That's been a solid doctrine of military warfare for the entirety of modern combat, and extends beyond the military into professional sports and business.
1,000 of those men expressed interest in either having a piece of software remove it's clothing, or utilizing its interface port in a method not intended by most software developers, but apparently intended by these developers.
Questions of entrapment aside, let alone questions of intent, I'd think the obvious defense to this would be, "I thought it was an interesting chat program and was testing it's capabilities and responses."
More scary are the ramifications if any of these people are prosecuted. Unwrapping software has never been illegal, but these Dutch apparently think that not only should it be illegal, but that its actionable to even request to unwrap software. Does that mean when I buy a new game and rip off the cover, it's non-consensual rape?
Balls. I tried moderating this as "Insightful" but clicked the one below it "Redundant" by accident. If someone would so kindly moderate my mistake, the OP deserves the point.
Yes - it *is* a drop in the bucket. Total Profit US - 1.72 billion. Let's presume that a significant portion of their profit is derived from overcharging for illegally underpaid Indian works on B-1 "Business visit" visas.
Losing $35,000,000 is a drop in the bucket when faced with the windfall of cash that they illegally made.
We're missing step #2, which is "And since you're defrauding the government among other customers, you're blacklisted from doing business with them again."
There was already a criminal investigation and the folks HP is suing pled guilty in a plea deal. Now HP is making the equivalent of a civil case.
American legal systems allow civil suits to follow criminal suits. And the defenders were already found criminally guilty, although they pled to some unknown settlement.
An E-5 jumping to $60k salary is a nice step up, but was a step down from my officer salary. Both offers were in Washington D.C., where the cost of living is exorbitant.
I've been out of the industry too long to return, and I should have caveated my OP with the note that I was never a good programmer; I was a good project manager. I still am, just in a different industry.
What the civilian world calls cyber security, the military calls information assurance (IA) and information warfare (IW).
My personal story:
I was in the army's IA ranks. I had an active TS/SCI clearance, had published policy papers within my...inner specialty, was a welcome addition to Defcon - I have an Ivy League education, at the time had an incredible network of IA/IW contacts, and left the army as a JMO (Junior Military Officer).
When I left the army (at 28) I was considered a hot commodity in the cybersecurity world. I interviewed with both Raytheon and SAIC, and turned down head-hunters from several other companies. Both companies made me an offer; SAIC for $55,000 a year, and Raytheon for $42,000 a year. Both offers were less than I was already making, and both companies explained that everyone starts at the bottom and works their way up. I declined both and took a position outside cybersecurity for $79,000/yr.
At the time, cybersecurity wasn't willing to pay a clean-cut, clean-record military officer already in the field with requisite training, clearances, background screening and aptitude as much as I already made in the military, and the military isn't where high dollar jobs are.
The concern isn't about erotica being sold in a bookstore. Rather, it's a proliferation of ILLEGAL erotica in LEGAL businesses.
Example #1: Proliferation of beastiality content in the UK, where beastiality is illegal. Example #2: Incest, pedo-bear, and rape stories mixed in with children's books. Example #3: RTFA
There's nothing wrong with some teautiful bitties, but if you ask for a book of bedtime stories to read your kid, and the store clerk points you to "Daddy Incest Volume #3," then there's a problem. That's what's going on here. And it is a problem.
I don't think that age has anything to do with this, but rather it's a generational and educational issue.
The CURRENT old timers (and those through the 90s) fall victim to phishing, scamming, etc because of their educational, knowledge, and savvy. The generation of mostly tech-savvy people who snicker at Nigerian Princes are going to grow old, and at the ripe age of 70, when the Prince of Nigeria offers them money, they're still going to snicker/wheeze/chuckle/tell him to get off their damned lawn.
An empty plastic container on the side of the road on Earth is littering. What this really means is that the species that preceded us as life in our solar system were also litterers. There are several interesting results of this discovery.
1. The EPA will now find a reason to send an expedition to Titan to find out what intergalactic race left their plastic refuse on the surface with the intent of fining them. They'll likely attempt to date the plastic and retroactively apply the fine (with interest) to the original date of littering, justifying their expedition on the premise that the fine will make everyone on earth trillionaires. This will likely result in our first - and last - interstellar war and the extinction of humanity.
2. Before the "Plastic Crusade" reaches it's inevitable conclusion, anyone who gets caught littering can now plead "not guilty" with judges with the explanation that the aliens that seeded our planet with life were litterers and that we've been genetically coded to litter - so it's not our fault.
I typically have a bottle of water when I go through airport security. I present it to the screeners and explain that I have a medical requirement to stay hydrated due to oral steroid use.
Most often, they let it pass. Less often, they sniff it and let it pass. Even less often, they pour a bit on a sterile pad and do a chemical analysis. They've never taken it away.
On any issue of importance he's either agreed with them, or folded without a fight. . He's never even stood up and fought. It isn't even that he's rolled over, he's just never shown up in the first place.
How is this surprising? His senatorial credentials consist of voting "present." The man has never taken a stand for anything.
last 4 of Social isn't particularly hard to come by. The "opt-out" of their invasion of privacy was...you'll never guess...for you to install a proprietary cookie that will tell their other cookies not to snoop on you. Muah ha ha.
I did register to see what data they had on me. I discovered that I'm an 81 year old married German man that drives a 2007 Mitubishi Eclipse Spyder Convertible with a Household income of $50,000 - $74,999, who has a special interest in women's apparel, women's footwear, and jewelry.
Egads. They found me out. Now git off my lawn.
FYI, not a single piece of that information is correct.
One side is killing the other side with chemical weapons. The other side is killing the first side, cutting them up, and eating them. Atrocities are off the chain on both sides. Which human right violations do you support? Which group of bad people do you support? Do you prefer cannibalism and torture or chemical weapons?
Which side is the U.S. supposed to get behind?
There is no winning here. There are no good guys. This is no different than if we were to support one of the Mexican drug cartels in exterminating another. Torture, rape, chopping off of heads, kidnapping, extortion, bribing, murder - it's going to happen anyway. We shouldn't encourage it. Both sides are bad.
In this case, Russia, China, and the entirety of the continent of Asia has proximity and capability. Let them sort it out.
I think that taking responsibility for your own success is another way of saying, "survival instinct" which I expect to be ingrained in everyone. At West Point, failing means getting kicked out of the academy. A school student failing means being held back a year. Failing at work means losing your job. Everything in life has metrics to measure success and failure against - they even put it in games now.
Most faculty at military academies are also military officers. My freshman year, my instructor both looked and sounded like Major Payne.
Epic instructing example #1: (Read the instructor lines in Major Payne's voice)
The entire classroom is instructed to take to the chalk boards and work out a problem. Our instructor left the room to give us time to work on it. He returned 10 minutes later (everyone was stuck - no one had solved it). He addressed me. Instructor: "Cadet! What is the answer?" Me: "Sir, I do not know!" Instructor: "Well, if you DID know the answer, what would it be?" Me: "Sir, I do not know!" Instructor: "You have all failed me! Class dismissed."
No answer, no walk-through...he didn't know either. I went to his office at the end of the day with my textbook, because I couldn't follow the logic in one of the example problems in the text-book.
Me: "Sir, I am stuck on this example problem. I don't understand the progress from Step B. to Step C.: Instructor: "Read it again!" Me: *reads again* "Sir, I still don't understand how to get from B. to C." Instructor: "Read it again!" Me: "Sir, I have read it again, and don't understand it!" Instructor: "Then you have failed me! Your personal failure train is now departing my office! Chugga-chugga chugga-chugga Wooo wooooooooo!"
The highest grade in my class at mid-terms was a D, which is failing at West Point. I passed with a B- by spending my free period sitting in the back of the class of another instructor teaching the same material, and soliciting that instructor's help during lunch and after classes to understand the material.
These comments really bother me. You do both simultaneously. Given the longevity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we'd still have a problem if we became an overnight net zero carbon society. A cardiologist doesn't refuse a stent because the patient lives an unhealthy lifestyle.
If the stent is funded by private insurance and the patient, sure. If the stent is paid for by everyone except the patient....then perhaps it's time to reconsider.
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The Best Defense is a Good Offense.
That's been a solid doctrine of military warfare for the entirety of modern combat, and extends beyond the military into professional sports and business.
20,000 men contacted a piece of software.
1,000 of those men expressed interest in either having a piece of software remove it's clothing, or utilizing its interface port in a method not intended by most software developers, but apparently intended by these developers.
Questions of entrapment aside, let alone questions of intent, I'd think the obvious defense to this would be, "I thought it was an interesting chat program and was testing it's capabilities and responses."
More scary are the ramifications if any of these people are prosecuted. Unwrapping software has never been illegal, but these Dutch apparently think that not only should it be illegal, but that its actionable to even request to unwrap software. Does that mean when I buy a new game and rip off the cover, it's non-consensual rape?
Dollie Parton doesn't need to meet the pot, she's well acquainted...
Balls. I tried moderating this as "Insightful" but clicked the one below it "Redundant" by accident. If someone would so kindly moderate my mistake, the OP deserves the point.
Yes - it *is* a drop in the bucket. Total Profit US - 1.72 billion. Let's presume that a significant portion of their profit is derived from overcharging for illegally underpaid Indian works on B-1 "Business visit" visas.
Losing $35,000,000 is a drop in the bucket when faced with the windfall of cash that they illegally made.
We're missing step #2, which is "And since you're defrauding the government among other customers, you're blacklisted from doing business with them again."
$35m isn't a drop in the bucket.
FTFA:
There was already a criminal investigation and the folks HP is suing pled guilty in a plea deal. Now HP is making the equivalent of a civil case.
American legal systems allow civil suits to follow criminal suits. And the defenders were already found criminally guilty, although they pled to some unknown settlement.
If I can hearken back to "The Neverending Story" which seems most appropriate given the discussion on reading...
It sounds like you're saying Amazon = "The Nothing"
An E-5 jumping to $60k salary is a nice step up, but was a step down from my officer salary. Both offers were in Washington D.C., where the cost of living is exorbitant.
I've been out of the industry too long to return, and I should have caveated my OP with the note that I was never a good programmer; I was a good project manager. I still am, just in a different industry.
What the civilian world calls cyber security, the military calls information assurance (IA) and information warfare (IW).
My personal story:
I was in the army's IA ranks. I had an active TS/SCI clearance, had published policy papers within my...inner specialty, was a welcome addition to Defcon - I have an Ivy League education, at the time had an incredible network of IA/IW contacts, and left the army as a JMO (Junior Military Officer).
When I left the army (at 28) I was considered a hot commodity in the cybersecurity world. I interviewed with both Raytheon and SAIC, and turned down head-hunters from several other companies. Both companies made me an offer; SAIC for $55,000 a year, and Raytheon for $42,000 a year. Both offers were less than I was already making, and both companies explained that everyone starts at the bottom and works their way up. I declined both and took a position outside cybersecurity for $79,000/yr.
At the time, cybersecurity wasn't willing to pay a clean-cut, clean-record military officer already in the field with requisite training, clearances, background screening and aptitude as much as I already made in the military, and the military isn't where high dollar jobs are.
This just in....spies suspected of spying. More on this breaking story at 11.
The concern isn't about erotica being sold in a bookstore. Rather, it's a proliferation of ILLEGAL erotica in LEGAL businesses.
Example #1: Proliferation of beastiality content in the UK, where beastiality is illegal.
Example #2: Incest, pedo-bear, and rape stories mixed in with children's books.
Example #3: RTFA
There's nothing wrong with some teautiful bitties, but if you ask for a book of bedtime stories to read your kid, and the store clerk points you to "Daddy Incest Volume #3," then there's a problem. That's what's going on here. And it is a problem.
I don't think that age has anything to do with this, but rather it's a generational and educational issue.
The CURRENT old timers (and those through the 90s) fall victim to phishing, scamming, etc because of their educational, knowledge, and savvy. The generation of mostly tech-savvy people who snicker at Nigerian Princes are going to grow old, and at the ripe age of 70, when the Prince of Nigeria offers them money, they're still going to snicker/wheeze/chuckle/tell him to get off their damned lawn.
I think you're mistaken.
An empty plastic container on the side of the road on Earth is littering. What this really means is that the species that preceded us as life in our solar system were also litterers. There are several interesting results of this discovery.
1. The EPA will now find a reason to send an expedition to Titan to find out what intergalactic race left their plastic refuse on the surface with the intent of fining them. They'll likely attempt to date the plastic and retroactively apply the fine (with interest) to the original date of littering, justifying their expedition on the premise that the fine will make everyone on earth trillionaires. This will likely result in our first - and last - interstellar war and the extinction of humanity.
2. Before the "Plastic Crusade" reaches it's inevitable conclusion, anyone who gets caught littering can now plead "not guilty" with judges with the explanation that the aliens that seeded our planet with life were litterers and that we've been genetically coded to litter - so it's not our fault.
No, it's a magical container known as a "container of holding."
How do you think all of us wizards get around with a huge array of spell components and reagents?
I typically have a bottle of water when I go through airport security. I present it to the screeners and explain that I have a medical requirement to stay hydrated due to oral steroid use.
Most often, they let it pass. Less often, they sniff it and let it pass. Even less often, they pour a bit on a sterile pad and do a chemical analysis. They've never taken it away.
On any issue of importance he's either agreed with them, or folded without a fight. . He's never even stood up and fought. It isn't even that he's rolled over, he's just never shown up in the first place.
How is this surprising? His senatorial credentials consist of voting "present." The man has never taken a stand for anything.
It would be really bad for the US govt if major corporations start moving operations overseas so they cannot be forced into stuff like that.
Why? Major corporations generally "exist" outside the U.S. Usually in Ireland, the Bahamas, or another tax haven.
Dell's consumer line has to compete with cheap knockoffs? o.O
I'm pretty sure Dell *is* the cheap knockoffs.
Presumably just once. Then he remarried and v1.1 was bug-ridden. Rinse and repeat.
Alright, explored the site.
last 4 of Social isn't particularly hard to come by. The "opt-out" of their invasion of privacy was...you'll never guess...for you to install a proprietary cookie that will tell their other cookies not to snoop on you. Muah ha ha.
I did register to see what data they had on me. I discovered that I'm an 81 year old married German man that drives a 2007 Mitubishi Eclipse Spyder Convertible with a Household income of $50,000 - $74,999, who has a special interest in women's apparel, women's footwear, and jewelry.
Egads. They found me out. Now git off my lawn.
FYI, not a single piece of that information is correct.
Alright.
One side is killing the other side with chemical weapons. The other side is killing the first side, cutting them up, and eating them. Atrocities are off the chain on both sides. Which human right violations do you support? Which group of bad people do you support? Do you prefer cannibalism and torture or chemical weapons?
Which side is the U.S. supposed to get behind?
There is no winning here. There are no good guys. This is no different than if we were to support one of the Mexican drug cartels in exterminating another. Torture, rape, chopping off of heads, kidnapping, extortion, bribing, murder - it's going to happen anyway. We shouldn't encourage it. Both sides are bad.
In this case, Russia, China, and the entirety of the continent of Asia has proximity and capability. Let them sort it out.
I think that taking responsibility for your own success is another way of saying, "survival instinct" which I expect to be ingrained in everyone. At West Point, failing means getting kicked out of the academy. A school student failing means being held back a year. Failing at work means losing your job. Everything in life has metrics to measure success and failure against - they even put it in games now.
My college experience was USMA (West Point).
Most faculty at military academies are also military officers. My freshman year, my instructor both looked and sounded like Major Payne.
Epic instructing example #1: (Read the instructor lines in Major Payne's voice)
The entire classroom is instructed to take to the chalk boards and work out a problem. Our instructor left the room to give us time to work on it. He returned 10 minutes later (everyone was stuck - no one had solved it). He addressed me.
Instructor: "Cadet! What is the answer?"
Me: "Sir, I do not know!"
Instructor: "Well, if you DID know the answer, what would it be?"
Me: "Sir, I do not know!"
Instructor: "You have all failed me! Class dismissed."
No answer, no walk-through...he didn't know either. I went to his office at the end of the day with my textbook, because I couldn't follow the logic in one of the example problems in the text-book.
Me: "Sir, I am stuck on this example problem. I don't understand the progress from Step B. to Step C.:
Instructor: "Read it again!"
Me: *reads again* "Sir, I still don't understand how to get from B. to C."
Instructor: "Read it again!"
Me: "Sir, I have read it again, and don't understand it!"
Instructor: "Then you have failed me! Your personal failure train is now departing my office! Chugga-chugga chugga-chugga Wooo wooooooooo!"
The highest grade in my class at mid-terms was a D, which is failing at West Point. I passed with a B- by spending my free period sitting in the back of the class of another instructor teaching the same material, and soliciting that instructor's help during lunch and after classes to understand the material.
These comments really bother me. You do both simultaneously. Given the longevity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we'd still have a problem if we became an overnight net zero carbon society. A cardiologist doesn't refuse a stent because the patient lives an unhealthy lifestyle.
If the stent is funded by private insurance and the patient, sure. If the stent is paid for by everyone except the patient....then perhaps it's time to reconsider.