I spent Christmas in a GSM dead zone which is approx 5 miles from a fairly large population and an interstate. At my parents I get 0 bars with the AT&T logo which alternates to 1 bar and no signal depending on atmospheric conditions. A cloud rolled in at about 2AM whereupon I got those "merry christmas" text messages... ah nice to wake up to.
The threshold with which they paint these signal zones on their coverage map is ridiculous. Naturally it only works outdoors or in a window sill at certain times, only on one side of the house. Some parts of the house will work. Almost anywhere else I get great coverage (aside from lakes close to the afore mentioned area where summer holidays are spent). This is repeated at aunt's and grandma's but not the roads between.
Pretty much everyone in the town has Alltel and some crappy to passable CDMA tech (just from looking at them).
On another note: The reason Japan and Korea can roll out awesome networks are social but mostly geographic. Look at Japan for instance. Surface area is tiny compared to US. Japan: 145840 square miles. Texas: 268601 square miles. Also Texas doesn't line up neatly on either side of a mountain range. Sure you can argue user density and back-haul capacity but c'mon that's just one state.
I know this isn't likely to be a problem and I hope that I'm preaching to the converted, but please, for the love of all that is awesome, do not unionize tech jobs.
Unions = expensive to employers. Your job is mostly network based, they have networks in India. You want to press the gas on that problem?
Anyone heard anything in the news recently about all of the big union industries, like GM, Ford, Chrysler?
Goodyear shut down plants a year or so ago because they couldn't afford union labor.
Unions get greedy because they're composed of humans. Think about it, you have a vote on whether you A) demand more money like everyone around you or B) argue that you might hurt the bottom line and end up with your own job vanishing. Long term/empathetic to administration thinking? Might as well paint a target on your back. Corporations suck but when they hit hard times and have unions, they're almost guaranteed to fail.
The problem with outrageously expensive IT is that IT is like the power company. If the lights are on, who gives a crap how it happens. Damn that bill is high though. Nobody notices until the power goes out, and then you cuss those expensive bastards that can't maintain 100% uptime.
Look at Citrix XenServer5. Take an awesome open source product. Add some awesome features closed source, sell it.
On the FOSS adoption side without service contract:
My boss is terrified of having something go wrong while the people that know what they are doing are out of the office. If there is not a 1800 number to call if it breaks, or requires normal operation beyond the remaining staff's knowledge level, he ain't doing it. Spend the money he says.
Rightfully so, in the event that several people were simultaneously hit by the same bus or were on the same plane that crashes. Now you have a free solution that is completely awesome but without some serious documentation (previous guys used google, experience, trial and error) you're up a creek.
I know, I know, a real IT person would document the hell out of it. Unless they were jumping from project to project with a large queue and no end in sight...then not so much.
I think the guy was talking about infiltrating the command-control network and commandeering the robots.
On the corruption side of things, he with the most money wins. Do you think anyone in Iraq can outspend Exxon? It could be argued maybe that Saudi interests could outspend Exxon, but its not like those guys agree on anything enough to form a viable plan of action...sort of.
I think as far as buying influence America has proven the most susceptible and the most influential simultaneously. You wouldn't need to buy the programmers when you can buy their bosses boss, or just the boss of all of the operators anyway.
Sorry for the late reply. Windows RDP only shares app memory as well as the application does. So maybe shared libraries get loaded once, but application data like a cache-glut of email and calendar items are process specific. That is the majority of the problem with Outlook. People that have 3000 items in their inbox and IT bosses without the backbone and/or policy backing to nuke 'em.
XenServer5 has a mode that is essentially custom made for this. It "streams" the OS and applications from a single image to multiple VMs. Clients connect to the VMs via RDP on thin clients. They're blending some of the Citrix Metaframe stuff with Xen VM and some apparently something else for the storage layer.
There are a few modes for storage, one writes changes locally to attached storage on the VM Host. Another uses a RAM Disk. I think the last streams back to a difference/snapshot on the central SAN/NAS.
From their propaganda, which I kind of like, you can upgrade an application, say Acrobat Reader or even AutoDesk stuff and it gets pushed to the ppl on reboot.
The only issues I've had with RDP thin clients (Neoware/linux, now HP) is attaching peripherals other than a keyboard and mouse. We have managed to put cash drawers and receipt printers on them though. Had to do some custom scripting to get the terminal server to act correctly though. It also occasionally gets pissed off with thumb drives on public machines.
You still don't save much on hardware with any large workloads. Its not like that 150MB instance of Outlook gets any smaller on a VM, you just have multiples of it on a single server.
Just by looking around on the road you can tell people are chomping at the bit to drive a tiny tin can looking car, especially if that car is also slow as hell. In fact, the less likely (real or perceived) someone with boobs will give it a second look, the better.
Wait, scratch that, the exact opposite is true.
How about something between the Tesla Roadster and the Smart car. A mid-sized sedan style vehicle that is a plug-in hybrid with a constant RPM diesel generator when needed. Or fuel cells whenever Hydrogen refueling becomes a reality.
0-30 in 6.5 seconds? Sheesh. Better buy a dorky bumper sticker right off the showroom floor. This will give the people waiting behind you at the green light something to laugh at while they try furiously to pass you.
I know it isn't really a behavior, but if you can't afford a hybrid, get a used high efficiency vehicle. It doesn't have to be new to be a gas sipper.
Nissan has a CVT in their Altima but the mileage isn't extremely awesome, not bad at all though. It's supposed to do the "remain in the power band" thing for you if you don't abuse the throttle. You can pretty much stick at the optimal throttle position and it will keep the RPMs almost constant as it accelerates to speed. On a flat surface this RPM/Torque/Speed optimization continues.
Personally, I got a motorcycle. 2008 Suzuki Boulevard M50 (~800cc) costs in the $8k range rolling out the door. Gets 47 MPG City/Highway mix. Haven't had it on the interstate much yet, RPMs aren't optimal at 70MPH though (going by sound, no tach on this model.) Going around 55 on county roads gets it up over 50MPG.
If human evolution is slowing, it isn't because of old dudes having mutated sperm.
* Historically most people and any animal I've heard of reproduced as soon as possible, old fart mating doesn't really make sense. People are actually reproducing at an older age(TRUE)...we get autism(*WILD SPECULATION*).
* Stupid people have more kids, raise them to be stupid.
* Smart people have fewer kids, raise them to reproduce responsibly(less).
* Health care, safety measures, and social medicine keep stupid people alive to the age of reproduction.
This guy is waaaay off. We're devolving...at least mentally, has nothing to do with saggy old balls.
Well, I'm glad the research money is going to good use. I doubt anyone will blink at attaching a $900 piece of hardware to a $700 cow. Since this will replace a fence that requires very very very little maintenance with a system that requires constant attention and talking to cattle.
This has to be the most retarded invention I've ever heard of. What brought about the demand for this device? People who want to be cowboys but don't like the whole cattle/outdoors/cowboy part of things?
I'm sure the several people he hires to replace the batteries will completely mitigate the need for people familiar with herding and handling cattle...wait...no it won't.
I was going to suggest a LiveCD but you beat me to it. I'm kind-of surprised that nobody else mentioned it.
Wasn't this the idea behind the OS agnostic peekabooty, Tor, et. al.
Then again ctunnel rolled over faster than an SUV with Firestones and their site still says "Ctunnel is here to protect your anonymity online!" Even though their approach, technology, and the fact that they even keep logs is pretty freaking stupid.
broadbandsupport.net nameservers are also doing this. I thought I had malware when I accidentally typed updates.microsoft.com (it's only cingular update.microsoft.com) and it redirected me to an information.com site.
Took some digging to figure out WTF. After that I switched to opendns. At least I get some phishiing/adware blocking with my advertisements for url errors.
It's broken DNS to make money off typos without having to domain squat. Hell they can squat a non existent record on an already purchased domain. It is also completely opt-in. You can even brand your error page with a jpg image of your own.
DNS purists need not apply. It does allow for some screwing around on their part if they wanted to. It also prevents you from resolving fastflux.uberhackers.net. However content filtering does requiring proxy-ing of your connection for some sites ostensibly for some security reason.
Google's had a browser for mobile for quite a while. I seriously doubt it ever sees daylight on PocketPC/Symbian.
So is Mozilla aiming to simply beat pocket IE. Not sure about any immediately upcoming version of pocketIE, but unless it is webkit based, I wager it stinks. The current pocket IE (WM6) is just horrible and the reason for the mini browser war in the first place.
I never start with the assumption that my network traffic is not being sniffed by a man-in-the-middle. Some disgruntled ISP employee looking to steal identities. Somebody playing with bgp or whatever. Then there is the fact that my traffic hits a 10. net as a second hop. I'm sure this is just my lame ISP being lame, but it looks odd.
So it is really in your best interest to assume that all of your unencrypted traffic, and indeed the weaker versions of that are being intercepted.
Injecting content and claiming that it is from google.com while using it to add essentially spyware javascript is just dirty. I'm sure someone could rally Google into tearing them a new one if this crops up again. They have tons of lobbying money right?
As long as the replacement of the JavasScript with V8 doesn't comprise much of that "almost" then I guess it is all good. Saw some people complaining about Java plugin here: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/discussion-groups
I think it was the chromium-dev group. On a related note to that forum. Lots of people making weak stabs at compiling it in Linux. Apparently the codebase is not completely final in the repository (yet its only been a few hours) and/or the docs on compiling are incorrect. Could also be loose nuts at the keyboard. There is also the note here http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-linux "Note: There is no working Chromium-based browser on Linux. Although many Chromium submodules build under Linux and a few unit tests pass, all that runs is a command-line 'all tests pass' executable."
Obviously some missing pieces on a market segment they weren't initially aiming at. More fuel to the this is aimed squarely at Redmond thing.
Great stuff right up to the point where they make web apps look like local apps. Unless I read TFA wrong you cannot tell if you're being phished unless you completely trust their database of zero day phishing sites.
So even if their sandbox is impenetrable, they're helping phishers coerce dummies into entering their identity info.
I think the reason for the exclusion of other vendors are for two reasons. 1) I haven't seen anybody with an advanced Nokia device except a guy I know who used to work for Nokia. Maybe the story is different outside of the US. Here, Nokia dethroned itself with a combo of apathy and Symbian. 2) RIM owns the business, especially govt. business, sector in America. iPhone and Android are aiming at consumers.
On point 2 though, the thing they(Apple, and maybe Android) forget is that most successful consumers are also successful employees. Usually gainfully employed people are the ones to plop down some dough on a phone. Paying attention to business is the only thing that keeps RIM alive. I'm sure you can do it, but I've never really seen somebody downloading music to a Blackberry. RIM thrives on monkey-simple UI to business apps namely MS Exchange, [OTHER GROUPWARE], and "productivity software".
Apple initially tried IMAP, then figured this out and squirted out version 2 of the iPhone with Exchange OWA push support. They still managed to screw that up with merging all contact items into a single "All Contacts" default contact view. To avoid this you either have to select the "groups" item which is actually your old folder hierarchy EVERY SINGLE TIME or move the unwanted contacts into a.pst file on a shared drive outside of the Exchange Motherholme. That is something no other Smartphone/PDA vendor has done yet, even a tethered sync with Nokia PCSync would let you be granular on your contact folders. They completely removed the option to exclude extended contact folders you really do not want in your pocket, newbs.
I could rant on about their VPN support/etc, but I'm starting to turn green, grow in size, and resemble Lou Ferigno...Here's hoping Google is not as foolish.
Wow, 1 in 10. Nice odds. Just saying. If I had 1 in 10 or moderately less chance of proving my innocence to a bunch of saps who cannot avoid jury duty I would be scared shitless.
Well crap, I meant intersection. I fail at discrete math.
Note to self - don't kill ppl with plans based on set theory or discrete branching algorithms.
I just thought of something. Maybe he thought his nerd fame carried some weight "on the street." To put it as nerdily as I can, the union of the set of people who care about a filesystem and the legal system is an empty set.
I can't believe a brain that cunning would be so stupid.
I entertained the idea of ReiserFS at one point but decided to go with ext3 even though I had a ton of small files. I think even the looming doubt of his guilt was enough.
This sucks, apparently he failed to traverse the tree of future consequences to a sufficient depth or chose a really bad pruning mechanism for said tree. Sorry, bad joke, had to do it.
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I spent Christmas in a GSM dead zone which is approx 5 miles from a fairly large population and an interstate. At my parents I get 0 bars with the AT&T logo which alternates to 1 bar and no signal depending on atmospheric conditions. A cloud rolled in at about 2AM whereupon I got those "merry christmas" text messages... ah nice to wake up to.
The threshold with which they paint these signal zones on their coverage map is ridiculous. Naturally it only works outdoors or in a window sill at certain times, only on one side of the house. Some parts of the house will work. Almost anywhere else I get great coverage (aside from lakes close to the afore mentioned area where summer holidays are spent). This is repeated at aunt's and grandma's but not the roads between.
Pretty much everyone in the town has Alltel and some crappy to passable CDMA tech (just from looking at them).
On another note:
The reason Japan and Korea can roll out awesome networks are social but mostly geographic. Look at Japan for instance. Surface area is tiny compared to US. Japan: 145840 square miles. Texas: 268601 square miles. Also Texas doesn't line up neatly on either side of a mountain range. Sure you can argue user density and back-haul capacity but c'mon that's just one state.
I know this isn't likely to be a problem and I hope that I'm preaching to the converted, but please, for the love of all that is awesome, do not unionize tech jobs.
Unions = expensive to employers. Your job is mostly network based, they have networks in India. You want to press the gas on that problem?
Anyone heard anything in the news recently about all of the big union industries, like GM, Ford, Chrysler?
Goodyear shut down plants a year or so ago because they couldn't afford union labor.
Unions get greedy because they're composed of humans. Think about it, you have a vote on whether you A) demand more money like everyone around you or B) argue that you might hurt the bottom line and end up with your own job vanishing. Long term/empathetic to administration thinking? Might as well paint a target on your back. Corporations suck but when they hit hard times and have unions, they're almost guaranteed to fail.
The problem with outrageously expensive IT is that IT is like the power company. If the lights are on, who gives a crap how it happens. Damn that bill is high though. Nobody notices until the power goes out, and then you cuss those expensive bastards that can't maintain 100% uptime.
Want to move your job to India? Unionize!
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. In other news, scientist have proven that sticking your hand in a blender may produce dexterity issues down the road.
Look at Citrix XenServer5. Take an awesome open source product. Add some awesome features closed source, sell it.
On the FOSS adoption side without service contract:
My boss is terrified of having something go wrong while the people that know what they are doing are out of the office. If there is not a 1800 number to call if it breaks, or requires normal operation beyond the remaining staff's knowledge level, he ain't doing it. Spend the money he says.
Rightfully so, in the event that several people were simultaneously hit by the same bus or were on the same plane that crashes. Now you have a free solution that is completely awesome but without some serious documentation (previous guys used google, experience, trial and error) you're up a creek.
I know, I know, a real IT person would document the hell out of it. Unless they were jumping from project to project with a large queue and no end in sight...then not so much.
I think the guy was talking about infiltrating the command-control network and commandeering the robots.
On the corruption side of things, he with the most money wins. Do you think anyone in Iraq can outspend Exxon? It could be argued maybe that Saudi interests could outspend Exxon, but its not like those guys agree on anything enough to form a viable plan of action...sort of.
I think as far as buying influence America has proven the most susceptible and the most influential simultaneously. You wouldn't need to buy the programmers when you can buy their bosses boss, or just the boss of all of the operators anyway.
Sorry for the late reply. Windows RDP only shares app memory as well as the application does. So maybe shared libraries get loaded once, but application data like a cache-glut of email and calendar items are process specific. That is the majority of the problem with Outlook. People that have 3000 items in their inbox and IT bosses without the backbone and/or policy backing to nuke 'em.
XenServer5 has a mode that is essentially custom made for this. It "streams" the OS and applications from a single image to multiple VMs. Clients connect to the VMs via RDP on thin clients. They're blending some of the Citrix Metaframe stuff with Xen VM and some apparently something else for the storage layer. There are a few modes for storage, one writes changes locally to attached storage on the VM Host. Another uses a RAM Disk. I think the last streams back to a difference/snapshot on the central SAN/NAS. From their propaganda, which I kind of like, you can upgrade an application, say Acrobat Reader or even AutoDesk stuff and it gets pushed to the ppl on reboot. The only issues I've had with RDP thin clients (Neoware/linux, now HP) is attaching peripherals other than a keyboard and mouse. We have managed to put cash drawers and receipt printers on them though. Had to do some custom scripting to get the terminal server to act correctly though. It also occasionally gets pissed off with thumb drives on public machines. You still don't save much on hardware with any large workloads. Its not like that 150MB instance of Outlook gets any smaller on a VM, you just have multiples of it on a single server.
Just by looking around on the road you can tell people are chomping at the bit to drive a tiny tin can looking car, especially if that car is also slow as hell. In fact, the less likely (real or perceived) someone with boobs will give it a second look, the better.
Wait, scratch that, the exact opposite is true.
How about something between the Tesla Roadster and the Smart car. A mid-sized sedan style vehicle that is a plug-in hybrid with a constant RPM diesel generator when needed. Or fuel cells whenever Hydrogen refueling becomes a reality.
0-30 in 6.5 seconds? Sheesh. Better buy a dorky bumper sticker right off the showroom floor. This will give the people waiting behind you at the green light something to laugh at while they try furiously to pass you.
I know it isn't really a behavior, but if you can't afford a hybrid, get a used high efficiency vehicle. It doesn't have to be new to be a gas sipper.
Nissan has a CVT in their Altima but the mileage isn't extremely awesome, not bad at all though. It's supposed to do the "remain in the power band" thing for you if you don't abuse the throttle. You can pretty much stick at the optimal throttle position and it will keep the RPMs almost constant as it accelerates to speed. On a flat surface this RPM/Torque/Speed optimization continues.
Personally, I got a motorcycle. 2008 Suzuki Boulevard M50 (~800cc) costs in the $8k range rolling out the door. Gets 47 MPG City/Highway mix. Haven't had it on the interstate much yet, RPMs aren't optimal at 70MPH though (going by sound, no tach on this model.) Going around 55 on county roads gets it up over 50MPG.
If human evolution is slowing, it isn't because of old dudes having mutated sperm.
* Historically most people and any animal I've heard of reproduced as soon as possible, old fart mating doesn't really make sense. People are actually reproducing at an older age(TRUE)...we get autism(*WILD SPECULATION*).
* Stupid people have more kids, raise them to be stupid.
* Smart people have fewer kids, raise them to reproduce responsibly(less).
* Health care, safety measures, and social medicine keep stupid people alive to the age of reproduction.
This guy is waaaay off. We're devolving...at least mentally, has nothing to do with saggy old balls.
Well, I'm glad the research money is going to good use. I doubt anyone will blink at attaching a $900 piece of hardware to a $700 cow. Since this will replace a fence that requires very very very little maintenance with a system that requires constant attention and talking to cattle.
This has to be the most retarded invention I've ever heard of. What brought about the demand for this device? People who want to be cowboys but don't like the whole cattle/outdoors/cowboy part of things?
I'm sure the several people he hires to replace the batteries will completely mitigate the need for people familiar with herding and handling cattle...wait...no it won't.
I mean WTF?! Really?
Just have to say LMFAO @ purpledrank. Syp-syp-sypin on som' sysurip. Gota screw it down on the third coast. jebus, that's funny.
I was going to suggest a LiveCD but you beat me to it. I'm kind-of surprised that nobody else mentioned it.
Wasn't this the idea behind the OS agnostic peekabooty, Tor, et. al.
Then again ctunnel rolled over faster than an SUV with Firestones and their site still says "Ctunnel is here to protect your anonymity online!" Even though their approach, technology, and the fact that they even keep logs is pretty freaking stupid.
broadbandsupport.net nameservers are also doing this. I thought I had malware when I accidentally typed updates.microsoft.com (it's only cingular update.microsoft.com) and it redirected me to an information.com site.
Took some digging to figure out WTF. After that I switched to opendns. At least I get some phishiing/adware blocking with my advertisements for url errors.
It's broken DNS to make money off typos without having to domain squat. Hell they can squat a non existent record on an already purchased domain. It is also completely opt-in. You can even brand your error page with a jpg image of your own.
DNS purists need not apply. It does allow for some screwing around on their part if they wanted to. It also prevents you from resolving fastflux.uberhackers.net. However content filtering does requiring proxy-ing of your connection for some sites ostensibly for some security reason.
Actually Google has had a webkit-based mobile browser for Android since an SDK Release last year.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/11/web-as-seen-through-googles-mobile.html
Google's had a browser for mobile for quite a while. I seriously doubt it ever sees daylight on PocketPC/Symbian.
So is Mozilla aiming to simply beat pocket IE. Not sure about any immediately upcoming version of pocketIE, but unless it is webkit based, I wager it stinks. The current pocket IE (WM6) is just horrible and the reason for the mini browser war in the first place.
I never start with the assumption that my network traffic is not being sniffed by a man-in-the-middle. Some disgruntled ISP employee looking to steal identities. Somebody playing with bgp or whatever. Then there is the fact that my traffic hits a 10. net as a second hop. I'm sure this is just my lame ISP being lame, but it looks odd.
So it is really in your best interest to assume that all of your unencrypted traffic, and indeed the weaker versions of that are being intercepted.
I do take issue with JavaScript injection that amounts to a man-in-the-middle attack http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/topolski_takes_on_nebuad/
Injecting content and claiming that it is from google.com while using it to add essentially spyware javascript is just dirty. I'm sure someone could rally Google into tearing them a new one if this crops up again. They have tons of lobbying money right?
"If your website works in Safari 3.1, it'll almost certainly work in Google Chrome. "
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95696&query=safari&topic=&type=
As long as the replacement of the JavasScript with V8 doesn't comprise much of that "almost" then I guess it is all good. Saw some people complaining about Java plugin here: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/discussion-groups
I think it was the chromium-dev group. On a related note to that forum. Lots of people making weak stabs at compiling it in Linux. Apparently the codebase is not completely final in the repository (yet its only been a few hours) and/or the docs on compiling are incorrect. Could also be loose nuts at the keyboard. There is also the note here http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-linux "Note: There is no working Chromium-based browser on Linux. Although many Chromium submodules build under Linux and a few unit tests pass, all that runs is a command-line 'all tests pass' executable."
Obviously some missing pieces on a market segment they weren't initially aiming at. More fuel to the this is aimed squarely at Redmond thing.
Great stuff right up to the point where they make web apps look like local apps. Unless I read TFA wrong you cannot tell if you're being phished unless you completely trust their database of zero day phishing sites.
So even if their sandbox is impenetrable, they're helping phishers coerce dummies into entering their identity info.
Also from the post "...and its holder writes a thousand checks a month."
Wonder how this happened.
I think the reason for the exclusion of other vendors are for two reasons.
1) I haven't seen anybody with an advanced Nokia device except a guy I know who used to work for Nokia. Maybe the story is different outside of the US. Here, Nokia dethroned itself with a combo of apathy and Symbian.
2) RIM owns the business, especially govt. business, sector in America. iPhone and Android are aiming at consumers.
On point 2 though, the thing they(Apple, and maybe Android) forget is that most successful consumers are also successful employees. Usually gainfully employed people are the ones to plop down some dough on a phone. Paying attention to business is the only thing that keeps RIM alive. I'm sure you can do it, but I've never really seen somebody downloading music to a Blackberry. RIM thrives on monkey-simple UI to business apps namely MS Exchange, [OTHER GROUPWARE], and "productivity software".
Apple initially tried IMAP, then figured this out and squirted out version 2 of the iPhone with Exchange OWA push support. They still managed to screw that up with merging all contact items into a single "All Contacts" default contact view. To avoid this you either have to select the "groups" item which is actually your old folder hierarchy EVERY SINGLE TIME or move the unwanted contacts into a .pst file on a shared drive outside of the Exchange Motherholme. That is something no other Smartphone/PDA vendor has done yet, even a tethered sync with Nokia PCSync would let you be granular on your contact folders. They completely removed the option to exclude extended contact folders you really do not want in your pocket, newbs.
I could rant on about their VPN support/etc, but I'm starting to turn green, grow in size, and resemble Lou Ferigno...Here's hoping Google is not as foolish.
Wow, 1 in 10. Nice odds. Just saying. If I had 1 in 10 or moderately less chance of proving my innocence to a bunch of saps who cannot avoid jury duty I would be scared shitless.
So he's the white-and-nerdy OJ?
That is ridiculously funny.
Well crap, I meant intersection. I fail at discrete math. Note to self - don't kill ppl with plans based on set theory or discrete branching algorithms.
I just thought of something. Maybe he thought his nerd fame carried some weight "on the street." To put it as nerdily as I can, the union of the set of people who care about a filesystem and the legal system is an empty set.
I can't believe a brain that cunning would be so stupid.
I entertained the idea of ReiserFS at one point but decided to go with ext3 even though I had a ton of small files. I think even the looming doubt of his guilt was enough.
This sucks, apparently he failed to traverse the tree of future consequences to a sufficient depth or chose a really bad pruning mechanism for said tree. Sorry, bad joke, had to do it.