As far as information. It has a tendency to escape. Sort of like water in a tank. Water 'wants' to escape from a container. That does not mean that it is human or even alive. There is nothing anthtropomorphic about the expression. It's just an expression and this case is yet another example of its truth. Some people like this tendency of information to escape. Some people don't. The information doesn't care either way. It will just sit there. Waiting for the inevitable. It's only a matter of time.
Cool so there's no way of you avoiding my finding out your medical and sexual history, your bank account details and PINs/passwords, and that's no problem?
Yes, but the point is that the puritanism in the US is a fact of life, and you can't judge an individual contemporary American's actions by the standards of (say) the Ancient Greeks or a tribe in the Amazon rainforest.
In a bar, women know not to take their shirts off, and understand the repercussions of such actions. Add computers, suddenly no one understands how to keep their clothes on, and it's the computer's fault.
In a bar, women know not to take their shirts off, and understand the repercussions of such actions. Move to a bedroom, suddenly no one understands how to keep their clothes on, and it's the bedroom's fault.
Hint: a bar is a public place. Or do you seriously believe there's no such thing as degrees of privacy and that everything you do should be exposed to public view?
I'd answer that, but I'm confused by the wording of your post. Who's "i"?
Since there is no English word "i" it is perfectly obvious that it's a typo for "I". I'm as keen a grammar/spelling nazi as anyone, but since there isn't the slightest doubt about what he meant, it is incredibly pedantic to complain about it on a post to an internet forum.
I might as well criticise you for using the informal "I'd" and "I'm" in writing that is not quoting direct speech.
In criminal law, there are lots of things which are innocent in themselves, but become criminal when directed towards nefarious ends.
If it is legal to own firearms [*], but I choose to go out and buy a machine gun to wipe out a football team I hate, then the purchase of that weapon will be part of the evidence that I was planning a pre-meditated mass murder.
[*]It's generally not here in the UK, but this is just an example. You could apply the same thing to buying a samurai sword or axe.
If you accept a plea bargain, you're admitting you're guilty, so you might as well then pretend to feel remorse.
It would be supremely pointless to plea-bargain a reduced sentence, then annoy the judge by claiming you were actually innocent and therefore can't show any remorse.
However.. these victims ARE also at fault. They did something stupid. They sent naked pictures of themselves to someone on the internet without even verifying who it really was. It cannot be called anything else, it was STUPID. I'm sorry, but there is way to much stupid out there. It's long past time to give up on political correctness and call it what it is. STUPID! Point it out and hope that between someone somewhere's ears the lesson actually sticks. We need this because we have way too much stupid in our society.
Luckily for you, stupidity is not a crime, or else you'd be serving a life sentence.
Sorry, but reality is, blackmail is 'ALWAYS' the victim's fault. They did something naughty and simply lack the courage to fess up, their guilt and weakness is being exploited against them. Blackmail also tends to reflect poorly upon a society as a whole especially when non-criminal acts are involved ie excessive persecution of those who have made a mistake.
And we already have a strong contender for "slashdot douchebag of the year", even though it's only January. Well done!
The 105 year POSSIBLE maximum sentence is there to stop excesses like Norway where a mass murderer can really only be made to do time for ONE murder.
So you think that Breivik should have been given a 1617 year sentence (77 x 21 years)? What's the point? I think the system we have in the UK is fair enough, where for really serious crimes (e.g. the Moors murderers) you are basically locked up until you're no longer a danger to the public, which can mean staying in prison for life if you don't show that you have changed enough.
when a guy is sent down for life for stealing cookies, you can blame the system but you got to accept that you are dealing with a person who knowing full well that he risks life in prison, still couldn't keep his hands of a roll of cookies.
Going to jail for life for stealing cookies is almost as barbaric as when we used to hang people for stealing a loaf of bread a few hundred years ago. The problem with the "3 strikes" idea is that it is entirely disproportionate, i.e. cruel and unusual punishment.
The 105 year thing is a problem with the ridiculous US notion of having consecutive sentences. Say the penalty for shoplifting is 3 months, you shouldn't give someone convicted of 100 counts of shoplifting 25 years in jail.
I mean, what he did wasn't right really...but then again, sending someone away for possibly 105 years, because he took advantage of stupid people acting STUPID? Really?
Geez, if that were the case, all of Wall Street would be locked up....at least, I guess...if what they did involved nudity too I guess.
Who says that most of Wall Street shouldn't have been locked up?
So, it is not the victim's fault that they are a victim, but they cannot rely on that to prevent them from becoming a victim, and if they do, they are fools.
All car accidents are avoidable: you just never get in a car or walk near a road. If you get killed by a drunk driver it's partly your fault for not staying at home.
But, we as a society also need a good dose of "reality" when it comes to crime. If you don't want a dui, don't go to the bar and then drive home.
Well, yes, if you don't want to be convicted of murder, don't go out and stab someone in the face a hundred times.
I don't see what that has to do with victims being guilty of contributory negligence, or is it the victim's fault for having a face and being near a psychotic murderer?
Blackmail is a real threat and in most of these scenarios there isn't a way to catch the hackers involved.
Yes there is. These sort of "hackers" aren't exactly criminal or technical geniuses. And, as you say, mostly this sort of blackmailing comes from ex-partners.
If you're talking about black-hat-intelligence-service-honey-trap scenarios, that's another ball game.
Blimey, I expected the first post to be a "but he was only copying the images so he's done nothing wrong because he hasn't stolen them, and besides all women are sluts so it serves them right" piece of stupidity.
Seems like there is intelligent life on slashdot after all.
This argument is like saying "Laptops have too small a screen, anybody who needs a big screen can't use a laptop." In reality, anybody who needs a big screen, can GET A BIG FUCKING SCREEN AND ATTACH IT TO THEIR LAPTOP
Yes, and at that point it stops being a laptop.
It's like saying "you can't criticise motorbikes for only being able to carry one passenger and limited luggage - all you have to do is fit a sidecar".
i have big hands and i somehow type with both of them on my ipad, a few dozen words per minute
A few dozen? Like 4 dozen? You seriously type at 48 wpm on an iPad? I've tried on my wife's and I can't touch type on it at all, although with a normal keyboard I can touch type at about 60- wpm.
Virtual keyboards are useless for touch typing: it's the same on my Android, I'm not making an anti-Apple comment.
I can imagine someone who can't touch type being OK with a virtual keyboard, since they'd have to look at the keyboard on a normal computer anyway. But I don't think they'd be doing 40-50 wpm somehow.
If you want to claim the other end of a USB cable is any kind of "standard" I've got three or four different micro-USB plugs to show you. Cameras generally seem to use one, hard drives a few different ones...
The fact that other manufacturers also choose to make the retarded decision to use a non-standard USB plug is not a very good defence of Apple's doing the same.
iPads do connect to digital cameras, USB cards, printers, scanners, keyboards etc.
If you buy a converter from Apple, yes you can attach USB devices. But that's similar to the argument that you can always connect a mouse and keyboard to a tablet so that's it as usable as a netbook - well, yes, that's because you've turned it into a netbook.
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I log in to my wife's email and facebook accounts all the time and she mine. Does that make us guilty of identity theft?
It's not theft if someone gives you permission.
As far as information. It has a tendency to escape. Sort of like water in a tank. Water 'wants' to escape from a container. That does not mean that it is human or even alive. There is nothing anthtropomorphic about the expression. It's just an expression and this case is yet another example of its truth. Some people like this tendency of information to escape. Some people don't. The information doesn't care either way. It will just sit there. Waiting for the inevitable. It's only a matter of time.
Cool so there's no way of you avoiding my finding out your medical and sexual history, your bank account details and PINs/passwords, and that's no problem?
Yes, but the point is that the puritanism in the US is a fact of life, and you can't judge an individual contemporary American's actions by the standards of (say) the Ancient Greeks or a tribe in the Amazon rainforest.
In a bar, women know not to take their shirts off, and understand the repercussions of such actions. Add computers, suddenly no one understands how to keep their clothes on, and it's the computer's fault.
In a bar, women know not to take their shirts off, and understand the repercussions of such actions. Move to a bedroom, suddenly no one understands how to keep their clothes on, and it's the bedroom's fault.
Hint: a bar is a public place. Or do you seriously believe there's no such thing as degrees of privacy and that everything you do should be exposed to public view?
Although 20 years seems relatively mild
Are you insane?! I'd prefer death to even a year or two in prison let alone 20 years. 20 years may as well be life as far as I'm concerned.
Grow up.
I'd answer that, but I'm confused by the wording of your post. Who's "i"?
Since there is no English word "i" it is perfectly obvious that it's a typo for "I". I'm as keen a grammar/spelling nazi as anyone, but since there isn't the slightest doubt about what he meant, it is incredibly pedantic to complain about it on a post to an internet forum.
I might as well criticise you for using the informal "I'd" and "I'm" in writing that is not quoting direct speech.
If it is legal to own firearms [*], but I choose to go out and buy a machine gun to wipe out a football team I hate, then the purchase of that weapon will be part of the evidence that I was planning a pre-meditated mass murder.
[*]It's generally not here in the UK, but this is just an example. You could apply the same thing to buying a samurai sword or axe.
he's being charged for 30 separate counts. If a person were to rob a 30 banks, you wouldn't let them roll all of the sentences into one.
No, but in most sane justice systems you wouldn't give them a 600 year (30 x 20 or whatever) year sentence either.
It would be supremely pointless to plea-bargain a reduced sentence, then annoy the judge by claiming you were actually innocent and therefore can't show any remorse.
You certainly justify your user name.
However.. these victims ARE also at fault. They did something stupid. They sent naked pictures of themselves to someone on the internet without even verifying who it really was. It cannot be called anything else, it was STUPID. I'm sorry, but there is way to much stupid out there. It's long past time to give up on political correctness and call it what it is. STUPID! Point it out and hope that between someone somewhere's ears the lesson actually sticks. We need this because we have way too much stupid in our society.
Luckily for you, stupidity is not a crime, or else you'd be serving a life sentence.
Sorry, but reality is, blackmail is 'ALWAYS' the victim's fault. They did something naughty and simply lack the courage to fess up, their guilt and weakness is being exploited against them. Blackmail also tends to reflect poorly upon a society as a whole especially when non-criminal acts are involved ie excessive persecution of those who have made a mistake.
And we already have a strong contender for "slashdot douchebag of the year", even though it's only January. Well done!
Your are bleeding heart
You're never supposed to go full retard.
The 105 year POSSIBLE maximum sentence is there to stop excesses like Norway where a mass murderer can really only be made to do time for ONE murder.
So you think that Breivik should have been given a 1617 year sentence (77 x 21 years)? What's the point? I think the system we have in the UK is fair enough, where for really serious crimes (e.g. the Moors murderers) you are basically locked up until you're no longer a danger to the public, which can mean staying in prison for life if you don't show that you have changed enough.
when a guy is sent down for life for stealing cookies, you can blame the system but you got to accept that you are dealing with a person who knowing full well that he risks life in prison, still couldn't keep his hands of a roll of cookies.
Going to jail for life for stealing cookies is almost as barbaric as when we used to hang people for stealing a loaf of bread a few hundred years ago. The problem with the "3 strikes" idea is that it is entirely disproportionate, i.e. cruel and unusual punishment.
The 105 year thing is a problem with the ridiculous US notion of having consecutive sentences. Say the penalty for shoplifting is 3 months, you shouldn't give someone convicted of 100 counts of shoplifting 25 years in jail.
I mean, what he did wasn't right really...but then again, sending someone away for possibly 105 years, because he took advantage of stupid people acting STUPID? Really?
Geez, if that were the case, all of Wall Street would be locked up....at least, I guess...if what they did involved nudity too I guess.
Who says that most of Wall Street shouldn't have been locked up?
So, it is not the victim's fault that they are a victim, but they cannot rely on that to prevent them from becoming a victim, and if they do, they are fools.
All car accidents are avoidable: you just never get in a car or walk near a road. If you get killed by a drunk driver it's partly your fault for not staying at home.
No?
But, we as a society also need a good dose of "reality" when it comes to crime. If you don't want a dui, don't go to the bar and then drive home.
Well, yes, if you don't want to be convicted of murder, don't go out and stab someone in the face a hundred times.
I don't see what that has to do with victims being guilty of contributory negligence, or is it the victim's fault for having a face and being near a psychotic murderer?
Blackmail is a real threat and in most of these scenarios there isn't a way to catch the hackers involved.
Yes there is. These sort of "hackers" aren't exactly criminal or technical geniuses. And, as you say, mostly this sort of blackmailing comes from ex-partners.
If you're talking about black-hat-intelligence-service-honey-trap scenarios, that's another ball game.
Seems like there is intelligent life on slashdot after all.
geeks have at least some influence in the purchase decisions of mundanes
Wow, you're an arsehole.
This argument is like saying "Laptops have too small a screen, anybody who needs a big screen can't use a laptop." In reality, anybody who needs a big screen, can GET A BIG FUCKING SCREEN AND ATTACH IT TO THEIR LAPTOP
Yes, and at that point it stops being a laptop.
It's like saying "you can't criticise motorbikes for only being able to carry one passenger and limited luggage - all you have to do is fit a sidecar".
i have big hands and i somehow type with both of them on my ipad, a few dozen words per minute
A few dozen? Like 4 dozen? You seriously type at 48 wpm on an iPad? I've tried on my wife's and I can't touch type on it at all, although with a normal keyboard I can touch type at about 60- wpm.
Virtual keyboards are useless for touch typing: it's the same on my Android, I'm not making an anti-Apple comment.
I can imagine someone who can't touch type being OK with a virtual keyboard, since they'd have to look at the keyboard on a normal computer anyway. But I don't think they'd be doing 40-50 wpm somehow.
If you want to claim the other end of a USB cable is any kind of "standard" I've got three or four different micro-USB plugs to show you. Cameras generally seem to use one, hard drives a few different ones...
The fact that other manufacturers also choose to make the retarded decision to use a non-standard USB plug is not a very good defence of Apple's doing the same.
iPads do connect to digital cameras, USB cards, printers, scanners, keyboards etc.
If you buy a converter from Apple, yes you can attach USB devices. But that's similar to the argument that you can always connect a mouse and keyboard to a tablet so that's it as usable as a netbook - well, yes, that's because you've turned it into a netbook.
One word, bluetooth. iPads don't need USB
I really hope Apple are paying you a lot of money to make it worth while sounding so stupid.