Hardware: Recovered Data From a Corrupt DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence
Why did my mind instantly jump to the conclusion that some data recovery tech worker did someone a favor, got sued by the MPAA, and got a 24-year sentence...
They do show how the data points are collected, how they are relevant, and even has some of those funny number things i couldn't recall myself:
You could perhaps take comfort in the knowledge that these reversals happen infrequently--on average every 250,000 years--but maybe not when you consider that it's been over 700,000 years since the last reversal, and the next one may be currently underway.
72 million years worth of data points back from now.
The rate of reversals in the Earth's magnetic field has varied widely over time. 72 million years ago (Ma), the field reversed 5 times in a million years. In a 4-million-year period centered on 54 Ma, there were 10 reversals; at around 42 Ma, 17 reversals took place in the span of 3 million years. In a period of 3 million years centering on 24 Ma, 13 reversals occurred. No less than 51 reversals occurred in a 12-million-year period, centering on 15 million years ago. These eras of frequent reversals have been counterbalanced by a few "superchrons" -- long periods when no reversals took place, as described below.[5]
It had generally been assumed that the frequency of geomagnetic reversals is random, and it was shown in 2006 that the known reversals conform to a Lévy distribution.
Hopefully those will be interesting, and at least point you in the right direction.
Anyway I think it will just be another year 2000 fiasco, lots of worries and then nothing happens.
Sure it may fuck up all satellites and some communication but so what? It's not the end of the world.
Actually we have data points going back millions of years. They show flips of the magnetic field happening more frequently, and the current state we are in (with north at the north pole) has been this way longer than most of the other flips lasted.
And no, it won't end the world at all. The world has been through millions of these flips and lasted just fine. It's ironic how a lot of people confuse 'the end of the world' and 'the end of us'
But as a further point, it's not believed a pole reversal would just kill all humans. When a flip happens, there are many poles, IE there could be 8 or 10 of each a north and south pole. Each pole should roughly have a magnetic strength that totals our current one, thus each 'pole' is weaker. Only people living under these roaming spots need worry, and even then its only expected to give another 10000 cases of cancer a year (give or take an order of magnitude, going from poor memory here)
Defiantly sucks, but not the end of anything. Sadly, the same is true for a lot of things on the articles list. Only life is screwed (maybe), but the planet will be fine.
I'm so glad. This is clearly a step that will relieve many children from suffering. I think we should stop talking about child abuse now and move on to the next big problem. Let's now censor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism and thus end and finally win the war on terror. It's about time because I can't stand hearing the phrase anymore.
I'm glad it's not just me.
Each and every time, at least once a day, I'll read through part of some perfectly reasonable article summary, right till it gets to the words '..to fight the war on terror' and instantly skip that article and the rest of the summary.
As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of L.A. for at least 48 hours.
* Dissy takes off the lawyer hat * Dissy puts on his robe and wizards hat
What's that got to do with anything? I was under the impression that RE5 was under attack because you were firing shotgun blasts into herds of zombies who happened to look a lot like black people.
I guess that means those same people complaining about that pretty much lost their right to complain, after not standing up for racism against white people in resident evil 1-3, and the racism against whites and Hispanics in #4.
If they are OK with racism against those groups, they have no moral ground to complain about the exact same things towards their particular group.
Personally, I'm having a very hard time seeing what their complaint is. If it is for what you say, it does not make sense. Even if it isn't, no other aspects of it makes sense either.
... thanks in large part to the controversy surrounding the Resident Evil 5 launch trailer.
So not having heard of any racist issues with this new game, nor seen its trailer yet, i simply highlighted "Resident Evil 5 launch trailer" and hit 'google', which the first link back appears to be said trailer at http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41037.html
I see absolutely nothing controversial nor racist there.
Even the article doesn't help.
The trailer sparked angry reactions from black activist groups and saw legions of gamers rush to defend the franchise's reputation
But why? Is this seriously a problem in todays world? Am I missing something?
I realize the only point of activist groups such as these are to promote racism to keep them selfs in a job, but really now...
I dont get viruses because I'm not a wintard who opens any FREEREGISTRYSCANNER add they see. I've been running windows xp without firewalls/AV for like four years now. Every 6 months or so I scan for viruses, rootkits, trojans, and adware, and i've yet to come up with anything.
Well of course if you have a rootkit, scanning for rootkits will show clean. Thats how they work.
A rootkit modifies the kernel so that it intercepts all API calls, including the read() functions your scanner is using, and the rootkit feeds back false info such as directory listings omitting the rootkits files, and if one tries to open one of its files by name, the open() call now controlled by the rootkit returns a no such file error.
You no doubt have a home router that does a form of NAT, which acts as a firewall for all intents and purposes for incoming connections, so your statement about not running a firewall is false. At least I hope so, else you have been rooted 10 minutes after connecting your computer to the internet. Sadly, your description fits the profile of someone who is infected and doesn't even know it because it has been that way since day one it went online.
And to your solution I have another, if the kid really feels that way, there is an easy way: suicide. If they felt that it was best not to have existed they can kill themselves. But honestly, I don't see any sky-high suicide rates for mentally impaired people, dying people or people with health conditions.
While possibly true, two details remain.
Abortion is legal, where suicide is illegal.
And once a person tries to kill themselves, they are locked down so they can't use their hands nor move. Most people don't consider that an improvement to their life style.
It amazes me that this employee chose illegal means of getting an archiving program instead of using a FOSS solution such as 7-zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/).
I know some companies have protocols for handling FOSS software, but this should have never have happened if the employee had just turned to his company's legal department for obtaining software licenses.
From the files I've seen on this disc, the krack wasn't the type to register winrar, it was the type to remove/recover the password on a rar archive.
Last I checked, 7zip would not read rar files, let alone extract the password of the rar file for you, nor do I know of any free open source program to extract/remove the password on a rar file (Though I must admit I haven't looked for one.)
Even if there is another DVD different from mine with the actual 'register or remove the nag screen of winrar' type of krack, I still don't think OSS would help much here. The OSS rar tools are very limited in what they can do with rar files (different archive formats? maybe extensions? I know that happened with.zip) Plus the linux unrar tool I use is still not free software really, just free to use for end users. This means either ASUS would still not be allowed to distribute it by license, or they must pay for the license to do so just like with winrar, so would have gone the same route.
With so many people talking about this krack as if it was the type to register the winrar program itself, I am seriously wondering if there are multiple versions of this recovery DVD out there, and my copy is different... Or are people just assuming as they go? Am I missing something?
Yes, that radio signal being broadcast over your head right now...
Just a nitpick, but, the radio signal being broadcast over, under, to the sides of, and straight through your head right now... photons that pass through your body 24/7. That is what they are saying is illegal to copy down and translate.
Laughable.
I only hope the copyright laws get fixed before the first commercial death-ray-who-the-victim-has-to-pay-you-after-they-are-dead gets invented.
If you want to install Windows on a Mac, you have to ask Microsoft if you can, and they said Yes. If you want to install MacOS on some other PC, you have to ask Apple if you can, and they say No.
And sorry to reply to my own post, but i suck and its late for me...
If i was to take a guess at their answers there, it would probably be that micosoft makes most of their money off windows and office, right? so one more sold copy of windows retail is worth it in their book. Apple however gets more profit on their hardware than their OS, so to just sell the OS is to not make as much money if that didnt happen, and someone bought their hardware with OS instead. Im guessing they arnt taking into account those that wouldnt buy the hardware, and the profit from the OS is better than zero and money going to microsoft. but what do i know:}
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Hardware: Recovered Data From a Corrupt DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence
Why did my mind instantly jump to the conclusion that some data recovery tech worker did someone a favor, got sued by the MPAA, and got a 24-year sentence...
Sorry for the double reply.
If you can find this show, it is a really interesting watch
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/magnetic/reversals.html
They do show how the data points are collected, how they are relevant, and even has some of those funny number things i couldn't recall myself:
You could perhaps take comfort in the knowledge that these reversals happen infrequently--on average every 250,000 years--but maybe not when you consider that it's been over 700,000 years since the last reversal, and the next one may be currently underway.
Also pretty graphs showing the length of periods between reversals, and some more of those funny numbers, at our best friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
and more buried in a longer article if you wanna pick through it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_field
72 million years worth of data points back from now.
The rate of reversals in the Earth's magnetic field has varied widely over time. 72 million years ago (Ma), the field reversed 5 times in a million years. In a 4-million-year period centered on 54 Ma, there were 10 reversals; at around 42 Ma, 17 reversals took place in the span of 3 million years. In a period of 3 million years centering on 24 Ma, 13 reversals occurred. No less than 51 reversals occurred in a 12-million-year period, centering on 15 million years ago. These eras of frequent reversals have been counterbalanced by a few "superchrons" -- long periods when no reversals took place, as described below.[5]
It had generally been assumed that the frequency of geomagnetic reversals is random, and it was shown in 2006 that the known reversals conform to a Lévy distribution.
Hopefully those will be interesting, and at least point you in the right direction.
Do you happen to know which data points we have?
Anyway I think it will just be another year 2000 fiasco, lots of worries and then nothing happens.
Sure it may fuck up all satellites and some communication but so what? It's not the end of the world.
Actually we have data points going back millions of years. They show flips of the magnetic field happening more frequently, and the current state we are in (with north at the north pole) has been this way longer than most of the other flips lasted.
And no, it won't end the world at all. The world has been through millions of these flips and lasted just fine.
It's ironic how a lot of people confuse 'the end of the world' and 'the end of us'
But as a further point, it's not believed a pole reversal would just kill all humans.
When a flip happens, there are many poles, IE there could be 8 or 10 of each a north and south pole.
Each pole should roughly have a magnetic strength that totals our current one, thus each 'pole' is weaker.
Only people living under these roaming spots need worry, and even then its only expected to give another 10000 cases of cancer a year (give or take an order of magnitude, going from poor memory here)
Defiantly sucks, but not the end of anything.
Sadly, the same is true for a lot of things on the articles list. Only life is screwed (maybe), but the planet will be fine.
I'm so glad. This is clearly a step that will relieve many children from suffering. I think we should stop talking about child abuse now and move on to the next big problem. Let's now censor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism and thus end and finally win the war on terror. It's about time because I can't stand hearing the phrase anymore.
I'm glad it's not just me.
Each and every time, at least once a day, I'll read through part of some perfectly reasonable article summary, right till it gets to the words '..to fight the war on terror' and instantly skip that article and the rest of the summary.
I've missed out on many jokes :{
* Dissy puts on the lawyers hat
As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of L.A. for at least 48 hours.
* Dissy takes off the lawyer hat
* Dissy puts on his robe and wizards hat
Er wait...
What's that got to do with anything? I was under the impression that RE5 was under attack because you were firing shotgun blasts into herds of zombies who happened to look a lot like black people.
I guess that means those same people complaining about that pretty much lost their right to complain, after not standing up for racism against white people in resident evil 1-3, and the racism against whites and Hispanics in #4.
If they are OK with racism against those groups, they have no moral ground to complain about the exact same things towards their particular group.
Personally, I'm having a very hard time seeing what their complaint is.
If it is for what you say, it does not make sense. Even if it isn't, no other aspects of it makes sense either.
I have to stop and ask a big WTF here.
WTF?
... thanks in large part to the controversy surrounding the Resident Evil 5 launch trailer.
So not having heard of any racist issues with this new game, nor seen its trailer yet, i simply highlighted "Resident Evil 5 launch trailer" and hit 'google', which the first link back appears to be said trailer at http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41037.html
I see absolutely nothing controversial nor racist there.
Even the article doesn't help.
The trailer sparked angry reactions from black activist groups and saw legions of gamers rush to defend the franchise's reputation
But why?
Is this seriously a problem in todays world? Am I missing something?
I realize the only point of activist groups such as these are to promote racism to keep them selfs in a job, but really now...
According to Oscar Mayer's promotional periodic table of elements, the atomic weight of bolonium is "delicious" or also accepted is "snacktacular".
According to Oscar Mayer's promotional periodic table of elements, the atomic weight of bolonium is "delicious" or "snacktacular".
I dont get viruses because I'm not a wintard who opens any FREEREGISTRYSCANNER add they see.
I've been running windows xp without firewalls/AV for like four years now. Every 6 months or so I scan for viruses, rootkits, trojans, and adware, and i've yet to come up with anything.
Well of course if you have a rootkit, scanning for rootkits will show clean. Thats how they work.
A rootkit modifies the kernel so that it intercepts all API calls, including the read() functions your scanner is using, and the rootkit feeds back false info such as directory listings omitting the rootkits files, and if one tries to open one of its files by name, the open() call now controlled by the rootkit returns a no such file error.
You no doubt have a home router that does a form of NAT, which acts as a firewall for all intents and purposes for incoming connections, so your statement about not running a firewall is false.
At least I hope so, else you have been rooted 10 minutes after connecting your computer to the internet. Sadly, your description fits the profile of someone who is infected and doesn't even know it because it has been that way since day one it went online.
What next, deciding a childs life isn't going to be worth it because they aren't as sexy as Hugh Jackman or hung like Ron Jeremy?
I sure know that's why *I* killed myself!
And to your solution I have another, if the kid really feels that way, there is an easy way: suicide. If they felt that it was best not to have existed they can kill themselves. But honestly, I don't see any sky-high suicide rates for mentally impaired people, dying people or people with health conditions.
While possibly true, two details remain.
Abortion is legal, where suicide is illegal.
And once a person tries to kill themselves, they are locked down so they can't use their hands nor move. Most people don't consider that an improvement to their life style.
And I for one welcome our new underwater cthulhu overlords...
Difficult to catch fire while surrounded by ice and a CO2 atmosphere.
You just aren't trying hard enough ;P
Amazon's Cloud Data Center to Follow Google to Oregon
Amazon has died of dysentery.
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Hmm...
Which state is this? I want to know so I can avoid it if possible.
All of them I think
But if we can't find anyone willing to take them, they will be destroyed. :(
What state/country are you in?
Come on. If your job is that stressful, fucking find a new one. Or, sack up and learn to cope.
In 99% of cases, if you freak out and do stupid shit, it's cause you're weak, not because the workplace really is that bad.
Hey, us weak sys admins have feelings too ya know :{
Last I checked, 7zip would not read rar files
It most certainly can read RAR files, but I'm not sure if it will extract from password-protected RARs.
I stand corrected! I might have to check that out then, as the linux unrar app tends to tick me off at times too with lack of features.
Thanks
It amazes me that this employee chose illegal means of getting an archiving program instead of using a FOSS solution such as 7-zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/).
I know some companies have protocols for handling FOSS software, but this should have never have happened if the employee had just turned to his company's legal department for obtaining software licenses.
From the files I've seen on this disc, the krack wasn't the type to register winrar, it was the type to remove/recover the password on a rar archive.
Last I checked, 7zip would not read rar files, let alone extract the password of the rar file for you, nor do I know of any free open source program to extract/remove the password on a rar file (Though I must admit I haven't looked for one.)
Even if there is another DVD different from mine with the actual 'register or remove the nag screen of winrar' type of krack, I still don't think OSS would help much here. .zip)
The OSS rar tools are very limited in what they can do with rar files (different archive formats? maybe extensions? I know that happened with
Plus the linux unrar tool I use is still not free software really, just free to use for end users. This means either ASUS would still not be allowed to distribute it by license, or they must pay for the license to do so just like with winrar, so would have gone the same route.
With so many people talking about this krack as if it was the type to register the winrar program itself, I am seriously wondering if there are multiple versions of this recovery DVD out there, and my copy is different...
Or are people just assuming as they go? Am I missing something?
Yes, that radio signal being broadcast over your head right now...
Just a nitpick, but, the radio signal being broadcast over, under, to the sides of, and straight through your head right now... photons that pass through your body 24/7. That is what they are saying is illegal to copy down and translate.
Laughable.
I only hope the copyright laws get fixed before the first commercial death-ray-who-the-victim-has-to-pay-you-after-they-are-dead gets invented.
I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
If even one thousandth of one percent of stars form solar systems similar to this one, that would still be quite significant.
Sure, if.
What if it was 'only' one in 10x10^48?
How bout one in 10x10^80?
I'd say neither of those are too significant when you consider the size of our observable universe.
If you want to install Windows on a Mac, you have to ask Microsoft if you can, and they said Yes.
If you want to install MacOS on some other PC, you have to ask Apple if you can, and they say No.
And sorry to reply to my own post, but i suck and its late for me...
If i was to take a guess at their answers there, it would probably be that micosoft makes most of their money off windows and office, right? so one more sold copy of windows retail is worth it in their book. :}
Apple however gets more profit on their hardware than their OS, so to just sell the OS is to not make as much money if that didnt happen, and someone bought their hardware with OS instead. Im guessing they arnt taking into account those that wouldnt buy the hardware, and the profit from the OS is better than zero and money going to microsoft. but what do i know