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Reading 3: The Dirty Work of Fortifications
The use of military earthworks in the Civil War was on an unprecedented scale. Earthworks can be defined generally as any structure made of dirt for military purposes. Soldiers in the Civil War built earthworks for the same reasons Roman armies did: to protect an important place, to help a small number of defenders resist a larger number of attackers, or to surround and cutoff a place important to the enemy. Their forms and complexity evolved in response to improvements in weapons technology.
When the United States Military Academy was established at West Point in 1802, it was modeled after French military academies. Civil and military engineering were the cornerstones of the curriculum. Dennis Hart Mahan, who taught at West Point for 47 years, first published his Complete Treatise on Field Fortification, with the General Outlines of the Principles Regulating the Arrangement, the Attack, and the Defense of Permanent Works in 1836. In it he summarized current European theories of field fortification.
Many of these theories could be traced back to principles that were developed by military engineers in the 17th and 18th centuries in response to the introduction of gunpowder and moveable artillery. First, any fortification was only as strong as its weakest part. Each fortification should be built within range of adjacent fortifications so that they could provide mutual support. Cannoneers and infantrymen instinctively fire straight ahead, so every fortification had to have at least one section that faced each expected direction of attack. Each section was responsible only for the area immediately in front of it. There should be as little dead ground as possible, that is, areas that could not be fired on by guns inside the fortification. Earthworks were better at absorbing the impact of bullets and cannon balls than fortifications of stone or brick. Topography, above all else, drove design. Each fortification had to be uniquely designed for the particular piece of ground it occupied.
In the late 17th century, Louis XIV's chief military engineer, Sebastien de Vauban, developed a "scientific" method to use earthworks offensively. Men besieging a fortified position first constructed lines of earthworks facing the fortification, but beyond the range of its guns. During the night, they dug a zigzag trench leading towards the target and built another line at the new position. Once they got close enough, they hauled artillery forward to the protected position and bombarded the walls at close range, eventually opening the way for an infantry charge. Vauban often added an outer ring of interconnected and mutually supporting earthworks. These detached outer works were often used to protect storage depots, supply lines, and artillery batteries, and to slow the enemy's approach. It did not take many soldiers or cannons to man these earthworks, which could be quickly thrown up and as quickly abandoned.
Most earthworks were built before the battle began, but armies also erected entrenchments on the battlefield, primarily to protect artillery. At first, infantrymen relied on sunken roads, walled farmhouses, and other "found" defenses to protect themselves. By the early 19th century, some officers were ordering their men to dig in. Even a shallow parapet could deflect a bounding cannon ball up and over the heads of the soldiers lying behind it.
In the mid 19th century, weapons technology changed again, as European and American armies began to rely on mass-produced rifled weapons. Cutting spiral grooves into the inside of the barrels of cannon and muskets made them more powerful and more accurate at longer ranges. Rifle-muskets fired what the soldiers called a "minie ball," named after its innovator, Claude Etienne Minié. An experienced soldier could load and fire a rifle-musket as quickly as a smoothbore musket, and he could kill a man at 300 yards, three times the distance of the old smoothbores.
Rifle-muskets made warfare a much more dangerous business for infantrymen. Facing smoothbore muskets, an attacking army could approach within a hundred yards of a line of defenders without incurring serious losses and then make a last dash with bayonets. Attackers facing men armed with rifle-muskets could rarely cross that last hundred yards without losing so many men that they could no longer manage a decisive bayonet charge.
When the Civil War began, more than half of the Confederate and Federal units were armed with smoothbore muskets, but both sides soon equipped their front-line troops with rifle-muskets. Military theorists were still debating the lessons of rifled firepower and entrenchment, but Mahan's view was clear. In the introduction to his 1861 edition, he wrote: "The great destruction of life in open assaults . . . must give additional value to entrenched fields of battle."1 Nearly every West Point graduate who served in the Civil War on either side learned his fortification theory and methods from Mahan.
By 1864, all troops were regularly entrenching on the battlefield, as the spade replaced the bayonet. For the common soldier, entrenching was a rational response to the increasing deadliness of the battlefield--digging increased both his effectiveness and his odds of survival. European countries sent observers to the United States while the war was still going on to study the use of earthworks in places like Richmond, VA and Petersburg, VA. What they learned here, they used in World War I, where trenches defined that bloody conflict.
Questions for Reading 3
1. What were earthworks supposed to accomplish?
2. What principles of fortification did Civil War officers learn at West Point? How were they applied at the Siege of Corinth? at the Battle of Corinth?
3. How did the Siege of Corinth resemble Vauban's technique for attacking fortifications? How did it differ?
4. What change in offensive weapons occurred about the time of the Civil War?
5. A popular view held that:
At the beginning of the Civil War, the opinion in the North and South was adverse to the use of fieldworks, for the manual labor required to throw them up was thought to detract from the dignity of a soldier. . . . The epithet of dirt-diggers was applied to the advocates of entrenchments. Expressions were heard to the effect that the difference ought to be settled by a fair, stand-up fight in the open.2Why do you think most Civil War soldiers disapproved of entrenching at the beginning of the war? Why did their opinion change?
Reading 3 was excerpted from David Lowe and Paul Hawke, "Military Earthworks-Historical Overview," typescript draft prepared for "Guide to Sustainable Earthworks Management," National Park Service, in association with the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.
1Dennis Hart Mahan, A Treatise on Field Fortification (New York: John Wiley, 1851), v.


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By Michael Aneiro
Pimco's Bill Gross is out with his latest monthly investment outlook piece, this one titled "Bob" after his recently deceased female cat of the same name, whose eulogy occupies the first three paragraphs. Gross then turns to a discussion of Sharpe ratios among asset classes over the past decade and a half (roughly the cat's lifespan), which he then uses to frame a discussion of a bond market measure of risk/return known as "yield per unit of duration." Here's Gross:
[T]oday's reward relative to risk – yield per unit of duration is more or less half of what it has been for the past 15–20 years. In order to get the same yield today for a single unit of duration for AAA, BBB, and HY bonds, an investor has to take twice the price risk! Since duration and correlated maturities are simply measures of interest rate risk, that may simply be pointing out that yields are historically low, and yes – they still are. But in order to capture other elements of return such as credit, curve, volatility and currency, the average bond investor must generally attach those elements of "carry" to a bond with a duration. Swaps, CDS, and FRN's provide a partial escape but for the cash investor, today's yield per unit of duration is only half of the markets' 15–20 year historical measure, and that is very, very low dear reader.
Gross suggests there are two opposite approaches to addressing this: Either double your duration and maintain the same historical yield, or maintain your duration "as a concession to an overpriced market that may continue to suffer increasing yields and lower prices." Which leads to Gross's investment recommendations:
PIMCO recommends overweighting credit and to a lesser extent volatility and curve. Underweight duration. Although credit spreads are tight, they are not as compressed as interest rates, which are now in the process of normalization. While PIMCO agrees with Janet Yellen that such normalization will be a long time coming (the 12th of Never?), probabilities suggest that as the Fed completes its Taper, the 5–30 year bonds that it has been buying will have to be sold at higher yields to entice the private sector back in. The 1–5 year portion of the curve, beaten up recently due to Fed "blue dot" forecasts and Yellen's "six months after" comments, should hold current levels if inflation stays low, but 5–30 year maturities are at risk.


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|2004-09-07, 19:16
|Link #21
What? I am washed up!
Heh, and I was about to suggest that BakaMX and Soldats are pretty oldschool groups :P
Guess I'm just not old-skool enough.
But, yeah, I guess them, Anime-Keep, Anime-One are pretty old schoolish. Heh, how long has ANBU been around?
Although I did view those AnimeFansubs Love Hina episodes ages back (thing that got me into anime really), although I think they'd been out for a while then.
I still say they don't look too bad for files of that size, especially considering their age :P
|2004-09-07, 20:16
|Link #22
Senior Member
Not to mention from BakaMX we have many groups that evolved, most notably Soldats, Live-eviL, Genbu and Oretachi.
ANBU's first release was Kokoro Library which if I recall was in the late fall of 2001. Anime-Keep first started with around episode 12 of Full Metal Panic, and AnimeOne first began sometime in 2001 as well. A lot of the mainstream big groups today started in 2001.
-Tofu (former BakaMX member)
Edit: OMG, how could I forget Gravitation :P Also, kudos to the original poster for introducing a fresh topic on these forums that is not prone to developing into a flame war. A breath of fresh air ^^
|2004-09-07, 22:25
|Link #23
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Actually, I believe ANBU was an internal group for a while. I believe one of their first releases was Pretear (in july 2001). E-F is not the oldest...if i remember the history right... there was anime-help.. anime-help split off into E-F and AC split off of them..... E-F also caused a lot of newish groups to form. There was an anime-haven or heaven too way back then subbing love hina in the early days..
It might be interesting to actually map out fansub group creation...
|2004-09-08, 15:27
|Link #26
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Join Date: Jan 2004
The original downloadable MPEG-1's and .rm's were primarly video captures of tapes put out by the VHS/SVHS distros. Of greatly varying quality... distributed in places like Lunarts and animedownload.net and noated.com, etc.
The first bunch of groups digisubbing was #elite-fansubs, #anime-fansubs, #anime-factory. Vandread, Love Hina, etc. Nothing other than shounen, #anime-factory subbed risky+safety but never released (didn't want to be seen as 'girly' group by fans) so not much variety out there at all. Significant personalities: paq (animefactory), devilray and other e-f staff, etc. Avery Lee (VDub creator) was semi-active back then, associated with some of the groups. Security was immense, most groups had countermeasures to protect against spying / infiltration, demanded exclusivity of their members, etc. Paranoia abound.
Then there was groups like #animeco, another group that Soldats eventually broke off from (when subbing Noir -- BakaMX perhaps?) but I can't remember their name, #animejunkies and some fansub-and-commercial-piracy-also groups. Why did groups break off? Politics, choice of stuff to sub, allowances, control, infiltration / spying, personalities, etc. Some of these groups founded by people who had been denied power in the existing groups, not allowed to sub what they wanted to, not allowed to associate with people they wanted to, etc. So better variety was the result, not just primarily shounen, and still only around 10-20 groups. Significant personalities, devilray (from before), jediknight(?) or someone else from e-f, satancow & patapi & recca (animeco), others. There was real variety out there, Angelic Layer, Jungle Guu, Mahoujin Guruguru, Kerokero Chime, Mahoujin Guruguru, etc. Some groups split over series, Soldats was formed from subbing Noir, etc. Other groups had internal problems, but got over them one way or another.
Now you probably have hundreds of groups, and some/many have at least one member who can be traced back to what is mentioned above.
As for ADV, Matt Greenfield had his own group "ADV Fansubs" which he was planning to spin off from ADV but never really did, this is one reason he has such a vandetta against fansubs irl.
http://www.ex.org/news/2000_02.html (scroll down a bit)
"ADV announces the formation of ADV FansubsTM, a new release label which has been created to allow the release of quality subtitled video products directly to the fans who want them at an accelerated pace and attractive price structure..."
|2004-09-10, 15:42
|Link #27
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Patapi and SatanCow? who are they? I don't remember any animeco, I do remember the almighty chanserv and his golden voice, but a patapi and a satancow I do not know. Though i have heard that satancow guy is quite the butthole.
|2004-09-10, 18:47
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004
Whatever it is, I don't know a thing.
|2004-09-10, 20:04
|Link #30
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Sol System
I think we can ad A-H to the mix. I think they were the first Love Hina group. I have to dig out my old CDs to verify. I may have chucked it after buying the DVDs.
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|2004-09-11, 00:32
|Link #31
HnK founding lunatic
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Maryland, USA
Age: 35
Access's list is pretty funny, but it also seems to be true. I myself can be traced back to HQA...
Hikari no Kiseki can't claim to be quite as old as AnimeFactory or Anime-Fansubs, but we're still fairly old as far as digisub standards go. With a founding date of May 12, 2001, we are probably closest in age to AnimeCo. I recall they still had an IRC channel on ETG at the time.
We didn't actually release anything until September 12 of that same year (funny, that date is quickly coming up again), but trust me, we had actually existed for the 5 months before that. It's a long story that probably isn't really worth telling though.
|2004-09-22, 15:50
|Link #32
Join Date: Dec 2003
Anime-Fansubs and Animefactory are for sure the two oldest digisub groups (actual digisub) Elite-Fansubs might be alongside them but I don't know much about how they started. Animeco and HQA are in the next tier I think. I would know because my group (Infinite-Zero, formerly known as Ignition-One) have been around since before groups like Soldats, Animejunkies, ANBU, and Aone showed up.
I remember when ETG was only my group, Animeco, and NLA. I remember the day we released the first R.O.D. OVA and the major flood of people looking for it in AC's channel while our channel had no one and we were giving out superfast downloads of it ^_^.
|2004-09-22, 16:36
|Link #33
Senior Member
Yeah, I know Live-eviL began in July, 2001, and had its first release in very early September of the same year. That release being eX-driver OAV 1. I know BakaMX began on December 25th, 2000. Someone should chronicle this stuff, it's interesting Maybe a wiki-type site.
|2004-09-22, 20:39
|Link #34
Join Date: Dec 2003
Anime-Kissaten began roughly in September of 2000. Recruiting began in anticipation of the first HxH DVD release (2000/9/20), though I don't know the exact dates as all the original members are now gone. I'm pretty sure Anime-Fansubs came before us, and I seem to recall them being third or fourth among the major digisub groups at the time, though I don't recall who (other than AnimeFactory), the others were.
|2004-09-22, 21:47
|Link #35
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Torrance, CA
I'm not sure the ADV people were ever fansubbers, but they were definitely fans. One worked in a video store and one or both were in a college anime club.
Mangascreener is probably the oldest manga group...it was originally known as Ryokuren and has been around for 6 years.
|2004-09-23, 13:24
|Link #36
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fairfax, VA, USA
After Otakon 2000 (Aug), I went looking for info on a show called Love Hina because I loved the 4 eps I saw when they previewed the fansubs there. Among my searches I found a website that shared all the Love Hina eps that had been subbed at that point. Most of them where Anime-Fansubs, but the first one was done by Anime-Factory. After getting my friend involved in a little download frenzy, we found another show completed and released by Anime-Factory called Candidate for Goddess and it looked like it was done before Love Hina, probably in early 2000. I don't recall anything before those 2 shows that I would have considered digi-subbed the way we know it now. So I would have to give the Kudos for oldest group to Anime Factory. But I would have to say that biggest catalyst that propelled popular digi-subbing was Love Hina.
- Fubared
|2004-09-23, 15:53
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Solar Fansubs
Join Date: Jan 2004
Actually AF's Love Hina was done before Candidate for Goddess, as it was their first project:
|2004-09-23, 17:48
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fairfax, VA, USA
- Fubared
|2004-09-23, 18:53
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Age: 37
|2004-09-23, 18:54
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BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech baseball coach Pete Hughes has announced the promotion of Pat Mason to the position of associate head coach. Mason, who has served the past two seasons as the Hokies' pitching coach, enters his third year on Tech's bench.
"Pat's been a great addition to the Virginia Tech community. The last two years, he's been an unbelievable asset in the running of the daily operations of our baseball program," Hughes said. "What he's done with our program on a daily basis in the development of our pitching staff has warranted this promotion and is well deserved.
"This couldn't go to a more deserving assistant coach in the country. The Virginia Tech baseball family is happy for Pat and grateful for everything he does for our program."
In two seasons with Tech, Mason has improved the pitching staff tremendously, as the Hokies have posted back-to-back seasons with an ERA below 4.60 - not done since 1995-96 - and have limited their home runs allowed in a single season to numbers not seen since the late 1970s.
He guided a 2011 staff, a squad that totaled just 42 percent of the team's innings the previous season, to a 4.57 ERA, which was the second lowest ERA in 15 seasons. The 23 home runs allowed was the fewest since 1977 (17) and only the 1979 team (25) surrendered fewer than 32 in the 34-year span since '77.
Mason followed his rookie season in Blacksburg with an even better second year, as his staff lowered its ERA to 4.16, the second lowest ERA in almost 30 years when the 1984 staff posted a 3.80 ERA. They also allowed just 24 home runs, again the second lowest since 1977.
Following the 2012 season, four of his pitchers were either drafted or signed pro contracts highlighted by returning senior Joe Mantiply by the Philadelphia Phillies and Ronnie Shaban by the St. Louis Cardinals, who was just named the Appalachian League's relief pitcher of the year. Andrew Aizenstadt (Phillies) and Patrick Scoggin (Atlanta Braves) signed pro contracts in the summer bringing the total number of Tech pitchers signed to pro contracts under Mason to five - joined by Joe Parsons, a 2011 Pittsburgh Pirate signee.
For updates on Virginia Tech baseball, follow the Hokies on Twitter (@VT_Baseball).


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The world's oldest profession is one of cinema's oldest subjects, sometimes employed for pathos or political metaphor, but often glamorized. Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger's Whores' Glory is no Pretty Woman. But neither does it qualify as an expose.
The movie, which shifts from Thailand to Bangladesh to Mexico, aspires to a cinema-verite style. Yet it's unusually well-lighted and -composed for on-the-fly footage, and includes scenes that appear to be staged.
The film is also weirdly aestheticized. The opening sequence, in which Bangkok hookers gyrate in a picture window and use laser pointers to attract customers, is set to a trip-hop tune by cult star Tricky. This prologue yields to some verse — by Emily Dickinson, of all people — and these words: "a triptych."
That doesn't just mean that the movie is divided into three parts; the term is also a reference to tri-panel European devotional paintings. Religion is one of the themes of the film, which interrogates the influence of local beliefs. In Thailand, working girls pray to a Buddha who is both benevolent and pragmatic. In Bangladesh, Islam doesn't prevent prostitution, but it does (supposedly) rule out fellatio. And in Mexico, the movie finds crack-smoking sex workers who worship a skull-headed Virgin Mary and wish devoutly for "a good death."
The director and his crew shot at the film's various locations for only about 10 days each. But they did extensive preproduction, and the result is remarkable access. The movie introduces memorable characters, including brothel managers (in the first two episodes, though not the third) and customers who range from sad to scary. It also provides a strong sense of each environment.
Bangkok's Fish Tank is a clean, upscale joint whose young, dolled-up women punch a time clock; they can leave after work, and spend their earnings at "host bars" where pretty young men engage in a sort of prostitution themselves. (Their clientele is exclusively female.)
In Faridpur and Reynosa, prostitutes are confined to a particular area — and to a life that borders on slavery. The former's "City of Joy" is a constricted urban warren, while the latter's "La Zona" is rustic and dusty, but otherwise they seem very similar.
Glawogger keeps up the appearance of naturalism, forgoing narration, explanatory text and interviews with outside experts. It requires viewers to guess at relationships, back stories and other information that some might consider significant. This includes the age of the younger Faridpur prostitutes, who look to be in the 13- to 14-year-old range.
Yet the movie, the third in Glawogger's globalization series, is less impromptu than its style suggests. In his press-kit comments, the director acknowledges that "there is not a single interview that was not paid for in some form. ... We had to pay for the trust that we had established." Such purchased interviews may not contribute to the audience's trust.
Glawogger calls his approach "nonjudgmental," and Whores' Glory is certainly not a lecture on prostitution's evils. But the filmmaker is not being neutral when he adds hip art-rock music by PJ Harvey and CocoRosie. To combine stories of exploited Third World women with feisty songs by female Anglo-American rockers is to flirt with glamorization.


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So, what are you giving up for Lent?
Over the weekend, I was at a Mardi Gras gathering. People wore masks. Some arrived in costume. There was music and food and revelry. There were also people asking "Are you giving anything up for Lent?" I mostly dodged the question, or attempted to answer by making a joke. The truth was, I hadn't decided yet. Also, I'm not sure it was any of their business.
I have several friends who are Orthodox of various stripes, and when the fasts roll around, I've often found myself envious of the regimented nature of those fasts. Great Lent [1] in particular is a period of actual fasting, with detailed instructions about what to abstain from and when. People who are preparing food know what they can and cannot use. A friend of mine even started a blog [2]to write about fasting recipes!
And then there are the Western Christians. We start out Lent with smudgy foreheads and the reminder that "You are dust and to dust you shall return." But then what? No meat on Fridays? OK. And then everyone's own individual choices about chocolate or coffee. Are we supposed to "give up" something so that it hurts? Are we trying to lose weight? Is the Lenten fast really more than a New Year's resolution?
Lent, of course, is a season when we are called to prayer, fasting, and good works. It is certainly a time for examining conscience as well as for spiritual reflection and simplicity. But the decision of what to give up, if anything, is one that can be deeply personal. Generally speaking, the people I know who "give up" stuff for Lent and do it well have done some serious soul searching [3]. They look at their lives and try to figure out what it is that has set up a barrier between them and God. What is standing as an impediment to spiritual fulfillment? What in my life has caused me to veer away from the center? What can I give up that will lead me back to prayer and good works?
This is a very personal process, and really not one that is great for small talk. Choosing a Lenten fast is about much more than chocolate or coffee. When you think about it, "What are you giving up for Lent?" is a shockingly intimate question, and one that asks the other person to stand naked before you, baring the details about their consciences, their spiritual lives, and their relationships with God. So it is a question that should be approached with trepidation and sensitivity, if at all.
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(Neb.)- Bill Would Allow Bars To Accept Out-Of-State IDs
By: Jeremy Anderson Posted at: 02/01/2013 10:48 AM LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A bill that would allow Nebraska bars and liquor stores to accept out-of-state identification cards when selling alcohol has won first-round approval in the Legislature.
Lawmakers voted 30-0 on Friday to advance the measure. The bill was introduced by Sen. Colby Coash of Lincoln.
Current law allows sellers to accept a valid driver's or operator's license, a Nebraska state identification card, a military identification card, an alien registration card or a passport when confirming that a buyer is legally permitted to purchase alcohol. The current wording doesn't allow for out-of-state identification cards.
The bill requires two more votes before it goes to the governor.


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As some of you readers out there in Internet land may know, I am sadly firearms-free. I still live with my folks, and Mama and Papa Raptor have made it clear that if I buy a gun, I'm out of the house. Since I can't afford a place of my own, firearms have been a no-go for me. But that might be changing soon. Sort of.
A few weeks back, We The Armed member FMJ bought a stripped AR-15 lower receiver and built it up into an almost-fully-functioning assembly. I say "almost" because FMJ is unfortunate enough to be stuck in California, so he had to install a Bullet Button on his receiver rather than a proper magazine release, but that's a topic for another time. Anyway, I got to thinking about it, and I realized that I'd like to make a go at assembling a stripped lower of my own. It will be an interesting learning experience, and my folks cannot possibly object to me owning a stripped lower, since it is pretty much little more than a piece of aerospace-grade aluminum with a serial number. And I have asked about it: they haven't said yes, but they haven't said no either.
So, anyway, if I can actually make the stripped lower work… how would I build it up? Actually, "what configuration do I want my rifle to be?" would be more appropriate. See, the wonderful thing about the AR-15 is that it is an extremely versatile and customizable platform. You can build it into anything from a long-barreled, match-grade target/varmint/sniper rifle to an ultra-compact entry gun (provided you register it as an SBR, of course) and everything in between, and you can chamber it in pretty much any cartridge that can fit in the magazine, and even some that don't.
So, with a near infinite number of choices, the question really is this: what do I want to do with this rifle? Continue reading


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(SportsNetwork.com) - Whether Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki is Hall of Fame worthy remains debatable, but he is on the verge of passing a legend on the NBA's all-time scoring list.
Nowitzki and the Mavericks are back in Big D for a short amount of time and will welcome the Washington Wizards to town Tuesday at American Airlines Center. Nowitzki, the 2011 NBA Finals MVP, needs 15 points to pass Hall of Famer Jerry West (25,192) for 16th on the all-time scoring list. He got to this point after scoring 16 in Saturday's 91-83 win at Milwaukee.
Former Buck Monta Ellis scored a team-best 18 points and Shawn Marion added 14 and 10 rebounds for the Mavericks, who ended a two-game slide and won for the third time in five tries. The Mavs closed the first quarter on a 27-8 run and led 34-19 after 12 minutes of play. They held Milwaukee to 19 points (23-19) in the fourth quarter.
"They made their run, but we kept our composure and made plays down the stretch when we needed to," said Ellis, who leads Dallas with 23.0 ppg and has scored 20 or more points five times this season..
Vince Carter had 13 points off the bench.
The Mavericks, who went 1-2 on a recent trip and are in the midst of playing five of six games on the road, are averaging 107.0 points per game this season and shooting 40.4 percent from 3-point range. When Dallas scores 30 or more points in the first this season, it is 4-1. So look for the Mavs to get off to another hot start versus the Wizards.
The Mavericks have used the same starting lineup (Marion, Nowitzki, Samuel Dalembert, Ellis and Jose Calderon) in each of their first seven games.
After hosting the Wizards, Dallas, which is 3-0 at home and unbeaten in the past four as the host dating back to 2012-13, will hit the road again for a Florida tour against Miami and Orlando.
Washington had a brief two-game winning streak cut short with Sunday's 106-105 overtime loss at Oklahoma City in the first leg of a three-game western jaunt.
Bradley Beal pumped in a career-high 34 points on 13-of-23 shooting, while Trevor Ariza and Nene scored 15 and 14 points, respectively. Beal knocked down 6-of-8 3-pointers and currently leads the team in scoring with 21.0 points per game. Marcin Gortat and Al Harrington both scored 11 points and John Wall ended with 10 for the Wizards, who blew a 12-point lead in the fourth quarter.
Wall missed a potential go-ahead layup at the overtime buzzer. The Thunder needed a 14-4 run at the end of regulation to force an extra period.
"I give Oklahoma City credit for coming back. They made shots. All we needed to do at the end of regulation was make one shot or a couple of free throws and the game would have been over," Wizards coach Randy Wittman said. "We played our tails off but came up short."
The Wizards were outrebounded by a 58-41 count, but have had at least five players score in double-figures in their last five games. Nene was one of those players and was ejected late in the game for getting into a minor scuffle with OKC guard Russell Westbrook.
Washington lost both matchups with Dallas a season ago and is winless in the last six games in this series. The Mavericks are 14-4 in the previous 18 meetings with the Wizards, losers in three straight and 10 of the last 13 trips to Big D.
The two teams will meet again on Jan. 1 at Verizon Center.


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Thanks to the Duke Curve realignment project, passengers and freight trains, will be able to travel at increased speeds near the Rowan/Davidson County line. Previously, trains in the area had to slow down for the curve and could only go at maximum speeds of 45 miles per hour, while after the improvements, passenger trains will be able to travel at up to 65 miles per hour.
"This marks a significant step toward the PIP project's goals of improving efficiency and travel times of trains along the Raleigh to Charlotte rail corridor," said North Carolina Department of Transportation Rail Director Paul Worley.
Another milestone was also celebrated further down the rail corridor last week on the Hopson Road/Nelson Clegg project near the Wake/Durham County line. As part of this project, new switches were installed for the passing siding, which will allow for completion of the final pieces of this project. The Hopson Road/Nelson Clegg project is constructing a new three-mile passing track and includes a new railroad bridge over Hopson Road.


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Cristiano Ronaldo insists the Champions League is Real Madrid's top priority
Cristiano Ronaldo insists that he and Real Madrid's main focus this year is winning the UEFA Champions League.
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The Portuguese star has won club football's top prize once with Manchester United in 2008 but he is desperate to repeat that feat with Madrid.
"Everything is focused on winning the Champions League," he told the Sun.
"You can feel it everywhere, even in the street because everyone knows we're close to winning the club's 10th European Cup.
"It's my dream to win the Champions League again too. It'll come this year or next year but we have to stay calm."
Ronaldo insists that winning trophies is his main focus in life.
"Football is a life in which you don't have much time to do and enjoy other things," he continued.
"Practically everything revolves around football because my career, my life, is football.
"And if you want to be at a very high level, you have to be constantly at your peak.
"My own aim is to work the same as last season and score all the goals I can and try to win trophies."
Ronaldo also insisted that Jose Mourinho was the best man to help lead him to more silverware.
"Jose is the world's best coach, he's No 1," he said.
"It's so great to work with him because I'm a person who likes to win, compete - and who hates losing!"


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A group of third-graders in the Project GEMS (Gifted Education in Math and Science) program in Warren County schools will visit WKU and Southern Recycling on Oct. 18 as part of a "green" tour.
About 30 students from Cumberland Trace Elementary and Lost River Elementary will be touring green initiatives under way on the WKU campus, according to Robin Hume, program coordinator for WKU's Center for Environmental Education and Sustainability.
The tour will begin at 9:15 a.m. at the Center's office in Jones-Jaggers Hall and will conclude at 1:25 p.m.
At WKU, the students will learn about several green/sustainability efforts as well as environmental issues including how the karst landscape affects water quality; solar energy projects at the WKU ALIVE Center; recycling and composting; how some parking lots are being replaced with green space; and Big Red Bikes.
The students will visit Southern Recycling to learn more about recycling in the community.
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text: Well, I don't know about you, but I'm starting to feel pretty pumped up after Monday's release of the information from Blizzard's Mists of Pandaria press event. Some of the new zones are very striking, the pandaren ladies are absolutely adorable, and monks get an ability called Shuffle, which means we'll have an expansion full of Party Rock Anthem jokes to look forward to. Priests didn't see anything new on Monday, but with all the information released about mistweavers and monk healing in general, I thought I might make some comparisons to get a better idea about what priest healing is going to look like in MoP.


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University of Montana Western alumnus and award-winning educator Albert Bender died on Jan. 7, 2013 at his home in Miles City, Mont. He was 103.
Born near Friend, Neb. on Nov. 28, 1909, Bender moved to Montana at the age of four and eventually attended Western Montana College (now Montana Western), earning a bachelor's degree in education in 1940 Bender went on to earn a master's degree from Eastern Montana College in Billings, Mont. in addition to three summers of advanced study at Montana State University and two summers at the University of Montana.
Bender met Ethel Blanche Guthrie while studying at Western Montana College (WMC) in the summer of 1938, and the couple married on Aug. 23, 1941.
After earning his degrees, Bender began a long and distinguished career in education. He first taught fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth grades at his alma mater Antelope School outside of Sumatra, Mont. Bender taught his younger brother William at Antelope School, supported him through high school and even footed William's college tuition. He also served for half of a year as superintendent of Sumatra schools.
Bender later served as the principal in Washoe, Mont. and taught grades seven and eight. He also coached basketball at Washoe. He was later a teacher and acting principal in Park City, Mont. and served as the principal of Laurel, Mont.'s North School.
Bender always wanted to live in Miles City and jumped at the opportunity to serve as the principal of Lincoln School for seven years. He then served as the principal of Lincoln and High Park schools the next two years and principal of Jefferson and Highland Park schools for one year.
An educational innovator, Bender taught and offered workshops on the Orton-Gillingham method, which uses alternative teaching methods for children who have difficulties learning in the traditional classroom format.
In 1977, WMC honored Bender as the Outstanding Educator of Montana. He gave Montana Western's commencement address in 1995.
Bender is survived by numerous nieces and nephews and his caregiver Helen Steele. He was preceded in death by his brothers and sisters and his wife Ethel in 2007.
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WACO, Texas- Baylor Baseball took advantage of the comforts of Baylor Ballpark en route to a 6-3 win over Texas State in the home opener Tuesday night. The Bears (1-3) used a four-run second inning and six innings of stellar relief to secure their first win of the 2013 campaign. Meanwhile, the Bobcats (1-3) stranded 14 runners and were unable to take full advantage of five BU errors.
"Given how the game was played with the errors and the number of walks, I think it is a pretty amazing win," said Baylor Head Coach Steve Smith. "I think it is a hard way to win a game when they get as many base runners as they did. I think we made a lot of pitches and moved the runners out there and got some outs. I was really pleasantly surprised to see how Sean Spicer handled the start."
Spicer, who only had 0.2 innings of work in his career entering the game, was on a pitch count and used his 63 pitches to navigate a career-high three innings of work. In his first career win (1-0), the sophomore allowed just one hit while surrendering three walks. He gave up an unearned run and tallied a career-best three strikeouts.
After two errors behind him allowed a first inning run - one a missed double play chance and the other would've prevented the run from scoring - Spicer cruised through the second inning without a hitch. But two walks and another error - this time of his own doing - load the bases with two outs in the third. However, he settled down and induced a groundout to escape.
"I was impressed with Sean, I really was," Smith said. "I was impressed with his stuff, I was impressed with his command and the fact that he was filling up the strike zone. He got us off to a really good start."
Giving Spicer some help was a two-out RBI single up the middle by Mitch Price in the first that tied the game after Lawton Langford doubled in front of him. An inning later, the Bears' bats gave Spicer even more cushion with four runs on five hits.
Duncan Wendel led off the second with a single, and after a Jake Miller double, scored on a sacrifice fly by Logan Brown. Nate Goodwin followed with an RBI single over a drawn-in infield. An out later, Nathan Orf doubled on a well-placed pop up that landed on the right field foul line, scoring Adam Toth from first base. After Langford reached on an infield single, a wild pitch pushed home the fourth run of the inning.
"The only inning where we really got anything going it was the bottom of the order that got us going," said Smith. "Their guy was throwing a lot of strikes and that is not a bad guy to start a runner off on and try to swing a bat. Jake Miller did a good job of staying on it and hitting it the other way and it kind of sparked us. We were just able to turn some things into four runs right there."
From there, the Baylor bullpen went to work as Austin Stone, Doug Ashby, Crayton Bare, Trae Davis, Kolt Browder and Ryan Smith finished off the game. The group combined for six innings of work and allowed two runs, one unearned, on five hits and six walks with four strikeouts. Browder came in to get the Bears out of an eighth inning two-on, two-out jam. Smith then came in during the ninth with two outs and the tying run on deck to get a fly out to right to end it, earning the save.
The loss was given to Texas State starter Andrew Boes after allowing five runs on seven hits and one walk with two strikeouts in 1.2 innings. The Bobcat bullpen threw 6.1 innings of one-run ball, surrendering a sixth inning run on a two-out RBI bunt single by Orf.
Orf paced the way for the second straight game for the Bears, going 3-for-4 with two RBI, a run scored, stolen base and double. Langford went 2-for-3, while Price, Wendel, Miller, Brown and Goodwin had a hit apiece.
The Bears continue a five-game home stand this weekend by welcoming No. 2 UCLA to Baylor Ballpark for a three-game series. Friday's game is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. CT, Saturday is set for 3:05 p.m. and Sunday's finale will be at 1:05 p.m.


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Other than Albritton, 12 persons attended the third and possibly final such town hall meeting concerning the bond issue. But unlike the previous hearings, which drew very low attendance, Albritton encountered criiticism of the $36.2-million bond issue package from a handful of those present.
Complaints ranged from the total amount of money involved in the proposed issue's three propositions, to criticism of the third proposition on the ballot—a proposed multipurpose facility at the high school. It would be approved only if both it and Proposition One—a proposed new $30 million high school—pass. (Proposition 2 is for new classrooms at Bruce Junior High.)
If all three propositions pass, the school's tax rate would rise 25.35 cents, to $1.44 per $100 valuation—a 21.2 percent hike, according to Albritton. (He had said at Tuesday's hearing the increase would be 14-16 percent, but corrected that figure Thursday.)
Early voting opened Monday, and Albritton said Thursday that he believed 333 persons had voted early as of Wednesday at either the school or the Upshur County Courthouse. The state has approved adding three hours for early voting Sunday (11 a.m.-2 p.m.) at the school administrative office, 500 S. Trinity, and early voting is taking place weekdays from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. both there and at the courthouse through Nov. 1.
Mobile early voting, which has also been taking place on some school campuses, is scheduled at the following campus locations: the Elementary School foyer Monday from 5:30-8:30 p.m. during Parents' Night; the Intermediate School foyer for the same hours Tuesday during Parents' Night; the high school cafeteria 4-8 p.m. Thursday during the junior high football game nearby; and the cafeteria 5-7 p.m. Friday before the Gilmer-Bullard varsity football game.
Tuesday's town hall, which lasted about an hour and 45 minutes, began with Albritton showing the half-hour video of School Board President Jeff Rash explaining why the board had proposed the bond issue. Criticism of the package soon surfaced during the question-and-answer period which followed.
Tiffany DeGala complained that "it was just too much to ask the community at this time for such a huge commitment" of $36.2 million. She also said she had thought the proposed multipurpose facility was "silly."
Earlier, Wendi Johnson cited the bond issue's "overall price tag" in observing, "My concern is, that's a huge, huge amount of money for such a small rural community to take on." She said assuming such debt had caused "a struggle financially" for some communities, adding that currently, "people feel insecure about their employment" and don't know what their healthcare costs will be.
In addition, citing the $2 million cost of the multipurpose facility, Mrs. Johnson said, "For me, that's very frivolous. . . Who really needs that?"
"That money has to come out of our family budget" and "that's not really a need," she objected. She said that a family, industry or a wealthy ex-Gilmer Buckeye athlete could contribute the money for such a structure.
Mrs. Johnson additionally complained that it "doesn't seem like we've had a lot of time"to consider the bond proposal. And her husband, Richard Johnson, added that "I think the timing's terrible" for the election.
He asked Albritton "is there not a way" to give the school what it needs for less than $36 million.
Responding to Wendi Johnson, Albritton said the bond issue is "a personal decision for every taxpayer." However, if the school delays building new facilities, the time may come when the district can't afford them at all, he said.
"It's a need. There's no question about it," Albritton contended. While a new high school is estimated to last 70 years, he said, he estimated that renovating the current facility would cost $16 million and only extend the structure's life by perhaps 15 years.
Replacing the current roof and air conditioning system alone would cost $6 million, he said.
Albritton also said that, in his opinion, the bond issue proposal "is the best solution at this point in time." He said that without renovating the current high school, especially its science facilities, the district could not fulfill new state-required graduation requirements.
And local attorney Peggy Garmon commented that renovation would not solve the problem of inadequate science laboratories.
"Everybody agrees we need a new facility," but people are concerned about their incomes, Albritton said. However, he earlier had said that current construction costs "are good" and that interest rates are low.
As for the multipurpose facility, Albritton had said earlier (in responding to a question submitted by a Mirror reader) that he "would imagine" the building would be lit for the public to walk at night, and that a practice field for extracurricular activities would be only "one of the uses."
He said such a covered practice field isn't uncommon in schools, noting that Sulphur Springs, Farmersville and Greenville each have one. The local proposed structure, for use in "severe weather" such as thunderstorms, would not be air conditioned, but would have an attic fan-type system, the superintendent said.
As for the amount of time given the public to consider the bond issue, Albritton said the school had posted agendas since December for meetings of an advisory committee which had input on the bond proposals. He also said there was a "12-month process" leading up to the election. (On Thursday, he told The Mirror it was actually 2 1/2 years.)
The superintendent also told the town meeting he had communicated information "every way I can," and "I think this discussion is what it needs to be."
Citing a recent advertisement in The Mirror saying that taxes would increase if the bond issue passes, Albritton said, "This isn't a Rick Albritton decision. . . This is a community decision."
"It's not my job to convince you. It's my job to put it in front of you for a decision," he added.
When The Mirror asked why architectural drawings of the proposed improvements were not done before the board called the election, and whether they would be completed before election day, Albritton said there was no reason to have the architect do that since planning comes after approval of the bond issue, and drawing earlier would entail an "unknown expense."
The current drawing of the proposed 2-story, 122,000- square-foot high school by Longview architect Phil Thacker is only a "concept" drawing (which is subject to change), the superintendent added.
Since GISD has said the building was needed partly due to the current high school's leaky roof, The Mirror also questioned Albritton about the fact that the Elementary School, which is less than 10 years old, also leaks and asked what would be done to prevent that in the new high school.
"Every major building that is built is going to develop leaks," he responded. He said the current high school roof is "at the end of its life," will leak worse, and that it would have to be replaced at a "significant cost."
As for the relatively new Elementary School leaking, Albritton said some problems there were "warranty issues" (such as flashing not being installed in some places) which were repaired without cost to the school.
As for another question submitted by a Mirror reader—why the school was proposing the bond issue when it lacked enough funds for textbooks—the superintendent said "we do have enough money" for books. If there aren't enough books to go around, he said, it was "not reported to me."
Some of the discussion involved expenses related to the high school's football program, including the $2 million recent renovation of Buckeye Stadium. Complaining that the school's priorities were out of order, Madaline Barber asked Albritton, "Why did we do the football cathedral before we did the academics?"
The superintendent replied that the school had "been working on this (bond issue proposal) before we did the football thing." While the stadium project was financed by tax maintenance notes which could be paid off with ticket revenue from football games, the bond issue proposals couldn't be financed that way because the project cost was too high, he added.
Albritton also said that when he became superintendent 12 years ago, a new Elementary School had to be built. It was approved in a 2003 bond issue election and, noting that GISD voters had turned down several past bond issue proposals for a new high school, Albritton said he thought it was better to "wait at least 10 years" for another bond issue election after 2003.
He furthermore noted that Pine Tree ISD spent $16 million on its new stadium, while Gilmer spent $2 million to renovate its facility.
The superintendent also said that some people falsely claimed "I hid money" to build the current stadium field house, but that the facility wasn't built until all other scheduled projects were done.
"People have said that I took money from (the bond funds approved for) the Elementary (School) to build the field house," Albritton said, denying that charge. "The field house was replaced because the other (old) field house was absolutely horrid," and staph infections among its users have dropped 300 percent since moving into the current facility, he said.
"Everybody says we spend a lot of money on football," but the school also spent $235,000 for five extra math teachers, the superintendent added.
Morris Garmon asked if the same architect would be used for the bond issue projects as was used for the stadium project and Elementary School (Thacker). Saying he disliked the stadium renovation, Garmon asked if the public would have input on the new high school's appearance.
Albritton replied the school would start with an academic planning group, but that the community would "have input on design." When someone asked if the new school would have an auditorium, Albritton said it would have one comparable to the current one, seating only 250, but with a full-size stage.
An 800-seat auditorium would have added $6 million to the project cost, which would not have been "a wise decision" since the community has a Civic Center, Albritton said. Garmon replied that he could see using the funding planned for the multipurpose building for an auditorium instead.
While the bond issue came under fire, it also had some support during the hearing as one man said the school could spend $16 million on renovation or "invest that money down the road" for "good-looking schools, good education" which draws things to the community. He also said construction "costs are going to continue to rise."


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Blood-Stained Mexico Tries Gun Swaps
Fed up with rampant crime, a Mexico City district is pressing locals to swap personal firearms for bikes, tablet computers and even cash, in a desperate bid to get guns off the streets.
Francisco Aro proudly showed off his 32-caliber Smith & Wesson, a collector's item.
"It belonged to my great granddad. He was in the revolution," explained Aro, who -- sentimental value aside -- opted for the swap set up by Mexico City authorities trying to disarm dangerous Iztapalapa.
"Now, at least I'll get some exercise," smiled the 33-year-old as he patiently waited his turn to make a deal.
There were about 60 people, all with pistols in hand, in the line snaking out of a church.
When they reached the front of the line, a small team of police and military staff collected their weapons anonymously. And the swappers got their choice of rewards, from shiny new bikes to electronics and, always popular, money.
The Mexico City program, called "Voluntary Arms Trade-in: It's For Your Family," just kicked off on December 24 for a week of work.
"For every day of the program, we are spending 300,000 pesos" ($23,000), said a city government source, who spoke on condition they not be named.
-- So what about the real criminals? --
Though officials so far have collected more than 200 weapons, improving safety in the midst of an organized crime nightmare that has rocked the nation is the tip of the iceberg. And the authorities still have an uphill battle ahead of them.
President Enrique Pena Nieto, who took office December 1, has vowed to improve public safety in the face of a relentless drug war that has killed more than 60,000 people in the last six years alone. Drug cartels are ruthlessly jockeying to control lucrative trafficking routes.
So swaps from these folks aren't necessarily going to solve the country's biggest problems.
"The bad guys normally have several weapons. So they might just swap one that doesn't work, or one they don't like, and keep the rest," said Augusto Martinez. At 79 years young, he traded in a Colt 80 revolver for a bike and some cash.
Skeptics also include the army personnel sent out to collect the swapped guns.
"Look at the shape this stuff is in. Most of these guns are out of order, or very old," one commander said privately. "Most of the people who bring them in are middle-aged family men who inherited these from their grandparents."
Though it is illegal to carry weapons in Mexico -- unlike in the United States -- the country has to battle with a steady influx of illegal weapons from its northern neighbor. The weapons make their way into the hands of drug traffickers and organized crime.
The federal government says, however, that it has seized more than 107,000 weapons just from 2006-2012 -- 90 percent of which were trafficked in from the United States.
Still, lawmaker Jesus Valencia has had enough of crime in Iztapalapa -- the second most violent part of the federal capital. He said it was worth a try to get some guns off the streets, so that fewer lives would be lost to stray bullets.
In November, a 10-year-old boy lost his life in just such a tragedy, as did a woman on December 13.
Authorities have also reached out to kids. As part of the program, they can swap violent toys for new ones that are not.
Suriel Guadalupe, a four-year-old dressed up as Spider Man, lined up and took two plastic pistols out for a trade. "I don't want them any more," he said, swapping them for a basketball.


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ya, it stores all of the settings of the router, which determine where all the data is transmitted to...
Wait, the router presumably has caches which are logical files, so even if the guy wasn't reading any files, he was writing to them.
Before this court ruling, I though it was illegal to access even unprotected WiFi routers, now it turns out it's legel to access protected ones.
So what does this mean for all the people (both owners of routers and users) who want to enable free WiFi access; is it legal again?
It is still illegal to use the network of the neighbours. The intent of the prosecutor was to slap this 14 year old boy with jailtime. That hasn't worked. But theft of services is still illegal. The court has esthablished that theft of services when it comes to illegal use of WiFi is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
Oddly enough, most routers run some form of linux these days. Sounds like a computer to me.
Seems odd that just because it stores only a small amount of data it doesn't qualify as a computer.
But aren't the Dutch one of the same countries that came down hard on google for just accidentally intercepting data, and not even trying to crack a router?
Speaking as though this passed in the US, I'm mildly concerned. There are plenty of extra costs that may be incurred, such as metered bandwidth or access of illegal materials. If this were to fly, it would also necessitate that other people using your network without authorization would not come back to bite the network holder.
Then you better start to learn how to secure your router. Sorry, but sympathy for those unable to secure their systems and unwilling to learn how to do it is not forthcoming.
Sorry, but sympathy for those unable to wear body armor capable of stopping a
How is this different than stealing your car, taking it for a spin, and then putting it back in your driveway?
Would you respond "Learn to install a better alarm and not allow your car to be hot-wired so easy"?
You don't have to install an unbreakable lock to be protected from theft in the eyes of the law.
And more to the point, if someone stole your car and used it as a getaway in a bank robbery, the bank wouldn't sue you for the money they lost.
If you truely believe in 100% secure routers, you are a fool.
The issue is "should this be subject of Civil or Criminal proceedings?"
Civil litigation could include tortuous interference on the grounds of directly, or indirectly causing the network owner to incur costs from bandwidth usage or inappropriate network usage.
With small claims court having a $5,000 limit and the much lower standards of proof required for civil litigation vs criminal litigation, it seems likely that you would be more likely to get compensated for a few thousand dollars out of civil litigatio
That would be a civil case, this case is purely criminal law
As a dutch person, I have of course followed this and the judge simply stated that with the current law, there is no ground for criminal prosecution in breaking into a PURE wifi-router. A lot of modern wifi-routers for consumers are no longer just plain routers but offer computer services like bittorrent and network attached storage.
Anyway, the judge did say you could start a civil case against the hacker.
But also keep in mind that the dutch legal system is extremely wonky, ruled by judges who are completel
But also keep in mind that the dutch legal system is extremely wonky, ruled by judges who are completely out of touch with reality.
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Because right now, this judge has declared that taking fuel from his car is not theft.
No, the judge has said no such thing. In fact, I wholeheartedly believe this same judge would declare the unauthorized taking of fuel from a car a criminal offense. The judge said that there is no criminal law against simply using someone else's network. And he is right: the
The judge ruled, if I'm reading it correctly, that the router did not store "personal" information, and/or the hacker did not attempt to access it.. its a bit vague
I think their laws, or previous court cases, ruled or created 'definitions' of devices that lead the judge to rule it's not a computer as it's intent is not to store a person's private information... All "computerized devices" have bits and bytes stored...
As for previous cases, the article referenced a 2008 article where 'piggybacking' on interne
Apparently Dutch courts are smart enough to recognize the spirit of the law. I wish they would teach that skill to the American courts.
In other words, a buffer is technically storage, but is not what most people mean when they say a computer has storage. When most people say storage, they mean persistent storage of user data, not buffers and not configuration. You don't claim a light switch is a computer because it saves one bit of state information do you?
My router stores configuration data. My router processes DHCP requests. My router transfers packets between the internet and my network.
This judge fucked up.
would beg to differ.
However, it still isn't a computer. Embedded devices might be functionally capable of doing many of the same things, but what distinguishes a computer is whether it provides the ability to install and run arbitrary software (not just whatever the manufacturer installed) that allows the user to create and store significant amounts of information without hacking the device in any way.
In layman's terms, the question can generally be worded as, "Can I install apps on it, write a term paper
Just to clarify, cracking access to the disk should be criminal trespass in that you are accessing a resource (disk) that is effectively a part of my computer even though it happens to be physically attached using the network.
Seriously? Five minutes between posts for logged in users? What's wrong with this site? That's okay. I'll just click every second until it lets me post.
Seriously? Five minutes between posts for logged in users?
I think you need 25 posts modded in-something to get fast posting privileges.
So servers aren't computers?
Honestly, I know people who use Linux boxes as routers. I also know of routers that can be configured to run small web servers (not just the configuration pages, mind you).
This decision is really, really weird.
but what distinguishes a computer is whether it provides the ability to install and run arbitrary software (not just whatever the manufacturer installed) that allows the user to create and store significant amounts of information without hacking the device in any way.
This is true of a "general purpose computer". Have you a citation that "computer" necessarily means "general purpose computer"?
would beg to differ. However, it still isn't a computer. Embedded devices might be functionally capable of doing many of the same things, but what distinguishes a computer is whether it provides the ability to install and run arbitrary software (not just whatever the manufacturer installed) that allows the user to create and store significant amounts of information without hacking the device in any way.
Keep begging, I'm not letting you "differ"; Not with that bogus argument anyhow.
I SSH into my WRT54GL router w/ Tomato Linux firmware. [polarcloud.com] My router runs Linux from the factory and has a "firmware upgrade" option that I used to install the aforementioned Tomato Linux.
I write my own small C programs, cross compile them for the router scp (copy) them into and run them in the router. It is every bit as much a computer as a web server is -- Hint: you use the HTTP web server interface to configure most every ro
And you've hacked the router to do all of this. That's not the way a router was intended to be used. By that same definition, my laptop is a dinner plate, and a few of my old LEDs are firecrackers.
The purpose of laws against cracking computers is to prevent data and/or identity theft. To the extent that your router contains enough data to steal... maybe... but that's *really* a stretch.
Besides, nobody is talking about cracking into the device itself anyway, but rather cracking access keys to gain access
And you've hacked the router to do all of this. That's not the way a router was intended to be used. By that same definition, my laptop is a dinner plate, and a few of my old LEDs are firecrackers.
Define "hacked". I used the router's own firmware upgrade feature. My point is that "router" doesn't have to mean embedded device -- Hell, take any computer with more than 2 nics on it and you've got a router. Some of the "factory" firmware upgrades add additional features -- Clearly the functionality is PROGRAMMABLE -- Guess what, that makes it GENERAL PURPOSE.
Your problem is that you are defining a "computer" by the software that it comes with -- from the factory. I'll have you know that none of the
Your problem is that you are defining a "computer" by the software that it comes with -- from the factory.
No, I'm defining it based on the hardware's intended purpose. A router was designed to move bits around from one network to another. It was built with the absolute minimum amount of hardware needed to do a single, specific task.
By contrast, a traditional computer that happens to have two NICs was designed for general computing use, and is being used for a more limited task. There's a fairly fundamen
Depending on how you define I/O, they either do or do not pass that. I would argue that the original intent of the term was to refer to devices that provide input and output directly to the user, e.g. a keyboard and screen, in which case they don't.
Either way, the original intent of the term was to explain the difference between parts that were designed to be used for a single purpose via parts that were designed to be programmed for arbitrary computation. That distinction, thanks to economies of scale on
However, it still isn't a computer. Embedded devices might be functionally capable of doing many of the same things, but what distinguishes a computer is whether it provides the ability to install and run arbitrary software (not just whatever the manufacturer installed) that allows the user to create and store significant amounts of information without hacking the device in any way.
Ever hear of DD-WRT? Optware? And no, before you say it, a firmware update is not "hacking the device" by any stretch of the imagination. By your logic, my Asus router would be a computer, but my linksys router wouldn't be.
Nonsense. Here's what Miriam Webster has to say on the issue:
noun, often attributive \km-pyü-tr\
Definition of COMPUTER
: one that computes; specifically : a programmable usually electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data
Any router I've ever seen would fi
And no, before you say it, a firmware update is not "hacking the device" by any stretch of the imagination.
Yes, it is. The manufacturer didn't design those routers with the intent that people would run their own applications on them. Sure, they might have been kind to homebrew hackers and added a little more RAM and flash than their firmware required in certain models, but clearly the assumption for these devices is that the firmware upgrade mechanism will be used for running prepackaged, manufacturer-pr
Especially routing information. They store the results of ARP requests too. And they process information to decide how to forward packets. Apparently the judge wasn't too clear on how routers work.
AFAICT, the law requires that a computer be accessed without authorization AND that "personal data" (I cannot find what their legal definition of this is exactly) must be exposed as a result.
Unless said router also has NAS capabilities in use or the log files can be considered personal data, the law does not apply.
Although I'd not say that someone using such a hacked WiFi should not be punished, I find their reasoning more than questionable. I run a dual core 400 MHz P-II as a router (WLAN AP with 63 chars WEP2 key), so hacking mine would be criminal. I don't see why hacking a - properly secured - usual WLAN router box should be treated differently. I'd decide that based on the intention - if it was just for regular internet usage - OK then just give the offender a slap on his ass, but if it was to commit serious cr
I run a dual core 400 MHz P-II as a router
Not that I have anything against hardware reuse
I know, I know. A cigar-case sized box with 3* Gbit LAN and 1* 54 Mbit (or better) WLAN capable of running IPCop or similar would cost me a little over 200 Euros. Have some more urgent problems right now, but it's on my list.
But, then I have to fear the Dutch hackers, whom I'd rather not mess with. Fortunately I could sue them here in Germany, thanks to being in the EU.
A switch isn't necessarily a computer but a router definitely is. Back in the day all routers were physical PC. Now they are embedded systems. And they store all sorts of information, most importantly routing information!
But a dunce cap on this guy and make him sit in the corner.
A switch isn't necessarily a computer but a router definitely is.
The only difference between a router and a switch is the network layer they operate upon - switches operate on layer 2 traffic, routers operate on layer 3 traffic (or potentially layer 4 traffic if it is doing NAT and stateful firewalling). In fact, most modern managed switches have some level of layer 3 support (e.g. IGMP snooping).
I'm not even clear that the article is talking about a router - it could very easily be talking about a wireless bridge, in which case it too is only operating on layer 2 traff
A router is a computer and it stores information. Many routers have access logs. For me breaking into an encrypted WLAN is like mechanically removing the lock from an ethernet port on private property and plugging youerself in. In the normal case you still can log what is currently going on (Wireless can not be switched, so you see all packets), and in the worst case see logs or manipulate the router without any trace.
Should i move to the netherlands, i will use a VPN service to access the internet and a ca
It might be good to note, that these actions can still be prosecuted under civil law. That is, the intruder can still be held accountable for costs incurred by his use of the network. Having said that, I personally still think this should be a criminal offense, as it is a clear breach of privacy. What I do on my local network should be my business alone. Right now, the defense is required to prove eavesdropping on the network itself, which is very hard to do.
I use a old Pentium 3 running Debian as a router. Ofcourse i didn't put a wireless card in it, since i don't need wireless connectivity, i doubt most people do, it's probably out of laziness that people use it instead of just pluggin in an ethernet cable... (unless your device doesn't have an ethernet port).
By the way, you can turn off the wireless connectivity on most routers and you should, if you're not using it...
I'll dissent a bit and say that IMO this is a fairly good ruling.
That's not to say it should be legal, but it should fall under a different law, something like "theft of services". Like whatever law applies to hooking up to somebody else's electricity or water supply.
I don't think breaking into somebody else's computer, and using their internet connection without permission are equivalent. They're done for different reasons, though they may be connected, and the seriousness isn't the same.
I disagree strongly with their ruling. If I place a password on my router and use encryption, it is OBVIOUS it is a private network. Breaking into that network for ANY reason is, essentially, trespassing and SHOULD be a criminal offense. It doesn't matter the reason.
Under their logic, I could place locks on my fences on my property, but someone would be allowed to go onto my property, pick the locks, and break into my backyard... but that is OK as long as they wear a blindfold?
Just having a wireless netw
Note that the neighbour has given up the password of the (ADSL) router voluntarily because the internet connection of the suspect (probably cable) was sometimes unstable. So the message was just posted over a connection differently than the one he owned, probably to disguise his location. Nonetheless, it seems he just used the internet connection, albeit in a way that is not according to Dutch law. The neighbour has just been inconvenienced and will probably now think twice when somebody asks her to share h
The results of "breaking into" a router (whether it is wide open or not) is impersonation/identity theft and theft. If someone connects and then behaves themselves, then the results of the offense are nil. The issues become apparent when the intruder downloads GB of warez and you incur overage charges from your ISP and a visit from the police.
As for breaking in itself, instead of a car analogy, let's use a bike analogy. I like near a large cottage community that has free painted community bicycles. It'
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Three Chopt host Java for Justice event
Three Chopt in Hendersonville hosted Pisgah Legal Services' second Java for Justice event on Friday, March 1. Java for Justice is held to raise money and awareness for Pisgah Legal Services, a nonprofit that provides free civil legal aid to help low-income people in Western North Carolina meet their most basic and urgent needs, including housing, safety from domestic violence and health care.
In 2012 Pisgah Legal helped more than 13,000 people in the region, including 5,631 children. The nonprofit has offices in Asheville, Hendersonville and Spindale. This year marks Pisgah Legal's 35th anniversary.
Java for Justice sponsors included Asheville Radio Group, BMW of Asheville and The Van Winkle Law Firm.
Historic Preservation Commission funding restoration of photos
The Historic Preservation Commission has undertaken the process of reframing the mayoral portraits at City Hall. In an attempt to preserve them for future generations, the portraits are being removed, 10 at a time, to be rematted and rehung. The commission is funding the restoration.
The project began when it was noticed that some of the photos seemed to be fading and the backing was loose. Upon closer examination, some photos were also showing spots and discoloring. David Osann of Framing Arts Custom Framing examined several of portraits and advised using conservation matting and UV protection glass to stop further decoration.
Osann also said the old masking tape and cardboard used to back the portraits were not good for the future preservation as well. So far, 10 have been repaired and returned, and Osann picked up another 10 last week. The original frames are being reused.
Since the frames and matting are the same, it appears the earlier photos were done at the same time. According to Sadie Smathers Patton's book, "The Story of Henderson County," the portraits were hanging in City Hall by 1947.
Osann has noted these are not original photos but copies, sometimes even photographs of an original photo. In the case of Mayor M. W. Egerton, an oval frame can be seen, implying someone took a photo of his picture with it still in the frame.
Patton notes that the portrait of one mayor is missing. She implies efforts to obtain a photo of Marcus M. Patton, who served as mayor in 1881, failed.
Prior to the City Hall renovation in 2004-05, the portraits hung in the second-floor lobby. After being in storage during the renovation, they were rehung on the third floor. The public is welcome to view the portraits any time City Hall is open.
During this process, the City Planning Department is taking advantage of the photos coming out of the frames by making digital copies of each mayor.
For more information on the reframing process, contact Osann at 828-696-3818. For more information about the commission, contact Lu Ann Welter at 828-697-3088.
Pat's School of Dance studio competes in regional competition
Pat's School of Dance, a Hendersonville studio, competed in the Dance Educators of America regional competition in Chattanooga, Tenn. March 2-3. The studio competed in tap, jazz & hip hop dance.
The studio performed 52 numbers, and all placed at gold and platinum levels. These are the highest scores that can be received at DEA competitions. Of the performances, 26 received first place/high score recognition, and the remainder received second through fifth placements.
In addition, 34 local students received scholarships for the DEA National Workshops, to be held in Charleston, S.C. this July. These scholarships total more than $11,000.00 in funding.
One student received a full scholarship to the University of Las Vegas DEA Ballet Seminar in July. One full and three half scholarships were received to attend the University of Las Vegas DEA Musical Theatre Intensive, also in July.
The studio also received nine special awards, one highest score of the day award, and a choreography award.
The studio, owned by Pat & Sheraton Shepherd and assisted by staff members Katie, Chelsie, Brittany, Amanda, Sarah and April, has been training students for the past 42 years in Hendersonville. The mother/daughter duo & staff are now teaching third-generation.
For more information about the dance studio, visit patsschoolofdance.com.
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Skip to comments.Israels Stunner emerges on Indias radar
Posted on 02/06/2013 9:43:53 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Israels Stunner emerges on Indias radar
Bangalore, Feb. 6: Behind Israels Iron Dome for India is a Stunner in the works.
Israel, Indias furtive defence supplier that both countries keep shrouded behind layers of confidentiality, has outed itself in the Aero India 9th edition here.
A truck-mounted launcher from its Iron Dome missile system greets visitors at the entrance to the biannual event in the IAFs Yelahanka airbase that showcases the air combat inventory that India has on its wish list.
The Iron Dome, successfully demonstrated in last years short sharp war between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip, is on that list. But somewhere below is its bigger brother named Davids Sling. The Stunner is the rocket that the Davids Sling system fires to shoot down enemy missiles with ranges 250km and above.
So important has Israels presence been at this edition of Aero India that even defence minister A.K. Antony, known for his aversion to being publicly seen in the company of Indias possibly most reliable military supplier as of now, allowed himself to be photographed with Major General Ehud Shani, the director general in Israels ministry of defence.
Israel and India, said Israels ambassador Alon Ushpiz at the opening of his countrys pavilion here, share a level of intimacy and co-operation that is reflected and is an integral part of the growing multifaceted relationship between our two countries.
Without going into details, the friendship and chemistry between Israelis and Indians is a source of pride and indeed a bedrock of security, stability and tranquillity for both our nations, he said.
The Iron Dome system that its maker Rafael claims shot down 85 per cent of Fajr5 and Qassam rockets on target from militants in the Gaza Strip was deployed across south Israeli settlements and to protect parts of Tel Aviv. It took three to five batteries of Iron Dome to protect Tel Aviv. Israel expects that the demonstration of the system will encourage India to buy it for its VVIP areas.
There is a difference, though, of size. Tel Aviv covers about 176sqkm with about 52sqkm estimated to have been targeted by the militants.
The National Capital Territory of Delhi, in comparison, is spread over 1,483sqkm.
Even the Davids Sling, which Israels Rafael is developing with the US-headquartered Raytheon and covers a larger area, has a single system for Israel as of now. A test in November 2012 is said to have been successful.
A Rafael official said a single Davids Sling system would give cover for Israel, a country with contested boundaries but spanning approximately 16,000sqkm, less than even that of Kerala (about 18,650sqkm), one of Indias smaller states in terms of acreage.
Israel has a four-layered missile defence system, graduating from the Iron Dome in the close-in area to the Davids Sling and the Arrow II and the Arrow III for longer-range missiles.
Indias Defence Research and Development Organisation claims that its own missile defence system is ready to be translated from the drawing board to a war theatre. India has also been in talks with the US and Russia for missile defence systems like the Patriot III and the SV-300 for long and medium ranges.
In early December, however, an Israeli delegation is understood to have held extensive talks with the Indian defence ministry. Indian officials expressed more keenness on the Davids Sling than in the Iron Dome.
AFSPA caution
Antony today advised caution on demands for change to the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which grants soldiers immunity from prosecution in areas covered by the law, to address alleged harassment of women by defence personnel.
We have to be very careful and we cannot take any hasty decisions, the minister told a news conference after inaugurating Aero India 2013 here.
In the same breath, Antony promised such cases involving defence personnel would be handled strongly. I have informed the armed forces that any such cases will have zero tolerance.
The Justice J.S. Verma Committee, many of whose recommendations were reflected in the February 3 ordinance on crimes against women, had suggested changes in the AFSPA.
For a second there, I thought this was a story about Bar Refaeli;)
Planning meetings in Tel Aviv, then spicy shawarma and fresh, hot falafel on Allenby Street. Meet with contractors in New Delhi, then palag paneer, chicken tikka, and lamb tandoori. Budget talks in Ramat Gan, lunch at Rak Basar. Dinner at Kimmel in Neve Tsedek. Mumbai for engineering issues, Idli for breakfast at Ramashraya, lunch at Konkan....
I would like to be on that project.
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