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Comment Re:Take some time and think (Score 2, Interesting) 537

It's my understanding his boss's boss asked for the passwords over an intercom, with police and HR present. The boss's boss was authorized, those others, not so much.

I think Terry fscked up. I think he should have been fired. I don't think he should have served 2 years, with the probability of 3 more plus a lifetime stain of FELON for being a paranoid system admin. And apparently I'm not the only one.

My least favorite part about this whole trial is that they removed a guy who was going to vote not guilty. It doesn't matter why he was going to vote not guilty. They decided they didn't like his verdict, and replaced him. Talk about a fscking miscarriage of justice.

Comment Re:Why was this "difficult"? (Score 3, Insightful) 982

"We were not swayed at all by emotional opinion, because if we were we probably would have acquitted because we all agreed that the situation Terry Childs was put in was not called for. However, the facts in the case bore out the verdict we reached.

Quite simply, we followed the law. I personally, and many of the other juror, felt terrible coming to this verdict."

You just did what you were told to do. When one of your fellow jurors refused to go along, he or she was replaced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

"Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority." - Milgram

You've punished a man for something you don't think was wrong. May those who judge you be of greater morality.

-L4N

Comment Do I count the booze? (Score 1) 582

I mean, when I eat out it's a fine supplement to the dinner. When I eat in ( PB& J or a cup o' ramen ), it's damn near the main dish.

Regardless if I include it in the cost I move from the 1:4 to the 1:1 category. Damn you recent realization that alchohol can be tasty as well as the previously understood intoxicating.

... wow, synapse is the CAPTCHA. Slashcode warning me of my lush-y ways?.

Comment Confusion about what qualifies as a USB drive (Score 3, Insightful) 412

Do I count my PSP and DS? Both of which have music and movies, along with the plethora of games and get said data through a USB port?

What about my iPod? I routinely use it to transfer files to and from class, as well as movies and music.

Then there's the throwaway thumb drives which get used for sneakernet tranfers among friends. Not to mention the 3.5 hard drive used for serious bandwidth.

Which of these are USB drives? I honestly don't know, but I counted them all, which gave me the 6 - 10 answer.

Google

Submission + - Pwn2Own downs all but Chrome on Day 1 (arstechnica.com)

Loser4Now writes: "During a contest at the CanSecWest event, security researchers competed to exploit vulnerabilities in web browsers. Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer were all successfully compromised, but Chrome was able to withstand the first day of the competition.
( http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/03/chrome-is-the-only-browser-left-standing-in-pwn2own-contest.ars )

The competition and related interview with Charlie Miller ( http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941 ) served to underscore the marketability of browser security, and the related commercialization of browser exploiters. "Vulnerabilities have a market value so it makes no sense to work hard to find a bug, write an exploit and then give it away," Miller told ZDNet."

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