My instinctive reaction of this is that the fuzz is going to have some problems making this stick, but perhaps that wasn't the goal. Maybe it was just to roust the kid and force him and his parents to spend thousands defending themselves as punishment.
Perhaps this is true - if so, it is abuse of discretion, and ethically wrong. In order to arrest and charge an individual, a police officer must possess "facts and circumstance sufficient to convince a person of reasonable caution that an offense has been committed." If the officer knew or had good reason to believe that, in fact, no actual crime had been committed, the arrest was not lawful.
Further, if the intent was to harrass the individual, the arrest may actually be criminal.
But keep in mind that the police probably did SOME homework before suing this kid Please, please at least read the article before posting. The police did not sue the boy, they arrested him. There is a world of difference between the two.
The rest of your points are so equally ill-informed that it doesn't even warrant the time to contest them point by point. Perhaps I am being trolled? One can only hope...
Get on the case of the companies that are letting him root them, and force them to take responsiblity for the damage he does with their computers...
Sure, and while you are at it, if anyone's home is ever broken into and a firearm stolen, charge the homeowner with murder. While you are at it, the next time your local corner store is robbed, charge them with a drug related offense, as we are all pretty certain that the money will go to buy drugs, anyways....
I'm tired of the 'if you would just secure your boxen' stuff. So, my servers aren't locked down - doesn't give every Tom, Dick, and 5kr1p7 kiddie the right to mess with my crap.
Hey, it's just my 2 pfennings. We are all entitled to our opinions - you, yours, and me, mine.
Everyone is tired of programming for them, and.NET is just an updated set of dictated rules to programmers.
I'm not tired of programming for the windows platform - It pays for a roof over my head and food in my kids' mouths.
No programmer is going to wilfully move to a new platform that has no market share, just so they can be dictated in how to write their software.
I'd like to see your logic - No market share? Deploying the.NET will be as easy [or easier] as deploying the java VM to any Windows based machines. In fact, when whistler comes, VM deployment will become a non-issue.
Even so, Sun is way ahead with Java and net based applications, with the promise of openning it [java] to the world, something MS has never said they would do with.NET
I'll be pleasantly surprised the day Sun 'opens' up Java.
Companies will NOT pay for subscription based applications. There is no way that if most of the world would not pay to upgrade to Office 97, that they are going to decide that monthly charges are better. I know accountants, they will NEVER buy into this idea.
Companies will perform a cost-benifits analysis. Bottom line, if leasing is cheaper (remember, there may be tax-based lease benifits to lease vs. purchase. If there aren't, expect Microsoft to be lobbying heavily for such benifits in the future). Bottom line? Accountants and PHBs' will select the cheaper option, all other factors being similar.
NET based apps (services) will be totally dependent on your connection to the network (internet). You think your company is effected now when you can't get email or surf the web? Imagine all the sales, accounting, etc, depts. sitting around without any apps because the DSL/FRAME/etc is down.
I would expect both "Office Enterprise Servers" to be available to large corps. Also expect that clients will be able to survive and operate seamlessly during network disconnects, and automatically resynch once the network connection is established. Such technology will be required for laptops, anyway. It would be trivial to extend this technology to the desktop.
Not even hard-core, full-blown Microsoft lackeys can use these two things [C# and.NET] yet
Not true - I've been using it for several months, and I am certainly neither a Microsoft lackey nor an MS apologist. Further, many developers have been using C# for over a year now. It's remarkably robust for pre-beta.
I'm sorry, but until I see proof that C# and or.NET is actually up and running...
You may obtain a pre-beta C# compiler and.NET for the windows 2000 platform at http://msdn.microsoft.com
AND someone shows me how superior it really is to everything that has ever been
When new technology is announced, you should assess it for yourself - each project is different. If you program primarily in UNIX, then you will have little need for.NET. So why make such a big fuss?...and as MS has implied, is superior to everything that ever will be...
Please show me a company who's marketing department doesn't harp incessantly about their products, and I'll show you a company that will not likely be around long.
Actually, both Sybase ASE 12 and SQL Server 2000 have GUI 'wizards' for creating databases (I'm certain that Oracle does, too, but as I'm not an Oracle user, I can't tell ya).
The problem with using the wizard is, of course, that one size doesn't really fit all circumstances. Database design requires skill and thought - for any sizeable project, it's not something you should just 'whip together'.
Just as citizens should not obey an unjust law, law enforcers should not enforce unjust ones
Then you are asking the Police Officer to become Officer, Judge, and Jury by selectively enforcing whatever each person considers 'just'. Such selective enforcement is not what our system is build upon. While I am supportive of 'civil disobedience', 'police disobedience' seems to take on a little more sinister connotation for me.
Police are supposed to have warrents for SPECIFIC things
This is true. This is also why you will often see warrants with phrases such as (1) Glock 19 pistol, and parts thereof.
This way, not only can the officer search in a desk drawer and find the revolver there, but they may also search your wife's jewelry case for the spring assembly. If they happen to find your stash of pot there, it is called the 'plain view doctrine', and they may seize the evidence and use it against you. This is well tried case law.
It's probable that the warant contained language stating that any computers, data, and media could be siezed as evidence. If this is so, then as long as they could find the media, they could seize it. It can be examined later, at a lab.
If in the course of executing that warrant, they think they have evidence of some other crime, they have to go convince the judge again and get another warrant.
Sir, you are incorrect. Please refer to what is commonly known as the 'plain view doctrine'. A perfect example is Ivatury v. Texas, 792 S.W.2d 845 (Ct. App. 1990). If, while conducting a legal search, evidence of another crime is found, such evidence may be seized.
How nice of the police to make it wrong to help someone...this is why i tend to think they do more harm then good
Please note that it is not the police who caused this... It is their job to enforce this unpopular law, but they did not create it. For that, you may thank your baby-kissing politicians.
In other words I have to stop and do first aid but if there are any police there I don't have to.
Actually, you may find it interesting to know that for the same reasons, many law enforcement officers will not become CPR certified for liability reasons. I've actually seen officers stand there waiting for the paramedics because if they attempt (and fail) to save a person's life, they may be sued and lose everything they own.
People may say a lot of bad things about Microsoft, but they really do have a pretty good knowledgebase compared to many of their competitors. With questions like this, one should visit support.microsoft.com (or if it is programming related, msdn.microsoft.com)
I don't think you can REALLY administer Windows through telnet
Actually, you can administer W2k through telnet... I believe that MS is finally taken the proper approach to GUI design for administering objects (whether they be operating system objects or services/daemons)
The design is basically that they expose a COM or DCOM interface for the object to be administered, and the GUI manipulates that COM/DCOM interface to administer the object or service.
The obvious advantage to this is that you can perform the exact same administration from the command line as you can from the GUI client through jscript / vbscript / perlscript (and with the.NET platform, you may add C#, etc).
No more tasks that may "only" be performed through the GUI (a big complaint that I had about NT 4)
Actually, the FTC is rather clear on this point: Ultimately a seller is responsible for keeping a current "do not call" list, whether it is through a telemarketing service it hires or through its own efforts.
here is the link to the FTC site:
http://www.ftc.gov/bc p/c online/pubs/buspubs/tsr/abusive.htm
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Perhaps this is true - if so, it is abuse of discretion, and ethically wrong. In order to arrest and charge an individual, a police officer must possess "facts and circumstance sufficient to convince a person of reasonable caution that an offense has been committed." If the officer knew or had good reason to believe that, in fact, no actual crime had been committed, the arrest was not lawful.
Further, if the intent was to harrass the individual, the arrest may actually be criminal.Please, please at least read the article before posting. The police did not sue the boy, they arrested him. There is a world of difference between the two.
The rest of your points are so equally ill-informed that it doesn't even warrant the time to contest them point by point. Perhaps I am being trolled? One can only hope...
The US Supreme Court has ruled that parody is exempt from copyright infringement. See Eldred v. Reno
Sure, and while you are at it, if anyone's home is ever broken into and a firearm stolen, charge the homeowner with murder. While you are at it, the next time your local corner store is robbed, charge them with a drug related offense, as we are all pretty certain that the money will go to buy drugs, anyways....
I'm tired of the 'if you would just secure your boxen' stuff. So, my servers aren't locked down - doesn't give every Tom, Dick, and 5kr1p7 kiddie the right to mess with my crap.
Hey, it's just my 2 pfennings. We are all entitled to our opinions - you, yours, and me, mine.
-jerdenn
No programmer is going to wilfully move to a new platform that has no market share, just so they can be dictated in how to write their software.
I'd like to see your logic - No market share? Deploying theEven so, Sun is way ahead with Java and net based applications, with the promise of openning it [java] to the world, something MS has never said they would do with .NET
I'll be pleasantly surprised the day Sun 'opens' up Java.Companies will NOT pay for subscription based applications. There is no way that if most of the world would not pay to upgrade to Office 97, that they are going to decide that monthly charges are better. I know accountants, they will NEVER buy into this idea.
Companies will perform a cost-benifits analysis. Bottom line, if leasing is cheaper (remember, there may be tax-based lease benifits to lease vs. purchase. If there aren't, expect Microsoft to be lobbying heavily for such benifits in the future). Bottom line? Accountants and PHBs' will select the cheaper option, all other factors being similar.NET based apps (services) will be totally dependent on your connection to the network (internet). You think your company is effected now when you can't get email or surf the web? Imagine all the sales, accounting, etc, depts. sitting around without any apps because the DSL/FRAME/etc is down.
I would expect both "Office Enterprise Servers" to be available to large corps. Also expect that clients will be able to survive and operate seamlessly during network disconnects, and automatically resynch once the network connection is established. Such technology will be required for laptops, anyway. It would be trivial to extend this technology to the desktop.-jerdenn
Works great until you pay in anything but cash. If you use your credit / debit card, you and your "Martha Bush" profile will become linked...
-jerdenn
I'm sorry, but until I see proof that C# and or .NET is actually up and running...
You may obtain a pre-beta C# compiler andAND someone shows me how superior it really is to everything that has ever been
When new technology is announced, you should assess it for yourself - each project is different. If you program primarily in UNIX, then you will have little need forSorry to sound flamebaitish
Apology accepted.-jerdenn
The problem with using the wizard is, of course, that one size doesn't really fit all circumstances. Database design requires skill and thought - for any sizeable project, it's not something you should just 'whip together'.
-jerdenn
-jerdenn
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Then you are asking the Police Officer to become Officer, Judge, and Jury by selectively enforcing whatever each person considers 'just'. Such selective enforcement is not what our system is build upon. While I am supportive of 'civil disobedience', 'police disobedience' seems to take on a little more sinister connotation for me.
-jerdenn
(One would think that such plain english would not lend itself to such convoluted interpretations, wouldn't one?)
-jerdenn
This is true. This is also why you will often see warrants with phrases such as (1) Glock 19 pistol, and parts thereof.
This way, not only can the officer search in a desk drawer and find the revolver there, but they may also search your wife's jewelry case for the spring assembly. If they happen to find your stash of pot there, it is called the 'plain view doctrine', and they may seize the evidence and use it against you. This is well tried case law.-jerdenn
-jerdenn
Sir, you are incorrect. Please refer to what is commonly known as the 'plain view doctrine'. A perfect example is Ivatury v. Texas, 792 S.W.2d 845 (Ct. App. 1990). If, while conducting a legal search, evidence of another crime is found, such evidence may be seized.
-jerdenn
Please note that it is not the police who caused this... It is their job to enforce this unpopular law, but they did not create it. For that, you may thank your baby-kissing politicians.
-jerdenn
Actually, you may find it interesting to know that for the same reasons, many law enforcement officers will not become CPR certified for liability reasons. I've actually seen officers stand there waiting for the paramedics because if they attempt (and fail) to save a person's life, they may be sued and lose everything they own.
-jerdenn
speaking as a former cop turned techie.Without WINS:
Q117633 - How Browsing a Wide Area Network WorksThe proper way to do it, though, would be to set up a WINS server and WINS Proxy agents:
w inNT Mag article on WINS - actually, do a search on this site for "WINS" and you'll find several other usefull articles. Q121004 - WINS Proxy Agent FunctionalityAlso usefull:
Q142692 - Minimizing WAN Traffic-jerdenn
You don't have to take your pager with you - if you do, you aren't on vacation.
Nope. You end up with Monster OprahBots
-jerdennActually, you can administer W2k through telnet... I believe that MS is finally taken the proper approach to GUI design for administering objects (whether they be operating system objects or services/daemons)
The design is basically that they expose a COM or DCOM interface for the object to be administered, and the GUI manipulates that COM/DCOM interface to administer the object or service. The obvious advantage to this is that you can perform the exact same administration from the command line as you can from the GUI client through jscript / vbscript / perlscript (and with the-jerdenn
-jerdenn
-jerdenn
VNC rocks!