$500 to recover a drive, eh? If I had a data recovery business, I'd hang up on you too. If you want people to take you seriously, then perhaps you should present yourself in a serious manner. Offering $500 and a basement-made "King of Data Recovery" title is not a serious challenge. It's a slap in the face to any legitimate data recovery business to be "challenged" like that.
Either way, the point of a policy is not to be broken. I'm sure Private Murphy or Contractor Black wasn't following proper procedure when he decided to sell some old hard drives for beer money.
For sensitive drives, many U.S. units do in fact destroy the platters. Usually, it's a matter of smashing the drives into teeny little bits, then melting them.
An exception, to be sure. That's one war movie out of thousands. Ask just about any high-school history student about Russia's involvement in WWII, I'm sure you'll be quite taken back about their lack of exposure to the topic.
Pearl Harbor wasn't the "ZOMG We're in WWII now" moment. Also, landing on the beaches of Normandy wasn't the first US Campaign in the war, either. Both of these are massive misconceptions.
The "Yanks" were fighting AGAINST the French and German forces well before 1941. Yes, you read that right. Many, many French were aligned with the Axis powers.
Read up on the North African campaigns. "An Army at Dawn" by Rick Atkinson is a particularly well-written text.
It's not new. All flourescent bulbs have a power factor of less than one. It's how the ballast works. If you have a capacitor or inductor on ANY A/C circuit, it will have a power factor of less than 1.
That's the same thing I was thinking. The reactive power (difference between the lower real and higher apparent) is transmitted back to the power grid during each cycle. The only loss is in transmission resisistance and the need for higher capacity lines. Seeing as the waveform we see is created at the transformers, the transmission capacity and resistance loss should be negligible.
You are dead wrong on the not needing to be law abiding too. A criminal record disqualifies you from jury service in every single state that I'm aware of.
Not all people who break the law are caught. I'd venture a guess to say that most aren't, actually.
Try telling a corporate office that they can't have Exchange anymore. Or, that their business software package and all of its customized plugins should be replaced. Or, that they need to port all of their MS SQL databases to PostGRE or MySQL, and find the talent to manage them on the new systems.
Then you'll understand why MS has such a stranglehold in corporate IT.
It doesn't sound much different this time; 'by cramming computer power into the very box that contains storage capacity and the networking'. Uh-huh. Also known as 'a PC'.
My PC doesn't have a SAN and a multi-gigabit switch built in.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but it seems like you're implying that this procedure is a) expensive, and b) invalidates the drive's warranty.
Actually, it is just as important to remain solvent (able to make a profit for the foreseeable future). If a company must choose between making a metric assload of money today and then dying, or making a reasonable amount every day until the second coming, the second option wins.
Each ESXi installation has a Web GUI that you can manage it from. It's not as functional as VCI, but it can at least start, stop, and monitor virtual servers. If I recall, it's simply https://serverip/ with serverIP being the vmkernel IP.
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$500 to recover a drive, eh? If I had a data recovery business, I'd hang up on you too. If you want people to take you seriously, then perhaps you should present yourself in a serious manner. Offering $500 and a basement-made "King of Data Recovery" title is not a serious challenge. It's a slap in the face to any legitimate data recovery business to be "challenged" like that.
Most DoD member units approve DBAN already. Especially when it's set to the platter-melting 35-pass Guttman Wipe.
The problem is when someone DOESN'T follow proper procedures. Rules are great and all, but someone is always going to break them in some way
You're on the right track. Quite a few crimes of this nature are not reported, at least not publicly.
Either way, the point of a policy is not to be broken. I'm sure Private Murphy or Contractor Black wasn't following proper procedure when he decided to sell some old hard drives for beer money.
For sensitive drives, many U.S. units do in fact destroy the platters. Usually, it's a matter of smashing the drives into teeny little bits, then melting them.
Putin was in office by then, so I'm not sure if "cool" is the right term.
An exception, to be sure. That's one war movie out of thousands. Ask just about any high-school history student about Russia's involvement in WWII, I'm sure you'll be quite taken back about their lack of exposure to the topic.
Pearl Harbor wasn't the "ZOMG We're in WWII now" moment. Also, landing on the beaches of Normandy wasn't the first US Campaign in the war, either. Both of these are massive misconceptions. The "Yanks" were fighting AGAINST the French and German forces well before 1941. Yes, you read that right. Many, many French were aligned with the Axis powers.
Read up on the North African campaigns. "An Army at Dawn" by Rick Atkinson is a particularly well-written text.
It's not new. All flourescent bulbs have a power factor of less than one. It's how the ballast works. If you have a capacitor or inductor on ANY A/C circuit, it will have a power factor of less than 1.
That's the same thing I was thinking. The reactive power (difference between the lower real and higher apparent) is transmitted back to the power grid during each cycle. The only loss is in transmission resisistance and the need for higher capacity lines. Seeing as the waveform we see is created at the transformers, the transmission capacity and resistance loss should be negligible.
Coffee mugs generally hold less than 8 fluid ounces, don't they?
Installing pirated software is not a pound-me-in-the-ass-federal-prison criminal violation of copyright law. Selling it is.
Unless the judge has ordered the jurors to be sequestered for the duration of the trial, they are free to go home in between sessions.
You are dead wrong on the not needing to be law abiding too. A criminal record disqualifies you from jury service in every single state that I'm aware of.
Not all people who break the law are caught. I'd venture a guess to say that most aren't, actually.
Who are you to decide whether or not you'll abide by that ruling?
Jury nullification applies, I would think. The final check and balance is not the judge, it is the people.
Try telling a corporate office that they can't have Exchange anymore. Or, that their business software package and all of its customized plugins should be replaced. Or, that they need to port all of their MS SQL databases to PostGRE or MySQL, and find the talent to manage them on the new systems.
Then you'll understand why MS has such a stranglehold in corporate IT.
It doesn't sound much different this time; 'by cramming computer power into the very box that contains storage capacity and the networking'. Uh-huh. Also known as 'a PC'.
My PC doesn't have a SAN and a multi-gigabit switch built in.
Games are the absolute last thing anyone cares about when it comes to serious consideration of server hardware.
Intel doesn't care about the guy in his basement playing Crysis, they care about the CFO who can sign a purchase order for 1,000 of these.
Picking nits here, but this kind of key generation is generally not considered encryption.
Drive corruption could easily result. Write caches that aren't backed up by battery don't play nicely with power outages.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but it seems like you're implying that this procedure is a) expensive, and b) invalidates the drive's warranty.
I believe that it is neither of those.
Actually, it is just as important to remain solvent (able to make a profit for the foreseeable future). If a company must choose between making a metric assload of money today and then dying, or making a reasonable amount every day until the second coming, the second option wins.
Each ESXi installation has a Web GUI that you can manage it from. It's not as functional as VCI, but it can at least start, stop, and monitor virtual servers. If I recall, it's simply https://serverip/ with serverIP being the vmkernel IP.
Then what is the "meta" group for? *whooooooooooooosh!*
Daniel Solove's has quite the paper on it as well.