Nothing would have happened because coding to the native instruction set would be prohibitively expensive. Combined with the fact that there is no software for the chip, and with the fact that the chips are single-source (any manufacturing person knows what this is), the whole thing is no-go. There are better CPUs for any specific use.
Even with required setups, support is more a blame game, and not a real problem solver, at least in my experience.
Exactly. And after you blame the vendor and your boss hears soothing words "Oracle will be back to us in 30 minutes", then and only then you can look for the actual cause of the problem - and hopefully fix it.
In other words, an active support contract buys you safe haven to fix the problem.
Another issue is that a company may not like the fact that without a support contract you are the only person on the planet who can fix the system. This makes you a very valuable, irreplaceable person - which carries risks of all sorts. Much safer to go with standard setup and standard support, where any trained specialist can step in and fix the thing when it fails.
We've successfully used Gentoo on commercial apps that say they "require" Red Hat.
You won't get support in that setup. Imagine paying $50K for Oracle (requires RH), $200K for some mission-critical software (also requires RH), then having a failure (causing losses $10K per hour, since the factory is at standstill) and unable to get support! Your hide would be in danger.
I mean, seriously, anytime you come across a piece of paper with a strange combination of letters and numbers...when is that NOT a candidate for being a password.
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it's important for the US to be able to make it's own supplies in a time of need.
True; but who is going to pay the price for whole cities full of equipped and ready to go factories, just in case US needs them? And you can't even make anything at these factories now, so expensive it would be. Besides, the factories won't run without oil, and US itself does not have enough oil to continuously run its industry.
Fact is, the USA spent the best half of 20th century outsourcing its manufacturing, and it will take a real coordinated effort to bring it back. I don't see any will, political or popular, to do that, short of alien invasion.
The United States manufactures primarily US Dollars. Military hardware is second to that. In exchange for these two products, other countries send everything else here.
The question is not how to get it out, but how to get it out quickly, efficiently and without external chemicals or supplies. As someone already said above, it's not interesting to extract 5 kg of anything by using up 10 kg of something else that is equally unavailable on the Moon.
Driving a 4WD in a desert, with obstacles and detours, arriving at a destination within a time limit... I dare say not every human driver is up to the task. And they want to achieve this with a computer?
In my car you have to remove the key completely in order to engage steering wheel lock; they made it this way as an extra safety feature. Without power steering is difficult but possible, and the car will stop soon anyway.
You don't need a lawyer for that. For example, see here. A student has to file a complaint properly, of course, but all the materials for that are available. I guess if you don't claim any monetary damage and only want the judge to tell the other party to listen to your concerns, the judge will just do that. The filing cost is negligible ($30) and any student can afford it. This would be a useful experience anyway, and it's definitely safer than breaking into the database vigilante-style.
I could argue that those who are responsible for the safe-keeping of that information were at fault, not the ones to gained access to it.
There is no dichotomy; both are at fault, but their offenses are different. One group is guilty of poor data security, but they themselves have not committed any crime; you can sue them for negligence, but that's probably as far as it gets. The other group, however, committed an actual crime.
If you have to show the license then hold it so your thumb covers the number. If they ask to see the number, tell them that they don't need it. Or put some easily detachable tape over it. If a police officer stops you, just remove the tape before giving the license to him.
Maybe then you'd break in, to demonstrate it's possible, and get the owner of the house to tighten up security for the sake of you and your friends?
No; I would have filed a civil lawsuit against the school. There are very good chances that the problem would be fixed in matter of hours - and I would get a useful experience in defending my rights in a completely legal way.
(I recall an old movie with Hulk Hogan where scenario of this sort was presented.)
And the public - who is the owner of the bus - wants to jail the "testers" who damaged the bus.
Public-owned things are not free for all; they are shared. For example, 100 people buy a bus; each owns 1% of it. If one of the owners destroys the bus, he is perfectly legal with regard to his 1%. But the other 99 co-owners want their loss compensated, and they are within their rights.
In case of SSNs, the information in the database belongs to a large group of people (employees and students.) It does not entirely belong to the thieves, though their own info is definitely their property. Access to someone's else information is illegal right there, and these guys don't have an excuse that is good enough (like saving the world, for example.)
As a stronger analogy, an opponent of firearms could want to buy an [illegal to own] machine gun, step outside and go postal - just to prove that guns may be dangerous. That may be so, and he can get a paper award for that; he can enjoy it while awaiting his own execution for the "proof" he made.
If the IT people don't care, why then the students should? Their "good intentions" can be better spent elsewhere, like putting together old computers for charities.
Besides, as people already commented, it is stupid to commit a crime just to show that a crime of this sort can be committed.
And the only reason Russia is even sending ordinary peopel into space is because they're broke.
Russia actually has plenty of spare money - so much that it decided to prepay its debts to the Paris Club ahead of time: Kudrin said Russia would transfer the first tranche of $13 billion to Paris Club members in June.
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Nothing would have happened because coding to the native instruction set would be prohibitively expensive. Combined with the fact that there is no software for the chip, and with the fact that the chips are single-source (any manufacturing person knows what this is), the whole thing is no-go. There are better CPUs for any specific use.
Exactly. And after you blame the vendor and your boss hears soothing words "Oracle will be back to us in 30 minutes", then and only then you can look for the actual cause of the problem - and hopefully fix it.
In other words, an active support contract buys you safe haven to fix the problem.
Another issue is that a company may not like the fact that without a support contract you are the only person on the planet who can fix the system. This makes you a very valuable, irreplaceable person - which carries risks of all sorts. Much safer to go with standard setup and standard support, where any trained specialist can step in and fix the thing when it fails.
The difference is that RDP is actually usable. Try the two side by side.
You won't get support in that setup. Imagine paying $50K for Oracle (requires RH), $200K for some mission-critical software (also requires RH), then having a failure (causing losses $10K per hour, since the factory is at standstill) and unable to get support! Your hide would be in danger.
Apples from mother - UPS tracking 1Z0987764393
Rebate on that Fujitsu drive: s/n MTGH123-A083B
There are plenty more if you look for them.
True; but who is going to pay the price for whole cities full of equipped and ready to go factories, just in case US needs them? And you can't even make anything at these factories now, so expensive it would be. Besides, the factories won't run without oil, and US itself does not have enough oil to continuously run its industry.
Fact is, the USA spent the best half of 20th century outsourcing its manufacturing, and it will take a real coordinated effort to bring it back. I don't see any will, political or popular, to do that, short of alien invasion.
The United States manufactures primarily US Dollars. Military hardware is second to that. In exchange for these two products, other countries send everything else here.
The question is not how to get it out, but how to get it out quickly, efficiently and without external chemicals or supplies. As someone already said above, it's not interesting to extract 5 kg of anything by using up 10 kg of something else that is equally unavailable on the Moon.
The depicted machine produced atmosphere from water ice, IIRC. But there is not enough ice on the Moon.
Driving a 4WD in a desert, with obstacles and detours, arriving at a destination within a time limit... I dare say not every human driver is up to the task. And they want to achieve this with a computer?
Reading of Stephen Baxter should be a crime, punished by forcing to read his Titan (which results in reader's suicide to escape the pain.)
In my car you have to remove the key completely in order to engage steering wheel lock; they made it this way as an extra safety feature. Without power steering is difficult but possible, and the car will stop soon anyway.
Here is a more appropriate document, just fill the blanks and file.
You don't need a lawyer for that. For example, see here. A student has to file a complaint properly, of course, but all the materials for that are available. I guess if you don't claim any monetary damage and only want the judge to tell the other party to listen to your concerns, the judge will just do that. The filing cost is negligible ($30) and any student can afford it. This would be a useful experience anyway, and it's definitely safer than breaking into the database vigilante-style.
Yes, that's the movie, thanks!
There is no dichotomy; both are at fault, but their offenses are different. One group is guilty of poor data security, but they themselves have not committed any crime; you can sue them for negligence, but that's probably as far as it gets. The other group, however, committed an actual crime.
There was no whistle.
If you have to show the license then hold it so your thumb covers the number. If they ask to see the number, tell them that they don't need it. Or put some easily detachable tape over it. If a police officer stops you, just remove the tape before giving the license to him.
No; I would have filed a civil lawsuit against the school. There are very good chances that the problem would be fixed in matter of hours - and I would get a useful experience in defending my rights in a completely legal way.
(I recall an old movie with Hulk Hogan where scenario of this sort was presented.)
And the public - who is the owner of the bus - wants to jail the "testers" who damaged the bus.
Public-owned things are not free for all; they are shared. For example, 100 people buy a bus; each owns 1% of it. If one of the owners destroys the bus, he is perfectly legal with regard to his 1%. But the other 99 co-owners want their loss compensated, and they are within their rights.
In case of SSNs, the information in the database belongs to a large group of people (employees and students.) It does not entirely belong to the thieves, though their own info is definitely their property. Access to someone's else information is illegal right there, and these guys don't have an excuse that is good enough (like saving the world, for example.)
As a stronger analogy, an opponent of firearms could want to buy an [illegal to own] machine gun, step outside and go postal - just to prove that guns may be dangerous. That may be so, and he can get a paper award for that; he can enjoy it while awaiting his own execution for the "proof" he made.
Besides, as people already commented, it is stupid to commit a crime just to show that a crime of this sort can be committed.
Russia actually has plenty of spare money - so much that it decided to prepay its debts to the Paris Club ahead of time: Kudrin said Russia would transfer the first tranche of $13 billion to Paris Club members in June.
... and broadcast all the music that you personally wrote or otherwise have commercial rights on.
Maybe because someone else paid her to do it?