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Comment Re:Very hard to encrypt a backup tape? (Score 1) 182

Unfortunately there are id10ts out there (typically upper management) who once heard the phrase offsite backup from one of their golf buddies, and thought it meant "have the IT staff take the backup home with them, in case there's a fire". Continuing with some variation of: "Besides, if we need something restored they can get it back faster than iron mountain"

The hours I've argued...

Comment Re:When friends trust you more than the police... (Score 1) 203

giving someone, in the process of committing a crime, information to help them, is a crime.

What crime is that?

Aiding and abetting.

If I tell a hostage taker to put down his guns and turn himself in I am helping him but I don't think anyone would consider that a crime.

Giving someone a command is not helping them, it's commanding them.

If the police say, "we've got you surrounded", that is not a crime either. Letting the suspect know there is no escape is not so different from telling him to surrender.

Telling them how to evade capture or otherwise helping them commit the crime is a crime though.
I'm not sure why you think those other things have anything to do with what I said.
Twisting my words around won't change the facts either.

Comment Re:When friends trust you more than the police... (Score 2) 203

That's the problem with the law -- you cannot qualify "...in the process of committing a crime" because that implies intent (and someone could claim that they were misconstrued). So, the law would effectively framed such that giving someone information to help them is a crime, qualifying the nature of the information (but never the situation). And then, you're screwed.

are you some kind of lawyer?

I grant that some crimes are not apparent; but some crimes are blatantly obvious.
Obviously you should not be able to get convicted of helping in a crime if the person committing the crime is not convicted, but if the person is convicted of a crime and you helped them in carrying out the crime, then you should go to jail too.

i.e.If someone tells a man coming out of the back door of a bank carrying a large sack, "hey don't go that way, there are cops there" when he starts to leave, he is guilty of aiding the criminal.

I can see that posting on YOUR Facebook page shouldn't be actionable; but if you post information to a CRIMINAL's Facebook page or messages them information to help them in a crime they boast about on the same page as being in the act of committing, that should get them a nice cell next to the guy they helped.

Helping criminals commit crimes is a crime.

There is a difference between helping and not hindering. I am under no legal obligation to hinder a criminal, afaik.

It's up to the courts to determine the facts of the matter, the police should just arrest folks who appear to have broken the law.

p.s. do you understand there is a difference between "guilty of a crime" and "convicted of a crime".

Comment Re:Not much of a tooth brusher (Score 1) 116

Human teeth really suck that much.

Teeth found as least as far back as Neanderthal are almost universally worn flat in anyone who survived to adulthood. Also, abscesses, often wearing away bone all the way up into the sinuses, are very common in pleistocene remains from the Americas. (The individuals must have been in constant pain for years. Ouch.)

We've also found a lot of teeth that were badly decayed, and forcibly extracted. Sometimes in pieces. Ice age dentistry wasn't pretty.

Wait?!? You mean they don't still do it that way? Crap I need a new dentist.
My last extraction resulted in about five pieces. (OK it was in the '80s)

Comment Re:The Apple Advantage (Score 2) 660

And after Apple has put it's competitors out of business is can pick and choose from all the "failed" apps that are better than theirs, buy them at a cut rate, and re-release them as Apple software... sounds like almost free R&D for Apple. Why write good software when you can let other folks do it, then crush them and take it.

Comment Re:Solar power (Score 1) 223

You mean when the machines blot out the sun to deprive us of solar power?

Wait, isn't that backwards? I'm confused.

Like when we run out of sun. That thing isn't going to be around forever. When are politicians going to address the issue of Peak Sunlight?

about the time the crust of the earth boils off due to being inside a red giant.

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