Technically you fall in this "stupid" category, as just wiping alone is not sufficient to prevent recovery.
Not the way I wipe them. It involves a range and about 20 rounds of 5.56 ammo. And I provide a 100% guarantee that no data will be able to be recovered.
I have to admit, my faith in anything and everything is at an all-time low these days. I doubt even the most sensitive scientific instruments could detect what little is left.
that deleted files are NOT gone yet, or that cluster tips and system save/restore and crash dumps can carry a wealth of information even if you have run a multi-pass overwrite program? Very few.
And this is why when I'm decommissioning a PC, the hard drive is removed, taken to the range, and literally shot to pieces. If inclement weather doesn't permit the "range erase" option, a hammer and chisel plus a band-saw do a pretty good job.
Either way, it's destroyed beyond any hope of recovery. I suspect even a highly-advanced alien race would be hard-pressed to reconstruct it far enough to get anything useful off of it.
What makes you think I'm going to do anything about it?
It seemed as though you weren't happy with th- oh, sorry, I said I would try not to use that word in connection with you.
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Besides you would know what to do about better than I, if something is to be done.
If you're asking for my advice (or at least deferring to me as regards an action plan), I'd just accept this outpouring of well-wishing and bask in the love.
Headline should read, "Most People Too Stupid To Wipe Electronic Devices Before Selling Them", and it should be from the Really really shocking news dept"
I really think what they are trying to do is create a society where you don't have to hide what you are doing and everything is permissible and acceptable.
Banning encryption seems like the War On Drugs...destined to be an utter failure.
I hate the way most media portrays users of encryption as probable criminals or as being "up to no good". They rarely see that encryption can be a good thing (and usually is, frankly).
But lets not get all "facty" and let reality get in the way of scaring the goobers. Besides, they're too busy posting every detail of their life on Facebook to worry about stuff like that.
My my, someone seems prickly today....too much starch in your undies? Why so much hatred? Is that your typical response to someone who disagrees with you? If so, that's kind of sad.
Anyway, yes, words can change colloquial meaning over time.
For example, "literally" has now come to mean "figuratively", due to the excessive hyperbole that most people seem to engage in these days.A complete reversal of meaning which seems stupid to me.
That said, tthere are plenty of places where reversal of meaning has happened, such as the word "nice". It used to be an insult of sorts, meaning ‘stupid’ or ‘ignorant’. Later it came to mean ‘coy' or 'reserved’, and then it morphed again to mean 'subtle' and/or 'fine'. It finally became accepted in the current sense, which is 'good' or 'pleasant'.
So yeah, it does happen. But as a cranky old word-Luddite, I'd prefer to use "devastated" in place of 'decimated'. Maybe in 50 years when I'm happily dead and buried the word will be uniformly accepted as having the same meaning as "devastated".:)
And now I must go have lunch, because I'm literally starving to death here.
Yep. A "bossless" environment seems like an inherently difficult thing to do well.
Who manages disputes? Who decides what projects should move forward and which should be abandoned? Who decides raises, merit, and promotions? Who leads the team? (And most teams do need a leader, even if that person is just a figurehead or touchstone.
There is a reason that bosses exist. I'm not saying that a "bossless" environment is impossible, but there are plenty of places it simply will not work. Would the "bossless" environment work at Boeing? I doubt it, and that's just one place off the top of my head.
Medical research? Integrated circuit manufacturing? Construction? The military?
It may work well in a few select environments but I think they're the exception.
It's not that you said it, it's that you keep going on about it a lot. That moves from general well wishing (which is nice) into the rather strange territory.
In an effort to make you feel more at ease, I'll try not to wish you happiness upon you so often. I promise you that I won't stay up late, wishing happiness upon you while I meditate on your user ID.
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Not really, it was more a figure of speech.
Well it's a figure of speech that you will find gets raised eyebrows and snippy replies often.
Actually, I've almost never found that to be the case.
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Depends. I've had a lot of people talking rather persistently about my feelings on slashdot today. At that point it's moved into "creepy" territory.
A lot of people, or just me? Maybe you're just self-conscious about it and that's what makes you feel uncomfortable.
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No, it's your level of persistence which is strange.
As I said, I'll try not to wish you happiness upon you so often then.:)
A "bossless" environment may work somewhere (I can't think of any off the top of my head) but there are lots of situations and jobs that need a "boss" or some authority to direct things, settle disputes, parcel out tasks, etc etc etc.
This sounds like some fuzzy feel-good bullshit that came from tumblr and leaked into the real world.
But this is true of anyone. I wonder why you point it out. Perhaps you believe it doesn't apply to you?
Oh no, the list of things I don't understand is pretty long, probably endless in fact. And I'm okay with that.
It seems to matter a lot to you, so I don't think "obsessed" is the wrong word to use.
No, I don't think "obsessed" is the right word, but like I said, if that's the word you want to use, I'm fine with it. I think it's too bad that you think anyone who wishes you well or says that they hope you're happy more than once is "obsessed".
Will it feed your peculiar obsession further is I acknowledge your magnanimity in allowing me such use of the word?
Not really, it was more a figure of speech. I'm thinking you miss a lot of social cues like that and so you end up being pedantic about phrasing or idioms. But hey, each to their own.
I mean it's a sort of combination of flattering and creepy all in one go that you care so deeply about the emotional state of someone you've talked to briefly on the internet. But whatever floats your boat, I guess.
It's great that you're flattered by someone wanting you to be happy, but considering it to be "creepy" seems a bit of an overreaction, if you really do feel that way (and I suspect you actually don't).
Personally, I'd like everyone to be happy, whether I know them or not, and whether I know them well or not. Is that such a bad thing? Would you feel better if I wanted you to be unhappy? Would that be more in your comfort zone?
I'd like it if more people were happy, even people I may not like or agree with on any given topic. Happiness isn't a finite resource, as some people seem to think; there's enough to go around for everyone.
I couldn't agree more. The idea of loading a single page that's nearly 10 MB in size seems utterly insane to me, but it's routine now, no big deal.
I used to browse BoingBoing* back in the day when the page wasn't loaded to the gills with ads and every link was an Amazon associate link.
The pages went from ~50k to ~5 MB or more with no added functionality (they're probably twice that size now). I mentioned the page bloat in a comment there once, and they banned me.
But now every site is like that, loads upon loads upon loads of remote calls, embedded ads, video crap, tracking beacons and metrics services, etc etc etc.
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*The site has gone completely to shit; don't bother.
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Technically you fall in this "stupid" category, as just wiping alone is not sufficient to prevent recovery.
Not the way I wipe them. It involves a range and about 20 rounds of 5.56 ammo. And I provide a 100% guarantee that no data will be able to be recovered.
You mean you don't take the time to dissemble the drive, remove the platters and dissolve the magnetic coating in acid?
I used to scrape the magnetic coating off with my teeth but then knives and forks started sticking to my teeth. So embarrassing.
Economics is a "science" in the same way that a pickle is "candy".
The best that can be done is to make some generalized guesses based on hazy metrics and barely-understood past events.
o yea of little utopian faith
I have to admit, my faith in anything and everything is at an all-time low these days. I doubt even the most sensitive scientific instruments could detect what little is left.
that deleted files are NOT gone yet, or that cluster tips and system save/restore and crash dumps can carry a wealth of information even if you have run a multi-pass overwrite program? Very few.
And this is why when I'm decommissioning a PC, the hard drive is removed, taken to the range, and literally shot to pieces.
If inclement weather doesn't permit the "range erase" option, a hammer and chisel plus a band-saw do a pretty good job.
Either way, it's destroyed beyond any hope of recovery. I suspect even a highly-advanced alien race would be hard-pressed to reconstruct it far enough to get anything useful off of it.
It'd be conflicts of interest all the way.
I'm sure that some substantial cash payments to the right parties would allow this minor concern to be legislated away and/or ignored.
What makes you think I'm going to do anything about it?
It seemed as though you weren't happy with th- oh, sorry, I said I would try not to use that word in connection with you.
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Besides you would know what to do about better than I, if something is to be done.
If you're asking for my advice (or at least deferring to me as regards an action plan), I'd just accept this outpouring of well-wishing and bask in the love.
Really, does this surprise anybody?
Headline should read, "Most People Too Stupid To Wipe Electronic Devices Before Selling Them", and it should be from the Really really shocking news dept"
Yes, the world can always use another database application. We simply don't have enough. Put it in the cloud, too, and don't forget the NSA backdoor.
And make it dynamically-scalable and customer-centric while you're at it.
Someone must act on these truths and protect the innocent. Will it be you?
Stop harshing my buzz, dude.
A link to an Australian website about an American collage posting images of America during WWII. Priceless.
I was hoping there would be a "Russia" connection I could work in there, but alas there was nothing. ;(
Perhaps Yale needs to have some Harvard alum come and show them how to properly run a web server.
Ouch, someone call the Burn Center and tell them we have patients on the way in, STAT!
On the other hand, your use of "literally" instead of "veritably" is indeed a colloquialism that is incorrect.
No it's not, it's a perfectly cromulent way to stultify the word.
SOMEONE will become the boss, and that someone may simply be the strongest and most obnoxious personality present.
That's the way it seems to work now, so I can't say you're wrong.
I really think what they are trying to do is create a society where you don't have to hide what you are doing and everything is permissible and acceptable.
I sense...SARCASM. Let's check...
Sarcasm Detector activated.....scanning....scanning....sarcasm FOUND.
Scan finished.
Start another scan?
've had a lot of people talking rather persistently about my feelings on slashdot today.
Goodness gracious, why do you suppose that is, and what can we do about it?
Banning encryption seems like the War On Drugs...destined to be an utter failure.
I hate the way most media portrays users of encryption as probable criminals or as being "up to no good". They rarely see that encryption can be a good thing (and usually is, frankly).
But lets not get all "facty" and let reality get in the way of scaring the goobers. Besides, they're too busy posting every detail of their life on Facebook to worry about stuff like that.
My my, someone seems prickly today....too much starch in your undies? Why so much hatred? Is that your typical response to someone who disagrees with you? If so, that's kind of sad.
Anyway, yes, words can change colloquial meaning over time.
For example, "literally" has now come to mean "figuratively", due to the excessive hyperbole that most people seem to engage in these days.A complete reversal of meaning which seems stupid to me.
That said, tthere are plenty of places where reversal of meaning has happened, such as the word "nice". It used to be an insult of sorts, meaning ‘stupid’ or ‘ignorant’. Later it came to mean ‘coy' or 'reserved’, and then it morphed again to mean 'subtle' and/or 'fine'. It finally became accepted in the current sense, which is 'good' or 'pleasant'.
So yeah, it does happen. But as a cranky old word-Luddite, I'd prefer to use "devastated" in place of 'decimated'. Maybe in 50 years when I'm happily dead and buried the word will be uniformly accepted as having the same meaning as "devastated". :)
And now I must go have lunch, because I'm literally starving to death here.
Cheers
Yep. A "bossless" environment seems like an inherently difficult thing to do well.
Who manages disputes?
Who decides what projects should move forward and which should be abandoned?
Who decides raises, merit, and promotions?
Who leads the team? (And most teams do need a leader, even if that person is just a figurehead or touchstone.
There is a reason that bosses exist. I'm not saying that a "bossless" environment is impossible, but there are plenty of places it simply will not work. Would the "bossless" environment work at Boeing? I doubt it, and that's just one place off the top of my head.
Medical research? Integrated circuit manufacturing? Construction? The military?
It may work well in a few select environments but I think they're the exception.
What a peculiar thing to ask.
Why is that so peculiar?
You said, "I've had a lot of people talking rather persistently about my feelings on slashdot today."
Are there really lots of other people talking about your feelings on slashdot?
However, sometimes you have to iterate thru a lot of stupid ideas to find the truly brilliant ones.
This is very true...ask me how I know. :)
It's not that you said it, it's that you keep going on about it a lot. That moves from general well wishing (which is nice) into the rather strange territory.
In an effort to make you feel more at ease, I'll try not to wish you happiness upon you so often. I promise you that I won't stay up late, wishing happiness upon you while I meditate on your user ID.
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Not really, it was more a figure of speech.
Well it's a figure of speech that you will find gets raised eyebrows and snippy replies often.
Actually, I've almost never found that to be the case.
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Depends. I've had a lot of people talking rather persistently about my feelings on slashdot today. At that point it's moved into "creepy" territory.
A lot of people, or just me? Maybe you're just self-conscious about it and that's what makes you feel uncomfortable.
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No, it's your level of persistence which is strange.
As I said, I'll try not to wish you happiness upon you so often then. :)
Cheers
A "bossless" environment may work somewhere (I can't think of any off the top of my head) but there are lots of situations and jobs that need a "boss" or some authority to direct things, settle disputes, parcel out tasks, etc etc etc.
This sounds like some fuzzy feel-good bullshit that came from tumblr and leaked into the real world.
But this is true of anyone. I wonder why you point it out. Perhaps you believe it doesn't apply to you?
Oh no, the list of things I don't understand is pretty long, probably endless in fact. And I'm okay with that.
It seems to matter a lot to you, so I don't think "obsessed" is the wrong word to use.
No, I don't think "obsessed" is the right word, but like I said, if that's the word you want to use, I'm fine with it. I think it's too bad that you think anyone who wishes you well or says that they hope you're happy more than once is "obsessed".
Will it feed your peculiar obsession further is I acknowledge your magnanimity in allowing me such use of the word?
Not really, it was more a figure of speech. I'm thinking you miss a lot of social cues like that and so you end up being pedantic about phrasing or idioms. But hey, each to their own.
I mean it's a sort of combination of flattering and creepy all in one go that you care so deeply about the emotional state of someone you've talked to briefly on the internet. But whatever floats your boat, I guess.
It's great that you're flattered by someone wanting you to be happy, but considering it to be "creepy" seems a bit of an overreaction, if you really do feel that way (and I suspect you actually don't).
Personally, I'd like everyone to be happy, whether I know them or not, and whether I know them well or not. Is that such a bad thing? Would you feel better if I wanted you to be unhappy? Would that be more in your comfort zone?
I'd like it if more people were happy, even people I may not like or agree with on any given topic. Happiness isn't a finite resource, as some people seem to think; there's enough to go around for everyone.
Yeah. It's Apple's fault that a Verge article is 9.5 MB and 263 HTTP requests.
I couldn't agree more. The idea of loading a single page that's nearly 10 MB in size seems utterly insane to me, but it's routine now, no big deal.
I used to browse BoingBoing* back in the day when the page wasn't loaded to the gills with ads and every link was an Amazon associate link.
The pages went from ~50k to ~5 MB or more with no added functionality (they're probably twice that size now). I mentioned the page bloat in a comment there once, and they banned me.
But now every site is like that, loads upon loads upon loads of remote calls, embedded ads, video crap, tracking beacons and metrics services, etc etc etc.
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*The site has gone completely to shit; don't bother.