Not to rain on your cigar, but lung cancer is only a tiny part of the ways smoking kills. The tar in your lungs will give you asthma, while the nicotine is toxic, addictive and constricts your arteries, resulting in circulatory disease and eventually heart failure.
+1. Public transport is orders of magnitude cleaner and less wasteful than cars.
But as for P2P applications, what we could use is a cool carpooling network. Switch on your nav system, tell it where you want to go and it will tell you to where and when someone else is going there - or vice versa.
This is misleading. Wiping and destroying a drive will both work if you do it right, but the physical destruction is risky in that the damage is unpredictable and may be easier to overcome than it looks to a layperson. That makes a software-based wipe much more foolproof. Drives have been restored after being run over by trucks, scorched in fires, doused at the bottom of a river and other things - if you need data to disappear, you don't want to have to rely on "well, this looks good and broken now".
By contrast, random-overwriting a drive several times will render it impossible to recover anything from it. The plus side is that you still have a working drive.
Of course it's hard to make that look like an accident. But then, to make sure the disk is physically destroyed you have to break the platters and ideally grind them into powder, and that kind of "accident" won't be very convincing either. (Disclaimer: Withholding information from law enforcement or in a legal investigation under subpoena is a felony in many jurisdictions.)
According to the new rule, 100% of government servers must run Linux by June 30, 2009, and 70% of agencies must use OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird by the end of 2009.
So wait... first you switch everyone's Operating Systems, which is a bitch to get used to, and then, half a year later, you try to get them to use OS application suites?
What do they use from June 2009 to December 2009? "Microsoft Office for Linux"?
Rotating memories (that is, computer memories that use a rotating platten, such as hard drives, CD-ROMs, and DVDs) are on their way out, although rotating magnetic memories are still used in "server" computers where large amounts of information are stored.
We're nearly there. Some Netbooks already have solid-state hard drives without any rotating platters. The limitation right now seems to be writing speed and time of life. Flash memory still deteriorates with each delete+rewrite. Getting much better though.
As for exchangable media, well, the USB key seems to have become the medium for personal data - although optical media are still used for mass-produced content like movies and music. Can't see that changing ever - DVDs and BluRay disks are much cheaper to produce than rewritable flash memory.
Three times, technically, though I'm not sure when the wisdom teeth start to develop. Could be they start at the same time and are just late in breaking through.
I'm combining a weak enamel with deep crevices, a tendency to eat wrong and brush too rarely or too superficially, and apparently I gnash my teeth while asleep.
This degree of regeneration would be worth a great lot to me...
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What about the "dome habitat" concept? Is that even feasible outside science fiction?
Calling this Katrina-like seems to be like calling the Holocaust "9/11-like".
(*And now I wait for survivors of each of these three to tear me to shreds.)
Which they countersue for from the RIAA...
Not to rain on your cigar, but lung cancer is only a tiny part of the ways smoking kills. The tar in your lungs will give you asthma, while the nicotine is toxic, addictive and constricts your arteries, resulting in circulatory disease and eventually heart failure.
Source code? It looks like binaries in base64... am I looking at the same link?
Hey cool, that's where I studied! :D
Yes, that is what I was referring to. I'd hardly name xkcd if I didn't know how it was related to the "hitler" tag, would I? :)
I think I need to make my funny less subtle. :(
- Darl McBride's shirt ...?
- Millions in debt
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Why is this story tagged "hitler"?
xkcd WHAT?
I've had it with these --ing Presidents on this --ing plane!
+1. Public transport is orders of magnitude cleaner and less wasteful than cars.
But as for P2P applications, what we could use is a cool carpooling network. Switch on your nav system, tell it where you want to go and it will tell you to where and when someone else is going there - or vice versa.
That's where the Apple headquarters are...
So you mean we men would need to fill out a form for donating genitals instead? :P
You can have my brain when you pry it from my cold, dead...
Oh wait.
This is misleading. Wiping and destroying a drive will both work if you do it right, but the physical destruction is risky in that the damage is unpredictable and may be easier to overcome than it looks to a layperson. That makes a software-based wipe much more foolproof. Drives have been restored after being run over by trucks, scorched in fires, doused at the bottom of a river and other things - if you need data to disappear, you don't want to have to rely on "well, this looks good and broken now".
By contrast, random-overwriting a drive several times will render it impossible to recover anything from it. The plus side is that you still have a working drive.
Of course it's hard to make that look like an accident. But then, to make sure the disk is physically destroyed you have to break the platters and ideally grind them into powder, and that kind of "accident" won't be very convincing either. (Disclaimer: Withholding information from law enforcement or in a legal investigation under subpoena is a felony in many jurisdictions.)
Wait - "servers". I suppose individual work-stations will stay on Windows until later. That makes sense.
So wait... first you switch everyone's Operating Systems, which is a bitch to get used to, and then, half a year later, you try to get them to use OS application suites?
What do they use from June 2009 to December 2009? "Microsoft Office for Linux"?
(Sorry.)
That would be... how many times has he died this week in the news?
That's so cool, where do I sign up to turn my computer into a zombie controlled by a shady Command Central? Does that cost anything or is it free?
We're nearly there. Some Netbooks already have solid-state hard drives without any rotating platters. The limitation right now seems to be writing speed and time of life. Flash memory still deteriorates with each delete+rewrite. Getting much better though.
As for exchangable media, well, the USB key seems to have become the medium for personal data - although optical media are still used for mass-produced content like movies and music. Can't see that changing ever - DVDs and BluRay disks are much cheaper to produce than rewritable flash memory.
Why plan on being dead at all? We may yet live to see the singularity...
Three times, technically, though I'm not sure when the wisdom teeth start to develop. Could be they start at the same time and are just late in breaking through.
My teeth are crap.
I'm combining a weak enamel with deep crevices, a tendency to eat wrong and brush too rarely or too superficially, and apparently I gnash my teeth while asleep.
This degree of regeneration would be worth a great lot to me...
Addendumg: RTFA, my bad. I took "made the feds determined to catch him" to mean they hadn't yet, but they have.