I read something similar about putting a metal detector and a buzzer in combat boots to avoid walking on landmines, but althouth it looks far more practical than the SF thingy in TFA, I don't know if it was actually implemented and deployed.
Yes, but a device that make you fire at anything that moves before your brain has the time to identify it might not be the best way to handle the dangers of our existence, even for a soldier.
Moreover, he wasn't even having the hammer in his backpack (in this case, even it would have been dodgy, you could have wondered why he was carrying it), but in his house. Every good american has a hammer in his house (and several other tools or housework chemicals than can, when misused, be dangerous)!
Then OK, let's assume hammers are dangerous, but even counting accident, the kill ratio between hammers and cars is what, 1 to 1000, 10000? It's time to change the USA into a big Gitmo where everyone is jailed but no-one actually tried because the judge would die lauthing when faced with the "evidences". Don't worry, as an european, I won't complain that much.
When I was student, a friend of mine also did a DN3D map of my school on which we played lots of CS vs Elec deathmatches. It was fun because you didn't really needed to learn the map since you kinda already knew it and when a team mate shouted "there's a camper near Mr X office" or "everyone goes to the administration", it immediately made sense to everyone. BTW, the only time there were guns there (fake ones), it's the day they made that cheesy action movie (something in the line of ninjas vs terrorists).
As things seem to work in every other case, if/. is banned, the first thing CmdrTaco will have to worry is wether the user ID has the same 24bit limitation the comment ID had.
With the nuclear stand not getting them anywhere and the need to release the english mailmen mostly because the moderate ones refused to back them on that issue, it is not surpirising to see Iran leaders attacking their homeland ennemies again (they also recently banned "occidental" haircuts, a ban obviously targeted at the teenagers and young adults).
I the meantime, I poke a look at the complaint, and instead of God, it might be possible that the judge ask a psi to take care of JT. No kidding, no sane humorist could have done something as crazy as this document.
The case was dissmissed because that guy can't properly write basic legal documents, but it would have been better if it was dismissed because it was frivolous, because the way I understand the ruling is that he can still ask a real lawyer to rephrase his request and try again.
Actually, I'm a programmer myself and currently working on an embeded driver that is complete and running except for a nasty bug that may cause the whole project to be canceled. And for historical examples more in programming, we can cite sentient AI, which was at hand in the 60's. Plus the space elevator, or the dream of a complete understanding of physics about a century ago.
That's the funny thing with science or advanced engineering. Initially, everything looks easy, but the harder you work on it, the more difficulties you understand you will have to deal with. So a) We are indeed closer to a practical solution than 30 years ago and b) we have more realistic timeframes estimations.
Directly proving how the address was collected may indeed be a weak evidence, but you'd better see that as a working base. Starting evidences: -A send spam to targeted email, obviously without opt-in. -B is suspected to have harvested that adress. And then: -Investigation shows a link between A and B. Then you have something solid to sue on.
Lithium violently reacts with water, do the wrong thing and you change a hot but small fire into an explosion. While it is not the exact best solution, a class B fire extinguisher (CO2) can help keeping things under some control by screening O2 out and cooling down the fire.
I don't quite remember (sorry, I don't live in the USA). Isn't Texas one of the state where you can't work as a government official if you're a bloody atheist?
With their own lawyer and without giving enough time to prepare anything. There is only one possible explanation: what they really want is an intimidation session. Since he would not be facing a policeman but the opposition lawyer, can he simply walk away anytime he wants or refuse to sign anything?
It was usually a joke on at least either computer of physical grounds. Most of the time, the idea behind everything was "if it drives the user crazy, it must be good", sometimes to the point of making the bypass non-detectable and easier than the normal process. For example, the need to swipe badges 3 times to get into the building, but no name or photo on the badge, or FTP blocked for "safety reasons" while all the webmails were allowed.
Maybe if the people in charge of it weren't there as a punishment...
I'm sorry, I don't have the exact information. I just know that the lawyer was disbared and jailed. But anyway, if after being falsly accused, everyone I know (and many I don't know) believed I was a monster and I had to spend over a year in prison where no one would really take any blame for killing me, I don't think any amount of money could "compensate".
Since I read on different places that an easy solution was to rip the disk (apparently, many different easily available tools were capable of this task despite the new protection), the purpose couldn't seriously be fighting against piracy.
I'm french, and although the law explicitely say we are innocent until proven guilty (some newspapers were condemened for having printed photos of people with handcuffs before the trial), I have a story for you (remember that we didn't have much terrorism or mass murder here, and peadophilia is therefore the most horrible crime the average french man can think of).
A few years ago, in Pontoise (a small town near Paris), several men (about 15 if I remember well) were put to jail after someone anonymously reported them to have raped their own children. Of course, they've lost everything and their wifes got whatever was left at the divorce. Until one policeman noticed that all those divorced were initiated BEFORE the anonymous report and that all the wifes had the same lawyer, who was eventualy identified as the anonymous source. Those people were released, but most of them were already destoyed.
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I read something similar about putting a metal detector and a buzzer in combat boots to avoid walking on landmines, but althouth it looks far more practical than the SF thingy in TFA, I don't know if it was actually implemented and deployed.
Yes, but a device that make you fire at anything that moves before your brain has the time to identify it might not be the best way to handle the dangers of our existence, even for a soldier.
Moreover, he wasn't even having the hammer in his backpack (in this case, even it would have been dodgy, you could have wondered why he was carrying it), but in his house. Every good american has a hammer in his house (and several other tools or housework chemicals than can, when misused, be dangerous)!
Then OK, let's assume hammers are dangerous, but even counting accident, the kill ratio between hammers and cars is what, 1 to 1000, 10000? It's time to change the USA into a big Gitmo where everyone is jailed but no-one actually tried because the judge would die lauthing when faced with the "evidences". Don't worry, as an european, I won't complain that much.
When I was student, a friend of mine also did a DN3D map of my school on which we played lots of CS vs Elec deathmatches.
It was fun because you didn't really needed to learn the map since you kinda already knew it and when a team mate shouted "there's a camper near Mr X office" or "everyone goes to the administration", it immediately made sense to everyone.
BTW, the only time there were guns there (fake ones), it's the day they made that cheesy action movie (something in the line of ninjas vs terrorists).
As things seem to work in every other case, if /. is banned, the first thing CmdrTaco will have to worry is wether the user ID has the same 24bit limitation the comment ID had.
Absolutely, but the official news are not the better way to tell if your army is winning or not, grunt's gutt feeling is.
1- is TFA actualy shorter than the "short" post? /.ed?
2- is this an attempt to boost ad revenues by being
With the nuclear stand not getting them anywhere and the need to release the english mailmen mostly because the moderate ones refused to back them on that issue, it is not surpirising to see Iran leaders attacking their homeland ennemies again (they also recently banned "occidental" haircuts, a ban obviously targeted at the teenagers and young adults).
I the meantime, I poke a look at the complaint, and instead of God, it might be possible that the judge ask a psi to take care of JT. No kidding, no sane humorist could have done something as crazy as this document.
The case was dissmissed because that guy can't properly write basic legal documents, but it would have been better if it was dismissed because it was frivolous, because the way I understand the ruling is that he can still ask a real lawyer to rephrase his request and try again.
Actually, I'm a programmer myself and currently working on an embeded driver that is complete and running except for a nasty bug that may cause the whole project to be canceled. And for historical examples more in programming, we can cite sentient AI, which was at hand in the 60's. Plus the space elevator, or the dream of a complete understanding of physics about a century ago.
Good developpers never commit on dates.
That's the funny thing with science or advanced engineering. Initially, everything looks easy, but the harder you work on it, the more difficulties you understand you will have to deal with. So a) We are indeed closer to a practical solution than 30 years ago and b) we have more realistic timeframes estimations.
Directly proving how the address was collected may indeed be a weak evidence, but you'd better see that as a working base.
Starting evidences:
-A send spam to targeted email, obviously without opt-in.
-B is suspected to have harvested that adress.
And then:
-Investigation shows a link between A and B.
Then you have something solid to sue on.
And with lithium, you don't need an ice-filled bathtub and 12 hours to have something explosive.
Lithium violently reacts with water, do the wrong thing and you change a hot but small fire into an explosion.
While it is not the exact best solution, a class B fire extinguisher (CO2) can help keeping things under some control by screening O2 out and cooling down the fire.
I disagree. this counpound has not been tested on Superman, therefore, we cannot seriously say it cannot kill him.
You should have chosen a green one instead, maybe shaped as a lantern.
Actually, since glycerine can be used as a base to produce GHB, the answer is in some way "yes". Let's put everyone to jail!
I don't quite remember (sorry, I don't live in the USA). Isn't Texas one of the state where you can't work as a government official if you're a bloody atheist?
With their own lawyer and without giving enough time to prepare anything. There is only one possible explanation: what they really want is an intimidation session.
Since he would not be facing a policeman but the opposition lawyer, can he simply walk away anytime he wants or refuse to sign anything?
It was usually a joke on at least either computer of physical grounds. Most of the time, the idea behind everything was "if it drives the user crazy, it must be good", sometimes to the point of making the bypass non-detectable and easier than the normal process. For example, the need to swipe badges 3 times to get into the building, but no name or photo on the badge, or FTP blocked for "safety reasons" while all the webmails were allowed.
Maybe if the people in charge of it weren't there as a punishment...
I'm sorry, I don't have the exact information. I just know that the lawyer was disbared and jailed. But anyway, if after being falsly accused, everyone I know (and many I don't know) believed I was a monster and I had to spend over a year in prison where no one would really take any blame for killing me, I don't think any amount of money could "compensate".
Since I read on different places that an easy solution was to rip the disk (apparently, many different easily available tools were capable of this task despite the new protection), the purpose couldn't seriously be fighting against piracy.
Maybe the only way to be heard by the SONY CEO when you are complaining is to be his whife or son.
I'm french, and although the law explicitely say we are innocent until proven guilty (some newspapers were condemened for having printed photos of people with handcuffs before the trial), I have a story for you (remember that we didn't have much terrorism or mass murder here, and peadophilia is therefore the most horrible crime the average french man can think of).
A few years ago, in Pontoise (a small town near Paris), several men (about 15 if I remember well) were put to jail after someone anonymously reported them to have raped their own children. Of course, they've lost everything and their wifes got whatever was left at the divorce. Until one policeman noticed that all those divorced were initiated BEFORE the anonymous report and that all the wifes had the same lawyer, who was eventualy identified as the anonymous source. Those people were released, but most of them were already destoyed.