Ah, the old 'Big Lie' method of propaganda. Just keep repeating it!
You assert that without copyright there is no content.
Therefore Linux does not exist, I have a computer at home that displays nothing but a blank screen, and I only imagine it has an operating system in my diseased CyberCommie mind.
Also, music came into existence with copyright. Prior to the 18th century music was a concept unknown to the human race. The 10,000 year old wind instrument recently dug up was clearly as fraudulent as all the dinosaur skulls that ruin nice peoples bedtime stories.
Furthermore, there is a perfect correlation between how much revenue a film generates and its artistic merit. Expensive movies are critically acclaimed and popular, movies made on a shoestring budget are critically panned and never attract an audience.
It must be nice to live in a complete fantasy world:)
The ruling class is utterly insulated. Politicians in this country can live their entire lives without meeting anybody outside their social class. All the MPs have been railroaded from private school through to Oxford, and thence into safe seats arranged by their mentors and parents. Their entire reality is defined for them by their lobbyists.
Your word is all we have to go on, and reading the paranoid, strawman-bashing, slogan-ridden rant in your sig really diminishes the value of that. If you think everyone who doesn't kneel at the alter of the Invisible Hand is a dirty evil Socialist and will crush your freedom. Please.
7 million filesharers in the UK. Hardly a 'tiny' minority. Most of those people don't go around nicking cars, and thus they do differentiate between sharing data and stealing.
The whole 'copying is stealing' is so obviously wrong it can't possibly last. Cognitive dissonance will stop it becoming an accepted part of law.
Bullshit. Its acceptance by the mainstream media shows the irrelevance of the mainstream media. The fact that a behaviour casually classed as 'criminal' by newspapers is engaged in by such a large portion of the population shows they haven't won anything. Furthermore, the proportion of the population that does engage in this 'criminal' behaviour is disproportionately young.
Actually no. Current British law, iirc, makes provisions for private study. Its like that in most European countries at the moment in fact; TPB was only nailed because they were making (shitloads) of money off copying.
...why Blizzard completely abandoned the notion of difference between Horde and Alliance in WoW, in favour of focussing on class balance. Naturally, if you ask a lot of WoW players, it hasn't even helped them do that. In fact, I see there being more and more class overlap instead of class balance in WoW, especially amongst hybrid classes. You can balance the game by making hybrid classes able to do everything well, but it kind of sucks balls for non-hybrid classes.
I hope that the backing away from balanced-but-distinct factions and classes doesn't represent a wider change of philosophy at Blizzard. It wouldn't bode well for Starcraft II.
To be really sure though, I would have thought its best to put as much distance between the Curie temperature and the temperature of your heat source as possible. Hence thermite - pretty much the cheapest and easiest way of getting 4 digits of centigrade.
Also, you've touched on the main reason for thermite: FUN:)
Data destruction is usually something that occurs at the end of a project. Why not celebrate your success with some massive overkill against your old drives?
Complete annihilation means its easier to verify destruction of data (Is hard drive a liquid? Yes/No). Its also a morale booster, seeing as most people with the skills to fill up your hard drives with incredibly valuable data are generally total pyromaniacs.
Over temperature might not correspond to data bit temperature for a very long time. If, for example, materials on the platter or elsewhere on the hard drive ablate they could keep it below the Curie temperature for quite a while. This is just speculation of course, I have no idea what hard-drive platters have on them - but I don't think its as simple as dialing an oven above the Curie temperature and then assuming the jobs done after X hours.
See below I posted regarding data being recovered from Columbia hard-disks; re-entry is a hell of a lot hotter than any bonfire you care to name. A fire might not thoroughly heat the drive enough; every little bit of it has to get to several hundred degrees to be sure of breaking down all the data.
TBH they might not have to pay at all. I'm sure data recovery companies wouldn't mind showing on national TV what they are capable of getting from an apparently bricked hard drive. It would be an advertising opportunity.
If the thermite is on top of the drive, it won't just heat the outside; it will rapidly melt the outside then fall into the interior of the drive. Thats the point. Youtube abounds with vidoes of thermite burning down through car engines, and hard drive cases are a lot less substantial.
Hence the 'more than $10' comment. Thermite is a piece of piss to make and you would probably use less than $1 of it to destroy a hard drive. The cost would be the pit you would need to build, outside of your office building, where you could carry out the cremations.
Data from scientific experiments was recovered from the wreckage of the space shuttle Columbia. If your destruction process is less violent than an uncontrolled re-entry into Earths atmosphere, you haven't placed your data beyond recovery. Perhaps you could use thermite; however I suspect that method would cost more than $10 per drive if you wanted to be sure of melting every square millimetre of the disc.
But I say we should just take off, and nuke the entire site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure...
Good job on getting all your information on the Apollo program from a fucking movie.
The filters on the LEM and the CM were not ever designed to be mixed (both craft being built by separate contractors) and thus had no interface between them defined.
Just because they hadn't thought of every contingency, does not mean that everything was not meticulously planned.
Whilst it is always fun to kick the beancounters (I do often enough) I don't think it is entirely their fault in this instance.
Space travel is not a field that allows much real experimentation. As a programmer now moving into space science, I can attest how different this makes things. A programmer can compile-debug-compile 50 times a day until something is just right. The NASA equivalent of compiling something costs $300 million each time.
This led in the 1950's and 60's to the development of complicated methods of systems management, which because they enabled Apollo to be a success have been copied and rigidly adhered to around the world ever since (Europe is a prime example; our native systems management experiments in ELDO were a dismal failure whilst Americans were walking on the moon. So we scrapped everything, simply copied NASA system management techniques, and now we have highly competitive heavy lift launchers)
Rigorous documentation, interface management, and change management do tend to drown space agencies in paper work but by the same token shit doesn't blow up quite so often anymore. Space systems management is conservative (in the literal, not political sense) because it would be extremely costly to explore any different ways of doing things.
The way things are done now may well represent a local maxima in our ability to build and fly rockets, but randomizing the function could easily cost trillions.
Two low-payload orbital rockets, a suborbital manned spacecraft. The private sector isn't exactly blowing my socks off here. If market forces were favourable towards space travel, it would've become profitable decades ago.
If its a metadata/database issue in a system funded by the US government, its a US government/taxpayer issue by default. That should be obvious to anybody.
What it amounts to is showing Iranian people that the absurd, stone age moral finger wagging their government engages in has parallels in the US, albeit slightly less violent ones. You guys aren't exactly good at winning hearts and minds.
Why is it important to spend taxpayer money adding a porn filter to such a scheme, when most US taxpayers undoubtedly don't care whether or not people abroad watch porn, and when it will, as has been shown in the past, block access to legitimate sites that are highly relevant to people being denied Internet access across the world?
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Ah, the old 'Big Lie' method of propaganda. Just keep repeating it!
You assert that without copyright there is no content.
Therefore Linux does not exist, I have a computer at home that displays nothing but a blank screen, and I only imagine it has an operating system in my diseased CyberCommie mind.
Also, music came into existence with copyright. Prior to the 18th century music was a concept unknown to the human race. The 10,000 year old wind instrument recently dug up was clearly as fraudulent as all the dinosaur skulls that ruin nice peoples bedtime stories.
Furthermore, there is a perfect correlation between how much revenue a film generates and its artistic merit. Expensive movies are critically acclaimed and popular, movies made on a shoestring budget are critically panned and never attract an audience.
It must be nice to live in a complete fantasy world :)
The ruling class is utterly insulated. Politicians in this country can live their entire lives without meeting anybody outside their social class. All the MPs have been railroaded from private school through to Oxford, and thence into safe seats arranged by their mentors and parents. Their entire reality is defined for them by their lobbyists.
Your word is all we have to go on, and reading the paranoid, strawman-bashing, slogan-ridden rant in your sig really diminishes the value of that. If you think everyone who doesn't kneel at the alter of the Invisible Hand is a dirty evil Socialist and will crush your freedom. Please.
7 million filesharers in the UK. Hardly a 'tiny' minority. Most of those people don't go around nicking cars, and thus they do differentiate between sharing data and stealing.
The whole 'copying is stealing' is so obviously wrong it can't possibly last. Cognitive dissonance will stop it becoming an accepted part of law.
Bullshit. Its acceptance by the mainstream media shows the irrelevance of the mainstream media. The fact that a behaviour casually classed as 'criminal' by newspapers is engaged in by such a large portion of the population shows they haven't won anything. Furthermore, the proportion of the population that does engage in this 'criminal' behaviour is disproportionately young.
Actually no. Current British law, iirc, makes provisions for private study. Its like that in most European countries at the moment in fact; TPB was only nailed because they were making (shitloads) of money off copying.
It isn't helped by the fact he really looks like Hitler. Honestly, draw a toothbrush mustache on any picture of him. Its freaky.
...why Blizzard completely abandoned the notion of difference between Horde and Alliance in WoW, in favour of focussing on class balance. Naturally, if you ask a lot of WoW players, it hasn't even helped them do that. In fact, I see there being more and more class overlap instead of class balance in WoW, especially amongst hybrid classes. You can balance the game by making hybrid classes able to do everything well, but it kind of sucks balls for non-hybrid classes.
I hope that the backing away from balanced-but-distinct factions and classes doesn't represent a wider change of philosophy at Blizzard. It wouldn't bode well for Starcraft II.
To be really sure though, I would have thought its best to put as much distance between the Curie temperature and the temperature of your heat source as possible. Hence thermite - pretty much the cheapest and easiest way of getting 4 digits of centigrade.
Also, you've touched on the main reason for thermite: FUN :)
Data destruction is usually something that occurs at the end of a project. Why not celebrate your success with some massive overkill against your old drives?
Complete annihilation means its easier to verify destruction of data (Is hard drive a liquid? Yes/No). Its also a morale booster, seeing as most people with the skills to fill up your hard drives with incredibly valuable data are generally total pyromaniacs.
Over temperature might not correspond to data bit temperature for a very long time. If, for example, materials on the platter or elsewhere on the hard drive ablate they could keep it below the Curie temperature for quite a while. This is just speculation of course, I have no idea what hard-drive platters have on them - but I don't think its as simple as dialing an oven above the Curie temperature and then assuming the jobs done after X hours.
Why waste your own ammunition? Put "Obama '12" stickers on them, tie them to your cars read end, and park in a red state.
See below I posted regarding data being recovered from Columbia hard-disks; re-entry is a hell of a lot hotter than any bonfire you care to name. A fire might not thoroughly heat the drive enough; every little bit of it has to get to several hundred degrees to be sure of breaking down all the data.
Its emotionally draining, because just before the hard drive goes into the molten metal you realise it has Learned the Value of Human Life.
TBH they might not have to pay at all. I'm sure data recovery companies wouldn't mind showing on national TV what they are capable of getting from an apparently bricked hard drive. It would be an advertising opportunity.
If the thermite is on top of the drive, it won't just heat the outside; it will rapidly melt the outside then fall into the interior of the drive. Thats the point. Youtube abounds with vidoes of thermite burning down through car engines, and hard drive cases are a lot less substantial.
Hence the 'more than $10' comment. Thermite is a piece of piss to make and you would probably use less than $1 of it to destroy a hard drive. The cost would be the pit you would need to build, outside of your office building, where you could carry out the cremations.
Data from scientific experiments was recovered from the wreckage of the space shuttle Columbia. If your destruction process is less violent than an uncontrolled re-entry into Earths atmosphere, you haven't placed your data beyond recovery. Perhaps you could use thermite; however I suspect that method would cost more than $10 per drive if you wanted to be sure of melting every square millimetre of the disc.
But I say we should just take off, and nuke the entire site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure...
Good job on getting all your information on the Apollo program from a fucking movie.
The filters on the LEM and the CM were not ever designed to be mixed (both craft being built by separate contractors) and thus had no interface between them defined.
Just because they hadn't thought of every contingency, does not mean that everything was not meticulously planned.
...does it run RISC OS?
Whilst it is always fun to kick the beancounters (I do often enough) I don't think it is entirely their fault in this instance.
Space travel is not a field that allows much real experimentation. As a programmer now moving into space science, I can attest how different this makes things. A programmer can compile-debug-compile 50 times a day until something is just right. The NASA equivalent of compiling something costs $300 million each time.
This led in the 1950's and 60's to the development of complicated methods of systems management, which because they enabled Apollo to be a success have been copied and rigidly adhered to around the world ever since (Europe is a prime example; our native systems management experiments in ELDO were a dismal failure whilst Americans were walking on the moon. So we scrapped everything, simply copied NASA system management techniques, and now we have highly competitive heavy lift launchers)
Rigorous documentation, interface management, and change management do tend to drown space agencies in paper work but by the same token shit doesn't blow up quite so often anymore. Space systems management is conservative (in the literal, not political sense) because it would be extremely costly to explore any different ways of doing things.
The way things are done now may well represent a local maxima in our ability to build and fly rockets, but randomizing the function could easily cost trillions.
Could be worse. You could have your nations space program represented by the BNSC. Who are they, you ask? Ex-fucking-actly.
Two low-payload orbital rockets, a suborbital manned spacecraft. The private sector isn't exactly blowing my socks off here. If market forces were favourable towards space travel, it would've become profitable decades ago.
If its a metadata/database issue in a system funded by the US government, its a US government/taxpayer issue by default. That should be obvious to anybody.
What it amounts to is showing Iranian people that the absurd, stone age moral finger wagging their government engages in has parallels in the US, albeit slightly less violent ones. You guys aren't exactly good at winning hearts and minds.
Why is it important to spend taxpayer money adding a porn filter to such a scheme, when most US taxpayers undoubtedly don't care whether or not people abroad watch porn, and when it will, as has been shown in the past, block access to legitimate sites that are highly relevant to people being denied Internet access across the world?