It doesn't matter if there's evidence that the defendant is not guilty. In fact, they're probably inclined to ignore any they find.
Their job is to attempt to prove to a judge or jury that the evidence that the defendant is outweighs the evidence that he isn't. And, unfortunately, a lot of people don't have a problem with "those nasty criminals" being convicted on quetionably evidence.
Well, I hope he appeals. And gets access to his hard drive, so he can have his own experts analyze the data.
Like another poster said, you should be able to determine something from the timestamps on the files.
If the data's missing, or even more recently accessed than when he last had the machine, he could also go after the Justice Department for destroying evidence.
As an aside...I've got a friend who's on the sex offender registry here in Michigan. He'd been accused of sexually abusing the child of a woman he'd thrown out of his house. (He'd been telling her to get a job and find another place to live for months...finally, he just threw her out. She turned around and filed charges. No medical evidence was offered, but it was still a better deal for him to take a plea bargain.)
It ain't pretty, and I pitty anyone who's been put on there without having actually done the crime.
It could be a liability in other ways. What if the hiker dies, and the sensor failed because of something preventable like a dead battery?
There'd likely be no way to prove that the dead battery wasn't the reason rescue teams failed to reach the hiker.
On the other hand, a beacon with a rechargable battery and self-test system could be useful. Let the beacons recharge when you stack them on the base, and give off an alert if they're unable to charge the battery.
Place a soft insulator (e.g. plastic wrap) between the two sheets of squares
poll the pairs of wires for a change in capacitance
Voila!
You've got a pressure-sensitive touchpad that will register any number of identical presses on an XY grid.
Repeat the process with transparent conductors (e.g. saltwater) and you'll have a touchscreen you can see through.
Make it a little more advanced, and you can measure the distance between the conductors by sending a signal to only one of the two conductors in a cell. (for example, measure the current flow in an AC signal of sufficient voltage.)
If someone died because the tracking sensors were torn down, you could also be hit with manslaughter or criminal negligence. Assuming they figured out it was you.
Also, if it individually identified travelers, it could be used to befuddle investigation. Just swap beacons with some hiker you meet. Or drop the beacon and pick it up later.
If you (mentally) get lost in the scenery, are you going to remember to hit the button?
Chances are, if you asked for a beacon, you won't choose to not signal at one point in the path, but do signal at a later point.
However, if unique IDs are assigned to each sensor, a person seeking to hide his location could signal his beacon several points into the path, but not signal for the rest of the distance he travels.
Did that change with the advent of QuakeWorld? The network code is much better...even to the point of limiting bandwidth usage. (5KB/s, IIRC. It's been a while since I had the oppertunity to play.)
An interesting advantage to a biosphere on Mars is the presence of a great deal of CO2. You don't have to worry about striking a delicate balance to provide oxygen. As long as you provide an excess of plants, excess O2 can be stored or leaked into the atmosphere.
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It doesn't matter if there's evidence that the defendant is not guilty. In fact, they're probably inclined to ignore any they find.
Their job is to attempt to prove to a judge or jury that the evidence that the defendant is outweighs the evidence that he isn't. And, unfortunately, a lot of people don't have a problem with "those nasty criminals" being convicted on quetionably evidence.
Well, I hope he appeals. And gets access to his hard drive, so he can have his own experts analyze the data.
Like another poster said, you should be able to determine something from the timestamps on the files.
If the data's missing, or even more recently accessed than when he last had the machine, he could also go after the Justice Department for destroying evidence.
As an aside...I've got a friend who's on the sex offender registry here in Michigan. He'd been accused of sexually abusing the child of a woman he'd thrown out of his house. (He'd been telling her to get a job and find another place to live for months...finally, he just threw her out. She turned around and filed charges. No medical evidence was offered, but it was still a better deal for him to take a plea bargain.)
It ain't pretty, and I pitty anyone who's been put on there without having actually done the crime.
I didn't see throughput stats on the box. I don't know if it'd be all that useful for Google, if the box can't keep up with the load.
If you click on the link for the LaCie disk, you'll see, at the bottom of the page, that it won a 4.5 rating at Macworld in June, 2004.
Did I miss a month in there somewhere?
Uhm, that sounds backwards. Wouldn't wireless networking detract from battery life?
Trolling with an account in the 200-300k range? His comment history doesn't suggest that trolling is habitual for him.
Besides, his is a valid point of view, and he believes it. I'm just pointing out some of the problems that go along with it.
With mesh network routing, it could add a whole new meaning to passing notes in class.
Or, in a lecture hall.
It could be a liability in other ways. What if the hiker dies, and the sensor failed because of something preventable like a dead battery?
There'd likely be no way to prove that the dead battery wasn't the reason rescue teams failed to reach the hiker.
On the other hand, a beacon with a rechargable battery and self-test system could be useful. Let the beacons recharge when you stack them on the base, and give off an alert if they're unable to charge the battery.
Voila!
You've got a pressure-sensitive touchpad that will register any number of identical presses on an XY grid.
Repeat the process with transparent conductors (e.g. saltwater) and you'll have a touchscreen you can see through.
Make it a little more advanced, and you can measure the distance between the conductors by sending a signal to only one of the two conductors in a cell. (for example, measure the current flow in an AC signal of sufficient voltage.)
BTW...I claim this as prior art for patents.
Uh, make that at most a half-mile hike, assuming they know which way to go.
Your farthest distance will when you're exactly between(.5 miles from) two call boxes.
If someone died because the tracking sensors were torn down, you could also be hit with manslaughter or criminal negligence. Assuming they figured out it was you.
Also, if it individually identified travelers, it could be used to befuddle investigation. Just swap beacons with some hiker you meet. Or drop the beacon and pick it up later.
If you (mentally) get lost in the scenery, are you going to remember to hit the button?
Chances are, if you asked for a beacon, you won't choose to not signal at one point in the path, but do signal at a later point.
However, if unique IDs are assigned to each sensor, a person seeking to hide his location could signal his beacon several points into the path, but not signal for the rest of the distance he travels.
Naw...wireless is the best bet. Some idiot kid's going to find the IR beam and block it with a stick or rock.
Whoops. You're right. ECC isn't part of the ISO image, but part of the CD file format.
But that doesn't explain why I couldn't read the data off (though I could mount it) CD I accidentally burned with the Apple filesystem.
That clause isn't really enforcable. If they tried, it would give significant credibility to a competitor's product.
Compound that with it being an open-source project, and Microsoft won't touch it.
He doesn't make them, he reviews them. I'm no expert, but I'd guess he gives them a quick look over for obvious breakage and other no-nos.
What receptionist do you know that wouldn't ask for more money if they had to learn Linux in order to do her job?
A receptionist trying to hold his job in an extremely competitive job market? It's not unlikely.
Did that change with the advent of QuakeWorld? The network code is much better...even to the point of limiting bandwidth usage. (5KB/s, IIRC. It's been a while since I had the oppertunity to play.)
I wonder if NiN was the reason for the "nailgun" in Quake. People who knew of the band could hardly miss their logo on the ammo boxes.
And many of us who'd only heard of them because of the game saw it, too.
Just one of those things I wonder about.
There are ECC blocks in the filesystem, which help correct corrupt data. Including corruption that happened after the data was written.
Boy, I miss SimCity 2000.
One version would have this luscious female voice say "Reticulating Splines" whenever the game generated a new topology.
Anyone know if the Windows version works well under WINE?
What pesticide do you use? They keep popping up whenever my cousin comes over.
An interesting advantage to a biosphere on Mars is the presence of a great deal of CO2. You don't have to worry about striking a delicate balance to provide oxygen. As long as you provide an excess of plants, excess O2 can be stored or leaked into the atmosphere.
A sort of slow terraforming through pollution.
You know, I hope nobody ever tries a "one size fits all" approach with filesystems.
Some are good for a specific purpose, like ISO9660. It's got error correction in it, so it's good for write-once removable media.
Others are extremely widespread, like FAT. That's good for interoperability.
Others support advanced permissions like ACLs. That's good for system security.