Miranda rights only take effect once you are of custodial status (in other words, once you're arrested). If they ask to see your laptop in advance of any such situation and you choose to let them, you fucked yourself over and have nobody else to blame.
Using the physical "locked safe" analogy: they can't compel you to open the safe. But if you open it and they get a good look at a box marked "COCAINE", you have waived your Fifth Amendment rights with regard to that and they can get a warrant to open and inspect that safe. Here, it's harder to open an encrypted file than it is to drill out the lock on a safe, so he's being compelled to provide access. If he doesn't--which I would think is probably, though not necessarily, the correct course of action--he may be confronted with contempt of court or obstruction of justice charges (IANAL, I don't know how that'd work).
Old growth forests have maximized the amount of carbon they will ever sequester and don't even really provide a lot of oxygen to the environment (compared to other sources). Cutting them down is not inherently bad, as long as you aren't freeing up that carbon--if you're making paper or wooden products out of the trees (two-by-fours, chairs, whatever), it's fine.
At any rate, American logging companies at least plant more trees than they ever plan to harvest.
Depends on the website, though. I mean, D6 will be supported for quite a long time anyway, and some modules just may never upgrade to D7 because of the enormity of it.
Drupal's upgradability from module version to module version, though, really kind of sucks. Manual administration in 2009? Untarring the damn files by hand? what the hell?
It's actually a pretty nice program. For some tasks,.NET is nice to work with, and a free copy of the full version of VS2008 is pretty handy. (I'd rather they fix ASP.NET first, but that's never going to happen.)
If you are going to be dealing with a site of that size with those requirements, Joomla is probably not what you want. (I would argue that Joomla is never what you want, because it sucks, but I digress.) I think you want Drupal.
Joomla content is just that--a blob of content. Title, body, section, category, done. Drupal allows you to define node types for your content using the Content Construction Kit (CCK), adding text fields, user-reference fields, images, even just files--so you can tie your PDF to a node and give it taxonomic tags on-the-fly, rather than Joomla's boneheaded section/category system (which does not support multiple tags). Creation of new pages is about the same in each, though I prefer Drupal's interface for management.
The one minus for Drupal is that for a small site it tends to be rather heavyweight, with a lot of database requests and modules that make it a bit slow. When on decent hardware, however, it's quite snappy, and Drupal scales up very well.
And you have nothing to compare with Absynth or RealStrat or AmpliTube (no, the SimulAnalog ones are not equivalent, and I'm not even sure they're open-source) or, like I said, any of the actual software, like Reason or Ableton.
I'd love for this magical world of free shit to be possible, because I'd spend a lot less, but it does not, at present, exist.
Oh, and to address the dodge of "cheap enough"--in modern media, there is a definite correlation between quality and expenditure. For electronic music, for example (because I do some electronica), the software is expensive and there are no decent open source equivalents for most of the lineups of any of the major companies. Rosegarden is pretty good, but it doesn't address, say, Propellerheads Reason or even most of the functionality of Ableton Live (the tool I'd say it's closest to). And there are very few VSTs or other similar tools available for free.
So if you want it "cheap enough," it's not going to be "good enough" for people to buy, and, uh, you just killed quality media.
There is likely a business model that works, but it's not "bottom out the prices and hope more than one person buys it before it hits the torrents".
And, uh, where exactly is the profit for that? Because if you think modern media has a 75% markup over costs, you have no idea what the costs of modern media (books, television, music, movies, any of it) actually are.
Yes, you must factor in profit, because as much as the "free everything" crowd wants you to believe it, most high-quality media is still put out by profit-making people who spend money to make money.
It's a problem with Slashdot. Against all recommendations, the tards put the Analytics JavaScript at the top of the page, which stops the browser (some, anyway) until it fully loads. If you put it at the bottom, everything loads correctly even if the.js file is nonresponsive.
I'm curious as to why, to be honest. The data isn't personally identifiable, and arguably makes it easier to tailor my site to you.
Example--a client of mine refuses to entertain the idea that designing to standards, rather than to IE, is a good idea. "Design to our market!" Welp, after a few weeks on Analytics, I pulled his browser stats and pointed out that about 45% of his market was not on IE. Those statistics convinced him to make a push for more standard code that looked fine on IE and looked correct on Firefox, Opera, etc.
Tracking your demographic information enhances the web because we can tailor sites to our visitors. You benefit, too.
I don't really "frequent" many websites. I go to a lot of them, though. I'd rather block-on-request (and flashblock does the rest).
And I don't block Google Analytics. I consider it rude. I use it on my sites to figure out the demographics of my sites' visitors so I can best provide content they'll want--blocking it on other people would be rude.
NoScript involves managing everything. It's more work than I personally care to do regarding the Interbutt. I'd rather just block Flash and allow what I want.
I would say that most Mac users don't do that, though. A higher proportion of developers do, of course, but I know a couple of pretty heavy developers who use Macs and are outright hostile to the idea of using a command line. Which is funny, because one of them has been writing code on the Mac since System 7, using MPW (which had a command line!).
The iphone can be a very open platform, and a good one at that. It just needs people to move from the official SDK and create ones own; to forgo the rules imposed. To make whatever one wants...
Are you going to make it possible to be paid doing that?
So you're not a Linux user, you're a user of multiple OSes. Thank you for helping me prove my original point: that Slashdot users are not merely "alternative OS users" and that Windows stories are germane.:)
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Right, because the police are stupid! They don't test the password on a bit-for-bit copy of the drive, hell no, that's too tough for them.
And also of course, what you suggest surely isn't a crime (evidence tampering) or anything!
Moron.
Miranda rights only take effect once you are of custodial status (in other words, once you're arrested). If they ask to see your laptop in advance of any such situation and you choose to let them, you fucked yourself over and have nobody else to blame.
Using the physical "locked safe" analogy: they can't compel you to open the safe. But if you open it and they get a good look at a box marked "COCAINE", you have waived your Fifth Amendment rights with regard to that and they can get a warrant to open and inspect that safe. Here, it's harder to open an encrypted file than it is to drill out the lock on a safe, so he's being compelled to provide access. If he doesn't--which I would think is probably, though not necessarily, the correct course of action--he may be confronted with contempt of court or obstruction of justice charges (IANAL, I don't know how that'd work).
Would it be contempt of court, or obstruction of justice?
Old growth forests have maximized the amount of carbon they will ever sequester and don't even really provide a lot of oxygen to the environment (compared to other sources). Cutting them down is not inherently bad, as long as you aren't freeing up that carbon--if you're making paper or wooden products out of the trees (two-by-fours, chairs, whatever), it's fine.
At any rate, American logging companies at least plant more trees than they ever plan to harvest.
Depends on the website, though. I mean, D6 will be supported for quite a long time anyway, and some modules just may never upgrade to D7 because of the enormity of it.
Drupal's upgradability from module version to module version, though, really kind of sucks. Manual administration in 2009? Untarring the damn files by hand? what the hell?
Silverlight's supposed to work with ASP.NET (ASP.NET queueing and serving Silverlight, etc.). ASP.NET is not a "dead MS tech".
ASP.NET also is terrible, but I digress.
"There are very few VSTs available for free."
"But X is!"
"And W, Y, and Z aren't."
"Oh, well, I don't use W, Y, or Z."
That's the moving of goalposts.
They are. Server 2003 and Server 2008, too.
It's actually a pretty nice program. For some tasks, .NET is nice to work with, and a free copy of the full version of VS2008 is pretty handy. (I'd rather they fix ASP.NET first, but that's never going to happen.)
If you are going to be dealing with a site of that size with those requirements, Joomla is probably not what you want. (I would argue that Joomla is never what you want, because it sucks, but I digress.) I think you want Drupal.
Joomla content is just that--a blob of content. Title, body, section, category, done. Drupal allows you to define node types for your content using the Content Construction Kit (CCK), adding text fields, user-reference fields, images, even just files--so you can tie your PDF to a node and give it taxonomic tags on-the-fly, rather than Joomla's boneheaded section/category system (which does not support multiple tags). Creation of new pages is about the same in each, though I prefer Drupal's interface for management.
The one minus for Drupal is that for a small site it tends to be rather heavyweight, with a lot of database requests and modules that make it a bit slow. When on decent hardware, however, it's quite snappy, and Drupal scales up very well.
Those goalposts you're moving must be heavy.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
And you have nothing to compare with Absynth or RealStrat or AmpliTube (no, the SimulAnalog ones are not equivalent, and I'm not even sure they're open-source) or, like I said, any of the actual software, like Reason or Ableton.
I'd love for this magical world of free shit to be possible, because I'd spend a lot less, but it does not, at present, exist.
Sorry, I've been knee-deep in philosophy homework all day. Thank you. :)
Oh, and to address the dodge of "cheap enough"--in modern media, there is a definite correlation between quality and expenditure. For electronic music, for example (because I do some electronica), the software is expensive and there are no decent open source equivalents for most of the lineups of any of the major companies. Rosegarden is pretty good, but it doesn't address, say, Propellerheads Reason or even most of the functionality of Ableton Live (the tool I'd say it's closest to). And there are very few VSTs or other similar tools available for free.
So if you want it "cheap enough," it's not going to be "good enough" for people to buy, and, uh, you just killed quality media.
There is likely a business model that works, but it's not "bottom out the prices and hope more than one person buys it before it hits the torrents".
And, uh, where exactly is the profit for that? Because if you think modern media has a 75% markup over costs, you have no idea what the costs of modern media (books, television, music, movies, any of it) actually are.
Yes, you must factor in profit, because as much as the "free everything" crowd wants you to believe it, most high-quality media is still put out by profit-making people who spend money to make money.
It's a problem with Slashdot. Against all recommendations, the tards put the Analytics JavaScript at the top of the page, which stops the browser (some, anyway) until it fully loads. If you put it at the bottom, everything loads correctly even if the .js file is nonresponsive.
I'm curious as to why, to be honest. The data isn't personally identifiable, and arguably makes it easier to tailor my site to you.
Example--a client of mine refuses to entertain the idea that designing to standards, rather than to IE, is a good idea. "Design to our market!" Welp, after a few weeks on Analytics, I pulled his browser stats and pointed out that about 45% of his market was not on IE. Those statistics convinced him to make a push for more standard code that looked fine on IE and looked correct on Firefox, Opera, etc.
Tracking your demographic information enhances the web because we can tailor sites to our visitors. You benefit, too.
I don't really "frequent" many websites. I go to a lot of them, though. I'd rather block-on-request (and flashblock does the rest).
And I don't block Google Analytics. I consider it rude. I use it on my sites to figure out the demographics of my sites' visitors so I can best provide content they'll want--blocking it on other people would be rude.
Moonlight will compile on ARM, IIRC. (May be wrong, but I heard something about that.)
NoScript involves managing everything. It's more work than I personally care to do regarding the Interbutt. I'd rather just block Flash and allow what I want.
I would say that most Mac users don't do that, though. A higher proportion of developers do, of course, but I know a couple of pretty heavy developers who use Macs and are outright hostile to the idea of using a command line. Which is funny, because one of them has been writing code on the Mac since System 7, using MPW (which had a command line!).
Mac^H^H^H people are weird.
Of course. I'm posting this on my fold-out 27"-screen super-laptop with a holographic keyboard and laser-guided missile defense system.
You and your weenie netbooks. Pfaw.
The iphone can be a very open platform, and a good one at that. It just needs people to move from the official SDK and create ones own; to forgo the rules imposed. To make whatever one wants...
Are you going to make it possible to be paid doing that?
Actually, I looked it up after your post because it sounded like bullshit.
You told it to update your computer. It didn't tell you exactly what it was doing. Does Microsoft Update tell you everything it's going to touch?
If you ask, yes.
(Even eeeeeeeeeeeevil WGA is in the list!)
So you're not a Linux user, you're a user of multiple OSes. Thank you for helping me prove my original point: that Slashdot users are not merely "alternative OS users" and that Windows stories are germane. :)