Of course, untold numbers of people have experienced the personal calamity of losing the contents of their home computers, thanks to hard-drive crashes.
In principle, I agree, it can be frustrating when you're on the tube Wi-Fi, and you can see a page very nearly load, only to lose signal and lose the content.
The cold boot attack exploits the remanence effect that causes data in DRAM modules not to lose the content immediately in case of a power cut-off.
Asked about his son's Nascar hobby, the father said that his son did lose the contents of his garage, including an all-terrain vehicle that he had been working on.
For all their familiarity with gristle and sinew and the bright-purple discovered interior of a body, the boys had come into the station looking pale and bewildered, and we found ample evidence at the crime scene of their having lost the contents of their stomachs when confronted with the corpse.
Anthony D'Agosta, 55, an unemployed private sanitation worker, lost the contents of his basement recreation room to a rush of water that he said went from ankle-deep "to four feet in a matter of two minutes and just kept on coming," eventually reaching eight feet.
How bad would it be to lose the contents of your hard drive?
"While they are losing the Starz content later this week, and that could cause some people to cancel subscriptions to the service, the library will otherwise be generally improving throughout the year and then having a more significant step up with 'House of Cards' in late '12 and 'Arrested Development' and Dreamworks films in '13," said Michael Olson, an analyst at Piper Jaffray.
One strategy to avoid this difficulty (of losing the physical content of a scientific theory due to the use of modal operators) is to employ an actuality operator.
