The prosecution and defense have, for years, been trying to weed out intelligent, informed jurors especially ones that know the defendant or the victim. They claim it is necessary to keep out prejudice even while they do extremely unethical things like introducing the testimony of career criminals who have been given incentives to testilie (aka jailhouse snitches) and to keep information about the victim/plaintiff's behavior from the jury's ears lest the jury come to the conclusion that their behavior was so irresponsible that it mitigates the severity of what the defendant did.
In Britain, libel laws don't have any presumption of innocence-- any statement made is assumed to be false unless you prove it's true. Journalist are running scared.'
But it doesn't stop there. Britain's privacy laws also add a "need to know" basis for disseminating it to the public. Meaning that if you work for a politician who is having a secret affair and you reveal it to the media, you can get in trouble.
You might want to get a Starbucks gold card as a fall back plan. It costs $25/year. You can get 2 hours of wifi at any starbucks with it per day. (I don't work for Starbucks and I don't own any of their stock).
Images like this are not meant to make you feel good. They are meant to challenge you and make you confront your own feelings and beliefs. Would you say the same thing about documentary photos showing the atrocities of war? Or poverty or starvation? These are all subjects that other canonical photographers have sought out and created famous images from - Have you seen the classical figure of the napalmed girl running down the road in Vietnam? Or even the Farm Bureau pics of depression era USA?
I have no problem with people documenting the ugliness of the world. However, society should be mindful of the difference between one photographer documenting what he sees, and another who acts as a pornographer creating the scene in all of its ugliness. That is why I could see grounds to protect Mapplethorpe's works, but would be skeptical of grounds to protect the works of a pornography studio that, for example, specializes in scat porn.
Security researchers and various crackers have been saying for a few years now that OS X hasn't implemented a lot of security features that even Windows has. Each release, OS X gets a little better, but they are relying mainly on people wanting to break Windows more than OS X.
With snow leopard, they had the perfect opportunity to make a release that focused on performance and security over bells and whistles. It's modestly faster on my MacBook Pro, and I think most users would have gladly paid under $30 for an upgrade that just focuses on the internals to get more out of their system. Since most Macs cost at least $1100, $30 is nothing for an average Mac user.
Some of his pics can be very disturbing (ie genitalia mutilations) but he has also taken some fantastic classical nude images
In the majority of human civilization, such pictures (the ones of mutilation) would not be regarded as artistic, but rather as obscene. In modern times, we've turned freedom of speech into a license to do wholesale degradation to beauty, truth, human sexuality, etc. to such a degree that even the most perverse things as tolerable.
While I fear empowered censors more than the effects of such "art," we should at least have the honesty to admit that such "art" expresses the worst of humanity. I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
Attention Google: if you want Android to challenge Apple, you have to get it on Verizon. Verizon is the only company with an infrastructure that can kick AT&T in the teeth.
MySQL is not mentioned in this ad, perhaps because (as Matt Asay speculates) the EU is looking closely into that aspect of the proposed acquisition.
Would promising to maintain or increase the investment into MySQL actually smooth things over with the EU?...
If I were an Oracle exec, I would strongly encourage support for MySQL as a way to keep people away from PostgreSQL. Articles like this show that PostgreSQL has a lot more potential to win over Oracle customers than MySQL does.
The media is very biased and pisses off a lot of center-right potential customers because it is often so one-sided. It also does a terrible, terrible job as a "watchdog" as it often just parrots whatever a defense attorney or prosecutor say. It rarely has people follow local corruption cases and really dig down and write hard-hitting stories.
Now, what'll the media do if the few real journalists become the money-making rock stars of their field? How will it respond if more conservative writers start bringing in big bucks.
My guess is that it won't make a difference at many outlets like the NYT. It'll be a cold day in hell before they get actual conservatives and libertarians writing for them, do serious journalism again, etc.
I graduated in Dec 2005 from James Madison University in Virginia. The main CS lab actually ran RHEL exclusively, so that might say something right there, but none of the Linux users I knew had any problems. Granted, Linux users began to become rare well before that because OS X became an attractive development environment right around the time the university adopted wifi en masse.
The ultimate question is how much she needs you in order to keep using Linux every day. If she can't handle most of or all of the details on her own because all she knows is KDE, then you might want to consider just erring on the side of caution with a MacBook.
One of the problems that I ran into back in college was that OpenOffice's MS Office compatibility is not perfect, and faculty in non-CS classes had no problem telling you to get stuffed if you ran into any problems because you weren't using MS Office.
If people are trying to have a civil conversation at a townhall or a speaking event, and someone attempts to drown out views they don't like through screaming, then the police should remove them. If the police won't remove them, then the police are morally responsible for any violence that the other people there visit on the censorious assholes who want to shut down others' comments.
The people who do this sort of thing (shouting down different points of view) are a significantly greater enemy to civilization and freedom than anyone who clocks them upside the head for being an asshole. People like that are just bourgeois brownshirts.
Citing two sources familiar with the situation, Reuters said that the EC's antitrust concern centers around Oracle getting its hands on Sun's MySQL database. U.S. antitrust officials, who earlier signed off on the deal, made no such concerns about MySQL.
If the EU is actually delaying anything over this, then they're either doing it for political reasons or out of incredible incompetence. MySQL is open source and has already been forked. So what if Oracle gets ahold of the IP behind MySQL?! They cannot close source MariaDB, Drizzle, etc.
Louis Vuitton claimed that Chen and his hosting companies were contributing to the illegal activities by providing the infrastructure that enabled the sale of counterfeit goods. They further said that Chen and his companies had been informed of the activity by Louis Vuitton but still refused to implement a policy for removing the offending sites, which was their responsibility.
This is really a no-brainer. The DMCA stops protecting a host the moment that they are informed of the infringement and refuse to cooperate.
Chavez promoted the use of traditional toys like the Yo-Yo and Trompo, and suggested that electronic toys like 'the Nintendo' be put aside because they promote 'egoism, individualism and violence.'
Says the Strong Man who has been undermining the constitutional order of Venezuela and dreams of creating a Castro-like cult of personality for himself.
especially since there's no financial incentive on the part of the ISPs and telecoms to invest in basic infrastructure.
Who does he think has been paying for most of the network upgrades? The government? The martians? Does he think that God has sent down an army of angels to quietly build up our infrastructure?
It's a little known fact that prosecutors cannot be sued for anything they do in court to a defendant. Prosecutors are truly the worst part of the system since they are unaccountable to the public and are rewarded for getting convictions, not enforcing the law wisely. As a profession, they are so corrupt that they make civil lawyers look sympathetic since civil lawyers are at least limiting themselves to cases where you can kinda sorta see how their client was genuinely harmed.
All that will happen is that the major telecoms will switch over to being infrastructure providers for TCP/IP-based communications. You may get VoIP through Comcast or Cox, but they'll have to buy their infrastructure from a division of Verizon or AT&T.
They should work with Obama to get executive orders and statutes written to position the federal government's management to not only hire 1099s like the private sector can, but to have that become the norm. One of the biggest reasons why federal IT is so expensive is because the federal government's management culture is still not conducive to having managers hire, direct and take responsibility for contract workers directly. If they could insource the project management en masse, that would shave an incredible amount of tax payer's money off of the cost of contracting as it would reduce the overhead that they pay to the big integrators to manage the projects (as well as pay HR, etc.)
It's that traditional property rights law and jurisprudence is overkill. The companies that run these services are more than competent at adjudicating disputes between users, and should be the ones doing it since the "goods and services" neither really leave their company property, nor can exist outside of their property/products.
One of the reasons the law is so fubared is because everyone wants everything laid out in advance, in exacting detail. Well, between that and the unwillingness to accept the arbitration of mediators, elders, family, neighbors, etc. is why society is so litigious. It is now de rigueur to immediately start lawyering up because the only authority that most people will truly accept is the government and its courts.
It may indeed be a minor problem for admins, but if it affects regular users, it could cause a boat load of grief to the site's admins if someone automates a process for resetting passwords.
No new legislation is needed. Just get the courts involved. Let content providers sue the heck out of Comcast for making a dime off of abusing their domain names. The ISPs think that Google, etc. are "using their pipes to make money," well this is using the content provider's domain and brand to make money. Technical details aside, the effect on the relationship between the content provider and their users is the same whether it is literally hijacking control over the subdomains or creating the perception to user that that is happening. No matter what Comcast may claim, they are altering the relationship between the domain holders and their users.
To move the case forward, they would also need a law enforcement professional who understands the case or is willing to take the time to learn.
This may come as a real shock to a lot of Americans, but it used to be that if you and your attorney could make a reasonable argument to a general district court judge that a crime had been committed, YOU could bring criminal charges. You and your attorney would be the prosecution.
*Cue platitudes about our litigious society*
The general posse comitatus approach was superior to what we have today. It had its abuses, but people tend to not grasp just how utterly powerless they are today to get wrongs corrected, to fight back against corruption, etc. In this day, it is literally impossible to bring charges against the powerful without the support of other powerful people who are sympathetic to your argument. Back in the day, if a powerful man were hiding behind his wealth and cronies, 20 armed men could haul him out of his house, shoot up the sheriff if he were on the take, and dump the SOB in a court if they had evidence.
Oh come on, stop making medical excuses for this guy. Most people with AS know that you cannot do something like this without breaking the law and getting punished.
McKinnon is just another geek who thought that a lack of security implied that he could just walk right in through the door without punishment. Chances are, he's also one of those geeks who would hypocritically go postal if he left his door unlocked and a bunch of people walked in and refused to leave.
"But it's a computer... it's **different** mmmmkay?"
The sex offenders who probably just want to be left alone and/or the ones who committed serious sex crimes like boning their girlfriend in high school, pissing in the bushes or buying their younger brother a playboy or R-rated movie.
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The prosecution and defense have, for years, been trying to weed out intelligent, informed jurors especially ones that know the defendant or the victim. They claim it is necessary to keep out prejudice even while they do extremely unethical things like introducing the testimony of career criminals who have been given incentives to testilie (aka jailhouse snitches) and to keep information about the victim/plaintiff's behavior from the jury's ears lest the jury come to the conclusion that their behavior was so irresponsible that it mitigates the severity of what the defendant did.
But it doesn't stop there. Britain's privacy laws also add a "need to know" basis for disseminating it to the public. Meaning that if you work for a politician who is having a secret affair and you reveal it to the media, you can get in trouble.
You might want to get a Starbucks gold card as a fall back plan. It costs $25/year. You can get 2 hours of wifi at any starbucks with it per day. (I don't work for Starbucks and I don't own any of their stock).
I have no problem with people documenting the ugliness of the world. However, society should be mindful of the difference between one photographer documenting what he sees, and another who acts as a pornographer creating the scene in all of its ugliness. That is why I could see grounds to protect Mapplethorpe's works, but would be skeptical of grounds to protect the works of a pornography studio that, for example, specializes in scat porn.
Security researchers and various crackers have been saying for a few years now that OS X hasn't implemented a lot of security features that even Windows has. Each release, OS X gets a little better, but they are relying mainly on people wanting to break Windows more than OS X.
With snow leopard, they had the perfect opportunity to make a release that focused on performance and security over bells and whistles. It's modestly faster on my MacBook Pro, and I think most users would have gladly paid under $30 for an upgrade that just focuses on the internals to get more out of their system. Since most Macs cost at least $1100, $30 is nothing for an average Mac user.
In the majority of human civilization, such pictures (the ones of mutilation) would not be regarded as artistic, but rather as obscene. In modern times, we've turned freedom of speech into a license to do wholesale degradation to beauty, truth, human sexuality, etc. to such a degree that even the most perverse things as tolerable.
While I fear empowered censors more than the effects of such "art," we should at least have the honesty to admit that such "art" expresses the worst of humanity. I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
Attention Google: if you want Android to challenge Apple, you have to get it on Verizon. Verizon is the only company with an infrastructure that can kick AT&T in the teeth.
Would promising to maintain or increase the investment into MySQL actually smooth things over with the EU?... If I were an Oracle exec, I would strongly encourage support for MySQL as a way to keep people away from PostgreSQL. Articles like this show that PostgreSQL has a lot more potential to win over Oracle customers than MySQL does.
The media is very biased and pisses off a lot of center-right potential customers because it is often so one-sided. It also does a terrible, terrible job as a "watchdog" as it often just parrots whatever a defense attorney or prosecutor say. It rarely has people follow local corruption cases and really dig down and write hard-hitting stories.
Now, what'll the media do if the few real journalists become the money-making rock stars of their field? How will it respond if more conservative writers start bringing in big bucks.
My guess is that it won't make a difference at many outlets like the NYT. It'll be a cold day in hell before they get actual conservatives and libertarians writing for them, do serious journalism again, etc.
I graduated in Dec 2005 from James Madison University in Virginia. The main CS lab actually ran RHEL exclusively, so that might say something right there, but none of the Linux users I knew had any problems. Granted, Linux users began to become rare well before that because OS X became an attractive development environment right around the time the university adopted wifi en masse.
The ultimate question is how much she needs you in order to keep using Linux every day. If she can't handle most of or all of the details on her own because all she knows is KDE, then you might want to consider just erring on the side of caution with a MacBook.
One of the problems that I ran into back in college was that OpenOffice's MS Office compatibility is not perfect, and faculty in non-CS classes had no problem telling you to get stuffed if you ran into any problems because you weren't using MS Office.
If people are trying to have a civil conversation at a townhall or a speaking event, and someone attempts to drown out views they don't like through screaming, then the police should remove them. If the police won't remove them, then the police are morally responsible for any violence that the other people there visit on the censorious assholes who want to shut down others' comments.
The people who do this sort of thing (shouting down different points of view) are a significantly greater enemy to civilization and freedom than anyone who clocks them upside the head for being an asshole. People like that are just bourgeois brownshirts.
If the EU is actually delaying anything over this, then they're either doing it for political reasons or out of incredible incompetence. MySQL is open source and has already been forked. So what if Oracle gets ahold of the IP behind MySQL?! They cannot close source MariaDB, Drizzle, etc.
This is really a no-brainer. The DMCA stops protecting a host the moment that they are informed of the infringement and refuse to cooperate.
Says the Strong Man who has been undermining the constitutional order of Venezuela and dreams of creating a Castro-like cult of personality for himself.
Who does he think has been paying for most of the network upgrades? The government? The martians? Does he think that God has sent down an army of angels to quietly build up our infrastructure?
It's a little known fact that prosecutors cannot be sued for anything they do in court to a defendant. Prosecutors are truly the worst part of the system since they are unaccountable to the public and are rewarded for getting convictions, not enforcing the law wisely. As a profession, they are so corrupt that they make civil lawyers look sympathetic since civil lawyers are at least limiting themselves to cases where you can kinda sorta see how their client was genuinely harmed.
All that will happen is that the major telecoms will switch over to being infrastructure providers for TCP/IP-based communications. You may get VoIP through Comcast or Cox, but they'll have to buy their infrastructure from a division of Verizon or AT&T.
They should work with Obama to get executive orders and statutes written to position the federal government's management to not only hire 1099s like the private sector can, but to have that become the norm. One of the biggest reasons why federal IT is so expensive is because the federal government's management culture is still not conducive to having managers hire, direct and take responsibility for contract workers directly. If they could insource the project management en masse, that would shave an incredible amount of tax payer's money off of the cost of contracting as it would reduce the overhead that they pay to the big integrators to manage the projects (as well as pay HR, etc.)
It's that traditional property rights law and jurisprudence is overkill. The companies that run these services are more than competent at adjudicating disputes between users, and should be the ones doing it since the "goods and services" neither really leave their company property, nor can exist outside of their property/products.
One of the reasons the law is so fubared is because everyone wants everything laid out in advance, in exacting detail. Well, between that and the unwillingness to accept the arbitration of mediators, elders, family, neighbors, etc. is why society is so litigious. It is now de rigueur to immediately start lawyering up because the only authority that most people will truly accept is the government and its courts.
It may indeed be a minor problem for admins, but if it affects regular users, it could cause a boat load of grief to the site's admins if someone automates a process for resetting passwords.
Ummmm PRETTY FREAKIN MASSIVE under Trademark law?..
No new legislation is needed. Just get the courts involved. Let content providers sue the heck out of Comcast for making a dime off of abusing their domain names. The ISPs think that Google, etc. are "using their pipes to make money," well this is using the content provider's domain and brand to make money. Technical details aside, the effect on the relationship between the content provider and their users is the same whether it is literally hijacking control over the subdomains or creating the perception to user that that is happening. No matter what Comcast may claim, they are altering the relationship between the domain holders and their users.
This may come as a real shock to a lot of Americans, but it used to be that if you and your attorney could make a reasonable argument to a general district court judge that a crime had been committed, YOU could bring criminal charges. You and your attorney would be the prosecution.
*Cue platitudes about our litigious society*
The general posse comitatus approach was superior to what we have today. It had its abuses, but people tend to not grasp just how utterly powerless they are today to get wrongs corrected, to fight back against corruption, etc. In this day, it is literally impossible to bring charges against the powerful without the support of other powerful people who are sympathetic to your argument. Back in the day, if a powerful man were hiding behind his wealth and cronies, 20 armed men could haul him out of his house, shoot up the sheriff if he were on the take, and dump the SOB in a court if they had evidence.
Oh come on, stop making medical excuses for this guy. Most people with AS know that you cannot do something like this without breaking the law and getting punished.
McKinnon is just another geek who thought that a lack of security implied that he could just walk right in through the door without punishment. Chances are, he's also one of those geeks who would hypocritically go postal if he left his door unlocked and a bunch of people walked in and refused to leave.
"But it's a computer... it's **different** mmmmkay?"
The sex offenders who probably just want to be left alone and/or the ones who committed serious sex crimes like boning their girlfriend in high school, pissing in the bushes or buying their younger brother a playboy or R-rated movie.