There are a number of workloads where caching is not so useful. For example, video conversion or 'big data' analysis where you are streaming the inputs. At that point, an SSD is more of an intermediate buffer than it is a cache (so only helpful for writing). If your use pattern streams more data out than the size of the SSD, then it's only getting in the way.
In a file server, unless you are using multiple gigE or faster interfaces, having plenty of RAM will make a much bigger difference than SSDs will.
If they're storing the passwords in clear text, that's not good. However, they could be assigning random passwords and only storing the hash after they send it via email to the user. There's just not enough information to say.
Agreed that security questions in addition to the usual click lost password and they send you a unique URL to navigate to is a good idea and considerably improves the security of password recovery as long as the answers to the security questions aren't easy to determine from looking through the users email box.
What are the actual risks? Just how likely is it that someone will breech your email and what would the consequences be? What would you suggest as an alternative means of delivering both password and password changes?
Consider that if the lost password procedure involves email, then there is no security benefit to keeping passwords out of email (the key to getting a valid password is just as harmful as the actual password if it leaks).
There have been a lot of follow-ons to that too. People complain that kids sit their butts in front of video games and grow fat, but forget the reason. It's not that 'kids these days' are born lazy. It's that now that neighborhoods do not generally have a number of adults home at any given time, kids are strictly forbidden to go outside after school. They are under strict orders to lock themselves inside but no 'rough housing' (meaning running around engaged in physical activities).
Gee, I wonder why they don't exercise? What ever could be getting them in the habit of chatting online when they could walk two doors down and talk face to face?
If we as a nation want kids to value physical activity and going outside, we better fix the screwed up work/life balance until there are responsible adults at home again.
In those cases, there tend to be a LOT of errors. The risk is that enough will read correctly to leak valuable information like passwords. Also, in those cases the memory is not active.
So to translate, "other than a perfectly valid and rational reason that I'd rather not consider, can you tell me a rational and logical reason?"
But as to the question, every culture has a mythos that (hopefully) reminds it's members of their values and provides for a commonality and a sense of belonging. Naturally, children tend to take it all literally. Why spoil their fun Mr. Grinch?
Not necessarily. Some of that 59% (no idea how much) would naturally be the result of citizens behaving better for the camera and not escalating the situation.
Look on the right hand side. There's an awful lot of those 'exceptions'. Way too many. And way too many are later found blameless and put right back out there to do it again.
That needs to stop. It's not all cops, but it's enough of them that it's eroding the public trust. That, in turn will cause more violence against cops as regular citizens begin to fear for their own safety when they encounter police. With all those 'exceptions', is it REALLY unbelievable if a citizen attacks a cop and says he did it because he was in fear of his life? If the cops really want to be safer out there, they need to make certain that the idea of a cop attacking a citizen unprovoked or way out of proportion to provocation is laughable.
On the technical side, they have the ability to control what load a single customer can put on the shared bandwidth. They tell the cable modem and router behind it where the gateway is. They can share the last mile by each provider renting a slice of the (virtual) connection between CO and customer and can recognize their customers by MAC address to give them the correct GW.
The rest is a matter of business. The local government could buy them out. They could be legally split like AT&T. They could simply be informed that they are now in the wholesale last mile bandwidth business if they want to stay in town at all. Note that at that point if they decide they'd rather leave they would end up abandoning the cables amps, etc anyway since it would cost more than it's worth to save it. The town would just need to re-construct the head ends.
Just leave a mouse out of the package laying around in a targeted office. Eventually, someone will need or want the mouse and plug it in for you.
It's less sure and could take a while compared to plugging it in yourself, but it makes the person who gets infected want to keep quiet and even if they figure out where the mouse came from (unlikely), you have plausible deniability.
Unless these schemes are proven to fail again and again, there will only be more of them. If you don't want every trivial device in your life to refuse to use anything but it's own overpriced brand of expendables, one would think you would at least encourage if not otherwise support efforts like these.
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There are a number of workloads where caching is not so useful. For example, video conversion or 'big data' analysis where you are streaming the inputs. At that point, an SSD is more of an intermediate buffer than it is a cache (so only helpful for writing). If your use pattern streams more data out than the size of the SSD, then it's only getting in the way.
In a file server, unless you are using multiple gigE or faster interfaces, having plenty of RAM will make a much bigger difference than SSDs will.
If they're storing the passwords in clear text, that's not good. However, they could be assigning random passwords and only storing the hash after they send it via email to the user. There's just not enough information to say.
Agreed that security questions in addition to the usual click lost password and they send you a unique URL to navigate to is a good idea and considerably improves the security of password recovery as long as the answers to the security questions aren't easy to determine from looking through the users email box.
What are the actual risks? Just how likely is it that someone will breech your email and what would the consequences be? What would you suggest as an alternative means of delivering both password and password changes?
Consider that if the lost password procedure involves email, then there is no security benefit to keeping passwords out of email (the key to getting a valid password is just as harmful as the actual password if it leaks).
I fully agree. I was just pointing out that such a crazy thing actually does exist.
And yet that's how it works for cellphone minutes.
Or someone who is aware that that audience exists and is fairly large. I'm not part of it but I don't have to be to know it's size is significant.
I saw video last week of one defector sending largish bundles of "The Interview" DVDs over the DMZ with large plastic bags filled with helium.
There have been a lot of follow-ons to that too. People complain that kids sit their butts in front of video games and grow fat, but forget the reason. It's not that 'kids these days' are born lazy. It's that now that neighborhoods do not generally have a number of adults home at any given time, kids are strictly forbidden to go outside after school. They are under strict orders to lock themselves inside but no 'rough housing' (meaning running around engaged in physical activities).
Gee, I wonder why they don't exercise? What ever could be getting them in the habit of chatting online when they could walk two doors down and talk face to face?
If we as a nation want kids to value physical activity and going outside, we better fix the screwed up work/life balance until there are responsible adults at home again.
Better still, they should upgrade their management.
Sure they would. Just meet up on a discussion site and post your IP (using PMs if you're worried about assholes).
In those cases, there tend to be a LOT of errors. The risk is that enough will read correctly to leak valuable information like passwords. Also, in those cases the memory is not active.
Plenty have it on the server side. Just use a server board in your desktop.
That crazy theory again!?!
Sir, I assure you that ducks absolutely do not cause climate change!
But note that pirates can slow it.
So to translate, "other than a perfectly valid and rational reason that I'd rather not consider, can you tell me a rational and logical reason?"
But as to the question, every culture has a mythos that (hopefully) reminds it's members of their values and provides for a commonality and a sense of belonging. Naturally, children tend to take it all literally. Why spoil their fun Mr. Grinch?
Then someone prints the barrel in two parts. The thick tube that matches no common bullet and a liner that is too thin to be a gun barrel.
What makes you think that? The Constitution permits copyright to exist (for the advancement of the useful arts) but does not mandate it.
Not necessarily. Some of that 59% (no idea how much) would naturally be the result of citizens behaving better for the camera and not escalating the situation.
Look on the right hand side. There's an awful lot of those 'exceptions'. Way too many. And way too many are later found blameless and put right back out there to do it again.
That needs to stop. It's not all cops, but it's enough of them that it's eroding the public trust. That, in turn will cause more violence against cops as regular citizens begin to fear for their own safety when they encounter police. With all those 'exceptions', is it REALLY unbelievable if a citizen attacks a cop and says he did it because he was in fear of his life? If the cops really want to be safer out there, they need to make certain that the idea of a cop attacking a citizen unprovoked or way out of proportion to provocation is laughable.
On the technical side, they have the ability to control what load a single customer can put on the shared bandwidth. They tell the cable modem and router behind it where the gateway is. They can share the last mile by each provider renting a slice of the (virtual) connection between CO and customer and can recognize their customers by MAC address to give them the correct GW.
The rest is a matter of business. The local government could buy them out. They could be legally split like AT&T. They could simply be informed that they are now in the wholesale last mile bandwidth business if they want to stay in town at all. Note that at that point if they decide they'd rather leave they would end up abandoning the cables amps, etc anyway since it would cost more than it's worth to save it. The town would just need to re-construct the head ends.
There's a shade of meaning there. Compaq wasn't a bad company (good companies can get into financial trouble too).
Just leave a mouse out of the package laying around in a targeted office. Eventually, someone will need or want the mouse and plug it in for you.
It's less sure and could take a while compared to plugging it in yourself, but it makes the person who gets infected want to keep quiet and even if they figure out where the mouse came from (unlikely), you have plausible deniability.
It would be hard to prove that the nice foil backed wallpaper was a blocking tactic rather than a perfectly legal aesthetic decision.
I believe OP was talking about passive shielding which would knock out all of those as well as WiFi and cellular.
Unless these schemes are proven to fail again and again, there will only be more of them. If you don't want every trivial device in your life to refuse to use anything but it's own overpriced brand of expendables, one would think you would at least encourage if not otherwise support efforts like these.
I assure you, there is a profit motive to the development. The plasma donor is the one with no profit motive.
It's still good to see an approach that has yielded success built upon.