Under the law I would have no "right" to stop this person from taking this picture or others like it, I would have no right to force the destruction of this picture--the best I could do would be to prevent future pictures by blocking the shots or by leaving.
Actually, in many jurisdictions upskirt photography is specifically illegal without permission. In other jurisdictions, it would depend on whether a court of law decides that a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy up her (or his, I suppose) skirt. In the case of your daughter, local laws might even deem such photos to be child pornography since the photos are probably intended to arouse.
Though I'm curious at exactly what punishment I would receive by a jury if I assaulted a person who was doing this, would they dismiss the charge against me because they believed that it was justified?
It would depend on state/local laws, the extent to which you assaulted the photographer, and of course, the individual jury.
When you observe a crime being committed, it is almost always preferable to summon the police rather than to apply vigilante-style "justice". Even if you could rely upon a "think of the children" jury finding you not guilty of this assault, and I'm not saying you can rely upon that, you would still go through considerable monetary and emotional expense mounting a defense.
1. Debian new releases ALWAYS come with release notes that contain upgrade instructions. Follow them. It is usually NOT as simple as a dist-upgrade if you have certain packages installed. 2. Debian stable is generally pretty stable upon release, but feel free to wait a bit if it will make you more comfortable. Just make sure that your sources.list says "etch" and not "stable". When lenny is realeased, etch will become 'oldstable'.
So basically, you've got the right idea. To read the release notes, go to the Debian website and look for the text "If you're upgrading to the latest stable release from a previous version, please read the release notes before proceeding."
That's the best thing about Debian. As long as you at least put forth some degree of effort to RTFM, Debian won't give you many surprises. They make it easy to find and use the documentation.
A good P&S can approach the quality of an SLR for the majority of cases
As long as "majority of cases" means outdoors on a sunny day with uniform lighting and a stationary subject standing against a brick wall and no water or sky appear in the photo, and the angle of it isn't too close to the sun and there are no dark objects in the photo and... and...
And then I'll grant you that the best P&S cameras can sometimes approach the quality of the worst dSLRs with the cheapest lenses.;)
That is the only way that a P&S will ever compare with a dSLR. Anything other than "in direct sunlight" is when your Nikon Coolpix will fall down on the floor.
And even in situations with ample light, you can still tell the difference between a P&S and a dSLR in many scenarios such as:
Subject is moving. The shutter lag on a P&S makes action shots near impossible.
Subject is standing in front of something other than a brick wall. The depth of field on a P&S is near infinite because the lens is so small.
There is water in the picture. A P&S will have unsightly glare off the water, whereas a dSLR can use a circular polarizer.
There is sky in the picture. See above.
The angle is too close to the sun (or the sun is in the picture). dSLR lenses have anti-reflective coatings on it, whereas a P&S will not.
The lighting is not uniform. The dynamic range on a P&S is just nowhere near that of a dSLR.
The image contains dark objects with a light background (such as the sky). P&S lenses exhibit purple fringing on the edge of the dark object. (Hey, honey. I didn't know you had purple hair in college!)
Well, now I'm tired of typing. Point being: yes, you can tell the difference between a P&S and a dSLR.
If you project confidence, people will not harass you. At least that's what I've found when I'm photographing my kids at events, parks, whatever (most pools have no photo policies, I've found... but I'm also pretty sure that dSLRs and water don't mix well).
A few times, I've had people ask me to email them some shots, which I'm happy to do.
Event photographers, on the other hand, seem to harass anyone with a dSLR (who might be taking away their business). Ahhh well.
A lot of museums with "no photography" policies will also allow you to come in during off-hours, set up a tripod, and take photos with no flash. You just have to call ahead and ask.
According to TFA (yes, I actually read it) they had 20000 paying customers, no less. How ridiculously stupid do you have to be to run a business based on storing data for other people and not putting a working backup strategy into place?!
I agree--I think it's ridiculous that the data is inaccessible. The FA is a little short on details, but my best understanding of it is that the data is actually there, but the pointers between the user accounts and the data are lost, so they have no idea which data belongs to whom.
Taking a second look at the site in question, it does not look like they bill themselves out as a data backup provider like S3 or rsync.net, so maybe customers really should have assumed that their data was backed up? I had never heard of MediaMax before today, so I don't really know for sure what they ever provided.
So maybe this isn't really news after all. If S3 or xdrive or something lost customer data, that would be big news.
You know something, yesterday I got a filling in one of my teeth. At the time, it seemed like a good idea to let my dentist do it; but now that I read your Insightful post, I'm not so sure.
The filling seems OK to me, but how can I be sure if I didn't do it myself? I'm really starting to regret allowing a licensed professional with over 25 years of experience perform that medical procedure on me. After all, if I really wanted it done right, I would have done it myself (despite the fact that my knowledge of teeth begins and ends with the Tooth Fairy).
Part of this is that athletes get better with each generation.
What do you attribute this to? Is it the crappy food, the sedentary lifestyle they're raised in, or the growth hormones?
It depends on the sport.
In the case of gymnastics, I would attribute it to the following: 1. Advances in modern medicine: What would have been a career-ending injury 100 years ago is now a few months of physical therapy that is specifically tailored to the gymnast so he/she does not lose too much ground. 2. Advances in technology: For instance, the modern spring floor for floor exercise was invented in the 60s, and the technology has only improved from there. 3. Better understanding of the human body: We now know a lot more about optimal nutrition, training (injury avoidance, etc.), and many other aspects of the human body than ever before. We can be much more efficient in our training. 4. Competition: Who wants to go to this year's Olympic Games with the moves that won gold 4 years ago? You can bet that your competition has already mastered those skills, so you had better be prepared with something more difficult.
Instead of having your locksmith make you a $2 copy of a bad key, fork over the cash to have him decode the key and cut a new one by code.
That was pretty much going to be my response. When I need a key, I give the code to my locksmith, he types it into the machine, and out pops a perfectly-cut key for $1.57+tax.
I do not charge $50 for a replacement key--I charge $7 ($2 for the key and $5 to make you think twice about losing your key). But I sure as heck charge $50 if I have to drag my ass out of bed to let you into your apartment.
I do not stamp DND on my keys--I don't care how many copies of their keys my residents make at Home Depot. Heck, I hope they make 10 copies to lessen the chance that they lose their only key. Obviously I change the locks in between residents.
The result is a list of 60 person questions (hometown, number of brothers, country of birth, etc) that is drawn from randomly to ensure the person ordering the drugs is the one who is logged in and authorized.
The problem with this type of thing is that it's really tough to come up with questions that no one else would get right, but that I would also get right. I mean, there are hundreds of people who know how many brothers I have, what my hometown is, etc.
On the other hand, if you make them too hard (who was your favorite 7th grade teacher?), I'm not going to be able to get that question right all the time, either.
The bottom line for me is that those questions really torque me off, so I answer the same thing for all of them. The answer that I use is not '1', but it might as well be. At least that way I know I can get it right. And it would be pretty hard for someone else who knows me to answer the questions right. Because my hometown is definitely not 'diet pepsi', and I doubt anyone would guess that, either.
By cancelling these fares the airlines are rocking confidence in comparison sites, and obviously pushing some business away, but I don't think they're opening themselves to lawsuits since customers didn't book with them direct.
If you booked a ticket on RyanAir through a third-party website, and RyanAir summarily canceled your reservation... would you ever fly RyanAir again?
I'm not sure this was a smart business move on RyanAir's part. Refuse to accept any further reservations from 3rd party sites? Fine. But canceling already-confirmed reservations because that don't like the sales channel? That's not gonna go over well.
As far as I know, most airlines will cancel the remainder of your itinerary if you fail to complete a leg. Hope your coworker likes Dallas, because he's gonna be stuck there.
So the "average" consumer makes choices different from your own. How is that a problem? What makes you so sure you know what's better for any given person than that person, himself?
Most legacy COBOL code is not designed with anything like what we'd consider "best practices" today. The language itself is unfriendly, and doesn't lend itself to the modern world.
Don't you know that there is now an Object Oriented version of COBOL?
everyone's wages needed to be adjusted again AND those people need to have back wages paid for the period that they we being paid less. That's a complex problem that most programs, even modern ones, probably are not designed to consider.
I've used QuickBooks, PeachTree, and Paychex to process payroll. All three of them handle backpay trivially.
Backpay is a very common payroll scenario. Companies give raises all the time that are effective some date in the past. Inability to handle backpay means your payroll system is improperly designed.
So you're just gonna whack off in front of the wife and kids? Most people like some time alone for self-service--is that the same as multi-party coordination?
2) Easier to conceal
My office is situated in a red-light district. I could have a "nooner" and no one would know but me, my "date", and the lord our god.
3) 24/7 availability
"Women needing money" isn't restricted to certain times of day or days of the week. I can see a few working girls from my window right now. How do I know they're working? Non-working women don't tend to pace up and down the block--they typically are actually going somewhere.
More to the point, though, what again is the monogamist's typical position on prostitution? Pro, or Con?
I'm pretty sure that prostitution and monogamy are in logical conflict with each other. They don't call it "cheating" for nothing. Anyhow, there are those who would claim that watching pornography is cheating.
Actually, once a man has determined that he will cheat on his wife, engaging a prostitute makes perfect sense (as opposed to taking on a mistress or trawling for one-off hookups). A prostitute: 1. Is always available 24/7 2. Is always willing 3. Doesn't take too much of your time 4. Is inexpensive (how much did that "free sex" cost you?) 5. Will be attractive 6. Will have the skills of a professional 7. Requires no emotional investment
etc. etc. etc.
If I were going to cheat on my wife, it would be with a prostitute.
Porn short-circuits this. When a man wants sex and the woman would rather use it for leverage, he can say 'fine bitch - be that way' and break out the porno.
Porn short-circuits this?
I think you are forgetting about prostitution. It's been around a little longer than porn has.
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Under the law I would have no "right" to stop this person from taking this picture or others like it, I would have no right to force the destruction of this picture--the best I could do would be to prevent future pictures by blocking the shots or by leaving.
Actually, in many jurisdictions upskirt photography is specifically illegal without permission. In other jurisdictions, it would depend on whether a court of law decides that a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy up her (or his, I suppose) skirt. In the case of your daughter, local laws might even deem such photos to be child pornography since the photos are probably intended to arouse.
Though I'm curious at exactly what punishment I would receive by a jury if I assaulted a person who was doing this, would they dismiss the charge against me because they believed that it was justified?
It would depend on state/local laws, the extent to which you assaulted the photographer, and of course, the individual jury.
When you observe a crime being committed, it is almost always preferable to summon the police rather than to apply vigilante-style "justice". Even if you could rely upon a "think of the children" jury finding you not guilty of this assault, and I'm not saying you can rely upon that, you would still go through considerable monetary and emotional expense mounting a defense.
1. Debian new releases ALWAYS come with release notes that contain upgrade instructions. Follow them. It is usually NOT as simple as a dist-upgrade if you have certain packages installed.
2. Debian stable is generally pretty stable upon release, but feel free to wait a bit if it will make you more comfortable. Just make sure that your sources.list says "etch" and not "stable". When lenny is realeased, etch will become 'oldstable'.
So basically, you've got the right idea. To read the release notes, go to the Debian website and look for the text "If you're upgrading to the latest stable release from a previous version, please read the release notes before proceeding."
That's the best thing about Debian. As long as you at least put forth some degree of effort to RTFM, Debian won't give you many surprises. They make it easy to find and use the documentation.
I'm pretty sure a 14mm lens (the one that took the pic that got him ejected) is not considered a telephoto lens.
A good P&S can approach the quality of an SLR for the majority of cases
As long as "majority of cases" means outdoors on a sunny day with uniform lighting and a stationary subject standing against a brick wall and no water or sky appear in the photo, and the angle of it isn't too close to the sun and there are no dark objects in the photo and... and...
And then I'll grant you that the best P&S cameras can sometimes approach the quality of the worst dSLRs with the cheapest lenses. ;)
in direct sunlight
That is the only way that a P&S will ever compare with a dSLR. Anything other than "in direct sunlight" is when your Nikon Coolpix will fall down on the floor.
And even in situations with ample light, you can still tell the difference between a P&S and a dSLR in many scenarios such as:
Well, now I'm tired of typing. Point being: yes, you can tell the difference between a P&S and a dSLR.
If you project confidence, people will not harass you. At least that's what I've found when I'm photographing my kids at events, parks, whatever (most pools have no photo policies, I've found... but I'm also pretty sure that dSLRs and water don't mix well).
A few times, I've had people ask me to email them some shots, which I'm happy to do.
Event photographers, on the other hand, seem to harass anyone with a dSLR (who might be taking away their business). Ahhh well.
A lot of museums with "no photography" policies will also allow you to come in during off-hours, set up a tripod, and take photos with no flash. You just have to call ahead and ask.
Is that what it takes to get on the front page? Write you some emphatic, whiny email, littered with "creative" English usage?
I think I can handle that.
According to TFA (yes, I actually read it) they had 20000 paying customers, no less. How ridiculously stupid do you have to be to run a business based on storing data for other people and not putting a working backup strategy into place?!
I agree--I think it's ridiculous that the data is inaccessible. The FA is a little short on details, but my best understanding of it is that the data is actually there, but the pointers between the user accounts and the data are lost, so they have no idea which data belongs to whom.
Taking a second look at the site in question, it does not look like they bill themselves out as a data backup provider like S3 or rsync.net, so maybe customers really should have assumed that their data was backed up? I had never heard of MediaMax before today, so I don't really know for sure what they ever provided.
So maybe this isn't really news after all. If S3 or xdrive or something lost customer data, that would be big news.
Random Wikipedia links != answer to my question.
Can someone please explain to me why the overloaded term "cloud" was used in this summary? Other than for buzzword-compliance?
I don't see anything related to cloud computing here.
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
You know something, yesterday I got a filling in one of my teeth. At the time, it seemed like a good idea to let my dentist do it; but now that I read your Insightful post, I'm not so sure.
The filling seems OK to me, but how can I be sure if I didn't do it myself? I'm really starting to regret allowing a licensed professional with over 25 years of experience perform that medical procedure on me. After all, if I really wanted it done right, I would have done it myself (despite the fact that my knowledge of teeth begins and ends with the Tooth Fairy).
Umm, I'm pretty sure the cloud was supposed to be the backup... I'm just sayin'...
Part of this is that athletes get better with each generation.
What do you attribute this to? Is it the crappy food, the sedentary lifestyle they're raised in, or the growth hormones?
It depends on the sport.
In the case of gymnastics, I would attribute it to the following:
1. Advances in modern medicine: What would have been a career-ending injury 100 years ago is now a few months of physical therapy that is specifically tailored to the gymnast so he/she does not lose too much ground.
2. Advances in technology: For instance, the modern spring floor for floor exercise was invented in the 60s, and the technology has only improved from there.
3. Better understanding of the human body: We now know a lot more about optimal nutrition, training (injury avoidance, etc.), and many other aspects of the human body than ever before. We can be much more efficient in our training.
4. Competition: Who wants to go to this year's Olympic Games with the moves that won gold 4 years ago? You can bet that your competition has already mastered those skills, so you had better be prepared with something more difficult.
Instead of having your locksmith make you a $2 copy of a bad key, fork over the cash to have him decode the key and cut a new one by code.
That was pretty much going to be my response. When I need a key, I give the code to my locksmith, he types it into the machine, and out pops a perfectly-cut key for $1.57+tax.
I am a landlord.
I do not charge $50 for a replacement key--I charge $7 ($2 for the key and $5 to make you think twice about losing your key). But I sure as heck charge $50 if I have to drag my ass out of bed to let you into your apartment.
I do not stamp DND on my keys--I don't care how many copies of their keys my residents make at Home Depot. Heck, I hope they make 10 copies to lessen the chance that they lose their only key. Obviously I change the locks in between residents.
The result is a list of 60 person questions (hometown, number of brothers, country of birth, etc) that is drawn from randomly to ensure the person ordering the drugs is the one who is logged in and authorized.
The problem with this type of thing is that it's really tough to come up with questions that no one else would get right, but that I would also get right. I mean, there are hundreds of people who know how many brothers I have, what my hometown is, etc.
On the other hand, if you make them too hard (who was your favorite 7th grade teacher?), I'm not going to be able to get that question right all the time, either.
The bottom line for me is that those questions really torque me off, so I answer the same thing for all of them. The answer that I use is not '1', but it might as well be. At least that way I know I can get it right. And it would be pretty hard for someone else who knows me to answer the questions right. Because my hometown is definitely not 'diet pepsi', and I doubt anyone would guess that, either.
By cancelling these fares the airlines are rocking confidence in comparison sites, and obviously pushing some business away, but I don't think they're opening themselves to lawsuits since customers didn't book with them direct.
If you booked a ticket on RyanAir through a third-party website, and RyanAir summarily canceled your reservation... would you ever fly RyanAir again?
I'm not sure this was a smart business move on RyanAir's part. Refuse to accept any further reservations from 3rd party sites? Fine. But canceling already-confirmed reservations because that don't like the sales channel? That's not gonna go over well.
As far as I know, most airlines will cancel the remainder of your itinerary if you fail to complete a leg. Hope your coworker likes Dallas, because he's gonna be stuck there.
So the "average" consumer makes choices different from your own. How is that a problem? What makes you so sure you know what's better for any given person than that person, himself?
Most legacy COBOL code is not designed with anything like what we'd consider "best practices" today. The language itself is unfriendly, and doesn't lend itself to the modern world.
Don't you know that there is now an Object Oriented version of COBOL?
It's called: ADD 1 TO COBOL.
everyone's wages needed to be adjusted again AND those people need to have back wages paid for the period that they we being paid less. That's a complex problem that most programs, even modern ones, probably are not designed to consider.
I've used QuickBooks, PeachTree, and Paychex to process payroll. All three of them handle backpay trivially.
Backpay is a very common payroll scenario. Companies give raises all the time that are effective some date in the past. Inability to handle backpay means your payroll system is improperly designed.
How's that?
1) No multi-party coordination required.
So you're just gonna whack off in front of the wife and kids? Most people like some time alone for self-service--is that the same as multi-party coordination?
2) Easier to conceal
My office is situated in a red-light district. I could have a "nooner" and no one would know but me, my "date", and the lord our god.
3) 24/7 availability
"Women needing money" isn't restricted to certain times of day or days of the week. I can see a few working girls from my window right now. How do I know they're working? Non-working women don't tend to pace up and down the block--they typically are actually going somewhere.
More to the point, though, what again is the monogamist's typical position on prostitution? Pro, or Con?
I'm pretty sure that prostitution and monogamy are in logical conflict with each other. They don't call it "cheating" for nothing. Anyhow, there are those who would claim that watching pornography is cheating.
Actually, once a man has determined that he will cheat on his wife, engaging a prostitute makes perfect sense (as opposed to taking on a mistress or trawling for one-off hookups). A prostitute:
1. Is always available 24/7
2. Is always willing
3. Doesn't take too much of your time
4. Is inexpensive (how much did that "free sex" cost you?)
5. Will be attractive
6. Will have the skills of a professional
7. Requires no emotional investment
etc. etc. etc.
If I were going to cheat on my wife, it would be with a prostitute.
Porn short-circuits this. When a man wants sex and the woman would rather use it for leverage, he can say 'fine bitch - be that way' and break out the porno.
Porn short-circuits this?
I think you are forgetting about prostitution. It's been around a little longer than porn has.