At my last job, we used "Darik's Boot and Nuke", available at dban.sourceforge.net. You boot off the floppy, type "dod" and it wiped the drive according to Dept of Defense standards. It worked great (I hope)!
{sigh} This has been discussed before. The DoD's standards for highly classified computers amounts to a very large hole-punch and an incinerator. The "standards" you refer to amount to the wiping they do on receptionist and non-classified computers.
I bet people who don't know enough to get a real video card won't care anyway.
Amazing. Because someone doesn't wish to spend $300+ for a card makes them 'unknowing'?
Some of us don't care about running video games...we don't have time.
Somebody mod this A.C. up. I run an old Radeon 9200 Pro myself because it was cheap when I got it. I have a ${several thousand} home theatre in the next room with an XBox connected to it so I have no desire to run games on my PC. Why should I spend $300 (or even $200) on a new video card to run my desktop?
A short while ago I found out watches are more than utilitarian once I actually got a good one. Since I started wearing my Tissot, I couldn't conceive of wearing a Timex again. It's comfortable and I genuinely enjoy wearing it.
Moreover, I'd like to echo a point I saw in another response; it's a PITA to look for a clock, dig for a cell phone and wake it up, or check the computer monitor. It's just convenient to have the time on my wrist.
Maybe physics is different in Canada, but it's an easy matter to superheat a fluid by maintaining it under pressure.
Maybe physics is different in Canada, but the references I've read say the coffee was 180-190 degrees, which is lower than the boiling point of water at STP.
Yes, you see, that's why it's a joke, but way to go defeating the science behind it! There's a hero cookie (served cold) somewhere here for you.
(BTW, as far as the physics go; the coffee could not be "maintained under pressure" in a styrofoam cup several minutes after it's been poured, and I also know the boiling point of water in your measurement system is 212 degrees, so yes, we know it's not actually hotter than boiling, but again, it was a joke. Way to uphold the mighty Slashdot stereotype! {slaps hand to forehead} For this, I salute you!)
I would love to watch you drink a cup of 180-190 degree (F) coffee. I'll buy you a cup, and we'll test how much you like it.
I've had it before, and it's great, if even only as a hand-warmer on a cold day.
See, the funny thing is McDonald's coffee was always a bit of a joke up here in Canada. "Leave it to McDonald's to violate the laws of physics" (you know, by somehow serving their coffee hotter than the boiling point of water), but leave it up to a self indulgent twit to demand financial compensation for it.
She was trying to take the lid off the cup of coffee. That doesn't strike me as using the coffee in a non-designed manner.
Which she did improperly and in an unsafe manner. I can think of a dozen things off the top of my head that I could "try to do" that would certainly cause me grave injury but let's be realistic here. She had options. She chose the least sensible method to mix the cream and sugar into her coffee. She got burned. Feces occurs. Thousands of people are injured every day while doing things improperly, and thankfully most of them don't initiate frivolous lawsuits.
The coffee was most certainly not defective. Moreover, their injury rating is somewhere to the tune of "just 1 injury per 24 million cups sold" per year. That's 23,999,999 cups of java successfully consumed per year without incident.
Face it; the lawsuit was frivolous. She did not take any due care to prevent the liquid from spilling in her lap and the verdict was the result of the jury sympathizing with an elderly woman who experienced serious pain and discomfort. These kind of lawsuits are a great example of how our society is losing all sense of personal responsibility.
An electric heating element can turn black very quickly after you turn it off but is still hot enough to burn. I would rather be able to see when the element is on than risk my 2yo son burning his hand on one that looks like it's cool but isn't.
Man, whatever happened to letting kids get hurt every now and again? Guaranteed he'll never touch a burner with his bare hand again.
It's quite simple really. God created the heavens and the earth and all the oceans, seas, lands, and plants and creatures.
Which God(s)?
Face it, you belong to the worlds' oldest and greatest money making machine - church. How much of your annual earnings go towards your pastor's new Jaguar? Er, I mean, towards the spreading of the faith to more sources of income... or, sorry, how much of your hard earned money goes towards your church?
Don't take my word for it. The best philosophers in history have argued for and against first cause.
Some of the best philosophers also argued that the sun revolves around the Earth and that said Earth was flat. That doesn't mean I'll stick my head in the sand and blindly believe the words from a centuries-old book collection that's been translated several times (surely with no undue bias) from its original languages that blatantly contradicts itself, has more interpretations in modern day than any other book in existance, and was written by people who didn't understand a thing about micro-organisms and how they relate to the proper way to cook pork.
If I'm going to chose a fairy tale to believe in, I think I'll stick with the Cat In The Hat, thank-you very much. Meanwhile, I'll keep my mind open and let genuine reproducible science teach me about the world around me.
I'm sure the deer would all appreciate it a bit more if they had their own guns for self-defense. THAT would make it a fair fight.
Yeah, if the animals had their own rocks for self defense. Their own sticks. Nay, sharpened sticks. Their own spears. Their own bow and arrows. Their own crossbows. Rifles. Automated killing/packaging factories.
Face it; it's the evolution of man and the evolution of how we get our food. If you want to feel moral by going to a grocery store and buying food that was raised to be killed and shrink-wrapped for your convenience, then fine, do so, but leave hunters alone. They hunt for food, fur, and bragging rights all in one package. They also only tend to fell one large animal per year.
Boiling water? If you touch boiling water to your mouth, you will have serious problems.
{sigh} I can't believe Stella's horse is still being beaten. Yes, McDonald's used water that was very hot. Yes, the coffee drinker's association of America defended that practice because that's how you're supposed to brew coffee to extract the full flavour from the beans...
By the by; when you make coffee, you don't generally start drinking it the moment it hits the cup. Moreover, water stops 'boiling' as soon as it is removed from its heat source. Generally you take the time to mix your cream, milk, sugar, sweetener etc. before you begin drinking. But much like anything else that gets discussed on Slashdot everybody's an expert, everybody's a connoisseur, and everybody certainly knows best about every situation.
Back to Stella's case; she knew the coffee was hot. She put the cup of coffee between her legs in the car at the side of the road to mix her cream and sugar. She managed to spill the beverage all over herself all by herself and took the age-old American view of "It's Not My Fault" to court and went after the deepest pockets she could find; the red and yellow clown.
For more facts in the case, you can refer to the Stella Awards page dedicated to Ms. Liebeck for more facts on the matter. But please, don't allow facts to get in the way of all the Slashdot exspurt testimony.
So, in other words, you didn't read the the word "unnecessarily" in my post (see sig), and you didn't understand why your entire response here is beside the point? There are more succint ways to say that.
No, I ignored it because it's irrelevant. Who decides which work days "unnecessarily match[es] that of many others"?
No. The tax is in proportion to the congestion the vehicle contributes. A bus congests about what 3-4 cars would (maybe more).
You do realize you're arguing a non-sequitur, right? You acknowledge that a bus can eliminate 50 cars from the road, yet congests as much as 3-4 cars? Even assuming 4 cars, that's a negative 12.5 car congestion ratio so the bus companies should be reimbursed for their travels, no?
SUV's were never safe. They may be big but have the worst damage to the passengers in the event of an accident.
All assertions are true!
Ever seen the safety ratings for a Dodge/Plymouth Neon? (I could list more, but that's about the cheapest coffin on four wheels one could ever buy)
Where, BTW, did you get the idea that SUVs cause the "worst damage to [the] passengers"? Is it founded in any form of reality? Which SUVs are you talking about; crossovers, car platform, truck platform, compact, mid-size, full-size or are you painting all "SUVs" with the same brush?
They have the worst roll overs and in that case, the top almost always crushes due to the weight of the chassis.
Do you have a source for these ridiculous claims, or just the ambulance-chasing lawyer advert site you posted?
Hmm... perhaps you could find some old child seats that are a little smaller, or shave 2 cm off the side of each seat.
Newer child seats are larger to accomodate advanced safety features. If you modify a child seat you are condemning your child to certain death in the event of an accident. As it is, child seats are unsafe if installed improperly, letalone modified.
Please, seriously, stop giving child related advice when you have no experience. Bad enough giving technical advice, but now you're treading in waters that can result in death and/or permanent disability.
So? If their workday unnecessarily matches that of many others, they *should* be moving it already.
Workdays tend to coincide so that businesses can interact with one-another, hence the term "business hours". This also allows for similar social and family time after work hours and on weekends.
Take for example restaurants, food distrubutors, supermarkets, food producers/manufacturers. Restaurants obviously have to be open to serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner which occur at predictable times allowing them to prepare in advance and staff accordingly. Their distributors and suppliers have to work during the day to accommodate their orders, therefore supermarkets, warehouses and other suppliers must work accordingly. Manufacturers/producers must supply said distributors and the chain is complete. Synergy. It exists in every field of work.
If you want to help eliminate congestion, make alternative arrangements. Car pool, mass transit into and out of major downtown areas, etc.
Now taxing people who commute to/from work who are often in situations where living "in the city" is too darned expensive, puts an increased barrier on them and makes their lives even more difficult; especially at the rates proposed in that journal entry. Taxing busses, BTW? Considering a single bus can eliminate as many as 50 cars per run, isn't that redundant?
In any case, the second point stands: the existance of a technical definition doesn't obviate the vernacular definition, and "wide wheelbase" (as opposed to "long wheelbase") is a pretty common term.
That would be "long wheelbase" and "wide track", FWIW.
Enough groceries for a month will easily fit into even a subcompact. You can also fit about 4 kids + 1 driver into that same subcompact fairly easily. I doubt many families rich enough to afford a minivan have 5 or more kids.
Spoken like somebody with no experience with kids.
BTW; the minivan market is so saturated right now you can easily buy one for below CDN$20k at finance rates as low as 0%. If you can afford a Honda Civic, you can afford a minivan and then some.
Two child seats will fill the rear seat of a (sub)compact or even a wagon, relegating the third seat in the middle to "storage". In Ontario, Canada it's illegal to have a child less than 12 years old weighing less than ~70lbs in the front seat of a car, not to mention it's just plain unsafe anywhere. Generally the spouse would sit in the front seat anyways, making this generally useless for a child regardless of safety concerns.
There goes your compact car idea.
Now, when said children grow older and acheive heights of 6 feet and then some, shoe sizes in excess of 11, or even just a pair of 5'9" children will again fill out the back seat of most cars.
Now comes the fun part. Travelling as a family. Take a family of two parents and three children, enough equipment to manage for a day or possibly an overnight trip (say diapers, formula, blankets, changes of clothing, etc.), factor in a minimum of one child seat, the likelyhood of a stroller and/or playpen plus items needed/wanted by the older children. Throw some bags/bundles of food into the mix and perhaps some gifts (think holidays). Where does it all go? The wagon's too cramped, the (sub)compact is completely out of the question so what's left? You guessed it; minivan or SUV.
Don't tell me about "back in the day" either. Back in the day people drove Chevy Vans or Ford E-150s with the 8-, 12-, or 15- seat options for larger families (yes, there are people out there with 10+ children).
It's great if your family/household situation is able to get by with a (sub)compact car but you should really consider losing the elitist attitude. Not everybody's situation is identical to yours.
It's almost impossible that a bunch of radicalists with relatively sophomoric computer skills could infiltrate the NYSE or the Nasdaq in any substantial way.
What makes you think they have "sophomoric computer skills"?
So here's the deal. On one hand, we can spend huge amounts of money to change our money system. This means changing money readers in vending machines, retraining sales clerks, changing our printing systems, dealing with fraud during the changeover, etc., etc. It's simply a huge project.
{yawn} Sure. It's a huge process. Canada has changed our paper currency no less than twice in my lifetime. Our economy didn't crash as a result.
Training sales clerks? Why, because the bills are different colours and have raised print in the corners? Money readers? Nay. The identifying marks are still on the bottom portion of the bill. New readers are enhanced to look for the more modern counterfeit devices. Changing printing systems? BFD. Fraud? The new bills have more anti-fraud technology than the old ones. p.s.; U.S. currency is so easy to counterfeit your government would probably save billions by updating it to the standards your International friends enjoy. There goes your printing systems argument.
The US is the onlycountry on earth with notes that are indistinguishable from one another for the blind. Here's a hint, it's not because the rest of the world is waiting to catch up to the United States...
Not to mention they can even be difficult to distinguish at a quick glance by a sighted person. Most countries also use wildly different colours and/or shapes to distinguish denomination.
But in the real world, I've been able to schedule my life around an acknowledged physiological weakness (or character flaw, interpret how you will).
Yeah; I used to have the same "acknowledged physiological weakness". Then I started going to bed an hour or two earlier and it went away.
FWIW, over the years I've worked several different shifts and have always adapted my sleep patterns to the schedule so I could be coherent at all times of the day, be it 8AM, 11AM, 4PM, or 8PM when I started work.
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{sigh} This has been discussed before. The DoD's standards for highly classified computers amounts to a very large hole-punch and an incinerator. The "standards" you refer to amount to the wiping they do on receptionist and non-classified computers.
Amazing. Because someone doesn't wish to spend $300+ for a card makes them 'unknowing'?
Some of us don't care about running video games...we don't have time.
Somebody mod this A.C. up. I run an old Radeon 9200 Pro myself because it was cheap when I got it. I have a ${several thousand} home theatre in the next room with an XBox connected to it so I have no desire to run games on my PC. Why should I spend $300 (or even $200) on a new video card to run my desktop?
I've got the black faced PRS200 with the stainless bracelet. It was a gift from my employer and I'm extremely happy with it. :)
If the budget allows, the Touch is also a really nice watch with more features than I can shake a stick at.
A short while ago I found out watches are more than utilitarian once I actually got a good one. Since I started wearing my Tissot, I couldn't conceive of wearing a Timex again. It's comfortable and I genuinely enjoy wearing it.
Moreover, I'd like to echo a point I saw in another response; it's a PITA to look for a clock, dig for a cell phone and wake it up, or check the computer monitor. It's just convenient to have the time on my wrist.
If my bartender up here in Canada ever served me 16oz they'd best only charge me for a half! If it ain't 20 oz it ain't a pint!
Maybe physics is different in Canada, but the references I've read say the coffee was 180-190 degrees, which is lower than the boiling point of water at STP.
Yes, you see, that's why it's a joke, but way to go defeating the science behind it! There's a hero cookie (served cold) somewhere here for you.
(BTW, as far as the physics go; the coffee could not be "maintained under pressure" in a styrofoam cup several minutes after it's been poured, and I also know the boiling point of water in your measurement system is 212 degrees, so yes, we know it's not actually hotter than boiling, but again, it was a joke. Way to uphold the mighty Slashdot stereotype! {slaps hand to forehead} For this, I salute you!)
I've had it before, and it's great, if even only as a hand-warmer on a cold day.
See, the funny thing is McDonald's coffee was always a bit of a joke up here in Canada. "Leave it to McDonald's to violate the laws of physics" (you know, by somehow serving their coffee hotter than the boiling point of water), but leave it up to a self indulgent twit to demand financial compensation for it.
Which she did improperly and in an unsafe manner. I can think of a dozen things off the top of my head that I could "try to do" that would certainly cause me grave injury but let's be realistic here. She had options. She chose the least sensible method to mix the cream and sugar into her coffee. She got burned. Feces occurs. Thousands of people are injured every day while doing things improperly, and thankfully most of them don't initiate frivolous lawsuits.
The coffee was most certainly not defective. Moreover, their injury rating is somewhere to the tune of "just 1 injury per 24 million cups sold" per year. That's 23,999,999 cups of java successfully consumed per year without incident.
Face it; the lawsuit was frivolous. She did not take any due care to prevent the liquid from spilling in her lap and the verdict was the result of the jury sympathizing with an elderly woman who experienced serious pain and discomfort. These kind of lawsuits are a great example of how our society is losing all sense of personal responsibility.
Man, whatever happened to letting kids get hurt every now and again? Guaranteed he'll never touch a burner with his bare hand again.
Which God(s)?
Face it, you belong to the worlds' oldest and greatest money making machine - church. How much of your annual earnings go towards your pastor's new Jaguar? Er, I mean, towards the spreading of the faith to more sources of income ... or, sorry, how much of your hard earned money goes towards your church?
Some of the best philosophers also argued that the sun revolves around the Earth and that said Earth was flat. That doesn't mean I'll stick my head in the sand and blindly believe the words from a centuries-old book collection that's been translated several times (surely with no undue bias) from its original languages that blatantly contradicts itself, has more interpretations in modern day than any other book in existance, and was written by people who didn't understand a thing about micro-organisms and how they relate to the proper way to cook pork.
If I'm going to chose a fairy tale to believe in, I think I'll stick with the Cat In The Hat, thank-you very much. Meanwhile, I'll keep my mind open and let genuine reproducible science teach me about the world around me.
Yeah, if the animals had their own rocks for self defense. Their own sticks. Nay, sharpened sticks. Their own spears. Their own bow and arrows. Their own crossbows. Rifles. Automated killing/packaging factories.
Face it; it's the evolution of man and the evolution of how we get our food. If you want to feel moral by going to a grocery store and buying food that was raised to be killed and shrink-wrapped for your convenience, then fine, do so, but leave hunters alone. They hunt for food, fur, and bragging rights all in one package. They also only tend to fell one large animal per year.
Well, if Operation Black Shield fails, why not?
How many tanks do you and your neighbors own?
{sigh} I can't believe Stella's horse is still being beaten. Yes, McDonald's used water that was very hot. Yes, the coffee drinker's association of America defended that practice because that's how you're supposed to brew coffee to extract the full flavour from the beans ...
By the by; when you make coffee, you don't generally start drinking it the moment it hits the cup. Moreover, water stops 'boiling' as soon as it is removed from its heat source. Generally you take the time to mix your cream, milk, sugar, sweetener etc. before you begin drinking. But much like anything else that gets discussed on Slashdot everybody's an expert, everybody's a connoisseur, and everybody certainly knows best about every situation.
Back to Stella's case; she knew the coffee was hot. She put the cup of coffee between her legs in the car at the side of the road to mix her cream and sugar. She managed to spill the beverage all over herself all by herself and took the age-old American view of "It's Not My Fault" to court and went after the deepest pockets she could find; the red and yellow clown.
For more facts in the case, you can refer to the Stella Awards page dedicated to Ms. Liebeck for more facts on the matter. But please, don't allow facts to get in the way of all the Slashdot exspurt testimony.
No, I ignored it because it's irrelevant. Who decides which work days "unnecessarily match[es] that of many others"?
You do realize you're arguing a non-sequitur, right? You acknowledge that a bus can eliminate 50 cars from the road, yet congests as much as 3-4 cars? Even assuming 4 cars, that's a negative 12.5 car congestion ratio so the bus companies should be reimbursed for their travels, no?
All assertions are true!
Ever seen the safety ratings for a Dodge/Plymouth Neon? (I could list more, but that's about the cheapest coffin on four wheels one could ever buy)
Where, BTW, did you get the idea that SUVs cause the "worst damage to [the] passengers"? Is it founded in any form of reality? Which SUVs are you talking about; crossovers, car platform, truck platform, compact, mid-size, full-size or are you painting all "SUVs" with the same brush?
Do you have a source for these ridiculous claims, or just the ambulance-chasing lawyer advert site you posted?
Newer child seats are larger to accomodate advanced safety features. If you modify a child seat you are condemning your child to certain death in the event of an accident. As it is, child seats are unsafe if installed improperly, letalone modified.
Please, seriously, stop giving child related advice when you have no experience. Bad enough giving technical advice, but now you're treading in waters that can result in death and/or permanent disability.
Workdays tend to coincide so that businesses can interact with one-another, hence the term "business hours". This also allows for similar social and family time after work hours and on weekends.
Take for example restaurants, food distrubutors, supermarkets, food producers/manufacturers. Restaurants obviously have to be open to serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner which occur at predictable times allowing them to prepare in advance and staff accordingly. Their distributors and suppliers have to work during the day to accommodate their orders, therefore supermarkets, warehouses and other suppliers must work accordingly. Manufacturers/producers must supply said distributors and the chain is complete. Synergy. It exists in every field of work.
If you want to help eliminate congestion, make alternative arrangements. Car pool, mass transit into and out of major downtown areas, etc.
Now taxing people who commute to/from work who are often in situations where living "in the city" is too darned expensive, puts an increased barrier on them and makes their lives even more difficult; especially at the rates proposed in that journal entry. Taxing busses, BTW? Considering a single bus can eliminate as many as 50 cars per run, isn't that redundant?
That would be "long wheelbase" and "wide track", FWIW.
Spoken like somebody with no experience with kids.
BTW; the minivan market is so saturated right now you can easily buy one for below CDN$20k at finance rates as low as 0%. If you can afford a Honda Civic, you can afford a minivan and then some.
Two child seats will fill the rear seat of a (sub)compact or even a wagon, relegating the third seat in the middle to "storage". In Ontario, Canada it's illegal to have a child less than 12 years old weighing less than ~70lbs in the front seat of a car, not to mention it's just plain unsafe anywhere. Generally the spouse would sit in the front seat anyways, making this generally useless for a child regardless of safety concerns.
There goes your compact car idea.
Now, when said children grow older and acheive heights of 6 feet and then some, shoe sizes in excess of 11, or even just a pair of 5'9" children will again fill out the back seat of most cars.
Now comes the fun part. Travelling as a family. Take a family of two parents and three children, enough equipment to manage for a day or possibly an overnight trip (say diapers, formula, blankets, changes of clothing, etc.), factor in a minimum of one child seat, the likelyhood of a stroller and/or playpen plus items needed/wanted by the older children. Throw some bags/bundles of food into the mix and perhaps some gifts (think holidays). Where does it all go? The wagon's too cramped, the (sub)compact is completely out of the question so what's left? You guessed it; minivan or SUV.
Don't tell me about "back in the day" either. Back in the day people drove Chevy Vans or Ford E-150s with the 8-, 12-, or 15- seat options for larger families (yes, there are people out there with 10+ children).
It's great if your family/household situation is able to get by with a (sub)compact car but you should really consider losing the elitist attitude. Not everybody's situation is identical to yours.
What makes you think they have "sophomoric computer skills"?
{yawn} Sure. It's a huge process. Canada has changed our paper currency no less than twice in my lifetime. Our economy didn't crash as a result.
Training sales clerks? Why, because the bills are different colours and have raised print in the corners? Money readers? Nay. The identifying marks are still on the bottom portion of the bill. New readers are enhanced to look for the more modern counterfeit devices. Changing printing systems? BFD. Fraud? The new bills have more anti-fraud technology than the old ones. p.s.; U.S. currency is so easy to counterfeit your government would probably save billions by updating it to the standards your International friends enjoy. There goes your printing systems argument.
Not to mention they can even be difficult to distinguish at a quick glance by a sighted person. Most countries also use wildly different colours and/or shapes to distinguish denomination.
Yeah; I used to have the same "acknowledged physiological weakness". Then I started going to bed an hour or two earlier and it went away.
FWIW, over the years I've worked several different shifts and have always adapted my sleep patterns to the schedule so I could be coherent at all times of the day, be it 8AM, 11AM, 4PM, or 8PM when I started work.