Second one gets arrested - man, how dumb to you have to be to fly through the US when you know you're likely to get arrested?
It does sound dumb. But, given the UK/US extradition treaty that is highly biased in favor of the US, perhaps he felt the risk was no greater than he was exposed to by living in the UK.
NAT is a two-edged sword regarding security. On the one hand it provides a means by which incoming packets will be dropped if they don't match an existing connection. On the other hand, NAT breaks some end-to-end security measures and has resulted in ugly hacks to get these some protocols to work (for example, IPSEC and NAT-T). Essentially, NAT makes man-in-the-middle attacks more likely.
I think the best part is the " Therms of use " link...
Does that mean I have to pay PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electricity) to use it... oh wait. I do already!
But on a more serious note, since the operation of the "codec" is misrepresented, I wonder how enforcable the terms are? Especially the "no reverse engineering" restriction (which is invalid in some states anyway).
Why? Unless he was working with the fraudulent seller, or was grossly negligent in identifying said seller
The lawyer stated on one of the documents that he personally knew the original owner of the house. Fake id or not, this claim makes one wonder about the level of the lawyer's involvement.
Well, for $5 a month, Sprint offers a full replacement plan. If someone steals your phone, they void the ESN of the stolen receiver, and they send you a new one. problem solved
That is $60/year. SO if you expect to have a phone stolen once every 3 years, it is equivalent to $180/per phone stolen. You could probably buy a replacement for less on eBay. Heck you could probably
buy your own phone back for less.
In some areas, fixed wireless is available. Since just about all the other options apart from satelite (T1, DSL) go via your local CO, fixed wireless provides an alternative that is more redundant than other options. Speeds up to 10Mbs are available.
The problem with trying to copy your own files manually to an external drive is that there is no easy and foolproof way to do it. If you try to copy the entire C: drive to the external drive using Windows Explorer, the copying will stop when the system encounters a file it cannot copy
The DOS command "xcopy" can continue after finding files that cannot be read. However, this still leaves a problem: users' outlook.pst files tend not to be copied, since it does not seem to copy open files.
I believe rsync can be installed on windows machines -- this has the advantage of not copying files that already exist in the backup (with the correct options)
Cox cable in Hampton Roads has lost me as a customer forever. The inability to provide a reliable broadband connection just screwed the deal.
Did Cox attempt to do anything to fix it? About 6 months after I moved house, my cable Internet connection (Comcast) became very unreliable. I had moved less than one mile, so it was clearly a local problem (the cable Internet was rock solid at the old house). The cable company sent someone out and he found that the original installer had put a curve in the cable with too small a radius. He re-profiled the bend in the cable and my Internet connection has been solid ever since.
The whole point, while I understand, is that he went to a North Carolina judge versus Judge Wells and the North Carolina judge didn't understand the case and opened the witness up to whatever SCO wanted for 4 hours. While this plays well for SCO, it really is the poor guys fault for finding a lawyer and a judge who shouldn't have stuck their nose in the business.
Your description is not 100% accurate. SCO first went to the NC court. Wilson's (and his lawyer's) mistake was in not asking the the NC judge to pass it back to Utah.
The point of most unfair dismissal actions is not the money, it's the CV.
It seems to me that most potential employers don't actually ask why I left my previous jobs. Some do, but it is by no means universal. OTOH, do you really want to be known as a litigious person who sued a former employer?
"Industry controlled 'research' group claims big bills to be paid for infrastucture that video-streaming websites will push out. WEe need to be able to charge Google and other to 'prioritise' their traffic or we won't have enough money. Net Neutrality is therefore a bad thing"
Gmail serves another function: Google wants to track users' search behaviour. Gmail is a sweetener to get people to login to Google, so now Google can track searches by individual users across different machines.
There has to be an almost endless supply of vendors. Either that or a limited supply of vendors who are have endless money and endless stupidity.
If your theory is correct, sales from spam campaigns are zero or close to zero. Now I can understand a vendor paying for a single spam run -- after all, the vendor probably has an inbox full of spam, so "it must work or people would not send spam". However, for a person of only average intelligence, this logic will only work once: one spam run, poor to zero sales, why pay the spammer again?
So, the spammer must now find a new vendor, rinse and repeat -- the spammer needs a constant supply of new vendors. In fact, why should the spammer even send out the spam in this scenario? Would the vendor really know that the spam went out to millions of mailboxes, or just to a few addreses the vendor might have provided?
who benefits from all the badly formatted spam? Wasn't there a story about this a day or 2 ago: someone suggested that it wa an attempt to train baysean filters to accept spam?
MHO any state school that isn't using Linux and OpenOffice at least for general purpose computing (ie. web browsing, paper writing, etc) is wasting the taxpayer's money.
You may well be correct, but consider this: when I asked one of the computer science lecturers at the univestity that my daughter attends about their use of OSS vs. MS software, the reply was that they get MS software free or almost free. So the difference in cost is purely related to admin costs, which are more difficult to assess. PHBs are likely to want students to use MS products because of perceived market dominance.
this comment on the page about the RIAA is a must read for those with a sense of humor. I would just copy the text, but that might be copyright infringment.
Argh. It takes electricity to seperate Hydrogen from water. Then you ignite the hydrogen and regerse the process. It's a lossy inefficient process.
And what efficiency do batteries have? And all the conversions that are required to get the energy from the power station to the wheels of the car? It's a lossy inefficient process.
Furthermore, who the hell would want to drive around in the hindenberg?
We already have the resources, technology and brains to make practical electric vehicles, we just have to have the willpower, patience and know-how to make them.
Does anyone really believe that a practical electric car or truck is an impossibility?
I am not going to say it is impossible, but, depending on your definition of "practical", I don't think we have the technology today. Battery technology is such that electric vehicles will have severely limited range.
If battery powered vehicles are possible, then a better solution might be hydrogen powered. The hydrogen can be created through electrolysis and the energy density of hydrogen is far greater than batteries. Hydrogen comes with its own set of problems, but I believe they are all easier to solve than the problems associated with battery powered vehicles.
Now, we still need to solve that pesky problem of from where is the energy actually going to come? Nuclear?
You forgot another important reason: to compensate the artist. Believe it or not, some people feel good about compensating others for work they find enjoyable (or in the case of linux: useful).
Then I suggest you try reading a couple of articles, like this one or this one, both of which describe how artists get very little from legal downloads. I believe that record companies actually have the gall to charge a deduction for "breakages" on downloads.
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But on a more serious note, since the operation of the "codec" is misrepresented, I wonder how enforcable the terms are? Especially the "no reverse engineering" restriction (which is invalid in some states anyway).
If one replaces NIS with LDAP, what about the other maps: for example: how do you distribute auto-mount maps?
In some areas, fixed wireless is available. Since just about all the other options apart from satelite (T1, DSL) go via your local CO, fixed wireless provides an alternative that is more redundant than other options. Speeds up to 10Mbs are available.
Translation of the original article:
"Industry controlled 'research' group claims big bills to be paid for infrastucture that video-streaming websites will push out. WEe need to be able to charge Google and other to 'prioritise' their traffic or we won't have enough money. Net Neutrality is therefore a bad thing"
Gmail serves another function: Google wants to track users' search behaviour. Gmail is a sweetener to get people to login to Google, so now Google can track searches by individual users across different machines.
If your theory is correct, sales from spam campaigns are zero or close to zero. Now I can understand a vendor paying for a single spam run -- after all, the vendor probably has an inbox full of spam, so "it must work or people would not send spam". However, for a person of only average intelligence, this logic will only work once: one spam run, poor to zero sales, why pay the spammer again?
So, the spammer must now find a new vendor, rinse and repeat -- the spammer needs a constant supply of new vendors. In fact, why should the spammer even send out the spam in this scenario? Would the vendor really know that the spam went out to millions of mailboxes, or just to a few addreses the vendor might have provided?
who benefits from all the badly formatted spam? Wasn't there a story about this a day or 2 ago: someone suggested that it wa an attempt to train baysean filters to accept spam?
this comment on the page about the RIAA is a must read for those with a sense of humor. I would just copy the text, but that might be copyright infringment.
If battery powered vehicles are possible, then a better solution might be hydrogen powered. The hydrogen can be created through electrolysis and the energy density of hydrogen is far greater than batteries. Hydrogen comes with its own set of problems, but I believe they are all easier to solve than the problems associated with battery powered vehicles.
Now, we still need to solve that pesky problem of from where is the energy actually going to come? Nuclear?
He also has a history of conflict of interest allegations against him, including this current one relating to Aimster.