I call Bullshit. Breaking the law does NOT require intent before you can be charged.

"Honestly, officer, I didn't MEAN to speed. I just wasn't paying attention."
"But I didn't MEAN to kill that other hunter. I just shot at the sound and didn't know what was in the bushes."
"I didn't MEAN to run that stop sign. I didn't see it because I was busy playing with my cell phone."

If intent was part of the prosecution then there wouldn't be a need for the saying "Ignorance of the law is no defense." You can still be charged and prosecuted for breaking a law even if you didn't KNOW it was illegal.

Disclosing classified material, which she should have known was classified, is breaking the law. If I did that when I was in charge of classified information it would have gotten me arrested, my security clearance revoked, and my job changed. I would never be allowed to handle classified material again.

Instead the FBI says "Oh, let's not prosecute her because she didn't MEAN to reveal classified material over an illegal, unsecured email system.

The more likely reason they decided not to prosecute was that they didn't want to draw attention to the fact that multiple classified email messages were sent over an unsecured system and are possibly stored in the backup systems of the commercial email servers. Sweep it under the rug, deny there was any wrongdoing, and hope nobody remembers it once the election circus starts.

Which is why they just copy the entire hard drive in situ. After returning your laptop, they can open a copy of your OS and files in a virtual machine. If it tries to boot from the alternate partition and overwriting the partition in question, they just load another copy of your files and work around your trick.

If your primary partition is encrypted, that might set them back another 30 minutes to determine the encryption key. It isn't as easy as using "xyzzy" as an override passphrase, but almost.

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There was another idea back in the 1950s that might be resurrected, if the car companies hadn't killed the spare tire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The troubling section starts on page 47, where it states "Defendant Has No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in His Computer".

The judge states that because home computers can be hacked so easily, it becomes a common assumption that your home computer MIGHT be hacked, therefore your expectation of privacy is forfeit. Just like a broken window blind allows police to peek into your home, an easily exploited vulnerability on your home computer means you assume your data is not private. Even a password protected file is not immune to discovery because everyone knows passwords can be easily defeated. (pages 47 - 55)

The judge's analysis is similar to saying we should not really expect any privacy in our homes because a skilled locksmith can unlock our front door at any time, and a locked safe in the home is not really private because a skilled safe cracker can open it easily. The judge is saying that because something MIGHT happen, we should assume it WILL happen, and thus give up our right to expectations of privacy.

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What? You don't have a cold-metal-restore backup? You relied on the restore partition being left alone by all malware? All malware (in this case Win10) should leave your partition configuration just the way it is?

Sounds like you need to rethink your backup strategy soon. A full disk backup and an external copy of your BIOS setup is essential.

And you shouldn't have needed to swap hard drives to get your partition table configured again. DISKPART should have been able to do it, assuming you have a restore CD with a WinPE environment and can setup your UEFI and data partitions. I will admit your post doesn't state if you tried this or not, but I'll assume you didn't because you needed to swap to a pre-configured hard drive.

Your problem is similar to purchasing a new hard drive or SSD. You will need to configure the hardware before installing any OS. Assuming your hardware will always remain configured so you can restore Win7 from your vendor's restore media is a recipe for frustration.

DISCLAIMER: Yeah, I've been in your same situation before. It took me a while to collect the proper Ghost/Trueimage and BartPE/WinPESE tools for a true disaster recovery toolkit, but the peace of mind is worth the effort.

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Let's see. How about Discus throw, Shot put, Hammer throw, Sumo wrestling, Weightlifting, Rugby, Shooting, Archery, American football, or bowling.

All of those are either enhanced by extra weight or at least beer-gut neutral.

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Ha Ha. So few people will get the reference to that.

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Why not just have a charge-back system where every email that gets flagged as Spam costs the sender a penny. Until you pay the fine, you're not allowed to send to more than 100 additional emails before your sending ability is frozen.

Legitimate businesses will hardly ever receive more than 100 Spam flags if they offer an opt-out method that actually works. ISPs that continue to host personal domains that don't comply with the charge-back run the risk of being flagged as Open-Relay mail systems and their emails refused.

20 million emails flagged as Spam would incur a $200,000 fine, payable before the next batch of Spam emails could be sent. End of profitability.

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Paint Shop Pro also has a batch mode for making image corrections. You open a sample document, turn on the macro recorder, make your corrections (crop, straighten, brightness, contrast, re-sample resolution, save location, etc), save the macro, then apply the macro to all the files in a folder.

Doing a quick review of the resulting output images allows you to correct any anomalies because the original files don't have to be overwritten. Very convenient and useful for a ~$50 software package.

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We have ScanSnap scanners at work and one of the biggest pains is they do NOT support the TWAIN/ISIS driver standard. That means you cannot scan using any software except the ScanSnap software. And at ~$900 it is a little expensive for home use.

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We have ScanSnap scanners at work and one of the biggest pains is they do NOT support the TWAIN/ISIS driver standard. That means you cannot scan using any software except the ScanSnap software. And at ~$900 it is a little expensive for home use.

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Comparing the two tunnels is a bit unfair because the new construction is like digging 14 of the old tunnels.

The new tunnel is circle 60' in diameter, compared to the 30' semicircular train tunnel (8 times bigger), and the new tunnel is 1.75 miles long compared to one mile(.75x8=+6). Plus, the floor of the old tunnel was flat and only required laying train tracks. The new tunnel is circular and will require a double roadway and utility spaces.

If the new tunnel was dug with picks, shovels, and dynamite, it would take 14 times the 1.5 years of the old tunnel or 21 years total. Then start the construction of the interior infrastructure.

No, this isn't a project that would be feasible with picks and shovels.

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The new RC transmitters are specifically designed to resist interference in a dense EM environment. They use Spread Spectrum technology to prevent inadvertent interference between multiple RC transmitters. (They have tested up to 100 simultaneous users without conflicts.) Each air vehicle is also "bound" to a single transmitter and will ignore any control signal that doesn't have the bound transmitter's unique serial number. The transmitters will randomly switch channels within the frequency so it is hard to take over the signal.

Some brands will also hop frequencies while continuing to switch channels in order to reduce interference. Other brands transmit on two simultaneous frequencies while channel hopping. http://www.rcmodelreviews.com/...

Saturation jamming is possible but most of the newer receivers have a "lost signal" mode that can be programmed. Some maintain altitude while starting a slowly expanding spiral, with the thought that the aircraft will come back closer to the transmitter to regain control. With the addition of programmable micro-controllers in the aircraft, almost any lost signal behavior is available.

If I knew my aircraft was in an area where active countermeasures might be used, I might program a rapid climb to max altitude, a random three-leg return path to near the point of launch, then... Well, you get the idea.

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The USPTO can (and does) award patents for almost anything. The patent examiners aren't experts in every field and if they receive advice that an item, method, or process is unique and non-obvious, they will award a patent.

But a patent is just a pretty piece of paper until you try to enforce it. Only then will the courts actually look at the merit of the patent and declare it enforceable or invalid.

The main reason for granting patents is to persuade inventors to publish their ideas so knowledge will spread and in return they are given exclusive licensing rights for a reasonable amount of time. The publishing and sharing of new ideas is the good side of patents. The litigation necessary to challenge or defend a patent is the unfortunate bad side.

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Actually, the FAA is requiring all NEW remote control toys purchased starting tomorrow (21 Dec 2015) to be registered before their first flight or face huge penalties. Owners of previously purchased or built toys must be registered by 19 Feb 2016.

Because failure to register an aircraft can result in civil penalties up to $27,500 and criminal penalties can include fines of up to $250,000 under 18 U.S.C. 3571 and/or imprisonment up to 3 years. 49 U.S.C. 46306, if approached by government officials it is cheaper to throw the transmitter in the bushes and walk away from the whole thing rather than get caught flying your unregistered toy in the park. https://www.federalregister.go...

Under the strictest interpretation of the law, foam gliders, heavy Frisbees, and most box kites would also fall under this misguided registration effort. The FAA's interpretation: if it flies in the air, it falls under our control.

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