Why the hell is the military selling used hard drives in the first place? If there is ANY chance of there being ANY sensitive data on a drive, even in deleted files, they should physically destroy the drive or at least completely degauss it to the point of it being scrap. Even the private sector knows better that this! When I worked as a contractor for Intel, they would run ALL used drives through a conveyor belt driven degaussing machine that would render the drives unusable scrap because they did NOT want any I.P. recovered by third parties. Doesn't our own military know better than this?
Your comment more or less complements my original post; they don't have the right to do so, which is one of the myriad reasons this legislation will go nowhere.;-)
This is yet another piece of misguided legislation authored by politicians who do not have the necessary grasp of the technical issues they're addressing or of the full scope of the ramifications of their proposed bill. Furthermore it's a knee-jerk reaction, and it's being reported in such a way as to foster panic and outrage. What, we're all done with Swine Flu, we've got to have something else to panic everyone over? Really, what is it they're trying to distract us all from, anyway? Enough, already. This proposal isn't going to see the light of day, and if it somehow does, it won't be enforceable nor will it stay in effect for long. Nothing to see here, move along, move along..
I think we all know that the economy is going to get worse before it gets better, and I think that this and other unpleasant things we're inevitably going to hear about are just the outward symptoms of precisely that. We've got a system that doesn't work anymore and I don't think you can fix it without doing some things differently. Whether or not this is going to do any long-term good or not is more a matter for future historians than anyone else; we KNOW there are going to be at least as many mistakes made while trying to clean up this mess we've made for ourselves as there are going to be smart insightful decisions. So, complain away, if that's what you feel like doing: get it all out of your system instead of letting it build up, your health will be better overall.;-)
Humans are so damned silly. Politicians, even more so.
I wonder if they'll ever realize that control is as much an illusion as freedom is?
There has GOT to be a better way to do things than to tax the living daylights out of everything.
I don't agree with that, at least not in the long view. In the short view equipment might become more ubiquitous and inexpensive, but if it became an industry-wide trend then manufacturers would build fewer models and units and the price would most likely go up, not down, in the long run, especially for the home user who only needs to buy one or two ethernet switches and a few cables. Luckily I also don't believe that this is going to be a trend; we can't do everything over WiFi, nor should we try; it would be a debacle.
So Time Warner Cable didn't get their way with their bullshit tiered plans, so now they're throwing a temper tantrum and taking it out on their customers? Fuck them with a spiked mace, I say. I hope they get driven out of business, and good riddance to them!
Uh huh, sure. Unless you can present me with someone who is a commercial sailor who actually has been attacked by pirates and has shot back at them, I'll stick to my own guns, so-to-speak. Aside from that, I'd actually be MORE nervous around someone who seems all-to-eager to have the opportunity to shoot at someone, because they're likely going to be trigger-happy and/or really poorly skilled with a firearm and therefore as much of a threat to ME as he might be to the pirates.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if the real problem is that the average commercial sailor would say, "Hey, if I wanted to be in the military, I would've joined the military! I don't want to shoot guns OR be shot at, thank you very much!"
What a bunch of fucking crybabies. Back in the day I bought copies of Borland Turbo C and Borland C++. They had a licensing agreement that was "like a book": you can loan it out, you can install it on more than one computer -- but so long as only ONE instance was in use at any given time, it was all good. Now someone is trying to say, "Hey, I know you bought that book, but it's AGAINST THE LAW to loan it out to someone else for a small fee". FUCK them, and FUCK copyrights then, I say. Shall we invoke 1984, then? Let's all start committing books to memory, and reciting them for others, who in turn will commit it to memory, and so on, and so on. Let's see them try to copyright our brains and say it's illegal for us to REMEMBER something we read! Same goes for music, movies and television: Let's all recount, verbally, the hottest movies for others, so they DON'T need to go see them, then watch the MPAA shit their pants over it and try to make "reminiscing verbally on a copyrighted work" illegal. It's far past time this bullshit stopped!
Personally I don't see why it is they can't just standardize all these rechargable cars to a regular USB connection instead of making us buy a proprietary charger for each and every rechargable car we own; I want the freedom to just plug my car into my desktop computer at work every morning when I arrive and let it charge up for the ride home.
Could they have pulled the batteries out of it because they wished to do a thorough analysis of batteries that had been used for several years under "normal" operating conditions, as a quality-control measure? I may be giving them way too much credit here but it would seem to be an extremely intelligent thing to do.
You know, you've more or less hit the nail on the head. They're about the same era, technologically-speaking. Except, internal combustion engines are massively mass-produced, and therefore relatively cheap (which is part of the problem with them).
Peltier Junctions are really old news, they're not very efficient at all, they don't last forever, and they're not particularly cheap. TFA doesn't have anything new to say or any links that have anything new to say. Mod the entire post down to -1, Useless post and move on.
You can't stop the signal, Mal. Even if they manage to stamp out internet filesharing through draconian means, people will go back to SneakerNet if they have to, like they do in Cuba as we speak. Get with the program, RIAA/MPAA/Television Networks/etc; it's here to stay, nothing you can do with ever stop it completely.
They should rename it the "Parents That Can't Be Bothered To Pay Attention Filter" instead. The question "Do you want the government raising your children?" has already been put to the public, and the answer is obvious: a resounding "No!". Now I put this question to you all: Do you want Microsoft raising your children? Turn off the damned net-nanny and actually pay attention to what your kids are doing, damnit!
Huh?
I download excecutable code from bittorrent all the time, and I've never had a problem! You'd have to be an idiot to get infected by....wait....
HELP MY MOUSE IS MOVING BY IT SELF
You need to disinfect your system. NOW. I recommend immersing it in chlorine bleach. Works best if it's powered up when you do it. You won't have any computer problems ever again after that.
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Why the hell is the military selling used hard drives in the first place? If there is ANY chance of there being ANY sensitive data on a drive, even in deleted files, they should physically destroy the drive or at least completely degauss it to the point of it being scrap. Even the private sector knows better that this! When I worked as a contractor for Intel, they would run ALL used drives through a conveyor belt driven degaussing machine that would render the drives unusable scrap because they did NOT want any I.P. recovered by third parties. Doesn't our own military know better than this?
Your comment more or less complements my original post; they don't have the right to do so, which is one of the myriad reasons this legislation will go nowhere. ;-)
This is yet another piece of misguided legislation authored by politicians who do not have the necessary grasp of the technical issues they're addressing or of the full scope of the ramifications of their proposed bill. Furthermore it's a knee-jerk reaction, and it's being reported in such a way as to foster panic and outrage. What, we're all done with Swine Flu, we've got to have something else to panic everyone over? Really, what is it they're trying to distract us all from, anyway? Enough, already. This proposal isn't going to see the light of day, and if it somehow does, it won't be enforceable nor will it stay in effect for long. Nothing to see here, move along, move along..
I think we all know that the economy is going to get worse before it gets better, and I think that this and other unpleasant things we're inevitably going to hear about are just the outward symptoms of precisely that. We've got a system that doesn't work anymore and I don't think you can fix it without doing some things differently. Whether or not this is going to do any long-term good or not is more a matter for future historians than anyone else; we KNOW there are going to be at least as many mistakes made while trying to clean up this mess we've made for ourselves as there are going to be smart insightful decisions. So, complain away, if that's what you feel like doing: get it all out of your system instead of letting it build up, your health will be better overall. ;-)
Humans are so damned silly. Politicians, even more so.
I wonder if they'll ever realize that control is as much an illusion as freedom is?
There has GOT to be a better way to do things than to tax the living daylights out of everything.
I upgraded my work machine yesterday, and just now checked to see whether Firefox or IE8 was the default; Firefox is still the default.
I don't agree with that, at least not in the long view. In the short view equipment might become more ubiquitous and inexpensive, but if it became an industry-wide trend then manufacturers would build fewer models and units and the price would most likely go up, not down, in the long run, especially for the home user who only needs to buy one or two ethernet switches and a few cables. Luckily I also don't believe that this is going to be a trend; we can't do everything over WiFi, nor should we try; it would be a debacle.
That's LCD technology. There are photovoltaic cells on the mask powering it.
So Time Warner Cable didn't get their way with their bullshit tiered plans, so now they're throwing a temper tantrum and taking it out on their customers? Fuck them with a spiked mace, I say. I hope they get driven out of business, and good riddance to them!
Useful Idiots to the Chinese government.
I believe that the proper term for these Chinese hackers is "Useful idiots".
Uh huh, sure. Unless you can present me with someone who is a commercial sailor who actually has been attacked by pirates and has shot back at them, I'll stick to my own guns, so-to-speak. Aside from that, I'd actually be MORE nervous around someone who seems all-to-eager to have the opportunity to shoot at someone, because they're likely going to be trigger-happy and/or really poorly skilled with a firearm and therefore as much of a threat to ME as he might be to the pirates.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if the real problem is that the average commercial sailor would say, "Hey, if I wanted to be in the military, I would've joined the military! I don't want to shoot guns OR be shot at, thank you very much!"
What a bunch of fucking crybabies.
Back in the day I bought copies of Borland Turbo C and Borland C++. They had a licensing agreement that was "like a book": you can loan it out, you can install it on more than one computer -- but so long as only ONE instance was in use at any given time, it was all good. Now someone is trying to say, "Hey, I know you bought that book, but it's AGAINST THE LAW to loan it out to someone else for a small fee". FUCK them, and FUCK copyrights then, I say. Shall we invoke 1984, then? Let's all start committing books to memory, and reciting them for others, who in turn will commit it to memory, and so on, and so on. Let's see them try to copyright our brains and say it's illegal for us to REMEMBER something we read! Same goes for music, movies and television: Let's all recount, verbally, the hottest movies for others, so they DON'T need to go see them, then watch the MPAA shit their pants over it and try to make "reminiscing verbally on a copyrighted work" illegal. It's far past time this bullshit stopped!
Personally I don't see why it is they can't just standardize all these rechargable cars to a regular USB connection instead of making us buy a proprietary charger for each and every rechargable car we own; I want the freedom to just plug my car into my desktop computer at work every morning when I arrive and let it charge up for the ride home.
Could they have pulled the batteries out of it because they wished to do a thorough analysis of batteries that had been used for several years under "normal" operating conditions, as a quality-control measure? I may be giving them way too much credit here but it would seem to be an extremely intelligent thing to do.
Nah, you're wrong. The Moon smells like freedom.
So... like an internal combustion engine, then?
You know, you've more or less hit the nail on the head. They're about the same era, technologically-speaking. Except, internal combustion engines are massively mass-produced, and therefore relatively cheap (which is part of the problem with them).
Peltier Junctions are really old news, they're not very efficient at all, they don't last forever, and they're not particularly cheap. TFA doesn't have anything new to say or any links that have anything new to say. Mod the entire post down to -1, Useless post and move on.
You can't stop the signal, Mal.
Even if they manage to stamp out internet filesharing through draconian means, people will go back to SneakerNet if they have to, like they do in Cuba as we speak. Get with the program, RIAA/MPAA/Television Networks/etc; it's here to stay, nothing you can do with ever stop it completely.
If he does that then he won't have ANY problems ever again...
..so where's the problem, then? :)
Allow me to clarify: If you download pirated executable code.. that work better for you? :p What did you think I meant?
They should rename it the "Parents That Can't Be Bothered To Pay Attention Filter" instead. The question "Do you want the government raising your children?" has already been put to the public, and the answer is obvious: a resounding "No!". Now I put this question to you all: Do you want Microsoft raising your children? Turn off the damned net-nanny and actually pay attention to what your kids are doing, damnit!
Huh? I download excecutable code from bittorrent all the time, and I've never had a problem! You'd have to be an idiot to get infected by....wait.... HELP MY MOUSE IS MOVING BY IT SELF
You need to disinfect your system. NOW. I recommend immersing it in chlorine bleach. Works best if it's powered up when you do it. You won't have any computer problems ever again after that.
Uh-huh.
Protip: If you download executable code over bittorrent, you are an idiot, a loser, and a total n00b.