No doubt you thought the same about malware and viruses a few years back.
Malware and viruses already existed in the home-computer age. Yes, the motive back then was fun, rather than profit, but in any case, that's longer ago than "a few years back".
The defence lawyers have to ask the defendent (hmm, I'm not sure if he's technically a defendent) to guess what secret evidence might have been presented so that they can, say, present some evidence that he was at a certain place at a certain time in the hope that it invalidates some of the claims.
Dangerous, dangerous. What if the only way to "guess" about the evidence is to either be guilty, or be privy to the secret info?
If the government might have evidence that defendant was at place P at time T, and defence now shows that defendant was elsewhere E at time T, then the fact that defendant knows that T is material to the case might already show that he knows something which he couldn't if he were innocent. Nice Catch-22.
The next such skeleton found will just go into the trash...
Not necessarily a good idea either. In some places, trash is sorted manually, and human remains certainly will trigger police attention. Better not throw any identifiable items (envelopes...) into the same trash bag.
Better just leave it in the ground, that way you also have plausible deniability ("sorry, I just didn't notice anything weird...")
Whereas in most of Europe, sidewalk maintenance is considered the state's responsibility.
Construction maybe, but maintenance, certainly not. Case in point: In Luxembourg, residents are responsible for keeping "their" sidewalk snow and ice-free in the winter.
if it's true that Fair Trade USA is gobbling a lot of it up in overpriced office supplies, at least I can console myself that it keeps office-supply companies in business
That's also a way of looking at it, sure:-) However, it doesn't benefit all office-supply (and marketing, and web service, and..) companies uniformly, but only those whose management are friends and/or family with Fair Trade management...
The original impetus for Fair Trade was that much of the middleman price of coffee was due to lenders whose rates and practices would make Shylock blush
a fair/free trade local brand that the company owners first sold to me at a local farmer's market.
If you bought it direct from the owner at a farmer's market, it's not fair trade. "Fair trade" is indeed a trademark granted by FTO (Fairtrade labeling Organization) for products shipped from the producing countries to the consumer countries that supposedly reward the producers in a "fairer" way. "Supposedly", because all they (FLO and subsidiaries) do is be another middleman who wants their share (for "licensing" feeds, that stay in the consumer country). Those fees are then usually squandered on glossy marketing campaigns, and excessively priced office supplies and services ("excessively priced" because bought from companies operated by friends and families of FLO employees), with little left to help the coffee farmers.
2. Politicians (the kind who can convince the state to pay for a chauffeur for them, usually on the premise that it leaves them free to attend to important business while in transit)
Or even, without freak occurences such as stuck accelerators: if you get into a normal accident, and the crash jostles the sensor that says "car in motion" in such a way that it thinks it is still in motion, neither you nor any bystander will be able to call 911 due to that jammer.
This is ridiculous. I've seen twitter notification mails which miss a slash in the middle of the URL that they are sending. So, is adding that slash back a crime?
With typoes and various bugs so prevalent in web server software all over the world, it's unreasonable to postulate malicious intent for changing URLs.
Slashdot Mirror
Freedom fries. I had almost forgotten about those...
No doubt you thought the same about malware and viruses a few years back.
Malware and viruses already existed in the home-computer age. Yes, the motive back then was fun, rather than profit, but in any case, that's longer ago than "a few years back".
why waste a perfectly good blackmail on something as worthless as bitcoins?
Lack of tracability (... or so he thought...)
The defence lawyers have to ask the defendent (hmm, I'm not sure if he's technically a defendent) to guess what secret evidence might have been presented so that they can, say, present some evidence that he was at a certain place at a certain time in the hope that it invalidates some of the claims.
Dangerous, dangerous. What if the only way to "guess" about the evidence is to either be guilty, or be privy to the secret info?
If the government might have evidence that defendant was at place P at time T, and defence now shows that defendant was elsewhere E at time T, then the fact that defendant knows that T is material to the case might already show that he knows something which he couldn't if he were innocent. Nice Catch-22.
How about just wanting to do their civic duty? Allowing historians to have a look at it (but not expecting to have to foot the bill for this...)
The next such skeleton found will just go into the trash...
Not necessarily a good idea either. In some places, trash is sorted manually, and human remains certainly will trigger police attention. Better not throw any identifiable items (envelopes...) into the same trash bag.
Better just leave it in the ground, that way you also have plausible deniability ("sorry, I just didn't notice anything weird...")
Whereas in most of Europe, sidewalk maintenance is considered the state's responsibility.
Construction maybe, but maintenance, certainly not. Case in point: In Luxembourg, residents are responsible for keeping "their" sidewalk snow and ice-free in the winter.
It's meant to sound mildly confusing.
Looks like it fulfilled its goal...
if it's true that Fair Trade USA is gobbling a lot of it up in overpriced office supplies, at least I can console myself that it keeps office-supply companies in business
That's also a way of looking at it, sure :-) However, it doesn't benefit all office-supply (and marketing, and web service, and..) companies uniformly, but only those whose management are friends and/or family with Fair Trade management...
The original impetus for Fair Trade was that much of the middleman price of coffee was due to lenders whose rates and practices would make Shylock blush
Yeah, and that's why it's so much more ironing that Fair Trade wants to promote "microfinance", which really are just overpriced credits to fleece the small time producers...
a fair/free trade local brand that the company owners first sold to me at a local farmer's market.
If you bought it direct from the owner at a farmer's market, it's not fair trade. "Fair trade" is indeed a trademark granted by FTO (Fairtrade labeling Organization) for products shipped from the producing countries to the consumer countries that supposedly reward the producers in a "fairer" way. "Supposedly", because all they (FLO and subsidiaries) do is be another middleman who wants their share (for "licensing" feeds, that stay in the consumer country). Those fees are then usually squandered on glossy marketing campaigns, and excessively priced office supplies and services ("excessively priced" because bought from companies operated by friends and families of FLO employees), with little left to help the coffee farmers.
They bio-engineered the disease in order to harm the global software industry by making it difficult to stay awake...
... if its internal clock is on time...
> dig login.live.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
[...]
login.live.com. 0 IN CNAME login.live.com.nsatc.net.
==> so login.live.com is just a shorter name for NSA Tracking Center?
Maybe that's the place where they write all their "great" software?
Probably those Croatians wrote the program which calculated the age of the sample themselves...
Yum, Gyros with cream topping, Yum!
Welcome to the brave new world where piracy is theft, and theft is piracy...
You still have the hassle of getting the replacement. And the anguish of the thief rifling through your personal data.
not enough room for you to actually move your hands
Yeah, hands can be pretty distracting too... especially if you spot a hot stud on the sidewalk...
This is about the US...it's not like anyone ever drives with other people in their car.
... maybe if they want to take advantage of the HOV lanes? (ok, ok, I know, a blow-up doll has no use for a cell phone...)
However, an internet connection is great for getting up to date maps...
2. Politicians (the kind who can convince the state to pay for a chauffeur for them, usually on the premise that it leaves them free to attend to important business while in transit)
Nah, they'll just vote an exemption for themselves
Pissing off a few geeks is worth it.
You Sir are one of the reasons I think the Second Amendment is worth keeping
Or even, without freak occurences such as stuck accelerators: if you get into a normal accident, and the crash jostles the sensor that says "car in motion" in such a way that it thinks it is still in motion, neither you nor any bystander will be able to call 911 due to that jammer.
With typoes and various bugs so prevalent in web server software all over the world, it's unreasonable to postulate malicious intent for changing URLs.