Posts by Tom 13

I've never ridden a European train,

only the crappy slow ones that allegedly function as commuter services on this side of the pond. If you think a fleshy at an "oh shit" button can stop the train before the train hits the shit, I don't even want you WASHING my auto, let alone making claims about knowledge of mass transit.

Yep. The script kiddies go for the low hanging fruit,

but the crafty thugs target tougher stuff because they have the bigger toys.

Um... Having worked as Help Desk support in a facility that used Exchange

you really need to stop smoking the M$ weed. It really rots your brain man.

At our facility, where they actually had integrated fax and voice service into the Exchange system, we frequently had to explain to employees that the Recall button at best had a 50-50 shot of recalling a message that was sent to an internal user (if the recall was sent quickly enough and the recipient hadn't read the message you could recall it), and if it was sent to an external one, well that one was never coming back.

Neither can you eliminate the principal of the country

protecting its citizens and agents, which is the essential claim being lodged against Assange.

Courts are established so that citizens can hear cases when these principles come into conflict and arrive at decisions the citizens believe best protect their liberty.

That would be

'etymology'. Running away now before I screw up something.

Then by your own definition,

MS systems can attain the same uptime even if individual servers themselves need to be rebooted once a week to clear memory leakages. That they haven't is merely an accident.

Not that I think *nixes aren't better systems, just pointing out the idiocy of your argument.

You know John,

that just CRAZY talk!

The problem isn't the water supply*,

or the air traffic control system, or the electric grid, or the chemical plants (including ga/petrol). The problem is what happens when they hit all of the above in a coordinated attack. I can come up with other nightmare scenarios that have a significant chance of killing people, but frankly see no need to provide the enemies of civilization with more fodder than is already out there.

*and of the list I expect the water supply is the least problematic. The water treatment is usually upstream of the sewage treatment, so you are only dealing with natural contaminants. While you would get some level of sickness and possible death from that, it's western society going after the last 5% of the danger, not taking on the noticeable 30% problem the rest of the world is usually facing.

That was a decent solution when the networks were separated.

But these days even the phone companies are transforming the voice data in to ip packets and transferring them over the high speed backbones. And integrated telephony does make it possible to forge phone numbers. It's a brave new world out there. Best to have your IT MOP3 suit handy and keep it repaired.

Mathematically perhaps.

But the philosophical principles underlying it, no.

Remember the key observational data which lead to this is the failure of the Michaelson-Morley experiments to be able to detect changes in the speed of light that ought to result from the fixed external reference of the ether. Furthermore, for pulsar binaries we had the observational data to that the blips occur in standard orbital fashion. If Newtonian physics held, the blips for heading away from us and heading toward us should arrive at more chaotic times than they do. We clearly get blip away, blip away, behind, blip toward, blip toward, front, rinse and repeat. The the away is red-shifted relative to the median red-shift for the central object, the toward is blue-shifted relative to the median red-shift, but the arrival times are in the proper sequence.

I'm also curious as to the assertion it is the same group.

But then nobody is saying who it is targeting, so maybe that tells them enough to have some confidence in the statement. I certainly think it would be foolish to release it on Iran and then expect the Iranians wouldn't try to turn it back on us.

Then you completely misunderstand corporate lobbying.

Corporation lobbying is a byproduct of statist policies. With so much power concentrated in one easily accessible location, corporation have to buy seats at the table for issues which affect their business. Sometimes that means they are trying to move things forward, mostly it means they are just trying to make things not a bad as they otherwise would be. Yes it is extortion in a moral sense, but only religions know morality while governments only know laws and "ethics", and the politicians make the laws, the politicians aren't going to make laws against themselves.

I'm all for accountability, but that comes from disclosure, not abridgement of speech rights.

You presumed wrong.

The statute of limitations applies to filing charges. Once the charges are filed you can stay in court until there is a trial. And I for one won't give an inch on the "too frail because of advanced age" argument when it is his own court filings which have led to the advanced age.

Frankly he should come here and go on trial before a jury of his peers, which is what the treaty requires. If OJ could get off owning and stashing the bloody gloves for a double murder in his house, McKinnon can easily beat the rap on this case, confession not withstanding.

False pair of choices.

As none other than Google have demonstrated, option 3 is the correct way to go:

3. Pay for a private net that lets you connect all your gear to a production system. When you suspect there is an issue and aren't in the office drive 30-80 miles to the office, logon to the private network and remotely check the station 2000 miles away.

Yes it is a bit more expensive than option 1, but doesn't leave you bare ass hanging out the car window for anyone to slap.

Nah. He's a D from MA

so that would actually sort of be a selling point in his home district.

@Turtle_Fan: Please no! For the love of God No!

Those of us who both play games AND understand what is meant by Game Theory really don't want him around. His type have been cast out even by the outcasts.

Even if they did just bin them

because the mail filters were set to keep out frauds, that still is not the legally binding method for contacting a potential defendant. It must be done by certified letter. And even if they had contacted by certified letter, this being a well established area of copyright law that Astrolabe's lawyers are attempting to rewrite via intimidation, a legal proper FU would still have been in order.

That would be an important mitigating factor

but just as the virus can spread via non-internet connections, it could theoretically take data with it and report back once it does get an internet connection, so it is still a valid security concern.

First, never thank lawyers for anything

it only encourages them to multiply, and we've got enough of the parasites already.

Second, whether or not someone else would have done something at the time is not what makes a leader a hero. The question is whether or not someone else could have done as well or better than they did it. When that leader consistently turns in exceptional results, they are indeed a hero, regardless of what else was percolating at the time.

I think if MJ's doctor had killed 50 celebrities

he'd probably be up for more than 121 years.

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Of course, there might be a contingent that would like to pin a medal on his chest too.