Granted, it does then frustrate the hell out of the professionals at work when these amateur hacks somehow metastasize off of their original builder's desktop and becomes a business tool
I believe you just described MS Access. HyperCard front end, worst-possible-DB backend.
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.
How do you do that? Weird special software that can talk directly to the controller? Linux/Win/Mac, etc?
There's an infinite number of things people fail to believe -- fingernail unicorns, pizza trolls, earbud elephants, bacterial senates, quagga cell phones, nuclear power plant elves, and on and on. To treat every belief of "Absurd-Thing-#81231237 does not exist" as though it's equivalent to a religion is to render the statement "does not exist" meaningless.
Since your mother didn't teach you to not be an asshole, maybe fear of $deity could make you behave like a decent person.
Asshole? If I told a grown man who believe in Santa Claus that there is no such thing, would I be an asshole?
Then again, I guess there isn't any proof he doesn't exist, putting him the in the same category as God (and the invisible unicorn that lives under my fingernail), so who knows, amirite?
Yes, it's the assertion that there's a 0% possibility that makes such statements arrogant. In fact, it's unscientific to make such an assertion. To say you don't believe is fine. To say that you think the probability is very, even remotely low, is fine. But once you begin to assert it's impossible (which is what you do when you say there's "no possibility"), then you've crossed the line because neither science nor logic will support you in that. You not encountering sufficient evidence yet one way or another is not the same thing as proof of non-existence, so it's incorrect (and fairly arrogant) to claim otherwise.
Would that statement still stand if we were talking about a tiny invisible unicorn that lives under my fingernail? Would you be arrogant if you said there was a 0% chance of that statement being true?
Only a fool claims to know for a fact, whether or not, a tiny invisible unicorn lives underneath my fingernail. A wise man understands and admits he does not know, because it is not possible to know
See, that sounds like a belief in a lack of gods, not a lack of belief in gods to me.
There are a nearly infinite number of things that people don't believe (like an invisible unicorn that lives under my fingernail)
Does that mean most people have a "positive belief" in a lack of fingernail-dwelling invisible unicorns...or maybe it's just the default, common-sense, extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence-come-back-when-you-have-some position?
Eh, Barring employees from talking about wages is a violation of The national labor relations act. I'd cry tears of joy if I had it on paper someone was firing me for that reason, because winning the resulting lawsuit would be basically guaranteed.
TRUE! But, do be aware that the NLRB has ruled that companies can restrict/prohibit said discussions in work areas and during work time. But in the bathroom, lunchroom, or any other "non-work" area (not sure if it also has to be during non-work hours in said places), you're good to go.
Really rare? I know 3 people (my brother and 2 friends from high school) who would die in short order after eating a pbj without immediate medical intervention (within minutes).
In addition, they are white, south-Indian, and Filipino, so it's not like it's a genetic cluster or something. More common than you'd think.
They might be morons but google can tell them everything. By the way, did you know that if you Google "i'm a laser cockhole", the first result is to a site with lyrics to the david bowie song "i'm a laser".
A laser cockhole, you say? Where can I get one? I'd like to light up the toilet every time I take a leak, or perhaps could strap my penis to the head of a shark.
Heh, reminds me of a giant boat of a car my grandpa had in the late 80s. Instead of just "dinging" at you when you left the lights on or the door open, it would speak to you.
Car: "The door is ajar".
Grandpa: "No it's not, it's a door, you stupid car!"
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Granted, it does then frustrate the hell out of the professionals at work when these amateur hacks somehow metastasize off of their original builder's desktop and becomes a business tool
I believe you just described MS Access. HyperCard front end, worst-possible-DB backend.
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.
How do you do that? Weird special software that can talk directly to the controller? Linux/Win/Mac, etc?
But that's not what he did. He just released a huge amount of classified information, some of which could get people killed.>/b>
[Citation Needed]
The result is you come out of school with a degree in "computer science", but you lack foundational knowledge like calculus.
I'm sorry, what part of "computer science" requires calculus?
Automata/FSM theory? No calc
Computability theory? No calc
Computational complexity theory? No calc
Cryptography? No calc
Grammars? No calc
The maths most important to CompSci, *by far*, are discrete/finite math and combinatorics. Maybe some linear algebra.
There's an infinite number of things people fail to believe -- fingernail unicorns, pizza trolls, earbud elephants, bacterial senates, quagga cell phones, nuclear power plant elves, and on and on. To treat every belief of "Absurd-Thing-#81231237 does not exist" as though it's equivalent to a religion is to render the statement "does not exist" meaningless.
Exactly!
Meanwhile thousands of musicians went bankrupt when MP3's got circulating.
[Citation Needed]
apt-get
apt-get
APT-GET!!!
Get it now?
Wow, a whole 2% annual growth, that's just mind-blowing. Definitive proof that stealing music doesn't hurt anyone.
That's several times the growth rate of the overall economy recently. Sounds pretty good to me!
US GDP Growth:
2007: 2%
2008: 1.1%
2009: (2.6%)
2010: 2.8%
Average: 0.825%
Since your mother didn't teach you to not be an asshole, maybe fear of $deity could make you behave like a decent person.
Asshole? If I told a grown man who believe in Santa Claus that there is no such thing, would I be an asshole?
Then again, I guess there isn't any proof he doesn't exist, putting him the in the same category as God (and the invisible unicorn that lives under my fingernail), so who knows, amirite?
Yes, it's the assertion that there's a 0% possibility that makes such statements arrogant. In fact, it's unscientific to make such an assertion. To say you don't believe is fine. To say that you think the probability is very, even remotely low, is fine. But once you begin to assert it's impossible (which is what you do when you say there's "no possibility"), then you've crossed the line because neither science nor logic will support you in that. You not encountering sufficient evidence yet one way or another is not the same thing as proof of non-existence, so it's incorrect (and fairly arrogant) to claim otherwise.
Would that statement still stand if we were talking about a tiny invisible unicorn that lives under my fingernail? Would you be arrogant if you said there was a 0% chance of that statement being true?
Only a fool claims to know for a fact, whether or not, a tiny invisible unicorn lives underneath my fingernail. A wise man understands and admits he does not know, because it is not possible to know
FTFY. Still on board with that statement?
See, that sounds like a belief in a lack of gods, not a lack of belief in gods to me.
There are a nearly infinite number of things that people don't believe (like an invisible unicorn that lives under my fingernail)
Does that mean most people have a "positive belief" in a lack of fingernail-dwelling invisible unicorns...or maybe it's just the default, common-sense, extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence-come-back-when-you-have-some position?
Holy Cow, ScentCone, I thought you'd be the first to be Bible-thumping/slamming atheists on this topic.
Kudos for not doing so!
Eh, Barring employees from talking about wages is a violation of The national labor relations act. I'd cry tears of joy if I had it on paper someone was firing me for that reason, because winning the resulting lawsuit would be basically guaranteed.
TRUE! But, do be aware that the NLRB has ruled that companies can restrict/prohibit said discussions in work areas and during work time. But in the bathroom, lunchroom, or any other "non-work" area (not sure if it also has to be during non-work hours in said places), you're good to go.
And I don't recall meeting a single kid that had a "peanut allergy" before a public hysteria began over it.
Ah, the days before anti-bacterial soaps and overuse of antibiotics.
Really rare? I know 3 people (my brother and 2 friends from high school) who would die in short order after eating a pbj without immediate medical intervention (within minutes).
In addition, they are white, south-Indian, and Filipino, so it's not like it's a genetic cluster or something. More common than you'd think.
The "video" is a time lapse animation made from those stills, and a
good bit faster than real time.
In that case, "live video" should be redefined as "real-time photography"
Ah, understood, I thought they were already "inside" behind a window or skylight or something.
They might be morons but google can tell them everything. By the way, did you know that if you Google "i'm a laser cockhole", the first result is to a site with lyrics to the david bowie song "i'm a laser".
A laser cockhole, you say? Where can I get one? I'd like to light up the toilet every time I take a leak, or perhaps could strap my penis to the head of a shark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_bag
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
That's not the problem.
The problem is that cycling on and off, on and off is BAD for the microwave and leads to premature equipment failure.
Why the glass tube? How about just a black pipe?
RAM /10char lameness filter
Heh, reminds me of a giant boat of a car my grandpa had in the late 80s. Instead of just "dinging" at you when you left the lights on or the door open, it would speak to you.
Car: "The door is ajar".
Grandpa: "No it's not, it's a door, you stupid car!"
Hurr hurr hurr. RIP, Papa.