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can I find out when a drive was last connected or accessed?
Sensei replied to kenny1999's topic in Computer Help
There is a flash drive with a built-in keypad where you have to enter a PIN code to access it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/395407083462 so, unauthorized person will have difficulty at accessing it.. If you format a flash drive to ext4 instead of NTFS/FAT32/exFAT, it will not be accessible from a standard Windows OS, only from Linux. There are data encryption programs, which you might use.. 7zip and zip have built-in encryption algorithms. -
can I find out when a drive was last connected or accessed?
Sensei replied to kenny1999's topic in Computer Help
It depends on how it was connected to the computer, file system on drive, and which operating system you are using.. If the device was connected with your consent via a USB adapter and it is Windows the information about connected USB devices can be in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Enum / USBSTOR. https://www.cybrary.it/blog/usb-forensics-find-the-history-of-every-connected-usb-device-on-your-computer ps. Generally unreliable. Easy to fake if somebody has some malicious purpose. Some file systems store information about when a file was created, modified and last accessed. -
Which way of calling someone is more anonymous?
Sensei replied to kenny1999's topic in Other Sciences
GSM is an outdated and flawed protocol. You can pretend to be another number, any number.. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gsm+spoof Check this procedure: https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/how-to/make-spoofed-calls-using-any-phone-number-you-want-right-from-your-smartphone-0242383/ The apps you need for this are in the Apple Store and Google Play Store (and seem to have pretty good rankings). Try it out and tell us how/whether it works. I didn't use the phone for calling for about ten years. And it was just pizzas from third-party devices. -
The most basic equation of gravity does not require any significant knowledge, except the ability to think, measure and calculate. i.e., drop an object from a height d and measure the time it spent flying toward the ground. You get a few samples and derive the equation d=1/2 a t^2. The problem with people is that 1) there was no free public education for all people until the end of the 19th century 2) only a fraction of rich aristocrats (later also rich townsfolks) (a few who could read, write and count) were interested in science. Because of this, for centuries and millennia, there was slow development because they were more interested in their daily lives, and increase of their personal assets, not in the development of science. Nowadays, too, only a small fraction of the population is engaged in science. But because the population is huge, there is the largest absolute number of scientists in the world.
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..a brake on killing and stealing everything from all others.. ?
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People are very selective. They worry about things that have a tiny chance of killing them, and they don't worry about things that will have a huge chance of killing them..
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Mother Nature holds many secrets from Man or does She?
Sensei replied to JohnDBarrow's topic in General Philosophy
..between two electrically charged particles also exists a void.. The solid state of matter is an illusion (human perception of time etc.) that exists only in a state of very low energy. The longest physical experiment has been going on for 97 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment -
From nothing, you can only grow, gaining experience as you go.. without detection the rest is irrelevant.. They are useless if they warn days or weeks before a close flyby of an asteroid hundreds of meters in size. IOW, disallowing for any sensible reaction (which requires years of preparation, or in extremity months) Now you start with nothing. Then you build one, launch, place in orbit, then you build a second, launch, place in orbit, then you build a third, place in orbit.. then you repeat it over and over and over.. Endless work. Some will have problems sooner or later and need to be replaced. "Cloud" is "a dynamically allocated number of resources to meet current demand."
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How many times has a Powerball winner won twice or three or four in a row? You accept the risk every time you leave your apartment. You are more likely to die in a car accident than in any space accident. And you adjust to the most likely possibilities. And you solve them. Man has detected/confirmed one, so far, AFAIK. IOW, rephrasing the question, what if the ejected black hole is on its way toward Earth? You can learn about it with a similar delay as in the case of an ordinary space asteroid, or less. i.e. do you already have a plan against "ejected black holes"? https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-sees-possible-runaway-black-hole-creating-a-trail-of-stars/ Haven't currently existing telescopes shown their uselessness by failing to detect asteroids flying toward Earth? How many do you need to use cloud in the name? Is 10 a cloud? Is 20 a cloud?
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The simplest defense would be to harvest/mine a potentially dangerous solar system asteroid long before it is on a straight path to Earth, using transport rockets that take off in such a way that they are slightly displaced to another orbit, just because rocket(s) started from it. Most sensible for some metallic/solid asteroids. Mining on the asteroid would also allow nuclear weapons (useless here on Earth) to be placed there, in the core, just in case they are urgently needed before the asteroid is fully depleted but on its way to Earth. The best time to blow up such an asteroid is when it is on the other side of the sun from Earth, 300 million kilometers away. Before blowing it up, matter could be extracted from it in this way: Of course, to begin with, what is needed is proper detection of all objects orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 200 million km. What is needed, then, is a cloud of drones/satellites to do this.. Then extend distance in the future to further areas of solar system. Not exclusively in accretion disk orbit, but also sphere around the Sun, to detect also non-solar objects..
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nonstop barrage of full page ad walls
Sensei replied to TheVat's topic in Suggestions, Comments and Support
Chrome is a Google product, so this is to be expected.. Conflict of interest.. Currently on my mobile Android, on SFN, ads appear every few posts or threads. -
is a cheap budget phone good enough for my purpose?
Sensei replied to kenny1999's topic in The Lounge
LOL. I say the same thing about reading anything on a laptop screen 13.6".. Here the laptop is connected all day long to a docking station to which 40", 27", 24" monitors are connected.. I'll give you a tip: if the application does not allow you to zoom in/out, take a screenshot and in the image viewer you can zoom in/out.. There should be apps available in the Google Play store to zoom in/out parts of the screen. Old flat screen TVs are very energy hungry. Connect a wattmeter to measure it and calculate the cost. TV with 100W consumption, running 10h per day, with energy price $0.29 per kWh, in a year of use will cost you $106. BTW, you can connect modern smartphones to OTG adapter and then to hub and plug USB keyboard, mouse, external SDD, pendrive, ethernet etc. and mirror phone display on flat TV screen too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go Check it in the shop first. There are different variations. micro-B USB for old phones, USB-C v2.x for newer phones, USB-C v3.x for newest phones. -
is a cheap budget phone good enough for my purpose?
Sensei replied to kenny1999's topic in The Lounge
I bought mine just to write applications on them.. Try Kali NetHunter Rootless Edition https://www.kali.org/docs/nethunter/nethunter-rootless/ Better if you have a >6" display and/or an external display (mirror screen/share screen function). It is a "Linux emulator on an Android phone". So you have a mouse cursor, terminal, bash etc. etc. (obviously, with a rooted phone will work better, but it's better than nothing). -
The definition of the system obviously you can find in the C/C++ references https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/program/system https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/system "Defined in header <stdlib.h>"..
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Developing a general purpose chatbot like jarvis
Sensei replied to ALine's topic in Computer Science
@Ghideon A supercomputer ("cloud") for OpenAI/ChatGPT, etc. is needed to handle hundreds of thousands or millions of people talking with it simultaneously.. -
is a cheap budget phone good enough for my purpose?
Sensei replied to kenny1999's topic in The Lounge
Show the brand and, more importantly, the model ID, then we will be able to tell more.. Your question is a bit like asking "is a $10 book worth reading?".. Too ambiguous. There are games with high requirements and there are games without requirements. mp4 and especially mp3 does not require high requirements, unless it is 4K+. YouTube automatically selects the most optimal resolution for your device. Modern websites are quite demanding. They have many video ads on the screen at the same time.. If the device is too weak, enjoyment will be low and annoyance high. Most of the mobile operators here have dropped 2G and are in the process of dropping 3G, so older cell phones won't even connect to the Internet (if you plan to buy a used and/or leased device). The same thing will happen sooner or later with 4G (aka LTE). Older devices lack support and updates, so older mobile browsers may have trouble opening modern websites. Legacy devices with well-known bugs are trivial to hack.. -
Here we have an application that identifies mountains based by GPS, compass and comparing the line between them and the sky with an internal database. Then it draws an overlay on the camera view and provides detailed information about the mountain, such as name, elevation, distance from the user, etc. It records which mountains were conquered and which were left to conquer.
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..before you can walk, you must learn to crawl. Starting with difficult problems at the beginning causes loss of interest, burnout and overall failure.
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Here, the average electricity prices were: 2020 $0.17 per kWh 2021 $0.18 per kWh 2022 $0.19 per kWh 2023 $0.21 per kWh 2024 $0.29 per kWh
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It depends on development. One smart person with genetic knowledge and equipment would be enough. Theoretically, such a being would be able to artificially differentiate the offspring through genetic modification enough to avoid genetic diseases, or to make one-to-one clones without traditional sexual reproduction.. The creation of "Eve" from the body of "Adam" or vice versa is possible even with today's technology.
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Twice a day even a broken clock shows the correct time.. ps. Negs not from me, even if deserved, because as usual, you are yourself..
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Quote from your link: "Production Letters found that wealthy individuals produce more greenhouse gases than poor individuals, particularly due to their extensive use of private aircraft and yachts, as well as their massive real estate holdings all over the planet." (aviation and shipping (private aviation, and yachts? they are fractions of overall aviation and shipping) they are at the bottom of statistics of industries which cause majority of problems) In the case of a one-to-one relationship, this is obviously true. The more money you have, the more you buy, and the more you spend, the more waste you produce, and so on. But there are very few happy millionaires+ around the world, so the overall effect is microscopic. If all billionaires stopped using private jets, there would be no difference in the statistics, unlike stopping the aviation of average people (like during 9/11 or COVID-19). Should a millionaire or billionaire use a scheduled airline? Of course. It is good for their mental health and the environment. Although this is demagoguery.
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Receive information before it is sent
Sensei replied to GregJones's topic in Modern and Theoretical Physics
Do you receive an SMS response before sending a message with a question? Do you receive an email response before sending a question? If so, start playing the lottery.. or go to the casino.. -
That's pretty silly. There are 2781 billionaires with assets of $1 billion or more, and 8 billion people have less. These are assets, i.e. stocks, ownership of buildings, planes, boats, cars etc. Even if each billionaire consumed (what does that even mean?) like 100 ordinary people, or even 100,000 ordinary people, it would be a drop in the ocean.. A billionaire may give up flying private jets to avoid generating more greenhouse gases, but it won't change anything, because those extra tons of fuel are a microscopic amount compared to the rest of the Western world's population. Looking at the list of countries with daily food consumption, we see that the average American eats twice as much kcal (211%) as poor people in Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake Not some billionaire, not some millionaire, but the average John Doe (335 millions of them). This has ecologic, economic and health consequences. Ecological consequences because more CO2 and CH4 is created during production of twice as much food. Economical consequences because farmers, truck drivers, food industry workers, stock clerks, etc. have jobs. Health consequences - epidemic of obesity.. Analyzing where there is room for optimization is a good idea to start with a chart with industries: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
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..billions of years of lightning strikes make a difference.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx "Scientists Ott et al.[13] estimated that each flash of lightning on average in the several mid-latitude and subtropical thunderstorms studied turned 7 kg (15 lb) of nitrogen into chemically reactive NOx. With 1.4 billion lightning flashes per year, multiplied by 7 kilograms per lightning strike, they estimated the total amount of NOx produced by lightning per year is 8.6 million tonnes. However, NOx emissions resulting from fossil fuel combustion are estimated at 28.5 million tonnes.[14] "