When a foreigner enters the US they don't ask if you've been convicted of a crime, they ask if you've "ever been arrested".
Also an arrest in many areas means you get fingerprinted and put in the databases. Plus in more and more places you have to give a DNA sample.
At least in PA, if you aren't convicted as a result of an arrest or the charges are dropped before trial, they're required by state law to expunge the arrest from your record upon request and destroy all records of fingerprints, etc.
If the [P]olice do something wrong, they should be [P]unished just like the rest of us!
Actually, if they do something wrong in the course of duty (i.e. abuse their position), they should be punished more severely than a citizen committing the same crime, since they're violating the public's trust.
First, it's not a city project. It's a Federal highway project.
The Federal government provides the funding. The actual construction and planning is done either by the state, county, or city highway departments, or by contractors working for them.
This was happening on a public street. Precedent says that anything that occurs on a public street can be taped by surveillance cameras and that people have no expectation of privacy in public. If the pigs are able to photograph us, we certainly should be able to photograph them in action!
How do you know you're not addicted - to 1 cigarette a week? Have you ever gone a couple of years without the compelling desire to smoke?
Well - a couple of months anyway. I guess that maybe I'm addicted to one cigg per week, but I probably get 10x more crap into my lungs from working in NYC, so I don't imagine that it makes a huge difference:)
Yeah, you probably aren't. You. Other people, given free reign, will use pseudoephedrine in a meth lab. 15/day happens to be where they've currently drawn the line. Should they change it to 50/day? 1000/day? Unrestricted?
Let the meth makers make their meth and the users burn out their bodies and kill themselves rather quickly. Hell, even legalize the stuff so that it doesn't have to be made in clandestine labs. Darwin's Law: those who are actually stupid enough to try methamphetemine will suffer the consequences. Don't make law-abiding people pay.
15/day. Do you really need to buy more than 15 a day?
Let's say that the dosage is two per day and you're going on a two-week backcountry hiking trip. I'd say yes. Besides, the whole economy-of-scale thing comes into play here - a package of twice the quantity probably costs only half again the cost of the smaller package.
1984 was about the state controlling everything. In the current situation, the state is peering more heavily into everything we're doing because a lot of people are so afraid of Islamic terrorists that they're willing to give the state more power.
Nah, the problem started before the current fear of Islamic terrorism. Think excessive hate speech and sexual harrassment laws in the early 90s. The 'liberals' aren't immune to encroaching on people's rights, either, unfortunately.
That being said, the *only* proper way of dealing with Islamic terrorism is to scare the living shit out of those people. Let it be known that if another attack occurs against targets on US soil, our response will be total isolation of the Middle East. No trade. No oil purchases. Perhaps then the governments of certain countries would be forced to crack down on the terrorist organizations.
Another attack after that? Our response might be swift and uncaring about civilians (to use a polite euphemism).
I never understood that phenomenon. I've been intoxicated by solvents when I was painting something, and it wasn't a pleasant, fuzzy, 'high.' It was more like feeling really sick - dizzy and feeling like I was going to vomit all over my shoes. Not something that I'd really like to repeat.
Give me nitrous or weed any day, but petrochemicals don't seem to produce a high that's even remotely pleasurable.
You did not get addicted to cigarettes the first time you smoked them.
As an 'occasional smoker' - maybe 5 a week on a 'bad' week - I'd have to agree. I can go for weeks without smoking, or smoke two in a night when I go out. It's the dose that makes the poison!
Your insurance company makes sure you pay for most of the damage you'll likely do to yourself by smoking.
If they know? Nicotine metabolites tend to leave your system in less than a week, so there's no good way to test for them without making people take urine tests on a weekly basis...
You aren't paying attention. You have permission to connect to your ISP and POP servers, because you are in a contract with the owners of both. You have no contract or even an informal agreement with the owner of an unknown unsecured wireless access point.
What about an access point with the SSID set to 'Use-Me', 'Public', or 'Nice-Guys'? Some people might actually want to share their wireless access, and to fuck with what the ISPs want or don't want!
Your laptop doesn't ask permission to enter the network, and the wireless router doesn't grant permission; YOU ask for permission by requesting an IP address, and the network owner grants it by programming said system to accept your request.
Most routers use the 192.168.0.*, 192.168.1.*, 192.168.2.*, or 10.0.0.* ranges by default. It isn't hard to set a static IP with the gateway and DNS (most routers proxy DNS) set to 192.168.0.1 or whatever. Even if you're not granted a DHCP lease, you can still get access pretty easily sometimes.
This, and other parts of my contract with my provider, prohibit sharing of my 8Mbs internet access.
You're very unlikely to get caught, though. Personally, I break my TOS by having a fully-open wireless connection. All of my traffic gets encrypted via an SSL tunnel to my server, so sniffing isn't a problem, but others can use my connection to hop on the 'net and look for directions or what have you.
I guess that you drive exactly the speed limit, always cross the street at crosswalks, etc...
if you set up a sever on the outside to except http trafic in say xml or something like that you can create your own proxy to defeat their proxy and allow your whole app to run through http
The provider could get really nasty and limit the number of bytes transferred per session. Web pages would work fine. Calls would drop periodically, and there'd be a 500 ms delay for new connections which would be practically insensible while web-surfing but would wreak havoc upon voice calls.
The real fun begins when you attempt to install a 3rd party application or even an "untrusted" certificate on a Smartphone running 'doze 2005. A warning that an application is "untrusted" along with an annoying warning window that requires something affirmative to be entered would be one thing; but some (most?) Smartphones are programmed to simply forbid the installation of untrusted apps and certificates. Sucks for those businesses that want push e-mail and don't want to bend over and pay VeriSlime or EquiFucks several hundred dollars for a "trusted" certificate!
Fortunately, unlocking and registry hacking tools are starting to be ubiquitous.
provide an ISP based UI, where you could unblock ports based on your account?
Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking. Just no extra charge for unblocking ports, please?! To avoid automated scripts that ask for the user's name and password and then log in automatically, protect it with a captcha or audio prompt.
Your mom probably doesn't need to run an email server. Neither does 99% of other ISP users. The far less than 1% (of which I'm included) that need specific ports opened up can do so by working with the ISP.
As long as "working with..." means that you can go to the ISP's user interface page, authenticate, click a few buttons, and open the appropriate port immediately. Having to talk to a support rep who barely understands English, being asked 50 times to give a good reason for your desire to open the port and then being charged $9.99/mo extra per port is simply not acceptable.
I receive maybe one or two spams per day on an e-mail address that's *public* (the contact address for my company)! Good spam filtering software shitcans 95% of the bad stuff. The rest takes about two seconds to delete per day.
But the customers are the carriers, not the consumers that end up using the phones. If the US had a mobile phone market where you could use the same handset with any provider...
You can, assuming a GSM carrier (Cingular or T-Mobile). Verizon and Sprint use totally different, older, radio systems (CDMA), so the incompatibility is on a hardware level, not a "software block" level. And unlocked European-spec GSM phones are readily available on EBay and elsewhere - just make sure to get one that does the 850 MHz band - otherwise, reception will be disappointing in places.
No. Britain had the death penalty for 'High Treason' (a small subset of treason, mainly crimes against the royal family) until a little under a decade ago.
Incorrect, AFAIK. Under traditional British jurisprudence, "petty treason" was rebellion against superior members of the family. Generally applied to women who killed their husbands or children who killed parents. "High treason" was treason against the King and Country (basically everything else).
I don't care what country you're in, that's just wrong. Hopefully our mates across the sea will rise up and ensure that this proposal doesn't see the light of day. I'm sorry, but if someone's not convicted, they're sure as hell not a cybercriminal.
This watering-down of rights amounts to treason, nothing more or less. It's a violation of the spirit of British law from the Magna Carta forward, and will serve to destroy Britain in the long run.
Wait... doesn't Britain still have the death penalty for treason? Bring on the ropes and blindfolds, please. Cromwell was exhumed, hanged, drawn, and quartered two years after he died. Perhaps it's time to resume this fine tradition upon the current scoundrels in government. But... they're not dead yet... well, hanging and quartering tends to correct that!
This almost make you long for the days when the monarchy and the House of Lords were stronger. At least they knew their boundaries for the most part.
I thought most executives of gambling sites lived outside of the U.S. to avoid this very problem. If his company was taking in billions, there's no reason why he couldn't afford a nice estate in the Caymans.
He was living outside the US. He was changing planes on a flight from London to Costa Rica. Next time, sir, after you get out of jail, may I suggest booking a flight via Toronto? It's safer, and the security people are a good deal less hostile.
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When a foreigner enters the US they don't ask if you've been convicted of a crime, they ask if you've "ever been arrested".
Also an arrest in many areas means you get fingerprinted and put in the databases. Plus in more and more places you have to give a DNA sample.
At least in PA, if you aren't convicted as a result of an arrest or the charges are dropped before trial, they're required by state law to expunge the arrest from your record upon request and destroy all records of fingerprints, etc.
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Actually, if they do something wrong in the course of duty (i.e. abuse their position), they should be punished more severely than a citizen committing the same crime, since they're violating the public's trust.
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The Federal government provides the funding. The actual construction and planning is done either by the state, county, or city highway departments, or by contractors working for them.
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Well - a couple of months anyway. I guess that maybe I'm addicted to one cigg per week, but I probably get 10x more crap into my lungs from working in NYC, so I don't imagine that it makes a huge difference :)
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Let the meth makers make their meth and the users burn out their bodies and kill themselves rather quickly. Hell, even legalize the stuff so that it doesn't have to be made in clandestine labs. Darwin's Law: those who are actually stupid enough to try methamphetemine will suffer the consequences. Don't make law-abiding people pay.
15/day. Do you really need to buy more than 15 a day?
Let's say that the dosage is two per day and you're going on a two-week backcountry hiking trip. I'd say yes. Besides, the whole economy-of-scale thing comes into play here - a package of twice the quantity probably costs only half again the cost of the smaller package.
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Nah, the problem started before the current fear of Islamic terrorism. Think excessive hate speech and sexual harrassment laws in the early 90s. The 'liberals' aren't immune to encroaching on people's rights, either, unfortunately.
That being said, the *only* proper way of dealing with Islamic terrorism is to scare the living shit out of those people. Let it be known that if another attack occurs against targets on US soil, our response will be total isolation of the Middle East. No trade. No oil purchases. Perhaps then the governments of certain countries would be forced to crack down on the terrorist organizations.
Another attack after that? Our response might be swift and uncaring about civilians (to use a polite euphemism).
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I never understood that phenomenon. I've been intoxicated by solvents when I was painting something, and it wasn't a pleasant, fuzzy, 'high.' It was more like feeling really sick - dizzy and feeling like I was going to vomit all over my shoes. Not something that I'd really like to repeat.
Give me nitrous or weed any day, but petrochemicals don't seem to produce a high that's even remotely pleasurable.
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As an 'occasional smoker' - maybe 5 a week on a 'bad' week - I'd have to agree. I can go for weeks without smoking, or smoke two in a night when I go out. It's the dose that makes the poison!
Your insurance company makes sure you pay for most of the damage you'll likely do to yourself by smoking.
If they know? Nicotine metabolites tend to leave your system in less than a week, so there's no good way to test for them without making people take urine tests on a weekly basis...
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What about an access point with the SSID set to 'Use-Me', 'Public', or 'Nice-Guys'? Some people might actually want to share their wireless access, and to fuck with what the ISPs want or don't want!
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Most routers use the 192.168.0.*, 192.168.1.*, 192.168.2.*, or 10.0.0.* ranges by default. It isn't hard to set a static IP with the gateway and DNS (most routers proxy DNS) set to 192.168.0.1 or whatever. Even if you're not granted a DHCP lease, you can still get access pretty easily sometimes.
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You're very unlikely to get caught, though. Personally, I break my TOS by having a fully-open wireless connection. All of my traffic gets encrypted via an SSL tunnel to my server, so sniffing isn't a problem, but others can use my connection to hop on the 'net and look for directions or what have you.
I guess that you drive exactly the speed limit, always cross the street at crosswalks, etc...
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The provider could get really nasty and limit the number of bytes transferred per session. Web pages would work fine. Calls would drop periodically, and there'd be a 500 ms delay for new connections which would be practically insensible while web-surfing but would wreak havoc upon voice calls.
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Fortunately, unlocking and registry hacking tools are starting to be ubiquitous.
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Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking. Just no extra charge for unblocking ports, please?! To avoid automated scripts that ask for the user's name and password and then log in automatically, protect it with a captcha or audio prompt.
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As long as "working with..." means that you can go to the ISP's user interface page, authenticate, click a few buttons, and open the appropriate port immediately. Having to talk to a support rep who barely understands English, being asked 50 times to give a good reason for your desire to open the port and then being charged $9.99/mo extra per port is simply not acceptable.
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I receive maybe one or two spams per day on an e-mail address that's *public* (the contact address for my company)! Good spam filtering software shitcans 95% of the bad stuff. The rest takes about two seconds to delete per day.
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You can, assuming a GSM carrier (Cingular or T-Mobile). Verizon and Sprint use totally different, older, radio systems (CDMA), so the incompatibility is on a hardware level, not a "software block" level. And unlocked European-spec GSM phones are readily available on EBay and elsewhere - just make sure to get one that does the 850 MHz band - otherwise, reception will be disappointing in places.
Cheers, -b.
And it could even be used as a weapon of war. Teleport someone's heart (and just their heart) 10 feet away from them, and see how long they live...
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Incorrect, AFAIK. Under traditional British jurisprudence, "petty treason" was rebellion against superior members of the family. Generally applied to women who killed their husbands or children who killed parents. "High treason" was treason against the King and Country (basically everything else).
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This watering-down of rights amounts to treason, nothing more or less. It's a violation of the spirit of British law from the Magna Carta forward, and will serve to destroy Britain in the long run.
Wait... doesn't Britain still have the death penalty for treason? Bring on the ropes and blindfolds, please. Cromwell was exhumed, hanged, drawn, and quartered two years after he died. Perhaps it's time to resume this fine tradition upon the current scoundrels in government. But ... they're not dead yet... well, hanging and quartering tends to correct that!
This almost make you long for the days when the monarchy and the House of Lords were stronger. At least they knew their boundaries for the most part.
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Or a car... even in carbureted cars, the carburetor is technically a mechanical analog computer.
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He was living outside the US. He was changing planes on a flight from London to Costa Rica. Next time, sir, after you get out of jail, may I suggest booking a flight via Toronto? It's safer, and the security people are a good deal less hostile.
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