I never ever want to be in a situation where i have to tell someone, "Your wedding pictures were previously recoverable at a lab, but I took a risk to save a few hundred dollars and now your data is gone for good."
The only way I would attempt it is if they made it clear this was something I could try off-the-clock, and that they had truly given their data up for lost unless I could revive it. Its just too risky for me to EVER attempt in a business setting, and is completely unprofessional to attempt such a risky operation on valuable data with no experience.
If the data is important enough to warrant trying to repair it (which would involve paying me for several hours of research and then the attempt), Im just going to take it to a recovery lab. They charge more, but they also have tons more experience, a proper cleanroom, and a much better chance of not making things worse.
They're only interested in enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else.
I mean, they are businesses, and any business in any capitalistic society is going to be about one main thing: making more money. And when it comes to selling goods, the way you do that is by either having a better product, or a better pricepoint, or both.
How do you get better pricepoints? You increase efficiency and cut costs-- one of which is wage.
One thought I had about preventing that wage from getting slashed too hard involves removing some of the barriers for folks here on a visa. Currently when you're over here on a visa, you have basically no leverage, because if you lose your job you have all of about a week to find a new one. This means that there is effectively no competition between employers, and the employer can offer a pittance to that visa worker. If we can fix that so the visa worker can actually do a little job shopping, it might help fix this issue.
What DOESNT help is trying to prevent actual competition on the job market; youre never going to be able to prevent job outsourcing, and a closed job market simply hurts the workers.
Raj in India might remark that the average American DOES hoard an obscene amount of money, and spends absurd amounts on the most trivial things.
but comparing ourselves to the worst is not the best way to self improvement.
Way to utterly miss the point. Poor folks in India, china, etc are TRYING to improve by getting jobs in the US, but people here complain to no end that "our" jobs are being "stolen" by undeserving foreigners. Seems hypocritical to turn around and then complain about OUR lack and needs and wants.
Its related to security and the idea that "apparent security" and "actual security" are two distinct concepts.
There are a TON of parallels with the software security industry, where sometimes a vendor simply refuses to respond to a notification of an exploit, which leaves the researcher to go to the media and perform a full disclosure in order to force the vendor's hand so to speak. In this case, the researchers reached out to the manufacturer and walmart, and got no response, so they are spilling the beans to the public.
It is a particularly good submission because its not an anti-gun or pro-gun screed; its legitimate research about a legitimate issue that is being handled irresponsibly by the vendor, and now its up to the news-reading public to bring that vendor to task by avoiding their products until such time as they take responsibility for and address these kind of "vulnerabilities".
They should also be smart enough to realize that if you are posting from an internet connection anywhere in the western world, you are very likely the top 5-10% compared with the rest of the world. It seems a bit hypocritical for people to complain about the 1%'s wealth, and then complain when they outsource-- effectively, the 10% are complaining that the 90% are getting their jobs, and being lifted out of abject poverty.
If Im wrong here, please let me know, but it seems to me that follks in India, China, Africa could just as easily complain about the greedy 10% (us) who refuse to let any jobs come overseas without raising a huge fuss.
Otherwise, you're now having to manage your private DNS records in attempt resolve split DNS hell.
Unless you explicitly want your internal AD records resolvable from the outside, in which case it can be a viable solution. And IIRC, Microsoft has moved away from their adamant "use.local" position.
But as you enlarge the screen, the same resolution doesnt go as far. 1080 on a 22" is sharp and nice; up that to a 52" and its less so. Its why TVs tend to make rather awful computer monitors. 2560x1440's benefits also include that you can up the screen size without it getting quite as blown up.
We all know the first 30 minutes of quest drops will obsolete all our legendary gear,
Ive only been through one expansion, from BC to WoTLK. That said, this wasnt true. If you had decent gear (T5/6, S2/3 arena gear), you generally were sticking onto your gear well into the content-- BC legendaries werent obsoleted until ~74/75, with a few pieces hanging on until ~79 or 80 (as a mage).
One example, with my full arena gear as a fire mage (arena spec fire), I was able to tank a couple of 5 man encounters in WotLK @ level 70, because my gear was sufficiently high level to make me more beefy than a tank class in greens. This actually happened, because the tank class in question didnt know how to tank or generate threat and it was easier to simply go all out and let my priest figure out how to heal me.
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Metro's getting flak because its a legitimately bad idea to make that the desktop paradigm.
As long as Apple steers clear of anything in the vein of "Screw business users, we're competing with iPad!", they should be fine.
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It's gets in when the user does something careless.
This myth really has GOT to die.
I direct you to exhibit A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own 6+ years of Windows and OSX being utterly Pwned through nothing more than a link click. Ill note that OSX was the first one owned for the majority of the time, but really the OS and browser dont matter that much. Chrome's upped ante and subsequent pwning this year shows that if you give hackers an incentive and enough time, they will 0-day remote-code-execution exploit any machine out there.
The VAST majority of infections out there have NOTHING TO DO with Windows "exe" files, and everything to do with Flash, Acrobat, or Java plugins being exploited to run arbitrary code. Oh, and exploits run against older versions of Windows and IE, for those folks who never got the memo that upgrading is important.
You can go ahead and assume that nothing can get thru your smug barrier, but Im going to go out on a limb here and say you might already be infected.
Thats the command that utterly hoses your ubuntu installation, if I remember correctly from my days running 7.10. I still to this day havent figured out why they included it.
Windows folk will simply bitterly cling to Windows 7
Who's bitter? I paid $450 for a laptop that fulfills all my needs, makes a kickin VMWare Workstation platform, and has a pretty good screen to boot. Plus, the Windows 7 UI works pretty darn well with widescreen monitors (with win+left and win+right). I basically dont use desktops anymore because of how good of a workstation the laptop makes.
"Bitter" would be if I had to pay $1200 for a laptop, or if Windows somehow impeded my work. I might also be bitter if I had to use OSX, since I personally dislike the UI scheme. If I were you, I might reflect on the fact that not everyone shares the same tastes, and there are some people who legitimately prefer Windows 7. Mindless bashing just makes you look like a rabid fanboy.
In some situations that may be beneficial, but I can think of a large number of situations where you really do just want the OS to fail when persistent storage is no longer accessible.
Consider: Next time you boot, there will be zero record of what traffic went through your network during that time. Whether that is good, bad, or a huge security problem depends a lot on where that server is.
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Um, you want government legislating what a private company can and cannot sell?
Stop and think about that, and why that is an awful idea.
I never ever want to be in a situation where i have to tell someone, "Your wedding pictures were previously recoverable at a lab, but I took a risk to save a few hundred dollars and now your data is gone for good."
The only way I would attempt it is if they made it clear this was something I could try off-the-clock, and that they had truly given their data up for lost unless I could revive it. Its just too risky for me to EVER attempt in a business setting, and is completely unprofessional to attempt such a risky operation on valuable data with no experience.
Will an electron microscope actually be able to recover data from magnetic platters?
If the data is important enough to warrant trying to repair it (which would involve paying me for several hours of research and then the attempt), Im just going to take it to a recovery lab. They charge more, but they also have tons more experience, a proper cleanroom, and a much better chance of not making things worse.
Pretty sure SATA has strict length limitations, hence the use of a different type of (shielded) cable for eSATA.
They're only interested in enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else.
I mean, they are businesses, and any business in any capitalistic society is going to be about one main thing: making more money. And when it comes to selling goods, the way you do that is by either having a better product, or a better pricepoint, or both.
How do you get better pricepoints? You increase efficiency and cut costs-- one of which is wage.
One thought I had about preventing that wage from getting slashed too hard involves removing some of the barriers for folks here on a visa. Currently when you're over here on a visa, you have basically no leverage, because if you lose your job you have all of about a week to find a new one. This means that there is effectively no competition between employers, and the employer can offer a pittance to that visa worker. If we can fix that so the visa worker can actually do a little job shopping, it might help fix this issue.
What DOESNT help is trying to prevent actual competition on the job market; youre never going to be able to prevent job outsourcing, and a closed job market simply hurts the workers.
Raj in India might remark that the average American DOES hoard an obscene amount of money, and spends absurd amounts on the most trivial things.
but comparing ourselves to the worst is not the best way to self improvement.
Way to utterly miss the point. Poor folks in India, china, etc are TRYING to improve by getting jobs in the US, but people here complain to no end that "our" jobs are being "stolen" by undeserving foreigners. Seems hypocritical to turn around and then complain about OUR lack and needs and wants.
Not from your and my perspective, they arent-- that is, we dont set our own rules on them.
Best way to comment on American politics is to understand the foundational documents. I might recommend the Bill of Rights, for starters.
Its related to security and the idea that "apparent security" and "actual security" are two distinct concepts.
There are a TON of parallels with the software security industry, where sometimes a vendor simply refuses to respond to a notification of an exploit, which leaves the researcher to go to the media and perform a full disclosure in order to force the vendor's hand so to speak. In this case, the researchers reached out to the manufacturer and walmart, and got no response, so they are spilling the beans to the public.
It is a particularly good submission because its not an anti-gun or pro-gun screed; its legitimate research about a legitimate issue that is being handled irresponsibly by the vendor, and now its up to the news-reading public to bring that vendor to task by avoiding their products until such time as they take responsibility for and address these kind of "vulnerabilities".
Thats what lawyers are for.
Theyre tracking a private vehicle. How happy would you be about this if it were somehow tailored to track you as you drove your car (or bike)?
They should also be smart enough to realize that if you are posting from an internet connection anywhere in the western world, you are very likely the top 5-10% compared with the rest of the world. It seems a bit hypocritical for people to complain about the 1%'s wealth, and then complain when they outsource-- effectively, the 10% are complaining that the 90% are getting their jobs, and being lifted out of abject poverty.
If Im wrong here, please let me know, but it seems to me that follks in India, China, Africa could just as easily complain about the greedy 10% (us) who refuse to let any jobs come overseas without raising a huge fuss.
Otherwise, you're now having to manage your private DNS records in attempt resolve split DNS hell.
Unless you explicitly want your internal AD records resolvable from the outside, in which case it can be a viable solution. And IIRC, Microsoft has moved away from their adamant "use .local" position.
I meant 1080 on 42", not 27.
But as you enlarge the screen, the same resolution doesnt go as far. 1080 on a 22" is sharp and nice; up that to a 52" and its less so. Its why TVs tend to make rather awful computer monitors. 2560x1440's benefits also include that you can up the screen size without it getting quite as blown up.
We all know the first 30 minutes of quest drops will obsolete all our legendary gear,
Ive only been through one expansion, from BC to WoTLK. That said, this wasnt true. If you had decent gear (T5/6, S2/3 arena gear), you generally were sticking onto your gear well into the content-- BC legendaries werent obsoleted until ~74/75, with a few pieces hanging on until ~79 or 80 (as a mage).
One example, with my full arena gear as a fire mage (arena spec fire), I was able to tank a couple of 5 man encounters in WotLK @ level 70, because my gear was sufficiently high level to make me more beefy than a tank class in greens. This actually happened, because the tank class in question didnt know how to tank or generate threat and it was easier to simply go all out and let my priest figure out how to heal me.
Metro's getting flak because its a legitimately bad idea to make that the desktop paradigm.
As long as Apple steers clear of anything in the vein of "Screw business users, we're competing with iPad!", they should be fine.
It's gets in when the user does something careless.
This myth really has GOT to die.
I direct you to exhibit A:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own
6+ years of Windows and OSX being utterly Pwned through nothing more than a link click. Ill note that OSX was the first one owned for the majority of the time, but really the OS and browser dont matter that much. Chrome's upped ante and subsequent pwning this year shows that if you give hackers an incentive and enough time, they will 0-day remote-code-execution exploit any machine out there.
The VAST majority of infections out there have NOTHING TO DO with Windows "exe" files, and everything to do with Flash, Acrobat, or Java plugins being exploited to run arbitrary code. Oh, and exploits run against older versions of Windows and IE, for those folks who never got the memo that upgrading is important.
You can go ahead and assume that nothing can get thru your smug barrier, but Im going to go out on a limb here and say you might already be infected.
Thats the command that utterly hoses your ubuntu installation, if I remember correctly from my days running 7.10. I still to this day havent figured out why they included it.
The point is that we usually don't have to. Unless you really are a unique snowflake, you aren't the only one being abandoned.
AmaroK 2. Gnome 3. KDE 4 ( @ launch). Need I go on?
Windows folk will simply bitterly cling to Windows 7
Who's bitter? I paid $450 for a laptop that fulfills all my needs, makes a kickin VMWare Workstation platform, and has a pretty good screen to boot. Plus, the Windows 7 UI works pretty darn well with widescreen monitors (with win+left and win+right). I basically dont use desktops anymore because of how good of a workstation the laptop makes.
"Bitter" would be if I had to pay $1200 for a laptop, or if Windows somehow impeded my work. I might also be bitter if I had to use OSX, since I personally dislike the UI scheme. If I were you, I might reflect on the fact that not everyone shares the same tastes, and there are some people who legitimately prefer Windows 7. Mindless bashing just makes you look like a rabid fanboy.
1080p at 27" is going to look several times uglier and fuzzier than 2560x1440 at 27".
In some situations that may be beneficial, but I can think of a large number of situations where you really do just want the OS to fail when persistent storage is no longer accessible.
Consider: Next time you boot, there will be zero record of what traffic went through your network during that time. Whether that is good, bad, or a huge security problem depends a lot on where that server is.
I "upgraded" from Snow Leopard to Lion at the urging of a friend who had it already and
that upgrade has been an unmitigated disaster.
Anyone who has lived on the bleeding edge of Ubuntu over the last 6 years could have told you THAT.
Dont like tinkering with your computer? Dont do a day-1 upgrade.
10.10 will be Ocelot, and 11.1 will be Pangolin....
wait a second, this seems familiar.