Completely reinstalling Windows and my applications takes me just a few hours.
I used nLite to create a custom windows installer which includes SP2 and ALL the latest security updates, my drivers, my preferences (services, registry tweaks), and excludes WMP and other useless crap. Many programs will run without registry (for instance, Firefox after setting up your old profile with the -profilemanager). Custom batch files install my local Apache/MySQL servers. A little foresight goes a long way when it comes to reinstalls.
All this has taken a decent chunk of time to learn and debug (still having issues with some WMV since I removed WMP, but solutions exist), but I like to run a clean, barebones machine; my C drive (incl. Windows, Program Files) has less than 800 MB used. I have just 12 background processes (including NOD32) and I unregister unnecessary DLLs. I manually manage my explorer context menus from registry for complete control: Things I use are readily accessible and things I don't aren't creating clutter.
Of course, all the potential productivity benefit is squandered by all the tweaking I continue to do;) But I also do it for (competitive) gaming. Lacking a powerful machine, CS gets a little choppy (and drives me crazy) if I let my machine go.
Pharmaceutical companies. Once out of med school, its the marketing machine that kindly informs, holding seminars and the like, our doctors of all the latest advances in their drugs. Its no wonder drugs are over-prescribed.
Real trust is when you don't need detective work to confirm that everything your child says is true.
Speaking from experience (at age 19), the invasion of your privacy feels equally violating when perpetrated by parents as anyone else. Although I know my parents had my best interests at heart, I also recognized that my beliefs contradicted theirs. Arguing proved ineffective, so I learned to keep secrets and lie to them. That lesson only lead to unhappiness and distrust on both ends.
Trust also requires you to listen to your child. Nothing magical changes on the 18th birthday, before which one is still a real person with needs of their own. An attentive parent can discern such needs from the noise. Otherwise, your fanaticism may beget inverse fanaticism in your child, as it did in me.
A large chunk of my audio collection happens to be bootlegged live concert recordings. The metadata on real albums imports fine with my process. I don't often have an actual CD...
Only the basic open standards are supported and there's no sign they'll be improving the situation.
Open lossless support is lacking. Since iPods only support Apple Lossless I'm forced to convert my huge FLAC collection in a roundabout, labour-intensive way. The only way I've found is to mount an image of a FLAC album and use iTunes to rip it into Apple Lossless. Unless the CD happens to be in CDDB, you're going to have to name all the tracks yourself too.
If I spent hours putting in malformed urls, experimenting with SQL injection, XSS stuff, and the logs show it, then maybe you need to look at me a little closer as someone who was specifically trying to breach their security.
How you find the bug isn't important, it's whether or not you exploited it before you reported. But it's more complex.
You're right about presuming innocence: if were to you report a vulnerability and they discover it was recently exploited untraceably, you shouldn't be prosecuted. In such a case there would be no proof, and simply being the only suspect isn't good enough.
It is indeed possible to misuse personal electronic devices, but does that justify banning them all? Police are already involved in this case, so there's no reason to take away everyone's iPods too. The uploader will be identified and punished, let that be the end of it.
So long as students understand there will be consequences for misuse, then the problem should disappear. This only happened because the students didn't expect any trouble, just shits & giggles.
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Completely reinstalling Windows and my applications takes me just a few hours.
;) But I also do it for (competitive) gaming. Lacking a powerful machine, CS gets a little choppy (and drives me crazy) if I let my machine go.
I used nLite to create a custom windows installer which includes SP2 and ALL the latest security updates, my drivers, my preferences (services, registry tweaks), and excludes WMP and other useless crap. Many programs will run without registry (for instance, Firefox after setting up your old profile with the -profilemanager). Custom batch files install my local Apache/MySQL servers. A little foresight goes a long way when it comes to reinstalls.
All this has taken a decent chunk of time to learn and debug (still having issues with some WMV since I removed WMP, but solutions exist), but I like to run a clean, barebones machine; my C drive (incl. Windows, Program Files) has less than 800 MB used. I have just 12 background processes (including NOD32) and I unregister unnecessary DLLs. I manually manage my explorer context menus from registry for complete control: Things I use are readily accessible and things I don't aren't creating clutter.
Of course, all the potential productivity benefit is squandered by all the tweaking I continue to do
Despite very relevant performance concerns, I certainly wouldn't mind being able to use CSS to style every applications look.
It's something I've been wishing for ever since I found Stylish for Firefox. I've tweaked just about every page I visit on a regular basis.
Pharmaceutical companies. Once out of med school, its the marketing machine that kindly informs, holding seminars and the like, our doctors of all the latest advances in their drugs. Its no wonder drugs are over-prescribed.
Speaking from experience (at age 19), the invasion of your privacy feels equally violating when perpetrated by parents as anyone else. Although I know my parents had my best interests at heart, I also recognized that my beliefs contradicted theirs. Arguing proved ineffective, so I learned to keep secrets and lie to them. That lesson only lead to unhappiness and distrust on both ends.
Trust also requires you to listen to your child. Nothing magical changes on the 18th birthday, before which one is still a real person with needs of their own. An attentive parent can discern such needs from the noise. Otherwise, your fanaticism may beget inverse fanaticism in your child, as it did in me.
A large chunk of my audio collection happens to be bootlegged live concert recordings. The metadata on real albums imports fine with my process. I don't often have an actual CD...
Only the basic open standards are supported and there's no sign they'll be improving the situation.
Open lossless support is lacking. Since iPods only support Apple Lossless I'm forced to convert my huge FLAC collection in a roundabout, labour-intensive way. The only way I've found is to mount an image of a FLAC album and use iTunes to rip it into Apple Lossless. Unless the CD happens to be in CDDB, you're going to have to name all the tracks yourself too.
You're right about presuming innocence: if were to you report a vulnerability and they discover it was recently exploited untraceably, you shouldn't be prosecuted. In such a case there would be no proof, and simply being the only suspect isn't good enough.
If they put up pictures of federal buildings, the terrorists win!
Maybe now independent photographers won't be harassed for taking legal pictures of public buildings. But I doubt it.
Or if numbers don't work, maybe use the colours of the spectrum in place of digits? It'd be just as easy to memorize 4 or 5 colours.
Whether it is misuse or not is another debate. I just wanted to roll with the party line to argue how misguided a reaction this is.
It is indeed possible to misuse personal electronic devices, but does that justify banning them all? Police are already involved in this case, so there's no reason to take away everyone's iPods too. The uploader will be identified and punished, let that be the end of it.
So long as students understand there will be consequences for misuse, then the problem should disappear. This only happened because the students didn't expect any trouble, just shits & giggles.