They can be. I came back into the country last year and randomly got selected for the agricultural scan. They put my bags through the x-ray and then searched my bag insisting that I had an orange somewhere. It turned out to be a roll of tape...
I remember my sister getting hit with ransomware 3-4 years ago. Fortunately, they were not as sophisticated. I was able to use this method to get her data back. A simple undelete program recover it.
I don't think that the terrorists receive any substantial portion of their income from software piracy. But to answer your question, they might deal software instead of crack due to the risk involved with selling crack. First they would have to establish territory to do it which is quite dangerous. Second the law enforcement penalties and attention are geared towards stopping the drug trade and with good reason. Argue what you will about drug legalization but the current illegal drug trade that it has spawned isn't doing anyone any good. Black markets are inherently dangerous because you can't seek *legal* recourse for grievances.
This is just an attempt to equate software piracy with something much more menacing in order to justify more raids, money, etc. against copyright infringers.
There is quite a bit of difference between sex with kids in other countries and this particular case. Specifically, the fact that going out of the country to engage in sex with a minor is illegal by us law. However, I can go to amsterdam and commit various sorts of US crimes and cannot be charged with anything coming back home.
Regardless, this crime involved people within the same neighborhood, so I hardly think Nebraska law should apply.
To extend that further, hypothetically in another instance if packets get routed through Saudia Arabia or Iran, do we want their laws applied.
I will put up a very weak defense of certain parts of Missouri. Kit Bond, the Blunts, and Ashcroft are all from the western half of Missouri, which aligns itself much more closely with Kansas than the rest of us in the Eastern Half which includes St. Louis.
St. Louis generally produces or incubates the "good" politicians of Missouri and was dealt a severe blow in 2000 with the death of Mel Carnahan. The rest of the Carnahans as well as Claire Mccaskill and the next Governor of Missouri Jay Nixon are all form the Eastern half of the state.
Still, I was ashamed upon the passing of the amendment to ban gay marriages in 2004. However, at least the democrats went with Obama in the primaries.
Unfortunately, vigilante justice is exactly what is happening and it is going too far. The community is treating them as if they had personally wrapped the rope around her neck and kicked the chair from under her.
Not only is the woman who wrote the messages suffering, her family, friends, and business is as well. You may say that they got what they deserved, but I doubt that they expected her to kill herself.
In fact, it isn't entirely clear who did the messaging since they admitted that many people had access to the account.
I completely agree with the parent on this one. I have been following this case pretty closely since I live in St. Louis and people seem to ignore the fact that she killed her self.
Additionally, from my recollection of the case, this wasn't exactly an instance of sustained bullying. Essentially, someone or some people (the details are fuzzy) created the account and befriended her over a series of weeks then one day let loose on her with admittedly nasty remarks. Did she ask for help, fight back, or do anything to resolve this issue.
In fact, she had never met the boy. Understandable, since he didn't exist.
The bottom line is that if she was that mentally unstable then she should not have been anywhere near the internet.
Installing Java is not as easy as using apt-get. Try something more like this which is a bit more involved especially if things don't go perfectly at each step.
Similarly, this step by step guide more accurately depicts what it takes to install postgres. Unfortunately, this wasn't available when I was doing my install (October 2006). It took me significantly longer than the install on my laptop.
Finally, all your driver problems would have been identified during a LiveCD session, so again I'm going to call BS on this whole post. Really, the livecd is going to use the restricted drivers for nvidia and configure xorg.conf for me? No it isn't. Compounding that problem is the fact that x windows needs a restart to incorporate those changes. I wasn't aware, at the time (never having installed or used linux before) that it could be reset without resetting the system, which would have lost the changes. Additionally, my sound card might have worked but I couldn't test because it doesn't come with mp3 support out of the box and I didn't attempt to try any other format. To be truthful, I didn't consider the fact that the speakers wouldn't properly work out of all channels.
I did state that the hardware failures were inexplicable. I don't blame them on the distro. Furthermore the failures occurred after my system had been configured for the most part.
I would like to add that before the hardware failures mounted, the system was in an unusable state because an update screwed up my grub somehow and I couldn't boot. I worked for weeks at fixing the problem. Overall, I eventually decided that it wasn't worth it.
I will try again once I get a new mac. I'll try to install whatever the latest ubuntu is on my laptop. But for now, when I have to get stuff done, I can't worry about updates breaking my system. What's the lesson on that though. Don't update any software?
I had a similar experience. I bought into the ubuntu approach and was really excited to install it on my machine. I took all the due diligence that I could read about beforehand and actually did it.
Install time came and everything fell apart. First and foremost it looked like crap because of video card drivers. Since I have a dual monitor setup, everything was a pain in the ass. Yes, the answers were all available on google searches and man pages for x. So I read the main pages, the posts and edited my x.org.conf until I finally got the video card working. Next I had to tackle my sound card only outputting sound out of 1 of my 5 speakers then getting my 7 button mouse to work (never did get this working). Next, it was on-screen fonts, followed by a brutal jre installation procedure, even worse for postgresql, and so on.
It would take me far longer than it should of because I would bang my head against the wall searching for solutions because I didn't want to get responses like "RTFM" or be insulted.
Eventually, I started using my laptop more, since it still had windows on it, because I get things done so much more quickly. Then, hardware started failing. This may have been an isolated case and it seems strange even to me. In the 4 months I have ubuntu on my machine, two video cards died, two hard drives died, my sound card, a usb port, and my ps/2 mouse port. Now the system isn't even capable of running and I access the data from the drives through an external case I purchased. I don't even have a desktop anymore.
I came to 2 conclusions: 1) Linux is a hobby for people who want to work on their machines 2) My next machine will be a mac
There are actually people who have Computer Science degrees that aren't actually into computers as a hobby. My roommate at University didn't even have a pc his freshman year, he just used the computer lab. This wasn't long ago, in 1999, even by then he was the only one on the floor without a pc.
However, he was a brilliant mathematician, taking 400 level courses his freshman year. He got a dual degree in Math/Computer Science.
Similarly there are people interested in biology, economics, physics, you name it and there are people that write and use software. So what if they don't know what linux, is or how to install an os, or diagnose a router problem, or even much less defrag their machine.
That isn't very democratic is it? People with more money than me wield more influence, hence an oligarchy. Capitalism isn't a democratic process, but we have to rely on government laws to protect consumers. This is where libertarians get it all wrong. An absolutely unfettered market is rife with abuse.
Government should have limited enumerated powers to pass laws that effect the citizenry but open ended ability to regulate corporations in order to protect the citizens first. This is the exact opposite of how things work now. The government grants more and more rights to the 'personage' of a corporation (tax breaks, access to citizen's data, consumer abuse) while at the same time removing our rights as citizens (privacy, habeas corpus...)
Syndicate was a great game. I didn't find out until years later that it had been popular since, growing up in Alabama, I was the only person I knew that even had a computer. My favorite thing to do was use the persuadetron on everyone in the city and walk around with a huge mob. It was the best strategy I found, much more so than trying to blast your way through hordes of agents. This way you always had a nice barrier of living targets and it would earn you extra money at the end.
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They can be. I came back into the country last year and randomly got selected for the agricultural scan. They put my bags through the x-ray and then searched my bag insisting that I had an orange somewhere. It turned out to be a roll of tape...
From the k-state article you cited- "1. Fossil fuel emissions. This is the largest source of carbon buildup in the atmosphere."
I remember my sister getting hit with ransomware 3-4 years ago. Fortunately, they were not as sophisticated. I was able to use this method to get her data back. A simple undelete program recover it.
I think the difference, right or wrong, is that it is at the border, which is subject to a different set of rules.
I don't think that the terrorists receive any substantial portion of their income from software piracy. But to answer your question, they might deal software instead of crack due to the risk involved with selling crack. First they would have to establish territory to do it which is quite dangerous. Second the law enforcement penalties and attention are geared towards stopping the drug trade and with good reason. Argue what you will about drug legalization but the current illegal drug trade that it has spawned isn't doing anyone any good. Black markets are inherently dangerous because you can't seek *legal* recourse for grievances. This is just an attempt to equate software piracy with something much more menacing in order to justify more raids, money, etc. against copyright infringers.
There is quite a bit of difference between sex with kids in other countries and this particular case. Specifically, the fact that going out of the country to engage in sex with a minor is illegal by us law. However, I can go to amsterdam and commit various sorts of US crimes and cannot be charged with anything coming back home.
Regardless, this crime involved people within the same neighborhood, so I hardly think Nebraska law should apply.
To extend that further, hypothetically in another instance if packets get routed through Saudia Arabia or Iran, do we want their laws applied.
I feel that you are way off base.
I will put up a very weak defense of certain parts of Missouri. Kit Bond, the Blunts, and Ashcroft are all from the western half of Missouri, which aligns itself much more closely with Kansas than the rest of us in the Eastern Half which includes St. Louis.
St. Louis generally produces or incubates the "good" politicians of Missouri and was dealt a severe blow in 2000 with the death of Mel Carnahan. The rest of the Carnahans as well as Claire Mccaskill and the next Governor of Missouri Jay Nixon are all form the Eastern half of the state.
Still, I was ashamed upon the passing of the amendment to ban gay marriages in 2004. However, at least the democrats went with Obama in the primaries.
Unfortunately, vigilante justice is exactly what is happening and it is going too far. The community is treating them as if they had personally wrapped the rope around her neck and kicked the chair from under her.
Not only is the woman who wrote the messages suffering, her family, friends, and business is as well. You may say that they got what they deserved, but I doubt that they expected her to kill herself.
In fact, it isn't entirely clear who did the messaging since they admitted that many people had access to the account.
I completely agree with the parent on this one. I have been following this case pretty closely since I live in St. Louis and people seem to ignore the fact that she killed her self.
Additionally, from my recollection of the case, this wasn't exactly an instance of sustained bullying. Essentially, someone or some people (the details are fuzzy) created the account and befriended her over a series of weeks then one day let loose on her with admittedly nasty remarks. Did she ask for help, fight back, or do anything to resolve this issue.
In fact, she had never met the boy. Understandable, since he didn't exist.
The bottom line is that if she was that mentally unstable then she should not have been anywhere near the internet.
Installing Java is not as easy as using apt-get. Try something more like this which is a bit more involved especially if things don't go perfectly at each step.
Similarly, this step by step guide more accurately depicts what it takes to install postgres. Unfortunately, this wasn't available when I was doing my install (October 2006). It took me significantly longer than the install on my laptop.
Finally, all your driver problems would have been identified during a LiveCD session, so again I'm going to call BS on this whole post. Really, the livecd is going to use the restricted drivers for nvidia and configure xorg.conf for me? No it isn't. Compounding that problem is the fact that x windows needs a restart to incorporate those changes. I wasn't aware, at the time (never having installed or used linux before) that it could be reset without resetting the system, which would have lost the changes. Additionally, my sound card might have worked but I couldn't test because it doesn't come with mp3 support out of the box and I didn't attempt to try any other format. To be truthful, I didn't consider the fact that the speakers wouldn't properly work out of all channels.I did state that the hardware failures were inexplicable. I don't blame them on the distro. Furthermore the failures occurred after my system had been configured for the most part.
I would like to add that before the hardware failures mounted, the system was in an unusable state because an update screwed up my grub somehow and I couldn't boot. I worked for weeks at fixing the problem. Overall, I eventually decided that it wasn't worth it.
I will try again once I get a new mac. I'll try to install whatever the latest ubuntu is on my laptop. But for now, when I have to get stuff done, I can't worry about updates breaking my system. What's the lesson on that though. Don't update any software?I had a similar experience. I bought into the ubuntu approach and was really excited to install it on my machine. I took all the due diligence that I could read about beforehand and actually did it.
Install time came and everything fell apart. First and foremost it looked like crap because of video card drivers. Since I have a dual monitor setup, everything was a pain in the ass. Yes, the answers were all available on google searches and man pages for x. So I read the main pages, the posts and edited my x.org.conf until I finally got the video card working. Next I had to tackle my sound card only outputting sound out of 1 of my 5 speakers then getting my 7 button mouse to work (never did get this working). Next, it was on-screen fonts, followed by a brutal jre installation procedure, even worse for postgresql, and so on.
It would take me far longer than it should of because I would bang my head against the wall searching for solutions because I didn't want to get responses like "RTFM" or be insulted.
Eventually, I started using my laptop more, since it still had windows on it, because I get things done so much more quickly. Then, hardware started failing. This may have been an isolated case and it seems strange even to me. In the 4 months I have ubuntu on my machine, two video cards died, two hard drives died, my sound card, a usb port, and my ps/2 mouse port. Now the system isn't even capable of running and I access the data from the drives through an external case I purchased. I don't even have a desktop anymore.
I came to 2 conclusions:
1) Linux is a hobby for people who want to work on their machines
2) My next machine will be a mac
There are actually people who have Computer Science degrees that aren't actually into computers as a hobby. My roommate at University didn't even have a pc his freshman year, he just used the computer lab. This wasn't long ago, in 1999, even by then he was the only one on the floor without a pc. However, he was a brilliant mathematician, taking 400 level courses his freshman year. He got a dual degree in Math/Computer Science. Similarly there are people interested in biology, economics, physics, you name it and there are people that write and use software. So what if they don't know what linux, is or how to install an os, or diagnose a router problem, or even much less defrag their machine.
That isn't very democratic is it? People with more money than me wield more influence, hence an oligarchy. Capitalism isn't a democratic process, but we have to rely on government laws to protect consumers. This is where libertarians get it all wrong. An absolutely unfettered market is rife with abuse. Government should have limited enumerated powers to pass laws that effect the citizenry but open ended ability to regulate corporations in order to protect the citizens first. This is the exact opposite of how things work now. The government grants more and more rights to the 'personage' of a corporation (tax breaks, access to citizen's data, consumer abuse) while at the same time removing our rights as citizens (privacy, habeas corpus...)
Syndicate was a great game. I didn't find out until years later that it had been popular since, growing up in Alabama, I was the only person I knew that even had a computer. My favorite thing to do was use the persuadetron on everyone in the city and walk around with a huge mob. It was the best strategy I found, much more so than trying to blast your way through hordes of agents. This way you always had a nice barrier of living targets and it would earn you extra money at the end.