No, I actually *am* British, so I can't register even if I want to. I'm eligible to apply for citizenship, but the way things are going right now, it may not be worth it. I'll re-think after the elections...
I don't get many political calls anymore. They give up fairly quickly when they hear me say, "Actually, I'm not a citizen, so I can't vote" in my best British accent...
Civil case or not, the fact remains that a good proportion of people, when faced with a "send us this thing that will incriminate you" demand, will take steps to make that thing disappear. I'm not saying she was right - I think she was really stupid - but that's got to be the #1 reaction of any normal person: "how can I minimise my liability?" If the demand isn't immediately followed up by confiscation of the evidence, stuff will go missing.
I'm still wondering why the subpoena wasn't delivered by a big hairy cop who immediately took the PC away. Seriously, the court effectively just sent a note saying "please send us your computer"?? That's practically *begging* for evidence tampering...
However, under no circumstance should the destruction of evidence be taken as evidence of guilt for the original case. The accuser in that case should not benefit from the defender having committed another crime. It's still up to the *IAA to prove their claim, and absence of evidence must never be allowed to be treated as negative evidence.
My feelings exactly. I mean, as from this case, it is clearly in the RIAA's interest to break into an alledged filesharer's house and wipe some files. With a possible $30M award, they could easily employ a couple of ex NSA/FBI/CIA folks to do the deed. In fact, with Windows PCs it's entirely possible they could do it without even breaking into the house...
Wireless is only practical in large cities with high population density.
Not strictly true. I live on the edge of a good-sized city, and have a choice between cable internet and DSL. I have some acreage about 7 miles east, and all around are lots that are 5, 10 & 20 acres, with single family homes. Low density compared to the city. There's no cable service at all, just phone, power, rural water and everyone has septic tanks for sewage. About 8 miles away, cross-country to a different city, there's a wireless ISP providing service to a house on the edge of my acreage. If I build out there, I'll probably need to put in a tower, as the field is on the wrong side of a hill, but it would be worth it to get away from dialup.
Let's say that a cable provider did put out a high-speed network like that: they started offering 10MB/s service or something. They'd have to recoup the cost of their infrastructure rollout somehow, so the new HS service would have to cost more than existing service.
Around here, Cox Cable are doing exactly that. You can get 9Mb/s, but only if you also sign up for their Internet Phone service. Some people will go "Oh wow, 9Mb!!" and others will go "Oh wow, Internet Phone!!"
Just wait a while on that. I wouldn't be too surprised to find IBM had planned this ambush so that SCO could grab themselves another mile of rope to hang themselves by. Legal?? Probably. Ethical?? Probably not. Has SCO yet again shown themselves to be then scum of the earth?? Absolutely.
I mean, for all that SCO must have gone through to get this, they only get 4 hours?? About the best they can hope for is to read off a list of questions and get the answers from the transcript. They'll run out of time if they try to make stuff up as they go.
I'd imagine there are rules about what a soldier takes out on patrol, but certainly commonsense would dictate leaving the "toys" back at the camp. There are more important things to carry, such as water, rations and ammunition.
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But the military wisely realises that without *someone* to fund the terrorists, they'd run out of people to fight...:)
If Sony actually got the ball rolling, so every file you ever shared is for ever marked as downloaded from you, the RIAA would probably be in so much joy that they'd ejaculate in their pants.
The problem with that is, if Sony actually *get* the patent, the various P2P authors would with have to license it, or violate the patent to use it. So, the question remains, why on earth would any P2P author even consider implementing something a blatantly stupid as a tracking mechanism??
Who knew there was enough power running through a phone line to give you a shock...
Supposedly, there's enough power to kill you, if it gets you just right. So, don't use a corded phone while in the bath. Of course, that might just be advertising spin from the cordless phone manufacturers...:)
OK, I think you've given adequate proof that the judge has the ability to enforce her decision. The next question is, how does she find out that secret, warrantless wiretaps are still taking place, in order to take action??
What I was a bit surprised to read in this ruling was that the judge said the President of the United States had willfully and knowingly broken the Fourth Amendment.
You may be interested in this impeachment story. The author was on the Committee to impeach President Nixon, so her opinion ought to be worth something...
Are the users allowed to use things like USB keys to store files?? How would your system stop a clueful user from booting a Linux kernel using loadlin.exe??
Granted it may not get them anywhere if the outside world is firewalled off, I'm just curious to know if that would work. Loadlin.exe doesn't need to be installed, it's just an executable binary that you can run right off a CD image or USB key.
asked about genearl sorts and only knew quicksort and bubblesort, but could not explain quicksort.
Hey, I couldn't explain quicksort either, and I have over 25 years experience in programming and system administration. Any time I need to sort something, piping through 'sort' usually works just fine, and I don't really need to know how it works...
It's not just a question of not being lazy about security practices and updates. You have to ask, where are these "best security practices" coming from?? Who defined them?? I'd guess a fair proportion of ours were worked out back in the stone-age, by people that really had no business making the policies. E.g. just a few years ago, an audit by our insurance company showed that "too many people have access to the machine room". So the operations folks were moved out to another building, the Unix (and other) sysadmins were outright barred from the raised floor and now only the low-dollar tape monkeys are free to roam among the equipment racks... From the insurance company's point of view, that makes perfect sense, because there are now fewer people that might throw Coke into a cpu, or trip over a power cord, but when shit breaks it takes at least an extra 5 minutes to get Ops staff into the room. When you count downtime in minutes, that really bites... I think the contract janitorial staff probably have more access than the Ops folks.
The password policy is insane too - change every 30 days, except on some systems where fo no apparent reason it's 45 days, not too many vowels or chars repeated from the previous 8 passwords, etc. I have over 2000 machines to change my password on - if I had to do it by hand, assuming 1 minute per login-and-change, that's almost a whole 40-hour week... Unfortunately they did away with the admin-overhead project code, or I'd start charging password change week to it and see who squeals.
If your wireless network is unsecured, permission to use it is implied
Not necessarily - in my case, the AP is far enough from the edge of my property that you'd have to trespass to use it. Then you get to play paintball roulette - I load the hopper with regular paintballs, plus a handfull from the freezer...
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No, I actually *am* British, so I can't register even if I want to. I'm eligible to apply for citizenship, but the way things are going right now, it may not be worth it. I'll re-think after the elections...
Now *there's* a message that needs to be painted on a lot of walls around the White House...
How well does an unlisted number work when the robo-dialler is trying all the numbers in a range??
I don't get many political calls anymore. They give up fairly quickly when they hear me say, "Actually, I'm not a citizen, so I can't vote" in my best British accent...
Second that! The person(s) stealing lunches are the ones who clearly have no clue about getting on with other people.
Civil case or not, the fact remains that a good proportion of people, when faced with a "send us this thing that will incriminate you" demand, will take steps to make that thing disappear. I'm not saying she was right - I think she was really stupid - but that's got to be the #1 reaction of any normal person: "how can I minimise my liability?" If the demand isn't immediately followed up by confiscation of the evidence, stuff will go missing.
I'm still wondering why the subpoena wasn't delivered by a big hairy cop who immediately took the PC away. Seriously, the court effectively just sent a note saying "please send us your computer"?? That's practically *begging* for evidence tampering...
My feelings exactly. I mean, as from this case, it is clearly in the RIAA's interest to break into an alledged filesharer's house and wipe some files. With a possible $30M award, they could easily employ a couple of ex NSA/FBI/CIA folks to do the deed. In fact, with Windows PCs it's entirely possible they could do it without even breaking into the house...
Not strictly true. I live on the edge of a good-sized city, and have a choice between cable internet and DSL. I have some acreage about 7 miles east, and all around are lots that are 5, 10 & 20 acres, with single family homes. Low density compared to the city. There's no cable service at all, just phone, power, rural water and everyone has septic tanks for sewage. About 8 miles away, cross-country to a different city, there's a wireless ISP providing service to a house on the edge of my acreage. If I build out there, I'll probably need to put in a tower, as the field is on the wrong side of a hill, but it would be worth it to get away from dialup.
Around here, Cox Cable are doing exactly that. You can get 9Mb/s, but only if you also sign up for their Internet Phone service. Some people will go "Oh wow, 9Mb!!" and others will go "Oh wow, Internet Phone!!"
I mean, for all that SCO must have gone through to get this, they only get 4 hours ?? About the best they can hope for is to read off a list of questions and get the answers from the transcript. They'll run out of time if they try to make stuff up as they go.
I'd imagine there are rules about what a soldier takes out on patrol, but certainly commonsense would dictate leaving the "toys" back at the camp. There are more important things to carry, such as water, rations and ammunition.
But the military wisely realises that without *someone* to fund the terrorists, they'd run out of people to fight... :)
Supposedly, there's enough power to kill you, if it gets you just right. So, don't use a corded phone while in the bath. Of course, that might just be advertising spin from the cordless phone manufacturers... :)
OK, I think you've given adequate proof that the judge has the ability to enforce her decision. The next question is, how does she find out that secret, warrantless wiretaps are still taking place, in order to take action??
You may be interested in this impeachment story. The author was on the Committee to impeach President Nixon, so her opinion ought to be worth something...
Yes, what Americans call football is actually more like rugby, which as everyone knows, is a game played by gentlemen with odd shaped balls...
How about a shipful of advertizing executives, telephone sanitizers, etc?? Get rid of some of the truly useless people...
Granted it may not get them anywhere if the outside world is firewalled off, I'm just curious to know if that would work. Loadlin.exe doesn't need to be installed, it's just an executable binary that you can run right off a CD image or USB key.
Two quotes came to mind when I read that:
1) The beatings will continue until morale improves - certainly seems to be true in *some* companies
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2) Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me!
I have no idea who the hell came up with those, so if you happen to know the attribution, go ahead and inform me.
Hey, I couldn't explain quicksort either, and I have over 25 years experience in programming and system administration. Any time I need to sort something, piping through 'sort' usually works just fine, and I don't really need to know how it works...
The password policy is insane too - change every 30 days, except on some systems where fo no apparent reason it's 45 days, not too many vowels or chars repeated from the previous 8 passwords, etc. I have over 2000 machines to change my password on - if I had to do it by hand, assuming 1 minute per login-and-change, that's almost a whole 40-hour week... Unfortunately they did away with the admin-overhead project code, or I'd start charging password change week to it and see who squeals.
Maybe he's more paranoid than you?? He may have left out such details to reduce the chances of someone getting past his data-sanitizing routines...
Not necessarily - in my case, the AP is far enough from the edge of my property that you'd have to trespass to use it. Then you get to play paintball roulette - I load the hopper with regular paintballs, plus a handfull from the freezer...