Both your examples are unlikely. And, I'll note, not listed in Dr. Kim's report. (You did read the report, right?)
In this case, the RIAA expert didn't even admit the possibility of likely things.
For example, until I locked it down, neighbors on both sides of my place were stealing bandwidth off the wireless router where I rent. If they were downloading music, we'd be the ones hit, because it would be our router that would be showing up in ISP records / on Kazaa. (A similar example appeared in Dr. Kim's report. You did read the report, right?)
The RIAA "expert" seemed to think that because the (non-timestamped) traceroute went to Thomas's computer, that it -always- went there. This isn't automatically the case. IP/MAC spoofing or other attacks (as appeared in Dr. Kim's report. You did read the report, right?) can easily obfuscate the issue.
The RIAA's expert also said that the presence of MP3s showed that Thomas downloaded them from the internet, again, ignoring the extremely likely possibility that Thomas ripped them from CD (which, I will note is both extremely easy, and mentioned in Dr. Kim's report. You did read the report, right?).
The problem with the RIAA expert is that he neglected to list other possibilities. Would he have needed to list the extremely unlikely ones? No.
But he did need to address likely alternative explanations. And when you add his extremely bad analogies, and apparent lack of understanding of NAT (to be 'fair', he could actually understand NAT, but ignored it because it would weaken his report, but that's being a bad expert), his report deserved to be torn apart by Dr. Kim. (You did read the report, right?)
Comp Sci 101 (computer use for non CompSci majors - they used Macs). My buddy taught three sections of the lab for the class and he had some stories.
--The woman who moved the mouse to the floor, to use it as a foot pedal, because that's how her sewing machine worked.
--The man who put a penny per lab period into the computer. One week, it finally shorted out.
--The people who put the labels on their floppy disks *over* the metal gate.
--The man who inserted the floppy into the drive backwards / upside down. No, they don't normally fit, but he pushed until it went in.
(The latter two there caused the prof for the class to make new slides explaining how to label and insert a floppy.)
Jump to my first job:
--Co-workers coming back from Christmas break to discover their computers don't work, calling me over to troubleshoot, to discover they'd kicked out the power cord like they did every week for a year before Christmas break. I guess they thought that Santa would make the plug tighter while they were gone.
--Another co-worker complaining his computer wouldn't work (same day). I tell him to plug it in. He says it is. I go over and look; it's plugged in. The power light is on, but the hard drive light isn't. I crack the case to discover that over the break, someone had stolen his processor, memory and hard drive. (Not really a bad user story, but still...)
--Client panicing because their print isn't coming out (which was actually really important). We do 10 man-hours of investigation, and then they call back to say that their printer wasn't turned on.
--Same client, next day, same complaint. We verify that the printer is on, and start the investigation. 4 man-hours later, they call back and say that they had a paper jam.
Current job:
--I have one co-worker whom I have to explain, on the order of once a week, how you map to a shared drive. She writes it down *every time* and still has to have me help her the next week. Each time, she claims she's done what she wrote down, and it doesn't work. I do the exact same thing, and it does work.
--Several coworkers who ask "what should I get as a new computer"; I ask what they're going to do with it, and set them up with a decent baseline for their money. They then think this entitles them to free tech support for the next 6-9 months as they have issues like "Word stopped working" (Yes, that would be the trial version the computer came with. It said it would stop working. Didn't you see that notice?)
I'd go into more details, but I have to go home to change, because nobody every vaccuumed under the raised floor in our computer center after doing all the drilling for the posts.
It was not a parody of a specific song, but rather a style (Devo and similar acts).
As such, who would he ask?
And why would he ask Ivan Stang for permission to use that Bob? Stang didn't invent that image; IIRC it was a printer test pattern originally. That Stang built something around it doesn't make it exclusively his.
I was just amused by the fact that HP apparently waiting until -after- several thousand computers, made by a competitor, had been rolled out, before finishing the deal.
If this had happened last year, I'd most likely have a different computer on my desk now.
It's very likely that Wallace didn't show up (or send a lawyer) because there would be a number of process servers there (and/or other legal-types) waiting to serve him as the target of far more lawsuits.
Better for him, even at $230 million, to avoid the show.
You hear of a system/company that does good work (cost aside, Alienware does go good work), and an individual is more likely to go with them, than someone they've heard little about. That's why advertising agencies get the big bucks; to get the names out there and recognized.
I don't know that I agree with "Yahoo does not support DKIM."
See, I get DKIM verified e-mail, DKIM-less e-mail, and e-mail with DKIM fucked up. (The headers say domainkeys=fail (bad syntax).)
The DKIM verified e-mail comes through very quickly. Nothing is delayed (beyond normal e-mail delays); nothing is lost.
Same with the DKIM-less e-mail. It comes through fine.
However, the DKIM failing e-mail sometimes shows up quickly, but more often is delayed by 3-5 days.
Since 90-95% of that comes from one server that I am actually associated with, I'm currently beating their tech guys over the head with a bat that has "FIX IT!" carved into it. (It's a Mac server. They enjoy this sort of abuse.)
Me to have a QWERTY keyboard without having a camera (no camera phones at my job), then I'll buy one. As would a lot of my co-workers, since they aren't springing for us to all buy Blackberries.
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That nobody has mentioned Guitar Rising yet or Little Big Star yet.
Both your examples are unlikely. And, I'll note, not listed in Dr. Kim's report. (You did read the report, right?)
In this case, the RIAA expert didn't even admit the possibility of likely things.
For example, until I locked it down, neighbors on both sides of my place were stealing bandwidth off the wireless router where I rent. If they were downloading music, we'd be the ones hit, because it would be our router that would be showing up in ISP records / on Kazaa. (A similar example appeared in Dr. Kim's report. You did read the report, right?)
The RIAA "expert" seemed to think that because the (non-timestamped) traceroute went to Thomas's computer, that it -always- went there. This isn't automatically the case. IP/MAC spoofing or other attacks (as appeared in Dr. Kim's report. You did read the report, right?) can easily obfuscate the issue.
The RIAA's expert also said that the presence of MP3s showed that Thomas downloaded them from the internet, again, ignoring the extremely likely possibility that Thomas ripped them from CD (which, I will note is both extremely easy, and mentioned in Dr. Kim's report. You did read the report, right?).
The problem with the RIAA expert is that he neglected to list other possibilities. Would he have needed to list the extremely unlikely ones? No.
But he did need to address likely alternative explanations. And when you add his extremely bad analogies, and apparent lack of understanding of NAT (to be 'fair', he could actually understand NAT, but ignored it because it would weaken his report, but that's being a bad expert), his report deserved to be torn apart by Dr. Kim. (You did read the report, right?)
If you'd like to have a great editor with a great conflict of interest, then yes, he should be an editor.
Wasn't that Jon Katz?
Oh wait... you said "great".
Never mind.
Because the wheels of a bureaucracy grind slow, and exceedingly dumb.
He didn't say friends. He said family.
There is an important difference.
It was actually "fine Corinthian leather".
It's just often misquoted as "rich".
Aren't the songs EMI / Capitol's to do with as they wish?
Including give them away, by whatever methods they choose?
Obviously, I'm missing a legal facet here; what is it?
These start from when I was at university:
Comp Sci 101 (computer use for non CompSci majors - they used Macs). My buddy taught three sections of the lab for the class and he had some stories.
--The woman who moved the mouse to the floor, to use it as a foot pedal, because that's how her sewing machine worked.
--The man who put a penny per lab period into the computer. One week, it finally shorted out.
--The people who put the labels on their floppy disks *over* the metal gate.
--The man who inserted the floppy into the drive backwards / upside down. No, they don't normally fit, but he pushed until it went in.
(The latter two there caused the prof for the class to make new slides explaining how to label and insert a floppy.)
Jump to my first job:
--Co-workers coming back from Christmas break to discover their computers don't work, calling me over to troubleshoot, to discover they'd kicked out the power cord like they did every week for a year before Christmas break. I guess they thought that Santa would make the plug tighter while they were gone.
--Another co-worker complaining his computer wouldn't work (same day). I tell him to plug it in. He says it is. I go over and look; it's plugged in. The power light is on, but the hard drive light isn't. I crack the case to discover that over the break, someone had stolen his processor, memory and hard drive. (Not really a bad user story, but still...)
--Client panicing because their print isn't coming out (which was actually really important). We do 10 man-hours of investigation, and then they call back to say that their printer wasn't turned on.
--Same client, next day, same complaint. We verify that the printer is on, and start the investigation. 4 man-hours later, they call back and say that they had a paper jam.
Current job:
--I have one co-worker whom I have to explain, on the order of once a week, how you map to a shared drive. She writes it down *every time* and still has to have me help her the next week. Each time, she claims she's done what she wrote down, and it doesn't work. I do the exact same thing, and it does work.
--Several coworkers who ask "what should I get as a new computer"; I ask what they're going to do with it, and set them up with a decent baseline for their money. They then think this entitles them to free tech support for the next 6-9 months as they have issues like "Word stopped working" (Yes, that would be the trial version the computer came with. It said it would stop working. Didn't you see that notice?)
I'd go into more details, but I have to go home to change, because nobody every vaccuumed under the raised floor in our computer center after doing all the drilling for the posts.
Well, yes... But to be fair, nobody wants to look like Jeremy Clarkson, not even Jeremy Clarkson.
Except Scientology says that they are a religion.
They can't have it both ways.
Not quite.
Everquest has 100% less flying penises.
"Dare to be Stupid" was a style parody.
It was not a parody of a specific song, but rather a style (Devo and similar acts).
As such, who would he ask?
And why would he ask Ivan Stang for permission to use that Bob? Stang didn't invent that image; IIRC it was a printer test pattern originally. That Stang built something around it doesn't make it exclusively his.
Never said that they were.
I was just amused by the fact that HP apparently waiting until -after- several thousand computers, made by a competitor, had been rolled out, before finishing the deal.
If this had happened last year, I'd most likely have a different computer on my desk now.
It's very likely that Wallace didn't show up (or send a lawyer) because there would be a number of process servers there (and/or other legal-types) waiting to serve him as the target of far more lawsuits.
Better for him, even at $230 million, to avoid the show.
Seeing as one contract of EDS's, NMCI, just finished (or is real damn close to finishing) a tech refresh of the computers they provide.
We all got new Dells.
Yep.
But that's how "brand awareness" works.
You hear of a system/company that does good work (cost aside, Alienware does go good work), and an individual is more likely to go with them, than someone they've heard little about. That's why advertising agencies get the big bucks; to get the names out there and recognized.
Not really.
The Dell brand is primarily going to be 'standard' home user and the corporate market. There's not a huge amount of customization needed there.
For the gamer who wants to customize a system, but not build it from scratch, there's the Dell subsidiary Alienware.
You had Coach Walsh for gym, right? :)
It'd be kind of nice if instead of the usual "Republicans are evil" flamefest...
I'd say, "You're new here, aren't you?" but your slashdot ID is 100k lower than mine.
Actually, it sort of is.
It's news because it's a known issue with Time Machine that now a high profile user is raising. And it's now something that might get fixed.
Whether you like Rush or hate him (I find him amusing), I'm actually quite interested that he not only uses Macs, but has a network of them.
Of course, there will be the standard set of "evil people use Macs?" If someone actually says it in a new way, I may find that entertaining as well.
I don't know that I agree with "Yahoo does not support DKIM."
See, I get DKIM verified e-mail, DKIM-less e-mail, and e-mail with DKIM fucked up. (The headers say domainkeys=fail (bad syntax).)
The DKIM verified e-mail comes through very quickly. Nothing is delayed (beyond normal e-mail delays); nothing is lost.
Same with the DKIM-less e-mail. It comes through fine.
However, the DKIM failing e-mail sometimes shows up quickly, but more often is delayed by 3-5 days.
Since 90-95% of that comes from one server that I am actually associated with, I'm currently beating their tech guys over the head with a bat that has "FIX IT!" carved into it. (It's a Mac server. They enjoy this sort of abuse.)
What, not even Soundwave?
Me to have a QWERTY keyboard without having a camera (no camera phones at my job), then I'll buy one. As would a lot of my co-workers, since they aren't springing for us to all buy Blackberries.
But wouldn't the judge not reading the request be grounds for appeal?
Just so you know, at least one of the so-called "animal rights" groups is labeled as a terrorist organization.
The Animal Liberation Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_Front) was labeled a terrorist organization in 2005.