"Hard drives, while they may fail, are still probably your best chance."
I tend to agree, however I'm a bit confused over what exactly is being requested.
"I've thought about buying a bunch of 4GB thumb drives....I have less than 500GBs and only save things important to me."
At first glance I thought you had 500gb you were trying to store, but then you mentioned "buying a bunch of 4GB thumbdrives" and I can't imagine someone buying 125 4gb thumbdrives to use for backup. So exactly how much data are you trying to store?
I would suggest against USB anything since they're already discussing cutting the cord on USB and going wireless USB. While I don't predict that will happen overnight you wanted a solution that would be available decades from now, and wired USB might go the way of the parallel port, which was the standard external port in the 80s and 90s but was replaced by USB late 90s. Parallel port only had a lifespan of about 20 yrs and is no longer on modern PCs, and USB has been out just over 10 years so it's feasible in 10 years PCs will no longer have USB ports, everything will be wireless USB.
"Will I be compensated with lower fares for the reduction of my kinetic & potential energies, or will they just take it as profit?"
considering the immense cost to implement this instead of just plugging into the grid I'd be surprised if the rates didn't increase instead. Think... powering your house with solar instead of electric, but solar when it was brand new and no one had it like "revolutionary new piezoelectric energy generating floors" are currently.
"That's pretty much like building a mind-reader to figure out if a person has ever committed a crime. Good luck with that."
Yeah, or they want remote access: "McMurdie also discussed the possibility of setting up a "central forensic server", where digital forensic experts from across the UK could log in and analyse whatever systems were plugged into it."
Wow, are police in the UK really that dumb? They either want a magic wand that tells you if a computer has "illegal" content on it, or they want what has already existed since before the internet?
"it's just a creepy nerd who's added speakers and some actuators to his Real Doll(tm)"
Yep. Not a robot: "A robot is an artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical system which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own."
"I repeat DO NOT do what many comp sci departments and high schools do, and that is "begin with Visual Basic"."
What "comp sci department" starts with VB? The local universities all start with C/C++ for computer science majors. Only students starting with VB are those majoring in information systems, who go on to become office workers that can use a computer rather than programmers.
I agree with C or C++. Seems those are the first program languages taught to computer science majors in most major universities, and many of those freshmen are 17 or 18 yrs old. I see no reason why "11-14 year old gifted children" can not handle a basic course in C or C++. Besides, if they do decide to go on to become programmers, might as well teach them the first language they'll learn.
"A local school emailing your entire neighborhood to tell them that the school is closed due to snow is annoying, but it is not spam. A teenager who emails a chain letter to your entire domain is annoying, but it is not spam."
What about a city mailing list that emails you constantly, but you never signed up for it and never lived anywhere near that city or even the state? Because that is what I have been facing the last few months. I get everything from ads for local businesses (local in that city) to new holiday events. I consider it SPAM, even if it is not all commercial.
Well... by cheating on the contest, it's hurting eBay customers, which could be interpreted as "ripping off" eBay, because they may lose money on this.
However these scripts aren't doing anything ebay wasn't already designed to do. Here's the $1 Corvette auction. Says "Holiday Doorbusters" in text in the auction and it's a $1 auction, so anyone with half a brain could search all auction text for "Holiday Doorbusters" and narrow the search to only auctions that are $1. You can do this manually within the search tools provided by eBay, and that functionality on ebay has been available for many years. Dozens of programs existed for the past few years that can automatically search titles and auctions for keywords and limit it to under a certain price. I have one I use that I know has been around since at least 2003, and I'm sure eBay knows these programs exist.
So if anything eBay did this to themselves and encouraged the "cheating" by making it so simple to do. If they really wanted people to search ebay for great deals they should have made the whole page an image, that would have prevented searching at least.
is the first email referring to The Island? Scarlett was in that movie, and she was a clone in the movie, so I could see the confusion, just like it's reasonable to believe that Arnold is a killer robot from the future who is now governor of California.
"Racism is a lot like the Bible code: if you look hard enough, you can find it anywhere."
Best... quote... ever.
I had to google "Resident Evil 5 controversy" to find what all the drama was about. I watched the trailers, didn't see anything racist so I kept looking.
One of the links was a interview with a Newsweek journalist: "There was a lot of imagery in that trailer that dovetailed with classic racist imagery. What was not funny, but sort of interesting, was that there were so many gamers who could not at all see it. Like literally couldn't see it. So how could you have a conversation with people who don't understand what you're talking about and think that you're sort of seeing race where nothing exists?"
Simple: because none exists. If you have a black man and a white man on a video game, someone somewhere playing the game will somehow see racism. The video is a bunch of zombies being killed. That's it. No racism, unless you want it to be there.
No one is going to play the game and go "OMG that white man just killed a black man!" unless all you see is skin color and, if you do, then you are the racist.
"It's a cynical way of saying that completing college shows you are capable of taking on something and seeing it through to completion.... I would not consider hiring someone without a college degree."
What if they went to college but didn't finish?..... oh, wait....
Exactly. I'm also a bit confused by this statement in the text: "a troubling precedent for anyone who has ever registered with a website under a pseudonym."
Yes, it is, if you use that pseudonym to chat with teenage girls and you encourage them to kill themselves and they follow through. Be very afraid.
"WPA for example is easy as hell to jam, a felon with a laptop with a laptop and aircrack can just kick all local users (including the cops) off the router."
And that would accomplish what, exactly? Cops can't check your record for a few minutes and a nice long jail sentence for "hacking" when they discover what 15 yr old script kiddie did it? Computer hackers don't fair so well in federal prison.
"However, I do believe that the police should be recorded at all times. They are given considerable power, and recording is a reasonable means of providing oversight."
Exactly.
Wonder what the job market is like in Ponca City because this is enough for me to move there. This is the best news I've ever heard to prevent police corruption and increase productivity. City leaders in Ponca City really know how to support their constituents.
"Sometimes in technology things change. There was a time when people thought that big joy sticks were the only way to interact with a game and D-pads (or even thumb joysticks) were a terrible idea."
think tactile feedback will be around awhile. I don't see touch screens replacing keyboards for long time, and I don't see touchscreens replacing buttons on controllers anytime soon.
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worse.... birthday.... evah
"...and stops running as soon as the machine starts shutting down."
Why do they have to watch the computer shutdown?
I can understand being paid to boot-up, but once you click shutdown, can't they walk away and go home? Do they really need to stand there and watch it for 15 minutes?
"Both of us stopped getting paid when the doors were locked despite the fact that there was still cleanup to be done. The theory was that we were supposed to be cleaning as the shift was winding down, but time and customers rarely allowed for that."
Sounds like you're owed a lot of back pay. If you have to stay and clean-up after work you are suppose to be paid, regardless of your boss's "theory".
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"Hard drives, while they may fail, are still probably your best chance."
I tend to agree, however I'm a bit confused over what exactly is being requested.
"I've thought about buying a bunch of 4GB thumb drives....I have less than 500GBs and only save things important to me."
At first glance I thought you had 500gb you were trying to store, but then you mentioned "buying a bunch of 4GB thumbdrives" and I can't imagine someone buying 125 4gb thumbdrives to use for backup. So exactly how much data are you trying to store?
If less than 50gb, I'd suggest a few SD cards. 8gb SD is ~$11, or 16gb for $30. While more expensive than hard drives per gb, SD cards are remarkably resilient, surviving a week in the ocean, and a few in a ziplock bag stored in a safe deposit box would probably last close to forever.
SD will probably still be around at least for the next decade or longer. SD has already been around since 1999 and all modern card readers read SD cards by default. SD slots are in nearly every form of consumer electronic device, and every manufacture of digital cameras uses SD except Sony and Olympus, almost guaranteeing the card readers will be around for many years to come.
I would suggest against USB anything since they're already discussing cutting the cord on USB and going wireless USB. While I don't predict that will happen overnight you wanted a solution that would be available decades from now, and wired USB might go the way of the parallel port, which was the standard external port in the 80s and 90s but was replaced by USB late 90s. Parallel port only had a lifespan of about 20 yrs and is no longer on modern PCs, and USB has been out just over 10 years so it's feasible in 10 years PCs will no longer have USB ports, everything will be wireless USB.
"Will I be compensated with lower fares for the reduction of my kinetic & potential energies, or will they just take it as profit?"
considering the immense cost to implement this instead of just plugging into the grid I'd be surprised if the rates didn't increase instead. Think... powering your house with solar instead of electric, but solar when it was brand new and no one had it like "revolutionary new piezoelectric energy generating floors" are currently.
"That's pretty much like building a mind-reader to figure out if a person has ever committed a crime. Good luck with that."
Yeah, or they want remote access:
"McMurdie also discussed the possibility of setting up a "central forensic server", where digital forensic experts from across the UK could log in and analyse whatever systems were plugged into it."
Wow, are police in the UK really that dumb? They either want a magic wand that tells you if a computer has "illegal" content on it, or they want what has already existed since before the internet?
"it's just a creepy nerd who's added speakers and some actuators to his Real Doll(tm)"
Yep. Not a robot:
"A robot is an artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical system which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own."
This is a maniquien with a speaker
My IP is 192.168.0.1
my login is admin. my password is admin
Please fix my computer broadcasting!
"banding together to protest the U.S. military using their songs as weapons. "
Why am I getting flashbacks of Beethoven's symphony being played while character was being tortured in Clockwork Orange?
"I repeat DO NOT do what many comp sci departments and high schools do, and that is "begin with Visual Basic"."
What "comp sci department" starts with VB? The local universities all start with C/C++ for computer science majors. Only students starting with VB are those majoring in information systems, who go on to become office workers that can use a computer rather than programmers.
"PHP or C are ideal for a number of reasons."
I agree with C or C++. Seems those are the first program languages taught to computer science majors in most major universities, and many of those freshmen are 17 or 18 yrs old. I see no reason why "11-14 year old gifted children" can not handle a basic course in C or C++. Besides, if they do decide to go on to become programmers, might as well teach them the first language they'll learn.
Use the C++ for dummies as a guide to writing the lessons.
"A local school emailing your entire neighborhood to tell them that the school is closed due to snow is annoying, but it is not spam. A teenager who emails a chain letter to your entire domain is annoying, but it is not spam."
What about a city mailing list that emails you constantly, but you never signed up for it and never lived anywhere near that city or even the state? Because that is what I have been facing the last few months. I get everything from ads for local businesses (local in that city) to new holiday events. I consider it SPAM, even if it is not all commercial.
"How is this ripping off eBay?"
Well... by cheating on the contest, it's hurting eBay customers, which could be interpreted as "ripping off" eBay, because they may lose money on this.
However these scripts aren't doing anything ebay wasn't already designed to do. Here's the $1 Corvette auction. Says "Holiday Doorbusters" in text in the auction and it's a $1 auction, so anyone with half a brain could search all auction text for "Holiday Doorbusters" and narrow the search to only auctions that are $1. You can do this manually within the search tools provided by eBay, and that functionality on ebay has been available for many years. Dozens of programs existed for the past few years that can automatically search titles and auctions for keywords and limit it to under a certain price. I have one I use that I know has been around since at least 2003, and I'm sure eBay knows these programs exist.
So if anything eBay did this to themselves and encouraged the "cheating" by making it so simple to do. If they really wanted people to search ebay for great deals they should have made the whole page an image, that would have prevented searching at least.
is the first email referring to The Island? Scarlett was in that movie, and she was a clone in the movie, so I could see the confusion, just like it's reasonable to believe that Arnold is a killer robot from the future who is now governor of California.
"I had worked out a few rules in the past, they were aimed at our local market's problems. "
actually they should just treat it like receiving stolen property:
"In Order to Be Convicted of this Crime, the Prosecution Must Show
* That the property was in fact stolen
* That you were aware, or should have known, that the property was stolen
Consequences of Receiving Stolen Property
If you are found guilty of receiving stolen property, the court may do any or all of the following:
* Imprisonment
* Fines
* Probation"
think that'd clear up most of the issues with copper being stolen.
"if you hit a stop sign or a power line because you lost control of your car are you a terrorist?"
one's an accident, the other is intentional, unless people are accidentally stealing copper electrical substations and cellular towers.
"Racism is a lot like the Bible code: if you look hard enough, you can find it anywhere."
Best... quote... ever.
I had to google "Resident Evil 5 controversy" to find what all the drama was about. I watched the trailers, didn't see anything racist so I kept looking.
One of the links was a interview with a Newsweek journalist:
"There was a lot of imagery in that trailer that dovetailed with classic racist imagery. What was not funny, but sort of interesting, was that there were so many gamers who could not at all see it. Like literally couldn't see it. So how could you have a conversation with people who don't understand what you're talking about and think that you're sort of seeing race where nothing exists?"
Simple: because none exists. If you have a black man and a white man on a video game, someone somewhere playing the game will somehow see racism. The video is a bunch of zombies being killed. That's it. No racism, unless you want it to be there.
No one is going to play the game and go "OMG that white man just killed a black man!" unless all you see is skin color and, if you do, then you are the racist.
"It's a cynical way of saying that completing college shows you are capable of taking on something and seeing it through to completion.... I would not consider hiring someone without a college degree."
..... oh, wait....
What if they went to college but didn't finish?
"No, but fraud and harassment are. "
Exactly. I'm also a bit confused by this statement in the text:
"a troubling precedent for anyone who has ever registered with a website under a pseudonym."
Yes, it is, if you use that pseudonym to chat with teenage girls and you encourage them to kill themselves and they follow through. Be very afraid.
This same thing happened 5 years ago with 15k drives. A 73gb 15k SCSI drive was $400+, but a 80gb 7200rpm IDE drive was only $75. Now you can get that same 15,000 RPM drive for less than $50.
so just wait a few years. In 5 years that 256gb SSD will be $50, and $100 will buy 12tb.
"Does this mean it's no longer useful to buy 10,000RPM drives?"
10k rpm? I'm more interested in replacing the 15k rpm drives.
"Baby Does (strip club / whorehouse) was about the biggest industry outside of the refinery."
Here's a picture of Baby Does
"WPA for example is easy as hell to jam, a felon with a laptop with a laptop and aircrack can just kick all local users (including the cops) off the router."
And that would accomplish what, exactly? Cops can't check your record for a few minutes and a nice long jail sentence for "hacking" when they discover what 15 yr old script kiddie did it? Computer hackers don't fair so well in federal prison.
"However, I do believe that the police should be recorded at all times. They are given considerable power, and recording is a reasonable means of providing oversight."
Exactly.
Wonder what the job market is like in Ponca City because this is enough for me to move there. This is the best news I've ever heard to prevent police corruption and increase productivity. City leaders in Ponca City really know how to support their constituents.
"Sometimes in technology things change. There was a time when people thought that big joy sticks were the only way to interact with a game and D-pads (or even thumb joysticks) were a terrible idea."
think tactile feedback will be around awhile. I don't see touch screens replacing keyboards for long time, and I don't see touchscreens replacing buttons on controllers anytime soon.
she died on her birthday? worse.... birthday.... evah
"...and stops running as soon as the machine starts shutting down."
Why do they have to watch the computer shutdown?
I can understand being paid to boot-up, but once you click shutdown, can't they walk away and go home? Do they really need to stand there and watch it for 15 minutes?
"Both of us stopped getting paid when the doors were locked despite the fact that there was still cleanup to be done. The theory was that we were supposed to be cleaning as the shift was winding down, but time and customers rarely allowed for that."
Sounds like you're owed a lot of back pay. If you have to stay and clean-up after work you are suppose to be paid, regardless of your boss's "theory".