Well, in the UK, we don't. And we shouldn't. That's the point.

In the US, there seems to be the whole trial by media thing, so presumably the public have some influence over this.

This is the UK. We don't allow the media to manipulate the court in this way.

Speeding is different. It's a strict liability crime. You are charged whether you know you're speeding or not.

Not knowing it's a crime is not a defence. However, not knowing that you're even doing the act is a defence. Aunt Tilley had no way of knowing that the emoticon was infected, so she's not guilty. If she did know it was infected but was not aware that infecting someone's computer with a trojan was a crime then she would be guilty.

I just called it SSH.

The attacker is already established by precedent. Most crimes have a "Mens rea" requirement - an intent to commit the crime. Aunt Tilly didn't have any intent so she's not guilty. The person who created the emoticon hack was intending to do commit a crime.

The victim is anyone who suffered loss. The company and anyone whose password was stolen in this case.

This really is a solved problem in law.

I can't wait to read some hate-filled slashdotter's pathetic tirade against women. Have at it, chaps.

Women: A ridiculous liberal myth

It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that an enire gender seprate from male exists, is ludicrous...

Sadly I don't really have the time to do justice to such a classic troll.

Well, given that fuel is dispensed in litres, but distances are measured in miles, wine is measured in ml and beer in pints, the systems we tend to use are somewhat fluid.

Might still be possible to convert the assembly into C. An inefficient way of doing things compared with a proper conversion, but it should be faster than an emulator.

We've seen a few solar aircraft. Without a pilot, you get a lot of space for batteries. And you can store at least some of the energy as potential energy. You don't need to keep it at the exact altitude.

Hiring manager is called Bob. He can only receive emails from people whose names start with A.

He already was a neo-conservative fringe Libertarian. It just became more apparent after he ran out of geek things to talk about.

Not sure if it makes a difference even if we have an object that is marginally denser than water at surface level. We're still only displacing our volume.