And as long as they're building a wire grid across the entire damned state there's no reason why we can't have some taxpayer-owned or power company owned fiber optic cable up on that tower too. Because stringing the cable is the expensive part.
You are correct. My recall was wrong. The mass of the Oort cloud is currently unknown, but it's unlikely to be anywhere near the sun's mass even though it's distributed across a vast region of space.
While an Earth sized planet might exist in the Oort cloud and not be detected...
I said "planetary mass." I didn't specify a planet. Mercury is a planet. A Mercury sized object could be out there somewhere. Mercury isn't the lower limit on planetary masses either - it's just the smallest one we have now that Pluto is demoted.
Just to make you paranoid, the sum of the mass of oort cloud objects is far more than the mass of the sun and all the planets. There's a lot of stuff out there and the only thing we know about it is that only the tiny fraction that are comets visit us now and then. The Oort cloud could hold a planetary mass comet on a collision course with Earth and we would know about it only right before the event or just after.
Offsite backups seem like a good idea to me. How about you?
Your reference of female genitalia by the medical term leads me to believe you've never seen one. So sad. A bit of advice: girls will think you're totally hot if you show them your home, and it's not your mom's basement. They'd like a ride in your car, not your best friend's. They're more interested in guys that can hold a Jorb. But exceptions occur and that's what make life both fun and interesting. If you project that "no" is not in your vocabulary you may find yourself awash in the good stuff. Put a slicker on it.
Celerity cooch is neither more, nor less, likely to be exposed to the never-get-overs we all worry about. Hep-C is a big deal, as is Herp, G-Warts and do I even need to mention the plague of the 20th century? We're all six degrees from Kevin Bacon.
And listen, kid. I've got zits older than you. Don't pretend to be the wise sage when you're not.
Oh, and sex is dirty. That's the coolest thing about it. Get over it. Or don't. Whatever suits you.
If I were the customer concerned about my secret data, I'd put the drives under a hydraulic press first, then I'd roll the resulting foil up and give to the operator of a smelter.
If I were that concerned, my data never would have hit the drive in an unencrypted format anyway. And then I'd smelt the platters myself. But then that's my normal MO anyway, so nobody would notice this info was special. Thank God I don't deal with sensitive data because I'd have to come up with a method that was more secure.
And we wore an onion on our belt, which was the fashion of the day.
So you've never actually seen coverage of the DNC and RNC then? Between the reporters, the candidates and the delegates I doubt a greater mass of gaping assholes was ever assembled.
The only thing that would make me want to go back to looking at goatse would be footage of the the DNC and RNC. Goatse is abhorrent but my morbid curiosity has limits.
The professional houses as part of the auditing process set up the smelter in your parking lot and give video all the way to the melted product. Very hard to fake in real time, but it can be done. If you care that much, you're probably one of the aforementioned exceptions.
It should be understood by all involved in the disposal of surplus that a random few samples will be removed from the pallets at the last minute and tested for thorough data shredding outside of their organizational group, and this testing will complete before the surplus is released. It's very important that this testing actually be done. It's more important that this testing is believed to be done. The people responsible for doing the wiping should be trusted members of the team, but information is cash. You audit the cash, don't you?
The correct policy is that if wiping is required and for whatever reason (machine failure, drive failure) the wiping cannot complete successfully, then the platters must be thoroughly physically destroyed by smelting, sandblasting or other certain method. Everyone should understand that indefinite storage is preferable to giving proper wiping a kiss and a promise.
I'm also a big fan of full disk encryption for machines that are expected to handle sensitive data and all notebooks. It's a 1% performance hit. You can afford paying extra for the faster machine for the confidence that there was never any unencrypted sensitive data on the disk to begin with. If you're not using FDE on laptops at this point, you're crazy. No employee has no data on his laptop that is in some way useful or profitable to a thief except maybe junior vice presidents.
So if this happened on your watch, you've failed as a manager. This applies for several levels up from the person actually responsible for wiping the drives.
A deleted file including an ISO can live on the hard drive forever in recoverable or partially recoverable form. Criminals routinely buy PCs from surplus and then re-sell the uninteresting ones in hopes of garnering some profit from deleted data - in many cases turning a profit just on the turnaround process. Security researchers do it also, to gain fame and credibility from pointing the finger of shame which leads to step 3: consulting profit! A PC that's been "quick formatted" and then had an OS installed on it still has considerable valuable data on the "blanked" space - and on the disk the valuable user data almost always occupies the same space on the disk in the space that would still be blank after an OS install, it would be easy to find. The correct course for personal data is some low level drive wiping program like DODWipe (a commercial application) or Darik's Boot and Nuke DBAN (free). These programs overwrite every byte on the disk they can access, but cannot overwrite blocks "marked bad" by the hard drive itself - which is a much lower risk because those blocks are almost never readable anyway. Just using the software is no panacea either. It has to be used correctly.
For a drive that may have had a credit application, job application or similar data on it (even just one) the risk is too great to take chances with. So:
It had better have had full disk encryption first. This is not the '70s. and !
Smelting, chipping, sandblasting, drilling or bending platters are preferable to wiping. Drilling and bending are not recommended as data can still be recovered with enough investment. The cost of fully audited destruction is negligible compared to the benefit.
Just handle that data as if it were a level 4 biohazard that would wipe out your company if it were released, and you'll have the general idea. Wiping before chipping or smelting, though, is just paranoid and should be left to the TLA and tinfoil hat types, and swiss banks where disclosure of data is a capital offense.
Leaving one party with the power of the executive branch and the other with the power of the legislative branch ensures both active branches of government will battle each other and accomplish very little. This is perhaps the best a reasonable person can hope for and I believe it's that way by design. Given reign of both branches one party can do a great deal of damage to civil liberty in a very short time. Properly done, though, we should trade off which is which so that what energies they have left from fighting each other can be employed in reversing the actions of their predecessors. That way each generation will begin the same place the last generation did, and the power seekers will have been successfully turned from the tyrannical ways they seek and harnessed to the useful task of depleting the surplus productivity.
Please, don't hope for efficiency in government. History is full of efficient governments and living was free and easy under none of them.
That is a remarkable site. What style, what innovative use of Frontpage. I especially like the inclusion of the HEAD section inside the form. Classy. Keep it real, TicketWizard5000! The clever use of submit buttons on a form rather than links must improve their site security considerably.
On paper, that looks great. In reality, the candidate will appear on American Idol and Survivor, send a check for $10,000 to everyone, and put free webcams throughout the white house, so you can see what's going on.
Would that be useful? Hell no. But will enough people vote to execute that candidate? I doubt it.
And with that much progress in only the first administration, imagine how much better the rest would be.
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And as long as they're building a wire grid across the entire damned state there's no reason why we can't have some taxpayer-owned or power company owned fiber optic cable up on that tower too. Because stringing the cable is the expensive part.
Come on. You know we need it.
You are correct. My recall was wrong. The mass of the Oort cloud is currently unknown, but it's unlikely to be anywhere near the sun's mass even though it's distributed across a vast region of space.
Yeah, I'm going to get a few more like this. And I deserve them. You're right. Let's all lighten up a little, ok?
I said "planetary mass." I didn't specify a planet. Mercury is a planet. A Mercury sized object could be out there somewhere. Mercury isn't the lower limit on planetary masses either - it's just the smallest one we have now that Pluto is demoted.
Gee, thanks. Sometimes I'm just making this stuff up.
Offsite backups seem like a good idea to me. How about you?
Your reference of female genitalia by the medical term leads me to believe you've never seen one. So sad. A bit of advice: girls will think you're totally hot if you show them your home, and it's not your mom's basement. They'd like a ride in your car, not your best friend's. They're more interested in guys that can hold a Jorb. But exceptions occur and that's what make life both fun and interesting. If you project that "no" is not in your vocabulary you may find yourself awash in the good stuff. Put a slicker on it.
Celerity cooch is neither more, nor less, likely to be exposed to the never-get-overs we all worry about. Hep-C is a big deal, as is Herp, G-Warts and do I even need to mention the plague of the 20th century? We're all six degrees from Kevin Bacon.
And listen, kid. I've got zits older than you. Don't pretend to be the wise sage when you're not.
Oh, and sex is dirty. That's the coolest thing about it. Get over it. Or don't. Whatever suits you.
Forgive me here. On slashdot it's all about who gets their comment off first.
sigh.
If I were that concerned, my data never would have hit the drive in an unencrypted format anyway. And then I'd smelt the platters myself. But then that's my normal MO anyway, so nobody would notice this info was special. Thank God I don't deal with sensitive data because I'd have to come up with a method that was more secure.
And we wore an onion on our belt, which was the fashion of the day.
Oops. Sign error. Never mind.
So you've never actually seen coverage of the DNC and RNC then? Between the reporters, the candidates and the delegates I doubt a greater mass of gaping assholes was ever assembled.
The only thing that would make me want to go back to looking at goatse would be footage of the the DNC and RNC. Goatse is abhorrent but my morbid curiosity has limits.
The professional houses as part of the auditing process set up the smelter in your parking lot and give video all the way to the melted product. Very hard to fake in real time, but it can be done. If you care that much, you're probably one of the aforementioned exceptions.
Lucky you. The article is still on Slashdot's main page.
This is nothing less than bad management.
It should be understood by all involved in the disposal of surplus that a random few samples will be removed from the pallets at the last minute and tested for thorough data shredding outside of their organizational group, and this testing will complete before the surplus is released. It's very important that this testing actually be done. It's more important that this testing is believed to be done. The people responsible for doing the wiping should be trusted members of the team, but information is cash. You audit the cash, don't you?
The correct policy is that if wiping is required and for whatever reason (machine failure, drive failure) the wiping cannot complete successfully, then the platters must be thoroughly physically destroyed by smelting, sandblasting or other certain method. Everyone should understand that indefinite storage is preferable to giving proper wiping a kiss and a promise.
I'm also a big fan of full disk encryption for machines that are expected to handle sensitive data and all notebooks. It's a 1% performance hit. You can afford paying extra for the faster machine for the confidence that there was never any unencrypted sensitive data on the disk to begin with. If you're not using FDE on laptops at this point, you're crazy. No employee has no data on his laptop that is in some way useful or profitable to a thief except maybe junior vice presidents.
So if this happened on your watch, you've failed as a manager. This applies for several levels up from the person actually responsible for wiping the drives.
Must have the world's largest collection of online porn.
Which would figure, actually.
A deleted file including an ISO can live on the hard drive forever in recoverable or partially recoverable form. Criminals routinely buy PCs from surplus and then re-sell the uninteresting ones in hopes of garnering some profit from deleted data - in many cases turning a profit just on the turnaround process. Security researchers do it also, to gain fame and credibility from pointing the finger of shame which leads to step 3: consulting profit! A PC that's been "quick formatted" and then had an OS installed on it still has considerable valuable data on the "blanked" space - and on the disk the valuable user data almost always occupies the same space on the disk in the space that would still be blank after an OS install, it would be easy to find. The correct course for personal data is some low level drive wiping program like DODWipe (a commercial application) or Darik's Boot and Nuke DBAN (free). These programs overwrite every byte on the disk they can access, but cannot overwrite blocks "marked bad" by the hard drive itself - which is a much lower risk because those blocks are almost never readable anyway. Just using the software is no panacea either. It has to be used correctly.
For a drive that may have had a credit application, job application or similar data on it (even just one) the risk is too great to take chances with. So:
Just handle that data as if it were a level 4 biohazard that would wipe out your company if it were released, and you'll have the general idea. Wiping before chipping or smelting, though, is just paranoid and should be left to the TLA and tinfoil hat types, and swiss banks where disclosure of data is a capital offense.
Are you seeing the irony here yet?
Leaving one party with the power of the executive branch and the other with the power of the legislative branch ensures both active branches of government will battle each other and accomplish very little. This is perhaps the best a reasonable person can hope for and I believe it's that way by design. Given reign of both branches one party can do a great deal of damage to civil liberty in a very short time. Properly done, though, we should trade off which is which so that what energies they have left from fighting each other can be employed in reversing the actions of their predecessors. That way each generation will begin the same place the last generation did, and the power seekers will have been successfully turned from the tyrannical ways they seek and harnessed to the useful task of depleting the surplus productivity.
Please, don't hope for efficiency in government. History is full of efficient governments and living was free and easy under none of them.
Should I have not done that?
And then ask yourself, "Movenetworks, the site that issues this silverlight player for download, what is it running? "
Hey, this is fun! Very little dogfood here.
That is a remarkable site. What style, what innovative use of Frontpage. I especially like the inclusion of the HEAD section inside the form. Classy. Keep it real, TicketWizard5000! The clever use of submit buttons on a form rather than links must improve their site security considerably.
Change? I don't think so. There will be no change. People who are old enough to vote don't really believe that stuff, do they?
Netcraft confirms it.
I can't believe you guys didn't notice this yet. You're slipping.
And huge monstrous development companies can be infiltrated too. The problem there is that the code can't be audited by everybody who cares.
Not that it's that big a deal. If there's a lot of that going on we haven't heard about it.
And with that much progress in only the first administration, imagine how much better the rest would be.