So this should lead to police activity quickly enough, right? One can't (at this time) prove where the trojan came from, but it's easy enough to see who benefits and what accounts the money gets paid into. That should all get frozen, cops should kick down some doors, machines should get confiscated?
I didn't mean to suggest that/b/ is a tool, just that this sort of thing could be right up their alley. 99d is making a serious business out of soliciting free / cheap work submission from the masses. I can only imagine the masses deciding to take them up on their offer.
As a company, if you came into it with the right attitude and a desire for a viral campaign then you might even get exactly what you want.
You could convince the/b/tards that this is a fun way to fuck with The Man... Anyone can set up as a designer. Then the signal to noise on 99 designs will drop through the floor and it'll be 99 Designs that has to adapt or die.
It certainly isn't cheap, but if the performance / dollar ratio is comparatively high (it may well be) then one might call it a bargain. Independent of what you want to spend or if you think it is important.
How about a car analogy? A $2 million Ferrari for $250,000 is a bargain, even if you can't afford it.
Really? Do you have a source for this knowledge? I'm not trying to be snide, I just wonder if there's a bus driver's manual that states this or what.
You may be right, I'll have to consider, but my initial reaction is:
1. a bus stopping just after the intersection would leave all the cars trying to go straight blocking up the intersection when the light changes. Cars wanting to go straight can go around the bus, either because there are enough lanes or you can just pass the bus. A stopped bus can be gotten around, they pull over. Us poor suckers wanting to turn right, however, just suck exhaust fumes.
2. while it disables you from turning (not everyone turns, see #1) it enables a person waiting to turn right from the cross street. There is a light for those people. They can drive when their light turns green. While I've got the light the bus should take minimal effort to be less of an obstruction rather than more. Further, when I am turning right and a bus has blocked traffic I'm always uneasy about turning in front of it. Who knows who's gonna come around it?
Buses regularly stop every block during peak travel times in Minneapolis because someone has signaled that they want to get off. There are odd shaped long blocks that I have seen the bus stop at the start of the block and at the end. It sucks.
Public radio here had a story a while back on how Bogota or somewhere has this great high speed bus system... They talked all about how the buses had dedicated lanes, and now bus lanes are being angled for by the powers that be around here. SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED was how their model awesome system has a reduced number of stops, but does anyone want to implement the effectively free bus speeding program here?
And while I'm at it, why do buses have to stop right BEFORE an intersection? Why do they have to hold up people who want to turn? Drive another 25 feet, you bastard, and stop on the other side!
When I was in college one of my fellow physics majors actually did injure his eyes with a very similar device. The plastic shatters into small enough pieces that it isn't easily removed from the eye. His vision got better after 6 mo. or so.
The justice system should make sure to have some sanity in this case, but it was appropriate for the authorities to become involved.
I'm no economist and I'm certainly no foreign relations expert, but it seems like nations get a bit less crazy when they're doing business. Maybe that could happen for Afghanistan?
Less crazy when they're doing business, more crazy when they're exploited mercilessly...
From TFA: "The Pentagon task force has already started trying to help the Afghans set up a system to deal with mineral development. International accounting firms that have expertise in mining contracts have been hired to consult with the Afghan Ministry of Mines, and technical data is being prepared to turn over to multinational mining companies and other potential foreign investors. The Pentagon is helping Afghan officials arrange to start seeking bids on mineral rights by next fall, officials said."
which is why you save the publicity until after you've finished the project. If you announce you're starting work on it everyone will roll their eyes, but if you announce that you've gone gold then everyone will freak out.
2. Being taken to court, possibly having criminal charges pressed against you, bankrupting your family due to legal expenses and the judgement against you, and learning that actions have consequences.
Everyone seems to assume that going to the legal system is some sort of nuclear bomb to drop on these kids. Where does this come from? I saw the inside of a courtroom once as a result of a juvenile prank. As a result I did some community service and it was basically appropriate. The job of a Judge is to hand down an appropriate sentence. And it's the appropriate authority.
Teachers need to be able to maintain order or else students can't learn. If the students have no respect for the teachers' authority, they can't maintain order. Therefore, anything a student does that causes other students to lose respect for their teachers must be punished. The alternative is to have a situation where classes are completely out of control and the students who want to learn, can't.
A teacher teaches in the classroom. Order needs to be maintained in the classroom. If classroom order breaks down then the teacher needs to exert his authority to discipline the students. If an event outside the classroom causes a disruptive element to arise within the classroom the appropriate teacher reaction is to punish the disruptive element in the classroom.
Suggesting that students may not deride their teachers anywhere is thought control. How long then until we can't deride the police, or disagree with the president?
In a sense, these kids got off easy. They could have had real legal consequences as opposed to a school suspension.
I disagree. Real legal consequences need not be overly onerous. Legal consequences could very appropriately been a few hours of community service and a record expunged at 18. I don't know how if there is a minimum sentence, but certainly the law is capable of having a light hand?
Presented with the option of leaping to the courts and costing the family money to defend themselves and the option of having the kid stay home from school a couple days to learn their lesson on what's acceptable and what's not I'd say they made the right choice.
The family doesn't have to flip out and hire an enormous legal team to fight the charges tooth and nail. It's fairly obvious the kid did it. Optimally, they'd plead no contest and get a few hours of community service and that would be that. Record and whatnot shouldn't be an issue since the kid is a minor.
I wish I could find the source, but I'm not turning it up at the moment.
There was an issue of someone arrested, I think it was in CA, who had difficulty gaining access to the police recorded footage. When he asked for the footage he was told that it had been destroyed. Examination of other records showed that it had not, access was eventually gained. I think the article was specifically about gaining access to the list of destroyed videos or the video retention policies or some such.
The point being, you can't rely on access to the police footage. If you are trying to illustrate police wrongdoing there is a clear conflict of interest. The idea that the specific officer doesn't have access to the footage is insufficient protection.
I do buy that the parties of attempts like this might be willing to make some noise about it. But who would they start talking to first? I would kinda expect the US Govt to be first in on the investigation of a failed recruiting attempt, and I would expect them to hush it up in order to preserve the investigation.
A fine list of complaints. Technically speaking, all addressable. Nintendo could make a phone + handheld game console and crush everyone if they decided to focus on providing a good user experience at a good price.
That's sort of the thing, though. More and more, the tech device seems to eschew serving the user. You can license our game, but you can't buy a copy! You can only install once! Our DRM ownz j00! PAY US for DL movie rentals! PAY! etc. rant etc.
In some alternate dimension there exists a DSiPhone that is totally awsome. It could arrive here, pull excalibur from the stone, and slay everything in it's path. But the corporate willpower required to bring such a device into existence would be immense. Too many people out there want to attach their suck to any potentially cool thing. Likely such a phone would end up full of BS, still not allow you to migrate your DLC, and cost $400.
Nintendo should make it, but only if it doesn't suck.
Considering their pricing scheme, they are totally capable of undercutting the phone market. $400 for a smartphone? Fuckoff, if I can get a Nintendo DSiPhone for ~$150? After the BS phone carrier rebate like $50 for a nintendo phone would be a no-brainer.
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So this should lead to police activity quickly enough, right? One can't (at this time) prove where the trojan came from, but it's easy enough to see who benefits and what accounts the money gets paid into. That should all get frozen, cops should kick down some doors, machines should get confiscated?
Will this happen?
Anonymous! Glad you could make it.
I didn't mean to suggest that /b/ is a tool, just that this sort of thing could be right up their alley. 99d is making a serious business out of soliciting free / cheap work submission from the masses. I can only imagine the masses deciding to take them up on their offer.
As a company, if you came into it with the right attitude and a desire for a viral campaign then you might even get exactly what you want.
You could convince the /b/tards that this is a fun way to fuck with The Man... Anyone can set up as a designer. Then the signal to noise on 99 designs will drop through the floor and it'll be 99 Designs that has to adapt or die.
Their website claims the animals are all road kill. Not that you can't still be offended if you want, just FYI.
http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article.php?id=341
It certainly isn't cheap, but if the performance / dollar ratio is comparatively high (it may well be) then one might call it a bargain. Independent of what you want to spend or if you think it is important.
How about a car analogy? A $2 million Ferrari for $250,000 is a bargain, even if you can't afford it.
Really? Do you have a source for this knowledge? I'm not trying to be snide, I just wonder if there's a bus driver's manual that states this or what.
You may be right, I'll have to consider, but my initial reaction is:
1. a bus stopping just after the intersection would leave all the cars trying to go straight blocking up the intersection when the light changes.
Cars wanting to go straight can go around the bus, either because there are enough lanes or you can just pass the bus. A stopped bus can be gotten around, they pull over. Us poor suckers wanting to turn right, however, just suck exhaust fumes.
2. while it disables you from turning (not everyone turns, see #1) it enables a person waiting to turn right from the cross street.
There is a light for those people. They can drive when their light turns green. While I've got the light the bus should take minimal effort to be less of an obstruction rather than more. Further, when I am turning right and a bus has blocked traffic I'm always uneasy about turning in front of it. Who knows who's gonna come around it?
Buses regularly stop every block during peak travel times in Minneapolis because someone has signaled that they want to get off. There are odd shaped long blocks that I have seen the bus stop at the start of the block and at the end. It sucks.
Public radio here had a story a while back on how Bogota or somewhere has this great high speed bus system... They talked all about how the buses had dedicated lanes, and now bus lanes are being angled for by the powers that be around here. SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED was how their model awesome system has a reduced number of stops, but does anyone want to implement the effectively free bus speeding program here?
And while I'm at it, why do buses have to stop right BEFORE an intersection? Why do they have to hold up people who want to turn? Drive another 25 feet, you bastard, and stop on the other side!
I hate buses.
When I was in college one of my fellow physics majors actually did injure his eyes with a very similar device. The plastic shatters into small enough pieces that it isn't easily removed from the eye. His vision got better after 6 mo. or so.
The justice system should make sure to have some sanity in this case, but it was appropriate for the authorities to become involved.
"peener" is the funniest word I've read all day
for those who aren't interested in performing the actual caluculations:
2013 - 1859 = 154 = 22 * 7
So 1859 and 2013 are both at the same point of the 22 yr cycle. 2013 -> 1991 -> 1969 -> 1947 are the most recent peaks.
I'm no economist and I'm certainly no foreign relations expert, but it seems like nations get a bit less crazy when they're doing business. Maybe that could happen for Afghanistan?
Less crazy when they're doing business, more crazy when they're exploited mercilessly...
From TFA: "The Pentagon task force has already started trying to help the Afghans set up a system to deal with mineral development. International accounting firms that have expertise in mining contracts have been hired to consult with the Afghan Ministry of Mines, and technical data is being prepared to turn over to multinational mining companies and other potential foreign investors. The Pentagon is helping Afghan officials arrange to start seeking bids on mineral rights by next fall, officials said."
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
hmmm I have a decoy keyboard for my 15 mo. old, but he only wants the one I'm typing on...
Not showing the inevitable clutter that has crept in for the first few seconds is their way of having and eating the purity cake.
I think you lose purity points for eating it though.
which is why you save the publicity until after you've finished the project. If you announce you're starting work on it everyone will roll their eyes, but if you announce that you've gone gold then everyone will freak out.
2. Being taken to court, possibly having criminal charges pressed against you, bankrupting your family due to legal expenses and the judgement against you, and learning that actions have consequences.
Everyone seems to assume that going to the legal system is some sort of nuclear bomb to drop on these kids. Where does this come from? I saw the inside of a courtroom once as a result of a juvenile prank. As a result I did some community service and it was basically appropriate. The job of a Judge is to hand down an appropriate sentence. And it's the appropriate authority.
Because if you leap to the legal system, you miss out the essential middle ground.
Is the legal system incapable of a nuanced response?
Teachers need to be able to maintain order or else students can't learn. If the students have no respect for the teachers' authority, they can't maintain order. Therefore, anything a student does that causes other students to lose respect for their teachers must be punished. The alternative is to have a situation where classes are completely out of control and the students who want to learn, can't.
A teacher teaches in the classroom. Order needs to be maintained in the classroom. If classroom order breaks down then the teacher needs to exert his authority to discipline the students. If an event outside the classroom causes a disruptive element to arise within the classroom the appropriate teacher reaction is to punish the disruptive element in the classroom.
Suggesting that students may not deride their teachers anywhere is thought control. How long then until we can't deride the police, or disagree with the president?
In a sense, these kids got off easy. They could have had real legal consequences as opposed to a school suspension.
I disagree. Real legal consequences need not be overly onerous. Legal consequences could very appropriately been a few hours of community service and a record expunged at 18. I don't know how if there is a minimum sentence, but certainly the law is capable of having a light hand?
Presented with the option of leaping to the courts and costing the family money to defend themselves and the option of having the kid stay home from school a couple days to learn their lesson on what's acceptable and what's not I'd say they made the right choice.
The family doesn't have to flip out and hire an enormous legal team to fight the charges tooth and nail. It's fairly obvious the kid did it. Optimally, they'd plead no contest and get a few hours of community service and that would be that. Record and whatnot shouldn't be an issue since the kid is a minor.
(not lawyer)
I wish I could find the source, but I'm not turning it up at the moment.
There was an issue of someone arrested, I think it was in CA, who had difficulty gaining access to the police recorded footage. When he asked for the footage he was told that it had been destroyed. Examination of other records showed that it had not, access was eventually gained. I think the article was specifically about gaining access to the list of destroyed videos or the video retention policies or some such.
The point being, you can't rely on access to the police footage. If you are trying to illustrate police wrongdoing there is a clear conflict of interest. The idea that the specific officer doesn't have access to the footage is insufficient protection.
Aureal was the bomb! Fight the power!
I do buy that the parties of attempts like this might be willing to make some noise about it. But who would they start talking to first? I would kinda expect the US Govt to be first in on the investigation of a failed recruiting attempt, and I would expect them to hush it up in order to preserve the investigation.
A fine list of complaints. Technically speaking, all addressable. Nintendo could make a phone + handheld game console and crush everyone if they decided to focus on providing a good user experience at a good price.
That's sort of the thing, though. More and more, the tech device seems to eschew serving the user. You can license our game, but you can't buy a copy! You can only install once! Our DRM ownz j00! PAY US for DL movie rentals! PAY! etc. rant etc.
In some alternate dimension there exists a DSiPhone that is totally awsome. It could arrive here, pull excalibur from the stone, and slay everything in it's path. But the corporate willpower required to bring such a device into existence would be immense. Too many people out there want to attach their suck to any potentially cool thing. Likely such a phone would end up full of BS, still not allow you to migrate your DLC, and cost $400.
Nintendo should make it, but only if it doesn't suck.
I would totally consider a Nintendo phone.
Considering their pricing scheme, they are totally capable of undercutting the phone market. $400 for a smartphone? Fuckoff, if I can get a Nintendo DSiPhone for ~$150? After the BS phone carrier rebate like $50 for a nintendo phone would be a no-brainer.
But then, I like cheap stuff.
I'm sure you'll find that lion one day!