If you're really paranoid, doing a full backup to a hard drive at weekends and drop that at the "neighbour" on Mondays. Remaining weekdays, do a differential backup overnight (compared to that complete backup), and drop that at the neighbour, picking up the previous differential backup hard drive. Over the weekend, do another full backup (while you're hammering the bar/ wife/ shelves ; anything but computing) and on Monday, exchange that for last week's full backup.
I'm sitting 7000km from home, here for a month, and I've got 3TB of hard drives sitting in my briefcase beside me. Total cost at the moment is about a hundred pints of beer (intercultural unit of currency, inflation adjusted), which is probably worth less than the time it has taken the question-asker to read all the responses.
only then will we realize that one cannot eat money."
That sounds to me like a technical challenge. Edible. Money.
To be more precise, non-counterfeitable edible money which has a... hmmm... I haven't worked this out yet... a nutritional value that is greater than or equal to the nutrition that could be brought with that much money. Otherwise, you'd end up with a loop one way or the other so that you could use money to buy food, then sell the food for more money. Or vice versae. The nutritional and counterfeiting aspects are technical, but setting (and keeping) the nutrition-to-money conversion rate is a fiscal problem. I don't know if that last is soluble.
and still is called Bonfire Night by British people in Britain.
Must have depended where you lived or in what circle. Around me it was always "Guy Fawkes Night".
I don't think I've ever heard November the Fifth called "Guy Fawkes Night" or "Fireworks Night" more than a couple of times in one day, but "Bonfire Night" all the time, day-in, day-out for weeks at a stretch.
Where in Britain were you living when you hear it called that? Ulster?
As a result, many internet users are in the habit of approving all AtivceX control prompts, potentially exposing them to malware
Would that explain why, in my several months assignment to Korea, I never met one (not ONE) flash memory device which wasn't full to the brim of auto-run viruses and other shit.
I was glad I had my Linux laptop with me, to sheep dip the flash drives rather than letting ANY drive that had touched a Korean machine touch my work's machine.
and they're standardised too so you can use the card reader from one bank, with a completely different bank.
When I had about 3 of these arrive through my letterbox within a few months a couple of years ago, I recall trying the obvious experiment and IIRC finding that 2 of my cards (and readers) were interchangeable, but the third was mutually incompatible with the rest.
I don't recall which cards they were. I don't think that I've used ANY of them since.
The last star to go supernova in the Milky Wayâ"that astronomers know ofâ"exploded in 1604,
Leaving aside the quibbles about the date of the explosion compared to the date of the light reaching the Earth, this still isn't true. There was likely a supernova in the disc of the galaxy (whose light reached Earth) in the 1870s or 1880s. But since it was on the far side of a dense gas/ dust cloud, it wasn't visible. It's only in the last few years that IR telescopes and radio telescopes have managed to detect the expanding debris cloud, and monitor it's increasing size, to determine the approximate date of the explosion.
Would the precise angle make *THAT* much of a difference in height?
No. Because the tidal bulge of water on the Earth's surface leads (mental check... yes, leads) the sub-lunar point by a substantial degree as the bulge is dragged to the east by the rotation of the Earth relative to the Moon and the Sun (that's why both Moon and Sun rise in the east, unlike on Mars where one moon rises in the east and one (the faster-orbiting one) rises in the west.
The degree of lead varies with roughness of the seabed and coast profile and lots of other things, but it's why high tide isn't at exactly the same time all along a line of longitude. (Not that the Moon's orbit is precisely equatorial to the Earth's either, which would make astronomy relatively boring.)
Anything using domestic internet is not going to be adequate. FTFQ:
1 TB at 3-4mb downloads just doesn't cut it
If he'd been able to get a better rate, then he'd have said that better rate. 3-4mb is your parameter for speed and 1TB for quantity.
You might get some mileage from doing incremental instead of complete backup. Which isn't really going to help when the firemen finish hosing down the burned-out remains.
We're at sea, with a worldwide remit (plans in the pipeline for the vessel range from South Africa to E. Greenland). For 4MB down, 1MB up , we're billed a couple of thousand USD a day. Don't know what the hardware cost..
If you are seriously suggesting that the helium would not leak because the pressure would remain at 1 atm, and you have a university education, then you should sue that university for malpractice.
Not necessarily. If he's got a degree in comparative theology, or a PhD in the herminutics of quantum disassociativism, then the university could easily defend themselves that they'd improved his earning potential in his field by protecting him from contact with reality.
But since the HDD is bathed in a gas instead of a liquid, that wastes a lot of interior space - at least 33% if you want the drive to work at about 8000 ft, more if you want it to work higher. I'm not sure they have that much space available if they've crammed in 7 platters
Good points. I've used systems with bellow chambers to provide pressure equalisation too.
Note that most commercial airliners are pressurised to an approximate equivalent of 8-10 kft altitude. I wonder if that's why the warranty limits are at that level, as you imply.
No civilized country could extradite someone to a country where his conviction is taken as a fait accompli, and which deploys the death penalty with reckless abandon. So he's safe from being extradited to America, at least while still alive.
Which doesn't say much for his life expectancy, But as things stand, the US "Justice" system isn't going to be getting their hands on him.
But for the first two centuries of that, no one anywhere had a coherent idea of what the progress of pathogen-borne diseases was, and it took about another 3/4 (maybe 2/3) of a century after the development of germ theory (and it's later extension to recognising very small infections agents called viri) for someone to seriously propose the eradication of an entire natural virus in the wild. Now we're teetering on the edge of success against a second virus (polio ; you probably have relatives who were injured by it), but a combination of religion and warfare are trying to bring it back from the brink of eradication.
Talk about cooperation against a common enemy : War lending a helping hand to save Plague, under the helpful oversight of Religion. Those anthropomorphised incarnations of psychological terrors must be feeling really threatened by the progress of humans and their sciences.
The "good" (in the sense of "competent") criminal stole his car a few hours before the task he was planning to use it in, from Mr Joe Q. Sixpack. There is no magic button on Joe Q. Sixpack's car.
Oh, sorry, did I intrude reality into your fantasy?
Sorry, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that I've seen reports of people importing parts of guns and ending up in the slammer. Otherwise every one who wanted a gun would just order barrels, chambers, clips, [list of appropriate parts], collect them together, and "boom, boom."
Our legislators may be outwitted by clinically retarded oysters, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the "civil" servants who actually write the final versions of the legislation to "implement the will of Parliament" are idiots.
We should be making the stuff we need here in the US.
What makes you think that you've got the right to do that?
Remember those things called patent laws, which the US government is so keen on forcing the rest of the world to obey? Well, according to those laws, if a company owns the rights to produce a particular product, then they have the right to produce that product and prevent anyone else from producing it. And as long as it's not a monopoly product (which anaesthetics generally are not ; there are lots of different ones), they're not even compelled to license the rights to other companies.
They're the laws which your government has been fighting for for decades. This is the bed that your legislators have been making for you for decades ; enjoy laying in it.
A similar enterovirus causes polio, which has been almost eradicated in many parts of the world thanks to vaccination programmes.
The weasel word "almost" is in there, but even so that is, unfortunately, nowhere near correct. There is an attempt at eradicating the virus, but it's being stalled in at least three places (up from two a few months ago) : NW Pakistan (where the local leaders are forbidding the vaccination efforts and trying to kill the vaccinators ; this has been going on for a couple of years) ; Northern Nigeria (where Boko Haram are doing much the same, and for a similar period) ; and most recently there have been dozens of cases reported in refugee camps in and around Syria.
On the upside, India haven't reported any cases for some time.
And watch those equinoxes. Around Sept 21 and April 21, the rising and setting sun is shining directly down every east-west street.
Whose stupid fucking idea was that?
In fact, whose stupid idea was having straight roads anyway? I've recently moved out of a housing area laid out (with straight roads) 80-odd years ago, where we had to put speed bumps at every intersection between roads (to stop the parents taking their children to school from killing other children walking to the same school ; no, seriously) and moved into a housing area with complexly curved roads, laid out so that you can't drive above about 15 miles an hour without crashing (and of course, you have to give way at a passing place when you see an oncoming vehicle, because the road isn't wide enough for cars to pass each other on). No speed bumps in the new area, and no fatal car crashes that I've heard of.
Of course, the fundamental problem is that of someone designing a city, instead of letting it develop over a millennium or so. But I'm sure that problem can be solved, though it might take a millennium or so to achieve.
Armed police response here (a city of about a third-million, including suburbs) is approaching an hour ; go further out into "the sticks" (not that many people do ; that's why they're "the sticks") and it could be several hours because there may simply not be an on-duty firearms-trained officer within a couple of hours travel of a call out.
they shoot first and ask questions later.
Bull. Shit.
Even in the Smoke they take discharging a weapon much more seriously than that. Here a firearms officer can go years without having to draw a Taser, let alone a firearm, in anger.
Well probably the first step would be to create a rosetta stone for them. Encrypt something that will probably be around for for a very long time in multiple languages. I
It's an encoding, not an encryption. Encodings are intended for transforming the form of data, but not necessarily to obscure it's content ; encryptions on the other hand are intended to obscure the content.
For an example, my typing encodes the more-or-less phonetic letter 'S' into a series of binary digits, changing it's representation but not attempting to obscure it's content. The GUI of the computer changes the encoding into a pattern of pixels on screen, but again doesn't obscure the content. And then I feed it into an encryption engine, and who knows what comes out? Clear?
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Hmmm, it would probably help if you'd, like, known something about the case, or done some research. [Shakes head] Kids today. Pathetic.
If you're really paranoid, doing a full backup to a hard drive at weekends and drop that at the "neighbour" on Mondays. Remaining weekdays, do a differential backup overnight (compared to that complete backup), and drop that at the neighbour, picking up the previous differential backup hard drive. Over the weekend, do another full backup (while you're hammering the bar/ wife/ shelves ; anything but computing) and on Monday, exchange that for last week's full backup.
I'm sitting 7000km from home, here for a month, and I've got 3TB of hard drives sitting in my briefcase beside me. Total cost at the moment is about a hundred pints of beer (intercultural unit of currency, inflation adjusted), which is probably worth less than the time it has taken the question-asker to read all the responses.
That sounds to me like a technical challenge. Edible. Money.
To be more precise, non-counterfeitable edible money which has a ... hmmm ... I haven't worked this out yet ... a nutritional value that is greater than or equal to the nutrition that could be brought with that much money. Otherwise, you'd end up with a loop one way or the other so that you could use money to buy food, then sell the food for more money. Or vice versae. The nutritional and counterfeiting aspects are technical, but setting (and keeping) the nutrition-to-money conversion rate is a fiscal problem. I don't know if that last is soluble.
I don't think I've ever heard November the Fifth called "Guy Fawkes Night" or "Fireworks Night" more than a couple of times in one day, but "Bonfire Night" all the time, day-in, day-out for weeks at a stretch.
Where in Britain were you living when you hear it called that? Ulster?
Would that explain why, in my several months assignment to Korea, I never met one (not ONE) flash memory device which wasn't full to the brim of auto-run viruses and other shit.
I was glad I had my Linux laptop with me, to sheep dip the flash drives rather than letting ANY drive that had touched a Korean machine touch my work's machine.
Have things changed since 2010, when I was last there and my GSM phone didn't work at all?
When I had about 3 of these arrive through my letterbox within a few months a couple of years ago, I recall trying the obvious experiment and IIRC finding that 2 of my cards (and readers) were interchangeable, but the third was mutually incompatible with the rest.
I don't recall which cards they were. I don't think that I've used ANY of them since.
Leaving aside the quibbles about the date of the explosion compared to the date of the light reaching the Earth, this still isn't true. There was likely a supernova in the disc of the galaxy (whose light reached Earth) in the 1870s or 1880s. But since it was on the far side of a dense gas/ dust cloud, it wasn't visible. It's only in the last few years that IR telescopes and radio telescopes have managed to detect the expanding debris cloud, and monitor it's increasing size, to determine the approximate date of the explosion.
No. Because the tidal bulge of water on the Earth's surface leads (mental check ... yes, leads) the sub-lunar point by a substantial degree as the bulge is dragged to the east by the rotation of the Earth relative to the Moon and the Sun (that's why both Moon and Sun rise in the east, unlike on Mars where one moon rises in the east and one (the faster-orbiting one) rises in the west.
The degree of lead varies with roughness of the seabed and coast profile and lots of other things, but it's why high tide isn't at exactly the same time all along a line of longitude. (Not that the Moon's orbit is precisely equatorial to the Earth's either, which would make astronomy relatively boring.)
Anything using domestic internet is not going to be adequate. FTFQ :
If he'd been able to get a better rate, then he'd have said that better rate. 3-4mb is your parameter for speed and 1TB for quantity.
You might get some mileage from doing incremental instead of complete backup. Which isn't really going to help when the firemen finish hosing down the burned-out remains.
We're at sea, with a worldwide remit (plans in the pipeline for the vessel range from South Africa to E. Greenland). For 4MB down, 1MB up , we're billed a couple of thousand USD a day. Don't know what the hardware cost..
Not necessarily. If he's got a degree in comparative theology, or a PhD in the herminutics of quantum disassociativism, then the university could easily defend themselves that they'd improved his earning potential in his field by protecting him from contact with reality.
Pressure relief valves are not exactly a new (or bulky, or low-reliability) technology.
Good points. I've used systems with bellow chambers to provide pressure equalisation too.
Note that most commercial airliners are pressurised to an approximate equivalent of 8-10 kft altitude. I wonder if that's why the warranty limits are at that level, as you imply.
Which doesn't say much for his life expectancy, But as things stand, the US "Justice" system isn't going to be getting their hands on him.
But for the first two centuries of that, no one anywhere had a coherent idea of what the progress of pathogen-borne diseases was, and it took about another 3/4 (maybe 2/3) of a century after the development of germ theory (and it's later extension to recognising very small infections agents called viri) for someone to seriously propose the eradication of an entire natural virus in the wild. Now we're teetering on the edge of success against a second virus (polio ; you probably have relatives who were injured by it), but a combination of religion and warfare are trying to bring it back from the brink of eradication.
Talk about cooperation against a common enemy : War lending a helping hand to save Plague, under the helpful oversight of Religion. Those anthropomorphised incarnations of psychological terrors must be feeling really threatened by the progress of humans and their sciences.
Oh, sorry, did I intrude reality into your fantasy?
Sorry, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that I've seen reports of people importing parts of guns and ending up in the slammer. Otherwise every one who wanted a gun would just order barrels, chambers, clips, [list of appropriate parts], collect them together, and "boom, boom."
Our legislators may be outwitted by clinically retarded oysters, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the "civil" servants who actually write the final versions of the legislation to "implement the will of Parliament" are idiots.
What makes you think that you've got the right to do that?
Remember those things called patent laws, which the US government is so keen on forcing the rest of the world to obey? Well, according to those laws, if a company owns the rights to produce a particular product, then they have the right to produce that product and prevent anyone else from producing it. And as long as it's not a monopoly product (which anaesthetics generally are not ; there are lots of different ones), they're not even compelled to license the rights to other companies.
They're the laws which your government has been fighting for for decades. This is the bed that your legislators have been making for you for decades ; enjoy laying in it.
The weasel word "almost" is in there, but even so that is, unfortunately, nowhere near correct. There is an attempt at eradicating the virus, but it's being stalled in at least three places (up from two a few months ago) : NW Pakistan (where the local leaders are forbidding the vaccination efforts and trying to kill the vaccinators ; this has been going on for a couple of years) ; Northern Nigeria (where Boko Haram are doing much the same, and for a similar period) ; and most recently there have been dozens of cases reported in refugee camps in and around Syria.
On the upside, India haven't reported any cases for some time.
Whose stupid fucking idea was that?
In fact, whose stupid idea was having straight roads anyway? I've recently moved out of a housing area laid out (with straight roads) 80-odd years ago, where we had to put speed bumps at every intersection between roads (to stop the parents taking their children to school from killing other children walking to the same school ; no, seriously) and moved into a housing area with complexly curved roads, laid out so that you can't drive above about 15 miles an hour without crashing (and of course, you have to give way at a passing place when you see an oncoming vehicle, because the road isn't wide enough for cars to pass each other on). No speed bumps in the new area, and no fatal car crashes that I've heard of.
Of course, the fundamental problem is that of someone designing a city, instead of letting it develop over a millennium or so. But I'm sure that problem can be solved, though it might take a millennium or so to achieve.
Bull. Shit.
Even in the Smoke they take discharging a weapon much more seriously than that. Here a firearms officer can go years without having to draw a Taser, let alone a firearm, in anger.
How would having that on my resume help me to get work oil wells?
I take it that's not the Geordie-land Newcastle then? Wey-aye?
It's an encoding, not an encryption. Encodings are intended for transforming the form of data, but not necessarily to obscure it's content ; encryptions on the other hand are intended to obscure the content.
For an example, my typing encodes the more-or-less phonetic letter 'S' into a series of binary digits, changing it's representation but not attempting to obscure it's content. The GUI of the computer changes the encoding into a pattern of pixels on screen, but again doesn't obscure the content. And then I feed it into an encryption engine, and who knows what comes out? Clear?