Hmmm. Apparently, he served half of a six-year sentence.
Seems rather low, but it's a state (Indiana) law, so sentencing guidelines will vary dramatically.
Here in PA, the first link I found on Google for ("Pennsylvania criminal code") states that rape is considered a first-degree felony, which can result in a 20-year sentence for a first offense, plus 10 years if any drugs (as in the Mickey Finn variety, not narcotics) were involved.
Pretty much all the spam I get is forged as well. I don't endorse forgery. Hell, I don't even munge my e-mail address on either USENET or here. In addition, spammers regularly do port-scans on the workstations in my department, looking for open-relays. They don't find them, but they still try every two or three days. I simply forward my mail daemon logs to their providers, noting that they're trying theft of services.
*shrug*
Pretty much all spam I ever get results in my sending complaints to the mail server, possibly the upstream provider as well, and now I've been looking into domain-name registrar TOSes to see if any prohibit spamming. Networking Solution's "dot com mail service", for instance, appears to have an anti-spamming policy.
Why not? It's forgery. He set up IBM to take the fall, since he knew there'd be complaints about the spam. Given how many spams he sent and how many complaints were probably generated, it may even qualify as an attempted DOS. *shrug*
Philip K. Dick, author of such stories as "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", which seemed to be the inspiration for "Total Recall", after removing the final bit about invisible magic destroying wands, aliens and the UN.
I believe he also wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", which is probably the source material for "Blade Runner".
What's your view on growing cloned embryos (thus rejection-proof) and putting them on ice for spare parts?
If we can do that (probably), and work out how to take, say, stem cells, stimulate differentiation, and grow an organ from them in a decent amount of time (perhaps months; after all, many wait much longer than that now), transplant care could benefit. But the ethical ramifications would be... interesting.
I doubt they do. After all, most of 'em aren't fools.
However, there ARE other ethical issues -- such as, can we -- and should we -- develop cloning techniques for use as spare parts?
For instance, should one clone a person, take stem cells or other interesting tissue from the embryo, and them implant these in an organic matrix that provides the infrastructure for growing into an organ? I believe we're already working on the organ-growing part, albeit very slowly. You need much more than cells and a nutrient bath...
Or, develop the embryo first, cryogenically freeze it, and then essentially have such cells in reserve?
As others have mentioned, Vanessa Williams in _Eraser_ wasn't exactly spineless; she's willing to turn whistle-blower against her employer. And she lives.
'Commando' also comes to mind; I believe Arnie had a non-white female co-star who even used a LAW. But it's been a hell of a long time since I watched that one.
Their new format was meant to work hand-in-hand w/ brief e-mail. Since advisories are often changed when new details emerge (e.g. errors in patch, discovery of new variations that work around patch, etc) and you can't edit an existing post or e-mail, they'll point you to their own site which they can update as needed. Combined with disallowing propagation, then they should reduce the risk of admins finding obsolete reports and prematurely stopping their search for more recent details... in theory.
E-mail can simply then be used to notify an admin of the existence of a problem, along with the relevant URL.
At Microsoft, I often saw vans marked, "Teufel Landscaping Company" or something to that effect.
I'm sure it's simply the last name of the founder (a Google search for 'Teufel' turned up a number of home pages of Herr Teufels), but usually it translates from German as "Devil" IIRC.
Gaming, and its interaction with video drivers (in particular), could definitely use more Q&A.
It's gotten to the point where users may need to keep around different versions of video drivers for different games due to various incompatibilities of uncertain nature.
Games are also usually, it seems, released with obvious, often rather drastic, bugs. I don't have to have the CC2:ABTF source in order to notice that AI-controlled 60mm mortars should NOT be able to reliably land rounds on the heads of individual men running towards the mortar crew, at 50m and closing. I don't have to spend weeks beta-testing HOMM3:ROE to notice the fifth-miscellaneous-artifact bug that was introduced in a patch. It was clear in the original SMAC that the AI could lob planet-busting missiles from infinite range. And so forth.
At least some developers are darn good about soliciting feedback on boards, and producing solutions. But not enough...
Numbers, fanaticism, not intimidated by the history of the Sarduakar (IIRC), familiarity with the environment... The Sarduakar are also there largely incognito (Harkonnen uniforms etc to hide the Emperor's hand), so perhaps they would normally operate with better, more familiar support from other units.
Also, at some point IIRC the book notes that the Sarduakar were already in decline in terms of quality, spoiled by privileges and comforts, but I might be instead remembering that from #2 or #3.
When state officials violate state law, appeals to the Federal level.
You can take a traffic ticket to SCOTUS if you can show that law enforcement and the local judicial authorities are all against you. That's how, for instance, the FBI gets brought in on civil rights cases; homicide is a local affair, but when it's done with the connivance of the state officials, it's Federal. Deal.
I believe in the absentee ballot cases you're referring to, that the recipients *were* the ones who requested the ballots but the applications had a printing error -- no space was supplied for the voter identification number, therefore many were returned w/o having the number supplied.
These ballot applications were summarily rejected as required by law.
Then, a Republican operative(s) found out about this and was permitted to add these numbers and resubmit -- and the applications were accepted.
Thus, there was no ballot tampering, and the Bush camp is correct that this is largely a technicality due to a printing error -- and there is no evidence of other malfeasance, like the ballots being pre-marked or so forth. Under the Gore's "will of the voter" doctrine, these clearly should still be admitted; whereas they want to count dimples (which can merely indicate indecision and hesitation -- quite possible given that neither candidate was outstanding) as clear votes, these were clear votes.
However, both the official who permitted this, and the operatives, quite probably should be charged under that law.
The Supreme Court has jurisdiction even over speeding tickets, if called upon to act as an appellate court.
The judicial hierarchy of local, state, and Federal was designed in such a way in that in case of judicial malfeasance or other process error -- such as misinterpreting even a municipal law -- one could appeal for remedy to a higher level. This is arguably directly implied by the equal-protection amendment; the Federal government has a duty to see that due process is readily available to all.
Tne broadcast news programs are only thirty minutes, including commercials -- so maybe it's twenty in reality. They know that at any time somebody can flip over to a competing network. They also know that their income is based on eyeballs, and that therefore they'd better grab people's attention, which means that they either need gimmicks (like having some obnoxious actor interview the President for Earth Day) or convince an audience that a story is important, which means hyping it up even if a story is not exactly new (e.g. the "antibiotics are creating superbugs" story pops up at least annually for the past, hm, probably decade, each time presented as if it were a new terror looming on the horizon).
There's little incentive for a broadcast news program to present moderate, deep coverage of details that will likely bore, if not completely elude, its audience to the point that they hit the channel-changer. They could have covered, say, the recent round of emissions talks (I don't recall any coverage on it by CBS or NBC -- and I often watch both in order to compare their details, biases and priorities), but that probably would have lost viewers...
which generally says no if there's no clear expectation of privacy (e.g. not attorney-client, not trade secrets, etc), but...
However, under some circumstances, the sender
might sue the recipient for publicity given to private life, under Restatement (Second) Torts 652D (1977).
You'll have to ask a lawyer what those circumstances are.
Maybe they were shooting for the same audience that reads tabloids and People magazine -- those who actually want profiles, predominantly youngish women, who are a good market for advertisers.
Your average hard-core sports fan is less interesting to NBC if he or she is less likely to head over to a store and spend lots of money (or direct somebody to do so), since NBC paid a lot of money that needs to be recouped via advertisers.
Er, aren't most, if not all, Latin-based languages structured like this?
The non-Latin, Indo-European language German also has a masculine-feminine-neuter breakdown, with gender and case dictating when you use der, die, das, or den, and it's a fairly odd one with counterintuitive properties. For instance, the word Mädchen, which means "girl", is actually neuter -- as is most (every?) other German word ending in -chen. Apfel, for Apple, is masculine.
You'd have to discard an awful lot of languages if you want to exile all the gender-heavy ones.
I'm no linguist, and Japanese culture isn't my cup of tea, but here's a few from memory.
[Warfare, martial arts, Medieval culture:18]
samurai, ashigaru, katana, wakizashi, ronin, ninja, daimyo, seppuku , hara-kiri, bushido, kata, karate, dojo, sensei, judo, banzai, kamikaze, dan (as in 'fifth dan', a Karate rank)
[Misc:18]
sake, Nisei, Issei, kami, Shinto, sayonara, Nippon, sushi, sashimi, fugu, tempura, teriyaki, ramen, kabuki, Zen, Go (the game), No (as in style of theatre, probably needs an accent), anime [the cartoon style]
[Business:4]
sarariman, keiratsu, zaibatsu, yakuza
This doesn't even scratch the surface -- for instance, look in any decent martial-arts dictionary for techniques like 'atemi', and for descriptions of weaponry such as 'naginata' and 'no-dachi' for which these are the accepted terms in English since we don't have native terms for concepts like "big, somewhat curved blade on a spear shaft" and "frickin' HUGE sword".
Hrmm. What games have I purchased within the past few years:
Space Empires 4. Shogun: Total War. Heroes of Might and Magic/Millenium ed.. Jagged Alliance 2. Master of Orion II:BAA. Close Combat II: ABTF.
And the sole exception to the conquest motif, the Forgotten Realms archives, mostly for nostalgia (the Pools series. Never liked the real-time Beholder series). No sims, no other RPG/adventure gamess, no FPSes, no arcade remakes... And of games that I didn't buy 'coz they're free, _Xconq_ completely dominates other options like Koules or Xgalaga in terms of hours it's sucked up. Netrek did consume numerous hours before I went cold turkey years ago, but again that's a conquest game...
It's probably impossible for a state to prevent people from driving without a legitimate license, to prevent credit-card fraud, or to stop all libel before it happens.
That doesn't mean that it's wrong to have a statute in place for dealing with those who DO act in such a fashion.
Probably. I doubt I'm the only one who never heard of Zixit (NasdaqNM: ZIXI) before reading this article.
Hrmm. Reading their Yahoo! profile... they aren't doing much business -- $287k revenue 1/00-12/00, net op losses $36.9 million. Heck, their CEO's compensation consumes roughly 25% of their gross revenue (scaling the 9-mo figure for the latter linearly). Judging from the Investor Information page linked from zixit.com, however, they've been around since at least 1984. So they could definitely use some customers...
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Hmmm. Apparently, he served half of a six-year sentence.
Seems rather low, but it's a state (Indiana) law, so sentencing guidelines will vary dramatically.
Here in PA, the first link I found on Google for ("Pennsylvania criminal code") states that rape is considered a first-degree felony, which can result in a 20-year sentence for a first offense, plus 10 years if any drugs (as in the Mickey Finn variety, not narcotics) were involved.
Pretty much all the spam I get is forged as well. I don't endorse forgery. Hell, I don't even munge my e-mail address on either USENET or here. In addition, spammers regularly do port-scans on the workstations in my department, looking for open-relays. They don't find them, but they still try every two or three days. I simply forward my mail daemon logs to their providers, noting that they're trying theft of services.
*shrug*
Pretty much all spam I ever get results in my sending complaints to the mail server, possibly the upstream provider as well, and now I've been looking into domain-name registrar TOSes to see if any prohibit spamming. Networking Solution's "dot com mail service", for instance, appears to have an anti-spamming policy.
Why not? It's forgery. He set up IBM to take the fall, since he knew there'd be complaints about the spam. Given how many spams he sent and how many complaints were probably generated, it may even qualify as an attempted DOS. *shrug*
Philip K. Dick, author of such stories as "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", which seemed to be the inspiration for "Total Recall", after removing the final bit about invisible magic destroying wands, aliens and the UN.
I believe he also wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", which is probably the source material for "Blade Runner".
What's your view on growing cloned embryos (thus rejection-proof) and putting them on ice for spare parts?
If we can do that (probably), and work out how to take, say, stem cells, stimulate differentiation, and grow an organ from them in a decent amount of time (perhaps months; after all, many wait much longer than that now), transplant care could benefit. But the ethical ramifications would be... interesting.
Can't happen. Genotype does not define, by itself, adult phenotype; you also need the environment...
I doubt they do. After all, most of 'em aren't fools.
However, there ARE other ethical issues -- such as, can we -- and should we -- develop cloning techniques for use as spare parts?
For instance, should one clone a person, take stem cells or other interesting tissue from the embryo, and them implant these in an organic matrix that provides the infrastructure for growing into an organ? I believe we're already working on the organ-growing part, albeit very slowly. You need much more than cells and a nutrient bath...
Or, develop the embryo first, cryogenically freeze it, and then essentially have such cells in reserve?
As others have mentioned, Vanessa Williams in _Eraser_ wasn't exactly spineless; she's willing to turn whistle-blower against her employer. And she lives.
'Commando' also comes to mind; I believe Arnie had a non-white female co-star who even used a LAW. But it's been a hell of a long time since I watched that one.
...in which case, perhaps it's obstruction or conspiracy.
Their new format was meant to work hand-in-hand w/ brief e-mail. Since advisories are often changed when new details emerge (e.g. errors in patch, discovery of new variations that work around patch, etc) and you can't edit an existing post or e-mail, they'll point you to their own site which they can update as needed. Combined with disallowing propagation, then they should reduce the risk of admins finding obsolete reports and prematurely stopping their search for more recent details... in theory. E-mail can simply then be used to notify an admin of the existence of a problem, along with the relevant URL.
Something that might amuse you --
At Microsoft, I often saw vans marked, "Teufel Landscaping Company" or something to that effect.
I'm sure it's simply the last name of the founder (a Google search for 'Teufel' turned up a number of home pages of Herr Teufels), but usually it translates from German as "Devil" IIRC.
Gaming, and its interaction with video drivers (in particular), could definitely use more Q&A.
It's gotten to the point where users may need to keep around different versions of video drivers for different games due to various incompatibilities of uncertain nature.
Games are also usually, it seems, released with obvious, often rather drastic, bugs. I don't have to have the CC2:ABTF source in order to notice that AI-controlled 60mm mortars should NOT be able to reliably land rounds on the heads of individual men running towards the mortar crew, at 50m and closing. I don't have to spend weeks beta-testing HOMM3:ROE to notice the fifth-miscellaneous-artifact bug that was introduced in a patch. It was clear in the original SMAC that the AI could lob planet-busting missiles from infinite range. And so forth.
At least some developers are darn good about soliciting feedback on boards, and producing solutions. But not enough...
Numbers, fanaticism, not intimidated by the history of the Sarduakar (IIRC), familiarity with the environment... The Sarduakar are also there largely incognito (Harkonnen uniforms etc to hide the Emperor's hand), so perhaps they would normally operate with better, more familiar support from other units.
Also, at some point IIRC the book notes that the Sarduakar were already in decline in terms of quality, spoiled by privileges and comforts, but I might be instead remembering that from #2 or #3.
When state officials violate state law, appeals to the Federal level.
You can take a traffic ticket to SCOTUS if you can show that law enforcement and the local judicial authorities are all against you. That's how, for instance, the FBI gets brought in on civil rights cases; homicide is a local affair, but when it's done with the connivance of the state officials, it's Federal. Deal.
I believe in the absentee ballot cases you're referring to, that the recipients *were* the ones who requested the ballots but the applications had a printing error -- no space was supplied for the voter identification number, therefore many were returned w/o having the number supplied. These ballot applications were summarily rejected as required by law. Then, a Republican operative(s) found out about this and was permitted to add these numbers and resubmit -- and the applications were accepted. Thus, there was no ballot tampering, and the Bush camp is correct that this is largely a technicality due to a printing error -- and there is no evidence of other malfeasance, like the ballots being pre-marked or so forth. Under the Gore's "will of the voter" doctrine, these clearly should still be admitted; whereas they want to count dimples (which can merely indicate indecision and hesitation -- quite possible given that neither candidate was outstanding) as clear votes, these were clear votes. However, both the official who permitted this, and the operatives, quite probably should be charged under that law.
The Supreme Court has jurisdiction even over speeding tickets, if called upon to act as an appellate court.
The judicial hierarchy of local, state, and Federal was designed in such a way in that in case of judicial malfeasance or other process error -- such as misinterpreting even a municipal law -- one could appeal for remedy to a higher level. This is arguably directly implied by the equal-protection amendment; the Federal government has a duty to see that due process is readily available to all.
Tne broadcast news programs are only thirty minutes, including commercials -- so maybe it's twenty in reality. They know that at any time somebody can flip over to a competing network. They also know that their income is based on eyeballs, and that therefore they'd better grab people's attention, which means that they either need gimmicks (like having some obnoxious actor interview the President for Earth Day) or convince an audience that a story is important, which means hyping it up even if a story is not exactly new (e.g. the "antibiotics are creating superbugs" story pops up at least annually for the past, hm, probably decade, each time presented as if it were a new terror looming on the horizon).
There's little incentive for a broadcast news program to present moderate, deep coverage of details that will likely bore, if not completely elude, its audience to the point that they hit the channel-changer. They could have covered, say, the recent round of emissions talks (I don't recall any coverage on it by CBS or NBC -- and I often watch both in order to compare their details, biases and priorities), but that probably would have lost viewers...
A Google search for ("Privacy Act" and "e-mail") turned up
http://www.rbs2.com/email.htm
which generally says no if there's no clear expectation of privacy (e.g. not attorney-client, not trade secrets, etc), but...
However, under some circumstances, the sender
might sue the recipient for publicity given to private life, under Restatement (Second) Torts 652D (1977).
You'll have to ask a lawyer what those circumstances are.
Maybe they were shooting for the same audience that reads tabloids and People magazine -- those who actually want profiles, predominantly youngish women, who are a good market for advertisers.
Your average hard-core sports fan is less interesting to NBC if he or she is less likely to head over to a store and spend lots of money (or direct somebody to do so), since NBC paid a lot of money that needs to be recouped via advertisers.
The non-Latin, Indo-European language German also has a masculine-feminine-neuter breakdown, with gender and case dictating when you use der, die, das, or den, and it's a fairly odd one with counterintuitive properties. For instance, the word Mädchen, which means "girl", is actually neuter -- as is most (every?) other German word ending in -chen. Apfel, for Apple, is masculine. You'd have to discard an awful lot of languages if you want to exile all the gender-heavy ones.
I'm no linguist, and Japanese culture isn't my cup of tea, but here's a few from memory.
[Warfare, martial arts, Medieval culture:18]
samurai, ashigaru, katana, wakizashi, ronin, ninja, daimyo, seppuku , hara-kiri, bushido, kata, karate, dojo, sensei, judo, banzai, kamikaze, dan (as in 'fifth dan', a Karate rank)
[Misc:18]
sake, Nisei, Issei, kami, Shinto, sayonara, Nippon, sushi, sashimi, fugu, tempura, teriyaki, ramen, kabuki, Zen, Go (the game), No (as in style of theatre, probably needs an accent), anime [the cartoon style]
[Business:4]
sarariman, keiratsu, zaibatsu, yakuza
This doesn't even scratch the surface -- for instance, look in any decent martial-arts dictionary for techniques like 'atemi', and for descriptions of weaponry such as 'naginata' and 'no-dachi' for which these are the accepted terms in English since we don't have native terms for concepts like "big, somewhat curved blade on a spear shaft" and "frickin' HUGE sword".
take over and conquer mode, eh?
:)
Hrmm. What games have I purchased within the past few years:
Space Empires 4. Shogun: Total War. Heroes of Might and Magic/Millenium ed.. Jagged Alliance 2. Master of Orion II:BAA. Close Combat II: ABTF.
And the sole exception to the conquest motif, the Forgotten Realms archives, mostly for nostalgia (the Pools series. Never liked the real-time Beholder series). No sims, no other RPG/adventure gamess, no FPSes, no arcade remakes... And of games that I didn't buy 'coz they're free, _Xconq_ completely dominates other options like Koules or Xgalaga in terms of hours it's sucked up. Netrek did consume numerous hours before I went cold turkey years ago, but again that's a conquest game...
*chuckle*
You may have a point here.
And how, prithee tell, does one determine who is worthwhile?
You could offer equal-sized grants via a lottery system, but that's still massively abuseable by groups of people filling in bogus applications.
And?
It's probably impossible for a state to prevent people from driving without a legitimate license, to prevent credit-card fraud, or to stop all libel before it happens.
That doesn't mean that it's wrong to have a statute in place for dealing with those who DO act in such a fashion.
Probably. I doubt I'm the only one who never heard of Zixit (NasdaqNM: ZIXI) before reading this article.
Hrmm. Reading their Yahoo! profile... they aren't doing much business -- $287k revenue 1/00-12/00, net op losses $36.9 million. Heck, their CEO's compensation consumes roughly 25% of their gross revenue (scaling the 9-mo figure for the latter linearly). Judging from the Investor Information page linked from zixit.com, however, they've been around since at least 1984. So they could definitely use some customers...