I was going to post something about the importance of anonymity but then I saw a comment above yours by AC which just had the word "fag" in it. And suddenly I didnt have the heart anymore.
From the link, what one data recovery company said after being told that the drive had been zero'd out with dd:
According to our Unix team, there is less than a zero percent chance of data recovery after that dd command. The drive itself has been overwritten in a very fundamental manner.
Can anyone tell me what's so fundamental about the "dd" command that there's not even no chance the data could be recovered?
Um, it never says that the case costs £100,000. It says that bringing the case to completion took them that much in R&D. Making something is cheap. Working out how to make it right is expensive.
Actually, "gravity" is ~9.8 m/s^2. That's an acceleration, not a flat rate, meaning that air resistance notwithstanding, the average rate at which something will accelerate when falling is 9.8 meters a second per second. It absolutely should have taken fewer than 23 seconds to fall.
However, Mr. Deeb is only required to abide by the regulations of his own state and town. What some other state or locality does or does not allow is irrelevant.
Thank you, I was a little shakey on what jurisdiction was.
It's hard to read this as meaning anything other than, "We don't know of any law that you've violated, but we're going to steal your property anyway, and if you object we'll trump up some kind of technicality to charge you with a crime."
What? Where did they imply they were going to charge him with a crime? From the article, it just sounds like they're sure he's trampled over at least a zoning law or two and most likely violated a bunch of other regulations, too. Seriously, why would they care to dangle a hobbyist's materials over his head? It's a pretty piss-poor power trip and it's not like enforcing zoning rules is prestigious work. If he was running a meth-lab or manufacturing bombs, that'd be prestigious. A hobbyist doesn't read up on his zoning regulations? Who cares?
Pamela Wilderman, the code enforcement officer for [the Massachusetts town of] Marlboro stated, 'I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere. This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation.' Allow me to translate Ms. Wilderman's words into plain English: 'Mr. Deeb hasn't actually violated any law or regulation that I can find, but I don't like what he's doing because I'm ignorant and irrationally afraid of chemicals, so I'll abuse my power to steal his property and shut him down.'"
Actually, if you'll read the full quote, she finishes with: "⦠There are regulations about how much youâ(TM)re supposed to have, how itâ(TM)s detained, how itâ(TM)s disposed of." and the article continues with: "Mr. Deebâ(TM)s home lab likely violated the regulations of many state and local departments."
So, even though he wasn't actively being a terrorist or doing anything wrong with the chemicals, there are still rules about how you're supposed to handle it and where and he apparently didn't abide by them well enough.
Regarding the lack of a warrant, to the best of my knowledge, if you have something illegal sitting out in plain sight and a law enforcement agency is there on other business, they don't really need a warrant to get at it.
I'm not a physicist and I'm not terribly well-informed on the whole dark matter thing. Are there any other hypotheses out there to do the same explanatory work as dark matter that's also less bogus?
what about clean water, can you drink the water coming out of your faucet?
In the words of the late George Carlin:
"Everywhere I go, I ask the question, how's the water? Haven't gotten a positive answer yet. Last year I was in 40 states, 100 cities, not one audience was able to say to me, YES, enjoy some of our fine local water, it is pure, it is good. Course I know a lot of people don't talk that way anymore, but nobody trusts the local water supply, nobody. And that amuses me. I like that. I admit I'm a bit perverted. But, it amuses me that no one can really trust the water anymore. And the thing I like about it the most is, the system is beginning to collapse. And everything is slowly breaking down. I enjoy chaos and disorder, not just because it helps me professionally, they're also my hobby."
Just sayin'.
(I'd have preferred to link directly to Youtube but didn't find the exact clip I wanted. So I grabbed a transcription from Google which was close enough to my memory).
God separates the light from the darkness AND creates plants BEFORE he creates the sun.
Not that I think Genesis is a useful history of the Universe, but who says light as distinct from darkness did not exist prior to ol' Sol lighting up?
I agree, the whole "plants before the Sun even existed" hypothesis is just silly, but construing "light" in Genesis to refer exclusively to solar light is an interpretation I've never heard, even from the wackiest of wackaloon Christians.
Is it "Anything which doesn't make a profit" or "Anything [outside the defence industry, of course] that, after having millions and millions of dollars pumped into it, produces nothing at all but calls for more money"?
You might think it's valuable. I wonder why we're wasting millions of dollars on looking for aliens (and utterly failing) when we have bigger concerns much closer to home.
Hitler was also a vegetarian and wanted to outlaw smoking. Food for thought.
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Yeah, the train wasn't even very comfortable, either. I had to connect in Seattle and the train down to Seattle was just luxurious. The seats were spacious, the interior was plush, the aisles were wide, and it wasn't too crowded.
Seattle to Portland, being a much larger train carrying more people a longer distance, was... I'll just say less nice.
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I actually haven't had many problems with traffic jams in airports. I don't exactly fly often, though, so YM will definitely V.
Anyways, even if we factored in actually parking and getting inside the airport (took like half-an-hour last time), flying 2000 miles in fewer than 10 hours is definitely faster than going 262 miles in 7 and a half.
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That _really_ depends on where you are.
The train from Bellingham, WA to Portland, OR (Google Maps informs me it's 262 miles) takes about seven hours and you need to show up at least twenty minutes early. Call it 7 and a half hours.
On the other hand, I recently flew from Sea-Tac to Chicago O'Hare (~2,000 miles) in about four hours, plus two hours early for checkin = about 6 hours.
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This use-case is one where I would not recommend emacs.
Why not? It's a perfect solution: an operating system which can edit text, too!
Since Chrome uses WebKit, couldn't you have just used Midori or some other Linux-native WebKit browser?
At least on the URL bar. I just downloaded and tried out their Linux port and the font in the URL bar looks like ass.
Case in point: http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=chromeox9.jpg
Ah well. I guess it'll give me something to play with until Google puts out an official Linux build.
Congratulation!
Only one, you cheap bastard?
I was going to post something about the importance of anonymity but then I saw a comment above yours by AC which just had the word "fag" in it. And suddenly I didnt have the heart anymore.
Can anyone tell me what's so fundamental about the "dd" command that there's not even no chance the data could be recovered?
100 grand is still probably a fuck of a lot more than a single case unit costs.
Um, it never says that the case costs £100,000. It says that bringing the case to completion took them that much in R&D. Making something is cheap. Working out how to make it right is expensive.
Actually, "gravity" is ~9.8 m/s^2. That's an acceleration, not a flat rate, meaning that air resistance notwithstanding, the average rate at which something will accelerate when falling is 9.8 meters a second per second. It absolutely should have taken fewer than 23 seconds to fall.
You may wish to learn a little bit more about gravity here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gravity .
it is now in the hands of Microsoft.
Given how long it was taking, I was under the impression that it had been in their hands all along!
Thank you, I was a little shakey on what jurisdiction was.
It's hard to read this as meaning anything other than, "We don't know of any law that you've violated, but we're going to steal your property anyway, and if you object we'll trump up some kind of technicality to charge you with a crime."
What? Where did they imply they were going to charge him with a crime? From the article, it just sounds like they're sure he's trampled over at least a zoning law or two and most likely violated a bunch of other regulations, too. Seriously, why would they care to dangle a hobbyist's materials over his head? It's a pretty piss-poor power trip and it's not like enforcing zoning rules is prestigious work. If he was running a meth-lab or manufacturing bombs, that'd be prestigious. A hobbyist doesn't read up on his zoning regulations? Who cares?
Pamela Wilderman, the code enforcement officer for [the Massachusetts town of] Marlboro stated, 'I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere. This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation.' Allow me to translate Ms. Wilderman's words into plain English: 'Mr. Deeb hasn't actually violated any law or regulation that I can find, but I don't like what he's doing because I'm ignorant and irrationally afraid of chemicals, so I'll abuse my power to steal his property and shut him down.'"
Actually, if you'll read the full quote, she finishes with: "⦠There are regulations about how much youâ(TM)re supposed to have, how itâ(TM)s detained, how itâ(TM)s disposed of." and the article continues with: "Mr. Deebâ(TM)s home lab likely violated the regulations of many state and local departments."
So, even though he wasn't actively being a terrorist or doing anything wrong with the chemicals, there are still rules about how you're supposed to handle it and where and he apparently didn't abide by them well enough.
Regarding the lack of a warrant, to the best of my knowledge, if you have something illegal sitting out in plain sight and a law enforcement agency is there on other business, they don't really need a warrant to get at it.
I'm not a physicist and I'm not terribly well-informed on the whole dark matter thing. Are there any other hypotheses out there to do the same explanatory work as dark matter that's also less bogus?
... running for 60 years! ( but we forgive them, it was built in 1958, and it is the second oldest geothermal power plant in the world )....
Now _that's_ some awesome tech right there. It's been running for a full decade before it was built!
uh, was going for "insightful", hit "redundant" instead.
Replying to undo accidental moderation...
what about clean water, can you drink the water coming out of your faucet?
In the words of the late George Carlin:
"Everywhere I go, I ask the question, how's the water? Haven't gotten a positive answer yet. Last year I was in 40 states, 100 cities, not one audience was able to say to me, YES, enjoy some of our fine local water, it is pure, it is good. Course I know a lot of people don't talk that way anymore, but nobody trusts the local water supply, nobody. And that amuses me. I like that. I admit I'm a bit perverted. But, it amuses me that no one can really trust the water anymore. And the thing I like about it the most is, the system is beginning to collapse. And everything is slowly breaking down. I enjoy chaos and disorder, not just because it helps me professionally, they're also my hobby."
Just sayin'.
(I'd have preferred to link directly to Youtube but didn't find the exact clip I wanted. So I grabbed a transcription from Google which was close enough to my memory).
God separates the light from the darkness AND creates plants BEFORE he creates the sun.
Not that I think Genesis is a useful history of the Universe, but who says light as distinct from darkness did not exist prior to ol' Sol lighting up?
I agree, the whole "plants before the Sun even existed" hypothesis is just silly, but construing "light" in Genesis to refer exclusively to solar light is an interpretation I've never heard, even from the wackiest of wackaloon Christians.
And vice-versa. I've seen plenty of GPL advocates who don't see any value to BSDL at all and plenty of BSDL advocates who recognize the values in GPL.
oops. Really should have done more than skim the summary, eh?
Arecibo is valuable. It's SETI I have problems with.
Is it "Anything which doesn't make a profit" or "Anything [outside the defence industry, of course] that, after having millions and millions of dollars pumped into it, produces nothing at all but calls for more money"?
You might think it's valuable. I wonder why we're wasting millions of dollars on looking for aliens (and utterly failing) when we have bigger concerns much closer to home.
Hitler was also a vegetarian and wanted to outlaw smoking. Food for thought.
Yeah, the train wasn't even very comfortable, either. I had to connect in Seattle and the train down to Seattle was just luxurious. The seats were spacious, the interior was plush, the aisles were wide, and it wasn't too crowded.
Seattle to Portland, being a much larger train carrying more people a longer distance, was... I'll just say less nice.
I actually haven't had many problems with traffic jams in airports. I don't exactly fly often, though, so YM will definitely V.
Anyways, even if we factored in actually parking and getting inside the airport (took like half-an-hour last time), flying 2000 miles in fewer than 10 hours is definitely faster than going 262 miles in 7 and a half.
That _really_ depends on where you are.
The train from Bellingham, WA to Portland, OR (Google Maps informs me it's 262 miles) takes about seven hours and you need to show up at least twenty minutes early. Call it 7 and a half hours.
On the other hand, I recently flew from Sea-Tac to Chicago O'Hare (~2,000 miles) in about four hours, plus two hours early for checkin = about 6 hours.