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Re:Of course
The oligarchies of the world do a fair job of controlling media, but they can't control blogs or twitter. They need governments to make sure they can do this for them.
twitter is not representative (thus rather irrelevant). Let me demonstrate by googling on:
CISPA - 1540 results
SOPA - About 673,000 results
lady gaga - About 5,020,000 results
bieber - About 8,030,000 results
pr0n (about 42,100 results) + porn (about 2,070,000 results) - an "total about" of 2,112,100 (what???).Everybody knows Internet is for porn and the rule 34. Now, you cannot argue that porn is less popular than Lady Gaga or Bieber - therefore Twitter must be non-representative.
Now, I tell you what you can do to prove me wrong (don't bother replying to this post, it's equally irrelevant): just sign the petitions on EFF and avaaz.org . Even better, open or sign a petitions on the We, the people site.
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Re:Sign the greater pact with the devil^hMPAA firs
My Atom boxes running XBMC can access both Amazon instant watch, and Hulu content just fine. I can't access Netflix as I am running Linux and Silverlight doesn't exist on that. But if I actually used Netflix I have a PS3 or Google TV I could stream to.
Outside of Netflix XBMC will pretty much stream everything. The nice thing about the Hulu plugin is that you don't need Hulu Plus, and if you have Plus all of those shows that won't let you stream to a TV will still play just fine.
If you are interested in either Amazon or Hulu, install Bluecop's repository. http://code.google.com/p/bluecop-xbmc-repo/downloads/list
Just download the repository zip to the root of a thumb drive, and plug it into your XBMC computer. Then select to install an add-on from a zip, and choose the file on the thumb drive.
Both Amazon and Hulu require an updated Flash library, so make sure you are running XBMC Eden, otherwise you'll have to manually update the library, and there really isn't a good reason not to update to Eden.
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Re:without the knowledge of the site visitor
Actually, it is Slashdot that is redirecting connections made to https://slashdot.org/ over to http://slashdot.org/ effectively picking you up and plopping you down in to the hacker's lair.
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Re:monkeys throwing darts...
"Oh not this horseshit again. There was never a "Global Cooling" frenzy."
Google thinks there was. If you'd been there you'd remember it.
https://www.google.com/search?x=0&y=0&pg=q&fmt=.&q=%22global+cooling+frenzy%22
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Re:Okay, fine
But is it "landing" if you never hit the ground? Also, I can see this being a problem for aircraft carrier jargon, although I seem to recall someone saying that landing on a carrier is like a "controlled crash".
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Re:EA strangles another once great studio
I was sad I pre-ordered a collector's edition as well. But by sheer chance, I had ordered it from Amazon.com, and they were offering full refunds on Mass Effect 3 purchases, even opened copies. I hung onto my copy until BioWare's first official response , where Ray made it quite clear that EA/BioWare had no intention of admitting any faults with the product. I went through Amazon's standard automated return system and received a full refund after shipping it back. Supposedly EA/Origin, and even some Best Buys were doing full refunds as well. One key phrase for increasing the likely-hood of a the full refund is something along the lines of "the game did not live up to promises made by the publisher".
It might be worth checking to see if you can return any of your copies. If nothing else, make sure to sell all of your copies used. The only message EA truly understands is money or it's lack, so send the right message. -
Re:Taxes and trade are complicated
Oh, at 5%, it lets the government exclude IRA's and your personal home from that tax, without reducing the amount the government gets.
Every version of a flat tax I've seen has said they need to be at 17% to be revenue neutral. This analysis talks about 19%. Perry's proposal is 20%. You've managed to come up with a tax rate that is one quarter of what everyone else is proposing and still get the same revenue?
And then to claim that you can exclude things from taxation and not reduce the revenue? How do you apply a 5% to a smaller number and get the same result?
Because my version puts almost all the tax burden on the rich, as opposed to the vile conservative version that puts almost all the tax burden on the poor.
The latter part of your statement is patently wrong. The "poor" pay almost nothing in taxes, at least in the income tax system that you are proposing to replace. The rich pay the most. But let's ignore that class bias and talk about the first part of your statement...
It, too, is wrong. Conservatives will oppose it because it is patently unfair to anyone who owns anything, not because of who owns it.
But wait, you've suggested an ASSET tax. So, if you've managed to save money out of your salary this year, you will be taxed on those savings every year for the rest of your life. Once, twice, thrice, four times, five times, taxed on the same money over and over again. Yes, I can see how someone who has no money would call this "fair".
If you buy a car, you'll be taxed at some estimated value for that car every year until you get rid of it.
If you are a business owner, or a farmer, you'll be paying 5% of the value of your property every year. If a farmer has a million dollar farm that's managing to break even now, tomorrow you want $50,000 from him in taxes. And again the next year. And again the next year. And again the next year. Yes, I can see how someone who owns nothing would think this is "fair".
In just 14 years you will have taken from every person in the country half of what he owns. If someone can't make the tax payment on his business, he'll have to sell. It won't matter if the farm lost money, or the business employes 100 people. Yes, I can see how someone who has nothing would call this "fair".
Oh, wait. They can BORROW the money to pay the tax. Put the farm up as collateral. Pay interest on the borrowed money, and deduct the loan amount from the asset value. Eventually the property will be fully mortgaged and the tax you get will be zero, and the costs to the property owner astronomical. Banks will own everything, and when the owner defaults we'll have a great time in the recession that causes.
No, you CAN'T separate these taxes out then say the poor pay no 'income taxes', because you don't count the taxes they do pay.
And you don't count the massive amounts of income tax the rich pay when claiming that they don't pay their fair share.
The multiple taxation aspect of your plan is unfair from the start. Fixing that, and creating exemptions, will create a system that is just as complicated, eventually, as the one we have now. By requiring everyone to keep track of all their assets, you will create a paperwork nightmare for the individual that far exceeds what we have today. Kiss the short form goodby, you'll need to inventory everything you have every year. It will also mean that the rate will have to go up to be revenue neutral, and go up anytime the government wants more money. Add on the points that the states and local governments will want, and you'll be taking half of what everyone owns in a lot less than 14 years.
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Prior Art
Looks like Tesla (and the Nazi's) beat ya to it, Goog.
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Re:Not Java. Please not Java.
Here's a recent console emulated in Java. Have fun reading the code !
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Re:monkeys throwing darts...
This is exactly like stories about cronies who "predicted" an economic crisis or stock market crash, who are conveniently found after the fact.
Why so many searches back in 2005?
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Re:Key AND Password
Indeed.
Google Authenticator (which is an implementation of TOTP, and doesn't send anything back to Google itself) can tie in with SSH/PAM quite easily.
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Re:I stopped reading pretty quickly
The search results are usually good enough...
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Re:monkeys throwing darts...
I'm sorry, you're clueless.
"Climate" means 30-year average in this context. Being able to predict next year's specific temperatures has nothing to do with climate.
Think of the stock market. "Climate" is the 30-year graph and the ability to say "from 1982 to 2012 the trend is ever increasing". http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1333730258898&chddm=4050760&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=INDEXDJX:.DJI&ntsp=0
"Weather" is saying "last year was up and down". http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1333730383316&chddm=98923&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=INDEXDJX:.DJI&ntsp=0
You're confusing "long term trend" with "what will it be like this weekend". They are two distinctly different things.
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Re:monkeys throwing darts...
I'm sorry, you're clueless.
"Climate" means 30-year average in this context. Being able to predict next year's specific temperatures has nothing to do with climate.
Think of the stock market. "Climate" is the 30-year graph and the ability to say "from 1982 to 2012 the trend is ever increasing". http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1333730258898&chddm=4050760&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=INDEXDJX:.DJI&ntsp=0
"Weather" is saying "last year was up and down". http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1333730383316&chddm=98923&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=INDEXDJX:.DJI&ntsp=0
You're confusing "long term trend" with "what will it be like this weekend". They are two distinctly different things.
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Tracking Spam Since June 2010
I've been keeping track of all the spam I have received in a GOOGLE Document.
The mail is from four accounts and has been pre-filtered by the ISPs, which probably skews the data. So, for what it's worth, here it is:
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powered by methane microlasers!
Can't we just start zapping bacteria with lasers so we can teach them English?
COME ON PEOPLE, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY!!! -
Larrry, please...Bring back Google Code search.. http://www.google.com/codesearch
That would be one huge way to make this developer happy.
Seems like a good way to target ads to specific programmers too..
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Is this what they are talking about?
Web p0rn? Is this what they are talking about? http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=992&bih=773&q=spiderweb&gbv=2&oq=spiderweb&aq=f&aqi=g1g-s3g1g-s2g3&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0j0i10l3j0j0i10l2j0l3.9070l11052l0l11211l9l9l0l2l2l0l83l423l7l7l0.llsin. Disgusting stuff, I say ban it right away.
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Re:Absolute crap article
You appear to be remarkably (willfully?) uninformed about this topic. Perhaps a Google search of the form: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mosaid+csiro+-mosaic would enlighten you to the fact that MOSAID has absolutely zero to do with the CSIRO.
The only way they are related is that the CSIRO battle is mentioned as a precursor (and maybe an inspiration) to MOSAID (who do indeed appear to be patent trolls, unlike the CSIRO).
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Obl
So far not very succesfully:
% lynx http://google.com/Google
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[Google Search] [I'm Feeling Lucky] [Advanced search]Web Results 1 - 10 of about 10,200,000 for Egyptian porn.
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Re:Club of Rome Study 2I agree that there are a great number of self-absorbed, greedy Marie "Let them eat cake" Antoinettes in this country. Nevertheless, I think your view is overly simplistic.
But they were right if you look at the true disparity in rich and poor. The poor in the rest of the world live in fricking dirt holes. The poorest in the USA live like the rich in many 3rd world countries.
There is indeed a huge disparity between the rich and the poor in the U.S. I've been on both sides of that situation (well...maybe not quite "rich", but I'm a very comfortable middle-class to upper middle-class right now). I've also been to some of the poorest parts of Alaska and to Guatemala. Quite honestly, I'd rather move to Guatemala than some of the places I've been in Alaska, and not just because the weather was nicer there
The gap between the worlds poor and rich is growing exponentially. right now the top 1% of the united states could buy real homes for 100% of the worlds poor and still be the top 1% rich. Yes it's that bad. And it will get worse.
How do you propose to solve that problem? This is something I have thought about quite a bit in my lifetime. Like I mentioned above, I don't have everything I want but I certainly have far more than I need. Meanwhile, there are people around the world who don't have enough to survive on. That bothers me. But the solution isn't as simple as, "give my excess to others." Sure, there are ways to help support others. My wife and I sponsor a girl who is the same age as our daughter (11) in Guatemala so that she can attend a private school and get a better education than she would otherwise. I've been to the school, and I've met the little girl (photos from the trip, although I didn't include my sponsor child, out of respect for her privacy). That's a start, but how do the rich in the western world feed the families who are starving in Ethiopia and Somalia? Do you remember "Blackhawk Down?" That movie was based upon the true story of what happens when well-intentioned westerners try to feed some of those poor in other parts of the world. The fact is that there are those who derive their power from the oppression of others. Consequently, "feeding the poor" often means removing their oppressors from power first so the food will actually get to the poor, rather than the local warlord. Are you willing to go to war so that sub-Saharan Africa can eat America and Europe's surplus? I won't argue that that might be one of the best reasons for taking up arms since the Revolutionary War, but you'd better understand what it would take to raise the third world up to first world standards and you'd also better be okay with overthrowing the local powers-that-be so you can build your idea of Utopia (*cough* "Iraq" *cough*).
It self perpetuates. The rich will not pay for things for the evil PARASITES to use. Walk to work you prole! a lot of things can be done to turn it all around. problem is it gives things to the poor, and that just can not be allowed to happen.
I don't want to pay for things so that those-who-can-but-won't can just sponge off of everyone else, no. I don't mind helping those who are simply down on their luck and need a hand getting back on their feet, however. "Give a man a fish...teach a man to fish..." And like I said above, it isn't really as simple as just giving my surplus to those in need. Making sure the surplus gets to those who truly need it is a big problem. If you can solve that problem, you'll be making a big difference in the world.
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Re:Again...
You have not been keeping up with demographics. Europe is already headed for a population crash. This is also true in Japan and even Iran, where the birthrate has dropped below the replacement level. In the US, we are at about the replacement level, and much of our growth comes from immigration.
What this means is that the crash many of these societies are headed for is not one of overpopulation, but bankruptcy due to too many people getting pensions. Social Security and other such government schemes are premised on a large number of workers contributing some fraction of their pay to support a smaller number of retirees. However, with a lower birthrate, eventually the proportion of retirees grows. When it gets to the point when there are only two or three workers supporting each retiree, it's the high tax rate that threatens to destroy the society.
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Re:Inflated Chrome stats because of page prerender
Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?
I'd be surprised, since even Google Analytics itself is affected...
Anyway, please be careful before announcing "Chrome usage surpassed this or that"
Yup. This is correct. The stats are by page views.
Google fetches everything under the sun when you start typing, and only shows it to you when you actually want it. It's a terribly wasteful practice when you're just thinking of the increased burden on ISPs and servers, but it's even more absurd when you consider the bandwidth caps most people live under.All of the web traffic monitoring sites only monitor a the top X most popular sites that have analytics or some other shit tracking engine layered on top.
Chrome users, who are tracked out the ass and who prefetch the entire internet, will be over represented.
Firefox users who install things to actively block tracking and ads and mountains of content they don't want will be under represented.Then you have to consider that most web traffic is generated by a small percent of the population. Grandma on IE9 isn't going to register on these reports, but every insufferable blogger will.
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Re:Inflated Chrome stats because of page prerender
Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?
Even if the page is being prerendered, it still means Chrome is being used.
Not much of a web guy huh? Not much of a statistician either eh?
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Re:FROSTY PISS!!
Your meds. Take them. Ozone? Acid Rain? Largely fixed because of those warnings and because of no one listening to denialist idiots. Global cooling? Never seriously been predicted. Compare the word frequencies over a large english corpus here. Well, watch out for those black helicopters. If you let your attention slip for just one second, the global government will get you. Comrade.
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Re:Tell us who it was.
More importantly, though, it puts the poster in a different light. He concealed material facts in his summary, and on the face of it trying to hold on to a client's domain is shady. It makes me wonder what else he's hidden.
To be fair, his submission did link to the PDF of his actual complaint letter, which contained pretty much all of the details that he left out of the summary.
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Re:Collapse
They neglected to impose controls on Population, which would slow consumption of Resources, increase Industrial Output, provide for more Food per capita, and decrease Pollution. At least, according to computer models, anyway.
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Presidents and gas prices
When will you people get it thru your head that presidents have NO CONTROL over gas prices.
We'd be a lot better off if that was actually true.
http://www.google.com/#q=president+authorizes+release+strategic+petroleum+reserve
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Re:Inflated Chrome stats because of page prerender
Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?
I'd be surprised, since even Google Analytics itself is affected...
Anyway, please be careful before announcing "Chrome usage surpassed this or that"
Even if the page is being prerendered, it still means Chrome is being used.
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Inflated Chrome stats because of page prerendering
Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?
I'd be surprised, since even Google Analytics itself is affected...
Anyway, please be careful before announcing "Chrome usage surpassed this or that"
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Re:mistake #1
In the US (I know, the story is about Canada. I believe similar laws apply), statements made before the Miranda warning is given, and not in a line of questioning, is a spontaneous confession.
For example, if you walk up to an officer, and say "I just shot someone", that can, and will be used against you.
If he asks "What's going on here?" , and you say "I just shot someone", it also will be used against you.
If he asks "Did you shoot John Smith behind the Kwik-E-Mart on May 4th at 2am?", you are being questioned in relation to a crime. If you were not read your rights, it might be refused as evidence.
There is a very short list of things that you should ever say to a law enforcement officer. It depends on the circumstances. If you were just mugged, talk away about the suspect and the situation. If you involved in a traffic stop, you have to provide your drivers license, registration, and proof of insurance. If they ask "is this your car?", and the registration is accurate, and does state that it *is* your car, say "yes sir." There isn't much beyond that, that you should say.
From the article,
She said she received an e-mail in January from a Toronto Police officer in 14 Division "asking me to contact them about an incident that occurred at The Piston (on Bloor St. W., Nov. 19, 2011)."
She should have contacted an attorney *first*, who may have advised her to STFU, or say "I wasn't there, sorry." Instead, she was arrested, and had to go through the courts. Her attorney could have conveyed the necessary facts to the police, without involving her at all, saving her court time and extensive legal fees.
STFU is always the best option.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8167533318153586646
IANAL, and I don't live in your jurisdiction. Consult with a local attorney for the laws as they apply where you are.
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Re:Tell us who it was.
It was apparently Rackspace, judging by the PDF document linked in the original submission.
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Re:Protecting the guilty to trap the innocent?
The tag was applied by the submitter. See the Original submission and notice the link to the original source, which is a letter the submitter wrote to Rackspace about this incident.
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Re:Error My Ass
"gated community" is not inconsistent with "HIGH crime".
The complex (The Retreat At Twin Lakes) was not a "high end" gated community with five million dollar homes. These are town homes that sold for between around $75K and $140K in the last few years. Looking at a few real estate listings, it appears they are attached town homes with one car garages. There have been many foreclosures in the complex as housing prices have plummeted.
The entrances are not manned - reports are that residents key in a code to gain entrance, but obviously the gates and walls are low so it's likely easy to enter without a code (or just piggyback on someone else who is entering).
Overall, I wouldn't attach too much significance to "gated community" here. Gates in cases like this are largely a "feel good" feature rather than an effective crime deterrent. Esp, in a complex which now has many renters. Actual crime stats would be much more useful to determine the crime rate in this complex. -
Re:Yes, walking around aimlessly
Here you go.
CNN video - did you watch the MSNBC video? Watch this one now. About 15 seconds in it'll be clear that MSNBC was not being entirely honest. Who showed up with guns again? Maybe he's just really tan?
Google search to get you started if you want to dig some more.
Bottom line is that MSNBC cropped the video to make it fit their narrative about racist white people with guns who hate the President.
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CEOs
Just out of curiosity, how much money did these CEOs take on their way out?
I mean, they got paid for doing a job of course. And even if they do a bad job of it, they (arguably) deserve a paycheck. But bonuses, severance pay, and perks are hard to justify when letting people go because the business if failing.
Stock options are actually a pretty good idea. If they drive the company into the ground, those aren't worth much.
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Pictures of the glasses
From their design study. And an article about it: project glass.
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I thought cell phones were bad enough
I am now dreading being next to the person on the plane or the bus who is screaming into one of these during a google voice session while making all kinds of crazy gestures to read their email.
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Re:SpinRite
You seem to have it in for Spinrite, but it's not clear why. If you listen to Steve's podcast (Security Now), you'll know that he is very careful on how he describes the technical aspects of his products (including Spinrite). I'd be very surprised if you or anyone could point to any of GRC's literature on Spinrite that would prove he's "lying" about anything.
http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm "and ALL OTHER file systems". Tell me, how well does Spinrite support UFS? EXT4? ZFS? Given that the ZFS driver code alone is several times the size of Spinrite that's not really possible. And filesystem support is important given Spinrite's braindead data recovery. If there is no knowledge of the underlying filesystem then Spinrite has no way of knowing if it is overwriting data, filesystem structure or empty space. Even if it was lucky and got empty space, there is no way for it to update the filesystem so you can recover the data.
Erm... it reads sectors and writes them back *in-place*. It is "below" filesystems, so the filesystems don't care -- when they are booted back up, they see things exactly as they had before, but hopefully with no CRC errors.
How about this beauty from http://www.grc.com/srphysics.htm: "SpinRite is actually able to lower the amplification of the drive's internal read-amplifier". I don't think I even need to explain why that is BS. Tell me, which ATA or BIOS commands can do that?
Don't need one. All data on magnetic platters degrade over time (you have things like Turbo codes and other signal majicks to "correct the errors" as long as they don't get too large); everything has gets fuzzier over time as the field weakens.
If you read valid data (corrected by ECC), and then write it back, the magnetic signature is stronger, and thus you don't need as much gain on your magnetic heads...
In good RAID arrays, you do this with a parity scrub operation that reads/writes everything as an ongoing operation because if you let the data sit too long, it will go from ECC-Correctable to Uncorrectable, and the data will have to be rebuilt from multiple drives or lost.
In fact, that whole page is BS. Take a look at https://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.xdsl/msg/9aeee32323c2978e?dmode=source&hl=en&pli=1 That explains it better than I can.
Meh... people have been attacking Getright forever. A lot of the magic is now useless (originally, you knew and could reliably write low level format codes to the MFM/RLL controllers, and if you wrote a particulary hard sequence of bits 00101010100010101 (note the triple-0 in the middle), you could flush out weak magnetics before they eroded your data (same as "walking 1's" in memtest).
Nowadays, IDE keeps a list of bad/remapped sectors and does all this in the background *as long as it's told to* -- if nobody ever reads offset 17543, nobody knows that is about to go bad (lets say ECC can correct for 1 in 96 bits, and right now there's an error in 1 of 108 bits), and over time, that will degrade to 1-in-96 at which time the data is lost. If SpinRite (or any other parity scrubber) reads the data while it's good, the drive electronics should notice the high error rate and refresh it. Some drives won't write the correct data back to the disk unless told to (it slows the drive down)...
My point about the ATA command is that Spinrite is only using standard commands; not undocumented commands or anything secret like that. However, what is "special" are the sequence of commands used to help the drive recover sectors that get a read error.
Ok, using what you just said, explain the "Dynastat Data Recovery" in Spinrite. To refresh your memory, that is where it claims to be working do
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Re:SpinRite
You seem to have it in for Spinrite, but it's not clear why. If you listen to Steve's podcast (Security Now), you'll know that he is very careful on how he describes the technical aspects of his products (including Spinrite). I'd be very surprised if you or anyone could point to any of GRC's literature on Spinrite that would prove he's "lying" about anything.
http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm "and ALL OTHER file systems". Tell me, how well does Spinrite support UFS? EXT4? ZFS? Given that the ZFS driver code alone is several times the size of Spinrite that's not really possible. And filesystem support is important given Spinrite's braindead data recovery. If there is no knowledge of the underlying filesystem then Spinrite has no way of knowing if it is overwriting data, filesystem structure or empty space. Even if it was lucky and got empty space, there is no way for it to update the filesystem so you can recover the data.
How about this beauty from http://www.grc.com/srphysics.htm: "SpinRite is actually able to lower the amplification of the drive's internal read-amplifier". I don't think I even need to explain why that is BS. Tell me, which ATA or BIOS commands can do that?
In fact, that whole page is BS. Take a look at https://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.xdsl/msg/9aeee32323c2978e?dmode=source&hl=en&pli=1 That explains it better than I can.My point about the ATA command is that Spinrite is only using standard commands; not undocumented commands or anything secret like that. However, what is "special" are the sequence of commands used to help the drive recover sectors that get a read error.
Ok, using what you just said, explain the "Dynastat Data Recovery" in Spinrite. To refresh your memory, that is where it claims to be working down to the bit level. You cannot address individual bits or even bytes on a drive, either with BIOS or direct ATA commands. And before you say something stupid about "averaging" or other mathematical BS, a modern drive can only return one of two things for a sector request. The correct data when the ecc matches, or an error.
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Re:Define
$200 over the cost of the model you want to fly it in, which you could probably safely get buy at $400 total for aircraft and one of the prebuilt IMUs.
You'd need other support equipment, probably $600 total for a model capable of flying itself.
These aren't new anyway.
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Re:DefineYou are right about the constraints, ideal conditions first and then we'll see. Anyway the altitude isn't very high. As for the noise, something quiet would be better: it's not a national park but still, animals in winter waste energy if they get scared and have to move; and people get away from the city in order not to hear moped noises coming from the sky.
As for the price, yes 1~2k$ would be ideal. Technically this looks interesting, but they appear to sell only to spy^H^H^Hlaw enforcement agencies.
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Re:correlation != causation
I doubt very much that this 5-per-opening situation is across all the jobs.
The government publishes the number of people unemployed and the number of job openings. I'm sure if you drilled down hard enough you could say "OMG there were 5000 jobs with absolutely nobody qualified!". In 10/2009 there were over 15 million people (official stats) wanting them. That same month, there were somewhere between 2.3 and 2.5 million job openings. Sure. Maybe a few million people could have gotten jobs if only they were trained right. The rest, though, were SOL.
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Re:Great!
I heard of a great website to find such things easily: http://www.google.com/
But basically they are filters that makes contemporary shitty photos taken by smartphones look like 70s shitty photos taken by polaroids, which are considered not shitty anymore because well I don't know, hipsters I guess
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Re:Canada Here I Come
Not hate speech, but copyright, and used to silence critics with lawsuits; http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19991016&id=C-g0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=NyEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4294,5523199
Nothing against Mormons personally, and a primarily academic interest in copyright and the church. It just happened to be in my list of reading material.
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Re:Canada Here I Come
Are you serious?
How about you not be lazy and google it, bozo?
I'm so sick of you lazy assholes. Say that since someone didn't hand you scientifically proven evidence on a platter that it doesn't exist. It's a form of denial, and it's intellectual laziness of the highest order.
or, google "private prison incentive". First link is to the economist, and there are all sorts of others. Did you know that prison labor makes those nifty little cardboard coffee holders for Starbucks? No? Well they do. It may be fair trade coffee, but not fair trade anything else.
Some prisons have simply become privatized labor camps, slave labor. It's a way to sweep slavery under the carpet, like with immigration: Call people morally corrupt and other people can justify almost any horror done to that class of people.
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Re:Simple Answer:
Maybe they're just happy with their society and don't have enough angst to churn out the most emotive music.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=france+riots
But lots of good music is about getting laid, err love, so your point is moot anyways.
Eh it wasn't the most serious point I ever had anyway.
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Re:Simple Answer:
Maybe they're just happy with their society and don't have enough angst to churn out the most emotive music.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=france+riots
But lots of good music is about getting laid, err love, so your point is moot anyways.
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trial by media
In a case like this, I'd trust the statements of anyone who didn't have a motive to lie... which to me means anyone but George Zimmerman we can assume to be completely honest with what they believe they saw or heard. Mr Zimmerman's statements must be corroborated by facts.
Regarding the injuries to Mr Zimmerman, police and medical reports indicate a broken nose and gash on the back of his head. Video can be seen of officers examining the back of his head, and images released by abcnews seem to confirm that. Unless completely destroyed, a broken nose could very well be hard to see in that video. Nothing seems to contradict the injury claims in my opinion.
Regarding the voice fingerprinting claiming that the voice was not Mr Zimmerman, I find those claims suspect at best. The results show a 48% match based on background noise in 911 calls vs 911 calls made by Mr Zimmerman himself. A more apt comparison might be made by setting those results side by side against results from samples of Mr Martin's voice. But given the distortion in both sources of audio, the level of background noise, the distance from the event, the types of speech (screaming vs speaking... note the trouble voice identification software when it comes to identifying singers) and the state of voice wreckognition, I doubt we can pull meaningful evidence from computer recognition results.
Regarding the girlfriend of Mr Martin's phone conversation, I believe her factual statements are credible. She basically says that Travon saw a guy following him, lost him, and there was a confrontation where Trayvon asks "why are you following me?" and Zimmerman asks "what are you doing here?", followed by the start of a fight. There obviously is no clear way to determine who threw the first punch from those tapes.
Regarding the eye witnesses to the fight, one eye witness couldn't see much because it was so dark, but he thought he saw a man in red on the ground (zimmerman was wearing red). Media reports are sketchy, but a possible second eye witness in the same story backs Zimmerman's version of events. The bodily injuries, police reports indicating that Zimmerman appeared to be wet with grass stains, like he had been lying down with his back on the ground, and limited witness accounts seem to support the Zimmerman version, at least at some point during the confrontation.
What can we say with some level of certainty? Zimmerman called police to report a suspicious person, and began to follow him. At some point, Trayvon recognized that some random guy is following him, tells his girlfriend as much, and loses him around a corner. This is also confirmed on the police tape of the call that Mr Zimmerman made. Zimmerman is heard telling the police where to meet him, and he doesn't want to give out his full address while he doesn't know where Martin is. Martin tells the cops to call him when they arrive. At some point, Martin asks the guy why he is following him, and Zimmerman asks him what hes doing around there, and a fight breaks out, ending the call with Martin's girlfriend. The background audio in a 911 call picks up, we can hear a
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Esthers take