pfffft... the pressure works FOR us... no? Siphon those liquid dimonds in a super heated straw! Ok, maybe no.

Also, I'd like to point out that for those who didn't know, ORACLE already has owned and maintained in a black box the main Transactional Storage Engine of MySQL, InnoDB.

And you know what INTERPOL's official business is in the U.S.? Handing information provided by other nations' police forces over to U.S. police forces. That's it.

Really? What about INTERPOL's official business in any other country? Same INTERPOL right? "Handing information provided by other nations' 'police forces'* (* hello INTERPOL via proxy) over to Brand X Nation"

Mr. Burke. I'm going to advise to bend over, open up and get ready for some good ol'fashion information gathering.... nope no one's gonna hear you scream.

But we would never have INTERPOL officers colluding outside of "national channels" even though they are the representative channels of a national police force!? Wait, what? ONE INTERPOL Doesn't talk to the other? Are these autonomous state sponcered diplomatically immune agencies? I asks because I'm curios. I'd like to know if INTERPOL NYC, talks with INTERPOL Paris.... maybe there is nothing of this but someone not signing has name enough and needing practice...

exactly well... Mostly US Citizens. Why should they have immunity from our laws then? While I see your points in differentiation from a role... does that lesson the actuality? I'd be interested in how you feel about Swiss Banks? Should a UBS Warburg's employee working in the US be able to be compensated with funds outside of our taxable reach with the full secrecy of the Swiss system at their fingertips? Or should we not question or worry about indiscretions that might occur until they have been proven, regardless that the very system being put in place is making it more difficult to prove things?

Right... because it's so easy now to trace back who's getting wet over wikileaks (pun intended). With enough resources and tinfoil pretty much anything is digitally possible, lets talk probable and palpable (maybe the pope, his alien brethren, or KIT from knight rider could handle it).

What!? ... more then one ISP in NYC. More then one cellular provider (most places lets hope). More then one proxy service / tor node.................. etc.

Conquer the digital divide before it conquers you.- Some awesome smart dude.

Wikileaksipedia.org* Woot! ...Without the cabal???

Pfffft...I'll take it either way! What could possibly go wrong?

Seriously though, this is a step in the right direction for journalism and hopefully they do find out the right metric of verification / validation that doesn't turn into the NationalEnquirerWet.org


*no that doesn't exist... yes I thought about registering it >.'

The idea is to have many many people use their data plans at the same time... not to have them keep up the usage or do anything particularly wrong our out of line with the TOS. With a DDOS attack, the premise is to (pardon my old school reference) "ping -f"* a target, here the ATT Network, from many different unique sources. Wherein 1 person pinging the target is fine and falls under normal operations, 100,000 people pinging the same host at the same time... well not so good, despite the fact that each individual is doing nothing wrong, in unison and as a whole is when you have problems.

*IRC Wars were fun and edjoomacational... and a ping -f back in the day from an OC3 could alone take out a users dial-up or cable connection causing an effective DOS, no need for these newfangled botted DDOS techniques that are out there today... but eh, get off my lawn!

I just made up Symbolagram earlier =)

Well.. perhaps not totally on topic with your post (which I see insight in), but since you are one of the few here with an open mind, I figured this is a descent place to add my thoughts. Without thorough investigation and analysis, I would not say she's totally right, but perhaps she is onto something.

Everyone here assumes Da Vinci's love of anagrams ended at words... who is to say there are no symbolic anagrams... hieroglyphic anagrams or the like that wouldn't disrupt Zipf's Law as another poster mentioned("the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in a word frequency table"). I believe open minds lead to greatness, it is hard to argue Da Vinci's greatness nor your open mind. I salute you sir... and I coin a new term in the process!

Symbolagram Coming Soon ;)

Cheers

Can you elaborate? I'll be getting a new work laptop soon as my old one's integrated NIC does not negotiate to Gig anymore for some reason. The new models they ordered do not have a serial port... I was asked if a usb-serial module would be adequate or if I would like a different model seeing how I use the serial port daily and it is vital to my job as a WAN Specialist for configuring equipment. What have you found painful? What model adapter have you used... do you think it is a shortcoming in the firmware or hardware... have you tried different usb adapters? I would think a usb-serial interface would be trivial to implement well... maybe it depends on the terminal / console software being used?

Unfortunately the model without the serial port is a much beefier machine that I would prefer rather then the different one they would offer with the serial port =(

Thanks for any input you can offer!

I'm glad to hear that you have indeed made attempts to improve the situation at home that is the root cause. My heart truly does go out for the both of you. I am not abusive in the least and never have been. In fact, I've been there for and stuck up for more then my share of individuals and would do so for anyone I was in the position too. My assumption is that your energy and outrage is wrongly focused.

You care greatly for your granddaughter, that is evident and want only the best for her. I shouldn't need to tell you it is a rough world out there, when you are young it seems even more so with natural attenuation to seek approval and acceptance from your peers. But as sad and hard as it sounds, that will not change and can only be described as human nature. Regardless of why and how, there are those who are abusive out there, there are those who project their own inadequacies and fears onto others - we can't change that. I wish we could, but all the laws in the world won't help. I believe the opinion, especially at such young ages, that "he's a meanie, throw him in jail" will only make matters worse. It is highly likely that those causing your granddaughter such distress are abused at home themselves. I admit, harassment laws are there for a reason, blanketing that reason towards nominal juvenile teasing and negative attention not only discounts those who undergo real harassment, but it sets a unhealthy litigious example. Not only is charging them felonies a horrid band-aide on the root cause, it doesn't even address or seek to give them the help / therapy and nurture they need to get past and see the error in their ways, or allow one to grow a thick-skin, that unfortunate as it is, is needed in this world.

The only thing we have the power to change is ourselves and how that harassment affects us. As others in this thread have said, words only have the power you give them. While yes, because of her previous abuse from her own father no less might, she is more susceptible towards the childish behavior of other children . Why should children be punished for being children? They should learn in their own right that such treatment benefits no one, but the law is not the way to do it. If you have a bone disease that makes your bones very brittle, who's fault is it when the person shaking your hand crushes it? Damn... wheres BadAnalogyGuy when you need him. My point is, treat the problem, not its consequences.

And you say you have tried. For that I do respect you, and wish you had succeeded further, but it seems you are mis-focusing your frustration at the bulwarks you've run into with the law. Fix the law that created the problem, don't create more laws to attempt to mitigate the consequences.

I wish the best of luck to you.

That this person caused major damage to granddaughter. Yes, she was vulnerable because of her father, but that doesn't make the damage done to her any less real. It makes it worse.

From your own post, it appears the damage was already done by her father.

"Why did one straw break the camels back? Here's the secret, the million other straws beneath it."

-mos def.

I'm truly sorry for her and I do wish her the best and hope she recovers and becomes a strong and kind person because of the torment she has seen... but to blame an emotional wreck on the negative attention of a peer is ignoring the underlying cause and setting her up for future failure.

Anyway, I guess what you're saying is that if a kid is so stupid as to have chosen an abusive parent that they should be just left to suffer. The fact that they have been set up to be victim by their own parent lets all other assholes who abuse them off the hook.

Actually, no. She is at no fault whatsoever, she is a minor. I'm saying that you are so stupid to know about and see an abusive adult, one abusive to your own granddaughter no less, and do nothing about it.

Great logic. You're a real class act.

Why thank you! I will be here all week...

I'm just saying... the law is a many headed beast. I believe that everyone should be judged on their own merits and circumstances, not the resources they can muster or the loopholes they can exploit. 9 times out of 10, I'd take a roommate/co-worker/friend with a felony drug conviction over some asshat with a misdemeanor for beating his girlfriend.

Obviously, YMMV

She's a shy, mild-mannered, nice kid who doesn't go out of her way to harass others, or do other people harm. She also is not a very self confident person as her father is an abusive asshole. So, the vicious personal attacks that came her way really harmed her. Her entire personality changed for months. She didn't want to go to school. Her grades suffered badly. It's been more than a year now and she still isn't back to the person she was before all this started.

ahhhh... I see the problem here.

Now what is it you were saying about some little girl calling her names?