Works in unix-like OS too, even easier. In either situation I don't see a need to do two stages of filling up the free space. Just delete what you need deleted, then fill up the free space.
"cat/dev/zero > bigfile" and wait for it to fill up.
If you are paranoid you can use/dev/urandom instead, but it's going to be slower.
The libertarian axiom is based on non-coercion, rejecting the initiation of coercive force to accomplish an end. I think your distinction is artificial and bogus. I don't see how you can possibly call libertarianism "statist".
You are so correct. So many people think that recovery is possible after a single overwrite. The cost and effort to recover data overwritten even once is so astronomical to be not worth it.
I see no benefit to a GPL Java over the existing licenses from Sun at all
Someone can finally make Java not suck though. If a particular fork used less than 100 megs for Hello World for example, I'm sure people would be all over it.
The UI did suck up 100% of the CPU on those old macs though. I remember moving the mouse over that menu bar at the bottom with the zoom effect, and watching the CPU max out.
Once you turned off all the "slick" stuff it wasn't as bad. People often forget that a lot of the eye candy had to be disabled on those old macs before OS X didn't suck.
That's got some truth to it, obviously, but it's not entirely true.
I have an old celeron 333 laptop, I think it originally ran 95 or 98. I have had linux on it for years, including the latest Debian unstable. KDE was a dog on it, Gnome ran ok. Someone told me they needed a laptop, but they wanted Windows, so I tried to install Windows on it, any version.
Win XP installer would lock up after about 20 minutes of copying files. Win 2k did the same thing. I tried Win 95/98 but there was no place to get the drivers for the hardware, I'm not even sure what brand the laptop is anymore, the label on the bottom has worn off, and in those versions of windows, nothing works right on a laptop without a million extra drivers that don't come with the OS.
I know the hardware wasn't bad because linux worked fine on it.
So anyway, yeah if you want to talk sluggishness of the OS/GUI, windows and linux are not too different on older hardware. Linux, however, it a lot more likely to actually get the OS installed, detect the hardware, and give you a usable system.
I suspect MS probably puts less effort into making sure that quirks in old hardware are taken into account, as seen by the crashing installer of XP and 2K on it.
The DC isn't that high voltage. Of course it's going to vary a lot based on real world conditions, but it's going to be around 48 volts. It's not enough to shock you from touching it.
You got it. My wife tried to report someone who charged some stuff to her card to the local police, they told her "the Internet isn't a place, so we can't investigate anything".
It's not a question of lack of reporting, it's a question of no one being willing to listen to the reports and try to do anything about them.
Isn't that show about tabloid rumors and hollywood trivia now, without any relation to the old show that actually asked questions that were about something other than pop culture?
It seems strage to see that show name in relation to anything even near science, considering that science was chucked from the roster of questions asked on it years ago.
If you go to some site that's based off government data, you'll notice there are standardized job titles in IT, they are just all obselete.
There's programmer, and systems analyst, and business analyst and etc, with about 5 grades of each, and the descriptions all pretty much sound the same. Then there's still categories for "system operator" and very obselete things like that.
So it's not so much we don't have standardized job titles, they just are 20 years out of date.
An oft overlooked facet to the debate, thanks for bringing it up. Cultural diversity is a much larger factor in crime than anything else. Countries that are a monoculture (or close to one), in general, have much lower crime rates.
Including zero income. This isn't the EIC we are talking about. Most people on SSI have zero income otherwise.
SSDI is for people that were working and become disabled, regardless of income otherwise. SSI is indeed for disability, read up on it.
SSI is for poor people that find a sympathetic doctor, and a lawyer who will sue on their behalf after they are rejected. SSI lawyers take the case on contingency, because if they win, there's a lump sum payment of arrears from the time of initial application to get SSI. They take cases on contingency to get a slice of this (usually large) lump sum.
This SSI law suit industry is a huge "fleecing of america". These laywers are right up there with the ambulance chasers on the back of the phone book.
Secondly, how can you claim that Asperger's is a "fake mental disorder"? It's not something that just appeared recently. It took about 50 years from the time Hans Asperger identified it to when it became an accepted medical diagnosis
I think you meant to say, it took 50 years for it to become trendy. The "disorder" is severly overdiagnosed. Estimates are that maybe a few percent of the population are afflicted, however, a kuro5hin poll showed that 70% of the readers either claim they have been diagnosed or suspect they have it. The number of diagnosed people is way out of line with the expected number of affected people. This has to do with the vague and subjective diagnostic criteria, and diagnostic methods that are based on what the patient says they experience, and social context, rather than any real data. It's not hard to look up the symptoms, self-diagnose, and then go to a doctor and tell them the things you need to tell them to get it rubber stamped into a real diagnosis. This is true of certain other trendy "mental disorders" too.
One reason people don't get the services they need is that people like you assume that if you can't see the disability, then they probably don't have one
People like you assume that I have no experience with mental disorder, real and imagined. That couldn't be further from the truth. I think if anything is underdiagnosed, it's a rampant case of Munchausen Syndrome affecting over half the people claiming to have all these trendy disorders.
and is that much harder to diagnose when something is not right.
Indeed. We shouldn't be quick to assign blame on some nebulous disorder, rather than taking responsibility for our own actions. Albert Ellis is a wonderful man. It's sad to see that REBT is almost forgotten in the modern psychiatry philosophy of "label, blame, medicate, and oppress into conformity".
Enlightened self interest benefits everyone. Making transactions for mutual benefit without coercion is what sets us apart from animals. That we can accomplish the exchange of goods and ideas without resorting to coercive, violent, tactics.
Altruism isn't a property of humans. It's a property of mindless social animals that live for the collective, like ants and bees.
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I think you are right, no one actually likes Pelosi. However, Bush and his crew are such extreme fuck-ups, people felt they had little choice but to do anything possible to get rid of them.
The only reason it wasn't obvious is because of the lies we were being fed.
I remember thinking "Why the fuck would we attack Iraq all of a sudden?". I still don't understand what made that moment in history the "right one" for invading a soverign nation.
Should probably point out I'm talking about real disability here, like missing important bits and/or senses. Not every idiot on SSI that claims to have some back problem or fake mental disorder like aspergers.
The standard for getting a handicapped plate is pretty low.
Good. You stay in your disarmed society where armed criminals can attack unarmed law-abiding citizens with little worry, and I'll stay here, and we'll all be happy.
The ADA wasn't passed by disabled people, it was passed by able bodied legislators who, on the left, wanted some bullshit feelgood legislation, and on the right, wanted to play up how supportive they were of disabled veterans.
Most disabled people accept thier limitations and aren't imposing about it.
I would. Spending a thousand or two on a gun, some classes, concealed carry permit, ammo, and range fees is well worth it, if it prevents one guy from getting away with another mugging, and, if you are lucky and the situation allows it, takes that leech out of society permanantly.
What's the expression? Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.
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Works in unix-like OS too, even easier. In either situation I don't see a need to do two stages of filling up the free space. Just delete what you need deleted, then fill up the free space.
/dev/zero > bigfile" and wait for it to fill up.
/dev/urandom instead, but it's going to be slower.
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The libertarian axiom is based on non-coercion, rejecting the initiation of coercive force to accomplish an end. I think your distinction is artificial and bogus. I don't see how you can possibly call libertarianism "statist".
You are so correct. So many people think that recovery is possible after a single overwrite. The cost and effort to recover data overwritten even once is so astronomical to be not worth it.
Did you know that men have one more rib than women? All these kids did. It's in their books.
Bullshit. Even christian propaganda science books don't say this. Besides, the myth is that men have one less rib.
I see no benefit to a GPL Java over the existing licenses from Sun at all
Someone can finally make Java not suck though. If a particular fork used less than 100 megs for Hello World for example, I'm sure people would be all over it.
The UI did suck up 100% of the CPU on those old macs though. I remember moving the mouse over that menu bar at the bottom with the zoom effect, and watching the CPU max out.
Once you turned off all the "slick" stuff it wasn't as bad. People often forget that a lot of the eye candy had to be disabled on those old macs before OS X didn't suck.
That's got some truth to it, obviously, but it's not entirely true.
I have an old celeron 333 laptop, I think it originally ran 95 or 98. I have had linux on it for years, including the latest Debian unstable. KDE was a dog on it, Gnome ran ok. Someone told me they needed a laptop, but they wanted Windows, so I tried to install Windows on it, any version.
Win XP installer would lock up after about 20 minutes of copying files. Win 2k did the same thing. I tried Win 95/98 but there was no place to get the drivers for the hardware, I'm not even sure what brand the laptop is anymore, the label on the bottom has worn off, and in those versions of windows, nothing works right on a laptop without a million extra drivers that don't come with the OS.
I know the hardware wasn't bad because linux worked fine on it.
So anyway, yeah if you want to talk sluggishness of the OS/GUI, windows and linux are not too different on older hardware. Linux, however, it a lot more likely to actually get the OS installed, detect the hardware, and give you a usable system.
I suspect MS probably puts less effort into making sure that quirks in old hardware are taken into account, as seen by the crashing installer of XP and 2K on it.
The DC isn't that high voltage. Of course it's going to vary a lot based on real world conditions, but it's going to be around 48 volts. It's not enough to shock you from touching it.
You got it. My wife tried to report someone who charged some stuff to her card to the local police, they told her "the Internet isn't a place, so we can't investigate anything".
It's not a question of lack of reporting, it's a question of no one being willing to listen to the reports and try to do anything about them.
Isn't that show about tabloid rumors and hollywood trivia now, without any relation to the old show that actually asked questions that were about something other than pop culture?
It seems strage to see that show name in relation to anything even near science, considering that science was chucked from the roster of questions asked on it years ago.
If you go to some site that's based off government data, you'll notice there are standardized job titles in IT, they are just all obselete.
There's programmer, and systems analyst, and business analyst and etc, with about 5 grades of each, and the descriptions all pretty much sound the same. Then there's still categories for "system operator" and very obselete things like that.
So it's not so much we don't have standardized job titles, they just are 20 years out of date.
I think his post was more tongue in cheek. I.e. he's agreeing with what you said.
An oft overlooked facet to the debate, thanks for bringing it up. Cultural diversity is a much larger factor in crime than anything else. Countries that are a monoculture (or close to one), in general, have much lower crime rates.
, but in the basement we had to go through the air ducting
Ouch, hope you used plenum rated cable.
Uh, that's simply not correct. Analog phone is 2 wire, the audio signal is just superimposed over the DC bias, it's all done on two wires.
First off, SSI is for supplementing low income
Including zero income. This isn't the EIC we are talking about. Most people on SSI have zero income otherwise.
SSDI is for people that were working and become disabled, regardless of income otherwise. SSI is indeed for disability, read up on it.
SSI is for poor people that find a sympathetic doctor, and a lawyer who will sue on their behalf after they are rejected. SSI lawyers take the case on contingency, because if they win, there's a lump sum payment of arrears from the time of initial application to get SSI. They take cases on contingency to get a slice of this (usually large) lump sum.
This SSI law suit industry is a huge "fleecing of america". These laywers are right up there with the ambulance chasers on the back of the phone book.
Secondly, how can you claim that Asperger's is a "fake mental disorder"? It's not something that just appeared recently. It took about 50 years from the time Hans Asperger identified it to when it became an accepted medical diagnosis
I think you meant to say, it took 50 years for it to become trendy. The "disorder" is severly overdiagnosed. Estimates are that maybe a few percent of the population are afflicted, however, a kuro5hin poll showed that 70% of the readers either claim they have been diagnosed or suspect they have it. The number of diagnosed people is way out of line with the expected number of affected people. This has to do with the vague and subjective diagnostic criteria, and diagnostic methods that are based on what the patient says they experience, and social context, rather than any real data. It's not hard to look up the symptoms, self-diagnose, and then go to a doctor and tell them the things you need to tell them to get it rubber stamped into a real diagnosis. This is true of certain other trendy "mental disorders" too.
One reason people don't get the services they need is that people like you assume that if you can't see the disability, then they probably don't have one
People like you assume that I have no experience with mental disorder, real and imagined. That couldn't be further from the truth. I think if anything is underdiagnosed, it's a rampant case of Munchausen Syndrome affecting over half the people claiming to have all these trendy disorders.
and is that much harder to diagnose when something is not right.
Indeed. We shouldn't be quick to assign blame on some nebulous disorder, rather than taking responsibility for our own actions. Albert Ellis is a wonderful man. It's sad to see that REBT is almost forgotten in the modern psychiatry philosophy of "label, blame, medicate, and oppress into conformity".
Enlightened self interest benefits everyone. Making transactions for mutual benefit without coercion is what sets us apart from animals. That we can accomplish the exchange of goods and ideas without resorting to coercive, violent, tactics.
Altruism isn't a property of humans. It's a property of mindless social animals that live for the collective, like ants and bees.
I think you are right, no one actually likes Pelosi. However, Bush and his crew are such extreme fuck-ups, people felt they had little choice but to do anything possible to get rid of them.
The only reason it wasn't obvious is because of the lies we were being fed.
I remember thinking "Why the fuck would we attack Iraq all of a sudden?". I still don't understand what made that moment in history the "right one" for invading a soverign nation.
Should probably point out I'm talking about real disability here, like missing important bits and/or senses. Not every idiot on SSI that claims to have some back problem or fake mental disorder like aspergers.
The standard for getting a handicapped plate is pretty low.
Good. You stay in your disarmed society where armed criminals can attack unarmed law-abiding citizens with little worry, and I'll stay here, and we'll all be happy.
The ADA wasn't passed by disabled people, it was passed by able bodied legislators who, on the left, wanted some bullshit feelgood legislation, and on the right, wanted to play up how supportive they were of disabled veterans.
Most disabled people accept thier limitations and aren't imposing about it.
Just because someone doesn't buy into the tripe of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need", doesn't make them right wing.
Hasn't the guy ever heard of letting lines wrap at the edge of your screen?
It's not like he's using some complex CSS layout, it's almost plain text, but he still manages to screw it up.
I would. Spending a thousand or two on a gun, some classes, concealed carry permit, ammo, and range fees is well worth it, if it prevents one guy from getting away with another mugging, and, if you are lucky and the situation allows it, takes that leech out of society permanantly.
What's the expression? Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.