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Comment Strike Two. (Score 2) 629

It shouldn't even be a criminal charge. It may be a crime by the letter of the law, but c'mon, this couldn't be handled in-house?!

Green had previously received a three-day suspension for accessing the system inappropriately.

Green was released on Wednesday from Land O'Lakes Detention Center into the custody of his mother. He'll likely be granted pretrial intervention by a judge, sheriff's detective Anthony Bossone said.

Green also received a 10-day school suspension. It's unclear if he'll return to Paul R. Smith to complete the school year after the suspension.

Middle school student charged with cybercrime in Holiday

Individuals who successfully complete a Pretrial Intervention Program will have their criminal charges dismissed.

Pretrial Intervention is for first offenders charged with third degree misdemeanors or felonies. Violate your PTI and you will be looking at a very pissed off judge and prosecutor.

Understanding Florida's Pre-Trial Intervention Program

Comment He set out to embarass a teacher he disliked. (Score 1) 629

Especially because he put GAY GUYS on the computer, the horrors. If he had changed the wallpaper to a cat picture this would not have happened I guarantee it.

Don't be an idiot.

Green said that on the morning in question, he accessed the computer that stored the FCAT files and, realizing that computer didn't have a camera, found another.

''So I logged out of that computer and logged into a different one and I logged into a teacher's computer who I didn't like and tried putting inappropriate pictures onto his computer to annoy him,'' Green said.

The teacher he was targeting was out that day. Instead, the substitute teacher saw the picture and reported it to the school's administration.

Middle school student charged with cybercrime in Holiday

Comment Re:Requirements (Score 1) 626

Consider how the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution have been hashed over, in the last 200+ years. We need to be able to reference the exact version of the language, as used, in any legal script. This will keep lawyers from interpreting version 1.0 laws using version 2.0 rules and definitions.

That would be an unmitigated disaster and wholly alien to the Founders' way of thinking. which explicitly rejected trying to impose an 18th century world-view on the future.

At 340,136 words ...the Constitution of Alabama, adopted in 1901 ... is 12 times longer than the average state constitution, 40 times longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is the longest still-operative constitution anywhere in the world.
The English version of the Constitution of India, the longest national constitution, is about 117,369 words long, a third of the length of Alabama's.

Constitution of Alabama

Efforts to reform the Alabama Constitution lead nowhere.

The exact meaning of a word or phrase is notoriously elusive --- and never more so when dealing with the words of men who flat-out refused to be pinned down.

Comment Re:'Murica, FUCK YEAH! (Score 1) 626

As Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, said, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!"

You're joking, of course, but the King James Bible can be read with pleasure after 400 years.

If you have ever tried to slog your way through one of Project Guttenberg's impenetrable nineteeth century translations of classical works, you how extraordinary an achievement that is.

Comment Fumimaro Konoe (Score 1) 167

Historical documents indicate that Prince Konoye was already favoring ending the war in February due the on-going strategic bombing campaigns which were devastating the country and the Emperor was favoring ending the war after the "Meetinghouse" firebombings in March, but the military rejected US requests for unconditional surrender until after the A-bombs were dropped in August.

Fumimaro Konoe was a sheep among wolves, a diplomat who was effortlessly shoved aside whenever he presented the slightest obstacle to the warlords who controlled the Japanese army and navy.

Konoe resigned on 16 October 1941, one day after having recommended Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni to the Emperor as his successor. Two days later, Hirohito chose General Tojo as Prime Minister.

In February 1945, during the first private audience he had been allowed in three years he advised the Emperor to begin negotiations to end World War II. According to Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita, Hirohito, still looking for a tennozan (a great victory), firmly rejected Konoe's recommendation.

Fumimaro Konoe

Comment If it ain't broke don't fix. it. (Score 1) 60

The population of Maine is 1.33 million.

YouTube is the simplest and most reliable way of reaching your target audience and establishing the legitimacy of your project, assuming that the medical and not recreational uses of marijuana are your real concern.

The geek will propose setting up a darknet, when the real need is for openness and exposure.

Comment The power of 10. (Score 1) 142

The eight-bit micro sold in the millions.

The MS-DOS and Windows PC took sales into the hundreds of millions of units.

The modular design of the PC made rapid advances in sound and graphics possible.

But the geek tends to forget that games like Commander Keen and King's Quest were a revelation --- because you could play them on an home office machine that had. no built-in hardware support for animation.

Comment Re:Other unintended side effects (Score 1) 96

The obvious solution is more and better information on the Internet. Doctors have a vested interest in keeping patients ignorant, so their "rants" should be discounted.

The Internet doesn't make you smarter; you only think it does

Even the most reputable health web sites with the most accurate information can cause trouble for the hypochondriac. ''Hypochondriacs tend to latch onto diseases with common or ambiguous symptoms or that are hard to diagnose," says Fallon. For example, illnesses such as HIV or lupus, and neurological disorders including multiple sclerosis can cause vague symptoms like fatigue, swollen glands, and strange physical sensations.

Second-Guessing the Doctor

Barsky and Fallon say hypochondria often breeds suspicion and distrust between a sufferer and his or her physician. Some doctors may be too quick to dismiss the worries of hypochondriacs, and hypochondriacs are likely to ruin relationships with good physicians by second-guessing them from the start.

For instance, Barsky says, a hypochondriac needs to resist the compulsion to self-diagnose and to seek assurance from doctors and friends. The best one can do is to get regular medical treatment from a trustworthy doctor trust and to live a healthy life.

Fallon agrees: ''In a loose sense, a hypochondriac becomes almost addicted to looking up information, examining himself, and getting reassurance from other people,'' he says. ''Checking just makes things worse.''

And what about using the Internet to look up that worrisome symptom? ''If it's just going to make you upset,''says Barsky. ''Don't do it.''

Internet Makes Hypochondria Worse : Cyberchondria

Comment There are limits to everything. (Score 2) 292

I'll take my stand with the automakers on this one.

The only way to gain popular acceptance of the substantially automated or fully driverless car is to guarantee that the technology is trustworthy and reliable ---

that all hardware and software changes are fully documented, competently performed, meet all statutory requirements and will not leave the owner or manufacturer exposed to civil or criminal action somewhere down the road.

The geek may obsess over his "ownership" of a vehicle. I care more about avoiding a crash and a lawsuit that may cripple me financially.

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