There are plenty of us "techies" out here who are not software engineers, and are more valuable than the twentysomethings precisely *because* we've got 20+ years of experience.
No, I didn't break *in* -- I broke the museum. I was standing near an exhibit of a tape library robot, busily moving tapes around, and the control panel was right out there where anyone could fiddle with it. I pushed a button -- I don't remember which one -- and the robot arm reset to its rest position and stopped. I moved away from the exhibit before anyone saw me. A week later the museum closed and didn't reopen for almost a year. So that must have been one important tape library.
Sorry.
PI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_International) publishes a list of countries by Privacy Index. The UK is 1.5 ("Endemic surveillance societies", just ahead of Singapore), and the US is 2.0 ("Extensive surveillance societies", between Israel and Thailand). Based on that list, your best bets are Germany (3.9) or Canada (3.6) (both in the category "Consistently upholds human rights standards").
Completely off-topic, but dd is alive and well. It's got lots of buffering and data-copying uses, and for imaging an entire drive or partition it's great. There are even versions that will compute the MD5 or SHA1 hash of the partition on-the-fly. Computer forensics wouldn't be the same without good ol' dd.
I always thought the "eleven herbs and spices" thing was just marketing hype. Didn't it used to be only seven?
In any case, as far as I know, the real recipe is as given in the subject line.
A while back I tried to auction off a vicuna fur coat on eBay (from an estate sale), not realizing that vicuna is considered an endangered species. eBay curtly informed me of this fact and summarily deleted the auction.
So why do ivory auctions only get a warning?
It's more complicated than that. The number of published papers is more a function of the number of researchers than of funding. That number has dropped a little, since many researchers at NIH are from other countries and they're finding it harder to get into the U.S.
Admittedly, NIH might have spent its money on research or facilities instead of building a giant iron fence and a brand-new visitor's center.
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There are plenty of us "techies" out here who are not software engineers, and are more valuable than the twentysomethings precisely *because* we've got 20+ years of experience.
No, I didn't break *in* -- I broke the museum. I was standing near an exhibit of a tape library robot, busily moving tapes around, and the control panel was right out there where anyone could fiddle with it. I pushed a button -- I don't remember which one -- and the robot arm reset to its rest position and stopped. I moved away from the exhibit before anyone saw me. A week later the museum closed and didn't reopen for almost a year. So that must have been one important tape library. Sorry.
PI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_International) publishes a list of countries by Privacy Index. The UK is 1.5 ("Endemic surveillance societies", just ahead of Singapore), and the US is 2.0 ("Extensive surveillance societies", between Israel and Thailand). Based on that list, your best bets are Germany (3.9) or Canada (3.6) (both in the category "Consistently upholds human rights standards").
Completely off-topic, but dd is alive and well. It's got lots of buffering and data-copying uses, and for imaging an entire drive or partition it's great. There are even versions that will compute the MD5 or SHA1 hash of the partition on-the-fly. Computer forensics wouldn't be the same without good ol' dd.
Think of the possibilities!
I always thought the "eleven herbs and spices" thing was just marketing hype. Didn't it used to be only seven? In any case, as far as I know, the real recipe is as given in the subject line.
A while back I tried to auction off a vicuna fur coat on eBay (from an estate sale), not realizing that vicuna is considered an endangered species. eBay curtly informed me of this fact and summarily deleted the auction. So why do ivory auctions only get a warning?
It's more complicated than that. The number of published papers is more a function of the number of researchers than of funding. That number has dropped a little, since many researchers at NIH are from other countries and they're finding it harder to get into the U.S. Admittedly, NIH might have spent its money on research or facilities instead of building a giant iron fence and a brand-new visitor's center.
Another terminal count abort, this time after main engine ignition. No word yet on cause.
So, if I paint a Ferrari lime green and put a hand crank on it, nobody will steal it?
if ($100 computer == real laptop) { Ferrari == bicycle; } else { argument == fallacious; }For some reason I felt compelled to put that in pseudocode.
All the same, people steal bicycles too.