Small country, I'll bite. What's their excuse for New York, Los Angeles, DC, Philadelphia, Houston, etc?

Isn't the 9th circuit also one of the most overturned in the country? Kinda makes you question the competency of its judges.

Should have double checked that before posting. Either the various computer crimes laws were repealed, or LII has an incomplete/inaccurate database.

18 U.S.C. 103(a)(5)

There's a timestamp tool, name of which I can't remember, which sets all your files to random timestamps. Run that once on the to-be-found partition, and then cron it on your unencrypted data, and you won't have to touch the fake partition again

Not arguing for piracy. Arguing against the fallacy that being able to afford the phone plan equates to being able to afford all its bells and whistles.

It's a time investment. Depending on where you work, $50 may be 5 minutes, or it may be 5 hours. Don't know about you, but most of the people I know consider time in vs time out when valuing things. Then again, most of the people I know have an idea what 'ls' does.

Some apps are quite expensive. The sling player on android is $30, not *that* bad, and a garmin app for over $100. But, if you're unlucky enough to have an iProduct, there's a $1000 bar exam study guide. You also have to consider the return on investment. A $50 stick of ram will last you years. A $20 android game? A few days, maybe.

How do you get something to run at boot on Gentoo? On Redhat? On Ubuntu? Hint: it varies widely with distro. The combination of startup scripts, configuration files, home directories, and even binaries leaves your trojan hunting for all these things. Combined with the fact different distros have different libs, means if the distro doesn't have the exact libs needed, the trojan won't run in the first place. As someone who has written primarily C for the last 12 years, I find networking to be the easiest part of a program. Dealing with the unknowns (rc.d? init.d? rc.local? /home? /usr/home? /etc? /usr/local/etc? /etc/conf.d? /opt/bin? /usr/local/bin? kde 3? kde 4? xfce? fluxbox? etc) is infinitely more difficult.

Most recent attacks have been via stupid users, not buggy OS. The reason Linux hasn't been targeted is threefold: 1) next to nobody uses it, thus a waste of effort to write malware for it; 2) its users aren't retarded; 3) each distro is completely different, unlike different Windows versions.

This is where CALEA comes into play.

With Cisco, you'll be on hold for 3 hours, until you read off your product serial number. Then they tell you you've reached EOL for the product in question, and offer to sell you an identical product whose only difference is the product number, at a vastly increased price. However, they won't tell you what the price is until you sign an NDA, because the gouge each customer differently.

They do this with pretty much every company they buy. Psionic and Riverhead come to mind quickly for me. The only reason they kept the Linksys brand was because they had no competing product at the time.

The real world is most users of MySQL don't care a damn about any of those. They care about which is easiest and cheapest to implement. So called MySQL experts are a dime a dozen. When you search Google for database software, you see MySQL on the first page of results, not Postgre, not MSSQL/SQL Server, and not Oracle. Lastly, other than standards zealots, who demands ACID compliance? In the real world, quality is often an afterthought.