Just because the crime is not violent doesn't mean it should have a more leinient sentance.
I know there is a huge difference between murder and copyright/fraud etc, but White collar crime should be treated as seriously as others. A 7 year sentance should discourage anyone of trying the same thing, if this guy got 12 months with 6 on good behaviour whats to stop the next guy doing the same thing and hiding his profits in an offshore account with the intent to serve a minimum sentance.
Cases like this are not commen and the courts should slap a harsh punishment to keep discouraging this sort of behavior.
Most people will have no sympathy for this guy, he got greedy. Even self-admitted pirates on P2P networks would say this guy deserves everything he got.
How would this work, to accuse someone of being a sex offender, you need proof and be able to back your evidence up in court.
If you accuse someone and have it published wouldn't the state or the person reporting it be able to be sued for Libel?
This has a recipe for disaster and would probably be abused, as much as sex crimes are horrible this is just going to allow innocent people to have their lives ruined.
She's called sxcgrrl182, I just paid off her car loan a month ago and she's been too busy driving it she isnt on IRC anymore, I hope she comes online again soon
That questsion is easy. The enemy of the coutry is terrorists.
Terrorists are amongst us, they are in our community, in our schools, our churches, they are our neighbors. Terrorists could be sitting next to you right now packed full of explosives waiting to blow away your god given freedom.
You make someone scared enough of something and they will let you do anything to help them.
Most of the time the people selling the wirless products to home users don't let them know of the dangers of having an unsecured connection, i have seen people in dept. stores say "its easy just take it home and plug it in". The same goes for ISP's pushing them out to their customers.
The fact is we have salesmen taking advantage of people who don't know any better buy offering them all of the glitz and not alerting them to any basic precautions they will take.
Some of my clients did not even know of the dangers till they rang me up to get me to configure it for them.
More responsibility should be placed onto the salespeople to make sure their customers understand just what exatly they are buying.
He may not be robbing liquor stores but what he is doing is till fairly petty crime, it doesn't take much intelligence to do what he does.
Thats probably the reason why you see so many people getting caught for this stuff, any geek knows the dangers of using a stolen credit card and ways to avoid getting caught, but I'm sure most of them are too busy posting on slashdot to bother.
But it involves massive amounts of alcohol for it to work properly.
Commenly called the beer scooter, it is a mechanism that guides you safley home to your bed, no matter how far away or how drunk you get. Its side effects can be unfortunate though as unexplained cuts and bruises plus a bank account severly depleted of funds are commen occurances upon awakening.
- Why has Macromedia has only released a (very buggy) flashplayer 7 for linux x86, and no flashplayer at all for amd64? The selling point of Flash is that it's multi-platform but that's not really the case.
I guess since adobe is now in charge it isn't as high a priority, they are too busy finding bloat to put in it.
Its really not a good thing, the deals the RIAA offer you for breach of copyright are only small compared to what they are entitled to sue you for, this will only encourage the RIAA to more vigourously prosecute and increase fines.
Thats really bad for anyone who isn't paying insurance.
It may seem like a good idea, but the only people who are going to profit from this is the RIAA and the pirates. It may save you once when you get prosecuted, but when the pirates jack the insurance from $19US to $99US because the RIAA has decided to sue for $200,000 per breach of copyright everyone is going to be in a world of trouble.
Following history, revolutions and revolts, society usually seems to get to a certian point before collectivley it gets sick of tax burdons, restrictions on speech and creativity and then either a revolt or a revolution is staged.
In a digital age where we are dealing with Intellectual Property, digitial censorship and hidden taxes it makes me wonder just what excatly a revolt or revolution against it would be like? I can't imagine thousands of people marching through the streets finding government officals and decapating them, but you would think we will eventually get to a point where everything just gets too much.
We are now in the 21st century and are beginning to see the downsides of all the technology we have adopted, in the late 90's it was promosing, now we are seeing new emerging ways to control us, deny us of fundamental rights and governements seem to be finding new ways to write laws and profit from it.
The advertisement doesn't really say exactly what it does, why it is good or why it is worth downloading.
For years security experts and geeks have been telling users to "be very careful with free software" to avoid malware and other nasty junk, and this ad quite frankly looks like some of the armature SPAM I have received in my inbox, if I saw an ad for this it doesn't make me want to download it or trust where it is coming from.
For 10K I would take a different approach, the best advertising is word of mouth so I would do something like Mac did in the early 90's, fund schools with software/hardware and a learning program for the software, if it impresses schools then more schools will happily adopt it, plus each kid could be given a free copy to take home to practice on.
10K could do one classroom in one school, but the word of mouth and the publicity from a company trying to help education would be priceless.
I think they are realising that OSS isn't going away, each year it continues to get stronger and because of its structure they cannot aggressivly compete against it in a traditional sense.
We are already seeing huge benefits of OSS and what it can achieve and I think Microsoft have realised if they are going to have any future in it they need to work with it to some extent.
With a normal torch the light gets dimmer as the batteries loose power, with the LED light it stays the same level until the batteries are dead, so you get a better quality light as the batteries loose power.
Slashdot Mirror
Have all of these news/blog sites run out of things to write about because it seems this year everywhere has been inundated with dam lists.
50 Years on we have so much hard disk space available we just don't know what to do with it all.
Just because the crime is not violent doesn't mean it should have a more leinient sentance.
I know there is a huge difference between murder and copyright/fraud etc, but White collar crime should be treated as seriously as others. A 7 year sentance should discourage anyone of trying the same thing, if this guy got 12 months with 6 on good behaviour whats to stop the next guy doing the same thing and hiding his profits in an offshore account with the intent to serve a minimum sentance.
Cases like this are not commen and the courts should slap a harsh punishment to keep discouraging this sort of behavior.
Most people will have no sympathy for this guy, he got greedy. Even self-admitted pirates on P2P networks would say this guy deserves everything he got.
What? I only used that word once in my post.
The way his character was built though, he became a living legend, you sort of just expected him to live and keep doing what he did.
A lot of people I have spoken to feel the same way, much like when Princess Di died, its just almost inconceivable.
He was a controversial Australian hero and I hope he will be remembered for all the good things he did and not just the bad.
How would this work, to accuse someone of being a sex offender, you need proof and be able to back your evidence up in court. If you accuse someone and have it published wouldn't the state or the person reporting it be able to be sued for Libel? This has a recipe for disaster and would probably be abused, as much as sex crimes are horrible this is just going to allow innocent people to have their lives ruined.
I guess its a feature Microsoft are going to make sure you get what you paid for!
Thats not true, Slashdot doesn't have a wiki and I still laugh when I see repeated jokes about
One core to rule them all
One core to find them
One core to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
You just installed Vista onto that rig didn't you
*Ducks*
She's called sxcgrrl182, I just paid off her car loan a month ago and she's been too busy driving it she isnt on IRC anymore, I hope she comes online again soon
If I thought up a killer app, I think I would like more then an Ipod in return.
I wonder if you can patent your idea first then submitt it for the competition.
Fair enough that someone else wrote it, but it was still your Idea.
If this database could be linked to myspace!!
I'll never have to write my own boring blogs ever again, this could do it for me!
11am bought donuts at krispy kreme
11:15 incurred speeding fine on South eastern freeway
11:30 purchased petrol
That questsion is easy. The enemy of the coutry is terrorists.
Terrorists are amongst us, they are in our community, in our schools, our churches, they are our neighbors.
Terrorists could be sitting next to you right now packed full of explosives waiting to blow away your god given freedom.
You make someone scared enough of something and they will let you do anything to help them.
Most of the time the people selling the wirless products to home users don't let them know of the dangers of having an unsecured connection, i have seen people in dept. stores say "its easy just take it home and plug it in". The same goes for ISP's pushing them out to their customers.
The fact is we have salesmen taking advantage of people who don't know any better buy offering them all of the glitz and not alerting them to any basic precautions they will take.
Some of my clients did not even know of the dangers till they rang me up to get me to configure it for them.
More responsibility should be placed onto the salespeople to make sure their customers understand just what exatly they are buying.
I wonder if they have any intention of getting these brain boxes drunk then get it to recite the ABC's?
1. Patent the idea then forget about it.
2. Wait for some unsuspecting party to develop prototype.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Most criminals are dumb, thats why.
He may not be robbing liquor stores but what he is doing is till fairly petty crime, it doesn't take much intelligence to do what he does.
Thats probably the reason why you see so many people getting caught for this stuff, any geek knows the dangers of using a stolen credit card and ways to avoid getting caught, but I'm sure most of them are too busy posting on slashdot to bother.
But it involves massive amounts of alcohol for it to work properly.
Commenly called the beer scooter, it is a mechanism that guides you safley home to your bed, no matter how far away or how drunk you get. Its side effects can be unfortunate though as unexplained cuts and bruises plus a bank account severly depleted of funds are commen occurances upon awakening.
- Why has Macromedia has only released a (very buggy) flashplayer 7 for linux x86, and no flashplayer at all for amd64? The selling point of Flash is that it's multi-platform but that's not really the case.
I guess since adobe is now in charge it isn't as high a priority, they are too busy finding bloat to put in it.
Its really not a good thing, the deals the RIAA offer you for breach of copyright are only small compared to what they are entitled to sue you for, this will only encourage the RIAA to more vigourously prosecute and increase fines.
Thats really bad for anyone who isn't paying insurance.
It may seem like a good idea, but the only people who are going to profit from this is the RIAA and the pirates. It may save you once when you get prosecuted, but when the pirates jack the insurance from $19US to $99US because the RIAA has decided to sue for $200,000 per breach of copyright everyone is going to be in a world of trouble.
Why does this remind me of Volcano Insurance from family guy?
Following history, revolutions and revolts, society usually seems to get to a certian point before collectivley it gets sick of tax burdons, restrictions on speech and creativity and then either a revolt or a revolution is staged.
In a digital age where we are dealing with Intellectual Property, digitial censorship and hidden taxes it makes me wonder just what excatly a revolt or revolution against it would be like?
I can't imagine thousands of people marching through the streets finding government officals and decapating them, but you would think we will eventually get to a point where everything just gets too much.
We are now in the 21st century and are beginning to see the downsides of all the technology we have adopted, in the late 90's it was promosing, now we are seeing new emerging ways to control us, deny us of fundamental rights and governements seem to be finding new ways to write laws and profit from it.
The advertisement doesn't really say exactly what it does, why it is good or why it is worth downloading.
For years security experts and geeks have been telling users to "be very careful with free software" to avoid malware and other nasty junk, and this ad quite frankly looks like some of the armature SPAM I have received in my inbox, if I saw an ad for this it doesn't make me want to download it or trust where it is coming from.
For 10K I would take a different approach, the best advertising is word of mouth so I would do something like Mac did in the early 90's, fund schools with software/hardware and a learning program for the software, if it impresses schools then more schools will happily adopt it, plus each kid could be given a free copy to take home to practice on.
10K could do one classroom in one school, but the word of mouth and the publicity from a company trying to help education would be priceless.
I think they are realising that OSS isn't going away, each year it continues to get stronger and because of its structure they cannot aggressivly compete against it in a traditional sense.
We are already seeing huge benefits of OSS and what it can achieve and I think Microsoft have realised if they are going to have any future in it they need to work with it to some extent.
With a normal torch the light gets dimmer as the batteries loose power, with the LED light it stays the same level until the batteries are dead, so you get a better quality light as the batteries loose power.