just so long as they don't make it a required class.
and mythology is a perfectly respectable historical subject. 2 of the teachers at my school (computers and science) both have minors in Greek mythology.
well, atleast some of the stuff is going away. now for the US government to grow as much sense as the canadian one gained back in the 70s with the FLQ crisis and if you don't know what that was, look it up. at that time, the war measures act (which is, as far as i know about both, very similer to the USAPATRIOT act). everyone thought it was a good idea at the time (roufghy, then the stories of the abuses of it came out a couple years later, and hence came the public backlash (as i'm hoping will happen anytime now in the US) which basically made it very difficult to invoke most of the act, as that would require invoking the not withstanding clause and virtually guarenteeing that the government will be votes out in the next election, unless it was done for a VERY GOOD REASON. though that act was replaced in 1988 with the emergencies act, the same constitution issues apply.
well, in my knowlage of data recovery technques, that wouldn't be overly secure. with the proper hardware and know-how, that disk could still be read, in theory, though it would basically require reverse-engeneering the entire read/write assembly in addition to the drive encoding and all those other little specifics. but the government would likely be able to aquire that information from the manufacturer with relitive ease if they felt there was something worth the time/effort/manpower/money on that drive.
i was pretty certain that the DOD standard for wiping data was 7 overwrites, though i could be wrong.
though you could always use the Gutmann method (35 passes. 4 random, 27 passes specifically designed to mangle specific types of drive encoding (RLL and MFM), then 4 more random passes)
though even then, it is remotely possible that the bits "drifted" as each bit on a hard drive is made up of roughly 100 particles, and there's no guarantee that all the particles that used to make up a bit of a sensitive file were overwritten (you could likely recover the bit if 1/4 of the particles were still unoverwritten), due to the head being a very small distance off, which isn't real hard to imagine happening when that minuscule spot is only under the drive head for about 8 milliseconds (for a 3.5' platter, 7200 RPM drive) if my math is right.
You're saying the head of the "National Socialists" was not a Socialist, eh?
no, he wasn't socialist. the Nazis were fascist (the exact opposite end of the political spectrum) if anything, he was anti-socialist/anti-communist. communists were basically one of the other things on his list of "things to eliminate to make a perfect world" in addition to jews and the physically/mentally disabled.
I thought pro bono meant you were for extending copyrights indefinitely.
no, that would be pro-sonny bono.
pro bono (actualy pro bono publico is the full term) is latin meaning "for the public good". basicly, the lawyer is working for free on the case, as a public service, usually on a case that is gonna make said lawyer well known among likely future clients who will be paying (such as this case)
regular spyware scan (by adaware, spybot S&D, and MS antispy) regular defrag (not with the windows defrag. i like diskeeper)
about the only way that is sure fire is to backup/wipe/reinstall. it helps if you make a disk image after a clean install once you install as the applications. i would say update the image about every other year or in the event of an OS upgrade (duh).
yes yes, but as far as i can tell from the article, this software wouldn't require an RSS feed to do something similer to RSS.
now, some software can do this sort of thing already, but it needs a pretty good idea (that you typically have to manually input) of how the data is laid out on the page. this would do it automaticly. sounds pretty good IMO, just so long as it's free and/or open source.
they're a very accurate source on personal experiences with a product. that's often much more important to a person looking to buy something than any study you would care to mention. word of mouth advertising still works, as does word of mouth anti-advertising.
well, this is just my thought, but a think the RFID would be less easy to damage. inside of a wallet, things get pretty beaten up. (in my wallet anyway) i need to get a new library card about every other year as the bar code can't be read anymore. samething applies to my bank card with its magnetic strip.
i personally don't mind commercials per se, though it really bugs me when they show the same commercial two or three times in the same break, particularly if it's an annoying one or if it has nothing to do with me (I'm fairly certain everyone who doesn't live under a rock knows what Viagra is, and I'm also pretty certain i don't need it (yet) so stop pelting me with the ad 3 times each and every commercial break after 8pm.)
if they would keep the commercials varied and tuned to my interests, I'd be fine with it. besides, commercials give me time to head for the john or make a snack when I'm watching a movie or something.
not really. there's pretty specific guidelines about what constitutes hate speech as listed in section 319 of the criminal code of canada (the actual crime is "inciting hatred against an identifiable group" which is relitively specific)
while this is a blatant violation of section 2 of the charter, it falls under section 1 (Reasonable limitations clause "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. ")
there are in effect 3 points of limitation on free speech
1. inciting hatred of an identifiable group 2. materials that are considered obsene 3. communications with prostitutes (no snickering)
then again, sections 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 are all subject to section 33 (notwithstanding clause) which means that they can be temporality (maximum 5 year term, though that can then be renewed) overruled by a goverment statute, though doing so pretty much means the goverment will be replaced in the next election.
DST is way overblown. I'm from Saskatchewan, and we're one of the few places that don't buy it.
just on the news last night, one of the reporters in Ottawa was going on about the virtues of DST, saying it will reduce traffic accidents, save energy, reduce crime, [sarcasm] and even cure cancer [/sarcasm].
last time i checked, it's still dark for the same number of hours. and i fail to see how making people get up earlier reduces accidents (if anything, i would increase them for a couple days after they move the clocks back in spring, as people are tired from getting an hour less sleep)
transparent "aluminum" really isn't metal. it's aluminum oxide. it's also known as ruby, sapphire, or corundum(some of the hardest materials on earth short of a diamond). the reason why aluminum is so durable is that a coating of this forms on the surface of aluminum (anodising is basically making the coating thicker).
one thing you don't want to do is break a thermometer on this stuff. mercury will wipe out aluminum oxide (which leads to the fun effect of making aluminum corrode mysteriously)
the key to reliability and easy troubleshooting is to put all your eggs in one basket and make sure that it's a really, really good basket and is being held by someone who has a grip like a steel vice and is very sure-footed.
i don't belive that MS did either of those last 2 parts.
i don't trust pay-for antispyware software as it's really easy for a spyware firm to shove an envelope of large bills under the table to a big company and say "ignore our stuff".
much of microsoft's mess is decade old good intentions. it uses the same basic OS core for both bussiness and home user use. the problem is that 99.9% of home users aren't equiped to be their own IT department. it also doesn't guess at the fact that software on a computer way be transient. it leave it up to the program to remove itself when asked, which isn't much help when the companies don't want it removed.
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just so long as they don't make it a required class.
and mythology is a perfectly respectable historical subject. 2 of the teachers at my school (computers and science) both have minors in Greek mythology.
well, atleast some of the stuff is going away. now for the US government to grow as much sense as the canadian one gained back in the 70s with the FLQ crisis and if you don't know what that was, look it up. at that time, the war measures act (which is, as far as i know about both, very similer to the USAPATRIOT act). everyone thought it was a good idea at the time (roufghy, then the stories of the abuses of it came out a couple years later, and hence came the public backlash (as i'm hoping will happen anytime now in the US) which basically made it very difficult to invoke most of the act, as that would require invoking the not withstanding clause and virtually guarenteeing that the government will be votes out in the next election, unless it was done for a VERY GOOD REASON. though that act was replaced in 1988 with the emergencies act, the same constitution issues apply.
well, in my knowlage of data recovery technques, that wouldn't be overly secure. with the proper hardware and know-how, that disk could still be read, in theory, though it would basically require reverse-engeneering the entire read/write assembly in addition to the drive encoding and all those other little specifics. but the government would likely be able to aquire that information from the manufacturer with relitive ease if they felt there was something worth the time/effort/manpower/money on that drive.
i was pretty certain that the DOD standard for wiping data was 7 overwrites, though i could be wrong.
though you could always use the Gutmann method (35 passes. 4 random, 27 passes specifically designed to mangle specific types of drive encoding (RLL and MFM), then 4 more random passes)
that is why, if you REALLY wanted to wipe a drive, you would use the Gutmann Method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method)
though even then, it is remotely possible that the bits "drifted" as each bit on a hard drive is made up of roughly 100 particles, and there's no guarantee that all the particles that used to make up a bit of a sensitive file were overwritten (you could likely recover the bit if 1/4 of the particles were still unoverwritten), due to the head being a very small distance off, which isn't real hard to imagine happening when that minuscule spot is only under the drive head for about 8 milliseconds (for a 3.5' platter, 7200 RPM drive) if my math is right.
You're saying the head of the "National Socialists" was not a Socialist, eh?
no, he wasn't socialist. the Nazis were fascist (the exact opposite end of the political spectrum) if anything, he was anti-socialist/anti-communist. communists were basically one of the other things on his list of "things to eliminate to make a perfect world" in addition to jews and the physically/mentally disabled.
I thought pro bono meant you were for extending copyrights indefinitely.
no, that would be pro-sonny bono.
pro bono (actualy pro bono publico is the full term) is latin meaning "for the public good". basicly, the lawyer is working for free on the case, as a public service, usually on a case that is gonna make said lawyer well known among likely future clients who will be paying (such as this case)
what exactly do you define as "solid practises"?
i personally say they are these...
regular spyware scan (by adaware, spybot S&D, and MS antispy)
regular defrag (not with the windows defrag. i like diskeeper)
about the only way that is sure fire is to backup/wipe/reinstall. it helps if you make a disk image after a clean install once you install as the applications. i would say update the image about every other year or in the event of an OS upgrade (duh).
and these concepts cannot be proved as true, thus they are not facts.
i can keep going on this nitpicking contest for a couple days at least.
how about you?
facts are not facts if they are false
"anything not nailed down is ours. anything we can pry up is not nailed down"
yes yes, but as far as i can tell from the article, this software wouldn't require an RSS feed to do something similer to RSS.
now, some software can do this sort of thing already, but it needs a pretty good idea (that you typically have to manually input) of how the data is laid out on the page. this would do it automaticly. sounds pretty good IMO, just so long as it's free and/or open source.
"search term" -blog -journal
problem solved. though you might want to omit the -journal if you're searching for something in a newspaper.
they're a very accurate source on personal experiences with a product. that's often much more important to a person looking to buy something than any study you would care to mention. word of mouth advertising still works, as does word of mouth anti-advertising.
well, this is just my thought, but a think the RFID would be less easy to damage. inside of a wallet, things get pretty beaten up. (in my wallet anyway) i need to get a new library card about every other year as the bar code can't be read anymore. samething applies to my bank card with its magnetic strip.
yes. what other definition for "stupid" do you use?
it's absolutely amazing how stupid people are.
i personally don't mind commercials per se, though it really bugs me when they show the same commercial two or three times in the same break, particularly if it's an annoying one or if it has nothing to do with me (I'm fairly certain everyone who doesn't live under a rock knows what Viagra is, and I'm also pretty certain i don't need it (yet) so stop pelting me with the ad 3 times each and every commercial break after 8pm.)
if they would keep the commercials varied and tuned to my interests, I'd be fine with it. besides, commercials give me time to head for the john or make a snack when I'm watching a movie or something.
but this suit is just one more reason to ship lawyers to the Moon to minimize contamination of the rest of the world's population.
no. this is one more reason to ship stupid sue-happy people to the moon (and that might not be far enough away for my liking)
OH NO! THERE'S A MICROSCOPIC SCRATCH ON MY IPOD! IT'S RUINED!!! IT WILL NEVER PLAY MUSIC WITH THIS SCRATCH!!!
[/sarcasm]
not really. there's pretty specific guidelines about what constitutes hate speech as listed in section 319 of the criminal code of canada (the actual crime is "inciting hatred against an identifiable group" which is relitively specific)
while this is a blatant violation of section 2 of the charter, it falls under section 1 (Reasonable limitations clause "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. ")
there are in effect 3 points of limitation on free speech
1. inciting hatred of an identifiable group
2. materials that are considered obsene
3. communications with prostitutes (no snickering)
then again, sections 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 are all subject to section 33 (notwithstanding clause) which means that they can be temporality (maximum 5 year term, though that can then be renewed) overruled by a goverment statute, though doing so pretty much means the goverment will be replaced in the next election.
DST is way overblown. I'm from Saskatchewan, and we're one of the few places that don't buy it.
just on the news last night, one of the reporters in Ottawa was going on about the virtues of DST, saying it will reduce traffic accidents, save energy, reduce crime, [sarcasm] and even cure cancer [/sarcasm].
last time i checked, it's still dark for the same number of hours. and i fail to see how making people get up earlier reduces accidents (if anything, i would increase them for a couple days after they move the clocks back in spring, as people are tired from getting an hour less sleep)
transparent "aluminum" really isn't metal. it's aluminum oxide. it's also known as ruby, sapphire, or corundum(some of the hardest materials on earth short of a diamond). the reason why aluminum is so durable is that a coating of this forms on the surface of aluminum (anodising is basically making the coating thicker).
one thing you don't want to do is break a thermometer on this stuff. mercury will wipe out aluminum oxide (which leads to the fun effect of making aluminum corrode mysteriously)
the key to reliability and easy troubleshooting is to put all your eggs in one basket and make sure that it's a really, really good basket and is being held by someone who has a grip like a steel vice and is very sure-footed.
i don't belive that MS did either of those last 2 parts.
i don't trust pay-for antispyware software as it's really easy for a spyware firm to shove an envelope of large bills under the table to a big company and say "ignore our stuff".
much of microsoft's mess is decade old good intentions. it uses the same basic OS core for both bussiness and home user use. the problem is that 99.9% of home users aren't equiped to be their own IT department. it also doesn't guess at the fact that software on a computer way be transient. it leave it up to the program to remove itself when asked, which isn't much help when the companies don't want it removed.