On a modern mail server using postfix (for example) it's actually quite easy to disable a terminated user's mail login and make his email available to his replacement.
Do your hobbies include yelling at clouds by any chance? I say the language is perfectly clear because it IS perfectly clear. Perhaps it's because for whatever reason I read old writing more often than you do.
It's a dangerous as hell way to "solve" an already solved problem. The servers I work with have IPMI and a BMC on them rather than the ME. The BMC can emulate a USB DVD drive so I can do a fresh OS install. It also connects to an internal serial port so I can do serial console over LAN. It can simulate a press on the power and reset buttons. The newer ones can also act as a KVM for dealing with OSes that insist on GUI interaction. Using that, I can fully manage a server I have never actually seen that lives across the country from me.
The big difference is that it can't silently scan or modify memory while the OS isn't looking. It can't snoop the contents of the HDs. It can't log the physical keyboard. It's not just that it pinky swears not to, the hardware simply can't do it.
It's not like that capability is expensive these days. It long ago went from being an add-on to being built-in. It was already starting to appear on desktop machines as well as servers. There simply wasn't a legitimate gain from giving the ME god level access.
Most H1-B employers DO employ enough that they meet the criteria for being H1-B dependent. Certainly those who are most complained about here, and those who were interviewed for TFA.
That's why finding excuses for H1-B hires is big enough to be it's own sub-specialty of immigration and employment law.
Apparently you know little about how legislation is produced, the way words change meaning over time in a living language, or even the concept of a rough draft.
You have drunk the cool aid offered by those who would infringe your rights through sophistry.
Oh please, you expect us to believe that the TRUMP administration is able to follow the stated intent and requirements of ANY law whatsoever?
I made no comments on the president's motives, only that the program's requirements are finally being enforced and these people are crying about actually having to follow the law for a change.
Nobody did that here. They looked at 3 cases: Open surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and robot assisted laparoscopic surgery. They found that laparoscopic beat open in patient outcomes (so it's a good thing). They further found that adding the robot did nothing to improve outcomes but did cost more (a bad thing) and take longer (also bad and potentially a safety risk).
An exception, called out in the summary, is radical prostatectomy where the robot did improve outcomes.
Sadly, that is true. TFA is just people crying that they are actually being held to the stated intent and requirements of the H1-B program for the first time in well over a decade. Enforcement has been so lax that the people quoted in the story seem to have actually forgotten that being unable to find someone with the needed skills in the U.S. is a hard requirement for hiring an H1-B.
If the full quota isn't being handed out, perhaps it's because there is no actual shortage and so there aren't that many qualifying applications out there. Perhaps they should take a second look at the applicants who were over 40 years old or otherwise seemed like they might insist on only working the hours they were paid for that they threw in the round file. They could try actually offering pay on par with the industry. Perhaps they could offer a better work environment, easier hours, or telecommute if they can't afford higher pay. They could offer training or scholorship programs, co-op, etc. They could even consider (God forbid) not insisting on having their offices in the most expensive places in the country.
Part of the problem is that when the foreclosure leaves a viable asset, the banks tend to have terrible follow-through and so allow the asset to decay. That's why you see homes with trees growing out of the roofs and weeds for a lawn after they foreclose. Honestly, in such cases they would have been better off accepting even $10/month for a few years so that if they did eventually need to foreclose (once the market recovered a bit), at least they would have a livable property. The problem is that if they actually foreclose, they will list the theoretical never will get "value" of the property as an asset, even as it becomes a negative actual value due to the obligation to do a major renovation or tear down once the property is condemned. Naturally (because banks make terrible neighbors but have armies of lawyers), they will hold the property in it's distressed condition even as it pulls down the value of neighboring properties until the market heats up enough that someone will be willing to buy the property and tear the structure down.
That logic applies to practically any property, particularly in cases where the market is currently depressed. They could do better overall if they took a long view of value, but big business in the U.S. can't see past next quarter.
Perhaps if the foreclosure frenzy was cooled by properly punishing them for the robosigning and for foreclosing on properties they didn't even hold a loan on, they might think a bit harder. Quite frankly, their behavior isn't fully explicable without assuming a certain amount of enjoyment derived from punishing people.
I never said OTP was rare, just that it tends to be small. I also already pointed out that self re-flashing might not have been designed for, including lacking the code.
The nice thing about NOR flash is that the chips are hardware self-sufficient. No need for special voltages, control circuitry, or external drivers. Flashing is accomplished through the correct sequence of memory accesses.
Sure he is. Money attracts money. If you start out on 3rd base you'll do fine. If you're smart but start out with nothing, you face really tall odds to get anywhere.
That's easy for someone not facing the rest of their life in prison to say. When prosecutors want a plea bargain, they REALLY pile on the charges and they will pretty much say or do anything to secure a conviction, ethics and the law be damned.
If you want to be truly disgusted look at how prosecutors fight tooth and nail to keep people imprisoned even after scientific evidence proves they couldn't have committed the crime.
Alas, the switch on SD cards is just advisory. It's up to the driver to detect the switch position and honor it. No matter what position the switch is in, if the driver issues a write command, the write will happen.
Other flash chips have an actual write signal. If that is physically disconnected (by a jumper for example), a write actually can't happen. Agreed, motherboards should have the write line jumpered.
Actual ROM is very rare and OTP (one time programmable) tends to be very small and for specialized functions.
Flash is cheap and stable enough that it tends to be used even if there is no plan to re-write it ever.
However, in such a case the firmware may have no functions to erase and re-write (including being laid out in such a way that it always has at least a stub that can complete an interrupted update rather than bricking).
And yet he just shot his mouth off about it to the press where he claimed to want two mutually exclusive things. Isn't that pretty good evidence that he IS an idiot?
On more than one level. Beyond the debt that the stores owe for their own purchase, there's the malls themselves raising rent even as they lose more and more tenants. That even though the empty spaces actually devalue the property for the remaining tenants (people don't like to shop at malls where tumbleweeds blow through).
That, in turn is driven by banks that can make more money either foreclosing of re-packaging the loan hot potato style than they can by working with the borrower to eventually pay it off. As soon as the rent offered goes down, they'll de-value the property and foreclose.
But God forbid we should force the banks to do something economically beneficial to make their money.
So there it is, over-leveraged stores renting from over-leveraged landlords beholden to over-leveraged banks that would rather be speculating in the stock market with other people's money anyway.
The irony runs deeper. Amazon is now talking about building brick and mortar in support of it's internet order business. Which is how Sears became a retail store in the first place.
That will be fine as soon as Google makes Chrome smart enough to do what I mean every single time, no matter how I say it. Until browsers and web servers develop AI and conversational skills, we need them to simply conform to existing standards and not pull the rug out from under standards compliant web sites.
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On a modern mail server using postfix (for example) it's actually quite easy to disable a terminated user's mail login and make his email available to his replacement.
Read the post I replied to and realize I was replying to a theoretical future implementation, not what is done now.
Do your hobbies include yelling at clouds by any chance? I say the language is perfectly clear because it IS perfectly clear. Perhaps it's because for whatever reason I read old writing more often than you do.
It's a dangerous as hell way to "solve" an already solved problem. The servers I work with have IPMI and a BMC on them rather than the ME. The BMC can emulate a USB DVD drive so I can do a fresh OS install. It also connects to an internal serial port so I can do serial console over LAN. It can simulate a press on the power and reset buttons. The newer ones can also act as a KVM for dealing with OSes that insist on GUI interaction. Using that, I can fully manage a server I have never actually seen that lives across the country from me.
The big difference is that it can't silently scan or modify memory while the OS isn't looking. It can't snoop the contents of the HDs. It can't log the physical keyboard. It's not just that it pinky swears not to, the hardware simply can't do it.
It's not like that capability is expensive these days. It long ago went from being an add-on to being built-in. It was already starting to appear on desktop machines as well as servers. There simply wasn't a legitimate gain from giving the ME god level access.
Most H1-B employers DO employ enough that they meet the criteria for being H1-B dependent. Certainly those who are most complained about here, and those who were interviewed for TFA.
That's why finding excuses for H1-B hires is big enough to be it's own sub-specialty of immigration and employment law.
Apparently you know little about how legislation is produced, the way words change meaning over time in a living language, or even the concept of a rough draft.
You have drunk the cool aid offered by those who would infringe your rights through sophistry.
And then someone gets a copy of Apple's private key and leaks it.
Kinda like what happened to the NSA's hacking tools.
Their words were perfectly clear. We've just let the definitions shift since then.
Oh please, you expect us to believe that the TRUMP administration is able to follow the stated intent and requirements of ANY law whatsoever?
I made no comments on the president's motives, only that the program's requirements are finally being enforced and these people are crying about actually having to follow the law for a change.
Nobody did that here. They looked at 3 cases: Open surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and robot assisted laparoscopic surgery. They found that laparoscopic beat open in patient outcomes (so it's a good thing). They further found that adding the robot did nothing to improve outcomes but did cost more (a bad thing) and take longer (also bad and potentially a safety risk).
An exception, called out in the summary, is radical prostatectomy where the robot did improve outcomes.
Sadly, that is true. TFA is just people crying that they are actually being held to the stated intent and requirements of the H1-B program for the first time in well over a decade. Enforcement has been so lax that the people quoted in the story seem to have actually forgotten that being unable to find someone with the needed skills in the U.S. is a hard requirement for hiring an H1-B.
If the full quota isn't being handed out, perhaps it's because there is no actual shortage and so there aren't that many qualifying applications out there. Perhaps they should take a second look at the applicants who were over 40 years old or otherwise seemed like they might insist on only working the hours they were paid for that they threw in the round file. They could try actually offering pay on par with the industry. Perhaps they could offer a better work environment, easier hours, or telecommute if they can't afford higher pay. They could offer training or scholorship programs, co-op, etc. They could even consider (God forbid) not insisting on having their offices in the most expensive places in the country.
Part of the problem is that when the foreclosure leaves a viable asset, the banks tend to have terrible follow-through and so allow the asset to decay. That's why you see homes with trees growing out of the roofs and weeds for a lawn after they foreclose. Honestly, in such cases they would have been better off accepting even $10/month for a few years so that if they did eventually need to foreclose (once the market recovered a bit), at least they would have a livable property. The problem is that if they actually foreclose, they will list the theoretical never will get "value" of the property as an asset, even as it becomes a negative actual value due to the obligation to do a major renovation or tear down once the property is condemned. Naturally (because banks make terrible neighbors but have armies of lawyers), they will hold the property in it's distressed condition even as it pulls down the value of neighboring properties until the market heats up enough that someone will be willing to buy the property and tear the structure down.
That logic applies to practically any property, particularly in cases where the market is currently depressed. They could do better overall if they took a long view of value, but big business in the U.S. can't see past next quarter.
Perhaps if the foreclosure frenzy was cooled by properly punishing them for the robosigning and for foreclosing on properties they didn't even hold a loan on, they might think a bit harder. Quite frankly, their behavior isn't fully explicable without assuming a certain amount of enjoyment derived from punishing people.
It does at least help with user error as long as it's understood that the protection is limited.
I never said OTP was rare, just that it tends to be small. I also already pointed out that self re-flashing might not have been designed for, including lacking the code.
The nice thing about NOR flash is that the chips are hardware self-sufficient. No need for special voltages, control circuitry, or external drivers. Flashing is accomplished through the correct sequence of memory accesses.
Sure he is. Money attracts money. If you start out on 3rd base you'll do fine. If you're smart but start out with nothing, you face really tall odds to get anywhere.
That's easy for someone not facing the rest of their life in prison to say. When prosecutors want a plea bargain, they REALLY pile on the charges and they will pretty much say or do anything to secure a conviction, ethics and the law be damned.
If you want to be truly disgusted look at how prosecutors fight tooth and nail to keep people imprisoned even after scientific evidence proves they couldn't have committed the crime.
Alas, the switch on SD cards is just advisory. It's up to the driver to detect the switch position and honor it. No matter what position the switch is in, if the driver issues a write command, the write will happen.
Other flash chips have an actual write signal. If that is physically disconnected (by a jumper for example), a write actually can't happen. Agreed, motherboards should have the write line jumpered.
The parties I go to usually don't feature people smugly telling people to look something up when they don't know what they're talking about.
More like he's warning people not to buy such a thing at all. If enough people refuse, they'll have to make devices that don't depend on phoning home.
Actual ROM is very rare and OTP (one time programmable) tends to be very small and for specialized functions.
Flash is cheap and stable enough that it tends to be used even if there is no plan to re-write it ever.
However, in such a case the firmware may have no functions to erase and re-write (including being laid out in such a way that it always has at least a stub that can complete an interrupted update rather than bricking).
And yet he just shot his mouth off about it to the press where he claimed to want two mutually exclusive things. Isn't that pretty good evidence that he IS an idiot?
On more than one level. Beyond the debt that the stores owe for their own purchase, there's the malls themselves raising rent even as they lose more and more tenants. That even though the empty spaces actually devalue the property for the remaining tenants (people don't like to shop at malls where tumbleweeds blow through).
That, in turn is driven by banks that can make more money either foreclosing of re-packaging the loan hot potato style than they can by working with the borrower to eventually pay it off. As soon as the rent offered goes down, they'll de-value the property and foreclose.
But God forbid we should force the banks to do something economically beneficial to make their money.
So there it is, over-leveraged stores renting from over-leveraged landlords beholden to over-leveraged banks that would rather be speculating in the stock market with other people's money anyway.
The irony runs deeper. Amazon is now talking about building brick and mortar in support of it's internet order business. Which is how Sears became a retail store in the first place.
AUUUUUUUUUUUUGH....[WHUMP].
Repeat after me, don't buy devices that need to phone home, EVER.
That will be fine as soon as Google makes Chrome smart enough to do what I mean every single time, no matter how I say it. Until browsers and web servers develop AI and conversational skills, we need them to simply conform to existing standards and not pull the rug out from under standards compliant web sites.