No I'm arguing against security theatre. My daughter almost cost us a flight one day because she was wearing a necklace in the shape of a tiny, tiny gun. Because it was "gun shaped" they had to call their supervisor to see if we could be let on the airplane or not. I can imagine having a picture of a gun can also get you in trouble. I was mocking the TSA - I know damned well that even if a grenade isn't real they're going to treat it as if it was, call the bomb squad, shut down that part of the airport, etc. It doesn't matter if you tell them it's a toy or a cigarette lighter.
So, TSA, how many of those grenades were actually real grenades as opposed to fake, dud, decoy, joke grenades? Do you still shut down the entire airport "out of abundance of caution" for a novelty cigarette lighter shaped like a grenade?
Exactly. I've had the bad luck of having many platter hard drives fail on me. Before I stopped buying Seagate...and after they bought Maxtor. Those drives were so crappy... anyway I digress. Any single drive is prone to failure. That's why computer savvy people back stuff up often. I regularly back up my 512GB SSD to my 3TB hard drive. It really doesn't take that long, especially if you're just copying the data.
Yeah how about trying "We were ordered to do it by the US government and we can't give you details because a) national security and b) gag order". Seems to work for the government, why can't it work for Google?
Well if you want to compare pricey "top of the line" bikes, you should compare them to pricey "top of the line" cars. Try buying a Mercedes 500 series for $20k...
I don't think you've seen how thin SSD drives actually are. As for what it can manage, failure rates are down now and just about equivalent to platter hard drives. You do realize that those can fail too, right? And for the rest of "management" well it stores info, which is what I want it to do. And it does that and reads it very, very quickly. If you compare the price of an SSD to the price of a regular hard drive you're doing apples to oranges. Go ahead and compare them to one of these ultra-pimped high RPM hybrids, and then talk to me about price. The SSD is still faster and cheaper. But yeah, the 10 year old 7200 rpm hard drives are much cheaper. A motorcycle is also cheaper than a car.
American law doesn't apply in Italy. Yet Americans seem to think their laws apply all over the world, like Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, etc. And no actually, no constitution of any country overrides international law. But we already know that the United States routinely breaks international law when it suits them.
I switched to SSD technology and I'm never going back. Yeah ok there are no 5TB drives yet. And 1TB is still insane. But 512GB is almost affordable, 256GB certainly is. If I need more storage, I'll just keep buying more. And eventually the price on the large drives will also come down. Sorry Seagate, the game is already over except for very specialized, very niche storage roles.
He's also another example of an American fugitive hiding from justice. Funny how Americans kick and scream and intervene in other countries until their authorities give up their own citizens to America to face "terror related charges" like copyright infringement, or making a huge deal out of Snowden and how Russia "slapped the US in the face" by taking him in, but they seem to have no trouble harboring the likes of McAfee, Knox, Watson, all of whom are wanted by Interpol.
Carbon taxes will do nothing in the face of exponential population growth. When it starts getting too expensive, the politicians will begin handing out "exemptions", you know, for the really poor, for the children, etc. And at the end of the day you'll be back to square one, only worse since you will not have addressed the real problem. If there were only 1 billion people in the world we would not even be having the discussion of whether or not our lifestyle impacts the environment significantly. Keep adding more people and it takes less effort for any individual to cause lasting harm. At one point merely existing, without actually consuming or being reckless, will cause harm. And then we're all fucked. But people are blind, blind blind. And they keep shitting out babies like it was their god-appointed duty or something. Oh wait...
In real science, only a proven hypothesis gets to be called a theory. But since this is pseudoscience, and political pseudoscience at that, any wild speculation gets to be called "theory". But please don't think less of real science because bullshitters get caught bullshitting.
I have actual, physical, solid gold. I have silver too. Silver is more practical than gold for "everyday" use. But you're right, gold "funds" and gold "certificates" are useless. The only problem with the metal is storing it.
Fair enough. I bought loads of it when it was around $400 an ounce to protect part of my capital. I don't see that as an investment. I also have no plans on selling it. And I sleep very well at night, even with the economy lagging the way it is.
It's not fraud at all. They are not making any false promises. They say they will give you bitcoin in exchange for cash, and that is exactly what they do (less a modest commission I'm sure). It's not their fault if you haven't researched Bitcoin at all and get taken out by one of the swings in value.
Wrong. You may become important in the future. So you are important enough to target. They are collecting data on everyone, and holding on to it. They just might not be actively going through all the data from everyone (or they might be, if they have enough computing power). But if it's recorded it doesn't really matter if they do it today or in 20 years. They've got you. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." --Richelieu
Only because the researchers don't know how to find the key and the sequence only looks random but it's non-random in a way only the NSA knows how to recognize. Because other leaked documents claim that the NSA has been heavily involved in the development of all consumer-level cryptography chips. It doesn't matter how you code, it's the chip that's giving the game away. If the NSA has a pattern it can recognize which tells them how to decrypt it, then researchers will see it as unbreakable while the NSA will be able to crack it.
You want complete security disconnect it from the network and never ever connect it again. And don't allow anyone to use that machine, or service the machine, or turn on the machine. Then it will be 100% secure.
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No I'm arguing against security theatre. My daughter almost cost us a flight one day because she was wearing a necklace in the shape of a tiny, tiny gun. Because it was "gun shaped" they had to call their supervisor to see if we could be let on the airplane or not. I can imagine having a picture of a gun can also get you in trouble. I was mocking the TSA - I know damned well that even if a grenade isn't real they're going to treat it as if it was, call the bomb squad, shut down that part of the airport, etc. It doesn't matter if you tell them it's a toy or a cigarette lighter.
So, TSA, how many of those grenades were actually real grenades as opposed to fake, dud, decoy, joke grenades? Do you still shut down the entire airport "out of abundance of caution" for a novelty cigarette lighter shaped like a grenade?
Exactly. I've had the bad luck of having many platter hard drives fail on me. Before I stopped buying Seagate...and after they bought Maxtor. Those drives were so crappy... anyway I digress. Any single drive is prone to failure. That's why computer savvy people back stuff up often. I regularly back up my 512GB SSD to my 3TB hard drive. It really doesn't take that long, especially if you're just copying the data.
I'd say the tree fell over and all the fruit is near the ground.
Yeah how about trying "We were ordered to do it by the US government and we can't give you details because a) national security and b) gag order". Seems to work for the government, why can't it work for Google?
Well if you want to compare pricey "top of the line" bikes, you should compare them to pricey "top of the line" cars. Try buying a Mercedes 500 series for $20k...
I don't think you've seen how thin SSD drives actually are. As for what it can manage, failure rates are down now and just about equivalent to platter hard drives. You do realize that those can fail too, right? And for the rest of "management" well it stores info, which is what I want it to do. And it does that and reads it very, very quickly. If you compare the price of an SSD to the price of a regular hard drive you're doing apples to oranges. Go ahead and compare them to one of these ultra-pimped high RPM hybrids, and then talk to me about price. The SSD is still faster and cheaper. But yeah, the 10 year old 7200 rpm hard drives are much cheaper. A motorcycle is also cheaper than a car.
American law doesn't apply in Italy. Yet Americans seem to think their laws apply all over the world, like Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, etc. And no actually, no constitution of any country overrides international law. But we already know that the United States routinely breaks international law when it suits them.
I switched to SSD technology and I'm never going back. Yeah ok there are no 5TB drives yet. And 1TB is still insane. But 512GB is almost affordable, 256GB certainly is. If I need more storage, I'll just keep buying more. And eventually the price on the large drives will also come down. Sorry Seagate, the game is already over except for very specialized, very niche storage roles.
He's also another example of an American fugitive hiding from justice. Funny how Americans kick and scream and intervene in other countries until their authorities give up their own citizens to America to face "terror related charges" like copyright infringement, or making a huge deal out of Snowden and how Russia "slapped the US in the face" by taking him in, but they seem to have no trouble harboring the likes of McAfee, Knox, Watson, all of whom are wanted by Interpol.
Population growth has been slowing since the introduction of birth control pills in the 60's. Next.
Yeah, looking at a few years doesn't tell us much about the trend. Here is some REAL data:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Vostok_Petit_data.svg
I've been saying it for years. I got fed up of being made fun of, so I stopped saying it. Still this is nice. I feel a warm glow inside.
Carbon taxes will do nothing in the face of exponential population growth. When it starts getting too expensive, the politicians will begin handing out "exemptions", you know, for the really poor, for the children, etc. And at the end of the day you'll be back to square one, only worse since you will not have addressed the real problem. If there were only 1 billion people in the world we would not even be having the discussion of whether or not our lifestyle impacts the environment significantly. Keep adding more people and it takes less effort for any individual to cause lasting harm. At one point merely existing, without actually consuming or being reckless, will cause harm. And then we're all fucked. But people are blind, blind blind. And they keep shitting out babies like it was their god-appointed duty or something. Oh wait...
In real science, only a proven hypothesis gets to be called a theory. But since this is pseudoscience, and political pseudoscience at that, any wild speculation gets to be called "theory". But please don't think less of real science because bullshitters get caught bullshitting.
I have actual, physical, solid gold. I have silver too. Silver is more practical than gold for "everyday" use. But you're right, gold "funds" and gold "certificates" are useless. The only problem with the metal is storing it.
They're not qualified to make public policy - period.
Fair enough. I bought loads of it when it was around $400 an ounce to protect part of my capital. I don't see that as an investment. I also have no plans on selling it. And I sleep very well at night, even with the economy lagging the way it is.
Here you go. You should google it while you're still allowed to google stuff.
Gold is a safe haven not an investment.
It's not fraud at all. They are not making any false promises. They say they will give you bitcoin in exchange for cash, and that is exactly what they do (less a modest commission I'm sure). It's not their fault if you haven't researched Bitcoin at all and get taken out by one of the swings in value.
you are not important enough to be a target.
Wrong. You may become important in the future. So you are important enough to target. They are collecting data on everyone, and holding on to it. They just might not be actively going through all the data from everyone (or they might be, if they have enough computing power). But if it's recorded it doesn't really matter if they do it today or in 20 years. They've got you. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." --Richelieu
You can still read the patterns on the ink ribbons... Or the drum, for that matter :)
Only because the researchers don't know how to find the key and the sequence only looks random but it's non-random in a way only the NSA knows how to recognize. Because other leaked documents claim that the NSA has been heavily involved in the development of all consumer-level cryptography chips. It doesn't matter how you code, it's the chip that's giving the game away. If the NSA has a pattern it can recognize which tells them how to decrypt it, then researchers will see it as unbreakable while the NSA will be able to crack it.
You want complete security disconnect it from the network and never ever connect it again. And don't allow anyone to use that machine, or service the machine, or turn on the machine. Then it will be 100% secure.