(I'd like to emphasise, again, that it's well into the range of the hypothetical, and thus very expensive, and would probably be novel enough to get a couple of grad students to their theses.)
Indeed, even a hard-core multiple-overwrite wiping is at least partially recoverable, as the heads do not align perfectly and fail to cover the whole region of the old bit. The trick there would be distinguishing the real data from the intermediate overwrites. It's also possible to distinguish, say, a one overwriting a zero from a one overwriting a one. However that's very far into the "hypothetical and expensive" range, and will be of little consolation to Journalspace. If the drives were given a truly random, multiple overwrite (and not, say, zero zero zero...), I dare say that a recovery would be a couple of PhD theses worth of effort.
It'll really piss off the NSA (or other TLA) if it turns out that the computer science discoveries made by the competitors transfer to encryption systems they use.
I don't know if you have any experience with the internet, but the banners on websites are not individually hand-picked by the website owner and carefully arranged on the page for emphasis. The website owner signs up for Google ads or something, which then throws banners up on the page according to some loosely-defined algorithm, often based on keywords present on the web page. In my experience Scientology banners pop up in the stupidest of places. NYCL does't endorse Scientology and more than he endorses... (click)... Ghiradelli Chocolate.
Although it does its best not to, the BBC article does make it clear that the baby lacks BRCA1, a gene which was involved in a staggering prevalence of breast cancer in the family. However many other genes involved in breast cancer may still be present.
Asking OEM consumers to pay upfront for Windows is the one thing MS will not do. It makes people think "hey, maybe there's a way to do this for free..."
You can use it as a verb, albeit rather confusingly: "to OEM" something means they take another, "original equipment manufacturer" product and package it and sell it under their own brand, usually as part of a larger product. So a system builder would OEM an Intel CPU, and a Microsoft mouse, say. It's a kind of reselling. The OEM doesn't OEM anything strangely enough. I'm not sure it works with software, as the original branding is left alone, it's usually just called preinstalling or bundling. On the other hand the original branding of the mouse or CPU is also left intact, and the latter prominently displayed on the packaging.
It says "The RIAA is going to try to working with the ISPs to limit file-sharing services and cut off repeated users.". So they're not going to take you to court, they're just going to get your ISP to kick you off and with any luck blacklist you. ISPs are presumably so scared of the RIAA that they'll comply wherever possible.
Furthermore, their choice of spin-rate may have been made with the best possible available knowledge and approximation, and still been fatal. In which case we will have learned something - perhaps something really important, given how many Mars missions go awry - about successfully landing probes on planets.
Yes, perplexingly, there exists the possibility that they selected the correct entry spin rate but the mission failed for another reason. It's one of those perverse physics concepts like things falling down and cats and dogs not living together. Frankly, if it turns out that their own spin-rate calculations were valid and correctly computed, yet they caused the mission to fail, we'll have learned something very important for future missions. They could just throw their hands up and say "yes, our spin rate calculations were guff" to satisfy you that they do not have a "weird mental block" but that's not how it works in grown-up land.
I imagine that the flashier the software, the more sensitive it is to the accuracy of the emulation, and the performance of your heavy-lifting apps is a big enough deal to encourage people to run natively. From a commercial point of view, I'd also imagine that it's easy to justify springing for a Windows licence when you're using upwards of $500 of software. The small-time apps should be written in a fairly standard fashion, you don't need tip-top performance, and nobody's going to shell out $75 for an XP licence to run Zootyconvert Free Edition. As far as games go, I think they're more likely to be written to standard APIs over writing at a seriously low level as in console games. Which of these, if any, are responsible is wide open. I've certainly been laughably wrong before. And this isn't to dismiss the idea of a Linux desktop as a serious workstation for traditionally Windows- or Mac-based jobs. I'm just trying to rationalise how it's turned out.
I'm no cryptographer, but isn't this like realising you can't crack a safe, and deciding it'd be easier to invent a machine that will undo the metallic bonds that hold its constituent atoms together?
Seriously, they should do this. Hold them to the same standards as a washing machine company. If a contractor screws up, they're going to pay for sending an engineer out there to fix the product. (And if they want him back, they can pay or that too.) If they don't want to do that, well, they can pay for a whole new mission. Then they're less likely to do things like skip diagnostics and fuck up multi-million dollar missions.
You forget that diamond production is an energy-intensive process. You'd have to turn the diamond production station's power suppliers' exhaust into diamonds. Then you're set, albeit a little recursively. In fact I'm about to try oh shiiiiiiiiiii-
Right, roaming charges themselves are justifiable (you're getting access to a range of extra networks you wouldn't normally use), which is easy to forget when getting wound up about how large they are.
I think the whole "it's expensive to buy airtime from our roaming partners" thing is a crock of shit. If they all charge eachother some ridiculous rate for roaming onto their network, and that is passed straight to the end consumer, then it's price fixing. It was more transparently stupid here in Europe when you were roaming from T-Mobile UK to T-Mobile Germany and being charged through the nose for roaming onto a network that belongs to the same parent company. There was no excuse along the lines of "we charge ourselves a lot for roaming", so ultimately it was very easy for the parliment to demand a drop in roaming fees and, when the companies disregarded this, legislate a maximum fee.
I think someone really needs to sit down and say "the unfunded mandate has to go". With the current timeline, manned space flight will account for more or less NASA's entire budget within about ten years, and there are projects being slashed left and right already. A NASA which forgets about landing humans on the moon and Mars for a decade or two would be a cheaper NASA with a much wider variety of science missions. (IMO, of course, and I'm welcome to any new information on their funding situation and where the budget's going).
For the curious, a back of the envelope calculation suggests that the energy required to hoist the moon to its current altitude from the Earth's centre (disregarding the energy needed to set up its orbit) is of the same order of magnitude as the gravitational binding energy of the Earth (i.e. disregarding chemical bonding). This tells us two things:
1) Whatever was responsible was friggin' huge
2) Physics ain't the be-all and end-all of back-of-the-envelope calculations
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(I'd like to emphasise, again, that it's well into the range of the hypothetical, and thus very expensive, and would probably be novel enough to get a couple of grad students to their theses.)
Well, I can only apologise for assuming that review papers written on the topic since 2000 were up-to-date.
Indeed, even a hard-core multiple-overwrite wiping is at least partially recoverable, as the heads do not align perfectly and fail to cover the whole region of the old bit. The trick there would be distinguishing the real data from the intermediate overwrites. It's also possible to distinguish, say, a one overwriting a zero from a one overwriting a one. However that's very far into the "hypothetical and expensive" range, and will be of little consolation to Journalspace. If the drives were given a truly random, multiple overwrite (and not, say, zero zero zero...), I dare say that a recovery would be a couple of PhD theses worth of effort.
It'll really piss off the NSA (or other TLA) if it turns out that the computer science discoveries made by the competitors transfer to encryption systems they use.
I don't know if you have any experience with the internet, but the banners on websites are not individually hand-picked by the website owner and carefully arranged on the page for emphasis. The website owner signs up for Google ads or something, which then throws banners up on the page according to some loosely-defined algorithm, often based on keywords present on the web page. In my experience Scientology banners pop up in the stupidest of places. NYCL does't endorse Scientology and more than he endorses... (click)... Ghiradelli Chocolate.
Although it does its best not to, the BBC article does make it clear that the baby lacks BRCA1, a gene which was involved in a staggering prevalence of breast cancer in the family. However many other genes involved in breast cancer may still be present.
Seriously, what the hell.
Asking OEM consumers to pay upfront for Windows is the one thing MS will not do. It makes people think "hey, maybe there's a way to do this for free..."
You can use it as a verb, albeit rather confusingly: "to OEM" something means they take another, "original equipment manufacturer" product and package it and sell it under their own brand, usually as part of a larger product. So a system builder would OEM an Intel CPU, and a Microsoft mouse, say. It's a kind of reselling. The OEM doesn't OEM anything strangely enough. I'm not sure it works with software, as the original branding is left alone, it's usually just called preinstalling or bundling. On the other hand the original branding of the mouse or CPU is also left intact, and the latter prominently displayed on the packaging.
Make sure the mutants don't get the little dudes.
It says "The RIAA is going to try to working with the ISPs to limit file-sharing services and cut off repeated users.". So they're not going to take you to court, they're just going to get your ISP to kick you off and with any luck blacklist you. ISPs are presumably so scared of the RIAA that they'll comply wherever possible.
Furthermore, their choice of spin-rate may have been made with the best possible available knowledge and approximation, and still been fatal. In which case we will have learned something - perhaps something really important, given how many Mars missions go awry - about successfully landing probes on planets.
Yes, perplexingly, there exists the possibility that they selected the correct entry spin rate but the mission failed for another reason. It's one of those perverse physics concepts like things falling down and cats and dogs not living together. Frankly, if it turns out that their own spin-rate calculations were valid and correctly computed, yet they caused the mission to fail, we'll have learned something very important for future missions. They could just throw their hands up and say "yes, our spin rate calculations were guff" to satisfy you that they do not have a "weird mental block" but that's not how it works in grown-up land.
I imagine that the flashier the software, the more sensitive it is to the accuracy of the emulation, and the performance of your heavy-lifting apps is a big enough deal to encourage people to run natively. From a commercial point of view, I'd also imagine that it's easy to justify springing for a Windows licence when you're using upwards of $500 of software. The small-time apps should be written in a fairly standard fashion, you don't need tip-top performance, and nobody's going to shell out $75 for an XP licence to run Zootyconvert Free Edition. As far as games go, I think they're more likely to be written to standard APIs over writing at a seriously low level as in console games. Which of these, if any, are responsible is wide open. I've certainly been laughably wrong before. And this isn't to dismiss the idea of a Linux desktop as a serious workstation for traditionally Windows- or Mac-based jobs. I'm just trying to rationalise how it's turned out.
Indeed, it is a commonly-known fact that the lowest-ranking member of any research group does 80% of the work, by the magic of delegation.
I'm no cryptographer, but isn't this like realising you can't crack a safe, and deciding it'd be easier to invent a machine that will undo the metallic bonds that hold its constituent atoms together?
Seriously, they should do this. Hold them to the same standards as a washing machine company. If a contractor screws up, they're going to pay for sending an engineer out there to fix the product. (And if they want him back, they can pay or that too.) If they don't want to do that, well, they can pay for a whole new mission. Then they're less likely to do things like skip diagnostics and fuck up multi-million dollar missions.
You forget that diamond production is an energy-intensive process. You'd have to turn the diamond production station's power suppliers' exhaust into diamonds. Then you're set, albeit a little recursively. In fact I'm about to try oh shiiiiiiiiiii-
Right, roaming charges themselves are justifiable (you're getting access to a range of extra networks you wouldn't normally use), which is easy to forget when getting wound up about how large they are.
I'd say that a program that disregards your preferences is already falling short of using the full functionality of the phone.
I think the whole "it's expensive to buy airtime from our roaming partners" thing is a crock of shit. If they all charge eachother some ridiculous rate for roaming onto their network, and that is passed straight to the end consumer, then it's price fixing. It was more transparently stupid here in Europe when you were roaming from T-Mobile UK to T-Mobile Germany and being charged through the nose for roaming onto a network that belongs to the same parent company. There was no excuse along the lines of "we charge ourselves a lot for roaming", so ultimately it was very easy for the parliment to demand a drop in roaming fees and, when the companies disregarded this, legislate a maximum fee.
1) In what legal or colloquial sense of "fraud", other than "bad thing", is this trademark fraud?
2) In what sense does investing in mobile phone advertising not count as an entrepreneurial enterprise?
I think someone really needs to sit down and say "the unfunded mandate has to go". With the current timeline, manned space flight will account for more or less NASA's entire budget within about ten years, and there are projects being slashed left and right already. A NASA which forgets about landing humans on the moon and Mars for a decade or two would be a cheaper NASA with a much wider variety of science missions. (IMO, of course, and I'm welcome to any new information on their funding situation and where the budget's going).
He owns an advertising company. Whatever else he may be, entrepreneur fits as a label.
For the curious, a back of the envelope calculation suggests that the energy required to hoist the moon to its current altitude from the Earth's centre (disregarding the energy needed to set up its orbit) is of the same order of magnitude as the gravitational binding energy of the Earth (i.e. disregarding chemical bonding). This tells us two things:
1) Whatever was responsible was friggin' huge
2) Physics ain't the be-all and end-all of back-of-the-envelope calculations