It doesn't matter. The new owner is not the lawful owner and must forfeit the laptop to the person who rightfully owns it.
It is then up to them to help you track down the thief.
Contact the ISP to whom the IP addresses are registered, through a lawyer. Tell them that the laptop is stolen and ask them to confirm in writing that they could produce the name and address of the person using those IP numbers at the given time, if required to by law.
They don't need to give you that info, just confirm that they have it.
Then you can approach the police showing them that the only thing they need to do is obtain a subpoena for the info from the ISP to resolve the case.
You are making sense.
I see what you are saying. Personally I would not restrict the type of software that should be open source. However I do think your point is valid for what type of software we should make "infrastructure".
Maybe the question is "should we make the codec part of the infrastructure"?
Maybe the browser should not have a built in codec?
Maybe the user should be able to select different competing codecs for use with the browser?
Maybe it is the codec API that needs to be open so that codec producers can write their codecs to an open standard that browsers support?
So the codecs should be either open source or proprietary but maybe *not* tied to the browser?
So why has the BBC shelved it's OGG streaming technology in favor of proprietary formats? This technology is available now and works very well. Hey BBC. Please give us back the OGG streams you used to run!
Then we obviously have to start sending these things out in batches. If you send one a day for every day of the 'window' thats 3 x 7 = 21 explorers per 26 months. That's nearly averaging one per month. And further if we send them all off on slightly different trajectories... well one of them is *bound* to hit mars!
Surely we should have sent another 4 of these things up to mars by now? Release early, release often. That ways we'd probably be getting loads of bug reports from the Martians.
Having lots of people contribute to a project is not the only benefit of Open Source. Companies who choose to use any technology (including hardware) that is open for all to use and view can benefit from the fact that such components can more easily become ubiquitous without necessarily hugh marketing costs. Any one can write supporting software for the device so they benefit from having lots of high quality drivers/utility software for their product. Also and perhaps most important of all is that the technologists that do work on Open Hardware are themselves working in a technology sharing environment which is overall more efficient than a secretive environment where scientists hide their work from one and other - thus impeding advancement.
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And in other news Microsoft announced the next version of Windows would be called GNU/Windows.
(we have to have our priorities in order)
You might want to look at SFML, its cross platform and 2D oriented and works with a number of window toolkits: http://www.sfml-dev.org/
Modify the code of Grub 2 to make Windows unbootable...
It doesn't matter. The new owner is not the lawful owner and must forfeit the laptop to the person who rightfully owns it. It is then up to them to help you track down the thief.
Contact the ISP to whom the IP addresses are registered, through a lawyer. Tell them that the laptop is stolen and ask them to confirm in writing that they could produce the name and address of the person using those IP numbers at the given time, if required to by law. They don't need to give you that info, just confirm that they have it. Then you can approach the police showing them that the only thing they need to do is obtain a subpoena for the info from the ISP to resolve the case.
Well its nice to know that when the oil companies finally poison every fish in every ocean... ... we will still be able to GO FISHING!!
You are making sense. I see what you are saying. Personally I would not restrict the type of software that should be open source. However I do think your point is valid for what type of software we should make "infrastructure". Maybe the question is "should we make the codec part of the infrastructure"? Maybe the browser should not have a built in codec? Maybe the user should be able to select different competing codecs for use with the browser? Maybe it is the codec API that needs to be open so that codec producers can write their codecs to an open standard that browsers support? So the codecs should be either open source or proprietary but maybe *not* tied to the browser?
I expect at 1000mph gravity hardly has tome to bother.
This just has to be bad news for hitch-hikers.
Where is Jack Bower when you need him?
So why has the BBC shelved it's OGG streaming technology in favor of proprietary formats? This technology is available now and works very well. Hey BBC. Please give us back the OGG streams you used to run!
Then we obviously have to start sending these things out in batches. If you send one a day for every day of the 'window' thats 3 x 7 = 21 explorers per 26 months. That's nearly averaging one per month. And further if we send them all off on slightly different trajectories... well one of them is *bound* to hit mars!
Surely we should have sent another 4 of these things up to mars by now? Release early, release often. That ways we'd probably be getting loads of bug reports from the Martians.
Having lots of people contribute to a project is not the only benefit of Open Source. Companies who choose to use any technology (including hardware) that is open for all to use and view can benefit from the fact that such components can more easily become ubiquitous without necessarily hugh marketing costs. Any one can write supporting software for the device so they benefit from having lots of high quality drivers/utility software for their product. Also and perhaps most important of all is that the technologists that do work on Open Hardware are themselves working in a technology sharing environment which is overall more efficient than a secretive environment where scientists hide their work from one and other - thus impeding advancement.
"Space... the final brewery..."