Ruining someone's life for 2-4 years because the Brazilian court system is dabbling in pre-crime... Kind of makes you wonder why society considers the copyright system an equitable trade...
Scary part of it is, something just like this can happen here in the States if the Usual Suspects decide to spend the money and buy up some more Congresscritters. Why buy off a judge to get a precident set when you can just buy the Congresscritters and get the laws you want passed?
What? Any user can set something executable and run it in a Unix system. It'll just run with the privileges of the user, which in this case is more than enough.
Not necessarily. Some system utilities, for example, fsck, can only be run in root. If the user isn't part of the suid users group and started an su session, they can't run it.
Given how badly IT has been run at some place I have worked, I would say lots of organisations cannot identify technical incompetence.
Some organisations I've done things for suffered from "Everybody but ME" syndrome, i.e., lockdown EVERYBODY but ME. Then they wonder why it hits them in the ass when they get nailed by 20 zillion viruses when they hit those Indonesian plant porn pages...
It's not that they can't identify incompetence, it's more that they don't believe they themselves need restraint.
I hate to burst your bubble, but the admin's job is to stand up to those who DON'T know , especially his superiors. When something is amiss, and he sees what it it, it's his job to say "Wait a minute guys, I know you want to cut corners, but I have proof now, that all your credit cards have been stolen or frauded"...would that get their attention....it's all on how your present the idea, and how important you make it look.
It's the Golden Rule. "He who has the gold makes the rules." I've had gigs where when I stood up to management ("Look, giving everybody admin access on the main database server is a Bad Idea, and here's why...") and lost the contract. Why some PHB on the board of directors needs admin access to servers is beyond me, must be a control freak issue.
I don't have an iPhone. Fact is, the phone I want is this one. I've been told it's a mockup, but shouldn't be hard to build from a cheap Motorola and a lot of alcohol to free the creative juices...
Either that, or you will force the GPS unit into thinking you've just circumscribed the U.S. of A. several times at Mach 2 and you will have to explain yourself (and pay the speeding ticket).
I drive an '87 Cavalier. Sometimes getting it up to freeway speeds is a bit of a challange. I think I can beat the 1400 mph speeding ticket.
court orders are rubber stamps. they don't preserve justice anymore. not really.
FISA Court, most likely. These are state courts. They're a lot closer to the governed than Fed courts are. More chances of the populace showing up at their work with torches and pitchforks...
What baffles me is how Republicans were fine and dandy with the powers, until they were being wielded by a Democrat.
Ya know, that always made me think a bit. If Party A grabbed enough power and precident, how could they not imagine their reign would end someday and Party B have those exact same powers to use against Party A? Seems to me to be a good argument to get rid of those powers lest the hammer fall when you're currently out of favor.
But then, I'm no politician, so what do I know?
FTFA:
"We hold that warrants for GPS monitoring of a vehicle may be issued,'' Cowin wrote. "The Commonwealth must establish, before a magistrate... that GPS monitoring of the vehicle will produce evidence'' that a crime has been committed, or will be committed in the near future.
If the warrant has the usual prerequisites (probable cause you can show a judge, sworn statements by the investigating officers, etc) seems do-able to me. But for fucks sake get the goddamned warrant FIRST and stop fishing already. None of this 'after the fact' shit like the FISA courts do.
Wild Blue is just Hughesnet repackaged. They use bandwidth off Hughes's birds. You're still gonna have to deal with the FAP bucket (aka 'Fair Access Policy', which in Hughesnetspeak, it's 'fair' that they'll allow you to get an IP number if you give them money, but don't try to do more than surf & email, or you'll overload the satellite.).
There are cheaper satellite solutions available but they have bandwidth caps that no geek could live with (Ex: Hughes "Fair Access Policy")
Got that right. Hughsnet sucked 3 years ago when the only 'high speed' internet right here was an antique voiceline that you were lucky to get to connect at 14K. Forget 56K, it just didn't happen. A T1 line? About 75 miles away, in Vegas, and they weren't gonna run any fiber out here. We ran on Hughsnet for awhile, and constantly butted up against that FAP bucket. That was in place for the simple reason that Hughes way oversold their bandwidth, so if anybody decided to actually use what they paid for, they'd get knocked down to dialup speeds within the hour.
BTW, ditch the RV too much more of an adventure in a tent.
At my age, tent camping just doesn't happen anymore (late 50's). Lowest tech I'll go is a teardrop camper. But if I was going to live in my Condor RV, I'd want to gut it and rebuild it first...
3) Park the car in Starbuck's parking lot, leeching off their WiFi
The girlfriend and I tried that a couple years ago at a Starbucks' in Vegas. All I could get was a page asking for my credit card number so I could pay 5 bucks for half an hour's connection. So much for 'leeching'.
It's not just discussing the latest article in Nature magazine or Scientific American that results in dumb stares, but also trying to discuss things like the relative merits of current geopolitical policies of various nations, how and why the legal system has gotten to its current state, even this very subject, the apathy of the common person, is not the sort of thing that most people are able to discuss in any depth.
One of the big things the American education system tried to pound into my head throughout my first 12 years of schooling was the myth that you 'just can't fight City Hall', that the individual was irrelevant in the era of the Mass Man, and that by 'marching forward together' only then could we survive and succeed. On those of us that bought the bullshit because we'd been told we didn't fit in til we bought their Kool-Aid, we were conveniently told to ignore people like Jack & Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, anybody who challanged the status quo, in favor of the Cheneys and Wolfowitzes of the world. It's always been more profitable for the status quo to fight change tooth and nail until the change gets enough traction to get serious airplay. Although these aren't the totallity of the causes of voter/political apathy, they sure as hell contribute heavily...
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Scary part of it is, something just like this can happen here in the States if the Usual Suspects decide to spend the money and buy up some more Congresscritters. Why buy off a judge to get a precident set when you can just buy the Congresscritters and get the laws you want passed?
Er, sudouser group. Guess that's what I get for posting before coffee...
Actually, it's more on the order of -425F. -273C is Absolute Zero, IIRC. And yeah, that's definitely colder than a mother in law's kiss.
Howcome this girl was checking her personal email on a work computer? Most jobsites I've visited have a policy to NOT allow this to happen.
Not necessarily. Some system utilities, for example, fsck, can only be run in root. If the user isn't part of the suid users group and started an su session, they can't run it.
Some organisations I've done things for suffered from "Everybody but ME" syndrome, i.e., lockdown EVERYBODY but ME. Then they wonder why it hits them in the ass when they get nailed by 20 zillion viruses when they hit those Indonesian plant porn pages...
It's not that they can't identify incompetence, it's more that they don't believe they themselves need restraint.
It's the Golden Rule. "He who has the gold makes the rules." I've had gigs where when I stood up to management ("Look, giving everybody admin access on the main database server is a Bad Idea, and here's why...") and lost the contract. Why some PHB on the board of directors needs admin access to servers is beyond me, must be a control freak issue.
I don't have an iPhone. Fact is, the phone I want is this one. I've been told it's a mockup, but shouldn't be hard to build from a cheap Motorola and a lot of alcohol to free the creative juices...
Yeah, for 35,000 a pop. Not exactly cheap for cardboard...
Pun intended for the humor impaired...
What's so unsafe about it? If the gas is in the tank, it's not vaporising. It's the gasoline vapor that's explosive.
I drive an '87 Cavalier. Sometimes getting it up to freeway speeds is a bit of a challange. I think I can beat the 1400 mph speeding ticket.
FISA Court, most likely. These are state courts. They're a lot closer to the governed than Fed courts are. More chances of the populace showing up at their work with torches and pitchforks...
Ya know, that always made me think a bit. If Party A grabbed enough power and precident, how could they not imagine their reign would end someday and Party B have those exact same powers to use against Party A? Seems to me to be a good argument to get rid of those powers lest the hammer fall when you're currently out of favor.
But then, I'm no politician, so what do I know?
FTFA:
If the warrant has the usual prerequisites (probable cause you can show a judge, sworn statements by the investigating officers, etc) seems do-able to me. But for fucks sake get the goddamned warrant FIRST and stop fishing already. None of this 'after the fact' shit like the FISA courts do.
Halfasec, lunchtime :D
Not to mention methane digesters, which have been around seems like forever. Mother Earth News did a bigtime writeup on them back in the 60's, IIRC...
Wild Blue is just Hughesnet repackaged. They use bandwidth off Hughes's birds. You're still gonna have to deal with the FAP bucket (aka 'Fair Access Policy', which in Hughesnetspeak, it's 'fair' that they'll allow you to get an IP number if you give them money, but don't try to do more than surf & email, or you'll overload the satellite.).
Got that right. Hughsnet sucked 3 years ago when the only 'high speed' internet right here was an antique voiceline that you were lucky to get to connect at 14K. Forget 56K, it just didn't happen. A T1 line? About 75 miles away, in Vegas, and they weren't gonna run any fiber out here. We ran on Hughsnet for awhile, and constantly butted up against that FAP bucket. That was in place for the simple reason that Hughes way oversold their bandwidth, so if anybody decided to actually use what they paid for, they'd get knocked down to dialup speeds within the hour.
At my age, tent camping just doesn't happen anymore (late 50's). Lowest tech I'll go is a teardrop camper. But if I was going to live in my Condor RV, I'd want to gut it and rebuild it first...
The girlfriend and I tried that a couple years ago at a Starbucks' in Vegas. All I could get was a page asking for my credit card number so I could pay 5 bucks for half an hour's connection. So much for 'leeching'.
Pretty good for massive data transfers, but ping times are a bitch...
Welcome to the Age of Aquarius 2.0. Want 'shrooms with that?
Outsourced their news to the US, eh?
That doesn't mean they agree on who needs to be shot.
One of the big things the American education system tried to pound into my head throughout my first 12 years of schooling was the myth that you 'just can't fight City Hall', that the individual was irrelevant in the era of the Mass Man, and that by 'marching forward together' only then could we survive and succeed. On those of us that bought the bullshit because we'd been told we didn't fit in til we bought their Kool-Aid, we were conveniently told to ignore people like Jack & Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, anybody who challanged the status quo, in favor of the Cheneys and Wolfowitzes of the world. It's always been more profitable for the status quo to fight change tooth and nail until the change gets enough traction to get serious airplay. Although these aren't the totallity of the causes of voter/political apathy, they sure as hell contribute heavily...