Given that the plaintiffs had an alleged date of the 'crime,' you'd have to use a hard drive purchased before the date that you were served the summons, evidence request, or such. Furthermore, I presume the hard drive doctors working for the RIAA would be smart enough to look at the timestamp of the software install, etc etc. It'd be really fishy to see "old" files installed the day after you receive the request for evidence. Also, fudging your BIOS clock doesn't work either if you reformat and reinstall, with every file bearing the exact same time/date of creation and a 2-3 year gap between the installation's last accessed date and the current date.
I guess these file deleting utility programs aren't worth their weight in gym socks if the plaintiff experts could dredge up the presence of recently-deleted filesharing programs AND the username associated with their use. Might have been leftover registry entries or unique DLL files...
My guess is that your best solution is to change your username to something very, very common: anonymous. (Something like that.) And then you can just burn your mp3s to CD, flash drive, ANOTHER HARD DRIVE (and don't forget to delete the originals--the deleted data will get written over eventually, and you might be ok). Don't dl directly to the other hard drive unless you can get rid of the programs as well--I'm sure the registry entry that tells the P2P program will clue drive doctors in to asking for the other drive if you don't delete it. But they'll never know if you've burned CDs or copied to other drives AFAIK.
mod the parent to insightful, rather than funny. IBM better close up tight with its legal thinking; it's lucky 4 hrs is all SCO got. i'm sure the witness could also "no comment" or defer with some filibuster-type answer if the judge doesn't swallow an SCO pill and hold any non-immediate or non-relevant answer as contempt of court. (contempt of SCO, sure.) sure hope IBM's lawyers will be on hand to object at anything that constitutes brand-new discovery. if not, maybe they can give a legal crash course to the witness.
in addition, hiding the location of such a power plant would not be trivial. and, hey, there's a new power plant going up here rumored to be NSA's primary source of energy (or at least, primarily constructed to handle NSA's load on the power grid). what a tempting target that makes for every wanna-be mcveigh...bad situation.
(No way Matt Damon passes for that young. Can he pull off being from Iowa too?)
Starfleet Academy was modeled after the American military academies--kids fresh out of secondary education, 18 yrs of age or so. Remember that Wesley Crusher was supposed to have been a wunderkind, making it to the rank of ensign at 14 or whatever young age it was, ahead of his enrollment at the Academy.
Which means that I, having little or no emotions, and being around the age of an Academy midshipman, and being asian, should play Spock.
why don't we figure out a way to break the system? a jammer, or some clicker mutant that causes a buffer overflow somewhere in the software...=P just an engineering applications tangent...has nothing to do with the fact that i'm lookin for a cool wireless project for one of my senior classes...
it's great that industry, when faced with a lack of effort from the law and legislature, has the will and wherewithal to go after the scumbags. it's a great first step to show policymakers how much of a concern this is to internet security.
where are they going to fit a centrifuge in a vest? and how fast does the 'fuge have to spin in order to lower the pressure enough to release air? that's going to be like carrying a little gyroscope that doesn't want to move around with you while you're swimming.
so when they do drop it, the lightsaber can spin around and lop off the wielder's torso at the waist? remember, the blade weighs nothing and the center of mass is in the handle.
well aside from the aforementioned points of questionability raised about OTEC, i'd like to point out that even if you do grow crops more than three times quicker than normal, your limiting factor will be soil nutrition, which will mean either quick depletion of nutrients or massive importing of fertilizer. (unless you use all that rich dead stuff from the bottom of the ocean to fertilize, but you'll have to give it a while for bacteria to fix its nitrogen.)
in all seriousness, a cool way to get fresh water and possibly some electricity out of it, if the efficiency problems can be solved. fresh water is scarce enough of a resource as it is.
i wonder what the nuclear missle officers sitting in their silos were thinking when the lights flickered...
(yeah i know, probably no nuke launch sites near moscow. but still, for a system that operates on hair-trigger, you have to wonder about the mental stability of someone whose finger sits on a whole lot of hurt.)
i want to see people paying up the wazoo for this: collection agencies pounding down doors, spyware companies going belly up, class action suits, the like. hell, if they put filesharing on the same penalty level as involuntary manslaughter (because you know those two are equally evil in the eyes of MPAA/RIAA/congress), why don't they send spyware companies to bankruptcy?/annoyed
count me as another eagle scout disgusted by the commercialism of hollywood in violating the focus and spirit of the scouts. who the heck would want to earn this badge anyway (unless the requirements were supremely easy to pass)?
then again, perhaps the scouts earning the badge wouldn't necessarily become mouthpieces of the industry.
the rush of winning a bid has caused me to impulsively bid higher in the past, for things that i didn't especially need but that i had been outbid on. i wouldn't really call ebay activities shopping. shopping usually implies a need, and online shoppers usually have the savvy and the will to compare prices online, etc.
the time lag difference between shopping and buying can also be attributed to the comfort of the home--you're not standing in the store ready to make a decision; you have time to think about whether you need it, or whether the lower price on another site is worth the name-brand tradeoff, and so on. it's a good thing for consumers to really consider whether things are worth buying.
cross-border traffic in pirated hardcopies of dvds, pr0n, music, and games increases a hundredfold after downloading in canada is stifled by a 25% downloading tariff.
they don't know how the gene works, they've only killed off in vitro cells, and they haven't tested it in the context of cancer cells surrounding normal cells. how can this be selective? for all we know, the mechanism could accelerate the removal of telomeres in normal cells. really, what does "selectively" mean here, besides that they selected only cancer cells to test the gene on?
afaik, telomerase breaks down telomeres, no matter what kind of cell you have. most cancer cells inhibit telomerase to allow survival, so you'd have to inhibit the telomerase inhibitor.
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Given that the plaintiffs had an alleged date of the 'crime,' you'd have to use a hard drive purchased before the date that you were served the summons, evidence request, or such. Furthermore, I presume the hard drive doctors working for the RIAA would be smart enough to look at the timestamp of the software install, etc etc. It'd be really fishy to see "old" files installed the day after you receive the request for evidence. Also, fudging your BIOS clock doesn't work either if you reformat and reinstall, with every file bearing the exact same time/date of creation and a 2-3 year gap between the installation's last accessed date and the current date.
I guess these file deleting utility programs aren't worth their weight in gym socks if the plaintiff experts could dredge up the presence of recently-deleted filesharing programs AND the username associated with their use. Might have been leftover registry entries or unique DLL files...
My guess is that your best solution is to change your username to something very, very common: anonymous. (Something like that.) And then you can just burn your mp3s to CD, flash drive, ANOTHER HARD DRIVE (and don't forget to delete the originals--the deleted data will get written over eventually, and you might be ok). Don't dl directly to the other hard drive unless you can get rid of the programs as well--I'm sure the registry entry that tells the P2P program will clue drive doctors in to asking for the other drive if you don't delete it. But they'll never know if you've burned CDs or copied to other drives AFAIK.
mod the parent to insightful, rather than funny. IBM better close up tight with its legal thinking; it's lucky 4 hrs is all SCO got. i'm sure the witness could also "no comment" or defer with some filibuster-type answer if the judge doesn't swallow an SCO pill and hold any non-immediate or non-relevant answer as contempt of court. (contempt of SCO, sure.) sure hope IBM's lawyers will be on hand to object at anything that constitutes brand-new discovery. if not, maybe they can give a legal crash course to the witness.
in addition, hiding the location of such a power plant would not be trivial. and, hey, there's a new power plant going up here rumored to be NSA's primary source of energy (or at least, primarily constructed to handle NSA's load on the power grid). what a tempting target that makes for every wanna-be mcveigh...bad situation.
(No way Matt Damon passes for that young. Can he pull off being from Iowa too?)
Starfleet Academy was modeled after the American military academies--kids fresh out of secondary education, 18 yrs of age or so. Remember that Wesley Crusher was supposed to have been a wunderkind, making it to the rank of ensign at 14 or whatever young age it was, ahead of his enrollment at the Academy.
Which means that I, having little or no emotions, and being around the age of an Academy midshipman, and being asian, should play Spock.
ahahahaha...
why don't we figure out a way to break the system? a jammer, or some clicker mutant that causes a buffer overflow somewhere in the software...=P just an engineering applications tangent...has nothing to do with the fact that i'm lookin for a cool wireless project for one of my senior classes...
it's great that industry, when faced with a lack of effort from the law and legislature, has the will and wherewithal to go after the scumbags. it's a great first step to show policymakers how much of a concern this is to internet security.
where are they going to fit a centrifuge in a vest? and how fast does the 'fuge have to spin in order to lower the pressure enough to release air? that's going to be like carrying a little gyroscope that doesn't want to move around with you while you're swimming.
so when they do drop it, the lightsaber can spin around and lop off the wielder's torso at the waist? remember, the blade weighs nothing and the center of mass is in the handle.
well aside from the aforementioned points of questionability raised about OTEC, i'd like to point out that even if you do grow crops more than three times quicker than normal, your limiting factor will be soil nutrition, which will mean either quick depletion of nutrients or massive importing of fertilizer. (unless you use all that rich dead stuff from the bottom of the ocean to fertilize, but you'll have to give it a while for bacteria to fix its nitrogen.)
in all seriousness, a cool way to get fresh water and possibly some electricity out of it, if the efficiency problems can be solved. fresh water is scarce enough of a resource as it is.
i wonder what the nuclear missle officers sitting in their silos were thinking when the lights flickered...
(yeah i know, probably no nuke launch sites near moscow. but still, for a system that operates on hair-trigger, you have to wonder about the mental stability of someone whose finger sits on a whole lot of hurt.)
or dentures, at least, for this bill?
/annoyed
i want to see people paying up the wazoo for this: collection agencies pounding down doors, spyware companies going belly up, class action suits, the like. hell, if they put filesharing on the same penalty level as involuntary manslaughter (because you know those two are equally evil in the eyes of MPAA/RIAA/congress), why don't they send spyware companies to bankruptcy?
it's a boy!...wait...we need to check again. we'll get back to you in 50,000 years.
1. design faraday cage for setup and use in dorm room.
2. promote use of wireless broadband on campus and proliferation of high frequency devices/base stations.
3. profit!
count me as another eagle scout disgusted by the commercialism of hollywood in violating the focus and spirit of the scouts. who the heck would want to earn this badge anyway (unless the requirements were supremely easy to pass)?
then again, perhaps the scouts earning the badge wouldn't necessarily become mouthpieces of the industry.
is that how you really spell balk ("baulk") down under?
the rush of winning a bid has caused me to impulsively bid higher in the past, for things that i didn't especially need but that i had been outbid on. i wouldn't really call ebay activities shopping. shopping usually implies a need, and online shoppers usually have the savvy and the will to compare prices online, etc.
the time lag difference between shopping and buying can also be attributed to the comfort of the home--you're not standing in the store ready to make a decision; you have time to think about whether you need it, or whether the lower price on another site is worth the name-brand tradeoff, and so on. it's a good thing for consumers to really consider whether things are worth buying.
several dead tauntauns were found in the desert of tatooine, having been beaten to a pulp after dying of starvation.
:p)
(does it translate?
cross-border traffic in pirated hardcopies of dvds, pr0n, music, and games increases a hundredfold after downloading in canada is stifled by a 25% downloading tariff.
i apologize! i will double check myself in the future.
they don't know how the gene works, they've only killed off in vitro cells, and they haven't tested it in the context of cancer cells surrounding normal cells. how can this be selective? for all we know, the mechanism could accelerate the removal of telomeres in normal cells. really, what does "selectively" mean here, besides that they selected only cancer cells to test the gene on?
afaik, telomerase breaks down telomeres, no matter what kind of cell you have. most cancer cells inhibit telomerase to allow survival, so you'd have to inhibit the telomerase inhibitor.
it's been slashdotted and taken off (404 now)...anyone got a mirror?
kate beckinsale!
you mean the one that says piracy is illegal and scans your hard drive for material? me too!
that's only a speed indicator if your system is moving away from you (i.e. doppler redshift). i say blue screens go violet with increased speed =P
one animal was hurt in the telling of this story. (don't tell PETA)