Very few filesystems keep checksums - only btrfs and zfs come to my mind. With defective hardware (RAM issues in main memory and disk or controller caches are fun) you can have silent corruption that goes on for a long time. Also bits on disks rot but those should give you a CRC or ECC error.
Agree. The few people why still have a Blackberry hate the phone and only stick to it because they like the email app. OTOH, the email apps on Android and iOS aren't bad either and keep improving. Clearly RIM doesn't have the critical mass for yet another general purpose phone OS. That's a pipe dream. As the basis for some specialized apps, maybe. But if they don't make them available on Android/iOS/WP somebody else will do it.
Burqa porn is probably much more available in Pakistan than in Austria. And since their Net isn't all that good, it's probably mostly sneakernet and DVDs.
Actually I was wrong. I just read up a little more and today it's between 50/50 and 1/3rd thermal expansion and 2/3rds ice melt, depending on the source. But yeah, the water temperature has a very clear gradient. It is up to 30s near the equator at the surface and slightly below zero at the bottom since the bottom water comes from the highly saline water that remains when ice freezes out at the surface. That cold dense saline water is what drives the global circulation. So some has a small expansion coefficient (even slightly negative) and some has a large one. That doesn't mean that the overall expansion has to be zero. The wonders of calculus.
Exactly. When the next AR comes out, I can already hear the deniers: "Bah, they never mentioned much sea level rise before - why now? They clearly don't know what they're talking about! All the climatologists must have bought real estate a couple hundred feet inland! They're all evil, I tell ya! Probably paid off by Al Gore too!"
I haven't driven anything but Ubuntu (now Xubuntu) and Debian in years, plus CentOS at work. Any version of Windows is quirky now by comparison. It's just about what you're used to.
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The bit rot could have gone on for some time. How often do you check those videos or MP3s that you downloaded years ago?
Very few filesystems keep checksums - only btrfs and zfs come to my mind.
With defective hardware (RAM issues in main memory and disk or controller caches are fun) you can have silent corruption that goes on for a long time. Also bits on disks rot but those should give you a CRC or ECC error.
Wouldn't be the first time that a search warrant is executed based on pictures of nekkid kids in the bathtub.
So she doesn't deny it.
OK I can convert any finite stream of bits into an API.
I can convert any stream of bits into an API specification.
Well it's 2012. Maybe the Mayans were about a half year off.
Agree. The few people why still have a Blackberry hate the phone and only stick to it because they like the email app.
OTOH, the email apps on Android and iOS aren't bad either and keep improving. Clearly RIM doesn't have the critical mass for yet another general purpose phone OS. That's a pipe dream. As the basis for some specialized apps, maybe. But if they don't make them available on Android/iOS/WP somebody else will do it.
Yeah, he could decipher the stego with his eyes. The man was a genius!
Well if you call every scantily-clad or even naked picture of someone under 18 "child porn" the world is full of it.
Burqa porn is probably much more available in Pakistan than in Austria. And since their Net isn't all that good, it's probably mostly sneakernet and DVDs.
That's why you need "a couple" :)
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Actually I was wrong. I just read up a little more and today it's between 50/50 and 1/3rd thermal expansion and 2/3rds ice melt, depending on the source.
But yeah, the water temperature has a very clear gradient. It is up to 30s near the equator at the surface and slightly below zero at the bottom since the bottom water comes from the highly saline water that remains when ice freezes out at the surface. That cold dense saline water is what drives the global circulation. So some has a small expansion coefficient (even slightly negative) and some has a large one. That doesn't mean that the overall expansion has to be zero. The wonders of calculus.
Except that sea level rise is mostly due to thermal expansion of water, not ice melt.
He had guns.
Except that the coral will all be dead from ocean acidification.
Exactly. When the next AR comes out, I can already hear the deniers: "Bah, they never mentioned much sea level rise before - why now? They clearly don't know what they're talking about! All the climatologists must have bought real estate a couple hundred feet inland! They're all evil, I tell ya! Probably paid off by Al Gore too!"
Bah, just redirect a couple of comets. Large ones contain a couple hundred km^3 of water.
As long as you have guns to defend yourself, what does it matter?
Given that they go after ISPs for downloading, should they not go after the post office to be consistently persistent?
And the DOD for not stopping this outrageous conduct by its soldiers.
China is not a communist state so this point is moot.
I wanted to post "Tits or GTFO" but I restrained myself.
I haven't driven anything but Ubuntu (now Xubuntu) and Debian in years, plus CentOS at work. Any version of Windows is quirky now by comparison.
It's just about what you're used to.
The fact that they didn't use Penguin clearly makes them heretics against the True Church of Linus.