Youre appealing to what you are assuming is a random starting position and random operations performed on it. If so, you would be right.
How confident are you that both are really random? Because otherwise, it seems like there is a potential problem with your confidence there. Faulty RNGs can really ruin your day-- especially when it turns out that the drive's starting position WAS deterministic, and so is the way in which that magnetic domain alters with bit writes.
Here in the United States we can't even agree that HPV vaccination is a no brainer for our children -- we'd rather be able to dangle the threat of cervical cancer over children's heads as a scare tactic to prevent them from having sex
Thats not the issue. The issue is whether it is appropriate for the state to be implicitly telling kids "no, seriously, its totally ok to screw around regardless of your parents opinion; to be sure, we're handing out condoms and STD vaccinations".
You dont think that sends a message? THATS what the issue is, and why people have a problem with it.
We may have problems with teen pregnancies and STDs, but I dont think a reasonable solution is to start providing every kind of support for the behavior thats causing the problem to begin with. Its kind of like trying to fight homelessness by providing no-questions-asked, no strings attached foodstamps indefinately. All you are doing is perpetuating the problem.
Can a lawyer speak to this? Ive heard it depends a lot on the contract and how much pressure there is on the consumer to accept. I dont think its as clearcut as "Microsoft demands your power of attorney to use this version of Windows. Do you accept these terms? [I agree] [I decline]". Pretty sure THAT at least would be thrown out as unconscionable and nonbinding.
Im in love. Amarok 1.4 for a while was the main reason I used Linux. Its been years since Ive used it and ive always been unhappy with songbird and itunes. My music is wonderful again, thanks for the suggestion.
I dont suppose anyone has a suggestion for merging my partially duplicated libraries (songbird and itunes)?
you know, that feature in itunes is probably the thing I hate least about itunes. Having my music player figure out what I like to listen to, and then offering it to me right now for $0.99 is something I rather like.
Shhh, theyre busy calling me a corrupt, greedy, republican whose only desire is to repress the hardworking masses. Whether or not they understood my post (as you did) is irrelevant at this point, no point in ruining their fun.
Thats not what I said, I just get irritated at this stupid implication that everywhere else is so much better and has less corruption than the awful US. Its REALLY great when people drag in comparisons to China and N Korea. GP's comment was making a clear, implicit comparison to other countries as if they dont have these problems.
Im not saying that that makes it OK, but this stupid attitude needs to die.
It is not dangerous because there are a few seconds where the light remains red specifically as a time to clear the intersection.
Not everywhere, no. In the District of Columbia and in several nearby areas, the light goes from red for one direction to green for another immediately.
In Crystal City in particular there are intersections where entering the intersection to make a turn is particularly dangerous.
Wrong. In some states, it is encouraged to enter the intersection if you're making a turn, and then if the light turns red while you're in the middle of the intersection, to go ahead and complete your turn.
I would be incredibly suprised if you could show me where in the state's traffic laws that was NOT illegal.
Protip: You do not enter the intersection until there is room to exit it. Doing otherwise is called "blocking the box", "causing gridlock", or "being a jerk".
Not correct if both cars are in motion on the road. If you are illegally passing someone on a one-lane road and they smash into you, you will be at fault.
I have had this happen (on what I had understood to be an unmarked 2 lane side road, due to how everyone has always used that road). The other person had their left turn signal on, began their turn, and suddenly swerved into me. I received a moving violation for illegal passing; they got no ticket. None of the facts were contested.
If someone else is in the intersection when they have the right of way, it is creating a dangerous situation. I really hope youre not advocating running a stopsign simply because "they should be checking to see if im in the intersection".
I live near I-495 in the DC area, and have racked up about 130k miles in the area. Probably a fifth of that is in the city itself. The "2 second" rule works because it is a following distance proportional to speed.
Incidentally, I would imagine that a large number of accidents are because people get so preoccupied over whether that person next to them is about to get in front of them. Try to focus on driving your vehicle, not on who gets there first.
When I'm on a road with a high speed limit, a light ahead of me turns yellow, and there's someone right behind me, I definitely consider going through the intersection.
Thats normal. Being a good driver means making the right decision in those instances, of whether you can safely stop or not.
Of course, if you end up running a red because you cant stop, you were probably doing something wrong. Likewise, if you get rear-ended, it is very likely both you and the car behind you were going too fast.
Incidentally, this is a big part of the reason why I tend to be so pro-redlight camera. If constitution and 15th intersection had cameras, either the shenangans would stop, or all of DC's funding issues would be solved.
I would be in favor of having a 3 strikes rule resulting in a 30-day license suspension, rather than fines, if anyone was worried about it becoming a fundraising thing rather than safety. THAT would make the roads safer.
Confirming that in metro DC, it is not unusual. At Constitution and 15th st in particular, it is not unusual to see 4-5 cars run red light on left turns onto 15th. It is very common that oncoming traffic has to bull their way through.
Driving in DC around 4:45pm is a lesson in what happens when you dont enforce driving laws. Watch and be amazed as that DC Metrobus decides to block the entire intersection because he really really wanted to make that light, and wasnt able to (I saw this 2 times in 5 minutes one day in DC around K st).
What am I supposed to do, get aggressive and start tapping my breaks? Thought aggressive driving was a major cause of accidents, but I could be wrong. Or I suppose I could speed up to how fast she wants to go, and let her effectively drive my car.
Guess what, the driver is responsible for whats in FRONT of them, not whats behind. You pay attention when you can, and try to avoid breaking harder than necessary (I have mitigated otherwise serious accidents by being gentle with the breaks), but at the end of the day you cannot control the person behind you and it is dangerous to try.
Its because you dont have retarded memory leaking addons.
I could have sworn Asa or one of the other devs released a blog post when 3.0 came out titled something like "Turn off your damn broken addons before complaining about memory".
BS. Even if you just flip the bits twice (once to 0, once to 1) the data is virtually unrecoverable.
This is speculation. Every time this comes up on slashdot, people talk about how difficult it is, without ever demonstrating why its not possible (note the "VIRTUALLY unrecoverable"). There is no physical or mathematical reason why it cannot be done, just speculation on what level of sophistication the would-be attackers have.
Hammer isnt going to destroy the magnetic domains. Someone with really good gear could in theory make a digital reconstruction of the drives by reading off the broken pieces of the platter.
If you are going to destroy the drive anyways, throw it in an incinerator or degauss it, or else take a grinder to the platters (id like to see someone reconstruct the drive from abraded dust).
OR the secret truth that cannot be discussed is that classified data recovery operations can read overwritten data much better than public recovery operations.
Which is why when people talk about the theoretical difficulties and the implausibility of recovering data off of overwritten sectors, its a worthless assurance. Noone has demonstrated a mathematical impossibility, they just say "we dont think anyone can do this".
If you want data really, truly, for realsies gone, degauss the disk, or raise it to the curie point.
Folks would brake suddenly when they saw the camera causing the vehicle behind them to rear-end them.
Nothing the driver in front of you does should result in you crashing into him. That is why there is a two second rule for following, and laws against tailgating. Ive had someone yell at me because they hit me when I slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting a line of cars. Guess what, she lost that battle when they admitted I was in front of them, and she admitted that she only had half a second to respond.
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Youre appealing to what you are assuming is a random starting position and random operations performed on it. If so, you would be right.
How confident are you that both are really random? Because otherwise, it seems like there is a potential problem with your confidence there. Faulty RNGs can really ruin your day-- especially when it turns out that the drive's starting position WAS deterministic, and so is the way in which that magnetic domain alters with bit writes.
Here in the United States we can't even agree that HPV vaccination is a no brainer for our children -- we'd rather be able to dangle the threat of cervical cancer over children's heads as a scare tactic to prevent them from having sex
Thats not the issue. The issue is whether it is appropriate for the state to be implicitly telling kids "no, seriously, its totally ok to screw around regardless of your parents opinion; to be sure, we're handing out condoms and STD vaccinations".
You dont think that sends a message? THATS what the issue is, and why people have a problem with it.
We may have problems with teen pregnancies and STDs, but I dont think a reasonable solution is to start providing every kind of support for the behavior thats causing the problem to begin with. Its kind of like trying to fight homelessness by providing no-questions-asked, no strings attached foodstamps indefinately. All you are doing is perpetuating the problem.
. Seems like they can only apply this in the USA.
Can a lawyer speak to this? Ive heard it depends a lot on the contract and how much pressure there is on the consumer to accept. I dont think its as clearcut as "Microsoft demands your power of attorney to use this version of Windows. Do you accept these terms? [I agree] [I decline]". Pretty sure THAT at least would be thrown out as unconscionable and nonbinding.
Im in love. Amarok 1.4 for a while was the main reason I used Linux. Its been years since Ive used it and ive always been unhappy with songbird and itunes. My music is wonderful again, thanks for the suggestion.
I dont suppose anyone has a suggestion for merging my partially duplicated libraries (songbird and itunes)?
Why do people on slashdot think everyone wants to hear about what they think about the article and related subjects?
FTFY
you know, that feature in itunes is probably the thing I hate least about itunes. Having my music player figure out what I like to listen to, and then offering it to me right now for $0.99 is something I rather like.
Shhh, theyre busy calling me a corrupt, greedy, republican whose only desire is to repress the hardworking masses.
Whether or not they understood my post (as you did) is irrelevant at this point, no point in ruining their fun.
Thats not what I said, I just get irritated at this stupid implication that everywhere else is so much better and has less corruption than the awful US. Its REALLY great when people drag in comparisons to China and N Korea. GP's comment was making a clear, implicit comparison to other countries as if they dont have these problems.
Im not saying that that makes it OK, but this stupid attitude needs to die.
It is not dangerous because there are a few seconds where the light remains red specifically as a time to clear the intersection.
Not everywhere, no. In the District of Columbia and in several nearby areas, the light goes from red for one direction to green for another immediately.
In Crystal City in particular there are intersections where entering the intersection to make a turn is particularly dangerous.
Wrong. In some states, it is encouraged to enter the intersection if you're making a turn, and then if the light turns red while you're in the middle of the intersection, to go ahead and complete your turn.
I would be incredibly suprised if you could show me where in the state's traffic laws that was NOT illegal.
Protip: You do not enter the intersection until there is room to exit it. Doing otherwise is called "blocking the box", "causing gridlock", or "being a jerk".
Not correct if both cars are in motion on the road. If you are illegally passing someone on a one-lane road and they smash into you, you will be at fault.
I have had this happen (on what I had understood to be an unmarked 2 lane side road, due to how everyone has always used that road). The other person had their left turn signal on, began their turn, and suddenly swerved into me. I received a moving violation for illegal passing; they got no ticket. None of the facts were contested.
Green == you now have right of way
If someone else is in the intersection when they have the right of way, it is creating a dangerous situation. I really hope youre not advocating running a stopsign simply because "they should be checking to see if im in the intersection".
I live near I-495 in the DC area, and have racked up about 130k miles in the area. Probably a fifth of that is in the city itself. The "2 second" rule works because it is a following distance proportional to speed.
Incidentally, I would imagine that a large number of accidents are because people get so preoccupied over whether that person next to them is about to get in front of them. Try to focus on driving your vehicle, not on who gets there first.
When I'm on a road with a high speed limit, a light ahead of me turns yellow, and there's someone right behind me, I definitely consider going through the intersection.
Thats normal. Being a good driver means making the right decision in those instances, of whether you can safely stop or not.
Of course, if you end up running a red because you cant stop, you were probably doing something wrong. Likewise, if you get rear-ended, it is very likely both you and the car behind you were going too fast.
Incidentally, this is a big part of the reason why I tend to be so pro-redlight camera. If constitution and 15th intersection had cameras, either the shenangans would stop, or all of DC's funding issues would be solved.
I would be in favor of having a 3 strikes rule resulting in a 30-day license suspension, rather than fines, if anyone was worried about it becoming a fundraising thing rather than safety. THAT would make the roads safer.
Confirming that in metro DC, it is not unusual. At Constitution and 15th st in particular, it is not unusual to see 4-5 cars run red light on left turns onto 15th. It is very common that oncoming traffic has to bull their way through.
Driving in DC around 4:45pm is a lesson in what happens when you dont enforce driving laws. Watch and be amazed as that DC Metrobus decides to block the entire intersection because he really really wanted to make that light, and wasnt able to (I saw this 2 times in 5 minutes one day in DC around K st).
What am I supposed to do, get aggressive and start tapping my breaks? Thought aggressive driving was a major cause of accidents, but I could be wrong. Or I suppose I could speed up to how fast she wants to go, and let her effectively drive my car.
Guess what, the driver is responsible for whats in FRONT of them, not whats behind. You pay attention when you can, and try to avoid breaking harder than necessary (I have mitigated otherwise serious accidents by being gentle with the breaks), but at the end of the day you cannot control the person behind you and it is dangerous to try.
In fact they didn't invent the iPod's two main "innovations", the scroll wheel (Synaptics
If synaptic is capable of such a responsive touch device, why cant they make a laptop touchpad that doesnt suck with multitouch?
Because Firefox has always left that task up to plugins. Every time a new feature is added people complain about bloat.
Honestly I wouldnt mind that feature being built in.
Its because you dont have retarded memory leaking addons.
I could have sworn Asa or one of the other devs released a blog post when 3.0 came out titled something like "Turn off your damn broken addons before complaining about memory".
BS. Even if you just flip the bits twice (once to 0, once to 1) the data is virtually unrecoverable.
This is speculation. Every time this comes up on slashdot, people talk about how difficult it is, without ever demonstrating why its not possible (note the "VIRTUALLY unrecoverable"). There is no physical or mathematical reason why it cannot be done, just speculation on what level of sophistication the would-be attackers have.
Hammer isnt going to destroy the magnetic domains. Someone with really good gear could in theory make a digital reconstruction of the drives by reading off the broken pieces of the platter.
If you are going to destroy the drive anyways, throw it in an incinerator or degauss it, or else take a grinder to the platters (id like to see someone reconstruct the drive from abraded dust).
OR the secret truth that cannot be discussed is that classified data recovery operations can read overwritten data much better than public recovery operations.
Which is why when people talk about the theoretical difficulties and the implausibility of recovering data off of overwritten sectors, its a worthless assurance. Noone has demonstrated a mathematical impossibility, they just say "we dont think anyone can do this".
If you want data really, truly, for realsies gone, degauss the disk, or raise it to the curie point.
Folks would brake suddenly when they saw the camera causing the vehicle behind them to rear-end them.
Nothing the driver in front of you does should result in you crashing into him. That is why there is a two second rule for following, and laws against tailgating. Ive had someone yell at me because they hit me when I slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting a line of cars. Guess what, she lost that battle when they admitted I was in front of them, and she admitted that she only had half a second to respond.