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Plus, Chrome's UI seems more set in stone. Firefox's did seem that way until some time after Google introduced their competing product, but then Mozilla thought it would be a brilliant idea to fuck with the UI to the point where not only the interface but now the release cycle tries to mimic Chrome as closely as possible. Mozilla's browser still feels like it's in a constant, never-ending state of flux, and Mozilla is still trying fucking with the UI, making me dread every new "version" of Firefox that is released.

The default UI yes, but if you have a customized UI, version updates will keep your customization from one release to another. I've been using this scheme for about one year on the nightly version which is automatically updated by firefox PPA channel. It also works on the current stable version.

Google cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FacnfUNs3KIJ:www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/biography/10069.wss+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Perhaps Apple needs to stop patenting shit like flat surfaces and rounded corners: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pxcLePP8Vzs/UADqwheExRI/AAAAAAAABqg/pRRGf8Pn5Bg/s800/Rounded%2520Corners.jpg

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mashable.com/2012/07/22/jack-daniels-trademark-letter/

There *might be* more than one scientist in the bunch.

Yes, there are violent people who call themselves anarchists. There are anarchists who oppose a caricature of science (in my experience, they're much-confused about the history of science, especially the Enlightenment). Ask yourself these questions: How much violence has been done by self-proclaimed Christians and capitalists? How many Christians and capitalists have tried to attack or twist science?

Although "anarchist" has become a byword for "bombthrower", it derives from anti-labor propaganda in the 19th Century and (apparently) continues up until today.

And let's not forget that anarchism may be much closer to the heart of the free software/free culture movement than many would like to admit.

Turn off JavaScript if you're on an iOS device, and take a look at the google cache of the app's iTunes page. It was up on AppStore for a month and didn't even get enough downloads to get any ratings or rankings or reviews... even buried AC slashdot comments get more exposure than this app's AppStore page. I can't figure out what the purpose of the app is nor what the author was attempting to accomplish with this trojan.

Actually, it was up over a year with no updates. The Android app on Google Play however was updated a little over a month ago, had "100 - 500 downloads" and 2 1-star reviews.

Turn off JavaScript if you're on an iOS device, and take a look at the google cache of the app's iTunes page. It was up on AppStore for a month and didn't even get enough downloads to get any ratings or rankings or reviews... even buried AC slashdot comments get more exposure than this app's AppStore page. I can't figure out what the purpose of the app is nor what the author was attempting to accomplish with this trojan.

Actually, it was up over a year with no updates. The Android app on Google Play however was updated a little over a month ago, had "100 - 500 downloads" and 2 1-star reviews.

Turn off JavaScript if you're on an iOS device, and take a look at the google cache of the app's iTunes page. It was up on AppStore for a month and didn't even get enough downloads to get any ratings or rankings or reviews... even buried AC slashdot comments get more exposure than this app's AppStore page. I can't figure out what the purpose of the app is nor what the author was attempting to accomplish with this trojan.

Google cache has the forum thread:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbvforums.org%2Fforums%2Fmessages%2F7659%2F82111.html&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gl=uk

If anecdotal evidence on SSDs scares you perhaps you should re-review Google's hard data on hard disk failures. Certain brands of SSDs are already many times more reliable than hard drives if looking at failure rates over time. Hard drives are no more reliable. You will find plenty of anecdotes in NewEgg reviews of people buying x number of hard drives and y number of them arriving DOA or dying in 3 months.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-6.html

this seems to ba a cache of her dmca request:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mITGdka0BHcJ:chicksandpolitics.com/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

Nevada Cayembe in Ecuador is the best place to leave from. It's the highest point on the Equator, and thus the best place on the planet to launch from. The altitude and reduced air pressure helps your rocket efficiency. Of course, once the Stratolaunch vehicle gets going, they can start a rocket higher and moving faster than any point on Earth. Nevertheless, Cayembe is a great place to put an accelerator type system:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Space_Transport_and_Engineering_Methods/Human_Transport#Low_Acceleration_Guns

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_izqCR4nsS0/T6bJLGsngcI/AAAAAAAAC1c/zA2p3C2doqA/s1577/Cayambe%2520Topo%2520Map.jpg

lol call candice and ask her why shes fat lol. Call her at 281.508.7722 or email candice@schwagerconsulting.com (also she looks like the mean teacher from harry potter 5) [ps: grabbed above from http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kWy3EjJ_v4IJ:houstonsbestattorneymarketing.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us ] it says to call her....

We tried this in Holland and it doesn't work. 200 cameras were installed in the Rotterdam region to catch criminals, but a recent report showed the police is NOT using it to catch criminals, because they have no clue what to do with all the data. Instead, the tax agency uses the cameras to go after unpaid taxes and unpaid fines. Installing cameras will lead to function creep, loss of privacy and another step towards a POLICE STATE. See http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/543419/1/1/50/kentekencamera-pakt-geen-criminelen.html&usg=ALkJrhhvrWudYxPDrjVbVqd1Tm317MS-MQ

It sounds like a crappy study. They claim it's lonely because most people don't post anything publicly. But that's a completely meaningless way to measure activity.

I really don't post much on G+, yet I'm extremely active. I'm following dozens of very interesting people I'd never heard of before I joined G+, and I'm actively participating in the discussions resulting from their posts. It's thriving, it's vibrant, and the fact that most people don't post anything of their own is completely uninteresting.

Let's face it: most people don't have anything truly interesting to share. On Facebook, they share it anyway, so your wading through tons of crap. On G+, they don't share it or share it privately, so you only get to see the interesting stuff.

But the real difference is this.

I'll just put this here. It was on the ThinkProgress site for months whereas the Heartland billboard ad was stopped within 24 hours. Heartland issued an apology. ThinkProgress dropped the post silently and pretended nothing had happened.

Seconded. Then breed me a Pegasus.

Personally, I preferred the guy who wanted them to go away until they came back with a 3D space MMORPG, because that would have gotten rid of them forever, and I wouldn't have had to find out that something called My Little Parody: Friendship With Benefits Is Magic needs voice actors. Hmm. Varying degrees of not sure if want. But even that will be better than the Gamefailuredom trolls, so it's got that going for it.

The bad faith you've shown in all your answers proves once and for all that you're trolling. So I win on all accounts but the ties.

1. you don't get my (hypothetical) malicious website in 15 minutes in your host file, it takes days/weeks, so you lie and you're wrong. AV get it much faster than you.

3. So why don't you try putting your favs at the bottom of your host file if it doesn't change the speed of query ? you lose.

4. You lie, proven fact. Not the same sentence (clue: punctuation), learn to write and then maybe people will understand what it is that you're trying to say. you lose and are a proven liar.

5. No, that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying: "it is less exploited than windows is, although they are both a very interesting target and linux's server are targeted at least as much as windows is, per your own reasoning."

6. QUESTION: Are trojans used for botnets being installed LOCALLY by users before they can be accessed remotely ? YES. And actually you know it very well, that's why you never write anywhere "trojans are remote exploits", you always write "trojans are remotely exploited". In all your bad faith you cannot admit you're wrong, but you know that saying "trojan are remote exploits" is BS, so you don't write it, instead you try to sneak around with faulty logic, you always say: "trojans are remotely exploited" out of context. The full contex that you should write if you were honest should be: "trojans are remotely exploited once they are locally installed through user interaction". But you won't write this honest statement because you're not honest. Now I dare you to write either "trojan are remote exploits" (BS) or "trojans are remotely exploited once they are locally installed through user interaction" (reality, not a remote exploit then, since user interaction is required). You won't dare because you're a dishonest troll (I know, pleonasm).

8. You had two user account on IT security user 9122 and user 9143. 9143 has been banned and can now only be accessed through google's cache, and your illogical question ("Why has this website intentionally posted ERRONEOUS misleading information?") has been deleted as well, accessible only through google's cache (and soon to disappear even from there I guess). You loose

As for your questions, I can answer them all with one single link proving your logical fallacies: Anecdotal evidence and faulty logic. Of course you won't read nor understand it.

The bad faith you've shown in all your answers proves once and for all that you're trolling. So I win on all accounts but the ties.

1. you don't get my (hypothetical) malicious website in 15 minutes in your host file, it takes days/weeks, so you lie and you're wrong. AV get it much faster than you.

3. So why don't you try putting your favs at the bottom of your host file if it doesn't change the speed of query ? you lose.

4. You lie, proven fact. Not the same sentence (clue: punctuation), learn to write and then maybe people will understand what it is that you're trying to say. you lose and are a proven liar.

5. No, that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying: "it is less exploited than windows is, although they are both a very interesting target and linux's server are targeted at least as much as windows is, per your own reasoning."

6. QUESTION: Are trojans used for botnets being installed LOCALLY by users before they can be accessed remotely ? YES. And actually you know it very well, that's why you never write anywhere "trojans are remote exploits", you always write "trojans are remotely exploited". In all your bad faith you cannot admit you're wrong, but you know that saying "trojan are remote exploits" is BS, so you don't write it, instead you try to sneak around with faulty logic, you always say: "trojans are remotely exploited" out of context. The full contex that you should write if you were honest should be: "trojans are remotely exploited once they are locally installed through user interaction". But you won't write this honest statement because you're not honest. Now I dare you to write either "trojan are remote exploits" (BS) or "trojans are remotely exploited once they are locally installed through user interaction" (reality, not a remote exploit then, since user interaction is required). You won't dare because you're a dishonest troll (I know, pleonasm).

8. You had two user account on IT security user 9122 and user 9143. 9143 has been banned and can now only be accessed through google's cache, and your illogical question ("Why has this website intentionally posted ERRONEOUS misleading information?") has been deleted as well, accessible only through google's cache (and soon to disappear even from there I guess). You loose

As for your questions, I can answer them all with one single link proving your logical fallacies: Anecdotal evidence and faulty logic. Of course you won't read nor understand it.

For comparison with a water droplet (the closer to 180 degrees you get, the closer to a perfect non-wettable/sticky surface you have):

This new glass (165 degree contact angle)
The upcoming Neverwet material (160 to 175 degrees)
Lotus leaf or even some birds' feather (150 degrees)
Rain-X (110 degrees - car windshield protector)
Teflon (95-110 degrees - surprisingly low, but then it needs to be tough and heat-proof)
Car wax (90 degrees)
Human skin (90 degrees - PDF warning)

I wonder what the durability of the glass is compared to Neverwet w(which is pervious to solvents, detergents, soap and high pressure water)...

After all, Big Government is in cahoots with Big Pharma so people are bled dry using tested and approved medicines rather than "vitamin" pills to cure cancer.

Appropriate political cartoon

But Les Perelman, a writing teacher at MIT, has shown the limits of algorithms used for grading with an essay that got a top score from an automated system but contained no relevant information and many inaccuracies.

Considering the fake generated paper that was published in a peer reviewed journal, I'd say that means the robo-graders are on par with human proof readers.

I got that too.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=utf-8&client=mozilla&hl=en&q=cache:3Ltr4XFiuzEJ:http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html+http%3A//www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html&ct=clnk OR http://preview.tinyurl.com/7u9z3j4 for Google's cached copy.

Weird that the non-cached copy worked fine and home page's link to the first page is broken too.

Print pages worked too:
http://www.datamation.com/print/http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html
http://www.datamation.com/print/http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-2.html
http://www.datamation.com/print/http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-3.html

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3Ltr4XFiuzEJ:www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

I have seen firms like this. Mixing, adding value, and then, sometimes, selling the product. A lot of times it depends on the amount of original product. If we use another analogy, and go back a while, we can look at the Compaq clean room development of the PC clone, or the MS writing of MS WIndows based on the Apple Macintosh System GUI. Both had sufficient independence that the courts found then not infringing.

It is not clear that this is not infringing. The process starts with a copyrighted textbook. The firm then copies the presentation in the textbook replacing copyrighted content with copyleft content. Is this fair? I don't know. It seems fishy to me.

What really caught my eye though is the FAQ that does not appear to be on the website but does exist in the Google cache. In this FAQ, and I quote
Do Boundless textbooks contain the problem and question sets from the original textbooks? No. We are working on a long term solution, but in the meantime there are a few easy options if your professor assigns questions directly from the book: 1. Grab the questions from one of your friends, school library, or professor. Many professors will post the questions to your class page. 2. You can find the questions to most large college textbooks online with a simple search. Search your assigned textbook name + chapter+ “questions” on Google. 3. Many sites such as Cramster.com will provide answers to all major college textbooks on their site. All three of these options in addition to using Boundless are better than wasting hard earned money.
To the reasonable observer it certainly seems that the firm is encouraging students to engage in a practice that might violate copyright for no other reason to promote the profits of the firm. Mind you students have been copying problem sets for years. In many cases, a student solution manual is available at a fraction of the cost of the textbook, and many just buy this. But professors and others are very careful to never encourage such practice. You can't go the university copy shop and have someone copy the sets, you must do it yourself.

So, to be clear I do not have any idea if what Boundless is doing is illegal, but the fact that it is a for profit firm seems to make a lot of the fair use and educational points moot. They do not seem to be adding value to the material. They pull stuff off the net and then sends the kids back to the original textbook. I would think that a textbook replacement at least would have problems sets. I don't take much credence in using the same examples, as there are just so many ways to illustrate a concept, but a book without problem sets is no book at all.

.. is Google:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=es&twu=1&u=http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7078610/Laid_%28abc_TV_serie

Not completely related to how to test, but...

In 2007 Google reported that for a sample of 100k drives, only 60% of their drives with failures had ever encountered any SMART errors. Also, NetApp has reported a significant amount of drives with temporary failures, such that they can be placed back into a pool after being taken offline for a period of time and wiped. Google also had a lot of other interesting things to say (such as heat has no noticeable effect on hard drive life under 45C, that load is unrelated to failure rates, and that if a drive doesn't fail after 3 months, it's very unlikely to fail until the 2-3 year timeframe.

You can find the google paper here: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

A few other notes that you can find from storage vendor tech notes if you own their arrays:
  * Enterprise-level SAS drives aren't any more reliable than consumer SATA drives
    - But they do have considerably different firmwares that assume they will be placed in an array, and thus have a completely different self-healing scheme than consumer-level drives (generally resulting in higher performance in failure scenarios)
  * RAID 5 is a really bad idea - correlated failures are much more likely than the math would indicate, especially with the rebuild times involved with today's huge drives
  * You have a lot more filesystem options that might not even make sense to use with a RAID system, like ZFS, as well as other mechanisms for distributing your data at a layer higher than the filesystem

Ultimately the reality is that regardless of the testing you put them under, hard drives will fail, and you need to design your production system around this fact. You *should* burn them in with constant read/write cycles for a couple days in order to identify those drives which are essentially DOA, but you shouldn't assume any drive that passes that process won't die tomorrow.

don't use consumer drives if you're concerned.

see also http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/archive/disk_failures.pdf

The Goog wrote a nice paper on hard drives.

MPG?

38 mpg on the road, 21 mpg in the air (calculated). I pulled stats from the chart here: googleusercontent.com

But, according to the newer page here: pal-v.com, we have 28 mpg on the ground and about 12 mpg in the air (calculated).

MPG?

38 mpg on the road, 21 mpg in the air (calculated). I pulled stats from the chart here: googleusercontent.com

Here is a link to the GNU Radio site in Google's cache. And here is the link to osmocom, also from Google's cache.

Here is a link to the GNU Radio site in Google's cache. And here is the link to osmocom, also from Google's cache.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRixFRVwNjoJ:sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

funny thing about this google cache link though, it's trying to load stuff from sdr.osmocom.org, which is currently slashdotted, so not sure if google knows what cache means anymore...

yes, sorry, https because that's how i roll baby...

Because now it's an $0.11 smoking heap of slag...

Getcha google cache here!

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRixFRVwNjoJ:sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr+sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

(which is also slow as zark. anyone manage a mirror?)

It looks like they updated the page. It now says this in two other places:
"This product supports very fast cellular networks. It is not compatible with current Australian 4G LTE networks and WiMAX networks."

Current spec page:
http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/specs/

Google cache of the page without the message:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fau%2Fipad%2Fspecs%2F

Who owns Diageo?

from http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MFRsy_KE9_8J:stockzoa.com/ticker/deo/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=opera

Who holds a large position in Diageo:

  Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss owns 10.58M shares worth $924.96M
  Wentworth, Hauser & Violich owns 3.69M shares worth $322.48M
  Schafer Cullen Capital Management owns 1.70M shares worth $148.84M
  Bank of America Corporation owns 1.31M shares worth $114.57M
  Markel Corporation owns 1.25M shares worth $109.02M
  Johnston Asset Management owns 1.24M shares worth $93.81M
  INTERNATIONAL VALUE ADVISERS owns 1.23M shares worth $107.39M
  Franklin Resources owns 996175 shares worth $87.09M
  Osterweis Capital Management owns 963445 shares worth $73.15M
  Gabelli Funds owns 922000 shares worth $80.60M
  Manulife Asset Management owns 807079 shares worth $70.55M
  Citi owns 780475 shares worth $68.24M
  Epoch Investment Partners owns 776104 shares worth $67.85M
  Thrivent Financial for Lutherans owns 755348 shares worth $66.03M
  Focused Investors owns 726200 shares worth $63.48M
  GAMCO Asset Management owns 707570 shares worth $61.86M
  Cooke & Bieler owns 704516 shares worth $61.59M
  Allianz Global Investors of America owns 676595 shares worth $59.15M
  GOLDMAN SACHS owns 606318 shares worth $53.00M

Rich People own Diageo. Not just Yanks, not just Brits, maybe even some Micks.
--
Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are harder to remember than you can imagine.

It's amazing to me that this corporation keeps breaking the law, yet somehow manages to keep getting away with it. How many people will drop AT&T over this? or this?, or this? Nobody.

pretty much ended revenue from recorded music

Retail music sales for 2010 were $15.9billion. Are you really suggesting that the recorded music industry is dead? Yes there has been a decline in the revenue of music in recent years. There are many reasons for this including the ability to buy individual tracks online reducing album sales and the rise of streaming music services. Piracy has had an effect on music sales but to claim that it has completely destroyed the market for recorded music is rather naive.

You may be shocked but there are people who don't download their music illegally, not because it is inconvenient, but because it is illegal and they prefer to support the artist they like to listen to rather than screw them over.

Most people don't even think about pirating movies, they buy their DVDs from Play.com or in the supermarket for £5 and go away happy. To be honest at that kind of price who cares how easy it is to download a pirate copy.

Google Cache Link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?bih=966&sclient=psy-ab&q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fthreatpost.com%2Fen_us%2Fblogs%2Fmask-gone-anonymous-leaders-left-big-footprint-online-030912&oq=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fthreatpost.com%2Fen_us%2Fblogs%2Fmask-gone-anonymous-leaders-left-big-footprint-online-030912&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=4796l8893l1l9242l8l6l1l0l0l0l158l652l4.2l7l0&gs_l=serp.3...4796l8893l1l9242l8l6l1l0l0l0l158l652l4j2l7l0&pbx=1

I use to do that for fun 15yr ago, it is not that hard. There are still some old tutorials on this floating on the net:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TIHCSoP4378J:yanaware.com/com4me/createcom.php-author%3DErnie%2520MURPHY%26mail%3Dernie%40surfree.com%26url%3Dhttp---here.is-ComInAsm%26idTute%3D39.htm+masm+COM+component&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

The main site appears to be down, but I've always found Rod's take on the Star Trek film reboot spot on the money:

http://www.the-editing-room.com/star-trek.html
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dMzpqZM75DoJ:www.the-editing-room.com/star-trek.html+editing+room+star+trek+abridged+cached&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

Server is down, cached version : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zG-BilzlF4UJ:www.overthinkingit.com/2012/02/22/fridge-nuking-scientific-peer-review/%3Fpage%3Dall+http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/02/22/fridge-nuking-scientific-peer-review/%3Fpage%3Dall&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zG-BilzlF4UJ:www.overthinkingit.com/2012/02/22/fridge-nuking-scientific-peer-review/%3Fpage%3Dall+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

For those that want a read-through while the server has it's heart ripped out.

Technically, all of the world runs on linux and not sun - why the misleading? This actually hasn't changed very much - linux was always on the backend, and now it's simply surging for the end users too.

Suns' engineers have confirmed that android is not java - yet android and not ios is heading towards the largest marketshare in the world (see india custom tablet for example). Windows has been on a gigantic decline but has pushed hard to not have studies that mix mobile and desktop OS marketshare as windows is heading towards irrelevant whereas ios will remain relevant.

Powered by what? You are in a mandatory shutdown situation. Where do you get the heat to run a turbine?

How long after a mandatory shutdown until the core is too cold to generate electricity? When you need to cool it (the problem they were running into), you have waste heat. Capture that and you'll have emergency power as long as you need it.

Apparently its not hot enough to generate any significant heat for very long, and boiling water to steam in enough volume to run even a small turbine takes a boat load of heat.

See this image. The vertical line shows temps dropping all over the reactor immediately after the scram.

This chart shows that the core was at 4000 degrees at 14:46 at the time of the quake (and scram), and by 15:30 when the wave struck it was at around 250 degrees. You won't produce enough steam to run a turbine with that amount of heat. (If you could there would be no reason for normal operation at 4000 degrees).

Diesel generators were the right choice. Indeed the only choice. Used in reactors all over the world.

The location of those generators was wrong. We both agree on that.

They knew, or should have know it was wrong, just as JD Posted Above. The risk assessment used to design the plant didn't take into account the very strong quake AND the very large wave, because the original design used ONLY a 100 year window. JDs point is that the 100 year window was too short.

But plant operators are handed a plant to run, and its almost impossible to go back and say this is dangerous, we need to totally rebuild this plant, or move it. That doesn't happen in Japan, and it doesn't happen in the US either.

Once built, you couldn't make this plant safe. $10,000 doesn't come close. There are 5 reactors on site. Even raising the generators, indeed, the entire plant 50 feet couldn't make it safe against a quake of that magnitude and a tsunami of that size. All it takes is a cooling water pipe to shake and break, or a pump to fail, or salt water contamination of the cooling system.

It should not have been built there. A proper risk assessment window would have prevented it.

If you've not managed your system so that logfiles don't exist, that isn't the problem of the "hidden volume" system

Oh, no argument there at all. Most people will simply say "It's in a hidden volume, I'm safe! ROFL" and ignore the fact that various other things happily log what they've been doing, leading to evidence of said hidden volume.

And never mind logs, if one has a 100mb TrueCrypt file, but the mounted volume only reveals 1k of space...one's going to have some more questions to answer.

Note : I'm reading what your saying as "the files containing visible and hidden TrueCrypt (or something else) volumes AND ONLY THOSE FILES AND NOTHING ELSE WHATSOEVER" have been cracked by the spooks and the results described in public in formal court proceedings".

Yeah, pretty much. The case I was thinking of is rather old now (and I can only find a couple of [dodgy] links to it): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CvUs7ezVExQJ:myreader.co.uk/msg/1303199419.aspx+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
Was it a "simple" brute force of a short password? Probably, the actual technical details of what went on are unknown to me. I wish I could find a better link that that one.

Which brings us back to earlier points. Simply using TrueCrypt (and others like it) is not enough, they need to be used properly.

No, the original site corrected it after the submission was made: see the Google cache at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftechzwn.com%2F2012%2F02%2Finterview-filmmakers-tell-of-the-home-video-revolution%2F .

Cached copy for all the unfortunates.

Although your post is informative on the state of Belgium government idiocy, a little effort on your part is suggested. If you don't know how to search for cached copies of web pages, perhaps you should turn in your /. account.

When in Poland a parliament commission approved resolution asking prime minister to postpone signing ACTA, official from US embassy called demanding explanation why it was voted and who voted for it. Here is translated link from Polish source.