Hate Soulskill. He's the one who wrote the misleading, troll headline.
"Statutory maximum of 105 years" only means he can't be sentenced to longer than that. That "maximum" word is key. I don't believe murder has a statutory maximum sentence.
Really, TFA gives no idea of what the actual sentence is likely to be. The only way I see getting to 105 years from "15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft" would be if he's convicted on all charges and receives consecutive sentences.
Interestingly, the fact that he coerced women into getting naked doesn't appear to be reflected in the indictment. He could have been coercing them to disclose their credit card numbers and would have got charged with identity theft and computer intrusion. I'm surprised and disappointed there isn't a sex offense in there somewhere. In my opinion, there should be.
I mean, they already were posting nude images of themselves, what would they care if they had it posted in a few more places on the internet.
Two problems there.
First, they were not posting images of themselves on the open Internet. They were storing images of themselves online, in, as they say, "the cloud," behind password access. Which the suspect allegedly hacked.
Second, your suggestion that possessing nude photos of one's self voids one's expectation of privacy is sexist and objectionable.
Yes, I mean those guys. You're judging eighteenth-century men by twenty-first century standards. I disagree with that but it's a legitimate point of view. I don't criticize Galileo because he was ignorant of (integral) calculus, or Hippocrates because he didn't practice antiseptic surgery. Please don't forget, these men grew up in a society where people defended slavery as vigorously as people defend software patents today, and where women's suffrage was 150 years away. Getting all the white male landowners an equal vote was a significant forward step at the time. Again, they were great leaders, not saints.
I don't think you know much about Adams, Washington, or Jefferson.
Well, I've read a few books and I know those guys would get their hands dirty, same as always. I don't subscribe to the ancestor worship that makes the founders (small "f") of the republic out to be saints. But if you look at the results of what they did, I think the word "integrity" still fits.
I guess the conventional thinking is to just do what every other country does: advocate a double standard where we don't expect to be held accountable for breaking the agreement, but insist that other countries be held accountable for breaking theirs. It has worked pretty well for the US since WWII. I, for one, expect more integrity from a government formed by the likes of John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. It appears I'm in the minority, and realpolitik is the order of the day.
Emacs is more like a text-based IDE than "a fscking editor." People write plugins (called "macros") for it in Lisp. Back in the acoustics lab, we had several folks who had written macros for code formatting, LaTeX formatting, and the like (we had several custom extensions to the beloved matlab-mode!). We used to trade macros around, modify them, help each other troubleshoot and improve them... good times. So yes, Emacs users are a community, and the folks who are still in that lab are probably still part of that community. I use Eclipse now, but in the late '90s, emacs was the best (only?) zero-cost IDE out there.
Don't be so harsh. It's perfectly reasonable to shut down a project if it doesn't succeed on the schedule the organizer wants. It would be more foolish to continue to invest in the forked project after realizing it was a mistake at the outset.
All the studios need to do to quash this idea is to successfully argue in court that volunteering to act as a proxy host is comparable to hosting the file yourself. That does not seem like a hard argument to make. Don't the copyrighted bits have to pass through the proxy host's machine? That sounds like "distribution" to me.
Yet another half-baked idea from frequent contributed Bennett Hasselton.
All right, I'll grant "colonized" isn't the right word, but Britain and other European powers certainly interfered in China and imposed their will by force.
Yeah, but I reserve judgment on whether Afghanistan is such a mess because of all those failed attempts, or if the Afghans deserve the blame themselves.
If Star Wars Legos represent offensive racial stereotypes, then they're an accurate representation of the films. The Phantom Menace was quite striking in its overt caricatures of Japanese (Trade Federation), blacks (Jar-Jar), Jews (the flying blue dude who was Anakin's master). So it doesn't surprise me that Jabba is an offensive caricature of someone, too. Par for the course.
I'm trying to give you a different perspective but you seem to persist in rejecting its value. Perhaps the difference between our points of view is that you don't subscribe to academic skepticism. I do; I don't think there is ever enough information to fully understand medical problems and treatments, why drugs work, or their likelihood of efficacy for a particular patient. So, if you're trying to "win" or something, I give up trying to persuade you of the value of medicine as actually practiced. You can call that victory if you want to.
In fact, from my experiences with med students, they're not very bright at all.
Perhaps they're just different from you. Medical school makes people kind of obsessive. All the actual, practicing doctors I know, both personally and as a patient, are at least as smart as the folks I encounter in IT.
Their egos prevent them from acknowldging that they don't know everything.
A senior neurology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital (read, "a very successful doctor") told me, while he was examining me, that medicine is an empirical science, not a exact one. By that he meant there's not much theory involved, more educated guesswork until you find something that works. It's not ego that prevents them from admitting that, it's human factors. Some patients would freak out if their doctor said "I don't know." Others would try to sue.
They put their personal experience above what the scientific data actually says.
You say that like it's a bad thing. The word for that is "clinical experience."
I've been taking them for a year and a half. And I don't know it's not a placebo effect. As I said elsewhere, I don't actually care if the vitamins are causation or just correlation. I'm not claiming Vitamin D will work for you, but I do suggest you discuss it with your doctor and maybe get your level tested if you have depressive symptoms.
To look at the world and say, "Oh, it's unjust, everything sucks, it's hopeless" is a fundamentally understandable point of view, but it overlooks another truth. You can, in fact, make a small impact. Getting back to Aaron Swartz, he did a lot to make the world a better place, and part of the loss we collectively suffer is that we don't get to benefit from more of his time and his selfless work.
So, I think people who feel powerless and hopeless haven't yet realized that trying to have a positive impact on their communities, their families, and their friends is part of what makes life worth living. I suggest you broaden your definition of "meaningful change" to include people you can actually meet and talk to, and you'll see that there are opportunities to promote social good in your everyday personal and professional life.
As long as you don't overdose.Vitamin D is fat-soluble and so accumulates in body tissue; more is not necessarily better and it's wise to try it under medical supervision, like I did.
Actually I think it's very ill-advised to practice medicine without a license, even on myself. That's what you seem to be suggesting -- to make decisions based on medical literature without actual medical training and clinical experience. No thanks! I'll take my doctor's advice instead. Just because I can read doesn't make me an expert on everything.
Sorry, I was remarking on Mr. Cox's statement about the usual business-speak meaning of the phrase, not about what he meant when he said "family reasons!" I guess I assumed everyone was taking it at face value, as I think they should. (This is clear from TFA)
I don't care. My doctor said Vitamin D deficiency causes various problems including depression. He recommended a dosage. I tried it, it worked. A sample size of one is all I personally need.
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Hate Soulskill. He's the one who wrote the misleading, troll headline.
"Statutory maximum of 105 years" only means he can't be sentenced to longer than that. That "maximum" word is key. I don't believe murder has a statutory maximum sentence.
Really, TFA gives no idea of what the actual sentence is likely to be. The only way I see getting to 105 years from "15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft" would be if he's convicted on all charges and receives consecutive sentences.
Interestingly, the fact that he coerced women into getting naked doesn't appear to be reflected in the indictment. He could have been coercing them to disclose their credit card numbers and would have got charged with identity theft and computer intrusion. I'm surprised and disappointed there isn't a sex offense in there somewhere. In my opinion, there should be.
Two problems there.
First, they were not posting images of themselves on the open Internet. They were storing images of themselves online, in, as they say, "the cloud," behind password access. Which the suspect allegedly hacked.
Second, your suggestion that possessing nude photos of one's self voids one's expectation of privacy is sexist and objectionable.
And all the software on the subcomponents must be written in Ada. ;-)
Yes, I mean those guys. You're judging eighteenth-century men by twenty-first century standards. I disagree with that but it's a legitimate point of view. I don't criticize Galileo because he was ignorant of (integral) calculus, or Hippocrates because he didn't practice antiseptic surgery. Please don't forget, these men grew up in a society where people defended slavery as vigorously as people defend software patents today, and where women's suffrage was 150 years away. Getting all the white male landowners an equal vote was a significant forward step at the time. Again, they were great leaders, not saints.
Well, I've read a few books and I know those guys would get their hands dirty, same as always. I don't subscribe to the ancestor worship that makes the founders (small "f") of the republic out to be saints. But if you look at the results of what they did, I think the word "integrity" still fits.
I guess the conventional thinking is to just do what every other country does: advocate a double standard where we don't expect to be held accountable for breaking the agreement, but insist that other countries be held accountable for breaking theirs. It has worked pretty well for the US since WWII. I, for one, expect more integrity from a government formed by the likes of John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. It appears I'm in the minority, and realpolitik is the order of the day.
Emacs is more like a text-based IDE than "a fscking editor." People write plugins (called "macros") for it in Lisp. Back in the acoustics lab, we had several folks who had written macros for code formatting, LaTeX formatting, and the like (we had several custom extensions to the beloved matlab-mode!). We used to trade macros around, modify them, help each other troubleshoot and improve them ... good times. So yes, Emacs users are a community, and the folks who are still in that lab are probably still part of that community. I use Eclipse now, but in the late '90s, emacs was the best (only?) zero-cost IDE out there.
Don't be so harsh. It's perfectly reasonable to shut down a project if it doesn't succeed on the schedule the organizer wants. It would be more foolish to continue to invest in the forked project after realizing it was a mistake at the outset.
All the studios need to do to quash this idea is to successfully argue in court that volunteering to act as a proxy host is comparable to hosting the file yourself. That does not seem like a hard argument to make. Don't the copyrighted bits have to pass through the proxy host's machine? That sounds like "distribution" to me.
Yet another half-baked idea from frequent contributed Bennett Hasselton.
All right, I'll grant "colonized" isn't the right word, but Britain and other European powers certainly interfered in China and imposed their will by force.
If you think Cuba, India, and China haven't been colonized by Europeans, then world history isn't your strong suit.
Yeah, but I reserve judgment on whether Afghanistan is such a mess because of all those failed attempts, or if the Afghans deserve the blame themselves.
That's not the same as saying they aren't there.
Let's agree to disagree on that!
Thailand and Japan. They're the only non-European countries that spring to mind that haven't been colonized by Europeans. I could be wrong.
If Star Wars Legos represent offensive racial stereotypes, then they're an accurate representation of the films. The Phantom Menace was quite striking in its overt caricatures of Japanese (Trade Federation), blacks (Jar-Jar), Jews (the flying blue dude who was Anakin's master). So it doesn't surprise me that Jabba is an offensive caricature of someone, too. Par for the course.
And you're under 30, and white.
Replacing structural steel within one year sounds like a potentially tall order. But I suppose where there's a will, there's a way.
I'm trying to give you a different perspective but you seem to persist in rejecting its value. Perhaps the difference between our points of view is that you don't subscribe to academic skepticism. I do; I don't think there is ever enough information to fully understand medical problems and treatments, why drugs work, or their likelihood of efficacy for a particular patient. So, if you're trying to "win" or something, I give up trying to persuade you of the value of medicine as actually practiced. You can call that victory if you want to.
Perhaps they're just different from you. Medical school makes people kind of obsessive. All the actual, practicing doctors I know, both personally and as a patient, are at least as smart as the folks I encounter in IT.
A senior neurology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital (read, "a very successful doctor") told me, while he was examining me, that medicine is an empirical science, not a exact one. By that he meant there's not much theory involved, more educated guesswork until you find something that works. It's not ego that prevents them from admitting that, it's human factors. Some patients would freak out if their doctor said "I don't know." Others would try to sue.
You say that like it's a bad thing. The word for that is "clinical experience."
I've been taking them for a year and a half. And I don't know it's not a placebo effect. As I said elsewhere, I don't actually care if the vitamins are causation or just correlation. I'm not claiming Vitamin D will work for you, but I do suggest you discuss it with your doctor and maybe get your level tested if you have depressive symptoms.
I never actually read "the Catcher in the Rye," but I've heard the famous quote: "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
To look at the world and say, "Oh, it's unjust, everything sucks, it's hopeless" is a fundamentally understandable point of view, but it overlooks another truth. You can, in fact, make a small impact. Getting back to Aaron Swartz, he did a lot to make the world a better place, and part of the loss we collectively suffer is that we don't get to benefit from more of his time and his selfless work.
So, I think people who feel powerless and hopeless haven't yet realized that trying to have a positive impact on their communities, their families, and their friends is part of what makes life worth living. I suggest you broaden your definition of "meaningful change" to include people you can actually meet and talk to, and you'll see that there are opportunities to promote social good in your everyday personal and professional life.
As long as you don't overdose.Vitamin D is fat-soluble and so accumulates in body tissue; more is not necessarily better and it's wise to try it under medical supervision, like I did.
Actually I think it's very ill-advised to practice medicine without a license, even on myself. That's what you seem to be suggesting -- to make decisions based on medical literature without actual medical training and clinical experience. No thanks! I'll take my doctor's advice instead. Just because I can read doesn't make me an expert on everything.
Sorry, I was remarking on Mr. Cox's statement about the usual business-speak meaning of the phrase, not about what he meant when he said "family reasons!" I guess I assumed everyone was taking it at face value, as I think they should. (This is clear from TFA)
I don't care. My doctor said Vitamin D deficiency causes various problems including depression. He recommended a dosage. I tried it, it worked. A sample size of one is all I personally need.