You have nothing that needs interoperability with your work that can't be handled by Linux.
Does that mean WINE has stopped being terrible at handling games like Path of Exile, Starcraft 2, EVE Online, etc?
What makes you think he plays games? 99.99% of people who don't play any of those games.
Because of reading comprehension. The original post said You have nothing that needs interoperability with your work that can't be handled by Linux and he replied Does that mean WINE has stopped being terrible at handling games.
So he's saying that the lack of games is hindering his work.
Speaking of reading comprehension, I'm having trouble parsing this sentence 99.99% of people who don't play any of those games. People who what? Work? Use Linux? Live in the USA? Are spacemen?
I consider myself to usually be on the bleeding edge of technology, but phone-based boarding passes are right out. I've never had a piece of paper run out of power, but I've had my phone die halfway through the travel day for reasons unknown (turned into a little toaster and burned through its battery - presumably the radio got in a weird state) and have had it stolen while traveling. I keep two boarding passes, typically - one folded in my pocket, and one in my carry-on. If I lose one, I just grab the other one.
I just carry a USB charger battery pack in my travel bag and if my phone battery dies, it's easy to plug it in and charge it up - they charge slowly but are effective. I used to fight over the 2 outlets in the boarding zone during long layovers so I could keep my phone charged (carrying a 1->3 outlet adapter helps!), but now I just use the battery pack - I can get around 1.5 full charges out of the 5000mA charger (and that includes powering my phone during the several hours it takes to recharge fully)
None of which stops them from calling your LEO's office and saying, "Hi, this is your federal government; Joe Palooka, address such and such, is dealing drugs." Or whatever. At which juncture, you are now a POGI. The point is, your secrets... aren't.
Someone below addressed this point - if they make a habit of it, eventually someone will catch on that the government is decrypting supposedly uncrackable ciphers and then their cover is blown.
IMHO, anyone who assumes they are operating in an atmosphere of privacy today is very likely wrong, even in some of the most mundane venues we encounter on a daily basis. I think acting as if one has privacy is imprudent, to say the least. Right now, if you can't stand for something to be known, then you're much better off if you don't talk about it, don't write it down, don't commit it to digital form, and don't perform any on-record acts that relate to it. Also, assume you're on-record. All the time. Unless you can prove otherwise. Which you probably can't do.
Dissent against the government has always been risky - the digital world introduces new risks, but also provides some benefits -- when you want to spread your word, there's no need to own a large printing press in your basement when sitting near a starbucks with a laptop lets you reach far more people with far less risk of being discovered -- if you're careful, it's a lot easier to dispose of your digital data than dispose of a 1000kg printing press when the FBI comes to your door.
Or maybe "the powers that be" want us to believe this ?
That was my thought too - why else would the government come out and say "If you want to send secret messages that we can't read, make sure you use iMessage. We can't read anything you send with iMessage, no siree bob, those messages are safe from us! We are no longer recommending rot13, now iMessage is the best way to send a secret message."
Technology available to intelligence agencies like NSA is not always made available to law enforcement.
Exactly, if the NSA does have the ability to crack encryption thought to be uncrackable by the rest of the world, there's no way they'd let that ability be used for any public law enforcement cases -- they'd keep it closely guarded and would only use it for top-secret intelligence gathering.
and then praying they don't look an aisle over and realize that a modest SSD would blow it out of the water for not much more cash.
Only if they don't need the storage capacity of the spinning hard drive... many laptops don't have the room for both an SSD and a hard drive.
The smallest Seagate SSHD is 500GB and costrs around $99. The cheapest 500GB SSD I can find costs around $350.
So, for those that need the higher capacity, you can't get an SSD for "not much more cash".
So yes, an SSD would have much better performance, but not equivalent capacity at the same price point. For the kinds of things most people use a laptop for (booting windows, loading apps) the SSHD gives close to SSD performance, while still letting them keep their large media files on the hard drive
It's a douche move, but... it's sound business practice. Sell your customers down a river to keep profits up until you can turn up production on the Next Big Thing, and then try to buy them back later with discounts and deals.
Slower speeds aren't just a cost cutting move - cutting the speed reduces noise, power consumption (so you get better battery life on your laptop) and lowers heat production (so you get better reliability for your hard drive).
Did they really need to create a $7800 (not including license fees) RFP review system when there were only 100 applicants? And now the company that was paid to create it is selling it to other agencies.
Indeed. We're a long ways away from having the technical know-how to drill through several kilometers of ice (and lets' face it, we really have no idea how thick the ice "crust" may be), either by robot or even manned mission.
I don't think it's technical know-how so much as the cost to get the drill payload there. Scientists drilled through a kilometer of antarctic ice sheet to explore the lake beneath, so we have the know-how.
You ignored a key part of his argument. Hey said most albums only have a couple song that people want.
No, he made two separate arguments, I was adressing his first point:
"Except CD's are drastically overpriced. Also, you have to deal with purchasing an entire disc for maybe only two songs you actually want to listen to."
"If he'd said "Except CD's are overpriced because you have to deal with...", then you could say it was his main argument, but he clearly said that CD's are overpriced and then in a separate point he said "And you have to buy a whole disk..."
Actually I do. I get multiple spam calls from mainly home security companies. They're all under two entries (I filled the list for 'Spammers' last year so I have a 'Spammers2' list) so it'll pop up as one or the other when they call.
If they are known companies and they don't stop calling, why not sue them?
At least they aren't planning on landing (yet).... If there's no life before we land a spacecraft on the Europa, there will be afterwards.
We should probably become better at sterilizing our spacecraft before we land one on a moon where water is known to exist, and seed its oceans with earth-based life.
Don't forget that every year the coal industry in the US pumps out more radioactive material than has ever been released from US nuclear power plants, even if you include the 3 mile island minor incident.
Authoritative numbers for radiation release of a coal plant are hard to find, but here's what I found:
Coal plants release 330mCi per billion KWh Around 13MCi of radiation was released from TMI (mostly in the form of "harmless" noble gases.
So to figure out how many KwH of coal production that release was equivalent to:
13 x 10e6 Ci / 330 x 10e-3 Ci * 1 x 10e9 KWh = 3.9 x 10e16 Kwh
So the Three Mile Island release was equivalent to 3.9 x 10e16 Kwh / 1.5 x 10e12 KWh = 26,000 years worth of annual coat plant radiation release.
Most of TMI's radiation release was in the form of nobel gases that were said to be relatively harmless, only 13Ci of cancer causing Iodine-131 was released, so if you look only at the Iodine release, then the numbers are much smaller -- TMI's release was about.026 years (9.5 days) worth of coal fired power production.
If you buy a car and it happens to come with a stereo, then the engine explodes and the wheels fall off you tend not to attribute the failure to the AM/FM radio.
Dam failures are due to the failure of the dams, which just happen to have a hydro plant includes as an added bonus. There has never been a failure of a dam built specifically for hydroelectric power, not least because you tend not to build big ones unless there is some other reason for them. The one major case of a hydro plant failure was IIRC in Russia and resulted in a few deaths when a turbine broke and was flung free.
How many large dams are built that don't include electricity generation as a large part of the justification for the dam?
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Do you get multiple spam calls from the same phone number? The only repeat spam calls I get from the same number are political calls - the commercial spammers use made up numbers (or move to different numbers often).
One time I got repeated calls from a politician to join a "town hall meeting", there was no way to opt-out of the calls, so finally after the 3rd one I put him on speaker phone and waited for the question and answer section - they put me live on the call when I asked "Please stop calling me, I'm not in your district and don't know who you are and..." then they cut me off and a staffer took my name and promised not to call anymore. I asked him why the prerecorded blurb in the beginning of the call doesn't let me opt-out of the calls, he said that was a good idea, but I doubt they've implemented it.
Offer $1k for the heads of anybody who runs one of these organizations.;-)
It's gotten to the point where pretty much any unknown caller either gets hung up on immediately, or told to PFO since I can't believe they are who they claim to be.
If I actually have any business interest with you, send it to me in snail mail, because I no longer trust incoming calls -- between the fake tech support, notification I've won a cruise, or someone offering to lower my credit card interest but who has no idea of who I am, the vast majority of calls I receive are clearly fraudulent and coming from another country.
Why would you pick up the phone for an unknown caller if you're just going to hang up on them, even if they tell you who they are?
I just let unknown calls go to voicemail, the only calls I pick up are for a few known callers (my boss, my wife, etc), everyone else goes to VM. You can tell within the first few seconds of the VM whether or not you want to listen to the whole thing. With Google Voice voicemail->text transcription, I don't even need to listen to the message to know that it's someone I don't want to talk to.
It's not an either/or.. BOTH MP3 and CD can be overpriced.
The last time I bought significant numbers of CD's (hundreds) was in the late 1980's, early 90's. Back then a CD cost around $10 - $15. $10 in 1990 dollars is around $20 in today's dollars, so CD's cost about half what they used to.
What is your definition of "overpriced"?
But back then it was easy to buy and sell used CD's in places we used to call "record shops". I don't think many of those places still survive.
I was surprised to find that mainstream titles are still sold on Vinyl -- the vinyl release of The 20/20 Experience (MP3: $10.99, CD : $11.47) costs $26.
Except CD's are drastically overpriced. Also, you have to deal with purchasing an entire disc for maybe only two songs you actually want to listen to. No, don't buy the CD if it isn't what you really want, because then you're supporting the mediocrity of the artists and the overpowered corporations behind them.
Amazon's top 3 in music today:
The 20/20 Experience - MP3: $10.99, CD : 11.47 Delta Machine: MP3: $14.99 CD $16.79 Based on a True Story: MP3: $9.49 CD: $9.99
Considering that the CD costs include shipping (super saver or prime), the CD doesn't seem overpriced considering that you get a physical object that you actually own and can resell.
If you don't have to have the latest albums when they come out, then you can buy used CD's, which typically cost less than the MP3, even with delivery costs included.
Most of the patches I applied to 3.12 didn't require a reboot, and those that did didn't require shutting down the power. Such requirements as reboots are uncivilized.
Does any patch require shutting down the power? The last time I remember a patch that required shutting down the power, it was a wirewrap change on the backplane.
Actually you would be left explaining why the uptime you wrote into the contract wasn't happening.
It's a lot easier to explain "They haven't been able to meet their contractual uptime agreements" when the cloud provider goes down than to explain why an internal system failed despite us having all of these expensive IT professionals on staff twiddling their thumbs while EMC, Cisco, Microsoft, HP, and Brocade all fight over whose fault it is that our SQL/Server HA Cluster fell down and won't get back up again and we're waiting for our offsite tapes to be brought back so we can try restoring from an older backup.
Sometimes sh*t happens, no matter how much you try to make sure it doesn't. Management often asks for 99.999% uptime when they're only willing to pay for 99% uptime.
Yep, once your ISP or cloud provider goes down for a few hours and your chief accountant can't access Extremely Important Documents when he needs them (because they weren't cached on his PC), you'll start thinking about spreading it over several providers with constant replication.
And, you know, may be get a big computer to cache all our documents and put it in your building... Hmm, what to call it? "Local Cloud"? Then may be won't even need replication etc, and we can get a guy to fix it quickly if it breaks. May be we won't even need to renew the contract with our cloud provider!
Not necessarily - my mid-sized company has had several outages of our cloud based finance system and/or internet (having multiple ISP's doesn't help when everyone runs through the same last mile to get to the facility), including a 2 hour outage while auditors were on-site for our annual accounting audit. But that didn't raise any calls to bring it back in-house.
Running it in-house doesn't necessarily make it any more reliable.
I had an accident, due to the severity of the impact I had no recollection, I accidentally allowed my insurance to run out, the other fellow admitted fault. You are an arse hole and a contemptible human being.
You're the guy that is illegally driving without insurance (at least in the USA, insurance is required), and I'm the contemptible one because I don't want you to see the footage from my camera? You're no worse off than if I had no camera at all, so what's the problem?
What if *you* had been at fault, why should my insurance pay for your inability to follow the basic requirements for driving a car on public streets?
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You have nothing that needs interoperability with your work that can't be handled by Linux.
Does that mean WINE has stopped being terrible at handling games like Path of Exile, Starcraft 2, EVE Online, etc?
What makes you think he plays games? 99.99% of people who don't play any of those games.
Because of reading comprehension. The original post said You have nothing that needs interoperability with your work that can't be handled by Linux and he replied Does that mean WINE has stopped being terrible at handling games.
So he's saying that the lack of games is hindering his work.
Speaking of reading comprehension, I'm having trouble parsing this sentence 99.99% of people who don't play any of those games. People who what? Work? Use Linux? Live in the USA? Are spacemen?
I consider myself to usually be on the bleeding edge of technology, but phone-based boarding passes are right out. I've never had a piece of paper run out of power, but I've had my phone die halfway through the travel day for reasons unknown (turned into a little toaster and burned through its battery - presumably the radio got in a weird state) and have had it stolen while traveling. I keep two boarding passes, typically - one folded in my pocket, and one in my carry-on. If I lose one, I just grab the other one.
I just carry a USB charger battery pack in my travel bag and if my phone battery dies, it's easy to plug it in and charge it up - they charge slowly but are effective. I used to fight over the 2 outlets in the boarding zone during long layovers so I could keep my phone charged (carrying a 1->3 outlet adapter helps!), but now I just use the battery pack - I can get around 1.5 full charges out of the 5000mA charger (and that includes powering my phone during the several hours it takes to recharge fully)
None of which stops them from calling your LEO's office and saying, "Hi, this is your federal government; Joe Palooka, address such and such, is dealing drugs." Or whatever. At which juncture, you are now a POGI. The point is, your secrets... aren't.
Someone below addressed this point - if they make a habit of it, eventually someone will catch on that the government is decrypting supposedly uncrackable ciphers and then their cover is blown.
IMHO, anyone who assumes they are operating in an atmosphere of privacy today is very likely wrong, even in some of the most mundane venues we encounter on a daily basis. I think acting as if one has privacy is imprudent, to say the least. Right now, if you can't stand for something to be known, then you're much better off if you don't talk about it, don't write it down, don't commit it to digital form, and don't perform any on-record acts that relate to it. Also, assume you're on-record. All the time. Unless you can prove otherwise. Which you probably can't do.
Dissent against the government has always been risky - the digital world introduces new risks, but also provides some benefits -- when you want to spread your word, there's no need to own a large printing press in your basement when sitting near a starbucks with a laptop lets you reach far more people with far less risk of being discovered -- if you're careful, it's a lot easier to dispose of your digital data than dispose of a 1000kg printing press when the FBI comes to your door.
Or maybe "the powers that be" want us to believe this ?
That was my thought too - why else would the government come out and say "If you want to send secret messages that we can't read, make sure you use iMessage. We can't read anything you send with iMessage, no siree bob, those messages are safe from us! We are no longer recommending rot13, now iMessage is the best way to send a secret message."
Technology available to intelligence agencies like NSA is not always made available to law enforcement.
Exactly, if the NSA does have the ability to crack encryption thought to be uncrackable by the rest of the world, there's no way they'd let that ability be used for any public law enforcement cases -- they'd keep it closely guarded and would only use it for top-secret intelligence gathering.
and then praying they don't look an aisle over and realize that a modest SSD would blow it out of the water for not much more cash.
Only if they don't need the storage capacity of the spinning hard drive... many laptops don't have the room for both an SSD and a hard drive.
The smallest Seagate SSHD is 500GB and costrs around $99. The cheapest 500GB SSD I can find costs around $350.
So, for those that need the higher capacity, you can't get an SSD for "not much more cash".
So yes, an SSD would have much better performance, but not equivalent capacity at the same price point. For the kinds of things most people use a laptop for (booting windows, loading apps) the SSHD gives close to SSD performance, while still letting them keep their large media files on the hard drive
It's a douche move, but... it's sound business practice. Sell your customers down a river to keep profits up until you can turn up production on the Next Big Thing, and then try to buy them back later with discounts and deals.
Slower speeds aren't just a cost cutting move - cutting the speed reduces noise, power consumption (so you get better battery life on your laptop) and lowers heat production (so you get better reliability for your hard drive).
Did they really need to create a $7800 (not including license fees) RFP review system when there were only 100 applicants? And now the company that was paid to create it is selling it to other agencies.
Indeed. We're a long ways away from having the technical know-how to drill through several kilometers of ice (and lets' face it, we really have no idea how thick the ice "crust" may be), either by robot or even manned mission.
I don't think it's technical know-how so much as the cost to get the drill payload there. Scientists drilled through a kilometer of antarctic ice sheet to explore the lake beneath, so we have the know-how.
You ignored a key part of his argument. Hey said most albums only have a couple song that people want.
No, he made two separate arguments, I was adressing his first point:
"Except CD's are drastically overpriced. Also, you have to deal with purchasing an entire disc for maybe only two songs you actually want to listen to."
"If he'd said "Except CD's are overpriced because you have to deal with...", then you could say it was his main argument, but he clearly said that CD's are overpriced and then in a separate point he said "And you have to buy a whole disk..."
Actually I do. I get multiple spam calls from mainly home security companies. They're all under two entries (I filled the list for 'Spammers' last year so I have a 'Spammers2' list) so it'll pop up as one or the other when they call.
If they are known companies and they don't stop calling, why not sue them?
http://www.impactdialing.com/2012/05/how-to-sue-a-telemarketer/
At least they aren't planning on landing (yet).... If there's no life before we land a spacecraft on the Europa, there will be afterwards.
We should probably become better at sterilizing our spacecraft before we land one on a moon where water is known to exist, and seed its oceans with earth-based life.
Don't forget that every year the coal industry in the US pumps out more radioactive material than has ever been released from US nuclear power plants, even if you include the 3 mile island minor incident.
Authoritative numbers for radiation release of a coal plant are hard to find, but here's what I found:
Coal plants release 330mCi per billion KWh Around 13MCi of radiation was released from TMI (mostly in the form of "harmless" noble gases.
So to figure out how many KwH of coal production that release was equivalent to:
13 x 10e6 Ci / 330 x 10e-3 Ci * 1 x 10e9 KWh = 3.9 x 10e16 Kwh
Coal plants generate 1 .5 million GWh or 1.5 x 10e6 * 10e9 = 1.5 x 10e15 Wh or 1.5 x 10e12 KWh
So the Three Mile Island release was equivalent to 3.9 x 10e16 Kwh / 1.5 x 10e12 KWh = 26,000 years worth of annual coat plant radiation release.
Most of TMI's radiation release was in the form of nobel gases that were said to be relatively harmless, only 13Ci of cancer causing Iodine-131 was released, so if you look only at the Iodine release, then the numbers are much smaller -- TMI's release was about .026 years (9.5 days) worth of coal fired power production.
If you buy a car and it happens to come with a stereo, then the engine explodes and the wheels fall off you tend not to attribute the failure to the AM/FM radio.
Dam failures are due to the failure of the dams, which just happen to have a hydro plant includes as an added bonus. There has never been a failure of a dam built specifically for hydroelectric power, not least because you tend not to build big ones unless there is some other reason for them. The one major case of a hydro plant failure was IIRC in Russia and resulted in a few deaths when a turbine broke and was flung free.
How many large dams are built that don't include electricity generation as a large part of the justification for the dam?
If you're not in my contact list, leave a message.
If you are in my contact list already identified as a spammer, don't even bother to leave a message.
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Do you get multiple spam calls from the same phone number? The only repeat spam calls I get from the same number are political calls - the commercial spammers use made up numbers (or move to different numbers often).
One time I got repeated calls from a politician to join a "town hall meeting", there was no way to opt-out of the calls, so finally after the 3rd one I put him on speaker phone and waited for the question and answer section - they put me live on the call when I asked "Please stop calling me, I'm not in your district and don't know who you are and..." then they cut me off and a staffer took my name and promised not to call anymore. I asked him why the prerecorded blurb in the beginning of the call doesn't let me opt-out of the calls, he said that was a good idea, but I doubt they've implemented it.
Offer $1k for the heads of anybody who runs one of these organizations. ;-)
It's gotten to the point where pretty much any unknown caller either gets hung up on immediately, or told to PFO since I can't believe they are who they claim to be.
If I actually have any business interest with you, send it to me in snail mail, because I no longer trust incoming calls -- between the fake tech support, notification I've won a cruise, or someone offering to lower my credit card interest but who has no idea of who I am, the vast majority of calls I receive are clearly fraudulent and coming from another country.
Why would you pick up the phone for an unknown caller if you're just going to hang up on them, even if they tell you who they are?
I just let unknown calls go to voicemail, the only calls I pick up are for a few known callers (my boss, my wife, etc), everyone else goes to VM. You can tell within the first few seconds of the VM whether or not you want to listen to the whole thing. With Google Voice voicemail->text transcription, I don't even need to listen to the message to know that it's someone I don't want to talk to.
It's not an either/or.. BOTH MP3 and CD can be overpriced.
The last time I bought significant numbers of CD's (hundreds) was in the late 1980's, early 90's. Back then a CD cost around $10 - $15. $10 in 1990 dollars is around $20 in today's dollars, so CD's cost about half what they used to.
What is your definition of "overpriced"?
But back then it was easy to buy and sell used CD's in places we used to call "record shops". I don't think many of those places still survive.
I was surprised to find that mainstream titles are still sold on Vinyl -- the vinyl release of The 20/20 Experience (MP3: $10.99, CD : $11.47) costs $26.
Except CD's are drastically overpriced. Also, you have to deal with purchasing an entire disc for maybe only two songs you actually want to listen to. No, don't buy the CD if it isn't what you really want, because then you're supporting the mediocrity of the artists and the overpowered corporations behind them.
Amazon's top 3 in music today:
The 20/20 Experience - MP3: $10.99, CD : 11.47
Delta Machine: MP3: $14.99 CD $16.79
Based on a True Story: MP3: $9.49 CD: $9.99
Considering that the CD costs include shipping (super saver or prime), the CD doesn't seem overpriced considering that you get a physical object that you actually own and can resell.
If you don't have to have the latest albums when they come out, then you can buy used CD's, which typically cost less than the MP3, even with delivery costs included.
What are some other sites similar to Slashdot that I can use today (and maybe longer)?
If you want to read the stories a week before they show up on Slashdot, try Arstechnica.com
Circumference is 2*pi*r, or pi*d, and the platters on a 5.25" drive were around 5.1" in diameter, so it should be:
3600rpm * 60 * 24 * 365.25 * 16 * 5.1* pi / 12 / 5280 = 7.66 million miles
But only on the outside of the disk, if the heads were on the inside, maybe around 1" diameter, then it's:
3600rpm * 60 * 24 * 365.25 * 16 * 1* pi / 12 / 5280 = 1.5 million miles
So the heads have ridden over somewhere between 1.5 to 7.66 million miles of platter travel
Industrial pumps don't have constantly spinning drives to worry about, and can be taken down for regular maintenance.
Pumps have constantly spinning shafts to worry about.
But I've never seen a grease fitting on a hard drive.
Most of the patches I applied to 3.12 didn't require a reboot, and those that did didn't require shutting down the power. Such requirements as reboots are uncivilized.
Does any patch require shutting down the power? The last time I remember a patch that required shutting down the power, it was a wirewrap change on the backplane.
Actually you would be left explaining why the uptime you wrote into the contract wasn't happening.
It's a lot easier to explain "They haven't been able to meet their contractual uptime agreements" when the cloud provider goes down than to explain why an internal system failed despite us having all of these expensive IT professionals on staff twiddling their thumbs while EMC, Cisco, Microsoft, HP, and Brocade all fight over whose fault it is that our SQL/Server HA Cluster fell down and won't get back up again and we're waiting for our offsite tapes to be brought back so we can try restoring from an older backup.
Sometimes sh*t happens, no matter how much you try to make sure it doesn't. Management often asks for 99.999% uptime when they're only willing to pay for 99% uptime.
Yep, once your ISP or cloud provider goes down for a few hours and your chief accountant can't access Extremely Important Documents when he needs them (because they weren't cached on his PC), you'll start thinking about spreading it over several providers with constant replication.
And, you know, may be get a big computer to cache all our documents and put it in your building... Hmm, what to call it? "Local Cloud"? Then may be won't even need replication etc, and we can get a guy to fix it quickly if it breaks. May be we won't even need to renew the contract with our cloud provider!
Not necessarily - my mid-sized company has had several outages of our cloud based finance system and/or internet (having multiple ISP's doesn't help when everyone runs through the same last mile to get to the facility), including a 2 hour outage while auditors were on-site for our annual accounting audit. But that didn't raise any calls to bring it back in-house.
Running it in-house doesn't necessarily make it any more reliable.
Twilight (tm) is now a registered Trademark of the owners of the movie and book series. From now on the rest of us have to use Twighlight
I had an accident, due to the severity of the impact I had no recollection, I accidentally allowed my insurance to run out, the other fellow admitted fault. You are an arse hole and a contemptible human being.
You're the guy that is illegally driving without insurance (at least in the USA, insurance is required), and I'm the contemptible one because I don't want you to see the footage from my camera? You're no worse off than if I had no camera at all, so what's the problem?
What if *you* had been at fault, why should my insurance pay for your inability to follow the basic requirements for driving a car on public streets?