You've apparently not dealt with the police nor the laws on fraud, because you state:
> It doesn't matter if it crosses state or even federal or international lines...
This is amazingly wrong. As soon as it crosses the borders of your local police force's jurisdiction, they *must* escalate it to the authority that covers both jurisdictions, or they have little hope of getting a prosecution. This is from my direct experience with spammer and phishing fraud, and DOS attacks against systems I've dealt with. The local police on each end say 'oohhhh, we can't do that' and pass it to the FBI who completely ignore it. This is with names, dates, times, places, and a careful list of exactly what records they need to subpoena to collect the evidence for conviction. The local police on each end simply will not act.
And I expect the Secret Service to do this, for example, because they are the enforcement arm of the US Treasury: fiscal fraud is what they do (or are supposed to do). Guarding VIP's like the President was added to their responsibilities in the 19th century, but their role as fiscal agents is older, and it remains part of their charter.
Of course they can treat someone differently. Tax laws, for example, vary considerably. So do the standards for voting in national elections. They just can't evaporate the person's constitutional rights,
Although the numbers of acts of terrorism, revolution, or whatever you want to call it have escalated incredibly. If you don't count them, you're ignoring more than 3000 US casualties, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead. And that's not even counting Afghanistan, where the Taliban are back in force doing to us what they used to do to the Russians, and what their ancestors did to the British a hundred years ago.
The TSA, of course, does nothing or next to nothing about these fatalities.
1) Every human on earth is an equal citizen of the world with a right to education, freedom and peace.
Oh, really? What will that 'educaton' be? And what kind of 'freedom'? Freedome to drink alcohol? An education that teaches that the Q'uran or the Bible or the Talmud are the ultimate reference? Freedom for women to wear a chadoor in class, even in a public school, or freedom to practice clitorectomies on girls for religious reasons?
Freedom is too tricky to trust to a single overriding authority. So is peace, when violent resistance is the only way to protect oneself or one's pweople from the abuses of that authority.
No, 'the police' really can't deal with a lot of it. As soon as it crosses city lines, your local police won't touch it. As soon as it crosses state lines, it gets handed off to the FBI, who seem simply unable and unwilling to prosecute anything below a massive threshold, and seem chronically unable to charge people with the crimes they actually did commit, and tries to leverage people as 'informants' to get the 'big fish'. So they accomplish nearly nothing. Wire fraud should really be the Secret Service's jurisdiction, but they're less interested than the FBI. And when it goes international, as many of the phishing frauds do even if they're actually run from the US, then none of them will touch it.
So what it takes is an agency _willing_ to prosecute. The Secret Service could legally take on a lot of it, but after burning their fingers with the Operation Sun Devil and the resulting Steve Jackson case that led to the creation of the EFF, they seem pretty reluctant to even try.
Then those error bars are pretty amazingly wide. I suggest you go read the latest copy of Nature, for some intriguing but pretty likely false claims about galactic evolution and molecular biology, and the latest issue for exciting but questionable claims about neuropsychiatry and economics.
It doesn't take kickbacks. Simply avoiding blame for a new tool failing and being held responsible for approving it can cause someone to be very, very cautious about approving new and unfamiliar tools. Take the example of Firefox: will the website servers be forced away from their favorite Microsoft authoring tools because they violate the HTML and Javascript specs, and Firefox correctly refuses to render the resulting broken debris? Then that's a hidden cost of supporting Firefox.
Seriously, you need to find the person and find out what their concern is. Is it a maintenance cost? A desire to avoid mixing and merging tools in-house? Are they concerned about who will be responsible, or liable, for problems with open source tools?
If their concerns aren't justified, and they can't be negotiated with, then they may need to be fired, or you may need to leave in order to get the tools you need. But their concerns are sometimes well founded: I've seen people who need a 99.999% uptime who were absolutely terrified of open source tools, had implemented closed source and very robust tools, but didn't realize that it absolutely prevented new development. That was OK, their requirements were very stable indeed. But it meant that they could not support projects from other parts of the company.
As we very carefully make strong alliances and agreements not to cross the border in to Pakistan, where he really seems to be hiding and rebuilding the Taliban and where they sell nuclear technologies to the highest bidders, to get their aid in raiding Iraq, where we knew damn well he was not and had nothing to do with them, but they were rumored to be selling nuclear technologies.
There's something really off here.
This does not match my experience with the FBI. They are, classically, incompetent at actually prosecuting computer crime or pursuing anything that might actually interfere with a political campaign contributor or make them work for it.
So that Tsutomo can hunt them down when they violate their parole conditions? Look into http://www.takedown.com/ for more details. The FBI has a long established record of actually fostering more crime than they prevent with protected informants such as Mr. Mitnick in the computer world, and Whitey Bulger in the gangster world.
Oh, yes, thank you for the correction. But in turn, Halo 2 is also a Vista game (deliberately massaged to keep it from being installed on Windows XP, for no good reason and installable there with very modest software manipulation).
Well, yes. Just as voters, journalists, and juries can affect law and government, investors can affect corporate fates. But the level of centralizing power and, as in the case of Michael Eisner and Carly Fiorina (formerly of HP), fraud and internal empire building can help divest shareholders of such power. It's an ongoing problem.
Except that the marketing and game reviews are all planned for few weeks later. The excitement of a new game release, and getting the reviews out at the right time and the ads and the product placement in the gamestores, goes a long way towards helping even a poor game sell better. With a first-rate game, it can represent enough money to hire new staff and make an even more sophisticated game next time.
Not every company budgets and has business plans like this, but the early release of Halo 2 when the source code was stolen definitely hurt games sales, infruriated their staff, hurt advertising and the sales of game guides, and created real problems for them. The fact that it gave Steam another excuse to release the game late didn't help their sales or the game quality, either.
I am laughing very hard that RHEL tried to say there's no such thing as a '.0' or '.1' release, and it's all 'RHEL 4' or 'RHEL 5'. Take a look at the available media, though, and you'll see that they're really still doing what they did with the old RedHat 6 and RedHat 7:.0 is unstable,.1 has bugfixes,.2 is stable.
Oh, my. Then I guess I have to return my salary and discard my stock in 3 different major Linux-based industries from the last 10 years? That's too bad, I was keeping that to retire with.
No, only a few drivers are there. NVidia and ATI drivers, for example, are not there. They have rather different licensing and could not be intermingled this way, especially NVidia.
They're hit the worst, but I've seen several vendors using imported labor doing long hours and unpaid overtime that Americans would flat-out refuse because it would ruin the quality of the work. Their turnover of American personnel was amazing, and the fraud going on with second jobs done on company time by some of the H-1B owners was amazing, too. (As I understand it, H-1B workers are allowed only one job.)
Or stay in Pakistan, selling nuclear technologies to North Korea, Iran, and anyone else with the cash. This isn't a racist jibe, it recent technological history.
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You've apparently not dealt with the police nor the laws on fraud, because you state:
> It doesn't matter if it crosses state or even federal or international lines...
This is amazingly wrong. As soon as it crosses the borders of your local police force's jurisdiction, they *must* escalate it to the authority that covers both jurisdictions, or they have little hope of getting a prosecution. This is from my direct experience with spammer and phishing fraud, and DOS attacks against systems I've dealt with. The local police on each end say 'oohhhh, we can't do that' and pass it to the FBI who completely ignore it. This is with names, dates, times, places, and a careful list of exactly what records they need to subpoena to collect the evidence for conviction. The local police on each end simply will not act.
And I expect the Secret Service to do this, for example, because they are the enforcement arm of the US Treasury: fiscal fraud is what they do (or are supposed to do). Guarding VIP's like the President was added to their responsibilities in the 19th century, but their role as fiscal agents is older, and it remains part of their charter.
Of course they can treat someone differently. Tax laws, for example, vary considerably. So do the standards for voting in national elections. They just can't evaporate the person's constitutional rights,
Although the numbers of acts of terrorism, revolution, or whatever you want to call it have escalated incredibly. If you don't count them, you're ignoring more than 3000 US casualties, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead. And that's not even counting Afghanistan, where the Taliban are back in force doing to us what they used to do to the Russians, and what their ancestors did to the British a hundred years ago.
The TSA, of course, does nothing or next to nothing about these fatalities.
Let's start with this one:
1) Every human on earth is an equal citizen of the world with a right to education, freedom and peace.
Oh, really? What will that 'educaton' be? And what kind of 'freedom'? Freedome to drink alcohol? An education that teaches that the Q'uran or the Bible or the Talmud are the ultimate reference? Freedom for women to wear a chadoor in class, even in a public school, or freedom to practice clitorectomies on girls for religious reasons?
Freedom is too tricky to trust to a single overriding authority. So is peace, when violent resistance is the only way to protect oneself or one's pweople from the abuses of that authority.
No, 'the police' really can't deal with a lot of it. As soon as it crosses city lines, your local police won't touch it. As soon as it crosses state lines, it gets handed off to the FBI, who seem simply unable and unwilling to prosecute anything below a massive threshold, and seem chronically unable to charge people with the crimes they actually did commit, and tries to leverage people as 'informants' to get the 'big fish'. So they accomplish nearly nothing. Wire fraud should really be the Secret Service's jurisdiction, but they're less interested than the FBI. And when it goes international, as many of the phishing frauds do even if they're actually run from the US, then none of them will touch it.
So what it takes is an agency _willing_ to prosecute. The Secret Service could legally take on a lot of it, but after burning their fingers with the Operation Sun Devil and the resulting Steve Jackson case that led to the creation of the EFF, they seem pretty reluctant to even try.
Then those error bars are pretty amazingly wide. I suggest you go read the latest copy of Nature, for some intriguing but pretty likely false claims about galactic evolution and molecular biology, and the latest issue for exciting but questionable claims about neuropsychiatry and economics.
A water-bearer, eh? Woould say he feels pissed off, or pissoed on?
It doesn't take kickbacks. Simply avoiding blame for a new tool failing and being held responsible for approving it can cause someone to be very, very cautious about approving new and unfamiliar tools. Take the example of Firefox: will the website servers be forced away from their favorite Microsoft authoring tools because they violate the HTML and Javascript specs, and Firefox correctly refuses to render the resulting broken debris? Then that's a hidden cost of supporting Firefox.
Seriously, you need to find the person and find out what their concern is. Is it a maintenance cost? A desire to avoid mixing and merging tools in-house? Are they concerned about who will be responsible, or liable, for problems with open source tools?
If their concerns aren't justified, and they can't be negotiated with, then they may need to be fired, or you may need to leave in order to get the tools you need. But their concerns are sometimes well founded: I've seen people who need a 99.999% uptime who were absolutely terrified of open source tools, had implemented closed source and very robust tools, but didn't realize that it absolutely prevented new development. That was OK, their requirements were very stable indeed. But it meant that they could not support projects from other parts of the company.
As we very carefully make strong alliances and agreements not to cross the border in to Pakistan, where he really seems to be hiding and rebuilding the Taliban and where they sell nuclear technologies to the highest bidders, to get their aid in raiding Iraq, where we knew damn well he was not and had nothing to do with them, but they were rumored to be selling nuclear technologies. There's something really off here.
Not necessarily. Do hop over to Groklaw.net for details on what is public, and what is not, in the SCO vs. Linux trial.
This does not match my experience with the FBI. They are, classically, incompetent at actually prosecuting computer crime or pursuing anything that might actually interfere with a political campaign contributor or make them work for it.
So that Tsutomo can hunt them down when they violate their parole conditions? Look into http://www.takedown.com/ for more details. The FBI has a long established record of actually fostering more crime than they prevent with protected informants such as Mr. Mitnick in the computer world, and Whitey Bulger in the gangster world.
Think 'chitlins'. You have to flush them out before putting them in the oil.
Oh, yes, thank you for the correction. But in turn, Halo 2 is also a Vista game (deliberately massaged to keep it from being installed on Windows XP, for no good reason and installable there with very modest software manipulation).
Well, yes. Just as voters, journalists, and juries can affect law and government, investors can affect corporate fates. But the level of centralizing power and, as in the case of Michael Eisner and Carly Fiorina (formerly of HP), fraud and internal empire building can help divest shareholders of such power. It's an ongoing problem.
I see that irony is apparently considered an optional course of study here.
Except that the marketing and game reviews are all planned for few weeks later. The excitement of a new game release, and getting the reviews out at the right time and the ads and the product placement in the gamestores, goes a long way towards helping even a poor game sell better. With a first-rate game, it can represent enough money to hire new staff and make an even more sophisticated game next time.
Not every company budgets and has business plans like this, but the early release of Halo 2 when the source code was stolen definitely hurt games sales, infruriated their staff, hurt advertising and the sales of game guides, and created real problems for them. The fact that it gave Steam another excuse to release the game late didn't help their sales or the game quality, either.
I am laughing very hard that RHEL tried to say there's no such thing as a '.0' or '.1' release, and it's all 'RHEL 4' or 'RHEL 5'. Take a look at the available media, though, and you'll see that they're really still doing what they did with the old RedHat 6 and RedHat 7: .0 is unstable, .1 has bugfixes, .2 is stable.
Oh, my. Then I guess I have to return my salary and discard my stock in 3 different major Linux-based industries from the last 10 years? That's too bad, I was keeping that to retire with.
Seriously.
But now that is considered a normal, critical part of services like electricity and fresh water.
No, only a few drivers are there. NVidia and ATI drivers, for example, are not there. They have rather different licensing and could not be intermingled this way, especially NVidia.
They're hit the worst, but I've seen several vendors using imported labor doing long hours and unpaid overtime that Americans would flat-out refuse because it would ruin the quality of the work. Their turnover of American personnel was amazing, and the fraud going on with second jobs done on company time by some of the H-1B owners was amazing, too. (As I understand it, H-1B workers are allowed only one job.)
Or stay in Pakistan, selling nuclear technologies to North Korea, Iran, and anyone else with the cash. This isn't a racist jibe, it recent technological history.