sandycheeks

The part that I find most interesting as a former enterprise systems administrator from the 90's is that the employer owns the device but does not have a pass code for it. Is this the normal IT policy for these kinds of devices?

I always wondered if the problem with the shaped charge was that the battery served to keep it from somehow being mechanically detonated rather than the battery being used to provide power for detonation. Seemed like the kind of red herring this bomb maker would use but I can't imagine how that would be hidden from x-rays.

As a small business owner, my main concern is that there are no assurances that my competitors large and small will not be able to see my contracts/suppliers/budgets/sales/processes at some point due to this ambiguous 'disclosure' mentioned or perhaps through some flaw that allows access to the data collected from the computers used in my small business.

I must be missing something here since I know Microsoft wants Windows to be used for businesses and the privacy of this information is vital to that.

I received the request to sign this recently and while I think it is good, I was concerned about its effect on the ability to pursue research into creating autonomous weapons that seek and destroy autonomous weapons. I don't know where to draw the line. Unlike nuclear and chemical WMD the barrier to entry in this may be pretty low in the near future. Therefore my greatest concern is for defense. Though I don't want the machines made at all, that won't stop others from making them. It's a tough one.

Most private investigators must be spending their Sunday night trying to get everything they can on this. They can and will make money on this data.

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Wow! Derek has been entertaining me online for nearly thirty years now and instead of that realization making me feel old, it actually makes me feel kind of young. The parts without the words "I" or "me" sprinkled all over them made it an insightful article from someone who's opinion is based on substantial knowledge of this subject. Good or bad. Hi Derek, I know you must be reading these :)

I had hoped for a happier ending to the 0xAA55 poem.

Now I will wait for correspondence from young explorers who find me via my old 'fix a raw drive' blog post. I expect a few.

I have tried for two years to monetize my programming blog without making $100 in that entire time while I make a nice living from ads on my other sites.

I save RAW hard drives via a post I wrote 2 years ago. It's not really a programming post on my programming blog but like forums, you have little control over the demographic that ends up flocking to your blog. Especially if it is eclectic like mine.

There are thousands of visitors daily to the post and I get emails and try to answer comments everyday.

Ads, affiliate links, Amazon, eBay, Adsense, BSA, direct ads, CPA, CPM, nothing works on my programming blog with thousands of visitors each day. Extensive a/b testing is inconclusive due to lack of actions.

So now I only have a bitcoin address in that particular post and hope one day to get something from that :)

Ads do not work for all niches on the internet. Unless, of course, you want to deceive your users and trick them into clicking on something that is not what they think it is. That always works, for awhile at least.

In the meantime, I'll keep helping the people who end up there for free as best I can because in the end, that is in line with what I have hoped the internet would be.

Or perhaps simply for a challenge.

If they gave over a third ownership to EFF things would become interesting. Don't see it happening though.

I thought it might follow backwards in space as well as time but when the book The Physics of Time Reversal by Robert G. Sachs came out in 1987 it made me skeptical of that possibility. I haven't followed the theory of CP violation for many years so this may not be a pertinent point anymore.

When I was younger I thought a lot about the physics of traveling back in time but I always seemed to hit a brick wall with spatial coordinates.

Where we are in the universe today is very far from where we were in the universe yesterday based on the movement of the earth alone. Add to that the movement of our solar system, galaxy, cluster, supercluster and movements I am not even aware exist and it becomes really far away. Grandpa would probably be light years away from me and my time machine.

Am I missing something here, because I've never heard this mentioned by anyone else?

Excellent response.

There should probably be an open discussion on the forum engaging members and other moderators where the banned user can see it. Let them discuss the ban as well as the subsequent harassment and honor their decision.

I am a former admin of a large forum. I let trolls and spammers wear me down over years and regret that I did not handle some things openly.