What Google did was circumvent my search request, and provide me with bogus search results.
No, the argument is about the ads shown alongside the search results. Searching for a company name almost always give you their website as the first search result, regardless of whether they have paid for any ads.
And aside from that, they are not obliged to give you accurate or even any search results.
Many search engines did tilt their results towards paid avertisers, and have lost market share when users got annoyed. But that's all you can do, get annoyed and go elsewhere.
However the above wasn't data that was overwritten, just burned and partially melted.
Exactly. I don't deny that you can recover data from physically damaged disks. Still no one has cited a case where simply overwritten data was revovered. This comes up here very few months, and people ramble on about how it MIGHT be done, and how you need to do random writes 32000 times to erase...
I'd like to see you recover something that has been overwritten once.
You can't do it at home, but professional data recovery service can.
Citation for this claim? Know anyone who's actually done it? Seen it? Or any evidence that it can or has been done in real life by anyone (that does not include 24's Chloe O'Brien)?
And even in theory, how much does it cost, how long does it take for each KB of data rerieved? What level of integrity? You might be able to puzzle out ASCII text with a few percent of corruption, but any kind of graphic format will be totally fucked.
And no "If I told you I'd have to kill you" is a joke, not an answer.
Why in the hell is the government entitled to tribute for refraining from interfering in something that's none of their business in the first place?
You could say the same about almost any tax. Tax is not direct payment for services, if it were the private sector would be doing it. Taxes are a way to collect money used to fund things for "the common good". Education, police, fire department, etc; things that you really don't want to be charged to the users at cost. (I would say "health care", as in every other country the government does that too, but Americans prefer to gamble on not getting sick or unemployed).
They didn't spend a fortune putting the Hubble in a higher, more remote orbit for laughs. Lower orbits get more drag from the atmosphere. Anywhere close to the IIS and the Hubble's very delicate instruments and optics would be degraded by all the outgassing from the IIS, the rocket exhaust from visiting vessels. And all the bits and pieces that have fallen off the IIS over the years would be a big hazard. Would take just one bolt moving at high speed to smash a billion dollar mirror.
If someone developed cold fusion or any other cheap/virtually free method for generating energy, the same people (big energy companies) would still sell the rest of us energy at whatever price the market would bear
And if there were a "cheap/virtually free method for generating energy", that market price would be very low, as anyone could set up a plant and compete. You wouldn't need to spend billions on oil exploration or securing oil rights.
It sounds like the machine is supposed to have a plate on it with a warranty number. Alienware has reasonably asked for that information,
Reasonably?
In the automotive world, tampering with or removing the VIN before selling the car is a crime all by itself:...
Another totally irrelevant car analogy. WTF is it with people here that they can't think about anything -- software, laptops, relationships -- unless they can put it "in the automotive world"?
Bottom line: how does Mr. Paget know that his laptop isn't stolen merchandise?
RTFA. Paget works at Ebay as a security consultant. If anyone can tell, he can.
But when the dealer types the VIN into his computer and it comes up "stolen"...
Fuck, what is it with Slashdot and car analogies? Can't anyone think of computers AS COMPUTERS? Anyway, there is no "VIN" or serial number (another fact I learnt from RTFA). Alienware is assuming that if they didn't sell it, it is stolen. They apparently do not recognise that owners have the right of resale. That's what the point of the story is.
If you use Linux you are entrusting your security to the NSA since code that the NSA wrote is already in the Linux kernel
Sure. And the Russians can just replace that and recompile it with their own version, eg from the FSB. That's the whole point of Open Source.
With Windows, even if you have the code and the rights (MS will let big enough customers have it), if you did roll your own, quite likely a whole lot of things would stop working. It's funny that Microsoft application are the most sensitive to this kind of thing. Much old software will happily run on newer Windows. Old MS apps, though, often were optimised for the then current versions of Windows, using hacks and undocumented features, and fail badly.
Either pay more for a device with fewer features, or spend a minute, drill the lens out and plug the hole with some epoxy. Touch up with some enamel paint. If you don't like to do it yourself, any number of repair shops (just about any kind) can do it for you.
Same way it's usually cheaper and much easier to buy a PC with Windows, delete it and install Ubuntu than try to find a manufacturer to supply it for you out of the box.
In the same New York Times article, Dr. Mario Mendez, a behavioural neurologist at the University of California, said it is entirely possible Camerons 3D technology could tap brain systems that are undisturbed by conventional 2D movies. An inner global-positioning system that orients a person to the surrounding world, was one example he gave.
ORLY?
And what if I went to a theater, with THREE DIMENSIONAL HUMAN BEINGS walking around on a THREE DIMENSIONAL STAGE! How would my "inner global-positioning system" react to that!
Just the usual bollocks that "news" magazines print when a big movie comes out. Remember the stories about "possible giant apes" when King Kong was released?
And Slashdot goes along with it, uncritically regurgitating the crappy pseudo news written to promote the next Big Summer Movie.
The movie itself may well be fun. But news and science shouldn't whore themselves out to Hollywood.
On the cultural sensitivity angle, I believe it is because Jews or Muslims would be unlikely to seek treatment if they suspected they were infected by a disease caused by contact with unclean animals
If anyone were really so idiotic, let's just be glad they're removing themselves from the gene pool.
But I believe it's more because pork producers are afraind of their products being banned -- as they are already in some countries in fact, even though pork isn't a vector.
"the yearly maintenance charges for unused switches, electrical charges, and cooling costs."
My USED switches have approximately ZERO maintenance. An unused one could hardly be more. How about the higher costs for wireless equipment? The much lower reliability? The security problems? How about everyone with a desktop PC that has a simple reliable ethernet connection -- why on earth unplug that?
Slashdot Mirror
"Today" is relative. I saw a different one. Use a fixed date: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090516.html
No, the argument is about the ads shown alongside the search results. Searching for a company name almost always give you their website as the first search result, regardless of whether they have paid for any ads.
And aside from that, they are not obliged to give you accurate or even any search results. Many search engines did tilt their results towards paid avertisers, and have lost market share when users got annoyed. But that's all you can do, get annoyed and go elsewhere.
Exactly. I don't deny that you can recover data from physically damaged disks. Still no one has cited a case where simply overwritten data was revovered. This comes up here very few months, and people ramble on about how it MIGHT be done, and how you need to do random writes 32000 times to erase ...
You can't do it at home, but professional data recovery service can.
Citation for this claim? Know anyone who's actually done it? Seen it? Or any evidence that it can or has been done in real life by anyone (that does not include 24's Chloe O'Brien)?
And even in theory, how much does it cost, how long does it take for each KB of data rerieved? What level of integrity? You might be able to puzzle out ASCII text with a few percent of corruption, but any kind of graphic format will be totally fucked.
And no "If I told you I'd have to kill you" is a joke, not an answer.
Whoosh.
Sorry if my remarks seemed intemperate. I should have made it clear that my contempt is directed at the editors.
Cite a real dictionary and I might take note. Any idiot can write a Wiktionary definition. I have, for instance.
I don't blame the original author, but the incompetent editors who should have noticed and fixed it before publishing it.
Plural of "spacecraft" is "spacecraft".
English, do you speak it?
You could say the same about almost any tax. Tax is not direct payment for services, if it were the private sector would be doing it. Taxes are a way to collect money used to fund things for "the common good". Education, police, fire department, etc; things that you really don't want to be charged to the users at cost. (I would say "health care", as in every other country the government does that too, but Americans prefer to gamble on not getting sick or unemployed).
They didn't spend a fortune putting the Hubble in a higher, more remote orbit for laughs. Lower orbits get more drag from the atmosphere. Anywhere close to the IIS and the Hubble's very delicate instruments and optics would be degraded by all the outgassing from the IIS, the rocket exhaust from visiting vessels. And all the bits and pieces that have fallen off the IIS over the years would be a big hazard. Would take just one bolt moving at high speed to smash a billion dollar mirror.
or 79 years after the fact...
And if there were a "cheap/virtually free method for generating energy", that market price would be very low, as anyone could set up a plant and compete. You wouldn't need to spend billions on oil exploration or securing oil rights.
Yes, obviously an Ebay security consultant would be concerned with installing the office stationery from improper use.
No, he can't. He tried. Alienware don't do that. RTFA.
Reasonably?
In the automotive world, tampering with or removing the VIN before selling the car is a crime all by itself:...
Another totally irrelevant car analogy. WTF is it with people here that they can't think about anything -- software, laptops, relationships -- unless they can put it "in the automotive world"?
RTFA. Paget works at Ebay as a security consultant. If anyone can tell, he can.
But when the dealer types the VIN into his computer and it comes up "stolen"...
Fuck, what is it with Slashdot and car analogies? Can't anyone think of computers AS COMPUTERS? Anyway, there is no "VIN" or serial number (another fact I learnt from RTFA). Alienware is assuming that if they didn't sell it, it is stolen. They apparently do not recognise that owners have the right of resale. That's what the point of the story is.
And how many more bullshit "science" articles will Slashdot link as the Trek publicity machine rolls on? Answer: all of them.
Sure. And the Russians can just replace that and recompile it with their own version, eg from the FSB. That's the whole point of Open Source.
With Windows, even if you have the code and the rights (MS will let big enough customers have it), if you did roll your own, quite likely a whole lot of things would stop working. It's funny that Microsoft application are the most sensitive to this kind of thing. Much old software will happily run on newer Windows. Old MS apps, though, often were optimised for the then current versions of Windows, using hacks and undocumented features, and fail badly.
I'm sure it would be "sweet". Doesn't make the bollocks about "personal GPS systems" and getting "addicted" to 3D any more real.
Leave the previews to AintItCoolNews.
Same way it's usually cheaper and much easier to buy a PC with Windows, delete it and install Ubuntu than try to find a manufacturer to supply it for you out of the box.
Where on earth did you get those ideas from? Redneck news radio?
ORLY?
And what if I went to a theater, with THREE DIMENSIONAL HUMAN BEINGS walking around on a THREE DIMENSIONAL STAGE! How would my "inner global-positioning system" react to that!
Just the usual bollocks that "news" magazines print when a big movie comes out. Remember the stories about "possible giant apes" when King Kong was released?
And Slashdot goes along with it, uncritically regurgitating the crappy pseudo news written to promote the next Big Summer Movie.
The movie itself may well be fun. But news and science shouldn't whore themselves out to Hollywood.
If anyone were really so idiotic, let's just be glad they're removing themselves from the gene pool.
But I believe it's more because pork producers are afraind of their products being banned -- as they are already in some countries in fact, even though pork isn't a vector.
My USED switches have approximately ZERO maintenance. An unused one could hardly be more. How about the higher costs for wireless equipment? The much lower reliability? The security problems? How about everyone with a desktop PC that has a simple reliable ethernet connection -- why on earth unplug that?