There are Adblock filter subscriptions (ad server domains + regular expressions). I subscribed to 5 from them and update the lists every now and then. More than 99% of site advertising is blocked for me.
I know these people handle very delicate cases (i.e. physically damaged media beyond all recognition).
As for simpler situations (accidental reformatting, not-so-extreme disk failure), the are some useful Open Source utilities like MondoRescue, GParted, fdisk (or cfdisk) and dd ("disk dump").
The most simple rescue method implies mounting the damaged partition onto another media, for instance an external hard drive, using Knoppix.
I recall having rescued a NTFS data partition using this method (the hard drive had spun very badly due to an electrical outage).
They do mix them a lot. When "Central America" is specified, some people in the States may think "Costa Rica" is a county in Kansas.
As for the "citizenship" question, (in legal terms) a "citizen" in Costa Rica is defined as a person that is granted political rights (essentially voting and participating in political activities) once he or she is 18 years old (according to a chapter in the Constitution).
Someone that cannot be considered a "citizen" (for instance children) normally has a plain "nationality" (there are special situations, like refugees, whereas the person does not even has a "nationality" and must undergo some paperwork in order to obtain it).
As for us in Costa Rica (not Puerto Rico), in Central America (in the middle of the whole continent), an ID system called "cédula de identidad" has been used since some decades ago for all citizens (a Costa Rican is a citizen once he/she is 18 years old). A 9-digits number is related with full name, gender, date and place of birth. Recent "cedulas" even include a version of one's signature (recollected by a writing tablet).
It is an necessary ID for every kind of (bureaucratic) transactions (voting at the national and local elections, signing in for a bank account, obtaining a driver licence, etc.). Most of us are not concerned about the privacy issue (specially because the Government itself isn't Orwellian at all).
When you sign up, you have to choose what your mother tongue is ("native language").
For instance, if I select German and all my conversations are in Spanish or English, the "eavesdropper"/"data collector" should evaluate expressions in German. It would be a waste of processing time for Pudding Media to try out every available language, since subscribers would usually choose the language they speak every day.
Thus, it wouldn't find anything useful for context-based ads (unless I use German terms).
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There are some hints about this issue in the source code:
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<title>LED's</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="black 0111, default">
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The horror! The horror!
You don't have to block every single image.
There are Adblock filter subscriptions (ad server domains + regular expressions). I subscribed to 5 from them and update the lists every now and then. More than 99% of site advertising is blocked for me.
I know these people handle very delicate cases (i.e. physically damaged media beyond all recognition).
As for simpler situations (accidental reformatting, not-so-extreme disk failure), the are some useful Open Source utilities like MondoRescue, GParted, fdisk (or cfdisk) and dd ("disk dump").
The most simple rescue method implies mounting the damaged partition onto another media, for instance an external hard drive, using Knoppix.
I recall having rescued a NTFS data partition using this method (the hard drive had spun very badly due to an electrical outage).
They do mix them a lot. When "Central America" is specified, some people in the States may think "Costa Rica" is a county in Kansas.
As for the "citizenship" question, (in legal terms) a "citizen" in Costa Rica is defined as a person that is granted political rights (essentially voting and participating in political activities) once he or she is 18 years old (according to a chapter in the Constitution).
Someone that cannot be considered a "citizen" (for instance children) normally has a plain "nationality" (there are special situations, like refugees, whereas the person does not even has a "nationality" and must undergo some paperwork in order to obtain it).
As for us in Costa Rica (not Puerto Rico), in Central America (in the middle of the whole continent), an ID system called "cédula de identidad" has been used since some decades ago for all citizens (a Costa Rican is a citizen once he/she is 18 years old). A 9-digits number is related with full name, gender, date and place of birth. Recent "cedulas" even include a version of one's signature (recollected by a writing tablet). It is an necessary ID for every kind of (bureaucratic) transactions (voting at the national and local elections, signing in for a bank account, obtaining a driver licence, etc.). Most of us are not concerned about the privacy issue (specially because the Government itself isn't Orwellian at all).
Is it necessary?
When you sign up, you have to choose what your mother tongue is ("native language").
For instance, if I select German and all my conversations are in Spanish or English, the "eavesdropper"/"data collector" should evaluate expressions in German. It would be a waste of processing time for Pudding Media to try out every available language, since subscribers would usually choose the language they speak every day.
Thus, it wouldn't find anything useful for context-based ads (unless I use German terms).