Yeah, they never needed all those trucks, guns, ammo, tanks etc. that were given to them by the US. The "One gun per 3 men" policy was great, and won the war. Get your head out of your butt. The reason Germany lost was due to a 2 front war. Had the US not entered the war you would be saluting the Iron Cross rather than the Hammer and Sickle.
And MAC Addresses mean anything when you can spoof them, reset them, and hard set them??? I can set my MAC addy to rotate, undulate and habituate, but not my "dynamic" IP that is ISP given.
Um...Except Round-Up is not an insecticide, it is an herbicide. The way that it kills plants it to give them too much growth hormone and that burns the plant out. I would imagine that the way Round-Up Ready plants work is that they have modified them so that they can only take up so much hormone at a time...given them a hormone deficiency if you will. I too would be surprised if this had any real effect on people. I would assume that the characteristic gets passed to the seed but I cant see it being very active there creating extra proteins and such. The only place I CAN see this working is if the plant holds onto the extra hormone in it's system. If that were true however, ALL Round-Up Ready plants would do this sort of damage.
And yeah, in a former life IWAB (I Was A Botanist)
Well, I can say that here in the Land of the Jolly Green Giant(MN), we piss big. Because any conversion to Open Formats here would be huge. The State is the largest single employer in the state at about 50,000 employees. Add to that all of the public colleges 200,000 students (all faculty and staff are MN employees too). And the U of MN and its 50-70,000 students and staff and it sure may not put out the MS Office Volcano, but it sure as heck is going to raise a plume of Green Steam miles into the air.
Hmmm... As each base pair can only be constructed one way I would say that the (theoretical) 3 billion bases pairs = 3 billion bits. Which works out to be about.35G little of a third of a Gig, call it a 400G Hard drive. Which if you work it out is.35G per DNA/20TB per LoC ~=.00001705 DNA/LoC Then multiply that by 29x10^6 number of books per LoC ~= 494 books. Meh, still a lot of data in plain text.
Gee, I don't remember you at the table for lunch.....so you never got to hear us ask the lawyer about being a lawyer. I also don't remember you at th presentation, where the lawyer help set up the vice presidents stuff...see people are underneath someone and are nice help out - you know cuz that's how people are. How about you not correct someone about facts when you were not there, were not involved and have no clue what you are talking about. And when did I say anything about what they charge? It was a technical presentation to a technical audience.
I attended a small conference where the Kroll VP of Data Recovery was speaking. He came in, his assistant set up his power point stuff, made sure the projector was right etc. He then gave a very interesting talk about what Kroll could pull off of a drive, despite what had been done to it. By way of example he showed a slide of a burnt and bent hard drive - that came out of the sky when the shuttle broke up. They recovered 99% of the data on that drive. He also mentioned that they do the data recovery for all of the spook organizations in D.C.
When we broke for lunch I got to sit at his table and we got to ask him all sorts of questions about their processes. He mentioned they have things they use that they have never patented because it would be too much of a leg up for both the competition and those that seek to destroy data. We tried to get him to tell us what we would have to do to a drive to make it unreadable. Mostly his answers to our "Surely this would make the data unreadable" queries were "You would think that would work wouldn't you?" Someone referenced his assistant who was sitting next to him and the VP said:
"Him? No, no, no. (laughs) He is not my assistant, in fact he doesn't work for me at all. He is a lawyer for the company and is here to make sure I don't say anything I am not supposed to." The assistant then gave us one of those 'I could eat you alive' lawyer smiles.
I walked out secure in the knowledge that short of melting the platters down the data can *always* be recovered.
A 2D person can perceive a circle just fine, for a circle is a 2D structure. If you imagine him as a stick figure with a round head, he can perceive his own heads roundness. What I think you are after is how does a 2D person perceive a 3D Ball. How he does that is he sits in his 2D world and watch as the ball passes through his plain. It starts as a point, then a tiny tiny circle and then larger and larger, until you reach the middle (thickest part) of the ball then smaller as it passes through. Mind you, you *can* involve time if you want to, but you don't *have* to, it really matters naught to Mr 2D how fast the ball passes if he has no concept of time. If he *does* have a time reference then it becomes very important how fast it goes and if its passage is variable in speed or direction.
To use your analogy, if I perform this heinous deed deed on your property, I get to sue you, this is the law as well. And privacy has zilch to do with it, if you advocate 1mph over, then you either stick to your guns or give up. Both of you are absolutists..."The Law is the Law" but you too have your limit as to wher it becomes over arching and silly, my tolerance is just lower.
Certainly there is absurdity in this. How does enforcing the law here make society any better, and isn't that the real purpose of the rule of law? If instead, you see the law as punishment for speeding, hasn't the guy been punished enough? Do you support GPS in every car so that anytime someone breaks the speed limit we can fine them? If not, at what point do we NOT lay into someone with the law? One mile an hour over? Two? Cops have a huge amount of discretion when it comes to leveling tickets. Doing so after a major accident that endangered no one but the driver is gratuitous. Justice is blind, not the enforcement of it, which is a very good thing. Bitter? Not really. Oh, and I am not the parent that you replied to, this isn't my friend.
What if he had hit a nuk-u-lar bomb and set it off? Or ran over the last condor? Or if had been the General Lee he wrecked? Or could we suppose even more hysterical things?
Truth is, yeah, the ticket is over kill. If you have ever totaled a car (and I don't mean dinged your new lexus) then you sure as hell are going to learn a whole lot more than the speeding ticket is going to teach you. In my youth I managed to hit a patch of ice (going the linit) and roll a car through the median into on coming highway traffic. What do you think makes me a safer driver today...the accident, or the tabs ticket I was handed for my destroyed car (it was a month over)? Face it, he was injured, destroyed his car, the ticket is pretty much a slap in the face (and on the wrists). The only good that ticket is doing is making the insurance company more money, like they haven't got enough.
Then again, your view is still flawed. You are right, you can find the general formula for Miracle-Gro potting soil and make your own. But *YOU* see this as making a copy of a cd or dvd, *I* see this as something else, something that you are going to have to get used to. What you are going to have to do is two fold: One, not everybody makes it in the movie/music biz. There are more people trying to do this then there ever has been. While there is more opportunity, the increase in competition has grown geometrically against you. Two: Music folks have unlearned what the painters, and the the stage know still. The *REAL* value is in the original, not a recording, whatever the medium. Ask a theater person, do you want these two tickets to see The Producers with its original cast or this dvd with extras? Not a one will take your dvd.
Face it, music has to go back to its roots. You really are going to have to sing for your supper and give up the dream of being the next Beatles/Michael Jackson, those days are gone, get over them.
To go back to the analogy, the value of Miracle-Gro is not the dirt in the bag, it is the name. I can make my own dirt, but I cannot truly play a song as an artist can, that is his value. Live performance is where it started and where it is going to have to go back to. Will you make any money at it? I would say ask Babs what tickets were for her last concert series, or what tickets were to front row center for the final run of The Producers. Are they the exception? Yup, they are, you may play the local bar forever, but it has always been thus in the music/theater biz.
HMS Britannia's swan song as she is sunk for new reef, fisheries to benefit
Titles made to titillate, no thanks I will take the newspaper's bad ones instead. All they have to do is slightly inform, not bow to an algorithm.
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I was thinking the same...scary ass shit indeed.
Yeah, they never needed all those trucks, guns, ammo, tanks etc. that were given to them by the US. The "One gun per 3 men" policy was great, and won the war. Get your head out of your butt. The reason Germany lost was due to a 2 front war. Had the US not entered the war you would be saluting the Iron Cross rather than the Hammer and Sickle.
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And yeah, in a former life IWAB (I Was A Botanist)
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does your friend also get you a beer and cook dinner? ;)
FEBE is your friend.
Amen.
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Who the flip uses a USB modem?
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Gee, I don't remember you at the table for lunch.....so you never got to hear us ask the lawyer about being a lawyer. I also don't remember you at th presentation, where the lawyer help set up the vice presidents stuff...see people are underneath someone and are nice help out - you know cuz that's how people are. How about you not correct someone about facts when you were not there, were not involved and have no clue what you are talking about. And when did I say anything about what they charge? It was a technical presentation to a technical audience.
I attended a small conference where the Kroll VP of Data Recovery was speaking. He came in, his assistant set up his power point stuff, made sure the projector was right etc. He then gave a very interesting talk about what Kroll could pull off of a drive, despite what had been done to it. By way of example he showed a slide of a burnt and bent hard drive - that came out of the sky when the shuttle broke up. They recovered 99% of the data on that drive. He also mentioned that they do the data recovery for all of the spook organizations in D.C.
When we broke for lunch I got to sit at his table and we got to ask him all sorts of questions about their processes. He mentioned they have things they use that they have never patented because it would be too much of a leg up for both the competition and those that seek to destroy data. We tried to get him to tell us what we would have to do to a drive to make it unreadable. Mostly his answers to our "Surely this would make the data unreadable" queries were "You would think that would work wouldn't you?" Someone referenced his assistant who was sitting next to him and the VP said:
"Him? No, no, no. (laughs) He is not my assistant, in fact he doesn't work for me at all. He is a lawyer for the company and is here to make sure I don't say anything I am not supposed to." The assistant then gave us one of those 'I could eat you alive' lawyer smiles.
I walked out secure in the knowledge that short of melting the platters down the data can *always* be recovered.
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Certainly there is absurdity in this. How does enforcing the law here make society any better, and isn't that the real purpose of the rule of law? If instead, you see the law as punishment for speeding, hasn't the guy been punished enough? Do you support GPS in every car so that anytime someone breaks the speed limit we can fine them? If not, at what point do we NOT lay into someone with the law? One mile an hour over? Two? Cops have a huge amount of discretion when it comes to leveling tickets. Doing so after a major accident that endangered no one but the driver is gratuitous. Justice is blind, not the enforcement of it, which is a very good thing. Bitter? Not really. Oh, and I am not the parent that you replied to, this isn't my friend.
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Truth is, yeah, the ticket is over kill. If you have ever totaled a car (and I don't mean dinged your new lexus) then you sure as hell are going to learn a whole lot more than the speeding ticket is going to teach you. In my youth I managed to hit a patch of ice (going the linit) and roll a car through the median into on coming highway traffic. What do you think makes me a safer driver today...the accident, or the tabs ticket I was handed for my destroyed car (it was a month over)? Face it, he was injured, destroyed his car, the ticket is pretty much a slap in the face (and on the wrists). The only good that ticket is doing is making the insurance company more money, like they haven't got enough.
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Face it, music has to go back to its roots. You really are going to have to sing for your supper and give up the dream of being the next Beatles/Michael Jackson, those days are gone, get over them.
To go back to the analogy, the value of Miracle-Gro is not the dirt in the bag, it is the name. I can make my own dirt, but I cannot truly play a song as an artist can, that is his value. Live performance is where it started and where it is going to have to go back to. Will you make any money at it? I would say ask Babs what tickets were for her last concert series, or what tickets were to front row center for the final run of The Producers. Are they the exception? Yup, they are, you may play the local bar forever, but it has always been thus in the music/theater biz.
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HMS Britannia's swan song as she is sunk for new reef, fisheries to benefit
Titles made to titillate, no thanks I will take the newspaper's bad ones instead. All they have to do is slightly inform, not bow to an algorithm.
Sera
There was once an instructor at JC
Who taught but didn't even know C
A student of course
defended his source
But in the end he saw a C for C
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I am with them as well - I enjoy the price and the service...I have former students using my cheap account as a free web email account...I love it.
MoM....how I miss my MoM.....such a great game...sigh.