Just writing 0 to the drive repeatedly will not ensure all the possibly sensitive data is non-recoverable, you really need to write random 1's and 0's at least 3 times to each bit of the drive.
This has not been true for a LONG time. Ever since the GMR head became widespread (first introduced in 1997), platter field densities became too high, and field strengths became to low, to be able to feasibly read any sort of residual field after a single pass. Never mind that even if you could read the residual domain, poring over a single 1tb drive with a MFM would take literally billions of man-hours (8796093022208 bits * 1 bit every 10 seconds = 24433591728 hours, or 2.789 million years) to recreate a even rough guess of the bit layout, and that you would then need to align the all guessed layouts for each platter perfectly (think a few million possible combinations at least) before you could even start trying to pull data from the drive.
Send the ATA SECURE ERASE command to the drive, then move on while the drive controller does it's thing. It'll even erase sectors in the G-list, which DBAN will not.
We kind of frown upon the slave labor that the Chinese and Irish (and others) that were used to build the railroad.
If modern construction machinery is less efficient and effective than forced labour, then whoever designed such shoddy machinery should be the first in line to receive a shovel.
Existing HDMI Capture cards (e.g. £130 Blackmagic) seem to handle on-the-fly compression pretty well. If you really want to capture full-rate HDMI, it might be a lot cheaper to use two 512gb SSDs in RAID0 than a larger and probably more expensive HDD array.
No need even for DBAN. Unless you're using truly ancient decade-old HDDs, use the ATA SECURE ERASE command built into the HDD controller. Much faster than DBAN, and wipes not only the accessible sectors but sectors in the G-list. Plus it's NIST and NSA approved, so it should be complaint with any government requirements for data destruction.
It also effectively returns non-TRIM SSDs to a factory state. Remember: when used on SATA drives, set your bios to IDE compatibility mode, not AHCI.
created Blue-Ray as streaming shows was becoming the norm.
If you can show me somewhere that will stream 40mbit h.264, I'd love to hear it! Yes, there are some truly appallingly encoded blu-rays, but I've yet to see a 'HD' streaming service that didn't look like crap (the closest was the long-defunct Stage6).
If you've designed your habitat complete with extreme earthquakes and tsunamis, you're probably not too worried about adding radiological contamination to the mix.
Stability comes from distribution of currency. Concentrate it too much, and the whole thing becomes unstable. Bitcoin suffers from this, with a few hoarders buying and dumping causing the value to fluctuate wildly. Unfortunately, 'proper' currency is also subject to this concentration of wealth, as is currently becoming very clear.
I got bored of the Wii gimmick and PS Move pretty quick. So I didn't even bother buying Kinect for my 360. How is it any better?
It's not. All three non-haptic (don't give me that "vibration is feedback" claptrap!) motion gaming controllers are absolutely horrible to use.
However, the Kinect is an amazing machine vision system. SLAM, 3d scanning, etc, all for something the size of a Toblerone you can buy off-the-shelf for cheap.
Anyway, my point is that petri-meat will have none of these qualities.
Why not? All of these are mere implementation issues. Grow some bone to anchor your substrates to, culture your stem cells into muscle tissue, connective tissue and fatty tissue, print them in the correct striations, then pulse current through the whole thing to keep the muscle tissue aligned and to create the desired texture.
I wonder how expensive EMP-hardening consumer electronics actually is? Is wrapping all the sensitive gubbins in a Faraday cage with all I/O optically isolated not sufficient?
Nuclear propulsion was entirely possible 50 years ago, but this thing called an Arms Race made it politically a no-go.
More the lack of an arms race, really. NERVA was pretty much ready to go, but had no use for ICBMs: it was aimed squarely at a mission to Mars. A very expensive, not particularly-useful-in-competing-with-the-USSR mission to Mars.
Add to that, the cheapest deals (i.e. the advertised deals) for a given speed will be the ones with a ludicrously small download limit (e.g. 2gb/month limit).
No, but they have already announced an Android 3.1 implementation, and screenshots released so far look like they've taken on board the complaints about the older version. Might be worth buying up one of Logitech's cheap Revues if they decide to dump them at bargain bucket prices.
Darpa convened a “cyber colloquium” at a swank northern Virginia hotel on Monday for what it called a “frank discussion” about the persistent vulnerabilities within the Defense Department’s data networks.
Well there's your problem! The ones at the forefront of breaking-into-electronic-systems-in-interesting-ways aren't the usual crowd the DoD are used to wooing (heads of industry, academic engineers, the conference-at-swanky-hotel crowd) but people working out of their basements fiddling with things for the fun of it.
If they want a real assessment, offer a honeypot network with some stand-in data, and set a prize for whoever can get it and tell them how.
Which is a shame, as I preferred the look of the X-32 (and the YF-23, too). Contracts are given based on how boring the plane looks (and by how much they can unrealistically lowball the estimate before pushing the actual cost way above the reasonable estimated competitors bid).
No, they'll just see the same thing at different heights. Imagine it is showing a cube: you can walk around the display to see all 4 vertical faces of the cube, but you cannot look down onto or up under the cube to see the horizontal faces.
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Just writing 0 to the drive repeatedly will not ensure all the possibly sensitive data is non-recoverable, you really need to write random 1's and 0's at least 3 times to each bit of the drive.
This has not been true for a LONG time. Ever since the GMR head became widespread (first introduced in 1997), platter field densities became too high, and field strengths became to low, to be able to feasibly read any sort of residual field after a single pass. Never mind that even if you could read the residual domain, poring over a single 1tb drive with a MFM would take literally billions of man-hours (8796093022208 bits * 1 bit every 10 seconds = 24433591728 hours, or 2.789 million years) to recreate a even rough guess of the bit layout, and that you would then need to align the all guessed layouts for each platter perfectly (think a few million possible combinations at least) before you could even start trying to pull data from the drive.
Send the ATA SECURE ERASE command to the drive, then move on while the drive controller does it's thing. It'll even erase sectors in the G-list, which DBAN will not.
Forget not being able to touch it, it isn't even 3D! Not volumetric, not even stereographic, it's just a regular old flat plane.
Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.
-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
I did. The parent had disappeared, and another parent immediately above appeared to dovetail into the conversation.
We kind of frown upon the slave labor that the Chinese and Irish (and others) that were used to build the railroad.
If modern construction machinery is less efficient and effective than forced labour, then whoever designed such shoddy machinery should be the first in line to receive a shovel.
Existing HDMI Capture cards (e.g. £130 Blackmagic) seem to handle on-the-fly compression pretty well. If you really want to capture full-rate HDMI, it might be a lot cheaper to use two 512gb SSDs in RAID0 than a larger and probably more expensive HDD array.
Well, it sure hasn't worked for Polio or Smallpox.
OH, WAIT.
No need even for DBAN. Unless you're using truly ancient decade-old HDDs, use the ATA SECURE ERASE command built into the HDD controller. Much faster than DBAN, and wipes not only the accessible sectors but sectors in the G-list. Plus it's NIST and NSA approved, so it should be complaint with any government requirements for data destruction.
It also effectively returns non-TRIM SSDs to a factory state. Remember: when used on SATA drives, set your bios to IDE compatibility mode, not AHCI.
created Blue-Ray as streaming shows was becoming the norm.
If you can show me somewhere that will stream 40mbit h.264, I'd love to hear it! Yes, there are some truly appallingly encoded blu-rays, but I've yet to see a 'HD' streaming service that didn't look like crap (the closest was the long-defunct Stage6).
If you've designed your habitat complete with extreme earthquakes and tsunamis, you're probably not too worried about adding radiological contamination to the mix.
It is quite possible somebody was attempting to pay for lunch at the time of the experiment. How many Bistros are there in the vicinity of Gran Sasso?
Just exactly how one would do serious hands-on research on the chemistry of corium is left as an exercise for the student.
Or anyone who can read a book. Corium research has been performed (and is still being performed) in controlled melts to study it's behavior.
Stability comes from distribution of currency. Concentrate it too much, and the whole thing becomes unstable. Bitcoin suffers from this, with a few hoarders buying and dumping causing the value to fluctuate wildly. Unfortunately, 'proper' currency is also subject to this concentration of wealth, as is currently becoming very clear.
I got bored of the Wii gimmick and PS Move pretty quick. So I didn't even bother buying Kinect for my 360. How is it any better?
It's not. All three non-haptic (don't give me that "vibration is feedback" claptrap!) motion gaming controllers are absolutely horrible to use.
However, the Kinect is an amazing machine vision system. SLAM, 3d scanning, etc, all for something the size of a Toblerone you can buy off-the-shelf for cheap.
Anyway, my point is that petri-meat will have none of these qualities.
Why not? All of these are mere implementation issues. Grow some bone to anchor your substrates to, culture your stem cells into muscle tissue, connective tissue and fatty tissue, print them in the correct striations, then pulse current through the whole thing to keep the muscle tissue aligned and to create the desired texture.
I wonder how expensive EMP-hardening consumer electronics actually is? Is wrapping all the sensitive gubbins in a Faraday cage with all I/O optically isolated not sufficient?
Nuclear propulsion was entirely possible 50 years ago, but this thing called an Arms Race made it politically a no-go.
More the lack of an arms race, really. NERVA was pretty much ready to go, but had no use for ICBMs: it was aimed squarely at a mission to Mars. A very expensive, not particularly-useful-in-competing-with-the-USSR mission to Mars.
Add to that, the cheapest deals (i.e. the advertised deals) for a given speed will be the ones with a ludicrously small download limit (e.g. 2gb/month limit).
Perhaps Google plans their own set top box?
No, but they have already announced an Android 3.1 implementation, and screenshots released so far look like they've taken on board the complaints about the older version. Might be worth buying up one of Logitech's cheap Revues if they decide to dump them at bargain bucket prices.
20 years is too long a time frame to care.
Worked for date storage and IP address ranges!
Darpa convened a “cyber colloquium” at a swank northern Virginia hotel on Monday for what it called a “frank discussion” about the persistent vulnerabilities within the Defense Department’s data networks.
Well there's your problem! The ones at the forefront of breaking-into-electronic-systems-in-interesting-ways aren't the usual crowd the DoD are used to wooing (heads of industry, academic engineers, the conference-at-swanky-hotel crowd) but people working out of their basements fiddling with things for the fun of it.
If they want a real assessment, offer a honeypot network with some stand-in data, and set a prize for whoever can get it and tell them how.
Which is a shame, as I preferred the look of the X-32 (and the YF-23, too). Contracts are given based on how boring the plane looks (and by how much they can unrealistically lowball the estimate before pushing the actual cost way above the reasonable estimated competitors bid).
No, they'll just see the same thing at different heights. Imagine it is showing a cube: you can walk around the display to see all 4 vertical faces of the cube, but you cannot look down onto or up under the cube to see the horizontal faces.
I'm disappointed at this development. 'Icsfics' is a lot less fun to say than 'veeeeefix'.
Not 3D. Look closely: while it has 'depth', the depth resolution is 1: it's a 'thick' 2D display.