I imagine that that portion of the law would be unconstitutional. After all, how can an officer act illegally, yet still be acting "under the peace officer's official authority"? That would mean that the government can authorize it's agents to be 'above the law'. Last I checked, even the President is (legally) not above the law.
On the contrary, this is _representative_ of a police state. Whether the US has _become_ a police state or is becoming a police state is debatable, but certainly the fact that police commonly arrest people for doing something that isn't in _their_ best interest regardless of whether they have broken the law _is_ representative of a police state. The difference between a police state and a free state is how often that happens (more often lately it seems) and how the people react to it.
A rich black girl friend of mine got arrested for DWB in a nice neighborhood. The police department appologized in a letter, which the family handed to their lawyer. The department settled for a cool $250K. Not bad for a few hours in lockup.
Um no. If you are in a public place, I can take all the photos of you (or anyone else) that I want. When it comes to _publishing_ them, I should get a model release from you, but it's certainly not _required_ by law. You could file a civil suit against me for the photograph, but the government has no standing in the case. Here's a primer on model releases detailing when they are desireable.
Well, you can think about it this way. "I prefer a screen that stays greyscale for 30 hours, vs a screen which is color for the first 2.5 hours, then just black after that."
Sure you can advertise the other 90% of your content. Look at what Amazon does. They look at what you've bought and said you like and they find other things you might like. Sure, as a consumer, I can't even look at 5% of what amazon could sell me, but a million consumers can cover 95% of what they sell, and actually be interested in buying it.
He works in auto racing, F1 & Indy cars mostly. He likes to tell the story about the foundry where they were heat treating magnesium wheels and something went wrong. I think it was 8 wheels, for about 80 or more pounds of magnesium. On fire. The fire department wanted to show up and put it out with water. Very very bad idea.
Try booting a live linux CD, then using 'dd' to zero out the first 16K of the disk. Then reboot from the CD and reformat the drive.
Sometimes the partition software can get confused by what's there, and the kernel will cobble up reasonable information about the drive from the drive's response itself.
Of course if you want to preserve your NTFS partition that's not a good approach. However, I've had bad luck with resizing windows partitions, so my approach is to backup, reformat, reinstall, and reload from the backup.
No, because if you never make the exploit public that doesn't mean that the black-hats won't know about it. And the 'slow to update' users will be vulnerable without ever knowing it.
Hell, publish it with the note that if they don't patch this vulnerability then a black-hat can break into their computer and use it to steal all their money from their bank _and_ rape their puppy! Maybe that will help them to be less 'slow' to update.
(yeah, I know it's pissing up a rope, but it's a dream)
It doesn't have to be a stolen ship, it can be a private sailboat. S.F. had _no_ port control the summer after 9/11/2001. I sailed from Kauai to SF and upon arrival we just sailed to the boat's slip, tied up and walked away. Nothing to stop us from meeting up with a ship out at sea and loading up a nuke. Even if the CG turned the Golden Gate Bridge into a big 'nuke detector' through some fantasy technology, if we set it off at that point everyone in the bay area would still be screwed. That's why we should focus not on protecting against attacks, but by preventing people from _wanting_ to attack us. Sure there will still be "crazies", but the fewer people wanting to kill us means less support for the "crazies" and the greater likelyhood that they will be detected early on in their plotting. On 9/12/2001 how many fewer people sympathetic to the terrorists were there than today, after Haditha, Guantanamo, etc.?
Right, Iraq is a country. What the US did there was an illegal, unprovoked invasion that has killed nearly as many American soldiers as 9/11 killed civilians.
Ha ha ha ha ha... Having worked in email for the last 7 years, first at Openwave (used by AT&T & Verizon among others), now at Mirapoint (email appliances) I know that even among the 'elite' ISPs, there's a lot of clusters that happen due to misconfiguration or bugs or inattention.
I've got a friend who works at a winery and her email takes a day to get to her. Not sure why. She uses her personal yahoo.com account (against company policy) for her 'critical' work email because she can't wait the day for the pdf proofs of the catalog she's working on...
Read "The Ancestor's Tale" by Dawkins. He goes over this at the start of the book, leading back to the first 'concestor' (convergent ancestor). He goes over the whole idea of some one individual being the ancestor of all humans pretty quickly, but he covers the problem of isolated gene pools (Australia & Tasmania), and I'm sure he's got some good references to other works which cover it more in depth.
Not so sure about that. I'd imagine that the IQ/technical knowledge of the average slashdotter is in the top 20%. This makes the assertion (of another reply to your post) that representatives should just be voting machines tabulating the desires of their constitutents even more frightening. There is a reason that the founding fathers created a representative democracy, instead of a direct democracy. And it wasn't just because at that time there wasn't the technology for instant vote reporting. Representatives need to be a 'filter' to attenuate the mob mentality that 'the masses' sometimes exhibit.
On the other hand, my brother who wrote firmware for Cisco and Redback had a Econ degree (from Stanford) because when he started they didn't offer a CS degree.
Is that you're _always_ breaking _some_ law. They just need to figure out which one and charge you with it. Or you _could_ be breaking some law, so they charge you with it and you have to fight it and it bankrupts you. Sort of like our wonderful 21st century medical system.
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I imagine that that portion of the law would be unconstitutional. After all, how can an officer act illegally, yet still be acting "under the peace officer's official authority"? That would mean that the government can authorize it's agents to be 'above the law'. Last I checked, even the President is (legally) not above the law.
On the contrary, this is _representative_ of a police state. Whether the US has _become_ a police state or is becoming a police state is debatable, but certainly the fact that police commonly arrest people for doing something that isn't in _their_ best interest regardless of whether they have broken the law _is_ representative of a police state. The difference between a police state and a free state is how often that happens (more often lately it seems) and how the people react to it.
A rich black girl friend of mine got arrested for DWB in a nice neighborhood. The police department appologized in a letter, which the family handed to their lawyer. The department settled for a cool $250K. Not bad for a few hours in lockup.
Um no. If you are in a public place, I can take all the photos of you (or anyone else) that I want. When it comes to _publishing_ them, I should get a model release from you, but it's certainly not _required_ by law. You could file a civil suit against me for the photograph, but the government has no standing in the case. Here's a primer on model releases detailing when they are desireable.
Wow JCR, you having a bad day? You normally seem so rational...
Gone off the deep end a bit on this thread.
Three words: VOIP over TOR
Well, you can think about it this way. "I prefer a screen that stays greyscale for 30 hours, vs a screen which is color for the first 2.5 hours, then just black after that."
Wouldn't an inside-out version be better than an upside-down one?
Sure you can advertise the other 90% of your content. Look at what Amazon does. They look at what you've bought and said you like and they find other things you might like. Sure, as a consumer, I can't even look at 5% of what amazon could sell me, but a million consumers can cover 95% of what they sell, and actually be interested in buying it.
Yeah, Bob's ok, he sort of grows on you (like a fungus).
But Sam Posey will make me turn the channel (or rather fast forward on the tivo).
All of a sudden, the data mining that Walmart does turns up this:
"There sure are a lot of people buying nothing but aluminum foil"
Shouldn't that be:
"I'd rather have more power over others than less, wouldn't you?"
He works in auto racing, F1 & Indy cars mostly. He likes to tell the story about the foundry where they were heat treating magnesium wheels and something went wrong. I think it was 8 wheels, for about 80 or more pounds of magnesium. On fire. The fire department wanted to show up and put it out with water. Very very bad idea.
Try booting a live linux CD, then using 'dd' to zero out the first 16K of the disk.
Then reboot from the CD and reformat the drive.
Sometimes the partition software can get confused by what's there, and the kernel will cobble up reasonable information about the drive from the drive's response itself.
Of course if you want to preserve your NTFS partition that's not a good approach. However, I've had bad luck with resizing windows partitions, so my approach is to backup, reformat, reinstall, and reload from the backup.
No, because if you never make the exploit public that doesn't mean that the black-hats won't know about it. And the 'slow to update' users will be vulnerable without ever knowing it.
Hell, publish it with the note that if they don't patch this vulnerability then a black-hat can break into their computer and use it to steal all their money from their bank _and_ rape their puppy! Maybe that will help them to be less 'slow' to update.
(yeah, I know it's pissing up a rope, but it's a dream)
This opens up X to the possibility of supporting something like the Tactipad. That's cool.
But I still think it's going to be awhile before I see the Tactipad at Best Buy...
It doesn't have to be a stolen ship, it can be a private sailboat. S.F. had _no_ port control the summer after 9/11/2001. I sailed from Kauai to SF and upon arrival we just sailed to the boat's slip, tied up and walked away. Nothing to stop us from meeting up with a ship out at sea and loading up a nuke. Even if the CG turned the Golden Gate Bridge into a big 'nuke detector' through some fantasy technology, if we set it off at that point everyone in the bay area would still be screwed.
That's why we should focus not on protecting against attacks, but by preventing people from _wanting_ to attack us. Sure there will still be "crazies", but the fewer people wanting to kill us means less support for the "crazies" and the greater likelyhood that they will be detected early on in their plotting.
On 9/12/2001 how many fewer people sympathetic to the terrorists were there than today, after Haditha, Guantanamo, etc.?
Well, it sort of sounds like he's talking about doing away with MX records as well. That should help with spam :-)
Right, Iraq is a country.
What the US did there was an illegal, unprovoked invasion that has killed nearly as many American soldiers as 9/11 killed civilians.
This coming from an American.
Posts like this are why I read slashdot. That and the insightful rating it has/had (it's gone to +5 Funny now )
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Having worked in email for the last 7 years, first at Openwave (used by AT&T & Verizon among others), now at Mirapoint (email appliances) I know that even among the 'elite' ISPs, there's a lot of clusters that happen due to misconfiguration or bugs or inattention.
I've got a friend who works at a winery and her email takes a day to get to her. Not sure why. She uses her personal yahoo.com account (against company policy) for her 'critical' work email because she can't wait the day for the pdf proofs of the catalog she's working on...
Read "The Ancestor's Tale" by Dawkins. He goes over this at the start of the book, leading back to the first 'concestor' (convergent ancestor). He goes over the whole idea of some one individual being the ancestor of all humans pretty quickly, but he covers the problem of isolated gene pools (Australia & Tasmania), and I'm sure he's got some good references to other works which cover it more in depth.
he was VOTED to power by people like us,
Not so sure about that. I'd imagine that the IQ/technical knowledge of the average slashdotter is in the top 20%. This makes the assertion (of another reply to your post) that representatives should just be voting machines tabulating the desires of their constitutents even more frightening. There is a reason that the founding fathers created a representative democracy, instead of a direct democracy. And it wasn't just because at that time there wasn't the technology for instant vote reporting.
Representatives need to be a 'filter' to attenuate the mob mentality that 'the masses' sometimes exhibit.
On the other hand, my brother who wrote firmware for Cisco and Redback had a Econ degree (from Stanford) because when he started they didn't offer a CS degree.
Is that you're _always_ breaking _some_ law. They just need to figure out which one and charge you with it. Or you _could_ be breaking some law, so they charge you with it and you have to fight it and it bankrupts you. Sort of like our wonderful 21st century medical system.