Even if they were going to make the claim that drones aren't a big deal and all the hullabaloo in the news over the new rules aren't news, then it was still moderately newsworthy as solely a border issue.
The discussion thus far: civvies use CD-R's and businesses use tape.
...HOWEVER...
As a new professional to the field, I am unsure what I should be recommending to my family and friends. CD's and even DVD's aren't bad options, but their size becomes problematic when storing volumes of family photographs and video, in addition to the personal detritus of an online presence: funny photos, music, recipes, chat logs, etc. Tape is noted for its capacity, and longevity under the correct circumstances, but is expensive and susceptible to the same troubles as cassettes. I have also used active hard drives, but have found trying to keep data long-term on a spinning disk is just begging for a head-crash. Flash media is expensive, of limited size, and untested in long-term storage (I have lost most of my data stored on early flash drives).
So, what do I recommend to my family and friends? Should I continue to recommend quality CD's, DVD's, and correct storage procedures? Should I set up a http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ (with a RAID setup) like service for them and be prepared to transfer files to a new system every 7-10 years? What do I do about changing file types?
$200 is a reasonable target.
Last year, I bought a computer I intended to keep for several years: the cpu/mb/ram cost me $120 from a box-mart. Now, I'll throw in another 70 to 90 dollars for case/psu/kbd/mouse depending on styles and wattages.
In addition, I often see pre-assembled towers for $150. If you need a computer for cheap, talk to your friendly neighborhood nerd/geek/dork. (except that if you are here, you likely are that person: yes, we are pretty much doomed)
We seem to have found another of many places where our rights are being eroded: if the cops don't care, and the techs don't ask, who is looking out for the little guy?
...And I say we need to be encrypting our traffic anyway. The average computer contains more than enough processing power, and the average 'pipe' width can easily handle the extra resources needed for widespread use of encryption in day-to-day use.
In addition, the recent trend in government is towards snooping and perv-ish behavior: China with its "great" firewall, USA with its unwarranted spying and packet sniffing, and now the UK with its new "three-strikes" policies. I pay my ISP a significant sum of money to deliver me 1s and 0s as fast as they can, and there are very, very few exceptions in which they have a need to know what those 1s and 0s add up to.
I call upon the open source community to lead the way -- while I would love to see the big leagues (Microsoft, Apple, etc) apply their tonnage behind such a problem, pigs are more likely to fly first. How hard would it be for a browser to automatically attempt to negotiate a secure connection for every visited web page and only use normal, unencrypted access when a secure connection fails or cannot be completed in a secure amount of time? People running web servers would not have to make major modifications, only implement a new protocol.
For this reason, we should ban horseless carriages.
"a US Court of Appeals judge, about the struggling horse industry. Posner explains why he thinks the horse industry will continue to struggle, and then comes to a rather unusual conclusion: "Expanding copyright law to bar access to automobiles...."
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore
My personal recommendation is to build/buy a cheap server to act as an intermediate machine. This machine can be patched and posed as required to use the school networks, and you can run whatever you want on your personal machine. This intermediate doesn't have to be anything special or powerful and I'll bet your local CS student/ friendly neighborhood haxor can put something together for under $50. I would recommend a dual NIC setup.
You do still have all the traditional options of swapping out NICs every 2 weeks, reverse engineering the software (which would be helpful for the rest of us), etc
Dike the thing out and either cover the hole so no-one notices the phone used to have a camera or leave a gaping empty hole so that everyone can see there WAS a camera there but not any more.
Well, the first Troy was established approximately 3000 BCE so one might expect that trojans have been around for 5000 years. Even then people knew not to eat bad apples.
Are there any papers out there that compare the evolution and eventual separation of the air-forces of the world to the evolution of the modern computer forces? Originally airplanes were contained within the branches of the Armies and Navies and led by generals and admirals who were unable and unwilling to use them to their fullest extent. I see the same pattern today.
Point #1: This is an unknown United States High School of an unknown State. Rules and regulations vary between states and public and private high schools.
Point #2: You (student) own the physical property consisting of the binder, the paper, the ink you wrote with, the tabs, etc. You also own the derivative intellectual property of both the notes from her class and any other class you took notes in that happen to be in that binder. You also own the the absolute intellectual property of any doodles, poetry, and notes you took on subjects not related to the classes you took (ie. "I love Sarah", "My economics teacher is a moron"). If the binder in question was a zipper binder like I use, you also own the pens, the disks, the Scantrons, the gum wrappers, etc contained within.
Point #4, Followup: If this teacher is somehow still teaching next semester, form a student club (or just a bunch of trustworthy dudes/gals who are skilled at taking notes), and scan their notes. Post to a blog or the Pirate Bay.
Point #5:For further ideas, read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, or just about any blog or article on privacy rights. Hell, read the constitution.
Your house catches on fire, the fire brigade shows up, and Mr. Fireman gets a flaming safe to the head: doink.
As they stop trying to fight the fire consuming your house and attempt to lift a still flaming a safe off their friends head, you get hauled off to jail for murder and the improper and unlicensed use of a medieval siege weapon.
Your house has now burnt down and your lawyer, a part time volunteer fireman, is *unable* to get you bail and the feds open the safe to see what was so darned important.
Finally, the fed's laptop is stolen and your personal information is revealed to the world.
Is this in any way related to one of the devices from Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog?
Me, I thought the singing was cooler than the gadgets, but only in this one example.
If in theory, the ISP could mandidate that a user had to install their spy software to use the internet connection, I would only have to write a short program (or ask a DVD John type friend to write one) to isolate said spy software and feed it false and misleading data while encrypting my regular data.
Responding for friends who write their own operating systems or use various forms of linux, "I DON'T THINK SO DEAREST ISP!"
This article is here because we, slashdotters, prefer to keep current with news of technology and science. One of America's top scientists has something to say about how he was not allowed to speak to the scientific evidence he witnissed as Surgeon General.
While there will always be political pressure in one direction or another, the amount that this regime has spewed has crossed the line several times over.
And just how long will this magical content protection system last against the now angry black, grey and white hats of the world? Please, because I am just dying to know. We could make this discussion about the lack of quality movies nowadays, but if you have 11 unlocked doors and 1 locked door, just where do you think we (humans) will want to get into most?
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Even if they were going to make the claim that drones aren't a big deal and all the hullabaloo in the news over the new rules aren't news, then it was still moderately newsworthy as solely a border issue.
The discussion thus far: civvies use CD-R's and businesses use tape.
...HOWEVER...
As a new professional to the field, I am unsure what I should be recommending to my family and friends. CD's and even DVD's aren't bad options, but their size becomes problematic when storing volumes of family photographs and video, in addition to the personal detritus of an online presence: funny photos, music, recipes, chat logs, etc. Tape is noted for its capacity, and longevity under the correct circumstances, but is expensive and susceptible to the same troubles as cassettes. I have also used active hard drives, but have found trying to keep data long-term on a spinning disk is just begging for a head-crash. Flash media is expensive, of limited size, and untested in long-term storage (I have lost most of my data stored on early flash drives).
So, what do I recommend to my family and friends? Should I continue to recommend quality CD's, DVD's, and correct storage procedures? Should I set up a http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ (with a RAID setup) like service for them and be prepared to transfer files to a new system every 7-10 years? What do I do about changing file types?
$200 is a reasonable target.
Last year, I bought a computer I intended to keep for several years: the cpu/mb/ram cost me $120 from a box-mart. Now, I'll throw in another 70 to 90 dollars for case/psu/kbd/mouse depending on styles and wattages.
In addition, I often see pre-assembled towers for $150. If you need a computer for cheap, talk to your friendly neighborhood nerd/geek/dork. (except that if you are here, you likely are that person: yes, we are pretty much doomed)
We seem to have found another of many places where our rights are being eroded: if the cops don't care, and the techs don't ask, who is looking out for the little guy?
...And I say we need to be encrypting our traffic anyway. The average computer contains more than enough processing power, and the average 'pipe' width can easily handle the extra resources needed for widespread use of encryption in day-to-day use.
In addition, the recent trend in government is towards snooping and perv-ish behavior: China with its "great" firewall, USA with its unwarranted spying and packet sniffing, and now the UK with its new "three-strikes" policies. I pay my ISP a significant sum of money to deliver me 1s and 0s as fast as they can, and there are very, very few exceptions in which they have a need to know what those 1s and 0s add up to.
I call upon the open source community to lead the way -- while I would love to see the big leagues (Microsoft, Apple, etc) apply their tonnage behind such a problem, pigs are more likely to fly first. How hard would it be for a browser to automatically attempt to negotiate a secure connection for every visited web page and only use normal, unencrypted access when a secure connection fails or cannot be completed in a secure amount of time? People running web servers would not have to make major modifications, only implement a new protocol.
For this reason, we should ban horseless carriages.
...."
"a US Court of Appeals judge, about the struggling horse industry. Posner explains why he thinks the horse industry will continue to struggle, and then comes to a rather unusual conclusion: "Expanding copyright law to bar access to automobiles
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore
My personal recommendation is to build/buy a cheap server to act as an intermediate machine. This machine can be patched and posed as required to use the school networks, and you can run whatever you want on your personal machine. This intermediate doesn't have to be anything special or powerful and I'll bet your local CS student/ friendly neighborhood haxor can put something together for under $50. I would recommend a dual NIC setup.
You do still have all the traditional options of swapping out NICs every 2 weeks, reverse engineering the software (which would be helpful for the rest of us), etc
Dike the thing out and either cover the hole so no-one notices the phone used to have a camera or leave a gaping empty hole so that everyone can see there WAS a camera there but not any more.
Well, the first Troy was established approximately 3000 BCE so one might expect that trojans have been around for 5000 years. Even then people knew not to eat bad apples.
Are there any papers out there that compare the evolution and eventual separation of the air-forces of the world to the evolution of the modern computer forces? Originally airplanes were contained within the branches of the Armies and Navies and led by generals and admirals who were unable and unwilling to use them to their fullest extent. I see the same pattern today.
Point #1: This is an unknown United States High School of an unknown State. Rules and regulations vary between states and public and private high schools.
Point #2: You (student) own the physical property consisting of the binder, the paper, the ink you wrote with, the tabs, etc. You also own the derivative intellectual property of both the notes from her class and any other class you took notes in that happen to be in that binder. You also own the the absolute intellectual property of any doodles, poetry, and notes you took on subjects not related to the classes you took (ie. "I love Sarah", "My economics teacher is a moron"). If the binder in question was a zipper binder like I use, you also own the pens, the disks, the Scantrons, the gum wrappers, etc contained within.
Point #4, Followup: If this teacher is somehow still teaching next semester, form a student club (or just a bunch of trustworthy dudes/gals who are skilled at taking notes), and scan their notes. Post to a blog or the Pirate Bay.
Point #5:For further ideas, read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, or just about any blog or article on privacy rights. Hell, read the constitution.
I can just see this scenario:
Your house catches on fire, the fire brigade shows up, and Mr. Fireman gets a flaming safe to the head: doink.
As they stop trying to fight the fire consuming your house and attempt to lift a still flaming a safe off their friends head, you get hauled off to jail for murder and the improper and unlicensed use of a medieval siege weapon.
Your house has now burnt down and your lawyer, a part time volunteer fireman, is *unable* to get you bail and the feds open the safe to see what was so darned important.
Finally, the fed's laptop is stolen and your personal information is revealed to the world.
Is this in any way related to one of the devices from Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog?
Me, I thought the singing was cooler than the gadgets, but only in this one example.
So will they be using Mars bars on the trip to Mars? And what kind of booze do these bars serve? A blind man walks into a bar and says OUCH!
Just write a patch around this, source and destination see the firewall, don't accept stop requests from this source.
But of course this would be a small shell in the back and forth of any battle.
If in theory, the ISP could mandidate that a user had to install their spy software to use the internet connection, I would only have to write a short program (or ask a DVD John type friend to write one) to isolate said spy software and feed it false and misleading data while encrypting my regular data.
Responding for friends who write their own operating systems or use various forms of linux, "I DON'T THINK SO DEAREST ISP!"
While well intentioned, I hope these testers remember that measuring a system changes the system.
...so where do transsexuals fit in here?
if(later than 8 pm && idle for half an hour)
shut down or hibernate
Does anyone remember the pain/torture stick from Stargate?
This is probably one of the next incarcerations of this device, for use by prison guards and Gitmo/Garden Plot types.
now that the photonic laser is working...
ARM THE PHOTONIC CANNON!!
everyone who got the refrence should shake their heads sadly
Does this mean they will also digitize the lost moon tapes?
So the little tykes are refusing to play nice in the sand box, so add some sand toys. I always wanted one of those little shovel things.
This article is here because we, slashdotters, prefer to keep current with news of technology and science. One of America's top scientists has something to say about how he was not allowed to speak to the scientific evidence he witnissed as Surgeon General.
While there will always be political pressure in one direction or another, the amount that this regime has spewed has crossed the line several times over.
And just how long will this magical content protection system last against the now angry black, grey and white hats of the world? Please, because I am just dying to know.
We could make this discussion about the lack of quality movies nowadays, but if you have 11 unlocked doors and 1 locked door, just where do you think we (humans) will want to get into most?