Anyone who is willing to blow themselves up on an airplane thinking they will receive 108 virgins is surely willing to suffer... But if its just 72 virgins then no ways...
And, of course, water. I suggested that the simple solution is for the agent to request that you drink some of the water, and then the agent sniff the bottle. If anyone here knows of a colourless, odourless explosive you can safely drink, I'd like to be apprised of it If you are just going to kill yourself in 30 minutes or so, you can probably drink some nasty stuff and still live long enough to pull it off. The only way for something like your plan to work is if the TSA agents are the ones who drink it.
cancels out the positive effects of any five or ten polite & firm, well reasoned messages describing weaknesses and suggesting positive change. What effect might that be? The TSA is the Theatrical Security Agency - any blog they put up is just more theater. Nothing that might change their focus from theater to actual security will come about from something as trivial as a blog because looking effective is their job, not being effective.
The shop across the street was unionized. The manager at my dad's plant said, "I'll give you everything the union shop gets, no questions asked. They can go on strike, get a better deal, and then you'll get that deal. Plus, you don't have to miss that pay while you'd be out on strike."
They never unionized, and never went on strike. I guess the moral is that if you treat your employees with respect and treat them well (with good pay, good benefits, etc.) then unions aren't really required. And where would they be if the shop across the street had not been unionized either?
I read that comic too a few weeks ago, and did some research to try and verify it, but couldn't find any significant evidence. I think humor is not your forte.
The joke is about Symantec and all of the other anti-virus/mal-ware companies. The urban legend is that they are in cahoots with the virus writers in order to keep their anti-virus business in business.
I think it is at least as true as the FBI looking the other way when their informants commit 'petty' crimes because they think that getting the big fish is worth it.
I actually had the same thought as well. I'm really not all that disconnected, and only heard about it a week or two before it hit theaters. It came as both a bit of a shock, and confirmation that I'm doing something right, that I didn't know what it was until that point. Another to the chorus of "me too" - and I even hang out on a big dvd-discussion (but not a movie-discussion) forum.
FWIW - a data zero does not produce a string of zeros on disk. The encoding mechanism is a lot more complicated than that. It's not random, but it isn't anywhere near that straightforward either.
I figure the requirements for a 21 pass overwrite scheme is still a requirement for sanitizing government drives for a reason. Please cite a government document that specifies this 21-pass overwrite (or any number of overwrites). No amount of overwriting serves to 'sanitize' a classified hard disk. At least not for the US government.
You are wrong, in fact the small feature size of modern HDD's actually makes it easier in some cases as the smaller magnetic domains are harder to flip so even small changes in alignment will mean that recoverable data will be left behind. You are wrong. You should have cited the author's follow-up to the original paper, like I just did.
Here's the relevant part of new epilogue:
Looking at this from the other point of view, with the ever-increasing data density on disk platters and a corresponding reduction in feature size and use of exotic techniques to record data on the medium, it's unlikely that anything can be recovered from any recent drive except perhaps a single level via basic error-cancelling techniques. In particular the drives in use at the time that this paper was originally written have mostly fallen out of use, so the methods that applied specifically to the older, lower-density technology don't apply any more. In fact, the same man has written paper that somewhat addresses the original question regarding forensic recovery of erased data in sold-state memory for usenix 2001.
The next generation of nuclear power reactors is on the drawing boards today, and they aren't pressurized liquid sodium. They aren't fast-breeder reactors or its sister design the Integral Fast Reactor which has the benefit of producing no long-term radioactive waste (it decays to original levels of radioactivity after only 200 years or so).
Commodity isn't really such a great word to describe music. Indeed. The commodity is really distribution (and promotion, advertising, etc, but music listeners don't think of themselves as consumers of those services).
The creation of music is far from being a commodity.
The SNR is much worse when it comes to stories concerning India. I saw this on comments on this story... That's because you don't understand the argument.
walk_the_talk just finished saying that SNR in the comments wasn't the problem: "The idea is to increase the number of stories of relevance to indian professionals"
If you want to argue about SNR in the comments, then see this.
I've never heard any opinion like this seriously expressed by any copyright holder, or organisation. At first I was going to explain that it is parody through reductio ad absurdum.
Therefore, slashdot.in could constructively complement the main site.It could provide a wider,more informed coverage of stories of interest to the growing community of indian technology professionals,sans the regular snide comments on outsourcing. Well, go ahead and segregate yourselves. Maybe that works in India. That's not the american way. We are loud, ugly and mean. But we say what we are thinking in public - putting all our cards on the table, free-speech and the whole bit, and that ultimately leads to working things out. That's the way the melting pot works.
Going off to an indian-only slashdot enclave can let you pretend that people aren't bigots, but it does nothing to improve the situation. You'll have your own groups of troublemakers there too, just making trouble over other issues, and there will be less people to participate in the international dialog going on here.
What's your point ? My point is that even if toilet paper isn't commonly provided in normal bathrooms in India, you can just buy some at a store that caters to ex-pats. Just like Indians in the USA can buy stuff that's not commonly available too.
You don't have to get the fuck out of the country and framing the discussion in those terms is the real flamebait, not my pointing it out.
"If you want that then stay the fuck in your country". You didn't just tell someone that if they want toilet paper then they need to stay the fuck out of India, did you? Because that's sure what it looks like to me.
Would you have taken the same kind of comment from me if I was in the US and was asking for something that we Indians did over here? Yeah, I would. You want some ghee, garam masala, a tongue scraper? I'd send you to the local Indian store. I sure wouldn't tell you to go back to India, nor would anyone else with an ounce of common sense.
but you can't just dismiss its benefits to humanity that quickly. Why do you think I did? I said DDT seems to be the lesser of two evils. Which should imply that I think the greater of two evils was NOT using DDT.
someone has made noises about suing him for having this software out there That's a pretty good theory. It's a terrible theory. If he is doing it under duress, there is no good reason for him to keep the duress a secret. Worst case the people who are now scouring the net for previous copies just to spite him will do exactly the same just to spite whomever is threatening the author. Best case he gets sympathy from the community in general and less people decide to defy the revocation.
Worry, concern, even consternation but not fear. Except perhaps for those people employed in the industry who might lose their jobs and starve to death.
Otherwise it would be true for me to call your original post fear-mongering about fear-mongering.
Lots of people worried about birds or "The Ecosystem". Very few seem to be worried about the millions of PEOPLE who die HORRIBLE DEATHS thanks to Dengue fever. People are part of the ecosystem too.
Fuck with "the ecosystem" and you risk secondary and tertiary effects that may produce dramatic changes for people too.
I guess it's to be expected from the "Silent Spring" crowd, who refuse to acknowledge that the REAL effect of banning DDT has been millions of deaths from malaria, against a hypothetical doomsday scenario. Sound familiar? Lol! PERFECT example of your own short-sightedness. DDT was banned because it was really fucking up PEOPLE - not the "ecosystem." It looks like DDT would be the lesser of two evils now. But are you so sure that these genetically modified mosquitoes are really the lesser of two evils? How do you know that? Are you so sure there aren't any other options?
Did you see that news article today about how partisan people are all about the emotional reaction rather than rational? Your use of term "Eco-Nut" and your simplistic framing of the discussion all point to a partisan opinion on your part.
Fearmongering, obviously. "ZOMG IT'S 15 PERCENT" doesn't have quite the same impact as "OH LORD THEY'RE CAUSING NEARLY HALF OUR LOSSES". Exaggeration is not fear-mongering. Yours is the second post in the last day or so to get it wrong. Fear-mongering is about inducing or playing upon actual visceral fears that the public has. You know, of dying or of your family dying, that sort of thing. The public in general doesn't give a rat-sass about the fiscal health of the movie studios. They certainly do not lie awake in bed at night worrying about it the way some people do about terrorism.
See, you may be paying $50/month for an "unlimited" connection at 6 megabits/second. But guess what? 6 megabits of bandwidth costs your ISP *at least* twice that. That depends on what you factor into the costs - in the cheap-side colo datacenters dedicated 1mbps can cost just under $10/month for as much bandwidth as you can afford. That's retail and includes all the data-center overhead. Cable ISPs get to spread their overhead over their television subscription fees too, so while their infrastructure costs are higher, they also have a broader base to recover them from.
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Thanks for the info! I will use it to promote my "hardware virtualization for poker cheats" software.
They never unionized, and never went on strike. I guess the moral is that if you treat your employees with respect and treat them well (with good pay, good benefits, etc.) then unions aren't really required. And where would they be if the shop across the street had not been unionized either?
The joke is about Symantec and all of the other anti-virus/mal-ware companies. The urban legend is that they are in cahoots with the virus writers in order to keep their anti-virus business in business.
I think it is at least as true as the FBI looking the other way when their informants commit 'petty' crimes because they think that getting the big fish is worth it.
FWIW - a data zero does not produce a string of zeros on disk. The encoding mechanism is a lot more complicated than that. It's not random, but it isn't anywhere near that straightforward either.
Here's the relevant part of new epilogue: Looking at this from the other point of view, with the ever-increasing data density on disk platters and a corresponding reduction in feature size and use of exotic techniques to record data on the medium, it's unlikely that anything can be recovered from any recent drive except perhaps a single level via basic error-cancelling techniques. In particular the drives in use at the time that this paper was originally written have mostly fallen out of use, so the methods that applied specifically to the older, lower-density technology don't apply any more. In fact, the same man has written paper that somewhat addresses the original question regarding forensic recovery of erased data in sold-state memory for usenix 2001.
Too bad.
Sorry, I've got no idea at all how to convince slashdot to add a new category.
The creation of music is far from being a commodity.
The SNR is much worse when it comes to stories concerning India.
I saw this on comments on this story... That's because you don't understand the argument.
walk_the_talk just finished saying that SNR in the comments wasn't the problem: "The idea is to increase the number of stories of relevance to indian professionals"
If you want to argue about SNR in the comments, then see this.
Better to have a india subcategory then, as the same argument can be made for almost any 1st world or developing country.
I vote for an icon depicting something from the kama sutra.
But then I remembered that regular people are not supposed to be able to author their own BLU-RAY discs, which sounds pretty damn close to the previous posters parody.
Going off to an indian-only slashdot enclave can let you pretend that people aren't bigots, but it does nothing to improve the situation. You'll have your own groups of troublemakers there too, just making trouble over other issues, and there will be less people to participate in the international dialog going on here.
You don't have to get the fuck out of the country and framing the discussion in those terms is the real flamebait, not my pointing it out.
If he is doing it under duress, there is no good reason for him to keep the duress a secret.
Worst case the people who are now scouring the net for previous copies just to spite him will do exactly the same just to spite whomever is threatening the author. Best case he gets sympathy from the community in general and less people decide to defy the revocation.
Worry, concern, even consternation but not fear. Except perhaps for those people employed in the industry who might lose their jobs and starve to death.
Otherwise it would be true for me to call your original post fear-mongering about fear-mongering.
Fuck with "the ecosystem" and you risk secondary and tertiary effects that may produce dramatic changes for people too. I guess it's to be expected from the "Silent Spring" crowd, who refuse to acknowledge that the REAL effect of banning DDT has been millions of deaths from malaria, against a hypothetical doomsday scenario. Sound familiar? Lol! PERFECT example of your own short-sightedness. DDT was banned because it was really fucking up PEOPLE - not the "ecosystem." It looks like DDT would be the lesser of two evils now. But are you so sure that these genetically modified mosquitoes are really the lesser of two evils? How do you know that? Are you so sure there aren't any other options?
Did you see that news article today about how partisan people are all about the emotional reaction rather than rational? Your use of term "Eco-Nut" and your simplistic framing of the discussion all point to a partisan opinion on your part.