Woman charged with stealing nude pics of baseball star A Minnesota woman has been charged with stealing racy photos of Cleveland Indians centerfielder Grady Sizemore from the email account of his Playboy bunny girlfriend. The 15-photo set, which Sizemore shot himself with his cellphone, were posted to the internet about a year ago, although most have since been removed, following …
The inability to think for one's self? The constant burning need for reassurance? The drive to conform? Sounds like a hivemind* to me!
*Hivemind in this context being an "intelligence" that requires the distribution of processing across many nodes. Descisions such as "do I look fat in this" completly overwhelm the processing power of indiviual nodes in the hive.
The biggest problem these days with protecting accounts is that you have so much information to store that it's getting difficult to remember it all...
My ISP purchased the largest web forum that was used to slate them, so my ISP got personal details of me and everything I have ever said about them, probably the private msg's on the forum were logged too, nice eh?..
And I have been put on two mailing list because of other forum/account movements from one company to another..
My school, dob, name, address, phone, and even email addresses change between nearly every site I visit, and this means I have to use a large spreadsheet to actually keep up with my accounts.
As for the person stealing pics that were once public, charge her for petty theft and let her be on her way.
... if I have a boxful of something (comics, bottles of beer, garden tools, whatever) in my backyard and you hop my fence and take some of them, is it not theft even though your intent was probably not to deny me use of the full boxful but to get a bit for yourself? "Taking without permission" would make it theft regardless of intent (although I can see exceptions for emergencies).
@StuartMcL If someone takes or uses something of yours that they have no right to most people will call that theft. It might not meet the legal definition of theft, but most people unlike freetarding fuckwits, don't carry about copies of Smith's Law of Theft, or Archibold on Criminal Evidence. Actually I doubt that freetarding fuckwits carry those about either, mostly they spout crap from other freetards on slashdot.
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