He'd have to do A LOT more - he'd have to marry his buddy first (which may mean lobbying his state to change the marriage laws), find a way to have kids together (which may mean a quick trip to an alternate universe where men can get pregnant), then divorce him, to provide a credible motive...
Also, he'd have to have had a history of violent behaviour, and be only days from being sanctioned by another judge for his behaviour in the divorce...
All things considered, the jury's verdict seems fairly reasonable. Hans' "explanations" were not.
Actually, it is. Something along the lines of "the defendant offered no explanation of..." Silence is also equated with "uncooperative."
You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Yo've been watching too much TV. The judge's charge to the jury in a murder trial is VERY explicit on this point - the defendant doesn't have to explain ANYTHING - the burden of proof lies entirely with the prosecution, and the jury is forbidden to interpret the defendants' refusal to testify as any sort of indication of guilt or innocence.
Did you see how he acted when the verdict was read? Didn't look like an innocent man to me. Seemed to just take it in his stride. I guess this'll be replied to with a string of "but he's not a normal guy!" posts, but even so... Surely, being faced with god knows how many years in prison, he'd look a little bit distressed? Mad.
... but now he figures he'll have more time to work on an even better file system...
... one that keeps files in something equivalent to a chroot *jail*...
... that *bars* all attempts to manipulate the data...
... that *kills off** processes that try to do an unauthorized *move*... to Russia or anywhere else...
... that doesn't just delete file pointers, but in an emergency hoses down the filesystem...
... that includes built-in obfuscation via the WeirdReiserPluggableEncryption module... with multiple "personalities"...
... that includes an incredibly opaque "random data generator"...
... that refuses to journal - THIS IS THE DATA - YOU MUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT !!!!...
.Warning : Only runs as a write-only filesystem. Any use can and will result in data corruption. Don't believe anyone who says it's really just a symlink to/dev/null - they're LYING!!!
Nobody "invented" pi. They just put a label on the concept, which has always been true, that there is a specific ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle.
Invention requires creativity. It also requires that what is described by the invention not already be pre-existing - or it wouldn't have required creativity to "create" it, now would it?
That something requires ingenuity (or even creativity) to discover is irrelevant to the core question as to whether a certain mathematical truth was discovered as opposed to created. If nobody had discovered the ratio we label "pi", it would still exist. Contrast this to, for example, a hard drive, which was created, not discovered.
What next - patenting "2-1=1" as an invention, as opposed to the discovery of a natural fact that every kid makes when they first learn to share?
Substitute "jokes" in place of "mathematics, and the question becomes both stupid AND enlightening.
"Are jokes discovered or invented?" Obviously, jokes are invented. Also almost as obvious, more than one person can invent the same joke at around the same time.
Just as obvious, nobody "invents" the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle - so this mathematical truth is discovered, not invented. It (pi) existed before anyone discovered it and named it.
Or to put it another way, truths are discovered, not invented (and that REALLY pisses off the politicians).
Another big difference - we've only had 2 bank failures in the last 80 years (they were small regional banks in the early 1980s) and none during the depression. The US is expecting a couple HUNDRED failures this year and next...
As I originally pointed out - How is recordng the public ip of an unsecured WAP going to help anyone find a stolen laptop? The thief will show that the lappy boots, and get their $50. There are no "warranties".
As for the buyer, 'Caveat emptor." They would probably wipe it down and install a cracked copy of an OS. It's not like copyright laws will stop them.
The ONLY solution for most people is to not let the laptop get stolen in the first place.
1. Don't carry it in a computer bag, or something that even LOOKS like a computer bag. Throw it in a briefcase, a backpack, a sports bag, heck, even a shopping bag;
2. Don't leave it hanging around where strangers are walking in and out;
3. Lock it in a desk drawer or filing cabinet if you have to leave it unattended. Just close the damn lid - it will either sleep or hibernate, depending on the settings; you don't need to take the time to log off or shut down, so you're more likely to actually DO IT;
4. Don't just ask someone to "keep an eye on it" for you, and leave it on your desk - if they agree to "keep an eye on it", dump it on THEIR desk; nobody has eyes in the back of their head - let them stick it in a drawer or something.
5. Take it with you, lock it in the trunk of your car, or throw it under the seat. Don't leave it in view. Do this before you leave, not at your destination. Didn't think of stowing it beforehand? Drive around the block, stow it, then drive back to the shopping center parking lot.
6. Don't count on any technical solution. They can all be bypassed, or if the thief doesn't want to take a chance, he'll just sell the battery pack, charger, screen, hard drive and ram. There are people who would like a spare battery, a second drive, etc. for 75% off, no questions asked.
They're thieves. If they're stealing laptops, why wouldn't they steal someone else's wireless connection - especially when they want to "demo" the hot laptop to a prospective buyer?
All you'll get is a local private address in the "C" space - 192.168.1.*, or 192.168.100.* by default. As for traceroute - instead of saking, why not try it?
and the packet will contain the WAN IP address where the laptop is connected. It works just fine from behind a router.
... which means squat with so many unsecured wireless routers around. Sure, I bought mine and secured it within minutes - but I know people who don't even know it's a problem - their WAP is wide open for everyone. Asking them to type in an ip address like "192.168.100.100" instead of a phrase in a search box is beyond them.
Or just buy a bigger laptop. The bigger it is, the harder it is to steal. A harder to steal a 17" laptop than it is to steal an Eee PC or an Apple Air.
The IP address won't work for most laptops, since they're probably connecting through a wireless router, and the router is issuing them a local ip address that has nothing to do with the external address.
You'd have to run traceroute, and have it give/email you the list of IPs.
Heck, wait 3 years and you'll be able to buy 500 gig usb keys for $100. You can buy an 8 gig kensington USB drive for $30 right now... they were $120 a year ago. If capacity continues to quadruple every year for the same price point, you're looking at 32 gig for $30 next year, or +/-$100 for 100 gig, 400 gig in 2 years, and a terabyte in 3-1/2. Of course, by then, you'll be able to buy 2TB hard drives for $50...
I live in Springfield Missouri, which is right in the middle of the bible belt. About a week and a half ago, our local sheriff (Jack Merritt) made the following statement in reference to somebody on American Idol signing the national anthem:
"The way I hear Jason sing the national anthem makes you want to go out and kill a communist."
And he said this to a local newspaper reporter. Now, terrible grammar aside, this is a horrible comment for a law enforcer to make, and it could certainly strike fear into local communists.
So, Jason's a commie who sung the anthem really bad, right?
Some of us actually tough it out in this racist province. In Quebec, you are NOT allowed to speak english in the work place and you are NOT allowed to write an email anything other than french either to your colleagues. I can't have an english keyboard either and it's very hard to find a job because my last name is not Dion or Desjardins or GrosPlat.
Me:
[X] Lives in Quebec (yes, I was born here)
[X] Speak english all day at work
[X] Emails - all in english (except some jokes passed on from my kids that are in french). Anyone can write to anyone in the language of their choice*
[X] English keyboard (though I set up the modmap under linux so I can have accented characters)
[X] Last name is 100% english
Yes, bill 101 is racist. Yes, that's why I ran a few protests publicly against it, and debated the french on TV and radio, always in french - what did YOU do about it?
If you can handle both languages, you shouldn't have too many problems. I'm just fed up with the never-ending winter. There's *still* snow in the back yard.
*NOTE: Telecommunications is strictly a federal matter - Quebec doesn't have jurisdiction over the phone, Tv, radio, the internet - not for the language of web sites, not for email or other comms, etc. - they always back down if you tell them to go fuck themselves, and telling the government to go fuck themselves is part of exercising your democratic rights.
First, the link you point do doesn't give a breakout of any dollar figures as to who pays what. The Dextre robot was made for NASA, but it was paid for by Canadian tax-payers.
It's the same as the sale of US ports to outsiders.
To US hating fucktards like the the post above
Second, by your logic, barring the sale of US ports to Arab interests makes the US "Arab-hating fucktards."
Of course, double standards apply, same as with all the crooked activity on Wall Street and the mortgage crisis - it's okay for 10 million Americans to commit mortgage fraud, for hundreds of billions of dollars, and then scream "I'm a victim - bail me out!", all the while endangering the world economy with toxic paper.
We have the right to block the sale. The US doesn't have the right to tell us otherwise. You'd think after Iraq, you'd learn to stop meddling in other country's domestic policies. That "mission accomplished" must taste pretty vile by now. And yes, we told you so about THAT as well.
The robot is a handy manipulator - "dextre" implies that. Look at the official name: "Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator". Do you really want to say you're using the SPuDMan?
On second thought, SPuDMan sounds cool, sort of like Mr. Potato-head. (or for former and future vice presidents, "potatoe-head").
You certainly want our oil and water badly enough.
... and if you had listened to us, you wouldn't be in the position you are now in Iraq. As our prime minister said "Real friends will tell friends things they don't want to hear."
So, still falling for that "mission accomplished" line like a good little prole?
... you still haven't explained how changing ownership will keep the Brampton office open.
With the high Canadian dollar, it's actually cheaper to hire people in the US (thanks to the housing crash, you can also buy a house in the US for less than Canada - one of my friends just bought a house in Florida for under $130k that was selling, 2 years ago, for $279k.).
Also, we don't generally go on wars of aggression, try to assasinate leaders of other countries, or otherwise act without cooperation from the rest of the world. There's a reason why terrorists haven't targetted Canada - Canadians are peacekeepers, and that's the role we want our military to take outside our own borders.
Why laying cables in this wireless age in the first place? Cables are expensive to roll out and very hard to upgrade, especially when you are talking about low-density rural areas.
Fibre isn't affected by rf interference, sunspots, etc.
Fibre supports much higher speeds, w/o the problems of one person hogging all the bandwidth on an available channel.
It's CHEAP!!! 12 strands @ $1.30/foot works out to 11 cents a foot/strand. Even if you only service 12 people with 1000' of the stuff, that works out to $130/person.
The directors are supposed to act in the best interests of ALL the shareholders, not just their buddies who stand to make money from all sorts of fees.
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He'd have to do A LOT more - he'd have to marry his buddy first (which may mean lobbying his state to change the marriage laws), find a way to have kids together (which may mean a quick trip to an alternate universe where men can get pregnant), then divorce him, to provide a credible motive ...
Also, he'd have to have had a history of violent behaviour, and be only days from being sanctioned by another judge for his behaviour in the divorce ...
All things considered, the jury's verdict seems fairly reasonable. Hans' "explanations" were not.
Yo've been watching too much TV. The judge's charge to the jury in a murder trial is VERY explicit on this point - the defendant doesn't have to explain ANYTHING - the burden of proof lies entirely with the prosecution, and the jury is forbidden to interpret the defendants' refusal to testify as any sort of indication of guilt or innocence.
And yes, I've sat as a juror on a murder trial. (the linked entry is for the 3rd murder trial I've been involved with)
Get ready for all the right-wingers crying about how gays are infiltrating corporate culture ... as opposed to the perma-brain-damaged.
Nobody "invented" pi. They just put a label on the concept, which has always been true, that there is a specific ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle.
Invention requires creativity. It also requires that what is described by the invention not already be pre-existing - or it wouldn't have required creativity to "create" it, now would it?
That something requires ingenuity (or even creativity) to discover is irrelevant to the core question as to whether a certain mathematical truth was discovered as opposed to created. If nobody had discovered the ratio we label "pi", it would still exist. Contrast this to, for example, a hard drive, which was created, not discovered.
What next - patenting "2-1=1" as an invention, as opposed to the discovery of a natural fact that every kid makes when they first learn to share?
Substitute "jokes" in place of "mathematics, and the question becomes both stupid AND enlightening.
"Are jokes discovered or invented?" Obviously, jokes are invented. Also almost as obvious, more than one person can invent the same joke at around the same time.
Just as obvious, nobody "invents" the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle - so this mathematical truth is discovered, not invented. It (pi) existed before anyone discovered it and named it.
Or to put it another way, truths are discovered, not invented (and that REALLY pisses off the politicians).
Another big difference - we've only had 2 bank failures in the last 80 years (they were small regional banks in the early 1980s) and none during the depression. The US is expecting a couple HUNDRED failures this year and next ...
Actually, their marketing is pretty shitty - otherwise you (and most anyone with a pulse) wouldn't notice that they have a crap product.
How about a big sticker saying "This laptop is Windows Vista Capable"? After all, everyone knows those laptops are pretty lame.
Or a sticker saying "linux inside"?
As I originally pointed out - How is recordng the public ip of an unsecured WAP going to help anyone find a stolen laptop? The thief will show that the lappy boots, and get their $50. There are no "warranties".
As for the buyer, 'Caveat emptor." They would probably wipe it down and install a cracked copy of an OS. It's not like copyright laws will stop them.
The ONLY solution for most people is to not let the laptop get stolen in the first place.
They're thieves. If they're stealing laptops, why wouldn't they steal someone else's wireless connection - especially when they want to "demo" the hot laptop to a prospective buyer?
All you'll get is a local private address in the "C" space - 192.168.1.*, or 192.168.100.* by default. As for traceroute - instead of saking, why not try it?
Get real.
Or just buy a bigger laptop. The bigger it is, the harder it is to steal. A harder to steal a 17" laptop than it is to steal an Eee PC or an Apple Air.
The IP address won't work for most laptops, since they're probably connecting through a wireless router, and the router is issuing them a local ip address that has nothing to do with the external address.
You'd have to run traceroute, and have it give/email you the list of IPs.
Heck, wait 3 years and you'll be able to buy 500 gig usb keys for $100. You can buy an 8 gig kensington USB drive for $30 right now ... they were $120 a year ago. If capacity continues to quadruple every year for the same price point, you're looking at 32 gig for $30 next year, or +/-$100 for 100 gig, 400 gig in 2 years, and a terabyte in 3-1/2. Of course, by then, you'll be able to buy 2TB hard drives for $50 ...
So, Jason's a commie who sung the anthem really bad, right?
It may have been some sort of archaism - who knows? This sounds like a mission for SPuDMan!!!!!!
You know, the more I think about it, the more I prefer SPudMan / Spudman to Dextre. Bet the astronauts would, too.
Me:
[X] Lives in Quebec (yes, I was born here)
[X] Speak english all day at work
[X] Emails - all in english (except some jokes passed on from my kids that are in french). Anyone can write to anyone in the language of their choice*
[X] English keyboard (though I set up the modmap under linux so I can have accented characters)
[X] Last name is 100% english
Yes, bill 101 is racist. Yes, that's why I ran a few protests publicly against it, and debated the french on TV and radio, always in french - what did YOU do about it?
If you can handle both languages, you shouldn't have too many problems. I'm just fed up with the never-ending winter. There's *still* snow in the back yard.
*NOTE: Telecommunications is strictly a federal matter - Quebec doesn't have jurisdiction over the phone, Tv, radio, the internet - not for the language of web sites, not for email or other comms, etc. - they always back down if you tell them to go fuck themselves, and telling the government to go fuck themselves is part of exercising your democratic rights.
First, the link you point do doesn't give a breakout of any dollar figures as to who pays what. The Dextre robot was made for NASA, but it was paid for by Canadian tax-payers.
Second, by your logic, barring the sale of US ports to Arab interests makes the US "Arab-hating fucktards."
Of course, double standards apply, same as with all the crooked activity on Wall Street and the mortgage crisis - it's okay for 10 million Americans to commit mortgage fraud, for hundreds of billions of dollars, and then scream "I'm a victim - bail me out!", all the while endangering the world economy with toxic paper.
We have the right to block the sale. The US doesn't have the right to tell us otherwise. You'd think after Iraq, you'd learn to stop meddling in other country's domestic policies. That "mission accomplished" must taste pretty vile by now. And yes, we told you so about THAT as well.
The robot is a handy manipulator - "dextre" implies that. Look at the official name: "Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator". Do you really want to say you're using the SPuDMan?
On second thought, SPuDMan sounds cool, sort of like Mr. Potato-head. (or for former and future vice presidents, "potatoe-head").
"Mission Control, SPuDMan is on the job!"
Canada doesn't matter?
You certainly want our oil and water badly enough.
So, still falling for that "mission accomplished" line like a good little prole?
With the high Canadian dollar, it's actually cheaper to hire people in the US (thanks to the housing crash, you can also buy a house in the US for less than Canada - one of my friends just bought a house in Florida for under $130k that was selling, 2 years ago, for $279k.).
Also, we don't generally go on wars of aggression, try to assasinate leaders of other countries, or otherwise act without cooperation from the rest of the world. There's a reason why terrorists haven't targetted Canada - Canadians are peacekeepers, and that's the role we want our military to take outside our own borders.
Fibre isn't affected by rf interference, sunspots, etc.
Fibre supports much higher speeds, w/o the problems of one person hogging all the bandwidth on an available channel.
It's now really easy to lay even in built-up areas
It's CHEAP!!! 12 strands @ $1.30 /foot works out to 11 cents a foot/strand. Even if you only service 12 people with 1000' of the stuff, that works out to $130/person.
The directors are supposed to act in the best interests of ALL the shareholders, not just their buddies who stand to make money from all sorts of fees.