Discussions about unsecured wireless aside, I'm wondering what specific crime this guy is being charged with. Are there currently statutes for theft of signal?
OTOH, if I park my bicycle outside of a store, don't lock it up and it's stolen, the guy stealing the bike is committing a crime. Yeah, I'm a dumb ass for not locking it up and there is no law that forces me to do so, but that doesn't change the fact that the guy is still stealing my bicycle. Isn't this kind of the same thing?
By all accounts that I've heard of, you were very lucky with your dog and she probably did not get a direct hit on the poison glands. You did the right thing by recognizing the symptoms (foaming at the mouth, rapid pulse) and rinsing with water, but if it were me I'd also get to the veterenairan as quickly as possible.
My sister had a dog about the same size that this happened to several years ago and by the time she got to the vet, the dog's muscles had gone completely rigid from convulsions...so much so that the vet had to inject a muscle relaxant before he could administer whatever anti-toxin it is that they use.
I agree that these things are not only vile but dangerous but I still have to attempt to approach them in a humane way. I don't think my wife would continue living with me if she saw me in the backyard whacking away at a living thing with a shovel. I have managed to catch a few and put them in plastic sacks, then just leave them in the garbage bin for collection. But this isn't exactly ideal or humane and the possibility exists that they could escape or are just being relocated by my doing this. I live in an urban area, so firearms or even pellet guns are not an option - that is, unless the toads start forming gangs and stealing the wheels off of my car. Then I think the use of deadly force would be justifiable under Florida law.:p
The Crocodile Hunter could just lure them to the soldiers using his infant son as bait. No, wait...
Seriously though, I live in South Florida, US where they also pulled this trick (to save money for the rich sugar cane barons, but that's another story) and it's had the same sort of disastrous results. As soon as the toads found out that there were suburbs nearby, they quickly abandoned the cane fields and settled in the nice comfy urban neighborhoods. The toxin is extremely poisonous therefore, not only do they have no known predators, but they also kill household pets who are unlucky enough to encounter and bite them.
There is not very much you can do to control the Bufo's except to remove sources or food and water. These things thrive on pet food and we'll always have them in my neighborhood as long as morons keep leaving their pet food outside in their driveways (which also attracts rats, possums, and other nasties). They're also said to be able to survive months underground during the dry season and then emerge in the wet which is just starting here now so needless to say, my block has been crawling with them for the last 3 weeks.
I've also seen very little on humane ways of eradicating these pests. One site advocates putting them in a bag in your freezer until they're frozen solid but this doesn't sit well with the wife I'm afraid. I've heard of people pouring ammonia and other toxins on them (these are sluggish toads easily hand caught, not leaping frogs) but this seems cruel as well as not very envrionmentally friendly. We have a large dog who pounces on anything that moves, so needless to say controlling these things is a real concern. I personally know of several people who have lost their pets in the last year due to deadly encounters with Bufo's and that's one reason my dog never goes into the yard alone for any length of time.
This is easily explained if you think about it. There are less and less Pirates on the high seas. This as we all know, is one of the strongest proofs of global warming. If you take all the pirates and the corresponding amount of water that their ships displace into account, I'm quite sure that this probably accounts for the difference.
Oops...just read your entire comment so please disregard parent. Hey, it's been a long day and I've already been here since 4 am...oddly enough applying the May patches that we were behind on.:P
Símon Bolívar once wrote in his later days that "A man who serves a revolution seeks to plow the ocean". I believe that this sentiment came largely from his sense of frustration over a failed dream. Even though he helped to free a large portion of the continent from Spanish rule, his dream of a grand united republic of free states fell apart largely due to corruption, sniping, and political in-fighting by the very people who once fought by his side.
And you have it backwards - Congress is becoming or has become the enemy of the people, but the people have not (yet) made Congress its enemy. Most people in the US are naive enough to believe that Congress still serves them. By and large it does not. It serves itself, the legal profession, the military/industrial complex, and Big Business probably in that order. Anyone who believes that we still have a representative form of government in the US is dillusional. How in the world is a letter from me or one vote ever going to counter balance the millions upon millions of dollars of lobbying and special interest contributions going into political coffers? These are the people that write the laws in this country and the ones who continue to break the backs of the middle class. They are the ones who need to be overthrown, but how can you do this when you can't even vote against them?
IMO, failure to enforce a law does not make the law ineffecual, but it does do so to those who are tasked with enforcing it. The cynical side of me thinks that perhaps since this law was enacted during the Clinton administration that the current leaders are simply not all that interested in enforcing its provisions.
That said, and as someone who works in healthcare IT, I can substaintiate a post further up that stated that this law cost many health care deliverers millions upon millions of dollars to implement. And all of this with results that are at best spurious. To top things off, many people don't know that dentists for some reason were exempted from the law's provisions which makes no sense to me whatsoever. But then we're talking beauracracy here so I guess I shouldn't expect it to make sense.
Another point worth making is that if you look at the title of the law, it was originally supposed to be about making sure that employees could take their health insurance with them when they changed jobs (key word: portability). Instead, the thrust of the law morphed into this massive labyrinth of privacy regluations. This is patently absurd. A person's right to privacy is no different in health care than it is in any other business sector. Personal information should be protected whether it's used at a bank, a gas station, a physician's office or an emergency room.
Yeah, but if the HD was so damaged that Amir couldn't properly wipe it, how did the buyer get it working well enough to extract the embarassing photos? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Discussions about unsecured wireless aside, I'm wondering what specific crime this guy is being charged with. Are there currently statutes for theft of signal?
OTOH, if I park my bicycle outside of a store, don't lock it up and it's stolen, the guy stealing the bike is committing a crime. Yeah, I'm a dumb ass for not locking it up and there is no law that forces me to do so, but that doesn't change the fact that the guy is still stealing my bicycle. Isn't this kind of the same thing?
Hooray! Now all we need is to get Al Gore to defect and run the thing. More Pirates = Less Global Warming. We must think of the children!
Just what the world needs. 3D versions of Clippy running around.
By all accounts that I've heard of, you were very lucky with your dog and she probably did not get a direct hit on the poison glands. You did the right thing by recognizing the symptoms (foaming at the mouth, rapid pulse) and rinsing with water, but if it were me I'd also get to the veterenairan as quickly as possible.
:p
My sister had a dog about the same size that this happened to several years ago and by the time she got to the vet, the dog's muscles had gone completely rigid from convulsions...so much so that the vet had to inject a muscle relaxant before he could administer whatever anti-toxin it is that they use.
I agree that these things are not only vile but dangerous but I still have to attempt to approach them in a humane way. I don't think my wife would continue living with me if she saw me in the backyard whacking away at a living thing with a shovel. I have managed to catch a few and put them in plastic sacks, then just leave them in the garbage bin for collection. But this isn't exactly ideal or humane and the possibility exists that they could escape or are just being relocated by my doing this. I live in an urban area, so firearms or even pellet guns are not an option - that is, unless the toads start forming gangs and stealing the wheels off of my car. Then I think the use of deadly force would be justifiable under Florida law.
The Crocodile Hunter could just lure them to the soldiers using his infant son as bait. No, wait...
Seriously though, I live in South Florida, US where they also pulled this trick (to save money for the rich sugar cane barons, but that's another story) and it's had the same sort of disastrous results. As soon as the toads found out that there were suburbs nearby, they quickly abandoned the cane fields and settled in the nice comfy urban neighborhoods. The toxin is extremely poisonous therefore, not only do they have no known predators, but they also kill household pets who are unlucky enough to encounter and bite them.
There is not very much you can do to control the Bufo's except to remove sources or food and water. These things thrive on pet food and we'll always have them in my neighborhood as long as morons keep leaving their pet food outside in their driveways (which also attracts rats, possums, and other nasties). They're also said to be able to survive months underground during the dry season and then emerge in the wet which is just starting here now so needless to say, my block has been crawling with them for the last 3 weeks.
I've also seen very little on humane ways of eradicating these pests. One site advocates putting them in a bag in your freezer until they're frozen solid but this doesn't sit well with the wife I'm afraid. I've heard of people pouring ammonia and other toxins on them (these are sluggish toads easily hand caught, not leaping frogs) but this seems cruel as well as not very envrionmentally friendly. We have a large dog who pounces on anything that moves, so needless to say controlling these things is a real concern. I personally know of several people who have lost their pets in the last year due to deadly encounters with Bufo's and that's one reason my dog never goes into the yard alone for any length of time.
People who purchased:
- "Creamed Corn"
also bought...Broccoli Bites, Cauliflour Florettes, eggplant, and Ranch Dip.This is easily explained if you think about it. There are less and less Pirates on the high seas. This as we all know, is one of the strongest proofs of global warming. If you take all the pirates and the corresponding amount of water that their ships displace into account, I'm quite sure that this probably accounts for the difference.
I didn't see it in the FAQ, but it also should not be timely:
"Bob Muglia opened up TechEd 2006 in Boston Sunday evening..."
Whatever it is, I'm guessing it's typed using only one hand. (shudders)
Oops...just read your entire comment so please disregard parent. Hey, it's been a long day and I've already been here since 4 am...oddly enough applying the May patches that we were behind on. :P
"Presumably the Windows Orks at work..."
Wow, I didn't even know Windows had an LOTR version.
Or by Orks, did you mean PHB's? Jus' checkin'.
They just haven't been released yet. Keep checking here: http://www.support.microsoft.com/gp/securityitpro
"the plaques were obviously in greater amounts in those with the disease, but these plaques were on everyone's brains."
So, what you're really saying is that we need some sort of mental floss? Just asking.
For busy /. readers in the US with limited (if any) interest in the World Cup finals, the following brief article summary is provided as a service:
Hackers say to FIFA "i got ball" then call them stupid white bitches and threaten to whack them upside the head with their own sidekicks.
Karma ia a beautiful thing. Best story I've read in a long while. It will be interesting to see how it all winds up.
Cool - So that means I'm fine with my Microsoft BOB box as well?
It looks like you're trying to fix dinner. How can Cleopi help?
1. Show me how to boil water
2. Find my recipes
3. Give up and phone for pizza delivery
4. The stove isn't working. Send a bug report to Microsoft.
Símon Bolívar once wrote in his later days that "A man who serves a revolution seeks to plow the ocean". I believe that this sentiment came largely from his sense of frustration over a failed dream. Even though he helped to free a large portion of the continent from Spanish rule, his dream of a grand united republic of free states fell apart largely due to corruption, sniping, and political in-fighting by the very people who once fought by his side.
And you have it backwards - Congress is becoming or has become the enemy of the people, but the people have not (yet) made Congress its enemy. Most people in the US are naive enough to believe that Congress still serves them. By and large it does not. It serves itself, the legal profession, the military/industrial complex, and Big Business probably in that order. Anyone who believes that we still have a representative form of government in the US is dillusional. How in the world is a letter from me or one vote ever going to counter balance the millions upon millions of dollars of lobbying and special interest contributions going into political coffers? These are the people that write the laws in this country and the ones who continue to break the backs of the middle class. They are the ones who need to be overthrown, but how can you do this when you can't even vote against them?
In other news: People also reported to be human and occasionally make mistakes.
Um, this is news? Using pen/paper or a PC, you still have to check your work.
IMO, failure to enforce a law does not make the law ineffecual, but it does do so to those who are tasked with enforcing it. The cynical side of me thinks that perhaps since this law was enacted during the Clinton administration that the current leaders are simply not all that interested in enforcing its provisions.
That said, and as someone who works in healthcare IT, I can substaintiate a post further up that stated that this law cost many health care deliverers millions upon millions of dollars to implement. And all of this with results that are at best spurious. To top things off, many people don't know that dentists for some reason were exempted from the law's provisions which makes no sense to me whatsoever. But then we're talking beauracracy here so I guess I shouldn't expect it to make sense.
Another point worth making is that if you look at the title of the law, it was originally supposed to be about making sure that employees could take their health insurance with them when they changed jobs (key word: portability). Instead, the thrust of the law morphed into this massive labyrinth of privacy regluations. This is patently absurd. A person's right to privacy is no different in health care than it is in any other business sector. Personal information should be protected whether it's used at a bank, a gas station, a physician's office or an emergency room.
"'The plaintiffs, who accuse Bell phone companies of privacy violations and are seeking billions of dollars in damages..."
You spelled lawyers wrong.
Yeah, but if the HD was so damaged that Amir couldn't properly wipe it, how did the buyer get it working well enough to extract the embarassing photos? Enquiring minds want to know.
Boot Nukem?
"I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind".
/. , the new home of the 'Slacker'!
Well, I come from
(ducks)