By telling data recovery companies they can't disassemble the drive, he locks out all the tools that would be able to recover the overwritten data. They don't perform that recovery by relying on the drive's electronics and read/write hardware, they use their own to mount and read the platters. This is rigged.
I have seen the effects, and the reason I pointed out carrying an EpiPen is it's the only thing that's going to keep the child alive long enough to get to the hospital should the bad thing happen. I'm not saying to use it like candy, I'm saying if they are sensitive enough to the point that the mere smell is going to set them off, just like a person who's deathly allergic to bee stings, they need to carry emergency treatment with them at all times, and the school staff need to be trained on it.
That said, I couldn't find anything supporting a complete school wide ban on peanut butter from what I consider credible sources. Personally, if the child is that sensitive, you're going to have to be banning a whole lot more than just peanut butter as peanut and other reaction triggering substances are used in a crazy variety of items; I do think re-organizing a school's budget and operation around one child's problem IS too much.
If your child is THAT sensitive, how do you expect them to survive in the real world?
Interestingly, based on the reading I'm doing, 20 to 25 percent of children outgrow this alergy? I also see a ton of sources noting that it's almost impossible to accurately diagnose anything but full on super sensitive cases, and even then the level of reaction needed to be sure prohibits most from testing due to the risk.
The other common theme that I'm seeing is the 'sensitivity' in most cases is way overblown. Your child should be carrying an EpiPen, and should be ok eating at their own, peanut free table. There isn't a need to ban peanut butter from the whole school.
If only that were true. Instead, what you get is inadiquate testing by Nvidia/ATi resulting in wierd behavior for certain systems because they treat it like a second tier platform.
'Cool' maybe, but not useful, at least to me. 'Thin' laptops aren't any better or worse for me then their thicker, similar footprint breatherin. I take that back, they are typically flimsier so they are worse. When I want a more portable laptop, thickness is not one of my primary criteria, footprint is. Apple still hasn't released an 'ultra portable' that can replace my Fujitsu Lifebook P2040 in terms of size.
The hardware companies already do offer 'standalone' diagnostic apps. Simply put though, for 99.99999999999999% of the hardware issues encountered, there's no need to reinvent the wheel for every diagnostic program, it's just as easy to code it as an app to run under Windows, which is why the market has moved that way. I've got a slug of tools that fire up into a Windows PE environment off CD and give me more than just access to HW diag, but the ability to connect to windows shares and perform network based recovery tasks as well. No reliance on the user's existing install, and just as much ability to cope with brain dead bios / hw conf as a DOS based util.
In short, it's far EASIER for diag companies to rely on an established base OS and GUI than to code their own from scratch for every new product. They used to rely on DOS, they've moved on as Microsoft has.
If you aren't convinced, step up and launch your own diagnostic tool kit line and base it on something else. If the world beats a path to your door, you win.
And I'm only returning the hostility you started with when you decided to tell repair shops how it should be done. : )
Because they aren't under any obligation to. There are plenty of perfectly valid stress testing tools available for windows, if thats what they want to use, it's their call. If YOU don't like their choice of diagnostics, take your business elsewhere.
the fact that my dual-proc G4 tower is sitting idle because I refuse to pay $250 for a replacement 300-watt power supply I can at least offer you some help on this front.
I've got to update it a bit, if you're not using an ADC display or bus powered firewire devices, you can just use the PC power supply's +5v SB line for the white +28v feed. I've not confirmed that on later systems that have two +28v feeds, so some feedback there would be handy.
Unless the bus and ram start running faster than the cpu, cache will have place in the design. And when die space is as cheap as it is for Intel now, why NOT use it for more cache?
Note, by 'unhappy' he means Apple got pissed at the cloners releasing FASTER machines than any Apple offerings, for lower pricing. Apple supplied the board designs, the cloners took better advantage of them. Apple shut them down in a panic.
So where, here, is the impetus to build a new plant, exactly? Build plant for cost Y. Charge cost X to 'sell' the plant for teardown and an award of carbon credits, where X is higher than Y. The plant just turned a profit, repeat for additional profit.
So China then violates it's emission limits, which have been reduced due to the carbon credits they've sold, and they're punished accordingly, perhaps through economic sanctions or some other mechanism, not unlike any other treaty on the planet. China hasn't lied in this case. Carbon emissions WERE reduced as reported by the tear down of the first plant. But because there aren't any restrictions on their opening NEW plants, (remember, their a rapidly growing nation who can't be bothered to be held to the same standard as the US / Europe) they just reuse the resources to reopen a new plant. It's a sick form of recycling really.
Small problem with carbon credits, all it does is pump money into China, India, etc without actually reducing emissions.
A US company decides it's more cost effective to buy credits rather than reduce emissions by the same amount. So, money spent, their emissions don't change.
The credits are 'purchased' by taking action in China to 'reduce' emissions. In most cases that consists of paying local labor to tear down and do an environmental cleanup on a high pollution industrial site. Ah, carbon offset you say, X amount of emissions have just been neutralized, yea!
Small problem though, the plant is dismantled in a nice, non-destructive manor, and part of the money gained by it's sale and dismantling, along with all salvageable bits are used to set up... a duplicate plant. No emission laws to prevent it, we're in China remember? So, here comes X amount of emissions, only now the plant may be larger or more polluting to be a better target to attract foreign companies looking to purchase an offset.
This is news? We've had variable timing setups in different guises for awhile now. The trick isn't variable timing, it's coming up with a valve drive train that can run for any length of time without needing an overhaul. I don't see that covered anywhere in the article.
Fun item to look up... BMW had a motor using solenoid operated valves, no throttle body butterfly valve, the 'throttle' was controlled by altering the virtual cam profile used to operate the valves. It was a lab unit, but it existed far before this university thought they had come onto something new... First applications of this type of tech will likely be on motorcycles, where varying the valve timing can allow for MUCH broader power-bands from a given motor. Imagine if you will, an inline 4 600cc sportbike with bottom end grunt matching a 750 twin. : )
Now jump'n runs alone are not new, but I never ever played a cooperative multiplayer one, let alone on the big consoles. Never played Contra, Ikari Warriors, etc then eh?
Play WiiSports with a group of friends, the magic will be back, trust me. : ) That's what we're finding, is the Wii is just an awesome social platform. Even if you're just watching someone play a solo game, seeing them flail about with the Wiimote is much more entertaining than watching someone button mash a traditional controller. Example: Rayman Raving Rabbids... some of the motions required for some of the minigames are downright hilarious.
Agreed. Don't ban tech, set a standard. Look at two stroke motors. Compared to a four stroke they can churn out just as much power in a far smaller, lighter, CHEAPER package. Old two strokes put out more polution though, so the US thoughtfully banned the import and sale of two stroke street vehicles for 2007 and on. Meanwhile, over in Europe companies are producing clean burning two stroke motors that have no problems meeting the emission standards imposed on four stroke machines, but can't be sold over here because the design is banned rather than just requiring certain air quality standards and letting the market do it's thing.
You, as the CC company now have a list in your hands of CCs that have been compromised. Disable the cards and contact the owners.
In myspace's case, change the pw's on the accounts, or flat out turn them off and require the user take specific action that identifies them as the proper owner to reactivate.
Funny, the last time I was part of the Nielsen ratings, the tracking booklet I was to fill out had instructions for noting media I watched via TVR, handheld, etc. Sure, it's not electronic and automated via a custom cable box, etc, but it still looks to me like that data is tracked just fine.
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By telling data recovery companies they can't disassemble the drive, he locks out all the tools that would be able to recover the overwritten data. They don't perform that recovery by relying on the drive's electronics and read/write hardware, they use their own to mount and read the platters. This is rigged.
I have seen the effects, and the reason I pointed out carrying an EpiPen is it's the only thing that's going to keep the child alive long enough to get to the hospital should the bad thing happen. I'm not saying to use it like candy, I'm saying if they are sensitive enough to the point that the mere smell is going to set them off, just like a person who's deathly allergic to bee stings, they need to carry emergency treatment with them at all times, and the school staff need to be trained on it.
That said, I couldn't find anything supporting a complete school wide ban on peanut butter from what I consider credible sources. Personally, if the child is that sensitive, you're going to have to be banning a whole lot more than just peanut butter as peanut and other reaction triggering substances are used in a crazy variety of items; I do think re-organizing a school's budget and operation around one child's problem IS too much.
If your child is THAT sensitive, how do you expect them to survive in the real world?
Interestingly, based on the reading I'm doing, 20 to 25 percent of children outgrow this alergy? I also see a ton of sources noting that it's almost impossible to accurately diagnose anything but full on super sensitive cases, and even then the level of reaction needed to be sure prohibits most from testing due to the risk.
The other common theme that I'm seeing is the 'sensitivity' in most cases is way overblown. Your child should be carrying an EpiPen, and should be ok eating at their own, peanut free table. There isn't a need to ban peanut butter from the whole school.
If only that were true. Instead, what you get is inadiquate testing by Nvidia/ATi resulting in wierd behavior for certain systems because they treat it like a second tier platform.
But this laptop isn't really damn small, it's just thin. There is no good justification for it.
'Cool' maybe, but not useful, at least to me. 'Thin' laptops aren't any better or worse for me then their thicker, similar footprint breatherin. I take that back, they are typically flimsier so they are worse. When I want a more portable laptop, thickness is not one of my primary criteria, footprint is. Apple still hasn't released an 'ultra portable' that can replace my Fujitsu Lifebook P2040 in terms of size.
The hardware companies already do offer 'standalone' diagnostic apps. Simply put though, for 99.99999999999999% of the hardware issues encountered, there's no need to reinvent the wheel for every diagnostic program, it's just as easy to code it as an app to run under Windows, which is why the market has moved that way. I've got a slug of tools that fire up into a Windows PE environment off CD and give me more than just access to HW diag, but the ability to connect to windows shares and perform network based recovery tasks as well. No reliance on the user's existing install, and just as much ability to cope with brain dead bios / hw conf as a DOS based util.
In short, it's far EASIER for diag companies to rely on an established base OS and GUI than to code their own from scratch for every new product. They used to rely on DOS, they've moved on as Microsoft has.
If you aren't convinced, step up and launch your own diagnostic tool kit line and base it on something else. If the world beats a path to your door, you win.
And I'm only returning the hostility you started with when you decided to tell repair shops how it should be done. : )
Because they aren't under any obligation to. There are plenty of perfectly valid stress testing tools available for windows, if thats what they want to use, it's their call. If YOU don't like their choice of diagnostics, take your business elsewhere.
Find a powerbook power supply, most of those are 28v switched units which will work perfectly with your ADC display.
http://www.outofspec.com/frankenmac/wire.shtml
I've got to update it a bit, if you're not using an ADC display or bus powered firewire devices, you can just use the PC power supply's +5v SB line for the white +28v feed. I've not confirmed that on later systems that have two +28v feeds, so some feedback there would be handy.
Unless the bus and ram start running faster than the cpu, cache will have place in the design. And when die space is as cheap as it is for Intel now, why NOT use it for more cache?
Note, by 'unhappy' he means Apple got pissed at the cloners releasing FASTER machines than any Apple offerings, for lower pricing. Apple supplied the board designs, the cloners took better advantage of them. Apple shut them down in a panic.
I wonder what's patentable about using a cpu thats a better fit to get the job done quicker?
I suspect the 'evil frequency' isn't referring to the wavelength of light emitted, but instead to the pulse pattern.
Small problem with carbon credits, all it does is pump money into China, India, etc without actually reducing emissions.
A US company decides it's more cost effective to buy credits rather than reduce emissions by the same amount. So, money spent, their emissions don't change.
The credits are 'purchased' by taking action in China to 'reduce' emissions. In most cases that consists of paying local labor to tear down and do an environmental cleanup on a high pollution industrial site. Ah, carbon offset you say, X amount of emissions have just been neutralized, yea!
Small problem though, the plant is dismantled in a nice, non-destructive manor, and part of the money gained by it's sale and dismantling, along with all salvageable bits are used to set up... a duplicate plant. No emission laws to prevent it, we're in China remember? So, here comes X amount of emissions, only now the plant may be larger or more polluting to be a better target to attract foreign companies looking to purchase an offset.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
This is news? We've had variable timing setups in different guises for awhile now. The trick isn't variable timing, it's coming up with a valve drive train that can run for any length of time without needing an overhaul. I don't see that covered anywhere in the article.
Fun item to look up... BMW had a motor using solenoid operated valves, no throttle body butterfly valve, the 'throttle' was controlled by altering the virtual cam profile used to operate the valves. It was a lab unit, but it existed far before this university thought they had come onto something new... First applications of this type of tech will likely be on motorcycles, where varying the valve timing can allow for MUCH broader power-bands from a given motor. Imagine if you will, an inline 4 600cc sportbike with bottom end grunt matching a 750 twin. : )
Play WiiSports with a group of friends, the magic will be back, trust me. : ) That's what we're finding, is the Wii is just an awesome social platform. Even if you're just watching someone play a solo game, seeing them flail about with the Wiimote is much more entertaining than watching someone button mash a traditional controller. Example: Rayman Raving Rabbids... some of the motions required for some of the minigames are downright hilarious.
Agreed. Don't ban tech, set a standard. Look at two stroke motors. Compared to a four stroke they can churn out just as much power in a far smaller, lighter, CHEAPER package. Old two strokes put out more polution though, so the US thoughtfully banned the import and sale of two stroke street vehicles for 2007 and on. Meanwhile, over in Europe companies are producing clean burning two stroke motors that have no problems meeting the emission standards imposed on four stroke machines, but can't be sold over here because the design is banned rather than just requiring certain air quality standards and letting the market do it's thing.
Lets say it was CC info.
You, as the CC company now have a list in your hands of CCs that have been compromised. Disable the cards and contact the owners.
In myspace's case, change the pw's on the accounts, or flat out turn them off and require the user take specific action that identifies them as the proper owner to reactivate.
Funny, the last time I was part of the Nielsen ratings, the tracking booklet I was to fill out had instructions for noting media I watched via TVR, handheld, etc. Sure, it's not electronic and automated via a custom cable box, etc, but it still looks to me like that data is tracked just fine.
...with no moving parts. Take a tube, open at one end, pack full of solid rocket fuel. Aim the open end away from your destination, and light.
Good news everybody, it's also a suppository!