I never understood this argument. I'm an Electrical Engineer, and I understand that there is an analog value that gets interpreted as a digital one or zero, but the implication that 'a weak one implies that the data was previously a zero' sort of assumes that the hard drive was only written once in the first place.
What happens if, in the course of writing legitimate data to the hard drive, the bit cell was set to zero, then set to one at a later date? Wouldn't the magical forensic tool get confused and come to the wrong conclusion that the 'weak one' was really a zero, when it fact it was just a 'weak one?' If you look at the analog value for one bit, you should be seeing evidence of the entire history of that bit, though in an indecipherable way.
I suppose it depends on how often the hard drive is being used, and how often it is being overwritten.
It seems odd that the only screen shots show very little utility. How do you use Excel in the Metro interface? Word? Does everything just default to full screen? Based on the screen shots, apparently Microsoft thinks people spend half of their time looking at the screensaver with the current temperature overlaid on top of it.
I had a Nokia 5230 for while. It was a great low end smartphone: high res screen, battery that lasted forever, GPS with all the map data local. The only two flaws were no wifi, and a underwhelming app store.
I never really understood what OS I was using. S40? S60? Symbian^3? Nokia really does a lousy job of marketing their brand.
For some odd reason, my daughter's bedroom has a dimmable switch, and two bulbs in her fixture. I took a look at dimmable CFLs and LEDs, and was really shocked at the cost.
What I ended up doing was replacing the switch with a normal one, then put in two regular CLF bulbs in the fixture. Total cost: $10.
I doubt my three year old daughter will ever miss her dimming feature.
Do you really think that a back scattering machine contains the energy back scattered from your body when it has two huge gaping holes aligned with the most common entry / exit paths?
Did anyone else have to read this a few times to figure out that the two huge gaping holes are in the machine, not the body? Anyone?
I keep hearing that the plants in Japan were an older design and newer nuclear reactors are safer.
Isn't this the same argument that Microsoft makes with every new release of Windows? It crashes less than the last one?
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I never understood this argument. I'm an Electrical Engineer, and I understand that there is an analog value that gets interpreted as a digital one or zero, but the implication that 'a weak one implies that the data was previously a zero' sort of assumes that the hard drive was only written once in the first place. What happens if, in the course of writing legitimate data to the hard drive, the bit cell was set to zero, then set to one at a later date? Wouldn't the magical forensic tool get confused and come to the wrong conclusion that the 'weak one' was really a zero, when it fact it was just a 'weak one?' If you look at the analog value for one bit, you should be seeing evidence of the entire history of that bit, though in an indecipherable way. I suppose it depends on how often the hard drive is being used, and how often it is being overwritten.
It seems odd that the only screen shots show very little utility. How do you use Excel in the Metro interface? Word? Does everything just default to full screen? Based on the screen shots, apparently Microsoft thinks people spend half of their time looking at the screensaver with the current temperature overlaid on top of it.
It's worse than that. MyCleanPC ran over my dog. Twice.
I had a Nokia 5230 for while. It was a great low end smartphone: high res screen, battery that lasted forever, GPS with all the map data local. The only two flaws were no wifi, and a underwhelming app store. I never really understood what OS I was using. S40? S60? Symbian^3? Nokia really does a lousy job of marketing their brand.
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For some odd reason, my daughter's bedroom has a dimmable switch, and two bulbs in her fixture. I took a look at dimmable CFLs and LEDs, and was really shocked at the cost. What I ended up doing was replacing the switch with a normal one, then put in two regular CLF bulbs in the fixture. Total cost: $10. I doubt my three year old daughter will ever miss her dimming feature.
Do you really think that a back scattering machine contains the energy back scattered from your body when it has two huge gaping holes aligned with the most common entry / exit paths?
Did anyone else have to read this a few times to figure out that the two huge gaping holes are in the machine, not the body? Anyone?
I keep hearing that the plants in Japan were an older design and newer nuclear reactors are safer. Isn't this the same argument that Microsoft makes with every new release of Windows? It crashes less than the last one?
We don't care when this sort of technology is used on our own citizens. Why would we get bent out of shape when it's used on Egyptians?