Sorry, you are all wrong... a) you have disks silent errors (because error-correcting codes corrected them) that will copy sector data to a reserve sector without notice, that makes your old data inaccessible at software level but readable at controler level b) you can use high resolution magnetic imagery to recover several rewrites of the same track c) in my books, a hum is very far from random, it's predictable !!!
Physical destruction is the only reasonably secure solution.
Man, it already exists.
Grab the latest demo from x-plane. The worldwide environment to be soon released (version 6.10) is composed from the USGS GTOPO30, USGS landuse map and NIMA world vector map (roads, rivers, electric lines et al).
I have seen a photo digitizing service that claims the ownership of all intellectual properties of your photos. They explicitely said that they can sell your photos without your consent, and get the money.
This illustrates well that content ownership and content protection is just a way to suck money (the CORPORATES), and not to actually protect the real content producers (the INDIVIDUALS).
The FBI has found hand-written order letters in the baggages of terrorists.
Is this PGP ?
NO !
So why does the crypto=terrorist meme still continues ?
Paradoxically, paper letters are a more secure way to transmit information than the internet...
They will launch a disco ball in orbit, that will bother all the photo-astronomers in the world, "for the childrens".
As if there are no natural stars, and existing satellites ar not bright enough. I don't see how such a disco ball will teach more things to childrens...
And they plan to launch more... sigh...
Between that and light pollution of cities, will we loss our superb natural stars ???
No, it ain't.
France has raised the "Vigipirate Plan", this is a plan used in case of risk of terrorism, and includes the deployment of more police forces and preventive measures. But this has nothing to do with martial law.
Minitel costs as much as $1/min.
Its a dream for any content provider, but a nightmare for users.
Imagine waiting for useless ASCII-art to download at 2400bps, charged $1/min ! This is minitel.
A good idea, but bad business model (on the customer side at least).
Yes, it was so CISC that some years ago a guy was maintaining a page called : "the VAX instruction of the week" or something like that, to explain some interesting instructions.
First : the weight. It is made of thick metal plates, not like the plastickish PC boxes.
Hopefully, you have wheels to move them (VAX race anyone ?)
Then, you see a lot of strange devices, connectors, that you never see in PC land. If you have seen only PCs before, you first wonder if it is a computer. When you start VMS, you still wonder if you are in a dream or what, because you don't understand *anything*. It was a very disturbing experience for a geek like me to discover that I couldn't understand a computer at all (at first).
VAXen are incredible pieces of hardware.
I own an old VAX Server 4000-200.
(roughly equivalent to a 386DX33, 16Mb RAM)
Now that everybody have linux at home,
having a VAX at home is still very uncommon.
The boot sequence in itself is a nice show.
Altrough not very usefull to date women...
("Did you want to come home to see my VAX booting ?")
Unfortunately, VMS is way too cryptic for me,
but courageous folks are working hard to
port NetBSD to VAX architecture.
Now I can netboot NetBSD on the VAX, but the
internal DSSI disks support is still lacking.
I use a PSU with the fan removed. It is a high-quality PSU (Sunpower, a professional PSU maker), and I mounted it vertically so the air can go from the bottom to the upper grid by natural convection, and is is outside the case. The PSU is a little hot, but not too hot (I mean, it does not smell overheated). It runs OK for weeks. If I let the PSU horizontal, it overheats. I also put a oversized heatsink without fan on my pentium, so the box is fanless.
My firewall reports a lot of connexion attempts to the ident service coming from a machine in the same adress class than this web server (38.212.233.3), each time I browse their pages. What does it mean? This webmaster in a little bit too curious. Why did this web site did not have a DNS name ? It seems to be a DSL machine. Is it my paranoia?
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Sorry, you are all wrong...
a) you have disks silent errors (because error-correcting codes corrected them) that will copy sector data to a reserve sector without notice, that makes your old data inaccessible at software level but readable at controler level
b) you can use high resolution magnetic imagery to recover several rewrites of the same track
c) in my books, a hum is very far from random, it's predictable !!!
Physical destruction is the only reasonably secure solution.
That was in germany. And not a TGV for sure.
Man, it already exists.
Grab the latest demo from x-plane. The worldwide environment to be soon released (version 6.10) is composed from the USGS GTOPO30, USGS landuse map and NIMA world vector map (roads, rivers, electric lines et al).
I have seen a photo digitizing service that claims the ownership of all intellectual properties of your photos. They explicitely said that they can sell your photos without your consent, and get the money.
This illustrates well that content ownership and content protection is just a way to suck money (the CORPORATES), and not to actually protect the real content producers (the INDIVIDUALS).
Reports says an engine exploded. This could be a heat seeking missile from some loose F16, what do you think ?
You got it son.
Congratulations.
The FBI has found hand-written order letters in the baggages of terrorists.
Is this PGP ?
NO !
So why does the crypto=terrorist meme still continues ?
Paradoxically, paper letters are a more secure way to transmit information than the internet...
They will launch a disco ball in orbit, that will bother all the photo-astronomers in the world, "for the childrens".
As if there are no natural stars, and existing satellites ar not bright enough. I don't see how such a disco ball will teach more things to childrens...
And they plan to launch more... sigh...
Between that and light pollution of cities, will we loss our superb natural stars ???
No, it ain't.
France has raised the "Vigipirate Plan", this is a plan used in case of risk of terrorism, and includes the deployment of more police forces and preventive measures. But this has nothing to do with martial law.
just a VB Script embedded in pdf. And the free Acrobat Reader version is not affected, only the Acrobat Writer.
"Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation"
:-)
yeah, but maybe Theo will delay the shipping, and the mirrors still do not have the 2.9 branch AFAIK...
too bad timing... The release of OpenBSD 2.9 is 1st of June...
And a pure troll question is selected (about virtual memory, FFS, ...)
Bad, bad questions...
Minitel costs as much as $1/min. Its a dream for any content provider, but a nightmare for users. Imagine waiting for useless ASCII-art to download at 2400bps, charged $1/min ! This is minitel. A good idea, but bad business model (on the customer side at least).
...patent software bugs, and sue Microsoft !
You should need a reinforced PCI slot, and maybe it would be difficult to close the PC box...
just a silly idea.
Yes, it was so CISC that some years ago a guy was maintaining a page called : "the VAX instruction of the week" or something like that, to explain some interesting instructions.
First : the weight. It is made of thick metal plates, not like the plastickish PC boxes. Hopefully, you have wheels to move them (VAX race anyone ?) Then, you see a lot of strange devices, connectors, that you never see in PC land. If you have seen only PCs before, you first wonder if it is a computer. When you start VMS, you still wonder if you are in a dream or what, because you don't understand *anything*. It was a very disturbing experience for a geek like me to discover that I couldn't understand a computer at all (at first).
VAXen are incredible pieces of hardware. I own an old VAX Server 4000-200. (roughly equivalent to a 386DX33, 16Mb RAM) Now that everybody have linux at home, having a VAX at home is still very uncommon. The boot sequence in itself is a nice show. Altrough not very usefull to date women... ("Did you want to come home to see my VAX booting ?") Unfortunately, VMS is way too cryptic for me, but courageous folks are working hard to port NetBSD to VAX architecture. Now I can netboot NetBSD on the VAX, but the internal DSSI disks support is still lacking.
I use a PSU with the fan removed. It is a high-quality PSU (Sunpower, a professional PSU maker), and I mounted it vertically so the air can go from the bottom to the upper grid by natural convection, and is is outside the case. The PSU is a little hot, but not too hot (I mean, it does not smell overheated). It runs OK for weeks. If I let the PSU horizontal, it overheats. I also put a oversized heatsink without fan on my pentium, so the box is fanless.
My firewall reports a lot of connexion attempts to the ident service coming from a machine in the same adress class than this web server (38.212.233.3), each time I browse their pages. What does it mean? This webmaster in a little bit too curious. Why did this web site did not have a DNS name ? It seems to be a DSL machine. Is it my paranoia?