Breaking hard drive platters is not easy, and given a significant level of paranoia, physically snapping the platters in half may not be enough. Degaussing the drives may not be thorough enough, given various anecdotes about the ability to recover data off almost any drive using fancy super-expensive equipment.
Unless you've got IBM Deathstar 75GXP's (and if you do, well your data is already as good as gone), your platters are probably metal. Even if you have Deathstars, their platters are glass and are susceptible to the method below:
You are stuck with these drives. You can't return them for replacement, and if you keep them and still get a replacement, the data is still on the platters. You could just send them to a data-destruction company, but where's the fun in that?
Troll or no, talkorigins addresses this. Read it sometime if you disagree with evolution, and reference it if you disagree with ID.
Reshuffling requires random acts... when's the last time you conciously reshuffled your genes? Reshuffling is not evolution. Evolution ultimately teaches creation of new information, something never demonstrated by evolutionists. Besides, most reshuffling results in loss of information. For each step in the process, and whenever an evolutionist finds more detail about how something works in nature, that person should be required to calculate the probability of that particular detail evolving, and combining that with the probablility of everything else evolving, to put everything in perspective....Not that that would help. Your beginning premise is flawed anyhow.
It is hard to understand how anyone could make this claim, since
anything mutations can do, mutations can undo. Some mutations add
information to a genome; some subtract it. Creationists get by
with this claim only by leaving the term "information" undefined,
impossibly vague, or constantly shifting. By any reasonable
definition, increases in information have been observed to evolve. We
have observed the evolution of
increased genetic variety in a population (Lenski 1995; Lenski et
al. 1991)
increased genetic material (Alves et al. 2001; Brown et al. 1998;
Hughes and Friedman 2003; Lynch and Conery 2000; Ohta 2003)
novel genetic material (Knox et al. 1996; Park et al. 1996)
novel genetically-regulated abilities (Prijambada et al. 1995)
If these do not qualify as information, then nothing about information
is relevant to evolution in the first place.
A mechanism that is likely to be particularly common for adding
information is gene duplication, in which a long stretch of DNA is
copied, followed by point mutations that change one or both of the
copies. Genetic sequencing has revealed several instances in which
this is likely the origin of some proteins. For example:
Two enzymes in the histidine biosynthesis pathway that are
barrel-shaped, structural and sequence evidence suggests, were
formed via gene duplication and fusion of two half-barrel ancestors
(Lang et al. 2000).
RNASE1, a gene for a pancreatic enzyme, was duplicated, and in
langur monkeys one of the copies mutated into RNASE1B, which works
better in the more acidic small intestine of the langur. (Zhang et
al. 2002)
Yeast was put in a medium with very little sugar. After 450
generations, hexose transport genes had duplicated several times,
and some of the duplicated versions had mutated further. (Brown et
al. 1998)
According to Shannon-Weaver information theory, random noise
maximizes information. This is not just playing word games. The
random variation that mutations add to
populations is
the variation on which selection acts. Mutation alone will not cause
adaptive evolution, but by eliminating nonadaptive variation, natural
selection communicates info
Colin Williamson wrote some of the best reviews for awful games in PC Gamer.
The first thing i'd do with any new issue was look for any horribly low scores, and hope that I'd get a gem like this:
If you stripped yourself naked, smeared your body with honey, duct-taped raw steaks to your ass, and jumped into a cage filled with rabid grizzly bears, I can almost guarantee you'd be having more fun than if you were playing Swamp Buggy Racing. I'm serious.
Sadly, this sporadic confusion extends to your teammates, whose behavior has been realistically modeled after the characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. These fellows run in circles, bump into each other, jump off cliffs, hump the walls, and moonwalk while shooting paintballs from their butt.
That doesn't help the millions of DOS gamers who aren't savvy enough to download DosBox.
Google search for "old dos games". Check out the "essential utilities" link. I also doubt there are really "millions of DOS gamers", especially ones who are running win2k/xp and aren't savvy enough to figure it out.
If thats too nitpicky:
These "legacy" adapters are similar to MS's continued inclusion of WMF. They provide some backwards compatibility, at the expense of safety/security.
These "legacy adapters" don't come with the device. You have to buy them separately, and install them yourself. Sure, there are probably some people out there that don't realize the risks of doing so, but since 3-prong plugs won't fit into a 2-prong outlet by default, the user has to make a conscious effort to put themselves at risk, and users who don't need the compatibility are safer.
Compatibility by default at the expense of security just isn't a good idea, especially when a minority of users depend on that compatibility.
"The DS does not internally support a TCP stack or any IPv4/IPv6 communications at all. This is why the DS cannot be played online without the use of tunneling... Ni-Fi is a layer 3 protocol on top of 802.11."
802.11x is a network layer, not a magical gateway to "Teh internets"
So it goes to reason that the McDonalds hotspot for the DS won't support regular tcp/ip, as its a hotspot for DS users to play with each other. You probably won't be able to connect your laptop to it.
"Some sort of pyramid grows from the base, with a precision lens and mirror system at the top, capturing the image and light, in a similar way a scanner or camera would. It then converts it into a video signal that is sent through video leads going from the adapter to your TV set. "
So its basically a digital video camera with a shroud that goes around the psp's screen. the output is probably an rca (composite) jack.
It is not: -a device to record movies ONTO a psp -a device that is likely to be able to focus beyond the length of the shroud -likely to be a best seller.
"I guess this means we've won the war on terror," said one exasperated FBI agent, speaking on condition of anonymity because poking fun at headquarters is not regarded as career-enhancing. "We must not need any more resources for espionage."
Among friends and trusted colleagues, an experienced national security analyst said, "it's a running joke for us."
A few of the printable samples:
"Things I Don't Want On My Resume, Volume Four."
"I already gave at home."
"Honestly, most of the guys would have to recuse themselves."
Most headphones and earbuds sold nowadays are "open air" which allows all the noise you don't want in. This is ostensibly a saftey "feature" so you don't get run over by a bus that you didn't hear.
I find this to be stupid. You aren't going to be hit by a bus on the subway/bus/if you aren't brain dead. The point of earbuds is to hear ONLY what you want. If I wanted to hear the subway wheel orchestra, i'd take an earbud out.
I bought a pair of Sony MDR-EX51LP earbuds (the ones that have the silicone gaskets) and they block out pretty much everything without having to crank the volume up to uncomfortable levels. The sony's are a great cheap ($26 on amazon) alternative to the $100+ Shure earbuds and definately the $200+ etymolic research earbuds.
A good pair of "studio monitor" type headphones will also do the trick, but they are way bigger, more expensive, and you will look dorky on the subway/bus. Its also kind of odd when your headphones/earbuds are bigger than your mp3 player.
Its also got the same curse that bf1942 suffered from: the inability to run at 1280x1024.
Almost everybody who games and has an LCD has a 17" lcd. Almost every 17" LCD has a native resolution of 1280x1024. Getting stuck with 1280x960 is an insult to everybody who's paid for a videocard that will run this game at 1280x1024
BF1942 had some horrible text rendering/pixel interpolating since it actually rendered at 1280x960. EA had better release a patch for this, or they are in for a lot of complaints.
Mac G3 to PC mods are (were) fairly common, due to the overall niceness of the G3 case. Note that this isn't really a conversion so much as it is a "gutting and stuffing".
Of course, I've never thought case-mods were newsworthy. The only probable reason this made it to the front page is to exploit the apple switch buzz.
First, you use a trackball. This begins to get on my nerves, but okay, different strokes for different folks. Second, you want to use bluetooth, which is far less common than something more sensible, like a usb reciever. Third, you want something with MORE buttons than is "standard", further limiting your options to less than 2. Finally, you are unwilling to compromise on any of the existing solutions. This is nothing short of unreasonable.
Waaa waaa waaa, i have all these special needs that nobody else does and i want a product with x and y and z and w and theta and i want it under $5 and it needs to be made out of machined titanium and unobtainium and custom made just for me! And i'm not compromising on any of my demands (which are reasonable individually but absurd in sum) so thbbttbttthtbbtbt!
The reason these things don't exist is called "the market". Go back to econ 101 and ask a professor why there aren't cars with a kitchenette, flatbed, convertible roof and a hybrid engine, all in one.
Furthermore, why are you using a giant trackball (as opposed to a small wireless mouse) on a powerbook? If you are using this primarily at a desk, why does the cord or reciever matter? And if you are using a laptop because its portable, the trackball adds considerable size to your required-to-carry volume such that a usb reciever or cord is negligible.
More recently sites like Suprnova and BTefnet, who provide no copyrighted content but do provide information on where to get it in the form of trackers, have been subject to successful legal action.
Actually, it wasn't "successful legal action". I don't know about BTefnet, but it was Cease & Desist letters that shut suprnova down. Any clown can send out a C&D letter, whether there is any real legal weight behind it is subject to an actual lawsuit that isn't laughed out of court.
Seagate has done the right thing by instituting a 5-year warranty. If you care about preserving your data first, and performance second, Seagate wins. Seagates are also eerily silent; I had to make sure one of them was on by feeling for heat/vibration the first time i installed one.
Western Digitals tend to have slightly better transfer rates, but unless you get OEM drives (3-year warranty), you are stuck with a 1 year warranty. You can extend the warranty to 3 years for $15, so factor that into the price if thats what you plan on doing.
Maxtor seems to have had a bad couple of years. Bad enough that I no longer trust their drives. Their 1-year warranty does nothing to inspire confidence. OEM Maxtors have a 3 year warranty, but they are harder to find that oem WD's.
Short warranty terms really only protect you from horrendous, data-murdering drives, i.e., the absolute worst of the worst. There has to be something VERY VERY WRONG with a drive for it to fail within a year. There is almost no reason to consider a drive with only a 1 year warranty.
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Breaking hard drive platters is not easy, and given a significant level of paranoia, physically snapping the platters in half may not be enough.
Degaussing the drives may not be thorough enough, given various anecdotes about the ability to recover data off almost any drive using fancy super-expensive equipment.
Unless you've got IBM Deathstar 75GXP's (and if you do, well your data is already as good as gone), your platters are probably metal. Even if you have Deathstars, their platters are glass and are susceptible to the method below:
Metal melts. Magnetic metals lose their net magnetism below the melting point. So find somebody with a kiln, and turn the platters into inert blobs.
You are stuck with these drives. You can't return them for replacement, and if you keep them and still get a replacement, the data is still on the platters. You could just send them to a data-destruction company, but where's the fun in that?
I'm sorry, one of the links is wrong.
The slashdot.org link should be http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB110.html
Once again, all credit (and many thanks)to: http://www.talkorigins.org/
From: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB102.html
Claim CB102: Mutations are random noise; they do not add information. Evolution cannot cause an increase in information.
Source:
AIG, n.d. Creation Education Center. http://www.answersingenesis.org/cec/docs/CvE_repor t.asp
Response:
If these do not qualify as information, then nothing about information is relevant to evolution in the first place.
The biological literature is full of additional examples. A PubMed search (at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) on "gene duplication" gives more than 3000 references.
Why don't studios just release 2 sided discs (like they already do with full/widescreen dvd's and now with hd-dvd's/dvd's)?
According to wikipedia, a blu-ray layer is 0.1mm thick, which would be a miniscule addition to the 0.6mm thickness of a HD-DVD.
Funny how 35 years after LP's, we're back to flipping discs over...
The first thing i'd do with any new issue was look for any horribly low scores, and hope that I'd get a gem like this: From Swamp Buggy Racing (Google cache)
or this: From Extreme Paintbrawl (Google cache)
Then again, maybe i'm just weird.
Best. Post. Ever.
That doesn't help the millions of DOS gamers who aren't savvy enough to download DosBox.
Google search for "old dos games". Check out the "essential utilities" link. I also doubt there are really "millions of DOS gamers", especially ones who are running win2k/xp and aren't savvy enough to figure it out.
If thats too nitpicky:
These "legacy" adapters are similar to MS's continued inclusion of WMF. They provide some backwards compatibility, at the expense of safety/security.
These "legacy adapters" don't come with the device. You have to buy them separately, and install them yourself. Sure, there are probably some people out there that don't realize the risks of doing so, but since 3-prong plugs won't fit into a 2-prong outlet by default, the user has to make a conscious effort to put themselves at risk, and users who don't need the compatibility are safer.
Compatibility by default at the expense of security just isn't a good idea, especially when a minority of users depend on that compatibility.
Shuttle's ST62K has an external power supply, and uses socket 478 cpus:
Review at Silent PC Review
Shuttle Product Page
$215 at Newegg
Sounds like a win-win scenario for jack, unless you count:
3. The shareholders laugh him out of the room.
Theres no better way to disarm somebody than to laugh at them.
From TFA:
... to play online games with or against each other."
"Nintendo and Wayport will offer complimentary Wi-Fi hotspots... enabling DS owners
The DS does not have a TCP stack and has no native support for IPv4 or IPv6 (from http://www.darkain.com/nintendo_ds/nifi.php):
"The DS does not internally support a TCP stack or any IPv4/IPv6 communications at all. This is why the DS cannot be played online without the use of tunneling... Ni-Fi is a layer 3 protocol on top of 802.11."
802.11x is a network layer, not a magical gateway to "Teh internets"
So it goes to reason that the McDonalds hotspot for the DS won't support regular tcp/ip, as its a hotspot for DS users to play with each other. You probably won't be able to connect your laptop to it.
no. This will not work in theaters.
"Some sort of pyramid grows from the base, with a precision lens and mirror system at the top, capturing the image and light, in a similar way a scanner or camera would. It then converts it into a video signal that is sent through video leads going from the adapter to your TV set. "
So its basically a digital video camera with a shroud that goes around the psp's screen. the output is probably an rca (composite) jack.
It is not:
-a device to record movies ONTO a psp
-a device that is likely to be able to focus beyond the length of the shroud
-likely to be a best seller.
It's a non-volatile protein, not living cells like a kidney or liver. So theres a very low chance of rejection.
Also, a great article on this from the Washington Post (via the San Francisco Chronicle, no registration req'd).
0 05/09/21/MNGRSER4141.DTL&type=printable
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2
some choice quotes:
"I guess this means we've won the war on terror," said one exasperated FBI agent, speaking on condition of anonymity because poking fun at headquarters is not regarded as career-enhancing. "We must not need any more resources for espionage."
Among friends and trusted colleagues, an experienced national security analyst said, "it's a running joke for us."
A few of the printable samples:
"Things I Don't Want On My Resume, Volume Four."
"I already gave at home."
"Honestly, most of the guys would have to recuse themselves."
The video worked because its been coralized.
.nyud.net:8090 to the end of any domain, and it'll pass through the cache. Pretty neat stuff.
Just add
Most headphones and earbuds sold nowadays are "open air" which allows all the noise you don't want in.
This is ostensibly a saftey "feature" so you don't get run over by a bus that you didn't hear.
I find this to be stupid.
You aren't going to be hit by a bus on the subway/bus/if you aren't brain dead. The point of earbuds is to hear ONLY what you want.
If I wanted to hear the subway wheel orchestra, i'd take an earbud out.
I bought a pair of Sony MDR-EX51LP earbuds (the ones that have the silicone gaskets) and they block out pretty much everything without having to crank the volume up to uncomfortable levels. The sony's are a great cheap ($26 on amazon) alternative to the $100+ Shure earbuds and definately the $200+ etymolic research earbuds.
A good pair of "studio monitor" type headphones will also do the trick, but they are way bigger, more expensive, and you will look dorky on the subway/bus. Its also kind of odd when your headphones/earbuds are bigger than your mp3 player.
Its also got the same curse that bf1942 suffered from: the inability to run at 1280x1024.
Almost everybody who games and has an LCD has a 17" lcd.
Almost every 17" LCD has a native resolution of 1280x1024.
Getting stuck with 1280x960 is an insult to everybody who's paid for a videocard that will run this game at 1280x1024
BF1942 had some horrible text rendering/pixel interpolating since it actually rendered at 1280x960. EA had better release a patch for this, or they are in for a lot of complaints.
Back in 2002, [H]ardOCP did a project called "The Rotten Apple".
Its far more creative and looks a hell of a lot nicer.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzUx
Mac G3 to PC mods are (were) fairly common, due to the overall niceness of the G3 case.
Note that this isn't really a conversion so much as it is a "gutting and stuffing".
Of course, I've never thought case-mods were newsworthy.
The only probable reason this made it to the front page is to exploit the apple switch buzz.
Boo timothy.
Reserve me a copy today! And i know its friday, but don't you have better things to do? =)
First, you use a trackball. This begins to get on my nerves, but okay, different strokes for different folks.
Second, you want to use bluetooth, which is far less common than something more sensible, like a usb reciever.
Third, you want something with MORE buttons than is "standard", further limiting your options to less than 2.
Finally, you are unwilling to compromise on any of the existing solutions. This is nothing short of unreasonable.
Waaa waaa waaa, i have all these special needs that nobody else does and i want a product with x and y and z and w and theta and i want it under $5 and it needs to be made out of machined titanium and unobtainium and custom made just for me! And i'm not compromising on any of my demands (which are reasonable individually but absurd in sum) so thbbttbttthtbbtbt!
The reason these things don't exist is called "the market". Go back to econ 101 and ask a professor why there aren't cars with a kitchenette, flatbed, convertible roof and a hybrid engine, all in one.
Furthermore, why are you using a giant trackball (as opposed to a small wireless mouse) on a powerbook? If you are using this primarily at a desk, why does the cord or reciever matter? And if you are using a laptop because its portable, the trackball adds considerable size to your required-to-carry volume such that a usb reciever or cord is negligible.
From TFA: ... at the rate of 27,000 gallons a minute, 24 hours a day
39-degree-Fahrenheit water courses through the Natural Energy Lab's newest pipe
39 F = 3.9 C
Denser, yes but:
"Once primed, the pipe acts like a giant siphon, requiring relatively little energy to keep an inexhaustible supply of cold at hand"
More recently sites like Suprnova and BTefnet, who provide no copyrighted content but do provide information on where to get it in the form of trackers, have been subject to successful legal action.
Actually, it wasn't "successful legal action". I don't know about BTefnet, but it was Cease & Desist letters that shut suprnova down. Any clown can send out a C&D letter, whether there is any real legal weight behind it is subject to an actual lawsuit that isn't laughed out of court.
Argh, the subject should be:
Seagate > Western Digital > Maxtor > IBM/Hitachi
Seagate has done the right thing by instituting a 5-year warranty. If you care about preserving your data first, and performance second, Seagate wins. Seagates are also eerily silent; I had to make sure one of them was on by feeling for heat/vibration the first time i installed one.
Western Digitals tend to have slightly better transfer rates, but unless you get OEM drives (3-year warranty), you are stuck with a 1 year warranty. You can extend the warranty to 3 years for $15, so factor that into the price if thats what you plan on doing.
Maxtor seems to have had a bad couple of years. Bad enough that I no longer trust their drives. Their 1-year warranty does nothing to inspire confidence. OEM Maxtors have a 3 year warranty, but they are harder to find that oem WD's.
Short warranty terms really only protect you from horrendous, data-murdering drives, i.e., the absolute worst of the worst. There has to be something VERY VERY WRONG with a drive for it to fail within a year. There is almost no reason to consider a drive with only a 1 year warranty.
Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day
...or should it be "phire?"
Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
A sad sad day for /.
Oh, you mean Tuesday?