You don't have to be convicted of a crime to be deported. All it takes is a determination that your continued presence is not in the interests of the United States.
Good radio on good stations always pushes the line, its a fact of entertainment.
A fact? I've listened to many years of radio programming that managed to be good or excellent without once needing to use crude language, risque jokes, or scatological humor.
In the old days, a "shock jock" wouldn't have lasted a week.
The FCC would have shut down the station pending a serious talk with its management about whether there were any reasons why the FCC shouldn't pull the station's license.
I get huge quantities of spam that are encoded in the Cyrillic character set, many with telephone numbers prefixed with the country code for Russia. Are you going to tell me that this is American spam, targeted at Americans, paid for by Americans?
You may not be overwriting all of the data. Many (most?) modern drives will silently replace flakey blocks with spare blocks when they detect problems with a section of the disk. When you overwrite the data, you're overwriting the spare block, not the original block.
At one place that I worked, all hard drives were removed and destroyed before the PCs were excessed. That's fine if the organization owns its hardware. What do you do if the computers are leased? Some organizations have switched to leasing all of their desktop PCs.
It's always bothered me that companies that do warranty or repair service never seem to have a public policy on protecting their customer's data.
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Of course if you want true discovery you have to go back to Aborigines who have been here for more than 40,000 years.
In a documentary on the origins of the chronometer, they mentioned the use of observations of Jupiter's moons, along with a set of tables, as a method of determining time.
A quick check with google revealed that there are some products that will encrypt/decrypt SMS messages, although you have to have the right make/model of phone to run the software.
It would be nice of this was a standard part of the phone's firmware. I suspect many police/security services would not like it. They've successfully suppressed digital end-to-end encryption in the USA for all but "authorized" users.
Many operating systems, to comply with the rainbow book security standards, zero out any memory or disk space provided to applications. The problem is that this is done when a resource is reused, not when a resource is freed. How difficult would it be to instead immediately zero memory/disk upon deallocation?
The early HP calculators used programs that were stored in ROMs to implement the functions of the calculator. A brief overview of their architecture can be found here. The fact that the software was stored in ROMs shouldn't disqualify them from being considered computers.
How fast a CPU do you really need? Years ago I popped open a 3COM Ethernet bridge/router and found a Motorola 68020, running at 25 MHz if I remember correctly. It was fast enough to handle two fully loaded 10-megabit Ethernet segments.
At one company that I worked for, they got the brilliant idea to delete all email older than 30 days. They also didn't want employees to make backups of their personal mailboxes. They intentionally wanted all traces of old email to disappear. While I'm sure that it made the lawyers happy, it caused a lot of grief for the people actually doing work for the customer. Many design decisions, bug reports and other important things were only documented in email messages. This is supposed to be the age of the paperless office, right? When you are involved in a multi-year project, you often need to refer to old messages. It also had the effect of making old policy memos disappear, whose existence had proved to be very inconvenient to management on several notable occasions.
Many of the old character codes, such as Baudot (5-bit) and the various 6-bit character codes, were upper-case only. The military used Baudot for many decades. Do they still use it for RTTY links?
It's still useful for situations when you need to type something in all-caps with one hand. Take your mind out of the gutter.
I'm not a touch typist, and I often just use my right hand to type, leaving the other hand free for holding books, documentation, operating equipment, etc. Caps lock is useful when I have to type in hexadecimal constants, or source code that is all in upper-case (FORTRAN, Assembler).
I always cringe when I see some company hawking their latest, bleeding-edge, pre-beta technology as a solution to the world's problems. There are still many places where reliability, availability and stability are very important. What's wrong with mainframes and COBOL? Give me boring, standardized and obsolete any day, as long as it works.
If you look at hardware and labor costs, gigabit Ethernet is cost-effective for new installations. Installing 100base-t is not going to save much money on the hardware and it will be obsolete at an earlier date. Fiber has higher termination costs but it should have a longer useful lifetime than twisted-pair.
A flat panel LCD saves a huge amount of room when compared to a CRT display. An important issue for people being housed in tiny (that's redundant) dorm rooms. Plus, they save on energy costs.
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You don't have to be convicted of a crime to be deported. All it takes is a determination that your continued presence is not in the interests of the United States.
The vast majority of radio talent did it successfully for many decades. It's called self-discipline.
The line for tin-foil hats forms at the right.
A fact? I've listened to many years of radio programming that managed to be good or excellent without once needing to use crude language, risque jokes, or scatological humor.
In the old days, a "shock jock" wouldn't have lasted a week. The FCC would have shut down the station pending a serious talk with its management about whether there were any reasons why the FCC shouldn't pull the station's license.
I get huge quantities of spam that are encoded in the Cyrillic character set, many with telephone numbers prefixed with the country code for Russia. Are you going to tell me that this is American spam, targeted at Americans, paid for by Americans?
There are many applications, like software defined radios and televisions, that require huge amounts of number crunching.
You may not be overwriting all of the data. Many (most?) modern drives will silently replace flakey blocks with spare blocks when they detect problems with a section of the disk. When you overwrite the data, you're overwriting the spare block, not the original block.
It's always bothered me that companies that do warranty or repair service never seem to have a public policy on protecting their customer's data.
But did they have any flags?
In a documentary on the origins of the chronometer, they mentioned the use of observations of Jupiter's moons, along with a set of tables, as a method of determining time.
It would be nice of this was a standard part of the phone's firmware. I suspect many police/security services would not like it. They've successfully suppressed digital end-to-end encryption in the USA for all but "authorized" users.
Many operating systems, to comply with the rainbow book security standards, zero out any memory or disk space provided to applications. The problem is that this is done when a resource is reused, not when a resource is freed. How difficult would it be to instead immediately zero memory/disk upon deallocation?
Not if they received the pirated copy on the computer they bought from Fast Eddy's Discount Computer Emporium.
The early HP calculators used programs that were stored in ROMs to implement the functions of the calculator. A brief overview of their architecture can be found here. The fact that the software was stored in ROMs shouldn't disqualify them from being considered computers.
Your response assumes a level of funding and organization that is often not present in the real world of incompetent management and shrinking budgets.
How fast a CPU do you really need? Years ago I popped open a 3COM Ethernet bridge/router and found a Motorola 68020, running at 25 MHz if I remember correctly. It was fast enough to handle two fully loaded 10-megabit Ethernet segments.
At one company that I worked for, they got the brilliant idea to delete all email older than 30 days. They also didn't want employees to make backups of their personal mailboxes. They intentionally wanted all traces of old email to disappear. While I'm sure that it made the lawyers happy, it caused a lot of grief for the people actually doing work for the customer. Many design decisions, bug reports and other important things were only documented in email messages. This is supposed to be the age of the paperless office, right? When you are involved in a multi-year project, you often need to refer to old messages. It also had the effect of making old policy memos disappear, whose existence had proved to be very inconvenient to management on several notable occasions.
Many of the old character codes, such as Baudot (5-bit) and the various 6-bit character codes, were upper-case only. The military used Baudot for many decades. Do they still use it for RTTY links?
I'm not a touch typist, and I often just use my right hand to type, leaving the other hand free for holding books, documentation, operating equipment, etc. Caps lock is useful when I have to type in hexadecimal constants, or source code that is all in upper-case (FORTRAN, Assembler).
Many TV stations found out that their sets looked really cheesy when they tested them with HD video cameras. Not to mention the faces of the "talent'.
HDTV (ATSC) supports 1080i and 720p.
I always cringe when I see some company hawking their latest, bleeding-edge, pre-beta technology as a solution to the world's problems. There are still many places where reliability, availability and stability are very important. What's wrong with mainframes and COBOL? Give me boring, standardized and obsolete any day, as long as it works.
According to the rebate coupon "Receipts dated after May 31, 2004 will not qualify."
If you look at hardware and labor costs, gigabit Ethernet is cost-effective for new installations. Installing 100base-t is not going to save much money on the hardware and it will be obsolete at an earlier date. Fiber has higher termination costs but it should have a longer useful lifetime than twisted-pair.
A flat panel LCD saves a huge amount of room when compared to a CRT display. An important issue for people being housed in tiny (that's redundant) dorm rooms. Plus, they save on energy costs.