I agree but I think the question some folks are asking is whether he would have received the same sentence if the victim was someone other than Sarah Palin. People hack email accounts all the time and post stuff on the net. Suppose, for example, he had hacked a high school class mate's email account. Would he have received a year in jail?
They have managed to turn the free airways into the most expensive form of communication ever. There is nothing in the physics of the electromagnetic spectrum to support their saturation theories. If they ran the Internet your ISP bill would list every site you went to, overseas sites would be billed at a higher rate, and email would be sold as separate service.
The problem with wireless isn't a lack of regulation but lack of competition that results in governments allowing a few companies to oligopolize a medium that costs nothing.
Only the American tax-payer is the fool, here. This is a can't-lose wager, for everyone else. You invest and get rich or you invest and get re-imbursed by the American tax-payer next time the government decides to save the speculators by handing them a few trillion.
Nah, I invest and the tax payer never reimbursed _me_ when I lost. Historically the American economy has outperformed all others because it embraces laissez faire capitalism that allows people to accumulate wealth so they can invest. If you have another system please run for office but consider that overly regulated markets without entrepreneurial investment have failed in the old Soviet Union, been abandoned by the Chinese, and caused stagnation throughout South America.
A lot of people seem to be against investors and the free market while at the same time lapping up the abundance of its products.
is supposed to regulate the wireless spectrum but all they've done is turn the free airwaves into the most expensive communication system ever by selling the best parts of the spectrum to an oligopoly of highest bidders whose business model is to nickel and dime the consumer for everything.
Why not set aside some of the spectrum for mobile IP addresses that consumers can use for voice, email, text or whatever they want with any device they want without having to follow the dictates of Verizon and AT&T.
Whoever decided to do this doesn't understand the way language works. If an 'abusive' name doesn't exist or is unavailable people will just ascribe new meaning to an existing word or invent a new word that gets incorporated into a new name. Businesses often buy up domain names in the hope of a site being popular on its name alone. But the most popular websites often have made up names that didn't previously exist in everyday language. Bottom line -- it's the content that makes a site popular, not the name.
Understand that Wikileaks hasn't leaked anything. They just published what was already leaked and which is what the New York Times and others have published in part so I wonder why MasterCard et al aren't doing the same thing to all the other media outlets that publish leaked info.
Maybe they all got a call from Lieberman's office or something.
Wikileaks didn't leak any info they just published what was already leaked which is what the New York Times and others have done so how come B of A isn't doing the same thing to all the other media outlets that publish this stuff?
Seriously, when was the last time that a government science fund produced something worth $24,000,000,000? Every major invention I can think of came from a private company doing research for a specific need, not a government program doing research in order to keep scientists eating from the taxpayers' pork trough.
The fundamental underlying basic knowledge necessary for most technology in the US comes out of government funded academic research. Think super conductivity, the laser, silicon chip, integrated circuit, the internet.
Private companies are good at delivering technology to the consumer but most of it wouldn't exist without the basics of scientific discovery that comes out of public universities.
Bills can originate in either the House or the Senate except bills for raising revenue must orginate in the House. Americans: read your Constitution. It's only seven articles.
You can also get the audio version (search bittorrent).
Then hop over to oyezwhere you can listen to real recordings of Supreme Court cases to get a feel for how it all works.
As a non American I think you guys have the finest legal system in the world in the sense that it's open and it's not too difficult to understand.
Two wars, wikileaks, domestic spying, housing market collapse, 15,000 unreported civilian casualties in Iraq, and a congress that passes a TV volume bill. Jeez, install a volume normalizer already. You don't need the government to do this.
If they controlled the Internet you'd buy your computer from your ISP and it wouldn't work with any other ISP, your Internet bill would list every website you went to, out-of-state websites would be billed at a higher rate (except for nights and weekends). The current model for phone networks is an overpriced relic of the last century.
if it is true, and flying is already safer than road travel, then why do we need all the security?
Because folks have an irrational fear of flying. I mean, do you really need a live demonstration by a flight attendant on how to place the clip into the buckle? These procedures were written back in the day when Buddy Holly was a passenger.
"Radio has no future." -- Royal Society president William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.
"No imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urging investment in the radio in the 1920's.
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." -- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.
"I think there's a world market for about five computers." -- Thomas J. Watson, chairman of the board of IBM.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." -- Western Union memo, 1876
I wonder if there's a relationship between a company's stock price and the number of lawsuits it files. Nokia's stock has dropped about 30% since April.
The airways (a free medium) has become a cash cow for the government. The entry fee for competing in the wireless market is in the millions. It's one of the reasons you pay for things like texting and get nickel-and-dimed for crap.
I'm all for cutting waste and luxuries we can do without. But when it comes to safety and personnel this is just going too far.
I'm all with you on safety but a lot of airline safety is based on an irrational fear of flying, superstition, and downright paranoia. It's the reason you can't listen to your ipod during take off. There's a ridiculous chance your ipod could bring the plane down. The sad thing is the safety argument always seems to win. I bet zero lives have been saved by flight attendants pointing out where emergency exits are and informing passengers how to inflate their life jackets. The madness continues.
But how would you have felt if your actions had resulted in a failed attempt to capture terrorists who then went on to perform another attack, say, on a par with 911 and thousands of people were killed.
It seems like the author is making the argument that because Mark Pensky is 64 he can't possibly know what younger people think. Yet the author's own evidence seems mostly anecdotal and the studies he references are not well defined. I sense argumentum ad hominem.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree but I think the question some folks are asking is whether he would have received the same sentence if the victim was someone other than Sarah Palin. People hack email accounts all the time and post stuff on the net. Suppose, for example, he had hacked a high school class mate's email account. Would he have received a year in jail?
They have managed to turn the free airways into the most expensive form of communication ever. There is nothing in the physics of the electromagnetic spectrum to support their saturation theories. If they ran the Internet your ISP bill would list every site you went to, overseas sites would be billed at a higher rate, and email would be sold as separate service.
The problem with wireless isn't a lack of regulation but lack of competition that results in governments allowing a few companies to oligopolize a medium that costs nothing.
5 people with a great life are now homeless, because their jobs are taken (indirectly) by those 5 homeless.
You, my friend, are falling for the lump of labor fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Only the American tax-payer is the fool, here. This is a can't-lose wager, for everyone else. You invest and get rich or you invest and get re-imbursed by the American tax-payer next time the government decides to save the speculators by handing them a few trillion.
Nah, I invest and the tax payer never reimbursed _me_ when I lost. Historically the American economy has outperformed all others because it embraces laissez faire capitalism that allows people to accumulate wealth so they can invest. If you have another system please run for office but consider that overly regulated markets without entrepreneurial investment have failed in the old Soviet Union, been abandoned by the Chinese, and caused stagnation throughout South America.
A lot of people seem to be against investors and the free market while at the same time lapping up the abundance of its products.
where the age of the Enlightenment was before 1776.
is supposed to regulate the wireless spectrum but all they've done is turn the free airwaves into the most expensive communication system ever by selling the best parts of the spectrum to an oligopoly of highest bidders whose business model is to nickel and dime the consumer for everything.
Why not set aside some of the spectrum for mobile IP addresses that consumers can use for voice, email, text or whatever they want with any device they want without having to follow the dictates of Verizon and AT&T.
America's next war is the WAR ON VIOLENCE!
Whoever decided to do this doesn't understand the way language works. If an 'abusive' name doesn't exist or is unavailable people will just ascribe new meaning to an existing word or invent a new word that gets incorporated into a new name. Businesses often buy up domain names in the hope of a site being popular on its name alone. But the most popular websites often have made up names that didn't previously exist in everyday language. Bottom line -- it's the content that makes a site popular, not the name.
Understand that Wikileaks hasn't leaked anything. They just published what was already leaked and which is what the New York Times and others have published in part so I wonder why MasterCard et al aren't doing the same thing to all the other media outlets that publish leaked info.
Maybe they all got a call from Lieberman's office or something.
The "low" (green) and "guarded" (blue) levels have never actually been used, and probably won't ever be ....
True. They prob won't ever be used because then Congress would cut their funds. What a racket.
Wikileaks didn't leak any info they just published what was already leaked which is what the New York Times and others have done so how come B of A isn't doing the same thing to all the other media outlets that publish this stuff?
Yeah, and?
Seriously, when was the last time that a government science fund produced something worth $24,000,000,000? Every major invention I can think of came from a private company doing research for a specific need, not a government program doing research in order to keep scientists eating from the taxpayers' pork trough.
The fundamental underlying basic knowledge necessary for most technology in the US comes out of government funded academic research. Think super conductivity, the laser, silicon chip, integrated circuit, the internet.
Private companies are good at delivering technology to the consumer but most of it wouldn't exist without the basics of scientific discovery that comes out of public universities.
Bills can originate in either the House or the Senate except bills for raising revenue must orginate in the House. Americans: read your Constitution. It's only seven articles.
You can also get the audio version (search bittorrent).
Then hop over to oyezwhere you can listen to real recordings of Supreme Court cases to get a feel for how it all works.
As a non American I think you guys have the finest legal system in the world in the sense that it's open and it's not too difficult to understand.
Two wars, wikileaks, domestic spying, housing market collapse, 15,000 unreported civilian casualties in Iraq, and a congress that passes a TV volume bill. Jeez, install a volume normalizer already. You don't need the government to do this.
If they controlled the Internet you'd buy your computer from your ISP and it wouldn't work with any other ISP, your Internet bill would list every website you went to, out-of-state websites would be billed at a higher rate (except for nights and weekends). The current model for phone networks is an overpriced relic of the last century.
if it is true, and flying is already safer than road travel, then why do we need all the security?
Because folks have an irrational fear of flying. I mean, do you really need a live demonstration by a flight attendant on how to place the clip into the buckle? These procedures were written back in the day when Buddy Holly was a passenger.
"Radio has no future." -- Royal Society president William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.
"No imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urging investment in the radio in the 1920's.
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." -- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.
"I think there's a world market for about five computers." -- Thomas J. Watson, chairman of the board of IBM.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." -- Western Union memo, 1876
I wonder if there's a relationship between a company's stock price and the number of lawsuits it files. Nokia's stock has dropped about 30% since April.
Thank God they don't run the Internet
Otherwise:
Mod parent up.
The airways (a free medium) has become a cash cow for the government. The entry fee for competing in the wireless market is in the millions. It's one of the reasons you pay for things like texting and get nickel-and-dimed for crap.
I hope _at least_ they don't auction any of this off to any of the incumbent cell phone companies.
Bah, Australia is famous for its censorship. It's illegal to host a pr0n site in Oz.
I'm all for cutting waste and luxuries we can do without. But when it comes to safety and personnel this is just going too far.
I'm all with you on safety but a lot of airline safety is based on an irrational fear of flying, superstition, and downright paranoia. It's the reason you can't listen to your ipod during take off. There's a ridiculous chance your ipod could bring the plane down. The sad thing is the safety argument always seems to win. I bet zero lives have been saved by flight attendants pointing out where emergency exits are and informing passengers how to inflate their life jackets. The madness continues.
I'd have posted it all to slashdot....
But how would you have felt if your actions had resulted in a failed attempt to capture terrorists who then went on to perform another attack, say, on a par with 911 and thousands of people were killed.
You'd kinda look like a douche.
will make data centers as we know them obsolete. i'm already carrying a terabyte around in my pocket.
It seems like the author is making the argument that because Mark Pensky is 64 he can't possibly know what younger people think. Yet the author's own evidence seems mostly anecdotal and the studies he references are not well defined. I sense argumentum ad hominem.