They're going after him on ridiculous grounds, but an employee should know better than to publically comment under his real name. They will always get you on something.
Even if that were true (instead of the tiles just using the energy already dissipated as waste heat and sound), people in developed countries consume far more energy than they expend. The remainder is stored in fat reserves or excreted as waste. That's where this would come from; it'd be an exercise opportunity.
(Come to think of it, it would be worth a thought to install generators in gyms for the same effect.)
The contributors to GNU software do not form a legal entity, reside in multiple jurisdictions, and quite often do not reveal real-world identities. Good luck finding someone to sue.
As long as the disks are still readable by normal means, it is far easier to reliably destroy the data via software than render the drive physically unrecoverable. Wipe the drive, then write random data to it a few times in a row. It is incredibly unlikely for any sector on the disk to contain coherent data after that - perhaps not entirely impossible, but certainly more reliable than smashing the drive with a hammer and hoping for the best. If you want to destroy the drive out of paranoia (or because it is already damaged and not usable), take it carefully apart, take out the controller board and destroy it (particularly the memory chip), then take the platters, and sand off the surfaces.
Keep in mind that random physical destruction, even methods with apparent spectacular results like shotguns and hammers, will not reliably prevent a forensic laboratory from recovering data. You'll have to carefully and deliberately expose and destroy the parts of the drive that contain the data.
Religion - even if we limit it to Christianity/Islam/Judaism, which covers most of the US - consists of varied concepts, only some of which directly conflict with scientific knowledge. (The rest isn't necessarily good - some concepts are just morally wrong instead of scientifically.) Science also consists of different disciplines, which do not contradict religious views on the universe equally (natural sciences are most affected, while the greatest biblical affront to mathematics is rounding Pi down to three, and I don't know of any for, eg, sociology).
Taking all that into account, we still have just under one in six of ALL scientists queried considers science to be in conflict with ALL religion ALWAYS.
Interpreting this to mean that science - and particularly natural science, like biology and physics - can coexist with religion, is a bit of a long shot.
Didn't need to succeed; it already made the news. This way, they saved a bit of C4, an RC airplane and a few window-panes. Don't want our taxes going to waste!
Yes, your ISP, who knows your identity since you have a commercial relationship with them, cannot hide logs of your data from the authorities, because they're a registred business. Whatever shall you do? OH I KNOW! Enter a commercial relationship with someone else who is also a registered business.
To paraphrase the old adage, "if you think, speak, write, publish and don't use Tor, don't be surprised."
Apollo 11 used a series of capsule stages that compared to the Shuttle would be dinky. Their onboard computer was among the first integrated circuit computers, had 4KB memory (plus around 73KB ROM) and a clockspeed of 1MHz.
Out of seven lunar landing missions, six succeeded and one failed without casualties. (Out of seventeen Apollo missions in total, two failed, with one killing the entire crew.) Contrast this with the five space shuttles (not counting Enterprise), which made 135 flights, two of which failed and killed the crew.
Basically, while the safety of space engineering can't and shouldn't be compromised, and better technology is required, Armstrong and Cernan have an excellent justification to call NASA wusses for this. "Back in our day, we didn't have no fancy shuttle, no sir. We went to the Moon barefoot through the snow, and uphill both ways."
60,000-75,000 years is well before when many anthropologists believe we started using language and symbolic thought. Either they're wrong, or these developments were made independently across different isolated populations.
Of course I'm enthusiastic about using software I've contributed to, but remember that the reason I spend time contributing to them is because I was using them in the first place. There's other free software I have nothing to do with, which I'm still very fond of, mostly because they're constantly improving for free (with a few arguable exceptions in Ubuntu's case).
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They're going after him on ridiculous grounds, but an employee should know better than to publically comment under his real name. They will always get you on something.
WOW, that's more than four tons! But of what?
Even if that were true (instead of the tiles just using the energy already dissipated as waste heat and sound), people in developed countries consume far more energy than they expend. The remainder is stored in fat reserves or excreted as waste. That's where this would come from; it'd be an exercise opportunity.
(Come to think of it, it would be worth a thought to install generators in gyms for the same effect.)
The contributors to GNU software do not form a legal entity, reside in multiple jurisdictions, and quite often do not reveal real-world identities. Good luck finding someone to sue.
... this will work on CDs, but all the microwaves I know will be destroyed by large metallic objects like HDDs.
As long as the disks are still readable by normal means, it is far easier to reliably destroy the data via software than render the drive physically unrecoverable. Wipe the drive, then write random data to it a few times in a row. It is incredibly unlikely for any sector on the disk to contain coherent data after that - perhaps not entirely impossible, but certainly more reliable than smashing the drive with a hammer and hoping for the best.
If you want to destroy the drive out of paranoia (or because it is already damaged and not usable), take it carefully apart, take out the controller board and destroy it (particularly the memory chip), then take the platters, and sand off the surfaces.
Keep in mind that random physical destruction, even methods with apparent spectacular results like shotguns and hammers, will not reliably prevent a forensic laboratory from recovering data. You'll have to carefully and deliberately expose and destroy the parts of the drive that contain the data.
This is an odd interpretation of the figure.
Religion - even if we limit it to Christianity/Islam/Judaism, which covers most of the US - consists of varied concepts, only some of which directly conflict with scientific knowledge. (The rest isn't necessarily good - some concepts are just morally wrong instead of scientifically.) Science also consists of different disciplines, which do not contradict religious views on the universe equally (natural sciences are most affected, while the greatest biblical affront to mathematics is rounding Pi down to three, and I don't know of any for, eg, sociology).
Taking all that into account, we still have just under one in six of ALL scientists queried considers science to be in conflict with ALL religion ALWAYS.
Interpreting this to mean that science - and particularly natural science, like biology and physics - can coexist with religion, is a bit of a long shot.
Didn't need to succeed; it already made the news. This way, they saved a bit of C4, an RC airplane and a few window-panes. Don't want our taxes going to waste!
thanks to Bush laying the groundwork
That one applies more to the economy.
Depends on the mask. Pick the right one, and they'll just think you're from 4chan.
What the holy FUCK?
Next up: Bethesda sues Tibet.
When I hear this in the same sentence, I always get a Snow Crash vibe.
...ago, of course.
Now, let's not get hot-headed about this and start a flame war.
The squaw of the hippopotamus hide is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.
(*rimshot*)
Yeah, it's 2011 now.
Decades of diligent missionary work condemning condoms. And a cultural tolerance of rape.
You should totally ask for a cut!
No VPN or proxy protects you from leaking information outside the secure channel (or to the exit node and endpoint) if you use it wrong...
Yes, your ISP, who knows your identity since you have a commercial relationship with them, cannot hide logs of your data from the authorities, because they're a registred business. Whatever shall you do? OH I KNOW! Enter a commercial relationship with someone else who is also a registered business.
To paraphrase the old adage, "if you think, speak, write, publish and don't use Tor, don't be surprised."
Apollo 11 used a series of capsule stages that compared to the Shuttle would be dinky. Their onboard computer was among the first integrated circuit computers, had 4KB memory (plus around 73KB ROM) and a clockspeed of 1MHz.
Out of seven lunar landing missions, six succeeded and one failed without casualties. (Out of seventeen Apollo missions in total, two failed, with one killing the entire crew.) Contrast this with the five space shuttles (not counting Enterprise), which made 135 flights, two of which failed and killed the crew.
Basically, while the safety of space engineering can't and shouldn't be compromised, and better technology is required, Armstrong and Cernan have an excellent justification to call NASA wusses for this. "Back in our day, we didn't have no fancy shuttle, no sir. We went to the Moon barefoot through the snow, and uphill both ways."
60,000-75,000 years is well before when many anthropologists believe we started using language and symbolic thought. Either they're wrong, or these developments were made independently across different isolated populations.
Of course I'm enthusiastic about using software I've contributed to, but remember that the reason I spend time contributing to them is because I was using them in the first place. There's other free software I have nothing to do with, which I'm still very fond of, mostly because they're constantly improving for free (with a few arguable exceptions in Ubuntu's case).
Where can you plug your notebook
Have you never heard of Wifi?
Many notebooks also require electrical energy. ;)
Where can you plug your notebook in on the street?