I can't belive you didn't post a link.

I mean this is slashdot...getting your site slashdotted is part of the fun.

-Keith

Actually as far as I know it is completly legal for you to write a script to instruct your computer to request the document located at a given URL.

1000 times a second, or whatever...It would be stupid for the provider to actually respond to all of your requests. And in fact Google has click-fraud checking mechinisms to prevent them from billing for things like this.

Immoral != Illegal

The definition of immoral (and illegal if you want to be technical) depends upon intent.

I'm not sure what you're looking for here but the only one I would find unacceptable is example (a). And this certainly wouldn't be a civil matter, but an example of inappropriate behavior in school (and punished as such).

That is essentailly what they tried the first few times. Apparently there are problems due to the pressure/temperature at this depth.

They might be talking about the FCC's jobs...

As in next year your agency gets a 50% budget decrease...and NO ONE will ever be confirmed to an executive position who doesn't espouse the belief that Net-Neutrality is anti-market whatever...

The RSA/Passmark system used by many banks for "Multi-Factor Authentication" (it really isn't) uses fingerprinting as one of the many factors.

I used to have to do support for an installation of this system provided by ITI (a banking industry software provider, now owned by FISERV).

Anyway part of the MFA process checks the fingerprint to see if it is one of the ones saved in a users profile...if it is not then they get asked for the extra security question.

We sometimes had odd issues with the detection when the customer had an old version of flash (5 ish) , or was using an odd platform (Apple).

The Atlantic has a really interesting article about the FBI's multi-year investigation of Stephen Hatfill for the same crime.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/04/the-wrong-man/8019

Have you tried WebDAV?

Silent Storm!

Clearly from the lameness of the title they chose the acronym first and then found a title to fit it. Why anyone would think its appropriate to use the acronym AEGIS for something that doesn't involve defense or a shield I dont know.

Thats funny, ING Direct was a standard example in various "How to do Web Design Right" books for years.

Why exactly would it be a documentary sent back from the future?

The Main plot element is a guy who Time-Travels into the Future.

Can you find it on Bing?

back in 10th grade I had an assignment to do a book report with associated musical accompaniment. I wasn't into music at the time so I consulted with a friend, I ended up using 'Sabotage' to go with Tom Clancy's Op-Center (the first one).

It is really pretty amazing how well the song lines up with the events in the book, the comparisons I made would hardly qualify as metaphors...

It was quite surprising to my classmates as I didn't appear to be the Beastie Boys type, and everyone else's presentation was quite lame...the teacher liked it...my parents, not so much.