Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion From: Tim Hammerquist Subject: Re: Evangelion 04 References: <3D2BFE18.9090609@interchange.ubc.ca> <3D3239C0.E5F77A6E@SPAMPHOBICwhyalla.net.au> Reply-To: timmy@cpan.org Mail-Followup-To: timmy@cpan.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Vim-601 http://www.vim.org/ Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: csn-max0-16.gbis.net Date: 16 Jul 2002 19:08:58 -0700 X-Trace: news.greatbasin.net 1026871738 csn-max0-16.gbis.net (16 Jul 2002 19:08:58 -0700) Lines: 67 Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!news.greatbasin.net Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:974 Disaster graced us by uttering: > "Tim Hammerquist" wrote: >> Vaughn L.Porter graced us by uttering: >> > Tim, you don't, by any chance, work for Intel, do you? I heard >> > acronyms are all the rage there. >> >> Not likely. Intel has already convicted and criminalized one of my >> acquaintances. > > What did he do? Um, that's why I gave the link that you snipped: http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/ But if you don't have a browser handy (which is ridiculous because you use MS Outlook Distress...), here's some relevant paragraphs: In late July 1995, a trial jury convicted Randal L. Schwartz of three felony counts under Oregon's Computer Crime Law. The charges related to his activities while working as a consultant at an Intel Corporation facility in Beaverton, Oregon. His sentence issued in September includes 5 years of probation, 480 hours of community service, 90 days of deferred (cancellable) jail time, and $68k of restitution to Intel. His legal bill exceeded $170k by the end of 1995. In July, 1998, the deferred jail-time sentence would have taken effect. Due to excellent compliance with terms of probation the judge converted the deferred jail time to suspended jail time. Schwartz appealed the conviction. A decision by the State of Oregon Court of Appeals in April 2001 upheld the convictions on all counts, but reversed the restitution order and sent this issue back to the original court for reconsideration. Mr. Schwartz is known and respected on the Internet for his contributions to the progress of the Perl programming language through two books, long-time participation in the comp.lang.perl(.misc) newsgroup, moderation of the comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup, and training courses. In short, a well-liked and well-respected fellow programmer was convicted of commiting a computer crime that Intel _paid_ him to commit. That's what he did. >> Those with managers who are _still_ below the comprehension threshold >> for HTML can at least laugh that these same managers think that >> writing HTML is remotely akin to programming. ... I did. =) > > LOL > > HTML is at least programming like! Not akin or as difficult I'm sure > but sometimes you get just as frustrated! :D Although HTML doesn't > cause me as much trouble as expression building in MS Access97. O_o;;; Expression building takes some getting used to, but compared to regular expressions [1], it's a cake walk. http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/RegExp/page1.html Now _scripting_ MS Access (VBA) starts to look like programming! Tim Hammerquist -- I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been...that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. -- David St. Hubbins, "This is Spinal Tap"