Knowingly receiving stolen property is a serious crime. Receiving it in good faith, without knowledge or suspicion it was stolen is not. It's up to the court to determine which is the case. (you still have to give the property back, and if you paid for it while buying it in good faith you may join the suit against the thief to have your money back)
If she had a good reason to suspect the ring was stolen, she's guilty. But if the boyfriend successfully deceived her into believing this was all legit she'll walk away free. (yes, she can lie her way out of this one even if she's guilty, if she's clever enough. OTOH she doesn't sound very clever.)
Track the money back, and soon you'll see it's "we" and "us". We buy more expensive products, pay for more flashy commercials and in the end give the sponsor more money than their products are worth, so they can give the extra to such projects, Almost the same as "tax-funded".
But what useful knowledge would we gain from this experiment?
I mean, we get supersonic vehicle to stay on the ground at speeds where it would most definitely rather fly. It's not all that useful. We develop air drag model and shape for a vehicle which has no practical purpose, nor ever will. We spend lots of money and resources just to develop a variant of a jet plane we forcibly keep from flying, for no good reason but to call it a "car" and beat a "ground" speed record.
I still say it''s a waste: the little we can actually learn from this could be either learned using vastly less resources, or the resources could be used to learn something vastly more useful.
Even then, how are they going to measure that? Won't that be like 10 bits of noise at the end of the timestamp, resulting from measuring error?
I know it doesn't mean one trade per picosecond, but if you intend to either start or measure the moment of an operation with that kind of precision, you still need a device capable of at least comparable speed.
Like, the first bit of preamble of a packet from the marketplace arrives at the router, which can be considered the moment of transaction. Still, the rise of the edge of the bit is good 10 picoseconds. How are you going to measure the point in time where it crosses the "1" threshold?
I've lost some actual money due to spam. Some usenet newsgroups I frequented died due to spam. I lost two email addresses due to spam and admin inflexibility. Not to mention days of my life, when due to a filter failure I had to dig through some 10000 spam messages to get some 5 emails from an obscure account.
I don't want to kill him. For all the annoyance and grief he caused me, let me, just as a means of revenge, to prick him with a pin, once. Then let every person he ever annoyed prick him with a pin, once.
One cycle of a 4GHz CPU is 250 picoseconds. So what kind of hardware do they use so that they can operate 250 times faster than some of the fastest CPUs in trade?
Short voltage spikes typical to connecting/disconnecting high induction devices are great at killing CFLs, harmless to incadescents, and undetectable to a common multimeter. The filters you speak of, outside of limited performance filtering power strips (ACAR) are quite hard to find around here (and likely quite expensive).
Transformers are quite well protected from copper thieves. Not easy to get a wrench in there. (usually a small, well-locked building).
Better quality CFL provide nicer light. They die from power spikes, brownouts or frost just the same.
ME? Fixing the power grid? Excuse me, I'm not even authorized to measure it. I'd better not prepare my complaint in too professional tone, because I could be investigated for practicing electrical engineering without license.
All I can do is complain, then they will send their people in a year, finish measurements in two, then say the replacement isn't viable because there's no room for additional infrastructure inside current support infrastructure etc (essentially smooth talk for "would have to replace goddamned everything and it would cost too much").
Fixing the power grid requires an actual investment from the power companies side. Some very real big money! Meanwhile, banning bulbs can be done completely for free!
Let me counter with an example from Poland. Here cheapsest CFLs are about $2/piece and with horrible narrow-band bluish light making people look like corpses. If you want actual nice light, shell out about $8. With median salary of about $700/month.
Many power lines are old, some power plants remember Stalin. We don't get neat 230V 50Hz. We get spikes, brownouts, in the evenings my house is getting about 180V. Most CFLs last less than a month. Even the expensive ones. Also, when used outdoors, when frost at night in winter reaches -25C, they die like flies. One-two nights like that and they are dead. It's been about 2 years since I stopped trying to use them. The price didn't drop much, the power quality got only worse, and bulbs work just fine in these conditions.
But the government is fixated on forcing them upon the people. Because in neat modern houses, with proper heating, with modern power lines, with wiring to newest standards, CFLs work flawlessly. And that's what they experience and see, so why believe some unwashed masses with myths about CFL life being shorter than that of an incadescent? It never happens in -their- houses.
Did you measure your power line? Do you get random spikes, brownouts, frequency shifts? No? Then please stop forcing what works for you upon those for whom it does not work.
We are not the average customer. We are the narrow margin with fucked up power lines. CFLs may be perfect for an average customer. They are abysmal for us. The bigger picture is that ban on bulbs will go just fine with 98% of customers. And the remaining 2%? Error margin, fuck them, who cares!!!
. The wheels are in motion to get a R18 classification for games happening (to bring them into line with film etc.), but like anything in politics, it takes a long time:(
Especially if a person with definite veto power over the decision is adamantly against it. Then it may take long enough so that they first die of old age before the project can move ahead.
[i]The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad.
The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents an unexceptional pulp, post-apocalypse science fiction action tale entitled Lord of the Swastika. However, this is a pro-fascist narrative written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler, who in this timeline emigrated from Germany to America in 1919 after the Great War, and used his modest artistic skills to become first a pulp-science fiction illustrator and later a successful science fiction writer, telling lurid, purple-prosed adventure stories under a thin SF-veneer.[/i] [Wikipedia]
Motorcycles, leather clothes, genetically pure heroes against the mutant scum. Rise to power and noble leadership!...yep, the story inside the story is utter crap, the kind of utter crap Hitler could have written. And then the "critique" foreword and afterword really put this in perspective...
Don't get it wrong. This is not a pro-Nazi book. This is a work of satire, the high-quality kind of satire that is hard to distinguish from the real thing, unless you really dig under the surface.
Functional illiteracy and unwillingness to read replies posted already.
1. Password change still possible and safe as long as no new bad blocks appeared since encryption. Even then the chance the badblock contains still readable header information is minimal. How? Read my other reply. It's slow but it's not a frequently done operation. 2. The same method can be used to remove any leftover data from system installation. 3. The plausible deniability implies you do have OS with truecrypt, and a truecrypt partition/file/storage and this much IS publicly known (as opposed to existence of a hidden partition). And that's exactly as much information as can be recovered from the unencrypted scraps of data. There will be indication of OS and Truecrypt present, but there won't be any indication whether it was used for any hidden partition or not.
Preconditions: the drive is of a good quality and provides a reliable list of its mapped out bad blocks. The moment new bad blocks appear, the password cannot be safely changed any more (although probability the old password remains available is still minimal). Only bad blocks are of concern, wear-protection mechanisms are not.
Note that even then, the classic method of "fill the drive to the brim" - create a file to fill the space 100%, works quite reliably.
It -may- not work if new faulty sectors have been found and have been mapped out. Checking for this change is perfectly doable (there are lists of these sectors, clearly readable). Even then the chance this affects you is minimal, because 1) that particular sector must have kept the compromised header and 2) damage to that sector (that caused mapping it out) hasn't destroyed that header data.
It's called functional illiteracy. You read but you don't understand what you read.
Truecrypt might fail on SSD drives in two cases:
- the drive contained any sensitive data prior to encryption
- you needed to change the volume header due to the old one getting compromised.
These are the only two scenarios and both are easily avoided.
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Yeah, never attribute to malicious intent what can be attributed to stupidity and incompetence.
Knowingly receiving stolen property is a serious crime. Receiving it in good faith, without knowledge or suspicion it was stolen is not. It's up to the court to determine which is the case. (you still have to give the property back, and if you paid for it while buying it in good faith you may join the suit against the thief to have your money back)
If she had a good reason to suspect the ring was stolen, she's guilty. But if the boyfriend successfully deceived her into believing this was all legit she'll walk away free.
(yes, she can lie her way out of this one even if she's guilty, if she's clever enough. OTOH she doesn't sound very clever.)
Track the money back, and soon you'll see it's "we" and "us". We buy more expensive products, pay for more flashy commercials and in the end give the sponsor more money than their products are worth, so they can give the extra to such projects, Almost the same as "tax-funded".
I can't, because some "visionary asshole" already stole my sponsor for this kind of bullshit.
I wouldn't count "massive waste of shared resources" under "no harm to others".
But what useful knowledge would we gain from this experiment?
I mean, we get supersonic vehicle to stay on the ground at speeds where it would most definitely rather fly. It's not all that useful. We develop air drag model and shape for a vehicle which has no practical purpose, nor ever will. We spend lots of money and resources just to develop a variant of a jet plane we forcibly keep from flying, for no good reason but to call it a "car" and beat a "ground" speed record.
I still say it''s a waste: the little we can actually learn from this could be either learned using vastly less resources, or the resources could be used to learn something vastly more useful.
Drag-to-snap is not only more enjoyable. It also smells like a fresh equation, and makes the cute little sounds of a vanilla pudding in the sun.
Give me some brand/model names of the filters you speak of. I'm afraid they are nearly unknown here, otherwise I'm pretty sure I'd hear of them.
Power company doing things that encourage people to use less energy? Not gonna happen unless someone forces it down their throat.
Even then, how are they going to measure that? Won't that be like 10 bits of noise at the end of the timestamp, resulting from measuring error?
I know it doesn't mean one trade per picosecond, but if you intend to either start or measure the moment of an operation with that kind of precision, you still need a device capable of at least comparable speed.
Like, the first bit of preamble of a packet from the marketplace arrives at the router, which can be considered the moment of transaction. Still, the rise of the edge of the bit is good 10 picoseconds. How are you going to measure the point in time where it crosses the "1" threshold?
I've lost some actual money due to spam. Some usenet newsgroups I frequented died due to spam. I lost two email addresses due to spam and admin inflexibility. Not to mention days of my life, when due to a filter failure I had to dig through some 10000 spam messages to get some 5 emails from an obscure account.
I don't want to kill him. For all the annoyance and grief he caused me, let me, just as a means of revenge, to prick him with a pin, once.
Then let every person he ever annoyed prick him with a pin, once.
It is an interesting question, but moot in this case because
WTF does Moot have to do with this?
One cycle of a 4GHz CPU is 250 picoseconds. So what kind of hardware do they use so that they can operate 250 times faster than some of the fastest CPUs in trade?
That's what THEY want you to think!
Short voltage spikes typical to connecting/disconnecting high induction devices are great at killing CFLs, harmless to incadescents, and undetectable to a common multimeter. The filters you speak of, outside of limited performance filtering power strips (ACAR) are quite hard to find around here (and likely quite expensive).
Transformers are quite well protected from copper thieves. Not easy to get a wrench in there. (usually a small, well-locked building).
Better quality CFL provide nicer light. They die from power spikes, brownouts or frost just the same.
ME? Fixing the power grid? Excuse me, I'm not even authorized to measure it. I'd better not prepare my complaint in too professional tone, because I could be investigated for practicing electrical engineering without license.
All I can do is complain, then they will send their people in a year, finish measurements in two, then say the replacement isn't viable because there's no room for additional infrastructure inside current support infrastructure etc (essentially smooth talk for "would have to replace goddamned everything and it would cost too much").
Fixing the power grid requires an actual investment from the power companies side. Some very real big money!
Meanwhile, banning bulbs can be done completely for free!
Let me counter with an example from Poland.
Here cheapsest CFLs are about $2/piece and with horrible narrow-band bluish light making people look like corpses. If you want actual nice light, shell out about $8. With median salary of about $700/month.
Many power lines are old, some power plants remember Stalin. We don't get neat 230V 50Hz. We get spikes, brownouts, in the evenings my house is getting about 180V. Most CFLs last less than a month. Even the expensive ones. Also, when used outdoors, when frost at night in winter reaches -25C, they die like flies. One-two nights like that and they are dead. It's been about 2 years since I stopped trying to use them. The price didn't drop much, the power quality got only worse, and bulbs work just fine in these conditions.
But the government is fixated on forcing them upon the people. Because in neat modern houses, with proper heating, with modern power lines, with wiring to newest standards, CFLs work flawlessly. And that's what they experience and see, so why believe some unwashed masses with myths about CFL life being shorter than that of an incadescent? It never happens in -their- houses.
Making the lava lamp a lava dark?
Did you measure your power line? Do you get random spikes, brownouts, frequency shifts?
No? Then please stop forcing what works for you upon those for whom it does not work.
We are not the average customer. We are the narrow margin with fucked up power lines. CFLs may be perfect for an average customer. They are abysmal for us. The bigger picture is that ban on bulbs will go just fine with 98% of customers. And the remaining 2%? Error margin, fuck them, who cares!!!
. The wheels are in motion to get a R18 classification for games happening (to bring them into line with film etc.), but like anything in politics, it takes a long time :(
Especially if a person with definite veto power over the decision is adamantly against it. Then it may take long enough so that they first die of old age before the project can move ahead.
[i]The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad.
The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents an unexceptional pulp, post-apocalypse science fiction action tale entitled Lord of the Swastika. However, this is a pro-fascist narrative written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler, who in this timeline emigrated from Germany to America in 1919 after the Great War, and used his modest artistic skills to become first a pulp-science fiction illustrator and later a successful science fiction writer, telling lurid, purple-prosed adventure stories under a thin SF-veneer.[/i]
[Wikipedia]
Motorcycles, leather clothes, genetically pure heroes against the mutant scum. Rise to power and noble leadership! ...yep, the story inside the story is utter crap, the kind of utter crap Hitler could have written. And then the "critique" foreword and afterword really put this in perspective...
Don't get it wrong. This is not a pro-Nazi book. This is a work of satire, the high-quality kind of satire that is hard to distinguish from the real thing, unless you really dig under the surface.
Functional illiteracy and unwillingness to read replies posted already.
1. Password change still possible and safe as long as no new bad blocks appeared since encryption. Even then the chance the badblock contains still readable header information is minimal. How? Read my other reply. It's slow but it's not a frequently done operation.
2. The same method can be used to remove any leftover data from system installation.
3. The plausible deniability implies you do have OS with truecrypt, and a truecrypt partition/file/storage and this much IS publicly known (as opposed to existence of a hidden partition). And that's exactly as much information as can be recovered from the unencrypted scraps of data. There will be indication of OS and Truecrypt present, but there won't be any indication whether it was used for any hidden partition or not.
Preconditions: the drive is of a good quality and provides a reliable list of its mapped out bad blocks. The moment new bad blocks appear, the password cannot be safely changed any more (although probability the old password remains available is still minimal). Only bad blocks are of concern, wear-protection mechanisms are not.
Note that even then, the classic method of "fill the drive to the brim" - create a file to fill the space 100%, works quite reliably. It -may- not work if new faulty sectors have been found and have been mapped out. Checking for this change is perfectly doable (there are lists of these sectors, clearly readable). Even then the chance this affects you is minimal, because 1) that particular sector must have kept the compromised header and 2) damage to that sector (that caused mapping it out) hasn't destroyed that header data.
It's called functional illiteracy. You read but you don't understand what you read. Truecrypt might fail on SSD drives in two cases: - the drive contained any sensitive data prior to encryption - you needed to change the volume header due to the old one getting compromised. These are the only two scenarios and both are easily avoided.
Did you read the article you linked? Did you read some other posts in this thread?
Doesn't matter. I'm just a meaningless human. I'm disposable. But THE SECRET is safe.