The problem with par2 and dvdisaster is that they're not ubiquitous or, apparently, interesting enough to developers.
What is needed is something *like* par2, but that works over directory trees, generally fits in well with the the other unix tools, and is as ubiquitous as dd, tar, cp and gzip.
What good is including ECC with your data if the tools that can be used to recover it lost interest and withered away half a decade after you burned it?
Further, the "best" way would be to extend the CD spec to arbitrary numbers and sizes of extra-layers, so that you can always fill the CD, no matter how much data you put on it, and the extra parity data strikes a good balance between large numbers of errors and large blocks of errors.
Because you're an ass. I've used the mark spam bit, too, but only for emails for which the unsubscribe link is neither present in the email, nor apparent on the website. In my view, if they obscure or don't even have a way for me to stop receiving emails, they become spam the moment I no longer desire to receive them.
Because I'm also an ass. Although slightly less of one.
3: I don't know what kind of backward-arse country you come from, but emergency rooms are required to treat regardless of ability to pay. They try to collect later.
2: No, you still try to drive off and hope nobody saw you, because you're an ass that doesn't want to deal with increased insurance premiums, either. Or, you're a reasonable person who either pays out of pocket or maintains insurance.
1: 1e6 € is a bit high, but the way insurance works, amounts much much greater than the typical costs don't result in all that much higher of a premium. But what would be good for the wealthy in Germany is the option to certify somehow that they have liquid assets to cover some certain value, and insurance with a very high deductible to cover the rest.
I agree that the British option of a deposit is pretty unreasonable, but even that is better than insurance in a number of circumstances: i.e. when interest on investing that half-million pounds doesn't cover the premium for the insurance plan that frees up the money for investing.
"remember one gentleman who had a Bentley who was driving on a suspended without insurance - odds are he had the money for the insurance just chose not to get it."
Odds are he had the money to pay his liabilities to an amount greatly exceeding the minimum required coverage. So why force him to bleed money on premiums?
Get an inexpensive, small camera. (like one of those lipstick cams from a decade ago). Mount it in a spot on your car that it can see most of the action. And feed it to a short loop recording device (so there's no danger of some mistake YOU made 20 minutes earlier being on the tape. But also so that it doesn't take much space in your car)
When you see an infraction, pop the tape, and send it into the cops. A complete record of exactly what the driver did should be enough evidence to get 'em some kind of fine.
Such a tape is also useful in the event that you're fined for something, as you can preserve the record to defend yourself.
But I'm not sure it's that great of a plan: I'd estimate informally that about half or maybe more than half of the reckless driving I've seen has been police in well-marked vehicles (without the lights or siren or horn or even wildly flailing arms. So..not "emergency" reckless. Just plain reckless reckless.) And I've got some serious suspicion that the other half also includes a significant fraction of police who are off-duty.
The laws are already on the books. If they're unjust, then the loss of liberties has already occurred. It doesn't matter how inefficiently they are enforced. In fact, inefficiency gives corrupt enforcers power, for they can channel their energies toward just about whomever they please.
If enforcement becomes more effective, that does not represent a loss of liberty for if the laws are just, perfect enforcement is, of course, the goal.
Further, it is insideous: poor enforcement leads to insufficient outrage to overturn the law. Witness all the highways with obviously too-low limits. Very few complaints, though, because the speed limit effectively becomes a "ticket lottery." A game that everyone tries to lose.
Liberty does not mean, "the ability to get away with stuff." People sometimes "getting away with stuff" is just the price that we might have to pay to keep our liberty.
Wait.. You're seriously suggesting that Spain, a nation which was pretty much completely taken over by Moors, which then drove them out in a bloody, ongoing, century long conflict, followed by the freakin' Spanish Inquisition... the subjugation of Central and most of South America...Guernica...
You're suggesting that that nation was neither born in blood, nor is imperialistic, nor uses violence and fear...
I'm pretty sure you're still cool to yell fire in a crowded theater. But if someone is injured as a result, you'd be liable for the damages. Also, those damages might include replacement tickets for the show for all the patrons, and transportation if it's the last night the show is in town.
Yeah, they'd never ever think of looking in.xxx_history and trying out a few of the commands there.
Anyway, with what they're suggesting is the procedure, I'd say full-on paranoia (a.k.a full-disk encryption) is not at all unwarranted, for all laptops (I wouldn't even want them to be able to see *and share* my freakin' buddies list), no matter how trivial.
But if you're using full-disk, you're not going to have a handy binary hanging around. Plus, what happens when mplayer gets patched?
Who is the government? Who is the people? In my scenario, the busybodies are certainly bringing down governmental harm on their victims, so are they not somewhat of an arm of the government themselves?
Read the damn book. It's very interesting, and most people invoking it are trying to bend it to their agenda, so they'll be pretty selective. Which, ironically, is also a phenomenon discussed in the book.
Hah. why don't you try reading 1984, instead of getting your knowledge from a friend of a friend of a friend who knew someone who might have read it.
Orwell never made the claim that the governments in 1984 got there by deliberate design on their own part. But that society settled into a kind of grim equilibrium through the combined activities of everyone.
Citizens with cameras in no way represents a foiling of the idea of "the wire" peering into every aspect of your life. The citizens are the wire.
What happens, for instance, when some busybody decides to film you jaywalking, or pissing off the back of your boat?
Perhaps, but $30 thermostats are WAY overpriced for what they do. I suspect that has more to do with the UL stamp racket and volume issues than an inherent cost of the device.
"Thereby you'd also be making the currency you've just bought more valuable"
Well, yeah, but it's conservative. So if you try to cash in, you just get back what you put in, unless a bunch of people buy currency and you're the only one that sells it back.
And yeah, people are dicks. Humorless, too, if they think it'll bring them advantage. But Pepsi shouldn't have advertised a Harrier for such a low number of points when the actual unit price the military was paying was pretty well known. Also, offering a product for sale that they couldn't buy for national security reasons was probably not the greatest of ideas either.
For deliberately extracting information from a foreign military installation?
If we didn't, it would basically amount to state-sanctioned spying, which is technically an act of war. I'm pretty sure the US is not interested in appearing to commit acts of war against close allies.
I'm confused.. Clinton was president in 1995, so presumably, according to you, Bush is responsible for the extradition of criminal who committed several terrorist acts, to the country in which they were committed, and this (the extradition, not the 10 years of no justice) somehow reflects badly on Bush and the UK?
How about Senator and Representative Kennedy, for two. But they weren't specifically behind anti-power plants-in-general.
You practically can't open a newspaper any more without a save-the-____ or preserve-____'s beauty or some such taking the following stance: Don't build <mostly practical facility of any kind> here where it <spoils the view|is noisy|has working-class workers>. Instead, we should invest in <far-off, as-yet-unproven plan> in <more secluded location>. And, when <far-off, as-yet-unproven plan> becomes an actual possibility, guess what the new argument is?
re: Moore, anyone can come around to the correct view, and should be applauded for it. Precisely because it is so rare, and so often vilified
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The problem with par2 and dvdisaster is that they're not ubiquitous or, apparently, interesting enough to developers.
What is needed is something *like* par2, but that works over directory trees, generally fits in well with the the other unix tools, and is as ubiquitous as dd, tar, cp and gzip.
What good is including ECC with your data if the tools that can be used to recover it lost interest and withered away half a decade after you burned it?
Further, the "best" way would be to extend the CD spec to arbitrary numbers and sizes of extra-layers, so that you can always fill the CD, no matter how much data you put on it, and the extra parity data strikes a good balance between large numbers of errors and large blocks of errors.
Because you're an ass. I've used the mark spam bit, too, but only for emails for which the unsubscribe link is neither present in the email, nor apparent on the website. In my view, if they obscure or don't even have a way for me to stop receiving emails, they become spam the moment I no longer desire to receive them.
Because I'm also an ass. Although slightly less of one.
3: I don't know what kind of backward-arse country you come from, but emergency rooms are required to treat regardless of ability to pay. They try to collect later.
2: No, you still try to drive off and hope nobody saw you, because you're an ass that doesn't want to deal with increased insurance premiums, either. Or, you're a reasonable person who either pays out of pocket or maintains insurance.
1: 1e6 € is a bit high, but the way insurance works, amounts much much greater than the typical costs don't result in all that much higher of a premium. But what would be good for the wealthy in Germany is the option to certify somehow that they have liquid assets to cover some certain value, and insurance with a very high deductible to cover the rest.
I agree that the British option of a deposit is pretty unreasonable, but even that is better than insurance in a number of circumstances: i.e. when interest on investing that half-million pounds doesn't cover the premium for the insurance plan that frees up the money for investing.
But is that the cause or an effect?
Are you sure the city wasn't San Francisco?
Sold!
"remember one gentleman who had a Bentley who was driving on a suspended without insurance - odds are he had the money for the insurance just chose not to get it."
Odds are he had the money to pay his liabilities to an amount greatly exceeding the minimum required coverage. So why force him to bleed money on premiums?
Get an inexpensive, small camera. (like one of those lipstick cams from a decade ago). Mount it in a spot on your car that it can see most of the action. And feed it to a short loop recording device (so there's no danger of some mistake YOU made 20 minutes earlier being on the tape. But also so that it doesn't take much space in your car)
When you see an infraction, pop the tape, and send it into the cops. A complete record of exactly what the driver did should be enough evidence to get 'em some kind of fine.
Such a tape is also useful in the event that you're fined for something, as you can preserve the record to defend yourself.
But I'm not sure it's that great of a plan: I'd estimate informally that about half or maybe more than half of the reckless driving I've seen has been police in well-marked vehicles (without the lights or siren or horn or even wildly flailing arms. So..not "emergency" reckless. Just plain reckless reckless.) And I've got some serious suspicion that the other half also includes a significant fraction of police who are off-duty.
The laws are already on the books. If they're unjust, then the loss of liberties has already occurred. It doesn't matter how inefficiently they are enforced. In fact, inefficiency gives corrupt enforcers power, for they can channel their energies toward just about whomever they please.
If enforcement becomes more effective, that does not represent a loss of liberty for if the laws are just, perfect enforcement is, of course, the goal.
Further, it is insideous: poor enforcement leads to insufficient outrage to overturn the law. Witness all the highways with obviously too-low limits. Very few complaints, though, because the speed limit effectively becomes a "ticket lottery." A game that everyone tries to lose.
Liberty does not mean, "the ability to get away with stuff." People sometimes "getting away with stuff" is just the price that we might have to pay to keep our liberty.
Catalonia is part of Spain. So, if they were pacifists, I'd say it didn't work out too well for them.
Wait.. You're seriously suggesting that Spain, a nation which was pretty much completely taken over by Moors, which then drove them out in a bloody, ongoing, century long conflict, followed by the freakin' Spanish Inquisition... the subjugation of Central and most of South America...Guernica...
You're suggesting that that nation was neither born in blood, nor is imperialistic, nor uses violence and fear...
Wow. Just.. Wow.
I'm pretty sure you're still cool to yell fire in a crowded theater. But if someone is injured as a result, you'd be liable for the damages. Also, those damages might include replacement tickets for the show for all the patrons, and transportation if it's the last night the show is in town.
IANAL, though.
Yeah, they'd never ever think of looking in .xxx_history and trying out a few of the commands there.
Anyway, with what they're suggesting is the procedure, I'd say full-on paranoia (a.k.a full-disk encryption) is not at all unwarranted, for all laptops (I wouldn't even want them to be able to see *and share* my freakin' buddies list), no matter how trivial.
But if you're using full-disk, you're not going to have a handy binary hanging around. Plus, what happens when mplayer gets patched?
Who is the government? Who is the people? In my scenario, the busybodies are certainly bringing down governmental harm on their victims, so are they not somewhat of an arm of the government themselves?
Read the damn book. It's very interesting, and most people invoking it are trying to bend it to their agenda, so they'll be pretty selective. Which, ironically, is also a phenomenon discussed in the book.
Without.. time limit. They weren't clear enough ten years ago, but they've backed off the "unlimited" claims since then, so what's the beef?
Hah. why don't you try reading 1984, instead of getting your knowledge from a friend of a friend of a friend who knew someone who might have read it.
Orwell never made the claim that the governments in 1984 got there by deliberate design on their own part. But that society settled into a kind of grim equilibrium through the combined activities of everyone.
Citizens with cameras in no way represents a foiling of the idea of "the wire" peering into every aspect of your life. The citizens are the wire.
What happens, for instance, when some busybody decides to film you jaywalking, or pissing off the back of your boat?
You know why we get the cops we get? 'Cause you all think you've got better things to do than policing.
Note: I, also, am not a police officer.
In fact, they are cheaper to produce though. If you take the original designs and scale them to 45 nm, they require a lot less silicon.
Perhaps, but $30 thermostats are WAY overpriced for what they do. I suspect that has more to do with the UL stamp racket and volume issues than an inherent cost of the device.
"Thereby you'd also be making the currency you've just bought more valuable"
Well, yeah, but it's conservative. So if you try to cash in, you just get back what you put in, unless a bunch of people buy currency and you're the only one that sells it back.
And yeah, people are dicks. Humorless, too, if they think it'll bring them advantage. But Pepsi shouldn't have advertised a Harrier for such a low number of points when the actual unit price the military was paying was pretty well known. Also, offering a product for sale that they couldn't buy for national security reasons was probably not the greatest of ideas either.
Wasn't sapho juice still just another in a seemingly unending array of fairly similar spice preparations?
IIRC, "spice" in the novels was quite a bit like "the internet" in many patents.
For deliberately extracting information from a foreign military installation?
If we didn't, it would basically amount to state-sanctioned spying, which is technically an act of war. I'm pretty sure the US is not interested in appearing to commit acts of war against close allies.
I'm confused.. Clinton was president in 1995, so presumably, according to you, Bush is responsible for the extradition of criminal who committed several terrorist acts, to the country in which they were committed, and this (the extradition, not the 10 years of no justice) somehow reflects badly on Bush and the UK?
How about Senator and Representative Kennedy, for two. But they weren't specifically behind anti-power plants-in-general.
You practically can't open a newspaper any more without a save-the-____ or preserve-____'s beauty or some such taking the following stance: Don't build <mostly practical facility of any kind> here where it <spoils the view|is noisy|has working-class workers>. Instead, we should invest in <far-off, as-yet-unproven plan> in <more secluded location>. And, when <far-off, as-yet-unproven plan> becomes an actual possibility, guess what the new argument is?
re: Moore, anyone can come around to the correct view, and should be applauded for it. Precisely because it is so rare, and so often vilified
Incorrect. The warning labels are for things people did, but survived long enough to hire a lawyer.