Could the route be just a straight line course with the wind? Pretty easy to do here.
No. As others have noted, the straight line distance between start point and end point of the race can't be greater than 50% of the total race distance.
Over the last year, I've been plagued by rogue BitTorrent users who've crept onto these public hostpots either with a stolen/cracked password, or who lie right to my face (and the Wi-Fi owners) about it.
Huh? They lie right to your face about it? Wait a minute. Who the hell are you anyway and what do you have to say about it? If it bothers you, buy yourself a mobile hotspot and STFU. At least maybe they are actually buying food/coffee/whatever and aren't just using the cafe as their personal office. What's the next complaint? That their conversations are too loud and you can't hear your conference calls?
Yeah, and the victims won't see a penny of it either. What should have happened was the Marriot charged with full refunds with interest to those they scammed. I'm quite certain they would have financial records of them.
With a punitive fine of 5x that amount to discourage such behaviour in the future.
I thought I touched that base. Meanwhile, the NSA is still the most likely source.
My personal front runner for this is the DEA, but that's just my $0.02.
Yes but there still has to be the right to defend yourself. If you take away the means by which I can pay lawyers, my funds, then I can't get the best legal representation.
You have the right to legal representation regardless of your financial standing. Do you know what they call the guy who barely passed the bar exam by one point? Your state provided legal representation.
The compromised data included names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses.
Holy defecation Batman! Hackerz stole a phone book!
You'll only get fireballs inside the atmosphere. In space, you'll get jets.
And bodies. As atmosphere is vented it will take the crew in that compartment with it.
who cares if you lose ten fighters at a milliion credits each if they take down a capital ship worth a hundred billion.
The pilots of the fighters? No pilots? Then it's just a missile.
Which, interestingly enough, a one-time-use, generated-on-the-fly, disposable credit card number would ALSO protect you against...
Which kinda suck for use as a recurring payment method.
The only good news in all of this is that there is no indication that the jQuery library was affected.
Kickstarter isn't a random third party. As the great-grandparent said, they're essentially assuming the role of the stock exchange - as the middleman and facilitator of the process. Thus they have an interest in seeing that the process is transparent and to some degree regulated.
I disagree. I see Kickstarter as just a middleman that facilitates the introduction between idea people seeking funding and a pooled collection of small angel investors. Like all middlemen, they take a percentage for making the the introduction if it works out, but after that they are not involved.
The issue that I have with this model is that most people throwing money at projects don't understand the amount of risk they are assuming and probably don't have the necessary background to even evaluate that risk. They just see a chance to get in early on some new game/gadget/service without realizing that their prize may never appear.
It's called 'Ask Slashdot' for a reason. What better group of people to ask than a group of geeks with diverse backgrounds? It's attitudes like yours that keep people from asking for help when they need it.
Wouldn't it be great then if Timothy would post it into the "Ask Slashdot" section?
I served papers on someone by email when I couldn't do it in person. This isn't particularly surprising.
And? Was it challenged in court and the judge found that such a process was legally binding? If not then I guess you got away with it.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
