Good luck running any modern CAD system without hardware accelerated 3D. X terminals are useless for much of 3D CAD work. The services available on X screens don't offer even the most basic primitives needed to efficiently draw 3D content. To draw quite rudimentary 3D stuff you at least need 2D triangles with interpolated color (gradients). You'd think XRender would offer that, but sadly it doesn't. Never mind Z buffering, texture mapping on triangles, etc.
Part way through his project to reproduce promising studies, Begley met for breakfast at a cancer conference with the lead scientist of one of the problematic studies. "We went through the paper line by line, figure by figure," said Begley. "I explained that we re-did their experiment 50 times and never got their result. He said they'd done it six times and got this result once, but put it in the paper because it made the best story. It's very disillusioning."
That's exactly what drove Feynman up the wall, what made him speak so loudly against pseudoscience. Sigh.
Not precisely true. drive platters (even overwritten with zeros) can be forensically analyzed after the fact by examining the off-center track data...but that would require physical dis-assembly of the drives which they are clearly not doing here.
That was true maybe up to 15 years ago, and that's a stretch. There's no such forensic analysis. These days there is no space left between tracks. This means that magnetic domains from one track directly touch domains from another track. If you overwrite, there's nothing left. If there was anything left, it'd be a costly design omission: any unused magnetic domains are a waste, they should be used to store data! They engineered this as far as it goes.
To add some weight to it: there's a company that sells "great" courses on audio CDs. Some of them are crap, some are decent, but the thing is: a 12 CD course (12+ hours of talking!) on writing that I have recently borrowed fits in a pamphlet with about 1/3 of the text of a single Chronicles of Narnia book. You can read 12h worth of audio course in an afternoon.
It wasn't even effective promotion. That lady was less useful in a PR role than an 8 year old PFY would be. At least you'd excuse the kids' snafus due to the age. With that lady there's no excuse at all. None.
I agree. Here's how anyone sane would react to that video, if they watched it in the entirety: they'd get sick to their stomach, and would loudly exlaim "yeah, right, it'll get on the front page maybe if we get winter coat orders from hell". That the video got posted means someone was asleep at the fucking helm. That video just screams obnoxious uselessness right into your face. Calling that posting a ripoff is giving it too much credit. How much more obvious does it have to be before someone wakes the fuck up?!
As an editor (I presume you're one), it's your fine job to make sure that "gems" like the useless buzzword machine woman from Plantronics doesn't get elevated to front page material. There's no ifs and no buts. Make sure there's content there to begin with. The Plantronics vid was completely devoid of any technical content. It contained plenty of stuff for sociologists or psychologists, perhaps, but that's not the goal here, isn't it now.
A bootable image is just an OS X install disc. If you lost yours, you can get one off eBay (or copy it from someone). As soon as the installer starts, you have an option of restoring a time machine backup. It was quite easy last time I tried it (1 year ago or so).
There's one definite benefit of marriage: after you've had enough kids (it can be 0, of course), you can get sterilized and then is where real fun begins. There are lucky people who don't get any side effects from contraceptive pills, and who don't mind at all to stop and get dressed up. For the most of us, though, taking contraceptive hormones in a pill, patch or IUD and/or having to stop in the middle of things to get prepped really spoils some of the fun. Of course if you plan on never having any kids no matter who you end up with, then you can get sterilized prior to getting married (FTW as some would say).
Apple stopped supporting and shipping Java since what, Leopard (10.5)
That's patently incorrect. Java is alive and well on OS X, and is still supported on Lion, Snow Leopard, and IIRC there was a Java update recently even for Leopard.
"sending your daughter expectant mother mailers" -- how is that bad? Isn't it a successful use of technology? I'd love to get targeted marketing instead of getting all the usual irrelevant junk that seems nothing more but a waste of resources. Last year I've got about 40lbs of paper junk mail:(
Tread carefully there, because the corporation often has a fiduciary duty to it shareholders, too. It's a fine line between being charged of negligence in disclosure due to insufficiency of the same, vs. being sued for negligence in disclosure due to possible customer backlash and financial loss.
How 'erased' is erased data (when you write 0's to the drive), the answer is not perfectly.
If you only access the hard drive using published ATA protocols, it is a perfect erasure. You can't recover any of the original data, period. If you access the drive using manufacturer-specific protocols, you may be able to read the contents of reallocated sectors, and those may, by chance, happen to contain useful data. That's it, though. If you were to open up the drive and access the platters using, say, magnetic force microscope, you'd not have access to any other data apart from drive's housekeeping and firmware (yeah, most HDs store the firmware on the platter, and the bootloader reads it from the platter). Any other claims are ridiculous myths and stem from ignorance of modern hard drive technology.
And I'm sure everyone on this forums knows that the only way to truly wipe a HD requires a hammer.
That's quite silly if you're talking about modern mechanical hard drives. Apart from reallocated bad sectors, if you overwrite a hard drive with all-zeroes, the data is irreversibly gone. The only remaining fragments are sectors that got reallocated; those are likely not to be deleted even if you initialize the hard drive. Of course those fragments may, by chance, happen to have a credit card number in them, say if they were a part of a swap file at some point in time.
I push Firefox ESR on all desktops at work, using lovely Ninite, but I've been having a debate with myself as to switching to Chrome. The latter has a built-in PDF viewer that seems to be more responsive on lower-end machines (P4, Atom) than Acrobat viewer.
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No one will care about those dozens of channels I bet. That's the whole deal: people don't want all those crappy channels.
If it only were a shiny "program" that would come next. It's often shiny only because it's a polished turd :(
The shopping channels pay for themselves. I agree about the others.
Good luck running any modern CAD system without hardware accelerated 3D. X terminals are useless for much of 3D CAD work. The services available on X screens don't offer even the most basic primitives needed to efficiently draw 3D content. To draw quite rudimentary 3D stuff you at least need 2D triangles with interpolated color (gradients). You'd think XRender would offer that, but sadly it doesn't. Never mind Z buffering, texture mapping on triangles, etc.
They don't have to be, but they usually are. Go figure.
Yeah -- just look at this little gem:
Part way through his project to reproduce promising studies, Begley met for breakfast at a cancer conference with the lead scientist of one of the problematic studies.
"We went through the paper line by line, figure by figure," said Begley. "I explained that we re-did their experiment 50 times and never got their result. He said they'd done it six times and got this result once, but put it in the paper because it made the best story. It's very disillusioning."
That's exactly what drove Feynman up the wall, what made him speak so loudly against pseudoscience. Sigh.
They have a recovery partition, so unless you wiped that you should be OK.
Not precisely true. drive platters (even overwritten with zeros) can be forensically analyzed after the fact by examining the off-center track data...but that would require physical dis-assembly of the drives which they are clearly not doing here.
That was true maybe up to 15 years ago, and that's a stretch. There's no such forensic analysis. These days there is no space left between tracks. This means that magnetic domains from one track directly touch domains from another track. If you overwrite, there's nothing left. If there was anything left, it'd be a costly design omission: any unused magnetic domains are a waste, they should be used to store data! They engineered this as far as it goes.
Really, online videos are a step backwards in most cases. Most of the stuff on youtube doesn't really deserve a video.
There's a name for it: secondary illiteracy.
To add some weight to it: there's a company that sells "great" courses on audio CDs. Some of them are crap, some are decent, but the thing is: a 12 CD course (12+ hours of talking!) on writing that I have recently borrowed fits in a pamphlet with about 1/3 of the text of a single Chronicles of Narnia book. You can read 12h worth of audio course in an afternoon.
It wasn't even effective promotion. That lady was less useful in a PR role than an 8 year old PFY would be. At least you'd excuse the kids' snafus due to the age. With that lady there's no excuse at all. None.
I agree. Here's how anyone sane would react to that video, if they watched it in the entirety: they'd get sick to their stomach, and would loudly exlaim "yeah, right, it'll get on the front page maybe if we get winter coat orders from hell". That the video got posted means someone was asleep at the fucking helm. That video just screams obnoxious uselessness right into your face. Calling that posting a ripoff is giving it too much credit. How much more obvious does it have to be before someone wakes the fuck up?!
As an editor (I presume you're one), it's your fine job to make sure that "gems" like the useless buzzword machine woman from Plantronics doesn't get elevated to front page material. There's no ifs and no buts. Make sure there's content there to begin with. The Plantronics vid was completely devoid of any technical content. It contained plenty of stuff for sociologists or psychologists, perhaps, but that's not the goal here, isn't it now.
A bootable image is just an OS X install disc. If you lost yours, you can get one off eBay (or copy it from someone). As soon as the installer starts, you have an option of restoring a time machine backup. It was quite easy last time I tried it (1 year ago or so).
Huh? Every Swiss man has a gun and knows to use it. If it's not security then I don't know what is. Like, duh.
There's one definite benefit of marriage: after you've had enough kids (it can be 0, of course), you can get sterilized and then is where real fun begins. There are lucky people who don't get any side effects from contraceptive pills, and who don't mind at all to stop and get dressed up. For the most of us, though, taking contraceptive hormones in a pill, patch or IUD and/or having to stop in the middle of things to get prepped really spoils some of the fun. Of course if you plan on never having any kids no matter who you end up with, then you can get sterilized prior to getting married (FTW as some would say).
Apple stopped supporting and shipping Java since what, Leopard (10.5)
That's patently incorrect. Java is alive and well on OS X, and is still supported on Lion, Snow Leopard, and IIRC there was a Java update recently even for Leopard.
"sending your daughter expectant mother mailers" -- how is that bad? Isn't it a successful use of technology? I'd love to get targeted marketing instead of getting all the usual irrelevant junk that seems nothing more but a waste of resources. Last year I've got about 40lbs of paper junk mail :(
Tread carefully there, because the corporation often has a fiduciary duty to it shareholders, too. It's a fine line between being charged of negligence in disclosure due to insufficiency of the same, vs. being sued for negligence in disclosure due to possible customer backlash and financial loss.
It may not be a risk, but the number shouldn't be there, per PCI standards. It's an interesting find.
How 'erased' is erased data (when you write 0's to the drive), the answer is not perfectly.
If you only access the hard drive using published ATA protocols, it is a perfect erasure. You can't recover any of the original data, period. If you access the drive using manufacturer-specific protocols, you may be able to read the contents of reallocated sectors, and those may, by chance, happen to contain useful data. That's it, though. If you were to open up the drive and access the platters using, say, magnetic force microscope, you'd not have access to any other data apart from drive's housekeeping and firmware (yeah, most HDs store the firmware on the platter, and the bootloader reads it from the platter). Any other claims are ridiculous myths and stem from ignorance of modern hard drive technology.
And I'm sure everyone on this forums knows that the only way to truly wipe a HD requires a hammer.
That's quite silly if you're talking about modern mechanical hard drives. Apart from reallocated bad sectors, if you overwrite a hard drive with all-zeroes, the data is irreversibly gone. The only remaining fragments are sectors that got reallocated; those are likely not to be deleted even if you initialize the hard drive. Of course those fragments may, by chance, happen to have a credit card number in them, say if they were a part of a swap file at some point in time.
Good to know. Thanks!
They're there in their room. Sorry, couldn't help myself :)
I push Firefox ESR on all desktops at work, using lovely Ninite, but I've been having a debate with myself as to switching to Chrome. The latter has a built-in PDF viewer that seems to be more responsive on lower-end machines (P4, Atom) than Acrobat viewer.