let's face it, Lithium-ion cells are unstable, intolerant of overcharging, and energy-dense enough to be a real problem when they fail. Combine that with poor quality-control and badly designed charge controllers, and you have a pocket-sized thermite bomb.
As other posters have pointed out, this is a Fifth Amendment case, which means the information required to inspect the contents of the drive is in his head. Presumably, the Feds would be legally entitled to crack the encryption if they could... apparently they can't, so they're depending upon forcing him to divulge the passphrase. Having "Taken the Fifth", he doesn't have to comply with their demand, which is no doubt thoroughly pissing off the prosecution. I've no doubt the two guards got a thorough talking to about their poor evidence collection procedure.
Still, a good prosecutor can get a conviction on very flimsy evidence. We'll see how it plays out.
There wasn't, but that shouldn't stop you from adding one. Call it parameter '-oshit', and have it send a signal to an interior serial port wired to a small blasting cap implanted inside the hard drive (or on top of it).
Are you kidding? Then they'd have you on all kinds of explosives charges (no pun intended.) A better approach would be to make sure that you have a Sony-manufactured battery. Just short the damn thing and it'll take care of your problem.
Pedophiles fill in the gaps when the terrorists aren't doing anything. I mean, how many more buildings have fallen here in the U.S. since 9/11? Not many. So, given the absence of an active external threat, an internal one must be manufactured.
Oh, I agree, but what I mean is that the RIAA isn't operating in a vacuum. It is beholden to the major labels, and is marching to their tune. Consequently, blaming the RIAA for these lawsuits is really missing the point. The labels ordered this nonsense, and are funding it (to the tune of a few hundred mil a year) and are the only ones that can put a stop to it. We should focus our ire where it will do the most good.
Yeah, pretty much. Or the library. I'll also buy discs directly from musicians (say, at a concert, or online.) Just don't want to give big music my money.
The problem now is that hardware vendors are frequently dropping support for XP (premature, you say? Well, there it is.) That often means that downgrading may not even be possible, at least not fully. You will probably be missing a driver or two. Heck, at work we needed a laptop with XP on it for a demo, so we went out and bought a Compaq. Turned out there were no wireless drivers available for that model, and we'd been planning on using wireless. Everything else seemed to work okay, but it's apparent that peripheral makers aren't focusing their full attention on XP anymore.
I didn't say it was the first disc, I said it was the last. I decided not to buy any more new music from the big labels. Since I was a kid I'd always been happy buying used records, so I kept up that policy when it came to compact discs.
Not if you look at this with the proper perspective. The big labels don't want too much of this PR mud to stick to them, so they pay serious money to the RIAA to do the ugly stuff for them. And it's working: people keep using "The RIAA" when they really mean "The Record Labels".
You really should make some effort to understand how the record labels rip off everyone involved with them before you make such commentary.
Here's a quote from Janis Ian:
The NARAS people were a bit more pushy. They told me downloads were "destroying sales", "ruining the music industry", and "costing you money". Costing me money? I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my wallet... and check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing
The last Compact Disc I bought from a music store was in (if I remember correctly) 1984. That was when I started getting interested in the media industry, and began to understand what a bunch of really bad people run it.
I have bought music online, sure, but never from any source affiliated with the major labels. Sometimes I'll pick up a used CD or two, but I figure somebody else already paid the RIAA tax on it, and if nothing else the labels aren't getting any more money. I don't agree with their business methods, I don't like the way they treat their suppliers (the artists) and I don't agree with what they have done to our legal system. I still like music, and it doesn't take much effort to find it and make sure my money doesn't go to the wrong people.
how did this work? Did the plaintiffs offer a settlement, did Ms. Barker ask for one, and in either case what was the reasoning behind the decision to settle?
What needs to be done is to burn their fields preemptively. You know, just in case.
Well, they're called Frankenfoods... and you remember what happened to Baron Frankenstein and his creation. I believe that incident also involved pitchforks.
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It also spills the beans on the code name for the project: Screaming Monkey.
Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha.
let's face it, Lithium-ion cells are unstable, intolerant of overcharging, and energy-dense enough to be a real problem when they fail. Combine that with poor quality-control and badly designed charge controllers, and you have a pocket-sized thermite bomb.
How, pray tell, is signing your tax form incriminating?
Just ask Al Capone.
As other posters have pointed out, this is a Fifth Amendment case, which means the information required to inspect the contents of the drive is in his head. Presumably, the Feds would be legally entitled to crack the encryption if they could ... apparently they can't, so they're depending upon forcing him to divulge the passphrase. Having "Taken the Fifth", he doesn't have to comply with their demand, which is no doubt thoroughly pissing off the prosecution. I've no doubt the two guards got a thorough talking to about their poor evidence collection procedure.
Still, a good prosecutor can get a conviction on very flimsy evidence. We'll see how it plays out.
There wasn't, but that shouldn't stop you from adding one. Call it parameter '-oshit', and have it send a signal to an interior serial port wired to a small blasting cap implanted inside the hard drive (or on top of it).
Are you kidding? Then they'd have you on all kinds of explosives charges (no pun intended.) A better approach would be to make sure that you have a Sony-manufactured battery. Just short the damn thing and it'll take care of your problem.
Pedophiles fill in the gaps when the terrorists aren't doing anything. I mean, how many more buildings have fallen here in the U.S. since 9/11? Not many. So, given the absence of an active external threat, an internal one must be manufactured.
but what if the Border Enforcers didn't find any photographs or videos(hell, any evidence at all)of real human child exploitation?
They'd have copied some evidence onto the drive and touched the file timestamps.
I guess it depends upon whether portable computers qualify as "personal effects."
I like JonoF's ports of Duke and Shadow Warrior, myself. He hasn't updated them in a couple of years though.
Oh, I agree, but what I mean is that the RIAA isn't operating in a vacuum. It is beholden to the major labels, and is marching to their tune. Consequently, blaming the RIAA for these lawsuits is really missing the point. The labels ordered this nonsense, and are funding it (to the tune of a few hundred mil a year) and are the only ones that can put a stop to it. We should focus our ire where it will do the most good.
Yeah, pretty much. Or the library. I'll also buy discs directly from musicians (say, at a concert, or online.) Just don't want to give big music my money.
Anybody remember the "Swyftcard" for the Apple ][? It was a card with a boot ROM that loaded a PIM-like program instantly.
Nothing new under the Sun, I guess.
ipconfig and net are still there...
XCOPY didn't fare so well.
The problem now is that hardware vendors are frequently dropping support for XP (premature, you say? Well, there it is.) That often means that downgrading may not even be possible, at least not fully. You will probably be missing a driver or two. Heck, at work we needed a laptop with XP on it for a demo, so we went out and bought a Compaq. Turned out there were no wireless drivers available for that model, and we'd been planning on using wireless. Everything else seemed to work okay, but it's apparent that peripheral makers aren't focusing their full attention on XP anymore.
I didn't say it was the first disc, I said it was the last. I decided not to buy any more new music from the big labels. Since I was a kid I'd always been happy buying used records, so I kept up that policy when it came to compact discs.
Not if you look at this with the proper perspective. The big labels don't want too much of this PR mud to stick to them, so they pay serious money to the RIAA to do the ugly stuff for them. And it's working: people keep using "The RIAA" when they really mean "The Record Labels".
Modbomb incoming.
... and check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing
You earned it.
You really should make some effort to understand how the record labels rip off everyone involved with them before you make such commentary.
Here's a quote from Janis Ian:
The NARAS people were a bit more pushy. They told me downloads were "destroying sales", "ruining the music industry", and "costing you money". Costing me money? I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my wallet
The last Compact Disc I bought from a music store was in (if I remember correctly) 1984. That was when I started getting interested in the media industry, and began to understand what a bunch of really bad people run it.
I have bought music online, sure, but never from any source affiliated with the major labels. Sometimes I'll pick up a used CD or two, but I figure somebody else already paid the RIAA tax on it, and if nothing else the labels aren't getting any more money. I don't agree with their business methods, I don't like the way they treat their suppliers (the artists) and I don't agree with what they have done to our legal system. I still like music, and it doesn't take much effort to find it and make sure my money doesn't go to the wrong people.
how did this work? Did the plaintiffs offer a settlement, did Ms. Barker ask for one, and in either case what was the reasoning behind the decision to settle?
I'd vote for Groking RIAA, big time.
Ray Beckerman's blog already does a pretty good job of Grokking the RIAA. Still, the more transparency the better.
And there was this little gem:
Did Groklaw really have an impact on those court cases? Naaah.
Boy, does this guy do Groklaw and all its contributors an injustice.
Don't you mean, "I have a thpeech impediment, you inthenthitive clod!"
What needs to be done is to burn their fields preemptively. You know, just in case.
Well, they're called Frankenfoods ... and you remember what happened to Baron Frankenstein and his creation. I believe that incident also involved pitchforks.
Dude, don't do that to me ... I'm recovering from surgery. Heh heh heh ... ouch ouch ouch.
It's called "McCloud Computing", and there's no point in copyrighting the name because there can be only one of them.