If you are a parent, you should be monitoring *everything* your kids do on the internet. Until they are at least teenagers, they don't even deserve the "right to privacy" in their IM/chat conversations.
At a certain age, you should probably start backing off on monitoring their chat, and then what sites they visit. But until they are 18, there is *no* reason why you shouldn't be monitoring all of their social networking profiles. You should be sure you have "friend" access to look at all their pictures, etc (and if they don't want you on their friend list as yourself, just make a profile for the dog and use that).
Color me stupid, but I don't understand why anyone would care how much bandwidth per atendee is available at a hacker convention. You don't got to *do* hacking, you go to learn about hacking from people in the same building (thus requiring little to no B/W). And from what I have heard about Defcon you are best to not bring any of your own devices at all, lest you end up hacked yourself and on the wall of shame.
It is possible to own a paid off car that must be replaced. I would venture that most people who are looking at buying a car have pretty much committed to buying one, its just a question of which one.
Your math was completely un-understandable:
Ignoring all interest payments, let's say you pay cash for the car (a best case scenario):
If you save $26 per week on gas, but you paid lets say $5000 more for the car. That means you earn back that money you spent on the car from the gas after about 200 weeks, or almost 4 years.
Thats a pretty long time, but not unrealistic. You should probably be keeping the car for at least 5 and maybe more like 8 or longer years.... So if you kept it for 8 years you'd actually save $5000.
Are these guys terrible at their jobs, or do the iPhone and Blackberry come with a way to remotely execute "shred"? Most of the data that is remotely "wiped" should be perfectly salvageable....
You're probably thinking of fluorent, which is an inert (doesn't conduct electricity) liquid used for a variety of tasks. That'd be a good idea except:
1) That stuff is usually really expensive, which wouldn't be so bad except...
2) The stuff evaporates really fast, and
3) If you get any dirt/etc in it then you will need to filter it or completely replace it.
In case that wasn't a rhetorical question, the answer is:
Because it is a computer class (probably part of a CompSci degree), not sociology/psychology. While targeting the user is a perfectly good way to go about breaking in to something, that topic area isn't very practical for computer science. I think the point of TFA is that the class teaches a lot more than "this is how to kill McAfee, now go run amok!" It is a good opportunity to think outside the box, and targeting the user is very much inside the box, and very low tech.
I'd be kind of pissed if I took a computer security class and it was all about social engineering.
Do not confuse regulation of "the internet" with regulation of "communications technology." No one in their right mind seriously supports regulating the internet (basically censorship). What the telcoms want is to make more money off of the technology they deployed. Do not confuse the two arguments, they are very different.
Just saying someone is "willfully corrupt" does not make it true. The telcoms have a legitimate right to do whatever they want with their backbones. They payed and continue to pay for them. What the telcoms do not own is the information on running on their backbones and the government needs to reconcile "free information" with non-free transmission. Simply telling the telcoms that they no longer control what happens on their backbones is not an option, and the sooner everyone gets on the same page with this whole issue the better off we will all be.
1) Make simple web page linking (with your Amazon affiliate account) to CS books used by several big name schools.
2) Post story on/. making your web page sound interesting or useful even if it isn't.
3) Profit!
Cheating, as the author suggests, is a bad idea. The company is doing this for a reason... to protect themselves from extra BS when they get sued.
If you don't want to have to go through that extra BS (believe me, you don't) and/or you don't want your company or yourself getting in even more legal trouble when they deny something exists (because it shouldn't according to their policy) when it really does (because you didn't follow the policy) then don't be an ass. Do what they tell you like a good little minion.
Don't air conditioning units tend to produce a bit of water condensation during cooling? I guess we'll have to start emptying the water out of our PCs....
Actually, it may be easier than you think to sell a vote. Read more here: How Secret is Your Ballot? (1/3). Very interesting stuff. There are lots of ways in which someone can verify that you voted the way you claimed.
Worse than just selling your vote, this can be used for voter coercion.
Some people think paper is just the perfect solution for voting, but really it has many problems that can be solved by electronic voting when done carefully. (And of course, when done haphazardly electronic voting has many problems that paper voting does not).
We all know the internet is a series of tubes, like water pipes. But you aren't thinking outside the box. Instead of building larger water mains, these cities should just use catapults to throw "packets" of water through the air to parts of the city, thus reducing the load on the old "pipe" infrastructure.
It occurred to me recently when they started charging to bring almost any luggage with you at all, that actually they are trying to make flying such a ridiculous process that people will just stop doing it unless they really need to.
Think about it. The new fees on checked luggage are just going to cause people to push the envelope of carry on bags to the point the boarding/unboarding process is unbearable. Add on to that the 3-1-1, you can't bring liquids with you at all if you can't check baggage and you're not allowed to carry them on. Now they also are going to be looking at basically naked pictures of you as you get on the plane, and, oh yeah, don't forget you are paying a lot of money for this poor treatment, and soon the sodas won't even be free.
No one in their right mind would fly at all under these circumstances, and that's exactly what they want.
The article did not say that the data values were being read from the machine that was rebooted. It actually said that the rebooting triggered a problem in which values could not be read.
No, actually, the summary says "when the updated computer rebooted, it reset the data on the control system, causing safety systems to errantly interpret the lack of data as a drop in water reservoirs"... That doesn't really have much to do with the reboot itself (causing the computer to be unreachable or whatever) but that the data wasn't persistent. Completely different.
Touch isn't very useful when you have room for a mouse and/or keyboard. Big and bulky desktops don't have much use for touch (except when used in place of a mouse, but that has been going on for a long time).
The reason touch has become so popular lately is because it has only been recently that powerful chips have become small enough and that power (batteries) have become light enough that we can find use for this stuff right in our pockets--where a mouse/keyboard just isn't practical. (Unless you believe in thumb keyboards, but those are very cumbersome IMO.)
According to wikipedia, "The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States government, administered under the U.S. Department of Defense. " and "The Department includes the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, as well as non-combat agencies such as the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency."
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
* Defense Intelligence Agency
* Defense Security Service
* Counterintelligence Field Activity
* National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
* National Reconnaissance Office
* National Security Agency
The summary is another one of those "OMFG THE GOVERNMENT I OUT TO GET ME" so common on slashdot now... but really the problem here is that the media allowed this to happen. I would be disappointed if the government didn't try to leverage its position to get favorable news. God knows, everyone else on earth would do so or already does so (remember hearing about how so many of these canned "news" reports that appear on local news around the country are really corporate agendas).
The media are the ones who are wrong here, not the pentagon.
there's reason to think that not even a quantum computer could solve the crucial class of NP-complete problems efficiently. Aaronson contends that any method for solving NP-complete problems in polynomial time may violate the laws of physics and that this may be a fundamental limitation on technology no different than the second law of thermodynamics or the impossibility of faster-than-light communication.
Quantum computers have already proven they can do factoring (which is an NP-complete problem) in polynomial time. We know for sure that this is not a "violation of the laws of physics," because it has already been done!
It is also very important to note that the missile they are shooting it with does not have a warhead. They are basically just hitting it really hard, hoping to break it into pieces.
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If you are a parent, you should be monitoring *everything* your kids do on the internet. Until they are at least teenagers, they don't even deserve the "right to privacy" in their IM/chat conversations.
At a certain age, you should probably start backing off on monitoring their chat, and then what sites they visit. But until they are 18, there is *no* reason why you shouldn't be monitoring all of their social networking profiles. You should be sure you have "friend" access to look at all their pictures, etc (and if they don't want you on their friend list as yourself, just make a profile for the dog and use that).
Color me stupid, but I don't understand why anyone would care how much bandwidth per atendee is available at a hacker convention. You don't got to *do* hacking, you go to learn about hacking from people in the same building (thus requiring little to no B/W). And from what I have heard about Defcon you are best to not bring any of your own devices at all, lest you end up hacked yourself and on the wall of shame.
It is possible to own a paid off car that must be replaced. I would venture that most people who are looking at buying a car have pretty much committed to buying one, its just a question of which one.
Your math was completely un-understandable: Ignoring all interest payments, let's say you pay cash for the car (a best case scenario): If you save $26 per week on gas, but you paid lets say $5000 more for the car. That means you earn back that money you spent on the car from the gas after about 200 weeks, or almost 4 years.
Thats a pretty long time, but not unrealistic. You should probably be keeping the car for at least 5 and maybe more like 8 or longer years.... So if you kept it for 8 years you'd actually save $5000.
Are these guys terrible at their jobs, or do the iPhone and Blackberry come with a way to remotely execute "shred"? Most of the data that is remotely "wiped" should be perfectly salvageable....
You're probably thinking of fluorent, which is an inert (doesn't conduct electricity) liquid used for a variety of tasks. That'd be a good idea except:
1) That stuff is usually really expensive, which wouldn't be so bad except...
2) The stuff evaporates really fast, and
3) If you get any dirt/etc in it then you will need to filter it or completely replace it.
In case that wasn't a rhetorical question, the answer is:
Because it is a computer class (probably part of a CompSci degree), not sociology/psychology. While targeting the user is a perfectly good way to go about breaking in to something, that topic area isn't very practical for computer science. I think the point of TFA is that the class teaches a lot more than "this is how to kill McAfee, now go run amok!" It is a good opportunity to think outside the box, and targeting the user is very much inside the box, and very low tech.
I'd be kind of pissed if I took a computer security class and it was all about social engineering.
Do not confuse regulation of "the internet" with regulation of "communications technology." No one in their right mind seriously supports regulating the internet (basically censorship). What the telcoms want is to make more money off of the technology they deployed. Do not confuse the two arguments, they are very different.
Just saying someone is "willfully corrupt" does not make it true. The telcoms have a legitimate right to do whatever they want with their backbones. They payed and continue to pay for them. What the telcoms do not own is the information on running on their backbones and the government needs to reconcile "free information" with non-free transmission. Simply telling the telcoms that they no longer control what happens on their backbones is not an option, and the sooner everyone gets on the same page with this whole issue the better off we will all be.
1) Make simple web page linking (with your Amazon affiliate account) to CS books used by several big name schools. 2) Post story on /. making your web page sound interesting or useful even if it isn't.
3) Profit!
Cheating, as the author suggests, is a bad idea. The company is doing this for a reason... to protect themselves from extra BS when they get sued.
If you don't want to have to go through that extra BS (believe me, you don't) and/or you don't want your company or yourself getting in even more legal trouble when they deny something exists (because it shouldn't according to their policy) when it really does (because you didn't follow the policy) then don't be an ass. Do what they tell you like a good little minion.
Don't air conditioning units tend to produce a bit of water condensation during cooling? I guess we'll have to start emptying the water out of our PCs....
Actually, it may be easier than you think to sell a vote. Read more here: How Secret is Your Ballot? (1/3). Very interesting stuff. There are lots of ways in which someone can verify that you voted the way you claimed.
Worse than just selling your vote, this can be used for voter coercion.
Some people think paper is just the perfect solution for voting, but really it has many problems that can be solved by electronic voting when done carefully. (And of course, when done haphazardly electronic voting has many problems that paper voting does not).
For slashdot now is yoda writing titles, hmm? Yes, hmmm.
We all know the internet is a series of tubes, like water pipes. But you aren't thinking outside the box. Instead of building larger water mains, these cities should just use catapults to throw "packets" of water through the air to parts of the city, thus reducing the load on the old "pipe" infrastructure.
It occurred to me recently when they started charging to bring almost any luggage with you at all, that actually they are trying to make flying such a ridiculous process that people will just stop doing it unless they really need to.
Think about it. The new fees on checked luggage are just going to cause people to push the envelope of carry on bags to the point the boarding/unboarding process is unbearable. Add on to that the 3-1-1, you can't bring liquids with you at all if you can't check baggage and you're not allowed to carry them on. Now they also are going to be looking at basically naked pictures of you as you get on the plane, and, oh yeah, don't forget you are paying a lot of money for this poor treatment, and soon the sodas won't even be free.
No one in their right mind would fly at all under these circumstances, and that's exactly what they want.
Touch isn't very useful when you have room for a mouse and/or keyboard. Big and bulky desktops don't have much use for touch (except when used in place of a mouse, but that has been going on for a long time).
The reason touch has become so popular lately is because it has only been recently that powerful chips have become small enough and that power (batteries) have become light enough that we can find use for this stuff right in our pockets--where a mouse/keyboard just isn't practical. (Unless you believe in thumb keyboards, but those are very cumbersome IMO.)
According to wikipedia, "The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States government, administered under the U.S. Department of Defense. " and "The Department includes the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, as well as non-combat agencies such as the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency."
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
* Defense Intelligence Agency
* Defense Security Service
* Counterintelligence Field Activity
* National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
* National Reconnaissance Office
* National Security Agency
The summary is another one of those "OMFG THE GOVERNMENT I OUT TO GET ME" so common on slashdot now... but really the problem here is that the media allowed this to happen. I would be disappointed if the government didn't try to leverage its position to get favorable news. God knows, everyone else on earth would do so or already does so (remember hearing about how so many of these canned "news" reports that appear on local news around the country are really corporate agendas).
The media are the ones who are wrong here, not the pentagon.
You have inspired me to start a religion in which there are "i" deities.
Actually, no, it's located here: 39.114878, -76.77414
It is also very important to note that the missile they are shooting it with does not have a warhead. They are basically just hitting it really hard, hoping to break it into pieces.
What about parents who do actually raise their kids? You have the same problem of taxing them for stupid shit other parents do (or don't do).
A release candidate is a "candidate for release" and, barring whatever bugs users find, could be released as it is.
Thus, I would sure hope their RC does not contain any debug code.