Here's a real life example to back this up. I can provide more of these if needed.
My filing system is a bit unorthodox, but it seems to work for me; maybe you'll find the same for yourself. I have a very well-organized area in my office, where I store archival copies of every document that enters the office, including paperwork and business cards. On my desk, I have a heap of documents that are relevant to whatever projects I am working on at the time and copies of all the business cards in my card file.
Last night, I was looking for the business card of a contact I haven't spoken to in several months. As per my filing system, I have two of her cards, one in my card file, neatly stored away on a shelf, readily accessable, the other sitting on my desk, under so many months of clutter.
I grabbed the card file, which is organized alphabetically, by last name, and began flipping through it; I flipped to the end and worked backward, as the name I was looking for began with a Y. It took me roughly 2 seconds to rotate my chair, 2 to reach for the box, 3 to grab it and open it, 1 to flip to the end of the file, about 7 to work backward until I began seeing last names beginning with W. I put the box back on the shelf after about 15 seconds, without finding the card.
I looked on my desk, lifting what seemed a random portion of the clutter on it, and found the card in about 3 seconds. After I called my contact, I looked through the card file again, to file the card from my desk so I would be able to find it again, only to behold the other copy, in the file, right where it was suppoed to be. What did I do? I put the card right back on my desk; right on top of the rest of the cultter.
In this case, and this seems typical, at least for me, I found what I was looking for on my cluttered desk in 1/5 of the time I spent looking for it (and not finding it) in the well-organized card file.
Once I'm no longer in need of immediate access to a document, the desk copy is shredded and disposed of (cross-cut and given to a friend of mine who breeds small animals for use as bedding). This acts to limit the clutter on my desk to relevant documents; if I come across something that shouldn't be on my desk, it is disposed of, there is a copy in archival storage, if I need it later.
None of my clients are bothered my how I keep my desk. In fact, several of them have tried (and kept) my filing system. Of them, a few have reported to me that they have spread the system to coworkers and a few of their clients.
What's important to remember is that documents can be damaged or accidentally disposed of on the desk. You're only more productive in a cluttered environment until you actually lose something to the clutter; thus the need for archival storage. Good, well-organized archival storage of everything in your clutter. Yes, it takes time, but the time it saves you when you accidentally shred the clutter-copy of a client's project detail along with the clutter-copy of a paid invoice more than makes up for the time it takes.
I'll give an analogy to tray and make it make sense to those who might still not get it. The archival storage is like a disk, the desk is the disk cache. The disk contains all the data in the system, the cache contains frequently or recently used data and data the caching engine thinks might be used soon. This speeds up file access by reducing the frequency of disk access and mitigates data loss by ensuring that data in the cache is also on the disk. If the cached copy of a file becomes corrupt or invalid or the space it occupies is needed for something else and it is deleted, the original copy on the disk is still there; if the clutter-copy of a document becomes damaged or lost or the space it occupies is needed for something else and it is disposed, the original copy in archive storage is still there.
Before you call the analogy broken because a disk can fail, take note that a filing cabinet can fail, as well. It's called fire.
The more they push people away with their DRM bullshit, the more people are going to pirate shit off the internet.
Maybe, if no "shit" was produced, no "shit" could be pirated? If they up the quality, they up the value, as well as my willingness to sit through 20 minutes of ads I can't skip in order to watch their 10 minutes of content (I remember when it used to be 8 minutes of ads and 22 minutes of content. Not to stray any farther from the topic, but there is a news satire in Canada called "This Hour has 22 Minutes", the name poking fun at the rediculous amount of advertising that gets in the way of enjoying an otherwise mediocre network television experience).
And, now, to bring it back on topic; I have two analog TVs, one Samsung from 1997, which I control and one RCA from 1980, which I also control. Ironicly, the 27 year old model has a bigger screen, weighs less, looks nicer and has a better picture than the 10 year old model. It probably cost less, as well.
The digital cable box, well, that's another story; my fiancee usually controls that. Sometimes, my neighbor, who has the same box, inadvertantly does so when the window is open; and sometimes, it shuts itself off (after giving warning) around 2AM if the channel hasn't changed in a while (a feature I find annoying only in that I can't disable it and hate having to turn it back on in the morning).
To summarize, I control my TV; pretty much anyone who wants to controls my cable box and there's not much I can do about it, short of getting rid of it and my fiancee won't allow that.
Well, Drooling Iguana's post seems to have reappeared; and been modded down as well. You people have no sense of humor (or those of you who do have no mod points).
The post this was ACTUALLY in response to seems to have disappeared. Someone copied the great-grandparent and posted it in reply; parent was attatched to that comment. That comment is somehow gone now and parent is attatched to the only other existing reply to great-grandparent. Would those who moderated based on the current grandparent (or who are about to moderate on such basis) please take this into account with their moderation? And please, someone who hasn't moderated (god forbid someone waste a mod point) explain how great-grandparent is off-topic and/or flamebait?
Some of the moderations my posts seem to get are flamebait and trollish (the ultimate AC troll, mod obviously unfairly, do undue damage to someone's karma, and nobody will ever know who you are!), regardless whether the posts themselves are. I try to avoid flamewars and trolling but it seems I may have to stoop to that level to have my other posts fairly moderated. Does that sound right?
Wow... someone ignored my sig, BIG TIME. Don't drink and moderate! If you don't know the meaning of the word redundant, you shouldn't use it for moderation. Great-grandparent is dead-on the topic, as well. I know, I'm a bit biased as these are my posts, but, honestly, people, think when you moderate (I'd rather lose the 2 mod points I currently have than to use them unfairly; it just makes sense for the community as a whole.) On the other hand, if you don't like me, man up and say so; and take the time to mark me a foe - I have better things to do than retalliate because you say you don't like me, I won't hurt you... much.
You mean, if Slashdot stored every comment twice, there would be no more redundant posts? What about incorrect or off-topic posts? Would these, also, be a thing of the past?
Does this apply to articles as well? No more dupes? No more FUD? No more slashvertizements?
You, my friend, are a genius!
And I was trying not to post in this thread, so I could moderate something! Damn you!
I think I speak for most Americans when I say: Please stay in Canada for the rest of your collective terms, you guys have fucked the US up enough, it's time for a new round of morons to run this country (farther into the ground).
Refering to our government, not our neighbors to the north. Canada gets a lot right that we get wrong; we get a lot right that Canada gets wrong as well.
Not that I disagree with anything you said, but...
DAMN! Take a Vallium while you can still get them!
Yes, this country is going down the shitter faster than our sewer system can carry it; it really is quite amazing. That analogy is more apt than I realized when I just typed it; when the sewer gets backed up, what happens?
Some of it flows out on to the street, back aboveground, where it started.
Our government is viewing us more and more as pieces of shit and, as we go down the drain at this incredible rate, some of those pieces of shit are going to overflow onto the surface.
I forgot where I was going with this, but I've found a better direction, I think.
You and I, and others like us, will be the pieces of shit who float out of the sewer and stink up the clean world our government officials are building for themselves.
We're going this way because people stopped paying attention, stopped caring why and how and just whanted what and when (everything NOW!) and don't care who they get it from. Fuck those people, let them get flushed and tunneled away. They won't be standing with us to fix things when the time comes; don't fret about them and don't fret about the future.
We will take our country back when the time is right. The time is not yet right.
Now, pass the Vallium, I think I need one as well.
So much for that Winter Water Polo league I was going to start. Oh, wait, I'm not in Canada. Oh, wait, I'm in the US, we'll have stricter laws next week.
I can't answer that directly. However, it has been said that no publicity is bad publicity.
Of course, I don't entirely agree with that. It seems that the more we say Vista sucks, the more it sells and takes potential marketshare away from Linux, which we keep saying is so much better. Maybe people think we have no idea what the fuck we're talking about?
I propose that we turn the tables. Let's start seeing articles about how goddamn great Vista is and how Linux sucks more eggs than the Easter Bunny's Dyson. Just for a month or so, let's try it and see what happens.
And remember, in Redmond, your computer crashes Vista. Or is that Soviet Russia. I don't know anymore, my head hurts.
Aparently, I skipped a paragraph of TFS and no, I didn't read TFA. These bacteria aren't being used on discs (nor does it seem it's planned). It needs to be, so the above post makes sense:)
Moderators, please ignore the facts when reading the above post.
Can you spray them with Lysol to erase them in an emergency? (The remainder of this post assumes a YES.)
This could be great for military/government intelligence archival, or, really, any situation where the data needs to be used once and destroyed.
The longevity, coupled with ease of total erasure, would be great for digital storage of any document with personal information on it, as well. I could see using these discs to submit job/credit/lease applications, recieve bills and in any dealings with the government or IRS. They'll last for as long as needed and can be completely erased before disposal.
If they're rewritable, as well, all temporary storage related to the files on the disc could be placed on the disc as well, completely keeping that sensitive data off of any other, possibly recoverable, media. If this is the case, perhaps, once these become available, any business or govenrment entity storing personal information should be required to store it on these discs and only these discs.
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Yes, the entirity of this post, excepting this line and the first, is entirely speculative; keep that in mind when moderating (insightful?)
Technically, he wrote a program that enables one to violate the rights of content creators.
Technically, it needs the keys in order to decrypt the media. The supposed illegality of this is speculative, at best as it circumvents nothing.
If the program decrypted the content without input from the user, in the form of keys, it certainly would enable one to violate the rights of copyright holders.
Of course, you can probably google for the keys needede to decrypt at least a few discs (I really don't care, since I don't have the proper discs or drive, anyway), but, if you're going to do that, you may as well just grab the.torrent while you're at it.
I guess, next, they'll go after Plasmon, MTS, Mitsubishi and others for making HD-DVD glass-master and pressing equipment, which can be used to make illegal copies as well? And many an AC on/. will support them for it, regardless of the fact that this is the same equipment used to make the original; without it, there would be nothing to copy.
Hey, I was going for a +5 funny with that comment but that +1 interesting does more for my karma, so I'll take it. Thanks, whoever modded me such, I needed it:)
TPM... Thought Process Modifier? They're implanting those at birth now, aren't they? Glad they started that program after I reached majority age; I declined when they offered me the implant.
It's just as likely they'll do the same to you the moment oyu set foot outside the confines of your home; then again, they could break in and do it, as well. At any rate, he's always smiling and upbeat.
Face it, you can have your credit/debit card information stolen by direct sight, security camera recording, straight through the network, by some guy getting lucky and guessing, by a social engineering attack and, i'm sure, by means I can't think of at the moment.
Hell, you aren't safe with cash, either; you could be mugged, oh and now they have your credit and debit cards, drivers license, and if you're completely stupid (or on your way from somewhere where you need it), your social security card.
Keeping it in the bank isn't safe, either. ATMs are prone to the same network attacks as credit/debit terminals; not to mention, that off-branded ATM may be logging your card number and PIN for the purpose of duplicating your card and using it to drain your account.
The most secure person I know lives behind a dumpster in the alleyway a few blocks down from where I work. He has no money, in any form, to steal. He has no belongings, save the clothes he is wearing. You know what, he's happy.
Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction 176 years ago, the first radio was patented by William Henry Ward only 135 years ago. (cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio)
If other intelligent life is out there and looking for us, from between 135 and 176 light years away, they're just now finding us, or are just about to. If they're closer, perhaps they haven't developed the same level of technology we have (or hadn't by the time we did), thus why we haven't found them, either. Or maybe they're just not looking.
If they're more than 176 light years away from us and developed at about the same rate we did, we couldn't possibly have found them yet, signals from their transmissions haven't reached us; likewise for them finding us.
Remember, it's only the general idea they they are more advanced than us, if they exist; it's not a fact. They could be just as advanced as we are or they could be far less advanced than us.
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LOL! Not what I meant, but I guess that's what I said. Someone mod grammar-nazi AC parent as funny.
Here's a real life example to back this up. I can provide more of these if needed.
My filing system is a bit unorthodox, but it seems to work for me; maybe you'll find the same for yourself. I have a very well-organized area in my office, where I store archival copies of every document that enters the office, including paperwork and business cards. On my desk, I have a heap of documents that are relevant to whatever projects I am working on at the time and copies of all the business cards in my card file.
Last night, I was looking for the business card of a contact I haven't spoken to in several months. As per my filing system, I have two of her cards, one in my card file, neatly stored away on a shelf, readily accessable, the other sitting on my desk, under so many months of clutter.
I grabbed the card file, which is organized alphabetically, by last name, and began flipping through it; I flipped to the end and worked backward, as the name I was looking for began with a Y. It took me roughly 2 seconds to rotate my chair, 2 to reach for the box, 3 to grab it and open it, 1 to flip to the end of the file, about 7 to work backward until I began seeing last names beginning with W. I put the box back on the shelf after about 15 seconds, without finding the card.
I looked on my desk, lifting what seemed a random portion of the clutter on it, and found the card in about 3 seconds. After I called my contact, I looked through the card file again, to file the card from my desk so I would be able to find it again, only to behold the other copy, in the file, right where it was suppoed to be. What did I do? I put the card right back on my desk; right on top of the rest of the cultter.
In this case, and this seems typical, at least for me, I found what I was looking for on my cluttered desk in 1/5 of the time I spent looking for it (and not finding it) in the well-organized card file.
Once I'm no longer in need of immediate access to a document, the desk copy is shredded and disposed of (cross-cut and given to a friend of mine who breeds small animals for use as bedding). This acts to limit the clutter on my desk to relevant documents; if I come across something that shouldn't be on my desk, it is disposed of, there is a copy in archival storage, if I need it later.
None of my clients are bothered my how I keep my desk. In fact, several of them have tried (and kept) my filing system. Of them, a few have reported to me that they have spread the system to coworkers and a few of their clients.
What's important to remember is that documents can be damaged or accidentally disposed of on the desk. You're only more productive in a cluttered environment until you actually lose something to the clutter; thus the need for archival storage. Good, well-organized archival storage of everything in your clutter. Yes, it takes time, but the time it saves you when you accidentally shred the clutter-copy of a client's project detail along with the clutter-copy of a paid invoice more than makes up for the time it takes.
I'll give an analogy to tray and make it make sense to those who might still not get it. The archival storage is like a disk, the desk is the disk cache. The disk contains all the data in the system, the cache contains frequently or recently used data and data the caching engine thinks might be used soon. This speeds up file access by reducing the frequency of disk access and mitigates data loss by ensuring that data in the cache is also on the disk. If the cached copy of a file becomes corrupt or invalid or the space it occupies is needed for something else and it is deleted, the original copy on the disk is still there; if the clutter-copy of a document becomes damaged or lost or the space it occupies is needed for something else and it is disposed, the original copy in archive storage is still there.
Before you call the analogy broken because a disk can fail, take note that a filing cabinet can fail, as well. It's called fire.
Hey! I just pirated a $500 video card! I'm downloading a torrent of that new 8 core 128=bit CPU, too! I think I'll grab some pr0n next...
Maybe, if no "shit" was produced, no "shit" could be pirated? If they up the quality, they up the value, as well as my willingness to sit through 20 minutes of ads I can't skip in order to watch their 10 minutes of content (I remember when it used to be 8 minutes of ads and 22 minutes of content. Not to stray any farther from the topic, but there is a news satire in Canada called "This Hour has 22 Minutes", the name poking fun at the rediculous amount of advertising that gets in the way of enjoying an otherwise mediocre network television experience).
And, now, to bring it back on topic; I have two analog TVs, one Samsung from 1997, which I control and one RCA from 1980, which I also control. Ironicly, the 27 year old model has a bigger screen, weighs less, looks nicer and has a better picture than the 10 year old model. It probably cost less, as well.
The digital cable box, well, that's another story; my fiancee usually controls that. Sometimes, my neighbor, who has the same box, inadvertantly does so when the window is open; and sometimes, it shuts itself off (after giving warning) around 2AM if the channel hasn't changed in a while (a feature I find annoying only in that I can't disable it and hate having to turn it back on in the morning).
To summarize, I control my TV; pretty much anyone who wants to controls my cable box and there's not much I can do about it, short of getting rid of it and my fiancee won't allow that.
Well, Drooling Iguana's post seems to have reappeared; and been modded down as well. You people have no sense of humor (or those of you who do have no mod points).
The post this was ACTUALLY in response to seems to have disappeared. Someone copied the great-grandparent and posted it in reply; parent was attatched to that comment. That comment is somehow gone now and parent is attatched to the only other existing reply to great-grandparent. Would those who moderated based on the current grandparent (or who are about to moderate on such basis) please take this into account with their moderation? And please, someone who hasn't moderated (god forbid someone waste a mod point) explain how great-grandparent is off-topic and/or flamebait?
Some of the moderations my posts seem to get are flamebait and trollish (the ultimate AC troll, mod obviously unfairly, do undue damage to someone's karma, and nobody will ever know who you are!), regardless whether the posts themselves are. I try to avoid flamewars and trolling but it seems I may have to stoop to that level to have my other posts fairly moderated. Does that sound right?
Wow... someone ignored my sig, BIG TIME. Don't drink and moderate! If you don't know the meaning of the word redundant, you shouldn't use it for moderation. Great-grandparent is dead-on the topic, as well. I know, I'm a bit biased as these are my posts, but, honestly, people, think when you moderate (I'd rather lose the 2 mod points I currently have than to use them unfairly; it just makes sense for the community as a whole.) On the other hand, if you don't like me, man up and say so; and take the time to mark me a foe - I have better things to do than retalliate because you say you don't like me, I won't hurt you... much.
Mod parent redundant! Or insightful! Or funny! Or... Ok, redundant just wouldn't be fair; and I meta-moderate.
You mean, if Slashdot stored every comment twice, there would be no more redundant posts? What about incorrect or off-topic posts? Would these, also, be a thing of the past?
Does this apply to articles as well? No more dupes? No more FUD? No more slashvertizements?
You, my friend, are a genius!
And I was trying not to post in this thread, so I could moderate something! Damn you!
I think I speak for most Americans when I say:
Please stay in Canada for the rest of your collective terms, you guys have fucked the US up enough, it's time for a new round of morons to run this country (farther into the ground).
Refering to our government, not our neighbors to the north. Canada gets a lot right that we get wrong; we get a lot right that Canada gets wrong as well.
Not that I disagree with anything you said, but...
DAMN! Take a Vallium while you can still get them!
Yes, this country is going down the shitter faster than our sewer system can carry it; it really is quite amazing. That analogy is more apt than I realized when I just typed it; when the sewer gets backed up, what happens?
Some of it flows out on to the street, back aboveground, where it started.
Our government is viewing us more and more as pieces of shit and, as we go down the drain at this incredible rate, some of those pieces of shit are going to overflow onto the surface.
I forgot where I was going with this, but I've found a better direction, I think.
You and I, and others like us, will be the pieces of shit who float out of the sewer and stink up the clean world our government officials are building for themselves.
We're going this way because people stopped paying attention, stopped caring why and how and just whanted what and when (everything NOW!) and don't care who they get it from. Fuck those people, let them get flushed and tunneled away. They won't be standing with us to fix things when the time comes; don't fret about them and don't fret about the future.
We will take our country back when the time is right. The time is not yet right.
Now, pass the Vallium, I think I need one as well.
So much for that Winter Water Polo league I was going to start. Oh, wait, I'm not in Canada. Oh, wait, I'm in the US, we'll have stricter laws next week.
Of course, I don't entirely agree with that. It seems that the more we say Vista sucks, the more it sells and takes potential marketshare away from Linux, which we keep saying is so much better. Maybe people think we have no idea what the fuck we're talking about?
I propose that we turn the tables. Let's start seeing articles about how goddamn great Vista is and how Linux sucks more eggs than the Easter Bunny's Dyson. Just for a month or so, let's try it and see what happens.
And remember, in Redmond, your computer crashes Vista. Or is that Soviet Russia. I don't know anymore, my head hurts.
Aparently, I skipped a paragraph of TFS and no, I didn't read TFA. These bacteria aren't being used on discs (nor does it seem it's planned). It needs to be, so the above post makes sense :)
Moderators, please ignore the facts when reading the above post.
Can you spray them with Lysol to erase them in an emergency? (The remainder of this post assumes a YES.)
This could be great for military/government intelligence archival, or, really, any situation where the data needs to be used once and destroyed.
The longevity, coupled with ease of total erasure, would be great for digital storage of any document with personal information on it, as well. I could see using these discs to submit job/credit/lease applications, recieve bills and in any dealings with the government or IRS. They'll last for as long as needed and can be completely erased before disposal.
If they're rewritable, as well, all temporary storage related to the files on the disc could be placed on the disc as well, completely keeping that sensitive data off of any other, possibly recoverable, media. If this is the case, perhaps, once these become available, any business or govenrment entity storing personal information should be required to store it on these discs and only these discs.
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Yes, the entirity of this post, excepting this line and the first, is entirely speculative; keep that in mind when moderating (insightful?)
If the program decrypted the content without input from the user, in the form of keys, it certainly would enable one to violate the rights of copyright holders.
Of course, you can probably google for the keys needede to decrypt at least a few discs (I really don't care, since I don't have the proper discs or drive, anyway), but, if you're going to do that, you may as well just grab the
I guess, next, they'll go after Plasmon, MTS, Mitsubishi and others for making HD-DVD glass-master and pressing equipment, which can be used to make illegal copies as well? And many an AC on
Hey, I was going for a +5 funny with that comment but that +1 interesting does more for my karma, so I'll take it. Thanks, whoever modded me such, I needed it :)
(now come with the funny mods, too)
When the RIAA says Digitial Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) I say Fair Use (FU).
It's only merchandise if it is sold. Hell, it's not even merchandise if it's being given away.
PWNT!
LOL means "Laughing Out Loud." You know, that thing YOU ("Yourself") are supposed to do after reading a joke.
TPM... Thought Process Modifier? They're implanting those at birth now, aren't they? Glad they started that program after I reached majority age; I declined when they offered me the implant.
It's just as likely they'll do the same to you the moment oyu set foot outside the confines of your home; then again, they could break in and do it, as well. At any rate, he's always smiling and upbeat.
Face it, you can have your credit/debit card information stolen by direct sight, security camera recording, straight through the network, by some guy getting lucky and guessing, by a social engineering attack and, i'm sure, by means I can't think of at the moment.
Hell, you aren't safe with cash, either; you could be mugged, oh and now they have your credit and debit cards, drivers license, and if you're completely stupid (or on your way from somewhere where you need it), your social security card.
Keeping it in the bank isn't safe, either. ATMs are prone to the same network attacks as credit/debit terminals; not to mention, that off-branded ATM may be logging your card number and PIN for the purpose of duplicating your card and using it to drain your account.
The most secure person I know lives behind a dumpster in the alleyway a few blocks down from where I work. He has no money, in any form, to steal. He has no belongings, save the clothes he is wearing. You know what, he's happy.
Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction 176 years ago, the first radio was patented by William Henry Ward only 135 years ago. (cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio)
If other intelligent life is out there and looking for us, from between 135 and 176 light years away, they're just now finding us, or are just about to. If they're closer, perhaps they haven't developed the same level of technology we have (or hadn't by the time we did), thus why we haven't found them, either. Or maybe they're just not looking.
If they're more than 176 light years away from us and developed at about the same rate we did, we couldn't possibly have found them yet, signals from their transmissions haven't reached us; likewise for them finding us.
Remember, it's only the general idea they they are more advanced than us, if they exist; it's not a fact. They could be just as advanced as we are or they could be far less advanced than us.