So, if there's a law that requires ISPs and the like of turning over data to government on request, is there also a law that prevents such service providers of informing a user that some of their personal information has been released and to whom?
RAID 0 does not offer "block redundancy".
If I have old-fashioned backups, how can I determine that my primary file has sustained damage? The OS doesn't tell us. In fact, the OS probably doesn't even know.
Backup software often allows you to validate the backup immediately after the backup was made, but not, say, a year later.
The term "checksum" is over-used. A true check-sum algorithm *may* tell you that a file has sustained damage. It will not, however, tell you how to correct it. A "CRC" (cyclic-redundancy-check) or "SHA" (secure hashing algorithm) have a better chance for flagging a damaged file than a check-sum. The only "correction" algorithm that I've tripped across (and there are probably others) is "Reed-Solomon".
Drug companies: Sorry, R&D folks, we're going to have to lay you off. You know all that money we told the government we needed for R&D? Well, it's all going to advertising now, so we don't really need you anymore.
(A conflicting message: Don't do drugs, except of course for the ones we advertise on TV.)
Background checks along with drug testing seems to be standard application fare these days (shades of 1984). The thing that I refuse is open-ended, forever and ever, checks. I ALWAYS modify the employment contract to put in a fixed time limit, say 30 days. Then I initial the changes, make them initial the changes, and ask for a copy.
From Denver:
$27.23 Residential General
$4.50 GRSA (huh?)
$0.62 Air Quality Improvements
$0.32 Trans Cost Adj
$14.90 Elec Commodity Adj
$2.31 Demand Side Mgmt Cost
$8.08 Purch Cap Cost Adj
$1.17 Renew Energy Std Adj
$1.77 Franchise Fee
$2.21 Sales Tax
$63.11 SUBTOTAL
All this for an 1100sqft home
Seems like they have enough fees that are unrelated to the amount of electricity that you consume.
(OK, who ordered "tax"?)
Denver has another rate issue in addition to the one proposed by Xcel. For several years we had drought conditions and Denver Water successfully encouraged consumers (except for golf courses) to cut back on their water usage. Then they successfully won the right to raise water rates because people were no longer buying enough water. Now we're paying more for less. The same thing is about to happen with electricity.
Some classmates and I taught ourselves Fortran when I was 15. It was part of a computer math class but the teacher didn't really know anything about Fortran so we were given copies of the Fortran manuals and access to equipment and we spent lots of time experimenting and teaching each other. This was back in '68, on an IBM/360(I think) using teletypes connected by audio coupled modems.
I would say that the particular language you choose is probably not the most important issue. Access to a development environment that you can spend as much time as you want on. Gobs of online or book references and tutorials. And, a friend or two to exchange ideas with. I would also say that all of this pretty much has to be free because 15 year olds have little access to $$$.
Ok, I read the article, I also read the NYT article. Unless my eyes skipped over it I didn't see any mention of the name of the judge that cited him with contempt, only the name of the judge that let him out. I wonder about reporters who leave the "who dun'it" info out of an article.
This touches on one of my pet issues: how do you tell when a file gets pinged by bit rot? It would seem that you'd want to do some sort of comparison between an entire file's contents and a signature file. That you'd want to do this on both your primary storage and your backup storage. Maybe using something like an MD5 signature or maybe something like Reed-Solomon codes which might give you a chance of recovering a damaged file.
I use file/directory mirroring instead of proprietary methods and file format. This saved my butt when my XP system died and my new system was Vista.
Currently I use "Karen's Replicator" (freeware) to make mirror images of my data directories. I wish KR had some sort of bit-rot test built in. I've been contemplating writing my own.
I also make occasional total system backups but not as frequently as I backup my data.
I ended up with a new set of hard drives (long story) and had to reload my data and reinstall my programs. I was impressed with how fast the system seemed with the new drives. That was until I installed McAfee anti virus software. Solution: wait a few weeks and you won't remember how fast it was.
Vista has a slider to adjust the line-in record volume, but it doesn't do anything. I had to dig out an old Radio Shack mixing console and put it between the source and the sound card so that I could record without distortion. (MS appeasing RIAA???)
For those of you who is want some thrills seeing someone else getting over on a telemarketer, you might enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2SXAcBOGBk
You can do this yourself by Googling "judge judy soundboard"
I haven't had a chance to test drive this, but I'd like to have a house in the mountains with an elevated room overlooking the woods with huge screened windows that open wide. I would open the windows wide ('cept for the winter) and get a slight sweet breeze and hear the sounds of birds chirping.
I was programming at a company in the beginning of the 80's that bought Sun workstation serial number 2 for us to develop on. It was an S100 bus machine with a M68000 CPU. Berkeley UNIX with C compilers. The documentation stacked 4 feet tall. We connected to it with WYSE-50 RS-232 terminals.
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So, if there's a law that requires ISPs and the like of turning over data to government on request, is there also a law that prevents such service providers of informing a user that some of their personal information has been released and to whom?
RAID 0 does not offer "block redundancy". If I have old-fashioned backups, how can I determine that my primary file has sustained damage? The OS doesn't tell us. In fact, the OS probably doesn't even know. Backup software often allows you to validate the backup immediately after the backup was made, but not, say, a year later. The term "checksum" is over-used. A true check-sum algorithm *may* tell you that a file has sustained damage. It will not, however, tell you how to correct it. A "CRC" (cyclic-redundancy-check) or "SHA" (secure hashing algorithm) have a better chance for flagging a damaged file than a check-sum. The only "correction" algorithm that I've tripped across (and there are probably others) is "Reed-Solomon".
What about "Goo"?
"I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if you think it will help" HHGTTG
Google: "Here, swallow this micro camera for us."
I noticed that the document against anonymity was written anonymously. (Names, people. I need names!)
"Anonymous Coward"?
(A conflicting message: Don't do drugs, except of course for the ones we advertise on TV.)
The set of "repeating" patterns is a subset of all patterns.
How about a pattern appearing when Pi is expressed in another base?
Background checks along with drug testing seems to be standard application fare these days (shades of 1984). The thing that I refuse is open-ended, forever and ever, checks. I ALWAYS modify the employment contract to put in a fixed time limit, say 30 days. Then I initial the changes, make them initial the changes, and ask for a copy.
From Denver: $27.23 Residential General $4.50 GRSA (huh?) $0.62 Air Quality Improvements $0.32 Trans Cost Adj $14.90 Elec Commodity Adj $2.31 Demand Side Mgmt Cost $8.08 Purch Cap Cost Adj $1.17 Renew Energy Std Adj $1.77 Franchise Fee $2.21 Sales Tax $63.11 SUBTOTAL All this for an 1100sqft home Seems like they have enough fees that are unrelated to the amount of electricity that you consume. (OK, who ordered "tax"?)
Denver has another rate issue in addition to the one proposed by Xcel. For several years we had drought conditions and Denver Water successfully encouraged consumers (except for golf courses) to cut back on their water usage. Then they successfully won the right to raise water rates because people were no longer buying enough water. Now we're paying more for less. The same thing is about to happen with electricity.
Some classmates and I taught ourselves Fortran when I was 15. It was part of a computer math class but the teacher didn't really know anything about Fortran so we were given copies of the Fortran manuals and access to equipment and we spent lots of time experimenting and teaching each other. This was back in '68, on an IBM/360(I think) using teletypes connected by audio coupled modems.
I would say that the particular language you choose is probably not the most important issue. Access to a development environment that you can spend as much time as you want on. Gobs of online or book references and tutorials. And, a friend or two to exchange ideas with. I would also say that all of this pretty much has to be free because 15 year olds have little access to $$$.
Ok, I read the article, I also read the NYT article. Unless my eyes skipped over it I didn't see any mention of the name of the judge that cited him with contempt, only the name of the judge that let him out. I wonder about reporters who leave the "who dun'it" info out of an article.
This touches on one of my pet issues: how do you tell when a file gets pinged by bit rot? It would seem that you'd want to do some sort of comparison between an entire file's contents and a signature file. That you'd want to do this on both your primary storage and your backup storage. Maybe using something like an MD5 signature or maybe something like Reed-Solomon codes which might give you a chance of recovering a damaged file.
I use file/directory mirroring instead of proprietary methods and file format. This saved my butt when my XP system died and my new system was Vista.
Currently I use "Karen's Replicator" (freeware) to make mirror images of my data directories. I wish KR had some sort of bit-rot test built in. I've been contemplating writing my own.
I also make occasional total system backups but not as frequently as I backup my data.
Carey
Yes, but, irregardless...
I ended up with a new set of hard drives (long story) and had to reload my data and reinstall my programs. I was impressed with how fast the system seemed with the new drives. That was until I installed McAfee anti virus software. Solution: wait a few weeks and you won't remember how fast it was.
Vista has a slider to adjust the line-in record volume, but it doesn't do anything. I had to dig out an old Radio Shack mixing console and put it between the source and the sound card so that I could record without distortion. (MS appeasing RIAA???)
For those of you who is want some thrills seeing someone else getting over on a telemarketer, you might enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2SXAcBOGBk You can do this yourself by Googling "judge judy soundboard"
I haven't had a chance to test drive this, but I'd like to have a house in the mountains with an elevated room overlooking the woods with huge screened windows that open wide. I would open the windows wide ('cept for the winter) and get a slight sweet breeze and hear the sounds of birds chirping.
Except for "hanging chads".
Right you are. Seems so long ago. Memory fades.
I was programming at a company in the beginning of the 80's that bought Sun workstation serial number 2 for us to develop on. It was an S100 bus machine with a M68000 CPU. Berkeley UNIX with C compilers. The documentation stacked 4 feet tall. We connected to it with WYSE-50 RS-232 terminals.