I've noticed the same thing. Most modern music just sounds terrible on a high-end stereo, because all you hear is the poor mastering of the material. Well mastered material, of course, sounds awesome.
Same thing with video too. Old consoles and VHS looks horrid on a modern HDTV, but looks a lot better on that old CRT TV.
It's probably governed at 94 MPH too. Modern cars only need a fraction of their engine power to cruise at speed. The large HP number is mostly to give your uninteresting family sedan the kind of acceleration that you only got in performance cars 50 years ago.
Look at the current investment we have in gasoline cars. Gas stations on every corner, a massive network to distribute fuel to your car that was pumped from the ground halfway around world and was processed halfway across the country. Giant pipelines that run for thousands of miles, huge tankers that cross the globe and so forth. Is the investment in infrastructure that we would have to make to use electric cars really seem so big now?
No, he's saying that we have a lot more devices and types now that use energy compared to the past, and the energy that all these devices use is a sign of progress. He's not talking about reducing the efficiency of things we already have. It's amazing how many people didn't pick up on that.
On the other hand, when the Pentium 3 machines were king, smart phones didn't exist so we weren't using any power to run that class of devices. A lot of our gains in efficiency have been eaten up in this way.
Why? If you do as little as a 1-pass with zeroing, they'll never be able to read the drive. Good as gone. If the data is stupid small-time criminal stuff that no one knows you have, there is pretty much no risk here.
The risky (though unlikely) scenario is that the previous owner is a government agency or similar, realizes that the drives went out with sensitive data on them, and they know the serial numbers of the drives. They contact Newegg, and Newegg knows where the drives with those serials went, so they now know you have the drives. I'd say your best bet is plausible denial here. If they find out you did an industrial-grade wipe, they might figure out you knew something was up, as I usually don't secure wipe drives I've just purchased. I would just do a full format then install an OS on it (or whatever you were going to do with them). This might leave some traces of what was on it behind, but it would trash whatever was on the drive to the point where only a 3-letter agency might be able recover something. If they come asking, you can just claim that you reformatted it when you got it and you had no idea what was on the drive because you didn't look. They'd probably accept that story at face value, and if they got the drives back and your story matched you would probably be off the hook. What you wouldn't want is for them to get the drives back with the data still on them and evidence that you had been looking at the data. If there is really something that might be interesting on the drive and you want to look I'd copy it off the drive ASAP into some encrypted container then reformat the drive.
That it drains batteries doesn't surprise me. My first thought was "Why not game the device by unplugging it half the time?" Then I remembered that one of the pins on the ODBII ports is always powered, so I figured the device must continually monitor that pin to make sure that it is installed in the vehicle.
Super Mario Brothers 3 also did something similar on the original NES, which is how Nintendo was able to pull off some pretty fancy graphics by NES standards.
If by that you mean they make sure the buyer pays a higher price and the seller gets a lower price because they inject themselves as middlemen to take their cut, then yes. Because that's what they do. They don't act until they have a seller and a buyer and a price difference in their favor. They provide zero liquidity. I don't know why people keep on propagating the lie that they do.
Do you honestly think a genuine terrorist would right out say in a text message to an accomplice that they are going to blow something up? Do you honestly think they are that naive and that stupid?
Well, there was that one guy who was going to blow up Times Square with a SUV full of fire crackers. Then again, I wouldn't worry much about stupid terrorists, as generally they don't cause much harm to anyone except themselves.
Generally the perception is that you're not going to hang around long because you're only taking the entry-level pay job in order to have income while you continue to search for the senior-level pay job.
You're the one missing the point. The problem with Godwin's law is that anytime someone makes a comparison with Nazi's, no matter how relevant or irrelevant,you inevitably end up with a bunch of people who have absolutely nothing to contribute to the discussion hopping in to bring up Godwin's Law yet again. Which has the effect of completely derailing the discussion.
You might want to check your prices. Apple's OS X upgrades are historically $129. Windows upgrades are more like $100. And besides, the Windows upgrades are optional, as you get security patches for Windows 7 all the way to 2020 for completely free. You're not going to get that with Apple, you're going to be forced to upgrade the OS to keep getting the updates, until the day arrives that you find out that Apple's latest OS isn't supported on your computer and you have to replace it which is practically guaranteed before it's 8 years old..
Well, if an all-aluminum body is in your list of specs, by all means get the Mac. If its something you don't really care about, you're paying a bunch of money for a feature you don't care about. A lot of the complaints about the cost of Macs is along the lines of "Apple makes me pay for a bunch of stuff I don't care about in order to get a feature I do care about." It's also why the Apple fanboys always start out with trying to build a PC equivalent to the Mac, because doing it the other way you almost always end up with a Mac that's for more expensive than the PC once you make sure the Mac at least matches everything the PC has.
Any Windows computer you buy today includes free updates to the operating system for almost 8 years (and that's assuming you never upgrade from Windows 7). Any Mac computer you buy today will be completely unsupported by Apple in 8 years and will have to be replaced.
You're confusing the whole Bush tax cut extension with the debt ceiling thing that happened 6 months later. What really happened is that Obama wanted to extend the Bush tax cuts for people making up to $250,000 and the Republicans wanted to extend them for everybody. Another way of looking at it is that everyone wanted tax cuts for people making up to $250,000, but the Republicans were also pushing for a bunch of tax cuts for the rich. Well anyway, the Republicans figured that Obama wanted to extend the tax cuts to the middle class badly enough that they could threaten to veto the whole thing unless they got their precious tax cuts for the rich, and Obama would cave like he always does. Well, guess what, Obama caved and that's why they are now his tax cuts, for better or for worse. What he should have done is grown a pair and stood his ground, as the result would have been either the Republicans having to follow through with their threats to vote against a tax cut, or the Republicans ending up going along with what Obama wanted. In either case, a victory for Obama as far as I'm concerned - all in time for the 2010 midterm elections, but instead he and that dipshit Harry Reid managed to turn a sure win into a loss.
They can also pull you over if you have an outstanding warrant, or they may want to pull the car over if it was used in a commission of a crime (like a getaway car). Or they may want to pull it over if it was stolen. Plus no system is ever going to be perfect and it's possible an autonomous vehicle could break the law, though I would assume most cases it would be unintentional. Say the speed limit was reduced on a section of road and the car had not downloaded it's patch Tuesday updates yet.
On a core-by-core basis, my AMD Phenom II system is about 60% faster than the old Athlon XP system it replaced in terms of GFLOPs. The main speed boost is from the Phenom II system having six cores versus the old single core computer. Now that you mention it, the new system is also about 60% faster by clock speed (2.0 vs 3.3 Ghz) though AMD did rate the old chip as a "3000+" which means at the time they thought it performed like a 3GHz chip. So in some ways the main advancement over a period of about 7 years was to figure out how to cram 600% more cores in the same space with only about a 50% rise in power usage, though that isn't really fair as that is ignoring a lot of other stuff like 64-bit.
Actually, it's getting the DMV to register the vehicle. If it doesn't have a VIN you're not going to get plates for it, and then you can't legally drive it on the public roads. You can do as someone claims they do in an above post and obtain a VIN from a scrapped car. In the state I live in neither the DMV or my insurance company has ever verified that the VIN I gave them actually matches the car it is attached to, so this would get you your plates and on the road. However, I'm sure that this is at best a legal grey area, and quite possibly breaking some law. Your insurance company may also consider it fraud. If I was to play that game, I would try and get a VIN from a car old enough to grandfathered into most of the modern safety and emissions laws so they at least couldn't nail you with that.
Interesting concept. Have it so each password is one time use only. When it is used, it will display the next password to use on the screen, which you take a picture of with your film camera. Then you can place the film someplace light-tight, such as a light-tight box (leaving it in a film cartridge would be way too obvious). When you need to access the data again you develop the film to retrieve the password. If anyone, including the police finds the film in the box, chances are good they'll inadvertently destroy it before realizing what they did. The 60's spy-movie aspect of it would be totally awesome. However, it would be inconvenient unless you don't need to access the data often. One difficulty might be is that they'll probably stumble upon the chemistry and other equipment that you'll have on hand to develop your own film (using a commercial lab would be too risky) and thus figure there may be undeveloped film around. Another might be convincing them that yes, your password system really does involve storing passwords on undeveloped film and that yes, you cannot now possibly decrypt that data.
It seems to me that your best bet is to not use secondary volumes. With how small external flash storage, it seems logical to me to put your encrypted data on a memory card which can be easily hidden. That way you don't have to worry about hiding encrypted partitions on your main computer because there aren't any that have to be hidden. One possibility would be to get a card reader for your PC, configure your PC to boot off of it, and use that for any nefarious activities. When you're done, remove the card and hide it well (preferably somewhere where it could be plausibly lost - You say you found it under the clothes dryer? I was wondering what happened to that. Unreadable? Oh that's a bummer.). Of course, they might figure still figure out something was up.
Another possibility is to buy a 16GB card, replace the sticker with one you peeled off a 4GB card, put a 4GB FAT32 partition on the card then used the remaining 12 GB for your hidden partition. Buy a whole bunch of memory cards for your camera, and mix it in. Even if they did check the memory cards carefully enough to find the discrepancy, you could claim that you bought it pre-formatted and had no idea that it was actually larger than it was labeled.
Another thing I've always wonder is if they manage to nab a hoarder, how carefully do they inspect all the "junk"? Are they really going to carefully comb over a dozen decade-old computers that may or may even be bootable, or that pile of hard drives that may or may not even work. How easy would be to overlook an old 10GB drive with one 2GB MS-DOS partition and the rest unpartitioned?
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I wonder what Alan Parsons has to say about that.
I've noticed the same thing. Most modern music just sounds terrible on a high-end stereo, because all you hear is the poor mastering of the material. Well mastered material, of course, sounds awesome.
Same thing with video too. Old consoles and VHS looks horrid on a modern HDTV, but looks a lot better on that old CRT TV.
It's probably governed at 94 MPH too. Modern cars only need a fraction of their engine power to cruise at speed. The large HP number is mostly to give your uninteresting family sedan the kind of acceleration that you only got in performance cars 50 years ago.
Look at the current investment we have in gasoline cars. Gas stations on every corner, a massive network to distribute fuel to your car that was pumped from the ground halfway around world and was processed halfway across the country. Giant pipelines that run for thousands of miles, huge tankers that cross the globe and so forth. Is the investment in infrastructure that we would have to make to use electric cars really seem so big now?
No, he's saying that we have a lot more devices and types now that use energy compared to the past, and the energy that all these devices use is a sign of progress. He's not talking about reducing the efficiency of things we already have. It's amazing how many people didn't pick up on that.
On the other hand, when the Pentium 3 machines were king, smart phones didn't exist so we weren't using any power to run that class of devices. A lot of our gains in efficiency have been eaten up in this way.
Why? If you do as little as a 1-pass with zeroing, they'll never be able to read the drive. Good as gone. If the data is stupid small-time criminal stuff that no one knows you have, there is pretty much no risk here.
The risky (though unlikely) scenario is that the previous owner is a government agency or similar, realizes that the drives went out with sensitive data on them, and they know the serial numbers of the drives. They contact Newegg, and Newegg knows where the drives with those serials went, so they now know you have the drives. I'd say your best bet is plausible denial here. If they find out you did an industrial-grade wipe, they might figure out you knew something was up, as I usually don't secure wipe drives I've just purchased. I would just do a full format then install an OS on it (or whatever you were going to do with them). This might leave some traces of what was on it behind, but it would trash whatever was on the drive to the point where only a 3-letter agency might be able recover something. If they come asking, you can just claim that you reformatted it when you got it and you had no idea what was on the drive because you didn't look. They'd probably accept that story at face value, and if they got the drives back and your story matched you would probably be off the hook. What you wouldn't want is for them to get the drives back with the data still on them and evidence that you had been looking at the data. If there is really something that might be interesting on the drive and you want to look I'd copy it off the drive ASAP into some encrypted container then reformat the drive.
That it drains batteries doesn't surprise me. My first thought was "Why not game the device by unplugging it half the time?" Then I remembered that one of the pins on the ODBII ports is always powered, so I figured the device must continually monitor that pin to make sure that it is installed in the vehicle.
Super Mario Brothers 3 also did something similar on the original NES, which is how Nintendo was able to pull off some pretty fancy graphics by NES standards.
If by that you mean they make sure the buyer pays a higher price and the seller gets a lower price because they inject themselves as middlemen to take their cut, then yes. Because that's what they do. They don't act until they have a seller and a buyer and a price difference in their favor. They provide zero liquidity. I don't know why people keep on propagating the lie that they do.
Well, there was that one guy who was going to blow up Times Square with a SUV full of fire crackers. Then again, I wouldn't worry much about stupid terrorists, as generally they don't cause much harm to anyone except themselves.
Generally the perception is that you're not going to hang around long because you're only taking the entry-level pay job in order to have income while you continue to search for the senior-level pay job.
You're the one missing the point. The problem with Godwin's law is that anytime someone makes a comparison with Nazi's, no matter how relevant or irrelevant,you inevitably end up with a bunch of people who have absolutely nothing to contribute to the discussion hopping in to bring up Godwin's Law yet again. Which has the effect of completely derailing the discussion.
You might want to check your prices. Apple's OS X upgrades are historically $129. Windows upgrades are more like $100. And besides, the Windows upgrades are optional, as you get security patches for Windows 7 all the way to 2020 for completely free. You're not going to get that with Apple, you're going to be forced to upgrade the OS to keep getting the updates, until the day arrives that you find out that Apple's latest OS isn't supported on your computer and you have to replace it which is practically guaranteed before it's 8 years old..
Considering that they don't sell server hardware that isn't a complete joke, I kind of doubt it.
Well, if an all-aluminum body is in your list of specs, by all means get the Mac. If its something you don't really care about, you're paying a bunch of money for a feature you don't care about. A lot of the complaints about the cost of Macs is along the lines of "Apple makes me pay for a bunch of stuff I don't care about in order to get a feature I do care about." It's also why the Apple fanboys always start out with trying to build a PC equivalent to the Mac, because doing it the other way you almost always end up with a Mac that's for more expensive than the PC once you make sure the Mac at least matches everything the PC has.
Any Windows computer you buy today includes free updates to the operating system for almost 8 years (and that's assuming you never upgrade from Windows 7). Any Mac computer you buy today will be completely unsupported by Apple in 8 years and will have to be replaced.
Hey, he does pretty good in movies where the character is in way over their heads. Method acting at its finest, I say.
You're confusing the whole Bush tax cut extension with the debt ceiling thing that happened 6 months later. What really happened is that Obama wanted to extend the Bush tax cuts for people making up to $250,000 and the Republicans wanted to extend them for everybody. Another way of looking at it is that everyone wanted tax cuts for people making up to $250,000, but the Republicans were also pushing for a bunch of tax cuts for the rich. Well anyway, the Republicans figured that Obama wanted to extend the tax cuts to the middle class badly enough that they could threaten to veto the whole thing unless they got their precious tax cuts for the rich, and Obama would cave like he always does. Well, guess what, Obama caved and that's why they are now his tax cuts, for better or for worse. What he should have done is grown a pair and stood his ground, as the result would have been either the Republicans having to follow through with their threats to vote against a tax cut, or the Republicans ending up going along with what Obama wanted. In either case, a victory for Obama as far as I'm concerned - all in time for the 2010 midterm elections, but instead he and that dipshit Harry Reid managed to turn a sure win into a loss.
They can also pull you over if you have an outstanding warrant, or they may want to pull the car over if it was used in a commission of a crime (like a getaway car). Or they may want to pull it over if it was stolen. Plus no system is ever going to be perfect and it's possible an autonomous vehicle could break the law, though I would assume most cases it would be unintentional. Say the speed limit was reduced on a section of road and the car had not downloaded it's patch Tuesday updates yet.
On a core-by-core basis, my AMD Phenom II system is about 60% faster than the old Athlon XP system it replaced in terms of GFLOPs. The main speed boost is from the Phenom II system having six cores versus the old single core computer. Now that you mention it, the new system is also about 60% faster by clock speed (2.0 vs 3.3 Ghz) though AMD did rate the old chip as a "3000+" which means at the time they thought it performed like a 3GHz chip. So in some ways the main advancement over a period of about 7 years was to figure out how to cram 600% more cores in the same space with only about a 50% rise in power usage, though that isn't really fair as that is ignoring a lot of other stuff like 64-bit.
Actually, it's getting the DMV to register the vehicle. If it doesn't have a VIN you're not going to get plates for it, and then you can't legally drive it on the public roads. You can do as someone claims they do in an above post and obtain a VIN from a scrapped car. In the state I live in neither the DMV or my insurance company has ever verified that the VIN I gave them actually matches the car it is attached to, so this would get you your plates and on the road. However, I'm sure that this is at best a legal grey area, and quite possibly breaking some law. Your insurance company may also consider it fraud. If I was to play that game, I would try and get a VIN from a car old enough to grandfathered into most of the modern safety and emissions laws so they at least couldn't nail you with that.
Interesting concept. Have it so each password is one time use only. When it is used, it will display the next password to use on the screen, which you take a picture of with your film camera. Then you can place the film someplace light-tight, such as a light-tight box (leaving it in a film cartridge would be way too obvious). When you need to access the data again you develop the film to retrieve the password. If anyone, including the police finds the film in the box, chances are good they'll inadvertently destroy it before realizing what they did. The 60's spy-movie aspect of it would be totally awesome. However, it would be inconvenient unless you don't need to access the data often. One difficulty might be is that they'll probably stumble upon the chemistry and other equipment that you'll have on hand to develop your own film (using a commercial lab would be too risky) and thus figure there may be undeveloped film around. Another might be convincing them that yes, your password system really does involve storing passwords on undeveloped film and that yes, you cannot now possibly decrypt that data.
It seems to me that your best bet is to not use secondary volumes. With how small external flash storage, it seems logical to me to put your encrypted data on a memory card which can be easily hidden. That way you don't have to worry about hiding encrypted partitions on your main computer because there aren't any that have to be hidden. One possibility would be to get a card reader for your PC, configure your PC to boot off of it, and use that for any nefarious activities. When you're done, remove the card and hide it well (preferably somewhere where it could be plausibly lost - You say you found it under the clothes dryer? I was wondering what happened to that. Unreadable? Oh that's a bummer.). Of course, they might figure still figure out something was up.
Another possibility is to buy a 16GB card, replace the sticker with one you peeled off a 4GB card, put a 4GB FAT32 partition on the card then used the remaining 12 GB for your hidden partition. Buy a whole bunch of memory cards for your camera, and mix it in. Even if they did check the memory cards carefully enough to find the discrepancy, you could claim that you bought it pre-formatted and had no idea that it was actually larger than it was labeled.
Another thing I've always wonder is if they manage to nab a hoarder, how carefully do they inspect all the "junk"? Are they really going to carefully comb over a dozen decade-old computers that may or may even be bootable, or that pile of hard drives that may or may not even work. How easy would be to overlook an old 10GB drive with one 2GB MS-DOS partition and the rest unpartitioned?
I was going to guess a polarizer filter was used.