Not to mention the fact that there are well established grammar rules for written language the computer can use to make guesses as to what a user is saying. There is no indication (to my knowledge) that this grammar is written into our thoughts (Pinker fans feel free to disagree). Even if there is some grammar, whose to say it will be sensible... I imagine my thoughts going something like this: bananas monkeys beer sexy nurse beer sandwiches sexy nurse To keep with the clippy theme, what would clippy think of this? I see you are hungry, mortally wounded, and thirsty for monkeys.... Clippy can help you by.... Ordering a sandwich online for you calling the police for an ambulance or ordering some delicious monkey blood for you to drink.
How often do you see a pasty geek Modeling swimwear? A lot more than I would like, damn it sucks to be the only photographer for pasty geek swimwear weekly!
This raises an interesting ethical question. If you were an engineer for Raytheon and they asked you to lead this project, would you accept? Is it a Good Idea to make a ray-gun like this? What if you were the antenna design engineer? You wouldn't even necessarily know what you were making, just a high gain 100GHz antenna. Would you be willing to design it knowing it would inflict a tremendous amount of pain on the world? Even if it saves lives/prevents cops from shooting people/ whatever, is it right to design such a device knowing that it will inflict pain on droves of people?
This machine has the ability to inflict limitless, unbearable pain. Would you be able to live with that on you conscience? What about when it is misused (as everything eventually is>? Would the engineer be responsible?
New Maxtor HDD's come with a 5 year warranty. And they are actually Seagate drives. By the way, Seagate purchased Maxtor last year.
Anyone who's gone through a failure without any backups knows the sickening feeling, and it can actually send people into depression Lesson: Back Up Your Data buddy! I learned this lesson once the hard way myself, with a paper due in the morning. And I was pissed not depressed. I came to terms with the situation after re-writing 30 pages.
Well its certainly not as much fun as
drunk driving, smoking, unsafe sex, lax gun-laws, police brutality, alcohol consumption, government corruption, cheap paint on toys, corporate fraud, poor personal hygiene, bad weather, poor infrastructure maintenance, racism, communism, capitalism, and being cruel to small animals for no particular reason? except of course the racism, thats just not cool man.
But the fans are to cool down the hard drives. Also, flash should use less power, which is what really matters for the bottom line in enterprise space right now.
I think it's safe to say that the Apple demographics don't include people the government wants to go after
Well there just aren't enough rich criminals to make a good demographic. Just goes to show you... crime doesn't pay, at least not well enough for that macbook pro you've been eying.
I do failure analysis in the hard drive industry and as far as I know you are exactly correct. While this is apparently a problem for toshiba it certainly is not the biggest cause of failure where I work. Loud screeching or clicking is a crash... and after that, well its pretty much all over. Error correction should handle the described sort of data loss, at least up to a few bits.
First of all, solid post. Only one minor correction.
and a single bit of data corruption would screw you royally
Encryption, when done correctly, should actually improve ECC, assuming you include ECC bits with each layer of encription that is. Additionally, you could get an FDE drive (essentially your idea, but only one layer of encryption), Seagate makes a very respectable offering for this arena. One more thought, there are commands to overwrite with pattern zeros built into every HDD i've ever worked with, and there are tools available to take advantage of said tools. Unless you had something really serious on there, no-one, not even three letter agencies are going to bother recovery on a whole bunch of zeros.
Plus, there's no guarantee that Slingbox will be around next year. It's a start-up. Thats bull. Even if the company goes under, my hardware is still gonna work. MLB can eat it.
Our attorney says the calls are perfectly legal: there is no 'do not call' list for US corporations, and it's not harassment.
I've got it.
Direct all the calls to this attorney of yours, I bet it turns into harassment really quick.
Gojaroo brings up a good point. Keyloggers could just as easily capture this sort of info. Actually, for a senior project some classmates of mine made a keylogger, it was pretty wicked. Small enough nobody would notice, well on a PS/2 keyboard.
Seriously. Does anyone else feel like they are taking a lot more Turing Tests than are really necessary. I feel like i'm trying not to be a computer an awful lot lately. By the way, the neural networks that are capable of cracking the little picture puzzles they give us to get new accounts, they could probably be trained to learn a persons typing habits.
Chinese net users would not read the "Google valiantly refused to bow down to censorship, and China booted them out!" stories we'd read; they'd instead get, at best, "After violating the law, Google agreed to withdraw their service for now." The average net user might not be happy about that situation, but it would be trivial to spin the news such that any ire people felt would be toward Google, not the government.
I am in the PRC right now. I got to read your post. Whats up with that? Certainly to a degree I agree with you, newspapers probably wouldn't publish articles singing the praises of Google. However, you forget, Chinese users have access to google.com too. It is occasionally a little slower than.cn but not much difference.
hitting Gmail's servers from China is slow
it's not so bad. I can even use Gmail chat without it being too much of a pain.
i'm much more interested in the experience of a female orgasm, personally.
I'll bet your into unicorns and other mythical type things too man. Seriously, its a neural extension cord, it cant make imaginary things become real.
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Not to mention the fact that there are well established grammar rules for written language the computer can use to make guesses as to what a user is saying. There is no indication (to my knowledge) that this grammar is written into our thoughts (Pinker fans feel free to disagree). Even if there is some grammar, whose to say it will be sensible... I imagine my thoughts going something like this:
bananas
monkeys
beer
sexy nurse
beer
sandwiches
sexy nurse
To keep with the clippy theme, what would clippy think of this?
I see you are hungry, mortally wounded, and thirsty for monkeys.... Clippy can help you by....
Ordering a sandwich online for you
calling the police for an ambulance
or ordering some delicious monkey blood for you to drink.
A lot more than I would like, damn it sucks to be the only photographer for pasty geek swimwear weekly!
This machine has the ability to inflict limitless, unbearable pain.
Would you be able to live with that on you conscience?
What about when it is misused (as everything eventually is>? Would the engineer be responsible?
Anyone who's gone through a failure without any backups knows the sickening feeling, and it can actually send people into depression
Lesson: Back Up Your Data buddy! I learned this lesson once the hard way myself, with a paper due in the morning. And I was pissed not depressed. I came to terms with the situation after re-writing 30 pages.
drunk driving, smoking, unsafe sex, lax gun-laws, police brutality, alcohol consumption, government corruption, cheap paint on toys, corporate fraud, poor personal hygiene, bad weather, poor infrastructure maintenance, racism, communism, capitalism, and being cruel to small animals for no particular reason?
except of course the racism, thats just not cool man.
Thats preposterous, everyone knows that it's just the empty side of the universe!
But the fans are to cool down the hard drives. Also, flash should use less power, which is what really matters for the bottom line in enterprise space right now.
Good point, however, the release is actually pointing to fully Flash based drive at 160G for the enterprise space.
3d pr0n?
Well there just aren't enough rich criminals to make a good demographic. Just goes to show you... crime doesn't pay, at least not well enough for that macbook pro you've been eying.
Amy: I bet you can't even make out my high definition tattoo on that! Another favorite of mine: my sig.
I do failure analysis in the hard drive industry and as far as I know you are exactly correct. While this is apparently a problem for toshiba it certainly is not the biggest cause of failure where I work. Loud screeching or clicking is a crash... and after that, well its pretty much all over. Error correction should handle the described sort of data loss, at least up to a few bits.
Wait you read the article????... you must be new here.
and a single bit of data corruption would screw you royally
Encryption, when done correctly, should actually improve ECC, assuming you include ECC bits with each layer of encription that is.
Additionally, you could get an FDE drive (essentially your idea, but only one layer of encryption), Seagate makes a very respectable offering for this arena. One more thought, there are commands to overwrite with pattern zeros built into every HDD i've ever worked with, and there are tools available to take advantage of said tools. Unless you had something really serious on there, no-one, not even three letter agencies are going to bother recovery on a whole bunch of zeros.
Thats bull. Even if the company goes under, my hardware is still gonna work. MLB can eat it.
I've got it. Direct all the calls to this attorney of yours, I bet it turns into harassment really quick.
Anecdotal Evidence is just fantastic. Way to go. I think I will trust the peer reviewed journals for just a while longer though.
Sounds like somebody needs a hug.
No.
They do a really good job on ATM's... Seems to me they are actively choosing to hose voting machines.
Gojaroo brings up a good point. Keyloggers could just as easily capture this sort of info. Actually, for a senior project some classmates of mine made a keylogger, it was pretty wicked. Small enough nobody would notice, well on a PS/2 keyboard.
Seriously. Does anyone else feel like they are taking a lot more Turing Tests than are really necessary. I feel like i'm trying not to be a computer an awful lot lately. By the way, the neural networks that are capable of cracking the little picture puzzles they give us to get new accounts, they could probably be trained to learn a persons typing habits.
I was totally shocked... that the Inspector General actually audited.
Chinese net users would not read the "Google valiantly refused to bow down to censorship, and China booted them out!" stories we'd read; they'd instead get, at best, "After violating the law, Google agreed to withdraw their service for now." The average net user might not be happy about that situation, but it would be trivial to spin the news such that any ire people felt would be toward Google, not the government. .cn but not much difference.
I am in the PRC right now. I got to read your post. Whats up with that? Certainly to a degree I agree with you, newspapers probably wouldn't publish articles singing the praises of Google. However, you forget, Chinese users have access to google.com too. It is occasionally a little slower than
hitting Gmail's servers from China is slow it's not so bad. I can even use Gmail chat without it being too much of a pain.
i'm much more interested in the experience of a female orgasm, personally. I'll bet your into unicorns and other mythical type things too man. Seriously, its a neural extension cord, it cant make imaginary things become real.