The interesting parts may not be all the invoicing and accounting records etc. that companies have. They are of very limited interest in a few decades and is no big deal.
What may prove more interesting is photography and stories of people, events and society of today. Maybe I have the missing link photo in my personal archive, and will someone be able to view that in a century?
Commercial things like movies and music is of course interesting to save, but there are a lot of copies around, so it's not unlikely that you will be able to watch the original Star Trek episodes in a century from now and be amazed how wrong they were.
And as long as data is "active" in the means of duplication we won't have a huge risk of losing mainstream data. It's the fringe data that we may lose.
However DRM is one issue that can cause huge problems because it's a poison that can make whole sets of data inaccessible.
That is one important issue - not everybody is familiar with a computer even these days.
A voting machine must be designed in a way where it's very hard to do it wrong - or it's just an expensive piece of junk.
The alignment problem may be a troublesome part, but it may partly be corrected by randomizing the location of the alternatives for each voter. In that case the error spread will even out over the candidates.
And the backslash is one of the most stupid characters you can select when it comes to non-US keyboards. It's on the AltGr+'+' key on the Swedish keyboard for example.
And the backslash is also used to quote several different control characters like \r for carriage return \n for newline etc.
The level of stupidity is taken to a new level. This is one more reason to avoid PHP.
If now someone could convince Microsoft to abandon the backslash for the forward slash too...
Boot time is a pain that we have had since the first IBM PC was released. And it's not only boot time but also shut down time that can be painful.
And for networked PC:s with a roaming profile you will get raped in boot time whenever you have a large profile for some reason.
Some of the time that it takes originates from the "need" to count memory and some for waiting on a bunch of devices to initialize and start. No parallel tasks during startup at all.
Only computer with a decent startup (under a second) that I have experienced was a computer with a ROM Basic interpreter, but then, that's a completely different animal.
The base right now is that the original poster has made a bad deal on his internet access.
Many sites has so much junk embedded that it's almost impossible not to enter the limit imposed by the ISP unless you use Lynx or some other text only browser.
One may question if it's worth it to have such a lousy deal or if it's better to have a deal where you pay a little more per month and have a higher or no limit solution.
For me I have a 10/100 internet connection for about $40/month with no caps.
The devilish thing is that mobile phones today are as the personal computers were before the IBM PC and MS-DOS appeared on the market.
Not that it was the best product that took over then, and we are still waiting for the 'killer phone'.
Apple could have taken that path if they were more open but from the perspective of a developer they are a locked-up dead end.
The phones that I think are the ones that's easiest to develop for are the Windows Mobile phones (horrible thought), but I haven't seen the Android yet, so I can't say it's better.
As for Symbian - I suspect that only Nokia will run that and that it eventually will die.
SonyEricsson is today targeting the Microsoft track, so they will essentially be diminished to a software shell and styled HTC phones.
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.
"Truth is a triple-edged sword; My truth, your truth and the real truth".
So decisively saying that there is only one truth - you may be utterly wrong. Better to be careful with what you say and make people think instead and maybe someone will look up the real truth.
The phone companies shall have so called call data records, often declared as CDR:s. These provide information about the calls made to/from a certain number. Using these records it is possible to back-track the phone call to the originating operator. The phone companies have a lot of information available to allow for tracking, but since it requires a lot of work to dig through the data they are very reluctant to do so.
Another way is to catch on to the caller and check who purchased their service and then follow the money trail.
Unfortunately it is possible that the caller that spoofs the number is offshore somewhere.
And if the FBI won't help, I suggest that you also check other channels of law enforcement and keep everything in writing so that you have a history to refer to. Taking help from a lawyer may be one way to continue this. It's always interesting if you can get in touch with the right lawyer who knows which buttons to push to get some results.
The problem is that even with rinsing there are places that are extremely hard to rinse and get rid of the stuff. Using bleach is really to cause more trouble with your electronics.
I would never clean them with any bleach/water, rather clean them with pure alcohol and then let them dry in a warm compartment. Especially bleach would probably effectively kill a lot of the more sensitive parts.
Partly dismantling the items is likely to be a good idea before cleaning.
But if the electronics has been wet for a long time there is a risk that the water that already entered has caused corrosion and therefore made it prone to malfunction.
I tried the Drake equation once and got a result of 0.7.
In this case I still question if we have a civilization here on earth or if we still are beings with despise, hate and territorial claims more than logically thinking beings.
The last 8 years with Bush at the helm of the US hasn't proved us anything better - rather the opposite.
However - this still doesn't mean it's useless to listen. Because if you don't listen you won't hear unless it screams into your ear.
Just curious - will they actually have the right to inspect your property (open your bags) without you being present if you look at it from the strict view of what the constitution says?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Of course - X-raying wasn't on the list when that amendment was written, but that should be OK, but as soon as the property is to be opened I would like to first have a warrant and then also be able to contest that before any proceeding.
Has there ever been a court verdict saying that the fourth amendment isn't valid here?
And in many cars the steering lock doesn't engage until you remove the key from the lock anyway, so the issue may depend from car to car.
But if you have a SAAB then you will be surprised because you will have the gear shifter locked instead. You have to put the gear in reverse on some manual models to be able to get the key out.
Using the brakes and pressing the clutch is even more retarded than engine braking. This only increases the wear on brakes and transmission parts like the clutch bearing causing them to wear out prematurely. Save the brakes for when you need them - overheated and worn-out brakes are among the worst thing you ever can experience.
During engine braking the engine will effectively cut down the fuel used anyway so it will save you very little.
More important when driving is to maintain a constant speed and avoid braking/accelerating. Using high gears will also help since a lower engine rpm gives less losses in the engine.
Just storing the pictures on the computer may be insufficient, I suggest that an external disk also shall be used, and then store that in the checked-in luggage. Using a bunch of flash drives can also be a good alternative.
For triple safety, you may also set up a server at home (or similar location) and then access it over the internet from a WiFi hotspot.
One way of seeing this is that a man that has become older and is still healthy means that the genes provides less risk of inherited disabling diseases and therefore is a better mate from that perspective. An older man is also likely to have gained a better position in society.
Evolution is still going on, but it is also circumvented by modern medicine. I would rather claim that medicine is the limiting factor for evolution.
Today we have a large number of diseases that is caused by our lazy living and sugared diets. So evolution will pick off the ones that aren't able to live lazy by heart attacks and similar defects.
I was also thinking CDE and you also have similar items in QuickLaunch in Windows (which I think is a really good feature) and also in various Linux desktops.
So it's hardly revolutionary work that's patented.
Just keep copyright bound to a person and not to a company. And let the copyright be valid only 5 years after the death of that person to let it be able to cover for funeral costs in case that's needed.
For computer software there should only be copyright if there is support for the software.
Slashdot Mirror
And then you can just consider that squatters are rövhål. But who cares about twitter anyway?
The interesting parts may not be all the invoicing and accounting records etc. that companies have. They are of very limited interest in a few decades and is no big deal.
What may prove more interesting is photography and stories of people, events and society of today. Maybe I have the missing link photo in my personal archive, and will someone be able to view that in a century?
Commercial things like movies and music is of course interesting to save, but there are a lot of copies around, so it's not unlikely that you will be able to watch the original Star Trek episodes in a century from now and be amazed how wrong they were.
And as long as data is "active" in the means of duplication we won't have a huge risk of losing mainstream data. It's the fringe data that we may lose.
However DRM is one issue that can cause huge problems because it's a poison that can make whole sets of data inaccessible.
That is one important issue - not everybody is familiar with a computer even these days.
A voting machine must be designed in a way where it's very hard to do it wrong - or it's just an expensive piece of junk.
The alignment problem may be a troublesome part, but it may partly be corrected by randomizing the location of the alternatives for each voter. In that case the error spread will even out over the candidates.
And the backslash is one of the most stupid characters you can select when it comes to non-US keyboards. It's on the AltGr+'+' key on the Swedish keyboard for example.
And the backslash is also used to quote several different control characters like \r for carriage return \n for newline etc.
The level of stupidity is taken to a new level. This is one more reason to avoid PHP.
If now someone could convince Microsoft to abandon the backslash for the forward slash too...
Boot time is a pain that we have had since the first IBM PC was released. And it's not only boot time but also shut down time that can be painful.
And for networked PC:s with a roaming profile you will get raped in boot time whenever you have a large profile for some reason.
Some of the time that it takes originates from the "need" to count memory and some for waiting on a bunch of devices to initialize and start. No parallel tasks during startup at all.
Only computer with a decent startup (under a second) that I have experienced was a computer with a ROM Basic interpreter, but then, that's a completely different animal.
The base right now is that the original poster has made a bad deal on his internet access.
Many sites has so much junk embedded that it's almost impossible not to enter the limit imposed by the ISP unless you use Lynx or some other text only browser.
One may question if it's worth it to have such a lousy deal or if it's better to have a deal where you pay a little more per month and have a higher or no limit solution.
For me I have a 10/100 internet connection for about $40/month with no caps.
The devilish thing is that mobile phones today are as the personal computers were before the IBM PC and MS-DOS appeared on the market.
Not that it was the best product that took over then, and we are still waiting for the 'killer phone'.
Apple could have taken that path if they were more open but from the perspective of a developer they are a locked-up dead end.
The phones that I think are the ones that's easiest to develop for are the Windows Mobile phones (horrible thought), but I haven't seen the Android yet, so I can't say it's better.
As for Symbian - I suspect that only Nokia will run that and that it eventually will die.
SonyEricsson is today targeting the Microsoft track, so they will essentially be diminished to a software shell and styled HTC phones.
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.
---- Robert A. Heinlein
For anyone familiar with B5 there is a quote:
"Truth is a triple-edged sword; My truth, your truth and the real truth".
So decisively saying that there is only one truth - you may be utterly wrong. Better to be careful with what you say and make people think instead and maybe someone will look up the real truth.
The phone companies shall have so called call data records, often declared as CDR:s. These provide information about the calls made to/from a certain number. Using these records it is possible to back-track the phone call to the originating operator. The phone companies have a lot of information available to allow for tracking, but since it requires a lot of work to dig through the data they are very reluctant to do so.
Another way is to catch on to the caller and check who purchased their service and then follow the money trail.
Unfortunately it is possible that the caller that spoofs the number is offshore somewhere.
And if the FBI won't help, I suggest that you also check other channels of law enforcement and keep everything in writing so that you have a history to refer to. Taking help from a lawyer may be one way to continue this. It's always interesting if you can get in touch with the right lawyer who knows which buttons to push to get some results.
The problem is that even with rinsing there are places that are extremely hard to rinse and get rid of the stuff. Using bleach is really to cause more trouble with your electronics.
I would never clean them with any bleach/water, rather clean them with pure alcohol and then let them dry in a warm compartment. Especially bleach would probably effectively kill a lot of the more sensitive parts.
Partly dismantling the items is likely to be a good idea before cleaning.
But if the electronics has been wet for a long time there is a risk that the water that already entered has caused corrosion and therefore made it prone to malfunction.
I tried the Drake equation once and got a result of 0.7.
In this case I still question if we have a civilization here on earth or if we still are beings with despise, hate and territorial claims more than logically thinking beings.
The last 8 years with Bush at the helm of the US hasn't proved us anything better - rather the opposite.
However - this still doesn't mean it's useless to listen. Because if you don't listen you won't hear unless it screams into your ear.
Just curious - will they actually have the right to inspect your property (open your bags) without you being present if you look at it from the strict view of what the constitution says?
More specific the Fourth Amendment.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Of course - X-raying wasn't on the list when that amendment was written, but that should be OK, but as soon as the property is to be opened I would like to first have a warrant and then also be able to contest that before any proceeding.
Has there ever been a court verdict saying that the fourth amendment isn't valid here?
And what about foreign languages where normal words are pronounced like curses in English.
And other funny effects like in France where the Toyota MR2 will become the Toyota <bleep>. (MR2 will be pronounced like the french curse "Merde").
Maybe it's time to think more of the performance/power consumption ratio when designing servers.
More CPU:s may actually not be that bad because you can spread the dissipated power over a larger area. However you will also have larger computers.
One way around it could be to locate datacenters at locations with natural cooling available like rivers and larger lakes.
Today many cooling systems are aircooled, but the air can be a lot warmer and not able to absorb as much heat as water.
And in many cars the steering lock doesn't engage until you remove the key from the lock anyway, so the issue may depend from car to car.
But if you have a SAAB then you will be surprised because you will have the gear shifter locked instead. You have to put the gear in reverse on some manual models to be able to get the key out.
Automatic gearboxes are completely different and it can get really ugly and expensive if you don't handle them in a nice manner.
Using the brakes and pressing the clutch is even more retarded than engine braking. This only increases the wear on brakes and transmission parts like the clutch bearing causing them to wear out prematurely. Save the brakes for when you need them - overheated and worn-out brakes are among the worst thing you ever can experience.
During engine braking the engine will effectively cut down the fuel used anyway so it will save you very little.
More important when driving is to maintain a constant speed and avoid braking/accelerating. Using high gears will also help since a lower engine rpm gives less losses in the engine.
Maybe they should do some real cleanup and dump that horrible language Visual Basic.
But in reality - there may be need for some language re-thinking to obtain the most from multi-core processors.
Not only a privacy policy but also a privacy certification is necessary to keep things under control.
A policy is really not much worth if you don't follow it.
Just storing the pictures on the computer may be insufficient, I suggest that an external disk also shall be used, and then store that in the checked-in luggage. Using a bunch of flash drives can also be a good alternative.
For triple safety, you may also set up a server at home (or similar location) and then access it over the internet from a WiFi hotspot.
One way of seeing this is that a man that has become older and is still healthy means that the genes provides less risk of inherited disabling diseases and therefore is a better mate from that perspective. An older man is also likely to have gained a better position in society.
Evolution is still going on, but it is also circumvented by modern medicine. I would rather claim that medicine is the limiting factor for evolution.
Today we have a large number of diseases that is caused by our lazy living and sugared diets. So evolution will pick off the ones that aren't able to live lazy by heart attacks and similar defects.
I was also thinking CDE and you also have similar items in QuickLaunch in Windows (which I think is a really good feature) and also in various Linux desktops.
So it's hardly revolutionary work that's patented.
Until someone decides to invalidate the law.
Just keep copyright bound to a person and not to a company. And let the copyright be valid only 5 years after the death of that person to let it be able to cover for funeral costs in case that's needed.
For computer software there should only be copyright if there is support for the software.