It seems to me that the great scientific discovery of nuclear power is just another example of a Win/Lose for us all. It just doesn't seem right: We get a super-powerful energy source that produces a intensely deadly by-product (radiation), plus it gets used to threaten other "enemy" nations all around the world. I'm all for national security, but the Nuclear Age seems to have caused a major schizophrenia affliction among the leaders of "nuclear" nations as well as the ones who clamor for a neutron fix from a good-old Hydrogen bomb.
I also find it rather interesting that both Canada and Australia produce almost 45% of the worlds' raw Uranium that gets mined each year, and neither of them have any nuclear weapons that I know of. source: http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf23.html
Australia is also the nation that leads the world in the development of highly advanced process systems to enrich raw Uranium into more pure forms that get used for both beneficial electrical generation and destructive weapons too: http://www.silex.com.au/
While the iPhone is pretty cool, it makes me think about the one thing that Apple pretty much dominates the technology field in. That would be "technology MARKETING", specifically making people believe that they desperately NEED their own little iWorld to be happy! While there's no doubt that they often do build some great stuff, this little bit of marketing "Karma" often covers up a host of techno-Sin they have committed in the past, such as the Apple III computer and the Lisa (with its "borrowed" GUI design courtesy of Xerox labs), just to name some of the high-profile ones. But still, they seem to "repent" and move forward into better days, such as the Macintosh and OSX.
So, we issue them forgiveness and contribute to the Empire anyways....
Since it's so easy to get "old" data off of a hard drive once it's written, have the ultra-security experts looked at RAM based drives for storing data that should never be recovered at a later time? If you just used a regular disk to boot your OS fully configured into a RAM-based drive, then run the machine from there you could theoretically have a non-recoverable data storage unit. Long-term files would be written to a USB FLASH drive. No "ghost image" to be read back off a magnetic device and looked at, just pull the plug and BAM, your "history" IS really history (inside the computer, anyway).
Does flash technology leave a phantom image after it's erased like magnetic storage does?
I like to think of the whole "locked phone" scenario like this:
US Cellular carriers "profit model" is based on the concept of "exclusivity", being that "we're the only ones with the (insert gizmo or marketing made-up service name here), and that's why you should tie yourself to us for two years."
European communications providers seem to base their "profit model" on providing networks than include many perceived useful SERVICES to their customers, and charging whatever they deem is correct for the usage of said service. Like mobile TV and such, even though a TV in my phone the absolutely least useful thing to me, in my opinion.
I have some friends who live in Europe, and they have a couple of SIM cards with different carriers there. They just use whichever one is cheapest wherever that are at when they need to make or receive calls. Is this the normal thing there or not?
About the "exclusive" thing, come to think of it, this is EXACTLY the business profit model subscribed to by almost every large American company today, isn't it??!!
LONG LIVE FREEDOM, AS LONG AS WE OWN ALL OF IT!!!!:)
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It seems to me that the great scientific discovery of nuclear power is just another example of a Win/Lose for us all. It just doesn't seem right: We get a super-powerful energy source that produces a intensely deadly by-product (radiation), plus it gets used to threaten other "enemy" nations all around the world. I'm all for national security, but the Nuclear Age seems to have caused a major schizophrenia affliction among the leaders of "nuclear" nations as well as the ones who clamor for a neutron fix from a good-old Hydrogen bomb.
I also find it rather interesting that both Canada and Australia produce almost 45% of the worlds' raw Uranium that gets mined each year, and neither of them have any nuclear weapons that I know of. source: http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf23.html
Australia is also the nation that leads the world in the development of highly advanced process systems to enrich raw Uranium into more pure forms that get used for both beneficial electrical generation and destructive weapons too: http://www.silex.com.au/
While the iPhone is pretty cool, it makes me think about the one thing that Apple pretty much dominates the technology field in. That would be "technology MARKETING", specifically making people believe that they desperately NEED their own little iWorld to be happy! While there's no doubt that they often do build some great stuff, this little bit of marketing "Karma" often covers up a host of techno-Sin they have committed in the past, such as the Apple III computer and the Lisa (with its "borrowed" GUI design courtesy of Xerox labs), just to name some of the high-profile ones. But still, they seem to "repent" and move forward into better days, such as the Macintosh and OSX.
So, we issue them forgiveness and contribute to the Empire anyways....
At the risk of sounding calloused here, perhaps this chap worked for the Nestle company?
The only problem I see was that he had all the Ham slices and cheese IN THE OTHER POCKET when the Apple device caught on fire....
Oh well, those "Hot Pockets" never were good for you. Too many preservatives and such....
Do "Lean Pockets" just make your pants way tighter? I'm so confused here!~
OK, don't kill this BEFORE you read it....
Since it's so easy to get "old" data off of a hard drive once it's written, have the ultra-security experts looked at RAM based drives for storing data that should never be recovered at a later time? If you just used a regular disk to boot your OS fully configured into a RAM-based drive, then run the machine from there you could theoretically have a non-recoverable data storage unit. Long-term files would be written to a USB FLASH drive. No "ghost image" to be read back off a magnetic device and looked at, just pull the plug and BAM, your "history" IS really history (inside the computer, anyway).
Does flash technology leave a phantom image after it's erased like magnetic storage does?
I like to think of the whole "locked phone" scenario like this:
:)
US Cellular carriers "profit model" is based on the concept of "exclusivity", being that "we're the only ones with the (insert gizmo or marketing made-up service name here), and that's why you should tie yourself to us for two years."
European communications providers seem to base their "profit model" on providing networks than include many perceived useful SERVICES to their customers, and charging whatever they deem is correct for the usage of said service. Like mobile TV and such, even though a TV in my phone the absolutely least useful thing to me, in my opinion.
I have some friends who live in Europe, and they have a couple of SIM cards with different carriers there. They just use whichever one is cheapest wherever that are at when they need to make or receive calls. Is this the normal thing there or not?
About the "exclusive" thing, come to think of it, this is EXACTLY the business profit model subscribed to by almost every large American company today, isn't it??!!
LONG LIVE FREEDOM, AS LONG AS WE OWN ALL OF IT!!!!