Ham radio is one of the last difficult to suppress communication mediums and for some reason an attempt to 'sell' this space just strikes me as not a good for public thing.

By his own admission he was using google while driving.

and of the top two downloaded porn files?

#1 Teen Anal Nightmare 2
#2 Batman XXX: A Porn Parody

ok, grab the excel case list and look at the files claimed, they could shame some into paying....

really.

getting the controller is a bitch.

we were just playing a bowling game......

Yes it LITERALLY rains cats and dogs, doesn't it do that on your planet, I suppose if you tossed some off the roof it would, I hear it rained blackbirds in Arkansas, maybe the cats chase the birds and in turn the dogs chase them?

Red Hat does seem to be doing well enough, they built their business from day one on open source, its not easy to do but you can profit while open, what is not
easy to do is take a commercial entity that has grown fat and inefficient running on a closed model, snap your fingers and say its open source.

So, you believe that Ponytail helped Sun?

And yes I meant britches down, its either lift the skirt or drop the britches, the mistake is funny.

Solarryus.

If Larry is in to profit he is in for it all; any kindness would result in less profit.

Look at it this way, Ponytail went too far in open sourcing everything he could, he literally slashed Sun's throat, Oracle has participated in open source
previous to the Sun acquisition and I suspect will continue to do so; what they will not do is lift their britches for free.

I don't like where the support model is head for Solaris, someone got the idea that 20% of their customer base resulted in 80% of their profit, this equation often
holds true, if you cut the 80 percent that is left and look at the 20% as 100% you'll be able to once more say 80% of my profit comes from 20% of my customers.

Either way I see a lot of the whining coming out of the Sun acquisition coming from the very same people who put Sun in a position to be acquired.

As someone who has made a fairly good career out of supporting Solaris I believe what Larry is doing will at the very least keep Solaris around for a while longer
and that suits me just fine.

Wear leveling for flash....

my 120GB OCZ disk has 128GB of space, 8 reserved for dead cells and for wear leveling.

so write 120GB of data to the disk (fill it) remove a text file full of passwords, fill the disk.

the result (if all cells have the same number of uses) would/could be that the SSD in the interest of wear leveling will take lower used cells from the reserve
and leave the cells that I just erased unused.

but heres the problem.

1. all secure data should be, well, secure, encrypted or otherwise
2. this makes a lot of assumptions about the state of the drive, its possible but its going to very difficult (if at all feasible) for anyone but professionals from pulling data off.

if your worried about this and choose not to encrypt running a traditional disk wipe with 3 or 7 pass, wear leveling should still scramble the remaining bits so long as you fill the disk.

Chicken Little was right.

Party beliefs are that property is that of the people, really you should only have to buy one copy for all of China, in this case I think they've overpaid, but that could be said for anyone that pays the Micro$oft tax.

I believe there is more here than Omega watches, imagine this applied to other 'copyrighted' items, like a Sony game, a Warner Bros Movie, a Telarc CD, a Apple computer.....
If this decision was broadly applied to all resale (new or used) its a mess that only the corporations could love, in effect it invalidates ownership and turns it into licensing.

I've always wondered about the idea that the RIAA and in this case the ESA can use 'pirated' materials as evidence.

If I am an agent of the RIAA and I knowingly download a song am I not within the rights to copy in as much as I am an agent of the copyright holder?

If as an agent of the RIAA/ESA I download what I believe to be protected works of those whose interests I protect is making available (to me) a crime? after all, as a agent of the 'artist' I should be
able to do so without committing a 'crime'

Which brings me to the point I find funny.

How could this undercover agent believe that the game was pirated? if it was he violated the copyright and so called shrinkwrap license but as an agent of the game publisher(s) working with their
consent he wouldn't dare as technically he would be just as (if not more) guilty of the perceived crime.

If this same man produced child porn and handed it to the defendant, who would be perceived as the larger criminal?

This guy got real lucky that the prosecution's star witness got caught in either a direct lie or they got caught in a lie of omission and/or lack of disclosure hoping that the defense would be caught
unaware.

Let me guess, using depleted uranium rounds? couple of strikes and the depleted could become enriched?

double hot dead rabbit, next up, hot scavengers.

Thats one hot rabbit, no, really, its hot.

And while we're on the topic of hot rabbit, do you suppose rabbit finished on plutonium taste less gamey?

Sergey vs. Larry.