Another thing, I can't see how or why you should play RTS games like Supreme Commander on a console, or pretty much anything where you need precise pointer control. Sure, you can add a mouse and a keyboard, but then you have a computer anyway, so what's the point.
Police forces do recover data from overwritten disks and even formatted hard disks.
Also, the famous "black boxes" (which are really red, usually..) from airplane crash sites contain hard disks in hard enclosures. Usually the crash does damage the enclosure, and often the hard disks get burned or soaked in sea water etc.
Formatted harddrives are not erased, it's trivial to recover things from them. "Overwritten" disks, that depends on what you mean by overwritten, but since you didn't understand that a formatted drive weren't actually erased, you might be wrong about that part too.
A scratched/burned/corroded disk is still largely unaffected when it comes to the magnetics, so the data is still there. It's completely different from actually erasing the data.
The secret hidden unnamed companies you talk about sounds like they come from some conspiracy website, do you have any sources for that?
When we're just talking about loading web pages, no one is yet within shouting distance of FF with a good Adblock filter list.
Have you even tried this or are you just trying to provoke? I switched permanently to Chrome on my windows workstation at the office, just because everything is just so much more snappy compared to firefox, even when using adblock.
Maybe you should call and alert them? Tell them your daddy is an astronomer so you know what you're talking about, and they'll be sure to listen to you.
There's of course a lot of things that the police can do, that a normal citizen can't. Just because the police could do it in this case, doesn't mean that anyone can do it. I'm not saying that you can't, just that I wouldn't be so sure before checking...
I pay about 500 USD per year for free public transport 24/7 in my city. According to this Swedish checklist, the yearly cost for purchasing and owning a 10 year old tiny car would be about 3750 USD, thus, I save 3250 USD. If I would get a new car, the savings would be around 7100 USD.
(since I don't have or need a car, I will of course have to take the purchasing price into account.)
So who is actually supposed to pay for a company's misbehaviour and damage if not the people who own it? (the stockholders).
Maybe it would be healthy for the stability of the economy if people would take more responsibility of the companies that they give their money to, either by bailing out if they notice that the leadership is getting bad, or influence the company in a better direction by voting.
Seriously, what's wrong with you people? 44GB in a week? I think I average about 1-1.5 *TB* in a week, I pay about 30 USD, and my ISP does not whine and keep delivering what they promise.
This is 2009. Internet is not supposed to be a 5 minute/day batch download of email, it's a fully interactive real time media. You can transmit and receive any information you want to and from any location in the world, whenever you want. An idle switch cost as much for your ISP as a used switch. Start using it.
I'm seeding around 5TB of bittorrent data per month (linux distros, of course...), this is why I subscribed to my unlimited 100/100 connection in the first place. If they had a cap, there's no need for 100/100, you might as well use 10/10 or less. 200GB per month is just silly in 2009.
As you can see from the other replies in this thread, the OP is just talking BS though, there's no swedish ISP that offers a connection with a data cap that I know of, except for university apartments, which often have a moving average weekly or daily cap since the service i's often included in the rent.
If you don't want it copied, you have the right to keep it for yourself, and you have the right not to write it in the first place. What you don't have the right to do, is to decide what I will do with a piece of property after I have bought it.
Because I can't saturate my 100 MBit connection with your (closed source? malware? who knows) solution. And what are you talking about, malware in videos? I doubt they will execute unless you run windows or something.
Incidentally, I find the 'coward' part of the anonymous username more than a little amusing in this context.
Yes, funny how you would think that, since you are hiding under the cowardly "anonymous" veil all while bashing on the named parent, which argument you didn't understand and misinterpreted.
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OK, so now they are going to bring water to Mars as well? Might as well bring bacteria and other life as well and contaminate away..
the right way is essentially that it does not use C++-style comments or any other C99isms (for portability)
What platforms are still shipped with 10 year old compilers?
There's a reason that it was called the spectrial in sweden even before it started. Search for the "spectrial" tag on TPB for example.
Because people don't know what exponential means, they think it means "a lot".
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X_Wiz
Another thing, I can't see how or why you should play RTS games like Supreme Commander on a console, or pretty much anything where you need precise pointer control. Sure, you can add a mouse and a keyboard, but then you have a computer anyway, so what's the point.
Penguins. HTH.
Oh, so YOU'RE the one who wrote the script for Beneath a Steel Sky!
Police forces do recover data from overwritten disks and even formatted hard disks. Also, the famous "black boxes" (which are really red, usually..) from airplane crash sites contain hard disks in hard enclosures. Usually the crash does damage the enclosure, and often the hard disks get burned or soaked in sea water etc.
Formatted harddrives are not erased, it's trivial to recover things from them. "Overwritten" disks, that depends on what you mean by overwritten, but since you didn't understand that a formatted drive weren't actually erased, you might be wrong about that part too.
A scratched/burned/corroded disk is still largely unaffected when it comes to the magnetics, so the data is still there. It's completely different from actually erasing the data.
The secret hidden unnamed companies you talk about sounds like they come from some conspiracy website, do you have any sources for that?
When we're just talking about loading web pages, no one is yet within shouting distance of FF with a good Adblock filter list.
Have you even tried this or are you just trying to provoke? I switched permanently to Chrome on my windows workstation at the office, just because everything is just so much more snappy compared to firefox, even when using adblock.
I have one caveat with this design though
Maybe you should call and alert them? Tell them your daddy is an astronomer so you know what you're talking about, and they'll be sure to listen to you.
There's of course a lot of things that the police can do, that a normal citizen can't. Just because the police could do it in this case, doesn't mean that anyone can do it. I'm not saying that you can't, just that I wouldn't be so sure before checking...
Dude! I meant free as in freedom! or something...
I pay about 500 USD per year for free public transport 24/7 in my city. According to this Swedish checklist, the yearly cost for purchasing and owning a 10 year old tiny car would be about 3750 USD, thus, I save 3250 USD. If I would get a new car, the savings would be around 7100 USD.
(since I don't have or need a car, I will of course have to take the purchasing price into account.)
The comparison was between /dev/zero and /dev/urandom, /dev/random was never involved.
So who is actually supposed to pay for a company's misbehaviour and damage if not the people who own it? (the stockholders).
Maybe it would be healthy for the stability of the economy if people would take more responsibility of the companies that they give their money to, either by bailing out if they notice that the leadership is getting bad, or influence the company in a better direction by voting.
Text messages are not transmitted on the same channel as voice, so it doesn't matter if you block the voice calls.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS
Seriously, what's wrong with you people? 44GB in a week? I think I average about 1-1.5 *TB* in a week, I pay about 30 USD, and my ISP does not whine and keep delivering what they promise.
This is 2009. Internet is not supposed to be a 5 minute/day batch download of email, it's a fully interactive real time media. You can transmit and receive any information you want to and from any location in the world, whenever you want. An idle switch cost as much for your ISP as a used switch. Start using it.
So does every block in NYC have fiber, with cheap unlimited 100/100MBit connection? If not, why?
I'm seeding around 5TB of bittorrent data per month (linux distros, of course...), this is why I subscribed to my unlimited 100/100 connection in the first place. If they had a cap, there's no need for 100/100, you might as well use 10/10 or less. 200GB per month is just silly in 2009.
As you can see from the other replies in this thread, the OP is just talking BS though, there's no swedish ISP that offers a connection with a data cap that I know of, except for university apartments, which often have a moving average weekly or daily cap since the service i's often included in the rent.
If you don't want it copied, you have the right to keep it for yourself, and you have the right not to write it in the first place. What you don't have the right to do, is to decide what I will do with a piece of property after I have bought it.
Because I can't saturate my 100 MBit connection with your (closed source? malware? who knows) solution. And what are you talking about, malware in videos? I doubt they will execute unless you run windows or something.
No it's not.
Incidentally, I find the 'coward' part of the anonymous username more than a little amusing in this context.
Yes, funny how you would think that, since you are hiding under the cowardly "anonymous" veil all while bashing on the named parent, which argument you didn't understand and misinterpreted.
I sure hope you realize that traffic in the I2P network will show up in the "normal" network traffic stats, right?