This problem has been recognized for more than 20 years. It is not solely in the domain of user devices, but professional data centers as well. First of course is the issue of bit rot, followed by loss of data structures. But most important is the loss of devices to read the data on (tape drives, disk platters, card readers, etc,) and of course the software with which to read it.
The Y2K frenzy caused a lot of hardware and software to be replaced, but much of the data wasn't transferred. And now if you try to find a programmer who is familiar with say BDAM files, you will be luck, if the individual doesn't suffer from dementia. Never mind the hardware to run it on.
What is on personal PCs may be significant, but the data in large centers dwarfs it in volume and value.
A firearm is just another tool. For me it is good to scare off bears, coyotes, two legged thugs, and other animals which can be hostile and dangerous.
It is very nice of people who live in cities and suburbs are willing to put my life and that of my family in danger by arguing that firearms can be replaced by the police. First, the police take 20 minutes or more to get here, and secondly it appears that the police are even more dangerous than large carnivores.
While I do not hunt, others in my area are poor enough to really need the extra protein that hunting and fishing bring in. Having spent my career in Public Health, I have seen far too many infants and children that were suffering from malnutrition. To take away the food brought in by hunting would be another crippling and disabling blow to children and expecting mothers.
Corporations have demonstrated their ability to utilize the legal system. With new laws that ostensibly remediate anti-consumer legislation, the corporations always seem to end up with more power, control, and profits.
The only solution is to stop buying anything that is controlled by these organizations. A month of greatly diminished sales will bring about change.
A recording of "You have the right to x, but if you invoke that right, things are going to go way worse for you." should be grounds for charges of extortion.
A real fix is to recognize such behavior for what it is -- at least a battery under the color of authority. The cop needs to be held both civilly and criminally liable for his/her actions.
His [Lysenko's] experimental research in improved crop yields earned him the support of the prominent Soviet politician Joseph Stalin, especially following the famine and loss of productivity resulting from resistance to forced collectivization in several regions of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. In 1940 Lysenko became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR's Academy of Sciences, and the exercise of political influence and power further secured his anti-Mendelian doctrines in Soviet science and education. Scientific dissent from Lysenko's theories of environmentally acquired inheritance was formally outlawed in the Soviet Union in 1948.
Stalin followed and supported Lysenko, who was the antithesis of Darwin in particular, as well as science in general.
Hitler was a Catholic. The Church claims anyone who was baptized through their lives. Hitler never repudiated his Catholicism.
"By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
Stalin studied for the Orthodox priesthood until his father could no longer pay the tuition. This likely had a significant impact on Stalin's later denial of religion.
Certainly there are many reasons to castigate the behavior of pharmaceutical houses. But it makes no sense to attack the most effective medications, which incidentally create the smallest profit.
Please note that the utility of vaccines is under constant review for both safety and efficacy.
Your avoidance of flu vaccines is your personal opinion, but personal experience has nothing to do with epidemiology.
Perhaps you would like to bring up the laws of Thermodynamics, Maxwell's equations, and the age of the Universe. And apply these facts and one estimate to the incidence of autism?
Why? I have 6 I7 PCs, about 20 Raspberries, 4 PineA64s, and about a dozen others, and I am retired. Depending on the problem I am working on, all of the I7s and the Pines can be working on it at the same time. The others are just there for data gathering, actuator control and development.
Keeping track of the weather world wide is important to the navy, and probably eats all the CPU cycles from several super computers. Many of which are clustered PCs. A lot of other disciplines eat computers by the shipping container load.
Trump appears to have no internal self other than lashing out at anyone who he perceives as being a threat or insulting. Putting together various Trumpisms, it would appear that he sees the presidency as the ultimate means to destroy his enemies. Other than that, there is nothing to the man.
OTOH, Hillary is quite the miscreant. Biliary seem to have enriched themselves rather incredibly. Another wretch who has slithered her way around immoral and criminal acts. Her disdain for the application of the law to her behavior is an exemplar of sociopaths.
I will vote for Hillary, not because I have any appreciation for the woman, but rather because she obviously prepares her ploys in advance, and they are thought out. Trump acts and then reacts. No apparent thought involved. No perception of consequences, just the exercise of power by making others suffer.
I wish that there was someone worthy of being president. It is difficult to believe that in a nation of some 315 million that these are the best available. Makes me nauseous.
What is a sensor? That usage of that terminology is field dependent. It is also technology dependent. A cell spoofer accepts data, manipulates it, decides if it is relevant, and hopefully throws away the chaff.
Would you call a DS18B20 a sensor? Many years ago I would have called it a microcontroller. These days I call it a sensor. It accepts analog data, converts it to digital, possibly it to ASCII, decides if it has a valid reading, sends back an error message if not, and otherwise returns values, allows the user to specify resolution and more.
Human skin is among other things a multitude of sensors connected to a very complex computer. It can decide whether the impulse is pain or pleasure, if so, which sub variety. Even the intent of a stroking (good, bad) is in part first interpreted at the sensor level.
But I did make a mistake. I was really referring to the device that an agent roamed the halls with trying to pinpoint the location of the signal by sensing its strength.
I understand the point of claiming the NDA is an umbrella. What I don't understand is how they can withstand a judges order, or even a defense attorney's subpoena. I do know that several cases were dropped by the Department of (In)justice rather than cough up such documentation. But some have been adjudicated guilty as the fruit of this poisonous tree.
Unbreakable algorithms have been know for many years. With the advent of the PC one time pads have been trivial to create. A simple XOR, or possibly a more complex mutation, based on two numbers is unbreakable.
One specifying a particular CD, the other the starting bit. This trivializes the bane of prePC one time pads -- the complexity of passing on the pad definition.
Terrorists do lots of things. Generally wear shoes, eat, breath and possibly use encryption. Are we willing to ban shoes, food, and air to Americans because terrorist may use those things.
Terrorists win by inducing the leaders to exert more and more restrictions on the citizenry, and creating irrational fears in the population. I have reason to be more afraid of police and other LEOs than I do of terrorists. Police will kill far more people in the US this year than terrorists will. Indeed, including the deaths from 2001, police have killed more people, many innocents, in five years than terrorists have killed in the last 15.
IANAL, but can someone explain why an NDA is of greater legal power than the right of the defense to question the use of a device that has never gone through Daubert.
Or why, according to SCOTUS, a thermal imaging device can not be used without a warrant, but a cell site simulator can? After all they are both sensors for exactly the same electromagnet waves, just at different frequencies/energies? Might be different if the suspect was out in public, but he was in his home, while the LEO was in effect trespassing.
Or why judges have developed such an incredible desire to destroy the Fourth Amendment in particular when we have crime rates that are historically very low. And the number of LEOs has skyrocketed.
The FBI laboratories have always been held up as a shining example of outstanding forensic work. Having spent my career in the sciences, I am ashamed of what these mendacious reprobates do in the pursuit of convictions. Time after time their methods and "invented" tests could not survive a Daubert challenge were it not for the FBIs ability to force publication in journals.
Their perjuries at trial are pathological, and performed even when there was no reason to add to the mountain of evidence. The FBI claimed that its laboratories could discriminate between fertilizer lots at the trial of McVeigh. And that analysis of the residuals found at the scene tied to the lot that was purchased. Yet the test that was used could not distinguish between urine and fertilizer, nevermind lots of fertilizer.
Other tests have been "invented" and used at trial, when at least one of then could have been refuted by a high school algebra student a month or two into the course.
It varies from state to state. There is a difference between detention and arrest. Detention is only for a short period, and the individual can not be significantly moved. Once the police move an individual to say a police station, a short period has passed - probably 90 minutes in most cases, then the detention turns into an arrest.
In some states you can be arrested and held on a policeman's say so for 24 or 72 hours without charges being filed. But the rights of the accused vary between detention and arrest.
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The Y2K frenzy caused a lot of hardware and software to be replaced, but much of the data wasn't transferred. And now if you try to find a programmer who is familiar with say BDAM files, you will be luck, if the individual doesn't suffer from dementia. Never mind the hardware to run it on.
What is on personal PCs may be significant, but the data in large centers dwarfs it in volume and value.
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It is very nice of people who live in cities and suburbs are willing to put my life and that of my family in danger by arguing that firearms can be replaced by the police. First, the police take 20 minutes or more to get here, and secondly it appears that the police are even more dangerous than large carnivores.
While I do not hunt, others in my area are poor enough to really need the extra protein that hunting and fishing bring in. Having spent my career in Public Health, I have seen far too many infants and children that were suffering from malnutrition. To take away the food brought in by hunting would be another crippling and disabling blow to children and expecting mothers.
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The only solution is to stop buying anything that is controlled by these organizations. A month of greatly diminished sales will bring about change.
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Re: there's a simple fix
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Re: Re: In 2016? Really?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
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Re: Re: Re: Re: In 2016? Really?!
Hitler was a Catholic. The Church claims anyone who was baptized through their lives. Hitler never repudiated his Catholicism.
"By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
Stalin studied for the Orthodox priesthood until his father could no longer pay the tuition. This likely had a significant impact on Stalin's later denial of religion.
Perhaps the previous writer needs to revisit his
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Re: Re: In 2016? Really?!
Please note that the utility of vaccines is under constant review for both safety and efficacy.
Your avoidance of flu vaccines is your personal opinion, but personal experience has nothing to do with epidemiology.
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Re: Anaphylactic shock
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Keeping track of the weather world wide is important to the navy, and probably eats all the CPU cycles from several super computers. Many of which are clustered PCs. A lot of other disciplines eat computers by the shipping container load.
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OTOH, Hillary is quite the miscreant. Biliary seem to have enriched themselves rather incredibly. Another wretch who has slithered her way around immoral and criminal acts. Her disdain for the application of the law to her behavior is an exemplar of sociopaths.
I will vote for Hillary, not because I have any appreciation for the woman, but rather because she obviously prepares her ploys in advance, and they are thought out. Trump acts and then reacts. No apparent thought involved. No perception of consequences, just the exercise of power by making others suffer.
I wish that there was someone worthy of being president. It is difficult to believe that in a nation of some 315 million that these are the best available. Makes me nauseous.
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Re: sensor
Would you call a DS18B20 a sensor? Many years ago I would have called it a microcontroller. These days I call it a sensor. It accepts analog data, converts it to digital, possibly it to ASCII, decides if it has a valid reading, sends back an error message if not, and otherwise returns values, allows the user to specify resolution and more.
Human skin is among other things a multitude of sensors connected to a very complex computer. It can decide whether the impulse is pain or pleasure, if so, which sub variety. Even the intent of a stroking (good, bad) is in part first interpreted at the sensor level.
But I did make a mistake. I was really referring to the device that an agent roamed the halls with trying to pinpoint the location of the signal by sensing its strength.
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Re: NDA
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Re: Released into the Wild
One specifying a particular CD, the other the starting bit. This trivializes the bane of prePC one time pads -- the complexity of passing on the pad definition.
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Terrorists
Terrorists win by inducing the leaders to exert more and more restrictions on the citizenry, and creating irrational fears in the population. I have reason to be more afraid of police and other LEOs than I do of terrorists. Police will kill far more people in the US this year than terrorists will. Indeed, including the deaths from 2001, police have killed more people, many innocents, in five years than terrorists have killed in the last 15.
Who is more to be feared?
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IANAL, but can someone explain why an NDA is of greater legal power than the right of the defense to question the use of a device that has never gone through Daubert.
Or why, according to SCOTUS, a thermal imaging device can not be used without a warrant, but a cell site simulator can? After all they are both sensors for exactly the same electromagnet waves, just at different frequencies/energies?
Might be different if the suspect was out in public, but he was in his home, while the LEO was in effect trespassing.
Or why judges have developed such an incredible desire to destroy the Fourth Amendment in particular when we have crime rates that are historically very low. And the number of LEOs has skyrocketed.
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Their perjuries at trial are pathological, and performed even when there was no reason to add to the mountain of evidence. The FBI claimed that its laboratories could discriminate between fertilizer lots at the trial of McVeigh. And that analysis of the residuals found at the scene tied to the lot that was purchased. Yet the test that was used could not distinguish between urine and fertilizer, nevermind lots of fertilizer.
Other tests have been "invented" and used at trial, when at least one of then could have been refuted by a high school algebra student a month or two into the course.
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Re: police detention
In some states you can be arrested and held on a policeman's say so for 24 or 72 hours without charges being filed. But the rights of the accused vary between detention and arrest.
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