Comment Re:May as well be honest (Score 3, Insightful) 143
It is once the law enforcement agents start battering people with night sticks.
It is once the law enforcement agents start battering people with night sticks.
Damn - I was stock piling bottled water and Spam for nothing!
Please Sir, can the Darleks attack instead? (As in SCO)
As for keeping H/Ss powered down - a good percentage will never spin up again, or mysteriously lose their servo tracks or something. How long have we had SATA? How much longer will we have it?
Tapes can be read after 30 years (I know, I have done this myself). Over 30 years, the drive technology may change a bit, so you probably need to keep your old drives, and SCSI is more than 30 years old. One drive will write a lot of tapes. Perhaps a few thousand before the heads wear out, and then its down to Ebay for a replacement because it is a previous generation (3 tapes a day for 3 years - 1,000).
If you were the compliance officer, where would you put the transactional data from your bank? On a USB stick under the bed is NOT the right answer. If your data is worth keeping. LTO is the way to go. Three copies, on 3 different tapes, in each of three different states.
Has anyone ever managed to READ a terabyte of paper tape? With CRC checks?
No, in most of the world, including the Mafia that is how life is. That is what company directors are paid for. They have the responsibility to see that these things cant and don't happen. In this case, they took no steps whatever to protect their customers private data which they had no legitimate reason to keep.
A more reasonable approach to the crime would have been to determine that (a) the data protection law was broken by the company and (b) as the law was broken, the concept of limited liability, as provided by civil society does not apply (c) therefore the directors are personally responsible for the loss of data and are jailed.
Disclosure: I am European.
There was a 6500 before the 6502 (I had one) but it used a weird technology that meant it drew almost all its power from the clock lines (two phase non-overlapping clock) and the interface voltages were also non-standard, so the 6502 was magnificently better. It was cheaper because of volume - the die size was almost exactly the same - the chip was almost exactly the same. (I think they got some major order before it was even available for general release), and there was a second source (Rockwell).
The 6800 was a superior processor if you did not have much string processing to do. The 68000 was an entirely different beast.
All the new patents are for insignificant mods to already trivial inventions. However, they are worth huge amounts of money because [lawyers]. Or the books are cooked by accountants.
Or I have drunk too much brandy. Not sure which, but I will know in the morning.
I have not conducted any research over whether politicians are stupider than they look. It appeared relatively pointless.
A previous research project of mine showed 100% of heroin addicts ate cornflakes at lest once as children.
Go back to your bedroom. Loads of people think five years is still a child. I am writing this on a ten year old laptop, and regularly use a 10 year old Nokia phone (I have a new Samsung, but quite often I need to be away from the mains for more time than 3 spare batteries allow.
Electronics does not rot or rust, and in the absence of a hard disk or CDrom drive, should last 30 years.
I see no reason why Google should have to maintain old devices. However, I do think that if a manufacturer EOLs a device, which might pose a security threat to others (by hosting malware) they should be required by law to release all the technical details that could possibly be required by third parties to support the device They cannot have it both ways.
You mean everyone else in the same Security Guard training school? Surely there is a good chance of that being the case!
why do they care what browser you're using simply to logon?
If they actually cared there probably would not actually be a problem.
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson