Ultimately, the biggest mistake Kim made was to leave the car. He wasn't stuck off the road or buried in a snow drift, and the car wasn't in any immediate danger. It would have been cold, but with a car full of people to generate body-heat it would have been tolerable. NEVER leave your car in a situation like that unless you are in imminent danger (IE: car fire, car sinking in a lake, avalanche about to bury you, Etc.)
You've overlooked a couple things. First, he had followed that strategy for nine days and it had not worked. That's a long time--searches are often called off by then. He had to assume that there was no longer an organized search, and ending up like DeWitt Finley was a realy possibility. Finley got lost in the same general area in 1994, and sat in the cab of his pickup awaiting rescue, for NINE WEEKS, finally dying of starvation. 4 months after he died, his truck and body were found. There was also the Stivers family case. They spent 16 days stuck in that area, and were not found by searchers. They had a portable television, and so were able to learn that the search had been called off. They were rescued only after they hiked out to get help.
Second, they had a baby and a small child, who are at more risk than the adults, putting a limit on how long they can wait.
Third, between where they were coming from and where they were going, there are a lot of places one could go missing. It was winter all the way. They could just as easily have been in an overturned car down an embankment off the side of I5 somewhere, anywhere between Seattle and San Francisco. They had no reason to assume searchers were looking anywhere near where they were.
Fourth, the helicopter pilot that finally found the car actually spotted footprints in the snow, and followed them back to the car. If those were James Kim's footprints, then if he had stayed with the car, it might not have been found when it was.
According to the various survival experts I've seen interviewed, the majority are saying stay with your car, because it will usually be found within a couple of days and it provides shelter--but there comes a point where you have to realize you aren't going to be found and then you do have to head out to find help yourself.
It's not just arson investigation where there has been a lot of junk science (or no science). For a long time, the FBI was using analysis of the alloy composition of bullets to see if two bullets came from the same box of bullets. Their belief was that there were variations over time in manufacture, and so that if two bullets (say, one taken from a victim, and one taken from a suspect) had very similar composition, they came from the same box (and so, presumably the suspect once owned the bullet taken from the victim).
After something like 40 years of this being accepted, someone actually tested it. Result: no freaking correlation at all. The variation in composition of bullets within a given box was the same as variation among bullets from different boxes, purchased years apart. This is a completely worthless forensic technique.
Or consider early DNA testing. Up until at least the mid '90s (I don't know what they do now) a DNA test only looked for matches at a small number of base pairs. For any given DNA sample tested, there would be thousands of people in the world that matches that sample. What this meant was the the scientifically correct way to use DNA testing was to find your suspects using traditional police techniques, and THEN use a DNA test. If you had, say, 3 good suspects, and one of them had a DNA match, then that was very good evidence against that suspect. Unfortunately, sometimes it was used the other way. They'd start with the DNA, match it against whatever samples they had on file, and if they got a match, they'd go after that person. That's bogus.
If you look into the science behind much police investigation, you get this strange feeling you've fallen through some kind of wormhole and gone back to the early 19th century. It's amazing how much in common use has not been rigorously tested and peer reviewed by real scientists.
By everyone I assume you mean "An exceptionally small subset of the media and technology industry" that includes, and only includes, according to Official HD-DVD site:
HP, Intel, Microsoft, Paramount, Toshiba, Universal, Warner, HBO and Newline
Maybe you should try going to the right site and posting the right list:
acer inc.,
acses co.,ltd.,
ad seeds co.,ltd,
almedio inc.,
alpine electronics, inc.,
altech ads co., ltd.,
arcsoft, inc,
audiodev ab,
b.h.a corporation,
bandai visual co., ltd.,
beko elektronik,
broadcom corporation,
canon inc.,
cdn corporation, ltd.,
cmc magnetics corporation,
cyberlink corp,
d&m holdings inc.,
daikin industries, ltd.,
daiko.co,ltd.,
daxon technology inc.,
dedicated devices, inc.,
digion, inc.,
digital site corporation,
digital theater systems,
disc labo corp.,
diskware co., ltd.,
dr. schwab inspection technology gmbh,
dt japan inc.,
ebistrade,inc.,
enteractive gmbh,
entertainment network inc.,
exa international,
expert magnetics corp.,
finepack . co.,ltd,
flag,inc.,
fuji photo film co., ltd.,
fuji seiki co., ltd.,
fujitsu limited.,
funai electric co., ltd.,
gear software, inc,
gibson musical instruments,
hamamatsu metrix co.,ltd.,
hewlett-packard company,
high-def technology gmbh,
hitachi,
maxell,
hoei sangyo co., ltd.,
ide-ava transmix co., ltd.,
imagica corp.,
imation corp,
info source multi media korea ltd.,
infodisc technology co., ltd.,
intel corporation,
interchannel, ltd.,
intervideo, inc.,
itri,
jp co., ltd,
justsystem corporation,
kadokawa holdings,inc.,
kaleidescape, inc.,
kenwood corporation,
kinyosha printing co.,ltd.,
kitano co.,ltd.,
konica minolta opto, inc.,
lenovo japan,
m2 engineering,
mcray corporation,
megan media holdings bhd,
memory-tech corporation,
microsoft corporation,
mitomo co., ltd,
mitsubishi kagaku media co., ltd.,
mitsui chemicals, inc.,
moser baer india ltd,
nec,
nero ag,
nichia corporation,
nihonvtr inc.,
nikkatsu corporation,
nixbu entertainment gmbh & co. kg,
omnibus japan,
onken corporation,
onkyo corporation,
online media technologies ltd.,
origin electric co.,ltd.,
outpost fx (ab) international,
paramount home entertainment,
pegasys, inc.,
pico house co.,ltd,
pixela corporation,
plannet associate co.;ltd.,
pony canyon inc.,
proboxx.inc,
prodisc technology inc.,
protron digital inc.,
pryaid records inc.,
pulstec industrial co.,ltd,
q-tec,inc.,
query inc,
ricoh company ltd.,
ritek corporation,
samsung,
sanken media product co., ltd.,
sanyo electric co., ltd.,
shibaura mechatronics corporation,
sonic solutions,
sonopress gmbh,
storage technology corporation,
sumitomo heavy industries. ltd,
super vision, inc.,
taiyo yuden co.,ltd.,
teac corporation,
teijin chemicals ltd.,
toei video co., ltd.,
toemi media solutions limited,
toho company, limited.,
tokyo laboratory ltd.,
toppan printing co., ltd.,
toptica photonics ag,
toshiba,
toyo recording co., ltd.,
trendy corporation,
u-tech media corp.,
ulead systems, inc.,
unaxis balzers ltd.,
universal pictures,
vap inc.,
verbatim,
visionare corporation,
warner home video inc.,
Now would you like to retract your obviously inaccurate statement?
Now would you like to go to a dictionary and look up the word pwned?
For christ's sake, if you're going to pay so much for "innovation", try to tackle some of the fundamental problems with modern computing, instead of gimmicky wireless sharing for MP3 players, new copy-protection schemes, and snazzy graphics for FreeCell
What makes you think the don't? Try reading any major peer-reviewed computer science journal, or conference proceedings, and you'll find people from MS Research well represented.
You need to actually read the court cases given at that site, and make sure to Shepardize them, and read anything that turns up when you do that. You'll find every single one of them is either misrepresented, misapplied, or has been overturned.
Everyone who has tried to argue that way in court has lost. That's what happens when you base your case on out-of-context quotes, quotes from dissenting judges, quotes from 90 year old cases that have since been overruled, quote from lower courts that were immediately struck down on appeal, quotes from the briefs of the losing attorneys, made-up quotes from actual cases, and made-up quotes from non-existent cases.
If you go actually sally forth to the local law library, and look up everything cited at those sites you link to you, you'll find that everything their arguments are based on either falls into one of those categories, or has no connection to the point they are arguing.
If they tax our virtual gains in real money, that could be great, as it would also mean we'd get to deduct our virtual losses. I bet a clever player could generate enough virtual losses to offset all their real income, and pay zero taxes (especially once the game companies start making this easy, so that people will subscribe to the games to get a tax shelter).
Here it is, just with a different news source, and only five days ago
That story lacks details, and notes that the research with the details will be presented on November 30th. That's today, and the present story covers those details.
What was posted earlier was a pre-story. Basically, that this latest research had finished and was going to be presented at the end of the month. It has now been presented, and this story covers the details that were not covered in the pre-story.
...but the fact that you can install Linux on these systems, could do a lot for their market share
I don't know why so many people seem to think there is some vast inchoate yearning on the part of the general public to run Linux.
If there was such a vast demand for Linux, you'd see people running it NOW all over the place on their desktop computers, not waiting for an underpowered living room machine to run it on. Yes, I said underpowered. From the point of view of Linux, it is basically a PowerPC with 7 DSPs that are useless for most things that you do on a typical computer, and with 256 MB of RAM, and no accelerated video. If you can't get the SPEs cranking, it's a run-of-the mill single core, single threaded processor. It will be handily beaten in nearly everything by a typical desktop machine, and completely blown out of the water by a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo.
And don't think getting the SPEs going just involves recompiling your kernel and applications to be multithreaded. The SPEs use a different instruction set from the PPE, and they do not have direct access to system memory. You basically have to set up specialized programs on them, DMA your data to them, let them operate, and DMA the results back out. To take advantage of them, you have to write your application from the start to use them.
The place where they will get some measurable market share outside of gaming is among people who want a Blu-Ray player. They've got a real price advantage there. (Although, when drives are plentiful enough to let Sony meet demand, maybe stand-alone Blu-Ray players will have come down, so even this market is not a sure thing).
I had not thought KMart would have any, either, especially since their web site did not have a Wii section, and the only games they have that match "wii" are World War II games for other systems that have "WWII" in their titles.
But I'm in the PST time zone, so I called a KMart in EST (Richmond, Virginia), at 7:00 my time (10:00 their time), which would have been open for a couple hours by then, and asked them if they had had them. They told me they had had 9, and they were all gone. So, I knew that at least some KMarts were getting them.
Later that day, I was at Best Buy to get some games, and asked them how their launch had gone. They told me that they had received 63 units, and the line reached that at around 7:30. They open at 9:00. So, it looks like it would have worked if I had gone to Best Buy at 7:00 instead of heading off to KMart. I think in general in my area, showing up at any line about two hours before opening would have done it, except for Wal-Mart. The two Wal-Marts here only had 20 each, and their lines reached that many hours before they went on sale.
Sometimes it pays to go to the overlooked stores.
I went to KMart at 7:15. There was one logical person waiting (two physical people, but one was just there to keep the other company, not to buy). KMart had 2 units, so I got mine at 8:00.
A friend of mine tried Sears. The had 2 units, and there were two logical people in line an hour before opening (my friend would have been #3, unfortunately).
Perhaps you should actually learn what role botnets play in spamming and phishing, before presuming that other people are ignorant. (Hint: think about how a spammer or phisher makes their money).
There's not a chance in hell that anything like this would ever happen in the United States. I hope it works for the Germans
Well, if by "works for the Germans" you mean "every spammer and phisher and kiddie porn trader and net stalker and all the other net scum switch to German ISPs, until Germany gets blackholed by the rest of the world", then yeah, I think it will work out for them.
If you want to count 650k against Bush, then you also have to count 5000 Kurds against Saddam, and 1.7 million from his war on Iran, and maybe 100k from his invasion of Kuwait and the resulting war, plus a huge number from his refusal to honor the terms of his surrender after that war.
Bush is one of the worse presidents we've had, so there is no need to make stupid inaccurate comparisons to Saddam. You can nail him on things that are actually correct.
I heard of this months ago, although, I just got back from Cabo, when I came back, US customs person said after the turn of the year, my birth certificate will no longer work for me to leave/enter the country. My BIRTH CERTIFICATE.... guess some things have no credibility anymore
This makes some sense. Birth certificates vary a lot between states. That makes forging birth certificates a lot easier than forging passports.
If the Law of the Land gives you a right to do something, you retain that right -- and if you signed a contract promising somebody that you wouldn't, then that contract is worthless. That's the definition of an inalienable right.
Where did you get that notion? Giving up your right to do something is a classic form of consideration that can be used to support a contract. It's been this way for pretty much the entire history of contract law under the common law.
No need for the word recent in there. It's not been a violation of any version of the copyright act. Fair use does NOT mean you have a RIGHT to do things like copy to other media or devices. Rather, it means that doing so does not violate copyright. The copyright holder has always been free to try to stop you by other means (contracts, technological means, etc).
Ummmm, they didn't go to court and they have not accepted anything, Spamhaus are demonstrating their view that the court does not have jurisdiction, Spamhaus seem to have a clue what they are talking about but the judge isn't listening since they refused to recognise the court by showing up
This is simply wrong. The spammer sued in state court. Spamhaus did show up, to request that the case be moved to Federal court.
Then, once the case was moved to Federal court, Spamhaus stopped showing up.
This was a major legal blunder on their part. Spamhaus picked the court, and that gives the court jurisdiction over Spamhaus. The correct way to assert lack of jurisdiction was to assert it at the state court, and to file no motions or answers or anything else other than to tell the court that you won't be participating because you don't believe the court has jurisdiction.
The only good news for Spamhaus here is that they've probably got a good case for malpractice against their lawyers.
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Weren't some or many of these things in Microsoft Bob?
You've overlooked a couple things. First, he had followed that strategy for nine days and it had not worked. That's a long time--searches are often called off by then. He had to assume that there was no longer an organized search, and ending up like DeWitt Finley was a realy possibility. Finley got lost in the same general area in 1994, and sat in the cab of his pickup awaiting rescue, for NINE WEEKS, finally dying of starvation. 4 months after he died, his truck and body were found. There was also the Stivers family case. They spent 16 days stuck in that area, and were not found by searchers. They had a portable television, and so were able to learn that the search had been called off. They were rescued only after they hiked out to get help.
Second, they had a baby and a small child, who are at more risk than the adults, putting a limit on how long they can wait.
Third, between where they were coming from and where they were going, there are a lot of places one could go missing. It was winter all the way. They could just as easily have been in an overturned car down an embankment off the side of I5 somewhere, anywhere between Seattle and San Francisco. They had no reason to assume searchers were looking anywhere near where they were.
Fourth, the helicopter pilot that finally found the car actually spotted footprints in the snow, and followed them back to the car. If those were James Kim's footprints, then if he had stayed with the car, it might not have been found when it was.
According to the various survival experts I've seen interviewed, the majority are saying stay with your car, because it will usually be found within a couple of days and it provides shelter--but there comes a point where you have to realize you aren't going to be found and then you do have to head out to find help yourself.
After something like 40 years of this being accepted, someone actually tested it. Result: no freaking correlation at all. The variation in composition of bullets within a given box was the same as variation among bullets from different boxes, purchased years apart. This is a completely worthless forensic technique.
Or consider early DNA testing. Up until at least the mid '90s (I don't know what they do now) a DNA test only looked for matches at a small number of base pairs. For any given DNA sample tested, there would be thousands of people in the world that matches that sample. What this meant was the the scientifically correct way to use DNA testing was to find your suspects using traditional police techniques, and THEN use a DNA test. If you had, say, 3 good suspects, and one of them had a DNA match, then that was very good evidence against that suspect. Unfortunately, sometimes it was used the other way. They'd start with the DNA, match it against whatever samples they had on file, and if they got a match, they'd go after that person. That's bogus.
If you look into the science behind much police investigation, you get this strange feeling you've fallen through some kind of wormhole and gone back to the early 19th century. It's amazing how much in common use has not been rigorously tested and peer reviewed by real scientists.
Where the HD-DVD people simply smarter and figured out early to order ahead, and so they are getting most of the current production, or what?
Maybe you should try going to the right site and posting the right list: acer inc., acses co.,ltd., ad seeds co.,ltd, almedio inc., alpine electronics, inc., altech ads co., ltd., arcsoft, inc, audiodev ab, b.h.a corporation, bandai visual co., ltd., beko elektronik, broadcom corporation, canon inc., cdn corporation, ltd., cmc magnetics corporation, cyberlink corp, d&m holdings inc., daikin industries, ltd., daiko.co,ltd., daxon technology inc., dedicated devices, inc., digion, inc., digital site corporation, digital theater systems, disc labo corp., diskware co., ltd., dr. schwab inspection technology gmbh, dt japan inc., ebistrade,inc., enteractive gmbh, entertainment network inc., exa international, expert magnetics corp., finepack . co.,ltd, flag,inc., fuji photo film co., ltd., fuji seiki co., ltd., fujitsu limited., funai electric co., ltd., gear software, inc, gibson musical instruments, hamamatsu metrix co.,ltd., hewlett-packard company, high-def technology gmbh, hitachi, maxell, hoei sangyo co., ltd., ide-ava transmix co., ltd., imagica corp., imation corp, info source multi media korea ltd., infodisc technology co., ltd., intel corporation, interchannel, ltd., intervideo, inc., itri, jp co., ltd, justsystem corporation, kadokawa holdings,inc., kaleidescape, inc., kenwood corporation, kinyosha printing co.,ltd., kitano co.,ltd., konica minolta opto, inc., lenovo japan, m2 engineering, mcray corporation, megan media holdings bhd, memory-tech corporation, microsoft corporation, mitomo co., ltd, mitsubishi kagaku media co., ltd., mitsui chemicals, inc., moser baer india ltd, nec, nero ag, nichia corporation, nihonvtr inc., nikkatsu corporation, nixbu entertainment gmbh & co. kg, omnibus japan, onken corporation, onkyo corporation, online media technologies ltd., origin electric co.,ltd., outpost fx (ab) international, paramount home entertainment, pegasys, inc., pico house co.,ltd, pixela corporation, plannet associate co.;ltd., pony canyon inc., proboxx.inc, prodisc technology inc., protron digital inc., pryaid records inc., pulstec industrial co.,ltd, q-tec,inc., query inc, ricoh company ltd., ritek corporation, samsung, sanken media product co., ltd., sanyo electric co., ltd., shibaura mechatronics corporation, sonic solutions, sonopress gmbh, storage technology corporation, sumitomo heavy industries. ltd, super vision, inc., taiyo yuden co.,ltd., teac corporation, teijin chemicals ltd., toei video co., ltd., toemi media solutions limited, toho company, limited., tokyo laboratory ltd., toppan printing co., ltd., toptica photonics ag, toshiba, toyo recording co., ltd., trendy corporation, u-tech media corp., ulead systems, inc., unaxis balzers ltd., universal pictures, vap inc., verbatim, visionare corporation, warner home video inc.,
Now would you like to go to a dictionary and look up the word pwned?
What makes you think the don't? Try reading any major peer-reviewed computer science journal, or conference proceedings, and you'll find people from MS Research well represented.
You need to actually read the court cases given at that site, and make sure to Shepardize them, and read anything that turns up when you do that. You'll find every single one of them is either misrepresented, misapplied, or has been overturned.
If you go actually sally forth to the local law library, and look up everything cited at those sites you link to you, you'll find that everything their arguments are based on either falls into one of those categories, or has no connection to the point they are arguing.
If they tax our virtual gains in real money, that could be great, as it would also mean we'd get to deduct our virtual losses. I bet a clever player could generate enough virtual losses to offset all their real income, and pay zero taxes (especially once the game companies start making this easy, so that people will subscribe to the games to get a tax shelter).
That's wimpy, when you could do 96 hours in a day.
That story lacks details, and notes that the research with the details will be presented on November 30th. That's today, and the present story covers those details.
What was posted earlier was a pre-story. Basically, that this latest research had finished and was going to be presented at the end of the month. It has now been presented, and this story covers the details that were not covered in the pre-story.
I don't know why so many people seem to think there is some vast inchoate yearning on the part of the general public to run Linux.
If there was such a vast demand for Linux, you'd see people running it NOW all over the place on their desktop computers, not waiting for an underpowered living room machine to run it on. Yes, I said underpowered. From the point of view of Linux, it is basically a PowerPC with 7 DSPs that are useless for most things that you do on a typical computer, and with 256 MB of RAM, and no accelerated video. If you can't get the SPEs cranking, it's a run-of-the mill single core, single threaded processor. It will be handily beaten in nearly everything by a typical desktop machine, and completely blown out of the water by a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo.
And don't think getting the SPEs going just involves recompiling your kernel and applications to be multithreaded. The SPEs use a different instruction set from the PPE, and they do not have direct access to system memory. You basically have to set up specialized programs on them, DMA your data to them, let them operate, and DMA the results back out. To take advantage of them, you have to write your application from the start to use them.
The place where they will get some measurable market share outside of gaming is among people who want a Blu-Ray player. They've got a real price advantage there. (Although, when drives are plentiful enough to let Sony meet demand, maybe stand-alone Blu-Ray players will have come down, so even this market is not a sure thing).
Well, if you want to think in human terms, it is hard. If you think like a nerd, it is easy. :-)
But I'm in the PST time zone, so I called a KMart in EST (Richmond, Virginia), at 7:00 my time (10:00 their time), which would have been open for a couple hours by then, and asked them if they had had them. They told me they had had 9, and they were all gone. So, I knew that at least some KMarts were getting them.
Later that day, I was at Best Buy to get some games, and asked them how their launch had gone. They told me that they had received 63 units, and the line reached that at around 7:30. They open at 9:00. So, it looks like it would have worked if I had gone to Best Buy at 7:00 instead of heading off to KMart. I think in general in my area, showing up at any line about two hours before opening would have done it, except for Wal-Mart. The two Wal-Marts here only had 20 each, and their lines reached that many hours before they went on sale.
Sometimes it pays to go to the overlooked stores. I went to KMart at 7:15. There was one logical person waiting (two physical people, but one was just there to keep the other company, not to buy). KMart had 2 units, so I got mine at 8:00. A friend of mine tried Sears. The had 2 units, and there were two logical people in line an hour before opening (my friend would have been #3, unfortunately).
Perhaps you should actually learn what role botnets play in spamming and phishing, before presuming that other people are ignorant. (Hint: think about how a spammer or phisher makes their money).
Even better would be be 4, then 5 up to I'm-your-father, then 1-3 to tell the story of Anakin/Darth, then the rest of 5, then 6.
Well, if by "works for the Germans" you mean "every spammer and phisher and kiddie porn trader and net stalker and all the other net scum switch to German ISPs, until Germany gets blackholed by the rest of the world", then yeah, I think it will work out for them.
Maybe you should RTFA. The receipt can't be used to prove your vote to a third party.
Bush: not convicted of any killings.
If you want to count 650k against Bush, then you also have to count 5000 Kurds against Saddam, and 1.7 million from his war on Iran, and maybe 100k from his invasion of Kuwait and the resulting war, plus a huge number from his refusal to honor the terms of his surrender after that war.
Bush is one of the worse presidents we've had, so there is no need to make stupid inaccurate comparisons to Saddam. You can nail him on things that are actually correct.
This makes some sense. Birth certificates vary a lot between states. That makes forging birth certificates a lot easier than forging passports.
Where did you get that notion? Giving up your right to do something is a classic form of consideration that can be used to support a contract. It's been this way for pretty much the entire history of contract law under the common law.
No need for the word recent in there. It's not been a violation of any version of the copyright act. Fair use does NOT mean you have a RIGHT to do things like copy to other media or devices. Rather, it means that doing so does not violate copyright. The copyright holder has always been free to try to stop you by other means (contracts, technological means, etc).
This is simply wrong. The spammer sued in state court. Spamhaus did show up, to request that the case be moved to Federal court.
Then, once the case was moved to Federal court, Spamhaus stopped showing up.
This was a major legal blunder on their part. Spamhaus picked the court, and that gives the court jurisdiction over Spamhaus. The correct way to assert lack of jurisdiction was to assert it at the state court, and to file no motions or answers or anything else other than to tell the court that you won't be participating because you don't believe the court has jurisdiction.
The only good news for Spamhaus here is that they've probably got a good case for malpractice against their lawyers.