How on earth would I or you know how important his data is? My data is important enough to justify that expense. Besides it is standard security 101 due diligence. All you have to do is write random data to the drive. Turn it on in the evening and it will be ready in the morning.
How does it look like he damaged systems if nothing is damaged? He prep'd the system for re-issue. This is recommended security practice 101 and it is trivial to prove it. People do it daily and I've yet to hear of anyone being sued for it.
Why would someone sue you for something that can be fixed with 20 minutes of imaging they have to do anyway?
That is a poor plan because it assumes you will succeed in identifying all of your traces within the system. You need to overwrite the entire system with random data, preferably twice.
In theory but in practice no, re-imaging doesn't re-write bit for bit unless the imaging software can't identify the disk structure. The reasons being that bit for bit is slow as hell, you couldn't restore to a drive with a different structure (which sucks if you are imaging for backup and might have a newer and bigger drive), and recreating the structure and copying into it gives you a free defrag.
For the most part, everyone is happy about this. It sucks balls being forced to go back to a dd bit for bit imaging process. When I did images on a regular basis they were 40gb drives and having to do a bit by bit was a nightmare time suck of hours vs 20-30mins the other way. I can only imagine what bit-by-bit images of 1TB+ modern drives would be like...
They had plenty of opportunities but it would be foolish to assume that means they would have done it already. Most people don't plan in advance and they wouldn't have a reason to want to screw you until this point. His concern might be as much for the next guy getting the laptop or maybe he isn't concerned per say just doing due diligence.
A couple passes with random data is more than sufficient for due diligence.
Formatting doesn't get rid of the data. Before seeing your post I thought it was stupid question too. Now I see that some people actually think a format and reinstall is sufficient to clean a system.
He isn't liable financially for anything he does within the scope of his employment. If you screw up work in a way that costs the company a million dollars they are more than justified in canning you but you don't owe them the million.
I would definitely at least do a couple passes with random data on the drive.
"If you're making minimum wage, you're not paying 30% in taxes. With earned income credit and/or kids, you may be tax exempt."
Remind me again how you eat today with money at the end of the year?
If you work full time at minimum wage you don't qualify for general assistance or food stamps in any state in the union because you exceed the hard federal individual gross income cap of $1180 a month for these programs. Of course it isn't likely you can get an employer to allow 40hrs a week of overtime in a minimum wage job. In fact, it is highly improbable that you can find an employer that offers full time employment to minimum wage staff.
Generally places that pay only minimum wage have little regard for the staff, it is more important to not be impacted by a single employee schedule than to provide a stable and consistent set of hours. So instead they hire 3x as many part-time employees. These companies also usually have different sets of benefits for full-time (usually management) and part-time with part time benefits being less comprehensive and more expensive. In this way they can negotiate as if they have a large number of eligible employees but not have to actually pay anything for that staff.
"And where do you get that the average one bedroom shoddy apartment is $1200?"
Ads in any metropolitan area in the country which is where the bulk of the population lives. If you want to count the less populous but more numerous locals the average is more like $700. That difference doesn't apply to most people and neither does the hyper inflated income that is why people who really make minimum wage usually work multiple jobs and gather together with others who make minimum wage or live with family. Others without friends and/or family become working homeless and eventually aren't able to secure transportation in a consistent way and end up non-working homeless.
"Being poor sucks, but that doesn't mean that you need to lie about it."
There were no lies in my remarks and an apology is due.
I'm not really sure why people have trouble with any of that. All of it seems like a logical given if one accepts infinity as a valid concept in the first place.
Accepting that an infinity exists in the physical universe is the challenging part.
Actually you don't. At least not if you are starting from the assumption that there are infinite stars in the first place. No matter what the process is that results in flat star systems SOMETHING caused it, that something has a probability of occurring, all probabilities can be represented as a fraction of the sample set since in this case your sample set is infinity stars and any fraction of infinity is also infinity you don't have to actually know the probability of occurrence.
$1180 is gross income the $908 figure I used is net income. I used net because you but you can't spend gross income, only net income they allow deductions on net and not gross but if you take home $908 you probably already gross nearly $1180.
In either case. That is a far from middle class in the US. If I remember right you can't collect for more than 6 months without getting gainful employment either. Of course if you are a disabled single mother with three kids you can probably keep your whole $1200 social security check and still bank a fat $200/month with which to feed them all. The kids might even have medical care covered. With low income housing (if you can get that) you'll have food, shelter, and basic healthcare. But you certainly won't be anywhere near middle class income.
So what happens when people plug normal usb cables and devices into it? The cable is backwards compatible but is the power delivery port? And how am I supposed to run a few 100W charging ports off my 70W laptop? Mixing capabilities in the same port is a bad idea. It's bad enough that they aren't physically (or at least visually) changing the port between actual usb specs.
Laptops and other mobile devices can't release a compliant port with this requirement. They don't draw 100W so they certainly can't deliver it. And if they can't deliver it, they can't guarantee that devices that connect to this spec will work with their ports. You'd drain the life out of your battery if they even tried.
If you aren't requiring devices to be able to put out 100W then you are creating a bad scenario where the same port can have different meanings and you are counting on the person plugging into it to know what they are doing. Counting on consumers knowing what they are doing is a bad idea.
Yes this is evil. But it isn't the "do no evil" thing that actually made google a giant. It was providing a decent service with the clean non-intrusive user experience. This is an extremely annoying and intrusive feature. You actually have to stop using the app in order to answer a stupid survey over and over again. That is worse than a pop-up window. Put up a similar quality service that don't have this nag and I will switch in a heartbeat. The same is true of your search if you add a nag survey or other hard interrupt to usage.
A simple alternative tax strategy that closes all the loopholes. Flamebait indeed. Quickly I work in IT and make 6 figures and am complaining about taxes and this fair and reasonable system would increase my taxes AHHHH!!! Tax the rich and not the poor... unless the tax change would increase MY taxes.
So be it. You are producing to earn the income. Even so, you aren't going to be able to afford an all you can eat buffet of hookers and blow and not accumulate some assets, a home, vehicle, sound system, tv, and even 10-20% retirement savings, etc. The hookers and coke dealers will then pay the taxes on their accumulated wealth.
Now don't follow that up with stories about hookers and coke dealers not paying taxes. You'd have to blame government creation of black markets for that one.
That is gross. Net is going to be about 30% less. $2182. At least $100 a week for food (if single and no kids, multiply that by the number of people you need to feed) $1782. Electricity is about $50+$25 per person, Gas the same. $60 month insurance. The totals come out to about the same if you are all electric just add these two bills together. $20+$10 per person for water. $1552 so far for a single guy. Average price for a one bedroom shoddy apartment is running about $1200. That leaves you $340 to the good for the month minutes another $70 to pad the other bills for a solid budget. So $270. Assuming you need $50 worth of toiletries a month.
Couch $900, chair $300, tv stand $150, dining table $100, bed $600, dresser $100, and night stand $50. If you have NO entertainment whatsoever you could manage to furnish your shoddy apartment with a shoddy minimal set of furniture. Of course in most places you are going to need a car, car upkeep, and gas.
You can sort of afford the shoddy apartment but yes I'd say barely is right.
Of course it is. It's always so ridiculous when the current president is blamed and/or credited with the economy. The economy doesn't move that fast. At the very least its the previous guy who should get credit/blame for the economy. The only thing the current president has the potential to move is the stock market.
I'm sorry but your definition of "still middle class" is a bit skewed if you think it applies to food stamp receipients. A person can't have more than $3000 worth of assets, total and can't make more than $908/month and get food stamps.
Let's do some math. Typical minimal rent $600. Minimal Utilities gas $50, electric $50, water $20, insurance for your beater $60. We are down to $120. If we go with 10 miles a day travel between driving to work and back, only required errands, etc at $0.50 a mile we are at negative $30. That person better not get sick, have incidental expenses, want to retire, etc. Now lets give that person a high food stamp benefit of $150. This brings them $120 to the good. Every try to buy groceries for a MONTH on $120? That isn't easy even on nothing but beans. Now try eating healthy food for that. Again, as long as they don't get sick (remember ER charity is a myth, they check to see if you are at risk of death and send you on your way) or have incidentals.
I don't know what method of managing finances you use but I've yet to hear of one that works when running a deficit. In fact, most of them depend on running a minimum of 20-25% surplus income and padding by as much. These kind of margins require you to be toward the higher end of the actual middle class or the mid spectrum of the middle class and living like you are the $908 earner above. Of course to be middle class in this country and under 40 requires a college degree or at least some college so you are going to have student loans. Paying $15,000/year plus to sit in a lecture hall with 200+ other people for a couple hours a day for what should essentially be a non-profit service doesn't quite seem right but I'm sure that money is going somewhere. At the end of the day it most likely ends up in the pocket of someone complaining that they have to pay taxes to cover food stamps.
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How on earth would I or you know how important his data is? My data is important enough to justify that expense. Besides it is standard security 101 due diligence. All you have to do is write random data to the drive. Turn it on in the evening and it will be ready in the morning.
How does it look like he damaged systems if nothing is damaged? He prep'd the system for re-issue. This is recommended security practice 101 and it is trivial to prove it. People do it daily and I've yet to hear of anyone being sued for it.
Why would someone sue you for something that can be fixed with 20 minutes of imaging they have to do anyway?
Torching the storage room and grill is destroying property. He is running software on his company issued device. It doesn't destroy or even hurt it.
Granted anything is a crap shoot if taken to court but it wouldn't be much of case and it is hard to imagine the company even being overly upset.
Of course they can, anyone can sue anyone for anything. That doesn't mean they'll win.
That is a poor plan because it assumes you will succeed in identifying all of your traces within the system. You need to overwrite the entire system with random data, preferably twice.
Writing data doesn't securely get rid of the previous data anyway. You need to write RANDOM data.
Next time run dd from /dev/urandom but do it from a live cd. Then it won't crash.
In theory but in practice no, re-imaging doesn't re-write bit for bit unless the imaging software can't identify the disk structure. The reasons being that bit for bit is slow as hell, you couldn't restore to a drive with a different structure (which sucks if you are imaging for backup and might have a newer and bigger drive), and recreating the structure and copying into it gives you a free defrag.
For the most part, everyone is happy about this. It sucks balls being forced to go back to a dd bit for bit imaging process. When I did images on a regular basis they were 40gb drives and having to do a bit by bit was a nightmare time suck of hours vs 20-30mins the other way. I can only imagine what bit-by-bit images of 1TB+ modern drives would be like...
They had plenty of opportunities but it would be foolish to assume that means they would have done it already. Most people don't plan in advance and they wouldn't have a reason to want to screw you until this point. His concern might be as much for the next guy getting the laptop or maybe he isn't concerned per say just doing due diligence.
A couple passes with random data is more than sufficient for due diligence.
Formatting doesn't get rid of the data. Before seeing your post I thought it was stupid question too. Now I see that some people actually think a format and reinstall is sufficient to clean a system.
He isn't liable financially for anything he does within the scope of his employment. If you screw up work in a way that costs the company a million dollars they are more than justified in canning you but you don't owe them the million.
I would definitely at least do a couple passes with random data on the drive.
"If you're making minimum wage, you're not paying 30% in taxes. With earned income credit and/or kids, you may be tax exempt."
Remind me again how you eat today with money at the end of the year?
If you work full time at minimum wage you don't qualify for general assistance or food stamps in any state in the union because you exceed the hard federal individual gross income cap of $1180 a month for these programs. Of course it isn't likely you can get an employer to allow 40hrs a week of overtime in a minimum wage job. In fact, it is highly improbable that you can find an employer that offers full time employment to minimum wage staff.
Generally places that pay only minimum wage have little regard for the staff, it is more important to not be impacted by a single employee schedule than to provide a stable and consistent set of hours. So instead they hire 3x as many part-time employees. These companies also usually have different sets of benefits for full-time (usually management) and part-time with part time benefits being less comprehensive and more expensive. In this way they can negotiate as if they have a large number of eligible employees but not have to actually pay anything for that staff.
"And where do you get that the average one bedroom shoddy apartment is $1200?"
Ads in any metropolitan area in the country which is where the bulk of the population lives. If you want to count the less populous but more numerous locals the average is more like $700. That difference doesn't apply to most people and neither does the hyper inflated income that is why people who really make minimum wage usually work multiple jobs and gather together with others who make minimum wage or live with family. Others without friends and/or family become working homeless and eventually aren't able to secure transportation in a consistent way and end up non-working homeless.
"Being poor sucks, but that doesn't mean that you need to lie about it."
There were no lies in my remarks and an apology is due.
I'm not really sure why people have trouble with any of that. All of it seems like a logical given if one accepts infinity as a valid concept in the first place.
Accepting that an infinity exists in the physical universe is the challenging part.
Actually you don't. At least not if you are starting from the assumption that there are infinite stars in the first place. No matter what the process is that results in flat star systems SOMETHING caused it, that something has a probability of occurring, all probabilities can be represented as a fraction of the sample set since in this case your sample set is infinity stars and any fraction of infinity is also infinity you don't have to actually know the probability of occurrence.
What if C-A-Ts really taste like tasty wheat?
$1180 is gross income the $908 figure I used is net income. I used net because you but you can't spend gross income, only net income they allow deductions on net and not gross but if you take home $908 you probably already gross nearly $1180.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/applicant_recipients/eligibility.htm
In either case. That is a far from middle class in the US. If I remember right you can't collect for more than 6 months without getting gainful employment either. Of course if you are a disabled single mother with three kids you can probably keep your whole $1200 social security check and still bank a fat $200/month with which to feed them all. The kids might even have medical care covered. With low income housing (if you can get that) you'll have food, shelter, and basic healthcare. But you certainly won't be anywhere near middle class income.
So what happens when people plug normal usb cables and devices into it? The cable is backwards compatible but is the power delivery port? And how am I supposed to run a few 100W charging ports off my 70W laptop? Mixing capabilities in the same port is a bad idea. It's bad enough that they aren't physically (or at least visually) changing the port between actual usb specs.
Laptops and other mobile devices can't release a compliant port with this requirement. They don't draw 100W so they certainly can't deliver it. And if they can't deliver it, they can't guarantee that devices that connect to this spec will work with their ports. You'd drain the life out of your battery if they even tried.
If you aren't requiring devices to be able to put out 100W then you are creating a bad scenario where the same port can have different meanings and you are counting on the person plugging into it to know what they are doing. Counting on consumers knowing what they are doing is a bad idea.
Yes this is evil. But it isn't the "do no evil" thing that actually made google a giant. It was providing a decent service with the clean non-intrusive user experience. This is an extremely annoying and intrusive feature. You actually have to stop using the app in order to answer a stupid survey over and over again. That is worse than a pop-up window. Put up a similar quality service that don't have this nag and I will switch in a heartbeat. The same is true of your search if you add a nag survey or other hard interrupt to usage.
A simple alternative tax strategy that closes all the loopholes. Flamebait indeed. Quickly I work in IT and make 6 figures and am complaining about taxes and this fair and reasonable system would increase my taxes AHHHH!!! Tax the rich and not the poor... unless the tax change would increase MY taxes.
So be it. You are producing to earn the income. Even so, you aren't going to be able to afford an all you can eat buffet of hookers and blow and not accumulate some assets, a home, vehicle, sound system, tv, and even 10-20% retirement savings, etc. The hookers and coke dealers will then pay the taxes on their accumulated wealth.
Now don't follow that up with stories about hookers and coke dealers not paying taxes. You'd have to blame government creation of black markets for that one.
That is gross. Net is going to be about 30% less. $2182. At least $100 a week for food (if single and no kids, multiply that by the number of people you need to feed) $1782. Electricity is about $50+$25 per person, Gas the same. $60 month insurance. The totals come out to about the same if you are all electric just add these two bills together. $20+$10 per person for water. $1552 so far for a single guy. Average price for a one bedroom shoddy apartment is running about $1200. That leaves you $340 to the good for the month minutes another $70 to pad the other bills for a solid budget. So $270. Assuming you need $50 worth of toiletries a month.
Couch $900, chair $300, tv stand $150, dining table $100, bed $600, dresser $100, and night stand $50. If you have NO entertainment whatsoever you could manage to furnish your shoddy apartment with a shoddy minimal set of furniture. Of course in most places you are going to need a car, car upkeep, and gas.
You can sort of afford the shoddy apartment but yes I'd say barely is right.
Of course it is. It's always so ridiculous when the current president is blamed and/or credited with the economy. The economy doesn't move that fast. At the very least its the previous guy who should get credit/blame for the economy. The only thing the current president has the potential to move is the stock market.
I'm sorry but your definition of "still middle class" is a bit skewed if you think it applies to food stamp receipients. A person can't have more than $3000 worth of assets, total and can't make more than $908/month and get food stamps.
Let's do some math. Typical minimal rent $600. Minimal Utilities gas $50, electric $50, water $20, insurance for your beater $60. We are down to $120. If we go with 10 miles a day travel between driving to work and back, only required errands, etc at $0.50 a mile we are at negative $30. That person better not get sick, have incidental expenses, want to retire, etc. Now lets give that person a high food stamp benefit of $150. This brings them $120 to the good. Every try to buy groceries for a MONTH on $120? That isn't easy even on nothing but beans. Now try eating healthy food for that. Again, as long as they don't get sick (remember ER charity is a myth, they check to see if you are at risk of death and send you on your way) or have incidentals.
I don't know what method of managing finances you use but I've yet to hear of one that works when running a deficit. In fact, most of them depend on running a minimum of 20-25% surplus income and padding by as much. These kind of margins require you to be toward the higher end of the actual middle class or the mid spectrum of the middle class and living like you are the $908 earner above. Of course to be middle class in this country and under 40 requires a college degree or at least some college so you are going to have student loans. Paying $15,000/year plus to sit in a lecture hall with 200+ other people for a couple hours a day for what should essentially be a non-profit service doesn't quite seem right but I'm sure that money is going somewhere. At the end of the day it most likely ends up in the pocket of someone complaining that they have to pay taxes to cover food stamps.
Food is a form of wealth of course.