Ones, Fives and Tens have average circulation life of less than 2 years. Twenties have average circulation life of approximately 2 years. Fifties have average circulation life of a little more than 4 and 1/2 years and one hundred dollar bills have average circulation life of about 7 and 1/2 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note
So it's unlikely that any 24 year old bills would be contaminating new bills. But there still may be some old-new contamination going on nonetheless.
I've passed neodymium magnets over magnetic media and been able to read them afterward. A TV degaussing coil rendered it "unreadable" but just how unreadable, I don't know. I'm sure DBAN is effective but not all disks can be erased by DBAN. I have an older SCSI DBAN can't write 1's too. Grinding the disk into dust is the only way be 100% sure.
Certainly people go to college to better themselves but much of the motivation for that is to improve their employment prospects. If colleges are undermining the efforts of citizen graduates, it gives citizens yet another reason to reconsider the value of a diploma from that college. How much longer will Americans fork over the ever increasing tuition to obtain degrees which no longer help them to obtain high paying jobs as was the case years ago? How much longer will they tolerate funding such giveaways with tax dollars?
IT vendors and insurance companies will be the main beneficiaries. It vendors will make money selling systems. Insurance companies will be able to deny more claims.
Kiss privacy goodbye. Once these records are accessible, they will be accessed.
Bottom line: Taxpayers are being forced to fund a boondoggle at best, big brother at worst.
An analog TV with a digital converter box will not behave the same as the analog TV receiving an analog signal. Depending on distance and terrain, analog signals get snowy but they can still be watched whereas digital signals either give you a great picture or no picture.
There's no telling how many older TVs will be thrown out at once.
Digital cable packages are more expensive. Pretty much everything about DTV costs more to consumers. For those who haven't kept up with current events, the economy went around the bowl and down the hole. The timing for this change couldn't be much worse.
Once the TV stations stop broadcasting analog signals, many TVs will go dark. Period. A surprising number of people will do without.
During the 21st century, our personal liberties and civil rights have been peeled away. This is just another step toward subjecting everyone to DNA testing. Think DNA testing and DNA matching are flawless? What have you got to hide, comrade?
The incentives don't appear to work as several states have already found out. Invariably, companies receiving these incentives do not hold up their end of the bargain. And yet this practice continues. This is a kind of socialism too. Where's the outrage?
Thus far, I haven't found any effective way to clear FF3's location bar. Dubbed the "Awesome bar", it remembers URLs of certain sites you've visited. The last time I tried it, clearing private data did not clear the location bar. I tried several settings changes that were suggested. One change will cause FF3 not to display these URLs but they are still stored. If you change the setting back, they are all still there. Apparently, the "Awesome bar" feature was so highly thought of that none of the developers considered that a number of users might not appreciate it's privacy implications.
Capitalistic systems only work when the participants have faith in the system -- when that faith collapses, for whatever reason, you get a recession.
I agree with you that people have lost faith in the system. But it ain't merely because the media has been proclaiming we're in a recession. The spectacle of banks cratering due to bad investments has shaken people's faith in the system, not the after-the-fact pronouncements of some vacuous media pundits.
The bank failures were dramatic evidence of an unsound economy. The market has spoken. All the slicing, dicing and repackaging of bad loans blew sky high. Our government is insolvent too. We're borrowing money to finance the war and everything else because we don't make things here anymore. That's going to make it very difficult to dig out of this hole.
The loss of Target Disk Mode is a big deal. I've used it to retrieve data from laptops with a bad display or bad logic board and wipe the disk of those laptops before taking them in to be repaired. I've also used it to install Tiger (OSX 10.4) on G3 iMacs which didn't have a DVD drive.
Let's be honest here: our country has lost its manufacturing base.
No. As a percentage of GDP, goods production has gone up.
The US manufacturing base is huge. Really unfathomably large. You could cut out half its output (measured in dollars) and it'd still be in the number one position for industrial output (assuming you don't combine the EU nations together).
What goods are you referring to? Certainly not electronics. All that got air-mailed to China more than a decade ago.
Output? of what? The only thing we seem to export is good paying jobs. Shuttered plants litter the landscape. Layoff announcements and plant closings dominate news. Increased productivity? Efficiency? To what end? The unemployed and underemployed can't afford the low, low prices.
After almost 2 decades of ignoring the problems caused by the H1-B program, now they decide there's fraud and abuse. Oh well, better late than never but the damage is done. They're shutting the barn door after the horse has run off.
Employers are being very picky - they demand an exact skills match.... They can afford to be that fussy.... Don't waste time applying for jobs unless your resume is a perfect match.
That has been going on in the US since the mid 90s. At one company, I saw a position go unfilled for nearly a year. The job posting was a laundry list of highly specialized skills. Eventually, they hired some guy who had about 2/3's what they were asking for. They passed up the chance earlier to hire people who didn't have as many of the skills on their list but could have handled the work nonetheless. The guy they hired bailed after a year and a half.
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Ones, Fives and Tens have average circulation life of less than 2 years. Twenties have average circulation life of approximately 2 years. Fifties have average circulation life of a little more than 4 and 1/2 years and one hundred dollar bills have average circulation life of about 7 and 1/2 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note
So it's unlikely that any 24 year old bills would be contaminating new bills. But there still may be some old-new contamination going on nonetheless.
I've passed neodymium magnets over magnetic media and been able to read them afterward. A TV degaussing coil rendered it "unreadable" but just how unreadable, I don't know. I'm sure DBAN is effective but not all disks can be erased by DBAN. I have an older SCSI DBAN can't write 1's too. Grinding the disk into dust is the only way be 100% sure.
Certainly people go to college to better themselves but much of the motivation for that is to improve their employment prospects. If colleges are undermining the efforts of citizen graduates, it gives citizens yet another reason to reconsider the value of a diploma from that college. How much longer will Americans fork over the ever increasing tuition to obtain degrees which no longer help them to obtain high paying jobs as was the case years ago? How much longer will they tolerate funding such giveaways with tax dollars?
Here's an excellent column by am Martens about this arbitration business. Judicial Apartheid
The condition of the restroom says alot about a company.
It seems our lawmakers are hell bent to outdo Taxachussetts.
Maybe they can sell Zicam to people who work around hog waste lagoons or people who pump out septic tanks.
Note to the Mozilla devs: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Amen. The issue raised here is a non-problem. Please don't "fix" it.
Maybe you didn't learn from the Awesome Bar fiasco.
What should we call it then? ... the other white flu?
IT vendors and insurance companies will be the main beneficiaries. It vendors will make money selling systems. Insurance companies will be able to deny more claims.
Kiss privacy goodbye. Once these records are accessible, they will be accessed.
Bottom line: Taxpayers are being forced to fund a boondoggle at best, big brother at worst.
"... oldbar does not get you totally back to the old location bar. There are still important differences."
The most important shortcomings to me are:
We always called them "Circuit Shitty," and not just because of their service, but also their prices and the quality of stuff they carried.
After they sacked half their people, I called 'em "Suckit Shitty".
An analog TV with a digital converter box will not behave the same as the analog TV receiving an analog signal. Depending on distance and terrain, analog signals get snowy but they can still be watched whereas digital signals either give you a great picture or no picture.
There's no telling how many older TVs will be thrown out at once.
Digital cable packages are more expensive. Pretty much everything about DTV costs more to consumers. For those who haven't kept up with current events, the economy went around the bowl and down the hole. The timing for this change couldn't be much worse.
Once the TV stations stop broadcasting analog signals, many TVs will go dark. Period. A surprising number of people will do without.
During the 21st century, our personal liberties and civil rights have been peeled away. This is just another step toward subjecting everyone to DNA testing. Think DNA testing and DNA matching are flawless? What have you got to hide, comrade?
The incentives don't appear to work as several states have already found out. Invariably, companies receiving these incentives do not hold up their end of the bargain. And yet this practice continues. This is a kind of socialism too. Where's the outrage?
I agree with the other posters about dban. For most hard drives it is the best choice.
Magnets are not reliable and because they may render portions of the media unreadable, you can't tell whether everything was wiped.
I had an old SCSI hard drive that dban could not write to. I disassembled it and ground each disc into dust with a grinding wheel.
Gilligan didn't cut the cable, ...
He gingerly buried it in Marianne's trench.
Thus far, I haven't found any effective way to clear FF3's location bar. Dubbed the "Awesome bar", it remembers URLs of certain sites you've visited. The last time I tried it, clearing private data did not clear the location bar. I tried several settings changes that were suggested. One change will cause FF3 not to display these URLs but they are still stored. If you change the setting back, they are all still there. Apparently, the "Awesome bar" feature was so highly thought of that none of the developers considered that a number of users might not appreciate it's privacy implications.
Capitalistic systems only work when the participants have faith in the system -- when that faith collapses, for whatever reason, you get a recession.
I agree with you that people have lost faith in the system. But it ain't merely because the media has been proclaiming we're in a recession. The spectacle of banks cratering due to bad investments has shaken people's faith in the system, not the after-the-fact pronouncements of some vacuous media pundits.
The bank failures were dramatic evidence of an unsound economy. The market has spoken. All the slicing, dicing and repackaging of bad loans blew sky high. Our government is insolvent too. We're borrowing money to finance the war and everything else because we don't make things here anymore. That's going to make it very difficult to dig out of this hole.
Do these guys just lay awake a night trying to think up new and different ways to screw things up? They'll never rest until all media is pay-per-view.
The loss of Target Disk Mode is a big deal. I've used it to retrieve data from laptops with a bad display or bad logic board and wipe the disk of those laptops before taking them in to be repaired. I've also used it to install Tiger (OSX 10.4) on G3 iMacs which didn't have a DVD drive.
Let's be honest here: our country has lost its manufacturing base.
No. As a percentage of GDP, goods production has gone up.
The US manufacturing base is huge. Really unfathomably large. You could cut out half its output (measured in dollars) and it'd still be in the number one position for industrial output (assuming you don't combine the EU nations together).
What goods are you referring to? Certainly not electronics. All that got air-mailed to China more than a decade ago.
Output? of what? The only thing we seem to export is good paying jobs. Shuttered plants litter the landscape. Layoff announcements and plant closings dominate news. Increased productivity? Efficiency? To what end? The unemployed and underemployed can't afford the low, low prices.
After almost 2 decades of ignoring the problems caused by the H1-B program, now they decide there's fraud and abuse. Oh well, better late than never but the damage is done. They're shutting the barn door after the horse has run off.
The United States is a police state. Why is anyone surprised by news like this?
Employers are being very picky - they demand an exact skills match. ... They can afford to be that fussy. ... Don't waste time applying for jobs unless your resume is a perfect match.
That has been going on in the US since the mid 90s. At one company, I saw a position go unfilled for nearly a year. The job posting was a laundry list of highly specialized skills. Eventually, they hired some guy who had about 2/3's what they were asking for. They passed up the chance earlier to hire people who didn't have as many of the skills on their list but could have handled the work nonetheless. The guy they hired bailed after a year and a half.