What we did was to open the drives, remove each platter, sand each platter clean down to the aluminum (catching the dust and incinerating it along with the used emery cloth and the on-board controller electronics), and then folding the platters over and hammering them flat... twice.
It took a long time, but apparently the time of junior enlisted personnel is zero-value. Oh, well, I felt confident no commie spy would be recovering any of THAT data.
Licensed engineers with legal liability. Real engineering fields do it. Only computer (software, systems) engineers and sanitation engineers get away without it, and in the latter case the consequences only extend as far as trash spilled on the street.
I'm fully aware that the precedent was, in fact, set by the Republicans. But since the prior post (which mine was a continuation of) was a fictional reminder message from the Dems, the logical continuation would have been an attempt to confuse gullible Republicans. You know, you have to follow the premise as it was set.
Me? I don't care. When it happened in real life, it was disgusting. But I'm not naive enough to believe that only the Elephants would be slimy enough to try it, if desperate times demanded desperate actions.
But thanks for disclosing your partisan hypersensitivities.
I'm sure it's not a meaningful distinction if the jetdirect card was included in the printer at time of installation. The fact that HP sold nearly-mandatory interface items as optional separate SKUs isn't really an argument for the distinctiveness of the interface card as much as a clear indication of HP's greedy marketing practices.
I dunno. There are still several AGP-based Radeon HD 3xxx and 4xxx class video cards on the market, and they came out not very long after those GPUs were market baseline. It is feasible, both technically and from a (niche) market perspective. So I wouldn't say "never", just "not immediately".
Although, admittedly, even these cards are pretty serious overkill. I'm actually using an HIS HD 4670 IceQ AGP card on a Pentium 4 machine, and ultimately the motherboard and CPU are the bottleneck. Still, World of Warcraft looks pretty good, even on this ancient POS. (This is my backup gaming machine, which I use only when my primary machine has been monopolized by my kids, such as right now, since the most recent Shogun 2: Total War DLC has come out.)
"See that flickering pattern of the A12, A10, and A9 address bit LEDs? That's my outbound Ultralisk rush. Heheheh... he'll never see it coming... OH CRAP! All the data lines lit up! That's an inbound nuclear strike! Dammit, which switch is 'Sensor Sweep'? Man, I have got to invest in an ASR-33 so I can at least type commands."
I want a recent-generation video card which works well with classic 8-bit ISA bus. I have at least one IBM XT-class machine I want to run Starcraft II on.
Most curtailment of rights without the limits of due process--including the due process of acquittal--is contrary to the Constitution. Some "curtailment" has been historically tolerated, and usually this type of debasement of Constitutional protections has been in the interests of "public safety" or "national security", so this looks like a winning combination unless some judge has the courage to call a spade an implement with which to bury civil and human rights.
Justice will never give up. There's no escaping. Since there's no accusation that doesn't have some grain of truth, the accusation is enough to prove guilt. Besides, prosecuting and tracking innocent people would be unfair, so everyone we track and prosecute must be guilty; surely you don't think we're anything other than unscrupulously fair, right? I mean, thinking like that is a sure sign of disloyalty and latent terroristic intent.
No Android device will matter to me unless I can unlock it, root it, and load up the mod rom of my choice. All of Bezos' talk about the Kindle Fire being "a service" is irrelevant to my interests. It's cheap hardware I can repurpose or it's a non-starter.
It's an irrationally exuberant partisan of Apple Computer fruit-themed entertainment devices from an alternate universe in which asymetrical baryogenesis wound up favoring anti-particles.
In other words, a fanboi from an antimatter universe. Even by fanboi standards, extremely volatile; prone to complete annihilation in normal atmosphere with extremely powerful radiation output.
Since you've chosen to partially answer, I'll ask you to clarify: "destructive.." of what?
The British might have argued that Gandhi's non-violent civil disobedience was destructive of a critical colonial bastion in their rightfully-held world-wide empire. They would have been right, and completely wrong. Destructive? Yes, absolutely, when it succeeded. But it destroyed something that desperately needed to be destroyed.
See also the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
That a protest movement may be destructive is not a condemnation, if the thing being destroyed deserves to be.
So, when do you take your car out of the garage? The way you describe it, the thing is
plugged in 24/7 functioning as an expensive UPS on wheels.
For my part, 80% of the daytime hours in a week the car is parked someplace other than my home; shall I contribute power back to the grid at my employer's parking lot? I'm sure they'd love the free electricity.
I guess this is one of those "while you're parked in the garage, doing nothing..." things, but I'd hate like hell to discover my spontaneous romantic drive in the countryside with my wife is impossible because my car's been draining itself to feed the household A/C all day.
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Put horns on it, produce 2000 of it and have them charge the enemies.
A robotic DevilDog? The Marines will love it.
What we did was to open the drives, remove each platter, sand each platter clean down to the aluminum (catching the dust and incinerating it along with the used emery cloth and the on-board controller electronics), and then folding the platters over and hammering them flat... twice.
It took a long time, but apparently the time of junior enlisted personnel is zero-value. Oh, well, I felt confident no commie spy would be recovering any of THAT data.
Well, the old-school Parliamentary call of "Hear, hear!" is kinda cool, although it's somewhat laden with political overtones.
Licensed engineers with legal liability. Real engineering fields do it. Only computer (software, systems) engineers and sanitation engineers get away without it, and in the latter case the consequences only extend as far as trash spilled on the street.
I'm fully aware that the precedent was, in fact, set by the Republicans. But since the prior post (which mine was a continuation of) was a fictional reminder message from the Dems, the logical continuation would have been an attempt to confuse gullible Republicans. You know, you have to follow the premise as it was set.
Me? I don't care. When it happened in real life, it was disgusting. But I'm not naive enough to believe that only the Elephants would be slimy enough to try it, if desperate times demanded desperate actions.
But thanks for disclosing your partisan hypersensitivities.
OMG PINK STAR PONIES!
Why, yes, Slashdot, it IS just like shouting. Because it is, in fact, shouting.
And if you're a registered Republican, don't forget that YOUR election day is November 4th! Vote on your day! Have the say you deserve!
I'm sure it's not a meaningful distinction if the jetdirect card was included in the printer at time of installation. The fact that HP sold nearly-mandatory interface items as optional separate SKUs isn't really an argument for the distinctiveness of the interface card as much as a clear indication of HP's greedy marketing practices.
I dunno. There are still several AGP-based Radeon HD 3xxx and 4xxx class video cards on the market, and they came out not very long after those GPUs were market baseline. It is feasible, both technically and from a (niche) market perspective. So I wouldn't say "never", just "not immediately".
Although, admittedly, even these cards are pretty serious overkill. I'm actually using an HIS HD 4670 IceQ AGP card on a Pentium 4 machine, and ultimately the motherboard and CPU are the bottleneck. Still, World of Warcraft looks pretty good, even on this ancient POS. (This is my backup gaming machine, which I use only when my primary machine has been monopolized by my kids, such as right now, since the most recent Shogun 2: Total War DLC has come out.)
"See that flickering pattern of the A12, A10, and A9 address bit LEDs? That's my outbound Ultralisk rush. Heheheh... he'll never see it coming... OH CRAP! All the data lines lit up! That's an inbound nuclear strike! Dammit, which switch is 'Sensor Sweep'? Man, I have got to invest in an ASR-33 so I can at least type commands."
Ah, the 21st Century version of Chicago dibs chairs. I like it.
I want a recent-generation video card which works well with classic 8-bit ISA bus. I have at least one IBM XT-class machine I want to run Starcraft II on.
Most curtailment of rights without the limits of due process--including the due process of acquittal--is contrary to the Constitution. Some "curtailment" has been historically tolerated, and usually this type of debasement of Constitutional protections has been in the interests of "public safety" or "national security", so this looks like a winning combination unless some judge has the courage to call a spade an implement with which to bury civil and human rights.
No, actually, guilty until finally proven guilty.
Justice will never give up. There's no escaping. Since there's no accusation that doesn't have some grain of truth, the accusation is enough to prove guilt. Besides, prosecuting and tracking innocent people would be unfair, so everyone we track and prosecute must be guilty; surely you don't think we're anything other than unscrupulously fair, right? I mean, thinking like that is a sure sign of disloyalty and latent terroristic intent.
How many players can you get into a coop, and doesn't it disturb the chickens?
And WTF are you doing with those chickens, and WTF does that have to do with health care?
No, wait, don't answer that last couple of questions; I'd rather not know.
[fascism = shut up and obey your superiors.]
As opposed to Communism, which is "shut up and obey your superiors, Comrade."
+1 Insightful.
No Android device will matter to me unless I can unlock it, root it, and load up the mod rom of my choice. All of Bezos' talk about the Kindle Fire being "a service" is irrelevant to my interests. It's cheap hardware I can repurpose or it's a non-starter.
It's an irrationally exuberant partisan of Apple Computer fruit-themed entertainment devices from an alternate universe in which asymetrical baryogenesis wound up favoring anti-particles.
In other words, a fanboi from an antimatter universe. Even by fanboi standards, extremely volatile; prone to complete annihilation in normal atmosphere with extremely powerful radiation output.
Probably because you can't afford it, given the mediocre economy and crappy job prospects.
Still, good job on prioritizing.
You realize you just hypothesized about reproduction to a Slashdotter, yes?
Talk about postulating the spherical cow.
"Welcome to the World of Scrollcraft."
If you've gotta have bugs, new fresh exciting bugs are the best ones to have.
Since you've chosen to partially answer, I'll ask you to clarify: "destructive.." of what?
The British might have argued that Gandhi's non-violent civil disobedience was destructive of a critical colonial bastion in their rightfully-held world-wide empire. They would have been right, and completely wrong. Destructive? Yes, absolutely, when it succeeded. But it destroyed something that desperately needed to be destroyed.
See also the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
That a protest movement may be destructive is not a condemnation, if the thing being destroyed deserves to be.
They lucked out. If it had attracted the attention of Anonymous, the lulz would have been epic, and the research would have been doomed.
Crowdsourcing, like democracy, is subject to the extremes of the crowd. The wisdom of a crowd of fools is not high, even in aggregate.
So, when do you take your car out of the garage? The way you describe it, the thing is
plugged in 24/7 functioning as an expensive UPS on wheels.
For my part, 80% of the daytime hours in a week the car is parked someplace other than my home; shall I contribute power back to the grid at my employer's parking lot? I'm sure they'd love the free electricity.
I guess this is one of those "while you're parked in the garage, doing nothing..." things, but I'd hate like hell to discover my spontaneous romantic drive in the countryside with my wife is impossible because my car's been draining itself to feed the household A/C all day.