The others write the occasional check to environmental groups, and sponsor pointless green initiatives in their own companies. But you can tell they don't really care. If they did, they wouldn't need to tell you so often.
But Apple... Apple is the true believer, the full supporter, the staunch ally. Or at least they try damn hard to make sure everyone gets that vibe from their advertising.
Anyone remember how badly the phone companies fucked pretty much everyone back in the days when they were willing to act as billing agents for anyone and everyone that was willing to claim that callers intended to pay for things via their phone bill?
Remember how much fun it was when the phone company automatically took the vendor's side because they only got paid for successful payments? They threatened to cut off your phone service and send your bill to collections, unless you could prove that you didn't authorize the payment.
Remember the delight of the offshore scammers when they realized that the phone companies were essentially acting as willing accomplices, and they started making "mistakes" knowing full well that many people would just pay up rather than try to fight the phone company?
If the only food in the world was being sold by someone that only took payments through this system, I would rather starve to death than give that power back to the phone companies.
You are thinking that the license applies to a particular instance of the software as if it were a physical thing. That is nonsense, and your theory would get laughed out of court.
The license applies to the work, in the abstract, not to any one particular copy of it. This is a principle of copyright law, but it is also made explicit in the GPL. Read section 0 a few times until that sinks in.
Unless I missed some pretty big news, there have been zero radiation deaths even among plant operators and emergency responders. Nothing useful from a couple of google searches, so I'm pretty confident that the radiation death toll is still zero.
If you talk to a health physicist (or even just read a retired HP's blog) you'll understand how and why that number will almost certainly remain at zero.
Back in 1992, did you care enough about computer security to organize a worldwide fucking conference on the topic?
If the answer is no, and I know it is, shut the fuck up and let the man enjoy it.
My first time was DefCon V in 1997.and that was also the day that I learned that there were people that were actually doing the shit that I had been thinking about.
I had the same thoughts. But, no regulatory body will EVER allow a reactor to operate through a severe earthquake.
Too unpredictable. Too much unknown.
A desirable outcome, and one that might actually happen (not counting politics), is to replace all the old reactors with new designs that are safe under "SCRAM and walk away" conditions. And by new, yeah, I mean only 20 or 30 years old instead of 40 or 50.
Block storage devices have more capacity than they report. Magnetic disks keep a small reserve of unallocated blocks as a hedge against blocks that fail in use. SSDs keep a much larger reserve because they can only erase in increments that are relatively large compared to their block size.
If you overwrite a sector on a magnetic disk, you will almost always destroy all traces of the old data. The exception is when the drive thinks the old sector has failed or is about to fail, in which case you get an entirely new sector, and your old data is still (possibly) on the old sector. Attacks using magnetic force microscopes to read data from track fringes were possible a decade ago, but there is no reason to think it is possible on a modern drive.
If you overwrite a sector on a SSD, the SSD gives you a whole new block from a list of free blocks, and adds the address of the old block to the list of deleted blocks. Blocks are moved from the deleted list to the free list when the SSD has some free time, or when one is really needed. There is currently no mechanism to force the SSD to actually erase a sector.
This is all known, and there are mechanisms built into the specs to provide a secure erase. What their research is showing, however, is that these mechanisms don't always work. A number of them are buggy, and at least one just plain lies, claiming to have done the secure erase, but actually just doing the normal pointer update trick just like any other write.
Why don't they just count how many atoms are in it, and define the kilogram as the sum of the counts of each of the types of atoms making up the alloy?
Time is defined in a similar way, and don't tell me we don't have the technology, IBM has been shoving individual atoms around for decades now. They could do it again, and this time it would be for a cause more useful than making tiny IBM logos.
I'm not sure what the composition is, but I don't think there can be more than 6 * 10^24 atoms in it. Should be totally possible. If we are patient.
WAY more than 2/3 of all bittorrent portals are fake.
These aren't innocent torrent sites that have been duped into hosting three dozen links like "M6 Screw - Full download" or "M6 Screw and keygen". The sites themselves are fake; they will generate similar fake links for ANY search phrase.
If you want a torrent, go to the pirate bay, or one of the two other (ahem) legitimate torrent search engines. You are wasting your time if you try to Google for torrents, and google doesn't appear to care about it any more than they care that it is nearly impossible to find technical information on anything that might be in anyone's (aka everyone's) web store.
While I'm on the subject, all those fake/scam review sites can die in a fire.
And if you want to know why scrapping the F-22 was a bad idea and why the F-35 won't cut it in future conflicts, read this: Surviving the Modern Integrated Air Defence System
Nonsense. A and B are, for all practical purposes, not on the internet as we consider the internet to be today. In fact, I would consider the union of groups C and D to be the closest thing possible do a meaningful definition of what the internet is.
I would be amazed if group B could be considered part of the internet, as most people think of such a thing, in less than 2 years. 5 seems more likely, or even 10.
You need a USB to PS/2 adapter that provides enough power to run the beast, about an eighth of a watt. Some cheap USB adapters are unable to source that much current since a typical modern keyboard only takes a milliwatt or two.
They have more information, and apparently sell one for about $20 that is known to work. Also on that page are links to projects in case you want to integrate the USB control or learn to reprogram the microcontroller inside the keyboard to speak USB.
I know this is your site and you can do what you want, but this is just disgusting.
I don't give a fuck about the media on either side, but not everyone that disagrees with Net Neutrality (in capital letters) is a misguided puppet of some evil mastermind.
I'm in favor of net neutrality (in small letters), and, like art, I'm pretty sure that I'd know it if I saw it, but I don't imagine that I, or anyone else, could codify it into a law that I'd be willing to impose on everyone by force. And even if I could, I'm not sure that it would be a good idea even then; we are a nation with too many well intended laws with horrible unintended consequences.
If you want real neutrality, the right way to do it is to break the artificial government created monopolies at the last mile. I'm typing this from a town of about 1800 people that has not granted an exclusive cable franchise (monopoly), so there are two cable companies, both offering fiber to the home starting at about $40/month. 40 miles away, there is a city of 120,000 people that has an exclusive cable franchise (monopoly) with Charter where you can get shitty cable modem service for $70/month.
Now, internet users in which of those two cities is the most likely to have real net neutrality, with or without a Net Neutrality law?
Your reasoning is inappropriately discrete. Perhaps you should have read the article.
If there are three lines, of differing speeds, and you pick one at random (or if your skill at predicting the speeds is low), you will have a perfectly flat distribution of queue events. But, by definition, it takes more time to get through the slow line than the fast line. So, you will spend more time in the slow line, and thus on average, you are usually in the slowest line.
An example. One line takes 9 minutes, one line takes 10, and one line takes 11 minutes. Your average time is 10 minutes, but 37% of your time is spent in the slow line, and only 30% in the fast line.
There is no science in Computer Science. That isn't a bad thing, it just means that it isn't science.
Everything a high school student needs to know about Computer Science can be summed up with one sentence, "Computer Science is a branch of mathematics, so if the prospect of getting a math degree strikes fear into your heart, pick a different field of study.".
I graduated from high school back in 1997. I knew about two dozen kids (all guys, go figure) that were going to college for computer science. One got a degree, the others all switched (mostly to MIS). I tried to warn them, but they didn't believe me.
If you don't do it and don't pay, people with guns will come and take you to prison. De facto criminalization, no?
While I appreciate the contortions that you put your mind through to arrive at your conclusion, an abomination such as this should not be allowed here, no matter how skillfully the authors thread the needle to arrive at a measure that is technically valid, but clearly violates the intentions of our Constitution.
Our government is founded on documents written in plain English, they are almost entirely clear, obvious, and unambiguous.
We should establish a national holiday around this. It is almost unheard of now for any judge, anywhere, to fail to find in the commerce clause the exception necessary for the next expansion of federal power.
If you think that there is something horribly wrong with the way we currently interact with computers, you are wrong.
And if your new paradigm involves getting rid of the keyboard and mouse (trackball, pad, whatever) combo, you have missed the problem so completely that you aren't even wrong any more. Hint: more precision is desired, not less.
I can see this device being useful for a few certain specialized tasks, but not for general computing, and certainly not for any of the examples they listed.
Oh, and if you think that in the future we'll deal with computers the way they did in Star Trek or Minority Report, you think that because some director thought that it would look cool on screen. If Star Trek was real, characters in their movies would have to deal with swatting at glowing balls of light or whistling or something equally stupid so that it would look futuristic and cool by comparison to their crappy dynamic touchscreens.
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The others write the occasional check to environmental groups, and sponsor pointless green initiatives in their own companies. But you can tell they don't really care. If they did, they wouldn't need to tell you so often.
But Apple... Apple is the true believer, the full supporter, the staunch ally. Or at least they try damn hard to make sure everyone gets that vibe from their advertising.
Anyone remember how badly the phone companies fucked pretty much everyone back in the days when they were willing to act as billing agents for anyone and everyone that was willing to claim that callers intended to pay for things via their phone bill?
Remember how much fun it was when the phone company automatically took the vendor's side because they only got paid for successful payments? They threatened to cut off your phone service and send your bill to collections, unless you could prove that you didn't authorize the payment.
Remember the delight of the offshore scammers when they realized that the phone companies were essentially acting as willing accomplices, and they started making "mistakes" knowing full well that many people would just pay up rather than try to fight the phone company?
If the only food in the world was being sold by someone that only took payments through this system, I would rather starve to death than give that power back to the phone companies.
Sorry dude, you are wrong.
You are thinking that the license applies to a particular instance of the software as if it were a physical thing. That is nonsense, and your theory would get laughed out of court.
The license applies to the work, in the abstract, not to any one particular copy of it. This is a principle of copyright law, but it is also made explicit in the GPL. Read section 0 a few times until that sinks in.
There is no such thing as offline storage any more, except as a transient backup of spinning media.
RAID it and spool a copy out to tape.
Holy crap. I'm going to have nightmares from that. Disturbing doesn't even come close.
Still, Al is God. I hope she fire the tool that said no to Al without asking her.
You can't calibrate it yourself. Or, if you could, you wouldn't be asking here. You need special equipment.
Look here. http://www.radmeters4u.com/calibrate.htm
Even better.
iptables -A INPUT -s 8.0.0.0/6 -j DROP
You do know that McCain's arms haven't worked right ever since he was tortured by the North Vietnamese while he was a prisoner of war, right?
If I was physically unable to use a computer in a normal way, I might just get my wife to print my emails too.
Unless I missed some pretty big news, there have been zero radiation deaths even among plant operators and emergency responders. Nothing useful from a couple of google searches, so I'm pretty confident that the radiation death toll is still zero.
If you talk to a health physicist (or even just read a retired HP's blog) you'll understand how and why that number will almost certainly remain at zero.
I just wanted to point that out.
Jeff has been doing this shit since 1992.
Back in 1992, did you care enough about computer security to organize a worldwide fucking conference on the topic?
If the answer is no, and I know it is, shut the fuck up and let the man enjoy it.
My first time was DefCon V in 1997.and that was also the day that I learned that there were people that were actually doing the shit that I had been thinking about.
Free Kevin! Viva Las Dark Tangent!
I had the same thoughts. But, no regulatory body will EVER allow a reactor to operate through a severe earthquake.
Too unpredictable. Too much unknown.
A desirable outcome, and one that might actually happen (not counting politics), is to replace all the old reactors with new designs that are safe under "SCRAM and walk away" conditions. And by new, yeah, I mean only 20 or 30 years old instead of 40 or 50.
Yeah, better to listen to "experts" only from the anti-nuclear activist groups, like on TV.
It didn't leak out, it evaporated. The spent fuel is a heat source worth around a million watts or so.
Block storage devices have more capacity than they report. Magnetic disks keep a small reserve of unallocated blocks as a hedge against blocks that fail in use. SSDs keep a much larger reserve because they can only erase in increments that are relatively large compared to their block size.
If you overwrite a sector on a magnetic disk, you will almost always destroy all traces of the old data. The exception is when the drive thinks the old sector has failed or is about to fail, in which case you get an entirely new sector, and your old data is still (possibly) on the old sector. Attacks using magnetic force microscopes to read data from track fringes were possible a decade ago, but there is no reason to think it is possible on a modern drive.
If you overwrite a sector on a SSD, the SSD gives you a whole new block from a list of free blocks, and adds the address of the old block to the list of deleted blocks. Blocks are moved from the deleted list to the free list when the SSD has some free time, or when one is really needed. There is currently no mechanism to force the SSD to actually erase a sector.
This is all known, and there are mechanisms built into the specs to provide a secure erase. What their research is showing, however, is that these mechanisms don't always work. A number of them are buggy, and at least one just plain lies, claiming to have done the secure erase, but actually just doing the normal pointer update trick just like any other write.
I'll take two.
Why don't they just count how many atoms are in it, and define the kilogram as the sum of the counts of each of the types of atoms making up the alloy?
Time is defined in a similar way, and don't tell me we don't have the technology, IBM has been shoving individual atoms around for decades now. They could do it again, and this time it would be for a cause more useful than making tiny IBM logos.
I'm not sure what the composition is, but I don't think there can be more than 6 * 10^24 atoms in it. Should be totally possible. If we are patient.
And don't lose count.
WAY more than 2/3 of all bittorrent portals are fake.
These aren't innocent torrent sites that have been duped into hosting three dozen links like "M6 Screw - Full download" or "M6 Screw and keygen". The sites themselves are fake; they will generate similar fake links for ANY search phrase.
If you want a torrent, go to the pirate bay, or one of the two other (ahem) legitimate torrent search engines. You are wasting your time if you try to Google for torrents, and google doesn't appear to care about it any more than they care that it is nearly impossible to find technical information on anything that might be in anyone's (aka everyone's) web store.
While I'm on the subject, all those fake/scam review sites can die in a fire.
Air Power Australia has excellent coverage of the J-20.
Chengdu J-XX [J-20] Stealth Fighter Prototype: A Preliminary Assessment
J-20 Stealth Fighter: China's First Strike Weapon
And if you want to know why scrapping the F-22 was a bad idea and why the F-35 won't cut it in future conflicts, read this: Surviving the Modern
Integrated Air Defence System
Nonsense. A and B are, for all practical purposes, not on the internet as we consider the internet to be today. In fact, I would consider the union of groups C and D to be the closest thing possible do a meaningful definition of what the internet is.
I would be amazed if group B could be considered part of the internet, as most people think of such a thing, in less than 2 years. 5 seems more likely, or even 10.
You need a USB to PS/2 adapter that provides enough power to run the beast, about an eighth of a watt. Some cheap USB adapters are unable to source that much current since a typical modern keyboard only takes a milliwatt or two.
http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/11298/subcatid/0/id/124184
They have more information, and apparently sell one for about $20 that is known to work. Also on that page are links to projects in case you want to integrate the USB control or learn to reprogram the microcontroller inside the keyboard to speak USB.
I know this is your site and you can do what you want, but this is just disgusting.
I don't give a fuck about the media on either side, but not everyone that disagrees with Net Neutrality (in capital letters) is a misguided puppet of some evil mastermind.
I'm in favor of net neutrality (in small letters), and, like art, I'm pretty sure that I'd know it if I saw it, but I don't imagine that I, or anyone else, could codify it into a law that I'd be willing to impose on everyone by force. And even if I could, I'm not sure that it would be a good idea even then; we are a nation with too many well intended laws with horrible unintended consequences.
If you want real neutrality, the right way to do it is to break the artificial government created monopolies at the last mile. I'm typing this from a town of about 1800 people that has not granted an exclusive cable franchise (monopoly), so there are two cable companies, both offering fiber to the home starting at about $40/month. 40 miles away, there is a city of 120,000 people that has an exclusive cable franchise (monopoly) with Charter where you can get shitty cable modem service for $70/month.
Now, internet users in which of those two cities is the most likely to have real net neutrality, with or without a Net Neutrality law?
Your reasoning is inappropriately discrete. Perhaps you should have read the article.
If there are three lines, of differing speeds, and you pick one at random (or if your skill at predicting the speeds is low), you will have a perfectly flat distribution of queue events. But, by definition, it takes more time to get through the slow line than the fast line. So, you will spend more time in the slow line, and thus on average, you are usually in the slowest line.
An example. One line takes 9 minutes, one line takes 10, and one line takes 11 minutes. Your average time is 10 minutes, but 37% of your time is spent in the slow line, and only 30% in the fast line.
There is no science in Computer Science. That isn't a bad thing, it just means that it isn't science.
Everything a high school student needs to know about Computer Science can be summed up with one sentence, "Computer Science is a branch of mathematics, so if the prospect of getting a math degree strikes fear into your heart, pick a different field of study.".
I graduated from high school back in 1997. I knew about two dozen kids (all guys, go figure) that were going to college for computer science. One got a degree, the others all switched (mostly to MIS). I tried to warn them, but they didn't believe me.
If you don't do it and don't pay, people with guns will come and take you to prison. De facto criminalization, no?
While I appreciate the contortions that you put your mind through to arrive at your conclusion, an abomination such as this should not be allowed here, no matter how skillfully the authors thread the needle to arrive at a measure that is technically valid, but clearly violates the intentions of our Constitution.
Our government is founded on documents written in plain English, they are almost entirely clear, obvious, and unambiguous.
We should establish a national holiday around this. It is almost unheard of now for any judge, anywhere, to fail to find in the commerce clause the exception necessary for the next expansion of federal power.
If you think that there is something horribly wrong with the way we currently interact with computers, you are wrong.
And if your new paradigm involves getting rid of the keyboard and mouse (trackball, pad, whatever) combo, you have missed the problem so completely that you aren't even wrong any more. Hint: more precision is desired, not less.
I can see this device being useful for a few certain specialized tasks, but not for general computing, and certainly not for any of the examples they listed.
Oh, and if you think that in the future we'll deal with computers the way they did in Star Trek or Minority Report, you think that because some director thought that it would look cool on screen. If Star Trek was real, characters in their movies would have to deal with swatting at glowing balls of light or whistling or something equally stupid so that it would look futuristic and cool by comparison to their crappy dynamic touchscreens.