Anyone attempting to force a DNA sample out of me will be dealt with in the same manner I would deal with an attempted sexual assault.
If "they" come with a court order compelling you to give DNA, fighting back will just wind up with you in jail for contempt of court and/or resisting a police officer.
I do not want (and I am far from alone in this) the government keeping tabs on me or archiving my personal habits into some large database that will be used against me in the future.
You mean like the databases that Wal-Mart, Visa & MasterCard, E-ZPass, etc keep, and that the police can access at any time with a valid search warrant?
If you think its just "radical hysteria" please explain the library records seizure rules introduced in the usa patriot act.
How unthinkingly "progressive" can you be?
It's still not illegal to read The Anarchist Cookbook, but it's still illegal to blow up buildings. Determining which teenager purchased The Anarchist Cookbook a week before the school blew up is a perfectly valid tool the police can use when tracking down who the bomber is.
Come back when there is a consistent practice of knocking down people's doors just for buyingThe Anarchist Cookbook.
Preliminary tests don't seem to indicate the presence of DNA. This shouldn't be the end of the inquiry. Furthermore, repeated testing for the presence of DNA is only so useful; yes, it's good to independently verify results, but after you're satisfied that something isn't there, it's time to find out what is there.
Absolutely. But this is work for an open-minded biologist, not an agenda-driven astronomer.
Precisely why the sample has not been distributed to a variety of scientists continues to amaze me. I would think it would not take too long for a group of scientists to qualify or reject his hypothesis.
Exactly what I was thinking as I RTFA.
Why send a sample to an astronomer? Send it to a molecular biologist who can do DNA testing.
Can you imagine having to tell your grandmother that all of her data is gone because she forgot her password?
Have her
write down her passphrase on a piece of paper
put it in an enveloe
seal the envelope
date and sign her name over the envelope flap, "sealing it" like kings do with signet rings, so if someone opens the envelope, it will be obvious that the seal has been broken.
tape the seam, so that anyone wanting into the envelope must physically tear it
If a virus deletes the user's $HOME/Documents files I bet he will be *freaking* pissed after someone in the 1337U8UN7U forum tells him not to worry as the stability of the system is not going to be affected.
Let's say that you and I both get some bit of malware, you on WinXP (where there's a 99.44% chance your accout has Administrator privs), and me on Linux, logged in as "ron", who doesn't has root privs.
How do we recover?
You must reinstall WinXP and every application, then all data. Much time (2 weeknights, or a long Saturday) and aggrivation is expended.
I, OTOH, create a ron2 account, and log in to the GUI under that account, and, while reading/., open an xterm, "su -", and restore the "ron" files from my external HDD. No problems.
The feasibility of cracking DES quickly was demonstrated in 1998 when a custom DES-cracker was built by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a cyberspace civil rights group, at the cost of approximately US$250,000 (see EFF DES cracker).... The machine brute-forced a key in a little more than 2 days' search; at about the same time at least one attorney from the US Justice Department was announcing that DES was unbreakable.
But it's only DES, you say!!! So. It is a correctly-encrypted text, and it was cracked in 56 hours.
Six months later, in response to RSA Security's DES Challenge III, in collaboration with Distributed.net, the EFF used Deep Crack to decrypt another DES-encrypted message, winning another $10,000. This time, the operation took less than a day -- 22 hours and 15 minutes.
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I drink my water out of the tap,
Yuk. Tap water is nasty.
and I drive a small, efficient car
And when your small, efficient car smashes into a tree, it'll be a small, efficient blood pancake.
I hear reports of this frequently, but I've had comcast cable 'net in three places so far, and each time my download speed exceeds what's advertised; and my upstream matches exactly what's advertised.
My Cox Cable is advertised at 4Mbps, and Visualware said I was getting 96% of that speed. Upload speed was 100.2% of the advertised 512Kbps.
These "connection testers" are mostly useless - a better test is to download large amounts of data (BitTorrent, for example) and look at the average throughput.
This is true. When I FTP large files (a linux source tarball, for example, or a WMV/MPEG/PDF file), I easily get d/l speeds around 70-80% of the rated max of 4MBps. My ISP throttles nntp to T-1 speeds (185KBps), and http is pretty much dependent on the speed of the other end of the pipe.
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Would have been funny if the Pretzel had succeeded in Bush's case: Natural selection fixes consequence of unnatural election...
Won't you people ever give that a rest? 6 years is long time to be whining about your guy losing a close election.
You're being glib. There are more similarities between AMD and ATI than just the starting letter. For example, both are 3 letters long. As if that weren't enough, the middle letter in each one is a consonant! These firms were clearly made to be together.
But ATI is Canadian.
Their drivers probably suck because they drink too much Molson.
I thought engineers and geeks appreciated efficiency. They should just stay home and stick their hands in a waffle iron periodically, then go back to coding.
You can code with bruised ribs, you can code with a broken leg, you can even code, slowly, with a broken weak-side arm, but you can't code with your hands wrapped like mummies.
Reliance on correctly programmed computers installed on aircraft from different manufacturers would have avoided this crash and many of those passengers and the aircrew of the cargo plane who did nothing wrong would be alive today
Automated collision-avoidance would have to be an international, non-extendable open standard that the FAA and it's European & Asian counterparts all agree to.
Dude, there were more two-car families in 1968 than there were single-car families in 1938. By '68, most middle-class families were living in suburbs.
But in 1938, the country still was still rural, and that means single-family dwellings, like suburbs.
In '38, suburbs mostly didn't even exist. In '38 it was commonplace to have your elderly parents live with you. In '68 it was common for them to move to Florida.
Regarding Florida, I think you're off by 10 years.
In '38, a woman in the workplace was a novelty, and a married woman in the workplace almost unheard of. In '68, it was commonplace.
This is wrong. Most mothers still stayed home in 1968.
I could go on. In '38, only radical kooks owned TV sets. In '68, only radical kooks didn't. I could go on, but why?
Look thru college yearbooks from 1968, and you'll see that most students were still male and still wore short hair.
1965-1985 were the years of biggest change, mainly brought about by The Pill
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If "they" come with a court order compelling you to give DNA, fighting back will just wind up with you in jail for contempt of court and/or resisting a police officer.
I do not want (and I am far from alone in this) the government keeping tabs on me or archiving my personal habits into some large database that will be used against me in the future.
You mean like the databases that Wal-Mart, Visa & MasterCard, E-ZPass, etc keep, and that the police can access at any time with a valid search warrant?
Face it: There is no privacy.
How unthinkingly "progressive" can you be?
It's still not illegal to read The Anarchist Cookbook, but it's still illegal to blow up buildings. Determining which teenager purchased The Anarchist Cookbook a week before the school blew up is a perfectly valid tool the police can use when tracking down who the bomber is.
Come back when there is a consistent practice of knocking down people's doors just for buying The Anarchist Cookbook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_System
(Stunned silence) Wow.
Still on it's own hardware, or does it now run on Windows/Linux?
Preliminary tests don't seem to indicate the presence of DNA. This shouldn't be the end of the inquiry. Furthermore, repeated testing for the presence of DNA is only so useful; yes, it's good to independently verify results, but after you're satisfied that something isn't there, it's time to find out what is there.
Absolutely. But this is work for an open-minded biologist, not an agenda-driven astronomer.
Exactly what I was thinking as I RTFA.
Job Description: How many of you have ever heard of Unidata?
Me. It was a Pick variant back in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Have her
It would be useful to know whether OOo BASIC can get out of the OOo sandbox and access the live system.
Let's say that you and I both get some bit of malware, you on WinXP (where there's a 99.44% chance your accout has Administrator privs), and me on Linux, logged in as "ron", who doesn't has root privs.
How do we recover?
You must reinstall WinXP and every application, then all data. Much time (2 weeknights, or a long Saturday) and aggrivation is expended.
I, OTOH, create a ron2 account, and log in to the GUI under that account, and, while reading
You'd better re-think that bold assertion...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Stan
But it's only DES, you say!!! So. It is a correctly-encrypted text, and it was cracked in 56 hours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker
I drink my water out of the tap,
Yuk. Tap water is nasty.
and I drive a small, efficient car
And when your small, efficient car smashes into a tree, it'll be a small, efficient blood pancake.
I hear reports of this frequently, but I've had comcast cable 'net in three places so far, and each time my download speed exceeds what's advertised; and my upstream matches exactly what's advertised.
My Cox Cable is advertised at 4Mbps, and Visualware said I was getting 96% of that speed. Upload speed was 100.2% of the advertised 512Kbps.
These "connection testers" are mostly useless - a better test is to download large amounts of data (BitTorrent, for example) and look at the average throughput.
This is true. When I FTP large files (a linux source tarball, for example, or a WMV/MPEG/PDF file), I easily get d/l speeds around 70-80% of the rated max of 4MBps. My ISP throttles nntp to T-1 speeds (185KBps), and http is pretty much dependent on the speed of the other end of the pipe.
Would have been funny if the Pretzel had succeeded in Bush's case:
Natural selection fixes consequence of unnatural election...
Won't you people ever give that a rest? 6 years is long time to be whining about your guy losing a close election.
Don't all right-thinking Americans?
But ATI is Canadian.
Their drivers probably suck because they drink too much Molson.
Even crustaceans breathe oxygen and expel CO, so what transformed oxygen to O2?
I don't know, US or not US, but I have yet to hear about a construction project that finished on schedule...
The Hoover Dam was completed 2 years ahead of schedule.
You can code with bruised ribs, you can code with a broken leg, you can even code, slowly, with a broken weak-side arm, but you can't code with your hands wrapped like mummies.
ROTFLMAO
Y2k is not "years ago". It's not even "years ago" to my 8yo...
1970 is barely "years ago".
Reliance on correctly programmed computers installed on aircraft from different manufacturers would have avoided this crash and many of those passengers and the aircrew of the cargo plane who did nothing wrong would be alive today
Automated collision-avoidance would have to be an international, non-extendable open standard that the FAA and it's European & Asian counterparts all agree to.
Dude, there were more two-car families in 1968 than there were single-car families in 1938. By '68, most middle-class families were living in suburbs.
But in 1938, the country still was still rural, and that means single-family dwellings, like suburbs.
In '38, suburbs mostly didn't even exist. In '38 it was commonplace to have your elderly parents live with you. In '68 it was common for them to move to Florida.
Regarding Florida, I think you're off by 10 years.
In '38, a woman in the workplace was a novelty, and a married woman in the workplace almost unheard of. In '68, it was commonplace.
This is wrong. Most mothers still stayed home in 1968.
I could go on. In '38, only radical kooks owned TV sets. In '68, only radical kooks didn't. I could go on, but why?
Look thru college yearbooks from 1968, and you'll see that most students were still male and still wore short hair.
1965-1985 were the years of biggest change, mainly brought about by The Pill
Must be. Arial seems so much easier to read on screen, though.