And you don't understand how rational people work.
A naked woman standing in the street doesn't mean you suddenly have the right to sexually assault her, or does that sound like its okay in your mind as well?
And lets be clear. Data doesn't give a fuck, so stop that bullshit.
And to be more clear: He took distinct actions to access data. Applying reverse engineering and some packet sniffing he SEARCHED FOR AND FOUND the data in question. It wasn't linked from any normally accessible location or anything else.
His only possible logic for 'not knowing' is if he was so stupid that he didn't understand what he was doing, but being that he got past turning the computer on, we know thats not the case. He intentionally sought out, downloaded, and distributed the data to someone else.
If you can't understand why thats wrong, I really feel sorry for you. I hope you get taken advantage of in the same way so you can get the point.
You can argue that the punishment was retarded, which it was, he wasn't actually malicious, but he DID commit several crimes.
Except it was if you were asking for the poster as if you were someone who was supposed to have access to the poster. He was impersonating a person (or machine in this case). He didn't visit att.com and it spewed 100k email addresses at him. He did some traffic sniffing and reverse engineering.
He made an effort to obtain the data. That is what makes it criminal.
No, he made explicit requests for information using trial and error and reverse engineering to find a location that would divulge sensitive information to him.
It didn't throw shit at him, he went digging for it.
You OWN your home, even though its mortgaged. You are not leasing it. You are not renting it. It is yours to do with ANYTHING you please. The bank has a lien on your home if your are mortgaged. They do not own it, nor can they tell you in any way what to do with it. You can sell it for any price you wish or burn it down, but before the government will grant the deed to someone else, they must verify the lien has been removed.
Likewise, when I purchase a phone + contract, I own the phone immediately. The phone company counts it as an immediate sell on their books and all other accounting, which is why you pay taxes for it immediately rather than over time. The sell of the phone is complete at that time in every legal way that matters.
Its not a lease, its a sale. If it was a lease, you would be required to buy it at the end of your contract... that is a LEGAL requirement for leases, they can't automatically be 'given' at the end. The purchase price can be one dollar (which you'll find on all sorts of deals, Lease at XXX amount, buyout for $1, great corp accounting cheat;), but a new transaction must take place for the lease to become a sell. They aren't doing that, again making it clear the sale happens at the start of the contract.
If I were renting or leasing, the price of my monthly bill would go down when I stopped leasing or renting, like if I bought a unlocked, no contract phone. But it doesn't. My bill remains the same regardless of where my phone comes from. Again, it can't be a lease or rental if there is no transaction and length of terms.
They have structured it as a sell in every way for their accounting purposes, but they want to pretend its not, again for their own financial interests (keeping you tied in to their service).
As far as 'defaulting', they are not the legal framework designed to deal with that situation. They are not supposed to be enforcers either. They have early termination charges attached as an agreed on termination cost. Not allowing your phone to not work on another provider ISN'T IN THE CONTRACT AT ALL, so its not something you agreed on ever.
If I pay $600 cash in $100 bills to Joe Smith who happens to own an unlocked iPhone on the street corner, the phone company treats me the same in EVERY SINGLE WAY as the guy who gets a contracted iPhone. So you get treated like you bought it... again, they treat it as a sell for their benefit.
Only when it may benefit you is it suddenly not a sale to you but some other rental term bullshit they made up.
No. Google employees are rarely on the same project for extremely long periods of time anyway. They move people around internally as a matter or practice so no one gets entrenched in one spot and ideas about how things can work better together can flow more naturally. If all the teams actually have had their hands in everything at one point or another they are far more informed on how to help and benefit from each others.
These employees will simply go elsewhere and be absorbed into other projects.
Most people don't 'follow' websites, with the exception of twitter or Facebook.
Like most obscure geeky things, you don't actually need to be a geek to figure it out or benefit, but geeks do tend to benefit more since they tend to 'follow' more websites.
Nearly everyone you know is a geek, you just aren't aware of the world around you enough to realize they are.
Seriously? Have you looked at your site? Your HTML is crap, half your javascript doesn't work in any browser, your pages load slower than shit now days and your editors wouldn't know actual technology from snake oil if it bit them in the ass.
I stopped reading so early in your 'review' that I didn't finish the first paragraph. You apparently don't even know the difference between male and female jumper wires... let me give you a hint. There is no where on the rasberry pi to plugin your male jumper wires. Perhaps you should learn a little bit about the sexs before you start using terminology related to them.
Contrary to what you think, duels and gunfights were far less common than you think.
You didn't openly shoot people or challenge them to duals since there was a 50/50 chance your ass would be dead. In about 3 duels you're almost certainly going to be dead (yes, I know one of are particular presidents was a dueling fanatic, but there are exceptions to every rule that do not make the normal).
Gunfights weren't common in the old west. Duels weren't common either. It had to escalate considerable further in most cases before it became a challenge.
Shooting deaths were lower doing those periods of time, not higher.
Why do you shoe in the afternoon? Just because of other responsibilities in the morning that are more important or is there some other logic that I'm unaware of?
You sound experienced, I'm asking out of ignorance on my part.
It is no longer illegal to telemarket to cell phones in America. Law was changed a year or so ago, maybe slightly more but within the last couple of years.
No. A phone that isn't on the network will go directly to voicemail, no ring. A phone on the network will ring at least once to the caller before the phone even responds, and that gives the caller notice that it went to voicemail because it was directed to.
No rings = not on the network (Dead battery, turned off, out of range, airplane mode) 1 ring = forced to voicemail ( I don't want to talk to you ) many rings = ignored. (I'm busy or not near my phone)
Your phone calls over land lines stopped being pure analog in the 80s when everyone switched to fibre back hauls. They've essentially been VoIP (not in the strictest sense, but in the 'converted to digital from analog' sense) since then.
Your conference calls will have bigger problems with conference/speaker phones than anything else, those are the ones that really destroy a conversation.
I haven't used WebEx in a while, but you can certainly tail the difference between everyone using a handset or headset in GoToMeeting and having someone mixed in with speaker phones.
It certainly isn't doing anything with the screen. Its 'ethernet' is over USB, and its USB implementation is utterly asstastic and has a hard time keeping up with copy/paste over SSH, let alone a real ethernet stream of data. It isn't going to be doing passive monitoring of USB keyboards worth a shit either... again due to its absolutely shitty USB subsystem.
The Pi can't keep up with any much of an ethernet stream. It might be able to intercept the occasional web page but thats about it.
My 'docking station' is gigabit ethernet, though most are 100mb still... Just exactly how do you plan to have the Pi keep up with something it simply doesn't have the bandwidth to follow. People are most certainly going to notice when their email is now suddenly slower to sync at the office than it is over their cell phone.
It CAN NOT move anywhere CLOSE to 100mb/s of data through its USB subsystem. Hell, the thing goes nuts and has all sorts of crazy issues if you get anywhere near stressing the USB subsystem with 5 or 6.
USB, and due to design that means ethernet as well, is HORRIBLY BROKEN on the Pi. Using it for a network tool is a bad idea on many levels, the networking being all done over USB would be the first indicator.
Since Taco left and DICE went full force moron on slashdot, its a bunch of self promoting wanking now as far as 'articles' submitted exclusively to slashdot. Its either someone pawning off another bullshit commentary by Timothy or crap like this. Then to top it off, they have another editor approve it for the front page as if it wasn't planned to be there from the start.
The author is a slashvertising Dice employee who clearly isn't that much of a programmer judging by what he wrote. His story read more as kind of a 'heres how I show you I'm a newb' than anything else.
Oh please! If people use this software and it makes their day a little easier? Then they should damned well be able to organize and tell the company they want it kept.
I think the problem the person you are replying to has is that its very sad that you are SO FREAKING IGNORANT of the real issues that you should be talking about and signing petitions for.
While I disagree with most of the radical left opinions you mentioned, its important to note that those issues ARE IMPORTANT ISSUES regardless of which side you are on. You'll have to pry my weapons from my cold dead hands, but I still respect the motivation and importance of the issue. A petition for Google Reader? No one fucking cares, I know this because... its going away and no one is saying loudly 'we can import your google reader feeds, move to us!!!!!'. Second, and this is the part thats actually important... Reader ceasing to exist will have no detectable influence on your life. The gun debate most certainly will, regardless of which side you believe to be right or what ever position you hold.
Also, I don't use a laptop or a mouse with a scrollwheel,
I didn't realize this at first, but now I get it.
You don't even actually own a Apple computer, you're using a hackintosh. There hasn't been a Mac that couldn't scroll in 10 years.
So pardon me while no one gives a fuck that you're getting a shitty experience on a substandard machine not designed to be used for what you're using it for.
In fairness, this is tantamount to someone coming into your house and swapping your leathere couch out for a white plastic affair, or something.
Except that you had to click 'I agree' about 4 times in order for them to come into your house and swap out your sofa.
You explicitly took action to install a new version of the OS, and... had to PAY to do so. They didn't come into your house while you were out, you invited them in, pointed them at the couch and said 'swap out that one right there'. Then they did.
Well, while I do occasionally want to see my scroll position reading long web pages (slashdot as an example), I want the screen real estate for text about 9 to 10 million times more than I care about the scroll bars. Most of the time when I want to know where I'm at, I've either just scrolled or I'm about to anyway so it has almost 0 effect on me.
Also, I don't use a laptop or a mouse with a scrollwheel, so that whole "pops up when you need it" thing isn't true for me.
And likewise, you can't use them for scrolling either so all they are is for display purposes... and they pop up when you scroll the page, even without the mouse wheel. How are you scrolling the page without the mouse? Guess what, pops up with the keyboard too.
Had you spent more than say 2 seconds using it, you would have quickly not noticed.
Yes, I occasionally too want to see where I am in a document, but that happens at almost the exact same time I prepare to scroll anyway, so its not like it changes my work flow.
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And you don't understand how rational people work.
A naked woman standing in the street doesn't mean you suddenly have the right to sexually assault her, or does that sound like its okay in your mind as well?
And lets be clear. Data doesn't give a fuck, so stop that bullshit.
And to be more clear: He took distinct actions to access data. Applying reverse engineering and some packet sniffing he SEARCHED FOR AND FOUND the data in question. It wasn't linked from any normally accessible location or anything else.
His only possible logic for 'not knowing' is if he was so stupid that he didn't understand what he was doing, but being that he got past turning the computer on, we know thats not the case. He intentionally sought out, downloaded, and distributed the data to someone else.
If you can't understand why thats wrong, I really feel sorry for you. I hope you get taken advantage of in the same way so you can get the point.
You can argue that the punishment was retarded, which it was, he wasn't actually malicious, but he DID commit several crimes.
Except it was if you were asking for the poster as if you were someone who was supposed to have access to the poster. He was impersonating a person (or machine in this case). He didn't visit att.com and it spewed 100k email addresses at him. He did some traffic sniffing and reverse engineering.
He made an effort to obtain the data. That is what makes it criminal.
No, he made explicit requests for information using trial and error and reverse engineering to find a location that would divulge sensitive information to him.
It didn't throw shit at him, he went digging for it.
You OWN your home, even though its mortgaged. You are not leasing it. You are not renting it. It is yours to do with ANYTHING you please. The bank has a lien on your home if your are mortgaged. They do not own it, nor can they tell you in any way what to do with it. You can sell it for any price you wish or burn it down, but before the government will grant the deed to someone else, they must verify the lien has been removed.
Likewise, when I purchase a phone + contract, I own the phone immediately. The phone company counts it as an immediate sell on their books and all other accounting, which is why you pay taxes for it immediately rather than over time. The sell of the phone is complete at that time in every legal way that matters.
Its not a lease, its a sale. If it was a lease, you would be required to buy it at the end of your contract ... that is a LEGAL requirement for leases, they can't automatically be 'given' at the end. The purchase price can be one dollar (which you'll find on all sorts of deals, Lease at XXX amount, buyout for $1, great corp accounting cheat ;), but a new transaction must take place for the lease to become a sell. They aren't doing that, again making it clear the sale happens at the start of the contract.
If I were renting or leasing, the price of my monthly bill would go down when I stopped leasing or renting, like if I bought a unlocked, no contract phone. But it doesn't. My bill remains the same regardless of where my phone comes from. Again, it can't be a lease or rental if there is no transaction and length of terms.
They have structured it as a sell in every way for their accounting purposes, but they want to pretend its not, again for their own financial interests (keeping you tied in to their service).
As far as 'defaulting', they are not the legal framework designed to deal with that situation. They are not supposed to be enforcers either. They have early termination charges attached as an agreed on termination cost. Not allowing your phone to not work on another provider ISN'T IN THE CONTRACT AT ALL, so its not something you agreed on ever.
If I pay $600 cash in $100 bills to Joe Smith who happens to own an unlocked iPhone on the street corner, the phone company treats me the same in EVERY SINGLE WAY as the guy who gets a contracted iPhone. So you get treated like you bought it ... again, they treat it as a sell for their benefit.
Only when it may benefit you is it suddenly not a sale to you but some other rental term bullshit they made up.
No. Google employees are rarely on the same project for extremely long periods of time anyway. They move people around internally as a matter or practice so no one gets entrenched in one spot and ideas about how things can work better together can flow more naturally. If all the teams actually have had their hands in everything at one point or another they are far more informed on how to help and benefit from each others.
These employees will simply go elsewhere and be absorbed into other projects.
It is an obscure geeky thing.
Most people don't 'follow' websites, with the exception of twitter or Facebook.
Like most obscure geeky things, you don't actually need to be a geek to figure it out or benefit, but geeks do tend to benefit more since they tend to 'follow' more websites.
Nearly everyone you know is a geek, you just aren't aware of the world around you enough to realize they are.
Seriously? Have you looked at your site? Your HTML is crap, half your javascript doesn't work in any browser, your pages load slower than shit now days and your editors wouldn't know actual technology from snake oil if it bit them in the ass.
I stopped reading so early in your 'review' that I didn't finish the first paragraph. You apparently don't even know the difference between male and female jumper wires ... let me give you a hint. There is no where on the rasberry pi to plugin your male jumper wires. Perhaps you should learn a little bit about the sexs before you start using terminology related to them.
Contrary to what you think, duels and gunfights were far less common than you think.
You didn't openly shoot people or challenge them to duals since there was a 50/50 chance your ass would be dead. In about 3 duels you're almost certainly going to be dead (yes, I know one of are particular presidents was a dueling fanatic, but there are exceptions to every rule that do not make the normal).
Gunfights weren't common in the old west. Duels weren't common either. It had to escalate considerable further in most cases before it became a challenge.
Shooting deaths were lower doing those periods of time, not higher.
Why do you shoe in the afternoon? Just because of other responsibilities in the morning that are more important or is there some other logic that I'm unaware of?
You sound experienced, I'm asking out of ignorance on my part.
It is no longer illegal to telemarket to cell phones in America. Law was changed a year or so ago, maybe slightly more but within the last couple of years.
No. A phone that isn't on the network will go directly to voicemail, no ring. A phone on the network will ring at least once to the caller before the phone even responds, and that gives the caller notice that it went to voicemail because it was directed to.
No rings = not on the network (Dead battery, turned off, out of range, airplane mode)
1 ring = forced to voicemail ( I don't want to talk to you )
many rings = ignored. (I'm busy or not near my phone)
Your phone calls over land lines stopped being pure analog in the 80s when everyone switched to fibre back hauls. They've essentially been VoIP (not in the strictest sense, but in the 'converted to digital from analog' sense) since then.
Your conference calls will have bigger problems with conference/speaker phones than anything else, those are the ones that really destroy a conversation.
I haven't used WebEx in a while, but you can certainly tail the difference between everyone using a handset or headset in GoToMeeting and having someone mixed in with speaker phones.
Twice a day over 4 days ... 8 samples ... this is supposed to be useful in some way?
You should be ashamed of yourself for presenting this data as if it has some sort of meaning at all, let alone a useful one.
You're going to need a couple orders of magnitude more samples before you even start thinking about being any sort of useful metric.
Neither does the Raspberry Pi, technically.
It certainly isn't doing anything with the screen. Its 'ethernet' is over USB, and its USB implementation is utterly asstastic and has a hard time keeping up with copy/paste over SSH, let alone a real ethernet stream of data. It isn't going to be doing passive monitoring of USB keyboards worth a shit either ... again due to its absolutely shitty USB subsystem.
The Pi can't keep up with any much of an ethernet stream. It might be able to intercept the occasional web page but thats about it.
My 'docking station' is gigabit ethernet, though most are 100mb still ... Just exactly how do you plan to have the Pi keep up with something it simply doesn't have the bandwidth to follow. People are most certainly going to notice when their email is now suddenly slower to sync at the office than it is over their cell phone.
It CAN NOT move anywhere CLOSE to 100mb/s of data through its USB subsystem. Hell, the thing goes nuts and has all sorts of crazy issues if you get anywhere near stressing the USB subsystem with 5 or 6.
USB, and due to design that means ethernet as well, is HORRIBLY BROKEN on the Pi. Using it for a network tool is a bad idea on many levels, the networking being all done over USB would be the first indicator.
A nuclear plant, a wind farm or a coal plant.
You can pick any one of the three, but one of them is going to get built if you intend to keep being a power hogging drain on society.
Because he works there, and has for a while.
Since Taco left and DICE went full force moron on slashdot, its a bunch of self promoting wanking now as far as 'articles' submitted exclusively to slashdot. Its either someone pawning off another bullshit commentary by Timothy or crap like this. Then to top it off, they have another editor approve it for the front page as if it wasn't planned to be there from the start.
The author is a slashvertising Dice employee who clearly isn't that much of a programmer judging by what he wrote. His story read more as kind of a 'heres how I show you I'm a newb' than anything else.
What does open source have to do with anything? Uptime only matters if your OS is open source? I don't get it.
Oh please! If people use this software and it makes their day a little easier? Then they should damned well be able to organize and tell the company they want it kept.
I think the problem the person you are replying to has is that its very sad that you are SO FREAKING IGNORANT of the real issues that you should be talking about and signing petitions for.
While I disagree with most of the radical left opinions you mentioned, its important to note that those issues ARE IMPORTANT ISSUES regardless of which side you are on. You'll have to pry my weapons from my cold dead hands, but I still respect the motivation and importance of the issue. A petition for Google Reader? No one fucking cares, I know this because ... its going away and no one is saying loudly 'we can import your google reader feeds, move to us!!!!!'. Second, and this is the part thats actually important ... Reader ceasing to exist will have no detectable influence on your life. The gun debate most certainly will, regardless of which side you believe to be right or what ever position you hold.
Right, you can't disable caching for specific mounts or anything.
It is doable, it has been done by others, it is non-trivial, and not REALLY that important.
Also, I don't use a laptop or a mouse with a scrollwheel,
I didn't realize this at first, but now I get it.
You don't even actually own a Apple computer, you're using a hackintosh. There hasn't been a Mac that couldn't scroll in 10 years.
So pardon me while no one gives a fuck that you're getting a shitty experience on a substandard machine not designed to be used for what you're using it for.
In fairness, this is tantamount to someone coming into your house and swapping your leathere couch out for a white plastic affair, or something.
Except that you had to click 'I agree' about 4 times in order for them to come into your house and swap out your sofa.
You explicitly took action to install a new version of the OS, and ... had to PAY to do so. They didn't come into your house while you were out, you invited them in, pointed them at the couch and said 'swap out that one right there'. Then they did.
Well, while I do occasionally want to see my scroll position reading long web pages (slashdot as an example), I want the screen real estate for text about 9 to 10 million times more than I care about the scroll bars. Most of the time when I want to know where I'm at, I've either just scrolled or I'm about to anyway so it has almost 0 effect on me.
Also, I don't use a laptop or a mouse with a scrollwheel, so that whole "pops up when you need it" thing isn't true for me.
And likewise, you can't use them for scrolling either so all they are is for display purposes ... and they pop up when you scroll the page, even without the mouse wheel. How are you scrolling the page without the mouse? Guess what, pops up with the keyboard too.
Had you spent more than say 2 seconds using it, you would have quickly not noticed.
Yes, I occasionally too want to see where I am in a document, but that happens at almost the exact same time I prepare to scroll anyway, so its not like it changes my work flow.