At least this didn't come about by way of pardon, ala Clinton's actions to forgive Dan Rostenkowski (served nary a day).
In Stevens, US dismissed, but could still bring another case if additional evidence exists.
The LAPD definitely engaged in tactics that were unethical to say the least and he got off the hook largely because of that. Was he actually guilty? I don't think we'll ever know, but there was definitely manufactured evidence that tainted things enough to get him off.
Manufactured evidence?
Unethical tactics?
Please elaborate.
Will AT&T send me a check for the days my service was out?
They won't send you a check, unless you happen to have a balance in your favor when you terminate your account. Call your carrier and request a credit because of a service outage - if you are polite and a good customer (e.g., pays on time) they will give it to you...even if it was due to weather.
1. Ask root for whitehouse.gov
2. Receive IP of nameserver for.gov [check its signature]. Root may opt to give you the public key of.gov, otherwise ask for it and its check signature.
3. Ask.gov for whitehouse.gov
4. Receive IP of whitehouse.gov [check sig]. Also,.gov may opt to give you the public key of whitehouse.gov
5. Connect, now you know where to go:)
Ah, but it's more fun if you wind up at whitehouse.com
Ok, so if this ass gets away with spam because of this ruling, isn't he potentially still guilty of committing wire fraud? If not for the false crap he was pitching, then because he allegedly forged IP and email addresses?
As a publicly traded company, Red Hat's primary responsibility is to produce a profit for its shareholders. That is the law.,
Sounds like the boys from Redmond... Seriously, this has huge implications re trust and assurance. We, the/. Community have long pitched Red Hat as the mainstream solution to replace Windows in the enterprise and government. DoD, once a large user of Solaris and Windows, is increasing its RHEL use (still using Windows and Solaris too).
PS - the statements other posters have made re Sarbanes Oxley are spot on.
You forget that AT&T has to pay the foreign carriers that you are roaming on ultimately.
Sure, AT&T (or Verizon, Vodafone, T-Mobile, et al) make $$$ as the "home" carrier, but the real cost in roaming is the fees the home carrier has to pay to the local provider. And for the iPhone (which this case apparently isn't), Apple gets its shill too.
Unfortunately it isn't cheap, but how does this make the corporation immoral? It costs BILLIONS to build out the telecom systems worldwide. And yet, they are supposed to make a profit for their shareholders and pay a ton of bucks to state, local and federal governments in taxes and fees. They won't give airtime and data bandwidth away for free...nor should they.
If the user is ignorant enough to not pay attention to legal contracts and published billing tariffs, then they must be a victim of modern day Darwinism.
Will be interesting to see, as the ultimate act of hypocrisy, if the next President pardons him ala Clinton's forgiveness of bigtime Chicago Machine Dem Dan Rostenkowski, who now collects his congressional pension despite similar acts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rostenkowski). Sen Stevens likely won't be convicted in time for President Bush to possibly react.
How is the previous post a troll? Believe what the AC is trying to say is that since there have been (apparently) no more attacks of 9-11 scope carried out in the US, perhaps, just perhaps, the program is working.
...What? Name one positive good outcome from it?
Perhaps it's time to remind your representatives that you want some ROI here.
Do you seriously believe any such results would be released legally within the public domain? More likely to be a topic of discussion in closed testimony before Congress.
Not a single passenger jet has been downed from the type of missiles these "high power lasers" are supposed to be able to prevent. Not a single one.
True, but it's only a matter of time (or semantics). Look at what happened in Baghdad to a DHL A300: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_shootdown_incident
It could have just have easily been carrying passengers (vice a cargo variant) elsewhere in the world, like an El Al flight out of Mombassa. Only because of the skill of the aircrew and a lot of luck were they able to land without hydraulics using differential thrust. And, had the flight gone on any longer, chances are the wing spar would have burned through resulting in a catastrophic crash. As it happens, the airframe is a total loss.
) This has been tried before - Lufthansa? United? Wasn't popular.
Actually, it was very popular on Lufthansa. The problem was that Boeing (owned Connexion) wasn't seeing much ROI across all the airlines and couldn't keep the service running for its limited deployment throughout the carriers. US airlines couldn't afford to install it, generally.
Gee, can you conspiracy theorists take a break for a second and consider that, just perhaps, this was written for commercial telecom management, marketing and fraud detection purposes? It was written and in the public domain before 9-11.
The US Government uses Linux, so are we to presume that Linus Torvalds is an agent of George Bush and the broad conspiracy to spy on you?
Just imagine if Worst Buy sold these. The Gector Squad would offer a special "new PC tuneup" for an extra hundred clams or so, but then you'd probably get infected by some of the warez they allegedly use to "support" customers. Wait...why am I asking this question? They already do this!
For the record you can get your bills via email from Cingular err AT&T but you have to explicitly request a turn off of paper billing. I think they'd prefer to go this route because it costs them less but I suspect US consumer protection laws (and possibly the FCC, which controls tariffs) require paper by default.
What's the big deal here anyway? If they didn't provide the detailed billing info some asshat on this forum would be complaining about that too!
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At least this didn't come about by way of pardon, ala Clinton's actions to forgive Dan Rostenkowski (served nary a day).
In Stevens, US dismissed, but could still bring another case if additional evidence exists.
The LAPD definitely engaged in tactics that were unethical to say the least and he got off the hook largely because of that. Was he actually guilty? I don't think we'll ever know, but there was definitely manufactured evidence that tainted things enough to get him off.
Manufactured evidence?
Unethical tactics?
Please elaborate.
Wasn't the bridge inspected, and passed, by the State?
Will AT&T send me a check for the days my service was out?
They won't send you a check, unless you happen to have a balance in your favor when you terminate your account. Call your carrier and request a credit because of a service outage - if you are polite and a good customer (e.g., pays on time) they will give it to you...even if it was due to weather.
Note his NT4 MCSE books underneath the console. Is this Billy Gates' gaming rig?
1. Ask root for whitehouse.gov 2. Receive IP of nameserver for .gov [check its signature]. Root may opt to give you the public key of .gov, otherwise ask for it and its check signature.
3. Ask .gov for whitehouse.gov
4. Receive IP of whitehouse.gov [check sig]. Also, .gov may opt to give you the public key of whitehouse.gov
5. Connect, now you know where to go :)
Ah, but it's more fun if you wind up at whitehouse.com
Ok, so if this ass gets away with spam because of this ruling, isn't he potentially still guilty of committing wire fraud? If not for the false crap he was pitching, then because he allegedly forged IP and email addresses?
As a publicly traded company, Red Hat's primary responsibility is to produce a profit for its shareholders. That is the law. ,
Sounds like the boys from Redmond... Seriously, this has huge implications re trust and assurance. We, the /. Community have long pitched Red Hat as the mainstream solution to replace Windows in the enterprise and government. DoD, once a large user of Solaris and Windows, is increasing its RHEL use (still using Windows and Solaris too).
PS - the statements other posters have made re Sarbanes Oxley are spot on.
You forget that AT&T has to pay the foreign carriers that you are roaming on ultimately.
Sure, AT&T (or Verizon, Vodafone, T-Mobile, et al) make $$$ as the "home" carrier, but the real cost in roaming is the fees the home carrier has to pay to the local provider. And for the iPhone (which this case apparently isn't), Apple gets its shill too.
Unfortunately it isn't cheap, but how does this make the corporation immoral? It costs BILLIONS to build out the telecom systems worldwide. And yet, they are supposed to make a profit for their shareholders and pay a ton of bucks to state, local and federal governments in taxes and fees. They won't give airtime and data bandwidth away for free...nor should they.
If the user is ignorant enough to not pay attention to legal contracts and published billing tariffs, then they must be a victim of modern day Darwinism.
Will be interesting to see, as the ultimate act of hypocrisy, if the next President pardons him ala Clinton's forgiveness of bigtime Chicago Machine Dem Dan Rostenkowski, who now collects his congressional pension despite similar acts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rostenkowski). Sen Stevens likely won't be convicted in time for President Bush to possibly react.
Nice...surf pr0n, Embarq dynamically sends you goatse adds.
That started long before Reagan.
Strange how the U.S. Soldiers have fewer rights then the terrorists we are fighting.
Mod parent up. This isn't a troll.
A 5-4 decision means that the somewhat-sane members of the court outnumbered the completely-crazy members of the court by One Single Vote
Maybe I'm a luddite, but how is this modded insightful? Seems more like flamebait (or maybe rate as funny)...
Anyone know if GTA 4 is coming to PC after the console release?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Dudayev#Assassination
Slow news day?
How is the previous post a troll? Believe what the AC is trying to say is that since there have been (apparently) no more attacks of 9-11 scope carried out in the US, perhaps, just perhaps, the program is working.
...What? Name one positive good outcome from it?
Perhaps it's time to remind your representatives that you want some ROI here. Do you seriously believe any such results would be released legally within the public domain? More likely to be a topic of discussion in closed testimony before Congress.
Not a single passenger jet has been downed from the type of missiles these "high power lasers" are supposed to be able to prevent. Not a single one.
True, but it's only a matter of time (or semantics). Look at what happened in Baghdad to a DHL A300: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_shootdown_incident
It could have just have easily been carrying passengers (vice a cargo variant) elsewhere in the world, like an El Al flight out of Mombassa. Only because of the skill of the aircrew and a lot of luck were they able to land without hydraulics using differential thrust. And, had the flight gone on any longer, chances are the wing spar would have burned through resulting in a catastrophic crash. As it happens, the airframe is a total loss.
) This has been tried before - Lufthansa? United? Wasn't popular.
Actually, it was very popular on Lufthansa. The problem was that Boeing (owned Connexion) wasn't seeing much ROI across all the airlines and couldn't keep the service running for its limited deployment throughout the carriers. US airlines couldn't afford to install it, generally.
Gee, can you conspiracy theorists take a break for a second and consider that, just perhaps, this was written for commercial telecom management, marketing and fraud detection purposes? It was written and in the public domain before 9-11.
The US Government uses Linux, so are we to presume that Linus Torvalds is an agent of George Bush and the broad conspiracy to spy on you?
Except that Western Electric was once part of Ma Bell / AT&T...
Just imagine if Worst Buy sold these. The Gector Squad would offer a special "new PC tuneup" for an extra hundred clams or so, but then you'd probably get infected by some of the warez they allegedly use to "support" customers. Wait...why am I asking this question? They already do this!
For the record you can get your bills via email from Cingular err AT&T but you have to explicitly request a turn off of paper billing. I think they'd prefer to go this route because it costs them less but I suspect US consumer protection laws (and possibly the FCC, which controls tariffs) require paper by default.
What's the big deal here anyway? If they didn't provide the detailed billing info some asshat on this forum would be complaining about that too!