Except for the small issue where he is not American nor a resident of the U.S. and therefore can only be prosecuted if they can get the U.K. to agree to give him up. I really wish my ancestral home would grow a pair and tell the U.S. where to stuff it more often.
The intent of the law is to protect "national security". It puzzles me that anyone would consider this man to be a threat to anybody other than himself.
In general the law is interpreted so that the actual intent of the law is considered. In my (rather uninformed) opinion this is a classic case of bureaucrats enforcing the letter of the law to cover their own failures.
Signing documents, adding notes, adding addendum, filling out forms, etc. There is more to PDF's then text.
It's called Acrobat READER and it is supposed to be for READING PDF files. It is completely inappropriate for it to be able to WRITE anything. Adding extra crap is the reason that it has so many security flaws.
Indeed... the write capabilities should be completely disabled until they are turned on by the user. Even better would be a "Reader Light" with no write capability at all for the 99% of users who will never use Acrobat to complete a form.
So one square meter isn't a square with 1 meter sides?
It is, but two square meters is not a square with 2 meter sides.:)
He he... I'm suddenly reminded of having to teach my wife how fractions actually work. (They are just unresolved division solutions with useful properties...)
There are times in life when I wish I could just forget math and be a Joe Sixpack. Am I the only one who has to resist the temptation to teach cashiers how to optimize change giving to involve the least number of coins?
This skit is as quotable as Monty Python... "What happened?", "New guy"
On a slight tangent, the west as a whole seems to find the entire concept of suicide bombers bemusing and slightly amusing. Exactly how do you advance your aims by killing off your most motivated followers? Is this some twisted attempt to raise the average IQ by killing off the stupidest? Is bin Ladin a closet sci-fi fan and is enjoying this macabre reference to "The Marching Morons" ?
Needless to say that i prefer a slow (but nearly zero energy) e-paper display over something suitable for animations.
I prefer one running a micro-kernel based multi-tasking OS with an OpenGL capable 1024x768 full color display touch screen and enough flash memory to store all my music and pictures that also handles my email. To each his own.
The ARM chip was the only processor in a desktop machine at the time powerful enough to do this by CPU alone. It would be years before an Intel chip would be powerful enough to do the same thing.
I call BS on that. Note that the first version on autocad shipped in 1982 and the first macs shipped in 1984.
Boy do I suddenly feel old. Back when the first Mac was cool and new and shiney my step-mom brought the experimental Mac home from the IT dept of Queens University. I spent hours banging away on that thing making cool (for a 12 year old) graphics and putting them into the word processor and writing stories about them. And of course now I'm sitting here 26 years later typing this on an iPad... Pretty freaky quarter century it's been!
Or they genocide you and your people. But we'll just pretend like history always turns out like it did for Ghandi.
So very true. I have pointed out before that Gandhi succeeded with non-violence against the British Empire because the British like to consider themselves as intelligent, refined and sophisticated and therefore completely incapable of inhuman behavior. (All evidence to the contrary)
I would certainly discriminate against potential employees if I saw that they were a WoW geek.
What the hell for? All other things being equal, why is Applicant A inferior to Applicant B if Applicant A plays an MMO? Furthermore, why is it any of your business in the first place? Why is anything your applicants do in their spare time your business, insofar as it does not affect their performance on the job?
Because they must be addicted to something other than wage slavery. This cannot be tolerated.
And then the grass-roots loony fucknut republican hate-machine would start spewing its disgusting insanity all over the place, calling for Obama to be executed as some heathen gay-loving whore of babylon.
From what I've seen they're doing that anyway. It's at times like this that I remember the early days of the second Gulf wars when the Republicans were up in arms insisting that anyone who could say anything negative about THEIR president must be an un-American traitor.
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Except for the small issue where he is not American nor a resident of the U.S. and therefore can only be prosecuted if they can get the U.K. to agree to give him up. I really wish my ancestral home would grow a pair and tell the U.S. where to stuff it more often.
The intent of the law is to prohibit unauthorized computer access to computers.
If accessing unsecured computers over the internet is a national security risk then you're doing it wrong.
It will randomly display inspiring images and cultural anecdotes from mao's "Little Red Book"
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This is about flag saluting, cock waving nationalism.
Goddamn it, there go the Chinese stealing patented American IP again. :)
I realize you're kidding, but I wonder how much of the actual work on Android from Google, and others, has actually been performed in China?
The actual intent of the law is one of the primary considerations for how it is enforced in anything other than a totalitarian state.
Interpretation is done at many levels in law enforcement. Actually going to trial is often a waste of time and this is recognized pretty universally.
The intent of the law is to protect "national security". It puzzles me that anyone would consider this man to be a threat to anybody other than himself.
McKinnon's case couldn't really be more inconsequential to high-up US authorities.
Sadly it would seem pretty inconsequential to British authorities also. They seem to have no interest at all in fighting this extradition.
The US is just doing things by the book.
In general the law is interpreted so that the actual intent of the law is considered. In my (rather uninformed) opinion this is a classic case of bureaucrats enforcing the letter of the law to cover their own failures.
It's called Acrobat READER and it is supposed to be for READING PDF files. It is completely inappropriate for it to be able to WRITE anything. Adding extra crap is the reason that it has so many security flaws.
Indeed... the write capabilities should be completely disabled until they are turned on by the user. Even better would be a "Reader Light" with no write capability at all for the 99% of users who will never use Acrobat to complete a form.
Facebook + lasers... what could possibly go wrong?
the least number of coins is not the more efficient way to do things in what is essentially a line job.
You think those large companies haven't studied the efficient of cash transactions?
Yes, but a cashier who is smart enough to know and care usually gets promoted out of the position or goes back to school.
We should try to convince Texas school boards to only teach math using Roman Numerals.
So one square meter isn't a square with 1 meter sides?
It is, but two square meters is not a square with 2 meter sides. :)
He he... I'm suddenly reminded of having to teach my wife how fractions actually work. (They are just unresolved division solutions with useful properties...)
There are times in life when I wish I could just forget math and be a Joe Sixpack. Am I the only one who has to resist the temptation to teach cashiers how to optimize change giving to involve the least number of coins?
This skit is as quotable as Monty Python... "What happened?", "New guy"
On a slight tangent, the west as a whole seems to find the entire concept of suicide bombers bemusing and slightly amusing. Exactly how do you advance your aims by killing off your most motivated followers? Is this some twisted attempt to raise the average IQ by killing off the stupidest? Is bin Ladin a closet sci-fi fan and is enjoying this macabre reference to "The Marching Morons" ?
But I digress...
Professional hunting monkeys sounded scarier then drunk monkeys - also, drunk monkeys are funnier. Also, EITHER is better than IE.
Indeed. I'd rather browse the web with a pack of drunken armed monkeys in the room than have to use IE.
Because the Taliban might start training their monkeys to interpret Javascript, too.
Silence, I kill you!
Needless to say that i prefer a slow (but nearly zero energy) e-paper display over something suitable for animations.
I prefer one running a micro-kernel based multi-tasking OS with an OpenGL capable 1024x768 full color display touch screen and enough flash memory to store all my music and pictures that also handles my email. To each his own.
The ARM chip was the only processor in a desktop machine at the time powerful enough to do this by CPU alone. It would be years before an Intel chip would be powerful enough to do the same thing.
I call BS on that. Note that the first version on autocad shipped in 1982 and the first macs shipped in 1984.
Boy do I suddenly feel old. Back when the first Mac was cool and new and shiney my step-mom brought the experimental Mac home from the IT dept of Queens University. I spent hours banging away on that thing making cool (for a 12 year old) graphics and putting them into the word processor and writing stories about them. And of course now I'm sitting here 26 years later typing this on an iPad... Pretty freaky quarter century it's been!
Or they genocide you and your people. But we'll just pretend like history always turns out like it did for Ghandi.
So very true. I have pointed out before that Gandhi succeeded with non-violence against the British Empire because the British like to consider themselves as intelligent, refined and sophisticated and therefore completely incapable of inhuman behavior. (All evidence to the contrary)
you can walk into ANY McDonalds in the world and get the same food
Food? When did they start serving food?
I was going to start calling myself Biteme Blizz.
What the hell for? All other things being equal, why is Applicant A inferior to Applicant B if Applicant A plays an MMO? Furthermore, why is it any of your business in the first place? Why is anything your applicants do in their spare time your business, insofar as it does not affect their performance on the job?
Because they must be addicted to something other than wage slavery. This cannot be tolerated.
And then the grass-roots loony fucknut republican hate-machine would start spewing its disgusting insanity all over the place, calling for Obama to be executed as some heathen gay-loving whore of babylon.
From what I've seen they're doing that anyway. It's at times like this that I remember the early days of the second Gulf wars when the Republicans were up in arms insisting that anyone who could say anything negative about THEIR president must be an un-American traitor.