He wants to buy it
She wants to sell it to him
Match made in heaven

Civil Procedure
There are so many damn rules
I’m glad it’s over

So you want some land?
I still don’t know what to do
Go call a lawyer

I forgot that I was supposed to write a haiku after a class ended. Con Law ended Friday, so here you go:

Liberal justice?
They must be smarter than me
Obey them, moron.

Einstein was right: space and time bend — The Guardian

In my ongoing global warming post, I referenced the experiment testing Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Here is the exerpt:

In 2003, NASA sent up what was heralded as “the most perfect spheres ever created by humanity.” Without getting into the details, this experiment was set to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Einstein published his paper on relativity in 1905, yet nearly 100 years later, we are still physically testing the theory — a theory taken as fact for nearly a century.

Bottom line: this newest piece of information is more evidence that Einstein was right; science prevails again. Mark my words, though, things would be radically different if there was a liberal agenda — and money — behind proving Einstein wrong. They would simply conclude that there is no such thing as space-time, that a “consensus” of scientists agreed, and that the “debate was over.”

+1 science
-1 political movement of global warming

Student charged with hacking school computers — Greenville Online

A student was charged with “hacking.”

The J.L. Mann students were able to gain access to the network by using an administrator’s password one of them had been given when he was working as a summer intern for the district’s information technology department, a district official told police, according to the report.

The password was never changed once school started, Wade Shealy, director of the district’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, told police, according to the report.

This is not hacking. This is leaving your car running at a convenience store because you’ll only be going in to grab some milk — surely no one will steal your car.

The student who had worked as an intern told police that during his time on that job he had “stumbled across” another password that investigators later determined were “the keys to the kingdom,” giving access to the school district’s entire computer system, according to the report.

This is not hacking. This is a total and complete lack of any sense of the common sort. Would you leave your house key hung on a hook outside your front door with a big sign that read “KEY TO FRONT DOOR”? I despise the word “hack” being tossed around so loosely. Finding a password != hacking.

Also, this media sensationalism is ridiculous, too. Every computer system has some account and password that can be called “the keys to the kingdom.” This is usually the password that is actually written down, because it is the important one. (For example, I don’t know if I have ever seen a Guest account, or some equivalent, written down. Think about it, what’s the point?) Therefore, finding a password written down is most likely the password giving you “the keys to the kingdom.”

At worst these kids trespassed, they didn’t hack. QED

I just turned in my final paper in Legal Research and Writing, as well as finished my oral arguments, this week. For all intents and purposes the end of the semester is here, as exams start next Friday. The workload tends to drop off in the run-up to the exams, and as such I’m only spending about an hour to an hour and a half each day on homework.

Regardless, exams are over the last day of April, and then I have a little over a week of a writing competition that I’m entering. After that I am coming back home to Shelby for summer where I will begin an internship with the District Attorney’s office in Cleveland County. Seeing as I am leaning towards becoming a prosecutor (which, for what it’s worth, pays less than the average manager of a fast food franchise) I am looking forward to the internship.