Comment Wrong crime... (Score 1) 281
"Jailtime for jailbreaking" makes a clever headline, but this is not what the guy was accused of nor what he pleaded guilty to. Thanks for wasting my time...
That is "stealthy"... or rather, would be... I don't find mDNSResponder.exe installed either... However, Googling, I see that it's the key to iTunes library sharing functionality, which I deselected/disabled in my initial configuration, so maybe that's why it never got installed.
Nevertheless, I'm not a big fan of stealth installs, which a lot of software does. That's why I keep a regular watch on my installed programs and services, especially after I add something intentionally, to make sure I didn't add something unintentionally.
Many years ago, when I was at a major university, I was taking a class where nearly everyone in the class had copies of old exams and cheated on every test. I was offered copies of the exams, but I refused to cheat. Because of the skewed curve, I was getting a low C in the class. I complained to the professor and told him that I thought I knew the material better than anyone else in the class. He defended his testing strategy, but said "to prove me wrong" he would devise a new test, using a different methodology for the final.
The scores were posted. I scored a 90 (minus 10 points for a sign error). The next highest score was 80. The rest of the class scored below 50. So I went to the professor and asked if he was going to adjust my grade for the semester. He said no. Instead, since everyone else in the class had done so poorly, he felt the test was badly structured and had decided to weight it so that it had muted impact.
I was furious, so I went to the dean, who agreed to investigate the matter. I figured that would be the end of it, but in fact the dean called me back to his office, informed me that my grade had been appropriately adjusted, and that the professor had been invited to focus on his research and would no longer be teaching at the university...
My point is not my happy ending, but that in some cases the professors, even in light of overwhelming evidence of cheating, refuse to admit that it's going on and may even encourage it by covering it up.
Any CPU debug mode worthy of the name should be able to violate OS security six ways from Sunday...
Any security model worthy of the name would be agnostic to whether the CPU was in user mode or debug mode. While there is always the risk of a bug or a security hole, I can assure you that anything that goes into the chip goes in under the scrutiny of the security model. I know of many instances where some debug or test feature was not implemented because there was some potential threat to the security model.
No. I said the Holocaust was not caused by religious ideals. Hitler was motivated by power, racism, and economic envy. He used religion and fear as tools to help motivate others to his cause.
Do you think most Germans wanted to oppress, torture, and murder Jews because of religious differences? No, they hated the Jews because the Jews had a lot of financial power and control in pre-Nazi Germany.
You are confused. The members of Al-Qaeda are motivated by their devotion to Osama Bin Laden, not to Islam. In fact, their actions are in direct contradiction to Islamic beliefs.
If you believe someone can become a suicide terrorist without religion...
One man's terrorist is another man's war hero. More people commit "suicide" for political beliefs than do for religious ones. Duty is a powerful motivator.
People are predominantly motivated by greed and power. Making something a religious cause is, more often than not, just a way to get buy-in from the masses... an afterthought, not the primary motivation.
So your premise is that religion causes people to commit horrible acts? Is it not just possible that humans commit horrible acts all on their own and some merely use religion to justify their actions?
Most religious people have never commited a horrible act... I think this alone refutes your premise.
However, as further contra-evidence, I can think of many seriously horrible acts that were not done in the name of religion... the Holocaust, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Rwanda, 9/11/2001, (in)human medical experimentation through the ages... the list goes on.
Let's face it. Humans have always and will continue to commit horrible acts and they will try to rationalize some justification for it, be it religion, or politics, or scientific advancement... If you believe that religion causes people to do bad things, then you really don't understand people... or religion.
OK, it's clearly not a cell phone since, as others have pointed out there was no network. She might as well be talking into her purse.
Probably not a hearing device of any sort, since there was no one else in the vacinity that she could have been talking to.
Most likely explanation:
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
