I for one will never forget the live demonstration by Patrick Norton on The Screensavers on TechTV of his first encounter with a glass-platter hard drive. Both he and his co-host, Leo Laporte were surprised at the shards of glass that flew out when he gave it one hit with a ball-peen hammer with enough force to dent a metal platter.
I don't think either of them were wearing eye protection at the time, but luckily neither were injured.
BTW, sandpapering-until-clear is more effective at destroying the data than a disk shredder. You can still reassemble a shredded or shattered disk with enough patience, but I'd say it's infinitely harder to reassemble the magnetic substrate (or reflective in the case of CDs and DVDs) when it's been reduced to powder.
Of course, you still want to eliminate any afterimages present in the on-drive buffer memory.
The kids these days probably don't remember this bit of text, but it used to be the standard warning before sending a posting out to a network which we talk about in exactly the same way you talk about fight club:
This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere.
Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [yn]
And that was just for sending text messages usually under 4 KB in size.
It's almost as if cellphones need some sort of onboard switch that allows you to selectively decide when it's ON or OFF... No, that's probably too futuristic for most people to comprehend anyway.
You would get years for that. Off switches will be illegal in the future, especially on your personal tracking devices.
You can buy those pre-made. And it's on sale today.
Or hide the drive in a seemingly whole wire and run it to the printer with the drive part connected to the printer.
That might have been effective in the old days when the FBI would seize computers by shearing the cables off the units rather than mess with any port connectors. Including monitor, drive, and power cables. I don't have any personal experience so I don't know if they left the middle parts of the cables behind.
Lt. Starbuck: Yeah, well, I er... I guess I never did like to admit that I form... eh... attachments. Captain Apollo: You don't even like to admit it to yourself. You know, I've never understood that about you. Lt. Starbuck: You were always part of a very big family and I never had that. So, I just grew up keeping, er, the number of people around me as, er, large as I could. Captain Apollo: So you couldn't be hurt by any particular one?
Boxey: Poor Starbuck. Oh well, he still has Athena.... And Mirrian and Noday and... Capt. Apollo: Would you stop? And who told you to listen anyway?
Replace troll, trolling, trolls sites, and other related terms with serial killer, murdering, murder simulators, and other related terms and the parent could have been written by Jack Thompson. Thank you, BadAnalogyGuy! If this wasn't one of my weeks without mod points, I'd be modding you up.
I can see some obvious uses here that I hope never happen, like, "Sorry, but you only purchased one ticket to your pay-per-view movie, and three people are watching! Purchase additional tickets or ask some of the viewers to leave."
I heard tell this was Disney's objection to the non-rewindable rental video tape case: it didn't account for multiple people present during the single viewing.
Of course, even if it gets that bad, I suspect it'd be defeated with something like duct tape.
More like you'll have to construct a diorama of the room in front of the sensor with the requisite number of people present and whatever qualities it requires simulated (body heat, reflective eyes that blink, occasional motion).
If you can program PacMan into a voting machine, I'm sure you could come up with a method to divert the blame... such as a delay so the 73rd voter after you get's to play PacMan instead of "Who Wants To Be A President"
As well as change the value of the delay after it expires to say it delayed until the 37th voter so they can't count backwards to find you. It can optionally also delete the code that changed the delay, but you don't really need to unless you're trying to frame a particular person. And yes, it is possible to create secure self-erasing code.
and the user gets an extra copy with their serial number and their vote, and can go
to the bar and get a free drink for voting a particular way.
If the user gets a receipt that includes the way they voted, the user can sell his vote.
If the way he voted is encoded in a way that is only evident through encryption, the user has to trust the encryption method to accurately record his vote. And then the system is exposed to false discredit if enough voters presenting their receipts lie about how they voted claiming the receipt is wrong.
The only problem with this is that you aren't going to get a few "private minutes" with the machine
Surely that depends on the standards of voting privacy in your district, like whether you get a three-sided screen block or a complete booth with ceiling-to-floor curtains.
And an election can be thwarted by leaving evidence of tampering in a district you want to disenfranchise.
If only Adblock had the features of EditCSS and Repaginate combined to present such pages as a single page without redundancy.
If I didn't have to run Firefox 2.0.0.20 on this wretchedly old Redhat 9 system (due to no libpangocairo and too old version of GTK+) I'd be using Stylish to activate style rules on paged sites to hide everything but the story and Repaginate to concatenate all the pages together.
Ya, the whole cooperate "elite management" style is really troublesome to me; you know, the idea that the company pretty well owns you, and that the managers are superior human beings simply because they are above you on the food chain. That's why I'm staying the heck away from it all.
"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed; or buy anything sold or processed; or process anything sold, bought, or processed; or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that." -- Lloyd Dobler
Yeah, I just noticed I listed "Crisis Management Exercise" and "Crisis Management Exercises" as separate items. Well, if they won't tell us what it stands for, let's call it that.
BTW, CBS-MemoreX wasn't listed at AcronymFinder.com nor AcronymAttic.com.
It's not that he's knows how much you're overestimating the time, it's that he either knows how long it should take or he has a deadline by which the work needs to be done.
Sometimes your employer is a better programmer than you and just needs you to do what he doesn't have time to do (you're his parallel processor).
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I for one will never forget the live demonstration by Patrick Norton on The Screensavers on TechTV of his first encounter with a glass-platter hard drive. Both he and his co-host, Leo Laporte were surprised at the shards of glass that flew out when he gave it one hit with a ball-peen hammer with enough force to dent a metal platter.
I don't think either of them were wearing eye protection at the time, but luckily neither were injured.
BTW, sandpapering-until-clear is more effective at destroying the data than a disk shredder. You can still reassemble a shredded or shattered disk with enough patience, but I'd say it's infinitely harder to reassemble the magnetic substrate (or reflective in the case of CDs and DVDs) when it's been reduced to powder.
Of course, you still want to eliminate any afterimages present in the on-drive buffer memory.
The kids these days probably don't remember this bit of text, but it used to be the standard warning before sending a posting out to a network which we talk about in exactly the same way you talk about fight club:
And that was just for sending text messages usually under 4 KB in size.
And now they talk about cost-aware routing?
It's almost as if cellphones need some sort of onboard switch that allows you to selectively decide when it's ON or OFF... No, that's probably too futuristic for most people to comprehend anyway.
You would get years for that. Off switches will be illegal in the future, especially on your personal tracking devices.
Unless it's zero tolerance for aspirin or metal spoons.
You can buy those pre-made. And it's on sale today.
Or hide the drive in a seemingly whole wire and run it to the printer with the drive part connected to the printer.
That might have been effective in the old days when the FBI would seize computers by shearing the cables off the units rather than mess with any port connectors. Including monitor, drive, and power cables. I don't have any personal experience so I don't know if they left the middle parts of the cables behind.
Lt. Starbuck: Yeah, well, I er... I guess I never did like to admit that I form... eh... attachments.
Captain Apollo: You don't even like to admit it to yourself. You know, I've never understood that about you.
Lt. Starbuck: You were always part of a very big family and I never had that. So, I just grew up keeping, er, the number of people around me as, er, large as I could.
Captain Apollo: So you couldn't be hurt by any particular one?
Boxey: Poor Starbuck. Oh well, he still has Athena.... And Mirrian and Noday and...
Capt. Apollo: Would you stop? And who told you to listen anyway?
Yeah, I'm so glad how me made Greedo shoot first, but Han still measures time in distance.
"They will be in weapons range in 12 microns."
Never mention 1980-anything with respect to Battlestar Galactica again!
Not nearly as furious as when the Vogon Destructor Fleet blew up the Earth (Which of course Africa happens to be a part of).
Yes, with it's lovely fjords.
Replace troll, trolling, trolls sites, and other related terms with serial killer, murdering, murder simulators, and other related terms and the parent could have been written by Jack Thompson. Thank you, BadAnalogyGuy! If this wasn't one of my weeks without mod points, I'd be modding you up.
I can see some obvious uses here that I hope never happen, like, "Sorry, but you only purchased one ticket to your pay-per-view movie, and three people are watching! Purchase additional tickets or ask some of the viewers to leave."
I heard tell this was Disney's objection to the non-rewindable rental video tape case: it didn't account for multiple people present during the single viewing.
Of course, even if it gets that bad, I suspect it'd be defeated with something like duct tape.
More like you'll have to construct a diorama of the room in front of the sensor with the requisite number of people present and whatever qualities it requires simulated (body heat, reflective eyes that blink, occasional motion).
"Boy, that sure is a bad movie, won't you?"
If you can program PacMan into a voting machine, I'm sure you could come up with a method to divert the blame... such as a delay so the 73rd voter after you get's to play PacMan instead of "Who Wants To Be A President"
As well as change the value of the delay after it expires to say it delayed until the 37th voter so they can't count backwards to find you. It can optionally also delete the code that changed the delay, but you don't really need to unless you're trying to frame a particular person. And yes, it is possible to create secure self-erasing code.
and the user gets an extra copy with their serial number and their vote, and can go
to the bar and get a free drink for voting a particular way.
If the user gets a receipt that includes the way they voted, the user can sell his vote.
If the way he voted is encoded in a way that is only evident through encryption, the user has to trust the encryption method to accurately record his vote. And then the system is exposed to false discredit if enough voters presenting their receipts lie about how they voted claiming the receipt is wrong.
The only problem with this is that you aren't going to get a few "private minutes" with the machine
Surely that depends on the standards of voting privacy in your district, like whether you get a three-sided screen block or a complete booth with ceiling-to-floor curtains.
And an election can be thwarted by leaving evidence of tampering in a district you want to disenfranchise.
Owning is done to you; pwning you do to yourself out of your own stupidity. See also FAIL.
The problem is if our representatives can not be held responsible, they tend to ignore the rule of law.
We've already got that without everything that you listed before.
In space, no one can hear you ka-ching!
"Average US plans cost $52.99 per month compared to an average of $10.95 in Finland."
I have two questions:
If only Adblock had the features of EditCSS and Repaginate combined to present such pages as a single page without redundancy.
If I didn't have to run Firefox 2.0.0.20 on this wretchedly old Redhat 9 system (due to no libpangocairo and too old version of GTK+) I'd be using Stylish to activate style rules on paged sites to hide everything but the story and Repaginate to concatenate all the pages together.
Ya, the whole cooperate "elite management" style is really troublesome to me; you know, the idea that the company pretty well owns you, and that the managers are superior human beings simply because they are above you on the food chain. That's why I'm staying the heck away from it all.
"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed; or buy anything sold or processed; or process anything sold, bought, or processed; or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that." -- Lloyd Dobler
Yeah, I just noticed I listed "Crisis Management Exercise" and "Crisis Management Exercises" as separate items. Well, if they won't tell us what it stands for, let's call it that.
BTW, CBS-MemoreX wasn't listed at AcronymFinder.com nor AcronymAttic.com.
(Not an acronym though, since you cannot pronounce it as a single word.)
"See 'em cross"? Fine, that's three words.
You can't copyright an abbreviation.
BTW, TFA doesn't define what CMX stands for either. Apparently it is an internal codename which may not have an expansion.
It's not that he's knows how much you're overestimating the time, it's that he either knows how long it should take or he has a deadline by which the work needs to be done.
Sometimes your employer is a better programmer than you and just needs you to do what he doesn't have time to do (you're his parallel processor).
I'd be more worried about garage bands. Better get whatever limb is replaced tattooed with "POST NO BILLS".
"I saw a man with a wooden leg, and a real foot." -- Steven Wright