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tommyrot - Jun 06, 2007 9:34:27 am PDT #1825 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So, if someone (who is not me, but I would set it up) wanted to set up a VPN between an office and a laptop, what's the best way to go? Hardware VPN for the office and software VPN for the laptop? Software on both ends? This would be for an XP network, but I think the computers do not have XP pro. Windows has built-in VPN software, right? Is this only with XP Pro?

Haven't done any research yet, but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction first....


Jon B. - Jun 06, 2007 11:01:48 am PDT #1826 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Oh, thank goodness. That CT substitute teacher, who was convicted on porn charges because her class computer kept popping up ads, has been granted a new trial: [link]

Background here: [link]


DXMachina - Jun 06, 2007 11:21:38 am PDT #1827 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

That's good news. The prosecutors in that case were totally dense.


tommyrot - Jun 06, 2007 11:26:13 am PDT #1828 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The prosecutors in that case were totally dense.

Everybody in that case was totally dense. Except maybe the school administration, which might have been more cynically self-interested than dense....


DXMachina - Jun 06, 2007 11:36:59 am PDT #1829 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

True that.


Jessica - Jun 06, 2007 3:08:17 pm PDT #1830 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Judge Hillary Strackbein said the state had conducted further forensic information that the jury had not heard at the trial. The information, according to defense experts, was that the computer had generated pornographic popups and that Amero, a substitute teacher, was not at fault.

Well, DUH. (Though if I'm not mistaken, this isn't technically "new" information. It's only new in that the previous judge and jury completely ignored it, which I guess counts as having been "not heard at the trial.")

Good for this judge. Hopefully they'll get a jury this time around who's actually seen a computer before.


Jon B. - Jun 06, 2007 3:31:47 pm PDT #1831 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I thought what was new is that THE STATE had that evidence, but withheld it. Previously, the defense had tried to present the same information via an expert witness, but the prosecution cried foul because it hadn't been previously informed about the malware defense.


DCJensen - Jun 07, 2007 5:48:02 pm PDT #1832 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

MIT revisits wireless power: [link]


Laga - Jun 07, 2007 8:21:39 pm PDT #1833 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I think the problem is that the defense was supposed to mention that they were bringing up the existence of malware during the pre-trial phase. Since they surprised the prosecution with it, the prosecution was able to ask that it be disregarded.


le nubian - Jun 08, 2007 3:12:19 am PDT #1834 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Why though? It isn't like this is something that the prosecution didn't know ANYTHING about it. They knew about this during discovery, right?