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One woman called to complain that she had "washed all her data away." Her USB stick had been through a cycle in her washing machine and -- surprise! -- she couldn't retrieve any data from it I had a friend that did that a few years ago and the stick works to this day, though it is in a new casing as the dryer melted the glue holding it together
as long as they don't just send out blanket infringement notices and obey the law allowing fair use haha that's a good one- everyone knows that fair use doesn't exist anymore
the fact of the matter is that there already are laws governing over child pornography, maybe if we would enforce laws that target people exploiting children and stop expanding laws to make people look for other people that might be exploiting children we would actually get people who are doing bad things and not infringing on people that are doing nothing wrong.
making everyone a policeman makes everyone think everyone else is a criminal.
I am sick of living in a country that is paranoid of terrorism, child porn, disease, abduction, spree killings and everything else that you can think of. If people would just look at things realistically- if someone is sitting in your cafe' looking at kiddie porn on your wi-fi and you know about it- should you report them? of course you should- should the government say- "we think that you saw someone look at kiddie porn on your wi-fi while you were working your minimum wage job so come to court and prove you didn't or we will fine you hundreds of thousands of dollars"?- no offense but that is pretty fucking ridiculous.
Linux is to computers today what DOS was to computers in the late 1980s when I was getting into them that is one of the best ways to describe it and one of the reasons why though i find some things cool about linux and don't dis on it's upsides I don't see myself using it (outside of work) for quite a while- plain and simple-no one who has an interest in multimedia development (for creators of media) has particularly dug into it the way that amiga and atari was dug into in the late 80s or MS was dug into in the early to mid 90s so for those of us that use our machines for that we are stuck with a lame duck when it comes to lunux vs. all of the application support that comes with MS (though not in vista- we have been left behind there).
yep- I was lucky when I got my lenovo at a comp usa (one of the few in store core duo xp laptops at the time)- it was a sealed box return, so it couldn't go back to the distributor to be swapped for a vista machine- I got it for less than cost- $450- everything else at the time was vista in the store
the problem really isn't with the voting so much as the vote counting- there needs to be a UID issued at the time of the vote and an online account that can be used over an encrypted transfer to access and check the UID so that if your vote is incorrect you can register a grievance- which would allow you to register a vote change (before results are posted, and we would have NO early return numbers)
besides your FPS games some of the most amazing level design in my opinion cames from games like: psychonauts (esp. the crazy milkman level and the black velvet world), sonic adventure and sonic adventure 2\sonic rivals among others. they have a very "non-standard" approach to level design where the player is challenged by the physics and dimensions of the level vs. something that just looks nice (although the look nice as well).
You need puzzles and monsters," he says, "or people won't want to play... what about second life, the sims, etc.- there are a lot of people that are not hardcore gamers that play these social-type games and there are more hardcore games than non-hardcore gamers in the world
actually, it kind of makes sense, blizzard has gotten too big for it's little britches with WOW and activision is kind of bloated and out of touch- they could fill in each others' holes
actually the easier way would be to mislead by doing an image backup before any incriminating data was on the drive and a re image of the drive- the data would conceivably still be on the drive, but during a discovery process unless the gov't used a review company like mine (which there aren't any currently in the market) that integrates forensics and recovery you probably would not raise eyebrows when the drive comes in with standard data and no incriminating data- so it would never go into the deep examination process of write logs on the controller itself, files would just be looked at with the timestamps in the metadata and passed on
one of these days people will learn that getting rid of data is way more difficult than creating misleading data in a legal process, but for now we can depend on the stupidity of criminals
actually a verified wipe is more secure as forensics (which is part of my job as well as recovery and extraction/integration of data do a db) can recover a sledgehammered drive a X times wipe+ verify overwrites every byte of data on the drive though the article is wrong- 7X wipe is not the standard- 3X wipe and verify is the DOD standard 7X wipe and verify is above the stated DOD standard, in the high security environment that I work in we do 2 3X wipes on every drive on exit and entry if they are reused and if they are damaged we wipe what we can before a full dismemberment and shredding of the platters and controllers before secure disposal at the end of a client engagement.
or gene replacement therapy, which means that you could become a clone of anyone's genes that you could get your hands on..... as well as reactivating the genes with HGH therapy and shooting yourself through a 2nd growth stage that would make you younger..... c'mon what 90 year old man wouldn't like to be an 18 year old paris hilton
that may have some confusion to do with the design- a ton of people I know can't tell the difference between the ipod touch and the iphone since they look the same- I have seen the same thing in stores where you go in and the ipod touch is in the phone section and not the player section
It doesn't work that way for indie artists- shows break even or lose $- merchandising is the way to go- I make more $ giving away my music (though people usually want to buy it-) and selling t-shirts and other merch at the shows than I get paid from the shows I play- the $ I get for playing usually covers gas and meal (for my girlfriend and I) + 20-50 bucks per show- I sell 4 or 5 t-shirts and I have made more than that
CDs for $10 or $15 a pop. Increasingly, they're buying songs at about $1 apiece instead if the average album is 12-15 tracks and your media cost is $0- how is $1 a song (or for those bad at math... $12-$15) a loss compared to selling cd's?- especially when costs sold through CD distribution earn about $7 per CD to the record company (gross, about $4 net)unless they just decided to smoke crack during online distribution contract negotiations. it seems to me that a company would be able to crank the price down to $.75 or $.80 per song and still break the same profit on a per album purchase while still giving nearly 50% of the purchase price to the retailer since you cut out production, shipping, in store marketing and relations, etc.
but rather spend time at McDonalds shadowing a burger flipper. That way, they will learn the cost of not not getting a good education. sometimes, most times, we don't really know the value (really the opportunity cost, that which we give up) of something. I did not receive a "good education", I have a GED and am a college drop out (didn't have much choice- I grew up on welfare and was pretty much guaranteed not to go to college due to $ once I was in college I couldn't afford to pay my rent and go to school and one had to go) - I have worked as an investments manager, post graduate studies teacher at a university, an investing house DBA, contracted for many high profile clients during the.com boom and for the last few years have been working in corporate law doing forensics and database integration for corporate litigants.....yes I spent time doing construction and bartending and warehouse work when I was out of high school, but it wasn't a dead end.
It is not a lack of education that makes you flip burgers, it is a lack of motivation and thirst for self-improvement. Rather than trying to "scare a kid straight" you would do better to encourage them to expand their base of understanding and knowledge and follow their interests and talents and most of all- learn to take risks. Telling a kid- "go to college or you will end up like this" puts in their head "If I go to college I will have a good job waiting when I graduate" and they end up on their parents' couch.
Out of sheer frustration, many of us Canadians have learned American English. The missing "eh?" makes listening like reading messages in all-caps, but this is the price for an early release. I DON'T SEE HOW YOU THINK THAT OUR SPEECH PATTERN IS ANY DIFFERENT FORM YOURS?!!! NOTHING IRRITATING HERE!!! WE ARE JUST AS CULTURERED AND SOFT SPOKEN AS YOU CANUKS!!!!!!
futurama is one of those things I actually like owning dvd copies of- even though i *cough* saw the movie about a month ago- I will still prolly buy the dvd since I own all of the seasons on dvd already-
Privacy: trusting the employees of a web application is no different from trusting the employees of a desktop application...........Power: irrelevant. PC's have been fast enough for desktop apps since the early 90's. Word 2 was as useful a word processor for average people as word 2007. A web application can be as fast as it needs to be. sorry- no, so far as my dayjob goes, I work in legal with VERY confidential data from VERY confidential clients- just to touch the data we have to go through layers of security and background checks, and work in a locked down environment where even other employees are banned from watching us work and all of our machines are locked on a closed network so that the only port into our network are the terminals that we personally see and manage. By closed I mean that it as all offline.
At home I split between 3d modeling, gaming, video composition and most importantly- making and performing live electronic music (do you seriously think that I am going to start having to have a xxmbps connection just for me to play out live instead of throwing my laptop and controllers in my backpack? that makes my setup more painful and I have strived for years to scale it down).
That means that pretty much every single thing that I do at home and work is completely incompatible with relying on web apps and web drives.
my friends and I did this about 10 years ago, we created an excel chart (called the coolness chart) and had it printed out and was posted on my walls weekly when people came over so that they could do their weekly mods - there were 5 sections of 10 categories each where you gave a 100 point scale to each category, each section was given a raw % and in the end an overall % per rater and overall %(we also had fictitious people and celebrities on the charts for comparison)- it was really funny, all of my friends would walk around with little pads and mod down intelligence when someone did something stupid or mod up personality if the did something cool- in the end it was really funny because you found that some people that you didn't think were so "cool" ended up being the highest scoring since physical attractiveness and style were only 2 of 50 possible categories.
I have wanted to revive this again at some point and put it on line for people to use because it would be amusing to see people modding up and down people like we used to
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it was my first- I got it for the koala pad
the fact of the matter is that there already are laws governing over child pornography, maybe if we would enforce laws that target people exploiting children and stop expanding laws to make people look for other people that might be exploiting children we would actually get people who are doing bad things and not infringing on people that are doing nothing wrong.
making everyone a policeman makes everyone think everyone else is a criminal.
I am sick of living in a country that is paranoid of terrorism, child porn, disease, abduction, spree killings and everything else that you can think of. If people would just look at things realistically- if someone is sitting in your cafe' looking at kiddie porn on your wi-fi and you know about it- should you report them? of course you should- should the government say- "we think that you saw someone look at kiddie porn on your wi-fi while you were working your minimum wage job so come to court and prove you didn't or we will fine you hundreds of thousands of dollars"?- no offense but that is pretty fucking ridiculous.
shut up and quit beating your wife or I'll beat your ass.....
(now I gotta get back to my segal marathon while I play gta)
yep- I was lucky when I got my lenovo at a comp usa (one of the few in store core duo xp laptops at the time)- it was a sealed box return, so it couldn't go back to the distributor to be swapped for a vista machine- I got it for less than cost- $450- everything else at the time was vista in the store
the problem really isn't with the voting so much as the vote counting- there needs to be a UID issued at the time of the vote and an online account that can be used over an encrypted transfer to access and check the UID so that if your vote is incorrect you can register a grievance- which would allow you to register a vote change (before results are posted, and we would have NO early return numbers)
besides your FPS games some of the most amazing level design in my opinion cames from games like: psychonauts (esp. the crazy milkman level and the black velvet world), sonic adventure and sonic adventure 2\sonic rivals among others. they have a very "non-standard" approach to level design where the player is challenged by the physics and dimensions of the level vs. something that just looks nice (although the look nice as well).
actually, it kind of makes sense, blizzard has gotten too big for it's little britches with WOW and activision is kind of bloated and out of touch- they could fill in each others' holes
or conquer and craft- like a super smash brothers rts
actually the easier way would be to mislead by doing an image backup before any incriminating data was on the drive and a re image of the drive- the data would conceivably still be on the drive, but during a discovery process unless the gov't used a review company like mine (which there aren't any currently in the market) that integrates forensics and recovery you probably would not raise eyebrows when the drive comes in with standard data and no incriminating data- so it would never go into the deep examination process of write logs on the controller itself, files would just be looked at with the timestamps in the metadata and passed on
one of these days people will learn that getting rid of data is way more difficult than creating misleading data in a legal process, but for now we can depend on the stupidity of criminals
actually a verified wipe is more secure as forensics (which is part of my job as well as recovery and extraction/integration of data do a db) can recover a sledgehammered drive a X times wipe+ verify overwrites every byte of data on the drive though the article is wrong- 7X wipe is not the standard- 3X wipe and verify is the DOD standard 7X wipe and verify is above the stated DOD standard, in the high security environment that I work in we do 2 3X wipes on every drive on exit and entry if they are reused and if they are damaged we wipe what we can before a full dismemberment and shredding of the platters and controllers before secure disposal at the end of a client engagement.
or gene replacement therapy, which means that you could become a clone of anyone's genes that you could get your hands on..... as well as reactivating the genes with HGH therapy and shooting yourself through a 2nd growth stage that would make you younger..... c'mon what 90 year old man wouldn't like to be an 18 year old paris hilton
that may have some confusion to do with the design- a ton of people I know can't tell the difference between the ipod touch and the iphone since they look the same- I have seen the same thing in stores where you go in and the ipod touch is in the phone section and not the player section
It doesn't work that way for indie artists- shows break even or lose $- merchandising is the way to go- I make more $ giving away my music (though people usually want to buy it-) and selling t-shirts and other merch at the shows than I get paid from the shows I play- the $ I get for playing usually covers gas and meal (for my girlfriend and I) + 20-50 bucks per show- I sell 4 or 5 t-shirts and I have made more than that
it seems to me that a company would be able to crank the price down to $.75 or $.80 per song and still break the same profit on a per album purchase while still giving nearly 50% of the purchase price to the retailer since you cut out production, shipping, in store marketing and relations, etc.
heh when I first read it I thought it said "RIAA, NBA, FBI, etc."
now that would be scary
It is not a lack of education that makes you flip burgers, it is a lack of motivation and thirst for self-improvement. Rather than trying to "scare a kid straight" you would do better to encourage them to expand their base of understanding and knowledge and follow their interests and talents and most of all- learn to take risks. Telling a kid- "go to college or you will end up like this" puts in their head "If I go to college I will have a good job waiting when I graduate" and they end up on their parents' couch.
futurama is one of those things I actually like owning dvd copies of- even though i *cough* saw the movie about a month ago- I will still prolly buy the dvd since I own all of the seasons on dvd already-
At home I split between 3d modeling, gaming, video composition and most importantly- making and performing live electronic music (do you seriously think that I am going to start having to have a xxmbps connection just for me to play out live instead of throwing my laptop and controllers in my backpack? that makes my setup more painful and I have strived for years to scale it down).
That means that pretty much every single thing that I do at home and work is completely incompatible with relying on web apps and web drives.
my friends and I did this about 10 years ago, we created an excel chart (called the coolness chart) and had it printed out and was posted on my walls weekly when people came over so that they could do their weekly mods - there were 5 sections of 10 categories each where you gave a 100 point scale to each category, each section was given a raw % and in the end an overall % per rater and overall %(we also had fictitious people and celebrities on the charts for comparison)- it was really funny, all of my friends would walk around with little pads and mod down intelligence when someone did something stupid or mod up personality if the did something cool- in the end it was really funny because you found that some people that you didn't think were so "cool" ended up being the highest scoring since physical attractiveness and style were only 2 of 50 possible categories.
I have wanted to revive this again at some point and put it on line for people to use because it would be amusing to see people modding up and down people like we used to