It also depends on the negotiation style of the parties involved. One person might give away far to much information, directly or indirectly, to the point where the other party is at an advantage. Low-balling will no longer matter at that point.

@Mewgia: The difference here is that you're talking about a criminal case. All the RIAA items involve civil cases. The penalties and outcomes of evidence tampering issues are much different. The motivation is much different too—in a child porn case, a sentence for evidence tampering is going to be a lot better than…

@ThePantsParty: That's a bit better of an idea, but I wouldn't put it past the RIAA to act shady and borderline illegal to find some evidence to show you ditched the items last minute. My geek cred, which isn't huge, will never extend forensics in computing. I more hop that someone will get proper rulings to limit…

@Wit: I'm so glad I graduated before all that mess started. This is exactly why I enjoy how Trent Reznor has been doing things.

@VitaIckle: The RIAA uses a crappy tactic of filing a John Doe suite. The super short, thus not 100% accurate, explanation is that they have enough evidence to say someone stole something so they sue an unnamed person. This opens the doors to subpoena the ISPs and such to reveal the identity. Then the RIAA refiles…

I think this is my new favorite topic after OneNote.

On my home computer, I switched becuase it was fully open and I wanted something new to learn. The latter was the major reason. I was bored with Windows and I couldn't afford a Mac. So I toyed around with a few distros and enjoyed that Ubuntu can be easy, or I can put on my geek hat and have fun with crazier items.…

@Human Bomb: I doubt there was any seizure here. The computers were most likely requested in the discover process. Though you are very correct. Most problems occur these days because unlawful surveillance ain't what it used to be. It's a shame really.

@zoomZAP: Novel idea, but it wouldn't provide much protection. They will subpeona the router as well and any logs kept with your computer system. Even if there is no way to trace the activity through these items, you could get caught up in something like enterprise liability for providing and controlling the means…

CURIO seems neat. I just remembered Zoho Notes as well.

@Slugicide: I wish there was a linux version. IMO, the best you'll get is BasKet for KDE [basket.kde.org] . Maybe OneNote works in wine?

@Hitchhiker427: I couldn't imagine trying to use this for mathematical formulas. I've managed to get good with the drawing features in OneNote sans a tablet pc, but there's no way I could ever get this working for a physics class. I guess you could try to find a cheap drawing tablet input device. I don't know if…

@massysett: That's one of the interesting issues I faced in law school when using OneNote... how to deal with note overload. It was quite easy to write too much in OneNote and took some adjustment. I think that's just part of the learning curve when switching from pen/paper notes to a digital format. Although, for…

My favorite feature of OneNote: no need to save. Saving occurs in the background all the freaking time. I don't pretend to know how it works... maybe it's some sort of live database format... no clue. But I know that I've had crashes during class with no loss of data. It's great.

@jkrell: I took my laptop to class and would type my notes right then and there. I didn't have a tablet, but those I knew who did have a tablet w/ OneNote would augment their typing with text. I've had a few cases where I borrowed notes for missed classes and could have probably scanned them into OneNote using OCR,…

CouchSurfing.com sounds neat. Has anyone here actually taken part in the free-place-to-stay sites?

Good post. I especially like the points from the Brazen Careerist blog. The start with a big, big list item is good too. I actually started keeping a notepad list of all my accomplishments and tasks as they occur/get tossed my way and update my resume every six months with the info I kept in notepad. It helps me…

@ouzoWTF: I can't speak for mherlihy, but I think this is just an integration point. It seems Ubiquity might be more integrated into the browsing experience than that of a feature rich app launcher. Though, you make a great point. IMO, a future that ties and external Quicksilver style-app to the browser…

@keefermilton: Exactly, thank you for sharing your experience.

Vote Sxipper w/ Firefox. I used to use RoboForm but now that I'm using Firefox only, this works well for me and is free. I like it a lot.