Have you ever used Kazaa to download even one file? If yes, have you confessed this sin to your employers? If no, then how do you have a clue about what it does on a hard drive?
How can you state any of your conclusions with certainty?
You say that e-mail hasn't been received over certain dates and therefore this disc has not been used. So the computer was turned off, or e-mail not accessed. How does that make it a crime?
You find no traces of Kazaa in deleted files, directories, fragments, or in the registry. Does that make this the wrong drive, or is Ms. Lindor correct that Kazaa was never on her computer?
Do you believe that all traces of Kazaa could be removed so completely that you could find no tract of it afterwards? What does this answer mean to you in the context of this examination?
How can you prove any drive was actually in her computer? Does the drive store store data about the computers it has been run in? What is this data? Windows XP activation codes?
Are you just an ass because you thought this would be a slam dunk to undelete files believed deleted by clueless users, and now your finding out that it isn't?
Is your fee contingent on results?
How much time did you spend examining the contents of this drive? What tools did you use? Please provide a copy of all such tools not available on the open market, and versions of the software tools used that are open market items and which you cannot copy and provide otherwise due to copyright.
What would we find if we looked on YOUR hard drive? Would you ever be comfortable with such an inspection?
Actually, the problem in this case is the stupid answers of the son and his 16 year old friend who basically ratted him out. Who let this happen in the first place?
potentially you could get 10,000 gallons per acre.
We are having a failure to think fourth dimensionally here. Time, folks, time! 10K gal. how often?. Yes it might be in the TFA, but that's no reason to omit it from the summary.
I knew there had to be some reason for Vista's 800MB memory footprint. FOR GOD'S SAKE - WTF DOES AN O/S NEED 800MB FOR? Now we know. To screw us over and make everyone buy the latest Intel (and AMD) quad processors for acceptable performance.
This makes XP seem positively desirable, meaning MS will certainly shut down XP product activation soon.
How interesting? Inconstant Moon type interesting? I heard we were going to have a big Atlantic Ocean hurricane season as well. I'm still waiting.
My point is, such forecasts of such still poorly understood phenomena still seem to go wrong much more often than they go right. And then when someone does happen to hit it right all I seem to hear is, "See, we knew all along. Now listen to us always!"
You have no one other than yourself to blame for this lack of spell-check. The same way the site complaining about deep linking has no one other than themselves to blame since they publicly posted the pages and used none of the measures available to them to prevent deep links.
FireFox 2.0 has an embedded spell-checker for all text boxes.
The Google toolbar for IE includes a spell-check facility.
Why not have/require that the robots.txt protocol should also be followed for deep linking. While obviously voluntary, it would allow an easy line in the sand to indicate if anyone has broached the limits you've set by obviously publicly publishing your pages on the web. The pages are clearly public if you can go directly to them without some referrer code added by the site.
The biggest problem I see here is that these issues are being decided by judges who never attended a Computer Science class in their life, let alone became experts about the issues involved.
I'll worry about this after I've actually archived my first GB if e-mails actually worth saving. Until then it's just Mine Is Bigger Than Yours posturing.
I'm betting that no robot is ever put together in such a way that this will be an issue.
Perhaps when they become more than simple obedient slaves, we'll have to coin another word other than robot (which means 'worker') for them. Then your statement above will continue to remain true into the foreseeable future.
Another case of the mainstream catching up to SF. For several years I've been reading stories by on-line author DB_Story (www.storiesonline.net - adult content warning) who has discussed robots, the likely way we'll end up building them, the inevitable Emancipation issue in several of his stories, and the problems it might bring to robots in the process. And of course, Dr. Asimov before him is legendary for his commentary on robots in society. Nice to know that some in the mainstream are considering this possibility before it actually happens for once. Might make the transition a bit easier in the process -- or not.
Just how does Google scanning a book prevent anyone else from doing the same? Does Google own the only copy? I doubt that. This seems like much ado about nothing, or an outright grab to force Google to share what they put the effort into creating in the first place. And I'll bet the sharing is expected to be Free.
Just how hard is it to make anything available on P2P. It just has to be digital, interesting, and you promise not to sue for distributing it. Even big companies can usually manage this much.
When you can't compete in the open marketplace any longer, bring in the lawyers. I'd have to say this is a rather tacit admission that other CAD tools are catching up, and at much better prices.
How about if I link to infringing MP3's and the Australian equivalent of the RIAA on the same page. Does this make them guilty of copyright infringement?
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Have you ever used Kazaa to download even one file? If yes, have you confessed this sin to your employers? If no, then how do you have a clue about what it does on a hard drive?
You say that e-mail hasn't been received over certain dates and therefore this disc has not been used. So the computer was turned off, or e-mail not accessed. How does that make it a crime?
You find no traces of Kazaa in deleted files, directories, fragments, or in the registry. Does that make this the wrong drive, or is Ms. Lindor correct that Kazaa was never on her computer?
Do you believe that all traces of Kazaa could be removed so completely that you could find no tract of it afterwards? What does this answer mean to you in the context of this examination?
How can you prove any drive was actually in her computer? Does the drive store store data about the computers it has been run in? What is this data? Windows XP activation codes?
Are you just an ass because you thought this would be a slam dunk to undelete files believed deleted by clueless users, and now your finding out that it isn't?
Is your fee contingent on results?
How much time did you spend examining the contents of this drive? What tools did you use? Please provide a copy of all such tools not available on the open market, and versions of the software tools used that are open market items and which you cannot copy and provide otherwise due to copyright.
What would we find if we looked on YOUR hard drive? Would you ever be comfortable with such an inspection?
Actually, the problem in this case is the stupid answers of the son and his 16 year old friend who basically ratted him out. Who let this happen in the first place?
Just goes to show that the MPAA is being all the p0rn as well. Why else are they squealing?
We are having a failure to think fourth dimensionally here. Time, folks, time! 10K gal. how often?. Yes it might be in the TFA, but that's no reason to omit it from the summary.
Is this similar to making someone continue to use Windows Vista?
Ah yes, "free". And did the 1099 forms arrive with it, or will they be sent out by the deadline of Jan. 31?
And I wonder just how hard it was to implement this feature on first production run units. I really do wonder...
Hardware vaporware. That's a new concept for an Operating System.
This makes XP seem positively desirable, meaning MS will certainly shut down XP product activation soon.
Okay, for my first order I'd like a copy of all the books from the Library at Alexandria please.
They should just leak it. That's what everyone else in government is doing these days. And the NYT is a willing lackey in the process.
My point is, such forecasts of such still poorly understood phenomena still seem to go wrong much more often than they go right. And then when someone does happen to hit it right all I seem to hear is, "See, we knew all along. Now listen to us always!"
You have no one other than yourself to blame for this lack of spell-check. The same way the site complaining about deep linking has no one other than themselves to blame since they publicly posted the pages and used none of the measures available to them to prevent deep links.
FireFox 2.0 has an embedded spell-checker for all text boxes.
The Google toolbar for IE includes a spell-check facility.
The biggest problem I see here is that these issues are being decided by judges who never attended a Computer Science class in their life, let alone became experts about the issues involved.
Most IT companies I've seen have you escorted out the door at the end of the next hour after they find out you're quitting. Why is he special?
I'll worry about this after I've actually archived my first GB if e-mails actually worth saving. Until then it's just Mine Is Bigger Than Yours posturing.
Actually, if robots go into mass production, I'm betting that the Japanese succeed at it first.
In that case I'm going to be remade as 7of9. Then when things are dull, I can just go look at myself in the mirror.
Perhaps when they become more than simple obedient slaves, we'll have to coin another word other than robot (which means 'worker') for them. Then your statement above will continue to remain true into the foreseeable future.
Another case of the mainstream catching up to SF. For several years I've been reading stories by on-line author DB_Story (www.storiesonline.net - adult content warning) who has discussed robots, the likely way we'll end up building them, the inevitable Emancipation issue in several of his stories, and the problems it might bring to robots in the process. And of course, Dr. Asimov before him is legendary for his commentary on robots in society. Nice to know that some in the mainstream are considering this possibility before it actually happens for once. Might make the transition a bit easier in the process -- or not.
Just how does Google scanning a book prevent anyone else from doing the same? Does Google own the only copy? I doubt that. This seems like much ado about nothing, or an outright grab to force Google to share what they put the effort into creating in the first place. And I'll bet the sharing is expected to be Free.
Just how hard is it to make anything available on P2P. It just has to be digital, interesting, and you promise not to sue for distributing it. Even big companies can usually manage this much.
When you can't compete in the open marketplace any longer, bring in the lawyers. I'd have to say this is a rather tacit admission that other CAD tools are catching up, and at much better prices.
How about if I link to infringing MP3's and the Australian equivalent of the RIAA on the same page. Does this make them guilty of copyright infringement?
Yes, but, how many are dupes?