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  1. Re:If a private individual tried this on FBI Used FedEx To Sneak Dotcom's Hard Drives Out of NZ · · Score: 1

    If someone can attest to the movement of the evidence, then chain of custody is satisfied, even if normal procedures are not followed

    Ryan Braun successfully argued otherwise. (Yes I know it wasn't a court of law, but there's a lot of similarities).

  2. Re:I have the Android version on Asus Announces x86 Transformer · · Score: 1

    The availability of good apps for Android is the main downside.

    That would seem to be a huge downside.

    I can do everything I can do on my PC. Just not as quickly. Or in as nice of a user interface. Or was well. And I'm missing some features that I really would like. And the guy that wrote the knock off app is no where to be found so support is non-existent. But other then that it's great!

  3. Re:I disagree on Ask Slashdot: Provisioning Internet For Condo Association? · · Score: 1

    at peak times the speed drops markedly and you have no control over this.

    If only they made some type of device that could shape the traffic. You know, to guarantee some type of quality of service such that every user was guaranteed an equal portion of the overall main connection if needed, but any extra was divvied up among those that could use more...

  4. Re:"But what do you do?" (NB: Not a trolling attem on Canadian Agency Investigates US Air Crash · · Score: 3, Informative

    What would happen if a medical doctor ever became hurt by another doctor? Send them to Canada?

    No. You'd find a third doctor that wasn't connected to either of the two doctors. If you were looking for a medical opinion for a malpractice case for instance, you wouldn't use a doctor that is part of the same practice as the accused doctor. There may not be any actual bias, but even the appearance of such can have negative consequences.

  5. Re:Just curious on Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings · · Score: 1

    The alt attribute is strictly an IE thing? No. It's part of the HTML5 standard as well as XHTML. The title attribute should be used for captioning an image, while the alt attribute should be descriptive of the image. The end goal is the alt tag should not provide additional, nor leave out information whether the images are displayed nor not. The meaning of the page should not change.

  6. Re:Candice Shwagger has more problems now on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1

    I think Houston's best marketing attorny [sic]...

    She's not even Houston's best marketing attorney. She's in marketing FOR attorneys. And it doesn't even look like real marketing, more internet "marketing" such as web design, SEO, social media, etc. You'd think that Houston's best attorney marketing would at least be on the first page of google results for "Houston attorney marketing".

  7. (Un)Fortunately my company's content filter's have flagged that site under the category of "sex".

  8. Re:Everyone should be outraged. Even RIAA employee on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 1

    I thought civil judgements could be discharged as long as they were not willful and malicious (among other exemptions for not being able to be discharged). Willful probably could be successfully argued, but I don't think the malice could be. Had he posted the songs on a website and said "Screw the RIAA, download these songs for free" then there would be malice.

  9. Re:Everyone should be outraged. Even RIAA employee on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for him, leaving with a passport isn't going to be likely- the current administration recently made it possible to revoke or deny passports to debtors

    Everyone that has a mortgage, car loan, credit card, student loan, etc is considered a debtor. So it can't be all debtors. I couldn't find specifically what you mentioned, but I found references to Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act that would allow the State Department to limit or prohibit passports to those delinquent tax debtors. But Tenenbaum wouldn't be considered a tax debtor, rather a civil judgement.

  10. Re:Public money on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Can local government just "give" money back like this? Seems like it's public money, surely it can't just be given to a private company?

    Sure. Happens all the time. Often it's a tax abatement. The community or state agrees to reduce or eliminate a tax for a short or long period of time in order to have a business base their operation, expand, invest capital, etc.

    If you take a micro view of it, the city should be getting $8m but will only get $1.6m. Except it brings 1000 new jobs to the area, 1000 jobs who's salaries get reinvested back into the community when the workers buy things, pay taxes, etc. It lowers unemployment not just with those 1000 jobs, but also for businesses that support the warehouse.

    There are additional costs associated with it, such as increased road maintenance to support 1000 new cars, thousands of of trucks, increased police and fire departments, etc. It's a balancing act to balance out what the positive economic impact to the area vs what it costs for that impact.

  11. Re:ReplayTV already tried this....... on Broadcast Industry Wades In On Dish Network's Hopper · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's thinking proactively. Ergan didn't get where he's at by being a fool. Come out with a technology that he knows that will likely bring a legal challenge. If the challenge never materializes, then run with it. If it does come, bluff you're way into the start of the battle then settle, removing it from the market in exchange for discounted subscriber rates.

  12. Re:An A+ in "Lying About The Past" on your resume on GMU Prof Teaches How To Falsify Wikipedia — and Get Caught · · Score: 1

    He can't say he took the class though, or can he? Maybe he just audited the class or did it as an independent study.

  13. Re:Prey on Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? · · Score: 2

    Prey isn't very useful if the device doesn't have true GPS built in, so scratch it for a laptop and some tablets. Cell phones indoors to some degree as well. "Good news, we've narrowed down your stolen phone. It's somewhere indoors in a 1000 meter radius of cell tower XYZ"

    Plus, how intelligent is your average thief? If I was going to steal a laptop/tablet/cell phone, the very first thing I'm going to do is turn it off and/or remove the battery, rendering Prey and the like useless. The 2nd thing I'm going to do is wipe/reformat the device the first chance I can safely do so, rendering Prey and the like uninstalled.

  14. Re:"In favor or Oracle?" on Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial · · Score: 1

    There were two parts to a question whether Google infringed on Oracle's (possibly) copyrighted works. The jury answered one but were not able to reach a verdict on the other. The judge still accepted the partially complete verdict to move on.

    Google called for a mistrial saying that a partial verdict was not acceptable and that both had to be answered...they were not able to be separated.

    It wasn't some big dramatic moment in the trial like it is on Law and Order. It was business as usual and expected. It's no different then calling an objection or asking for an appeal automatically. If it's granted, you benefit. If it's not, you're no worse off.

  15. Re:headline incorrect on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And most people here barely read the headline before posting as an expert on whatever article the summary might link to.

  16. Re:I've heard this before. In the 80s on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 2

    If Oracle succeeds with this, you can expect whoever holds the AT&T copyright nowadays to come after Linux and other Unix-like systems again, despite them just following what are now documented standards accepted by the industry.

    Call me silly, but I don't think Novell would have spent the last half of the previous decade indemnifying Linux users and defending it's UNIX copyrights if it intended in turning around and suing them for the exact same thing SCO was trying to do.

  17. Re:Article summary author IP on Hacked Skype IP Address Search Shows Who's Speaking From Where · · Score: 1

    According to my source, that IP traces back to a railroad track. Better call Steven Seagal to investigate.

  18. Re:Stego on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Absent the decryption key and/or software, I can't see a solid basis for destroying this guy's life. Of course, that won't stop them. New terrorist strategy: Make everyone a terrorist by distributing encoded terrorist documents.

    If you or I were caught with the video, then claiming that we knew nothing about any hidden content is plausible. But neither of us are suspected terrorists, had ties to suspected terrorist organizations, have traveled to regions of Pakistan known for terrorist training camps, or were found with multiple memory cards hidden in our underwear...that just happened to have a porn video with a lot of hidden content very pertinent to terrorist organizations.

    I believe in innocent before proven guilty and all that...but this guy was in serious trouble long before the contents of the hidden information was actually discovered. His life wasn't destroyed by the discovery, it already was. This just is another significant piece of evidence that chips away at it just being circumstantial evidence and piles on the beyond reasonable doubt (or whatever a German equivalent would be)

  19. Re:Good Idea on DARPA Aims To Reuse Space Junk · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the speed, inclination, or trajectory delta over a specified period of time determine how trivial or non-trivial the amount of fuel would be used?

  20. Re:Sad Little People on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    No they don't. They just shift the problem from one thing to another.

  21. Re:Sigh... on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't that be updated to be:

    *Tosses it in the trash*

    *Looks at physics degree*

  22. Re:he was giving out business cards.... on North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger · · Score: 1

    If you read the article, you'd see he offers 1-on-1 services for a fee, so yes, he's collecting cash.

  23. Re:Disposable Vehicles? on Hypersonic Test Aircraft Peeled Apart After 3 Minutes of Sustained Mach 20 Speed · · Score: 4, Informative

    It depends on how long it takes to get to those speeds. At 9.8m/s^2, easily handled as evident from people parachuting, it would take about 11 minutes to reach mach 20. Once you reach that speed, there's no problem going that fast just because of speed...spacecraft have been doing that for some time. Apollo 10 holds the record for fastest manned vehicle at nearly 25,000MPH.

    According to the g-force wiki page, early experiments showed that untrained individuals could survive 17g's accelerating and 12g's decelerating (in a facing forward orientation) which would translate to 40 and 56 seconds respectively.

    The maximum recorded g's sustained by a person for more then a split second is 46.2g's and it would take 14.5 seconds of acceleration or deceleration to match that rate.

    The hard part about going that speed is the friction and stresses on the aircraft flying through the atmosphere.

  24. Re:A great band-aid solution on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A band-aid solution? After that comment, I'll presume that you aren't a depression sufferer of 40 years and multiple failed suicide attempts.

  25. Re:Partially Blocked View on The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but his publication mentions ZERO (0) references: he cites noone!Do you really need to cite someone when you are dealing with relatively basic mathematical formulas?