First, note that all we have so far is an allegation. Although we tend to like SpaceX around here, Valador are currently only accused scum, not confirmed scum.
Second, the alleged defamation occurred on June 8 2011. courthousenews.com reports on the suit on June 16. So that is offence to suit in about a week!
Civil system seems to move fast and the whole process is greased with money. A criminal case wouldn't see the courts for a year or more.
Rockets perform better when their frames are low in stress. Having someone blow the vehicle before launch reduces the chance the rocket will go off prematurely, or fail completely.
You, sir, are in more dire need of a BJ than any other suborbital spacecraft in history.
she signaled to change lanes in front of me, so I quickly flashed my highs twice; this historically means "go ahead you're clear."
I have never heard another person who made this association. Normally flashing your highs is a warning, such as if another driver forgot to turn their headlights on. I certainly wouldn't have known flashing would mean "go ahead, you're clear," and I don't know of a single other person who would.
Truck drivers in the US do this frequently. When there is a slower-moving truck in the right lane, and a faster-moving truck passes it on the left, once the rear of the passing truck is clear, the slower truck will flash his lights at the other driver to let him know that he is clear to move back over. Just a common courtesy. When you're driving an 80 foot rig, you don't want to accidentally sideswipe someone by changing lanes too soon. The passing truck will usually flash his running lights twice as a way of saying "thank you" to the slower truck.
Easy-to-remember passwords for a site that doesn't matter at all? Color me shocked. When forced to sign up for forums to ask a question about coding or tech troubleshooting, I generally use a pretty basic password and then lie about all of my personal info. That way if someone does acquire this info (and it has happened multiple times) I don't get burned. For important things like banking and gmail, I have 2-step authentication enabled and use a strong password on top of that. Different on every site of course.
But for stuff like writers forums, tech support sites, slashdot (haha!) and the like? I don't use and don't care to use a strong password because, well, what's the point? You don't hear about individuals on these sites being hacked because of the insecure passwords they use. No, you hear about the administrators of these sites having their sites hacked and their userlists and passwords stolen. What good does a strong password serve on a site like this when there are gaping security holes in the OS hosting the forums?
And why, for Xenu's sake, are people still storing passwords in plaintext??
And if you can turn this material into multi-colored, abstractly-shaped solids using a food replicator, you'd get a hit! It might be good with Romulan ale...
For a minute there I thought you were talking about chicken nuggets.
Only +1 so far? I thought it was pretty clever, much better than the +5 insightful poo jokes above. If I had mod points today this would definitely earn one.
In this age of eco-awareness, someone needs to call them out on the fact that this is about the most environmentally unfriendly way to go about dealing with this issue.
Granted, I realize there's a lot of spite here and a desire to really thumb their noses at everyone who wants to get a look at these emails. But seriously? 24,000 pages of digital emails, printed to hard copy and packaged up, which then need to be picked up in person. That means that someone needs to fly to this place in the middle of nowhere, then (according to the article) either catch another plane or a friggin' boat to actually pick this stuff up. Then 24,000 pages of emails need to be transported back to whatever news organization bought them and, again wasting fuel and resources.
And that's per request. What's the carbon footprint of this idiocy?
Understood, but I would be willing to accept this as the cost of having an open and transparent judicial system. If the files are digitized and put online, with a small access charge for FoA requests, the cost to the municipalities would be minimal. Probably less than dealing with Xeroxing court transcripts by the caseload for FoA requests today.
Let me clarify a little bit too - I don't mean all this crap should become a TV media circus. But it should be filmed for posterity's sake and archived, available with a Freedom of Information request.
I'm not a fan of becoming a surveillance society, but cameras in certain instances definitely make sense. I want cameras in the courtroom, police waiting rooms, and mounted on every police car during traffic stops. If my freedom may some day depend on my word against that of a police officer, I'd prefer to have hard video evidence just in case. Just look at all of the cases where you see cops acting with impunity because they didn't know they were being filmed, and then watch their reactions once they know someone busted them.
Ugh. Thank you, anonymous slashdot moderator, for deciding that not agreeing with my opinion is the same as me trolling. And I didn't even get bonus points for a George Carlin reference. Disagree != troll.
Agreed. We can't demand that government regulate everything. If consumers don't like it, they can vote with their wallets. Unfortunately, not many people choose this option and instead keep throwing money at companies that bend their customers over a barrel and extract as much cash from them as they can. I believe they call it "servicing the account".
The outcome of ridicule, which seems to be the future, is much different than the outcome of direct confrontation.
Given the astronomical levels of stupidity I've seen from the ruling class in America, most politicians seem to not only be immune to ridicule, many might actually thrive on it. As long as the hackers stick to ridicule and not direct confrontation, they should be fine.
I find it, well, confusing, that you can be fined or jailed for selling milk directly from a cow. But cigarettes and alcohol are perfectly legal. The former could make you sick if mishandled, the latter two are known poisons and carcinogens and have been scientifically proven to be bad for you. If I'm legally allowed to poison myself with alcohol, I should also legally be allowed to (possibly) poison myself with raw milk. Nanny state indeed.
For an AC this post has quite a few good points in it - particularly that we tend to participate in" sports hero" worship and throw money at sports programs while the architects that build the sports stadiums and the engineers that design the television cameras work in underfunded and under-appreciated conditions. I'm not saying that it's a rough life being an engineer, but not many schools are offering full-ride scholorships to geek that won the regional science fair. But if you can catch a ball, then, by god, you're higher education material and your schooling is free. Our priorities are confused.
Whether or not you're in a union, you'd be a fool to work without a contract that prohibited the employer from pulling those sorts of shenanigans.
I'm not sure where you're from, but in the US most private sector employment is "at will", meaning that either employee or employer can terminate the employment at any time, for any reason. (Labor unions excepted, of course) I've worked at several major companies in the US and none of them have offered any sort of contract prohibiting them from firing me arbitrarily. In fact, requesting such a contract from most employers would likely result in them not hiring you in the first place. "At will" means just like it sounds - they are under no obligations to keep you on staff should they choose to let you go.
Meh. Who cares? In all honesty, most people (myself included) don't know or care which protocol our devices are using when communicating with teh interwebs. It's not as if any of us have a say in the matter, in most cases the technicalities are handled upstream by our ISPs. When the ISPs have decided they are done battling over the little remaining IPv4 space and start switching en masse to IPv6, then the users downstream will, of course, be switched over. In most cases, this will probably be done without end users having any clue that some magical, mythical transition has occurred. They'll just power on their computer, phone, television, or toaster, and it will have internet.
The few internet-facing IP addresses I have are for my phone, iPad, and my home router. I'm guessing that AT&T will handle the switchover for my phone and iPad with a simple software update. The remaining device - my home router (Linksys WRT54G) will either be able to handle the new addresses (problem solved) or not (time for an upgrade). Such is the cost of progress. I have no plans ever to switch my home network to IPv6 unless someone can make a compelling case as to why that would make any sense at all.
It's like a guy making everything overcomplicated by thinking how he needs to act like a perfect guy and take the girl to a fancy restaurant and many dates before having intercourse with her. Sometimes it's just easier to go for a ladyboy - a woman with mens desire for sex.
Erm, I'm not sure that's really the accepted definition of the term. In fact, I'm quite sure it's not. I wouldn't go hunting for ladyboys if I were you. Especially in Southeast Asia.
Origin:
1535–45; ( Middle French ) Medieval Latin devolution - (stem of devolutio) a rolling down, equivalent to Latin devolut( us ) rolled down (past participle of devolvere; see devolve) + -ion-
Not only is it a word meaning "to roll down" or "roll back" dating back almost 500 years, it can also mean to de-evolve. This is not a word has been made up recently as an opposite to evolution in the Darwinian sense.
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First, note that all we have so far is an allegation. Although we tend to like SpaceX around here, Valador are currently only accused scum, not confirmed scum.
Second, the alleged defamation occurred on June 8 2011. courthousenews.com reports on the suit on June 16. So that is offence to suit in about a week!
Civil system seems to move fast and the whole process is greased with money. A criminal case wouldn't see the courts for a year or more.
Rockets perform better when their frames are low in stress. Having someone blow the vehicle before launch reduces the chance the rocket will go off prematurely, or fail completely.
You, sir, are in more dire need of a BJ than any other suborbital spacecraft in history.
she signaled to change lanes in front of me, so I quickly flashed my highs twice; this historically means "go ahead you're clear."
I have never heard another person who made this association. Normally flashing your highs is a warning, such as if another driver forgot to turn their headlights on. I certainly wouldn't have known flashing would mean "go ahead, you're clear," and I don't know of a single other person who would.
Truck drivers in the US do this frequently. When there is a slower-moving truck in the right lane, and a faster-moving truck passes it on the left, once the rear of the passing truck is clear, the slower truck will flash his lights at the other driver to let him know that he is clear to move back over. Just a common courtesy. When you're driving an 80 foot rig, you don't want to accidentally sideswipe someone by changing lanes too soon. The passing truck will usually flash his running lights twice as a way of saying "thank you" to the slower truck.
Easy-to-remember passwords for a site that doesn't matter at all? Color me shocked. When forced to sign up for forums to ask a question about coding or tech troubleshooting, I generally use a pretty basic password and then lie about all of my personal info. That way if someone does acquire this info (and it has happened multiple times) I don't get burned. For important things like banking and gmail, I have 2-step authentication enabled and use a strong password on top of that. Different on every site of course.
But for stuff like writers forums, tech support sites, slashdot (haha!) and the like? I don't use and don't care to use a strong password because, well, what's the point? You don't hear about individuals on these sites being hacked because of the insecure passwords they use. No, you hear about the administrators of these sites having their sites hacked and their userlists and passwords stolen. What good does a strong password serve on a site like this when there are gaping security holes in the OS hosting the forums?
And why, for Xenu's sake, are people still storing passwords in plaintext??
Your google skills are weak.... how ever, what surprised me was that this was done in 1993, which means the news are 18 years old!
Still an acceptable timeframe to be posted on slashdot as "news" though.
And if you can turn this material into multi-colored, abstractly-shaped solids using a food replicator, you'd get a hit! It might be good with Romulan ale...
For a minute there I thought you were talking about chicken nuggets.
They only thing they failed to predict was the state of the US economy, which may require to operate the pipeline in reverse.
No problem there, the USA has been stealing shit from other countries for centuries.
Only +1 so far? I thought it was pretty clever, much better than the +5 insightful poo jokes above. If I had mod points today this would definitely earn one.
Explaination here.
In this age of eco-awareness, someone needs to call them out on the fact that this is about the most environmentally unfriendly way to go about dealing with this issue.
Granted, I realize there's a lot of spite here and a desire to really thumb their noses at everyone who wants to get a look at these emails. But seriously? 24,000 pages of digital emails, printed to hard copy and packaged up, which then need to be picked up in person. That means that someone needs to fly to this place in the middle of nowhere, then (according to the article) either catch another plane or a friggin' boat to actually pick this stuff up. Then 24,000 pages of emails need to be transported back to whatever news organization bought them and, again wasting fuel and resources.
And that's per request. What's the carbon footprint of this idiocy?
Understood, but I would be willing to accept this as the cost of having an open and transparent judicial system. If the files are digitized and put online, with a small access charge for FoA requests, the cost to the municipalities would be minimal. Probably less than dealing with Xeroxing court transcripts by the caseload for FoA requests today.
Let me clarify a little bit too - I don't mean all this crap should become a TV media circus. But it should be filmed for posterity's sake and archived, available with a Freedom of Information request.
I'm not a fan of becoming a surveillance society, but cameras in certain instances definitely make sense. I want cameras in the courtroom, police waiting rooms, and mounted on every police car during traffic stops. If my freedom may some day depend on my word against that of a police officer, I'd prefer to have hard video evidence just in case. Just look at all of the cases where you see cops acting with impunity because they didn't know they were being filmed, and then watch their reactions once they know someone busted them.
Ugh. Thank you, anonymous slashdot moderator, for deciding that not agreeing with my opinion is the same as me trolling. And I didn't even get bonus points for a George Carlin reference. Disagree != troll.
Reprogrammable flashlight? Useless. Reprogrammable fleshlight? Priceless.
Agreed. We can't demand that government regulate everything. If consumers don't like it, they can vote with their wallets. Unfortunately, not many people choose this option and instead keep throwing money at companies that bend their customers over a barrel and extract as much cash from them as they can. I believe they call it "servicing the account".
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The outcome of ridicule, which seems to be the future, is much different than the outcome of direct confrontation.
Given the astronomical levels of stupidity I've seen from the ruling class in America, most politicians seem to not only be immune to ridicule, many might actually thrive on it. As long as the hackers stick to ridicule and not direct confrontation, they should be fine.
I find it, well, confusing, that you can be fined or jailed for selling milk directly from a cow. But cigarettes and alcohol are perfectly legal. The former could make you sick if mishandled, the latter two are known poisons and carcinogens and have been scientifically proven to be bad for you. If I'm legally allowed to poison myself with alcohol, I should also legally be allowed to (possibly) poison myself with raw milk. Nanny state indeed.
For an AC this post has quite a few good points in it - particularly that we tend to participate in" sports hero" worship and throw money at sports programs while the architects that build the sports stadiums and the engineers that design the television cameras work in underfunded and under-appreciated conditions. I'm not saying that it's a rough life being an engineer, but not many schools are offering full-ride scholorships to geek that won the regional science fair. But if you can catch a ball, then, by god, you're higher education material and your schooling is free. Our priorities are confused.
Whether or not you're in a union, you'd be a fool to work without a contract that prohibited the employer from pulling those sorts of shenanigans.
I'm not sure where you're from, but in the US most private sector employment is "at will", meaning that either employee or employer can terminate the employment at any time, for any reason. (Labor unions excepted, of course) I've worked at several major companies in the US and none of them have offered any sort of contract prohibiting them from firing me arbitrarily. In fact, requesting such a contract from most employers would likely result in them not hiring you in the first place. "At will" means just like it sounds - they are under no obligations to keep you on staff should they choose to let you go.
Meh. Who cares? In all honesty, most people (myself included) don't know or care which protocol our devices are using when communicating with teh interwebs. It's not as if any of us have a say in the matter, in most cases the technicalities are handled upstream by our ISPs. When the ISPs have decided they are done battling over the little remaining IPv4 space and start switching en masse to IPv6, then the users downstream will, of course, be switched over. In most cases, this will probably be done without end users having any clue that some magical, mythical transition has occurred. They'll just power on their computer, phone, television, or toaster, and it will have internet.
The few internet-facing IP addresses I have are for my phone, iPad, and my home router. I'm guessing that AT&T will handle the switchover for my phone and iPad with a simple software update. The remaining device - my home router (Linksys WRT54G) will either be able to handle the new addresses (problem solved) or not (time for an upgrade). Such is the cost of progress. I have no plans ever to switch my home network to IPv6 unless someone can make a compelling case as to why that would make any sense at all.
A government's obsession with secrecy is not always a logical thing.
It's like a guy making everything overcomplicated by thinking how he needs to act like a perfect guy and take the girl to a fancy restaurant and many dates before having intercourse with her. Sometimes it's just easier to go for a ladyboy - a woman with mens desire for sex.
Erm, I'm not sure that's really the accepted definition of the term. In fact, I'm quite sure it's not. I wouldn't go hunting for ladyboys if I were you. Especially in Southeast Asia.
I beg to differ.
Origin: 1535–45; ( Middle French ) Medieval Latin devolution - (stem of devolutio) a rolling down, equivalent to Latin devolut( us ) rolled down (past participle of devolvere; see devolve) + -ion-
Not only is it a word meaning "to roll down" or "roll back" dating back almost 500 years, it can also mean to de-evolve. This is not a word has been made up recently as an opposite to evolution in the Darwinian sense.
Sources here and here.
What if I'm going 85 in a 65 zone. Do I still need to move out of the way of the guy wanting to go 90?
Yes.
Do you guys get angry enough to wish death upon others while out driving?
Yes.
Spinning Incubator Babies would be a really excellent name for a rock band.