A 12 volt battery can't kill you unless you do something like jam probes straight into your heart or brain (which would probably kill you without the battery anyway.) The body has too much resistance for 12 volts to do enough damage. The current will follow the path of least resistance (just like water does) and flow along the skin (if it can flow at all with only 12 volts...it wont without help from sweat or some outside agent,) not through the body which has a much higher resistance.
Pulling out Ohm's Law to impress the natives is fun and all, but there is theory and there is practical application.
And how big is your finger that you worry about getting your wedding ring across both terminals of a car battery???:)
At 2AM? Having modems connected to your routers is fairly common so that the guy who is on call can dial directly into the router when he gets a call at 2AM telling him that a site is offline.
The fact that Childs generally didn't play well with others when it came to his gear has no impact on anything as far as I can see.
The bot (glider) is *NOT* a copy of WoW, so you are still only running one copy of Blizzard's software at a time. Not that there is a restriction on running multiple copies in any case as it is perfectly acceptable to run multiple accounts in seperate windows.
Likewise, there are *NOT* multiple players logged into the account. The bot is essentially a sophisticated macro. It is just running the keyboard and mouse so you don't have to.
Running bots is against the EULA, but that is not inherently illegal any more than running IRC scripts is illegal.
As a disclaimer, I don't play WoW, let alone go through the trouble to set up programs to help me not play it.
Run your little app in the wrong company and you'll go directly to jail.
Nothing like an app that searches entire hard drives for data to get the security guy's panties in a bunch.
I've been in a lot of companies for various reasons and I never snoop through systems or directories unless I'm given express permission to do so (data migration or recovery for example.) You never know what company secrets might be on a particular machine that they would be very upset about you accessing.
Part of your job as a contractor or consultant is to safeguard your client's data. Running a search utility against their equipment is a breach of trust. It doesn't matter what you are looking for or how noble your intentions may be. You don't "operate outside the box." You are untrustworthy and a security risk for your clients. If you ran your utility on my network, I'd have you arrested without hesitation.
There is a world of difference between a war like WWII that was a necessary evil and the current conflict which was completely unprovoked.
I'm sure that people would be able to stomach a lot more if we were fighting a just war that had clear and noble goals or that was in actual defense of our country.
diesel fuel+ammonium nitrate found in fertilizer = half the explosive force of dynamite per mass It is actually a better choice for taking out those targets because it explodes (burns) more slowly.
These scanners will do nothing to stop airplane hijackings, which is a vastly overblown event in the first place. Far from being "popular with the dissident crowd", hijackings are extremely rare events. You are more likely to be shot in a drive by shooting in the US than be on a plane that is hijacked.
Armored cockpits and air marshals on each flight are a much sounder strategy for handling all incidents that occur in air. Believe it or don't, there are solutions between being a complete slave to the man like yourself and the total anarchist that you incorrectly paint those whom you disagree with as. Only presenting the extremes as possibilities certainly hurts your credibility even further.
If you are that scared and/or want your privacy and rights violated so much, then there is an opportunity for an airline to step up and cater to your needs. For the rest of us, we'd rather live in a sane world with realistic risk assesment. I don't see why we all need to put up with systems that only function to address your personal issues.
I do hope that you volunteer for extra screening every time you go through security. I'd hate to think that you'd pass up the opportunity for a friendly pat down. Worse yet, it'd be a real shame to find out the hard way that you are a terrorist.
It's taken years of therapy to be able to talk about it openly, but violent video games used to take my lunch money. Mortal Kombat, in particular would regularly shake me down for my loose change.
What exactly is "culturally American"? I mean, I can walk around just in my city and encounter a dozen different cultures. Which one is the true "American" one? Or are any of them? My city is different than your city. Presumably the culture is different, but I know that ours *has* to be the right one. The accent certainly is.:)
And why should people give up their heritage when they come here? You didn't give up yours. People wear "Kiss me I'm Irish" shirts on St Patty's day and wave Italian flags. Why aren't you complaining about them not assimilating?
I find it endlessly amusing that people will celebrate this country's diversity in one breath and then whine about how people wont assimilate in the next.
And the border security battle has *everything* to do with brown people. You don't see anyone talking about building a fence along the Canadian border, do you? Illegally crossing in from Canada is as easy as crossing the street in some towns.
How much is his advantage offset by the muscles that he doesn't have in the lower leg and foot? Or that he has to run in a much more ungainly manner?
This isn't really any different than the arguments being held in the swimming arena right now over Speedo's new LZR Racer swimsuit which has helped to break 30 records since it was introduced in February.
Technology will always be a factor in athletic events, whether it is used to enhance training, nutrition, or to make better equipment. Some countries will be on the leading edge of these advances and benefit from them while others are using last year's technology or worse. It isn't like any of this is a new revelation.
To bring this back to direct relevance, I'm sure that all of the other runners are going to be wearing something other than tshirts, shorts, and Chuck Taylors. I'm equally sure that someone is going to have equipment that gives them a slight edge over somebody else. Nevermind the training and nutrition that is available in a country like the US or Russia versus a country like Myanmar (for example.)
The guy isn't even fast enough to qualify for the event yet, so his prosthetics can't be giving him that much of an advantage. It's certainly not enough of an issue to worry about IMHO.
So, basically, you're full of shit, right? Someone is.
How many F-22's has Iran purchased?
Ok, ok, you probably think that's an unfair question. "Unfair" wasn't the word that came to mind. I was thinking "Retarded". The F-22 was a stupid example to go with since they still haven't finished filling the US orders. Even if they could and would sell to Iran, that wouldn't happen until after US orders are full.
Your entire argument ignores the GP's statement. They will sell to whomever they *can* which is limited by law.
So, no, there isn't a US manufacturer that has sold weapons directly to Al-Qaeda. That is completely different than your question though. I think that it is extremely likely that Al-Qaeda has purchased American made weapons. It isn't like there aren't a thousand or more sources for whatever they want, most of which are probably based outside of the US.
The ways to aquire a US made weapon are numerous and rarely involve the manufacturer. In Desert Storm, we faced Stingers, Hawk Missles and other assorted US made weapons. Iran has an aging fleet of F-14s. There is the equipment that we left behind after Desert Storm. The equipment that has been sold to various countries and insurgent forces. "Fell of the truck" specials. Stuff picked up off of the battlefield. Diverted shipments. I'm sure that there are even more.
Heck, we're even arming Afghan and Iraqi Police as well as military forces with M-16s and C-7s (and who knows what else.) Want to guess how many of those will end up in insurgent hands?
The only saving grace is that the old Soviet stuff is cheaper, easier to maintain and has much more ammo available for it. That's why they aren't running around with M-16s in the first place. It sure isn't because the weapons aren't available. You can just go to a gun show or certain sites online and buy an M-16 if you really want one.
That's not how copyrights work. By default, you have no right to do anything with someone else's copyrighted work. It's only through a license agreement that you have any right to even use Creative's code. Huh? Copyrights work the same with or without licensing agreements and have been around for much longer than EULAs in any case. What gives you the right to use the code is the fact that you purchased it and/or that it was given to you by the copyright owner. The license agreement may or may not place further restrictions beyond the copyright laws upon your usage and those restrictions may or may not hold up in court, but that agreement has nothing to do with copyright laws directly.
If a license agreement was inherently required to use a copyrighted work, then you'd need one to listen to the radio, hang a piece of art on the wall, or read this post. It simply doesn't work that way.
Copyright law would pretty much only prevent him from distributing (which he did--no argument there) or publicly performing the work. What he does with it in the privacy of his own home is his business as long as he doesn't share the copyrighted work with others and he was granted those rights as soon as the copyright holder gave him a copy. The licensing agreement can restrict those rights (which is why licensing agreements exist) when he agrees to it, but that is a case of voluntarily giving up your rights and not one of being granted rights that you didn't already have.
At what point did hacking the driver become illegal?
Sure, it might violate Creative's EULA, but that isn't against the law.
Now that said, redistributing the hacked driver is a copyright violation. However, that is easily solved by distributing the hack as a patch rather than as a complete package. If he does that, there is nothing that Creative can really do about it (although they don't have to let people discuss it on their forums.)
You could probably kill entire online communities by simply rickrolling them with these honeypot URLs. Through widespread application, we could raise the collective IQ of the internet by a good 10 points in one shot.
How? We have no industrial base anymore. It's the "information age", we're a "service economy", remember? Actually making steel is, like, so 1970s.
U.S. Steel now makes about as much steel now as it did in 1902. We're only talking 600 tons of steel a shot. The ET works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Thomson_Steel_Works produces that every 2 hours. The mill is nowhere near what it was at its peak, so I imagine that they could increase capacity if they wanted to (only two blast furnaces run today and they have a ton of unused space.)
The issue is in the casting process and not the steel production.
I'd dearly love to know the statistics. Yes, the vast majority of molestations are by someone the child knows, but just what percentage of children are molested? You'll never get statistics that are anywhere close to accurate. Too many of these incidents go unreported, or worse, they are reported and the child is either not believed or ignored.
Not to pick on the Catholic Church, but look at how many people recently came out and said that they were abused? This was well after the fact and those incidents probably would have gone unreported if things didn't happen the way they did. How many more incidents in just that case are still unreported because people don't wish to come forward and deal with the stigma and/or reopening those old wounds?
Pedophiles are an extremely common way to get psychologically damaged. A great many women suffer for the rest of their life from sexual abuse as a child (and a number of studies have shown that an appalling high percentage of girls are sexually abused by a relative). The last part of your statement is the important part. In the vast majority of sexual abuse cases, the victim knows the abuser. Strangers scooping up your kids is a comparatively rare occurance. This often gets overlooked because nobody wants to believe that their brother, father, sister, cousin, friend or neighbor would do such a thing to their kids.
It is silly to think that it only happens to girls as well. I'm willing to bet that a lot of men have been victims and just choose not to admit it.
A DNS server is more like a book store. People go there to find things. If the doors are open, then it is reasonable to assume that you are allowed in.
Now what this guy did was go in and check all of the book titles at once and write them down. Again, nobody stopped him from doing it at the time, but now that he has posted that list where the competition can see it, the store owners are crying foul. They are also upset because the list that they showed him also contained salaries, invoices, prices, and other confidential information. The person that should be on the hot seat is the employee that gave this guy a list with all sorts of information that he shouldn't have had, either for giving it to him or for allowing that information to be on that list in the first place.
It doesn't help the guy's case any that he's been leaving a burning bag of dog poo in front of the door every night for the past couple of months. Mooning the judge when she told him to stop it was probably not in his best interests either. I'd guess that the last bit is really what killed his case.
If I listen to music for three hours, is that exactly as enjoyable as three hours of a Lord of the Rings movie? Is that as enjoyable as playing through Portal? Maybe, depends on what you find enjoyable. But that is a big dependency.
Not a fair comparison as there is no promise of cake for sitting through a Lord of the Rings movie.
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There is definately large raid content on the high end. Big, scary, nasty stuff.
A 12 volt battery can't kill you unless you do something like jam probes straight into your heart or brain (which would probably kill you without the battery anyway.) The body has too much resistance for 12 volts to do enough damage. The current will follow the path of least resistance (just like water does) and flow along the skin (if it can flow at all with only 12 volts...it wont without help from sweat or some outside agent,) not through the body which has a much higher resistance.
Pulling out Ohm's Law to impress the natives is fun and all, but there is theory and there is practical application.
And how big is your finger that you worry about getting your wedding ring across both terminals of a car battery??? :)
At 2AM? Having modems connected to your routers is fairly common so that the guy who is on call can dial directly into the router when he gets a call at 2AM telling him that a site is offline.
The fact that Childs generally didn't play well with others when it came to his gear has no impact on anything as far as I can see.
The bot (glider) is *NOT* a copy of WoW, so you are still only running one copy of Blizzard's software at a time. Not that there is a restriction on running multiple copies in any case as it is perfectly acceptable to run multiple accounts in seperate windows.
Likewise, there are *NOT* multiple players logged into the account. The bot is essentially a sophisticated macro. It is just running the keyboard and mouse so you don't have to.
Running bots is against the EULA, but that is not inherently illegal any more than running IRC scripts is illegal.
As a disclaimer, I don't play WoW, let alone go through the trouble to set up programs to help me not play it.
Run your little app in the wrong company and you'll go directly to jail.
Nothing like an app that searches entire hard drives for data to get the security guy's panties in a bunch.
I've been in a lot of companies for various reasons and I never snoop through systems or directories unless I'm given express permission to do so (data migration or recovery for example.) You never know what company secrets might be on a particular machine that they would be very upset about you accessing.
Part of your job as a contractor or consultant is to safeguard your client's data. Running a search utility against their equipment is a breach of trust. It doesn't matter what you are looking for or how noble your intentions may be. You don't "operate outside the box." You are untrustworthy and a security risk for your clients. If you ran your utility on my network, I'd have you arrested without hesitation.
There is a world of difference between a war like WWII that was a necessary evil and the current conflict which was completely unprovoked.
I'm sure that people would be able to stomach a lot more if we were fighting a just war that had clear and noble goals or that was in actual defense of our country.
In europe, you don't have a glut of Escalades looking to paste you either.
Scared much?
These scanners will do nothing to stop airplane hijackings, which is a vastly overblown event in the first place. Far from being "popular with the dissident crowd", hijackings are extremely rare events. You are more likely to be shot in a drive by shooting in the US than be on a plane that is hijacked.
Armored cockpits and air marshals on each flight are a much sounder strategy for handling all incidents that occur in air. Believe it or don't, there are solutions between being a complete slave to the man like yourself and the total anarchist that you incorrectly paint those whom you disagree with as. Only presenting the extremes as possibilities certainly hurts your credibility even further.
If you are that scared and/or want your privacy and rights violated so much, then there is an opportunity for an airline to step up and cater to your needs. For the rest of us, we'd rather live in a sane world with realistic risk assesment. I don't see why we all need to put up with systems that only function to address your personal issues.
I do hope that you volunteer for extra screening every time you go through security. I'd hate to think that you'd pass up the opportunity for a friendly pat down. Worse yet, it'd be a real shame to find out the hard way that you are a terrorist.
A detonator doesn't need to be metallic either.
It's taken years of therapy to be able to talk about it openly, but violent video games used to take my lunch money. Mortal Kombat, in particular would regularly shake me down for my loose change.
What exactly is "culturally American"? I mean, I can walk around just in my city and encounter a dozen different cultures. Which one is the true "American" one? Or are any of them? My city is different than your city. Presumably the culture is different, but I know that ours *has* to be the right one. The accent certainly is. :)
And why should people give up their heritage when they come here? You didn't give up yours. People wear "Kiss me I'm Irish" shirts on St Patty's day and wave Italian flags. Why aren't you complaining about them not assimilating?
I find it endlessly amusing that people will celebrate this country's diversity in one breath and then whine about how people wont assimilate in the next.
And the border security battle has *everything* to do with brown people. You don't see anyone talking about building a fence along the Canadian border, do you? Illegally crossing in from Canada is as easy as crossing the street in some towns.
How much is his advantage offset by the muscles that he doesn't have in the lower leg and foot? Or that he has to run in a much more ungainly manner?
This isn't really any different than the arguments being held in the swimming arena right now over Speedo's new LZR Racer swimsuit which has helped to break 30 records since it was introduced in February.
Technology will always be a factor in athletic events, whether it is used to enhance training, nutrition, or to make better equipment. Some countries will be on the leading edge of these advances and benefit from them while others are using last year's technology or worse. It isn't like any of this is a new revelation.
To bring this back to direct relevance, I'm sure that all of the other runners are going to be wearing something other than tshirts, shorts, and Chuck Taylors. I'm equally sure that someone is going to have equipment that gives them a slight edge over somebody else. Nevermind the training and nutrition that is available in a country like the US or Russia versus a country like Myanmar (for example.)
The guy isn't even fast enough to qualify for the event yet, so his prosthetics can't be giving him that much of an advantage. It's certainly not enough of an issue to worry about IMHO.
How many F-22's has Iran purchased? Ok, ok, you probably think that's an unfair question. "Unfair" wasn't the word that came to mind. I was thinking "Retarded". The F-22 was a stupid example to go with since they still haven't finished filling the US orders. Even if they could and would sell to Iran, that wouldn't happen until after US orders are full.
Your entire argument ignores the GP's statement. They will sell to whomever they *can* which is limited by law.
So, no, there isn't a US manufacturer that has sold weapons directly to Al-Qaeda. That is completely different than your question though. I think that it is extremely likely that Al-Qaeda has purchased American made weapons. It isn't like there aren't a thousand or more sources for whatever they want, most of which are probably based outside of the US.
The ways to aquire a US made weapon are numerous and rarely involve the manufacturer. In Desert Storm, we faced Stingers, Hawk Missles and other assorted US made weapons. Iran has an aging fleet of F-14s. There is the equipment that we left behind after Desert Storm. The equipment that has been sold to various countries and insurgent forces. "Fell of the truck" specials. Stuff picked up off of the battlefield. Diverted shipments. I'm sure that there are even more.
Heck, we're even arming Afghan and Iraqi Police as well as military forces with M-16s and C-7s (and who knows what else.) Want to guess how many of those will end up in insurgent hands?
The only saving grace is that the old Soviet stuff is cheaper, easier to maintain and has much more ammo available for it. That's why they aren't running around with M-16s in the first place. It sure isn't because the weapons aren't available. You can just go to a gun show or certain sites online and buy an M-16 if you really want one.
If a license agreement was inherently required to use a copyrighted work, then you'd need one to listen to the radio, hang a piece of art on the wall, or read this post. It simply doesn't work that way.
Copyright law would pretty much only prevent him from distributing (which he did--no argument there) or publicly performing the work. What he does with it in the privacy of his own home is his business as long as he doesn't share the copyrighted work with others and he was granted those rights as soon as the copyright holder gave him a copy. The licensing agreement can restrict those rights (which is why licensing agreements exist) when he agrees to it, but that is a case of voluntarily giving up your rights and not one of being granted rights that you didn't already have.
At what point did hacking the driver become illegal?
Sure, it might violate Creative's EULA, but that isn't against the law.
Now that said, redistributing the hacked driver is a copyright violation. However, that is easily solved by distributing the hack as a patch rather than as a complete package. If he does that, there is nothing that Creative can really do about it (although they don't have to let people discuss it on their forums.)
You could probably kill entire online communities by simply rickrolling them with these honeypot URLs. Through widespread application, we could raise the collective IQ of the internet by a good 10 points in one shot.
U.S. Steel now makes about as much steel now as it did in 1902. We're only talking 600 tons of steel a shot. The ET works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Thomson_Steel_Works produces that every 2 hours. The mill is nowhere near what it was at its peak, so I imagine that they could increase capacity if they wanted to (only two blast furnaces run today and they have a ton of unused space.)
The issue is in the casting process and not the steel production.
Not to pick on the Catholic Church, but look at how many people recently came out and said that they were abused? This was well after the fact and those incidents probably would have gone unreported if things didn't happen the way they did. How many more incidents in just that case are still unreported because people don't wish to come forward and deal with the stigma and/or reopening those old wounds?
We run our arcade machines on electricity here in the states and that seems to work out just fine.
Bad analogy. And I have my own...
A DNS server is more like a book store. People go there to find things. If the doors are open, then it is reasonable to assume that you are allowed in.
Now what this guy did was go in and check all of the book titles at once and write them down. Again, nobody stopped him from doing it at the time, but now that he has posted that list where the competition can see it, the store owners are crying foul. They are also upset because the list that they showed him also contained salaries, invoices, prices, and other confidential information. The person that should be on the hot seat is the employee that gave this guy a list with all sorts of information that he shouldn't have had, either for giving it to him or for allowing that information to be on that list in the first place.
It doesn't help the guy's case any that he's been leaving a burning bag of dog poo in front of the door every night for the past couple of months. Mooning the judge when she told him to stop it was probably not in his best interests either. I'd guess that the last bit is really what killed his case.
At least he isn't using frames.
Not a fair comparison as there is no promise of cake for sitting through a Lord of the Rings movie.