Pardon my ignorance, but in traditional journalism, is the confedentiality of a source legally protected if the source is demonstrably breaking the law?
As I understand it, Apple wanted the name of the source because whoever the source was, he or she was breaking trade secret or NDA laws. Would this (outlaw) source's confidentiality normally have been in another medium?
I agree, film grain is noisy, and your sugestion would help get rid of it. However, many photgraphers (and I would assume cinematographers, too) actually use film grain for artistic effect. That's part of the charm of B&W film, is that it's grainy, not continously-toned. Many artists love and use the grain, they work with it, not against it. This is why relatively grainy film, such as Ilford HP5 continues to be popular.
Doing a bit of trivial research, the popular votes in 2004 was won by 3,319,608 votes. At the end of 2002, the prison population was 1,440,655. The total inelligable felon population was 3,205,137, almost enought to swing to popular vote. The the prison/felon population is a large enough group to affect close elections. Although it wouldn't have swung the last one, if the felon population was just a little larger, or if the race had been a little closer, the felons could have swung it.
Re:Apple ... 20GB more, but no AC adapter, no FW?
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It does come with an AC adapter, but not with a Firewire cable or dock. I don't really need Firewire cable, USB works for me. And even though it does have an AC adapter, I don't know when I'll use it. I plan on charging through my USB port. It also doesn't include a dock, which is a bummer, but I'll get over it.
That sounds right. The on-hold dude sounded Irish. The girl I actually talked to didn't quite sound Irish though. I thought maybe Indian, with a British-influenced accent, but Irish works. Anyways, this is a very silly digression.
Apple is my new favorite company
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I finally got around to ordering my iPod, and I get this in my inbox:
Thank you for your recent iPod order.
Apple is pleased to inform you that we have reduced the price of your iPod!
Bwah? They changed the price of the iPod? But the 40 gig iPod cost $399. That's just how it is.
So I head over to store.apple.com. What else have they changed? iPod photo? 60gb?! Only $449! Sign me up!
So for only $50 more than I'd expected to pay, I get 20 extra GB, and a color screen.
Apple is my new favorite company.
Off topic, does anyone know where the Apple call center is? Cute accent...
> She's not being prosecuted for wiretapping, she's just not being allowed to use the evidence she gathered in court. Thre are many cases in which collecting data is legal, but the data is not usable in court.
I was going to point this out too, but didn't since it's not the case here:
"It is illegal and punishable as a crime under (state law) to intercept electronic communications," wrote Judge Donald Grincewicz on behalf of a three-judge panel.
> Unless the PC was his before the marraige, the whole PC is 'theirs' and she can install whatever she wants on it.
This is clearly not true, even if the computer was all hers. Their is clearly some software which it is illegal to install or use (e.g., commercial somftware that you don't have a license for, or software whose only purpose is illegal (not sure what would fall into that category). And even if it was legal for her to install the software, it would still be illegal to use it to break the law (a bittorrent client is clearly legal, using it to download a movie you don't own is not).
If people don't do what is right, then they are to blame, not their parents, not their teachers, not society. If we are to get anywhere as a species, everyone has to be held accountable and responsible for themselves.
If we want to hold children completely accountable for their actions, then we also have to afford them the privelages that come with accountability. We would have to abolish minimum age limits for everything, drinking, smoking, voting, the age of consent. It would make no sense to hold every to the same degree of accountability, but not allow them the same degree of privilege. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, just maybe something you hadn't thought about.
Although your post was informative an insteresting, it doesn't really address the grandparent's issue. Although the procedure you describe will certainly gaurd against tampering by the examiner, what's to stop the police from tampering with the files on the disc before handing it over to you? Or, as he mentioned, why couldn't they just insert files using their keylogging software (as the grandparent suggests). By the time you, the forensics expert got the disc, it would already have the files on it. Although your analysis would be correct, and agree with the second expert, evidence tampering clearly took place, and false evidence could be admitted.
This is the same as if a police officer planted marijuana at a crime scene. Although a forensics expert could tesity that is was real marijuana, and the expert did not tamper with it, it is still a plant (no pun intended).
Upgrading to 512 megabytes of RAM, you still come out ahead if you'rte willing to buy generic. And if you wanted to upgrade to 1 gigabyte (for which apple charges $425!) you can come in at more than $100 cheaper, buying name brand (stick of Crucial for $299). And if you do the upgrade yourself, you've got a shiny new 256 megabyte stick for free. Don't get my wrong, the Mac Mini is a great deal, but the OEM RAM isn't.
No, seriously. Imagine a cluster of the Mac Minis. They're tiny. They're stackable. All of the holes are conveniently to access. As you can see from the smarmy graphic on the design page, you can stack about 7 Mac Minis up in the space taken up by just one tower PC. These things are perfect for clustering. The only thing really holding you back in the 100 megabit ethernet (no gigabit, unfortunately), but it does have a firewire 400 port. Even with the slowish networking, these things would still be ideal for many clustering applications.
I did exactly what you're doing know. I went to Central Washington University, which isn't a well known school, and it's CS program is tiny and even less well known. Nevertheless, I got a great job not long out of college, largely due to my experience with hobbiest programming. At long as you're happy with the college you're going to, don't change schools just for a bigger name. I honestly don't think it matters much. I know it didn't for me.
Here is what I did: I created an online portfolio site that had several of the personal projects I'd created as well as the class projects I was proud of, as well as source code and documentation. I listed some of the projects in my resume. In my cover letter, I talked in depth about one of the projects in particular (my senior SE project), what I learned from it, and what skills I gained. In every job interview I had, I was always asked about at least one of the projects I had listed. Most employers seemed really impressed with the projects. I was rarely asked about the school I went to. I eventually recieved a couple of job offers, laregely on the basis of the projects I'd worked on in my spare time for fun, and took an offer with a great company that I love working for.
More important than your education is you're experience, skills, and enthusiasm. Since you're a college student, professional experience is hard to come by. Instead, get involved in your an open source project, or you're own projects (what I did). When doing class projects, really put a lot of effort into them. Put your personal and class projects on your resume. In my experience, if employers can see your code and see that you're enthusiastic for programming, they'll hire you, no matter where your degree comes from.
> XP differs from previous versions because it uses a 'shell' based gui (similar to KDE / GNOME, etc), which, while nice, is going to cause some system slowdown.
Windows has used the shell based system since the beginning. Bring up task manager, and kill the explorer.exe process. Your taskbar, etc. will go away. On some version of windows, it will be restarted automatically, on others you will have to have task manager restart explorer.exe.
Using alternate shells can be quite fast compared to explorer, usually at the expense of features.
Incidentally, one of my friends occassionally uses no shell at all, for the least possible ammount of overehad (usually when he's doing 3d design/rendering). You can get along fine with no shell, using task manager to start programs and alt-tab to switch.
> I mean, christ, the last rock opera I could find for purchase was from some nobodies in Germany who released it on some no-name label.
You are looking in the wrong places, appearantly. Take a look at American indepeendant music. Off the top of my head, Cursive's 'The Ugly Organ' is a rock opera about relationships and empty sex. Coheed & Cambria's first two albums are part of a sci-fi rock opera quadrilogy (two more are on their way). Deltron 3030 was a concept hip-hop (ok, so not rock opera) group about a hip-hop band in teh year 3030. Concept albums still exists. People bitching that modern music sucks are not looking hard enough.
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Could they have picked a gayer name?
No, they could not have. This name is more sexually attracted to other names of the same gender than any other name.
Pardon my ignorance, but in traditional journalism, is the confedentiality of a source legally protected if the source is demonstrably breaking the law?
As I understand it, Apple wanted the name of the source because whoever the source was, he or she was breaking trade secret or NDA laws. Would this (outlaw) source's confidentiality normally have been in another medium?
I agree, film grain is noisy, and your sugestion would help get rid of it. However, many photgraphers (and I would assume cinematographers, too) actually use film grain for artistic effect. That's part of the charm of B&W film, is that it's grainy, not continously-toned. Many artists love and use the grain, they work with it, not against it. This is why relatively grainy film, such as Ilford HP5 continues to be popular.
Doing a bit of trivial research, the popular votes in 2004 was won by 3,319,608 votes. At the end of 2002, the prison population was 1,440,655. The total inelligable felon population was 3,205,137, almost enought to swing to popular vote. The the prison/felon population is a large enough group to affect close elections. Although it wouldn't have swung the last one, if the felon population was just a little larger, or if the race had been a little closer, the felons could have swung it.
It does come with an AC adapter, but not with a Firewire cable or dock. I don't really need Firewire cable, USB works for me. And even though it does have an AC adapter, I don't know when I'll use it. I plan on charging through my USB port. It also doesn't include a dock, which is a bummer, but I'll get over it.
That sounds right. The on-hold dude sounded Irish. The girl I actually talked to didn't quite sound Irish though. I thought maybe Indian, with a British-influenced accent, but Irish works. Anyways, this is a very silly digression.
Bwah? They changed the price of the iPod? But the 40 gig iPod cost $399. That's just how it is.
So I head over to store.apple.com. What else have they changed? iPod photo? 60gb?! Only $449! Sign me up!
So for only $50 more than I'd expected to pay, I get 20 extra GB, and a color screen.
Apple is my new favorite company.
Off topic, does anyone know where the Apple call center is? Cute accent...
Wrong
> She's not being prosecuted for wiretapping, she's just not being allowed to use the evidence she gathered in court. Thre are many cases in which collecting data is legal, but the data is not usable in court.
I was going to point this out too, but didn't since it's not the case here:
> Unless the PC was his before the marraige, the whole PC is 'theirs' and she can install whatever she wants on it.
This is clearly not true, even if the computer was all hers. Their is clearly some software which it is illegal to install or use (e.g., commercial somftware that you don't have a license for, or software whose only purpose is illegal (not sure what would fall into that category). And even if it was legal for her to install the software, it would still be illegal to use it to break the law (a bittorrent client is clearly legal, using it to download a movie you don't own is not).
If we want to hold children completely accountable for their actions, then we also have to afford them the privelages that come with accountability. We would have to abolish minimum age limits for everything, drinking, smoking, voting, the age of consent. It would make no sense to hold every to the same degree of accountability, but not allow them the same degree of privilege. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, just maybe something you hadn't thought about.
This is a dupe of a dupe
Although your post was informative an insteresting, it doesn't really address the grandparent's issue. Although the procedure you describe will certainly gaurd against tampering by the examiner, what's to stop the police from tampering with the files on the disc before handing it over to you? Or, as he mentioned, why couldn't they just insert files using their keylogging software (as the grandparent suggests). By the time you, the forensics expert got the disc, it would already have the files on it. Although your analysis would be correct, and agree with the second expert, evidence tampering clearly took place, and false evidence could be admitted.
This is the same as if a police officer planted marijuana at a crime scene. Although a forensics expert could tesity that is was real marijuana, and the expert did not tamper with it, it is still a plant (no pun intended).
Upgrading to 512 megabytes of RAM, you still come out ahead if you'rte willing to buy generic. And if you wanted to upgrade to 1 gigabyte (for which apple charges $425!) you can come in at more than $100 cheaper, buying name brand (stick of Crucial for $299). And if you do the upgrade yourself, you've got a shiny new 256 megabyte stick for free. Don't get my wrong, the Mac Mini is a great deal, but the OEM RAM isn't.
Strong words for a man with four exlamation marks in a row, a three question marks.
No, seriously. Imagine a cluster of the Mac Minis. They're tiny. They're stackable. All of the holes are conveniently to access. As you can see from the smarmy graphic on the design page, you can stack about 7 Mac Minis up in the space taken up by just one tower PC. These things are perfect for clustering. The only thing really holding you back in the 100 megabit ethernet (no gigabit, unfortunately), but it does have a firewire 400 port. Even with the slowish networking, these things would still be ideal for many clustering applications.
I did exactly what you're doing know. I went to Central Washington University, which isn't a well known school, and it's CS program is tiny and even less well known. Nevertheless, I got a great job not long out of college, largely due to my experience with hobbiest programming. At long as you're happy with the college you're going to, don't change schools just for a bigger name. I honestly don't think it matters much. I know it didn't for me.
Here is what I did: I created an online portfolio site that had several of the personal projects I'd created as well as the class projects I was proud of, as well as source code and documentation. I listed some of the projects in my resume. In my cover letter, I talked in depth about one of the projects in particular (my senior SE project), what I learned from it, and what skills I gained. In every job interview I had, I was always asked about at least one of the projects I had listed. Most employers seemed really impressed with the projects. I was rarely asked about the school I went to. I eventually recieved a couple of job offers, laregely on the basis of the projects I'd worked on in my spare time for fun, and took an offer with a great company that I love working for.
More important than your education is you're experience, skills, and enthusiasm. Since you're a college student, professional experience is hard to come by. Instead, get involved in your an open source project, or you're own projects (what I did). When doing class projects, really put a lot of effort into them. Put your personal and class projects on your resume. In my experience, if employers can see your code and see that you're enthusiastic for programming, they'll hire you, no matter where your degree comes from.
Well, so far, and falling
Port security? I thought we already had that pretty much covered, what with port knocking, firewalls, and ssh tunnelling...
I just ran out, so you guys can stop the the emails. Good luck finding an invite from somewhere.
> Personally, I find Google's gmail notifier annoying since it sits in my taskbar and doesn't have popup notification
Lies. Gmail notifier has a popup notification, which includes the sender, subjet, and a snippet of the first sentance or so of the email.
> Forgive any ignorance I display here, as I'm not one of the fortunate few who has gmail (yet).
I have 6 invites I don't know what to do with. I'd be more than happy to invite you, if you want to post your email address (or drop me an email).
Err, off tpic, but whats the memory-lebensraum problem?
Holy crap. It's real.
> XP differs from previous versions because it uses a 'shell' based gui (similar to KDE / GNOME, etc), which, while nice, is going to cause some system slowdown.
Windows has used the shell based system since the beginning. Bring up task manager, and kill the explorer.exe process. Your taskbar, etc. will go away. On some version of windows, it will be restarted automatically, on others you will have to have task manager restart explorer.exe.
Using alternate shells can be quite fast compared to explorer, usually at the expense of features.
Incidentally, one of my friends occassionally uses no shell at all, for the least possible ammount of overehad (usually when he's doing 3d design/rendering). You can get along fine with no shell, using task manager to start programs and alt-tab to switch.
> I mean, christ, the last rock opera I could find for purchase was from some nobodies in Germany who released it on some no-name label.
You are looking in the wrong places, appearantly. Take a look at American indepeendant music. Off the top of my head, Cursive's 'The Ugly Organ' is a rock opera about relationships and empty sex. Coheed & Cambria's first two albums are part of a sci-fi rock opera quadrilogy (two more are on their way). Deltron 3030 was a concept hip-hop (ok, so not rock opera) group about a hip-hop band in teh year 3030. Concept albums still exists. People bitching that modern music sucks are not looking hard enough.