Damned if I know; probably on a dead hard drive somewhere. It was just a bunch of python using the struct module to decode the relevant bits; didn't take more than a day to write.
The HFS+ bits, that is; the toolage for finding image headers was something third-party off freshmeat.
Agreed; I haven't gotten such forwards in almost a decade. That said, quite a while back they used to be fairly common; I suppose there's some kind of cultural shift responsible.
I once was approached to do some forensic analysis for the defense in a case where a school district's administrator was trying to get a principal much-loved by his community and staff to leave.
Said principal used a Mac, while the school was primarily PC-based. They seized his computer, and returned it over a month later, claiming that they'd found porn (and releasing some supposedly-recovered photos).
I did a full analysis -- wrote my own tools to analyze HFS+, scanned the raw disk for image headers, etc -- and found (1) that the system had files and directories with mtimes during the period in which it was in the district's possession (and thus that they'd failed to follow accepted digital forensics practices), (2) that there were in fact a small number of pornographic images on the hard drive... and (3) that every one of those images was autodownloaded by Eudora Pro, a mail client (written back before spam was a serious issue) which saved every attachment to a specific folder on the disk without prompting. However, not one of these images matched those the school district claimed to have recovered.
The district dropped their case -- and "promoted" the principal to an administrative position he hated, working directly under the man who tried to fire him. Sigh.
feel safe that a stealth update won't brick your phone.
Apple doesn't do stealth upgrades for the iPhone; they're all deployed through iTunes and thus opt-in. $80/mo is also on the high side for voice and data plans, if one does some shopping around. That said, I generally agree with your conclusion.
(On the other hand, there are reasons one might have personal grievances against a particular wireless vendor -- I'll never do business with Verizon again after spending three days on the phone trying to get a credit reference the first time I tried to buy a house; my credit history was extremely short, my cell phone was one of the few recurring bills I'd ever had in my name, and their policy was to only provide such references for customers who had missed at least one payment... but that kind of situation would make paying the ETF to such a vendor undesirable as well).
Ya know, there's a reason I suggested vimperator. It wasn't to make fun of you -- it was to suggest a way you can hide all the built-in widgetry, save tons of UI space, and make the browser more usable (in the sense that vim is usable) at the same time. Keyboard-only navigation is exceedingly nifty, and if you're fed up with the current direction... hey, it's another approach.
Outside that, though... I think the awesomebar is useful. Deciding what belongs what belongs in an extension and what doesn't is a judgement call, and not everyone makes the same calls.
If you hate the awesomebar, use vimperator! It's made just for people like you, who want those damn kids off their lawns and think that mice are the worst thing to happen to usability since keyboard overlays went out of style.
(Admittedly, though, every so often I actually do a:set menuoptions+=T, because on occasion the Awesome Bar is actually... ya know... useful).
...and they bury that very far down in TFA. The question, of course, is whether that was the planned outcome; I'd like to see it answered a little more explicitly.
If it is the intended outcome... well, so be it. If not, OTOH, that makes me a little less likely to sign up to be an early human test subject.:)
Windows or Unix shop? How large do you expect your repository's history to get (in terms of revisions per year)?
For a UNIX shop with a very deep history, you're going to be best off with Git.
For a UNIX shop without an exceptionally deep history, Bazaar (Canonical's revision control system) is worth considering. It works well on Windows, but the GUIs there are immature -- so if you're not a UNIX shop and your Windows folks are revision control power users who hate the command line (for whom the currently available GUIs aren't adequate but the command line is unsuitable), that's something which will need to be taken into consideration.
For a Windows shop where you need the best available GUIs, Subversion has the stability you need right now -- but you're missing out on functionality which can save a lot of headaches later (when, say, you try to merge between a branch where you did a mass renaming and one where you didn't... though Git doesn't always handle this one well either, Bazaar takes care of it beautifully). SVN 1.5 will be slightly better along those lines, and bzr-svn (allowing Bazaar to integrate with Subversion repositories) can help your UNIX power users take advantage of distributed revision control's advantages while still keeping all the SVN shininess available for your Windows folks.
That said -- SVN set out to be the best replacement for CVS it could possibly be. It's a very nice, very polished replacement for CVS -- but that's not the same thing as "the best revision control system it could possibly be"; distributed workflows have some nontrivial advantages even in centralized environments; look at the PQM the Bazaar folks use to manage their own project for a prime example.
I suppose this means that our presidents who had a hotline to the Kremlin were giving away other peoples' countries whenever they got on the phone. WTF?
He assumes every convicted criminal is innocent (20-1 at least half of those 'innocent' criminals he was whinging on about are guilty as hell and there is ins;t a lot of reasonable doubt on any of em, getting the evidence tossed on a techicallity typically means a monster is set loose, not that an innocent man was freed) like just about every Democrat but HE is a new kind of racist Democrat, he will actually sit at the same table with the police and discuss THEIR guilt. Bah.
"Typically" is a key statement. There's a reason for due process -- in that without it, we're no better than any totalitarian regime. As a matter of practicality, then, if police don't follow process, there has to be consequences; how else can you or I be comfortable of our ability to defend ourselves against false accusations?
The Bill of Rights was written by a group of men with recent experience dealing with a government treating them unjustly. Just because the Democratic party doesn't always give the second amendment the respect it deserves doesn't give 'yall any kind of moral authority to go tromping on the rest of them.
And then there is the Islam issue. I'd like to be all 'enlightened' and say it doesn't matter.. but it just won't go away. If you read his own book the "never was a practicing Muslim" line is a lie. Not spin, not a politician parsing words, it is simply a lie.
I've read both his books. Care to cite a specific page?
In other words he is is exactly like every other Democrat of the 20th Century, always ready to welcome a Republican with open arms who wants to 'compromise'....
Care to actually look at the history of the death penalty legislation I quoted you? There's 'compromise' on both sides, thank you very much.
The other thing about Obama is that he's willing to give a bit on the hardline Left philosophical positions -- which may not seem like much, but certainly is different from Hillary or Pelosi. You know that hardline "Republicans oppose abortion because they hate your rights!" boilerplate that most Democrats use? Obama's position at least does the courtesy of acknowledging that, ya know, there are moral issues, and that while he believes as a practical matter that abortion should be legal, it should be avoided wherever possible.
The personal attacks are what need to be reigned in, but most[1] of those come from people like Obama
You mean people like self-styled Obama supporters. There's a pretty massive difference.
Me, I don't want to compromise with socialists I want to defeat them.
If you're dividing the political world into good and bad -- and your goal is to defeat the "bad" -- there's nothing third-way about it.
Obama's ideals are indeed very close to the Democratic party ideals, while McCain's have indeed wavered from following strict party lines in the past. The thing that makes folks who follow Obama see him as an agent of a different approach is that he doesn't demonize his opponents; instead, he tries to understand their positions and find some way to make those positions compatible with his (still staunchly Democratic) positions. The Audacity of Hope goes into much more detail there than I ever could -- but if you're looking for a Democrat who's not a Democrat, Obama indeed isn't your guy. If, on the other hand, you'd be satisfied with a Democrat who's willing to actually think about why you're taking a position that you do and whether there's some way to accomodate... well, let's say that the Left would be a lot less rancorous today if Bush had been willing to do the same for the last eight years.
High gas prices do not make "sustainable" or other energy sources more workable. Ethanol, the current enviro-lovechild of fuels, uses at least 1 gallon of petroleum based fuel for each gallon of produced ethanol, thus its price will closely follow that of oil/gasoline, barring any subsidies used to artificially lower the cost.
First off, your numbers on ethanol are broken -- and based on bad assumptions. Corn-based ethanol is indeed inefficient, but generaly accepted studies still give it a net-positive output (granted, not very net positive -- it certainly doesn't make sense after externalities are taken into effect). Thing is, just because corn is the ugly duckling doesn't mean there aren't other biofuels available -- and high fuel prices mean that there's money to fund the R&D necessary to get them into production. Brazil runs quite effectively off of sugarcane-based ethanol -- showing that it's not the idea itself that's wrong, but the US's stupid corn-centric initial implementation.
Anyhow, next-generation biofuels are being developed which run off switchgrass, algae, and waste products from food production; techniques for extracting oil from the plastics presently being thrown in landfills are also under development. Economic feasibility for all of these things is dependent on the price of oil being high enough that it isn't just easier to pull the energy out of the ground; if the output won't sell for a high enough price, why would any sane entity invest in the process?
The US is the 3rd largest producer of oil, our resources are vast, with new pockets being discovered regularly.
Our resources are vast... if you count in oil shale. But it's expensive to extract -- so unless the price of oil is high, it's more economically feasible just to import, meaning that we keep our dependence on foreign fuel. If you're contending that our supply of easy and cheap-to-extract oil is vast (on the scale of domestic demand), there I'll need a chance to evaluate your sources.
And to be sure, new pockets are being discovered -- because we're working harder to find them than we ever did before.
Of course you say there is a "really good" argument to not use US resources[...]
Frankly, I don't see how you can not appreciate the parent's point about wanting to hold out our reserves. If the rest of the world erupts into an energy war as peak oil approaches, wouldn't it behoove us to have our own supply? Militaries don't just run on wishes and dreams, after all -- and just as an army used to run on its stomach, these days they run on their fuel supplies.
Perhaps you, as an Obama supporter can supply some examples of this alleged bipartisanship?
The death penalty legislation he pulled together in the IL state senate is the first thing that comes to mind -- very large number of parties involved with wildly varying interests; Obama worked out a compromise that everyone could live with.
it's a tradeoff I'm not qualified to make, not being privy to that classified information myself.
It's not just relevant with folks we're at war with. Ask folks doing doing human rights work in "friendly" countries with iffy civil rights records overseas -- Guantanimo Bay comes up frequently.
The US has lost its moral high ground -- and inasmuch as this is a moral issue as opposed to a military one, you and I are as qualified to have positions on it as any human being on Earth.
He claims to have enough dirt. If you've read much of JT's ravings in the past, you'll have a good idea how much credence to give these claims as well.
If a strict interpretation of the rules leads to an absurd result (like all but one member of the Florida Supreme Court needing to step down), judges generally find some other way to interpret those rules -- and to whom but the Florida Supreme Court can he appeal?
I'm not a lawyer, and I'll ask my wife (who, while also not a lawyer, is 3/4 of a paralegal) for a better-informed opinion when she gets back from school this evening... but my gut on this one is that JT has dug himself a hole there's no getting out of this time.
Attempting to crush the hopes of the idealistic is certainly more discourteous than spouting feelgoodisms at the terminally disenchanted -- and considerably less productive, when the idealistic are prone to transforming their ideas into actions and those actions into change.
The only thing disenchantment is good for, on the other hand, is more disenchantment. What value lies in that direction?
Preventive care has nothing to do with an emergency.
Nothing to do with a genuine emergency, no -- but plenty to do with why people use emergency rooms today. Folks wait until whatever medical situation they have is so severe that they have no other choice, and then they go to the emergency room where they can't be turned away. I've been uninsured; in no small part, I'm speaking from experience.
A NACHC study in 2004 found that up to 50% of emergency room visits are things which could have been handled through more conventional medical channels -- but if you're poor, those channels aren't open to you. That same study found that redirecting just 10% of those to non-urgent facilities would have saved $110 million in New York alone; another study found that Massachusets' universal health plan is actually having just that effect.
And I could mock any fragment of McCain's platform the same way, in isolation from the rest.
If you're genuinely interested in understanding what Obama speaks of when he talks about change, I'd urge you to borrow a copy of The Audacity of Hope. If you're not... well, at least we're clear on where we stand.
The NASA cuts aren't a significant part of Barack's platform -- I just mentioned them because they're what I happened to remember off the top of my head to counter the parent's clearly erroneous claim that Barack had no cuts whatsoever planned. Rolling back the Bush tax cuts, enforcing pay-as-you-go and using transparency to make it easier for citizens and interest groups to identify and pressure Congresscritters giving in to special-interest spending are certainly much more viable in terms of real financial impact.
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I wasn't running against the original, of course. What kind of idiot do you take me for?
Damned if I know; probably on a dead hard drive somewhere. It was just a bunch of python using the struct module to decode the relevant bits; didn't take more than a day to write.
The HFS+ bits, that is; the toolage for finding image headers was something third-party off freshmeat.
Agreed; I haven't gotten such forwards in almost a decade. That said, quite a while back they used to be fairly common; I suppose there's some kind of cultural shift responsible.
I once was approached to do some forensic analysis for the defense in a case where a school district's administrator was trying to get a principal much-loved by his community and staff to leave.
Said principal used a Mac, while the school was primarily PC-based. They seized his computer, and returned it over a month later, claiming that they'd found porn (and releasing some supposedly-recovered photos).
I did a full analysis -- wrote my own tools to analyze HFS+, scanned the raw disk for image headers, etc -- and found (1) that the system had files and directories with mtimes during the period in which it was in the district's possession (and thus that they'd failed to follow accepted digital forensics practices), (2) that there were in fact a small number of pornographic images on the hard drive... and (3) that every one of those images was autodownloaded by Eudora Pro, a mail client (written back before spam was a serious issue) which saved every attachment to a specific folder on the disk without prompting. However, not one of these images matched those the school district claimed to have recovered.
The district dropped their case -- and "promoted" the principal to an administrative position he hated, working directly under the man who tried to fire him. Sigh.
(On the other hand, there are reasons one might have personal grievances against a particular wireless vendor -- I'll never do business with Verizon again after spending three days on the phone trying to get a credit reference the first time I tried to buy a house; my credit history was extremely short, my cell phone was one of the few recurring bills I'd ever had in my name, and their policy was to only provide such references for customers who had missed at least one payment... but that kind of situation would make paying the ETF to such a vendor undesirable as well).
Ya know, there's a reason I suggested vimperator. It wasn't to make fun of you -- it was to suggest a way you can hide all the built-in widgetry, save tons of UI space, and make the browser more usable (in the sense that vim is usable) at the same time. Keyboard-only navigation is exceedingly nifty, and if you're fed up with the current direction... hey, it's another approach.
Outside that, though... I think the awesomebar is useful. Deciding what belongs what belongs in an extension and what doesn't is a judgement call, and not everyone makes the same calls.
Makes good sense. It wouldn't hurt for an article aimed at people who aren't domain experts to be somewhat more explicit, though.
If you hate the awesomebar, use vimperator! It's made just for people like you, who want those damn kids off their lawns and think that mice are the worst thing to happen to usability since keyboard overlays went out of style.
:set menuoptions+=T, because on occasion the Awesome Bar is actually... ya know... useful).
(Admittedly, though, every so often I actually do a
...and they bury that very far down in TFA. The question, of course, is whether that was the planned outcome; I'd like to see it answered a little more explicitly.
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If it is the intended outcome... well, so be it. If not, OTOH, that makes me a little less likely to sign up to be an early human test subject.
Windows or Unix shop? How large do you expect your repository's history to get (in terms of revisions per year)?
For a UNIX shop with a very deep history, you're going to be best off with Git.
For a UNIX shop without an exceptionally deep history, Bazaar (Canonical's revision control system) is worth considering. It works well on Windows, but the GUIs there are immature -- so if you're not a UNIX shop and your Windows folks are revision control power users who hate the command line (for whom the currently available GUIs aren't adequate but the command line is unsuitable), that's something which will need to be taken into consideration.
For a Windows shop where you need the best available GUIs, Subversion has the stability you need right now -- but you're missing out on functionality which can save a lot of headaches later (when, say, you try to merge between a branch where you did a mass renaming and one where you didn't... though Git doesn't always handle this one well either, Bazaar takes care of it beautifully). SVN 1.5 will be slightly better along those lines, and bzr-svn (allowing Bazaar to integrate with Subversion repositories) can help your UNIX power users take advantage of distributed revision control's advantages while still keeping all the SVN shininess available for your Windows folks.
That said -- SVN set out to be the best replacement for CVS it could possibly be. It's a very nice, very polished replacement for CVS -- but that's not the same thing as "the best revision control system it could possibly be"; distributed workflows have some nontrivial advantages even in centralized environments; look at the PQM the Bazaar folks use to manage their own project for a prime example.
The Bill of Rights was written by a group of men with recent experience dealing with a government treating them unjustly. Just because the Democratic party doesn't always give the second amendment the respect it deserves doesn't give 'yall any kind of moral authority to go tromping on the rest of them.I've read both his books. Care to cite a specific page?
The other thing about Obama is that he's willing to give a bit on the hardline Left philosophical positions -- which may not seem like much, but certainly is different from Hillary or Pelosi. You know that hardline "Republicans oppose abortion because they hate your rights!" boilerplate that most Democrats use? Obama's position at least does the courtesy of acknowledging that, ya know, there are moral issues, and that while he believes as a practical matter that abortion should be legal, it should be avoided wherever possible.You mean people like self-styled Obama supporters. There's a pretty massive difference.
Hmm. National rules must vary from the Texas caucus rules, then, as folks have been disqualified under the latter for signing in under the wrong name.
Obama's ideals are indeed very close to the Democratic party ideals, while McCain's have indeed wavered from following strict party lines in the past. The thing that makes folks who follow Obama see him as an agent of a different approach is that he doesn't demonize his opponents; instead, he tries to understand their positions and find some way to make those positions compatible with his (still staunchly Democratic) positions. The Audacity of Hope goes into much more detail there than I ever could -- but if you're looking for a Democrat who's not a Democrat, Obama indeed isn't your guy. If, on the other hand, you'd be satisfied with a Democrat who's willing to actually think about why you're taking a position that you do and whether there's some way to accomodate... well, let's say that the Left would be a lot less rancorous today if Bush had been willing to do the same for the last eight years.
Anyhow, next-generation biofuels are being developed which run off switchgrass, algae, and waste products from food production; techniques for extracting oil from the plastics presently being thrown in landfills are also under development. Economic feasibility for all of these things is dependent on the price of oil being high enough that it isn't just easier to pull the energy out of the ground; if the output won't sell for a high enough price, why would any sane entity invest in the process?Our resources are vast... if you count in oil shale. But it's expensive to extract -- so unless the price of oil is high, it's more economically feasible just to import, meaning that we keep our dependence on foreign fuel. If you're contending that our supply of easy and cheap-to-extract oil is vast (on the scale of domestic demand), there I'll need a chance to evaluate your sources.
And to be sure, new pockets are being discovered -- because we're working harder to find them than we ever did before.Frankly, I don't see how you can not appreciate the parent's point about wanting to hold out our reserves. If the rest of the world erupts into an energy war as peak oil approaches, wouldn't it behoove us to have our own supply? Militaries don't just run on wishes and dreams, after all -- and just as an army used to run on its stomach, these days they run on their fuel supplies.
The problem isn't that Chamberlain talked to Hitler, but that Chamberlain gave him someone else's country to make him go away.
If you can't see the difference between those two things...
The US has lost its moral high ground -- and inasmuch as this is a moral issue as opposed to a military one, you and I are as qualified to have positions on it as any human being on Earth.
He claims to have enough dirt. If you've read much of JT's ravings in the past, you'll have a good idea how much credence to give these claims as well.
If a strict interpretation of the rules leads to an absurd result (like all but one member of the Florida Supreme Court needing to step down), judges generally find some other way to interpret those rules -- and to whom but the Florida Supreme Court can he appeal?
I'm not a lawyer, and I'll ask my wife (who, while also not a lawyer, is 3/4 of a paralegal) for a better-informed opinion when she gets back from school this evening... but my gut on this one is that JT has dug himself a hole there's no getting out of this time.
Attempting to crush the hopes of the idealistic is certainly more discourteous than spouting feelgoodisms at the terminally disenchanted -- and considerably less productive, when the idealistic are prone to transforming their ideas into actions and those actions into change.
The only thing disenchantment is good for, on the other hand, is more disenchantment. What value lies in that direction?
A NACHC study in 2004 found that up to 50% of emergency room visits are things which could have been handled through more conventional medical channels -- but if you're poor, those channels aren't open to you. That same study found that redirecting just 10% of those to non-urgent facilities would have saved $110 million in New York alone; another study found that Massachusets' universal health plan is actually having just that effect.
And I could mock any fragment of McCain's platform the same way, in isolation from the rest.
If you're genuinely interested in understanding what Obama speaks of when he talks about change, I'd urge you to borrow a copy of The Audacity of Hope. If you're not... well, at least we're clear on where we stand.
The NASA cuts aren't a significant part of Barack's platform -- I just mentioned them because they're what I happened to remember off the top of my head to counter the parent's clearly erroneous claim that Barack had no cuts whatsoever planned. Rolling back the Bush tax cuts, enforcing pay-as-you-go and using transparency to make it easier for citizens and interest groups to identify and pressure Congresscritters giving in to special-interest spending are certainly much more viable in terms of real financial impact.