On your second point re: leaving your wifi open, you'll probably find your end legislation looks similar to what we've had put in in NZ, where you, as the 'account holder' are responsible for all activity under your account, so "My wifi was open. It was someone else", won't work.
The Obama administration not doing something it said it would? Doing something it said it wouldn't? Say it isn't so. What did you expect? They are politicians...
* As used by *nix admin/engineers - Muppets or Sesame St characters * As used by Windows admin/engineers - Location-function-number...I hate it when I come across mail servers called 'Grover'. Grrrrnnnngggggg!!!!
What I don't understand is, why Microsoft hasn't (That I have seen) tried to compete on the Zune's price with the iPod. Every time I've ever looked at a Zune, it has always been more expensive than an iPod. As stated, Microsoft won't be able to compete on the 'cool' factor. But essentially, what is a Zune or an iPod? It is the size and capacity of these devices that has always been a winner.
In New Zealand (Where Zunes aren't available), you can't really get a high capacity (Over say 8/16 GB) portable media player at a reasonable price, other than an iPod. So if you're after a large capacity, small portable media device, you'll look at your options:
1) Does it play MP3s? (And this would now be, Does it play video. h.264 MPEG-4 has won that battle, so don't try to fight a format war).
2) Which is the cheapest one that supports the features I want?
Microsoft needed to under cut Apple on the price. They have deep enough pockets.
Uh. Let me report my experiences with my Netgear ReadyNAS NV+. Pull it out of the box. Turn it on. Some basic config to get it talking to Active Directory. Copy data. Set up some shares. Check ACLs. Rock and roll. Had a single drive failure at one stage. Simply replaced the drive.
Prior to this I was hosting the files on a Windows Server 2003 SBS box. Oh look. A new patch for Notepad *reboot*. And don't try to tell me the problem was I was using Windows. I restart my Ubuntu workstation fairly frequently as well. The NAS has been restarted twice in eight months (Both times because it was being moved).
Yeah. Why something inexpensive off of something like ebay isn't your first though, I have no idea. My daughters both started on hand-me-down ThinkPads I had lying around. No way I'd bother starting them off on a brand new machine.
You're over analysing things. At the end of the day, the only thing to be gleamed from my initial message was, laws and justice are implemented and enforced by people. People are fallible, and therefore laws and justice are fallible.
Yes, as soon as you put ANYTHING on the Net, you create a trail of breadcrumbs that someone can follow to find more information. I'm not playing cloak and dagger here for Pete's sake. The level of effort required would be beyond casual interest. At the end of the day, Google will not match any of the content of anything I have posted to the issue in question. And while things may be public record. for all I know, someone calling a judge from a prior trial a "dick" might jeopardise a future case. I dunno, IANAL.
When the whole thing is over, I'll come back, fill in the details, and you can go "Wow. That WAS f&^%'d up". In the mean time, it is what it is.
This issue is very sensitive, and my comments were deliberately vague, as I don't want someone to be able to google even a smidgen of information relative to this case, not even the country. All I will say is, the matter is going up the ladder. Very high up the ladder (As in the highest).
As for "my account", it comes from many sources including my fiend, their solicitors and the judge's own summation (Which when read by anyone I've spoken to, completely defies and contradicts logic, and the document itself from page to page).
If a court asks you to do something, doesn't it have to be legal, or have some basis of legality? A judge can't order you to go and kill someone. Nor I imagine, would a judge be able to tell you "to do something, because I told you so". Surely it would have to be "do something because of XYZ legal reason", which I think is the case there, and the legal reason XYZ in this case is in question.
Knowing someone who has recently been in a full on, without a doubt, cut and dry case in their favour, it turns out the judge was a complete dick, took everything personally, and my friend, their solicitors and their expert witnesses are SHOCKED with a capital SHOCKED when not only did the verdict go in the complete oposite of what was expected, but they themselves were required to pay damages. Justice may be blind, but people involved with implementing justice are still human.
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These pretzels are making me hungry.
...and at a reasonable price. DRM free and no geo-restrictions:
http://www.henrithefilm.com/
...A million similar fart apps is all good though.
On your second point re: leaving your wifi open, you'll probably find your end legislation looks similar to what we've had put in in NZ, where you, as the 'account holder' are responsible for all activity under your account, so "My wifi was open. It was someone else", won't work.
The seedbox though, yes.
I've gone low-tech. I just have the following video playing on the telly:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg5m2n_janet-napolitano-and-wal-mart_news ...and have a more 'current' theme of Security Scare Theatre over the now decommissioned threat level display.
I'll get modded down, but I don't care...
The Obama administration not doing something it said it would? Doing something it said it wouldn't? Say it isn't so. What did you expect? They are politicians...
The two most common naming conventions are:
* As used by *nix admin/engineers - Muppets or Sesame St characters ...I hate it when I come across mail servers called 'Grover'. Grrrrnnnngggggg!!!!
* As used by Windows admin/engineers - Location-function-number
EPIC WOOOOOOOOOOOSH.
...Duh?
What I don't understand is, why Microsoft hasn't (That I have seen) tried to compete on the Zune's price with the iPod. Every time I've ever looked at a Zune, it has always been more expensive than an iPod. As stated, Microsoft won't be able to compete on the 'cool' factor. But essentially, what is a Zune or an iPod? It is the size and capacity of these devices that has always been a winner.
In New Zealand (Where Zunes aren't available), you can't really get a high capacity (Over say 8/16 GB) portable media player at a reasonable price, other than an iPod. So if you're after a large capacity, small portable media device, you'll look at your options:
1) Does it play MP3s? (And this would now be, Does it play video. h.264 MPEG-4 has won that battle, so don't try to fight a format war).
2) Which is the cheapest one that supports the features I want?
Microsoft needed to under cut Apple on the price. They have deep enough pockets.
Damn. I'd mod him off-topic, but he's right. Oh well.
Uh. Let me report my experiences with my Netgear ReadyNAS NV+. Pull it out of the box. Turn it on. Some basic config to get it talking to Active Directory. Copy data. Set up some shares. Check ACLs. Rock and roll. Had a single drive failure at one stage. Simply replaced the drive.
Prior to this I was hosting the files on a Windows Server 2003 SBS box. Oh look. A new patch for Notepad *reboot*. And don't try to tell me the problem was I was using Windows. I restart my Ubuntu workstation fairly frequently as well. The NAS has been restarted twice in eight months (Both times because it was being moved).
Yeah. Why something inexpensive off of something like ebay isn't your first though, I have no idea. My daughters both started on hand-me-down ThinkPads I had lying around. No way I'd bother starting them off on a brand new machine.
I think that is the first time I've seen an "FP!" post get modded up.
Ummm...No. Sorry. 7-zip's interface is crap.
It has a pwned hypervisor.
"Everyone! Get ready to repulse the enemy attack" - The General
"Not now General-dude! I'm updating my Facebook, and my torrents are almost finished". - G.I. Joe
You Yanks are such prudes. FFS! GOI!
Yeah. Most of the chicks I've seen that play WoW would drive me to porn too...
Eidolon A.I. TLP. :)
Mate, I don't hink you needed to point out to a single individual on /. as to where the quote came from...
Damn. My first though was "Canada is run by the freaking terminator?. Don't you mean California?" D'oh!
You're over analysing things. At the end of the day, the only thing to be gleamed from my initial message was, laws and justice are implemented and enforced by people. People are fallible, and therefore laws and justice are fallible.
Yes, as soon as you put ANYTHING on the Net, you create a trail of breadcrumbs that someone can follow to find more information. I'm not playing cloak and dagger here for Pete's sake. The level of effort required would be beyond casual interest. At the end of the day, Google will not match any of the content of anything I have posted to the issue in question. And while things may be public record. for all I know, someone calling a judge from a prior trial a "dick" might jeopardise a future case. I dunno, IANAL.
When the whole thing is over, I'll come back, fill in the details, and you can go "Wow. That WAS f&^%'d up". In the mean time, it is what it is.
This issue is very sensitive, and my comments were deliberately vague, as I don't want someone to be able to google even a smidgen of information relative to this case, not even the country. All I will say is, the matter is going up the ladder. Very high up the ladder (As in the highest).
As for "my account", it comes from many sources including my fiend, their solicitors and the judge's own summation (Which when read by anyone I've spoken to, completely defies and contradicts logic, and the document itself from page to page).
If a court asks you to do something, doesn't it have to be legal, or have some basis of legality? A judge can't order you to go and kill someone. Nor I imagine, would a judge be able to tell you "to do something, because I told you so". Surely it would have to be "do something because of XYZ legal reason", which I think is the case there, and the legal reason XYZ in this case is in question.
Knowing someone who has recently been in a full on, without a doubt, cut and dry case in their favour, it turns out the judge was a complete dick, took everything personally, and my friend, their solicitors and their expert witnesses are SHOCKED with a capital SHOCKED when not only did the verdict go in the complete oposite of what was expected, but they themselves were required to pay damages. Justice may be blind, but people involved with implementing justice are still human.