Except for form factor, cost, and performance. You currently cannot fit an electron microscope inside of a 5in drive, stay at competitive prices with seagate/westurn digital etc, and deliver Sata2 speeds.
Recovering a single byte of data, for example, on a used drive is successful less than one percent of the time, he found. Accurately recovering four bytes, or 32 bits, of data only works nine times out of each million tries.
So, 1 specific byte of data could be recovered 1% of the time, 4 bytes ->.0009%. Extrapolating to 10Mb is about 1/10^(10^6 / 8)=0% according to my calculator which keeps goes to 10^-324. So, I think 'next to impossible' is a pretty accurate term.
No test of this nature is 100% accurate. But you don't need it to be. An accuracy of 99% doesn't mean that 1% of the time it says you are drunk. In this case, it means that the detected value is with in 1% of the actual.
No single point of evidence is used to convict. Before you would be forced to take a blood test (which is more accurate than a breathalyzer so would be more prone to vindicate you than falsely accuse you) you would have to be: 1) pulled over by a cop (speeding of swerving) 2) who would then have to suspect you of being intoxicated 3) you would then have to fail a breathalyzer And if you suspect the breathalyzer is rigged, then you should keep your own on you to provide counter evidence and a video camera in your car to show the court you were not acting suspiciously.
I'm surprised that the company couldn't find a way around it. There are many tests admissible as evidence in court that don't have source code. They have to be proved accurate or in generally accepted by the scientific community.
Couldn't it have been proved accurate by using the Breathalyzer along with a blood test in X different situations with Y different people. If the company didn't already do that then it should be thrown out as evidence.
Also, why is a brethelyzer needed as evidence. Any test like that could be faulty. If someone fails a brethelyzer, why not bring them in for a blood test.
I get what you are saying about office. I recommend everyone keep around a copy of Office 2000 if they have it because it is the only one that has almost no problems with wine/codeweavers.
One word. Flash. This is not a settled issue on any Linux system to this day. Sure it can work, but not on every system.
I'm not sure what crazy websites you NEED to goto, but I can't remember the last time on a 32bit linux computer that I have not been able to use flash on a place a big as youtube.
Additionally, if I goto a university or government website that requires flash (or god forbid activeX) I write them an email explaining how it is nonstandard etc. I don't know if it does any good, but some people just don't realize that it is a badthing. Now, if a website has anyway to not use the flash, then I don't complain.
When I moved in, there was a problem with verizon and I couldn't get Internet for a week. So I walked around and found 1 neighbor with open wireless, 2 coffee shops, and a library.
Lets not forget that global warming is an industry now, don't support it? You're not going to get tenure, funding and you're just going to be a broke sucker working out of your garage if you're lucky.
Meh, that was the point of tenure though. People w/o tenure have always had to worry about the politics, whether that be from w/in the school or how what they teach/say/research affects the university. It is only once you have tenure that you can't get fired for your political thoughts.
I have the same problem buying beer/wine at the supermarket. If I am in line with a 10 year old, they only card me (or don't depending on the store). But If I am in line with a 18year old (my younger brother), they card him/her too, and then tell me I can't buy it because I am probably giving alcohol to minors.
True, and I'll go a step father. The most dangerous food is food that hasn't been cooked through. As I use a meat thermometer to make sure my meat is cooked, the most dangerous food to me is raw vegetables.
Both win and linux have support for ext3, which is what I use for my "media" drive on my dual boot laptop. I think that FreeBSD supports that too, but as I don't use it, I could be wrong.
http://www.fs-driver.org/ I think the maximum inode size is 128 so make sure that is how you format it.
How is this modded insightful over flamebait?! (maybe funny) There is not a chance that is accurate by any standards I know of (if so, please tell me the criteria).
How appropriate to this article,
If you really are an artist, who left his sole digital copy of his/her own music to the protection of mp3.com, then I'm sorry for your loss, but you are an idiot.
I stopped using my previous free webmail and went to gmail specifically because they gave free pop3/imap, which allows for me to have a backup in a thunderbird account at home.
I apologize if I am indirect. Though, I have filled up my/. time quota for today, I still wanted to respond to your thoughts.
As far as the question of where you draw the line. I believe there are multiple lines. On one extreme is the one where they need to be killed immediately, another line for death row, another batch of lines for years in prison, and so on till you get to mandatory community service and psychiatric evaluation.
As far as more important, while it may be more important to prevent children from being hurt, it is not to the exclusion of all liberty. It is not a process optimized solely on the criteria of children not being hurt. If that were true, we'ld lock up all the children in padded play pens until they were 18 (hyperbole, I know).
What do you mean wrt. pedophiles and rehabilitation. Back to lines, one line is never touching(etc) a child, the other is never thinking about one and getting excited. For some people I'm sure they can never be fully cured, but I believe that helping someone to control those urges is possible.
If someone was ever shown to be unable to control their urges (if destructive), then they need to be locked up, whether it be stealing, assaulting, or touching.
I am not a psycologist, but the ones I know tell me that no one is perfect on the inside. And most of us have to using part of our brain to control the other. In short "everyone has got their problems." Maybe they are just being nice, but I think the world is a lot more fucked up then my mommy led me to believe. Any anyone who has indecent thoughts, but pure actions, deserves the help of everyone around him.
"Thought Crime" is a loaded phrase. No one can ever be arrested or charged for thoughts, but actions can be legislated. In this case, downloading, sharing, possessing and/or viewing child porn would be the crime. It is an action, not a thought.
I'm with you so far, I don't know what you are referring to by the following:
And using the excuse of "no one was hurt" is bullshit as well.
DUI example...Did these people hurt anyone? No. Were they a risk to society? Yep.
I think the example is good, but not good enough to convince me. The difference I see here is that driving while drunk is of immediate danger to himself and everyone else around him[/her] because they are not in their right state of mind with a dangerous tool (1000kg*20m/s mixed with a bad driver is death waiting to happen). Someone with fake child porn on their computer isn't posing a danger on the same immediate level that the person actually driving drunk is. You don't get arrested for a DUI when you are still in the bar with keys in your pocket. You get arrested when you are caught driving badly on the hiway and the cops Breathalyzers you.
naked baby pictures w/sexual captions example
Taking pictures at a ballet recital is not illegal. How would you ever enforce that? How would you differentiate between someone who was family or a friend of the family, someone who was ballet enthusiast, and a sicko? If you want to do background checks at a recital then you have to make it a completely private affair and then people trying to get in who don't belong get charged with trespassing not with a digital camera and a sick mind.
I will not address publishing them because they would take our discussion in a different direction and there are different laws regarding to publishing pictures that I am all but entirely unfamiliar with.
If someone took a picture of a baby w/ poop and called it "lickably delicious" I would consider it sarcasm and laugh. If it was something I considered sexual (which is subjective by the way) then I'm betting that is already covered by current laws (but I guess that it your point). That being said, if you are protective enough of your children that you don't want any pictures of their naked bottom being taken, then I suggest not changing them in public. I'm sure the same rules that prevent someone from barging into the mall bathroom apply to you changing your child in the same privacy.
All of that being said, none of it addressed my only grievance. You went too far by saying that you wanted people forcible taken off the streets if the idea of naked children turned them on. I disagree on a philosophical level. People can control their actions, and if they can't then we should lock them up (for help or otherwise), but no one should be held accountable for something that exists in their head.
If I had a friend who told me that naked kids turned him on, I would not let him near my kids alone out of prudence (you don't leave gasoline and matches next to each other, but that doesn't mean we don't have them). I would not seek to have him arrested. I would strongly encourage him to get help because for the same reasons I know he is sick, I supposed that there is a good chance something messed him up early on (hence the child fixation).
But lets go a step further in this direction: Would it be ok for someone to run a test on everyone once they turned 18 where they showed you a bunch of images/stimulae and measured your response -- Then they forcefully "reconditioned" those who had a pleasurably response to naked children, blown up buildings, and islam (anything the government deemed 'detrimental' to its safety).
That is what I mean by thought crime.
PS, I find your sig "interesting" considering the discussion.
Sorry, but if the idea of raping children turns you on, then I want you off the streets and securely locked away from my kids. If you are OK with these people being near YOUR kids, then you need to have your kids taken away from you and given to parents with some common sense.
I said:
I understand that parents get pretty scared about this and rightly so, but no one should be locked up because of something that solely exists in their head.
You said:
No one is suggesting that. If someone is purchasing depictions of children being raped, then their depraved fantasies no longer just exist in their head.
The parent was, and that is where I draw the line.
I understand that knowingly buying actual child porn is illegal.
Sorry, but if the idea of raping children turns you on, then I want you off the streets and securely locked away from my kids.
I understand that parents get pretty scared about this and rightly so, but no one should be locked up because of something that solely exists in their head.
Think "Minority Report". And I know it is over used, but also Thought Crime from "1984".
If someone has a derangement but hasn't actually hurt anyone then [s]he should be helped and not locked up just so you can sleep a little better tonight.
In the windows world, you have two trusted ways of giving advice to change/fix something and they are both hard to describe without being there or without screen captures. Regedit, and the standard guis.
(For the record, I have seen PLENTY of windows solutions that say "save the following to a.reg file, and execute it" IMHO, this is worse than command line, because there is no "man" page for the command to figure out what exactly the command is supposed to do.)
In linux, even if there exists a gui, because of choice, you don't want to say "in kde, do this, but if you have gnome do this, but if you have xfce...".
So you say a one off command line, because 1) it is compact, 2) it works, 3) and is desktop-manager independent
Well, in defense of the idea, when I've met people who have been combat trained (military/cops), they have a hard time turning it "off," even amongst family and friends.
Do not try to 'sneak up' on an army ranger; their phasers, I mean reflexes, are set to kill.
In short: Maybe it is generational thing (I'm in my mid 20s), you've never actually met joe-six-pack.
What about my friend who has no tech.mindedness at all. Didn't ever goto college, he liked to work on cars. Every time he had some spy-ware, he called me.
He did work at a store installing car radios. So he knew that you don't have to be a computer programmer to click wires together. So he, by himself, installed a PS2 and lcd screen in his car for playing video games/ watching movies (not recommending this).
I'm sure this was not the targeted market for a console. I don't understand why you need to pigeonhole things unnecessarily. Just as you drew hard lines about the uses for consoles/PCs/TVs/monitors (where to projectors fall in?), you drew hard lines for people. There is a gradient.
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Except for form factor, cost, and performance. You currently cannot fit an electron microscope inside of a 5in drive, stay at competitive prices with seagate/westurn digital etc, and deliver Sata2 speeds.
Define next to impossible
The researcher did. From TFA:
Recovering a single byte of data, for example, on a used drive is successful less than one percent of the time, he found. Accurately recovering four bytes, or 32 bits, of data only works nine times out of each million tries.
So, 1 specific byte of data could be recovered 1% of the time, 4 bytes -> .0009%.
Extrapolating to 10Mb is about 1/10^(10^6 / 8)=0% according to my calculator which keeps goes to 10^-324. So, I think 'next to impossible' is a pretty accurate term.
No test of this nature is 100% accurate. But you don't need it to be. An accuracy of 99% doesn't mean that 1% of the time it says you are drunk. In this case, it means that the detected value is with in 1% of the actual.
No single point of evidence is used to convict. Before you would be forced to take a blood test (which is more accurate than a breathalyzer so would be more prone to vindicate you than falsely accuse you) you would have to be:
1) pulled over by a cop (speeding of swerving)
2) who would then have to suspect you of being intoxicated
3) you would then have to fail a breathalyzer
And if you suspect the breathalyzer is rigged, then you should keep your own on you to provide counter evidence and a video camera in your car to show the court you were not acting suspiciously.
I'm surprised that the company couldn't find a way around it. There are many tests admissible as evidence in court that don't have source code. They have to be proved accurate or in generally accepted by the scientific community.
Couldn't it have been proved accurate by using the Breathalyzer along with a blood test in X different situations with Y different people. If the company didn't already do that then it should be thrown out as evidence.
Also, why is a brethelyzer needed as evidence. Any test like that could be faulty. If someone fails a brethelyzer, why not bring them in for a blood test.
I get what you are saying about office. I recommend everyone keep around a copy of Office 2000 if they have it because it is the only one that has almost no problems with wine/codeweavers.
One word. Flash. This is not a settled issue on any Linux system to this day. Sure it can work, but not on every system.
I'm not sure what crazy websites you NEED to goto, but I can't remember the last time on a 32bit linux computer that I have not been able to use flash on a place a big as youtube.
Additionally, if I goto a university or government website that requires flash (or god forbid activeX) I write them an email explaining how it is nonstandard etc. I don't know if it does any good, but some people just don't realize that it is a badthing. Now, if a website has anyway to not use the flash, then I don't complain.
When I moved in, there was a problem with verizon and I couldn't get Internet for a week. So I walked around and found 1 neighbor with open wireless, 2 coffee shops, and a library.
Lets not forget that global warming is an industry now, don't support it? You're not going to get tenure, funding and you're just going to be a broke sucker working out of your garage if you're lucky.
Meh, that was the point of tenure though.
People w/o tenure have always had to worry about the politics, whether that be from w/in the school or how what they teach/say/research affects the university. It is only once you have tenure that you can't get fired for your political thoughts.
I have the same problem buying beer/wine at the supermarket. If I am in line with a 10 year old, they only card me (or don't depending on the store). But If I am in line with a 18year old (my younger brother), they card him/her too, and then tell me I can't buy it because I am probably giving alcohol to minors.
True, and I'll go a step father. The most dangerous food is food that hasn't been cooked through. As I use a meat thermometer to make sure my meat is cooked, the most dangerous food to me is raw vegetables.
A lot of people like these combination flashlights:
http://jackstoolshed.net/Compact-3in1-SuperBright-White-Red-LED/M/B001BJK34M.htm?traffic_src=froogle&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=froogle
Both win and linux have support for ext3, which is what I use for my "media" drive on my dual boot laptop. I think that FreeBSD supports that too, but as I don't use it, I could be wrong.
http://www.fs-driver.org/
I think the maximum inode size is 128 so make sure that is how you format it.
How is this modded insightful over flamebait?! (maybe funny) There is not a chance that is accurate by any standards I know of (if so, please tell me the criteria).
The African governments are so corrupt, that there is a prize given every year to the least corrupt leader (straight to him!).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7679391.stm
Before floppies were popular, the players I saw used a proprietary cartridge based medium. The Form factor was like that of Atari games.
How appropriate to this article,
If you really are an artist, who left his sole digital copy of his/her own music to the protection of mp3.com, then I'm sorry for your loss, but you are an idiot.
I stopped using my previous free webmail and went to gmail specifically because they gave free pop3/imap, which allows for me to have a backup in a thunderbird account at home.
I apologize if I am indirect. Though, I have filled up my /. time quota for today, I still wanted to respond to your thoughts.
As far as the question of where you draw the line. I believe there are multiple lines. On one extreme is the one where they need to be killed immediately, another line for death row, another batch of lines for years in prison, and so on till you get to mandatory community service and psychiatric evaluation.
As far as more important, while it may be more important to prevent children from being hurt, it is not to the exclusion of all liberty. It is not a process optimized solely on the criteria of children not being hurt. If that were true, we'ld lock up all the children in padded play pens until they were 18 (hyperbole, I know).
What do you mean wrt. pedophiles and rehabilitation. Back to lines, one line is never touching(etc) a child, the other is never thinking about one and getting excited. For some people I'm sure they can never be fully cured, but I believe that helping someone to control those urges is possible.
If someone was ever shown to be unable to control their urges (if destructive), then they need to be locked up, whether it be stealing, assaulting, or touching.
I am not a psycologist, but the ones I know tell me that no one is perfect on the inside. And most of us have to using part of our brain to control the other. In short "everyone has got their problems." Maybe they are just being nice, but I think the world is a lot more fucked up then my mommy led me to believe. Any anyone who has indecent thoughts, but pure actions, deserves the help of everyone around him.
I hope the made sense. Signing off for the night.
don't lie, you just ignored the robots.txt file and crawled the whole site didn't you?
"Thought Crime" is a loaded phrase. No one can ever be arrested or charged for thoughts, but actions can be legislated. In this case, downloading, sharing, possessing and/or viewing child porn would be the crime. It is an action, not a thought.
I'm with you so far, I don't know what you are referring to by the following:
And using the excuse of "no one was hurt" is bullshit as well.
DUI example...Did these people hurt anyone? No. Were they a risk to society? Yep.
I think the example is good, but not good enough to convince me. The difference I see here is that driving while drunk is of immediate danger to himself and everyone else around him[/her] because they are not in their right state of mind with a dangerous tool (1000kg*20m/s mixed with a bad driver is death waiting to happen). Someone with fake child porn on their computer isn't posing a danger on the same immediate level that the person actually driving drunk is.
You don't get arrested for a DUI when you are still in the bar with keys in your pocket. You get arrested when you are caught driving badly on the hiway and the cops Breathalyzers you.
naked baby pictures w/sexual captions example
Taking pictures at a ballet recital is not illegal. How would you ever enforce that? How would you differentiate between someone who was family or a friend of the family, someone who was ballet enthusiast, and a sicko? If you want to do background checks at a recital then you have to make it a completely private affair and then people trying to get in who don't belong get charged with trespassing not with a digital camera and a sick mind.
I will not address publishing them because they would take our discussion in a different direction and there are different laws regarding to publishing pictures that I am all but entirely unfamiliar with.
If someone took a picture of a baby w/ poop and called it "lickably delicious" I would consider it sarcasm and laugh. If it was something I considered sexual (which is subjective by the way) then I'm betting that is already covered by current laws (but I guess that it your point). That being said, if you are protective enough of your children that you don't want any pictures of their naked bottom being taken, then I suggest not changing them in public. I'm sure the same rules that prevent someone from barging into the mall bathroom apply to you changing your child in the same privacy.
All of that being said, none of it addressed my only grievance. You went too far by saying that you wanted people forcible taken off the streets if the idea of naked children turned them on. I disagree on a philosophical level. People can control their actions, and if they can't then we should lock them up (for help or otherwise), but no one should be held accountable for something that exists in their head.
If I had a friend who told me that naked kids turned him on, I would not let him near my kids alone out of prudence (you don't leave gasoline and matches next to each other, but that doesn't mean we don't have them). I would not seek to have him arrested. I would strongly encourage him to get help because for the same reasons I know he is sick, I supposed that there is a good chance something messed him up early on (hence the child fixation).
But lets go a step further in this direction: Would it be ok for someone to run a test on everyone once they turned 18 where they showed you a bunch of images/stimulae and measured your response -- Then they forcefully "reconditioned" those who had a pleasurably response to naked children, blown up buildings, and islam (anything the government deemed 'detrimental' to its safety).
That is what I mean by thought crime.
PS, I find your sig "interesting" considering the discussion.
Original excerpt from my parent:
Sorry, but if the idea of raping children turns you on, then I want you off the streets and securely locked away from my kids. If you are OK with these people being near YOUR kids, then you need to have your kids taken away from you and given to parents with some common sense.
I said:
I understand that parents get pretty scared about this and rightly so, but no one should be locked up because of something that solely exists in their head.
You said:
No one is suggesting that. If someone is purchasing depictions of children being raped, then their depraved fantasies no longer just exist in their head.
The parent was, and that is where I draw the line.
I understand that knowingly buying actual child porn is illegal.
Read what I quoted from my parent again.
Sorry, but if the idea of raping children turns you on, then I want you off the streets and securely locked away from my kids.
I understand that parents get pretty scared about this and rightly so, but no one should be locked up because of something that solely exists in their head.
Think "Minority Report". And I know it is over used, but also Thought Crime from "1984".
If someone has a derangement but hasn't actually hurt anyone then [s]he should be helped and not locked up just so you can sleep a little better tonight.
I know I'm a little late to the party but:
I think it has to do with ease/reliability.
In the windows world, you have two trusted ways of giving advice to change/fix something and they are both hard to describe without being there or without screen captures.
Regedit, and the standard guis.
(For the record, I have seen PLENTY of windows solutions that say "save the following to a .reg file, and execute it"
IMHO, this is worse than command line, because there is no "man" page for the command to figure out what exactly the command is supposed to do.)
In linux, even if there exists a gui, because of choice, you don't want to say "in kde, do this, but if you have gnome do this, but if you have xfce...".
So you say a one off command line, because
1) it is compact, 2) it works, 3) and is desktop-manager independent
Well, in defense of the idea, when I've met people who have been combat trained (military/cops), they have a hard time turning it "off," even amongst family and friends.
Do not try to 'sneak up' on an army ranger; their phasers, I mean reflexes, are set to kill.
Because the modder didn't know any better and didn't double check the 'fact'.
AFAIK, Lithium is prescribed to bi-polar/manic-depressives. It makes all your moods closer to gray; the lows->not as low, the highs->not as high.
wingdings
In short: Maybe it is generational thing (I'm in my mid 20s), you've never actually met joe-six-pack.
What about my friend who has no tech.mindedness at all. Didn't ever goto college, he liked to work on cars. Every time he had some spy-ware, he called me.
He did work at a store installing car radios. So he knew that you don't have to be a computer programmer to click wires together. So he, by himself, installed a PS2 and lcd screen in his car for playing video games/ watching movies (not recommending this).
I'm sure this was not the targeted market for a console. I don't understand why you need to pigeonhole things unnecessarily. Just as you drew hard lines about the uses for consoles/PCs/TVs/monitors (where to projectors fall in?), you drew hard lines for people. There is a gradient.