I can't see that, somehow - drive heads actually don't normally make contact with the platter (there'd be friction problems if they did), therefore there's no way the platters will show surface wear after several years of spinning
about the only thing I know about Cuba was the little spat about the Soviets wanting to place land-based nukes there in the 1960s, which almost resulted in me not being born.
they can keep you in indefinitely for forgetting the password. RIPA allows for this. It's the ONLY Act that allows for this - although, it is being challenged, as it falls foul of the "cruel and unusual punishment" bit in the ECHR. It also falls foul of the double punishment rule, in that you can't be legally punished twice for the same crime, they get around that by saying that repeated contempt is not the same crime.
no, that's a Statutory Instrument. Statutes have the force of Law only by the implied consent of the Governed. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL THE JUDGE TO FUCK OFF.
in the United States, you cannot be compelled to incriminate yourself, that's true enough. It used to be the same in Britain as well, until recently: precedent has it that someone was ordered by the Court to divulge a password to her laptop. She said she couldn't remember. She was sent to prison "until her memory improves".
She spent fourteen months inside.
No, I don't have a citation. Just something I'm hearing of more and more. Britain is setting a fine example as a Constitutional Monarchy*/Republic*/Democracy (*delete as appropriate).
All I'll say is, you think I have a password? Prove it. I don't have to prove shit.
ok. 1. The Police can, sans warrant, only seize items that are reasonably thought to have been used in the COMMISSION OF A CRIME. For example, firearms. 2. The Police have NO RIGHT to take private property just because they want to. 3. "Just Cause" is NOT a justification for seizure. 4. The Police have NO RIGHT to demand that you incriminate yourself by turning over materials. EVER. 5. The Police have NO RIGHT to search you or your property for evidence without a specified WARRANT. PERIOD.
referring to your last paragraph; Star Wars, Star Trek and the like, all have what are known as Bibles; these set canonical models of characters and chronologies which authors have to adhere to for their works to be considered for listing in the official bibliography, or in the case of fanfiction, those lists (yes, most fanfics do follow canonical rules). For example, in Star Trek (to be a complete geek here), the Klingon Civil War occurred after after the onset of the Dominion War but prior to the Dominion incursion into the Alpha Quadrant. All three event arcs occurred after the first Borg invasion, and prior to the return of USS Voyager. At some point *after* this all cracked off (I'm a bit vague on this, and am not even sure if the next bit is in the official timeline) the planet Romulus was destroyed by a supernova explosion and Ambassador Spock disappeared into a temporal rift.
I've known of situations where non-canonical works have so far deviated from the Bible that the copyright holders have issued takedowns for that reason alone. A less dramatic example is that of the Star Trek Phase II project, which was asked by Paramount to *not* shoot a story which they said they were planning on making something of themselves. When an independent filmmaker like James Cawley (talented man! Watch some episodes!) who does not have bottomless pockets is asked by a studio like Paramount which has improbably deep pockets to not do something, he wants to keep on their good side. They like him.
what makes it different? From a designer's perspective, I would say something that is small and as quiet as possible. In the case of systems I designed, more often than not around Shuttle XPC chasses, fanless. There may have been barely detectable sounds coming from an external water pump running at half speed (although that was shortlived, being as I shortly discovered the joys of Peltier heat pumps and huge copper heatsinks), but the hard drive was insulated so well on rubber dampers and felt lining inside the case covers that there was no way you'd tell even if the drive was going through a click of Death until the system stopped working.
BTW, a noisy computer is likely as not generating far too much heat. If your hard drives rattle, lock 'em down. Replace all your fans every two years (or every six months if you don't have dust filters fitted).
I bought a midrange power supply (Antec Gold £150 job) for my gaming rig some years ago (it was an Athlon XP2400+), which said 750W on the box. With a 4-box RAID0 and GeForce 7600GT the power draw was something like half that. It's still running.
I built an identical box around the same time for someone else. He didn't see the point of a beefcake PSU so he said to use a cheap (read: £20) 350W brick. His computer lasted a month before the caps blew and took the motherboard with it.
For me, it's less about power efficiency and more about the quality of the components used to build the thing. We're not talking plug and drool box level, we're talking about what caps are used to build those boxes.
I've lost count of the number of eMachines and Packard Bell machines I've had to practically rebuild from the chassis because the PSU blew. The commonality? Bestec and HiPro 300W bricks built with greymarket capacitors. Oh, you can buy replacement bricks of the same brands and wattage ratings these days for £10 shipped, but you'll have the same problems.
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*that* was Baldrick's underwear.
Don't you keep up with BBC News?
RAID!=Backup.
RAID=REDUNDANCY. Clue is in the name.
I can't see that, somehow - drive heads actually don't normally make contact with the platter (there'd be friction problems if they did), therefore there's no way the platters will show surface wear after several years of spinning
I swear by MegaUpload... ...said one of the world's most OCD document packrats in December 2011.
and a heck of a fire risk...
I've committed every one and zero to memory.
to borrow from "Mr. Merlin" (anyone remember that??):
"You're Merlin? You gotta be like... eight hundred years old?"
"I do forty push-ups a day and I don't eat fried food..."
I remember this - oyg, was it 2001??
about the only thing I know about Cuba was the little spat about the Soviets wanting to place land-based nukes there in the 1960s, which almost resulted in me not being born.
oh, I figured on it being a ZX81 BASIC Frogger clone...
...and yes, I am comparing a REVOLUTION to ANOTHER REVOLUTION.
it was the one they used for Unreal 2003. >:]
fail. I didn't go to an American school.
....German MMO developers announce an Alpha of a Reichstag recreation.
o.0
they can keep you in indefinitely for forgetting the password. RIPA allows for this. It's the ONLY Act that allows for this - although, it is being challenged, as it falls foul of the "cruel and unusual punishment" bit in the ECHR. It also falls foul of the double punishment rule, in that you can't be legally punished twice for the same crime, they get around that by saying that repeated contempt is not the same crime.
no, that's a Statutory Instrument. Statutes have the force of Law only by the implied consent of the Governed. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL THE JUDGE TO FUCK OFF.
post traumatic stress injury is a wonderful thing... makes you forget all sorts of shit.
in the United States, you cannot be compelled to incriminate yourself, that's true enough. It used to be the same in Britain as well, until recently: precedent has it that someone was ordered by the Court to divulge a password to her laptop. She said she couldn't remember. She was sent to prison "until her memory improves".
She spent fourteen months inside.
No, I don't have a citation. Just something I'm hearing of more and more. Britain is setting a fine example as a Constitutional Monarchy*/Republic*/Democracy (*delete as appropriate).
All I'll say is, you think I have a password? Prove it. I don't have to prove shit.
ok.
1. The Police can, sans warrant, only seize items that are reasonably thought to have been used in the COMMISSION OF A CRIME. For example, firearms.
2. The Police have NO RIGHT to take private property just because they want to.
3. "Just Cause" is NOT a justification for seizure.
4. The Police have NO RIGHT to demand that you incriminate yourself by turning over materials. EVER.
5. The Police have NO RIGHT to search you or your property for evidence without a specified WARRANT. PERIOD.
referring to your last paragraph; Star Wars, Star Trek and the like, all have what are known as Bibles; these set canonical models of characters and chronologies which authors have to adhere to for their works to be considered for listing in the official bibliography, or in the case of fanfiction, those lists (yes, most fanfics do follow canonical rules). For example, in Star Trek (to be a complete geek here), the Klingon Civil War occurred after after the onset of the Dominion War but prior to the Dominion incursion into the Alpha Quadrant. All three event arcs occurred after the first Borg invasion, and prior to the return of USS Voyager. At some point *after* this all cracked off (I'm a bit vague on this, and am not even sure if the next bit is in the official timeline) the planet Romulus was destroyed by a supernova explosion and Ambassador Spock disappeared into a temporal rift.
I've known of situations where non-canonical works have so far deviated from the Bible that the copyright holders have issued takedowns for that reason alone. A less dramatic example is that of the Star Trek Phase II project, which was asked by Paramount to *not* shoot a story which they said they were planning on making something of themselves. When an independent filmmaker like James Cawley (talented man! Watch some episodes!) who does not have bottomless pockets is asked by a studio like Paramount which has improbably deep pockets to not do something, he wants to keep on their good side. They like him.
what makes it different? From a designer's perspective, I would say something that is small and as quiet as possible. In the case of systems I designed, more often than not around Shuttle XPC chasses, fanless. There may have been barely detectable sounds coming from an external water pump running at half speed (although that was shortlived, being as I shortly discovered the joys of Peltier heat pumps and huge copper heatsinks), but the hard drive was insulated so well on rubber dampers and felt lining inside the case covers that there was no way you'd tell even if the drive was going through a click of Death until the system stopped working.
BTW, a noisy computer is likely as not generating far too much heat. If your hard drives rattle, lock 'em down. Replace all your fans every two years (or every six months if you don't have dust filters fitted).
I bought a midrange power supply (Antec Gold £150 job) for my gaming rig some years ago (it was an Athlon XP2400+), which said 750W on the box. With a 4-box RAID0 and GeForce 7600GT the power draw was something like half that. It's still running.
I built an identical box around the same time for someone else. He didn't see the point of a beefcake PSU so he said to use a cheap (read: £20) 350W brick. His computer lasted a month before the caps blew and took the motherboard with it.
For me, it's less about power efficiency and more about the quality of the components used to build the thing. We're not talking plug and drool box level, we're talking about what caps are used to build those boxes.
I've lost count of the number of eMachines and Packard Bell machines I've had to practically rebuild from the chassis because the PSU blew. The commonality? Bestec and HiPro 300W bricks built with greymarket capacitors. Oh, you can buy replacement bricks of the same brands and wattage ratings these days for £10 shipped, but you'll have the same problems.
sorry, it was Tuesday. Feels like a week tho.
I posted a submission on this story a WEEK AGO.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"Doin' your wife."