Apple has a legitimate reason for keeping the drive which is described on the form given to the customer - it believes the drive can be fixed and sold. I don't get this. A disk that can be recovered economically enough to be resaleable presumably only needs a reformat or suchlike. That is *not* a broken HD, it's a broken filesystem! Surely telling the customer the HD is broken and needs to be replaced implies a hardware failure, ie it's never going to work reliably again and is scrap. Do Dell,say, or other PC vendors swap out drives if NTFS gets corrupted or the OS breaks badly enough to need reinstalling?
"Going Postal" finally convinced me that all the science and computer jokes around the Unseen University were, like a lot of the more subtle Douglas Adams humour, actually informed by a lot of detailed understanding of, well, science and computers. There's an underground hackers group who turn out to be the strange geeky kids who built and run the Clacks network. As a reference to the speed with which they can pass messages around, they call themselves "the Smoking Gnu". Coincidence? I think not.
Linux has had filesystem ACLs for ages (arbitrary lists of people with sets of permissions above and beyond user/group/world permissions). News to me...
~ $ ls -l/etc
total 1302
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15069 Feb 24 2006 a2ps.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2563 Feb 24 2006 a2ps-site.cfg
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Feb 19 2007 acpi/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Dec 21 20:58 adjtime
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Aug 10 11:51 alternatives/
[.... etc...]
Sure looks like 3 sets of rwx to me...
I suspect that even if it were in a clear host galaxy, it would still have taken place in empty space. Empty apart from the vast ball of exploding hydrogen nuclei and plasma and that.
Well, that settles it then. If it's the only way to fulfill some SF fantasies, it must be going to work. How's about this for a unified theory of physics? There's this gauge field, right, that permeates every part of space, let's call it the Force...
If nano-technology reaches the point where we can program assemblers to take local materials and build structures from electronic plans, what are the implications to space travel?
If monkeys flew out of my butt, they could design and build a rocket for half the budget it takes NASA!
"open source" is meaningless in the sense of Free software and the GPL. Sure, NASA / Boeing won't sue you if you scrape up $20,000,000 with a few garage sales and use their blueprints to build yourself a launcher. Oh yeah, you'll need some infrastructure as well - nothing special, just a few control rooms, the DSN, hmmm I guess a TDRS system would be useful too...
In short, Burt Rutan ain't gonna be building one of these in a garage at White Sands.
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I was a Perl programmer (a proper one, not a CGI.pm monkey.) We got a new CTO. He liked Java. He sent us all on Java courses which, the instructor told us, were a waste of time as (a) we were all expected to be up to speed with the basics, which few of us were, and (b) because he'd been told to cover two weeks' worth of material in two days. I quit after lunch on the first day.
...how the populations (including the military) in some of the more... nervous areas of the globe would react to a suddden blinding light in the sky followed by an enormous blast wave.
I'm not sure why we should really give a shit about what goes on inside a company. What matters is what it does. Well IANAL so I can't give you a formal answer to that. However it doesn't take much thought to imagine a scenario where whether or not people inside the company knew certain things or not, and when they knew them, has significance regarding how long people go to jail, how much the company's fined, or whatever. As a random though experiment, supposing the wing falls off the fancy new Airbus super-jumbo and 800 people end up getting their 15 minutes of fame in the form of charred shreds of flesh hanging from scorched trees, Paris '74 style. That would be bad, and clearly a lot of questions would be asked, like "why did the wing fall off?" Supposing the investigators find it was a known design weakness and that senior management had deliberately suppressed internal whistle-blowers who tried to flag it as potentially dangerous. In those circumstances, obviously you want those in the know doing 10-30 for each life lost. OTOH, if the failure mode were due to some exotic combination of novel materials and a sequence of unexpected and completely unpredictable events, and world-class engineers universally failed to predict or imagine such an event happening, then it would be rather unfair to clap the Board in irons for negligence. That's why corps can't be black boxes.
On a completely unrelated note I finally found where your sig comes from last night, and all I can say is: bite my splintery wooden ass!
I'm absolutely not an Apple fanboi but this is bollocks. Apple (who are indeed significantly slowerthan other distributors in releasing patches) ship an awful lot of Free software - application software that is - with OS X, whilst Microsoft generally only patch the core OS (and Office, if you go to https://microsoftupdate.com/ rather than https://windowsupdate.com/.) Hmmm, one day I must get round to doing that chart tracking who, of the main distros shipping common code such as (say) Zlib, releases what patches, when. Some of the Linux distys are particularly lax on this front.
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You put forward a persuasive case outlining the shortcomings of requiring email retention. How, then, would you propose that corporate communications with bearing on matters which come to court are given protected status, to ensure that (eg) companies indulging in outrageous deliberate corporate malfeasance - Enron stylee, let's say - can't have a digital shredding party once a month and walk free when the cops arrive? You're not proposing we give up attempting to regulate commerce through commercial law, I take it?
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This certainly isn't standard practice in the UK, IME anyway; so is this a US only thing? Sounds like that rare and precious flower, a useful law...
"Going Postal" finally convinced me that all the science and computer jokes around the Unseen University were, like a lot of the more subtle Douglas Adams humour, actually informed by a lot of detailed understanding of, well, science and computers. There's an underground hackers group who turn out to be the strange geeky kids who built and run the Clacks network. As a reference to the speed with which they can pass messages around, they call themselves "the Smoking Gnu". Coincidence? I think not.
This is IMHO one of the very few areas where Windows has had an advantage over Linux. NTFS ACLs have been this granular since, what, 1993?
Yeah, a Republican's the answer to this problem, sure enough. Where do I sign up?
I suspect that even if it were in a clear host galaxy, it would still have taken place in empty space. Empty apart from the vast ball of exploding hydrogen nuclei and plasma and that.
Well, that settles it then. If it's the only way to fulfill some SF fantasies, it must be going to work. How's about this for a unified theory of physics? There's this gauge field, right, that permeates every part of space, let's call it the Force...
If monkeys flew out of my butt, they could design and build a rocket for half the budget it takes NASA!
A wheelbarrow has a wheel. So does a Ferarri and an earthmover.
Your claim fails with the very first link in the chain.
In short, Burt Rutan ain't gonna be building one of these in a garage at White Sands.
I was a Perl programmer (a proper one, not a CGI.pm monkey.) We got a new CTO. He liked Java. He sent us all on Java courses which, the instructor told us, were a waste of time as (a) we were all expected to be up to speed with the basics, which few of us were, and (b) because he'd been told to cover two weeks' worth of material in two days. I quit after lunch on the first day.
riiiighhhhtt......
...how the populations (including the military) in some of the more... nervous areas of the globe would react to a suddden blinding light in the sky followed by an enormous blast wave.
MIT is not in charge of Gundam.
well, yes, me too of course.
No, it's simple. When you reach the last turtle down, you just ask it.
On a completely unrelated note I finally found where your sig comes from last night, and all I can say is: bite my splintery wooden ass!
Where'd this come from, then? Out of your nostril?
I'm absolutely not an Apple fanboi but this is bollocks. Apple (who are indeed significantly slowerthan other distributors in releasing patches) ship an awful lot of Free software - application software that is - with OS X, whilst Microsoft generally only patch the core OS (and Office, if you go to https://microsoftupdate.com/ rather than https://windowsupdate.com/ .) Hmmm, one day I must get round to doing that chart tracking who, of the main distros shipping common code such as (say) Zlib, releases what patches, when. Some of the Linux distys are particularly lax on this front.
Awww, c'mon,.. don't spoil it for the kids!
Yep, there's plenty of companies out there selling IM retention stuff.
You put forward a persuasive case outlining the shortcomings of requiring email retention. How, then, would you propose that corporate communications with bearing on matters which come to court are given protected status, to ensure that (eg) companies indulging in outrageous deliberate corporate malfeasance - Enron stylee, let's say - can't have a digital shredding party once a month and walk free when the cops arrive? You're not proposing we give up attempting to regulate commerce through commercial law, I take it?