Where does the article say anything about posting photos, addresses, telephone numbers, etc? That could be interpreted as real harrasment (in a legal sense). But I don't see where any of that happen.
It's not a credible threat. It's an anonymous forum troll. Threats from an anonymous forum troll, unless they are persistent and evolving, are not credible. If the threats had wandered out of the forum, or if they had continued with more detail, then I might consider them to be credible. When someone is verbally threatened in person to get their "ass kicked" for saying something someone didn't like or looking at them, people don't typically sue. In fact, the majority of the public would probably look at the victim as pathetic for bothering to sue, even though a non-anonymous in person verbal threat like that would have much more credibility than a forum troll.
It shouldn't. However, I would suggest there are times when society and our good senses should over rule law. You don't sue every person who wanders into your yard for damaging your property (grass/landscaping), nor do you sue everyone who threatens to beat you up. I think if there was more credibility to the accusations of herpes or more of an indication of a real threat, I would sympathize more with this case. Instead, from what is written in TFA this sounds like Encyclopedia Dramatica style trolling. It's best to just let assholes be assholes until they actually do something to harm you. Otherwise you will waste your entire life fighting with assholes.
Considering that anonymous trolls have a tendancy to feed off of eachother, I would not be surprised if this whole case has the opposite of the desired effect. More anonymous trolls will probably blast them. If someone is going to seek damages for some absurd post by an anonymous troll, they should think hard about whether or not any real damage is being done.
Creating tarrifs to equalize competition from imports made in countries where the labor is disturbingly cheap and the currency trade value artificially controlled is not neccessarily a bad thing. It's not about creating jobs here. It's about cracking down on our economy being dangerously manipulated by other nations against our own interests. There are dangers to this without a doubt, but there are also big dangers to letting it run free. Free trade only works well between countries of similar economic conditions. We don't have free-trade with Europe, which makes little sense since it would work fairly well with them.
Most companies forget their employees are human and that it is important to give a degree of human empathy to your employees.
Make no mistake. Those amenities to the employees exist to make them more comfortable working long hours. There's nothing wrong with that, but don't think that Google is being somehow humanitarian to their employees for it. They want your life in return.
The N64 analog stick was infact digital. Also, if anything done in the N64 was covered under those patents, then the patents would be invalidated due to prior art.
No voting machine I have ever seen is networked. They are closed systems that in my State (PA) store the vote data on a SIM card. It has been shown that a certain optical scan machine (I forget which one) can be hacked to change the vote count by hacking a SIM card. All it takes is for the right person working for the Elections Department. Fortunately in that case there is a paper record of every vote, and a hand recount can be done. In my state, the only paper record is the printout of the totals at the end of the day. That disturbs me.
He's optimistic because many states have already switched to using paper records, and most of the states that dont have paper records yet have plans set to switch to paper records soon. Thus the biggest complaint about the system is being corrected. If you give no positive reenforcement before a problem is fully corrected, State governments will start to wonder why they even bother to try. Every small step in the right direction must be highly praised and every step in the wrong direction must be brutally scorned.
E-voting is a lot better than postal votes though, they may increase voter turn out and allow the bed bound etc to vote
A system for the bed bound already existed and still exists. It's called an absentee ballot. You vote in the comfort of where ever you want and mail it in.
With rigging a paper election, you have to manually eliminate the paper trail, which is significantly more difficult than changing some bytes. Most people don't have a problem with electronic voting as a method. They have a problem with the absolute lack of a paper trail in so many of these systems.
Lets face it, we're just going to have to wait for us to be in some serious shit before anything significantly changes. Necessity might be the mother of invention, but despiration is the mother of success.
This is exactly my point. Prosecuting Presidents in the past has rarely amounted to much of anything. At the worst, a pardon is granted. If anyone wants something that is going to stick across the board, we need to make an example of the telecomms. Not only will the telecomms think twice before doing it again, every other industry will also think twice before ignoring their own legal counsil when the government comes asking them to break the law.
The telecoms arn't the bad guys here, but they ARE guilty. I agree that the government officials responsible should be prosecuted, but the reality of the results of such prosecutions is that they are not harsh and do not stop anything. Prosecuting the telecoms WILL stop their participation and send a strong message to anyone else that would think of participating in similar activities. It sucks, but that's the reality of leadership.
Clearly you cannot be reasoned with. I have a coalition ready to take the Intelligent Engineering theory into high school biology classrooms. I think you will have a difficult time stopping us.
What's more sad than anything is that Fox News got this story first (assuming that slashdot could not find a more legititmate source). Why are news outlets not interested in reporting scientific achievements anymore?
Religion is easy. It is obsurd to think that the car came into existance through millions of random design mutations that somehow did not cause it to blow up. The only reasonable explanation for the existance of the car is that it was designed and created by some intelligent being. Therefore God exists. QED.
This assumes that the political/social interests and standards in the US match those of the rest of the world, which they most certainly do not. You do make a valid point though that the Democratic and Republicans parties are not nearly as different in practice as they would like us all to believe.
Please do not equate American News with Fox News. Our news may be lacking, but Fox News is that media cousin that's always getting wasted at family picnics and no one likes.
Oakland is only effected by the college slum lords and the almost monthly shootings in front of the "O". Oakland isn't right next to "Da Hood". It IS "Da Hood". Go anywhere outside of the campus proper and most of what you will see is run down, poorly maintained, and over priced housing marketed to college students. Higher quality and lower cost housing is a mear 15 minute bus ride away.
I'm not sure how any Harry Potter book could even make the list at all. The Harry Potter series was simply written and not intellectually engaging at all. This is not to say that I think they were bad, but as far as books targeted at young audiences go, they are not the best. They're simply the easiest. And this is all without even going into the absurdity of the plot and the behavior of the adult characters.
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Where does the article say anything about posting photos, addresses, telephone numbers, etc? That could be interpreted as real harrasment (in a legal sense). But I don't see where any of that happen.
It's not a credible threat. It's an anonymous forum troll. Threats from an anonymous forum troll, unless they are persistent and evolving, are not credible. If the threats had wandered out of the forum, or if they had continued with more detail, then I might consider them to be credible. When someone is verbally threatened in person to get their "ass kicked" for saying something someone didn't like or looking at them, people don't typically sue. In fact, the majority of the public would probably look at the victim as pathetic for bothering to sue, even though a non-anonymous in person verbal threat like that would have much more credibility than a forum troll.
What consequences? Speach that has legal consequences is not free.
It shouldn't. However, I would suggest there are times when society and our good senses should over rule law. You don't sue every person who wanders into your yard for damaging your property (grass/landscaping), nor do you sue everyone who threatens to beat you up. I think if there was more credibility to the accusations of herpes or more of an indication of a real threat, I would sympathize more with this case. Instead, from what is written in TFA this sounds like Encyclopedia Dramatica style trolling. It's best to just let assholes be assholes until they actually do something to harm you. Otherwise you will waste your entire life fighting with assholes.
Considering that anonymous trolls have a tendancy to feed off of eachother, I would not be surprised if this whole case has the opposite of the desired effect. More anonymous trolls will probably blast them. If someone is going to seek damages for some absurd post by an anonymous troll, they should think hard about whether or not any real damage is being done.
Creating tarrifs to equalize competition from imports made in countries where the labor is disturbingly cheap and the currency trade value artificially controlled is not neccessarily a bad thing. It's not about creating jobs here. It's about cracking down on our economy being dangerously manipulated by other nations against our own interests. There are dangers to this without a doubt, but there are also big dangers to letting it run free. Free trade only works well between countries of similar economic conditions. We don't have free-trade with Europe, which makes little sense since it would work fairly well with them.
That's why he still only gets 5 mod points.
Most companies forget their employees are human and that it is important to give a degree of human empathy to your employees.
Make no mistake. Those amenities to the employees exist to make them more comfortable working long hours. There's nothing wrong with that, but don't think that Google is being somehow humanitarian to their employees for it. They want your life in return.
The N64 analog stick was infact digital. Also, if anything done in the N64 was covered under those patents, then the patents would be invalidated due to prior art.
No voting machine I have ever seen is networked. They are closed systems that in my State (PA) store the vote data on a SIM card. It has been shown that a certain optical scan machine (I forget which one) can be hacked to change the vote count by hacking a SIM card. All it takes is for the right person working for the Elections Department. Fortunately in that case there is a paper record of every vote, and a hand recount can be done. In my state, the only paper record is the printout of the totals at the end of the day. That disturbs me.
He's optimistic because many states have already switched to using paper records, and most of the states that dont have paper records yet have plans set to switch to paper records soon. Thus the biggest complaint about the system is being corrected. If you give no positive reenforcement before a problem is fully corrected, State governments will start to wonder why they even bother to try. Every small step in the right direction must be highly praised and every step in the wrong direction must be brutally scorned.
E-voting is a lot better than postal votes though, they may increase voter turn out and allow the bed bound etc to vote
A system for the bed bound already existed and still exists. It's called an absentee ballot. You vote in the comfort of where ever you want and mail it in.
With rigging a paper election, you have to manually eliminate the paper trail, which is significantly more difficult than changing some bytes. Most people don't have a problem with electronic voting as a method. They have a problem with the absolute lack of a paper trail in so many of these systems.
Apparently you only use DC powered lights.
Lets face it, we're just going to have to wait for us to be in some serious shit before anything significantly changes. Necessity might be the mother of invention, but despiration is the mother of success.
Im just clearing this up but didnt they also say the world would end by 2012 any way
Only for the Mayans. Everyone else will be ok because we didn't put an expiration date on our time recording devices.
This is exactly my point. Prosecuting Presidents in the past has rarely amounted to much of anything. At the worst, a pardon is granted. If anyone wants something that is going to stick across the board, we need to make an example of the telecomms. Not only will the telecomms think twice before doing it again, every other industry will also think twice before ignoring their own legal counsil when the government comes asking them to break the law.
The telecoms arn't the bad guys here, but they ARE guilty. I agree that the government officials responsible should be prosecuted, but the reality of the results of such prosecutions is that they are not harsh and do not stop anything. Prosecuting the telecoms WILL stop their participation and send a strong message to anyone else that would think of participating in similar activities. It sucks, but that's the reality of leadership.
Clearly you cannot be reasoned with. I have a coalition ready to take the Intelligent Engineering theory into high school biology classrooms. I think you will have a difficult time stopping us.
What's more sad than anything is that Fox News got this story first (assuming that slashdot could not find a more legititmate source). Why are news outlets not interested in reporting scientific achievements anymore?
Religion is easy. It is obsurd to think that the car came into existance through millions of random design mutations that somehow did not cause it to blow up. The only reasonable explanation for the existance of the car is that it was designed and created by some intelligent being. Therefore God exists. QED.
This assumes that the political/social interests and standards in the US match those of the rest of the world, which they most certainly do not. You do make a valid point though that the Democratic and Republicans parties are not nearly as different in practice as they would like us all to believe.
Please do not equate American News with Fox News. Our news may be lacking, but Fox News is that media cousin that's always getting wasted at family picnics and no one likes.
Oakland is only effected by the college slum lords and the almost monthly shootings in front of the "O". Oakland isn't right next to "Da Hood". It IS "Da Hood". Go anywhere outside of the campus proper and most of what you will see is run down, poorly maintained, and over priced housing marketed to college students. Higher quality and lower cost housing is a mear 15 minute bus ride away.
I'm not sure how any Harry Potter book could even make the list at all. The Harry Potter series was simply written and not intellectually engaging at all. This is not to say that I think they were bad, but as far as books targeted at young audiences go, they are not the best. They're simply the easiest. And this is all without even going into the absurdity of the plot and the behavior of the adult characters.