And people who die young cost the least. Seriously, how on earth do you calculate a person's net worth? Should you discount all the value he contributes to society just so he can die early and save the country a few dollars in health care?
So how much of that money goes to AMD? None? Well ok then, we'll just carry on doing it until they go out of business. Then all of a sudden it won't be illegal anymore.
newsflash - firefox can be installed without administrator rights, albeit only for the current user of the computer. It's one of the factors contributing to its market penetration in the workplace.
Your post got modded insightful only because of the comparison between GWBush and the fictional Randall Flagg. I wonder if this is really the legacy he left behind.
You were going 2 for 3 about the latest 2 Bond movies. There's no Q, and just about the only gadget Bond gets is a cellphone and dog collar GPS tracking device. And a mobile cardiac defibrillator.
Shopping lists and bills are definitely items of interest in archaeology, imo. There is no better way to understand a way of life than in what people spent their money on.
But that's the point, you haven't been using Windows 7. Since there's such a big difference between beta and RC, who's to say there won't be a big difference between RC and RTM? Didn't they pull that shit with Vista? Between the last RC and the final product, a lot of drivers broke IIRC.
As for your question, a wiped drive is fairly obvious, unless you set your bios clock 100's of times and do stuff incrementally, create a range of files with chronological creation/modification/access times, populate the event logs with a smooth span of times, and not leave any smoking guns (windows xp pro on a dell?), you're probably gonna get nailed if the forensics expert is worth his paycheck. By the way, when you copy a file across a file system, from one drive to another, it gets a new creation time, so if all the files were "created" on a single day, that was when they were migrated over.
Here's a way. Take another working PC, maybe your workstation, and clone it back to your drive. All the timestamps, all the data, all wiped, and no evidence that the drive was tampered with.
AFAIK there is no such thing as a trusted expert in the industry, that's the flaw that the GP pointed out. However I think that tampering shouldn't be too difficult to disparage - all you need is to get a checksum of both original and mirror images _before_ inspection is done, and get both parties to agree on this checksum (both sides getting their own techs to independently verify). This should satisfy that requirement.
I think the next election is going to be hilarious, if all that mudslinging was illegal. Won't it be fun to watch your favorite politicians get hauled off to jail?
Maybe you're looking at it from the wrong point of view - how about you take a look at what Exchange provides the end-user, then ask yourself: Can I write something that does this? Chances are, you probably can think of a way of making something simple that kinda works too. Exchange is full of legacy. Dumb legacy. Exchange created Active Directory, not the other way around. Exchange means communicating with clients through RPC. Wha? That no-use piece of nonsense? Why wrap a mail client around such a NAT-unfriendly protocol? Exchange doesn't use a SQL database, yet people expect to be able to search through their mails. You know, stuff like that.
Just about all of the Asia Pacific region here. What's especially galling is that the versions with Ubuntu come with options for a bigger SSD, due to Microsoft's XP licensing issues, so you not only pay more, you really do get less.
I don't know if any of you guys have seen malware that exploits the use of custom thumbnail images - the one supposed to replace the CD-Rom image on your computer when you insert a particular disc.
Autorun was a feature touted with the release of windows 95 - you don't have to know how it works, just pop in the damn CD. I guess going backwards and removing this feature would be quite an embarassment, no matter how long it's been. Personally I'm surprised it hasn't been exploited much earlier. It's the uPnP fiasco all over again, only it's taken much longer to play out.
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And people who die young cost the least. Seriously, how on earth do you calculate a person's net worth? Should you discount all the value he contributes to society just so he can die early and save the country a few dollars in health care?
So how much of that money goes to AMD? None? Well ok then, we'll just carry on doing it until they go out of business. Then all of a sudden it won't be illegal anymore.
In that case you're only infringing on the patent if you somehow sell or use this gene alone, and not in some derivative product.
newsflash - firefox can be installed without administrator rights, albeit only for the current user of the computer. It's one of the factors contributing to its market penetration in the workplace.
Your post got modded insightful only because of the comparison between GWBush and the fictional Randall Flagg. I wonder if this is really the legacy he left behind.
I think you underestimate the size of the beast that is OSX. Pfft, and people complained that XP was bloated.
seeders pls!
It's like Hollywood accounting: Buy an accounting firm, devour the processing fee. Then sue for wilful contempt.
Try the indonesian rupiah. I wonder if they are obliged to accept payments in other currency? And the conversion fees?
You were going 2 for 3 about the latest 2 Bond movies. There's no Q, and just about the only gadget Bond gets is a cellphone and dog collar GPS tracking device. And a mobile cardiac defibrillator.
The essense of Trek is... Battlestar Galactica. Is that what you're saying?
Shopping lists and bills are definitely items of interest in archaeology, imo. There is no better way to understand a way of life than in what people spent their money on.
But that's the point, you haven't been using Windows 7. Since there's such a big difference between beta and RC, who's to say there won't be a big difference between RC and RTM? Didn't they pull that shit with Vista? Between the last RC and the final product, a lot of drivers broke IIRC.
As for your question, a wiped drive is fairly obvious, unless you set your bios clock 100's of times and do stuff incrementally, create a range of files with chronological creation/modification/access times, populate the event logs with a smooth span of times, and not leave any smoking guns (windows xp pro on a dell?), you're probably gonna get nailed if the forensics expert is worth his paycheck. By the way, when you copy a file across a file system, from one drive to another, it gets a new creation time, so if all the files were "created" on a single day, that was when they were migrated over.
Here's a way. Take another working PC, maybe your workstation, and clone it back to your drive. All the timestamps, all the data, all wiped, and no evidence that the drive was tampered with.
AFAIK there is no such thing as a trusted expert in the industry, that's the flaw that the GP pointed out. However I think that tampering shouldn't be too difficult to disparage - all you need is to get a checksum of both original and mirror images _before_ inspection is done, and get both parties to agree on this checksum (both sides getting their own techs to independently verify). This should satisfy that requirement.
But the spice must flow!
1. Reduce your pay to $1/mth
2. Fire you.
3. Pay you your year's salary (omg $12! I'm rich!)
I think the next election is going to be hilarious, if all that mudslinging was illegal. Won't it be fun to watch your favorite politicians get hauled off to jail?
"What are you in here for?"
"Raping kids"
"Robbing the convenience store"
"I told Steve Ballmer to throw a chair at me"
Maybe you're looking at it from the wrong point of view - how about you take a look at what Exchange provides the end-user, then ask yourself: Can I write something that does this? Chances are, you probably can think of a way of making something simple that kinda works too.
Exchange is full of legacy. Dumb legacy. Exchange created Active Directory, not the other way around. Exchange means communicating with clients through RPC. Wha? That no-use piece of nonsense? Why wrap a mail client around such a NAT-unfriendly protocol? Exchange doesn't use a SQL database, yet people expect to be able to search through their mails. You know, stuff like that.
Just about all of the Asia Pacific region here. What's especially galling is that the versions with Ubuntu come with options for a bigger SSD, due to Microsoft's XP licensing issues, so you not only pay more, you really do get less.
CowboyNeal employs a hurd of gnus. There's somewhat more shit lying around, and their attitude really stinks, but hey, it gets the job done.
I don't know if any of you guys have seen malware that exploits the use of custom thumbnail images - the one supposed to replace the CD-Rom image on your computer when you insert a particular disc.
Autorun was a feature touted with the release of windows 95 - you don't have to know how it works, just pop in the damn CD. I guess going backwards and removing this feature would be quite an embarassment, no matter how long it's been. Personally I'm surprised it hasn't been exploited much earlier. It's the uPnP fiasco all over again, only it's taken much longer to play out.
Yes, other people will "doo-doo" it.