I'm not sure if I feel like laughing or crying. OP from New York here. I pay over $1,500/month in property taxes in an upper middle class suburb of New York City.
I am picturing a glowing screen with a a blinking popup dialog box reading "Are you SURE you want to send this message? [OK] [CANCEL]" with blood dripping down the screen.
> Because my "sprawling" 1280 sq ft. home in the suburbs (where I ride the bus 20 miles each way) costs me $723/month whereas rent would be over $1000/month and a mortgage would be well in excess of $1000/month in the city?
Where is this? Idaho? Here in New York rent or mortgage is certainly over $3,000/mo.
A major reason I avoid Microsoft software is because there there a lot of lock-in- Microsoft software tends to only work well when you are running ALL Microsoft software and gives you headaches when you try to mix Microsoft software with other software.
The GPL3 is causing the same sort of "all or none" lock-in via legal instead of technical means. It is becoming very difficult to mix GPL3 software with commercial software.
Does this really help the adoption of open source software? I don't think so. I think it will create a separate "ecosystem" of GPL3 software that (face it) the 90% of users that just use what is put in front of them will never be exposed to.
I agree with many of your points about changing your mindset from 'storing' your data to keeping it available in the cloud. However,
F) Itunes The only way to back up your installed apps is via iTunes. The only way to get music in and out of the iPod player app is via iTunes. I can't even delete podcasts I've finished listening to without syncing with iTunes.
G) Battery You may not spend 10 hours in a cafe, but I just spent 10 hours on airplanes and in airports.
I'm interested in Science and Technology. I'm fascinated and obsessed by it. But I left the programming field 6 years ago when I started losing projects to outsourcers charge 1/10th what I could charge.
Ridiculous. An AI would carry out the directives programmed into it by... can you guess?... the powers that be. An AI running things would give the established powers a level of control never seen on Earth before.
Do you think the AI will be built and set in charge by "the meek"? blue collar workers? by average citizens?
If you steal code that allows your company to make huge profits by executing trades a microsecond faster than your competition in a field with only a handful of real players, you certainly have taken something away from your company.
How that should ethically compare to other crimes and "business practices" that should be crimes is a different matter. But you cannot argue that Goldman hasn't lost anything.
Yes and no. Deletions are more non-deterministic than with traditional hard drives.
When something is deleted, or even overwritten and scrubbed the old information is still there because the SSD's wear leveling firmware moves the write to a new physical block. This means you can't reliably erase or scrub anything on an SSD. Even if you fill the entire hard drive (DBAN) the SSD may be using the over-provisioning and not erase the old data.
However, after a block is deleted and a TRIM has been issued, the SSD firmware will take it on itself to quietly write all zeros to the block in the background when it has the opportunity (probably when the drive is idle for a fraction of a second). This is because to write on an SSD the device must erase then write the block. Doing this on demand would slow down writes, so the SSD erases TRIMed blocks when it can so on-demand writes can go faster.
So the answer to your question is both (1) You cannot reliably erase data on an SSD and (2) You cannot reliably recover deleted information on an SSD.
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If you think it requires "massive upper body strength" to lift your hand and point, you should really rethink your fitness plan.
The insurance companies won't be using this to prevent illness. They will use it to drop your coverage before they have to pay anything.
Nice try, FBI. I'm not revealing my leet skills to you that easily.
First you make a list of who can crack your uber-encryption, then you round us up.
Source?
I feel compelled to complete this acid trip.
I don't understand how playing music will remove wrinkles from my monitor, devices and network. I am intrigued, please tell me more.
I'm not sure if I feel like laughing or crying. OP from New York here. I pay over $1,500/month in property taxes in an upper middle class suburb of New York City.
I am picturing a glowing screen with a a blinking popup dialog box reading "Are you SURE you want to send this message? [OK] [CANCEL]" with blood dripping down the screen.
And this is why "[SAVE MESSAGE TEMPLATE FOR LATER USE] [SEND MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY]"
is better than "[OK] [CANCEL] [ABORT] [ERROR] [RETRY]"
> Shitheads from New York City (unlike the normal people in the northern part of that state) seem to view NYC == World.
At least we don't think everyone else is a "Shithead".
> Because my "sprawling" 1280 sq ft. home in the suburbs (where I ride the bus 20 miles each way) costs me $723/month whereas rent would be over $1000/month and a mortgage would be well in excess of $1000/month in the city?
Where is this? Idaho?
Here in New York rent or mortgage is certainly over $3,000/mo.
A major reason I avoid Microsoft software is because there there a lot of lock-in- Microsoft software tends to only work well when you are running ALL Microsoft software and gives you headaches when you try to mix Microsoft software with other software.
The GPL3 is causing the same sort of "all or none" lock-in via legal instead of technical means. It is becoming very difficult to mix GPL3 software with commercial software.
Does this really help the adoption of open source software? I don't think so. I think it will create a separate "ecosystem" of GPL3 software that (face it) the 90% of users that just use what is put in front of them will never be exposed to.
That argument works for religion as well.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a dumptruck full of Hitlers being driven by the Hulk.
Wait, what are we talking about?
I agree with many of your points about changing your mindset from 'storing' your data to keeping it available in the cloud. However,
F) Itunes
The only way to back up your installed apps is via iTunes. The only way to get music in and out of the iPod player app is via iTunes. I can't even delete podcasts I've finished listening to without syncing with iTunes.
G) Battery
You may not spend 10 hours in a cafe, but I just spent 10 hours on airplanes and in airports.
> 40-45 KG when soaking wet Asian girls
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I feel OP's pain. Does this film go under "Bukkakke" or by the actresses name?
I'm interested in Science and Technology. I'm fascinated and obsessed by it. But I left the programming field 6 years ago when I started losing projects to outsourcers charge 1/10th what I could charge.
Damn, I just went shopping on a web site with my wife, and all of the ads on the side bar were for escorts. I blamed Microsoft.
I see a boom in real estate next door to hot babes.
Ridiculous. An AI would carry out the directives programmed into it by... can you guess?... the powers that be. An AI running things would give the established powers a level of control never seen on Earth before.
Do you think the AI will be built and set in charge by "the meek"? blue collar workers? by average citizens?
But why, then would we need Mercury? Why not just put a big solar array in space near the sun?
If you steal code that allows your company to make huge profits by executing trades a microsecond faster than your competition in a field with only a handful of real players, you certainly have taken something away from your company.
How that should ethically compare to other crimes and "business practices" that should be crimes is a different matter. But you cannot argue that Goldman hasn't lost anything.
And still can't run 'NoScript'. :-(
Sticking with Firefox until I have the safety of NoScript.
You didn't even remotely address the question. Out of those 32 million downloads, how many have paid for it?
Yes and no.
Deletions are more non-deterministic than with traditional hard drives.
When something is deleted, or even overwritten and scrubbed the old information is still there because the SSD's wear leveling firmware moves the write to a new physical block. This means you can't reliably erase or scrub anything on an SSD. Even if you fill the entire hard drive (DBAN) the SSD may be using the over-provisioning and not erase the old data.
However, after a block is deleted and a TRIM has been issued, the SSD firmware will take it on itself to quietly write all zeros to the block in the background when it has the opportunity (probably when the drive is idle for a fraction of a second). This is because to write on an SSD the device must erase then write the block. Doing this on demand would slow down writes, so the SSD erases TRIMed blocks when it can so on-demand writes can go faster.
So the answer to your question is both (1) You cannot reliably erase data on an SSD and (2) You cannot reliably recover deleted information on an SSD.