I would have thought that computers would make it impossible to "lose" such funds
Except that computers make it possible for idiots to screw up even worse than ever before. And given that the guy apparently cared more about opening a bitcoin restaurant than, say, using a programming language that wasn't crap COUGHPHPCOUGH, I'm just barely willing to believe they lost it. I'm really more surprised that they found that wallet before it got thrown out on a junked hard drive.
Sure, it's a bit too convenient, especially after all the rumors of hacks that let people double-dip when withdrawing bitcoins, but it's not impossible that they came from a different source. So just how easy is it to look up the transaction records for 200,000 bitcoins, anyhow?
Just how many control placements are there for multimeters? 3 1/2 digit display at the top, rotary switch in the middle, plugs at the bottom for ground, normal, and high-amp/volt. Also, the Fluke image you linked to has buttons below the display, which most cheap multimeters with rotary selector switches don't have.
Compare with this one: http://www.parts-express.com/D... and other than green vs orange vs yellow, it's basically the same layout that's been used since at least the '80s.
The only good thing I have to say about the formatting on medium.com is that it isn't the popular yet horrible "85/85", where the body text is set to 85% size / 85% gray. Many sites I have to zoom the text at least one step to be readable, but this site I have to zoom down at least three steps.
What's always fun is when they get to 0.99 then have to go to 0.100 or 0.991. It's the exact opposite of the way Chrome and Firefox version numbers work by incrementing the major version number multiple times a year. (IMHO, FF should have gone with YY.0 to YY.3 using the current year and quarter, and the version number was about right when they started doing that.)
Oh great, another acronym overload. The first thing I thought of was Digital Restrictions Management drivers, which was plausible because stuff that plays the crap that comes from Hollywood usually wants to be paranoid about DRM. Do we really have to overload this acronym with something related to screen display?
You think pineapple on pizza is bad? In Japan, they put yellow corn and mayonnaise on pizza.
And pineapple on pizza in and of itself isn't bad. There is such a thing as a dessert pizza, though it's usually done with apples. It is pineapple along with meat and cheese that is the problem. I can't understand people who mix savory with sweet, it is disgusting. At least corn and mayonnaise is still savory with savory, even if may be disgusting in other ways.
I just read the wiki page on tetanus. You very specifically can not get immunity by exposure. It's caused by a bacterium which makes the toxin that messes you up.
I think you need to go farther than that. My modest proposal would be to exile them to "anti-vaxxer" farms where they can get a bed and three squares, but (and this is the important part) no cable TV, no cell towers (hey, they can give you cancer!), no internet. A library with paper books is fine.
Considering as how they previously used a background color that went almost invisible on LCD monitors, probably. I had to search for something generic like "toothpaste" to see this new "little yellow square" format for the first time, and it is indeed more visible than that stealth background color.
You're so cuuuuute, I could just pinch your cheeks! I'm gonna slap a big [CITATION NEEDED] on that. How exactly can anybody with the TP, who can barely get the time of day in Congress, where Republicans actually have a majority, have any ability to affect NASA's budget?
Hint: try looking at the very incumbent pork-barrel politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle who are cutting NASA's budget for everything but the prime pork of SLS.
Even though I have no love for Obama, this is one case where he doesn't deserve the blame. He's actually big on funding NASA. The blame is squarely on Congress, who insist on funding the SLS (aka Senate Launch System), for no other reason than to keep Shuttle-era pork jobs in their states, and have actually been cutting NASA's non-SLS budget. They've also been cutting the budget for private companies like SpaceX and Sierra Nevada to develop human crew launch vehicles. This delayed the contracts for private crew launches to ISS, so we're dependent on the Russians for another three years. SpaceX is probably going ahead on their crewed capsule anyhow, but Congress sure is being the opposite of Progress here.
It's still a few years before SLS gets its first unmanned test, then a few years more before it goes up with humans inside. But there's no mission for it. It's too big for LEO (such as trips to ISS), and Congress is solidly against using it for Mars. They want to go to the stupid moon again, which really has little reason for humans to go right now. (IMHO we should be sending up a lot more unmanned missions to the moon, especially since the remote control lag is only a few seconds!)
tl;dr: the only useful purpose for 24/96 or 24/192 is extra bit depth for mastering and mixing. Otherwise the ultrasonic frequencies that you can't hear anyhow can actually interfere with each other and cause audible distortion.
The first thing to do is to not create a single-volume RAID that spans several drives. Each drive should be able to stand on its own. Especially with not-quite-essential data like ripped DVDs. This way if one drive fails, you only have to re-rip one drive of DVDs. But most importantly, you can't erase them all with one command. I'm not sure how submitter's friend happened to do that, but it's exactly the kind of failure that RAID does not protect against!
Sure, it's nice to have one big volume and not have to worry about switching over as they fill up, but unless you have some kind of advanced volume management that can deal with drives disappearing and let you easily add or remove drives of arbitrary sizes, it can come back to bite you.
If you really want redundancy, use mirrored drives, or sync to a mirror volume, or whatever, just don't use RAID 5. Parity RAID seemed like a good idea at the time, but it's just begging for two drives (usually from the same manufacturing lot) to fail at the same time. And the system is loaded way more when you're trying to do recovery, which could cause another drive to fail from the extra stress. Even worse is that the size of modern drives means the sensitive recovery period is going to last longer.
This advice is specifically toward storing large A/V libraries. The really important stuff (financial data, family photos) is going to be smaller. Keep it separated from the big non-essential A/V files and it should be easy to use multiple backup strategies like removable storage and cloud backup.
I know that I, for one, just love seeing a blog where half the comments are stupid trackbacks to some even more mindless vanity blogger. NOT. Agreed, the absolute worst feature ever made. It wasn't even a good idea back when The Web[tm] was young, and people would "share links". Remember that?
Not to mention the obvious SEO spam ("You have a such great web site! This was so informative! Thank you for your post!") that never gets removed, even when the blogger is still replying to posts. It's not just luser bloggers, either, I've seen this on Bunnie Huang's blog! If I ever have a blog, I'm stealing the "all threads automatically close after two weeks" idea from Slashdot.
Even though the slaughterhouse supposedly only dealt with intrastate matters, the butchering of meat was merely a "station" along the way between cow and meat. Thus as it was part of the greater meat industry that was between the several states Congress can regulate it.
Seriously, if they keep pulling this shit enough until it eventually hits the Supreme Court, it could possibly be the end of the whole cushy dealer thing.
It also doesn't help that the Iridium network is completely and totally analog. That means good ol' 9600 baud modem tones. The new generation of sats starting next year will support digital communications.
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If you had just waited a day longer for the price to fluctuate, you could have bought a thousand pizzas.
I would have thought that computers would make it impossible to "lose" such funds
Except that computers make it possible for idiots to screw up even worse than ever before. And given that the guy apparently cared more about opening a bitcoin restaurant than, say, using a programming language that wasn't crap COUGHPHPCOUGH, I'm just barely willing to believe they lost it. I'm really more surprised that they found that wallet before it got thrown out on a junked hard drive.
Sure, it's a bit too convenient, especially after all the rumors of hacks that let people double-dip when withdrawing bitcoins, but it's not impossible that they came from a different source. So just how easy is it to look up the transaction records for 200,000 bitcoins, anyhow?
So of all the languages they could have forked, they decided to fork PHP? Okey-dokey.
Just how many control placements are there for multimeters? 3 1/2 digit display at the top, rotary switch in the middle, plugs at the bottom for ground, normal, and high-amp/volt. Also, the Fluke image you linked to has buttons below the display, which most cheap multimeters with rotary selector switches don't have.
Compare with this one: http://www.parts-express.com/D... and other than green vs orange vs yellow, it's basically the same layout that's been used since at least the '80s.
Ah yes, the bow tie.
The only good thing I have to say about the formatting on medium.com is that it isn't the popular yet horrible "85/85", where the body text is set to 85% size / 85% gray. Many sites I have to zoom the text at least one step to be readable, but this site I have to zoom down at least three steps.
What's always fun is when they get to 0.99 then have to go to 0.100 or 0.991. It's the exact opposite of the way Chrome and Firefox version numbers work by incrementing the major version number multiple times a year. (IMHO, FF should have gone with YY.0 to YY.3 using the current year and quarter, and the version number was about right when they started doing that.)
Oh great, another acronym overload. The first thing I thought of was Digital Restrictions Management drivers, which was plausible because stuff that plays the crap that comes from Hollywood usually wants to be paranoid about DRM. Do we really have to overload this acronym with something related to screen display?
You think pineapple on pizza is bad? In Japan, they put yellow corn and mayonnaise on pizza.
And pineapple on pizza in and of itself isn't bad. There is such a thing as a dessert pizza, though it's usually done with apples. It is pineapple along with meat and cheese that is the problem. I can't understand people who mix savory with sweet, it is disgusting. At least corn and mayonnaise is still savory with savory, even if may be disgusting in other ways.
You forgot D) it's possible that some or many of the reports of excessive force were bullshit, and this weeds out false accusations.
and stamp this on their forehead
Then they'd start babbling about six-six-six and beasts.
I just read the wiki page on tetanus. You very specifically can not get immunity by exposure. It's caused by a bacterium which makes the toxin that messes you up.
I think you need to go farther than that. My modest proposal would be to exile them to "anti-vaxxer" farms where they can get a bed and three squares, but (and this is the important part) no cable TV, no cell towers (hey, they can give you cancer!), no internet. A library with paper books is fine.
Because nothing sucks like a VAX!
So are you saying that in Japan, only old people use the iPhone?
Considering as how they previously used a background color that went almost invisible on LCD monitors, probably. I had to search for something generic like "toothpaste" to see this new "little yellow square" format for the first time, and it is indeed more visible than that stealth background color.
If NASA can't afford to explore space with robots, then what's the point of funding NASA at all?
One word: pork. It's to maintain those Shuttle-era jobs in the districts that already have them!
You're so cuuuuute, I could just pinch your cheeks! I'm gonna slap a big [CITATION NEEDED] on that. How exactly can anybody with the TP, who can barely get the time of day in Congress, where Republicans actually have a majority, have any ability to affect NASA's budget?
Hint: try looking at the very incumbent pork-barrel politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle who are cutting NASA's budget for everything but the prime pork of SLS.
Even though I have no love for Obama, this is one case where he doesn't deserve the blame. He's actually big on funding NASA. The blame is squarely on Congress, who insist on funding the SLS (aka Senate Launch System), for no other reason than to keep Shuttle-era pork jobs in their states, and have actually been cutting NASA's non-SLS budget. They've also been cutting the budget for private companies like SpaceX and Sierra Nevada to develop human crew launch vehicles. This delayed the contracts for private crew launches to ISS, so we're dependent on the Russians for another three years. SpaceX is probably going ahead on their crewed capsule anyhow, but Congress sure is being the opposite of Progress here.
It's still a few years before SLS gets its first unmanned test, then a few years more before it goes up with humans inside. But there's no mission for it. It's too big for LEO (such as trips to ISS), and Congress is solidly against using it for Mars. They want to go to the stupid moon again, which really has little reason for humans to go right now. (IMHO we should be sending up a lot more unmanned missions to the moon, especially since the remote control lag is only a few seconds!)
tl;dr: the only useful purpose for 24/96 or 24/192 is extra bit depth for mastering and mixing. Otherwise the ultrasonic frequencies that you can't hear anyhow can actually interfere with each other and cause audible distortion.
That's actually what I was originally looking for. The Swift case was a new one to me, but it's the same bullshit with a different bull.
The first thing to do is to not create a single-volume RAID that spans several drives. Each drive should be able to stand on its own. Especially with not-quite-essential data like ripped DVDs. This way if one drive fails, you only have to re-rip one drive of DVDs. But most importantly, you can't erase them all with one command. I'm not sure how submitter's friend happened to do that, but it's exactly the kind of failure that RAID does not protect against!
Sure, it's nice to have one big volume and not have to worry about switching over as they fill up, but unless you have some kind of advanced volume management that can deal with drives disappearing and let you easily add or remove drives of arbitrary sizes, it can come back to bite you.
If you really want redundancy, use mirrored drives, or sync to a mirror volume, or whatever, just don't use RAID 5. Parity RAID seemed like a good idea at the time, but it's just begging for two drives (usually from the same manufacturing lot) to fail at the same time. And the system is loaded way more when you're trying to do recovery, which could cause another drive to fail from the extra stress. Even worse is that the size of modern drives means the sensitive recovery period is going to last longer.
This advice is specifically toward storing large A/V libraries. The really important stuff (financial data, family photos) is going to be smaller. Keep it separated from the big non-essential A/V files and it should be easy to use multiple backup strategies like removable storage and cloud backup.
I know that I, for one, just love seeing a blog where half the comments are stupid trackbacks to some even more mindless vanity blogger. NOT. Agreed, the absolute worst feature ever made. It wasn't even a good idea back when The Web[tm] was young, and people would "share links". Remember that?
Not to mention the obvious SEO spam ("You have a such great web site! This was so informative! Thank you for your post!") that never gets removed, even when the blogger is still replying to posts. It's not just luser bloggers, either, I've seen this on Bunnie Huang's blog! If I ever have a blog, I'm stealing the "all threads automatically close after two weeks" idea from Slashdot.
Oh look, another idiot who knows his grammar as well as he knows the law.
For instance, Swift v. United States
Even though the slaughterhouse supposedly only dealt with intrastate matters, the butchering of meat was merely a "station" along the way between cow and meat. Thus as it was part of the greater meat industry that was between the several states Congress can regulate it.
Seriously, if they keep pulling this shit enough until it eventually hits the Supreme Court, it could possibly be the end of the whole cushy dealer thing.
It also doesn't help that the Iridium network is completely and totally analog. That means good ol' 9600 baud modem tones. The new generation of sats starting next year will support digital communications.