Pinging 192.168.28.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.28.1: bytes=32 time=3,092,644,800,000ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.28.1:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3,092,644,800,000ms, Maximum = 3,092,644,800,000ms, Average = 3,092,644,800,000ms
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An interesting idea that would require epic engineering. You can drill one length of shaft, then you'll need robots to do what a driller, roughnecks and worm do on a rig. The probe would require a substantial power supply to bore cores out of rock. Cooling and lubricating the drill bit without water would be an engineering challenge.
In August 2002, Craig Comb and two others filed a class action against PayPal in, Craig Comb, et al. v. PayPal, Inc.. They sued, alleging illegal misappropriation of customer accounts and detailed ghastly customer service experiences. Allegations included freezing deposited funds for up to 180 days until disputes were resolved by PayPal, and forcing customers to arbitrate their disputes under the American Arbitration Association's guidelines (a costly procedure). The court ruled against PayPal, stating that "the User Agreement and arbitration clause are substantively unconscionable under California law," noting their unjustifiable one-sidedness and explicit prohibition of class actions produces results that "shock the conscience" and indicate PayPal was "attempting to insulate itself contractually from any meaningful challenge to its alleged practices"
The facility is in the southern hemisphere so the Magellanic Clouds are observable. Compile monthly or weekly observations of Eta Carinae that can be edited into a video or slideshow.
Thank you for the link. I was not aware of the most recent update and have not read the paper in years. I've never had a problem with Guttman's hypothesis. It was an interesting piece of work. I have a problem with ignorant pointy hairs setting policy based on a poor summary of the paper. I've worked in shops where expensive serviceable hard drives from decommissioned servers were shipped out for shredding because it was too expensive to let tech support overwrite the drive with a policy mandated multi pass DOD standard.
“There is no chance of recovery with overwritten clusters. The bit density on hard disk drives is so great now that when the magnetics are rewritten, the data is gone,” he said. Barry is Ontrack's Remote Data Recovery Manager and has 10 years of experience recovering files for private business as well as government agencies.
Claims that intelligence agencies can read overwritten data on disk drives have been commonplace for many years now. The most commonly cited source of evidence for this supposed fact is a paper (Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory) by Peter Gutmann presented at a 1996 Usenix conference. I found this an extraordinary claim, and therefore deserving of extraordinary proof.
INAL but a complete wipe could be construed as destruction of employer owned data. I suggest a less invasive approach using Eraser from http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/ Uninstall the non standard software, use Eraser to wipe the personal and non business related files. Shrink the paging file to minimum size and run an erase of free space. A single pass should be adequate*. Then go to http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2003011a/warn/ and download the 16,000x16000 pixel image of the Helix nebula. Open multiple copies of this image until the system forces an expansion of the paging file. While this isn't a military grade approach it will leave the system intact. An intact system with business docs isn't suspicious. A freshly wiped system might draw attention.
* Guttman only proposed his thirty-five pass hypothesis; so far as I can tell the hypothesis has never been tested on a real hard drive. The original hypothesis was based on disk drive technology in the mid nineties about the time magneto resistive technology entered the supply chain which suggests Guttman's research was on older disk drive technology. Does anyone know if forensics has ever recovered data from an overwritten hard drive?
Time squandered waiting for and riding SF Muni was my first thought. My personal observation from the mid eighties when I lived in the city was most trip across town that required Muni ride meant adding at least thirty minutes to your schedule each way.
Smelting as you describe would release large quantities of metal oxides with the smoke and fumes and contaminate a large quantity of glass with lead oxide and other metallic oxides that are soluble in molten glass. That's why glass is used for flux when smelting gold. The oxides that gas off can be hazardous, and the glass slag contains lead so use as little as possible. Before smelting, the material needs to be shredded, crushed and ground into fine particles and as much of the non metallic material as possible should be separated. Make the smelt as small as practical. Less material to heat, means lower energy consumption and fewer byproducts. Once you smelt out the base metals you are left with precious metals: gold, silver, copper and platinum group metals (PGM). At this point the silver and copper can be separated from the gold and PGM using the Miller process. Further refining of the gold once used the Wohlwill process which is expensive because of the quantities of auric acid required. Commercial gold refiners today don't talk about their processes.
News has been outsourced for years. Read a newspaper and see for yourselves how many stories are AP, Reuters, AFP or syndicated from the NYT, WA Post or LAT. This trend was evident in the early nineties to anyone paying attention to the papers they read. It was not unusual for the front section of the SF dailies to be mostly wire service content and advertising. The net didn't kill the newspaper industry, they were busy digging their own grave before the net became popular. The net just helped them fall into the hole they dug.
DES is 56 bits and has been around since the seventies. Early browsers from c1995 used 64 bits because anything more required export licenses. That's what got Philip Zimmerman in trouble back in 1994 when PGP was first posted to boards and online services. Given that Gibson is a futurist he might well have used an early implementation IDEA which was first described in 1991 and is 128 bits.
Michio Kaku popularized this sort of thing on the Art Bell show back in the late nineties. While Dr. Kaku can speak intelligently about such topics the average science reporter cannot, but that doesn't stop them.
If I wanted Congress, Parliament, or the E.U. to regulate a wheel, it's unlikely I'd succeed. If I turned up, pointed out that bank robbers always make their escape on wheeled vehicles, and asked, “Can't we do something about this?", the answer would be “No".
The visceral reactions to my comment are interesting. I discovered life without television by accident in 1983 when the TV I owned died. I decided not to replace it and remained TV free for several years. During that time I read at least two books each month, both fiction and non fiction, some good (The First Three Minutes by Weinberg) and some bad which do not merit mention here. When visiting the homes of friends and coworkers I came to realize how deeply TV had penetrated our culture and the extent to which people were imprisoned by its hypnotic effect. The main living space in homes throughout the country is arranged around a television. Families eat meals while watching TV. One father could name every character in the shows he watched on TV but didn't know the names of any of his son's teachers. I've even seen a birthday party planned around TV. It is important to understand that TV is an advertising delivery system that is more insidious than the spam and internet advertising that is maligned here on/. Sure, you can time shift and fast forward over the ads but you will still see some portion of the advertising. If Madison Avenue is as clever as I think they are, those fast forwarded ads have become subliminal. Be sure to tune in next week for another exciting episode of your favorite shows. Set up a video recorder and record yourself watching those favorite shows. You might not recognize yourselves.
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$ping 192.168.28.1
Pinging 192.168.28.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.28.1: bytes=32 time=3,092,644,800,000ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.28.1:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3,092,644,800,000ms, Maximum = 3,092,644,800,000ms, Average = 3,092,644,800,000ms
$
An interesting idea that would require epic engineering. You can drill one length of shaft, then you'll need robots to do what a driller, roughnecks and worm do on a rig. The probe would require a substantial power supply to bore cores out of rock. Cooling and lubricating the drill bit without water would be an engineering challenge.
In August 2002, Craig Comb and two others filed a class action against PayPal in, Craig Comb, et al. v. PayPal, Inc.. They sued, alleging illegal misappropriation of customer accounts and detailed ghastly customer service experiences. Allegations included freezing deposited funds for up to 180 days until disputes were resolved by PayPal, and forcing customers to arbitrate their disputes under the American Arbitration Association's guidelines (a costly procedure). The court ruled against PayPal, stating that "the User Agreement and arbitration clause are substantively unconscionable under California law," noting their unjustifiable one-sidedness and explicit prohibition of class actions produces results that "shock the conscience" and indicate PayPal was "attempting to insulate itself contractually from any meaningful challenge to its alleged practices"
can't wait to see for the BSOD on that.
Would that be the Brown Screen of Death?
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you to hear that there's a chemical with unintended side effects.
The facility is in the southern hemisphere so the Magellanic Clouds are observable.
Compile monthly or weekly observations of Eta Carinae that can be edited into a video or slideshow.
Ann Maxwell - A Dead God Dancing and Name of a Shadow.
Too bad romance novels pay better or she might still write Sci-Fi.
Nope
Thank you for the link. I was not aware of the most recent update and have not read the paper in years. I've never had a problem with Guttman's hypothesis. It was an interesting piece of work. I have a problem with ignorant pointy hairs setting policy based on a poor summary of the paper. I've worked in shops where expensive serviceable hard drives from decommissioned servers were shipped out for shredding because it was too expensive to let tech support overwrite the drive with a policy mandated multi pass DOD standard.
Send message to that slug in front of me. Road construction ahead. Take next right for detour. Drive on by after he turns into driveway.
“There is no chance of recovery with overwritten clusters. The bit density on hard disk drives is so great now that when the magnetics are rewritten, the data is gone,” he said. Barry is Ontrack's Remote Data Recovery Manager and has 10 years of experience recovering files for private business as well as government agencies.
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html
Claims that intelligence agencies can read overwritten data on disk drives have been commonplace for many years now. The most commonly cited source of evidence for this supposed fact is a paper (Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory) by Peter Gutmann presented at a 1996 Usenix conference. I found this an extraordinary claim, and therefore deserving of extraordinary proof.
INAL but a complete wipe could be construed as destruction of employer owned data. I suggest a less invasive approach using Eraser from http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/ Uninstall the non standard software, use Eraser to wipe the personal and non business related files. Shrink the paging file to minimum size and run an erase of free space. A single pass should be adequate*. Then go to http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2003011a/warn/ and download the 16,000x16000 pixel image of the Helix nebula. Open multiple copies of this image until the system forces an expansion of the paging file. While this isn't a military grade approach it will leave the system intact. An intact system with business docs isn't suspicious. A freshly wiped system might draw attention.
* Guttman only proposed his thirty-five pass hypothesis; so far as I can tell the hypothesis has never been tested on a real hard drive. The original hypothesis was based on disk drive technology in the mid nineties about the time magneto resistive technology entered the supply chain which suggests Guttman's research was on older disk drive technology. Does anyone know if forensics has ever recovered data from an overwritten hard drive?
Time squandered waiting for and riding SF Muni was my first thought. My personal observation from the mid eighties when I lived in the city was most trip across town that required Muni ride meant adding at least thirty minutes to your schedule each way.
Smelting as you describe would release large quantities of metal oxides with the smoke and fumes and contaminate a large quantity of glass with lead oxide and other metallic oxides that are soluble in molten glass. That's why glass is used for flux when smelting gold. The oxides that gas off can be hazardous, and the glass slag contains lead so use as little as possible.
Before smelting, the material needs to be shredded, crushed and ground into fine particles and as much of the non metallic material as possible should be separated. Make the smelt as small as practical. Less material to heat, means lower energy consumption and fewer byproducts.
Once you smelt out the base metals you are left with precious metals: gold, silver, copper and platinum group metals (PGM). At this point the silver and copper can be separated from the gold and PGM using the Miller process. Further refining of the gold once used the Wohlwill process which is expensive because of the quantities of auric acid required. Commercial gold refiners today don't talk about their processes.
News has been outsourced for years. Read a newspaper and see for yourselves how many stories are AP, Reuters, AFP or syndicated from the NYT, WA Post or LAT. This trend was evident in the early nineties to anyone paying attention to the papers they read. It was not unusual for the front section of the SF dailies to be mostly wire service content and advertising. The net didn't kill the newspaper industry, they were busy digging their own grave before the net became popular. The net just helped them fall into the hole they dug.
DES is 56 bits and has been around since the seventies. Early browsers from c1995 used 64 bits because anything more required export licenses. That's what got Philip Zimmerman in trouble back in 1994 when PGP was first posted to boards and online services. Given that Gibson is a futurist he might well have used an early implementation IDEA which was first described in 1991 and is 128 bits.
I find it hard to believe that POTS supports the dynamic range needed to damage someone's hearing.
Michio Kaku popularized this sort of thing on the Art Bell show back in the late nineties. While Dr. Kaku can speak intelligently about such topics the average science reporter cannot, but that doesn't stop them.
Where does the Higgs get its mass?
"We throw rocks at them" - Mike (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)
Opera for Tablets works a lot better than the default browser on my Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now I need to learn how to diagnose malware.
I was thinking about Sonic and am glad to see someone else suggested them.
Then you can see a stealth aircraft displacing those raindrops.
If I wanted Congress, Parliament, or the E.U. to regulate a wheel, it's unlikely I'd succeed. If I turned up, pointed out that bank robbers always make their escape on wheeled vehicles, and asked, “Can't we do something about this?", the answer would be “No".
The visceral reactions to my comment are interesting. I discovered life without television by accident in 1983 when the TV I owned died. I decided not to replace it and remained TV free for several years. During that time I read at least two books each month, both fiction and non fiction, some good (The First Three Minutes by Weinberg) and some bad which do not merit mention here. When visiting the homes of friends and coworkers I came to realize how deeply TV had penetrated our culture and the extent to which people were imprisoned by its hypnotic effect. The main living space in homes throughout the country is arranged around a television. Families eat meals while watching TV. One father could name every character in the shows he watched on TV but didn't know the names of any of his son's teachers. I've even seen a birthday party planned around TV. /. Sure, you can time shift and fast forward over the ads but you will still see some portion of the advertising. If Madison Avenue is as clever as I think they are, those fast forwarded ads have become subliminal. Be sure to tune in next week for another exciting episode of your favorite shows. Set up a video recorder and record yourself watching those favorite shows. You might not recognize yourselves.
It is important to understand that TV is an advertising delivery system that is more insidious than the spam and internet advertising that is maligned here on
Television is a prison for your mind.