remember how it went and sing it back after I get home. --
Democide (being killed by one's own government) has been the biggest non medical cause of death this century. ... with living under GWBush in texas running a close second...
You might throw Social Security in there too (funny how conservatives and Republicans are so frothingly anti-socialist, refusing to support universal health care, yet supporting one of the most socialized of programs: Social Security). (In General), neither do the young, nor the people who want the government to change ("I don't trust the gov't, why should I vote"). So it will never change. Interesting feedback loop. --
I'm not, but a good friend of mine lives there. Your calmer, gentler police put his head through a car windshield, and he hadn't hurt anyone or damaged any property. Of course your local news shows only happy pictures, what the hell else do you expect? It's owned by the same people that bought the politicians. --
I was just pondering this. An interesting portion of my life is on or through my computer. My family doesn't know about most of it. I know people all over the world, some only by an email address and handle I have in my head. I hung a map on the wall, it's got pins all over it, it's really neat. I consider most of them friends, but if I dropped off the net tomorrow, most of them would never know what happened. I think it's time to make some instructions for my family, and keep them regularly updated, then leave them on my computer in an obvious place. Hmm, that's kind of morbid, but responsible I guess. --
McCain, after his (sadly) failed presidential run, is arguably the senator with the highest profile in the whole nation, and probably has the ability to pull this off, especially since it is sponsored by three other senators, two Ds and an R.
Thing is, how applicable is this going to remain? All web sites hosted in the US, probably. Arguably all.com/org/net, which the US retains some control over. And those are the vast majority, but there are other domains out there. I wonder if they can make it stick at the consumer end, ie if the/customer/ is American, the law applies. --
it is is a greedy VC funded company trying to make money of the work of others Yeah, that's one thing I never understood about napster. It started off with those two guys working on it. So far so good. They dropped out of college to take advantage of the VC frenzy on anything internet related the past couple of years. Great for them.
Then these VC guys start funding them. What the hell were they thinking? They're suits, they should 1 understand that it's used for arguably illegal purposes and is liable to be a bad investment and 2 wonder how in the heck they're/ever/ going to make money off this thing. Isn't that the point of Venturing? Were they just blinded by the fact that it used TCP/IP, and thought it would therefore be The Next Big Thing, like the wild IPOs only better? --
You may not agree with the law or its interpretation, but that's no excuse for breaking it! If you disagree that badly then there are perfectly legal means to protest which are a lot more effective in the long run. This case certainly proves that point.
I totally disagree. If the law is wrong, you have an obligation to break it. You must be prepared to accept the consequences, but you don't need an excuse. The government is the one that needs an excuse, for passing this kind of crap, and they will have to look very hard to find one that doesn't say "we were paid to". --
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"[The investigation] soon be-came an extraordinary battle of wits, involving as many as 50 officers from the Thames Valley police, the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service."
So, 50 cops and several reporters against one thief? Heh. I can't decide if that's sad or funny.
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From 2600's report, it seems likely to me that McGuckin did in fact direct people to block an intersection and is therefore responsible for obstructing a highway.
If he's innocent, let's hear him say so.
If he's guilty, let's see some evidence, and let them prove it. Pointing and talking on a cell phone is not "disorderly conduct", and he was never even in the intersection they convicted him of blocking. Those were the charges he was convicted of, by the way, on no evidence.
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Whatever moderator thought that was "interesting", fuck you. Let's see, according to the AC, we should disenfranchise the poor, because they're most likely to be uneducated. The elderly and young, who are least likely to be employed, and most likely to get fired during an economic downturn. Criminals, even though the government is the one that decides every crime, and could, for example, criminalize criticizing this voting scheme. And oh yes, those who are under 21, because old people are afraid of young people.
The cure for the problems of democracy is more democracy. We are legally adults at 18. That means we get to vote, get to drink, get to euthanize ourselves, and decide every other personal issue, and oh, by the way, fight and die for the old rich men that start wars.
Literacy tests and job requirements are as unconstitutional as denying 18 year olds the right to vote.
And, since the government keeps criminalizing more and more actions, what we should actually do is get rid of the "non-felon" provision of voting eligability. Or make a lot more things legal, like drug possession and sale, for starters.
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OS X includes all the unix tools, GCC, that kind of thing. If linuxPPC would run on your G3, then I'm guessing a version of gimp compiled for that would run on OS X (Doesn't BSD run most linux apps natively?). If not, not much tweaking should be necessary, because I'm sure glib, gdk, and gtk+ are in use on the *BSDs, or easy to port.
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>>Well, I've had quite a bit of training in the Canadian Army myself.
What? Canada has an army?
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Or, as one of my online friends from Canada said, "When I was a soldier in the canadian army (and we do have one)..."
To which another replied, "Hey, now you're giving away the size of our army too!"
Attempting to inject some levity, don't flame me too much.
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Yup.
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As if I care about my password. What's someone going to do, log in and post as me?
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In fact, OS X RULES AND ALL OTHER OSs STINK!!
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Huh? It took them ten versions of the operating system to get the command line right.
For the humor impaired, sod off
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But he doesn't tell us how it turned out! This is the kind of religious trivia that is extremely amusing. "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" "Is the blood of Christ itself God?" Questions that seem stupid at first, but their underpinnings are great examples of metaphysical insight; ie, the angels question revolves around whether angels (and thus, perhaps, God) have a body somewhere and take up space (none on the head of a pin), whether they are wholly spiritual but exclusive (so maybe one on the head of a pin), or if they can kind of overlap (infinite angels on the head of a pin?). I don't want to have to track down the guy's thesis to find out how it resolved!
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Simcity always made me mad, because I would fill up that stupid tiny little city square, and then look enviously at the neighboring cities, which would only have like 1000 people. And then I would get a military base, but they wouldn't let me use it to conquor the neighboring cities! WTF!
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I wanted to see what it looked like; didn't notice any pictures in the Wired article (not unusual, since it was about the man, not his inventions per se). I found these, and it doesn't look awkward at all, it actually looks very agile, this thing is amazing.
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Eh? Don't recognize this part of the routine :)
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Well, it doesn't happen for an hour yet, so I guess it's not too late to post this. Didn't someone make a palm trojan that came in the guise of this same program, Liberty? Here is one link I found, on zdnet. So if you go to this chat, and someone offers to send you a file, well, caveat emptor.
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>>I had a guy ask me once how did some things on my web page. It was mostly done in JavaScript, so I said that he needed to learn JavaScript if he wanted to copy it. /so/ he was going to copy it? I will completely admit that's how I have learned javascript, CSS, and html, in fact. You see a neat trick, see how it works, take the plaintext and play with it a bit to see how it works, add another widget to your skills. It probably just meant that the guy was impressed with your site.
Or, maybe he wanted to learn javascript,
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I think it's common knowledge that the *FIRST* thing you do with a new distro is go in and disble these. If you are *really* worried about inetd's security, why not STOP RUNNING IT ALTOGETHER? As for 'login' and such... see above. Commenting out inetd is standard pratcice. EVERYBODY knows that.
Um, nope. When I started running linux, the redhat 5.2 manual said nothing about that. Neither did any of the docs I found online, or in the new-linux-user-help type webpages, nor anyone I spoke to on IRC, or over email. I just happened to be talking to a friend and the subject came up, and he said the same thing, "oh, you should turn a bunch of stuff off, everybody knows that." If it's enabled by default, but "everyone" knows to turn it off, why not have it off by default, and let the people that need it, enable it?
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Metallica, after all, has long allowed fans to bootleg their concerts
Um, I was just at their makeup show in Kentucky, last wednesday. There were very prominent signs, obviously put up for that event, which proclaimed that no recording equipment of any kind was allowed inside the arena. So I'm not sure what kind of bootlegging they think they are allowing, unless I'm supposed to remember how it went and sing it back after I get home.
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Democide (being killed by one's own government) has been the biggest non medical cause of death this century.
... with living under GWBush in texas running a close second...
Yeah, ok, it's a joke.
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You might throw Social Security in there too (funny how conservatives and Republicans are so frothingly anti-socialist, refusing to support universal health care, yet supporting one of the most socialized of programs: Social Security).
(In General), neither do the young, nor the people who want the government to change ("I don't trust the gov't, why should I vote"). So it will never change. Interesting feedback loop.
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I'm not, but a good friend of mine lives there. Your calmer, gentler police put his head through a car windshield, and he hadn't hurt anyone or damaged any property. Of course your local news shows only happy pictures, what the hell else do you expect? It's owned by the same people that bought the politicians.
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I was just pondering this. An interesting portion of my life is on or through my computer. My family doesn't know about most of it. I know people all over the world, some only by an email address and handle I have in my head. I hung a map on the wall, it's got pins all over it, it's really neat. I consider most of them friends, but if I dropped off the net tomorrow, most of them would never know what happened. I think it's time to make some instructions for my family, and keep them regularly updated, then leave them on my computer in an obvious place. Hmm, that's kind of morbid, but responsible I guess.
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Do you guys ever read some of the conspiracy theories about all the evil that goes on at Ft Meade, and just laugh your butts off?
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McCain, after his (sadly) failed presidential run, is arguably the senator with the highest profile in the whole nation, and probably has the ability to pull this off, especially since it is sponsored by three other senators, two Ds and an R.
.com/org/net, which the US retains some control over. And those are the vast majority, but there are other domains out there. I wonder if they can make it stick at the consumer end, ie if the /customer/ is American, the law applies.
Thing is, how applicable is this going to remain? All web sites hosted in the US, probably. Arguably all
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it is is a greedy VC funded company trying to make money of the work of others
/ever/ going to make money off this thing. Isn't that the point of Venturing? Were they just blinded by the fact that it used TCP/IP, and thought it would therefore be The Next Big Thing, like the wild IPOs only better?
Yeah, that's one thing I never understood about napster. It started off with those two guys working on it. So far so good. They dropped out of college to take advantage of the VC frenzy on anything internet related the past couple of years. Great for them.
Then these VC guys start funding them. What the hell were they thinking? They're suits, they should 1 understand that it's used for arguably illegal purposes and is liable to be a bad investment and 2 wonder how in the heck they're
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"So, donna hold your breath."
Isn't it obvious? Hemos is scottish, and is using voice recognition software!
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You may not agree with the law or its interpretation, but that's no excuse for breaking it! If you disagree that badly then there are perfectly legal means to protest which are a lot more effective in the long run. This case certainly proves that point.
I totally disagree. If the law is wrong, you have an obligation to break it. You must be prepared to accept the consequences, but you don't need an excuse. The government is the one that needs an excuse, for passing this kind of crap, and they will have to look very hard to find one that doesn't say "we were paid to".
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