While I totally agree with the meaning of this post, ie, a person can't lose their rights just because they didn't specifically say that they were using them, or they were tricked into somehow bypassing them... how does this work with say, a confession?

If the rights of the person not to incriminate themselves cannot be taken/waived away, then surely no confession could EVER be admissable in a court of law? The courts would have to rule that the confession would breach their rights and therefore be thrown out?

You might want to look into HipHop a bit. It's rather quite nice.

Also the fact that a behemoth like FB can run as it is written in PHP is more of a commentary on the value of your post.

I don't think that "instance" means infected machine here. I would say likely it would be some sort of control node of the botnet. If you have many control nodes, it is much harder to take control of the botnet as a whole.

From the article (Really, sometimes reading it gives a whole new insight into a story):

In Australia, we call it Tall Poppy Syndrome where someone that is doing outstanding work is seen as a threat, a target and something to be cut back down to size. Though in this case, I would say that there is a hint of Schadenfreude thrown into the mix as well.

Basically, it's just sad and pathetic.

Maybe you could sing this song in your moment of glee, it's what came to mind when I read the summary...

        On the farm, every Friday
        On the farm, it's rabbit pie day.
        So, every Friday that ever comes along,
        I get up early and sing this little song

        Run rabbit – run rabbit – Run! Run! Run!
        Run rabbit – run rabbit – Run! Run! Run!
        Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
        Goes the farmer's gun.
        Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run.

Lyrics courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Rabbit_Run

Was a dingy rustic bar with Malcolm sitting talking to two twins and an ad appearing on TV for Fruity Oaty Bar...

Miranda...

From the LA times.

Serious editors, that link is even provided at the bottom of the crappy summary article you folks pointed to - and it is MUCH more in-depth.

In reply to yourself and the AC above you, let me provide a decent snip of the conclusion of a rather detailed study from Berkley:

Full PDF link

Highlights are mine.

Wow, that train of thought has completely blown me away. I am not even sure on where to start replying to you.

If you spend more on education, not just tertiary, but primary and secondary, it will nurture youth to have higher aspirations, it will teach them more. If you have someone leaving secondary school with a good understanding of basic subjects (math, English, at least one science and computers) as well as a rounded splash of some elective subjects such as history, economics, art, music, religion they are much more likely to either look for further education on their own (even if they have to pay as much for it as in the US) and move on to being a productive member of society rather than ending up in prison.

That's not to say that everyone with a good education will never do anything illegal or end up in jail, but the number of people in prison with a poor education should stand out above anything else that to keep people out of prison, give them an education. Give them the ability to actually join society as a peer rather than as the bottom of the ladder cleaning the bathrooms or working as a parking attendant.

This concept of paying more earlier also has the advantage saving more money in the long run. If you don't need to pay for putting someone in prison AND have the benefit of that person contributing to the society they live in, it clearly is a win-win scenario.

Have you considered he might have a really, really small boat?

This is gambling however. It's like playing a game of poker where you aren't supposed to see the cards, but one player is showing them to you. It is HIS/HER fault. Using the knowledge of that players cards in your betting and game is fine-and-dandy with me. Each player should be covering his cards.

This is a slot machine, it is a perfectly legal profit center for casinos and gaming establishments to strip money away from the poor, addicted, weak-minded and the like. This isn't a case where a chap sneaks into a software design company, steals the code for a slot machine and sells it to another developer. This is out and out poor coding that has bitten someone in the ass and they are suing the guy who noticed it. If I was semi-omnipotent (whereby had the power to change who got fined, but not whether they got fined) I would be slugging any fine directly to the company who coded this rubbish in the first place.

And seeing as I am in a somewhat antagonistic mood, please enlighten me on how enticing dim-witted souls into thinking that they have a real chance of winning money, as compared to in reality siphoning off their meager funds isn't stealing. Casinos are nothing short of a way for someone to profit off the addictions, simple-wits and guilability of those beneath them - and this is said from someone who has made a good deal of money from playing poker - the real kind, against other players, not the poker-machine type. If you ask me, they should be totally and utterly, without the slightest hesitation, liable for any mistakes on their part, any badly written gaming machines, or any-and-all dumb-shittery, mental-fuck-up-edness or downright incompetence on their part.

There is no EULA on a poker machine.

What you see is what you get.. no wait... what you see is what takes your money... No, hang on, let me word this... What you see should take your money... and if it doesn't then you can be hit with all sorts of charges... Hmmm, that doesn't sound as good as my original line...

Yes, but apparently if you profit off a glitch, it is your fault and yu are a bad person however if you simply write a buggy poker machine slot machine game thingy, you are just A-Okay.

To me, this is exactly like charging a person who uses a buggy phone that gives them free calls every other call with fraud. They bought the phone as is, made no changes to it and they are being charged. These guys didn't change the code in the poker machine, they just knew what buttons to press after putting money in. If anything, they should be celebrated as the folks that beat the gaming industry.

Indeed, I thought this was going to be the perfect thing for say two friends to use as a backup method between each other - not so much a randon anyone on the internets has the backup... If it does pick users off the internet, I am less interested in it - I thought the concept of peer to peer based backup (but selecting your peers) was brilliant.