Actually there's a lot of that, especially on stuff that someone might think is valuable and easy to hide/dispose of. He got the package label, which is very suspicious. "machine ate it" is b.s., but not because machines don't damage or tear packages, but rather because the contents, even damaged, didn't arrive. They will reseal a package, or even rebox it if they have to, so if only the label arrived, it's a pretty clear indication that someone decided to take the contents for walkies.
In the military a friend got a box of VHS tapes from his family back home. (Yes, this was a while ago) It was a month and a half late, and had been opened. Even more so, all the tapes had been watched and not rewound, except for one that was stopped partway through. Some jerk in the US Postal service (yes, it was all US Postal personnel) decided to steal his tapes and watch them all. At least the creep finally let sent them back to the rightful owner.
So they're trying to claim that they didn't have any other backups? They lost 8 years of files... Because it did a backup right after the encryption... THE MORONS ONLY HAD ONE BACKUP!!!!
There is so much wrong with this from a security standpoint that whatever fool made that decision needs to either be fired, or at least removed from any influence over IT.
As the old saying goes:
So when did your data become important to you, before or after you lost it?
Actually it does become metallic. Metals aren't what you think they are, but that's ok, there are lots of books and articles on that you can go read. Also, and atomic transmutation would take a heck of a lot more than simple pressures a basic diamond anvil can ever produce. You do realize that would require the merging of the atomic nuclei to make a heavier nucleus, don't you? And it wouldn't go straight to lithium either, it would go to helium first. After all, it seems pretty unlikely we'd be bypassing the steps even the sun has to take.
A baby provides to benefit to anyone. It just uses resources and never supplies any of it's own. Of what use is it?
You don't know for sure until you've had time to think about it, and play around with it. You know, give the discovery some time to grow up. If you want instant products popping out, you really need to reexamine your view of reality. It's called research. They don't know what they'll find, or what use it will be. Do you really think the early experimenters with pretty much anything, including radio, electricity, magnetism, and so many other things knew what would come out of it? Of course they didn't, but they still experimented and we are all better for it.
Here's a couple of Scientific Urban Legends (unproven quotes attributed to figures of science) for you to read as they are far more eloquent than I.
Benjamin Franklin observes the first balloon ascension in 1783 while he was Ambassador at the Court of France. Someone asks "What possible use are balloons?" Franklin answers "What use is a newborn baby?"
Michael Faraday is visited by a delegation of government dignitaries. They are shown his electric motors and other demos. One person says "This is all very interesting, but of what possible use are these toys?" Faraday responds: "I cannot say what use they may be, but I can confidently predict that one day you will be able to tax them."
A belief based on science. In other words, they haven't tested it yet, but the formula using current data indicates it may happen. No faith required. Hey, they've believed hydrogen would become metallic when exposed to enough pressure. It took a long time to test it, but guess what, it does! At around 495 gigapascals, a pressure we hadn't been able to do until just recently.
I'm pretty sure the jovian speculations are before they found out the extreme pressure requirements for it. I know jupiter is under a lot of pressure, but is it really up to 495 gigapascals? I looked that up, and apparently the core can get up to maybe 4,500 gigapascals, which is high enough, but they'll still have to rewrite the estimates of what the layers are, since they think it transitioned to metallic at about 200 gigapascals, which we now know isn't even half the required pressure.
We already have transparent aluminum, and have for a long time. It's just in the past couple of years that they've developed a method to make large sheets of it.
Doesn't matter if they do live there or not. He's filed a lawsuit to take something he wants from someone else for his own comfort. That's pretty deplorable no matter how you slice it.
Hey, if it was some Oil Magnate or Gun Runner, it wouldn't be here. On the other hand, if you're talking about Zuckerberg, or Gates, or Jobs, or Ellison, then yeah, it's going to be here. They aren't just some rich guys, they're the movers and shakers with big money of the tech fields, even if one of them is dead.
You do know how tech isn't some isolated bubble with a fancy motherboard, right?
It was a 'design patent'. Not something about technology or production, but rather about looks. Pretty much everyone I've ever talked to about that says the entire concept is total B.S. Gee, bevels in glass so it doesn't have the sharp edges. Corners on rectangles to they don't poke you when in your pocket. Total obvious garbage.
The ones we've been getting from the pharmacy is around a year shelf life. Yeah, and we need an unopened pack for school. You want to have a spare at home. My and her mother are separated, so that's actually a total of 3 packs for reasonable safety.
For some stupid zero tolerance antidrug reason, the schools around here won't let students carry their required medicines. Instead, it has to be given to the office, who keeps it the whole school year, only letting it be retrieved for emergencies. (There are so many problems with that I'd like to see the idiot that come up with it get a nice allergic reaction to something and find out his meds are at least and extra 10 minutes away, and double his cost for them since he has to have a complete second set.)
Among other conditions. A free market is essentially a utopian theory for economics, totally unrealistic despite it being desirable. It also assumes there are no real barriers to market entry so anyone can decide to market something if they think they can do it better. That is so far from reality, it's virtually insane. Anyway, it's a neat idea, but it's not a viable one.
What free market? You sure aren't talking about ours, or else you don't know what a free market actually is. That's ok, the reporters and politicians are pretty ignorant about that, so nobody else can be yelled at too much for not knowing.
By the way, there was a great market for the stuff at it's old price pre 2007. These guys have found a way around the patents Mylan now holds, and so they are going for the gold by massively undercutting them using a fair market price, and at the same time score mega bonus points of public good will.
If it were truly a free market, Mylan wouldn't have been able to have prevente people from doing this years ago.
That's what some like calling an Epic Design Fail ! Really, anything that uses money, deletes files, or anything like that, really needs some kind of verification.
In the early 80s at the PC group meeting, a rep came in to show off their voice command software. He set it up, and then from the crowd, someone said "Format C: Enter", followed by another voice "Yes". Sure enough, it formatted the entire drive, and the rep had a much shorter presentation than he was expecting, but even he had to admit, the demonstration, though short, was very effective.
Actually Crackers break through security (mostly into other computers, but also anything that thinks it's protected) Hackers write code. Anyone writing code without having previously written a flow chart and and the entire algorithm before actually putting it into the whatever development platform they're using, is hacking. It is not breaking into other computers, that is cracking. You know, like a safe cracker. I'm sure you've heard of that from the pre-computer days. I'm also sure you've heard of writers being called hacks in the pre-computer days as well. If you haven't heard that, just stream some classic movies.
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Actually there's a lot of that, especially on stuff that someone might think is valuable and easy to hide/dispose of.
He got the package label, which is very suspicious.
"machine ate it" is b.s., but not because machines don't damage or tear packages, but rather because the contents, even damaged, didn't arrive. They will reseal a package, or even rebox it if they have to, so if only the label arrived, it's a pretty clear indication that someone decided to take the contents for walkies.
In the military a friend got a box of VHS tapes from his family back home. (Yes, this was a while ago) It was a month and a half late, and had been opened. Even more so, all the tapes had been watched and not rewound, except for one that was stopped partway through. Some jerk in the US Postal service (yes, it was all US Postal personnel) decided to steal his tapes and watch them all. At least the creep finally let sent them back to the rightful owner.
That's easy, it's called fiction. There's never been such a thing as a "good patent troll", there are just various levels of greed steeped in evil.
I prefer the one from Discworld, but they wouldn't be messing with this stuff.
So they're trying to claim that they didn't have any other backups?
They lost 8 years of files... Because it did a backup right after the encryption...
THE MORONS ONLY HAD ONE BACKUP!!!!
There is so much wrong with this from a security standpoint that whatever fool made that decision needs to either be fired, or at least removed from any influence over IT.
As the old saying goes:
So when did your data become important to you, before or after you lost it?
Actually it does become metallic.
Metals aren't what you think they are, but that's ok, there are lots of books and articles on that you can go read.
Also, and atomic transmutation would take a heck of a lot more than simple pressures a basic diamond anvil can ever produce. You do realize that would require the merging of the atomic nuclei to make a heavier nucleus, don't you? And it wouldn't go straight to lithium either, it would go to helium first. After all, it seems pretty unlikely we'd be bypassing the steps even the sun has to take.
A baby provides to benefit to anyone. It just uses resources and never supplies any of it's own. Of what use is it?
You don't know for sure until you've had time to think about it, and play around with it. You know, give the discovery some time to grow up. If you want instant products popping out, you really need to reexamine your view of reality. It's called research. They don't know what they'll find, or what use it will be. Do you really think the early experimenters with pretty much anything, including radio, electricity, magnetism, and so many other things knew what would come out of it?
Of course they didn't, but they still experimented and we are all better for it.
Here's a couple of Scientific Urban Legends (unproven quotes attributed to figures of science) for you to read as they are far more eloquent than I.
Benjamin Franklin observes the first balloon ascension in 1783 while he was Ambassador at the Court of France. Someone asks "What possible use are balloons?" Franklin answers "What use is a newborn baby?"
Michael Faraday is visited by a delegation of government dignitaries. They are shown his electric motors and other demos. One person says "This is all very interesting, but of what possible use are these toys?" Faraday responds: "I cannot say what use they may be, but I can confidently predict that one day you will be able to tax them."
Ice-9 is fictional, unlike metallic hydrogen
A belief based on science. In other words, they haven't tested it yet, but the formula using current data indicates it may happen.
No faith required.
Hey, they've believed hydrogen would become metallic when exposed to enough pressure. It took a long time to test it, but guess what, it does! At around 495 gigapascals, a pressure we hadn't been able to do until just recently.
I'm pretty sure the jovian speculations are before they found out the extreme pressure requirements for it.
I know jupiter is under a lot of pressure, but is it really up to 495 gigapascals?
I looked that up, and apparently the core can get up to maybe 4,500 gigapascals, which is high enough, but they'll still have to rewrite the estimates of what the layers are, since they think it transitioned to metallic at about 200 gigapascals, which we now know isn't even half the required pressure.
We already have transparent aluminum, and have for a long time.
It's just in the past couple of years that they've developed a method to make large sheets of it.
Doesn't matter if they do live there or not.
He's filed a lawsuit to take something he wants from someone else for his own comfort.
That's pretty deplorable no matter how you slice it.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that's why.
Hey, if it was some Oil Magnate or Gun Runner, it wouldn't be here. On the other hand, if you're talking about Zuckerberg, or Gates, or Jobs, or Ellison, then yeah, it's going to be here. They aren't just some rich guys, they're the movers and shakers with big money of the tech fields, even if one of them is dead.
You do know how tech isn't some isolated bubble with a fancy motherboard, right?
LoL, you noticed that too. :D
It was a 'design patent'. Not something about technology or production, but rather about looks. Pretty much everyone I've ever talked to about that says the entire concept is total B.S.
Gee, bevels in glass so it doesn't have the sharp edges. Corners on rectangles to they don't poke you when in your pocket. Total obvious garbage.
The ones we've been getting from the pharmacy is around a year shelf life.
Yeah, and we need an unopened pack for school.
You want to have a spare at home.
My and her mother are separated, so that's actually a total of 3 packs for reasonable safety.
It's only hyperbole if you consider the current super expensive price a normal price.
For some stupid zero tolerance antidrug reason, the schools around here won't let students carry their required medicines. Instead, it has to be given to the office, who keeps it the whole school year, only letting it be retrieved for emergencies. (There are so many problems with that I'd like to see the idiot that come up with it get a nice allergic reaction to something and find out his meds are at least and extra 10 minutes away, and double his cost for them since he has to have a complete second set.)
Not for the consumer
Split household, and school, so technically we need at least 3. Insurance only covers the one.
Among other conditions. A free market is essentially a utopian theory for economics, totally unrealistic despite it being desirable.
It also assumes there are no real barriers to market entry so anyone can decide to market something if they think they can do it better.
That is so far from reality, it's virtually insane.
Anyway, it's a neat idea, but it's not a viable one.
It's not the epinephrine, it's the epipen that's got the protection.
What free market? You sure aren't talking about ours, or else you don't know what a free market actually is. That's ok, the reporters and politicians are pretty ignorant about that, so nobody else can be yelled at too much for not knowing.
By the way, there was a great market for the stuff at it's old price pre 2007. These guys have found a way around the patents Mylan now holds, and so they are going for the gold by massively undercutting them using a fair market price, and at the same time score mega bonus points of public good will.
If it were truly a free market, Mylan wouldn't have been able to have prevente people from doing this years ago.
That's what some like calling an Epic Design Fail !
Really, anything that uses money, deletes files, or anything like that, really needs some kind of verification.
In the early 80s at the PC group meeting, a rep came in to show off their voice command software.
He set it up, and then from the crowd, someone said "Format C: Enter", followed by another voice "Yes".
Sure enough, it formatted the entire drive, and the rep had a much shorter presentation than he was expecting, but even he had to admit, the demonstration, though short, was very effective.
Actually Crackers break through security (mostly into other computers, but also anything that thinks it's protected)
Hackers write code. Anyone writing code without having previously written a flow chart and and the entire algorithm before actually putting it into the whatever development platform they're using, is hacking. It is not breaking into other computers, that is cracking.
You know, like a safe cracker. I'm sure you've heard of that from the pre-computer days. I'm also sure you've heard of writers being called hacks in the pre-computer days as well. If you haven't heard that, just stream some classic movies.