to give context
my company numbering about 300 imployes lost 4 laptops in 1 year
but as a result I am now involved in rolling out a truecrypt system to all employes
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you are out of date
using bit torrent you can be 90% certain that the torrent is what it says it is cos if it was false then te swarm would have disbanded as soon as it was found out to be fake bittorrent is less like 1 person giving it to another person and more like a giant sharing orgy (to use a metaphor in tune with the current topic) where the same file or completion of files is shared round and round with more pepol coming and going it is more certain cos it is setup by the starter of the swarm and as such you are more certain on what file you are getting unfortunate so can the pepol issuing the letters
"""Come on... you work (mostly) in the IT industry, you don't have to watch a file to run an MD5 check on it...
Now stop imagining a bunch of Lawyers sitting around a TV getting excited and """
but imagining lawyers watching gay porn is what makes my life have meaning :)
seriously a md5 check would not be valid for a copyright check cos it would be different depending on the encoding and the cutting of the end etc they would need visual proof not a computerised check
I assume it works somthing like this
they downlaod a likely looking torrent
set there client to download only not upload
download the files whail at the same time noting all the ip's of the pepol in the swarm
watch what they have downloaded (haf haf)
if what they have downloaded is what it purports to be and is the copyrighted metrial then they send letters requesting the details of the ips
seames it has not ever gone to cort we have no proof this is how they do it but that is how I would do it
if I was taken to corte by them I would ask my lawer to get a technail discription so we can be shure there "proof" is proof positive.
@ those pepol who are saying that 15mins is slow
you have obviously not worked in a office even with xp windows slows down noticibley after a user has used it for 6mounths usuley starting to take 5-10 mins to login to windows and be able to work and the only way I have found to restore it's speed is reformat it. I have no exprance with vista in my office but form my home experience I can easley see it take 15mins to boot
and beofre pepol flame me I welcome any suggestions on how to speed up boot times but before you sugest it I have spend hours on google looking and as yet have found nothing that works
the netbooks I am looking to get run XP so I KNOW I can use thinks like usb memory stciks bluetoof adaptors etc and they are a Proper computer so I can stick my memoy stick in on the train write a doc or save a pic of the internet and take it out at the end of te trip and plug it into my computer on my desk and it opens find
to me that is the BIG diffrence between a net book is a netbook runs the same os as a desktop
"opening parts of the system out to competition, the price will come down"
2 points to that
1. competition only works when there is real competition not in a system where you have to get a card and there is only 1 to 2 bidders leadinfg on to
2. copertition has certainley reduced prices of the other formor monopilyes like the rail and the gass and the electric and all has it not?
3.EVEN if if was going to be cheeper do we realy want ecencle functions of goverment farmed out what next farm out tax colection cos that would defently be cheeper maby we could farm out the milirty that would be cheaper
1. again not knowing the detailes of his plan but most goverments and I think the usa dose have rules restricting benifets so pepol who have been on the for 3gen usuley have a reasion
2. maby they can not for reasions beyond there control and. why dose my bosses boss who dose not work anymore hours or have any more technal knolage than me eurn 10-100x as much as me? if I am following obamas plans then his taxes will only efect pepol earning over $250,000 a year and thouse pepol are wealthy not poor pepol eather way taxes are the price you pay for all the inteagle benfits you get for living in a socity
3. cos pepol actuley like being fooled you some times need to force pepol to be fair and having seen some of the "unbised" opinions of the usa I am of the opinion some more ristrictions are in order
4. and bushes confrentnational aproch has been working soooo well has it not? and why are you trying to FORCE inderpendent nations to follow your will?
lastley not leastley I am using my name plese use yours I h8 shadow boxxing
adn now a rebutle
"1. HIGHER taxes - the promises about cutting taxes for 95% notwithstanding. Currently over 40% of the people do NOT pay taxes, so any "cut" for them is a payment back (can you say "welfare")"
yes wwwwweeeeeellllffffaaaaarrrrreeee ...... sometime it is a good thing to help the less fortunate
"2. "Spread the wealth around" - also called Marxism or Socialism." seepoint 1
"3. Curtailment of freedom of speech - already during the campaign, it has been visible from the Obama side. He has also promised the reinstatement of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which will be used to muzzle talk radio in the States."
no coment do not know what it is refering to but it is sometimes usfull to have some limites on what pepol can say that is why we have lible laws
"4. Appeasement to terrorists - didn't work with Chamberlain in the 1930s." point of order germany was a country not teriost orgnisations so the comparisions are not valid and even if you are talking about "teroist" contrys (iran, north kora) just cos it did not work for chamberlin dose not mean it will not work for omaba it 1930's war healy 80 years ago times change
techniley it is president elect not president till he is sworn in and has kicked the current loser out of the white house in jan
the worst part of this story when I read it was the comment in the last line of the paper I was reading saying "aids have urged her to run for the presidency in 2012" shudder
"isn't there a technical problem here? It's not possible to preserve a complete and fully functioning audit trail without also keeping details of records that have been deleted or modified.
If the system allows amendments and deletions to be made without a full trace being preserved, then the data is not secure. If a full trace is preserved then records can only be cloaked rather than deleted.
Prof. Sir Alec Jeffreys, having reasoned through the implications of the technology that he ushered in, made it clear at the outset that if they were to allow social equity DNA profile databases would have to be all or nothing. Most still seem to ignore the valid argument that he presented."
not realy it is posible to have a delete stub in the database saying somthing like "record num # added #/#/# remove by request of subject date #/#/#"
nothing to point to who it was and no dna tag
I saw an advert for a certain insurance company and the dog on it (I will not tell you wat compnay it was oh no no no) was telling us about his deal and the small print along the botton sadi "tracking devices may be required for some vicheles" /i asume it is only a matter of time befre it is an insurace requirment to have tracking devices and the gov can wash there hands of it saying it is a requirment of insurance comnays not us
when I got my first voderphone 3g data stick it said some content would be filtered till I proved I was an adult I thought ok I did not want to do "that" sort of browsing on the move(I have a fast adsl line at home for that) and when I tryed it I fpund they had filtered this site
http://freefall.purrsia.com/
never did find out why
re: why not block trackers?
time and man power and it is just as easley subverted as anything else
re:Sooner or later the Pirates will buy a clue
"troll troll troll your post gently down the feed"
ok I will bite. pepol have answered the why shouldn't they do it but my point is it probably is not possible the original article pointed out that the software they where told they should use for filtering did not work
"but as others have said: what makes them think they have the right to extradite hime from the UK?"
probably the EU constitution....opps I mean treaty or what ever they are calling thses things
I still find it incredible that this came to court with out some sort of evidence form the procreation I think we are missing some sort of info here
if I am reading this right the governments argument t is that nominet is such a vital part of a vital infrastructure it should be in there hands?
if so why are they happy to let other parts of vital infstrutures remail privite eg power grid, water, gas, and the phone lines them self?
"It is then up to the defendant to defend the libel. Essentially there are three defences (a) Justification, (b) fair comment and (c) privilege. Obviously (c) doesn't enter into it. (b) generally applies to comment, such as a newspaper review. So that leaves us with (a) it is not enough that the words were true, you must be able to justify publishing them. I suspect that argument over a defence of justification would centre around the fact that a refund was given, whether the words are true and the phone was substantially not as described would be secondary to this"
BIG IANAL
but shuley the fact that ebay asks for comments and he comented on his expraince with this person would be the Justification for posting it? that is assuming that his expreance is true
the problem is not realy weather they work or not it is that now they are SEEN to be just a revinew raising tool there hole purose has become discreditied. one of the best solutions would to be to disisoate the law inforcemnt/safty feature for the mony maby by donating all fines to charity or giving all fines to a diffrent department (schools hospitiles) or to change the punishment to a non monatry one
"I imagine you'd probably think differently if someone made a complete copy of all your personal information, HDD contents etc for their own enjoyment, and possibly profit? How about your ISP copying all your online actions and selling that - after all, it's to help you have a better online experience!"
I would feal up set BUT it is not steeling it is a diffrent offence I do not nkow what but it is nt stealing