I once worked at a place where a lot of people had security clearances. A coworker enjoyed scuba diving, and bought a condo in Grand Cayman. That security clearance whooshed away faster than a bottle of vodka in Britney Spear's glove compartment.
Eventually the coworker was reinstated, so there are bind fide reasons for transacting business in the Caymans. Scuba diving, nig game fishing, genocide, drug dealing, weapons smuggling, corporate espionage come to mind, in addition to plain old tax fraud.
Most dumbasses I've worked with have been hired with the attitude "well, he doesn't know shit about anything but we'll bring him on and see how he works out".
You can't *want* or *need* to hire good people. One must not desire the thing which one wants most, Grasshopper.
BTW anyone who calls themselves a superstar is usually a dumbass hiding under a layer of bad attitude.
"Good Morning all you rich bastards. Isn't is great being rich? Hope your rounds of golf and shiatsu massages went well. In the future some people might be able to have as much sex and electronic gizmos as us. Meanwhile, there's a free iPhone under your seat!"
The prime rule of pranking is don't do anything you wouldn't be able to fix or pay for yourself.
For example, back in the day some friends pranked a three ton statue of Rice University's Founder, and turned it around 180 degrees in the middle of the night without anyone noticing, getting squashed, or breaking it. No one was indicted, but some big checks were written!
You slander somebody on the internet, and that is real criminal behavior. You're going to be talking to a judge.
>> You kind of missed the point. The argument is that even with full disk encryption it's possible to reboot the system to a special OS that reads the encryption keys out of the RAM before it decays allowing the contents of the disk to then be decrypted.
Well, I didn't want to go on and on in my original post, but if I can mess with the boot settings, I can just install a rootkit that can read memory on the running system, and scarf up the contents of memory at will while the system continues to run. *Probably* a lot easier, and for sure a lot less likely to be noticed. So I'm not losing any sleep over somebody being able to read my power-cycled RAM, although it is interesting.
Screw China, I'm a US taxpayer and I need to be reminded that the insane amounts of money being spent away by the military are at least useful for SOMETHING.
As a matter of fact, I expect to see some damned fine shooting stars in the next few days, or I'll be asking for my money back.
Time for memory controllers that just zero out RAM on power up. I think most do anyway.
Worse, on most running OSes there are all kinds of deallocated and leaked chunks of memory that have god-knows-what in them. As root, you could browse through all this, or just trigger a dump.
This is fun to know, but really, if someone is going to get physical access and rip the RAM out of your machine for its secrets and then plop them into a specially-crafted dead-RAM reader, you've got bigger problems, like the CIA or FSB is on your ass already, and you probably have guys with guns at the data center door anyway they'd need to take out to get at the machine.
Otherwise, just steal the whole machine and read the disks. Much easier, and there's probably just as much interesting stuff on the disks.
... Blu-Ray burners will cost $50. Right now blank DVDs cost less than blank CD-R's at ly local Fry's. Go figure.
However, as I understand it, Blu-Ray includes an extortionate per-blank disk licensing fee that artifically inflates the cost. That's way HD-DVD was cheaper and had more fans among low-volume disc producers.
Freeplay's been making stuff powered by fairly hefty but still child-crankable watch spring technology for a long time: http://www.freeplayenergy.com/products
I bought a Freeplay radio back in the early 90s when they were still made in S Africa.
The point is that NOTHING prevents a porn site setting up on.com instead of.xxx. What's so hard to figure out about that.
The ethical porn sites WILL move to.xxx. Yes ethical porn sites exist, it's big business. But rogues will sill set up on com/net/org and those are the sites that throw up popups, send your credit card info to Bank of Lithuania, etc.
Safe search works - maybe it should be enabled by default? Sure block results from.xxx in Google, then typing in "pussy" will be 100% guaranteed to get you results form porn sites with fudged metadata.
I'm all for.xxx - and why block it? Do you want your kids browsing porn from unethical web sites?
So the suits just come back from a spacewalk all fresh and clean, the volatiles have boiled off and UV has blasted whatever's left. I smell a spinoff! Ultra-expensive space vacuum dry cleaning for rich swells.
Maybe they need to de-press the ISS every six months or so just to give it that "springtime fresh" airing out. I haven't actually asked an astronaut about this, but how the heck they keep that place from smelling up over time is a mystery.
Really, I've never seen a setup where stealing ONE (or a few) keys could result in a situation where a whole enterprise gets shut down for ransom.
More likely, consider the situation where only two guys have the password to the domain name registrar's account, they get laid off, and a year later some one realizes the company domain expires in two days. Before anyone figures out how to renew it, it's in the hands of a pr0n site. There's your missing/lost key scenario, happens all the time.
I sell about 3 or 4 items a year on EBay. No one has left feedback for me for the last 5 transactions. Lately, a couple of the buyers even removed their accounts after the sale was complete, making it impossible to reach them - a tad scary. I'm not about to leave (probably neutral) feedback on noncommunicative buyers for fear of retaliation either, since the process heavily favors buyers jerking sellers around for bogus reasons. Although I've only been jerked around once, by a buyer who wanted a "rebate" on his item. I told him no, and he threatened me with negative feedback if I said anything, and the whole matter was dropped.
That tactic might work with a high volume Ebay junk store, but for individual sellers, the intimidation, ever increasing fees, and shipping costs mean EBay's hardly worth the trouble anymore.
I have to hand it to the Catholic Church, dealing with dissenters has a 2000 year old tradition. It's not like management is pulling new rules out of their a**es or anything. I admire that, actually; they are pretty good at arguing their case, just browse the Vatican web site.
Most organizations of any size are whores to Outlook. Just sayin'. And if you write a big enough check and have fat enough tubes Exchange's massive clustering capabilities more or less work. Just sayin', like that's where the Linux desktop should be concentrating its resources. I'd be glad to be shown the error of my ways
Very small wires, and the kids don't stick their fingers in wall sockets. Of course, the kids are all dead.
In addition to what Technician posted, the switching supplies used by modern devices are almost 100% efficient, maybe 90% for a cheap one. Every small chargeable device we've bought in the last 2 years charges over USB 2.0, works on 90-240VAC 50/60Hz, and when the EnergyStar IV spec is mandatory real soon now the wall warts will essentially turn themselves off when not under load. Even at EnergyStar III (the one currently mandated in California) consumption is limited to 1/2W when not under load.
I've never had to back up email for 50 million people, but I've been responsible for a system with 50 thousand people. We didn't backup our email, didn't even come close to having the resources to do so, and it clearly stated in the SLA that we didn't do backups, and if your email got lost, tough shit. Our customers got what they paid for, since the email was free.
Mostly likely their asses were covered by their service agreement. I am pretty sure that Yahoo's policy for lost email is "tough shit" as well.
Just say what you really mean - the French law, like a lot of other French laws, is attempting to protect an economically inefficient, but subjectively "better" way of doing things. Nothing wrong with that, if you are willing to pay for the luxury.
Eventually France is going to be the last place on Earth, dammit, where everyone sits around eating Carl's Jr and drinking Brawndo all day. Good for them.
It single family parents where the parent sits on the couch watching TV and slurping Brawndo all day, vs Finland, where the parent (and maybe even the gov't) is much more involved in the community.
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I once worked at a place where a lot of people had security clearances. A coworker enjoyed scuba diving, and bought a condo in Grand Cayman. That security clearance whooshed away faster than a bottle of vodka in Britney Spear's glove compartment.
Eventually the coworker was reinstated, so there are bind fide reasons for transacting business in the Caymans. Scuba diving, nig game fishing, genocide, drug dealing, weapons smuggling, corporate espionage come to mind, in addition to plain old tax fraud.
Most dumbasses I've worked with have been hired with the attitude "well, he doesn't know shit about anything but we'll bring him on and see how he works out".
You can't *want* or *need* to hire good people. One must not desire the thing which one wants most, Grasshopper.
BTW anyone who calls themselves a superstar is usually a dumbass hiding under a layer of bad attitude.
"Good Morning all you rich bastards. Isn't is great being rich? Hope your rounds of golf and shiatsu massages went well. In the future some people might be able to have as much sex and electronic gizmos as us. Meanwhile, there's a free iPhone under your seat!"
Yeah forget about shiny new wtubes, in Taliban territory the internet comes to you in a muddy ditch.
The prime rule of pranking is don't do anything you wouldn't be able to fix or pay for yourself.
For example, back in the day some friends pranked a three ton statue of Rice University's Founder, and turned it around 180 degrees in the middle of the night without anyone noticing, getting squashed, or breaking it. No one was indicted, but some big checks were written!
You slander somebody on the internet, and that is real criminal behavior. You're going to be talking to a judge.
>> You kind of missed the point. The argument is that even with full disk encryption it's possible to reboot the system to a special OS that reads the encryption keys out of the RAM before it decays allowing the contents of the disk to then be decrypted.
Well, I didn't want to go on and on in my original post, but if I can mess with the boot settings, I can just install a rootkit that can read memory on the running system, and scarf up the contents of memory at will while the system continues to run. *Probably* a lot easier, and for sure a lot less likely to be noticed. So I'm not losing any sleep over somebody being able to read my power-cycled RAM, although it is interesting.
Screw China, I'm a US taxpayer and I need to be reminded that the insane amounts of money being spent away by the military are at least useful for SOMETHING.
As a matter of fact, I expect to see some damned fine shooting stars in the next few days, or I'll be asking for my money back.
Time for memory controllers that just zero out RAM on power up. I think most do anyway.
Worse, on most running OSes there are all kinds of deallocated and leaked chunks of memory that have god-knows-what in them. As root, you could browse through all this, or just trigger a dump.
This is fun to know, but really, if someone is going to get physical access and rip the RAM out of your machine for its secrets and then plop them into a specially-crafted dead-RAM reader, you've got bigger problems, like the CIA or FSB is on your ass already, and you probably have guys with guns at the data center door anyway they'd need to take out to get at the machine.
Otherwise, just steal the whole machine and read the disks. Much easier, and there's probably just as much interesting stuff on the disks.
... Blu-Ray burners will cost $50. Right now blank DVDs cost less than blank CD-R's at ly local Fry's. Go figure.
However, as I understand it, Blu-Ray includes an extortionate per-blank disk licensing fee that artifically inflates the cost. That's way HD-DVD was cheaper and had more fans among low-volume disc producers.
Why don't we just put a warning on everything!
Freeplay's been making stuff powered by fairly hefty but still child-crankable watch spring technology for a long time: http://www.freeplayenergy.com/products
I bought a Freeplay radio back in the early 90s when they were still made in S Africa.
The point is that NOTHING prevents a porn site setting up on .com instead of .xxx. What's so hard to figure out about that.
.xxx. Yes ethical porn sites exist, it's big business. But rogues will sill set up on com/net/org and those are the sites that throw up popups, send your credit card info to Bank of Lithuania, etc.
.xxx in Google, then typing in "pussy" will be 100% guaranteed to get you results form porn sites with fudged metadata.
.xxx - and why block it? Do you want your kids browsing porn from unethical web sites?
The ethical porn sites WILL move to
Safe search works - maybe it should be enabled by default? Sure block results from
I'm all for
We just installed a new POP in Elbonia. It was either thinnet or a very sad-looking donkey.
So the suits just come back from a spacewalk all fresh and clean, the volatiles have boiled off and UV has blasted whatever's left. I smell a spinoff! Ultra-expensive space vacuum dry cleaning for rich swells.
Maybe they need to de-press the ISS every six months or so just to give it that "springtime fresh" airing out. I haven't actually asked an astronaut about this, but how the heck they keep that place from smelling up over time is a mystery.
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Really, I've never seen a setup where stealing ONE (or a few) keys could result in a situation where a whole enterprise gets shut down for ransom.
More likely, consider the situation where only two guys have the password to the domain name registrar's account, they get laid off, and a year later some one realizes the company domain expires in two days. Before anyone figures out how to renew it, it's in the hands of a pr0n site. There's your missing/lost key scenario, happens all the time.
I sell about 3 or 4 items a year on EBay. No one has left feedback for me for the last 5 transactions. Lately, a couple of the buyers even removed their accounts after the sale was complete, making it impossible to reach them - a tad scary. I'm not about to leave (probably neutral) feedback on noncommunicative buyers for fear of retaliation either, since the process heavily favors buyers jerking sellers around for bogus reasons. Although I've only been jerked around once, by a buyer who wanted a "rebate" on his item. I told him no, and he threatened me with negative feedback if I said anything, and the whole matter was dropped.
That tactic might work with a high volume Ebay junk store, but for individual sellers, the intimidation, ever increasing fees, and shipping costs mean EBay's hardly worth the trouble anymore.
Similar to the process used for asteroids, domain names, mountains, etc?
I have to hand it to the Catholic Church, dealing with dissenters has a 2000 year old tradition. It's not like management is pulling new rules out of their a**es or anything. I admire that, actually; they are pretty good at arguing their case, just browse the Vatican web site.
Most organizations of any size are whores to Outlook. Just sayin'. And if you write a big enough check and have fat enough tubes Exchange's massive clustering capabilities more or less work. Just sayin', like that's where the Linux desktop should be concentrating its resources. I'd be glad to be shown the error of my ways
Very small wires, and the kids don't stick their fingers in wall sockets. Of course, the kids are all dead.
In addition to what Technician posted, the switching supplies used by modern devices are almost 100% efficient, maybe 90% for a cheap one. Every small chargeable device we've bought in the last 2 years charges over USB 2.0, works on 90-240VAC 50/60Hz, and when the EnergyStar IV spec is mandatory real soon now the wall warts will essentially turn themselves off when not under load. Even at EnergyStar III (the one currently mandated in California) consumption is limited to 1/2W when not under load.
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I've never had to back up email for 50 million people, but I've been responsible for a system with 50 thousand people. We didn't backup our email, didn't even come close to having the resources to do so, and it clearly stated in the SLA that we didn't do backups, and if your email got lost, tough shit. Our customers got what they paid for, since the email was free.
Mostly likely their asses were covered by their service agreement. I am pretty sure that Yahoo's policy for lost email is "tough shit" as well.
Minor spelling flame, just so people can get their Googles headed in the right direction. "Yukos" is the defunct Russian oil company stolen by Putin.
And yes Gates and Yunus have been doing the rounds of the surf'n'turf hi tech conferences lately.
And a thriving used marketplace for used books.
Just say what you really mean - the French law, like a lot of other French laws, is attempting to protect an economically inefficient, but subjectively "better" way of doing things. Nothing wrong with that, if you are willing to pay for the luxury.
Eventually France is going to be the last place on Earth, dammit, where everyone sits around eating Carl's Jr and drinking Brawndo all day. Good for them.
It single family parents where the parent sits on the couch watching TV and slurping Brawndo all day, vs Finland, where the parent (and maybe even the gov't) is much more involved in the community.