Followup: The whole thread here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... The original response was initially +5, then I posted my response and it got buried, but you can see the responses basically defending that stance all getting voted up. Theres a lot of similar posts in that topic along the same lines.
The whole article thread was really kind of disgusting.
I am convinced that the stories you speak of are flamebait designed to cause slashdotters to work themselves into a frenzy about how stupid and ignorant conservatives are. That is, the stories are basically strawmen of the efforts conservatives really support.
At least, thats my take on it.
Are you saying that there are only 3 democrats, or only 3 republicans?
Im not aware of that being a valid DNS response. Sounds like whats happening is that some piece of the website relies on a third party resource, which doesnt get an answer from OpenDNS, and causes a script to hang.
Complaining about a conservative lean on slashdot is one of the silliest complaints ive ever seen. Does noone remember the comments around the hurricane during the 2012 RNC, with a large majority of posters wishing (some claiming to be serious) that key RNC leaders would drown?
Thats just the one that sticks out most for me because of how brazen it was (accusing the right of being the party of hate all the while wishing them to die for their political beliefs), but its by no means unique. Slashdot has an incredibly liberal lean. Any post involving anything conservative is gonna be a moshpit of democrats going off on how retarded and backwards conservatives are.
Generally I ignore it because its to be expected on an internet forum, I just think its hillarious to see a complaint that its too conservative.
Sounds like theyre trying to make the parental controls on their router actually work-- some would see it as a feature, so long as you can adjust or turn it off.
Sensitive is relative. Theres "could cause identity theft", and "could go to a prison in a third world country as a dissident". I suppose if you live in the first world, you dont really have to worry about the latter-- which is what I was getting at.
Never forget that a lot of civilians were killed by those bombs.
Be really careful about trying to rationalize civilian deaths. Claim its necessary all you want, just be clear about the kind of company youre keeping when you let "the greater good" rationalize mass killings.
Trying to justify anything in a war, particularly one operating on a principle of "total war", is a fool's errand.
Im not sure anything, even the supposed lives it saved or the apparent necessity, could justify the indiscriminate bombing of a civilian population. Yes, that goes for the various firebombings. Claiming that they were potential combatants doesnt change that they werent actual combatants.
Bombing Japan may have been the lesser of two evils, but dont let anyone tell you that it wasnt one of the two.
You know what they say about assumptions. What happens when the UPS malfunctions? Or the surge creeps in over another piece of copper (RJ45, for example)? And as you say-- lightning strikes can do some nasty things.
UPS is a good start, but USB drives are notoriously fragile, and I wouldnt trust one as your only backup.
Encrypting your phone does nothing because you decrypt it every time you power it on, and you always have your phone on, don't you?
Thats what the PIN is for. How do you propose bypassing the PIN without powering the phone down? Act quick, you only get a couple of hours.
Its hillarious you think it does nothing, by the way, since thats exactly how FDE works for Windows and OSX, and most security experts dont think its useless.
This is a question that is trivially google-able, and its been beaten to death by anyone concerned with security for years. Care about datatheft? Encrypt your data.
Provoking discussions could be done in many ways other than "ask a question that I couldnt bother to research".
The major with built-in storage encryption for a smartphone is that it can't encrypt/decrypt on the fly,
Thats not correct. On-the-fly encryption is exactly what it does.
Your notions of why it wouldnt work havent stopped FDE from working on any other OS, why on earth would you think it doesnt with Android? The danger as you say is that its functionally not protected when its unlocked, but if you set a PIN you are protected. As with windows, while the OS is running it enforces memory / PIN protections, and if you attempt to power it off to bypass them the FDE kicks in.
Optical format has always been awful for backup. It has all the bad parts of tape and none of the good ones; its only benefit is that its ubiquitous and pretty cheap. Reliability, speed, cost/GB, all suck.
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Followup: The whole thread here
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
The original response was initially +5, then I posted my response and it got buried, but you can see the responses basically defending that stance all getting voted up. Theres a lot of similar posts in that topic along the same lines.
The whole article thread was really kind of disgusting.
I am convinced that the stories you speak of are flamebait designed to cause slashdotters to work themselves into a frenzy about how stupid and ignorant conservatives are. That is, the stories are basically strawmen of the efforts conservatives really support.
At least, thats my take on it.
Are you saying that there are only 3 democrats, or only 3 republicans?
Im not aware of that being a valid DNS response. Sounds like whats happening is that some piece of the website relies on a third party resource, which doesnt get an answer from OpenDNS, and causes a script to hang.
Complaining about a conservative lean on slashdot is one of the silliest complaints ive ever seen. Does noone remember the comments around the hurricane during the 2012 RNC, with a large majority of posters wishing (some claiming to be serious) that key RNC leaders would drown?
Thats just the one that sticks out most for me because of how brazen it was (accusing the right of being the party of hate all the while wishing them to die for their political beliefs), but its by no means unique. Slashdot has an incredibly liberal lean. Any post involving anything conservative is gonna be a moshpit of democrats going off on how retarded and backwards conservatives are.
Generally I ignore it because its to be expected on an internet forum, I just think its hillarious to see a complaint that its too conservative.
What happens if you change the DNS on the router?
Sounds like theyre trying to make the parental controls on their router actually work-- some would see it as a feature, so long as you can adjust or turn it off.
However, now that both Comcast and ATT are forcing you to use their router,
Completely not correct, as I have comcast, and own both modem and router. Neither are comcast issued, nor similar to theirs.
Please stop posting stuff if you dont know whether its true.
You were doing well until you busted out the strawmen.
Because thats not fundamentally why we instituted a government.
Sensitive is relative. Theres "could cause identity theft", and "could go to a prison in a third world country as a dissident". I suppose if you live in the first world, you dont really have to worry about the latter-- which is what I was getting at.
Never forget that a lot of civilians were killed by those bombs.
Be really careful about trying to rationalize civilian deaths. Claim its necessary all you want, just be clear about the kind of company youre keeping when you let "the greater good" rationalize mass killings.
Trying to justify anything in a war, particularly one operating on a principle of "total war", is a fool's errand.
Im not sure anything, even the supposed lives it saved or the apparent necessity, could justify the indiscriminate bombing of a civilian population. Yes, that goes for the various firebombings. Claiming that they were potential combatants doesnt change that they werent actual combatants.
Bombing Japan may have been the lesser of two evils, but dont let anyone tell you that it wasnt one of the two.
I have a Nexus 5, fully encrypted. Havent noticed a change in performance.
You know what they say about assumptions. What happens when the UPS malfunctions? Or the surge creeps in over another piece of copper (RJ45, for example)? And as you say-- lightning strikes can do some nasty things.
UPS is a good start, but USB drives are notoriously fragile, and I wouldnt trust one as your only backup.
You have the luxury of not being a steward of sensitive information. Some people dont have that luxury.
Encrypting your phone does nothing because you decrypt it every time you power it on, and you always have your phone on, don't you?
Thats what the PIN is for. How do you propose bypassing the PIN without powering the phone down? Act quick, you only get a couple of hours.
Its hillarious you think it does nothing, by the way, since thats exactly how FDE works for Windows and OSX, and most security experts dont think its useless.
This is a question that is trivially google-able, and its been beaten to death by anyone concerned with security for years. Care about datatheft? Encrypt your data.
Provoking discussions could be done in many ways other than "ask a question that I couldnt bother to research".
If they try to break the protection (which is easy with the right tools)
Golly gee, care to share those tools which break full disk encryption?
#4 is somewhat superfluous. If you've encrypted the device, they need to erase it to do anything.
Thats what the encryption is for.
The major with built-in storage encryption for a smartphone is that it can't encrypt/decrypt on the fly,
Thats not correct. On-the-fly encryption is exactly what it does.
Your notions of why it wouldnt work havent stopped FDE from working on any other OS, why on earth would you think it doesnt with Android? The danger as you say is that its functionally not protected when its unlocked, but if you set a PIN you are protected. As with windows, while the OS is running it enforces memory / PIN protections, and if you attempt to power it off to bypass them the FDE kicks in.
Compared to a $25 LTO5 tape which holds nearly 3TB, and is a lot easier to verify.
Wow what a bargain.
Keeping your backup drive plugged in 24/7 is a good way to getting it fried by the first nasty electrical event.
Optical media tends to degrade even if you stick it in a vault. Magnetic media does not.
Optical format has always been awful for backup. It has all the bad parts of tape and none of the good ones; its only benefit is that its ubiquitous and pretty cheap. Reliability, speed, cost/GB, all suck.
Tape may be faster to write for now, (They never said the speed...) a single file restore will not be. Especially if it is towards the end of the tape
With archival formats that really doesnt matter, and generally youre not restoring half of a backup.
If you want really good access speed AND high density you go HDD.