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Comment Re:Link? (Score 5, Insightful) 308

The summary is poorly worded.

It's not that clearing your browsing history, throwing out old logs/emails or flushing your toilet are inherently illegal, it's when you use them and why.

If the cops are knocking at your door and you decide to flush the drugs, that's obstruction, if you just hacked someone's system and then wiped all of the local logs on your machine to hide the evidence, that's obstruction. If however you have as a routine process... not to retain any email older than say... 30 days and purge pretty regularly (either manually or automatically), that's not obstruction, that's just good cleanliness, and if some incriminating evidence happens to be wiped out on day 30, it's a lot harder to prove that you were doing so to hide your wrongdoing rather than simply not wanting to have to keep around old Amazon offers which clutter your inbox.

Comment Re:Good news (Score 1) 391

Well, then rationally show me some examples of "good guys with guns" stopping anything. It just doesn't happen.

Stick to emotional arguments because the facts do not support you.

Paducah KY.

The assistant principle retrieved his pistol from his vehicle and stopped a school shooting before the police were on scene.

LK

Comment Re:Lower Receiver? (Score 1) 391

The easy way out of this for the feds is to serialized the barrel.

You're not correct. Not only are you not correct, you don't know enough to understand how this will be skirted.

Let me explain.

This kind of idiotic thing would lead to sympathetic manufacturers making and selling 36-48 inch barrels that people will cut and re-crown at home to make their own unserialized barrels at home.

LK

Comment Re:No media center? Windows 10 is DEAD to me... (Score 1) 468

You realize the last "Media Center Edition" was XP... right? Media Center was built into the higher SKUs of Vista & 7 and available as a quick and relatively cheap add in ($15?) for 8... free keys for which they gave away for quite a while. ... or are you saying that XP was crap? ... which would be an unusual view on /. these days.

Comment Re:Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (Score 1) 285

Hell, I even played with scripting text to speech alerting just to see if I could, and it was really easy!

I know a guy who did that with a telephony system which calls him when something goes wrong then accepts voice input for what to do next... including executing a limited # of PS commands.

I've not seen the code, but like you said, I'm told it's pretty easy.

Comment Re:Odd thoughts: (Score 1) 285

PowerShell primary commands are formatted Verb-Noun. This is awfully convenient, as a PowerShell user can guess hundreds of commands just by learning a few verbs and a few nouns.

Not to mention built in tab completion for arguments where you can read the man page after finding the cmdlet to know which arguments you will have to use, or just quickly tab through to what you know is going to be there.

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