And for the very first block you use the same rules as for Latin-1/ASCII too, which by the way ALSO has potentially really bad characters like all below 0x20!
Of course there's still a small risk that important data has gone to a bad sector which is no longer mapped and thus also not rewritten in the process.
However if confidential data is stored strongly encrypted (as it should be), then as long as your key is reliably wiped out, it doesn't really matter if the rest of the data is still there. Nobody will be able to read it anyway.
Well, unfortunately "should be" is entirely different from "is"...
Hope you don't work in data security! Every decent file recovery tool (Recuva, PhotoRec, etc.) can restore files from a formatted drive. Secure wiping (as with DBAN) is a different matter.
Not if it is true formatting (as opposed of the simple rewrite of file system master structures which these days is done when "formatting"). I don't know if modern hard disks actually still support true formatting, though.
Seriously the suburbs are *more* racist than 15 years ago IMHO.
... again.. cite?
Well, since he has added "IMHO" there's not much to cite. He clearly marked it as his opinion, which for things which otherwise would be considered statements of facts basically means "I have no evidence whatsoever for this but I believe it anyway."
As I understand it, transformers of this class consist of a pile of wound copper or aluminum wire, usually bathed in some sort of oil or other electrically nonconductive, heat conducting fluid.
While that's of course the core of any transformator, there's a lot of technology around it. To start with, you want to control the phase, because that's how you control how much power is flowing (and in which direction -- you don't generally want the power to flow from the grid to the power plant, after all).
Even the best satellite cannot watch an event before it happens.
Further the the first solar flare was August 28, and the big one was first noticed on September 1st. So there were in excess of 3 days warning.
Not for the big one. Unless you have indication that big ones are always preceded by small ones and a significant fraction of the small ones is followed by big ones (or you've got a way to decide in advance whether a big one will follow).
The first flare also caused enough disruption that telegraph didn't work, so in the modern era we would have been preparing for that one, long before the second one started.
And then, after the first one happened, probably been going back to normal, because we had no idea that there's more to follow.
From August 28, 1859, until September 2, numerous sunspots and solar flares were observed on the sun. Just before noon on September 1, the British astronomer Richard Carrington observed the largest flare,[3] which caused a major coronal mass ejection (CME) to travel directly toward Earth, taking 17.6 hours. Such a journey normally takes three to four days.
The solar storm of 1859, also known as the 1859 Solar Superstorm,[1] or the Carrington Event,[2] was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm in 1859 during solar cycle 10. A solar flare and/or coronal mass ejection produced a solar storm which hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced the largest known geomagnetic solar storm, which was observed and recorded by Richard C. Carrington.
The grocery store isn't the main problem (assuming it has enough food of the right type -- that is, not needing to be cooled -- on stock). You don't need any technology to exchange money for food, and hopefully the people working there haven't yet forgotten how to add numbers without having an electronic cash desk helping them (they also might have pocket calculators with working batteries, or even solar powered ones, to do that). Getting new food delivered will be a problem, but that will take a longer time to surface (assuming the grocery store applies good selling guidelines so that the supplies are not quickly bought off by hoarders).
Of course if you don't have that cash, you're doomed. Because your credit card won't work without electricity. Nor the ATMs. And since most probably your bank has no longer a paper record of your account and the computers are not working, even personally showing up at your bank won't help.
Normally the major part of your electricity bill is the energy (kWh) you used. If the power is out, you certainly don't use any, therefore you don't pay any.
Of course there's the question about the price you pay for the fact that electricity is available to you. If the electricity is not available for a longer time, you could possibly argue that they didn't fulfil their part of the contract, and therefore you don't have to pay. However IANAL.
So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
It is not impossible that oral tradition changes an event where it was bright enough to read at night into an event where the sun was shining all night.
Gasoline heating or cooling via electricity? Where is this common practice?
I'm pretty sure he just forgot a comma after "gasoline". So: No gasoline (because the pumps don't work), no cooling (almost all cooling depends on electricity; note that the most important cooling is not air condition, but food cooling), no heating (although in most regions, electricity is not used directly for heating, most central heating systems still depend on electric pumps to transport the heat to the rooms).
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I didn't know that not understanding things now counts as ability. I guess that gives a lot of people a lot of abilities in a lot of fields. ;-)
It's bad enough that the swine in the government want to track
our every move.
If you wear such a device in public, you should be ready for
the consequences, which may not be pleasant.
FTFS: "The GlassUp device is a receive-only Bluetooth accessory to a nearby mobile device"
So, no tracking using this device.
Not every digital device is a computer.
All of them? Including 0x0a?
On a related note, it there a marker for being sue-happy?
Here it is.
Of course there's still a small risk that important data has gone to a bad sector which is no longer mapped and thus also not rewritten in the process.
However if confidential data is stored strongly encrypted (as it should be), then as long as your key is reliably wiped out, it doesn't really matter if the rest of the data is still there. Nobody will be able to read it anyway.
Well, unfortunately "should be" is entirely different from "is" ...
Not if it is true formatting (as opposed of the simple rewrite of file system master structures which these days is done when "formatting"). I don't know if modern hard disks actually still support true formatting, though.
Well, since he has added "IMHO" there's not much to cite. He clearly marked it as his opinion, which for things which otherwise would be considered statements of facts basically means "I have no evidence whatsoever for this but I believe it anyway."
While that's of course the core of any transformator, there's a lot of technology around it. To start with, you want to control the phase, because that's how you control how much power is flowing (and in which direction -- you don't generally want the power to flow from the grid to the power plant, after all).
Even the best satellite cannot watch an event before it happens.
Not for the big one. Unless you have indication that big ones are always preceded by small ones and a significant fraction of the small ones is followed by big ones (or you've got a way to decide in advance whether a big one will follow).
And then, after the first one happened, probably been going back to normal, because we had no idea that there's more to follow.
It surely would not be the first patent which depends on another one.
You might have noted the little word "probably" in my post. I've put it there for a reason. And that reason was not that it sounds nice.
From Wikipedia (emphasis by me):
From August 28, 1859, until September 2, numerous sunspots and solar flares were observed on the sun. Just before noon on September 1, the British astronomer Richard Carrington observed the largest flare,[3] which caused a major coronal mass ejection (CME) to travel directly toward Earth, taking 17.6 hours. Such a journey normally takes three to four days.
So much for three or four days of warning.
From Wikipedia (emphasis by me):
The solar storm of 1859, also known as the 1859 Solar Superstorm,[1] or the Carrington Event,[2] was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm in 1859 during solar cycle 10. A solar flare and/or coronal mass ejection produced a solar storm which hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced the largest known geomagnetic solar storm, which was observed and recorded by Richard C. Carrington.
Even if that large machine shop is also not getting electricity? And where does it get the needed materials in such a short time?
BTW, can you explain how you get to that assumption?
Not if they no longer have the means which provide the warnings, due to cost-cutting.
Great logic. "You've warned us and thus now we are aware. Since we are aware, you should not have warned us."
The grocery store isn't the main problem (assuming it has enough food of the right type -- that is, not needing to be cooled -- on stock). You don't need any technology to exchange money for food, and hopefully the people working there haven't yet forgotten how to add numbers without having an electronic cash desk helping them (they also might have pocket calculators with working batteries, or even solar powered ones, to do that). Getting new food delivered will be a problem, but that will take a longer time to surface (assuming the grocery store applies good selling guidelines so that the supplies are not quickly bought off by hoarders).
Of course if you don't have that cash, you're doomed. Because your credit card won't work without electricity. Nor the ATMs. And since most probably your bank has no longer a paper record of your account and the computers are not working, even personally showing up at your bank won't help.
Normally the major part of your electricity bill is the energy (kWh) you used. If the power is out, you certainly don't use any, therefore you don't pay any.
Of course there's the question about the price you pay for the fact that electricity is available to you. If the electricity is not available for a longer time, you could possibly argue that they didn't fulfil their part of the contract, and therefore you don't have to pay. However IANAL.
Fast forward to today, where piracy is a higher issue along with 23 other items.
Piracy as in copying movies, or piracy as in forcefully boarding ships?
'Telegraphs in Philadelphia were spitting out âoefantastical and unreadable messages,â'
That's why, today, we have error correction.
Except for Slashdot posts, obviously. ;-)
Joshua 10:13
So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
It is not impossible that oral tradition changes an event where it was bright enough to read at night into an event where the sun was shining all night.
Well, according to past evidence, yes, we all gonna die. However probably not all at the same time.
... and that the solar storm didn't destroy their emergency equipment.
I'm pretty sure he just forgot a comma after "gasoline".
So: No gasoline (because the pumps don't work), no cooling (almost all cooling depends on electricity; note that the most important cooling is not air condition, but food cooling), no heating (although in most regions, electricity is not used directly for heating, most central heating systems still depend on electric pumps to transport the heat to the rooms).