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How to Recover Deleted Files on Mac
We delete useless files from our Mac's hard drive in our daily lives. But sometimes important files can disappear along with the useless ones. This can occur to anyone, and most of us usually put up with it, thinking that the file is gone forever. However, there is a way out. You can recover deleted files with special software, even after the Trash was emptied.
Can my Mac recover deleted files?

No, it cannot. Unfortunately, Mac OS does not have any built-in data recovery tools. BUT there is a variety of data recovery software that can help you get back your precious files.
When you remove files from the Trash in Mac OS, they are not gone forever. Actually such deletion just frees space for other data, whereas the removed file info still remains on the hard drive. If the deleted files are not yet overwritten by other files, then there's a good chance to restore them. That's why you should refrain from using your Mac until you find a way to raise your files from the dead.

How to undelete files Mac

Actually deleted files recovery is not the work of a moment. Let's see what file recovery software do when restoring your files.
First of all it searches your hard drive for ALL retrievable files. In most cases you cannot just enter the name of your file into the search, so better arm yourself with patience.
Once the search is finished, you will see the list of all photos, music, documents, movies and other types of files that can be restored. Now your task is to extract your files from the numerous search results.
When the file is found, you should select where to recover it. You cannot recover the file to the same drive where it was lost. Therefore choose another volume or some external storage device such as a USB flash drive.
Finally, activate the data recovery mechanism. The program will collect the tiny pieces of information, byte by byte, and arrange them to the initial state to recover deleted files.
To avoid the lengthy process of data retrieval, you’d better mark your important files as read-only, or create backup copies.
It has never been easier to restore deleted files on your Mac and best of all, you can scan your hard drive or device and see which files can be recovered for free!
The boomers, however, still vote. They're probably one of the largest voting groups by now. Just something to keep in mind. Not everyone is like us.
You fail at vacationing, IMO, if you just do a week or so at a tourist resort in a tourist destination. Just based on seeing a lot of people who do very stressful work for a few months or years (I know a lot, thanks to war zone contracting and startupsa). The people who do a week and then back aren't as happy long term as the people who run away for up to a year.

To really recover, it is better to live like a local somewhere for a longer period of time. Assuming you are really burned out, it isn't like you are getting real work done anyway. You can also ease back into working from a remote location after a few weeks or months, maybe on another project.

Plenty of places where you can do this cost effectively (under $25 per day), the key being getting out of the tourist economy.
It's because too many things are defined in terms of UTC; if you start saying, "Okay, let's start using TAI from now on.", now you have the complexity of trying to remember whether you're supposed to use TAI or UTC for this particular protocol and/or data format, so in practice people will stick with UTC there.

On the other hand, removing leap seconds from UTC is trivial - they're inserted manually anyway, so you just stop doing it.
I disagree, if we sign a treaty and find that it is in direct contrast to rights afforded by US law, we should either nullify the treaty or correct the US law not back door legislation via signing a treaty and have the judicial branch overrule the US law. They are compiling a strategy to utilize this very tactic with the UN gun bill. To me it reeks of a way for the legislative branch to dodge accountability for unsavory laws.
It's equivalent in an ethical sense

In terms of quantifiable impact, I think there is a clear ethical distinction between flipping bits on a disk and taking possession of material property.

You're depriving another of something that is rightfully theirs, control over their creative content.

Yes, but "control over creative content" is a nebulous concept that bares only a thin resemblance to things that we can determine are absolutely present (or not present, as in the case of theft)

Let's not get pedantic here, lest we devolve into discussing what "to steal the spotlight" means.

This is exactly my point. I don't think the difference between "to steal the spotlight" and "to steal a spotlight" is a pedantic distinction.
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"Stealing" generally connotes taking something away from someone else. With piracy, a potential sale is lost: the pirate might have bought the item were it not available illegally for free. With theft, there is both potential sale loss and property loss: if you steal a car from Toyota, they lose the ability to sell the car to you, and they also lose access to the car itself (which prevents them from selling it to anyone else). So Toyota loses twice, whereas the RIAA loses only once.

Of course, the ethical difference is probably larger than simply double. To use an old saying, let us assume that:

potential sale = a bird in the bush

and,

access to physical product = a bird in the hand

As we know from the ancient algorithm,

a bird in the hand = 2 * (a bird in the bush)

Piracy loses a potential sale, and theft loses a potential sale and access to a physical product. Therefore, given the following equation:

a bird in the bush = x * (a bird in the hand + a bird in the bush)

We should be able to solve for x, where x is the amount that piracy is as morally reprehensible as theft.

a bird in the bush = x * (2 * a bird in the bush + a bird in the bush)
a bird in the bush = x * (3 * a bird in the bush)
a bird in the bush / 3 = x * a bird in the bush
1/3 = x

As you can see, piracy is clearly 1/3rd as bad as theft. But, I have a feeling that the above algorithm still doesn't sufficiently illustrate the ethical difference between piracy and theft. Let's try again:

With piracy, the RIAA has lost the potential sale to the individual pirate. However, they still can sell the same DRMed AAC file to someone else. With our theft example, not only has Toyota lost the ability to sell to the thief: they've also lost the ability to sell that car to anyone else in the world. Therefore, if

X = likelihood of sale to one individual

and we assume that reduced likelihood of a potential future sale (which is the RIAA's claim of loss) is equivalent to some loss of income, Toyota's lost income is:

X * world population * price

And the RIAA has lost:

X * 1 * price

Meaning that piracy, at the time of writing, is approximately 7 billion times better than theft, and increases in its relative virtue at every moment.
Not everyone is a hacker.

I see this in some of my co-workers who only code for a living, not for a passion. They go home to their TVs and Netflix and raise their families. They could care less about Hacker News and the signal/noise ratio of the content.

I see this nowadays - people just expect things to work - my niece (under 6 yrs of age) will go to photo frames and swipe across them, expecting something to happen. From a very early age, she expects touch screen interfaces.

I see this in my parents when I have to do technical support (they refuse to move from Windows - Go Microsoft!) - and have to explain to them that a computer operating system is a dynamic system and, yes, the printer will stop working- just because it worked yesterday doesn't mean it will work today.

When I try explaining to my dad the process for fixing something on the computer, he just doesn't want to do it or can't. He wants a step by step by step process. But I can't give it to him. Because the process is finding out the process.

Isn't that what hacking is?

I would argue, based on a non-scientific sample of some of my friends talking about TV shows they watch and the restaurant food they go to, that the world is divided into producers and consumers. The catch here is that everyone is a producer and everyone is a consumer.

Pre-digital distribution, it was very hard for someone to produce at scale (the Gutenberg press revolutionized information access - previously books were hand-copied, a process taking months if not years).

Now, with digital distribution, people who can produce works that can be copied (sometimes illegally, to detriment of the author's profit) can make a profit off their creativity and hard work. They can produce at scale (software, CDs). Mozart died broke because he lived in an age before distribution, before he could reach an audience that would appreciate and pay - concerts were the only means of distribution - couldn't load his tunes on your iPod.

As hackers, we can produce something that can be copied digitally and distributed digitally. From Youtube Instant search to TwitterVision - people can consume (even if just for free) - what we can hack. Hacking isn't always fun though - it's not easy (my dad, potential CS students who drop out because it isn't as easy as they thought) which is a subject for another time.

I'm a hacker - though not a great one - I love being able to modify and create things. To create is to live, for me.
'required' (if only for the sentence starting with "As a time-nut, a small and crazy fraternity") reading: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1967009
I didn't know about Vandermonde, its always nice to learn something.

I'm no mathematician, and my understanding of the subject is limited. How is the discrete Fourier transform unrelated to its continuous counterpart? Their definitions are extremely similar...

From a semantic point of view, it is nice that all these transform bear the same name, but historically, it is a bit unfair to attribute Fourier analysis to Fourier, who didn't discover it (even though he greatly developed the subject).

I know there's an eponymous law that describes this phenomenon, and it is of course not named after its inventor, but I can't remember its name.
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I think a hackers pad should really have a <code>-button (monospaced font). Otherwise, great tool.
Sorry this deserves dramatic pose. Hackers are not immune from the human condition. What of the irrational triumphs? Of serendipity and of chance? To believe all things solvable through logic, science, and engineering is hubris. Emotions matter. Manipulation matters. Hackers excel at local optimization, but without the turbulence, the conflict, and the occasional "kick" delivered by those that think differently, we would face a gradual descent into extinction.
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If I was a kid and I saw A and a bucket, I'd reach into my pocket real quick! B's cool too, though. Superman-esk.
Good luck.
> * Society can function just fine with unlimited PirateBay activity. It already does! Society cannot function with unlimited real-life thievery.*

What does "unlimited" mean here? Does it mean "if everybody torrented" and "if everybody stole"?

If so, you're basically stating that there should be no IP. How would a writer or filmaker make money then? After they wrote a book, would they just publish it online and hope to stay ramen profitable by running ads in the background? But wait! That wouldn't even work... because if everybody torrented, nobody would even see the advertisements on the creator's website!

If LouisCK released his video "Live at the Beacon Theater" and nobody bought it, and everybody torrented it, would Louis be likely to release another one without DRM?

Would society truly "function just fine" if the creation of intellectual property netted the creator nothing? (I'm assuming that torrenting doesn't net the creator anything -- a valid assumption given the torrents I've seen)

Ah, of course, I'm misunderstanding your usage of the word "unlimited". Perhaps you meant that currently ThePirateBay is relatively "unrestricted"?

In that case, you're stating that at least some people will be willing to pay for intellectual property (and these people manage to keep the creators afloat), while there will not be enough people who will pay for physical property if stealing of physical objects were condoned. Why's that?

The convenience argument states that people are willing to pay for music if it's A) at a reasonable price and B) easy to obtain. If that applies to IP, why doesn't that apply to physical objects as well? It seems like you believe in the convenience argument, so I'll attack that right now. The convenience argument doesn't work with your proof at all. You're stating that the fundamental difference between IP and physical objects that causes a society that condones a stealing of the latter to "not function" is because stealing a bottle of Coke from CVS is easier than paying for it. Bullshit. Do you really think it's easier to steal?

Ah, maybe you don't believe in the convenience argument anymore. Tell me why people nowadays are still willing to pay for IP (even though they can get it off of ThePirateBay) but wouldn't be willing to pay for a physical item.
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Yes, let us ignore the conclusions of the individuals that thought long and hard about the issue, and just go with what "common sense" (aka "the gut") tells us.

Allowing "theft" be defined as depriving someone of something turns pretty much every crime in existence into "theft". Maybe we should just have 1 commandment - thou shalt not steal?
I'd like slightly disagree. I do think more people needs to be analytical but without empathy and morality all hacker qualities would be rendered meaningless and pointless.

As a hacker without empathic skills I could pick any goal and ruthlessly implement it:
Goal: Need more organ donors
1. People are unwilling to donate organs
2. Force all prisoners on death row to give away they organs for staying in death row accommodation
3. Kill them in ways that doesn't hurt the organs (they might suffer some inconvenience)
4. Harvest organs

As Charlie Chaplin in Great Dictator said:
"More than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness, without these qualities life would be violent and all would be lost."
I've just been to India for a month. You can live there for 15$ a day.
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I'd like to see someone build a learn-to-code site around Yahoo Pipes; where you'd learn about each module by making something cool and useful. Later, once you have a basic understanding of what can be done, you'd work backwards to do the same by coding. The problem I've had with most of the online tutorials is that at the end of the day I don't have anything I can actually use.
You can sell rights to be the first viewer/reader/consumer. With a world where all digital content is almost free, first-time exclusivity can increase highly its value.
People off the net and unaware that this was an issue are now aware that there's something that large swathes of the internet are kicking up a fuss over. How many will get curious and investigate? More than none, I imagine.
Why don't we recalibrate the atomic clocks, that are systematically running late?

I assume that the variations in the Earth's rotations are not predictable, and that it is this impossible to do it exactly, but they could be conservatively slowed down in order to increase the delay between leap seconds.
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Heck, I would pay money.
you adapt, or you die.
I just wrote my congressman regarding SOPA
Hey there.

I am the founder of an internet startup and also a constituent of yours (actually I happen to live in the same building as your office in Brooklyn). This is the first time I've ever written to my congressman, and I'm doing it because I have a very important concern about the SOPA bill that is being debated right now.

I completely understand the frustration that the content industry must have with foreign-based sites allowing US citizens to download illegal content. The foreign sites and registrars are beyond the jurisdiction of the USA. However, this completely does not explain why we must turn due process on its head in SOPA. My suggestion is simple:

Why not invite the foreign site to participate in an arbitration here under US law, and be given a chance to take steps to avoid getting cut off from US search engines, ad networks, and so forth? If they ignore or refuse, then the US attorney general (or the ITC) can take unilateral action, forbidding US businesses to do business with them. But simply giving them (as well as the intermediaries) a chance to participate in a legal process BEFORE taking unilateral action will rectify the most egregious problem that has everyone up in arms. Even criminals in US have the right to a fair trial before being convicted. And under SOPA, a foreign site wrongly cut off will lose an incredible amount of business yet have practically no recourse unless it proves that the other party knowlingly misrepresented the site as "dedicated to the theft of US property" -- something that is practically impossible to do. This lack of due process will encourage frivolous claims under the guise of "oh, it seemed that way at the time."

If a site has a following large enough to matter, it means that it has been growing for a while. The extra month or so to get a hold of who exactly is doing what, and giving them a chance to decide to get on the right side of US law before cutting them off, will not only prevent us from shooting first and missing, but also enable us to discover and better deal with the site and ALL its subsidiaries and connected organizations. The principle is: it takes time to build big operations, take the time to understand what is going on before taking action.

Simply put: by changing one thing in SOPA, it would become much more palatable.

Thank you for your time, and I would really appreciate to know what if anything comes of my email.

Sincerely,
Greg Magarshak
Qbix, Inc.
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This is really interesting for me. I've infringed a bit of copyright in my time. Cassettes when I was young, VHS from TV (I cut the ads out - does that count?) my high school physics teacher gave us photocopied exercises with clear copyright notices in the footer, IRC, Napster, torrents.

I remember before it was called stealing, because we were doing it without mass attention on a young internet. I've learnt to gloss over stealing and theft when reading about piracy because I've always seen it as hyperbole because I knew the net before was labeled that. I put it in the same basket as hacker vs. cracker, as much as I wanted everyone to know the difference - they don't care and its a boring argument.

It seems (correct me if I'm wrong) that people have been exposed to copyright infringement == stealing from so much media for so long that it is accepted by default. It didn't used to be this way.
I watched Gattaca again this weekend. This sure seems like a simpler option (assuming it affects the urine) than everything the main characters had to go through (collecting and storing blood and urine samples, making finger pouches for blood prick tests, etc.)!
Get Virtualbox for mac, buy a very cheap (sealed, legal copy) Windows98 or XP CD from Ebay and install all those in your OSX.

Use your Windows only software in there
oh, and PS: I didn't speak about the DNS because they already took it out of the bill :)
I think short term vacationing is fine for preventing burn-out, but yes I agree to recover fully from burn-out a longer term holiday would be ideal (though obviously not everyone has this luxury.)
What an insensitive comment. You fail at vacationing. The man was trying to recover.
You had to write it in 1s and 0s ? We only had 0s at the time !
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Not very it would seem given that "pipa" does not mean "pipe" in the sense TPB are using it but rather only in the sense of a "pipe for smoking". A pipe in the sense TPB use it would be "rör". But relating the combination "trash" and "pipe for smoking" to their line of reasoning seems at least a little harder/more far fetched.
Justice Breyer can’t by any reasonable measure be described as a “conservative” Justice relative to the current Court, and “conservative appointee” is a pretty useless (or in this case grossly misleading) label.
When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading COMMUNISM!

http://www.twopotscreamer.com/images/when_you_pirate_mp3s_yo...
If all my software is only available via a cloud service then it would restrict my freedom compared to having a local copy to the extent that I have no control over any changes to the software.

If they release an update that I don't like for example then it will not be possible for me to retain the older version.

If they decide to discontinue the software or go bust etc then I will lose access to it, this would not happen if I had my own copy.

If I have all my data saved on their servers then I am at their whim as I don't have the files myself so that makes it harder to move to another piece of software should they change their ToS in a way I do not agree with.

If I have confidential data stored with them and their servers are broken into then this causes issues that could be avoided by holding it on my own computer firewalled away from the internet.

And crucially I will not be able to access it without a working internet connection.

This may be the way of the future whether I like it or not but I wouldn't hail it completely as a good thing in terms of freedom or digital rights etc.

I actually find it somewhat ironic that a lot of the best FOSS work (Linux , Apache , Python etc) that was intended to create a software freedom utopia is actually being used primarily to build walled gardens where you have no control over the software.
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> I see this nowadays - people just expect things to work...

> When I try explaining to my dad the process for fixing something on the computer, he just doesn't want to do it or can't. He wants a step by step by step process. But I can't give it to him. Because the process is finding out the process.

This is reminiscent of The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The conflict between the romantic and the classic.
"Google benefits from some copyright infringement in the sense that it means they're a better default search engine, since some fraction of queries are for copyright-violating content."

What? Google doesn't benefit from copyright infringement if it goes out of its way to make infringing material difficult to find.

Google doesn't index infringing material because some people search for that, and returning them the results they're looking for is good for Google's bottom line. Rather, Google indexes infringing material because infringing material is out there, and Google indexes everything, because that is easier than not indexing everything ( see also: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php ), and returning the best matches it can is what it does.
Not really a helpful answer, doesn't address any of my points.

I think "adapt or die" has the risk of killing a lot of good business models that have so far provided us with some great content/software etc.

I have yet to be provided with a good business model for content in a post copyright world that can be made to work for every type of content that we currently enjoy.